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Updates from Letty –
August 17, 2025
Thank you for all the kind notes last week about my blog’s 10th birthday. This week’s post will be brief but important – I’ll explain our unanimous vote on solid waste changes (but we’re not done yet), capital projects around the city, and my personal office hours this fall if […]
Updates from Letty –
August 8, 2025
We’re returned from our mini July recess and jumped into a few meaty topics ahead of our regular meeting next week – our affordable living policy update and the report out from the Solid Waste Task Force, who were charged with tackling how we pay for curbside trash and recycling […]
Updates from Letty –
July 11, 2025
I hope you’re having a good summer with rest, travel, or time with family and friends. While City Council is trying out a new summer schedule (2 Monday night meetings per month in lieu of a long recess), my posts will be more sporadic than what you’ve been seeing. So […]
Updates from Letty –
June 20, 2025
I hope everyone fared ok after this week’s wet weather and can prepare for the coming heat wave. Remember to check on neighbors and note the Community Center has re-opened after the geothermal HVAC upgrade, which is the city’s designated cooling center. A fun fact that I just learned this […]
Updates from Letty –
June 6, 2025
Happy summer (and happy last day of school for fellow FCCPS families)! This week’s post will cover 3 topics: 1/ Proposed townhomes on S. Lee – we had an initial work session this week. As with most land use proposals, there is a fair amount of misinformation so I wanted […]
Updates from Letty –
May 30, 2025
We continue to have packed weeks as we head into summer, so this week’s post will cover a lot. We kicked off the week with Memorial Day, one of our most beloved, meaningful traditions in the city, a midweek visit by Senator Mark Warner, and the HAWK signals that went […]
Updates from Letty –
May 23, 2025
While this weekend is the unofficial start of summer, we will be remembering the Americans who gave their lives in service of our country – I hope you’ll join me at the 11 am Memorial Day ceremony. And I’ll see you at our beloved annual traditions of the fun run, […]
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, 2025
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 […]