The Falls Church City Council voted unanimously, 5-0 (2 absent), to give preliminary approval to the sale of its water system, but not before a small rally of folks opposed to the privatization of public utilities was held on rainy City Hall steps and Vice Mayor David Snyder, chairing the meeting, made a dramatic, official on-the-record appeal to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova to break the county’s refusal to negotiate in good faith on the future of the Falls Church system, while offering nothing but “confrontation, litigation and confiscation.”
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