After a six-hour marathon meeting, the Stafford County School Board passed employee and student non-discrimination policies one year after a transgender student was barred from using a bathroom facility.
Questions remain, however, as to how these policies will be implemented, as they do not specifically address transgender bathroom usage.
If the Mathis Avenue corridor is going to change, so may traffic patterns need to change on Route 28.
Manassas officials are have dusted off the more than a decade old Mathis Avenue Sector Plan and are starting to make streetscape improvements in the neighborhood that mirror similar efforts in the city’s downtown.
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It’s been two years since the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a lifetime dog license, meaning that dog owners would now only need to purchase the license once vs. an annual option, or what had been a more popular three-year license.
Starting Nov. 1, 2017, the county began offering the lifetime license and since then has issued 9,375-lifetime licenses, according to Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy. Now it’s the only type of dog license it issues.
Manassas leaders are looking at the Mathis Avenue corridor as the city’s next big activity center.
Currently home to a strip shopping mall, the city is picturing what that part of town, just outside downtown, might look like in the next 20 years.
After it was first heard in December 2018, it wasn’t until May 28 that the Non-Discrimination Policy appeared on the Board Agenda as an information item. Then again at the next meeting, the policy appeared under information.
“I see delays after delays, and I’m not really sure why it’s been on for information twice,” Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner said to Falmouth District Supervisor Sarah Chase on June 8 in documents obtained by the Potomac Local in a Freedom of Information Act Order.
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After Stafford County Schools Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner’s initial transgender student proposal in December 2018, the policy drew highly polarized and split opinions.
A total of 51% of emails sent to Board members regarding this issue advocated against the Gender Identity and Expression Policy while 41% of resident emails argued for the passage of such policy according to documents gathered by the Potomac Local in a Freedom of Information Act Order.
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