Business and Economic Development

Council of the District of Columbia COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AND WITNESS LIST 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004 COUNCILMEMBER KENYAN R. MCDUFFIE, CHAIRPERSON COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC HEARING ON B26-58, “RECYCLING REFUND AND LITTER REDUCTION AMENDMENT ACT OF 2025” Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. Room 500 and via Zoom Video Conference Broadcast Streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFwXXcbCuQk3- zlwqe97mA/streams and www.dccouncil.gov/hearings AGENDA AND WITNESS LIST I. CALL TO ORDER II. OPENING REMARKS III. WITNESS TESTIMONY A. Bill 26-58, the “Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Amendment Act of 2025” Public Witnesses (in person, virtual) 1. Maya Geer, Girl Scout Troop 42139 2. Charlie Carlyle, Girl Scout Troop 42139 3. Chloe Jones, Girl Scout Troop 42139 4. Kinley Schiefelbein-Tang, Girl Scout Troop 42139 5. Madison White, Girl Scout Troop 42139 6. Lena Ba'ath, Girl Scout Troop 42139 7. Chandler Clarke, Girl Scout Troop 42139 8. Eloise Snyder, Girl Scout Troop 42139 9. Noa Rijmen, Girl Scout Troop 42139 10. Petra Yussef, Girl Scout Troop 42139 11. Ian Richards, Student 12. Chris Weiss, Executive Director, DC Environmental Network 13. Mark Mozier, Vice President of Sales and Market Development, DMV Distributing 14. Lora Nunn, Friends of Kingman & Heritage Islands 15. Susan Schorr, Chair of the Zero Waste Committee, Sierra Club DC Chapter 16. Tiffany Harvey, State Association Official, MD DE DC Beverage Association 17. Kate Krebs, Public Witness 1 18. Risa Hirao, President, DC Association of Beverage Alcohol Wholesalers 19. Brendan Williams-Kief, DC Association of Beverage Alcohol Wholesalers 20. Shawn Townsend, President and CEO, Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington 21. Rev. Kip Banks, Public Witness 22. Honorable Arrington Dixon, Anacostia Coordinating Council 23. Douglas McRae, Nature Forward 24. Christopher Williams, Anacostia Watershed Society 25. Kirstie Pecci, Just Zero 26. Vanessa Batters-Thompson, Executive Director, DC Appleseed Center for Law & Justice 27. MJ Gray, Policy Fellow, DC Appleseed Center for Law & Justice 28. Alisha Aponte, Store Manager, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. 29. Rick Genderson, Owner, Schneider’s of Capitol Hill 30. Elyse Genderson, Vice President, Schneider’s of Capitol Hill 31. Joe Prebble, General Manger, Schneider’s of Capitol Hill 32. Gary Cha, Chairman, Korean American Grocers Association 33. Ki Yoon, Owner, Magruder’s of DC 34. Justin Palmer, Vice President of Public Policy & External Affairs, DC Hospital Association 35. Randy Barnhart, Government Relations, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits 36. Larry Martin, Public Witness 37. Jean Tepas, Climate Team, League of Women Voters DC 38. Mark Rodeffer, Public Witness 39. Malcom Fox, Executive Director, Opportunity DC 40. Rebecca Thomas, Government Affairs & Sustainability Associate, Glass Packaging Institute 41. Thor Cheston, Co-Founder, Right Proper Brewing 42. Charles Waldmann, Public Witness 43. John Guggenmos, Board Chairman, DC Nightlife Council 44. David Whitehead, Public Witness 45. Aminah Taariq-Sidibe, Earthday.org 46. Damian Bascom, Founder, BeautifyDC INC 47. Nathan Harrington, Executive Director, Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, Inc 48. Keith Jones, Jr., Community Outreach Advisor, Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, Inc. 49. Claire Mills, DC Campaigns Manager, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund 50. Marchant Wentworth, Principal, Wentworth Green Strategies 51. Marian Dombroski, Chair, Anacostia Watershed Community Advisory Committee 52. Annie Acosta, Public Witness 53. James Dougherty, Environment Committee, Committee of 100 54. Max Bachmann, Verified Spirits & Fine Wines 55. Alex Clarke, Yang Market 56. Ermas Stefanos, Lena Market 57. Nebiyou Haddis, 14th Street Mini Market 58. Dipen Patel, Capital Wine and Liquor 59. Haben Berhane, Manhattan Market 60. Ash Panwar, Universal Wine and Liquors 2  61. Victoria Wheatly, DMV Liquors Wines and Beers 62. Rajinder Hundal, Owner, Bowen Discount Liquor 63. Dennis Alloy, Anacostia Shell 64. PJ Freitag, Fat Pete’s BBQ 65. Lorraine Docherty, Executive Director, City Wildlife 66. Michael Smaha, Vice President of Government Relations, Can Manufacturers Institute 67. Terri Beirne, Eastern Counsel, Wine Institute 68. Mike Kim, Owner, Stop and shop 69. Amanda Wilson, Public Witness 70. Christine Powell, Public Witness 71. Joanne Slaight, Board of Directors, Friends of the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens 72. Steve Coleman, President, Washington Parks & People 73. Dr. Jayne Somers, Public Witness 74. Elena Paredes, Public Witness 75. Michael Warner, Public Witness 76. Trey Sherard, Riverkeeper, Anacostia Riverkeeper 77. Joe Bishop-Henchman, Commissioner, ANC 5F 78. Marie-Elise Diamond, Commissioner, ANC 1C04 79. Dr. Karen Wooten, Public Witness 80. Dr. Enock Kola Adewuyi, Public Witness 81. Keith Hyun, Public Witness 82. Aidan Charron, Public Witness 83. Salim Adofo, Public Witness 84. Haakim Brown-Bey, School of Harvest 85. Garvie Bridgers, School of Harvest 86. Brenda Moorman, Public Witness 87. Nachi Yellapragada, Public Witness 88. Cody Austin, Public Witness 89. Don Bates, Public Witness 90. Greg Parikh, Public Witness 91. Elizabeth Hartman, Public Witness 92. Dusty Horwitt, Public Witness 93. Dorothy Anne Scanley, Public Witness 94. Eve Hamilton, Public Witness 95. Tracy Bowen, Public Witness 96. David Boord, Public Witness 97. Demetrius Dever, Public Witness 98. Reid Detchon, Public Witness 99. Brian Steblay, Public Witness 100. Joanna Zelman, Public Witness 101. Chuck Waldman, Public Witness 102. Adrienne Wojciechowski McCann 103. Samir Monk, Public Witness 104. Mary Quillian Helms, Public Witness 105. William Brighton, Public Witness 106. Dale Brown, Public Witness 107. Avery Forney, Public Witness 3 108. Sarah Miller, Public Witness 109. Diane Son, Public Witness 110. Stephen Kolb, Public Witness 111. Roberta Youmans, Public Witness 112. Dr. Annie Halsey, Public Witness 113. Andrea Orozco, Advocacy Lead, Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVa) 114. Chinyere Hubbard, President and CEO, DC Chamber of Commerce 115. Yvette Alexander, 2nd Vice President, National Coalition of 100 Black Women 116. Diana Gross, Public Witness 117. Kim Bender, Executive Director, DC Brewer's Guild 118. Justin Cox, Founder & CEO, Atlas Brew Works 119. Jude Malone, Government Relations, CT Beer Wholesalers Association 120. Campbell Burns, Vice President, Streets Market 121. Rev. George Gilbert, Holy Trinity United Baptist 122. Rev. Roderick McLaughlin, Carron Baptist Church 123. C’erra Andrews, Holy Trinity United Baptist 124. Lisa Lattimore, Holy Trinity United Baptist 125. Rev. Roderic Baskin, Greater New Hope Baptist 126. Mustafa Abdul-Salaam, Ward 8 CED 127. Julia Tutt, Commissioner, Ward 8 128. William Brown, Public Witness 129. Brian Crawford, President & CEO, Beer Institute 130. Robin Spicer, Vice President – Sales, Roanoke Valley Wine Company 131. Eric Jones, Vice President of Government Affairs, DC – Commercial, Apartment & Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington 132. Paula Edwards, Chair, ANC 4A 133. Eliza Cava, Commissioner, ANC 4D04 134. Chuck Elkins, Commissioner, ANC 3D 135. Alan Kenzek, Commissioner, ANC 1B 136. Daniel Ehrenpreis, Chair – Public Safety & Health Committee, ANC 5F 137. Jeffrey Rueckgauer, Commissioner and Chair – Transportation & Public Space Committee, ANC 2B 138. Patricia Stamper, Commissioner, ANC 7C06 139. Erin Palmer, Public Witness 140. Jordan Cotton, Owner, Cotton & Reed Rum Distillers 141. Matt Gove, Mid Atlantic Policy Manager, Surfrider Foundation 142. Tom Strahle, Pepsi Cola of the Hudson Valley 143. Jason Gresh, Public Witness 144. Kelly Collins Choi, Public Witness 145. Vondre Walston, Ward 8 Woods 146. Max Broad, Executive Director, DC Voters for Animals 147. Ryan Castalia, Executive Director, Sure We Can 148. Rene del Carmen, Public Witness 149. Holly Pollinger, 3RC for DC 150. Pooja Behl, Public Witness 151. Miriam Gordon, Reuse Program Director, Story of Stuff Project 152. Tene Lewis, Campaign to Reduce Lead Exposure & Asthma 153. Glenn Hall, Public Witness 4 154. Kristen Brown, Public Witness 155. Evan Raskin, Public Witness 156. Shevaun Lewis, Public Witness 157. Zachary Israel, Public Witness 158. Ed Lazere, Public Witness 159. Blake Lajiness, Public Witness 160. Anne deBuys, Public Witness 161. Caden Koontz, Public Witness 162. Catharine Ferguson, Public Witness 163. Matthias Paustian, Public Witness 164. Barbara Briggs, Public Witness 165. Matt Gravatt, Public Witness 166. William Siegel, Public Witness 167. Philip Pannell, Public Witness 168. Merwyn De Mello, Public Witness 169. Ronald Williams Jr, Public Witness 170. Alexis Pazmino, Public Witness 171. John Yoo, Public Witness 172. Kyungdeuk Min, Public Witness 173. Semagne Wubneh, Public Witness 174. Michele Dunne, Public Witness 175. Sarah Wood, Washington Interfaith Network 176. Senay "Sunny" Habte, Minnesota Liquors 177. Jamie Vargas, San Antonio Bar and Grill 178. Robert Daly, DC Pizza 179. Jay Eckstein, Deli City 180. Aklilu Abebe, Maleda Ethiopian Cafe 181. Manoj Maharjan, AB Liquors 182. Paul Martinez, Denny's 183. Mohammed Yshaw, Ken Mart 184. Kassa Aragaw, Roha Liquors 185. Tiofilo Ayala, Victor's Liquor 186. Kate Bockover, Public Witness 187. Brandon Skall, CEO and Co-Founder, DC Brau Brewing LLC 188. Susan Williams, Public Witness 189. Nikolas Schiller, Public Witness 190. Peter Quinn-Jacobs, Public Witness 191. Rachel Ramone Donlan, Public Witness 192. Claire Alrich, Public Witness 193. Alexandra Wilson, Public Witness 194. Pete Sepp, President, National Taxpayers Union 195. Max Skoglund, Public Witness 196. Samantha Wines, Public Witness 197. Bianca Palmisano, Public Witness 198. Karen Abrams, Public Witness 199. Andrew Shapiro, Public Witness 200. Wendy Wood, Public Witness 201. Katherine Coile, Public Witness 5 202. Sebastien Guilmard, Public Witness 203. Jacqui Lieberman, Public Witness 204. Jessica Arriens, Public Witness 205. Villareal Johnson, Public Witness 206. Mike Litt, Public Witness 207. Sam Tracy, Director of Legislative Affairs & Business Development, CLYNK 208. Zane Snyder Cox, Public Witness 209. Brendan Shane, Public Witness 210. Sonia Lerner, Public Witness 211. Miriam Gordon, Public Witness 212. Paul Ruffins, Public Witness 213. Daniel O'Brien, Public Witness 214. Jean Homza, Public Witness 215. Elisa Valero, Public Witness 216. Manoj Maharjan, Public Witness 217. Paul Martinez, Public Witness 218. Mohammed Yshaw, Public Witness 219. Kassa Aragaw, Public Witness 220. Tiofilo Ayala, Public Witness 221. Susan Dorn, Public Witness 222. Nancy Pyne, Public Witness Government Witnesses 1. Nina Albert, Deputy Mayor, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development 2. Daniel Conner, Chief of Staff, Department of Energy and Environment 6