Board of Professional Engineering Dan Hanlon Confirmation Resolution of 2025
Summary
This resolution confirms the Mayor’s nomination of Dan Hanlon to serve as the District’s licensed professional engineer member of the Board of Professional Engineering. The appointment fills the seat previously held by Barry Lucas and is for the remainder of an unexpired term ending January 19, 2028. The resolution also directs the Council to transmit the adopted resolution to the nominee and the Mayor, and it takes effect immediately upon adoption.
The bill is a personnel confirmation measure rather than a policy change. It relies on existing District law governing mayoral nominations and the Board of Professional Engineering, specifically the Confirmation Act of 1978 and D.C. Official Code § 47-2853.06(e). Its practical effect is to place a new licensed engineer on the board that oversees professional engineering licensure and related regulatory functions in the District.
Impact
The resolution does not amend substantive law or create new regulatory requirements. Instead, it exercises the Council’s confirmation authority to fill a board vacancy on the Board of Professional Engineering, ensuring the board remains fully staffed with a professional engineer licensed in the District. The affected parties are the nominee, the board itself, and indirectly the District’s engineering licensure and oversight system, which depends on appointed members to carry out its duties.
Sentiment
The available materials suggest a generally favorable and noncontroversial nomination. The Mayor’s transmittal emphasizes Hanlon’s extensive engineering, construction, and public-sector management experience, and the legal sufficiency review found the resolution legally unobjectionable. No committee transcript, vote record, or recorded opposition is provided, and the absence of controversy in the available record suggests the measure was treated as a routine confirmation.
Contention
No specific points of contention are documented in the provided materials. Because there are no committee transcripts or votes, there is no evidence of disagreement over Hanlon’s qualifications, the board’s composition, or the appointment process. The only notable issue is that the resolution fills an unexpired term, but the record does not indicate any dispute about that vacancy or the nominee selected to fill it.
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