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Supervisors Approve Good Faith Funding for Police & Firefighters
Fiscal Year One Impacts: $33 million for police and $24.7 million for firefighters and paramedics
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Supervisors Approve Good Faith Funding for Police & Firefighters
Fiscal Year One Impacts: $33 million for police and $24.7 million for firefighters and paramedics
“Many of the commitments that are in this, that we are expecting the county executive to include in his budget proposal to us, are things likely we would have done anyway.” — Chairman Jeff McKay (D)

Food Lines Resemble Bread Lines of Great Depression
2,000 people in need show up for help.
“The need was great — at one point, people were lined up around the block waiting to receive canned food, dry goods, fresh produce, and winter clothes.” — Herndon Vice Mayor Clark Hedrick

Impact of Fairfax’s High Rental Costs and Low Income
Validity of the point-in-time count
Rents out of control

Veterans Day 2023
Observance at the Great Falls Freedom Memorial
“The willingness with which young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars are treated and appreciated by their nation,” — Bruce Fein, Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army Reserves
Veterans Day 2023
Coming together “to honor generations of women and men who have served and sacrificed.”
In the Town of Herndon, members of the Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post 184 members started their day’s observance at dawn.

Name Change for W. T. Woodson High School
Intentionally uplifting people who were held down.
Woodson name

Wrapping Up Matters in 2023, or Not
Supervisors to take action on two controversial items, a data center in Chantilly and Dark Skies in Great Falls.
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