With an eye to adopting its final coming fiscal year budget next Monday, the Falls Church City Council decided to call one more work session for this Thursday, and to open it to public comment.
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F.C. Council Mulls $2 Million Budget “Placeholder” for Library
At its budget work session tonight, the Falls Church City Council considered adding a $2 million “placeholder” for a potential property aquisition to expand the Mary Riley Styles Public Library, as recommended by the Planning Commission last month but not included in the City Manager’s recommended FY 2010 City budget.
3 F.C. Council Members Express Opposition to Teacher Salary Hike
Thursday, Mar. 26, 9:45 p.m. EDT — At a joint work session with the Falls Church School Board tonight, three members of the seven-member F.C. City Council openly expressed their misgivings with the School Board’s plans to offer a half-step salary increase to all its employees, in a budget where […]
News from the Coffin Corner: Delegate Hull’s Richmond Report
Thank You I want to thank everyone for their kind words and cards of condolence in the passing of my mother, Lillian Hull.
A Penny for Your Thoughts: News from Greater Falls Church
Each autumn, Fairfax County adopts a legislative package of requests to the Virginia General Assembly for possible action in the winter session in Richmond.

Northern Virginia Art Beat
5 x 5 (x5), at the Target Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center (105 N. Union St., Alexandria). The exhibit runs through this Sunday, Jan. 11. Gallery hours are noon – 5 p.m.
Delegate Scott’s Richmond Report
When not in session…. Every legislator sits on several committees. In my case, those committees are Appropriations, Privileges and Elections and Militia, Police and Public Safety.
Final Vote on Hilton Hotel by F.C. Council Monday
Project Would Bring $381,000 in Tax Yield Annually A final vote on a proposed 110-room Hilton Garden Inn in the 700 block of West Broad Street in Falls Church, projected to bring $381,000 annually in new tax revenues to the City, is expected by the Falls Church City Council next […]
Mary Margaret Whipple’s Richmond Report
Somehow the month of May seems to be rushing by. Although the Regular Session and the first Special Session of the General Assembly were completed in April, there is still another Special Session on transportation coming up on June 23.
Delegate Hull’s News from the Coffin Corner
The regular session of the General Assembly adjourned on March 13 and we immediately went into a special session called to handle a bond bill.