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Fairfaxserving ServingServing FairfaxFairfax AreasAreas ofof BurkeBurke Follow on Twitter: @ffxconnection on Twitter: Follow FirehouseFirehouse Classified, Page 17 Classified, ❖ SubsSubs Sports, Page 16 ❖ GivesGives GiftGift News, Page 13 Entertainment, Page 14 Shane Mitchell teststests outout thethe For Whom The forcibleforcible entryentry equipment on a door in front of Firehouse Subs [School] Bell Tolls at Fair City Mall inin Fairfax.Fairfax. News, Page 4 Library’s Beta Plan: Dead on Arrival News, Page 3 Photo by Steve Hibbard/The Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.comNovember 28 - December 4, 2013 online atFairfax www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ November 28 - December 4, 2013 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Fairfax Connection ❖ November 28 - December 4, 2013 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com The County Line Photo by Photo Photo by Photo Victoria Ross Victoria Victoria Ross Victoria /The Connection /The Connection Library Board of Trustees Chair Willard O. Jasper (center), along with several other library board members, presented reports from two ad hoc committees appointed by Wearing purple, about 50 library supporters gathered the library board in September to conduct a series of public outreach meetings after at the Fairfax County Government Center on Tuesday, trustees suspended the beta plan to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Tues- Nov. 19, to show their support for the library board’s day, Nov. 19. Recommendations included increased funding and discarding the con- recommendations to the Board of Supervisors. troversial beta plan. Library Board of Trustees: Who They Are, What They Do The Fairfax County Public Library Appointed by Supervisor John Foust Library’s Beta Plan: Board of Trustees, a 12-member, volun- (D-Dranesville) teer board is responsible for library Branches located in this district: policies and for making budget recom- Dolley Madison Library mendations to the Board of Supervisors. Great Falls Library The board meets on the second Wednes- Herndon Fortnightly Library Dead on Arrival day of each month except August. Most Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library meetings are held at 7 p.m. at George Mason Regional Library. Hunter Mill District The public is invited to attend. A Michael Cutrone of Reston Supervisors endorse Library Board’s recommendations maximum of ten people may register to Appointed by Supervisor Cathy speak on library concerns during the Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill) to increase funding, discard beta plan. public comment period at each monthly Branches located in this district: meeting. Patrick Henry Library For information or to register to Reston Regional Library By Victoria Ross tain its high-quality selection,” Jasper told the board. speak, call 703-324-8324. The Connection “The library budget has been cut 40 percent … spend- Mason District ing in Fairfax County is the lowest in all eight neigh- BOARD OF TRUSTEES Elizabeth Clements of Annandale Lee District Appointed by Supervisor Penny Gross ou can assume that the BETA Plan is dead. boring jurisdictions.” Willard O. Jasper (Chair) of Alexan- (D-Mason) I will make that motion tomorrow.” In her In addition to accepting the report, the board ap- dria Branches located in this district: email to a concerned library patron the proved Bulova’s motion to add a “consideration item” Appointed by Supervisor Jeff McKay George Mason Regional Library Y (D-Lee) Thomas Jefferson Library night before the Board of Supervisors Nov. of $1 million to the fiscal year 2015 budget. “This Branches located in this district: Woodrow Wilson Library 19 meeting, Chairman Sharon Bulova (D-at-large) additional funding would … be directed to the ac- John Marshall Library put to rest speculation that the board would resusci- quisition of non-fiction works,” Bulova said. “More Kingstowne Library Mount Vernon District tate the controversial beta plan aimed at streamlin- than 10,000 additional materials could be acquired Richard Byrd Library Donald F. Heinrichs of Alexandria Appointed by Supervisor Gerald ing the county’s library system. with this funding.” At-Large Hyland (D-Mount Vernon) The next day, the board passed Bulova’s motion 8- Supervisor Michael Frey (R-Sully), who voted no Charles Fegan (Vice -Chair) of Branches located in this district: “ 1 to accept a report from the Library Board of Trust- on the motion, said he wasn’t pleased with the Annandale Lorton Library ees, effectively killing the beta plan, which included library’s report, and chastised fellow supervisors for (Representative to FCPL Foundation Martha Washington Library Board of Directors) Sherwood Regional Library proposals to reduce staff, eliminate the requirement distancing themselves from “the reforms we made.” Branch located in this district: for branch managers to have a master of library sci- He also praised Library Director Sam Clay for hav- All branches Providence District ence degree, and reduce the number of children’s ing the courage to “put the (beta) plan out there.” Margaret Koplitz of Falls Church librarians. “I really was kind of shocked that the Board of Susan C. Thorniley Appointed by Supervisor Linda Smyth Represents Fairfax County Public (D-Providence) Library Board of Trustees Chair Willard O. Jasper Trustees would come back with a report that essen- Schools Branch located in this district: presented the reports from two ad hoc committees, tially says flatly ‘no’ to all proposed changes and ‘give 5215 Dunleigh Glen Lane, Burke Oakton Library appointed by the library board in September to con- us more money,’” Frey said. Branch located in this district: duct a series of public outreach meetings after trust- “Our board has been saying to every department All branches Springfield District Dr. Joseph H. Sirh of Clifton ees suspended the beta plan. head tell us how you can do more with less, and Braddock Appointed by Supervisor Pat Herrity “For starters, there is no sentiment on the commit- they came back and said we’ll do the same with more. David C.F. Ray of Annandale (R-Springfield) tee, the Library Board of Trustees, staff, or the ma- And the supervisors said OK — here’s million dollars Appointed by Supervisor John Cook Branch located in this district: (R-Braddock) Pohick Regional Library jority of public commenters to move forward with more,” Frey said. “They have seen how to get more Branches located in this district: the beta plan, including its reclassification of posi- money — just turn up the heat on us.” Kings Park Library Sully District tions,” Jasper told the board in explaining the blan- Criticism of the plan has been building since July, Burke Centre Library Karrie K. Delaney of Chantilly ket rejection of the beta plan. when Clay unveiled a program that would test a new Appointed by Supervisor Michael City of Fairfax Frey (R-Sully) Jasper also said the library system has “suffered organization model this fall at the Burke Centre Li- Mary Petersen of Fairfax Branches located in this district: demonstrably” from several years of severe budget brary and the Reston Regional Library, the busiest Appointed by Fairfax City Council Centreville Regional Library cuts, and recommended increasing funding library library branch in the county. Clay has defended the Branch located in this district: Chantilly Regional Library operations. reorganization, saying that the goal was to stream- City of Fairfax Regional Library Access Services for people with dis- abilities. “The predominant message (from the report) is Dranesville District Access Services is located at the Gov- that the library requires additional funding to main- See Beta Plan, Page 15 Kristin Cabral of McLean ernment Center. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Fairfax Connection ❖ November 28 - December 4, 2013 ❖ 3 News Photos by Andrea Worker/The Connection From left: Dr. Judith Owens, MD, MPH, D’ABSM is the Director of Sleep Medicine for Children’s National Medical Center and heads the consult- From left: Fairfax County Public Schools Board Members Patricia Reed ant group contracted by Fairfax County Public Schools to study the later (Providence District) and Megan McLaughlin (Braddock District) at- start times and to present cost-effective scenarios for implementing the tended the meeting at Frost Middle School to update the community on change. She is joined by Monica Cameron, Frost PTA President, Lisa FCPS’s goal to bring later start times to the region’s high schools. Both Ross, Woodson Pyramid Coordinator, and Phyllis Payne, co-founder of are ardent supporters of the plan. Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal (SLEEP). For Whom The [School] Bell Tolls School district works There was lots of head nodding and mur- Reasons to Start Later the amount of homework our students are murs of agreement when Mantua resident ❖ Districts with start times like ours have given,” said Reed. Dr. Owens, her team and toward later start times significantly higher teen car crash rates. Shannon Murphy asked questions like, ❖ 1 in 4 Fairfax teens suffers from symptoms of her collaborators hope to present their “How much of the decision to move forward depression. “Blueprint for Change” to the Superinten- for high schools. is based on transportation issues and ex- ❖ 2 in 3 Fairfax teens are severely sleep deprived dent and the Board sometime in January of (lose 2 or more hours of sleep every school pense? On budget shortfalls?” and “Why can night). 2014. Reed and McLaughlin did not pro- Andrea Worker other counties like Arlington and Loudoun ❖ More than 1,000 Fairfax students dropped out of vide specifics, but spoke to some of the bar- The Connection start later, but Fairfax is taking years to get high school in 2011-12. riers that are being addressed. “No doubt ❖ Transportation experts have modeled no-cost and to the same place?” low-cost approaches that retain safe, daylight you have all been hearing about our bud- ould you send your teenag- Reed and her fellow Board Member, bus stops for elementary students. get shortfall, so cost is always a consider- ers to school or put them- Megan McLaughlin (Braddock District) ad- ❖ Teens with later school start times do get more ation.
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