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Description
Arlington County VA Community Facilities Study Committee meeting #6 featured a welcome and meeting overview by Committee Chair John Milliken. Recorded on April 22 2015 at Wakefield High School.
A
Welcome
welcome
to
what
is
the
sixth,
a
full
meeting
of
the
facilities,
study,
group
and
study
group
members
are
by
and
large
in
these
tables
near
the
front,
and
we
have
with
us,
as
we
do
at
every
meeting
members
of
our
resident
forum
just
for
our
interest.
Anybody
who's
a
signed
up.
Member
of
the
resident
form
you
just
raise
your
hands
so
see
who's.
Who
all
is
here,
everybody
is
welcome,
but
resident
forum
members
have
a
special
role
to
play.
It's
self
designating.
A
So
if
you
want
to
be
a
member
of
the
resident
forum,
you
simply
go
on
the
website
and
say
I
want
to
be
a
member
of
the
resident
forum,
and
this
is
my
email
address
and
that
will
ensure
that
you're
kept
in
close
communication
with
what
the
study
group
is
doing.
My
name
is
John,
Millikan
and
I
have
the
honor
of
chairing
this
group.
Ginger
brown
here
at
the
front
table
is
the
vice
chair
and,
as
I
said,
members
of
the
study
group
are
sitting
around
these
front.
A
Four
tables
I've
got
a
few
opening
comments
that
I
want
to
make.
This
is
the
agenda
for
tonight.
This
is
our
introductory
meeting
in
our
third
topic
area.
We
spent
the
first
couple
of
meetings
talking
about
financial
resources
where
we
got
our
money.
We
spent
the
next
couple
of
meetings
talking
about
demographics,
who
we
are
and
who
we
think
we're
going
to
become,
and
now
we're
going
to
spend
the
next
couple
of
meetings
talking
about
public
facilities.
What
do
we
have
now?
A
A
As
I
said,
this
is
kind
of
where
we
are
on
our
schedule,
we're
in
the
second
meeting
in
April
talking
about
facilities
and
land
inventory,
as
we
go
into
May
we're
going
to
start
talking
about
a
couple
of
specific
examples
of
how
things
got
cited
in
the
past
and
start
talking
about
some
of
the
capital
improvement
plan
and
some
of
the
issues
surrounding
how
it
gets
developed
and
what
it
pays
for
into
June.
And
we
start
trying
to
match
up
some
of
these
things.
A
We
got
resources,
we
got
demographics
and
we
got
facilities
and
somehow
you
got
to
begin
to
marry
those
things
a
little
bit
to
come
up
with
a
final
report.
Importantly,
we're
also
going
to
have
to
all
of
our
meetings
or
public,
but
these
are
true
public
meetings
in
the
sense
that
we
encourage
people
to
come
and
give
their
comments
one
in
June
and
one
in
July
and
those
are
the
dates
they'll
both
be
in
the
main
county
administrative
office
building.
A
Our
initial
report
is
due
to
back
to
the
school
board
in
the
county
board
in
September,
so
we're
going
to
be
spending
August.
Putting
the
that
report
together
then
they'll
be
probably
a
work
session
with
the
two
boards,
although
frankly
they
haven't
decided
yet
with
us
how
they
want
to
do
that
kind
of
up
to
them
and
we're
then
going
to
start
in
earnest,
putting
together
our
final
report,
which
is
due
in
November.
A
A
Proposing
criteria
and
a
process
for
citing
public
facilities
so
I
think
most
people
know,
and
we
talked
a
little
bit
at
the
last
meeting.
There
is
a
process
originally
adopted
in
1993
by
the
county
and
we're
going
to
take
a
look
at
that
and
other
things
and
suggest
to
the
county
board
in
the
school
board.
Perhaps
a
new
set
of
criteria
or
a
new
set
of
a
new
process
for
deciding
how
things
and
where
things
get
get
located.
A
Then
from
there
Arlington
takes
a
unique
path,
and
that
is
that
we
get
roughly
fifty
percent
of
our
real
estate
taxes
from
our
commercial
tax
base
and
the
other
fifty
percent
from
the
single-family
home
and
condominium
residential
tax
base,
that's
very
different
than
our
neighboring
jurisdictions,
which
get
much
larger
shares
from
their
residential
from
the
single-family
home
seventy-eight
percent
in
Prince
William's
case.
Seventy-Five
percent
in
Fairfax
County's
case
Arlington,
set
itself
on
this
course
back
in
the
night,
mid
1970s,
and
it
has
been
the
underlying
economic
model
for
Arlington
ever
since.
A
That's
something
that
the
county's
demographers
disagree
with
and
when
you
look
historically
as
to
who's,
had
the
better
record
of
predicting
where
the
population
trends
in
Arlington
are
going.
The
local
demographers
not
surprising
because
they
look
at
Arlington
specific
factors
and
elements
to
figure
out
what's
happening
in
the
Arlington
population
and
the
Census
Bureau
when
it's
doing
mid
census,
projections
is
doing
it
based
on
more
national
trends.
So
all
respect
to
the
Census
Bureau
and
to
the
Washington
Post.
A
We
think
the
story
was
wrong
and
will
stick
by
the
numbers
that
that
we
that
we've
been
talking
about
as
a
group
and
that
Arlington
believes
will
be
true
for
Arlington,
which
is
that
we
will
continue
to
grow
in
overall
population
at
a
modest
level.
You
know
roughly
one
percent
or
so
a
year.
We
don't
see
any
big
change
in
that,
and
that
too
has
implications
for
facilities
and
future
planning.
A
We
talked
a
lot
about
school
projections,
and
rightly
so.
That's
something!
That's
on
everybody's
mind.
We
brought
in
expert
teams,
people
who
do
this
kind
of
work
as
third-party
consultants
all
across
the
country,
to
take
a
look
at
and
critique
the
way
we
generate
our
numbers,
both
County
and
schools,
and
they've,
given
a
fairly
detailed,
fairly
technical
report
and
they
presented
at
our
last
meeting.
Fundamentally,
they
say
we
do
it.
The
generally
accepted
correct
way
on
both
the
county.
A
That's
essential
what
that
graph
says
that
the
the
count
the
county
forecast
and
the
school's
forecast
there
they're
done
for
different
reasons
and
our
forecasting
different
things.
The
the
trading
of
data
between
them
is
an
important
handoff
and
one
that
the
demographic
subcommittee
is
going
to
take
a
little
more
detailed,
look
at
I'm
sure,
and
we
we
will
look
at
the
recommendations
that
the
consultants
have
made
and
perhaps
make
some
ourselves
to
the
county
in
the
school's.
A
Ginger
brown
is
going
to
chair
that
subcommittee
I'm,
going
to
chair
the
facilities
subcommittee,
and
there
are
members
of
the
group
that
have
been
assigned
to
each
of
the
four
subcommittees.
Anybody
is
invited
you're
more
than
welcome
to
come
and
participate.
Those
who've
been
assigned.
I
really
want
to
make
a
special
effort
for
them.
Each
of
them
to
to
come
demographic
subcommittee
will
be
meeting
again,
as
will
the
economic
subcommittee
on
the
eleventh
of
May.
A
Then
we've
got
tentative
dates
for
those
two
subcommittees
later
in
May,
as
they
begin
to
kind
of
finish
up
their
part
of
the
work.
Looking
for
the
information
that's
going
to
need
to
be
put
into
the
reports,
it's
not
done
yet
it's
got
to
come
back
to
this
group,
but
where
those
two
committees
are
going
to
try
to
accelerate
their
level
of
activity
to
get
there
get
their
tasks
done.
A
These
are
the
next
full
group
meetings,
mid
May,
thirteenth
of
May
at
Washington
and
Lee,
and
those
are
the
agenda
items.
The
end
of
May
is
going
to
be
an
interesting
meeting
and
particularly
put
that
study
group
members
on
your
calendar
because
it
may
make
sense
for
us
to
start
even
a
little
earlier
and
I'll.