It was a jam-packed week, so a lot to share. First if you’ll allow me a brief departure from typical Falls Church news: if you too are mourning, disheartened, or furious about our country’s gun violence epidemic – one opportunity to channel your thoughts is a town hall on Saturday […]
While I was out of town for this week’s work City Council work session, I’ve read the documents and watched the video to catch up and recapped my take on the highlights below (you, too, can easily watch past City Council and Planning Commission meetings online). Two topics of note this week […]
We had a relatively short meeting this week, but took some key votes on the library and various appointments, including the Campus Coordinating Committee to manage decisions across the school and economic development workstreams. You may have read that I voted against the task order on the library renovation project, so […]
As expected, we had a meaty work session this week covering our annual financial audit, West Falls Church economic development (formerly known as the 10 acres on the GMHS Campus), and a preview of the design contract for the $8.7M library renovation/expansion project that will be up for a vote […]
As my letter to the FCNP was edited down, I’ve included the full version here. This was meant to run concurrently with the first of several housing articles written by the Housing Commission to educate our community about housing issues over the next few months. Stay tuned! Dear Editor, As we all […]
It was a busy week with meetings nearly every evening this week , so I will cut to the chase! Read on for the two key updates: work is ramping up for the GMHS Campus Project (now rebranded as the West Falls Church project to be more coherent for the development community) […]
Happy new year! Other than the arctic weather, I hope 2018 has been off to a good start for everyone. City Council was back in the saddle this week – we held our organizational meeting, then went into work session, picking up where we left off on the GMHS campus governance […]
And that’s a wrap! We concluded our City Council meetings of 2017 this week and cast important votes on budget guidance for FY19 and the City Hall project, so I’ll share how and why I voted on these two matters. The City Hall project now moves forward into the construction phase […]
It’s hard to believe that budget season is already around the corner. This week, the City Council and School Board met for our annual joint session focused on budget planning for FY19 and other money matters. While we’re several months away from actual budget votes, staff has been hard at […]
As we kickoff the holiday season, I hope you’ve seen the new festive lighting in action, either driving through town or better yet, shopping and dining locally. The lights will now be up year round and change color with the season! Using new revenue from the hotel occupancy tax we passed […]
No rest of the weary, indeed. On the tails of the election (was it just last week??), we resumed city business with a long meeting on Monday and have packed weekly agendas ahead of our winter recess in mid December. Lots to cover this week, so grab a cup of […]
In lieu of my regular updates, I’ll direct you to the Guest Commentary I wrote in the FCNP this week, with my thoughts on the election and next steps for the GMHS project. For regular blog readers, you’ll see that many of the themes and steps I urge us to […]