Donald Trump has often cast Washington, DC, as an urban hellscape, but the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said she had a “great meeting” with the president-elect on Monday and came away “optimistic that we will continue to find common ground.

Local security resources for the certification of electoral ballots on Capital Hill and funeral ceremonies for former President Jimmy Carter will not be impacted, the mayor said.

Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a snow emergency on Sunday for D.C. The snow emergency will stay in effect until at least Jan. 7. The District deployed its snow team at noon and pretreatment will begin at 8 p.