Make Your Opinion Known to the State Board of Education

Express your thoughts on proposed regulations allowing use of seclusion, restraint and aversive practices on students with disabilities in private school. Did you know the State Board of Education is considering proposed regulations governing the use of restraint, seclusion, and aversive practices for students with disabilities in private schools? The draft regulations would permit prone restraints and other restraints that could impede breathing and might injure, harm, or result in death. As proposed, the regulations would not fully protect a parent's right to know or be able to have a debriefing to work with the school to make changes. Additionally, the language does not limit these practices to emergencies where they are absolutely necessary to protect someone from physical harm.

The Virginia Department of Education has recognized stakeholder concerns and deferred action on these regulations. It is important that the State Board of Education hear from constituents.

To learn more, read the public comment statement developed by the Virginia Coalition for Students with Disabilities.

If you are an individual and you support these comments, you can send an email to BOE@doe.virginia.gov expressing your support for the Coalition's comments. Or you can write your own letter regarding their impact.

If you wish to sign on to the Coalition's comments on behalf of your organization and have the authority to do so, the Coalition asks that you use the webform.

The deadline is Tuesday, May 21 at 5pm for organizational sign-ons. 

Comprehensive Plan Amendments and Recently Initiated Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendments

Five Comprehensive Plan Amendment applications were received by the Planning Office for the 2013 Annual Comprehensive Plan amendment Review. All five applications were initiated by the Board of County Supervisors on March 12, 2013.

Following initiation, applicants need to submit additional information in order for the cases to be heard by the

Planning Commission and then sent to the Board of County Supervisors

for final action. Maps and application materials for these cases can be found on the Comprehen-

sive Plan Amendments web page at www.pwcgov.org/CPA.

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Midwood / Midwood Center

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A request to change +/- 118 acres from CEC, Community Employment Center, REC,

Regional Employment Center and ER, Environmental Resource to SRM, Suburban Residential Medium and

ER, Environmental Resource. The site is located on the south side of John Marshall Highway (Route 55) ap-

proximately 2,500 feet west of its intersection with James Madison Highway (Route 15).

Heritage Crossing

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A request to change +/- 16 acres from GC, General Commercial, SRH, Suburban Residential High,

and ER, Environmental Resource to GC, General Commercial, SRH, Suburban Residential High, and ER,

Environmental Resource. The site is located on the north side of Sudley Road, 250 feet from the intersection

of Barrett Drive and Sudley Road. The principal frontages of the property are along the Fairmont Avenue

right-of-way.

Richmond Station

–

A request to change +/- 29 acres from FEC, Flexible-Use Employment Center, O, Office, and ER,

Environmental Resource to SRH, Suburban Residential High and ER, Environmental Resource. The site is

located 300 feet east of the intersection of Liberia Avenue and Richmond Avenue, extending to the north

along the city line of Manassas. The application was initiated with an expanded study area to look at the adja-

cent land uses.

Reserve at Cannon Branch

–

A request to change +/- 11 acres from NC, Neighborhood Commercial and ER, Environ-

mental Resource to SRL, Suburban Residential Low and ER, Environmental Resource. The site is located on

the south side of Godwin Drive at its intersection with Hastings Drive.

Stone Haven

–

A request to change +/- 864 acres from SRL, Suburban Residential Low, ER, Environmental Resource,

and FEC, Flexible-Use Employment Center to designations consistent with the Stone Haven Land Use Study

Blended Map. The site is located on the northeast side of Linton Hall Road (Route 619) and bounded by

Devlin Road to the east and Wellington Road to the north.

The full text of this notification and other updates can be found at
http://www.pwcgov.org/government/dept/development/Documents/Alliance_%20Spring%202013.pdf.

Just Something to Make You Think

Classist

You can tell
the new ones:
they look the same,
one, long level
smelling like floor wax
and carpet and pride,
trophy cases
piercing the eye
with a shine
that never reaches
the three-story
schools with scuff
marks and nicks, dull
lighting, rough desks
with graffiti
and memories.

You'd think we
were more than
one county,
the way the "city"
kids dress,
compared to
the suburban rest,
the way trailers stack
up out back,
taking in overflow,
the way the meetings go:
Why do they get
to plan a pool,
but we don't?

The new schools, yes,
they've got cash--
Smart Boards and art clubs
and fresh team garbs,
PTOs (of moms and dads),
demanding new soccer balls
and grass.

Meanwhile, somewhere
in a loud hall, some
teen carves his name
on a fifty-year-old wall,
then pens himself
a new tattoo.
You can bet
it's not the school mascot.  


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Katherine Gotthardt
May 17, 2013

Prince William Board of County Supervisors Agenda - May 21, 2013

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA

BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS

Board Chamber, One County Complex Court

Prince William, Virginia 22192 

HON. COREY A. STEWART, CHAIRMAN HON. W.S. WALLY COVINGTON III, VICE CHAIRMAN HON. MAUREEN S. CADDIGAN HON. PETE CANDLAND HON. JOHN D. JENKINS HON. MICHAEL C. MAY HON. MARTIN E. NOHE HON. FRANK J. PRINCIPI

May 21, 2013
1. Pledge of Allegiance 2:00 P.M. 
2. Invocation
Reverend Mark Olson, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Haymarket 
3. Citizens' Time 
4. PresentationsA. - Presentation – Prince William Coalition for Human Services Needs Assessment – Francis Harris – Prince William Coalition for Human Services
5. County ExecutiveA. – Presentation – Economic Development Quarterly Report – Jeff Kaczmarek – Economic Development
6. County Attorney A. RES – Authorize - Public Hearing to Consider Proposed
Amendments to Chapters 2 (Administration), 4(Animals and Fowl), 5(Building and Building Regulations), 13 (motor Vehicles and Traffic), 16 (Miscellaneous Offenses), 20 (Police), 22(Refuse), and 27 (Taxicabs); Initiate Zoning Text Amendments – Bobbi Jo Alexis – County Attorney’s Office B. RES - Authorize - Closed Meeting
7. Communications and Economic DevelopmentA. – Presentation – County Branding Strategy – Jason
Grant – Communications and Jeff Kaczmarek – Economic Development
 8. Finance Office A. RES – Authorize – Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of an Ordinance Establishing a Tourism Zone, a Tourism Plan, and a Tourism Project; and to Approve a Performance Agreement Relating to the Financing of Certain Facilities in the Cherry Hill Community Development Authority (Also known as Harbor Station and to be known as Potomac Shores)- Steve Solomon – Finance Office
9. Planning
 A. RES – Transfer, Budget and Appropriate $5,527,008 in Proffer Funds to the School Board for School Purposes – Lisa Fink-Butler – Planning Office
10. Department of Transportation
 A. RES - Transfer $71,495 within the Street Lighting Program; Budget, Transfer $52,125 from Engineering Consultant Services in the Transportation and Roadway Improvement Program Operating Budget; and Transfer $47,563 from the Fiscal Year 2013 Administrative Contingency Reserve to the Street Lighting Program Budget for Payment of Electric Utilities – Thomas Blaser – Department of Transportation
B. RES – Award - $5,784,462 Design-Build Contract to Branch Highways Incorporated for the Heritage Center Parkway and Route 1 Improvements Project – Potomac Magisterial District - Thomas Blaser – Department of Transportation
C. RES – Establish – Prince William County Project List for the Virginia Department of Transportation
FY14-FY19 Six-Year Program Allocation and the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority FY 2014 Program – Thomas Blaser – Department of Transportation
 D. RES – Authorize – Grant Application Under the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Discretionary Grant Program for the
Route 1 Featherstone Drive to Marys Way Project – Thomas Blaser – Department of Transportation
 E. RES – Endorse – Virginia Department of Transportation
I-66/Route 15 Interchange Project – Gainesville Magisterial District – Thomas Blaser – Department of Transportation
11. Intergovernmental Report
12. Supervisors’ Time
 A. RES - Initiate – Zoning Text Amendment to Regulate Event
Centers – Nick Evers – Planning Office
 B. RES – Appoint – Bob Greenburg of 13111 Bigleaf Maple
Court, Gainesville as a Regular At-Large
Representative to the Prince William County Trails
and Blueways Council – Supervisor Covington
 C. RES – Appoint – Harrison A. Glasgow of 8318 Highland
Street, Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial
District Representative to the Solid Waste
Citizens Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 D. RES – Appoint – Joan Moon of 13660 Brendon Drive,
Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial District
Representative to the Solid Waste Citizens
Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe 
  E. RES – Appoint – Lou Balboni of 8229 Penny Lane, Manassas
as a Regular Coles Magisterial District
Representative to the Solid Waste Citizens
Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 F. RES – Appoint – Isabel Morrow of 13739 Santa Rosa Court,
Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial District
Representative to the Solid Waste Citizens
Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 G. RES – Appoint – Mary Lou Malo of 13884 Napa Drive,
Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial District
Representative to the – Solid Waste Citizens
Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 H. RES – Appoint – Anne Bryant of 14530 Idlebrook Court,
Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial District
Representative to the Solid Waste Citizens
Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 I. RES – Appoint – Steve Markman of 13665 Independence
Drive, Manassas as a Regular Coles Magisterial
District Representative to the Solid Waste
Citizens Advisory Group – Supervisor Nohe
 J. RES – Appoint – Nancy West of 3867 Cameron Street,
Dumfries as the Regular At-Large Representative to
the Commission on Aging – Supervisor Caddigan
13. Closed Meeting
 A. RES – Certify Closed Meeting
14. Adjourn
 A. RES – Adjourn Meeting