Month of Action: Contact Your Town, City & County Local Elected Officials
OK folks, so here’s what we need you to do over the next few weeks.
During the next month we’ll be coordinating efforts to contact all of our county and town elected officials. Shortly after we get started, we’ll also expand to contacting our state delegates and senators about co-sponsoring a statewide non-discrimination bill. Equality Virginia will be working with legislators to introduce a bill in the Virgnia General Assembly in the next session that would make it illegal to discriminate against any public employee based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Local support is crucial to that bill’s success.
When we talk to our elected officials, we have three major goals for these contacts and meetings:
- Ask each local elected official to sign a pledge that within their offices and staffs they will not discriminate in their own hiring or employment and promotion practices.
- Ask each local elected official’s representative body to pass a resolution in support of Equality Virginia’s non-discrimination bill in the legislative package they send down to Richmond. This applies to town and city councils, and to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. The constitutional officers for the county and cities should be asked to express support to their respective council or board.
- Additionally, for Fairfax County officials, to ask them to support the measure to allow the County to add sexual orientation and gender identity to its non-discrimination policies.
Attached to this post is a document with some talking points for you, a few FAQs, a sample resolution to present to your elected officials on town and city councils, as well as to members of the Board of Supervisors. Also in that attached document is a pledge form for every local official to complete and return to Equality Fairfax, as well as a sample letter to the editor in support of a non-discrimination bill.
Below are the people that we need to contact. Please take some time in the next few weeks to contact all of those on this list who represent you. Your voice and your concerns matter to your elected officials, and our community and our allies need your chorus of voices to make it clear to our elected officials that they time for action has come.
If you are interested in making an appointment with an official, and would like to join others in your visit, please email us at info@equalityfairfax.org, and let us know when and who you’d like to visit, and we will make sure to pair you up with a fellow advocate.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA
DIRECTORY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, JULY 2008
FAIRFAX COUNTY OFFICIALS
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gov/bos/
Find Your District Supervisor. Residents have two supervisors — the chairman and a district supervisor. To find the district in which you live, use My Neighborhood to enter your address, click search and then click “My Neighborhood Report.”
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gisapps/myneighborhood/
CHAIRMAN
Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly (D)
12000 Government Center Parkway
Suite 530
Fairfax, VA 22035-0079
(703) 324-2321
Fax: (703) 324-3955
TTY: (703) 324-2319
E-mail: chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov
BRADDOCK DISTRICT
Sharon Bulova (D)
Kings Park Library
9002 Burke Lake Road
Burke, VA 22015
(703) 425-9300
Fax: (703) 503-9583
TTY 711
E-mail: braddock@fairfaxcounty.gov
DRANESVILLE DISTRICT
John W. Foust (D)
McLean Governmental Center
1437 Balls Hill Road
McLean, Va. 22101
Phone: 703-356-0551
Fax: (703) 703-821-4275
TTY: 711
Herndon Office
730 Elden Street
Herndon, VA 20170
(703) 471-5076
Fax: (703) 437-3210
E-mail: dranesville@fairfaxcounty.gov
HUNTER MILL DISTRICT
Catherine M. Hudgins (D)
North County Governmental Center
12000 Bowman Towne Drive
Reston, VA 20190-3307
(703) 478-0283
Fax: (703) 471-6847
TTY: 703-736-4460
E-mail: hntrmill@fairfaxcounty.gov
LEE DISTRICT
Jeff McKay (D)
Franconia Governmental Center
6121 Franconia Road
Alexandria, VA 22310-2508
(703) 971-6262
Fax: (703) 971-3032
TTY: 711
E-mail: leedist@fairfaxcounty.gov
MASON DISTRICT
Penelope A. Gross (D)
Mason District Governmental Center
6507 Columbia Pike
Annandale, VA 22003-2099
(703) 256-7717
Fax: (703) 354-8419
E-mail: mason@fairfaxcounty.gov
MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT
Gerald W. Hyland (D)
Mt. Vernon Governmental Center
2511 Parkers Lane, Suite 2
Alexandria, VA 22306-3294
(703) 780-7518
TTY: 711
Fax: (703) 780-1491
E-mail: mtvernon@fairfaxcounty.gov
SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT
Pat S. Herrity (R)
W. Springfield Governmental Center
6140 Rolling Road
Springfield, VA 22152-1579
(703) 451-8873
Fax: (703) 451-3047
Government Center Office
12000 Government Center Pkwy
Suite 233
Fairfax, VA 22035
(703) 324-2500
Fax: (703) 324-3149
E-mail: springfield@fairfaxcounty.gov
PROVIDENCE DISTRICT
Linda Q. Smyth (D)
8739 Lee Highway, Suite A
Fairfax, VA 22031-2198
(703) 560-6946
TDD: 703-207-9407
Fax: (703) 207-3541
TTY: 711
E-mail: provdist@fairfaxcounty.gov
SULLY DISTRICT
Michael R. Frey (R)
Sully Governmental Center
4900 Stonecroft Boulevard
Chantilly, VA 20151-3808
(703) 814-7100
Fax: (703) 814-7110
TTY: 703-814-7109
E-mail: sully@fairfaxcounty.gov
CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES
CLERK OF COURT
John T. Frey (R)
4110 Chain Bridge Road
Fairfax, VA 22030-4048
(703) 246-4111
Fax: (703) 352-8934
COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY
Raymond F. Morrogh (D)
4110 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 123
Fairfax, VA 22030-4047
(703) 246-2776
SHERIFF
S. G. Barry (D)
4110 Chain Bridge Road
Fairfax, VA 22030-4041
(703) 246-3227
Fax: (703) 359-4192
TOWN ELECTED OFFICIALS
TOWN OF CLIFTON
Clifton Town Hall
12641 Chapel Road
Clifton, VA 20124
(703) 802-0847
Mayor:
Thomas C. Peterson
Town Council:
Michael F. Anton
Wayne H. Nickum
Deborah L. Dillard
C.M. “Chuck” Rusnak, Jr.
Patrick J. Layden
Leave a Message(703) 923-3500
Select
#1 Tom Peterson, Mayor
#2 Michael Anton, Vice Mayor
#3 Deborah Dillard
#4 Pat Layden
#6 Chuck Rusnak
#7 Town Clerk
TOWN OF HERNDON
http://www.town.herndon.va.us
Herndon Town Hall
730 Elden Street
Herndon, VA 20170
(703) 435-6804
Mayor:
Stephen C. DeBenedittis (703) 435-6804
E-mail: Mayor.Steve@Herndon-va.gov
Town Council:
Richard F. Downer (703) 870-7257
E-mail: Richard.Downer@Herndon-va.gov
Dennis D. Husch (703) 709-5404
E-mail: Dennis.Husch@Herndon-va.gov
Connie Haines Hutchinson (703) 437-6366
E-mail: Connie.Hutchinson@Herndon-va.gov
David A. “Dave” Kirby (703) 481-6198
E-mail: kirbyforherndon@aol.com
William B. Tirrell, Sr (703) 709-7586
E-mail: bill.tirrell@verizon.net
Charlie D. Waddell (703) 435-2520
E-mail: charliewaddell@verizon.net
TOWN OF VIENNA
Vienna Town Hall
127 Center St. South
Vienna, VA 22180
(703) 255-6300
Mayor:
M. Jane Seeman (703) 255-6311
E-mail: mayor@viennava.gov
Town Council:
Laurie G. Cole (703) 281-6956
E-mail: lgcole@viennava.gov
Edythe F. Kelleher (703) 242-7651
E-mail: ekelleher@viennava.gov
George E. Lovelace (703) 938-8729
E-mail: glovelace@viennava.gov
Michael J. Polychrones (571) 221-8764
E-mail: mpolychrones@viennava.gov
Maud F. Robinson (703) 938-7375
E-mail: mrobinson@viennava.gov
Daniel M. Dellinger (703) 255-2918
E-mail: ddellinger@viennava.gov
INDEPENDENT CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS
FAIRFAX CITY
City Hall
10455 Armstrong St.
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
(703) 385-7855
Mayor:
Robert F. Lederer 703-591-8217
E-mail: rlederer@fairfaxva.gov
Council Members:
Joan W. Cross 703-273-2930
E-mail: jcross@fairfaxva.gov
Daniel F. Drummond 703-268-0541
E-mail: ddrummond@fairfaxva.gov
Jeffrey C. Greenfield 703-591-2714
E-mail: jgreenfield@fairfaxva.gov
David L. Meyer 703-691-8852
E-mail: dmeyer@fairfaxva.gov
Gary J. Rasmussen 703-385-2991
E-mail: grasmussen@fairfaxva.gov
Steven C. Stombres 703-279-5187
E-mail: sstombres@fairfaxva.gov
Commissioner of the Revenue
William Page Johnson II 703-273-6130
E-mail: pjohnson@fairfaxva.gov
Treasurer
Stephen L. Moloney 703-273-6747
E-mail: smoloney@fairfaxva.gov
FALLS CHURCH CITY
City Hall
300 Park Avenue
Falls Church, VA 22046
TEL: 703-248-5001
TTY: 711
E-mail: city-manager@fallschurchva.gov
Mayor
Robin S. Gardner (h) 703-534-8644
E-mail: rgardner@fallschurchva.gov
Council Members
Vice Mayor (h) 703-237-9089
E-mail: hlippman@fallschurchva.gov
Nader Baroukh (h) 703-992-9433
E-mail: nbaroukh@fallschurchva.gov
Daniel K. Maller (h) 703-731-8433
E-mail: dmaller@fallschurchva.gov
David F. Snyder (h) 703-241-0419
E-mail: dsnyder@fallschurchva.gov
Daniel X. Sze (h) 703-538-5986
E-mail: dansze@fallschurchva.gov
Lawrence Webb (h) 703-532-1043
E-mail: lwebb@fallschurchva.gov
Commissioner of the Revenue
Tom Clinton 703-248-5019
E-mail: commissioner@fallschurchva.gov
Treasurer
Cathy Kaye 703-248-5046
E-mail: treasurer@fallschurchva.gov
Sheriff
S. Stephen Bittle 703-248-5111
E-mail: sheriff-info@fallschurchva.gov
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