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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. Councilman Sze Fighting Cancer, Mayor Reports Long-serving Falls Church City Council member Dan Sze is fighting esophageal cancer, F.C. Mayor David Tarter reported at the outset of Monday night’s Falls Church City Council work session. Sze was absent from the meeting and left last week’s Council business meeting about halfway through. Sze first served on the F.C. City Council from 2006-2010 and did not run for re-election. But he ran again and won in November 2013 and also in 2017. He was vice-chair of the F.C. Economic Development Authority (2002-2006) and was appointed to the Board of Zoning Appeals in 2013. While on the City Council he chaired the Appointments Committee, served as liaison to the Planning Commission, founded the Economic Development Committee and served on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Climate, Energy and Environmental Policy Committee. A resident of Falls Church since 1988, he concluded three decades of federal service in 2012 dedicated to environmental stewardship while advocating for appropriate, intelligent development. He was with the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy as deputy director of state energy programs, providing interagency liaison and senior advisor functions. Prior to that, he was Director of the Office of Infrastructure and Business Management Systems and from 2000-2005 was the national program manager of Rebuild America, a DOE-sponsored network of state, community and business partnerships focused on energy efficiency and energy technology projects in buildings and infrastructure. During his management, partnerships were involved in two billion square feet of projects and over $3 billion in energy efficiency investments. At the DOE since 1991, Sze has also been involved with oversight and management policy, project management leadership and defense program analysis. He worked for the Department of Defense in procurement, construction management and supervisory engineering positions with the Navy, including a program manager of the Trident Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Georgia. He held a commission as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, playing a key role in the reopening of the U.S. mission in Havana. Sze attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds a Bachelors of Architecture from Howard University and a Masters in Science in Urban Design from Columbia University. He was first registered as an architect in 1982.
Jury Queries to Be Mailed in F.C. The Arlington Circuit Court, which includes the City of Falls Church, will soon begin its annual juror qualification process. Juror questionnaires will be mailed in early August to randomly selected residents of Arlington County and Falls Church City. These questionnaires are used to qualify residents for jury duty which begins Jan. 1, 2021, and ends Dec. 31, 2021. In accordance with state law, questionnaires are distributed annually to a random selection of residents of Arlington County and the City of Falls Church. Recipients are selected from registered voter rolls provided by the State Board of Elections. Jury Commissioners appointed by the court review the questionnaires to determine eligibility for service according to criteria established by the General Assembly. Residents are required to complete and return the questionnaire within 10 days of receipt. They are asked to complete the form online to save resources. If someone is qualified by the court to serve, they could receive a summons in the mail next year with detailed reporting instructions. Failure to respond to the questionnaire or providing incomplete information may result in a resident being summoned to court to complete the form in person.
Beyer Calls for Resignation of DHS Chief U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, issued the following statement Monday following a weekend of civil rights abuses by unidentified federal officers in Portland, Oregon, operating at the direction of Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, and amid reports that similar DHS deployments are expected to begin in Chicago: “Acting Secretary Wolf is overseeing authoritarian abuses that betray our bedrock principles and would horrify our nation’s Founders. These unidentified officers in Portland are unwanted by state and local officials, who have asked them to leave. Their actions plainly violate both the basic purpose of these agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, and the statutory authority which has been used as a pretext for their presence,” Beyer said in the statement. Ordering the occupation of U.S. cities, seeking the escalation of violence, and intentionally risking American lives over peaceful protests and graffiti is unfathomable and unacceptable. Secretary Wolf must resign immediately or be fired.”
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