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F.C. Council Votes Steep Budget Cuts as Covid-19 Pandemic Lingers BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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Virginia’s Steady Infection Rate Leaves Area Jurisdictions in Limbo

Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields, in presenting a sharply-contracted Fiscal Year 2021 budget for the F.C. City Council’s preliminary approval,

said he chose not to mitigate the impact by dipping into the City’s sizeable undesignated fund balance reserves because, among other things, “We simply don’t know how bad this will be” as the year unfolds, implying that depending on how bad it gets, it

1st Wave of ‘Microgrants’ for F.C. Businesses Now Imminent BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON

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By a set of unanimous votes, Falls Church’s Economic Development Authority Tuesday night determined to provide up to $250,000 for emergency microgrants to the City’s small businesses to weather the current severe downturn in the economy due to responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The plan was first unveiled to the F.C. City Council last week, but Tuesday night’s action extended the total funds available from $100,000 to $250,000 in grants of $2,000 to local businesses. The focus of the Economic Development Authority’s (EDA) program is to get the money into the hands of the struggling small businesses as fast as possible. Bob Young, local developer and chair of the EDA, commandeered Tuesday’s meeting toward

may be needed in a few months. Meeting remotely online Monday night, Shields was also straightforward in cautioning the Council not to expect Gov. Ralph Northam’s ban on economic activity to be lifted too soon. He said that Northam and his regional counter-

parts, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, are “aligned,” overall, in terms of how to respond to the Covid19 pandemic, and that all place “data over dates” in making decisions about beginning to reopen the economy. Northam’s initial

Executive Order 53 “expires on May 8,” he noted, but by the criteria all three leaders agreed to, that would undoubtedly be extended. They are all going by the “Gateway Criteria” laid out in the

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a series of resolute decisions to allow for the program to be implemented almost immediately. News of the program, and applications for those wanting to take advantage of it now available on the City’s website at choosefallschurch.org/EDAgrant began being unveiled the very next day, including with an ad in the NewsPress that appears in this edition. It followed another unanimous vote Tuesday night to authorize a series of public information ads over the next seven weeks in the News-Press. Grant applicants will be asked to provide minimal information. They will be asked to swear to affidavits asserting they qualify for the grants, including the fact that their annual gross receipts range between $50,000 and $500,000 a year, that they’ve suf- CITY OF FALLS CHURCH residents are well aware of those who are risking exposure to the fered at least a 50 percent drop in novel coronavirus while serving their roles as essential workers. Gestures of gratitude such

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Falls Church City Public Schools raised over $100,000 in less than two months since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to help meet the needs of disadvantaged students and their families who are a part of the school system.

Infrared technology has been a lesser-known part of the crowd-monitoring capacity that Curt Westergard’s business, Digital Design & Imaging Services, uses to detect people with fevers while they’re waiting in lines outside of medical centers.

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Northern Virginia’s own “Rockin’ the Suburbs” podcast from Falls Church’s Patrick Foster and Ashburn resident Jim Lenahan will take their show to Jammin’ Java’s stage next Wednesday. SEE PRESS PASS, PAGE 14

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F.C. Firm Hopes Its Thermal Tech Helps Curb Virus’ Spread by Katherine Liverman

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In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many are heeding the call from the federal government to lend their talents in fighting the disease. For Falls Church’s Curt Westergard that means using his skills with infrared technology to check the temperatures of people from a safe distance and help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. As the president of Digital Design & Imaging Services, Westergard is more likely associated with the balloons he launches to snap aerial photos of large events, such as the first Women’s March or the 2009 presidential inauguration. But infrared technology has been a lesser-known part of his crowd-monitoring service, and now he wants to use those tools to detect people with fevers while they’re waiting in line. It’s a step forward on some of the precautions the general public has already taken great care to enforce. Indoors, social distancing and masks are used in combination with constant attention to wiping down surfaces. Now, as Westergard envisions it, longer lines outside of grocery stores and medical centers could also expose people to unnecessary risk of the virus to people who are waiting. With nearly 26 years in the field, and 21 years of developing high-resolution infrared technology, Westergard saw the combination as “a natural mashup” that requires only slight repurposing. Crowd-monitoring with an infrared lens involves identifying people in disorganized masses. Combing this technology allows for the identification of a single person in-line, and the ability to

see their temperature through the use of high-resolution IR cameras “When we saw the costly and dangerous difficulty that triage nurses worked through, standing very close to long lines of people, trying to figure out their potential for having a fever, we wondered, ‘Maybe there is a better way to capture equally good temperature data but not to be so close to the person ourselves?’” Westergard said. Westergard assures that they are very attentive and sensitive to the individual right to privacy, but their ultimate purpose is to protect people from one and other and streamline medical care. “We don’t want to invade someone’s privacy; but in a hospital triage line, if somebody like your grandmother in a wheelchair really should be pushed to the head of the line, if she has a fever, that would be a win for her and the people nearby,” Westergard added. The technology measures your temperature by looking at your tear ducts, the most accurate indicator of a fever. So who is covering the costs? Westergard is in the process of submitting a Request for Proposal (RFP) to the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research program. If accepted, the DoD will fund the development of the technology, and Westergard would move into the secondary stage of creating a successful product. “The DoD is funding it for their own use, but only if there is a high probability of it being useful in the commercial sector. [The research program] wants it to be dual use, that entails doing the research and then quickly turning it around and scaling it up and applying it in very different venues — the elections, food distribution zones, supermarkets.”

THE INFRARED TECHNOLOGY, shown here in a graphic provided by Digital Design & Imaging Services, would be able to spot people displaying signs of a fever from afar so medical workers would be able to prioritize their care as well as remove them from the rest of the line in order to stem some of the novel coronavirus’ spread. (Photo: Courtesy Digital Design & Imaging Services) What makes this product unique is not only its ability to operate outdoors, but also to quickly adjust to organic lines and their constantly changing shape. “This is all about makeshift lines, and identifying people far away from the main entry.” If Westergard is able to put forward a successful prototype, the rights to the technology would be co-developed with the DoD. His firm would both have the ability to scale it up, and apply it to the commercial health and commerce markets. Other businesses would be able to use and influence the idea, but Westergard would be able to control the direction of the product. “For example, we would probably have a strong ethical checklist for protecting privacy at the same time as being practical for identifying people with elevated

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temperatures.” Westergard says there are an “unbelievable amount of other applications,” the tech can be applied to any venue where people are lined up outdoors. On a national level, this means primaries, the presidential election, food banks, sporting events and more. However, Westergard has a vision for its global application as well. “We’re all facing the same problem,, Westergard said, referencing the safety issues presented by Covid-19, let alone any pandemic, are not unique to the U.S. He’s “trying to develop this thing so it is super low-tech, low cost [with a] you can do it yourself approach” so it can be applied in many communities around the world. The timeline for the research program’s request for proposal is nearly two years, but it is

clear communities are in need of help now. To facilitate the process, Westergard and his team are “gearing up in advance” and have set the milestone to have the prototype completed in six months. If they are not accepted by the Small Business Innovation Research program, Westergard has his eye on a multitude of other companies and organizations that would fund the technology and him help scale its usage up to the public. Overall, Westergard’s mission is to contribute to the public good and streamline access to healthcare for those with the highest need. Two weeks in with no pay, his spirits remain high: “Life gives you lemons you make lemonade, life gives you the ability to lift sensors in the sky you check for people being hot.”

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$100K in Microgrants to Go Toward Small Businesses Continued from Page 1

revenues since the crisis began, that they qualify as the kind of business being targeted for the help and that they are not nonprofits or otherwise beneficiaries of government help. They may be asked to affirm that the grants will be used to pay for the basic means of staying in business, including salaries, rents and basic business expenses. (The EDA was divided over whether non-profits should qualify, centered on the City’s Creative Cauldron theater and youth educational program on behalf of which former F.C. Vice Mayor Marty Meserve submitted two strong letters of support to the EDA. The EDA’s Ed Salzberg advocated to include such non-profits, and the issue was left unresolved, with non-profits not included in the first $100,000 of grants, but open to possible reconsideration for subsequent grants.) The bulk of businesses the EDA hopes to help with the grants are small personal care services that were identified as non-essential and ordered closed by Gov.

Ralph Northam’s executive order last month. They include such services such as nail and hair salons, exercise and personal fitness centers and more — types of which there are many in the City. Becky Witsman, the head of the City’s Economic Development Office, noted that the first phase of the grant program will benefit only 50 qualified businesses when there are up to 10 times as many in the City that potentially qualify. That’s why if the number of applicants soars beyond 50, the EDA has authorized as many as another 75 to receive grants up to $250,000. EDA board member and former chait Mike Novotny noted that the money being made available for this effort is not taxpayer dollars, but the result of investments by the quasi-independent EDA itself, resulting from the land banking in the 1990s of land in the 300 block of West Broad that was sold to the developers of the Harris Teeter building in the last decade that put $1.9 million into the EDA’s coffers. Some of that money has been

used to develop Mr. Brown’s Park in the 100 block of W. Broad. Novotny credited Young with coming up with the micro grant idea, and Young in turn has credited Witsman with a yeoman effort in setting it up. Also, despite early doubts, the process for determining who will get a grant will be determined by a random choice process, preferred over a judgment approach because it will rapidly speed up the decision process and eliminate any pressures over subjective preferences and so forth. It is not the final word, either. It was discussed that a program to raise money from the community to fund further similar grants could be undertaken depending on how severe the economic crisis is and how long it endures. In a virtual meeting of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce membership Tuesday at noon, there were more stories about difficulties facing small businesses and of more efforts to aid those in need in the midst of the crisis. Over 50 people were on the internet meeting, including Jeff Bulman of the Original Pancake

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY chair Bob Young is looking to get the �irst $100,000 in microgrants out to City of Falls Church businesses immediately. (C�� P��) House who spoke of the many fundraisers he continues to support by donation of a portion of his proceeds. Sally Cole, the executive director of the Falls Church Chamber, was heartened by the event and the many efforts to help small businesses and good causes around the City, she said. One small business owner

noted in the meeting that she had the bad luck of opening her new business on the same day, March 13, that Gov. Northam ordered the closure of many non-essential businesses, including her own. She said she was hopeful that a $2,000 micro grant from the EDA program will help her weather her current ordered closing.

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This is uncharted territory for everybody. One of the biggest unknowns is what the economy will look like in just a few months and beyond that, for years to come. The City of Falls Church City Council is taking an optimistic view by proposing a Covid-19-revised annual operating budget on the basis of what has been projected as a “moderate” scenario for the coming period, rather than a more drastic one. But at this juncture, it is wholly a guess rather than an estimate, although the Council appeared fixated on the little stuff at its budget meeting Monday night in a way that suggested they’d prefer to believe what is actually not yet at all secure. We are in the midst not of a recession, or of a very bad storm, we are in the midst of a pandemic whose course is unprecedented although it now seems safe to say the worst in 100 years, and by definition potentially the worst ever, period. To the extent people want to think in these times of things like budget planning in the context of a knowable economic downturn projection, then they do so with the risk of applying blinders to an overriding reality that could become much worse than anyone wants to imagine right now. At least City Manager Wyatt Shields, as reported on Page One of this edition, had the wisdom to tell the City Council Monday that, “We don’t know how bad things might get.” Complicating the problem is the fact that there are great pressures on the nation to act prematurely to call off its war against the Covid-19 virus and the pandemic, and to accept the greater death toll that will arise from an early ending to ”social distancing” by reopening business activity when all the public health experts are saying it is not yet safe to do so. They think the death rate, although it will go up, is containable, condemning only a marginal number of human beings to deaths they might otherwise not be relegated to. But that is another risky assumption. The discussion at the Falls Church City Council meeting Monday embraced some of this delusional thinking, from those on the Council like Dave Snyder who huffed and puffed as if social distancing mandates reflect anti-business political prejudices. Then there were those who lamented the cuts in neighborhood traffic calming and stormwater management, almost all the rest of them. Aside from Council member Letty Hardi’s questions about the number of calls coming to City Hall for emergency help with life’s basic essentials, like rent and homelessness, in this crisis it was all about keeping promises to better off citizens. This was a disappointment. In this crisis, it is basic livelihood which is the priority, and the Council Monday met for three hours without a clue about how much that was being placed in grave jeopardy for many of our citizens.

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“We are standing at a crossroads in time and in history.” So begins the foreword to the City’s 300-year history by Bradley E. Gernand and Nan Netherton. Since that book’s publication in 2000, our community has successfully prevailed over the challenges of terrorism from 9/11 and snipers, fierce storms, and the financial crisis. Now the COVID-19 pandemic presents another defining moment. The foreword to Falls Church: A Virginia Village Revisited continues, “We know that it takes everyone to make a little City such as Falls Church work — there are no divisions between the government, the people and business — are all part of the same civic ecosystem. It works because we work together to make it work.” Our City has repeatedly responded according to that principle. The pandemic hit Falls Church, the commonwealth, the country, and the world with unexpected speed and lethality. When I first raised concerns within the region at the end of January, the view was that the novel coronavirus could be geographically contained. Evidence now suggests, however, that the contagion’s spread was already global, and that the virus hit older people and those with underlying conditions especially hard. Personal losses began to be felt here as the virus sickened and killed more people everywhere. The 24-hour news cycle brought home in highly personal terms not only the statistically predictable losses, but also the unpredictable

deaths of seemingly healthy younger people and the supreme sacrifices of health care workers and first responders. Our immediate reaction created its own long list of victims. Sometimes government-ordered and otherwise organically created, schools shuttered, businesses closed or shrunk overnight,

“The future is now, and if we act as I think we are capable, others who write the history of this period will look back and conclude that we made it work.” depression-era levels of unemployment were quickly reached, the stock market crashed, whole sectors of the economy were devastated, and everyone’s lives were changed — either a little or a lot. How did we respond? First, City Council approved emergency actions that tried to walk the line between normality and reducing the health risk to citizens. The Farmers Market and many restaurants continued with restrictions, parks stayed open, and essential functions were maintained, in person with social distancing and online when necessary.

Our second step was accomplished this week when Council and City management evaluated the effects of the pandemic on this year’s budget and began work on a greatly reduced budget for 2021 — one that maintains the current tax rates and recognizes reduced revenue by postponing much-desired storm water and traffic calming projects and freezing personnel positions and compensation while creating a small business loan program and assistance to citizens with low incomes. What do we do now? I recognize this is a hazardous undertaking amid an unfolding calamity, but here is my best attempt. First, we need to learn from what went wrong. That means applying with laser focus increased health care resources on vulnerable populations where they are, especially nursing homes and low-income communities. It means fixing supply chains for medical equipment and surging trained and protected health care personnel where they are needed. It means avoiding at least some of the economic damage that has occurred from too broad and sudden shutdown orders. Second, we must continue what has gone right. While the pandemic has deprived us of critically important in-person interaction, it has forced us to explore the possibilities of better using online and other resources. Covid-19 and our response have also resulted in cleaner air, reduced motor vehicle accidents, and a greater sense of collective welfare and volunteerism. Third, we must develop and execute plans for rapid economic recovery. The US Treasury,

Federal Reserve, and Congress have supported the economy with significant cash infusions. But such actions are not sustainable. Confusing and often contradictory preconditions for recovery from the federal and some state governments, if strictly adhered to, will indefinitely postpone the kind of revival we must have. Working within reasonable top-down requirements, I advocate a bottom-up approach where we encourage the ingenuity and adaptation of businesses, share those approaches and best practices, and support them with flexibility from local government. Fourth, we should consider what we want a local, national, and globally recovered economy to look like and act accordingly. Can we preserve the environmental and safety gains by permitting more telework and periodic remote learning? Build out the internet so that all communities have reliable connections? Address equity issues in the provision of healthcare and assure better, earlier interventions to protect vulnerable populations? The foreword to the 2000 history concludes: “…we are part of the most diverse, educated, economically successful, technologically advanced, compassionate, free and influential region in the world. That is a lot to celebrate and a lot to dedicate ourselves to maintaining in the future.” The future is now, and if we act as I think we are capable, others who write the history of this period will look back and conclude that we made it work. David Snyder is member of the Falls Church City Council.

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NEWS BRIEFS $100,000 Donated to F.C. Schools’ Relief Effort Following the remarkable achievement of raising over $100,000 this spring in response to the needs of disadvantaged students and their families in the Falls Church City Public School system in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, Debbie Hiscott, executive director of the Falls Church Educational Foundation, submitted a letter to the F.C. City Council this week that acknowledged the generosity of the contributors to the effort. “The Falls Church Education Foundation thanks our amazing community for its incredible support of the FCEF Family Assistance Fund,” she wrote. “Though we run this program year around to provide equity of access within Falls Church City Public Schools, the response since the beginning of the pandemic has been unmatched in the history of the foundation. We received donations from businesses, #bettertogether t-shirts, all our PTAs, teachers and staff, Falls Church residents and FCEF supporters far and wide. In all, we have raised over $100,000 for the fund, with contributions ranging from $10–$12,000. These funds allow us to provide food and necessities to almost 250 students and many staff members who have been impacted by the shutdown. We will continue to provide grocery gift cards, small FC business gift cards and basics as needed with this funding. The needs of the program have risen eight percent over the last week alone and we anticipate needs will continue to grow. One hundred percent of the funds raised go to support our community. We thank you again for your donations and for your willingness to create food security for those in need,” she wrote.

‘Grab & Go’ Banners Light Up Falls Church The City of Falls Church’s Economic Development Office (EDO) surprised local restaurateurs and other small businesses by providing 45 free bright red “Grab & Go” banners for prominent display all over the 2.2 square miles of the Little City in the past week. The banners highlighted the fact that businesses displaying them are open for business and looking for patrons to stop in to avail themselves of the fine dining opportunities that they provide even though on-site sit-down dining is not permitted under Gov. Northam’s shutdown order to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic. “We found many of these businesses surprised that we would come to them with these banners to help them,” said Becky Witsman of the City’s EDO office. The banners say, “Grab & Go, We Are Open” with a blank white space for a phone number or website to order. “These have made a world of difference to these hurting businesses,” said Sally Cole, executive director of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce.

Mormons Contribute to Catholic Aid Effort The Arlington-based Catholic Charities St. Lucy Food Project received a donation of 35,500 pounds of food from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, delivered on a tractor trailer from Salt Lake City, Utah this week. These days, during the pandemic, we also need help to reach this growing need,” said Art Bennett, president and CEO, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has offered their support to our efforts and given us a tremendous amount of food to distribute throughout our network. It is wonderful when we all work together to help those in need.”

Falls Church Scoring ‘C+’ On Social Distancing Effort Virginia has scored a D- while the City of Falls Church has received an overall social distancing grade of C+ based on community activity using metrics comparing current cell phone location data to that before the Covid-19 outbreak. The assessments come from data company Unacast which created a social distancing scoreboard assigning grades to states and localities using three metrics that measure reductions in mobility and encounters since the onset of the pandemic. According to Unacast data, as of Wednesday, Falls Church is currently experiencing a 55-70 percent reduction in mobility, which scores a B; a more than 70 percent reduction in non-essential visits, good for an A; but receives an F for having a decrease of less than 40 percent in human encounters. The City’s overall C+ social distancing grade is scored using the three metrics above. Nearby jurisdictions Arlington County, City of Alexandria, Fairfax County and City of Fairfax scored overall grades of B-, C+, C- and D+, respectively. Virginia’s grade of D- bests only 12 other states in the country with the United States as a whole scoring a D as of Wednesday for its social distancing efforts. The nation’s current highest grade is B-, going to Nevada. According to Unacast, the social distancing scoreboard uses data from “tens of millions of anonymous mobile phones and their interactions with each other each day.” Grades are updated daily as new location data comes in.

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Community News & Notes Literary Hill BookFest Goes Virtual The coronavirus pandemic won’t stop the Literary Hill BookFest, with the free event taking place virtually from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 3 at literaryhillbookfest.org. For the first time, people from across the nation will be able to attend without leaving their own homes. Well-known authors of poetry, novels, nonfiction, children’s books and memoirs will participate both live and in recorded videos. The flavor of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood will still pervade the BookFest, but now guests won’t have to live there to attend.

MADDIE’S 7TH BIRTHDAY PARADE was a hit when she was able to visit up to 10 friends and teachers — six-plus feet away, of course — in a short trip around the town earlier this month. The birthday girl was spoiled by some Little City kindness as many in the community walking shouted happy birthday and drivers gave birthday horn honks. (Photo: Courtesy Brent Nussbaum)

A complete schedule of activities will be announced by today on the website but, no matter what time someone joins on Sunday, there will be something to interest every reader. A few authors participating include: Allison McGill, Carl Hulse, Angela Tilghman, Eva J. Pell, Louis Bayard, Con Lehane, E. Ethelbert Miller, Garrett Peck and Glenn Mourning. For additional information, contact Tamar Abrams at Tamarabrams@verizon.net.

Health-based Organization Digitizes Services Recovery Program Solutions of Virginia has moved its services

providing mental health, substance abuse and homelessness recovery support programs for adults across Northern Virginia online. “Mental health and addiction recovery can be difficult on its own and RPSV realizes the additional stress that this current crisis puts on recovering individuals,” said Jerome Hughes, executive director of RPSV. “We want to remind people that they are not alone, and we will continue to provide our services throughout this alarming process.” Individuals seeking resources, advice or a listening ear can access the virtual programs through Zoom.us, a free and downloadable software program that can be used on most electronic devices. The

MOUNT DANIEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL first grade teachers Julia Noble and Katherine Mason went above and beyond for Maddie so the Nussbaum family wanted to make sure they were recognized as well. (Photo: Courtesy Brent Nussbaum)

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current virtual offerings include various support groups, such as: How to stay happy during social distancing; Music enlightenment; Movement classes; Relapse prevention; Spanish peer support; Self- advocacy; Virtual traveler and more. RPSV’s programs run weekdays beginning at 10:30 a.m. Additionally, RPSV has set up a Warm Line for individuals who need someone to talk to regarding the pandemic or anything else they want to discuss. The line is staffed by Peer Recovery Specialists who are trained to offer helpful resources. The number to call is 703-817-6124.

Fairfax Libraries Want Pandemic Testimonials The Fairfax County Public Library’s Virginia Room — a special collection of history and genealogical resources within Fairfax County Public Library — is collecting materials that will help future generations understand what it was like to live in Fairfax during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interested participants can submit their stories, photographs, journal entries, short video clips, art images or other digital files by June 10 using the online form at bit.ly/34HZvS8. For those who don’t have a Google account, they can email the Virginia Room with their stories at va_room@fairfaxcounty. gov.

Fairfax Police Begin Body Cam Installation The Fairfax County Police Department completed the first phase of its Body Worn Camera (BWC) program, which will launch on May 1. All stakeholder employees for phase one are nearing

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completion of their training in the use of the BWC systems. This includes affected police staff, Fairfax County Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Fairfax Public Defender Office and court personnel. The first year of the three-year, phased-in project was funded in the previous FY 2020 Carryover Review as approved by Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors. Given the economic concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic, phases two and three may have a different timeline, though will ultimately be completed.

F.C. Business Nominated For Regional Award Falls Church-based business CSI DMC was nominated to receive the Stella Award for Best DMC (destination management company) in all regions of the U.S. Northstar Meetings Group’s Stella Awards honor hotels, convention centers, DMCs, CVBs/ DMOs, conference centers, airlines and cruise lines with the Stella Awards. For more information on CSI DMC, go to www. csi-dmc.com. CSI DMC’s nomination highlights its performance as a top 25 DMC, which has been defined by its approach to each client, strategic partnerships, event designs and threading destination authenticity.throughout each client’s experience. Finalists in each category are determined by industry professionals during an open, online voting period through May 15 while winners will be selected by an expert panel of judges overseen by the editors of Northstar Meetings Group’s leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings. Winners will be announced in November.

THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH has lit up downtown each night to honor frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic: health professionals, public safety personnel, public works crews, grocery store employees and truck drivers. Residents are encouraged to turn on a light, put an electric candle in a window or string lights in your trees to show their support for those who are working to fight the disease. (P��: C�� C�� F�� C��)

Lottery Deadlines for Magnet & Kindergarten Classes Parents who wish to apply for Fairfax County Public School’s Kindergarten Immersion Lottery may now contact their base school’s registrar to complete a temporary intake form. The deadline for Kindergarten Immersion applications is Monday, May 4. Late applications for the Kindergarten Immersion programs may be submitted online

beginning on May 7 at noon. If a student is not currently enrolled in FCPS, registration must be completed by the base school using the temporary intake form before May 4. Consult the immersion registration webpage at fcps.edu/registration/world-language-immersionprograms-registration for more information. Also, parents who wish to apply for FCPS’ Magnet Lottery may now contact their base school’s registrar to complete a temporary

intake form. The deadline for Magnet applications is Monday, May 4 as well. No late applications will be accepted for Magnet applications. If a student is not currently enrolled in FCPS, registration must be completed by the base school using the temporary intake form before May 4. Consult the magnet lottery webpage fcps.edu/ registration/elementary-magnetschool-lottery for more information.

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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

Business was brisk on Saturday afternoon, as how you can help. How we all respond to needs car after car pulled up to a tent on the parking lot of during emergencies is a true measure of a commuACCA’s Child Development Center in Annandale. nity’s generosity. Whether pizza or produce, your I knew it wasn’t the Starbuck’s drive-thru line, so I help is needed now. stopped (masked and gloved, of course) to see what As cases of Covid-19 continue to increase, was going on. Stacks of vegetarian pizzas, each in its folks want to know about “hot spots,” or neighborown cardboard box, and bags of apples, were arrayed hoods where the disease seems to be concentrated. for distribution to families in need. The only differ- A new Covid-19 dashboard on the Fairfax County ences from a drive-thru were that no speaker box was website (www.fairfaxcounty.gov) presents case needed, and no money changed hands. All the food rates by combined ZIP Codes. The dashboard also was free for families who needed it. includes age, race, and locality rates. Real Food for Kids: Chefs Feeding Families is a Monday evening, the first Mason District virjoint initiative with metro-area restaurants to provide tual budget town meeting was broadcast live nourishing grab-and-go meals for families affected on Channel 16, with School Board member by school closures and job losses because of the Dr. Ricardy Anderson, Fairfax County Public Covid-19 pandemic. Real Food for Kids has served Schools Assistant Superintendent Leigh Burden, more than 14,000 meals since March 18. At ACCA and Fairfax County Chief Financial Officer Joe on Saturday, 400 pizzas and bags of locally grown Mondoro as my guests. Many thanks to those apples were distributed. Another 200 pizzas were constituents who called in or sent e-mail questions handed out at John Calvin Presbyterian Church on about the revised FY 2021 budget. You can watch Sunday. You can help support the Annandale meal the program by logging on to www.fairfaxcounty. sites. For a minimum donation of $50, families can gov/cableconsumer/channel-16/mason-districtorder a Pizza Paradiso Pizza Kit to make at home. videos. Each kit contains ingredients for two pizzas you can The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted some make at home, and your purchase price feeds four basic health practices, most of which we learned more Fairfax County families. Kits can be picked up as children from our parents – wash your hands at ACCA or John Calvin Church between 3:30 and frequently, cover your cough or sneeze, stay home 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Information when sick. Those practices are tried and true, and about the kits and activities can be found at www. they work. What our parents didn’t teach, and for realfoodforkids.org/chefsfeedingfamilies. good reason, are wildly irresponsible and reckless Food is a crucial need during the COVID-19 practices that Mr. Trump suggested last week. pandemic emergency. All area food banks and local Injecting disinfectant into the body is not a treatfood pantries report huge and increasing demands ment for Covid-19, or for anything else. Please for fresh and non-perishable foods, as the number of get your medical advice from trusted and qualified families seeking aid increase every week. In normal health providers, not from a narcissistic and selftimes, food bank operators can rely on canned goods proclaimed “very stable genius.” 2.062" donations and food drives to help fill their shelves, but the scale of today’s needs requires bulk purchase  Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in of food; and that means cash, not cans. Check with the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be your local food bank or faith community to find out emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.

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The following comes from a most prominent and civically active general practitioner in my little home town. As people are arguing about lifting restrictions to open the economy, Dr. Gordon Theisz writes: “More positive Covid-19 cases today — every case in the last two weeks has been in someone who is still working. Most are not aware of who else had it. It is everywhere and not declining — our cases are from Fairfax, Loudon, Prince William, Stafford, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church. Reduce the spread: Everyone wear masks, stay home if you can, don't go to work if you feel sick. Failure puts you, your family, your neighbors, you co-workers at risk. Some will die. By the time this is over, everyone will know of someone who FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS died from Covid. One person died who used to live on our street. Be responsible to your fellow human!” This is my doctor, and he is gravely worried that opening up too soon will be catastrophic. Meanwhile, Trump has ordered that meat-packing plants remain open, with the impact that workers who fail to show up will be denied unemployment benefits. This is like a death sentence. No surprise that these workers are predominantly racial minorities and with no significant wealth or social protections. Meanwhile, according to a report this week, “Billionaire Bonanza Report” by the Institute for Policy Studies, the Bloomberg Billionaire Index shows that the nation’s 565 billionaires enjoyed a net increase in value from $2.9 trillion to $3.2 trillion during the first three weeks of the pandemic crisis, March 18 to April 10 during the crisis, itself! The richest 400 control more wealth than the lower 64 percent of Americans. The claim of one of the three richest, Warren Buffet, is that the nation has shifted from a “meritocracy” (that rewards on the basis of merit) to “dynastic wealth” where the richest simply inherit rather than achieve their wealth. By the way, “dynastic wealth” is the most basic reason behind the American Revolution, in the first place. So, we can conclude that this obscene imbalance of wealth is fundamentally responsible for why the U.S. has become the most Covid-19 infected nation, by far, on the planet. It is those who are being forced to work who are getting the most ill. A scathing indictment of America’s response, under Trump, to the pandemic appeared in the Irish Times last week. By Finian O’Toole, it is entitled, “The World Has Loved, Hated and Envied the U.S. Now, For the First Time, We Pity It.” “Over more than two centuries,” he wrote, “The United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.” “It is hard not to feel sorry for Americans,” he states. “Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful. “It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time — wilfully, malevolently, vindictively,” he added. “It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence. “The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.” Pity us.

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

Among many impacts of the coronavirus crisis is lessened probability that Arlington will shell out money for land acquisitions. For weeks now, speculation has percolated that one of the county’s largest private properties, the nineacre historic Febrey-Lothop home at Wilson Blvd. and N. McKinley St., is being sold. Long coveted by developers and planners for schools and parks, the home built just after the Civil War has stirred interest since the death in 2017 of owner Randy Rouse, the homebuilder and equestrian. But his widow still lives in the home. And this week, it appears that some speculation on marketing the house was premature, the chances that the county could purchase it almost nil. “Trustees have not actively marketed the property,” reads the statement given me April 27 by CPA Sid Simmonds, representing the Rouse trust. “In spite of not marketing the property, we received a number of unsolicited offers. The trustees had a fiduciary duty to review each offer. We retained a consultant to assist us in reviewing the offers and provide analysis and recommendations. We did not retain an agent to market the property. Most offers were filed away to revisit if the trustees decided to actively market the property. However, the trustees did receive one unsolicited offer that we felt must be pursued. The offer was from a reputable party, but it includes a confidentiality requirement and we cannot pro-

vide further information.” This columnist has a special fondness for the house built by 19thcentury school superintendent John Febrey. It was purchased in 1893 by Alvin Lothrop of department store fame. After Rouse, who hosted me there, bought it in 1950 and married TV actress Audrey Meadows, locals called it the “Audrey Meadows house.” This year’s push for the county to buy Rouse’s property was initiated by civic activist Suzanne Sundburg. In emails, she complained that the county resisted because the land is “not suitable” for a school and because of its proximity to Upton Hill Regional Park, even though it “has a beautiful, open, flat lawn space that could be perfect both for passive and active recreation,” she wrote. The proposal to acquire it was echoed by Peter Rousselot and the nonprofit Arlingtonians for Our Sustainable Future, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request for county deliberations. The Arlington Historical Society is paying attention, and preservationist Tom Dickinson filed an application for Local Historic District Designation. The Dominion Hills Civic Association’s longtime position is that it “would prefer that the property be preserved as open space for parks,” said acting president Brian Hannigan. “But if that is not possible and the owners pursue development, we will insist that current R-6 single-family zoning be maintained.” Board Chair Libby Garvey recently responded to a citizen

inquiry that said the property was for sale and contacted the seller’s agent, but gave up upon learning there was already a contracted buyer at a high price. But on Monday, Garvey told me that statement “took it a step too far,” due to “information flying fast during the pandemic.” While there are valid offers, the land is not yet under contract. The “agent” suggested, and what seems more realistic given the competition from homebuilders, is that the property “is not at a price the county would want to pay right now.” *** Arlington law enforcement lost memorable former Chief of Police William “Smokey” Stover, who died April 17 at 89. Stover patrolled our streets for four decades as an officer and detective, rising to the top job to serve a record tenure, 1979-96. Longtime Arlington realtor Jim Robinson tells me the no-nonsense Stover in 1987 saltily chewed out his team because a sheriff’s deputy had pulled over the husband of Republican county board candidate Dorothy Grotos. The driver’s GOP bumper sticker during a sheriff’s election offended the deputy, and Stover got wind. For police, Stover enforced strict nonpartisanship. Arlington also lost longtime Cherrydale sportsman John Galt Davis, who died April 19 at 81. “Bupsy,” an in-law to the Hitt family, was a bowling pro and sporting goods salesman. Memorably, his wife reminds me, he was born in a doctors office above the Cherrydale drugstore.

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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR In response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic affecting the globe and policies enacted to avoid social gatherings, the News-Press will publish a list of virtual events weekly in lieu of its regular listings. If you have a virtual event you’d like to see listed, please email calendar@fcnp.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Monday weekly.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Library Storytime Live. Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, join Mary Riley Styles Library staff at 10:30 a.m. for a live storytime on the Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Facebook page at www. facebook.com/mrspl.

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Falls Church Farmers Market To Go. The Falls Church Farmers Market has converted to a preorder, to-go event. All orders must be placed in advance of Saturday’s market which will be open from 8 a.m. – noon for pre-order pickup only in front of City Hall (300 Park Ave.). A list of participating vendors and information on pre-

Outdoor Container Gardening: Basics and Beyond. Interested viewers can learn how to grow edible and ornamental plants in containers on your porch, deck, balcony or patio. This workshop will explore soil, containers, maintenance and selection of suitable plants. Online class offered by Extension Master Gardeners.

Free. Register at mgnv.org to receive a link to participate. 10 – 11:30 a.m Mother Goose Minutes. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Miss Laura will share tips on how to sing and play with your baby while residents are at home with their families. Available on Facebook Live at 10:30 a.m. at www.facebook.com/mrspl.

MONDAY, MAY 4 Falls Church City Council Meeting. The Falls Church City Council wil give first reading to its revised Fiscal Year 2021 budget. The virtual meeting can be viewed online at www.fallschurchva.gov/ CouncilMeetings and will be broadcast on FCCTV (Cox 11, RCN 2, Verizon 35). Public comment must be submitted by 8 p.m. on Monday, April 27, to cityclerk@ fallschurchva.gov. Meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.

DAILY Creative Cauldron Online Classes. The City of Falls Church theater company Creative Cauldron is now offering a variety of interactive classes and activities for children taught by the theater’s artists. Kids will be moving, creating and socializing during the activities. This week is free week, with scholarships and pay-whatyou-will options available for all who need them. Those who are interested can enroll online at creativecauldron.org/workshops. htm or email the theater at info@ creativecauldron.org to get started. There are classes for adults as well. Explore the World’s Largest Cave. The Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) in Vietnam is the world’s largest cave, which is over three miles in length and reaches up to 650 feet in height. It was formed over 400 million years ago.

The cave is unique that it even has its own ecosystem and weather patterns that are completely unique to it throughout the world. To see the cave, visit nationalgeographic.com/news-features/sondoong-cave/2/#s=pano62. Visit a 17th-Century English Village. Interested learners can see what life was like for those who lived during the 17th century in rural England. Watch as they tend to their crops, make the basics that we take for granted in butter and prepared meat and see what their homes look like. The village field trip is hosted by the Plimoth Plantation and can be found by going to plimoth.org/ learn/just-kids/virtual-field-trip.

Virtual Museum Tours. Google Arts & Culture has over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world for virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums. The collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and more. Visit travelandleisure.com/ attractions/museums-galleries/ museums-with-virtual-tours to find out more about taking a tour.

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Ken Burnett, F.C.’s 1st-Ever Rec & Parks Chief, Dies Kenneth R. Burnett, age 87, died on April 24, 2020 at the Fraser Health Center (part of The Seabrook of Hilton Head). Ken and his wife of 60 years, Nancy, have been living in South Carolina the past six years. Ken grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia and was a star athlete in both high school and college. At Lynchburg College (now the University of Lynchburg) he lettered in track, basketball and tennis. It was at Lynchburg where he met his future wife, Nancy. In 1962, Ken was hired by the City of Falls Church in Virginia as its first Director of Recreation and Parks. Under his steady leadership he guided the Department through its initial growth, program development, and expansion that has so successfully served residents of all ages from young children to seniors. Ken was largely responsible for construction of the Falls Church Community Center which was completed in 1968. The “Center” quickly became a hub for the City and broader surrounding community. In 2014 it was renamed the Kenneth R. Burnett Building. Ken was responsible for the restoration and opening of the Cherry Hill Farmhouse Museum & Barn, several parks and recreational facilities, a bus trip program, the Farmer’s Market, and several annual events.

Many of the special events he initiated became cornerstones of the Falls Church City social calendar. Some of these are still the largest and most popular annual events the City hosts today, including both the Memorial Day Parade and Festival and the Fall Festival. During his long career of 28 years, he was a beloved figure in the City and served as a role model and mentor to countless young people. Ken worked with regional partners to open the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park (W&OD Trail), now the largest and most commonly toured travel way in Northern Virginia. In 2005 the City of Falls Church honored his achievements by making him the Grand Marshal of the Annual Memorial Day Parade. Ken was inducted into both the Lynchburg Area Sports Hall of Fame and The Lynchburg College Sports Hall of Fame. Ken served in the U.S. Army in the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper and completed nineteen jumps. Ken was the son of Harry Moulton Burnett and Lucile Mary Bowyer Burnett. His two sisters, Doris and his twin, Katherine, preceded him in death as did his beloved son, Jeff. Ken has two nephews, Terrell Sharp (Robin) of Charlotte, North Carolina and Greg Newman (Diane) of Madison

KENNETH BURNETT Heights, Virginia. Along with his wife Nancy, he is survived by his son Bob (Susan) of Washington, D.C.; daughter-in-law Ingrid of Denver; Colorado; and grandchildren Thomas, Jenna, Emily and Grace. Services will be held in Falls Church at a later date. Ken had wonderful care at the Fraser Health Center and the family would like to thank all the employees who cared for him. If you would like to make a contribution in Ken’s name, please send it to the Chiles-Burnett Scholarship at the University of Lynchburg. The address is Office of Advancement 1501 Lakeside Drive Lynchburg, VA 24501 – 3113. Also, contributions may be made to The Seabrook Foundation 300 Woodhaven Drive Hilton Head Island, SC 29928.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, he said, that include a 14-day downward trend in the percentage of overall infections, and a 14-day downward trend in hospitalizations, along with means in place for significantly expanded testing and contact tracing. Shields said that last weekend was not a good one for Virginia in terms of new infections, so the 14-day criteria has not even begun to kick in, and while testing levels in the state are now at 2-3,000 a day, Northam wants them up to 10,000 a day. Shields said it’s been estimated the number of contact tracers needed in Fairfax County is 300. Other criteria include having adequate levels of personal protective equipment and hospital capacity, including staff, in the event a new surge arises from an attempt to open the economy up more. But the budget preliminarily

OK’d for the City of Falls Church for the coming fiscal year is based on what Shields said was a “moderate” versus “extreme” downturn in the economy for the City and the region, and an assessment of how accurate that approach is will be determined by October, since so little data on the economy is now available. Under the current plan, which will be finally OK’d by the Council on May 25, the decline in revenues is set at a minus 2.3 percent of projections for the FY2021 budget before the pandemic hit in mid-March, with proposed reductions of 5 percent, or $2 million, on the City side, and 1.2 percent, or $500,000 on the transfer to the City schools. Under the plan given the preliminary OK Monday, there would be no tax rate increase and no use of the City’s undesignated fund balance (or, reserves). There would be no layoffs on the City or school sides, either, but merit and step increases would be delayed, and 18 unfilled positions on the

City side would remain vacant until December, While the City-side cut of $2 million is higher than the schools’ $500,000, Chief Financial Officer Kiran Bawa noted that over $1 million of the City’s expenses are mandated increases in obligations to WMATA and other regional associations over which it has no control, and minus that, the City’s revenue cut is closer to that for the schools. In response to an inquiry from Council member Letty Hardi, Shields said that demands on the City’s scant relief resources, including rent relief, have been huge and continuing to grow. “We need to know how big that gap is (between requests for help and the City’s ability),” Hardi said. Other than that, however, the focus of the Council discussion was restricted to laments over cuts in neighborhood traffic calming, stormwater and “spot improve-

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Barry, Kaylin, Peppe, Snyder Win in F.C. Council Election

Despite the recent availability of the entire parcel of land known as the Kiessling Tract, there will be no change in the current site plans for the Northern Virginia Graduate Center, according to City officials and Kathleen Moore, project directorfor the grad center.

A stunning development reflecting the frustration of voters with the state of the City of Falls Church’s economy and justestablished 15-cent rise in its tax rate, two anti-City Hall candidates won the Falls Church City Council election with solid third-and fourth-place finishesTuesday.

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ment” resources. The City’s director of public works, Mike Whitfield, provided an update on extensive capital improvement projects either recently completed or continuing to be underway in the City, not including private sector improvements. Whitfield said the City Hall and Mary Riley Styles Public Library projects are progressing, with modifications in the City Hall Council chambers and Office of the Clerk of the Court ongoing, and the demolition effort at the library is now 80 percent completed. The project at N. West and Oak

Street is “99 percent done,” he said, as is the signal timing project on W. Broad. The project at the intersection of Annandale Road and Gundry Dr. is 95 percent done, and work continues at the intersections of Great Falls and N. West, N. Washington at Columbia, S. Washington at Annandale, Jackson at Timber, S. Spring at Poplar, E. Columbia at Van Buren. That includes repaving on Villa Ridge, Greenwich and Great Falls, and work on “primary extensions” on Hillwood Avenue (90 percent done), Railroad and Ellison, signal upgrades at Lincoln and Great Falls, signal cabinet replacements at W. Broad and Little Falls and W. Broad and Virginia, the West End sanitary sewer, the Mustang Alley connection sewer to Haycock Road, and a generator-

powered signal light at Annandale and Maple, and the preparations for the demolition on the Fellows property. The signal malfunction at the Annandale at Maple intersection resulted from an inadvertent severing of an underground power line in the middle of Big Chimneys Park that happened as part of the ongoing improvements to the park. Whitfield said that searches showed there was no line beneath the park, leading to the accident which knocked out the Annandale/ Maple signal lights, and now Dominion Power is seeking an easement from the City to run an underground line at the edge of the park property. The Council provided a preliminary OK for the easement at its meeting Monday by a 7-0 vote.

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