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Committee debates adding annual Family & Community Engagement proclamation and ISTE recognition
Summary
Members discussed creating an annual Family and Community Engagement proclamation to recognize staff across family liaisons, interpreters and library personnel, and noted a separate request to add an ISTE recognition; the group agreed to revisit placement and timing at the committee's February meeting.
Committee members debated whether to add an annual proclamation honoring Fairfax County’s Family and Community Engagement office or to fold that recognition into existing categories.
Unidentified Speaker 1 argued the office’s work spans family liaisons, interpreters, library staff and community-engagement representatives and said the office should be recognized annually: "Our community family engagement team should be annually recognized." Members discussed whether that recognition could be placed under an existing category such as staff appreciation or merit its own slot on the calendar.
The group also noted a separate request to add an ISTE recognition. Unidentified Speaker 2 described recognitions as shorter, paragraph-length items (about 150 words) distinguished from proclamations. Committee members agreed to revisit the list of proclamations and recognitions and to determine where any new items would fit; staff suggested February as the earliest practical time to place a new proclamation on the calendar.
The committee did not take a formal vote on proclamations at the Dec. 15 meeting and directed staff to pull the current list and propose placement options at the next meeting.
