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Albemarle County Elections – 2011

Vote on November 8, 2011.

This year’s election is an off. Year. An “off-off” year to be more specific. Which means our votes matter more – because fewer of us vote.

In 2010, 2,493 people voted in the Hurt-Perriello race.

In 2009, 1,740 people voted in the McDonnell-Deeds race.

Just think – this year you could be one of less than two thousand who vote. And by doing so, you can tell your non-voting friends who complain that they really should have voted.

Did you know that … This is a Sample Ballot for Crozet (pdf)

We have the opportunity to vote for representatives for: (read about all the candidates at The HooK)

– the Soil and Water Conservation Director for the Thomas Jefferson District? (three candidates)

– Board of Supervisor (Ann Mallek – incumbent/unopposed)

– School Board member (Barbara Massie Mouly – incumbent/unopposed)

– At-Large School Board Member (three candidates) –

I’m taking the rare opportunity to say that I’m voting for Ned Gallaway for school board for the following reasons:

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Country Dance Benefit for Local Crozet Groups

via email:

COUNTRY SQUARE DANCE TO CELEBRATE OUR COMMUNITY

Saturday, September 24
7:30 to 10:30 pm
Greenwood Community Center

Ann Mallek is sponsoring this event to bring the community together in a spirit of fun, dance, and commitment to groups that keep our community thriving and growing.

Your donation at the door will be a contribution to the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad, Crozet Volunteer Fire Department, Earlysville Fire Company, or Crozet PARC. Come by yourself, as a couple or dance together as a family!

Country Dance in Crozet flyer (PDF)

Note that this dance/flyer/event is “Paid for and authorized by Ann Mallek for Supervisor” but I don’t see any reason to not go, have fun and donate to your favorite local organization. Besides, right now she’s running unopposed.

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The Lodge, Walking to School, Jarman’s Gap and More – CCAC 18 August 2011

Like it or not, the CCAC is full of people who are interested in guiding the current and future Crozet. Be informed and involved.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – more Crozetians under the age of 40 need to get involved in these meetings.

(Bolding mine:)

Agenda
1. Agenda Review. (Meg Holden – CCAC Chair)
2. Approval of Minutes from June 16, 2011 meeting.
3. Public Comment.

4. Announcements.
5. Introduction to Lodge at Old Trail project, http://www.lodgeatoldtrail.com (David Hilliard)
6. Discussion about children walking and biking to area schools. (Josh Davis and some area school principals )
7. Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Runway extension project update. (Bill Schrader)
8. Jarman’s Gap Road VDOT SWM pond at Old Trail Drive. (Bev Thierwechter & Jim Rotherham) (Letter attached to agenda addendum)
9. Sub-committees, ombudsman and supporting members of each. (Meet the CCAC
handout; Meg Holden).

10. Project Updates/Information:

* Recap of Crozet Independence Day celebration: dance – (Mike Marshall)
* Crozet Square/CSX Parking log update (Ann Mallek)
* Jarman’s Gap Road Closing August 22.
* Re-Store’N Station,
* Library parking lot construction, (Tim Tolson)
 * StreetScape II and SWM project,
* County Department of Community roundtable discussions on proposed zoning changes.

11. Items not listed on the agenda.

12. Future agenda items (CCAC)
a. Outreach to other county advisory councils.
b. Other items?

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Jarman’s Gap Construction Begins

Sidewalk, and bike lanes and car lanes.

From the VDOT site:

The improvements will include wider travel lanes, the addition of bike lanes, and construction of curb and gutter and sidewalk. The proposed design calls for 12-foot wide travel lanes, a four-foot wide bicycle lane on each side of the road, curb and gutter on both sides of the roadway and sidewalk on the northern side of Route 691.

h/t newsplex.

I’ll chalk this up as a pending improvement.

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Crozet’s Population Doubled in the Last Decade

From the Crozet Gazette:

Crozet’s population (Census Bureau boundaries roughly overlap the Crozet Growth Area) grew from 2,585 in 2000 to 5,560 last year. That means White Hall District—which started out as the district already closest to ideal—needs to shed about 950 people, which happens to be very near the size of Yellow Mountain precinct, which, broadly, is a southern section of Greenwood. One advantage in being able to shift a whole precinct is that no change of polling place need happen.

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Crozet Update – Safe Routes to School, Library, Streetscape, Jarman’s Gap

Ann Mallek forwarded the following email to me the other day; it contains a lot of good information. What questions do you have for Mrs. Mallek? Will you be asking her these questions on Monday?

Safe routes to school:

The official “kick-off” meeting, required with VDOT, was conducted February 7th ; we have a copy of the fully executed “grant” agreement and notice to proceed. The physical survey has been completed. I was informed that if we want to design in-house (as I had planned) I must submit a “finding of public interest” justification for VDOT approval. We recently completed interviews for our “term” (on-call) contracts for civil engineering and environmental services and will be finalizing our selections this week. I have submitted our procurement process to VDOT to see if it would be acceptable to use one of these “term” contract engineers to prepare the plans. If VDOT says “no” and we decide to use a consultant, then we’ll need to do a separate advertisement for requests for proposals and consultant interviews. It’s unfortunate but it’s all part of the strings (or web) attached to grant funding.

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