Welcome to the podcast of meeting highlights for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting on January 7, 2008.
This was the first official meeting of Fairfax County's Eleventh Urban County Board of Supervisors. Sup. Sharon Bulova was selected as the vice chair of the Board of Supervisors.
The board organized and made appointments of board members to various regional and internal boards and committees.
The board appointed members to the Fairfax County Solid Waste Authority.
The board set the salaries for the Fairfax County constitutional officers (Clerk of the Court, Commonwealth's Attorney, Sheriff) as well as the General Registrar. Since these are state positions, the base salary is paid by the Commonwealth and supplemented with local funds.
The board approved the Dec. 17, 2007 quarterly status report, authored by the board's financial and programs auditor. One of the items in the report was a review of revenue obtained from fines generated by police summonses, determining whether the county was receiving all the revenue it should from fines for traffic violations cited by the police. In response to the report, the board directed that it is the county policy that Fairfax ticketing policy is to write a ticket pursuant to the county code whenever a particular citation is identical under both the Code of Virginia and the Code of the County of Fairfax. This could potentially result in additional dollars annually to the county's general fund.
The board named the new Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center after former Supervisor Elaine McConnell who championed public safety and transportation during her 24 years of service to Fairfax County. The McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center, a partnership between the county and the Commonwealth of Virginia, is over 80 percent complete and substantial completion is scheduled for summer. When complete, the Department of Public Safety Communications (9-1-1 Communication Center), the Office of Emergency Management, the Emergency Operations Center, the Virginia State Police Division 7 dispatchers and call talkers, and Virginia Department of Transportation Smart Traffic Center will be co-located in the facility.
That’s all for this podcast of meeting highlights for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, thanks for listening. For more information about the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, including full meeting minutes and documents, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/board. This podcast is produced by the Fairfax County, VA, government.