City Council didn’t meet this week, so this week’s update will be short and sweet, but important! I hope you’ll take the time to note some key dates with updates and decisions coming up – including Mason Row/Founders Row, GMHS Campus Planning, and City Hall – all important projects and open for […]
It’s been awhile since we had a 4+ hour meeting, and we had one this week. A big thank you to all of the citizens who wrote in or spoke during public comment – the hot topics this week being the “shrub wall” at the proposed Mason Row/Founders Row site and […]
With the budget behind us, we resumed our regular meeting schedule. This week, we held a walking tour of the proposed Railroad Cottage project followed with a work session on cottages, discussion of the Q3 financial report, and Council work plan/priorities. The community turnout at the walking tour was one of […]
And with that, we wrapped up the FY18 budget this week. The quick headline is that by a 4-3 vote, we raised the real estate tax rate by 1.5 cents which will generate $600K towards the capital reserve, important for the GMHS project. For the average homeowner (average home value […]
Updates are a day early this week – mainly as a quick reminder that I’m holding my final office hours this morning from 830 – 930 am at Rare Bird Coffee (corner of Broad and Maple). Before you head to work – if you have input on the budget prior to […]
We are two weeks out from the final FY18 budget adoption on April 24th – the headline being the proposed 4 cents real estate tax rate increase (1 cent to fund the requested school budget, 3 cents for capital reserves). Thank you to those who have already written to us […]
The big news this week was our “first reading” vote on the FY18 budget. Read on for photos from the women’s history walk, pinwheel garden dedication, and a quick recap of the City Council meeting and my preliminary thoughts on the proposed real estate tax rate increase (from $1.315 to […]
We have a busy few days (weeks) ahead of us. This week’s update will be briefer as we continued discussion in work session on many of the same topics I wrote about last week. If you haven’t read last week’s post about the proposed budget and the Mt. Daniel issue, now […]
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 […]