Plans tonight ?

It’s Election Day in our small Arlington Village Republic. Our well kept but aging community needs now the guidance of us ‘The Villagers’.

The good news is that there are no decisions to take under duress. Other than many of our peer communities we are financially healthy, stable and well protected against imponderable risks. This is not a given and had to be earned with hard work over the years.

Among the most significant contributions of the current board to this community is that it proactively set the stage for discussion about the many important issues a community of our size, age and diversity has. In this year’s budget and “meet the candidates” debates we have experienced a new wave of inputs and ideas that will certainly keep our community creatively active through the next year and beyond. Also, the long way that led to the tough personnel decisions of this Fall revealed a whole agenda of pending assignments that the next Board will have to work on.

The bottom line: There are more solutions emerging from that process than problems.