But there are some hiccups.
âThereâs a lot of pieces involved,â said county elections chief Gretchen Reinemeyer, who aims to convene a summit of involved parties â county staff, Virginia Department of Elections, equipment vendors â early in the new year to âhash out all the details.â
At the request of Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington), the General Assembly earlier this year voted to allow Arlington to serve as an instant-runoff guinea pig before other localities have the option to implement it a year from now.
The instant-runoff process already is in use when the Arlington County Democratic Committee selects its nominees for local office through a caucus, though not in state-run primaries. When filling out ballots, voters are allowed (but not required) to rank candidates in order of preference; should no candidate receive 50 percent of the vote on the first ballot, the lowest scoring candidate is eliminated, and his/her votes are reallocated based
Arlington to ask Virginia lawmakers for permission to add speed cameras throughout the county article
ARLINGTON, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - Soon you may really have to watch your speed when driving in Arlington – or at least you will if local leaders get their way.
The Arlington Board now plans to ask state lawmakers for permission to add speed cameras throughout the county. Right now – because of just-approved legislation – the cameras are only allowed in school and work zones, but officials want that to change. There are a few reasons why, including safety and equity. Sometimes in some places police might have some bias that they may even be unaware of and suddenly you find it’s mostly people of color that get pulled over for speeding, Board Chair Libby Garvey explained Thursday. This takes all the subjectivity out of it.
December 18, 2020 at 9:45am
(Updated 02/08/21) The Arlington County Board has scheduled a public hearing on proposed changes to the Residential Parking Program for its regular meeting on Feb. 20.
But Board members are open to pushing off the hearing further to engage more people and give residents more time to digest the changes.
Board member Christian Dorsey said the Board is merely advertising a public hearing and the proposed changes to the program are not drastic.
“This is an evolutionary update, not a revolutionary one,” he said. “While it’s a complicated program, the degree of change is not as difficult.”
A delayed public hearing may mean implementation is deferred to the 2022-23 fiscal year, especially if the County staff is expected to do more public engagement, said Stephen Crim, the RPP review program manager.
Virginia School Storm Water Plan Under Consideration
A County Board is considering a major storm water project at Reed School Site in Virginia
A project that could help the Westover, Virginia with its flooding problem is on the Arlington County Board agenda.
The Board is considering an agreement with Arlington Public Schools to build a storm water detention vault under the athletic fields of the Reed Elementary School site in Westover, reported ARLnow News.
The project is part of the county’s Flood Resilient Arlington storm water strategy.
The strategy was created in response to significant floods that affected the Westover neighborhood in July 2019 and this project is not expected to impact the planned opening of the new school, at 1644 N. McKinley Road, in August 2021.
A request that Arlington County Board members use their influence â whether through sweet-talking or something more forceful â to get county schools back up and running fell largely on deaf ears Dec. 12.
Board members said they were working with their School Board counterparts, but had no power to force a reopening of schools that have been shuttered since last March.
Acknowledging for the record that the situation is âreally, really frustrating,â County Board Chairman Libby Garvey said the county government was providing resources to make an eventual back-to-class rollout possible, but the final say on resuming classes was not theirs.
âWe really are providing all we can,â said Garvey, a former School Board member who, in her re-election bid this year, occasionally opined on the need to get classes back in operation.