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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up April 2015: Part 3
Description
Board Chair Mary Hynes sits down with Mary Curtius of the Arlington Communications office and discusses important decisions from the April 2015 county board meeting. This meeting was dominated by the annual budget process, and there's lots of budget talk in this 30 min. discussion.
A
Welcome
back
the
budget,
though,
that
the
board
took
at
it's
April
meeting
was
clearly
an
important
one,
but
it
was
not
the
only
action
the
board
took
we'll.
Take
a
look
now
at
some
of
those
other
actions.
Mary
I
wanted
to
talk
to
you
about
the
Wilson
School
and
the
action
that
the
board
took
on
the
request
to
designated
historic
right.
What
happened.
B
Well,
you
know
actually,
let's
to
be
technically
correct.
It
was
to
put
a
local
historic
district
on
it.
So
I
want
to
separate
a
little
bit
because
some
of
the
things
that
happen
at
the
building
are
important
and
its
location
is
important,
but
when
you
put
a
local
historic
district
around
something
you're,
basically
it's
almost
like
saying
it's
kind
of
in
glass.
You
can
use
it,
but
if
you
want
to
make
changes
to
it,
there's
a
pretty
extensive
process.
It
has
to
go
through
to
get
what's
called
a
certificate
of
appropriateness.
B
So
some
members
of
the
community
about
12
residents
down
in
the
Rosslyn
area
brought
this
to
the
historic
affairs
and
landmark
Review
Board,
which
is
our
body
that
looks
at
these
things.
It
had
been
studied
once
before
and
in
that
first
go
around
and
everybody
knows
the
Wilson
School
actually
belongs
to
the
school
board.
They
hold
that
property
for
the
purposes
of
delivering
public
education,
so
it
had
been
looked
at
once
before,
and
the
school
board
had
said
we
choose
not
to
sort
of
put
it
in
this
bubble.
B
We
think
we're
going
to
have
to
use
this
property
at
some
point.
We
don't
want
to
have
to
hold
on
to
this
building
the
buildings
in
rough
shape.
I
have
a
daughter
who
went
there
in
the
early
80s
when
she
was
a
three
year
old
and
we
had
montessori.
There
was
regular
water
infiltration,
it's
not
a
building
and
and
the
school
system's
been
using
it
since
and
taken
care
of
it,
but
it's
not
a
great
building
and
the
original
buildings,
quite
small.
B
So
what
the
board
did
was
based
on
the
school
board's
request
that
we
not
designated
historic
based
on
our
review
of
what
was
going
on
and
with
all
of
these
parcels,
we
declined
to
put
a
historic
district
on
it.
We
did,
though,
ask
the
manager
to
work
with
the
school
system
and
store
preservation
staff,
as
well
as
hol
RB,
to
explore
ways
to
tell
the
story
of
Wilson
School.
However,
the
parcel
ends
up
redeveloping
I'm.
A
B
A
B
A
B
The
Washington
leave
field
had
been
used
only
for
seven
football
games
a
year,
so
we
were
able
to
keep
beautiful
grass
on
it
because
nobody
ever
played.
But
when
you
put
a
synthetic
field
in
you
can
play
anytime,
except
if
there's
lightning,
ok,
you
can
shovel
it
off
and
play
play
in
the
winter,
get
thousands
and
thousands
and
thousands
of
hours
of
playability
by
putting
a
synthetic
in
mm-hmm.
So
we've
moved
on.
B
A
B
Young
people,
and-
and
we
are
now
testing
the
fields
every
year
to
make
sure
that
they
still
have
this
new
resiliency-
that
people
are
saying
you
need
to
have
in
order
to
not
have
as
much
damage
from
so
it'll,
be
there
for
another
10
years,
be
playable
for
thousands
of
hours
so
worth
the
investment
totally.
And
if
you
do
it
on
a
cost
per
hour
of
play,
it's
one
of
the
best
deals
around
okay.
A
B
Sure
so
staff
brought
us
a
proposal
to
look
at
both
increasing
the
rate
for
parking
meters
and
potentially
extending
the
hours
most
of
them
in
the
urban
areas.
The
rate
is
a
dollar
and
a
quarter
in
hours.
This
would
go
up
to
a
dollar
fifty.
If
we
move
forward
in
the
places
where
it's
a
dollar
go
to
a
dollar
and
a
quarter,
we
have
some
places
at
50
and
75
cents,
those
wouldn't
change.
We
currently
run
until
six
o'clock
at
night.
This
is
a
proposal
to
run
as
late
as
eight.
B
When
we
looked
at
what
others
were
doing
in
the
region,
we
had
the
lowest
rates
and
we
had
the
shortest
hours
and
both
of
those
things
lead
to
the
street
not
turning
over,
and
so
people
will
drive
around
looking
for
parking
too
much.
So
this
is
we're
trying
to
right-size
this
and
came
to
us
late,
and
we
thought
we'll
take
a
little
more
time
so
really
looking
forward
to
hearing
from
the
community
what
they
think
about
these
proposals.
So.
B
A
Right
yeah
and
finally,
you
took
a
kind
of
unusual
action.
You
issued
a
proclamation
for
a
man
and
a
store.
Can
you
tell.
B
A
B
A
B
B
It's
really
true,
you
know
he
told
this
story
of
when
the
Metro
came
through.
They,
their
original
store
was
actually
at
the
Metro
plaza,
and
so
they
had
to
move,
and
then
he
and
his
brother
and
his
father
were
in
the
business
and
and
the
brother
said:
let's
go
to
Parkington,
that's
you
know
which
is
now
Boston.
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
joining
us
again
Mary.
This
has
been
a
great
conversation
yep
thanks
for
having
me
Mary,
ok
and
thank
you
all
once
again
for
joining
us
for
the
county
board,
wrap
up
I
think
we
all
learned
something
about
what
goes
into
putting
together
the
county's
annual
budget
and
remember,
if
you
have
more
questions
about
the
topics,
we've
discussed,
email
them
here
at
a
TV
at
arlington,
VA,
us
or
tweet
them
with
the
hashtag
county
board,
wrap
and
we'll
try
to
answer
them.
Next
time
see
you
all
in
may.