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  • 3 weeks ago | ffxnow.com | Scott McCaffrey

    A Fairfax County School Board committee has pushed off considering any changes to an existing policy on optional school uniforms. “It should just rest for now. There’s no rush,” Hunter Mill District Representative Melanie Meren said at the May 27 meeting of the board’s governance committee. At the meeting, committee members voted 3-2 to postpone further discussion on the policy, which was first adopted in 1996 and last revised in 2011.

  • 3 weeks ago | arlnow.com | Scott McCaffrey

    The Arlington County Democratic Committee is considering potentially significant restrictions on who can vote for top leadership posts. A proposed change to the party’s bylaws would limit eligible voters for party chair and other leadership positions to members of the county committee. That’s a group of around 200 people that includes top leadership, elected officials, precinct captains and others.

  • 3 weeks ago | ffxnow.com | Scott McCaffrey

    Fairfax County will once again have a voting representative on Metro’s board of directors. Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Alcorn has been tapped as Virginia’s second voting member on the Metro board, along with Paul Smedberg, who represents the state government. Alcorn will represent Northern Virginia localities, replacing Loudoun County supervisor Matt Letourneau.

  • 3 weeks ago | ffxnow.com | Scott McCaffrey

    A deeply divided Fairfax County Planning Commission voted on Wednesday (June 4) to recommend that the Board of Supervisors authorize staff study the possibility of housing on the Reston National Golf Course site. The 8-4 split reversed a preliminary 6-1 vote with four abstentions taken on May 15, when commissioners indicated support for county staff’s recommendation not to move forward with the proposal.

  • 3 weeks ago | ffxnow.com | Scott McCaffrey

    Fairfax County leaders are hoping for a more coordinated, regional approach to helping seniors avoid scams. “It needs to be broader than just a county message,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said at an Older Adults Committee meeting on Tuesday (June 3). At the meeting, the supervisors were briefed on the county’s ongoing Silver Shield campaign, which launched in 2017 to address fraud targeting vulnerable seniors.

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