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A break from my weekly posts!
My comments from the Coalition for Smarter Growth’s 2025 Livable Communities Leadership Award Event – May 14, 2025 Good evening everyone! First – thank you to the Coalition for Smarter Growth for this incredible honor. And to our federal workers and contractors – who have been impacted, who are worried, or who keep showing up […]
Updates from Letty –
May 9, 2025
City Council helped welcome our new superintendent this week, Terry Dade, who will be joining us in July. Besides sharing backgrounds as fellow Herndon Hornets and UVA Wahoos – I look forward to getting to know Terry. In his opening remarks to the community, I was especially struck by his […]
Updates from Letty –
May 2, 2024
May is a packed month for everyone and this year has been no different, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. We’re in the final weeks of budget season as we continue deliberations. If you missed last week’s post about the budget curveball, I suggest reading last week’s post first […]
Updates from Letty –
April 25, 2025
This week’s update is all about the budget. With a little more than two weeks to go and new curve balls to deal with (lower meals and sales tax revenues that I wrote about last week) – we’ve had weekly meetings going til midnight. Our budget process is a community […]
Updates from Letty –
April 18, 2025
As it is spring break, I’m going to keep this week’s post limited to one topic. After a year of listening, iteration, and deliberation, we unanimously legalized Accessory Dwellings as by-right use in single family neighborhoods. While we’re a few years late to the party (Arlington, Alexandria, and even Fairfax […]
Updates from Letty –
April 11, 2025
After having the 5th Monday off last week, we resumed budget season with a lengthy midnight meeting. Read on for my highlights, including a regional picture of the impacts of the federal changes which is important backdrop for our budget. Our budget discussion this week was focused on capital projects, […]
Updates from Letty –
March 28, 2025
This week’s post is coming to you from the west coast! I’m on a whirlwind 30 hour trip to San Francisco as a member of the fledgling Abundance Network and for this new book you may have heard about. The principles of abundance resonate a lot. It’s how I’ve approached […]
Updates from Letty –
March 21, 2025
Come join me at my office hours today at 12 pm at Clare n Don’s and share your priorities for the city. Budget season for us starts next Monday with the presentation of the FY26 budget by the City Manager and School Board Chair. Join us or tune in – […]
Updates from Letty –
March 14, 2025
It’s been another busy week with a marathon 4 hour work session, our final one on Accessory Dwellings, ahead of our scheduled vote in April. As pedestrian improvements are the top requests I field, did you know we have a missing links sidewalk program and a sidewalk repair program? Finally, […]
Updates from Letty –
March 7, 2025
Happy Women’s History Month! A few years ago, I advocated for free menstrual products at our library public bathrooms (thank you for making it happen, Team MRSPL!) and I’d love to see this expanded at all our public facilities. As we reflect on this month and all the women in […]
Updates from Letty –
February 28, 2025
As we wrap up a tumultuous February, there’s a lot to share. I have been hearing from many of you with concern and care for our federal workforce, which makes up 16% of our community. Northern Virginia is home to 178K civilian federal employees, not including contractors and fed-adjacent workers. […]
Updates from Letty –
February 14, 2025
In recognition of Valentine’s Day, this week’s post is themed around #LocalLove. We officially celebrated Creative Cauldron in their new permanent home yesterday and saw the beginning of the transformation at the Stratford. As we all look to rest and recover this long weekend, this post will have a lot […]