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Category Archives: Loudoun School Board
NCC’s price tag
The National Conference Center in Lansdowne was built in 1974 as Xerox Training Center, later Xerox Document University with small guest rooms sharing a bathroom. The Whitehall Funds (WXIII/Oxford DTC) purchased it from Xerox in June 2000 for $37.7 million, taking … Continue reading
Assessments higher? What a surprise!
“Tim Hemstreet, County Administrator, presented the Board with a proposed plan for Fiscal Year 2014 which totals about $1.8 billion in appropriations for the county and the school system. If approved, this would mean the tax rate would stay the … Continue reading
20th Circuit refuses to adjudicate Open Band suit
Judges Chamblin and Horne to retire this year. LCBA announces judicial retirements The Loudoun Times Mirror reported Jan. 17 that Loudoun Circuit Judge James H. Chamblin signed an order removing the local court, the 20th Judicial Circuit in Virginia, from … Continue reading
Multi-track schools: Fiscal restraint or entitlement?
In two weeks, the Loudoun School Board will vote whether to approve a year-round, multi-track schedule (YRS) to cure overcrowding at Selden’s Landing Elementary School in Lansdowne. The school’s attendance boundaries are contiguous with the borders of upscale Lansdowne on … Continue reading
Mapping HS8
Lansdowne High School is planned to have a capacity of 1600 students, according to Loudoun County Public Schools planners. LCPS Land Management Supervisor Sara Howard O’Brien told the Lansdowne Conservancy last week that 695 students would come from Lansdowne on … Continue reading
“Damages” for the NCC
Why is it incumbent on taxpayers to fund the National Conference Center’s new parking deck? This appraisal calls the replacement of surface parking lots “damages.”
Desperately seeking fields
The Loudoun Board of Supervisors likes to posture as though youth athletic fields are one of their top 2 or 3 priorities, yet not one of them questioned the wisdom of demolishng Lansdowne Sports Park to build a designer high … Continue reading
Wreck it, Ralph!
HS8 will open in September, 2015, two months before Ashburn District Supervisor “Wreck-it” Ralph Buona goes before voters for re-election. That will give his constituents a perfect opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of his consistent misrepresentation of HS8. The high … Continue reading
Do schools increase property values?
Will a lighted, competition-quality, football field with artificial turf, available for rent to anyone who pays an hourly fee, raise property values in the Lansdowne neighborhoods it abuts? The answer to that question matters a lot to homeowners hit hard … Continue reading
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