By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has about $6.1 million more than projected at the midpoint of fiscal year 2024, and will put about half of that toward next year’s budget and the rest toward security cameras, expedited background checks and other initiatives.
The key issue of Northern Virginia’s 2024 real-estate market could be the same as that of 2023 and 2022 before it – a lack of inventory that will bedeviled prospective purchasers.
“How low can it go? We expect inventories are going to get even tighter. Maybe another 20, 25 percent,” said Terry Clower, director of the George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis, during a 2024 real-estate preview hosted Dec. 13 by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County’s multifaceted environmental efforts are bearing fruit, but the battle is far from over, the director overseeing those initiatives told the Board of Supervisors’ Environmental Committee on Dec. 12.
By Brian Trompeter
With the clock ticking down on the conclusion of their terms and no more meetings scheduled for this year, three Vienna Town Council members who will be stepping down at year’s end on Dec. 4 expounded on their experiences and thanked their colleagues.
By Brian Trompeter
How complicated were Fairfax County’s Nov. 7 elections? Consider the 2-inch-thick binder with 265 ballot designs held up by Fairfax County Electoral Board chairman Katherine Hanley on Dec. 5 when she delivered her annual election post-mortem to the Board of Supervisors.
By Brian Trompeter
Nineteen local elected officials will step down at year’s end and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 5 gave them a laudatory send-off.
Northern Virginia’s five largest jurisdictions in November mostly posted relatively small drop-offs in sales from a year before, according to new data.
But that in part is a reflection of the weakness of the market for more than a year now, with buyers willing but sometimes unable to pay the high costs coupled with high interest rates, even if they are able to find a home in the current tight-inventory market.
By Brian Trompeter
The Vienna Town Council on Dec. 4 approved a $171,115 contract with Whitman, Requardt & Associates to provide construction-management-and-inspection services for three upcoming sidewalk projects.
By Brian Trompeter
Needing to offset massive current and projected over-capacity problems at Kent Gardens Elementary School in McLean, Fairfax County School Board members on Dec. 4 unanimously approved boundary changes that will affect 380 students at five schools in the vicinity.
By Brian Trompeter
The recent decline in Fairfax County taxicab certificates has been arrested, at least temporarily, as the Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed Dec. 5 to keep the number of certificates available at 150.
