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At-large Councilmember Christina Henderson, who wrote the letter, said, “Right now, we have no part of our system that is running to one hundred percent capacity and no part of our system where I feel like the average D.C. resident feels one hundred percent confident that they’re going to show up to a platform or bus stop and it’s going to show up on time.”

“Last night, I had a little bit of a breakdown,” said At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson during a call with fellow councilmembers and D.C. health officials on Friday. “I was like, we tested all of these kids for one day in school. And now, if somebody goes out this weekend, we are literally starting from zero again on Monday. … Why can’t we ask folks to do this again on Sunday night? Swab your kid again, upload the results.”

“Many people believe that redistricting is over now that the new ward boundaries are in place,” said D.C. Council member Christina Henderson (I-At Large), a member of the redistricting subcommittee. “We still have to draw advisory neighborhood boundaries and that is a little bit different from the wards.”

“Today, I am proud to share the Council voted to pass both my emergency and permanent legislation requiring students and early childcare workers to be immunized against COVID-19,” At-Large Council member Christina Henderson tweeted.

“There are absolutely no consequences for paying the tickets. Therefore, there is no desire on the part of a driver to slow down,” said Henderson. She said legislation will be introduced later this week, calling for serious infrastructure changes around schools. Henderson added that the District needs to “refashion our roads in such a way that they are no longer highways and freeways around schools.”

At-Large Council Member Christina Henderson in a letter said she wants an update on pending regulations that would give the Department of Energy and Environment, or DOEE, authority over mold remediation enforcement and fines.

Allen said he thought it was too early to scale back the mask mandate, but thought the letter’s tone politicized the issue and Pinto said District businesses should be able to make their own decisions about mask requirements. Henderson called the lack of transparency about the decision “frustrating,” but added that she “did not support the call for a full reversal without any exceptions.”

Ahead of Friday’s hearing, Mendelson and Councilwoman At-Large Christina Henderson (D) sent a letter to Senate leadership, reiterating that they do not want to see appropriations legislation continue to restrict the ability of D.C. to legalize cannabis commerce.

On Friday morning, I spoke at a press conference in support of the ranked-choice voting (RCV) measure introduced by council member Christina Henderson and joined dozens of other supporters in testifying before the D.C. Council in support of the VOICE Act.

The Redistricting Subcommittee will vote on this proposed redistricting today at 3 p.m. The full Council will likely debate and vote on the new ward boundaries Dec. 7 and 21.

Last year, Christina Henderson (I) won one of those seats on the council with just 14 percent of the votes cast. Now she is leading the charge to change the system, introducing the ranked-choice-voting bill that advocates say would make these elections more representative of the true will of the majority.

“Public health is a science, but it also has some some art to it, and that art is really about balancing policy priorities and understanding what is the risk in the community? What is the behaviors that we are seeing in the community? Things that can’t necessarily be quantified by a metric,” Ashley said. “Part of the reason that we haven’t provided those very defined metrics is because it is some of that subjectivity of what we are seeing in the community with regards to behaviors and policies.”