Arlington County Government, VA Most Recent, 14 Dec 2016

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From YouTube: Arlington County | Year End 2016

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Arlington County Virginia looks back on 2016 as County Board members Libby Garvey, Jay Fisette, John Vihstadt, Christian Dorsey and Katie Cristol recall the highlights of the past year.

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Everything was new and you have a new board and a new manager who were willing to take a new look at things and try some things a little bit differently. Katie.

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Ann Christian have been a great addition to the board. Oh.

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My goodness, it's been like drinking water from a fire hose no.

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Hazing I was looking for the hazing, but there was none. We have a combination.

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Of new energy, fresh perspectives, along with age and sage, we've.

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Got Jay and he's been here for a long time brings a lot of institutional memory. There's.

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Change, hopefully, there's great consistency as we build on the successes in the policies of the past John's.

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A lawyer, so he brings a lawyerly way of looking at things and.

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Sometimes I have a tendency to maybe sound like I'm deposing somebody when I talk with them, then.

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You've got Christian, who isn't an economist having.

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Them validate you by electing you as an incredibly heartwarming feeling but kind of after that day of euphoria. You have to get down to the business of preparing for the job and.

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Katie is by far the youngest brilliant young moments.

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Been an incredible crash course in and having the same depth of understanding that the people of Arlington have come to expect from their elected officials and.

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Actually, I think of the whole team, you'd have to board team and you have the manager, the.

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New part especially applies to me since I was officially hired in January and.

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I think this is a dynamite dynamite.

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I think it had been a week and a half after I got the job we had snowzilla some board members referred to at a baptism by snow. I was so impressed. I got to see really in a way I hadn't, seen before the dedication of the County Workforce, to try to clear our roads and our streets and make them passable.

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There's so much data now available to the government that we need to share it. We need to share it with the general public. We now have on our website what we call the pavement condition index map you can go on. Our website see how your block is rated in terms of the quality of pavement. Now.

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We are video streaming at least our work sessions, people.

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Will be able to watch at home and.

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At one in the morning, when you're having trouble sleeping, you can watch our meetings.

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I think that encourages people than to try to connect with you more I.

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Did something for the first time and that's engaged in a live Twitter chat and it's a really great way to respond to people outside of the formality of a date prescribed meeting.

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Think really at the end, I felt like as a board member every conceivable angle. Every conceivable perspective to the issue had been raised and vetted and discussed in a public forum, and that's really the essence of public engagement with.

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The school board- this is we're now having just a regular series of our joint meetings and I. Think that is great. The.

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Idea is to have groups of folks between the two boards who are especially focused on these issues of facilities. In terms of demographic projections, student projections facilities needs ahead.

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We now have an ombudsman for business and an ombudsman for citizens, we're taking more of an individual approach with each person and that's really crucial to making it all work. Well, I think.

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So now you can take it out put in that green can any time of the week it'll be picked up regularly.

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In Arlington, we like to plan planning.

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Bread and butter, our effort in determining a new vision and determining a strategic plan for that area, is really to make it more welcoming more pedestrian, friendly and.

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That mall will transform that block and it will ripple out to the rest of ballston the virginia square.

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We decided in this small business summit and to give them one on one technical assistance and be more responsive to our small businesses who, after all, collectively provide literally thousands of jobs for folks in our community and in the metro area.

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We had over 600 units that were either approved as a committed, affordable unit or preserve, or the life of that commitment was extended.

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This was the year that we functionally ended veteran homelessness here in Arlington County.

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It's a way of recognizing across sectors not only government and nonprofit, but also the for-profit industry. Women who are shaping the future of our community.

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Crystal City being disconnected from its local library by root, one who said all right: let's make a pop-up library where we can actually connect those residents on that side of the highway to all that libraries have to offer, including not only books and videos and computer access, but meeting space, etc. You can also get energy meters and thermal cameras that you can take out. Just like you can a book.

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This is a a holistic effort to try and make sure that, even despite this inconvenience, we can still give our customers a transit alternative to get to where they want to go.

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We have to try and build bridges and work together. We all want to ensure that arlington continues to be a very welcoming and inclusive community to.

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Show what it looks like to be a community that has a home for all and thrives, not despite that inclusiveness, but because of it and.

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We are going to protect and preserve the values that make us what we are, including the inclusiveness and diversity, and respect for one another that works so well here.

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In Arlington, we're going to have to engage really fully in Arlington and and sometimes that's going to mean creating relationships from scratch because they just have not existed, and you know that can be daunting. But it's also an opportunity. So.

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We're going to keep it positive and what can going to continue to be who we are and again I. Think local government is extremely important and I'm just so grateful to be able to be here and serving our people. Yeah.

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