This week, the City Council started our annual 6 week process on budget review and approval. Budget season, more than any other time, brings out *everyone* that we don’t typically hear from throughout the year. Having done this only twice, I will caveat that I am far from an expert. […]
Dear Friends, In contrast to the big retail news this week, we had a brief work session as we gear up for the start of the FY19 budget season. This week, we reviewed the first draft of the Council work plan, which includes our top priorities for the next two years. […]
You’ll notice that this week’s update is hitting your inboxes and blog readers a day early. Besides today being the day that the West Falls Church RFP hits the streets, today is the first day of Women’s History Month, and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to plug the […]
We had a really interesting work session this week (ok, not “really interesting” for everyone – but different enough from the topics that consume much of our typical agendas). Read on to see what could be the future of Route 7/Broad Street, learn about Falls Church history, and of course more updates […]
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 […]
Dear Friends, 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 […]
Dear Friends, 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, […]
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 […]
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) […]