Fairfax County to General Assembly: 'Please try to leave us alone'
22.05.12
The county’s annual wish list — which the board took up Tuesday — also includes other perennial desires: that Northern Virginia taxpayers see more of the money they send to Richmond, for example, and that lawmakers identify a new regular source of revenue to patch its needy transportation network.
There are stated hopes for new laws that would criminalize disruptive demonstrations at funerals and financial exploitation of the elderly, and there is a request for $150 million toward the expansion of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport.
But, overall, the county would be pleased if the General Assembly would stop using Northern Virginia as its piggy bank, refrain from pawning off the responsibility for the upkeep of county roads and let local officials police air guns as they see fit, especially on school property.
Perhaps highest on the county’s list is a request that the state capital make up for previous funding cuts to Virginia’s counties and cities.
Source: Washington Post