Remarks by Letty Hardi
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Just hold that thought for a moment. Sorry, I'm texting her. Thank you. It's probably the really inopportune time when your computer decides to restart. She's logging back in.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“We are at the 11 o'clock mark, and so I'm going to propose we take a 10-minute break before we get to tenant relocation, if that's okay? Okay. Or would staff like to power through? Sorry, staff who's waiting in the audience, but I think we all would like a quick break. That's okay. Thank you. At 11.15. Let us know when we're back up, please. All right, we're ready to go. Great, we are back. Hopefully the last item before we get to consent. Let's call it TR 26-22.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I mean... If I could chime in, I think for service workers, they would most certainly be at 60% AMI and below. And in this matrix, they're getting two points for that.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, so if there are service workers who work in the city, they would have three points, assuming they don't have any other factors. But I think in the discussion last week, I recalled that we thought the most vulnerable considerations were the disability and the low income. And then the other we thought being senior, having young children, having been displaced before receiving rental assistance were kind of comparable.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And this is a relocation policy beyond Virginia Village.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Other questions or comments? Okay, is there a motion?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for saying this, Jones. Have a good night. We have consent up next. Any members of council wish to pull any items up of consent?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, so pulling TR26-32 off consent. Is there a motion to move the consent minus TR26-32?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is Egan on the second? Call roll for consent, please.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think if you scroll up in the staff report, it kind of lists out, I think, who the grant review committees were, which I think were vetted, and volunteers who have experience in this domain.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And I think one out of the three of them have done this before as well.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So none of the three members of the grant review committee have affiliation with any of the grant recipients, obviously. Correct.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I mean, I guess, yes, it's really unfortunate to fund. I guess I intend to not want to undermine the grant review committee's work. I think we all agree that Juneteenth being a city holiday and a federal holiday is something that we want to recognize and honor. And so to the extent that staff can look at creative options, whether it's budget amendment, increasing the pie in FY28's budget in the future, or offer staff resources, I think we'd look to staff to kind of come up with options. But I'm inclined to not undermine the GRC's work on this, given that from what I've heard from staff, it…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you for that discussion and the next steps to come on that as well. GIVEN THAT IT IS NEARLY MIDNIGHT, LET'S NOT DISCUSS THAT SCHEDULE. BUT I DID WANT TO BRING UP SOMETHING THAT I EMAILED TO ALL OF COUNCIL THIS MORNING UNDER REGIONAL COMMITTEE LIAISON REPORTS. I SENT SOMETHING FROM NVRC ABOUT THE 2030 CENSUS. So NBRC is advocating, one, they're writing a letter actually to the Census Bureau because of the proposed changes are quite concerning. And the DEC will do a better job than I will at midnight explaining all the changes. But they're also recommending that all member localities,…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah, the linked organizations are nonpartisan.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah like a basic one is like when you get counted so versus like January 1st it proposes like a window. Like it changes things pretty significantly from how a census is normally conducted as well as obviously asking for citizenship status and other things that will make people less likely to actually fill out the census. Those are two out of many changes in that deck.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'm hearing support to do a letter from all of us in council. I will circulate a draft until we have it together. And then I just sent it to Mary Catherine, the clerk as well, so you all have a copy of it if we want to decide whether the city wants to help inform the public about it. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Maybe a suggestion on that is if the registrar could brief us on the plans on kind of maintaining safe and fair elections in Falls Church and the regional response in that.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026