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Arlington County board member flags housing, mental health and tough budget year as top 2025 priorities
Summary
At a County Board meeting, a County Board member (name not specified) outlined priorities for 2025, emphasizing housing affordability, mental health supports, a difficult budget year and updates to transportation and comprehensive plans.
A County Board member (name not specified) told the Arlington County Board that addressing housing affordability, mental health and an austere budget will be the board's top priorities in 2025, while urging focus on what the county can control amid broader national and international uncertainty.
"Control the controllables," the County Board member said, recounting a phrase they said has guided them from athletics to public service.
The remark came during a roughly 10½-minute address in which the speaker framed the year ahead as difficult financially and politically, and stressed the county's responsibility to the roughly 240,000 residents who live in Arlington. The board member said 2024 produced "the…
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