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Loudoun’s Continuing Evolution

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Development Loudoun’s population remained stable even into the 20th century with

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BY THE NUMBERS 520 square miles 2017 POPULATION: 385,945 PROJECTED 2020 POPULATION: 417,700 AVERAGE WAGE: $59,591 JOBS: 174,224 AVERAGE COMMUTE TIME: 33 minutes

BY RACE: 69.3 percent white; 18.7 percent Asian; 13.7 percent Latino; 7.7 percent black MEDIAN AGE: 35.4

about 20,000 residents. That changed with an act of Congress—the decision to build Dulles Airport on the county’s eastern border. That action brought public sewer service to the county and spurred the first wave of suburban development, when Marvin T. Broyhill Sr. spent $2 million to buy 1,762 acres and built Sterling Park.

Development moved west to the Ashburn area in the 1980s and by the ‘90s Loudoun annually ranked among the fastest growing counties in the nation as more communities were built east of Rt. 15 and in the county’s seven incorporated towns.

Deciding where development goes next and what form it will take is a question county leaders are digging into now. Known as Envision Loudoun, the effort to revise the county’s community planning policies has involved a large-scale citizen outreach effort and works a 26-member panel of experts and civic activists. This winter, the work they’ve accomplished during the past year will be sent to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors for final review, with the final product establishing a vision for Loudoun for generations to come.

Loudoun County has both an official Coat of Arms and a flag.

The county coat of arms, adopted in 1968, was modelled after that of the county’s namesake, John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun.

It was approved by the College of Arms in Loudoun after many years of effort and after making a minor change to Campbell’s coat of arms—changing the spelling of the word “tyme” in Campbell’s motto. The county coat of arms reads “I Byde My Time.”

The county flag was adapted from the coat of arms with nods to the county’s agricultural past.

It has a green, indented edging with white drops suggesting milk. The center of the flag has eight alternating red and white fields, with nine wheat symbols in each white field. The indented or “embattled” edging represents the county’s association with the Monroe Doctrine through President James Monroe, who lived in Loudoun County, at Oak Hill, at the time the doctrine was written.

Loudoun Growing by 950 Residents, 300 Homes Each Month Loudoun County was the sixth fastest growing county in the United States between 2000 and 2010 with its population increasing 84 percent. Between 2010 and 2016 Loudoun County continued to be one of the fastest growing counties, ranking 19th in the nation.

Last year, the county’s population grew by about 950 people each month—31 new residents every day— according to census department estimates.

To keep pace with that growth, Loudoun adds more than 3,000 new residential units every year. In 2016, the county registered 3,253 housing starts.

That was the lowest number since

2011. The peak during the past decade was in 2013, when permits were issued for 4,800 new residential units. Home construction hit a decades-long low in 2010 when fewer than 2,000 permits were issued. Since then, the county has averaged 3,633 new homes annually.

Commercial development also has rebounded since the recession— buoyed in large part by the continue boom of Ashburn’s data center alley.

Last year, permits were issued for 4.4 million square feet of non-residential development, the highest total since 2008. More than 14 million square feet of non-residential has been permitted during the past four years.

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Northern and western Loudoun was settled in the 18th century by ScotsIrish, German and Quaker farming families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. The eastern and southern Loudoun was settled by residents with English roots who established tobacco plantations.

Thus began the contrasting divide that continues to characterize the county. Loudoun has developed as a suburban community in the east, while retaining a rural atmosphere in the west. In the east, crews are working to extend Metrorail’s Silver Line to Ashburn; in the west some 300 miles of roadways remain unpaved (and for the most part residents want them to stay that way). In the east data centers carrying 70 percent of the world’s internet traffic have emerged from former cornfields; in the west wineries and farm breweries stand where dairy farms and orchards once dominated.

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Loudoun County was little more than a Native American crossroads when England’s King Charles II doled out the 5-million-acre Northern Neck of Virginia Proprietary to seven noblemen in 1649. The land stretched from the Potomac to the Rappahannock and, by 1730, was carved into Westmoreland, Stafford and Prince William counties. In 1742, Fairfax County was established.

Fifteen years later, the Virginia House of Burgesses split Fairfax and named the western portion in honor of John Campbell, the fourth earl of Loudoun, a Scottish nobleman who served as commander-in-chief British armed forces in North America and as titular governor of Virginia from 1756 to 1759. He never actually set foot in Loudoun County, however.

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The Board of Supervisors The Loudoun Board of Supervisors has nine members, representing eight election districts and a chairman elected by voters countywide. Supervisors serve four-year terms and all run for office in the same year.

The election districts are adjusted each decade to maintain approximately equal populations; currently, there are two large western districts covering the county’s rural west and the transitional area, and six smaller districts covering Leesburg and the county’s populous east.

In the most recent election in 2015, Loudoun elected its second female chairman at large, its first two black supervisors, and its youngest-ever supervisor. Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) follows only Chairwoman Dale Polen Myers, who served from 1996 to 1999, as female chairman at large. Randall was also the first black woman elected to chair a Board of Supervisors in Virginia history.

The most recent election also saw big turnover on the board; five of the nine supervisors are first-term supervisors. Three supervisors are military veterans.

The board meets at least three times each month except for August. The board meets at 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month, holds a public hearing on the Wednesday of the week following the first meeting, and holds a second business meeting on the Thursday of the week following the public hearing. This is schedule is adjusted around some holidays.

Meetings of the Board of Supervisors are held in the boardroom at the government center at 1 Harrison St. in downtown Leesburg and are open to the public.

The county also televises board meetings on Comcast government channel 23, Verizon FiOS channel 40, and OpenBand channel 40, and webcasts meetings at

loudoun.gov/webcasts.

The board has three standing committees. Board members serve as appointed by the chairwoman on the Finance, Government Services and Operations and Economic Development Committee, the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and the Joint Board/School Board Committee.

Since 2008 supervisors have been paid a $41,200 annual salary. The vice chairman, elected by his colleagues on the board, is paid $45,320. The Chairman makes $50,000.

This year, supervisors narrowly voted to increase salaries of the next board, a 62 percent increase over the current salaries. That pay increase will take effect when the next Board of Supervisors takes office in 2020. Supervisors will be paid $66,826; the vice chairman will be paid $73,363; and the chairman will be paid $81,100.

Thereafter, the next board will receive 2 percent pay increases for each remaining year of their four-year term.

Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall, At Large Phyllis.Randall@ loudoun.gov Chair woman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) began public service with volunteer work in Loudoun County Public Schools. She worked for more than 15 years as a mental health therapist working with substance abusing offenders in an adult detention center.

Randall serves on all three board committees, as well as on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Dulles Area Transportation Association, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Rt. 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission, and the Loudoun County Disability Services Board. She is the current chairman of the Virginia State Board of Corrections.

She has a husband and two college-aged sons. She was born in Denver, CO, and lives in Lansdowne.

Staff aides: Bo Machayo, Bo.Machayo@loudoun.gov Laura TeKroney, Laura.TeKroney@loudoun.gov

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[ C O U N T Y G OV E R N M E N T ] Vice Chairman Ralph M. Buona, Ashburn Ralph.Buona@ loudoun.gov

Staff aide: Dorri O’Brien, Dorri.OBrien@loudoun.gov

Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe, Algonkian Suzanne.Volpe@ loudoun.gov Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) is in her second term in office, as well as her second term as chairwoman of the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee.

She represents the board on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Chesapeake Bay and Water Resources Policy Committee. She also

is the board’s representative on the Loudoun County Disability Services Board and the Affordable Dwelling Unit Advisory Board. She has worked both for the federal government and the private sector, specializing in communications, public affairs, marketing and event planning.

She has previously served on the Loudoun County Library Board of Trustees, the Loudoun Arts Council, the county Commission on Aging, and the Planning Commission, among other postings. She was born in Vienna and lives in Cascades with her husband and daughter.

Staff aide: Josh Fornwalt, Josh.Fornwalt@loudoun.gov

resentatives on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission and represents Loudoun on the Coalition of Loudoun Towns. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Police’s Loudoun-Dulles Lodge #69; the Loudoun County Marine Corps League, Detachment #1205; and the Dulles South Alliance.

A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Buffington grew up in Berryville and this year moved from Brambleton to Purcellville.

Staff aides: Shevaun Hochstetler, Shevaun.Hochstetler@loudoun.gov Rachael Chambers, Rachael.Chambers@loudoun.gov Pamela Keegan, Pamela.Keegan@loudoun.gov

Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr., Blue Ridge

Supervisor Ron A. Meyer Jr., Broad Run

Tony.Buffington@ loudoun.gov Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr. (R-Blue Ridge) works in federal law enforcement in Washington, DC. He serves on the Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee, is one of Loudoun’s two rep-

Supervisor Ron A. Meyer Jr. (R-Broad Run) serves on the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee and represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’

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Vice Chairman Ralph M. Buona (R-Ashburn) is in his second term as the Ashburn District supervisor. A former Air Force captain, he concluded his service at Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, where he managed software development related to early warning missile defense systems. He has worked at Telos Corporation since 1984 and is now the company’s senior vice president of corporate business development.

He serves on the board’s Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee, as well as the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Climate, Energy and Environment Policy Committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Planning Coordination Advisory Committee, and is the board’s representative on the Loudoun County Fiscal Impact Committee, the Other Post-Employment Benefits Investment Committee and the Length of Service Awards Program Committee.

Buona has served on the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce board of directors since 2005, and is active in trade organizations including the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, the Air Force Association, the Navy League, the Army Association, and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.

He was born in Ashtabula, OH, and lives in Ashburn’s Carisbrooke neighborhood with his wife. He has two children and three grandchildren.

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The board’s youngest-ever Loudoun supervisor, Meyer was elected at 26 years old. He manages a millennial-focused conservative website, Red Alert Politics, for MediaDC, the parent company of the Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard. Before that, he ran his own public relations firm in Northern Virginia, Springboard Media Strategies LLC, and was a spokesman for the conservative nonprofit Young America’s Foundation in Herndon.

Meyer lives with his wife and daughter at One Loudoun in Ashburn.

Staff aides: Judy McCary, Judy.McCary@loudoun.gov Andrew Mowry, Andrew.Mowry@loudoun.gov

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Supervisor Geary M. Higgins, Catoctin

is in his second term as the Catoctin District supervisor. He serves as cochair of the Joint Board of Supervisors/School Board Committee and is a member of the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee. He represents Loudoun County on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Human Services and Public Safety Committee, the Potomac Watershed Roundtable, and serves as the board’s representative on the Loudoun County Agricultural District Advisory Committee and the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee.

He is the vice president of labor relations for NECA Inc. and is an arbitrator for the Industrial Relations Council. He previously served on the Loudoun County School Board and is a member of the Loudoun Museum Board of Trustees.

Higgins was born in Baltimore, MD, and grew up in Montgomery County, MD. He and his wife live near Waterford and have three daughters and three grandsons.

Staff aides: Stacy Carey, Stacy.Carey@loudoun.gov Mikayla Feil, Mikayla.Feil@loudoun.gov

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Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau, Dulles Matt.Letourneau@loudoun. gov Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) is a second-term supervisor and chairman of the board Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee.

He serves as vice chairman representing Virginia on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments board of directors, represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, and is chairman of the Rt. 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission.

Letourneau is senior director of communications and media for the Institute for 21st Century Energy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the Republican communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and press secretary to U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici (R) of New Mexico.

He is originally from Shrewsbury, MA. He and his wife and four children live in Little River Commons near South Riding.

Staff aides: Monica Filyaw, Monica.Filyaw@loudoun.gov Tom Parker, Tom.Parker@loudoun.gov

Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd, Leesburg Kristen.Umstattd@loudoun.gov Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) is serving her first term on the county board. She serves on the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee, and is one of the board’s representatives on the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee and on the Family Services Board.

She has previously served as president, Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions; chair, Northern Virginia Regional Commission; Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; Northern Virginia Transportation Coordinating Council; Dulles Area Transportation Association; chair, Towns’ Association of Northern Virginia; Coalition of Loudoun Towns Advisory Committee; Loudoun Hospital Executive Council; trustee, Journey Through Hallowed Ground; and Commander, American Legion Post 34.

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Staff aide: Valerie Suzdak, Valerie.Suzdak@loudoun.gov

Supervisor Koran T. Saines, Sterling

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Loudoun County’s Constitutional Officers; from left: Sheriff Mike Chapman, Commissioner of the Revenue Bob Wertz, Clerk of the Circuit Court Gary Clemens, Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman, and Treasurer Roger Zurn.

The county’s Board of Supervisors grabs most of the headlines, but there are five elected constitutional officers who also have a big impact on the county’s quality of life.

They are elected by voters countywide and serve somewhat independently of the general county government, although their office staffing, expenditures and revenues are included in the general county budget. Each officer serves a four-year term, except for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, who serves an eight-year term.

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A former Naval Reserve lieutenant, she joined the Central Intelligence Agency after leaving the Naval Reserve to translate Soviet naval documents into English. She served on the Leesburg Town Council from 1992 to 2016.

She served as Leesburg mayor between 2002 and 2016, when she resigned to take office as county supervisor. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she and her husband and daughter now live in Leesburg. She and her husband practice law in Leesburg.

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Supervisor Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling) serves on the board’s Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Manpower Consortium Workforce Investment Board. He also serves as one of Loudoun’s representatives on the Rt. 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission and is one of the board’s representatives on the Family Services Board.

He works in human resources at Washington Gas. He has previously served as an election officer, including as chief election officer in 2014.

Saines was born in Fairfax and attended Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He and his son live in Chatham Green.

Staff aides: Matthew Leslie, Matthew.Leslie@loudoun.gov Jacqueline Pujol, Jacqueline.Pujol@loudoun.gov

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[ C O U N T Y G OV E R N M E N T ] Clerk of the Circuit Court Gary Clemens was first elected as the Clerk of the Circuit Court in 2000 as the first Republican to hold the office. He is in his third eight-year term. The clerk serves as the recorder of deeds Gary Clemens and probate judge, issues marriage licenses and is the official court administrator for all civil and criminal court cases. The clerk’s office creates and maintains all court files and records, prepares court orders and jury lists, contacts jurors and issues summons and court processes. The office has a staff of 468 full-time equivalent personnel and a $4.4 million budget.

This office is also projected to create $18.1 million in revenues in Fiscal Year 2018.

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Commissioner of the Revenue Robert Wertz has worked for the county for almost 25 years, including as the Commissioner of the Revenue since 2003.

The Republican took over following the retirement of Kitty Ashby, a Robert Wertz Democrat, who held the post from 1985 to 2003. The Commissioner of the Revenue is the chief tax assessing officer in the county, responsible for assessing real estate, individual and business tangible personal property, machinery and tools, business licenses, short-term rental, transient occupancy, public service corporation, and bank franchise taxes. The commissioner also provides state income tax assistance and administers the tax relief program for the elderly and disabled.

The commissioner’s office has a staff of 69 full-time equivalent positions and a $7.2 million budget.

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Commonwealth’s Attorney James Plowman has served as Loudoun’s Commonwealth’s Attorney since 2003.

His office represents the people of Virginia in prosecuting criminal cases, ranging from the most James Plowman serious felonies, including murder, rape, and robbery to misdemeanors and violations of local ordinances, including traffic offenses.

Plowman oversees a staff of 36 full-time equivalent positions and a $3.9 million budget.

Sheriff Mike Chapman is serving his second term as county sheriff. The office provides all law enforcement services, including investigating crimes, pursuing offenders and making arrests. The

sheriff also maintains the local jail, manages other local corrections programs and transports criminal defendants to and from corrections facilities.

The office provides courthouse secuMike Chapman rity, serves legal papers, summons jurors and witnesses, and executes court judgments. The office includes 795 full-time equivalent positions and an $88.8 million budget.

Treasurer H. Roger Zurn is the county’s longest serving constitutional officer, first elected to the post in 1996 after representing the Sterling District on the Board of Roger Zurn Supervisors. The treasurer is the chief financial officer for the county, collecting taxes and local fees and making payments on behalf of the local government. The office is responsible for all forms of revenue that come to the locality including taxes, permit fees and fines. The treasurer also manages the investment of local funds and maintains records of local finances. The office includes 50 full-time equivalent positions and a $5.8 million budget.

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COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE 703-777-0260 cor@loudoun.gov Leesburg Office 1 Harrison St. SE First Floor Leesburg, VA 20175

Administrative Office: 703-777-0407 803 Sycolin Road SE,| Leesburg, VA 20175 TREASURER'S OFFICE Phone: 703-777-0280 taxes@loudoun.gov

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The Town of Leesburg operates under the council-manager form of government, which divides responsibilities between an elected mayor and Town Council and an appointed town manager. The council determines town policy, adopts all ordinances and resolutions, sets the annual tax rates and adopts an annual budget based on a staff-prepared draft. The town manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of town affairs, implementing the Town Council’s policies, and hiring a staff to assist in that work.

AT A GLANCE: POPULATION: 47,872 HOUSEHOLDS: 15,673 MEDIAN AGE: 33.8 MAYOR: Kelly Burk COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Suzanne Fox, Ron Campbell, Tom Dunn, Hugh Forsythe, Marty Martinez, Ken Reid COUNCIL MEETINGS: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, with work sessions held the Monday night before each business meeting STIPEND: $16,200 mayor; $15,600 council member TOWN MANAGER: Kaj Dentler For more information, visit leesburgva.gov.

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Suzanne Fox, Vice Mayor

The Leesburg Town Council has seven members. The mayor serves a two-year term, while all other council members are elected for four-year terms. Council member terms are staggered, with three seats filled each election cycle. Elections occur in November of even-numbered years. Council members are paid an annual stipend of $15,600. The mayor is paid $16,200 per year.

Email: sfox@leesburgva.gov

Kelly Burk, Mayor Email: kburk@leesburgva.gov Kelly Burk is serving her first term as Leesburg mayor. Burk was first elected to the Town Council in 2004 and, three years later, she was elected as the Leesburg District representative to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. She served on the county board from 2008 to 2011. She re-joined the Town Council following an April 2012 special election, and was re-elected to a new four-year term in 2014. She was elected to a two-year mayoral term last November.

Burk represents the town on the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Advisory Committee, and Virginia Municipal League’s Human Development and Education Committee.

A Leesburg resident since 1979, Burk was a special education teacher with Loudoun County Public Schools until her retirement in 2014. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from George Washington University and a master’s degree in middle school curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. She is a past president of the Loudoun Education Association and served on the board of directors of the Virginia Education Association from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, the Loudoun Commission on Women honored her as the Woman of the Year for Education and Training. She and her husband, Larry, have two adult sons and one grandson.

Suzanne Fox was elected to the Town Council in November 2014, for a fouryear term beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

She was elected vice mayor by her peers earlier this year.

Fox is the council›s representative to VML›s Finance Committee. She also serves on Loudoun County’s Court House Grounds and Facilities Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Brigham Young University.

Fox is the owner or co-owner of several wedding-related businesses: Legacy Weddings, a wedding planning/ coordinating business; Beacon Hill Manor, a wedding venue in Loudoun County; and Weddings on Wirt Street, a wedding venue in downtown Leesburg which she owns and operates with her husband, Bill. She is also a civil celebrant. She and her family, which includes three adult daughters, moved to Leesburg in 2003.

Fernando “Marty” Martinez Email: mmartinez@leesburgva.gov Marty Martinez was elected to his first term on Town Council in May 2002 and served as vice mayor from July 2004 to June 2006. He is serving his fourth, fouryear council term.

Martinez represents the council on VML’s General Laws Committee and the Transit Advisory Board. Before his election to council, he served on the Loudoun County Parks and Recreation Commission, as well as the Loudoun County Community Services Advisory Board. Originally from California, Martinez is a U.S. Air Force veteran. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer science from Portland State University.

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[ L E E SBU R G ] TOWN COUNCIL FROM PAGE 10 for the Federal Aviation Administration and is employed by SAIC. He founded Heritage High School Project Grad, and helped to co-found the Boys and Girls Club of Loudoun County and La Voz, a Hispanic advocacy group. He serves as the vice chairman on the board of directors for the Paxton Campus, which is a full-service organization for children with special needs. He has also been appointed by the governor to serve on the Aerospace Advisory Council. He has lived in Leesburg with his wife, Doris, and children since 1993. Martinez has five children and five grandchildren.

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Email: tdunn@leesburgva.gov Tom Dunn was first elected to the Town Council in 2008, and is serving his third, fouryear term.

Dunn serves as one of the town’s two members of the joint town and county Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He also served a four-year term on the Loudoun County Planning Commission as the Leesburg District representative from 2011-2015. Prior to being elected to the council, Dunn

served on the Leesburg Planning Commission and the Leesburg Economic Development Commission for a combined nine years.

Dunn holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Mary Washington College. He is a Certified Planning Commissioner and has 16 years’ experience in mortgage banking. He is currently the president of VCR Inc., a marketing company he founded. Dunn was recently certified as an in-home special needs service provider. He formerly served as an Officer with the U.S. Army Combat Engineers for eight years. Dunn has been and continues to be an active community volunteer, having held various volunteer positions with the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Little League, youth football, and Ball’s Bluff PTO. He directed youth summer camps at Morven Park, Oatlands and the Loudoun Museum and has volunteered as a tour guide at Balls Bluff Battlefield.

Dunn has been a Leesburg resident since 1998, and has three children.

Kenneth D. “Ken” Reid Email: kreid@ leesburgva.gov Ken Reid was most recently elected to the Town Council last November. He was first elected to the council in 2006, and re-elected in

2010. In November 2011, he was elected to represent the Leesburg District for a four-year term on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. He rejoined the council this year, after winning a new four-year council term.

Reid represents the council on NVTA’s Planning Coordination Advisory Committee, and VML’s Transportation Committee. By profession, he is the owner of Washington Information Source Co., a publishing and distribution business located in Leesburg. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Reid and his wife, Lynn, have been residents of Leesburg since 2002. They are parents to college-age twins, James and Lara. He is a member of CHABAD Synagogue in Herndon.

Ronald “Ron” Campbell Email: rcampbell@leesburgva.gov Ron Campbell was elected to his first Town Council term last November. Prior to his election to council, he served on the Leesburg Technology and Communications Commission and the Leesburg Environmental Commission. He also served on two Virginia state task forces on sexual violence, one

dealing with institutions of higher education and one with K-12 schools, led by then Lt Governor Don Beyer.

Campbell represents the council on VML’s Community and Economic Development Committee. He is also a member of the Loudoun County Criminal Justice Board, the Loudoun County NAACP, and Leesburg Daybreak Rotary.

Campbell has a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Heidelberg University, and a master’s degree in counseling, human services and guidance from Montclair State University. In addition, he has completed doctoral coursework in human sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania. He became a Certified Planning Commissioner in May. Campbell worked in higher education administration for over 27 years, including as the associate vice president for student development and athletics at the University of Minnesota.

In 2000, he established his own business development consulting company, College Business Concepts, LLC. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the CEO for the National Association of College and University Auxiliary Services in Charlottesville.

Campbell is an active member of Holy & Whole Life Changing Ministries International Church in Lansdowne. Leesburg residents since 2001, Campbell and his wife Barbara have an active family life with four children and six grandchildren.

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[ L E E SBU R G ] Email: hforsythe@leesburgva.gov Hugh Forsythe was appointed to the Town Council in January to fill the council seat vacated by Mayor Kelly Burk upon her election as mayor in November. He will serve on the council until the winner of a November special election is sworn in.

Forsythe is one of the town’s two representatives on the joint town and county Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He also represents the council on VML’s Environmental Quality Committee.

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Forsythe serves on the board of Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers, and has served on the planning committee for the annual Leesburg Airshow. He and his wife, Judy, have lived in Leesburg for 20 years.

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[ OU R T OW N S ] Hamilton Hamilton’s history dates to the native American Indian era, before European settlers moved in in the 1730s. The settlement was first known as Harmony.

The town changed its name to Hamilton Store, after store owner Charles Bennett Hamilton—later simplified to Hamilton when a post office was established in his building. A road built in the early 1830s connecting Leesburg and Snickersville (today’s Bluemont) triggered the town’s first growth spurt.

Hamilton came into its own after the Civil War, with the advent of the railroad from Alexandria in 1868, along the future route of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. The railroad, later extended to Purcellville, Round Hill and Bluemont, brought tourists seeking relief from the summer heat and humidity in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD. That influx brought prosperity to those towns, as visitors flocked to the hotels, boarding houses and stores that sprang up to accommodate them.

Hamilton prospered. In contrast to today’s relatively small commercial life, the town had a dance hall, two newspapers, a butcher’s shop, men’s clothing store, a broom factory, a hat shop, a dentist, two hardware stores, livery stable—even a flat racecourse— and a one-and-a-half-mile boardwalk throughout the town.

A fire in 1926 devastated the commercial center of town. The rebuilt commercial area along Colonial Highway today contains the town office and several stores.

AT A GLANCE: POPULATION: 625 HOUSEHOLDS: 221 MEDIAN AGE: 43 MAYOR: David R. Simpson COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Kenneth C. Wine, Mathew L. Clark, Craig Green, Rebecca Jones, Michael E. Snyder, John D. Unger COUNCIL MEETINGS: 7 p.m. second Monday of each month at the Town Office, 53 E. Colonial Hwy. STIPEND: mayor $15,000 per year; councilmembers $1,200 each per year.

TOWN MANAGER: None For more information and details of town taxes, fees and utility rates go to town.hamilton.va.us.

The fire and the arrival of automobiles caused a sharp drop off in the summer tourism trade. Today, Hamilton is a pleasant, relaxed residential community, with a small town park popular with young families.

—Margaret Morton

Hillsboro Boasting a pristine assemblage of 18th and 19th century stone architecture, the Quaker settlement of Hillsboro long has been one of the smallest towns in Virginia. That changed this year, when a boundary line adjustment tripled the town’s size to 164 acres.

Initially known as “The Gap,” it had its recorded beginning in 1746, although settlers had arrived earlier.

It is nestled between two hills on the busy turnpike (today’s Rt. 9) between Alexandria to the Shenandoah Valley.

In pre-Civil War times, the road helped fuel the town’s economic prosperity; today the town’s Main Street is filled with commuters to the Northern Virginia job market.

Once a flourishing mill town, Hillsboro experienced an economic decline during and after the Civil War, especially during The Burning Raid of November 1864 that destroyed numerous farms and buildings in Loudoun Valley. Union Gen. Philip Sheridan led the campaign to eradicate Confederate partisan leader, Col. John Singleton Mosby, and stamp out his means of support. The town also suffered from the building of the railroad along Rt. 7 farther to the south, bypassing Hillsboro.

Today, Hillsboro is the center of a thriving rural industry, surrounded by bed and breakfast inns, wineries and breweries. Following the annexation, town leaders have embarked on a major effort to upgrade Hillsboro’s utility

AT A GLANCE POPULATION: 125 HOUSEHOLDS: 45 MEDIAN AGE: 52 MAYOR: Roger Vance COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Belle Ware, John Dean, Bill Johnston, Amy Marasco, Steve Walczak STIPEND: None COUNCIL MEETINGS: 7 p.m., third Tuesday of each month at Town Hall, 36966 Charles Town Pike TOWN MANAGER: None Find more information at hillsborovirginia.org.

system and construct traffic calming and streetscape improvements on Rt. 9.

The town holds its elections in November of odd-numbered years, and, following a long tradition, selects its council members and mayor entirely by write-in ballot.

—Margaret Morton

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Of all the western Loudoun towns, Lovettsville is the one that most strongly emphasizes its original descendants—a group of 60 German families of the Reformed Church fleeing strife in their Palatine homeland who had emigrated to England’s American colonies.

In the early 1730s, these immigrants pushed south from Pennsylvania into what became northern Loudoun County when it achieved county status in 1757. Their numbers swelled about 30 years later when a group of German Lutherans arrived, establishing the predecessor of the present-day New Jerusalem Lutheran Church.

Led by Elder William Wenner, the German farming families soon established a prosperous “German Settlement.” The names of some of those original settlers continue to be reflected in various place names around the town.

To this day, Lovettsville celebrates that heritage, most notably with its annual Oktoberfest and the distinctive architecture of its new Town Square center that features a clock tower and plans for a Glockenspiel.

The town took the name of Lovettsville, named after David Lovett, a descendant of one of the original families, who sold quarter-acre lots that started a building boom in the 1820s.

During the Civil War, Lovettsville and the neighboring Quaker community of Waterford, were strongly pro-Union— an unpopular stance in Confederate Loudoun. Men of the two communities formed the Loudoun Rangers, an independent cavalry unit under the com-

As its name suggests, Middleburg was a half-way, “middle-town” location on the Ashby Gap trade route (today’s Rt. 50) between Alexandria and Winchester. Founded in trade, it remains that way today—even though the numerous mills that surrounded it up to the Civil War are gone, and the former thriving agricultural trade has given way to high-end boutiques, retail stores and many restaurants and cafés.

The town was laid out by American Revolutionary War Lt. Col. Leven Powell, who purchased land in 1763 from George Washington’s cousin, Joseph Chinn.

Known internationally for its equestrian offerings, the horse has not always been king in Middleburg. It was not until the early decades of the 1900s that the town began to recover from the Civil War, establishing horses as the dominant aspects of its future history.

Wealthy New York foxhunters, steeplechasers and sportsmen looking for land from which to pursue their favorite sports came south. Soon, other northern visitors began buying large tracts of land around Middleburg and businesses grew up to support the area’s growing equine industry.

That tradition is continued in the National Sporting Library and Museum, whose research center for equine and field sport is considered one of the finest collections in the country.

The town is a sturdy commercial center—its former predominantly rural trading outlets having given way

AT A GLANCE POPULATION: 1,985 HOUSEHOLDS: 574 MEDIAN AGE: 32 MAYOR: Robert Zoldos II COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Tiffaney Carder, Kimberly Allar, Robert Gentile, Nate Fontaine, James McIntyre, Mike Senate COUNCIL MEETINGS: 7:30 second and fourth Thursdays at 6 E. Pennsylvania Ave. STIPEND: Mayor $8,000 per year; councilmembers $2,000 per year INTERIM TOWN MANAGER: Samuel Finz For more information and details of town taxes, fees and utility rates go to lovettsvilleva.gov.

mand of Waterford miller Samuel C. Means, and the only Union cavalry unit to be formed in what is now Virginia.

Lovettsville is experiencing a building boom, with new subdivisions springing over the past two decades, attracting many young families drawn by its rural location, the scenic views, and the proximity of the MARC train just across the Potomac River in Brunswick, MD. — Margaret Morton

AT A GLANCE POPULATION: 807 HOUSEHOLDS: 350 MEDIAN AGE: 47 MAYOR: Betsy A. Davis COUNCIL: Vice Mayor C. Darlene Kirk, J. Kevin Daly, Kevin Hazard, Trowbridge Littleton, Philip M. Miller, Peter Leonard-Morgan, and Mark T. Snyder.

COUNCIL MEETINGS: 6 p.m. second Thursday of each month, work session on fourth Thursday at Town Office, 10 W. Marshall St. STIPENDS: Mayor $500/month; councilmembers $200/month TOWN ADMINISTRATOR: Martha Semmes Find more information on town taxes, fees and utility rates at middleburgva.gov.

to specialty shops that support the surrounding area and draw numerous visitors. Those include the Red Fox Inn, originally established in 1728 as Chinn’s Ordinary that is cited as the oldest continually operated inn in the country, and the 168-room Salamander Resort and Spa. —Margaret Morton

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[ OU R T OW N S ] vival of downtown stores and the town government acquired the Bush Tabernacle and Fireman’s Field, and the former Train Station—all now placed under protective easements.

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Purcellville After the Civil War, Purcellville began its rise to prominence as the agricultural hub of western Loudoun. It is still the agricultural and trade center of that portion of the county.

The town’s first known settler was James Dillon, who arrived in 1764. His name is commemorated in the townowned Dillon Woods at Fireman’s Field. Ordinaries were established, followed by a store and post office opened

by Valentine Vernon Purcell, whose name was chosen in 1953 to be the town’s official name.

A turnpike linked Purcellville to Alexandria in the east and Winchester in the west. But the most significant factor in its post-war growth was the arrival of rail service that began prior to the war, and was extended westward in 1874.

The growing settlement was incorporated in 1908, and town leaders, all prominent businessmen, had definite ideas of what they wanted—and did not want—in their community. A peek into the early Town Council minutes gives an interesting glimpse into that early 20th century mindset.

The town was hit by disastrous fires between 1900 and 1914, destroying most of the wooden structures in the downtown business district on 21st Street. Nichols Hardware, the town’s best-known store, has operated in town for more than 100 years.

In the latter part of the 20th century, the town saw big changes. The railroad

AT A GLANCE POPULATION: 9,132 HOUSEHOLDS: 2,831 MEDIAN AGE: 34 MAYOR: Kwasi A. Fraser COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Karen Jimmerson, Chris Bledsoe, Ryan Cool, Kelli Grim, Doug McCollum, Nedim Ogelman COUNCIL MEETINGS: 7 p.m. second and fourth Tuesdays at Town Hall, 221 S. Nursery Ave. STIPEND: mayor $7,025 per annum; councilmembers $6,050 each per annum INTERIM TOWN MANAGER: Alex Vanegas Find information on town taxes, fees and utility rates at purcellvilleva.gov.

ceased running in the late 1960s. Agriculture ceased to be the main plank in its economy as more and more residents left the farms for employment elsewhere. But the town experienced a huge spurt of population growth in the early 2000s, tapering off over the past few years.

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Settlers began arriving in what would become the Round Hill area in the 1730s. It got its name from a 910foot knob west of town, named Round Top. At that time, Woodgrove to the north was the area’s main community. In the 1830s, when the Leesburg and Snicker’s Gap Turnpike was built, things began to change. In March 1858, the U.S. Postal Department opened its Round Hill post office and storeowner Guilford C. Gregg was appointed the first postmaster.

As it did for Hamilton and Purcellville, the arrival of the railroad in 1875 gave a boost to Round Hill, bringing many tourists from the steamy Washington, DC, metropolitan area to the cool of the hillside town, enjoying the hospitality of its many boarding houses. By 1900, when the Southern Railroad took over the line, Round Hill hit its stride, incorporating that same year.

Concerns of the early Town Councils focused on streets, finances and public sanitation—the latter incurring strong displeasure against pig pens, overflowing privies, manure piles and public drunkenness—in large measure to not offend or harm the lucrative summer tourist trade.

For today’s motorists, it may be mind-boggling to see that in 1915, the Town Council mandated that the speed limit should be a racy 12 miles per hour.

Round Hill is best known for two highly successful ventures just west of town. First, Hill High Orchards, where the Slater family grew apples and peaches on the rocky ridge overlooking Rt. 7 and sold the fruit and pies at its country store, recognizable to everyone by the iconic covered wagon by the side of road.

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AT A GLANCE POPULATION: 590 HOUSEHOLDS: 236 MEDIAN AGE: 38 MAYOR: Scott Ramsey COUNCIL: Vice Mayor Mary Anne Graham, Janet Heston, Mike Hummel, Frederick Lye, Michael Minshall, Christopher Prack COUNCIL MEETINGS: 7:30 p.m. first and third Thursdays at Town Office, 23 Main St. STIPEND: None TOWN MANAGER: Buster Nicholson Find more information, including town taxes, fees and utility rates, at roundhillva.org.

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by U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd. The residential community surrounding the course was developed on the hillside land by Bob Lewis and his partner Bruce Brownell in the early 1990s.

Surrounded by large residential communities, the incorporated town is far smaller than it appears. Most homes lie outside the town limits.

That could soon change. Town leaders are examining expansion options that could add more than 200 homes in the short-term and one day incorporate 1,000 more that are currently served by the town’s water and sewer systems.

—Margaret Morton

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J. Hamilton Lambert Perhaps no single individual has had a view of Northern Virginia’s rapid growth than J. Hamilton Lambert.

The Leesburg native served as Fairfax County’s county executive from 1980 to 1990. His career started as an assistant map maker for the county and, by the time he retired, he had earned numerous awards for his leadership and vision in public governance and the field of education. In 1990, he became the executive director of the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation, a position he holds today.

Growing up, Lambert remembers Loudoun as a farming community where life centered around dairy cows and horses, and where churches and sports teams were the best social scenes. Looking back, he points to the 1954 decision to consolidate the county’s four high schools—Aldie, Lees-

the region. “Don’t Fairfax Loudoun” was a rallying cry on the bumpers of cars as well as the county board’s meeting room. “It cost them hundreds of millions,” Lambert said.

Looking ahead, Lambert sees Loudoun continuing to change, continuing its decades-long evolution.

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Mattie Lassiter moved to Loudoun with her family in 1948 and has dedicated her 81 years to making the community better. Her civic focus has long been on service to seniors, mainly through the Loudoun County Commission on Aging.

That work culminated with the opening of the Carver Center. Formerly a school for black children in Purcellville, Lasstiter was part of the tenacious “Three M’s.”—along with Mack Brownell and Martha Bernhardt— who helped persuade the county board to convert the building to a community center that specializes in seniors’ activities and respite care. “We didn’t think we’d get it,” Lasstier said of that vote in their favor.

Growing in a time when Loudoun schools and much of her small town was racially segregated, Lassiter said the changes in recent years have been remarkable. Purcellville was the first Loudoun town to hire a black police chief—Darryl C. Smith, who has since retired—and then became the first Loudoun municipality to elect a black resident to serve as mayor. Kwasi A. Fraser is serving his second two-year term.

Looking ahead, she’d like to see a better balance to the growth that has been occurring around Loudoun’s towns. “We pay a big price for ‘progress;’ it takes away a lot of beauty and serenity,” she said.

burg, Lincoln and Lovettsville—at the new Loudoun County High School in Leesburg as an early challenge. No one knew how the students from far-flung areas of the county would react to the change. It worked out well, especially for the school’s undefeated football team, of which Lambert was a member.

While many county leaders have bemoaned Loudoun’s rapid growth, Lambert said that anti-development sentiments in the 1970s and ’80s hurt the county. Boards of Supervisors from those years pushed no growth policies and withdrew from much of the development planning efforts that were taking place in other jurisdictions around

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After 22 years as mayor of Lovettsville, Elaine Walker offers a bit of advice to current county leaders: “We need to take care of the land—they’re not making it anymore, my father used to say.”

Elaine Walker When it comes to town political and municipal governance, there isn’t much that Elaine Walker hasn’t seen.

The 79-year-old Lovettsville native served on the Town Council for 32 years, 22 of them as mayor.

She got her start in community service in 1968 as a member of the Lovettsville Rescue Squad Auxiliary. In 1970, she was appointed by the mayor to the committee to create what to-

day is the Loudoun Museum. She was elected to the Town Council in 1980 and mayor starting in 1990. Although she retired in 2012, she remains active in town affairs.

Two topics come to mind when Walker is asked about the most significant event or political decisions that have shaped the county. First, was the construction of Dulles Airport, which eventually spurred business growth and residential development in the rural county. Second, was integration.

“For elections, we had different books for white voters and colored voters,” she recalled. But, she said, race relations were never a problem in town.

Of the changes she’s seen in Loudoun, Walker is marveled most by advances in communication. “When I was growing up, we had no cell phones.

We had a switchboard and we had three-digit telephone numbers.” Back then you picked up the phone and told the operator the name of the person you wanted to call. “Now, you ask Siri,” Walker said.

Advances in transportation also have been important. “We had lots of dirt roads and we only had two-lane roads for such a long time,” she said. While Lovettsville is still served by two-lane roads, Walker has witnessed Rt. 28’s transformation from two lanes to eight, and the construction of the Dulles Greenway through former farms in central Loudoun, among many other projects.

Asked to offer advice to today’s community leaders, Walker looks back to her work on the Board of Supervisors-appointed Rural Task Force that authored the landmark 1998 report, “The 200,000-Acre Solution, A Rural Economic Development Plan.” The document laid the policy framework that promoted the growth of the county’s wine and equestrian industries at a time when rural land was being converted to subdivisions at a rapid rate. “I think we need to preserve as much of the land as possible,” Walker said. “We need to take care of the land—they’re not making it anymore, my father used to say.”

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The senior statesman of Loudoun’s political scene is Charles L. Waddell.

Now 85, Waddell moved to the county in 1960 and lived in the Broad Run Farms neighborhood as Loudoun’s first wave of development, Sterling Park, was underway.

He worked as a customer relations executive for American Airlines at the newly opened Dulles Airport. He was a founding member of the Potomac Baptist Church in CountrySide, Lower Loudoun Little League, and the Sterling Jaycees.

He also took an interest in politics and in 1963 was elected chairman of the Loudoun County Democratic Committee. In 1967, Waddell was elected to the Board of Supervisors.

After one four-year term in the local legislature, he was elected to the state senate in 1971 and served there for 27 years. He stepped down to accept appointment as the commonwealth’s deputy secretary of Transportation in Gov. Jim Gilmore’s administration.

legal maneuvering that ended in 1978 with the county board approving a compromise plan that allowed 2,500 homes. That’s today’s CountrySide neighborhood.

Will today’s supervisors draw the line on development? “I’m pessimistic that there are leaders in this county willing to embrace that philosophy,” Waddell said.

Longtime state senator Charles L. Waddell considers Dulles Airport the most significant political decision in Loudoun County’s history.

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When asked to point to the most significant event or political decision for Loudoun County, Waddell answers quickly: Dulles Airport. “When President Eisenhower decided to locate an international airport in Loudoun County, from that point on, it was ‘Katie bar the door,’” Waddell said.

The airport created a new business anchor—an economic engine set amid cornfields and dairy farms. It also brought the Potomac Interceptor sewer line, which opened eastern Loudoun for suburban development and laid the path for the county’s future growth.

Back to the Future When asked about the most surprising change he has seen in Loudoun County during the past six decades, Waddell cites today’s booming wine industry and continued agricultural innovations. Loudoun was still a rural and agricultural county when he moved here from Georgia. Over the decades, dairy farms and orchards were converted to housing subdivisions from Ashburn to Round Hill.

But agriculture has rebounded in a big way with the growth of vineyards, farm breweries and artisan farm operations.

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Looking Ahead: Say Whoa Waddell says the biggest challenge facing today’s political leaders is not a new one: Getting a handle on growth.

For Waddell, that effort goes back to his time on the Board of Supervisors.

In 1970, the board denied a rezoning for a 1,270-acre development planned

by Levitt & Sons—that would clear the way for approximately 4,500 units, mostly multifamily apartments. Waddell recalled the reaction of fellow Supervisor Jim Brownell at the time: “It’s time to say whoa.”

That denial vote led to a decade of

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Loudoun County School Board Loudoun’s nine-member School Board oversees the county’s 81,000-student school system. Board members are paid a salary of $20,000 per year and the chairman is paid $22,000. They serve four-year terms, and their current terms ends Dec. 31, 2019.

The board holds regular business meetings at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the school administration office, 21000 Education Court in Ashburn. Meetings can be watched live at lcps.org/ page/140009. Members of the public can email the full board at lcsp@lcps. org or email individual board members.

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Jeff Morse, Chairman Dulles District Phone: 571-420-2243 Email: jeff.morse@lcps.org Jeff Morse is a 15-year resident of South Riding and is in his second term on the School Board. He served on active duty in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, retiring as a comJeff Morse mander in 2006.

He is a lead associate for Booz Allen Hamilton, man-

aging and procuring technology and services for the federal government.

In January, his colleagues on the board unanimously elected him chairman. He serves on the board’s Finance and Facilities Committee, the Joint Board of Supervisors/School Board Committee, and the Ad hoc Committee on the Academies of Loudoun.

He is also the board’s liaison for the Loudoun Education Foundation and the Washington Area Boards of Education.

His wife, Karen, works as a kindergarten assistant in Loudoun County Public Schools. The couple has three children; two attend Loudoun public schools and one attends Virginia Tech.

Brenda Sheridan, Vice Chairwoman Sterling District Phone: 571-233-0307 E-mail: brenda.sheridan@lcps.org Brenda Sheridan is serving her second year as vice chairwoman and her seventh year on the board.

She is chairwoman of the board’s Legislative and Policy Committee and serves on the Charter

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Sheridan is a 19-year resident of Sterling and is in her second full term as a School Board member. She was appointed to the seat in 2011 to finish out a term of a previous board member, before being elected the following year.

She and her husband have two children; one attending Christopher Newport University and one attending the College of William & Mary.

Eric DeKenipp Catoctin District Phone: 571-291-5685 Email: eric.dekenipp@lcps.org Eric DeKenipp is in his second year on the School Board. He was sworn in last year after Jennifer Bergel declined to run again after three terms serving the district.

Eric DeKenipp He serves as chairman of the board’s Finance and Facilities Committee, Communications and Out-

reach Committee, Human Resources and Talent Development Committee and the Joint Board of Supervisors/ School Board Committee. He is also the board’s liaison on the School Business Partnership Executive Council.

He is a Marine Corps veteran and has more than 15 years of experience in business leadership. His wife, Elizabeth, is a school counselor at Briar Woods High School. They live in Leesburg and have two daughters, 11-yearold Ava and 8-year-old Alexa, who attend Evergreen Mill Elementary and Simpson Middle schools.

Eric Hornberger Ashburn District Phone: 571-291-5685 Email: eric.hornberger@lcps.org Eric Hornberger is serving in his second term on the School Board representing the Ashburn District.

He served as the board’s chairman from 2012 to January 2017.

Eric Hornberger He chairs the Charter School Committee and the Ad hoc Committee on the Academies of Loudoun. He also serves as a member of the Legislative and Policy Committee.

Hornberger joined the board with a

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Beth Huck At-Large Member Phone: 571-233-9928 Email: beth.huck@lcps.org

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Joy Maloney Broad Run District Phone: 571-577-0439 Email: joy.maloney@lcps.org Joy Maloney is in her first term on the board. She unseated one-term board member Kevin Kuesters in her second try for the seat in November 2015, after running a write-in camSCHOOL BOARD >> 24

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Beth Huck is serving her first term on the board. She was sworn in last year, after Thomas Reed chose not to run for re-election after serving as the at-large member for four terms.

She serves as chairwoman of the board’s Communications and Outreach Committee, and is a member of

the Curriculum and Instruction Committee and the Legislative and Policy Committee. She is the board’s liaison on the Gifted Advisory Committee and the alternate delegate on the Virginia School Beth Huck Boards Association.

Huck currently works as an events manager for Blue Compass LLC. Prior to that she worked as the community lifestyle manager for Brambleton Community Association and, for several years, taught early childhood education. She also served as the chairwoman of the Loudoun County Youth Advisory Commission.

Huck and her husband, Aaron, live in Brambleton and have two children: Caleb, a junior at Rock Ridge High School, and Ella, an eighth-grader at Brambleton Middle School.

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variety of local and international experience. He served as the president of the Ashburn Farm Association board of trustees and as a leader in the citizens advocacy group Ashburn Farm Parents United. Hornberger works as the executive director of The Mustard Seed Foundation, a private family foundation based in Falls Church. In that role he oversees a variety of international giving programs and was responsible for establishing field offices for the foundation in Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Cairo. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and worked as a program manager at Peace Corps in Washington, DC. He and his wife, Paula, have lived in Ashburn since 2004. Paula works as a teacher for Loudoun County Public Schools. The couple has three children; two have graduated from and one currently attends Stone Bridge High School.

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She co-chairs the Joint Board of Supervisors/ School Board Committee and is a member of the School Board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee, and the Student Support Joy Maloney and Services Committee. She is the board’s liaison on the Technology Steering Committee.

A former high school teacher, Maloney holds a master’s degree in educational leadership and a bachelor’s in secondary education mathematics.

She’s worked in the information technology field for the past 20 years, holding positions at Marriott and at AOL and currently as a government contractor.

She has a daughter who attends Briar Woods High School. She has lived in Broadlands for 16 years and in the Washington metro area for more than 40 years. In that time, she’s volunteered for the Girl Scouts, Sterling Playmakers, Loudoun Hunger Relief, Women Giving Back and Big Brothers Big Sisters. She also served as vice president of the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents, known as LEAP.

Tom Marshall Leesburg District Phone: 703-727-2318 Email: tom.marshall@lcps.org

Debbie Rose Algonkian District Phone: 571-291-5983 Email: debbie.rose@lcps.org

Tom Marshall returned to the School Board in 2016 following a four-year hiatus, when he was unseated for one term

by Bill Fox. Marshall regained the Leesburg seat in Tom Marshall November 2015.

He serves as chairman of the Human Resources and Talent Development Committee, and is a member of the Discipline Committee, and the Student Support and Services Committee. He is also the board’s liaison for the Career and Technical Education Foundation.

Marshall has worked as a Realtor in Virginia since 1998 and currently works for McEnearney Associates Realtors. He has previously worked as a teacher, guidance counselor and guidance director. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.

Marshall was born in Washington, DC, was raised in Alexandria, and has lived in Leesburg for the past 26 years. He and his wife, Barbi, have a grown daughter who graduated from Loudoun County High School and a grown son, who graduated from Tuscarora High School.

Debbie Rose is serving her second term on the School Board. She is the chairwoman of the Discipline Committee and the Student Support and Services Committee. She Debbie Rose also serves on the Ad hoc Committee on the Academies of Loudoun and is the board’s liaison to the Special Education Advisory Committee.

She works as an intellectual property fellow for the Association for Competitive Technology. She also worked at the Entertainment Software Association and as a counsel on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. She previously served as a District Chair of the Loudoun County Republican Committee.

Rose grew up in Southern California; she moved to Virginia in 1997 and to Potomac Falls in 2006. She and her husband, Randy, have three children, all of whom attend Loudoun public schools.

Jill Turgeon Blue Ridge District Phone: 571-420-3818 Email: jill.turgeon@lcps.org Jill Turgeon taught second grade at Cool Spring Elementary School before she was elected to the School Board in 2011. She owns Jill Turgeon a photography business and is active in a variety of civic and community organizations.

She is chairwoman of the board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee. She serves on the Charter School, Communications and Outreach, Human Resources and Talent Development Committees. She is also the School Board liaison on the Minority Students Achievement Advisory Committee.

Turgeon’s family has spent a lot of time in Loudoun County Public Schools. Her husband, Bill, teaches in the school system, their oldest daughter graduated from Loudoun Valley High School in 2010, their youngest daughter graduated from Woodgrove High School in 2013 and their son graduated from Woodgrove in 2015.

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More than 500 career fire-recuse workers are deployed around the county to ensure 24/7 response when emergencies arise.

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The Leesburg Volunteer Fire Company is the oldest in Loudoun, with its roots going back to 1803.

Answering the Call for 214 Years population is nearing 400,000 and it takes a lot more than 48 volunteers to answer the call when emergencies occur. Even so, the tradition of volunteer fire and rescue service continues to play a role, even as the number of full-time employees grows, and the training and response needs grow more complex.

Today, the county counts 1,600 volunteers supporting fire and rescue activities, with half of those on the operational side running calls. They operate alongside more than 500 career fire and rescue workers who ensure 24/7 response coverage. They respond to more than 29,000 calls annually.

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There are 20 fire and rescue stations, 15 owned and operated by independent volunteer companies and others built and staffed by the government.

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The first fire company in Loudoun County was formed on Nov. 13, 1803.

According to an entry in the county’s deed books, 48 residents petitioned to open the first company in Leesburg, then an unincorporated town of about 500 residents.

At that time, the county’s population was about 20,000. Today, Loudoun’s

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The Dulles Greenway is a privately owned highway. Part of the notoriously high tolls charged to motorists find their way back into the county government’s coffers as the road’s owners, TRIP II, pay Loudoun’s highest real estate tax bill.

Loudoun’s Largest Taxpayer: The Dulles Greenway Loudoun is well-known for its annual ranking as having the nation’s highest household incomes—calculated at an average of $134,464 last year—but it also ranks high in cost of living, driven in part by high property values. That translates into high real estate tax bills, as well.

Loudoun’s average tax bill is just over $5,000 annually, second only to Falls Church (which tops out over $6,000) among Virginia jurisdictions.

But who pays Loudoun’s highest tax bill? According to the county budget, the Toll Road Investors Partnership II,

the owner of the Dulles Greenway toll road, is the county’s top taxpayer. The land and improvements owned by the corporation along the 14-mile stretch between Leesburg and Rt. 28 are assessed at more than $308 million and represent 0.45 percent of the county’s total real estate value.

The Greenway is followed by Loudoun’s two largest retail centers on the list of Top 10 real property owners. Lerner Enterprises’ Dulles Town Center mall property represents 0.35 percent of the overall real estate tax base, while Chelsea GCA Realty Part-

nership’s Leesburg Corner Premium Outlets comes in at 0.3 percent.

Data centers also rank high on the list, with Quantum Park, Digital Loudoun Parkway Center North, Visa USA, and Equinix R P II, each representing between 0.29 and 0.24 percent of the county’s real estate value.

Rounding out the Top 10 list are Redwood-ERC, the owner of the Ashby Ponds retirement community; the developers of the Moorefield Station property; and BCAL PCP Property, which owns a portion of the former AOL campus.

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This graphic from Loudoun County’s fiscal year 2018 budget shows a breakdown of how tax money is spent. School operations make up the largest share of expenditures, followed by debt payments and then the public safety agencies and court operations.

Loudoun Again Tops Income Rankings Loudoun County again ranked as the wealthiest county in the nation in 2016, and it appears the gap may be widening.

The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual data recently ranking the wealthiest counties in the U.S., based on 2016 median household incomes.

With a median household income of $134,464, Loudoun outpaced the second-place finisher, Howard County, MD, by almost $14,000; and its eastern neighbor, Fairfax County, which finished in third place, by almost $20,000.

According to statistics released by the Bureau, Loudoun’s household median income rose by $8,564 between 2015 and 2016.

Loudoun also topped the list for 2015.

The Census data released includes counties with populations of 65,000 or more. Washington, DC, area counties accounted for 10 of the top 25 wealthiest counties, with Arlington County (6th), Prince William County (19th) and Stafford County (20th) in Virginia; and Montgomery County (17th), Calvert County (18th), Anne Arundel County (22nd) and Charles County (23rd) in Maryland also making the list.

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