Panel, citizens agree a higher salary is needed to attract the right candidate for an impossible job
"We’re not going to get somebody in here on Tony’s salary," said a constituent at Supervisor John Cook's Town Hall on Monday night. Fairfax County Executive Tony Griffin is scheduled to retire in April, and the Board of Supervisors has begun the process to replace him. According to Cook, Griffin currently earns about $240,000 a year. School superintendent Jack Dale earns about $320,000 a year, and many in the room said that discrepancy would need to be adjusted if the county wanted to attract top candidates for county executive. Supervisor Cook agreed. "The Board of Supervisors hasn't yet set any parameters, but when you're as big as Fairfax County, you find who you want and you get them," he said. "We’re going to pay what we need to pay…
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Award-winning broadcast journalist returns to her roots (she's an '82 grad of Fort Hunt High School) to wow crowd Friday night at Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce dinner.
NBC "Today" host and Northern Virginia native Hoda Kotb whooped it up with a crowd of about 300 mostly women Friday night with inspiring stories of her ups and downs in her broadcast career and surviving breast cancer. "I feel so at home here, I went to Fort Hunt High School [class of '82] which is now West Potomac, and graduated from Virginia Tech," Kotb told the crowd at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce event at the McLean Hilton. Fort Hunt resident Suzanne Davis, whose son Collin is a sophomore at West Potomac, was one of several hundred Northern Virginia business women in the audience who settled in to hear Kotb after a wine and cheese reception, roast chicken dinner and chocolate mousse dessert. "My mom [Sami Kotb of Alexandria…
Jonathan Erickson
6:38 am on Thursday, February 9, 2012
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