It’s usually coming from staff or various organizations, so so far yes! I’m also learning how to ask good questions ☺️
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It’s usually coming from staff or various organizations, so so far yes! I’m also learning how to ask good questions ☺️
So far my #1 favorite thing about this gig is being allowed to ask for information and then getting it. It’s almost like having a research assistant 🤗.
My second favorite thing is talking to people and getting to know so many different types of people. It’s so fun 🥰 and people are generally cool.
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Conference at PVCC to help families plan life after high school >>>
https://www.29news.com/2026/03/06/conference-pvcc-help-families-plan-life-after-high-school/
Poster with a list of Collective Wins over the last year
Man accepting award
Audience facing a screen with a person speaking
What I really loved was the presentation about how outdoor recreation is economic development, the slideshow of collective wins over the past year - there were so many! and seeing @whatthecarp.bsky.social get an award for his work with the e-bike lending library!
Outside view of brick building with outdoor seating and cozy lights
Table with fliers and stickers
Poster for PIEDMONT MOBILITY ALLIANCE The Piedmont Mobility Alliance is a coalition of organizations that share a vision of a better-connected community for walking, biking and other forms of active transportation in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Get involved! BIKE LANE Add your organization or business AHEAD Piedmont Environmental Council Join the Charlottesville / Albemarle Greenways group on Facebook Learn more at pecva.org/mobilityalliance
Poster about walk/bike/ride
Had a great time at the Active Mobility Summit tonight. Was really great seeing so many familiar faces and government staff.
Part 2 - why I pulled the Affordable Housing funds from the consent agenda.
BOS recap! Update on zoning, smart scale, and my take on the budget.
Part 1 sped up for Bluesky limitations; full, slower version at IG - www.instagram.com/reel/DVg2Jsr...
We had a lot of great comments today at BOS but this one at 1:00 from Neil made me laugh out loud and hopefully the mic didn’t pick it up 🤣
freeenterpriseforum.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...
Really grateful for our local journalists!!
It's kind of a big day for housing in Albemarle County, at least at the Board of Supervisors meeting - approving $3.6m in projects through the affordable housing fund, zoning modernization work session....and, of course, Da Budget. I plan to be there for the budget public comment this evening.
I personally don’t think we should count the rollover money 💀 I think we should spend to zero every year
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Ok, I spent the afternoon reading and emailing and doing math 😵💫😵💫😵💫 and I think I was wrong. There is also a 3.7 million transfer to AHIF in this year’s budget, and the total we get from the .4 tax is 1.3. And then there’s 1.3 leftover from last year’s AHIF.
so rn, there would be 6.4 in it
Tomorrow night, 6:00 - it’s the public hearing on the budget. Come give us your thoughts!!! You can also email them!
The second one is this really great Story Maps put together by the Jefferson School - I just taught on this last week and we took 2 days to do it because the kids were so into it.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/096a...
Oh! I forgot two more cool things - 1 is the Visions of Progress exhibit about the Holsinger photos curated by @johnedwinmason.bsky.social
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In 2020 we sat down with Mayor Nikuyah Walker to talk about where Liberation & Freedom Day came from and why it was important:
The numbers are staggering:
Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.
Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.
This day is a good corrective to traditional history, and is also a handy reminder that the loudest voices are not always the correct ones 😉
It is also not lost on me that so much of the post-bellum Black history is located in the Jouett district, which was also where the first urbanization of the county occurred. There’s a reason we have the oldest neighborhoods and housing stock in the urban ring. 🤨
Another great book to pair this with is Hidden History. Lots of stories about investigating cemeteries in the county.
lynnrainville.org/publications...
This history is important in its own, but it is also a reminder that when people today say they don’t want anything in the rural areas to change - it has always been changing!
Happy Freedom and Liberation Day!
There is a fantastic book about Black history in Albemarle, Freedom Has A Face.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3533/
Get people to come make public comment 🤷🏼♀️. I’m frustrated and am reading it trying to see where money could be found.
The only increase that’s recommended is 93k from the tax raise last year.
I’m halfway through reading our budget, while watching the city’s budget presentation 😵💫 and I think everyone who is unhappy about the county tax rate should take a look at what our neighbors are paying 😬. (it would be even more without our check to them 🫡)
((but they do fund wayyy more on housing))
“America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community. But this is only possible if you have a stable home.”
A decade after Evicted, 7.6M renters still face eviction each year—2.9M of them children. Some cities have made progress, but most of the country has a long way to go. Explore the data at evictionlab.org
“This crisis-management system in the United States is itself in crisis." What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever, by @cgaribay.bsky.social
