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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
APRIL 17, 2025
Subject
SUBJECT: FEDERAL AND STATE REPORT
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATIONS
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE April 2025 Federal and State Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations, Deputy Executive Officer: Federal Affairs
Chair Hahn and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on several key federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on April 2, 2025, and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on April 17, 2025. The status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.
Continuing Resolution - Fiscal Year 2025
After considerable debate on Capitol Hill, the House and Senate recently moved to adopt a continuing resolution that will keep federal departments and agencies funded through September 30, 2025. Without this spending measure, the federal government would have faced a shutdown - leading the U.S. Department of Transportation - among others - to shutter a significant part of their operations. As a result of the continuing resolution being funded, our agency can expect to receive formula funding levels consistent with the authorized levels in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Our agency should expect to receive funding for the Westside Purple Line Extension (Section 3), consistent with the Full Funding Grant Agreement we concluded in 2020 with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Unfortunately, as a direct result of the continuing resolution being signed into law, all "earmark" requests secured by our agency in FY 2025 spending measures will not be funded.
Metro will once again be submitting several Community Project Funding (CPF) requests this year, like tho...
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