The management – or lack of same – of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will not be off-limits in this year’s County Board race, Republican candidate Mark Kelly told the Sun Gazette.
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While Zimmerman is not responsible for all the agency’s woes, “he needs to bear some of that responsibility,” Kelly said.
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If approved by voters in November – a near-certainty, given past behavior – the new bonding authority will push Arlington’s total government debt to a point where the annual interest payments servicing the debt by fiscal 2013 will climb above $100 million for the first time.
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Republican County Board candidate Mark Kelly told the Arlington County Republican Committee on June 30 he may propose a two-year, 10-percent cut in the pay of County Board members, “to show that we’re serious” about budget reduction.
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Arlington County collects and spends more cash per resident than any other county in Virginia by a wide margin, according to the state’s auditor of public accounts.
Arlington collected $4,240 in local revenues for each of its roughly 212,000 residents last year, the most recent year for which the auditor’s data was available. Fairfax trailed far [...]
Battle lines are drawn for a July showdown over the scope of future
development in East Falls Church.
Those who think a county government task force’s recommendations go too
far, and those who think they don’t go far enough, sparred June 15 in a
preliminary round that will resume July 10, when the County Board
formally takes up the task [...]
