Alongside UW Finance, Planning & Budgeting, the Office of State Relations will hold a 2024 legislative session debrief and 2025-27 state budget request process Q&A on Friday, April 5 from 11:00am-12:00pm via Zoom.
Highlights from this session will be shared, as well as a brief review of the final supplemental operating and capital budgets. A preview of what was included in the compromise budgets for the UW can be found here. Additionally, a good portion of the meeting will be dedicated to sharing information about how the UW’s 2025 legislative agenda will be formed and how to engage in the process.
To provide some background, Washington has a two-year budget cycle, with the biennial operating, capital, and transportations budget determined during the long 105-day legislative sessions held in odd-numbered years (e.g., 2025). The supplemental budget, negotiated during short legislative sessions held in even-numbered years (e.g., 2026), makes modest adjustments to the biennial budgets already in effect.
Before a biennial session, the UW President and Provost lead a process to establish the University’s legislative agenda with ideas and input from the campus community. The legislative agenda is finalized by September when it is submitted, as required by law, as decision packages to the state.
For the Zoom meeting link, please contact Morgan Hickel at mhickel@uw.edu. Due to the limited time available, questions are encouraged to be submitted beforehand to Morgan so they can be addressed in remarks.
