"Community Leaders" Attend Another Black Tie Gala While CivFed Fumes About Street Paving

Check out the June issue of the Arlington Civic Federation's monthly newsletter at civFed.org. Nice to see that some organization is (finally) concerned about Arlington's deteriorating infrastructure.

Arlington County Spends Extravagantly on County Personnel

Several A.Y. visitors asked how much Arlington County spends on personnel. You can obtain information from the County's Budget Web site at:

http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/ManagementAndFinance/budget/page68453.aspx

These data reflect the County Manager's proposed funding for various departments, funds, and other activities. The County Board's final funding is slightly higher.

A.Y. notes the following, check it out yourself --

County Board Office

Number of Full Time Equivalent Employees - 7.75
Personnel Costs - $978,504
$$$ per Employee - $126,258

County Manager - Main Office

Number of Full Time Equivalent Employees - 12.0
Personnel Costs - $1,747,091
$$$ per Employee - $145,591

County Attorney's Office

Number of Full Time Equivalent Employees - 14.0
Personnel Costs - $2,099,813
$$$ per Employee - $149,987

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Number of Full Time Equivalent Employees - 3.0
Personnel Coats - $508,909
$$$ per Employee - $169,636

Arlington's Performing Arts Snobs - Welfare for the Wealthy Elitism at Its Worst

Think the Washington Shakespeare Company and Classika-Synetic Theater need $10 million from Arlington County for a new home in the Newseum Cultural Center? Think the Signature Theater needs an annual stipend from Arlington taxpayers? Check out who's on their boards of directors.

http://www.classika.org/classika3.html

http://www.washingtonshakespeare.org/board.html

http://www.sig-online.org/bod.htm

http://www.sig-online.org/2009gala.htm

http://www.rosslynva.org/who-we-are/rosslyn-bid/officers-and-board

http://www.rosslynva.org/who-we-are/rosslyn-renaissance/officers-and-board

Newseum Cultural Center Charade - Who Cares About Taxpayers?

The two major players in the Newseum Cultural Center charade, The Classika Theater and Washington Shakespeare Company, EACH have an extremely wealthy and influential major league K. Street tax lawyer on their board of directors. Who is representing Arlington's taxpayers?

County Board Spends Extravagantly on Self-Serving PR

The Arlington County Manager's Office alone employs 15 people who write and broadcast PR for County Board members and the Board's pet people, pet organizations and pet programs. Cost to Arlington taxpayers? At least $1.3 million.

Arlington County 2009 Budget Charade Continues - March 24-26

Tune in to arlingtonva.us to see the County Board's 2009 Budget Charade live. Starts at 7 PM. NEW THIS YEAR...the County Board Politricksters will close a popular nature center and branch libraries to help fund the County Board's pet projects. Just like the big city machine pols.

County Board Set to Pass Pike Trolley Folly Funding

Arlington County Emperor of Transportation Chris Zimmerman is bringing his Columbia Pike trolley folly before the County Board for preliminary design funding at the March 14th County Board meeting. Agenda Item 27. This is your your opportunity to speak out against Guru of Gridlock Zimmerman's irrational use of scarce transportation dollars to install an inefficient and expensive light rail system on an existing right-of-way that is unsuitable for light rail.