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7 Vacancies on the Crozet Community Advisory Council

Wow. Via A-Mail:

Currently, the Crozet Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) has seven vacancies. The group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Learn more about the CCAC / Review past meeting agendas and minutes.

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Business community and citizens-at-large are eligible to apply to serve on the Community Advisory Committees through the online application. If you have any questions, please contact Emily Kilroy, Community Engagement Specialist with Albemarle County, by phone (434-296-5841) or by email ([email protected]).

 

Being a part of the  CCAC would be a great way to have a voice in Crozet.  Interested?

 

 

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Albemarle Supervisors Threatening CCAC?

I will share my thoughts when not mobile but thought this was worthy of pushing out immediately. I will clean up the post here as well with formatting and such.

** Update – see the update at the bottom of the post from Albemarle County’s Lee Catlin **

Just received by email:

“Subject: [CCA] URGENT: Supervisor meeting tonight threatens CCAC purpose and autonomy 

Tonight at 6:00 PM the Board of Supervisors may completely undermine the effectiveness of Crozet Community Advisory Council. Your immediate input is important. 

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The RealCrozetVA Facebook – 28 Feb to 6 March

The past few days on the RealCrozetVA Facebook … I (try to remember to) post these summaries here every few weeks. While there’s a thriving community at the RealCrozetVA facebook page, not everyone likes FB; that shouldn’t cause those of you here to miss out.

  • Today – Here’s a thought – instead of getting tonight’s movie at Redbox or Netflix or On Demand … spend a few minutes and get it at a local Crozet business – Maupin’s in downtown Crozet.

Maupin's Video store

  • Today – I would gladly pay an extra two cents per $100 of my house’s assessed value if they would just pave our roads this spring.And the tax would need to be sunset after three years.
  • Yesterday – The Western Albemarle High School Scholastic Bowl Team needs donations to help fund trips to compete in national tournaments in Chicago and Washington D.C.!
  • Fog the day a few days after snow:
  • Looking back towards Old Trail4 March – the County is looking to raise property taxes.
  • 4 March – a reminder that I’m trying to organize group bicycle rides, starting in a few weeks.
  • 3 March – over 500 events have been added to the Crozet Calendar!
  • 2 March – Miller School has a pretty cool bicycle program
  • 28 February – I’m neither Crozet Pizza nor Crozet Pourhouse, but I’ll help if called.

All the facebook summaries I’ve posted here on the blog.

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Crozet Trails Crew Have Big Goals in 2015

The Crozet Trails Crew is one of those unheralded (or at least not-heralded-enough) groups that make Crozet a great place to live. Their efforts make being in – and staying in – Crozet better.

A few real estate-related thoughts:

Their 2015 goals are bold. And good. If you’re interested in helping them, I’m sure they’d welcome you!

 

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WAHS Principal Resigns; Search is On for New Principal

Less than two years in, Dr. John Werner, WAHS principal, is resigning, effective 30 June of this year.

And this is the point of the story where I encourage parents – of elementary school and middle school kids in particular – to get involved and vocal in this process. This is the school where either you’ll send your kids or you’ll depend on when you sell your house.

School quality matters for a lot of reasons, not least because school quality directly impacts property values – and school quality is one of the very few things in which home buyers do not compromise.

 

Letter from Dr. Werner after the break. 

Related  conversations from 2013:

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Buses From Crozet to Charlottesville?

Just an idea …

Did you know that:

Based on a great conversation I had yesterday at the Mudhouse, I started this conversation on the RealCrozetVA Facebook page and got some great comments.

What could be done to get great bus service to/from Crozet/Charlottesville? Cool buses. With lots of light & wifi. 5x in the morning & 5x at afternoon/evening for starters.

With bike racks on buses. Park and rides in the church lots … Just kicking around some ideas. (Not my ideas necessarily … Just ideas)

Could it happen?

Some back of the napkin numbers – correct me please, because I’m sort of making these numbers up.

What do you think? Could it happen? Who could/would do it? Could/would it be profitable?

Most importantly – for those of you who have “real” jobs as I call them (I’m a Realtor; my days are necessarily geographically scattered) – would you use a bus?

 

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Beauty and the Beast at Western Albemarle High School – March 12-15

Beauty and The Beast - March

via email:

Beauty and the Beast at WAHS – featuring a mix of  55 students from Western, Henley, Crozet, and Brownsville and a 15 member orchestra, a crew of 20-25, nearly 100 Crozet kids are involved in this production.

New dates … because Snow Happens!

Thursday March 12th– Benefit preview, by donation- 7:30 pm
Friday March 13th– show 7:30 pm
Saturday March 14th– show 7:30 pm
Sunday March 15th– show 2:00 pm

Friday and Saturday  March 6 and 7 at 7:30 pm and Sunday March 8 at 2:00 pm

Benefit preview Thursday March 5th at 7:30 pm (tickets by donation)

Tickets available in WAHS main office and online.

– Students $6 in advance $8 at the door

– Adults $12 in advance $14 at the door

– Seniors $6 in advance $8 at the door

Classic story of character triumphing over appearances, with memorable songs such as “Be Our Guest” and “Home”, charming characters, poignant scenes, beautiful costumes, and heartfelt message, this is sure to be a remarkable event.

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CCAC Meeting Recap – 18 February 2015

Highlights –

– King Family talking about their special use permit request; neighbors saying the Kings are good neighbors but Half Mile Branch is a problem. This highlighted a bigger Crozet concern – infrastructure needs are exceeding what current infrastructure is designed to handle.
– A bit of an economic development conversation
– The Moose Lodge presentation was pushed to March
– Milestone Partners & Ombudsman topics ran out of time

Click through to read the tweets from the meeting, courtesy of RealCrozetVA and the Crozet Community Association (Tim Tolson).

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Fun at Greenwood Community Center

We went to a birthday party at Greenwood Community Center yesterday, and it was a ton of fun. Simple, good, childish fun. Highly recommended.

 

Good fun. Good deal. Small one’s belated birthday party. Full of kids now. #crozet

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Also saw this photo, with thanks to a lot of Crozetians (I know, Greenwood isn’t in Crozet, but it’s close) , which I thought was wonderful:

Greenwood Community Center