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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up: November 2018
Description
ATV's monthly conversation with County Board members on the major issues discussed at November's Board meeting.
Topics: Virginia Hospital Center expansion, Budget Guidance – FY 2020, New elementary school , 2019 General Assembly Session -- Legislative Package approved
A
Hello
I'm
Terry
O'donnell,
and
this
is
County
Board
wrap-up,
our
monthly
look
at
the
key
decisions.
The
Arlington
County
Board
is
made
that
affect
you.
Your
neighborhood
and
our
community
with
us
here
today
is
County
Board,
Chair
Katie
crystal
and
board
vice-chair
Christian
Dorsey.
Thank
you
both
for
joining
us
today.
Now
the
board
took
a
couple
of
big
redevelopment.
Projects
at
its
November
meeting,
gave
the
county
manager
some
guidance
for
the
fiscal
year
2020
budget,
and
we
looked
ahead
to
the
2019
Virginia
General
Assembly
legislative
session.
A
So
let's
get
right
into
it
and
we'll
start
off
with
the
Virginia
hospital
Center
expansion.
Now
we
talked
about
this
last
month,
I
believe
maybe
two
months
ago,
and
you
decided
at
that
time
to
kind
of
just
take
a
step
back
and
reevaluate
a
little
delay
that
decision.
But
we
went
forward
at
this
meeting
what
happened
to
help
you
may
come
to
it
absolutely.
B
So
the
decision
in
September
was
a
deferral
with
some
very
specific
guidance
to
the
hospital.
We
believed
we
knew.
This
was
a
community
process
that
unfortunately
had
not
yielded
consensus.
Not
all
of
our
community
processes
do
what
the
board
felt
that
was
clear,
that
the
hospital
was
not
meeting
the
basic
threshold
of
good
design
that
is
respectful
and
integrated
into
the
surrounding
neighborhood.
B
A
C
A
B
So
you
know
some
of
those
questions
could
be
best
answered
by
the
hospital
center
itself
and
they
were
in
our
I.
Think
six
and
a
half
hour
public
hearing
back
in
September.
They
had
a
great
many
employees
making
the
case
for
why
this
expansion,
which
will
take
up
about
five
and
a
half
acres
additional
to
their
campus,
was
so
sorely
needed.
B
A
C
So
two
key
things
that
are
very
much
hot
commodities
in
Arlington
County.
So
you
know
as
part
of
this,
we
opted
to
take
the
Karlin
Springs
property
on
which
the
hospital's
urgent
care
center
currently
sits,
and
once
we
value
this
transaction.
So
what
the
Edison
property
is
worth,
we
will
subtract
out
what
the
Karlin
Springs
property
is
worth
and
any
balance
will
be
either
cash
or
other
property
that
the
hospital
holds
that
Arlington
may
choose
to
to
take
advantage
of
so
those
details.
C
A
B
This
has
been
a
really
important
issue
area.
That's
really
proceeded
along
the
same
track
as
the
land
use
or
in
parallel
to
rather
the
land
use
issues
which
is
improving
mental
health
care
for
adults
and
children
in
our
community.
The
hospital
took
a
number
of
steps
to
improve
its
facilities
for
adults
and
mental
health
crisis,
but
it
doesn't
offer
pediatric
services,
and
so
there
were
extensive
conversations
about
if
Virginia's
hospital
center
could
not
offer
these
services
on-site
for
a
variety
of
reasons.
B
What
could
we
expect
of
them
as
a
partner
in
our
community
in
meeting
this
critical
need?
Because
we
do
know
that
children
and
young
people
are
showing
up
at
Virginia
Hospital
Center
in
acute
crisis,
so
as
a
result
of
a
really
extensive
set
of
negotiations
and
conversations
led
by
our
Community
Services
Board,
which
is
a
partnership
both
a
professional
staff
and
citizen
leaders,
many
of
whom
have
personal
experience
as
parents
of
children
or
grown
children
with
mental
or
behavioral
health
needs.
B
As
a
result
of
their
extended
conversations,
the
there
was
a
new
model
created
the
Virginia
Hospital
Center
will
pay
for
it,
funds
a
clinician
to
deliver
acute
services
in
terms
of
de-escalation,
intensive
wraparound
placement
services
and
beyond
for
those
young
people
who
do
show
up
in
mental
health
crisis.
You
know
that's
sort
of
the
nuts
and
bolts
of
it
to
speak
about
it
from
a
human
face.
A
Welcome
back
I'm
here
with
board
chair,
Katie
crystal
and
vice-chair
Christian
Dorsey,
who
are
giving
us
a
little
bit
of
a
look
at
planning
for
the
fiscal
year
2020
budget,
as
well
as
a
new
Elementary
School
at
the
Reid
site
in
Westover.
Now,
with
the
planning
for
the
fiscal
year,
2020
budget,
officially
kind
of
got
underway
with
this
meeting
with
the
board's
guidance
to
the
manager
and
what
are
really
the
key
elements
that
we
should
look
for.
Well.
C
First,
some
context
setting
we
are
looking
at
a
challenging
budget
year
where
we're
to
continue
services
and
programs
that
we
had
last
year
we're
looking
at
a
deficit
of
25
to
30
million
dollars
and
that's
due
to
the
primary
factor
of
our
being
in
a
period
where
growth
is
not
keeping
up
with
expenses.
So
we
have
that
growth,
which
is
a
positive
thing
for
any
community,
but
it's
been
about
half
of
what
expense
growth
has
been
and
that
expense
growth
has
been
within
the
range
of
what
we
would
hope
for.
C
So
we
don't
have
any
problems
there.
We
just
have
not
enough
revenue
growth.
So
with
that
we've
got
a
few
options
that
we'd
like
the
manager
to
sort
of
take
into
his
budget
laboratory
and
work
on.
What
does
it
look
like
if
we
don't
change
any
of
the
levers
that
we
can
change
on
the
revenue
side?
So
that's
the
tax
rate.
We
don't
change
it
at
all.
What
do
we
have
to
cut,
eliminate
and
change
in
order
to
meet
the
balanced
budget
requirement?
C
Secondarily,
let's
think
about
what
are
some
of
the
key
areas
where
we've
had
new
mandates
or
new
exogenous
external
forces
thrust
upon
us
that
we
weren't
expecting-
and
you
know
those
include
some
state
unfunded
mandates,
dealing
with
Medicaid
the
expansion
of
Medicaid
and
overall
good
thing.
But
it's
shifting
some
costs
to
us.
There
are
some
issues
related
to
Metro,
again,
a
good
thing,
but
more
cost
to
us,
and
then
we
also
have
schools,
opening
three
new
facilities
and
overall
moving
five
new
programs
and
they
still
have
enrollment
growth.
C
So,
let's
figure
out
what
those
things
if
we
were
to
prioritize
those.
What
would
be
the
way
that
we
could
construct
a
balanced
budget
around
it?
And
there
were
a
couple
of
other
scenarios
that
we
task
the
manager
with
working
up
for
us
so
that
during
our
budget
season,
we
can
really
have
an
earnest
dialogue,
not
just
among
the
board
but
with
the
community
about
what
we
prioritize
and
what
we're
going
to
preserve
to
meet
this.
This
fairly
challenging
budget
scenario
now.
A
We've
been
talking
for
a
few
months
of
how
this
this
past
year's
budget
was
a
challenging
one
and
that
we're
looking
at
this
again
this
year,
let's
kind
of
lay
it
out
there,
what
we
mean
by
challenging.
Are
we
looking
at
program
cuts?
Are
we
potentially
looking
at
staff
cuts?
What
are
some
of
the
things
that
are
realistically
on
the
table
here?
You
know.
B
I
think
Christian
alluded
to
this
about
sort
of
our
changing
dynamics,
but
the,
but
the
issue
really
is
for
a
long
time.
As
we
often
talk
about,
there's
been
roughly
a
50/50
split
between
residential
and
commercial
taxpayers.
The
commercial
side
has
included
that
office
space
as
we've
talked
about
about
one
in
five
square,
feet
of
which
is
vacant
right
now
in
the
county,
and
so
we
haven't
seen
that
revenue
coming
in
or
growing
it
relatively.
It
is
growing,
relatively
flat
rates.
B
What
that
basically
forces
is
a
question
among
residential
taxpayers
to
say
this
level
of
service
that
our
business
side
has
been
subsidizing.
Do
you
want
to
keep
that
level
of
service
and
pay
more
for
it?
Or
would
you
like
to
decrease
that
level
of
service?
That's
the
question
on
the
table
and
to
answer
your
question:
that's
a
challenging
one.
No
one
would
like
to
pay
more
for
the
same
or
get
less
for
the
same
thing
and
so
I
think.
That's
why
a
Christian
alluded
as
Krishna
looted.
We
really
tried
to
talk
about
tiers.
B
A
C
Once
you,
you
balance
all
the
books
from
your
your
fiscal
year,
you
add
up
any
money
so
that
you
have
leftover,
whether
it
be
through
savings,
when
departments
didn't
spend
as
much
as
they
were.
Expecting
revenue
came
in
a
little
bit
higher
than
you
were
expecting
or,
as
is
our
case,
the
combination
of
a
lot
of
different
factors
and
those
funds
are
then
available
for
the
board
to
decide
how
it
wants
to
use
them.
B
This
is
a
great
question,
because
here's
what
those
closeout
monies
are
not
ongoing
money,
and
so
it's
very
tempting
to
say
right.
Sixteen
point,
five
million
being
carried
over
you
Christian
just
said
we
had
a
budget
gap
of
25
million,
all
right,
we're
down
a
nine.
The
issue
is-
and
you
know
we
always
use
that
or
I
often
use
anyway,
that
the
analogy
of
you
can't
use
your
birthday
check
from
your
grandmother
to
pay
your
rent
right.
That's
not
sound
fiscal
planning,
that
is
a
one-time
source
of
revenue
for
an
ongoing
need.
B
So
there
are
always
one-time
needs
in
our
budget
that
appear
during
the
budget
process
and
I
do
think.
Having
sixteen
and
a
half
million
dollars
realized
and
closeout
money
will
help
us
think
about
those
one-time
needs,
but
it
is
not,
unfortunately,
going
to
solve
for
us
the
difficult
conversations
about
the
structural
difference
between
the
rate
of
growth
and
our
programs
and
services
and
the
much
lower
rate
of
growth
in
our
revenue
or.
C
Because
you
know
significant
chunk
of
money
that
we've
used
from
previous
closeouts,
it's
a
fun.
Is
our
investments
in
affordable
housing,
something
that
this
board
also
through
its
guidance,
told
the
manager
that
we
wanted
to
continue
at
the
same
levels
as
previous
years
and
without
the
closeout
money
going
to
support
that
function.
It
just
means
that's
a
function
that
now
needs
to
be
substantially
looked
at
next
year.
So
this
is
not
sixteen
and
a
half
million
of
New
Found
money.
That's
happy
happy!
We
have
many
needs
they're.
A
A
A
B
If
they'd
like
to
immerse
themselves,
as
we've
been
doing
in
sort
of
the
broader
budget
picture
between
now
and
February,
when
the
manager
is
developing
his
budget,
it
will
be
an
opportunity
for
people
to
again
to
familiarize
themselves
with
the
conditions
the
manager
will
has
released
his
budget
at
our
late
February
meeting,
which
will
be
the
board's
first
look
at
it.
The
community's
first
look
at
it
and
that
kicks
off
a
really
intensive
two
or
three
months.
There
are
budget
work
sessions
that
people
can
tune
in
to
do
a
deep
dive
in
the
department's.
B
They
care
most
about
or
departments,
they
think
should
most
be
targeted
for
reduction.
As
the
case
may
be.
We
have
a
number
of
engagement
opportunities
directly
with
the
county
board
opened
on
Monday.
We
take
comments
on
the
budget.
Historically,
we've
done
as
well
a
budget
survey,
so
we
really
aren't
kidding
when
we
say
that
we
want
to
and
and
deeply
consider
hearing
from
what
Arlene
tawny
ins
value
and
that's
especially
true
when
there
are
not
enough
resources
to
cover
all
of
our
priorities.
All.
A
Right
we'll
see
what
our
residents
have
to
say
as
we
move
forward
through
the
winter.
But
of
course
you
a
little
bit
of
foreshadowing
question
that
you
gave
on
this
was
the
talk
of
new
schools
and
the
board
did
approve
a
plan
for
a
new
Elementary
School
on
the
Reid
site
in
Westover.
Now,
do
you
think
this
was
a
generally
supported
new
site?
You
know.
C
Early
about
how
this
this
school
should
be
sited
and
situated
with
the
existing
library
at
the
Westover
site
and
I
think
they
came
up
with
a
really
tremendous
design
that,
as
importantly,
is
efficient
and
utilizes.
The
principles
that
came
from
our
community
facilities
study
several
years
ago,
which
looked
at
vertical
vertical
construction
instead
of
sprawling
construction.
So
they've
got
a
nice
design.
It's
integrated
through
some
tweaks.
C
You
know
it's
interesting:
732
seats
are
coming
to
the
school,
but
it's
going
to
be
a
neighborhood
school
so
that
that
location
uniquely
marries
very
nicely
with
a
lot
of
students
we're
going
to
be
able
to
walk
to
it.
So
in
terms
of
the
impacts
that
you
typically
feel
with
the
big
development
project,
this
is
really
I.
Think
going
to
work
well,
you're
not
going
to
see
a
huge
amount
of
increase
in
traffic.
B
It's
part
of
an
existing
area
with
community
service
community
facilities.
Already
it's
a
civic
presence
between
the
westover
library.
Formerly
the
children's
school
used
to
be
located
there
serving
the
the
pre-k
kids
of
ApS
employees
and
kids
with
special
needs,
so
I
think.
Actually
the
youths
won't
feel
that
different
than
what
the
neighborhood
is
used
to.
A
A
Welcome
back
to
County
Board
wrap-up
I'm,
your
host
Cara
O'donnell
and
our
guest
today,
County
Board
Chair
Katie
crystal
and
board
vice-chair
Christian
Doris
Dorsey.
Thank
you
both
very
much
for
joining
us.
Now.
Each
year
the
county
puts
together
a
legislative
package
that
it
tries
to
get
adopted
in
Richmond
during
the
General
Assembly's
legislative
session,
which
is
rapidly
approaching.
B
A
B
You
know
possibly,
this
is
not
the
year
to
advance
large
earth-shattering
priorities,
although
we
did
have
that
kind
of
year,
just
in
2018
between
metro
funding
and
Medicaid
expansion,
and
so
we
as
always
prepare
lists
of
priorities,
things
that
are
important
to
our
lincoln's
interest,
important
to
our
residents.
It's
a
way
of
giving
guidance
to
our
legislative
liaison,
who
was
down
in
richmond,
basically
full-time
and
a
way
of
reminding
ourselves,
as
we
all
take
time
in
richmond
to
lobby
and
meet
with
members
of
the
general
assembly
about
the
community
priorities.
A
B
B
Really
our
top-line
priority
is
reminder
to
the
state
which,
by
the
way,
is
experiencing
a
budget
surplus
that
this
might
be
a
really
nice
time
to
revisit
some
of
those
many
obligations,
financial
obligations,
they've
passed
on
to
localities
and
look
for
how
the
state
can
be
taking
on
a
slightly
bigger
role
of
its
own
funding
responsibility
to
those
core
services.
How.
A
A
C
Know
I
think
there's.
Fortunately,
the
issues
that
we
we
have
in
our
legislative
pack,
not
Arlington's
specific
per
se.
You
know
these
budget
issues
are
shared
by
many
jurisdictions
throughout
the
state.
So
it's
a
matter
of
equity,
it's
a
matter
of
fairness,
and
so,
when
those
affect
a
broad
swath
of
the
Commonwealth
I
tend
to
have
a
higher
degree
of
confidence
that
we'll
we'll
see
some
movement.
That
doesn't
mean
I'm,
confident
it
just
means
it
grows
from
zero.
C
A
B
B
The
Equal
Rights
Amendment
has
never
been
ratified
and
uniquely
Virginia
could
be
in
the
position
to
be
the
final
state
necessary
for
its
ratification
nationally,
which
we
think
would
be
befitting
virginity.
So
we're
actually
it's
it's
nice
to
see
it
in
our
legislative
package
reflecting
the
desires
of
our
citizens,
but
we
would
also
join
a
number
of
localities
around
the
state,
including
some
that
you
might
be
surprised
by
in
South,
West,
Virginia
and
others
who've
all
thrown
their
hats
in
the
ring
and
said
this
is
the
earth.
That's.
A
A
Well,
let's
see
how
that
goes
as
well
as
some
of
the
many
other
issues
that
the
General
Assembly
will
take
on.
That's
going
to
bring
us
to
the
end
of
County
Board
wrap
up.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
today
and
thank
you,
Katie
and
Christian
for
offering
your
insights
into
the
board
and
its
processes.
Remember
all
of
our
county
board
meetings
are
open
to
the
public
and
live
streamed
and
archived
on
our
website.