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From YouTube: Board Wrap-Up: 2020 Priorities
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Arlington County Board Chair, Libby Garvey and Vice Chair, Erik Gutshall, lay out the Board's priorities for 2020.
A
Hello
and
welcome
to
County
Board
wrap-up,
where
each
month
we
take
a
closer
look
at
sums,
the
key
decisions.
The
board
takes
I'm
your
host
Cara
O'donnell,
my
guest.
Today,
our
county
board
chaired
Libby
Garvey
and
Vice
Chair
Eric
gut
Shaw,
for
both
of
you.
Congratulations
on
your
leadership
roles
for
this
twenty
twenty
year.
So,
let's
start
off
with
those
new
leadership
roles
and
kind
of
your
visions,
your
priorities
for
the
coming
year,
Libby
we'll
start
with
sure.
B
You
represent
the
board
to
the
media,
which
is
it
can
be
a
fairly
time-consuming
issue
at
times,
but
every
board
is
a
little
bit
different
and
I.
Try
very
hard
to
see
sort
of
know
the
personalities
of
my
board
members
and
their
interest
and
make
sure
that
I
support
them
and
getting
done
what
they
would
like
to
do
so.
I
have
some
broad
priorities
as
far
as
you
know,
which
I
talked
about
in
my
New
Year's
Day
remarks,
which
are
you
know,
equity
continuing.
B
What
our
former
chair,
Christian
Dorsey,
did
because
equity
is
something
you
just
don't
solve
in
one
here.
That's
an
issue
and
I'm
happy
to
talk
about
that.
I
think
equity
means
different
things
to
different
people
to
me
and
governor.
It
means
that
government
serves
everybody
well,
so
that
everybody
can
thrive.
You
traditionally
government.
You
know
there
are
people
who
have
a
lot
of
sake,
power,
sometimes
its
wealth.
Sometimes
it's
something
else
influence
and
they
influence
government
to
serve
them,
sometimes
better
than
anybody
else.
I
mean
that's
just
kind
of
the
human.
B
Kind
of
human
condition
and
what
we're
trying
to
do
and
part
of
what
equity
is
to
make
sure
we
serve
everybody
and
that's
kind
of
different.
That's
kind
of
tough
we've
got
four
questions
to
guide
us.
One
is
to
benefits:
it's
always
a
good
question,
who's
burdened,
you
know
so
who
doesn't
benefit
who's
missing,
like
maybe
who
haven't?
We
talked
to
you
and
how
do
we
know?
B
B
That
community
is
a
little
louder
and
we,
you
know,
we've
got
to
rethink
everything
we
do
even
to
get
to
the
equity
and
then
finally,
the
third
kind
of
focus
is
resiliency
and
that
I
got
just
anything
we
do
needs
to
last
and
in
fact,
if
we're
resilient,
we're
gonna
have
an
equitable
Society,
because
we
all
work
together
and
if
we're
gonna
be
resilient,
we're
gonna
need
to
innovate
so
that
we
can
adapt
to
the
future.
Both
you
know
socially
and
then
also
just
simply
like
in
our
infrastructure.
B
We
saw
that
terrible
storm
July
8th
what
made
it
clear,
20th
century
it
storm
water
infrastructure,
isn't
gonna,
do
it
for
the
21st
century,
so
we're
gonna
have
to
innovate
anyway,
I'll
you
know
I'll.
Let
my
colleague
here
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
he's
up
to,
but
that's
that's
kind
of
in
general,
serving
the
board
getting
things
out
there
that
they
want
representing
the
county
and
then
trying
to
keep
us
focused,
that's
kind
of
why
I
chose
those
three
larger
areas,
just
to
kind
of
help,
keep
us
all
on
the
same
track.
A
C
Libby
I
think
I
think
you've
done
a
nice
job
with
your
focus
on.
Basically
those
are
three
pillars:
the
equity
infrastructure
and
resiliency
right
of
making
sure
that
that's
what
makes
a
quality
of
life
here
in
Arlington.
So
I
think
that
that's
what
that's
one
of
the
things
that
I
think
we
can
expand
on
and
quality
of
life
in
terms
of
making
sure
that
our
neighborhoods
are
livable,
that
they're
walkable,
that
it's
they're,
safe,
safe
to
walk
and
and
safe
to
and
have
places
to
walk
to
right.
And
so
that's
where
our
planning
comes
in.
C
You
know
all
of
the
ink
in
the
income
spectrum
exactly,
and
so
we
are
in
the
middle
of
we're
launching
soon
a
missing
middle
housing
study
where
we'll
be
looking
at
how
to
bring
more
options
to
our
neighborhoods
of
different
kinds
of
places
to
live,
and
this
is
going
to
with
with
the
focus
it'll
have
an
have
a
focus
on
livability
and
quality
of
life
right.
We
want
to
welcome
more
people.
C
We
don't
necessarily
want
to
welcome
their
cars
right,
for
example,
so
we
got
to
make
sure
that
we're
thinking
about
transportation,
infrastructure
and
parking
and
we've
had
issues
with
storm
water.
So
we
want
to
you
know
we
can
walk
and
chew
gum
at
the
same
time.
So
as
we
build
more
housing,
we
also
want
to
make
sure
we
build
the
stormwater
infrastructure
into
that,
so
that
we're
not
exacerbating
exist
existing
problems.
C
We
have
a
segment
of
our
community
that
is
very
concerned
about
what's
happening
to
our
tree
canopy,
so
we
can
also
use
our
housing
policy
to
incentivize
the
preservation
of
trees
and
not
just
make
it
what
a
lot
of
people
are
used
to
seeing
in
the
neighborhood
is
a
builder
comes
in,
buys
an
old
house,
turns
it
down
and
clear
cuts
the
lot
and
takes
down
all
the
trees.
There's
a
better
way
to
do
things,
and
that's
what.
C
In
exactly
so,
we
do
need
to
have
this
conversation,
and
it's
also.
It
is
it's
a
conversation
that
we're
talking
about.
It's,
not
the
board,
deciding
what
we
will
or
won't
do
me
and
ultimately,
the
decision
rests
with
the
board,
but
the
board
is
looking
for
the
feedback
from
our
communities
from
our
neighborhoods
from
our
residents
on
what
is
the
right
way
to
balance
all
of
these
different
needs
and
goals,
and.
B
In
fact,
we're
gonna
be
out
in
the
community
talking
to
folks
we're
we're
going
to
send
out
an
offer.
Oh
I
think
it's
tomorrow,
a
letter
to
civic
associations
and
organizations.
Saying
please
invite
us
will
come
and
the
five
of
us
are
gonna,
go
out
and
meet
with
various
groups
and
do
a
little
presentation,
some
of
it.
What
missing
middle,
isn't-isn't
and
I
think
we
get
in
which
I
know
you
I'm
sure
you
found
Eric
people
think
you're
talking
about
income,
but
in
a
way
we're
not
really.
B
If
you
look
at
a
design,
there's
a
nice
graphic
that
we'll
be
bringing
with
us
I'm
sure
with
like
the
really
high
apartment
buildings
that
we've
got.
You
know
in
like
Rosslyn
and
Crystal
City,
and
then
you've
got
the
single-family
houses
and
that's
like
the
other
and
then
in
between
there's,
not
a
whole
lot
of
housing
that's
in
between
and
we
need
to
getting
more
that's
sort
of
the
missile
mini.
It's
a
form
of
of
housing
that
we
have.
B
Some
of
I
actually
live
in
one
of
those
in
Farrington,
that's
kind
of
a
middle
kind
of
housings,
with
townhouses
attached
attached
dwelling.
So,
there's
that
there's
that,
but
that's
kinda,
what
we're
gonna
look
at.
Can
we
look
at
our
zoning
and
look
at
what
we
do
in
and
will
some
of
these
different?
Is
there
a
way
to
bring
in
these
designs
that
provide
more
of
a
middle
way
which
I
think
any
healthy
community?
Any
resilient
community
has
got
that
whole
gamut
of
housing.