As expected, we had a big Monday night with a spring snowstorm and our first look at the City Manager’s proposed FY18 budget and a robust discussion on Mt. Daniel. For those of you who have been readers the past year, you’ll recall that I focused my updates during budget season […]
With no City Council meeting this week, today’s update will be brief. However, I did want to call out two important items on Monday’s agenda that I know many of you are paying attention to – the FY18 budget and Mt. Daniel. I also highlight the schedule for the FY18 […]
Thank you for all of the feedback and engagement re: the tour of Wakefield High School. If you’re interested in seeing more schools – you’re in luck! We toured Alexandria’s Polk Elementary School this week, and I captured photos and notes again for another “virtual tour”. You may have heard […]
This week’s update will be a little different. I’ll still highlight the topics from our City Council work session, but also want to provide you a “virtual tour” of Arlington’s Wakefield High School. The City Council and School Board have been touring various nearby schools that have been recently renovated […]
A variety of interesting, important updates this week – cottage housing, progress on GMHS campus work, and school budget. Also remember that I’m holding “office hours” this morning at Rare Bird (230 W. Broad) from 9-10 am. If you have questions or would like to chat about city topics like […]
It was great to see so many of you at last Saturday’s community meeting on the GMHS campus project. If you missed it, the materials and video recording are now available. Also coming soon – a FAQ for all of the questions and comments we heard. This will be the most […]
This week’s update will brief… A final reminder that we have an important community meeting TOMORROW, Saturday at 9 am at MEH middle school about the GMHS Campus project. Whether you currently have kids in school or not, we are all taxpayers and will shoulder the cost together. And if […]
This week’s update will be a little different. While we covered several important topics in City meetings (I’ll still do a quick recap) – given that half of City Council traveled to Richmond mid week for a day of lobbying, I’ll also share my thoughts on the workings of the General […]
After last week’s light agenda, our City Council work session this week was packed with several meaty topics – traffic calming, streetscape standards, Fairfax Water storage tank, and financial policies. Also, you may be hearing of plans to redevelop Merrill House, which was a high level topic in this week’s EDC meeting (Economic Development […]
We had a light City Council meeting agenda this week, but it ended up being a busy week full of other meetings with interesting topics that I’ll highlight below, including the latest from the GMHS working group. If you’re in town for the upcoming long weekend, I hope you’ll consider […]
Happy new year! I hope your 2017 is off to a good start. City Council business resumed officially this week, with most of our meeting focused on a joint work session with the School Board on GMHS. Read on for my take on where we are, the options on the […]
Over the past year, I’ve fielded variations of questions around “why is my tax rate so high?” and “how does all of this development help my taxes?” So as a precursor to the upcoming budget season, I thought it would be useful to put my take on these questions into its own […]