Arlington County, Schools Host Brainstorming Session on Budget Priorities, Cuts
Arlington Public Schools will hold its own forum next week.
Looking across the Washington-Lee High School cafeteria, Arlington County Manager Barbara Donnellan said jokingly that maybe it could be rented out for a wedding. "Look at the view," she said to a few chuckles. Renting out public facility space was just one of many ideas that residents offered to help the county — and, by extension, Arlington Public Schools — make ends meet in next year's budget. "We're better off than most," Donnellan said. "We're not Detroit. We have people who are still investing … We're growing, but that's a good thing." Other ideas to come forward? Cutting the police department's budget, eliminating Cherrydale Branch Library, putting the Columbia Pike streetcar on hold and busing Arlington children to vacant schools …
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