Sparbanie for Lovettsville Mayor

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I hope everyone is well and had a very nice Thanksgiving.  If you haven't already heard the wonderful news, Tim Sparbanie has announced his candidacy for Mayor of Lovettsville (election May 2012).  I hope you will join me in encouraging and supporting Tim. 

 

Based on the March 2011 Town of Lovettsville Resolution Tim wrote and successfully lobbied for his Town Council collegues to approve http://www.lovettsvilleva.gov/downloads/School/RESOLUTION%202011-03-003%20SIGNED%20Schools.pdf , Tim understands the win-win for the Town and area families of future high/middle schools being sited near Lovettsville. 

Best wishes,

Sarah

 

P.S. Other members of the Town's leadership unanimously approved this and approved the 2007 Resolutions of support for Lovettsville schools.  However, those individuals including Mayor Walker and Vice Mayor Bobby Zoldos and other members of the Town Council have historically and inexplicably failed to convince Loudoun County Public Schools to fairly consider available options or to make fair market offers.  This includes but is not limited to the 108-acre McDonough Assemblage when those contracts were offered to the School Board on two separate occasions for over a year. 

 

Catoctin School Board Representative Jennifer Bergel has stated that condemnation would be required to advance that and at least two previously suggested site alternatives; however, LCPS HAS NO PROOF OF MAKING FAIR MARKET OFFERS to buy the near-Town land that she claims would necessarily be condemned. 

 

When LCPS played the "condemnation" card in 2008, they only showed the access that would require taking a family home.  During that public meeting, LCPS withheld information about two different alignments, including one that was recommended by the Virginia Dept of Transportation (ask me and I'll forward you the documents I obtained by the Freedom of Information Act after LCPS' presentation).  The moral of the story is, BE WARY when LCPS plays their favorite "condemnation" card to justify their claim that there are no available school sites near Town.  They did it before and they will do it again.  Why?  Because supporting the Good Old Boy Network appears more important to LCPS than the children, families, Town taxpayers and local businesses. 

 

Whether or not you support a future middle/high school near the Town of Lovettsville, I do hope you will support fresh new leadership for our community with Tim Sparbanie as Mayor of Lovettsville.