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Falls Church News-Press

Vol. VI, No. 51 • March 6, 1997

Council Goes Behind Closed Doors to Mull Proctor House Status

Falls Church News-Press

Vol. XXII, No. 2 • March 8, 2012

F.C. Officials Heartened: Nine Respond Interested in Water System’s Future

The Falls Church City Council will meet in an executive session with the Board of Directors of Historic Falls Church, Inc., at 6:30 p.m. tonight. The meeting was called following an unexpected behind-closed-doors executive session at a work session Monday night to discuss legal options.

Coming out of a lengthy closed session Monday night, the Falls Church City Council authorized the release of a statement from City Manager Wyatt Shields indicating that the City recieved a robust nine responses from water industry leaders to the City’s Request for Expressions of Interest.

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guration, includes a directive for the Dept of Environmental Quality to notify RGGI, Inc. of “the governor’s intent to withdraw from RGGI, whether by legislative or regulatory action.” Many of the Republicans advocating to suspend Virginia’s participation in the RGGI represent areas in dire need of flood protection and some already benefit from the CFPF. For example, Republican Speaker of the House, Terry Kilgore introduced a bill titled Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; Repeals Act that passed the House but recently failed in the Senate. Kilgore’s 1st district borders on Bristol and includes Gate City which has a major risk of flooding over the next 30 years and in Feb., 2020 Southwest VA experienced severe flooding that necessitated an emergency declaration by former Governor Northam. Undeterred by the failure of Kilgore’s bill, the Republicans inserted in the House budget, currently being debated in the Senate, an item to pull Virginia out of the RGGI. Grace Tucker of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) states, “Pulling Virginia out of RGGI would strip away critical funding that local governments need and disproportionately harm underresourced, small and rural communities who do not have the capacity to address flood risk on their own.” We need to stop the Republican attempt to cut Virginia off from critical funding provided by the RGGI. It is a cost that is shared by all Virginians to help mitigate the severe displacement and losses due to man-made climate change and the inevitable rise of sea levels.

Joan N. Curry Falls Church

Tax Assessments in Fairfax County

Editor,

Along with many others who recently got their Fairfax County Tax Assessments, I am outraged. Fairfax County Supervisors didn’t raise the tax rate but they sure raised their property assessment values. I researched the property values on my block and the increases ranged between 12.5 percent and 18.1 percent. Why aren’t they even? I live in a cape cod which was expanded 38 years ago. My property assessment went from 615K to 723K, approximately 17.5 percent. Our county supervisor, Dalia Palchik, lives in a house which was valued last year at 870K and is now assessed at 957K an increase of 87k which is 10 percent. Why is my increase 17.5 percent and hers 10 percent? I was unable to find out the addresses of the other county supervisors but are they getting a lower property tax assessment too?

William J. Dunn

Falls Church

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