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Support <br />• Maintain and increase the CBDG budget line —As more localities become eligible <br />for funding, allotments have decreased in size <br />• Legislation that ensures communities of all population sizes can access and take <br />advantage of grants authorized by federal legislation <br />• Bipartisan efforts to push for legislation that would ease the federal compliance <br />burden related to federal grants management and compliance for cities, towns <br />and villages <br />• Legislation that would build the capacity of small, mid-sized, rural and <br />disadvantaged communities such as through federal grant opportunities for <br />planning, pre -development and technical assistance <br />• The Reauthorization of The FirstNet program which provides day-to-day and <br />emergency communications services to over 27,000 agencies across the country <br />with more than 5.3 million connections <br />• The need for the Peninsula Army Corp Study of recurrent flooding <br />• Housing Opportunities for All <br />• The Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program (VMCIGP) <br />• Federal funding to help build the Birthplace of America Trail (BOAT) <br />• Federal funding offsetting childcare costs supporting workforce development <br />initiatives <br />• The need for the Peninsula Army Corp Study of recurrent flooding <br />Oppose <br />• Any unfunded mandates <br />• Any effort to claw -back allocated but not appropriated American Rescue Plan Act <br />(ARPA) funds <br />