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HomeLifeStyleDel. Ken Plum (D-36) and Del. JenniferBoysko (D-86). Nearly 100 speakerstestified Saturday, Jan. 9, in a hearingthat lasted more than 240 minuteswith residents telling legislators ofpriorities ahead of the 60-day sessionof the General Assembly.

Del. Ken Plum (D-36) and Del. JenniferBoysko (D-86). Nearly 100 speakerstestified Saturday, Jan. 9, in a hearingthat lasted more than 240 minuteswith residents telling legislators ofpriorities ahead of the 60-day sessionof the General Assembly.

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By Ken Moore

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Barbara Quesada, parent of aFranklin Sherman ElementarySchool student, reminded theGeneral Assembly delegation

from Fairfax that Nova Firearms opened itsnew store right next to the McLean elemen-tary school.

During Quesada’s three-minute testimony,Dranesville School Board member JanieStrauss, McLean resident Marilyn White anda dozen others stood in solidarity.

White held a sign that said, “Gun storefree school zone.”

“Please pass legislation so gun stores arenot located within immediate proximity toschools,” said Quesada, who testified beforethe county’s delegation to the General As-sembly Saturday, Jan. 10 at Fairfax CountyGovernment Center.

“This is not a second amendment issue,and it is so infuriating the amount of timeit gets twisted,” she said, requesting autho-rizing legislation to allow localities to regu-late the proximity of a gun store to a school.

Nearly 100 speakers testified Saturday,Jan. 9, in a hearing that lasted more than240 minutes.

Burke’s Martina Leinz attended the CNNTown Hall meeting at George Mason Uni-versity two nights before where PresidentBarack Obama spoke about the need for gunreform.

Leinz, speaker number 88 on Saturday,said she was asked if she had been per-sonally affected by gun violence. “Ilooked him in the eye and said, ‘I am anAmerican citizen. Of course I have beenaffected by gun violence — we all have,”Leinz told the Fairfax Delegation to theGeneral Assembly.

The 2016 session of the Virginia GeneralAssembly starts Wednesday, Jan. 13, andwill last six weeks.

Leinz testified on behalf of the NOVAChapter of the Brady Campaign to PreventGun Violence and the Virginia Gun ViolencePrevention Coalition.

“We cannot stop all gun deaths but cer-tainly we should do everything we can tostop some. And surely we all can agree thatthere are some categories of people whoshould not have access to firearms — thatis why we have prohibited purchaser cat-egories; criminals, domestic violence abus-ers, the adjudicated mentally ill and terror-ists should not have easy access to guns.”

CHAIRMAN SHARON BULOVA was thefirst to testify Saturday.

“Fairfax County is often described as awealthy community, but we also have manyindividuals and families struggling finan-

cially,” she said. “More than 52,000 studentsin Fairfax County Public Schools qualify forfree and reduced lunch. Only four schooldivisions in the state have more total chil-dren than we have children living in low-income households.”

State cuts to K-12 education in recentyears have cost localities $1.7 billion perbiennium, Bulova said, “and have been det-rimental to our efforts to educate our chil-dren.”

“A state that is in the top 10 in incomeshould not be in the bottom 10 in state edu-cation funding,” said Bulova.

Dozens spoke of the need for full fund-ing for K-12 programming and education.

Steve Greenburg, president of the FairfaxCounty Federation of Teachers, supportslegislation for an increased county tax oncigarettes.

“If people are going to kill themselves andrun up everyone’s health care costs by smok-

ing the stupid things, then we should cer-tainly get some return for the costs theyincur the rest of us,” he said.

Advocating for the importance of the in-vestment on education, Dean Howarth, ateacher from McLean, talked of the needfor schools to emphasize critical thinking,not standardized test scores.

“We always say, ‘Great minds think alike.No they don’t, great minds think differ-ently,” said the physics and science teacher.“Students come back. You know what theyremember? It’s never ever their SOL score.”

Del. Marcus Simon stopped the testimonyto say Howarth was his physics teacher inhigh school.

Simon remembered Howarth getting stu-dents on rollerskates to learn about phys-ics. But emphasis on standardized testinghas robbed teachers of the freedom to teachin creative ways, Howarth said.

“Students have lost the joy of learningbecause their teachers are shackled,” saidHowarth. “I like being like Bill Nye, stokingfun in education.”

Brad Ward, of Fairfax Station, also spokefor Critical Thinking Revolution and advo-cated for less rote teaching and emphasison standardized testing. “In my professionallife, I have never been given a multiplechoice test,” he said. “I never asked a po-tential employee to choose from a list ofpossible answers. … Rote learning does not

Residents tell legislators of priorities ahead of the 60-day session of the General Assembly.

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Sharon Bulova, with entire delegation visible.

More than 30 people had signed up to speak for Critical Thinking Revo-lution. Shaista Keating said: “The era to teach to the test must indeedcome to the end.”

Dean Howarth of McLean, physicsteacher: “Students have lost the joyof learning because their teachersare shackled.” Marcus Simon recog-nized Howarth as his physicsteacher, and recalled a particularlesson involving roller skates.

“A state that is in the top 10 in income should notbe in the bottom 10 in state education funding.”

— Sharon Bulova, Chairman, Board of Supervisors

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Del. Ken Plum (D-36) Del. Jennifer Boysko(D-86)


Opinion

Karen Garza didn’t move to FairfaxCounty from Texas to preside overthe decline of Fairfax County PublicSchools. For this year’s budget, the

superintendent refused to cut to fit as theschool system has the last two years, and calledfor a fully funded budget. It’s true that FairfaxCounty schools have more students who arepoor and/or are still learning English and thosestudents cost more to educate. It’s truethat Fairfax County teachers make lessthan teachers in other bordering juris-dictions. It’s true that Fairfax Countyspends less per student by a significantamount than other bordering jurisdictions,even accounting for size.

It’s also true that Fairfax County, which pro-vides most of the school funding, already trans-fers 52 percent and more of its annual budgetto the schools. It’s true that the county has lim-ited revenue sources, with almost all revenuecoming from property taxes. Residential prop-erty tax revenues are not growing much.Fairfax County’s commercial tax base is flat orcontracting with historically high vacancyrates. This is in part due to reduced spendingby the federal government, but it’s also aboutnew and likely lasting trends in the way com-panies use office space.

The county is facing a shortfall, not just foreducation, but for other important things liketransportation, social services, recreation and

the environment.The Board of Supervisors and heads of

county departments are about to engage in anintensive effort to review every area of countyspending, with supervisors devoting two fulldays a week for the foreseeable future on “linesof business” review in the budget committee.What results from this process could set thestage for some reforms and some savings.

But none of those invested in Fairfax County,not the elected officials, not the teachers, notthe county employees, especially not the resi-dents, want to preside over the decline of qual-ity of life in one of the wealthiest counties inthe universe.

What’s really needed is for the county to haveaccess to a variety of revenue sources. It’s ex-

cruciating to raise property taxes acrossthe board, knowing that some peoplewill be hard hit since there is no rela-tion to ability to pay. But that is almost

the only option the county has.This brings us to tax reform and the General

Assembly. It’s pie in the sky, but localities inVirginia should have direct access to a portionof the income tax collected by the state. North-ern Virginia pays the vast majority of the in-come taxes paid to the Commonwealth, butevery penny set gets funnelled through a for-mula that by definition sends less money back.

Income is a measure of economic viability.There are other options, which we will de-

tail in the future.To find the names of your current represen-

tatives in the Virginia House and Senate, visithttp://whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/and enter your address.

— Mary Kimm

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Budget Season Trainwreck?County looks at “linesof business,” schoolscall for full funding.

Editorial

By Kenneth R. “Ken” Plum

State Delegate (D-36)

Virginia has the dubious dis-tinction of having had thebiggest mass murder in

history—Virginia Tech in 2007,and the first televised shooting—Smith Mountain Lake in 2015. Yet,the Commonwealth has never hada serious public debate on prevent-ing gun violence. With the leader-ship being shown by the Presidentand the strong interest on the partof the public, the 2016 session ofthe General Assembly is time forthat debate.

Every annual session of the Gen-eral Assembly is the same: A fewlegislators bravely put in theircommonsense, can’t-we-do-a-little-something-about-gun-vio-lence? bills. Now these bills evenhave the support of the Governor.In the House of Delegates the billsget referred to the Militia and Po-lice Committee made up of mostlyNRA sympathizers. The chairman

of that com-mittee sendsthe bills to asubcommitteestacked withfour legisla-tors who havenever seen agun- re la ted

bill they like unless it eases regu-lations or restrictions and with oneother legislator. That subcommit-tee hears the bills and summarilydefeats them 4 to 1.

Their actions are totally predict-able. Same thing happens everyyear. When Republicans gained amajority in the House of Delegatesthey changed the rules to allow theSpeaker to refer bills of his choos-ing to the Rules Committee wherethey could be sent to the floor ofthe House of Delegates withoutrecommendation. The official ex-planation for the change was thatthere could be bills of such publicsignificance that they needed to bedebated by the full legislative body

and not simply by a committee.Bills to enhance public safety

and prevent gun violence seem tome to rise to the level of impor-tance that they should be debatedby the full body and not be de-feated by just four of the 100 mem-bers of the House. The Speaker ofthe House who has absolute au-thority as to where bills are re-ferred could simply refer gun-vio-lence prevention bills to the RulesCommittee where they would besent to the floor of the House ofDelegates without a recommenda-tion. The ensuing debate and voteswould clearly show whether theelected representatives in theHouse are standing up for thepeople who elected them, a ma-jority of whom supportcommonsense gun violence pre-vention measures, or do these del-egates represent the gun groupswho feed money to their cam-paigns and who threaten themwith primary opposition if they donot go along.

Cynics say the rules change toallow the Rules Committee to sendbills to the floor without recom-mendation was meant to create asituation where progressive billscould be referred to the floor toforce Democrats to “go on theboard” with a recorded vote onissues like a potential tax increase.Certainly the Republicans inpower would not be embarrassedor intimidated by having to voteon public safety measures relatedto ending gun violence that themajority of citizens in poll afterpoll indicate they support.

Preventing gun violence in astate that has seen two examplesof the worst of the carnage is tooimportant an issue for four legis-lators in a cramped conferenceroom to decide for the Common-wealth. There is a way as de-scribed above for the issue to geta full hearing; the time has comefor the House of Delegates to giveit the time and public debate itwarrants.

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Fairfax County’s free Family CaregiverTelephone Support Group meets by phoneon Tuesday, Feb. 9, 7-8 p.m. We will dis-cuss Balancing Safety and Your Loved One’sSelf-Determination. Register beforehand atw w w . f a i r f a x c o u n t y . g o v / d f s /olderadultservices/caregiver.htm and click onCaregiver Telephone Support Groups. Call703-324-5484, TTY 711.

The Fairfax Commission on Agingmeets on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at noon at thePatrick Henry Library, 101 Maple AvenueEast, Vienna. The public is welcome to attendand join in the comment period that beginseach session. Find out more atw w w . f a i r f a x c o u n t y . g o v / d f s /olderadultservices/coa.htm. Call 703-938-0405, TTY 711 for meeting access needs.

Fairfax County’s Independent LivingProject helps older adults remain safely intheir homes.

Each session includes a prevention presen-tation and a gentle exercise program thatfocuses on fall prevention. The series takesplace on Thursdays, February 25-April 21, 10 a.m.-Noon, at Congregation Adat Reyim,6500 Westbury Oaks Court, Springfield. Call703-324-7210, TTY 711 or go tow w w . f a i r f a x c o u n t y . g o v / d f s /olderadultservices/independent.htm to registerfor this free program.

Nutritional Supplement Delivery –Pick up and deliver Ensure Nutritional Supple-ment to older adults. For these and othervolunteer opportunities, call 703-324-5406,TTY 711 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and click on Volunteer Solutions.

The Lewinsville Senior Center inMcLean needs instructors for the followingclasses: Line Dance,Zumba Gold, Certi-fied Arthritis Exercise, Square Dance,Basic Guitar, Art and Basic Spanish. Forthese and other volunteer opportunities, call703-324-5406 , TTY 711 or visitwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and clickon Volunteer Solutions.

Meals on Wheels needs drivers, coor-

dinators, and co-coordinators for routesthroughout the county.For these and other vol-unteer opportunities, call 703-324-5406, TTY711 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadultsand click on Volunteer Solutions.

Fairfax County needs volunteers to driveolder adults to medical appointmentsand wellness programs.

For these and other volunteer opportunities,call 703-324-5406, TTY 711 or visitwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and clickon Volunteer Solutions.

The Mott Community Center SeniorProgram in Fairfax is looking for volunteerinstructors for the following classes: Tai Chiand Art. For these and other volunteer oppor-tunities, call 703-324-5406, TTY 711 or visitwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and clickon Volunteer Solutions.

The Sully Senior Center in Centrevilleneeds a certified personal trainer, prefer-ably with experience working with older adults.For these and other volunteer opportunities,call 703-324-5406, TTY 711 or visitwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and clickon Volunteer Solutions.

The Herndon Senior Center needs So-cial Visitors daily. For these and othervolunteer opportunities, call703-324-5406,TTY 711 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and click on Volunteer Solutions.

Korean Meals on Wheels needs driversto deliver meals. (Speaking Korean not re-quired.)

For these and other volunteer opportunities,call 703-324-5406, TTY 711 or visitwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and clickon Volunteer Solutions.

Respite Care volunteers give familycaregivers of a frail older adult a well-deservedbreak so they can go shopping, attend a doctor’sappointment or just have coffee with a friend.Volunteers visit and oversee the safety of theolder adult for a few hours each month. Sup-port and training are provided. Contact KristinMartin at 703-324-7577 , TTY 711, [email protected].

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The start of the year offers an op-portunity to ring in new trends,particularly when it comes to ahome’s interior. From sustainably

sourced textiles to sparsely accessorizedrooms, local tastemakers look into their crys-tal balls and offer predictions on design ele-ments that will be popular this year.

Interior design is going high tech, allow-ing designers and clients an opportunity towork collaboratively during the design pro-cess. “Technology seems to be driving de-sign firms,” said Jean P. Freeman, professorof Interior Design at Marymount Universityin Arlington. “Since there are so many com-puter programs that assist designers in cre-ating visual, 3-D drawings, clients are ableto better understand the designs. Designersand clients both are able to visualize howspaces appear with colors, textures, volume,proportion and other aspects of design.”

Freeman believes that consumer demandfor energy efficient appliances and designs,as well as sustainably sourced materials, isa trend that will continue and even be el-evated. “Now they are interested to find outthe origins of various textiles, furniture[and] cabinets,” said Freeman. “Clients areseeking healthy environments that are safe.The off gassing of toxic gases from some ofthe synthetic materials used in carpet,paint, upholstery, furniture is now consid-ered harmful.”

Eschewing fussy and indulgent decor infavor of a clean and simple aesthetic is atrend that Kristine Winner, associate pro-fessor of Interior Design at Northern Vir-ginia Community College expects to see thisyear. “… This indicates a trend toward morecomfortably contemporary environmentswith minimal accessories,” she said. “It alsoindicates that we should be designing inte-riors for people that will allow them to besurrounded by the things they love ratherthan a load of things selected for no realreason.”

The trend toward de-cluttering and sim-plification will extend to home choices. “Gosmall or go home” is one theme that SharonKleinman of Transitions in Potomac, Md.believes will resonate with consumers thisyear.

“One trend I’m seeing among my clients

is that they are either downsizing from largehomes on more acreage or moving towardscity living with little to no property and morecompact living space,” said Kleinman. “I’malso seeing clients gravitate towards transi-tional furnishings. There doesn’t seem to beas great a divide between the more tradi-tional versus the more modern.”

Outdoor upholstery fabric will no longerbe confined to alfresco furniture, forecastsAmanda Mertins, president of Patina Pol-ished Living in Alexandria. “One of the most

popular design trends for this year is the useof outdoor fabric for indoor upholstery,” shesaid.

“It has been used for high traffic roomsespecially where kids are involved but now,given a broader selection and interestingpatterns, customers are using it in traditionalliving areas and dining rooms.”

Elegant and bold mirrors will make anappearance in bathrooms marrying style andfunction. “Bye-bye to medicine cabinets andhello to mirrors that make a statement,” said

Mertins. “Modern metallics, large wood-framed and vintage mirrors add interest andboost style to a utilitarian space which isused every day.”

Furniture and accessories made of Lucite,a transparent plastic material, is one trendthat Marika Meyer of Marika Meyer Interi-ors predicts for 2016. The designer also ex-pects to see a transition from cool grays towarmer grays, whites and cool beiges beingused as neutral shades. “We are seeing areturn to organic patterns as a change from

the strong geometrics, which have populatedthe fabric field for the last few years,” shesaid. “Colors and patterns are still quitepopular and will be.”

Trends that Gretchen Fuss, interior de-signer with Tchoupitoulas Furnishings inAlexandria, expects to see include “classic,elegant, fundamental pieces with clean linesas seen in midcentury modern, vignettescomposed in thoughtful arrangements thatinclude pops of color found in Abstract art,”she said.

Home LifeStyleDesign Trends for 2016Local style guruspredict the elementsthat will be popularthis year.

Designers will be tasked with creating elegant spaces on a small scale in2016, predicts interior designer Sharon Kleinman.

Interior designer Marika Meyer expects to see a transition from coolgrays to warmer grays, whites and cool beiges being used as neutralshades in 2016.

Downsizing from a large home to a compact living space will be popularthis year, says interior designer Sharon Kleinman.

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The Herndon girls’ basketballteam overcame a six-point defi-cit early in the fourth quarter,twice took the lead during the

final period and had a chance to win in theclosing seconds of Monday’s Conference 5contest at Chantilly.

But after junior guard Indeya Sanders’runner off the glass failed to drop, the Hor-nets found their fate resting in the hands ofChantilly’s best player.

With the score tied at 48, Chargers jun-ior Mary Clougherty rebounded the Sand-ers miss and was fouled with 2 seconds re-maining. With Chantilly in the bonus,Clougherty went to the line to shoot one-and-one. She calmly knocked down thefront end and made the second, as well,giving Chantilly a 50-48 victory in a battleof teams that had already reached doubledigits in the win column.

Clougherty, a first-team all-conferenceselection last season, finished with 19 pointsand 10 rebounds.

“Mary’s our best player,” Chantilly headcoach Kurt Sporkmann said. “… We wanther on the line.”

Was Clougherty comfortable in that situ-ation?

“I’ve always liked the high stress,” shesaid. “I’ve learned to not get butterflies.”

Clougherty scored 11 points in the firstquarter and had 13 at halftime, but didn’tscore in the third. No. 44 went 6-for-6 atthe free-throw line in the fourth quarter.

What makes Clougherty a dangerousplayer?

“Her simple basketball IQ,” Sporkmannsaid. “She knows how to manage a gameand she knows how to take care of the play-ers around her. We’re lucky enough thatMary is flexible to play a variety of posi-tions for us. She’ll put the ball in her handand be our guard, she’ll go down low andpost up, she’ll play against the fastest guard,she’ll play against the biggest post. … She’s

South Lakes GirlsEarn Back-to-BackWins

After a 2-8 start, the South Lakes girls’basketball team won back-to-back gameslast week, beating McLean 56-49 on Jan.5 and Yorktown 61-51 on Jan. 8.

The Seahawks had lost six out of sevenbefore the wins.

South Lakes faced Madison on Tues-

day, after The Connection’s deadline. TheSeahawks will travel to face Washington-Lee at 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 15.

Oakton Girls Improveto 13-0

The Oakton girls’ basketball team re-mained undefeated with a 57-44 victoryover Herndon on Jan. 8 at Herndon HighSchool.

The win improved the Cougars’ record to

13-0.Oakton faced Westfield on Tuesday, after

The Connection’s deadline. The Cougarswill travel to face Robinson at 7:15 p.m. onFriday, Jan. 15.

Langley Boys BeatMcLean

The Langley boys’ basketball team wonits first meeting with McLean this season,44-36, on Jan. 8 at Langley High School.

Sports Roundups

The victory improved Langley’s recordto 8-4, including 4-0 in Conference 6.McLean fell to 1-11, 0-4 in the confer-ence. It was the Highlanders’ 11thstraight loss since beating ThomasJefferson in the season opener.

Langley faced Fairfax on Tuesday, af-ter The Connection’s deadline. The Sax-ons will travel to face Madison at 7:30p.m. on Friday, Jan. 15.

McLean faced Yorktown on Tuesday.The Highlanders will travel to take onFairfax on Friday.

Junior guard Janiece Loney scored 10points for Herndon and Sanders finishedwith eight.

Junior forward Sarah Maxseiner had 10points for Chantilly and junior guard ChiaraBallam finished with six.

Herndon faced Centreville on Tuesday,after The Connection’s deadline. The Hor-nets will travel to face Potomac Falls at 7:15

Gresham produced19 points, 12 reboundsin defeat.

Late Chantilly Free Throws Give Herndon Second Loss

“I think Herndon is just a tough team. Theyare one hell of a team. … They’ve gotprobably one of the best post players, one ofthe best rebounders in Shawnice. She’stough. We did everything we could to gameplan against her and she still got [19 points].”

— Chantilly girls’ basketball coach Kurt Sporkmann

versatile and she’s accepted that role.”The victory improved Chantilly’s record

to 12-2, including 2-0 in the conference. TheChargers won their conference openeragainst Centreville, 35-33, on Jan. 8.

Meanwhile, Herndon dropped to 10-2.After 10 straight wins to open the season,the Hornets opened conference play with a57-44 loss to defending region championOakton on Jan. 8 before falling to Chantillyon Monday.

Senior forward Shawnice Gresham had abig night for Herndon, finishing with 19points and 12 rebounds. She tied the scoreat 48 with a putback with 51.4 seconds re-maining.

“I think Herndon is just a tough team,”Sporkmann said. “They are one hell of ateam. … They’ve got probably one of thebest post players, one of the best reboundersin Shawnice. She’s tough. We did everythingwe could to game plan against her and shestill got [19 points].”

p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 14.Chantilly faced Robinson on Tuesday. The

Chargers will travel to face Oakton at 7:30p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19.

“I’m proud of my girls for coming togetherthis year and really keeping their eye onthe next play, worrying about the nextthing,” Sporkmann said, “and not worryingabout off-court crap and drama.”

Herndon’s Shawnice Greshamfinished with 19 points and 12rebounds against Chantilly onMonday.

Herndon’s Sabrina Tolbert at-tempts a perimeter shot againstChantilly on Monday.

Indeya Sanders scored eight pointsfor Herndon during Monday’sgame at Chantilly.

Photos by Craig Sterbutzel/The Connection


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prepare students for the jobs of today.Critical thinking is key to creative solu-

tions, the engine of growth. Standardizedtesting yields standardized thinking.”

THE DISPARITY between Virginia’s rankas one of the 10 most wealthy states andspending on social services and educationwas invoked by many speakers.

Keith Foxx spoke in favor of state Sen.Barbara Favola’s bill to help young adultsthat age out of foster care without beingunited with family or being adopted.

“It’s critical that you support and fundSenator Favola’s bill ‘Fostering Futures’ forthe more than 500 young adults who ageout of foster care at age 18 in Virginia ev-ery year,” said Foxx, of Springfield. “Help-ing these young adults grow successfully toindependence will save the commonwealthhundreds of millions of dollars over theirlifetimes.”

With a waiting list statewide of more than10,000 people with intellectual and devel-opmental disabilities for access to servicesin the community (through Medicaid waiv-ers), only 325 new slots are included in theGovernor’s proposed budget. This is theminimum number required by settlementagreement between the Justice Departmentand the Commonwealth, said Rikki Epstein,executive director of the ARC of NorthernVirginia.

“We can’t keep doing the minimum andhoping the time will come when the prob-lem solves itself,” Epstein said, calling forthe addition of 800 waivers in this cycle.This would “give hope to those with mosturgent need, hope to those who have beenwaiting the longest.”

Molly Long of the Fairfax-Falls ChurchCommunity Services Board pointed out thatpeople moving out of residential facilitieslike Northern Virginia Training Center aregetting priority for services ahead of thosewho have been on the waiting list for a longtime, and the waiting list continues to grow.Nearly 1,000 people locally qualify for ser-vices urgently, but their waivers are notfunded at the state level, including peoplewith intellectual disabilities whose elderlyparents can no longer meet their needs athome, and youth aging out of special resi-dential services who are in danger of be-coming homeless.

Long also cited the intense local battlewith heroin addiction, and lack of resources.

“Detoxification is often the important firststep,” she said, but clients seeking help mustwait two-to-three weeks or longer for adetox bed.

“Waiting decreases the chance of success-ful intervention,and puts people’s lives indanger. We must have more detox beds.”

Richard Kennedy of Lorton testified infavor of sensible marijuana policy and citedthe “insanity of arresting people for use ofa drug that is an order of magnitude saferthan alcohol or tobacco.”

SEVERAL OTHERS spoke of the poten-

tial dangers of legalizing marijuana, evenfor medical purposes.

Sara Freund, of Great Falls, and a mem-ber of the Unified Prevention Council, saidthat states with medical marijuana lawshave higher levels of youth use of mari-juana. She also cited a recent survey show-ing that a higher percentage of Fairfax

County 12th graders than national averagehave recently used marijuana.

Jerry Foltz of Centreville, a retired minis-ter in United Church of Christ, was one ofseveral speakers who requested increase ofthe minimum wage. “We need to supportthe people who are working hard,” he said.“Those on the bottom rung who get a little

increase in income, they spend it. Thatstimulates the economy. This should be non-partisan issue to raise the minimum wage.It’s a good year to do it. It doesn’t cost muchto do it, and it has all kinds of benefits.”

And Medicaid expansion was discussedby many.

“Medicaid expansion is a life issue. Ev-eryone has a right to health care coverage,”said Bob Stewart, speaking for Social Ac-tion Linking Together, also citing good fi-nancial reasons for extending coverage tomore people by expanding Medicaid.

Brooke Annessa of Fairfax, MayaSimbulan of Burke, Brian Rosen of Vienna,and Sarah Pickford of Springfield spoke insupport of Brain Injury Services of North-ern Virginia, and thanked members of thedelegation for past support. “We tell fami-lies we will walk with them after the un-thinkable has happened. … We give a voiceback to survivors of brain injury and theirfamilies,” said Annessa.

“YOU NEED TO WRAP it up,” said stateSen. Dick Saslaw (D-35), moderator of thefour-hour plus hearing, said when peopleran over their allotted time.

Others talked of the need for reducedclass sizes, exposure to foreign languagesin elementary school, and giving teachersmore freedom to teach.

Attorneys talked for the need for all 15allotted circuit court judges and eight juve-nile and domestic relations court judges tobe filled, and several called for keepingJudge Jane Roush on the Virginia SupremeCourt.

“Cases are taking forever,” because of thevacancies, said Joseph Dailey, of McLeanspeaking for the Fairfax Bar Association.“This is about justice for your constituents.”A case that begins this week, he said, won’tbe resolved until after the next World Se-ries is over.

Chief Public Defender Todd Petit askedthe delegates and senators to enact legisla-tion to change criminal discovery so defenseattorneys “have all the evidence before-hand,” to be able to go forward with a fairtrial. The issue was studied in 2014 by theVirginia Supreme Court.

Fairfax’s Douglas Stewart and McLean’sMarc Rosenberg, of the Virginia Sierra Club,Eric Goplerud, executive director of theFaith Alliance for Climate Solutions, andJohn Cartmill, of Herndon, were just someof the speakers who addressed the environ-ment as issues including storm runoff, infilldevelopment, tree canopy, transportationchoices, clean energy, solar and wind powerand the health of the rivers and ChesapeakeBay.

Rosenberg of the Virginia Sierra Clubcalled for more efforts to clean up Virginia’srivers by addressing sewage treatmentplants that overflow in heavy rains, runofffrom farms, toxic chemicals and heavy met-als from mining operations and coal pits.Many people support removing plastic shop-ping bags from the environment. “At leaststay out of the way and let localities act inthis area,” Rosenberg said.

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Photos by Ken Moore/The Connection

Gun-Store Free School Zone: Many from Franklin Sherman ElementarySchool in McLean, including Marilyn White, came to support legislationthat would allow localities to regulate proximity of gun stores toschools. Sign says “Gun Store Free Zone.”

Brooke Annessaof Fairfax,Maya Simbulan(in wheelchair)of Burke, BrianRosen ofVienna, andSarah Pickfordof Springfieldspoke in sup-port of BrainInjury Servicesof NorthernVirginia. “Wetell families wewill walk withthem after theunthinkablehas happened....We give avoice back tosurvivors ofbrain injuryand theirfamilies,” saidAnnessa.


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