Arlington County has released its year-in-review video for 2016.
The annual video includes highlights of county-related goings on for the past year.
Actual important events and issues aside, here are some of the little things we learned from the video:
- There’s no hazing ritual for new County Board members.
- John Vihstadt is not offended by fellow Board members saying he is “lawyerly.”
- Rosslyn-based ABC 7 appears to have been the county’s TV station of choice during the 2016 blizzard.
- The blizzard happened on County Manager Mark Schwartz’s second week on the job and it was “a baptism by snow.”
- Libby Garvey admits that the new live streams of commission meetings can double as a sleep aid.
- The county has some sweet aerial footage of Arlington.
- Being a county ombudsman involves lots of hand shaking.
- “Planning is our bread and butter” — Jay Fisette.
- The new Ballston Quarter mall is going to be pretty cool and is going to “transform” Ballston.
- You can rent thermal cameras at the library.
Also from the video, we were told that the Fire Station 8 decision was “the essence of public engagement;” that 600 units committed affordable housing were approved, preserved or extended in 2016; that Arlington “functionally ended veteran homelessness” in the county and that a major theme of 2017 will be the county’s commitment to being “welcoming and inclusive.”
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