The Sully District supervisor and school board member will hold a meeting March 13 at Rocky Run Middle School.
Sully District Supervisor Michael Frey and School Board member Kathy Smith will host a town hall meeting on the Fairfax County budget March 13. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Little Theatre in Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly. Fairfax County and Fairfax County Public Schools management and budget staff will also co-host along with the Western Fairfax County Citizens Association and Sully District Council. County executive Ed Long’s advertised budget includes a 2-cent increase in the real estate tax rate, which is projected to raise nearly $42 million in count revenue. When coupled with increases in real estate assessments, the proposed rate would cost the average county household about $262 more in real estate taxes. The mean …
FY 2013 spending blueprint calls for no tax hike.
County and FCPS officials laid out the details of the county’s “no-frills” FY 2013 budget proposal at a Sully District town hall meeting Thursday night. District supervisor Michael Frey and school board representative Kathy Smith discussed next year’s budget (which starts July 1) with about 20 residents at the meeting in the Rocky Run Middle School cafeteria. “Things are looking much better than they did two years ago, but the truth of the matter is we are going to face a couple of more tough years in the future,” Frey said. “Federal spending is going to go down and we see that we are going to have to absorb much of these cuts at the local level.” Anthony Griffin, the county’s chief executive, has proposed a $6.7 billion budget that …
School board member Kathy Smith and supervisor Michael Frey each re-elected to another term in office.
On Tuesday, Sully District voters overwhelmingly chose to keep their longtime representatives on the Board of Supervisors and School Board in office for another term. Twenty-year incumbent supervisor Michael Frey defeated Shahid Malik with over 70 percent of the vote; Kathy Smith, who has been on the school board since 2002, won re-election over Sheila Ratnam with about 55 percent of the vote. In many parts of Fairfax County, school board elections became the races to watch after a series of controversies over the past year, including robust public debate over expanding full-day kindergarten, boundary changes in the southwestern area of the county, the closure of Clifton elementary school and changes in discipline policy. Yet while the at-…
Jim Daniels
10:41 am on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Nice to see Fairfax County voters exercise common sense, and not let external political considerations get in the way of a good thing. For the most part our current incumbents have done a very good job managing the county. So I am very glad to see Supervisor Frey, Chairman Bulova, and Senator Marsden all returned to their positions. I also think the outcome of the school board races was good as … more ›