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B
A
Good
evening
and
welcome
to
the
county
board's
january
4th
2022
organizational
meeting,
we
have
a
number
of
items
before
us,
the
first
of
which
is
to
elect
a
chair
for
the
incoming
year,
and
I
will
move
that
we
will
be
open
to
nominations
and
I
would
actually
like
to
make
a
nomination,
and
I
would
like
to
nominate
miss
crystal
as
our
chair
for
the
year
to
come,
and
I
just
have
a
couple
of
remarks.
We
don't
need
a
second,
so
just
make
brief
remarks
over
the
past
year.
It's
no
secret.
A
I've
sought
your
counsel
and
leadership
numerous
times
and
each
time
you
have
provided
insight,
wisdom
and
focus,
and
each
time
the
only
question
for
you
as
it
should
be,
is
what's
in
the
best
interests
of
all
of
our
community,
and
that
has
been
a
huge
resource
to
me
this
past
year.
I
know
you'll
bring
those
qualities
to
serving
as
chair.
A
So
I
enthusiastically
nominate
katie
crystal
to
serve
as
our
chair
this
year
and
we
don't
need
a
second.
So
I
think
we'll
go
ahead
without
objection,
we'll
go
straight
to
a
vote
unless
there's
individual
points.
I
know
this
is
a
an
important
moment
for
us,
so
all
those
in
favor
of
miss
crystal
serving
as
chair
for
2022,
please
vote.
I,
if
you
do
so
hi
sorry
about
that
disjointed,
but
we
have
five
eyes
no
question
and
congratulations
to
miss
chris.
C
C
These
would
have
been
accomplishments
of
significant
magnitude
in
a
normal
year
and
it
was
not
a
normal
year.
So
I
think
you
have
more
than
earned
the
opportunity
to
take
a
breath
as
a
mere
member
of
the
county
board
this
upcoming
year,
and
we
are
so
grateful
to
you
for
guiding
all
of
us
through
these
uncertain
times
with
such
a
lasting
legacy.
Thank
you.
So
much.
C
B
To
know
madam
chair,
yes,
thank
you,
so
I
would
like
to
nominate
our
colleague
christian
dorsey
to
be
vice
chair.
I
know
that
christian
and
katie
will
be
a
great
leadership
team
lots
of
experience
already
christian,
as
ms
crystal
is
known
as
a
you
know,
a
leader
in
the
region,
which
is
great
for
the
region
and
great
for
us,
he's
going
to
likely
be
cheering
the
cog
board
this
year
as
well,
which
would
mean
a
busy
year
and,
as
I
say,
I
think,
that's
good
for
arlington
and
good
for
the
region.
B
We
know
I'm
just
a
couple
of
words.
We
know
and
for
at
least
I
consider
his
sort
of
insightful
and
innovative
thinking
on
some
of
the
toughest
issues
we
have.
I
find
no
matter
what
the
issue
christian
seems
to
understand.
It
deeply
and
he
always
seems
to
know
the
right
thing
to
say
even
when
people
are
upset,
which
is
a
really
valuable
thing,
so
I
think
we'd
be
great
to
have
him
as
our
vice
chair.
C
D
C
E
And
if
I
could
just
alert
the
community
to
one
change
from
the
preliminarily
adopted
meeting
schedule
that
we
we
advertised
and
adopted
in
november-
and
that
is
a
change
of
the
june
meeting
to
june
18th
and
june
20th
for
the
recess
portion.
That
is
a
change
from
what
has
been
previously
promoted.
Thanks.
C
Very
much,
mr
dorsey,
unless
there
is
any
further
discussion,
I'll
call
for
a
vote
on
that
motion
all
in
favor,
please
say:
aye
aye,
any
opposed
that
carries
unanimously.
We
have
a
board
calendar
for
the
year
ahead.
Our
next
item
of
business
is
to
adopt
our
meeting
procedures
for
the
adoption
of
calendar
year
2022..
C
A
C
C
As
is
probably
obvious,
the
board
has
returned
to
in-person
meetings,
but
we
maintain
the
option
for
virtual
participation
by
the
public,
which
we
encourage
folks
to
do,
and
our
meeting
procedures
now
propose
to
reflect
as
much
so
unless
there
is
any
further
discussion,
I'll
call
for
a
vote
all
in
favor,
please
say
aye
aye,
any
opposed
all
right
that
carries
unanimously.
Thank
you.
So
much
next
is
to
adopt
our
procedures
for
our
budget
and
tax
rate
hearings.
Ms
garvey,
do
you
have
a
motion
for
us.
B
B
the
meeting
procedures
just
I'll
speak
to
it
real
quickly,
if
I
might
include
only
minor
revisions
to
update
the
words
virtual
meetings
to
virtual
participation,
as
as
with
your
motion
and
the
board
has
of
course
returned
to
in-person
meetings
with
the
option
for
virtual
participation
by
the
public,
which
I
see
many
people
are
availing
themselves
of
now,
which
is
good.
Thank.
D
C
F
C
D
Like
I
move
that
the
board
adopt
the
calendar
year,
tiebreaker
resolution
that
reads
be
resolved,
that
the
arlington
county
board
determines
that
there
shall
not
be
a
tiebreaker
whose
duty
it
would
be
to
cast
a
deciding
vote.
In
the
case
of
a
thai
vote
of
the
members
of
the
arlington
county
board
during
calendar
year,
2022.
D
C
Any
opposed
that
two
passes
unanimously.
Finally,
before
we
move
into
some
remarks
for
our
evening,
we
do
have
regional
and
other
appointments.
I
will
read
through
these.
They
require.
No
second
may
take
me
a
moment,
so
we
propose
the
following
right.
Rather,
I'm
going
to
propose
the
following:
chairman:
designations
of
our
advisory
groups,
effective
through
december
31st
of
2022
to
the
advisory
committee
on
transportation
choices.
C
We
designate
joshua
fulb
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
2022
and
elizabeth
kiker,
as
vice
chair
for
the
same
term,
to
the
audit
committee
that
we
reappoint
and
designate
christian
dorsey
as
co-chair
for
a
term
ending
of
december
31st
2022
and
reappoint
and
designate
takas
karen
tonis,
as
co-chair
for
the
same
term
to
the
citizens
advisory
commission
on
housing.
We
designate
eric
berkey
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
2022,
and
we
designate
keller
macbeth,
as
vice
chair
for
the
same
term,
to
the
climate
change,
energy
and
environment
commission.
C
We
designate
joan
mcintyre
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
on
december
31st
of
2022
and
to
the
commission
on
aging.
We
designate
linda
kelleher
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31
2022
and
jim
richardson,
as
vice
chair
for
the
same
term,
to
the
crystal
city,
citizens
review
council.
We
designate
michael
dowell
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
of
december
31st
of
this
year
and
to
the
disability
advisory
commission.
We
designate
elizabeth
prio
as
the
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
to
the
economic
development
commission.
C
We
designate
avril
uzuri
sisk
as
the
chair
for
a
term
ending
of
december
31
2022
and
to
the
emergency
preparedness
advisory
commission.
We
designate
sharon
valencia
as
a
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
to
the
fiscal
affairs
advisory
commission.
We
designate
as
chair
steve
baker
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
and
to
the
forestry
and
natural
resources
commission.
C
We
designate
phil
klingelhoefer
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
and
kate
donahue,
as
vice
chair
for
a
term
of
the
same
duration
to
the
human
rights
commission.
We
designate
helena
and
connolly
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
and
as
a
partnership
for
the
children
for
children.
Youth
and
families
designate
megan
mack
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
2022.
C
to
the
park
and
recreation
commission.
We
designate
shruti
koopa
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
december
31st
of
this
year
and
designate
jill
barker,
as
vice
chair
for
a
term
of
the
same
duration
to
the
planning
commission.
We
designate
daniel
weir
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
on
december
31
2022
to
the
technology
commission.
We
designate
mary
cranol
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
on
december
31st
of
2022
and
finally,
to
the
tenant
landlord
commission
designate
david
t
tim
as
chair
for
a
term
ending
on
december
31st
of
2022.
C
That
concludes
our
proposed
advisory
board
designations,
and
this
presents
an
excellent
opportunity
to
thank
emphatically
those
who
have
been
serving
and
will
be
stepping
up
to
new
leadership
roles
in
the
coming
year.
We
appreciate
you
tremendously
with
regard
to
our
regional
appointments,
which
is
to
say
the
designations
we
make
amongst
ourselves
for
this
upcoming
year
of
2022.
C
I
move
that
we
reappoint
christian
dorsey
to
the
board
of
directors
of
the
council
of
governments,
appoint
mr
carantonis
to
the
national
capital
region,
transportation
planning
board
and
reappoint
mr
carantonis
to
the
metropolitan
washington,
air
quality
committee
to
council
of
government
committee's
climate,
energy
and
environment
policy
committee.
We
appoint
mr
karen
tonis
and
we
reappoint
ms
garvey
to
the
chesapeake
bay
and
water
resources
policy
committee.
C
We
further
reappoint
mr
carantonis
to
the
human
services
and
public
safety
policy
committee
and
reappoint
both
mr
karentonis
and
ms
garvey
to
the
region
forward
coalition
to
the
northern
virginia
regional
coalition.
We
reappoint
mata,
ferranti
and
libby
garvey
and
to
the
northern
virginia
transportation
commission.
We
reappoint
libby
garvey
and
designate
her
as
the
virginia
railway
express
operations
board
appointee
from
arlington.
C
We
reappoint
matt
deferanti
and
designate
him
as
the
washington
metropolitan
area
transit
authority
appointee
from
arlington,
and
we
reappoint
katie
crystal
and
designate
as
the
virginia
railway
express
operations
board
alternate
from
arlington
and
to
the
northern
virginia
transportation
transportation
authority
reappoint
katie
crystal
again.
That
does
not
need
a
second,
but
I'm
happy
to
entertain
any
discussion
or
comments
if
there
are
any
seeing
none.
Thank
you
all.
It
should
be
a
busy
year
for
everyone
in
store.
We
will
call
now
for
a
vote
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
aye
aye
any
opposed
great.
C
Thank
you
again.
We
will
move
now
into
remarks
by
board
members,
I'm
going
to
engage
in
the
unusual
practice
of
actually
inviting
our
manager
to
begin
the
remarks
tonight.
We
are
in
an
emergency
within
an
emergency
right
now
between
the
weather
and
the
coronavirus,
but
it
certainly
felt
that
we'd
be
remiss
if
we
didn't
take
an
opportunity.
As
I
know,
we
will
all
do
in
our
remarks
to
comment
on
the
impacts
of
the
omicron
variant
in
our
community
and
the
significant
spike
in
cases
that
we
are
seeing.
C
F
Yeah,
thank
you,
madam
chair
and
members
of
the
board
happy
new
year.
I'm
going
to
give
you
a
brief
update
on
a
few
areas,
including
testing
county
programs,
the
status
of
area,
hospitals
and
also
vaccinations
for
testing
the
county
is
operating
three
testing
facilities,
one
here
in
courthouse
plaza
another
at
the
arlington
mill
community
center
and
another
virginia
highlands
park.
None
require
health
insurance,
none
require
residency
and
none
require
payment
as
you've
likely
seen
on
the
news.
F
The
demand
for
testing
as
at
an
all-time
high,
the
number
of
tests
conducted
at
county
kiosks
is
up
280
percent.
In
the
last
four
weeks,
the
county
administered
more
than
11
300
tests
the
week
before
christmas,
and
even
with
the
key
husk
closed
for
two
days
for
the
holiday
and
a
month
prior,
we
had
administered
only
2
900
tests,
we're
in
the
process
of
opening
an
additional
testing
facility
to
meet
demand.
A
curative
kiosk
is
scheduled
to
open
this
friday
january
7th
at
central
library
and
we're
also
looking
at
additional
site
options
if
possible.
F
In
addition,
libraries
has
partnered,
with
the
virginia
department
of
health
to
distribute
rapid
at-home
tests
through
state
deliveries.
Those
have
been
coming
in
about
every
seven
to
ten
days.
We've
distributed
4
500
tests
in
three
days,
and
these
tests
expire
quickly,
so
they
should
not
be
saved
for
a
rainy
day.
They're
meant
to
be
used
immediately
by
the
people
who
pick
them
up,
we're
lucky
to
live
in
a
region
with
good
private
sector
testing
options,
and
I
encourage
people
to
go
to
our
website.
F
We
have
employed
mitigation
measures
for
staffing
and
staggered
shifts
and
we're
making
some
changes
to
contingency
plans
to
be
ready
in
case
things,
take
a
turn
for
the
worse.
As
far
as
hospitals
in
northern
virginia
93
of
adult
critical
care
beds
and
62
of
pediatric
critical
care
beds
were
filled
at
the
end
of
december.
On
december
31st
and
university
of
virginia
modeling
suggests
that
nova
hospitalizations
could
come
close
to
2000
hospitalizations
by
the
middle
to
the
end
of
january,
which
would
be
slightly
more
than
the
permitted
beds.
F
However,
they
do
have.
We
do
have
surge
plans
in
place
in
all
the
hospitals,
so
we
don't
want
to
see
that
happen,
but
we're
prepared
if
that
does
happen,
and
finally
on
vaccines,
the
county
is
operating
two
clinics,
one
at
arlington
mill
and
another
at
walter,
reed
and
public
health
staff
have
given
over
190
000
vaccine
doses
since
december
of
2020..
F
These
vaccine
clinics
have
shifted
to
a
five-day
operating
schedule
closed
on
sundays
and
mondays,
and,
as
you
know,
vaccines
are
also
available
at
local
pharmacies
and
health
care
providers.
And
again
you
can
go
to
vaccines.gov
to
get
information
on
that
school-based.
Second-Dose
vaccine
clinics
were
to
occur
this
week,
we'll
see.
I
know
schools
are
closed
again
tomorrow,
but
they
had
been
planned
as
a
school-based
effort.
C
Mr
manager,
thank
you
very
much.
I
know
this
has
been
an
uncertain
time
for
those
in
our
community
and
appreciate
your
being
a
steady
source
of
factual
information.
We'll
move
now
into
remarks
from
board
members.
I
have
the
privilege
of
beginning
as
chair,
and
we
will
each
in
turn
have
an
opportunity
to
share
some
thoughts
about
the
upcoming
year.
C
So
to
begin,
the
poet
amanda
gorman
writes
that
grief
commands
its
own
grammar
and
we
often
say
that
we
are
beside
ourselves
with
grief
or
we
can't
even
imagine
this
means
that
anguish
can
call
us
to
envision
more
than
what
we
believed
was
carriable.
What
we
carry
means
we
survive.
It
is
what
survives
us
march.
13Th
will
mark
two
years
since
the
pandemic
first
shut
down
our
community.
C
Since
then
we
have
been
called
upon
to
make
sacrifices
beyond
what
we
could
have
envisioned
and
now,
as
the
omar
khan
variant
rips
through
our
community,
a
national
shortage
of
tests
call
to
mind
the
worst
earliest
days
of
the
pandemic.
It
is
hard
not
to
feel
beside
ourselves,
but
truly
we
are
stronger
now
than
we
were
then,
both
as
individuals
and
as
a
community.
C
More
than
86
percent
of
eligible
arlingtonians
and
94
of
adults
have
received
at
least
one
dose
of
the
vaccine,
a
showing
of
collective
commitment
to
one
another.
That
really
is
working,
because
even
in
this
peak,
our
hospitalization
numbers
remain
in
the
very
low
single
digits
and
if
we
keep
getting
vaccinated
getting
boosted
masking
demonstrating
responsibility
to
one
another,
we
will
get
through
this,
not
as
fast
as
we
had
all
hoped,
nor
with
the
finality
with
which
we
all
long
for,
but
we
will-
and
so
in
this
uneasy
moment
of
the
pandemic.
C
I
have
been
reflecting
on
the
things
we
will
carry
from
this
state
of
emergency.
I
hope
it's
not
only
our
anxiety
and
our
grief.
If
what
we
carry
is
what
survives
us,
then
what
we
carry
should
be
the
importance
of
home.
Over
the
past
two
years,
our
homes
have
become
our
workplaces,
our
schoolhouses,
our
oases.
C
If
we
have
ever
doubted
that
housing
should
be
our
first
priority
as
a
community,
the
pandemic
should
erase
that
doubt
since
the
adoption
of
the
affordable
housing
master
plan.
Seven
years
ago,
our
guiding
measure
has
been
the
quantity
of
affordable
housing
establishing
through
policy
and
unflagging
prioritization
of
money
committed,
affordable
apartments
that
will
prevent
the
displacement
of
our
low-income
and
working-class
families
and
as
a
board
and
staff
and
community.
C
C
Much
of
arlington's
committed,
affordable
housing
stock
is
aging
and
that
demands
new
approaches
to
keeping
apartments
in
good
repair
and
helping
renters
get
their
housing
problems
addressed
and
new
steps
are
already
underway,
including
inspections
and
a
comprehensive
capital
needs
assessment.
We
will
start
holding
landlords
even
more
accountable
using
new
terms
in
our
affordable
housing
investment
fund
loans,
and
we
will
improve
support
and
outreach
for
tenants
because
it
shouldn't
require
a
stay-at-home
order
to
know
that
staying
in
a
safe
and
healthy
home
is
a
human
right.
C
We
have
also
learned
over
these
past
two
years
that
our
neighborhoods
are
strongest
when
they
are
integrated,
not
just
in
the
traditional
sense
of
racial
and
ethnic
integration,
but
also
in
ages
and
stages
of
life.
Consider
the
young
professional
who
could
grocery
shop
for
the
at-risk
seniors
next
door,
the
baby
boomers,
who
had
room
for
their
adult
children
to
move
back
in
while
maintaining
some
independence,
the
college
student
who
could
take
a
break
from
their
online
classes
and
give
a
break
to
the
parents
of
a
virtual
kindergartner
next
door.
C
Consider
the
types
of
housing
that
support
these
multi-generational
interactions.
Renters,
who
live
next
to
long-time
homeowners,
basement
apartments,
backyard,
cottages,
modest
starter
homes,
duplexes
triplexes.
We
know
that
our
housing
stock
doesn't
support
this
kind
of
integration
and
interaction
in
large
swaths
of
arlington
and
that
legalizing
forms
other
than
one
house
on.
One
lot
is
an
important
act
to
better
integrate
our
neighborhoods.
C
I
can't
wait
to
take
clear
legislative
action
on
the
expanding
housing
choice
study
in
2022
to
do
exactly
that,
and
if
what
we
carry
is
what
survives
us,
then,
what
we
carry
from
this
pandemic
should
be
all
that
we
learned
and
newly
resolved
to
address
about
care.
This
pandemic
has
exposed
what
we've
always
known
to
be
true.
C
In
2018,
we
learned
that
collaborative
action
on
child
care
works
in
the
three
years,
since
this
board
enacted
policies
and
programs
recommended
by
the
multi-sector
child
care
initiative,
licensed
capacity
at
our
child
care,
centers
and
daycare
homes
increased
by
40
percent
and
in
2022
we
will
reconvene
some
of
the
stakeholders
who
made
that
initiative
a
success
to
renew
our
specific
focus
on
child
care
as
a
lifeline
for
low-income
families.
We
want
to
grow
the
number
of
child
care
providers
and
of
eligible
families
in
arlington
that
participate
in
the
state
subsidy
and
working
together.
C
We
can
identify
and
tackle
the
barriers
to
participation
on
both
sides
of
that
program,
like
helping
streamline
paperwork
or
addressing
the
hidden
costs
to
accepting
the
subsidy
and
get
more
low-income
kids
into
high-quality
child
care
environments.
Back
in
2018,
we
also
discovered
a
big
gap
in
our
child
care
landscape.
C
At
the
time,
only
four
percent
of
the
county
slots
offered
care
after
six
o'clock
and
only
two
percent
offered
care
on
weekends
as
the
future
of
work
changes
and
his
family
of
all
families
of
all
incomes
struggle
to
match
their
needs
for
care
with
limited
options
in
the
market.
We
have
an
opportunity
to
make
a
big
impact
by
focusing
on
child
care
during
non-traditional
hours.
C
Care
is,
of
course,
much
more
than
just
support
for
our
littlest
arlingtonians
and
their
families.
One
of
the
aftershocks
of
the
initial
pandemic
year,
which
reverberated
throughout
2021,
is
the
unbelievable
strain
it
placed
on
our
mental
health
of
elders,
experiencing
isolation
of
our
k-12
students
experiencing
deep
stress
and
anxiety
and
for
all
of
our
neighbors
who
are
experiencing
crisis
crises
of
addiction
or
other
illnesses.
C
Speaking
of
what
we
carry
from
this
pandemic
should
include
the
new
and
deeper
respect
and
value
that
we
found
for
one
another's
labor.
I
am
neither
economist
nor
futurist,
and
I
can't
say
where
this
current
spectacular
upheaval
in
how
and
where
we
work,
whether
and
for
what
wages
is
going
to
land.
Frankly,
I
am
as
eager
as
anyone
for
stable
answers
about
the
future
of
commuting
and
office
leases
so
that
we
can
resume
the
kind
of
long-term
planning
on
which
good
budgeting
practice
and
effective
transit
investments
rely.
C
C
C
We've
all
noticed
with
some
regret
how
the
collective
spirit
of
the
early
days
of
the
pandemic
waned
as
its
discontents
were
on
into
another
year,
and
I
hope
2022
will
be
a
year
to
renew
that
spirit,
because
we
not
only
have
a
lot
of
work
to
do
together.
We
are
also
trying
to
innovate.
How
we
do
it.
The
call
to
a
more
racially
equitable
arlington
will
be
woven
into
everything
we
do.
C
This
year,
not
just
the
big
projects
of
standing
up
the
community
oversight
board
and
reforming
funding
and
engagement
practices
to
better
reflect
the
lived
experiences
of
those
experiencing
discrimination.
We
will
take
a
similar
approach
to
climate
action.
The
community
energy
plan
provides
a
blueprint,
but
truly
doing
our
part
to
address
this
existential
issue
requires
not
just
a
set
of
initiatives
or
projects,
but
a
lens
through
which
we
make
all
decisions.
C
E
Everyone
deserves
it,
so
it
has
been
662
days
since
we
began
our
emergency
response
to
the
coven
19
pandemic
and
since
then
we
have
all
endured
multiple
surges
interspersed
with
periods
of
low
transmission
and
we've
been
on
both
a
public
health
and
an
emotional
roller
coaster,
roller
coaster.
As
a
result,
as
we
gather
tonight,
nearly
two
years
later,
we
are
experiencing
record
high
levels
with
the
omicron
variant,
something
that's
far
more
transmissible
than
anything
that
we've
seen
to
date.
E
E
Now
I
would
like
for
us
to
also
really
to
continue
to
be
aggressive
with
our
legislative
advocacy
and
employ
and
explore
how
carrots
like
expanded
tax
credits
and
sticks
like
more
prescriptive
building.
Codes
can
be
added
to
our
successful
tool
kit
to
meet
our
climate
needs,
and
while
this
work
will
necessarily
be
diffuse
and
pursued
throughout
many
governmental
departments,
we
must
centralize
our
focus
so
that
we
seize
every
opportunity
and
make
our
very
best
decisions.
E
Now.
I
am
also
pleased
and
proud
that,
over
the
last
two
years,
arlington
has,
in
the
face
of
strong
headwinds,
made
such
positive
strides
toward
our
housing
goals
by
continuing
to
invest
in
redevelopment
proposals
that
create
moderately
priced
units,
leveraging
resources
to
make
some
of
those
units
affordable
to
those
with
even
lower
incomes
and
entering
into
really
innovative
and
interesting
partnerships
that,
through
land
use
planning,
will
create
quality,
new
development
of
moderately
priced
homes,
as
we
think
about
this
year
ahead,
as
we
think
about
what
we
must
yet
do.
E
Now
I
am
not
going
to
predict
when
we
get
to
our
new
normal
or
even
what
our
new
normal
will
be,
but
I
am
certain
and
quite
confident
that
if
we
rely
on
the
resilience
that
has
been
honed
during
the
pandemic
and
remain
focused
on
achieving
our
goals
for
sustainability,
housing,
our
community
community
and
achieving
racial
equity,
we
will
emerge
on
the
other
side,
both
better
and
stronger.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
I
hope
I
can
do
this
without
apologies.
I,
the
cough,
is
getting
better
and
better.
There's
one
point
in
every
day
when
I
have
a
fair
amount
of
coughing
and
sadly
it's
chosen
to
do
it
right
now,
but
I
think
I
can.
I
think
I
can
manage
so
happy
new
year
to
everybody
and,
as
I've
said
to
some
of
you,
I
think
where
I
don't
want
to
say
it
too
loudly
that
we
don't
want
anything.
But
it's
it's
been
nice
to
hear
all
of
our
speaking.
B
People
will
think
we've
coordinated
and
we
really
kind
of
haven't
so
I'm
really
enjoying
this
tonight
and
I'm
to
start
off
with
thank
yous
as
well.
Thank
you
to
my
board
colleagues,
to
our
outgoing
chair,
matt
d
ferrante
for
his
leadership
and
to
katie
and
christian
for
stepping
up,
because
this
is
going
to
be
another
exciting
year.
B
I
think
and
thank
you
and
thank
you
again
to
our
staff,
who
have
been
working
so
hard
under
such
challenging
conditions
for
almost
two
years
now,
and
I
want
to
thank
our
residents
because
they
have
been
stepping
up
many
of
them
to
help
their
neighbors
with
vaccinations
with
food
with
all
kinds
of
things
and
many
of
them
they're
very
smart,
they've,
gotten
vaccinated.
So
many
thanks
to
our
residents
as
well.
You
know
when
I
tried
to
distill
what
I
wanted
to
say
today.
B
I
realized
the
words
beloved
community
and
white
water.
Rafting
were
what
came
to
mind
so
martin
luther
king's
phrase,
the
beloved
community,
is
a
really
nice
shorthand.
I
think
for
what
I
believe.
We
want
arlington
to
be
a
brazilian
community
where
everyone
feels
safe,
and
we
have
true
economic
and
social
justice
now
working
to
get
to
that
goal
this
past
year
and
so
has
felt
pretty
bumpy
and
turbulent.
B
Really,
since
2020
we've
had
to
adapt
quickly,
we've
had
to
stay
centered,
we've
had
to
stay
balanced,
we've
had
to
stick
together
and
that
feels
a
little
bit
like
white
water
rafting
to
me,
which
is
why
that
came
to
came
to
mind,
and
then
I
realized,
I
could
say
it
using
some
of
my
themes
from
the
past.
I
think
we've
used
equity
and
innovation,
with
a
good
dose
of
civility
to
try
to
become
the
resilient
beloved
community.
B
We
want
to
be
it's
not
been
smooth
and
I
see
I
think
we
all
see
probably
another
unsettled
year
of
transition
ahead
and
I
think
they're,
probably
more
white
water
rapids
to
go
so
first
sticking
together
and
staying
balanced
will
be
crucial.
You
know,
as
change
continues
to
really
be
rough
on
everybody.
Civil
discourse
is
ever
more
important,
so
I'm
going
to
recommend
again
this
nice
little
book,
george
washington's
rules
of
civility
and
decent
behavior.
It's
short,
it's
helpful.
It's
got
little
helpful
bits.
It's
got
some
really
interesting
views
on
hygiene.
B
On
the
from
the
past.
It's
kind
of
an
interesting
read
historically
that
way,
but
it's
got
great
advice
like
be
respectful.
That's
the
first
one
that
that
works
a
long
time,
don't
spread
false
rumors,
and
the
last
is
my
favorite
labor
to
keep
alive
in
your
breast
that
little
celestial
fire
called
conscience,
which
brings
me
to
equity
equity,
is
front
and
center
now
and
as
it
should
be
for
any
good
government.
It's
a
matter
of
conscience.
B
The
new
wider
awareness
of
equity
and
justice
issues
has
indeed
brought
us
a
lot
of
turmoil
over
the
last
couple
years,
but
we
are
now
infusing
or
trying
to
infuse
equity
into
everything.
We
do
we're
not
there
completely,
but
we
are
indeed
really
working
on
it
and
I
look
forward
to
getting
our
community
oversight
board
up
and
running.
B
I
do
not
expect
this
work
to
be
smooth
either,
but
it's
absolutely
necessary
to
do
housing,
as
we've
all
been
talking
about,
is
a
major
challenge
for
achieving
equity
in
any
attractive
urban
area.
I
was
pleased
and
relieved
when
we
partnered
with
amazon
to
support
the
purchase
of
barcroft
departments.
B
We
moved
really
fast
to
do
that
because
we
had
to
and
I'm
sure
they're
going
to
be
disagreements
as
we
work
through
the
details.
But
this
is
a
big,
innovative
step
as
we
try
to
build
the
resilient
and
ideal
beloved
community.
We
want
another
challenging
transition.
I
see
is
economic,
just
as
miss
crystal
talked
about.
B
So
we
here
in
arlington,
are
struggling
along
with
every
other
jurisdiction
to
keep
our
employees
this
year.
As
noted,
collective
bargaining
will
change
how
salary
negotiations
happen.
I
think
it
probably
will
be
rough
and
bumpy
for
a
while,
as
some
economic
priorities
and
expectations
change,
but
the
people
who
care
for
our
children
are
sick,
are
elderly
and
those
who
keep
us
safe
should
be
paid
well
and
better
than
they
often
have
been
in
the
past.
So
that
to
me
actually
is
part
of
equity
now
to
pay
for
the
employees.
B
B
B
We
here
are
relatively
sheltered,
but
some
of
those
attacked
the
capital
stayed
right
here
in
arlington
and
many
drove
through
arlington
on
their
way
to
the
capitol,
and
as
we
go
about
our
work
here
in
arlington
of
good
government
building
our
beloved
community
and
trying
to
keep
our
metaphorical
raft
afloat,
we
cannot
ignore
that
fact.
The
danger
to
our
democracy
is
not
a
local
issue,
but
I
think
it
is
a
local
threat.
B
B
All
things
considered,
we
have
developed
much
more
flexibility
in
how
we
do
our
work
and
how
we
function
we're
getting
much
more
comfortable
talking
about
racial
equity,
tempers,
I
think,
have
cooled
a
little
and
that
has
led
to
some
more
civil
conversations.
So
in
2022
I
will
continue
my
focus
on
equity
as
usual
for
our
decisions
to
encourage
innovation,
probably
more
than
some
people
will
like,
and
I
will
encourage
constructive
civil
discourse
as
much
as
I
can,
and
I
cannot
be
more
grateful
to
my
board
colleagues,
our
fantastic
staff
and
employees
and
our
residents.
B
A
Thank
you.
I've
never
quite
felt
so
grateful
to
be
a
raft
mate
as
I
as
as
you
describe
it
so
good
evening.
I
will
say
that
we
begin
2022,
like
we
began
last
year
with
a
whole
lot
of
challenges
right
before
us.
In
the
coming
months
and
months,
the
omicron
variant
has
led
to
a
spike
in
infections
that,
as
you've
said,
might
be
slightly
different
from
a
year
or
two
years
ago,
but
is
still
a
big
challenge
and
I
hope
we
can
bring
our
collective
willpower
to
getting
boosted.
A
A
A
A
We
enacted
collective
bargaining
and
prevailing
wage
ordinances
set
up
our
hunger
security
task
force,
took
critical
steps
towards
preserving
our
environment
with
respect
to
electric
buses,
vehicles,
plastic
bags
and
leaf
blowers.
We
changed
the
name
from
lee
highway
to
langston
boulevard,
adopted
a
new
logo
and
partnered
with
our
schools
to
find
a
new
home
for
arlington
community
high
school
for
the
years
to
come.
A
I'm
truly
honored,
and
I
hope
you
all
know
how
grateful
I
am
to
have
served
as
chair
last
year
and
how
much
I'm
looking
forward
to
others,
leading
and
being
a
member
of
this
board
and
working
with
you
over
the
year
to
come,
bringing
down
the
current
omicron
spike
and
getting
more
arlington
residents.
Boosted
is
the
most
important
priority
I
see
for
the
first
few
months
of
this
year.
The
manager
said
it
we
have
to
increase
our
boosted
rates
last
thursday,
dr
mike
silverman.
A
A
The
county
we
have
to
work
with
the
national
government
and
the
state
government
on
the
problem
of
not
enough
supply
of
tests,
but
we
also
individually
as
arlington
residents
and
collectively
have
to
work
on
our
vaccination
rates.
Each
of
you
have
said
it.
We
have
very
high
rates,
but
we
need
to
get
from
35
percent
approximately
up
towards
80
percent
in
terms
of
boosters,
so
that
we
can
prevent
variants
in
the
future
and
keep
every
one
of
us
safe,
I'll
work
with
you,
the
manager
staff
everyone
to
try
and
secure
additional
tests.
A
A
I
will
consider
the
facts
involved
and
every
detail
will
be
important,
but
I'm
confident-
and
I
believe
we
can
reach
an
agreement
that
will
serve
our
community.
Well,
our
schools
we
have
seen
are
an
immediate
priority
that
are
a
challenge
you
talk
to
any
parent
teacher
or
child,
and
getting
back
in
comfortable
school
settings
is
critical.
A
A
I
also
believe
we
need
to
partner
with
the
our
colleagues
on
the
school
board
the
superintendent
to
provide
much
needed
resources,
like
ms
garvey
said,
to
help
address
the
need
to
compensate
educators
fairly
and
increase
educator
compensation.
We
also
have
a
big
challenge,
as
many
in
our
community
have
known,
with
respect
to
the
learning
losses
that
a
result
of
the
pandemic.
That
is
something
we
need
to
continue
to
partner
and
work
on
on
climate
change.
The
science
tells
us
that
this
challenge
is
more
urgent
than
it's
ever
been.
A
A
so
we're
doing
we're
making
investments
in
stormwater
management
that
I
know
we're
all
pleased
with.
We
have
more
to
do
there.
We've
worked
on
electric
vehicles,
but
we're
going
to
need
to
push
for
transformational
change
ideas.
Specific
ideas
like
you
mentioned,
mr
dorsey,
but
also
the
big
ideas
that
can
push
us
forward
on
climate
change.
A
Last
but
not
least,
housing
and
hunger
are
two
priorities
that
I
think
probably
have
defined
the
work
I've
done
so
far
on
the
board.
They
are
inextricably
linked
with
equity.
In
my
view,
addressing
racial
injustice
and
serving
those
most
in
need
I'll
continue
to
work
on
the
priorities
that
we
identified
over
the
past
two
years.
The
serrano
apartments,
the
quality
that
you
mentioned
of
affordable
housing,
is
a
critical
priority.
A
A
There
are
1334
units
at
the
barcroft
apartments.
Those
are
lives
that
we
can
help
change.
Those
are
affordable
apartments
that
we
must
preserve,
I'm
so
hoping
we
can
work
together
to
invest
and
make
sure
that
neighborhood
thrives
so
that
our
whole
community
will
thrive,
and
we
must
also
work-
and
I
share
the
eagerness
that
you
have
expressed
each
of
you
so
far
has
expressed
regarding
expanding
housing
choices
in
arlington,
I'm
determined
to
bring
thoughtful
proposals
before
us.
A
I
also
invite
and
I
need
to
work,
and
I
want
to
work
on
affordable
home
ownership,
which
is
a
difficult
challenge,
but
a
priority
that
I
want
to
find
a
way
forward
on
this
year
on
hunger,
we
have
an
urban
institute
study
that
is
coming
forward.
I
look
forward
to
working
with
colleagues
staff
and
our
community
now
that
we've
identified
a
baseline
of
challenges
on
what
we
can
do
together
to
address
some
of
those
challenges
and
food
insecurity
and
hunger
in
our
community.
A
D
And
I'm
sorry
that
nobody
is
here
in
person
today
tonight,
but
this
is
the
right
thing
to
do
right
now,
as
everybody
who
spoke
before
me
mentioned
so
as
20.
Actually,
I
was
thinking
about
that
when
you
know
2021
came
to
an
end
and
I
had
the
impression
that
it
felt
actually,
strangely
short
as
a
year.
D
It
also
feels
like
yesterday,
when
we
ramped
up
our
vaccination
efforts
once
federal
vaccine
supply
issues
were
resolved,
hitting
the
mark
of
being
among
the
highest
vaccinated
communities
in
the
commonwealth
or
in
the
nation.
Even
and
again,
our
public
health
workers,
our
first
responders
our
county
employees,
our
teachers,
our
many
many
residents,
stood
in
the
first
line
of
defense
of
our
health
schools,
economy
and
our
communities.
D
This
included
also
supporting
our
schools
and
the
whole
different
level
that
that
enabled
them
to
open
safely
and
continue
to
operate
safely,
more
than
actually
many
other
school
systems
in
the
region
and
beyond.
So
what
connects?
In
my
opinion,
every
single
item
in
our
local
government's
long
list
of
accomplishments
in
21
is
its
focus
on
arlington
values.
Actually,
we
take
seriously
equity
inclusion,
compassion
and
solidarity,
and
focus
on
arlington
values
does
not
mean
that
there
are
no
differences
in
opinion.
D
The
same
appreciation
extends
to
all
my
colleagues
on
this
board
and
county
manager,
mr
sports
and
his
team,
and
escape
kendra
jacobs
on
on
our
team
here.
Oral
civic
institutions
and
our
countless
volunteers
and
civic
minded
are
lictonians
who
are
involved
and
whose
involvement
is
an
ancestral,
essential
part
of
our
community
fabric.
D
D
What
strategic
means
for
me
in
2022
is,
and
what
I
will
focus
in
this
year
is
first
of
all
the
pandemic
response,
which
is
now
a
mature
operation,
but
I
continue
to
focus,
improving
and
refining
the
equitable
delivery
of
public
health,
especially
with
something
like
omicron
that
will
again
upset
our
our
the
ways
that
that
the
economy
works
for
those
who
are
most
challenged
here
and
have
less
access
to
to
services
and
health
services
in
particular.
So
this
is
fundamental
today
and
for
the
future
postcode
19..
D
I
will
continue
to
focus
on
a
fiscally
sound,
sustainable
and
accountable
governance.
I
look
forward
on
my
second
year
co-chairing
the
county's
audit
committee
and
I
plan
to
engage
with
the
challenges
presented
by
the
changing
local
economy
that
is
still
marked
by
high
office
vacancy
rates
and
uncertainty.
D
So,
most
importantly,
I
look
forward
in
creating
a
long-term
support
framework
for
small
businesses
in
arlington.
I
think
one
of
the
lessons
of
the
pandemic
is
that
this
is
really
our
the
backbone
of
our
economy,
so
I
believe
that
we
have
to
focus
on
providing
them
with
technical
and
even
financial
assistance,
because
we
want
them
to
come
to
the
other
end
of
this
challenge
whole
and
employing
as
many
early
20s
as
they
continue
to
employ.
D
D
I
will
further
focus
on
what
is
arguably
arlington's
and,
as
everybody
mentions,
that
mentioned,
that
most
challenging
problem,
which
is
housing,
housing,
affordability,
is
was,
is
and
will
continue
to
be,
a
strategic
challenge.
The
size
of
the
intervention
needed
to
preserve
barcroft
or
park.
Shirlington
indeed
demonstrates
the
commitment
of
this
board,
but
also
indicates
the
order
of
magnitude
of
the
challenge.
D
Expanding
housing
choices
for
all
is
a
critical
challenge
and
I
believe
we
are
up
to
this,
and
we
will
start
already
in
the
next
board
meeting
talking
about
that.
I
I
commit
to
approach
this
discussion
with
an
open
mind,
but
with
firm
values
and
a
vision
of
arlington
as
an
open,
inclusive,
equitable,
fair
and
forward
thinking
place
for
all
present
and
future
arlingtonians.
So
with
that
in
mind,
I'm
wishing
everybody
a
healthy,
happy
and
productive
new
year,
and
I
look
forward
to
the
process
we'll
make
together
and
in
the
meanwhile,
please
wash
your
hands.
D
C
Well.
That
concludes
our
remarks.
Our
organizational
meeting,
a
sincere
thank
you
to
those
who've
intended
us
attended
with
us
virtually
is
mr
karentonus
indicated.
We
don't
often
thank
people
for
not
coming,
but
we
do
appreciate
that,
and
certainly
thank
you
very
much
to
ms
core,
our
attorney
mr
schwartz,
our
manager,
public
safety
representation
at
the
meeting
and
a
particularly
big
thank
you
to
the
county
board
office,
spearheaded
by
our
clerk,
ms
jacobs,
for
rolling,
with
the
punches
of
a
snowstorm
a
pandemic,
and
god
knows
what
else
is
to
come
in
2022.