Newly-hired police officers will make an annual $62,000 salary, up from $52,749, a 17% increase effective January 1, 2023. In December, the county police department was short about 85 officers within the agency of about 650 patrolling the streets of the jurisdiction of three-quarters-of-million people.
The move comes as other law enforcement agencies like Stafford County and the Virginia State Police increased their annual starting salaries to $59,000 and $66,000 for troopers in Northern Virginia, respectively.
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(Prince William Times -- metred paywall) Kerensa Sumers, 39, of Manassas, has announced her bid to represent the Gainesville District on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in the wake of former supervisor Pete Candland's resignation. She is the first and only Democrat so far to officially throw her hat in the ring.
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Prince William County Republicans will hold a mass meeting on January 4, 2023, to select its nominee for the Special Election to fill the Gainesville District Supervisor seat.
The mass meeting is planned to be held at Battlefield High School. It will be open to any registered voter residing in the Gainesville district who promises to support the election of the candidate nominated, states a press release.
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Prince William County Government press release
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors recently approved funding agreements with the Virginia Department of Transportation, or VDOT, for a total of $3.25 million to build and administer two sidewalks that will make pedestrians safer in the Town of Occoquan and along Token Forest Drive in the Coles Magisterial District.
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(Insidenova.com) In 18 years, Prince William County will look quite different than it does today, and supervisors early Wednesday cast votes to voice how they think the county should look in the years ahead.
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Bob Weir announced his intent to run for the vacant Prince William Board of County Supervisors Gainesville District seat. Supervisor Peter Candland announced his resignation from the seat effective Friday, December 16.
Weir just won a seat on the Haymarket Town Council, where he has served five terms. He's also served five terms on the Haymarket Planning Commission and has a proven track record and reputation for achieving results for the residents of Haymarket and the Gainesville District.
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By Jennifer T. Wall
Prince William County School Board, Gainesville District
Over the past 18 months, I have repeatedly heard the statement to the effect that it is the western end of the county's turn to feel the pains of development. This statement ignores the fact that over the last two decades, the west end of Prince William has in fact experienced explosive growth.
Anyone who knows Prince William County and has lived in this county for the last two decades will agree that many areas in western Prince William have been completely transformed from what they once were.
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Prince William County residents asked the U.S. Department of Interior to step in to block the Board of County Supervisors from approving its 2040 comprehensive land-use plan.
The vote is tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m.
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Gainesville District Supervisor Peter Candland announced an abrupt end to his third term on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
Candland will resign on Friday, December 16, 2022 (not 2023), after spending nearly 10 years and three terms in office representing western Prince William County. The senior member of the Board of County Supervisors, his decision comes after supervisors approved the controversial Prince William Digital Gateway development, which cleared the way for data centers to be built on more than 800 acres next to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
