5121132 Public Oversight Roundtable on "DC Rocks, So We Need One Act of 2014"

CHAIRMAN PHIL MENDELSON

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE

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On the Matter of the “DC Rocks, So We Need One Act of 2014”

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Friday, October 17, 2014

12:00 p.m., Hearing Room 120, John A. Wilson Building

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

 

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announces a public oversight roundtable of the Committee of the Whole on the matter of the “DC Rocks, So We Need One Act of 2014.”  The public roundtable will be held Friday, October 17, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. in Hearing Room 120 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. 

 

The purpose of this roundtable is to receive testimony from students at Eaton Elementary School who have proposed to designate the Potomac Bluestone as the official rock of the District of Columbia.  The fifth-grade class worked with the Committee on Education to create legislation, Bill 20-829, which recommends that the Potomac Bluestone be the official rock of the District of Columbia.  Such official designations are under the jurisdiction of the Committee of the Whole.  The Potomac Bluestone is a metamorphic rock that is common in and around the District of Columbia.

 

While this roundtable will include oral testimony only from student witnesses, written statements from the public will be made a part of the official record.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee of the Whole, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite 410 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.  The record will close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31, 2014.