WARNING   "Our fight with Newport is still going on. Volunteers made signs for the May 7 Supervisors meeting at home. However, we need lots of visible materials for the McLean Day on May 18th, the next Supervisors meeting on May 21, and subsequent events. Please donate and share this with your friends and neighbors. These do not need to be large donations. Every bit counts. $20-50 a family will go a long way. Thanks!" We had almost a 1/4 of the auditorium filled up, front and center. Thank you all who were able to come out on a workday morning in a show of support. Foust and the other Supervisors couldn’t have missed us if they tried. There is another Supervisor’s Meeting on May 21st where folks can (and have) register to speak. We walked out together as a group after about an hour of holding our signs quietly - -   COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION Rehab Business Opening in Residential Neighborhoods To: XXXX Cc: <dranesville@fairfaxcounty.gov>, <chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov>, <DelRSullivan@house.virginia.gov>, <DelKMurphy@house.virginia.gov> Dear Community Members, Under a veil of secrecy, the Monroe Corporation, a recently created LLC in Virginia, purchased four single family homes in McLean, Virginia each of which will be turned into mental health/substance abuse treatment centers operating as Newport Academy and will house up to eight clients and many more staff. Three of these homes are adjacent to each other on Davidson Road and are directly across the street from McLean High School and bordering Lewinsville Park; the fourth is a short mile away, within a block of Franklin Sherman Elementary School. This information only became available to citizens a few weeks ago, as the buyer’s realtors were required to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. Newport is in the process of converting these homes into treatment centers with eight clients per home, with multiple shifts of three or more treatment providers maintaining continuous, 24-hour coverage at each of these facilities, and additional support staff (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/newport-academy-jobs-mclean-va/). Staff-to-patient ratios at Newport are advertised as 5:1. The vast majority of these clients under treatment are not likely to be residents of McLean with treatment periods of just 4 to 12 weeks. For these treatment services, we understand insurance coverage now available under Federal law will pay the vast portion of Newport rates, which are reportedly as high as $1000 per day per child. They established this corporate presence “by right” under the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which provides housing protections for people with disabilities, including addiction, in group homes, meaning true, long-term residential care. There are legitimate group homes already in McLean operated by non-profits like Oxford House and we welcome them as good and valued neighbors. We believe Newport should instead be categorized as a congregate facility due the number of homes in close proximity as well as the short-term stays of their clients. At a public forum with over 600 citizens at McLean High School Wednesday, April 24, the community raised a number of issues, including legal interpretations, permit application irregularities, zoning interpretations, and violations, to name a few. This issue is vitally important to more neighborhoods than just those bordering the existing purchases. If a precedent-setting license is issued by the State, the same thing can happen in your neighborhood. A Corporation could buy one or more adjoining private homes and open up a treatment center in your neighborhood. In areas where this loophole exists, such as Orange County, California, and in Florida, once one corporation found a foothold, many more followed. Laws were later tightened, but existing corporate homes could not be removed. A license application is now being processed for this business by the Office of Licensing in Richmond. This license could be approved in as little as two weeks. If this license is approved, our community's next course of action may be through the Courts, a long and expensive journey. Since our community has had so little time to study the issue, we are asking our county and state officials to take whatever steps they can to delay the approval of this license. Surely a delay will do no harm, and would do much to help us resolve this matter. If your Homeowners’ Association feels the same way, please ask them to express their concerns to their local and state officials (see attachment for contact information). This is urgent as time is of the essence. We need action to be taken in the next two weeks. For more information and background, please join our open Facebook page: Davidson & Kurtz Road Rehab Facility Discussion (https://www.facebook.com/groups/568014440377068/) - a community group to coordinate responses to proposed psychiatric/drug treatment facility near McLean public schools. Sincerely, Concerned Residents --- Mr. John W. Foust, Supervisor Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 1437 Balls Hill Road McLean, VA 22101 Email: dranesville@FairfaxCounty.gov 703-356-0551 Ms. Sharon Bulova, Chairman Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 12000 Government Center Parkway Fairfax, VA 22035-0079 Email: chairman@FairfaxCounty.gov 703-324-2321 Mr. Richard C. Sullivan, Jr., Delegate Virginia House of Delegates P.O. Box 50753 Arlington, VA 22205 Email: DelRSullivan@house.virginia.gov 804-698-1048 Ms. Kathleen J. Murphy, Delegate Virginia House of Delegates P.O. Box 146 McLean, VA 22101 Email: DelKMurphy@house.virginia.gov 804-698-1034Dr. S. Hughes Melton, Commissioner Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services P.O. Box 1797 Richmond, VA 23218 hughes.melton@dbhds.virginia.gov Fax: 1-804-371-6638 Mr. Dev Nair, Assistant Commissioner Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services P.O. Box 1797 Richmond, VA 23218 Fax: 1-804-371-6638 Ms. Jae Benz, Director Office of Licensing Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services P.O. Box 1797 Richmond, VA 23218 Fax: 1-804-371-6638 Congressman Donald S. Beyer, Jr. U.S. House of Representatives 1901 N. Moore Street, Suite 1108 Arlington, VA 22209 Fax: 703-658-5408 The Honorable Ralph S. Northam
President Trump Participates in an Executive Order Signing Published on Mar 21, 2019 President Trump Participates in an Executive Order Signing and Remarks on Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability on Campus.  Vinson Xavier Palathingal (703) 568-8070, Vinson@VinsonForSchoolBoard.Com P.O. Box 661, McLean, Virginia 22101
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