Lenah Run Home Owners Association

Dulles South Public Safety Center would like to invite the community of Lenah Run to our 1st Annual Safety Center Day.  Saturday August 16th from 9AM - 1PM the Sheriff’s Office and Station 19 Fire and Rescue will be holding an open house in celebration of our first year open.
We hope to see everyone there.

All homeowners are welcome to attend the next HOA Board of Directors meeting at 7:30 PM on Monday, July 21st at the Arcola Fire station on Gum Spring Road.

Tomorrow all day @ the Jiffy Lube in South Riding near the new CVS.

The End of Summer Picnic will now be held on Sunday August 24th from 4-7pm.  This schedule change was made due to a fundraiser for the Arcola Elementary playground.  This fundraiser will be on August 23rd, 7 pm at Freedom HS and will feature Mike Rayburn, the World’s Funniest Guitar Virtuoso.  Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling Sally Fuller at 703-542-8014 or e-mail aeplaygroundproject@gmail.com.  More details to come regarding the End of Summer Picnic.

Dear Loudoun Resident,

Recently, you may have received one or two e-mails apparently from Jeff
Morse. The first of these states that I have, “proposed a measure that will
delay the building of both schools [MS-5 and HS-7] for at least a year-but
possibly as many as two or three!!!”

This statement is false. I have proposed no such measure.

The second e-mail states that, at my request, “The BoS asked to create a
study to investigate the site procurement process used to place the sites
under contract.” It goes on to say that, “Mr Miller will put a freeze on the
Lenah site while the ’study’ occurs.”

Both of these statements are false. The board has not asked for a study of
the site procurement process and, even if it had, I could not use such a
study to “freeze” anything.

Many of you have written to me, apparently prompted by these e-mails,
asking, in effect, “Why have you stopped HS-7 and MS-5?” In fact, the board
of supervisors has taken no action on the Lenah site, nor any regarding
either school, other than to include funding for them in the CIP. No
application regarding the Lenah site has reached the board.

As the meeting records show, the board did approve my request to have staff
compile a list of sites in the Dulles planning area that might host schools.
That list will be provided to the school board, and will be available for
discussion at the August meeting of the joint BOS/school board committee.
Although the first e-mail states, “Mr Miller’s strategic move occurred
without the benefit of a public hearing  on his idea,” my motion was made in
open session, on the public record, and will result in work product that
will be submitted to both the BOS and school board for whatever value it may
have.

The first e-mail, referring to me, also says, “if he successfully keeps the
high school issue (approved on the CIP) off of the bond referendum, there
will be no funding to build the high school.”

I have done nothing to change the schedule of any bond referendum and have
no plans to do so. This last statement, like the others, is simply
unsupported by the facts and it is deceptive in the extreme.

I urge Mr. Morse (if he did, indeed, write this e-mail) to speak with me
before distributing such misleading material. I also urge those of you who
received these messages to accept my assurances as to the truth.

The school board has apparently decided to offer $20,000,000 for the Lenah
site at a time when the site’s owners are claiming before the Board of
Equalization that it is worth about $4,000,000 or less. This discrepancy
cannot be ignored and I will seek to have it explained. But I have done
nothing along the lines of what the two e-mails I’ve seen say I have done,
and I wanted to tell you that myself.

Best wishes,
Stevens