Arlington CB - who is good for schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be super negative, but my observation has been that the Boards are very siloed and that the CB is more than happy to push off comments about the schools to the school board. They aren’t going to engage because it’s not what they do.

In the grand scheme of things, the county board has a much larger population to answer to than Arlington County parents. The schools aren’t a priority.

I understand what you're saying, but this feels like a convenient copout that the CB likes to pull when there are school issues that would go against CB desires (MM, anyone...). It's less "we need to think of all stakeholders" and more "this one particular group doesn't matter because we already give them a bunch of money". Like, ok, but your decisions can make it easier/harder for them to spend that money responsibly. So they really need to work together. But the political math is not favorable to that approach, so this slate of candidates is what we get.....

Any CB member blind and deaf to schools and related infrastructure is then also blind to the fact that it’s the families with kids in Arlington who make up a huge chunk of their taxpayers… while the 20-30 single contingent is large here - that population is transient, and it’s not who’s paying them property taxes and vehicle property taxes and all of their other taxes…

DP And it's only 20% at any given time who have kids in APS. % who have/have had/will have is greater.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many people are running for how many slots? Seems like more names than we ever had!?

6 candidates for 2 openings. It helps that county board raised the salary last year and This year. County board pays about 75 thousand now. School board is like 25 thousand.

Salary might have had an influence; but the fact that two positions are being vacated is a bigger draw for candidates. Not going up against an incumbent .... times two.

[Anonymous]

I saw that Susan Cunningham was interim CEO of AHC. Was that back when they were doing awful things to residents of the Serrano? Or was she the one brought in to fix things?

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that Susan Cunningham was interim CEO of AHC. Was that back when they were doing awful things to residents of the Serrano? Or was she the one brought in to fix things?

She was the one the AHC Board brought in to start cleaning things up

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that Susan Cunningham was interim CEO of AHC. Was that back when they were doing awful things to residents of the Serrano? Or was she the one brought in to fix things?

She was the one the AHC Board brought in to start cleaning things up

She has a really interesting background. Mechanical engineer, interim director for thrive, the AHC role. Did something with public schools. I’m not sure what to make of it but she sounds like someone who will be able to address a lot of the kinds of issues that the county board focuses on. Or should focus on IMO.

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I'm voting for Cunningham #1 and undecided for #2. I may only vote for the #1 spot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that Susan Cunningham was interim CEO of AHC. Was that back when they were doing awful things to residents of the Serrano? Or was she the one brought in to fix things?

She was the one the AHC Board brought in to start cleaning things up

Good to know, thanks. She seems great to me.