County Board to Kick-Off 2019 with Jan. 2 Organizational Meeting

Published on December 27, 2018

The Arlington County Board  will elect a new Chair and Vice Chair, and each member will lay out his or her priorities for 2019 at a  January 2, 2019 Organizational Meeting.

The five-member County Board elects a new Chair and Vice Chair annually.  This year's outgoing Chair is Katie Cristol; Christian Dorsey is the 2018 vice chair.  Other members of the County Board in 2019 include: Libby Garvey, Erik Gutshall and Matt deFerranti. All members of the Board serve at-large, and are elected to four-year terms. The Board is Arlington's governing body, vested with its legislative powers.

The Organizational Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the County Board Room, Room 307 on the third floor of the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center.  In addition to electing its 2019 leadership, the Board will make appointments to both regional bodies and advisory groups and adopt the 2019 County Board Meeting schedule and procedures.

To view the agenda, and read the staff reports, visit the County website. All County Board Meetings are live-streamed on the County website and YouTube, and broadcast live by Arlington TV, the County's cable television channel, in HD on Comcast Xfinity 1085, and SD on Comcast Xfinity 25 and Verizon FiOS 39 and 40.