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Charlottesville Community Engagement

Town Crier Productions

Regular updates of what"s happening in local and regional government in and around Charlottesville, Virginia from an award-winning journalist with nearly thirty years of experience. communityengagement.substack.com

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May 4, 2024 podcast: Louisa County adopts a budget...

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2024/05/04

Welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement for May 4, 2024, a program that unfortunately has nothing to do with the fictional Star Wars universe and is less about a long time ago far far away and more about what’s going on right now in the area in and around Charlottesville, Virginia. I’m Sean Tubbs, a local journalist who operates a fledgling information outlet called Town Crier Productions. What you’re about to hear are some of the stories from just a little while ago. In today’s edition:*

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36:52

April 20, 2024: Nine audio versions of stories from...

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2024/04/20

The introductory paragraph of every edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement is intended to be a script for a podcast but recently there was a disturbance in the workflow. Efforts are being made to build a new framework and the arrival of steel beams this week to the construction site for Buford Middle School has prompted me to take the next step. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I miss the podcast, too:On today’s podcast edition:* Charlottesville City Council adopts a budget that reflects a move toward

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19:52

April 1, 2024: Group plans to hold rally at City Hall...

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2024/04/01

I will state clearly at the outset that this newsletter and podcast comes from Virginia, and not from either Indiana or North Carolina. The celebration of the beginning of the second quarter of the year often comes with merriment and mirth, but this April 1, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement comes at a time when there’s information to get out. I’m Sean Tubbs, because who else would I be? In today’s installment:* Council will hold first reading tonight on a proposed budget for FY25

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29:22

Podcast for March 30, 2024: Albemarle Supervisors...

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2024/03/30

For the past six weeks, a version of the podcast has aired on WTJU 91.1 FM at 6 a.m. For most of this week, I’ve only posted print editions because I need to more time now to make sure the audio is produced correctly. I spent a good chunk of Friday getting this ready for the airwaves and this Saturday morning all of my energy wants to turn to the next set of stories rather than create a new edition.Town Crier Productions is an experiment in the practice of journalism and this is the latest

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32:43

March 26, 2024: Podcast edition with segments on...

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2024/03/26

One of these things is not like the other, which is to say that these words are written as a script for a podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement that’s made up of stories from recent editions of the newsletter. I’m Sean Tubbs, and this is an experimental time for Town Crier Productions. Why? There are many reasons I could state but for now, perhaps it’s just better to get on with this edition. This version of the podcast includes:* A red flag day last week resulted in brush fires

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26:28

March 20, 2024: Podcast version of most of the last...

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2024/03/21

Since I first began this newsletter in July 2020, I’ve published almost all of the regular newsletters concurrently with the podcast version. The Charlottesville Quarantine Report was something I started on March 15, 2020 as an experiment on a day when I wasn’t a journalist as the world was about to change. In 1995, my first professional work was as an intern at WVTF Public Radio.I’ve always worked like a radio reporter. I love to work with sound, and even in the days I was at Charlottesville

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22:35

March 18, 2024: More Charlottesville employees agree...

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2024/03/18

It is Monday, March 18, 2024 and this is Charlottesville Community Engagement. This program began four years ago as a podcast I started to cover the local response to the pandemic. I took a leap of faith in the summer of 2020 to become an independent journalist and we’re now up to 648 editions of a newsletter and podcast that seeks to cover as much as possible about municipal government in the third decade of the 21st century in this small American community. I’m Sean Tubbs, glad you’re reading or

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27:24

March 14, 2024: Staff developing by-laws for future...

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2024/03/14

For many years, the Comprehensive Plans of both Albemarle and Charlottesville have called for additional density to be located in walkable communities where public transit is a viable option for getting around without a car. But how well are the various systems working to meet that goal? A direct answer may not be available In today’s edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, but this one does catch up on a variety of meetings held at a time when there’s a lot of talk about creating a

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18:36

March 6, 2024: Sanders recommends $251M FY25 budget...

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2024/03/06

There are an even 300 days until the end of 2024 now that it is March 6. A lot of things have happened on this day in history, There are likely a lot of newly created holidays for this day, but Charlottesville Community Engagement is currently not using either frame to create these opening paragraphs, paragraphs whose function has never been beta-tested or shown to a test audience. I’m Sean Tubbs, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. On today’s show:* Charlottesville City Council has directed City Manager

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21:29

March 5, 2024: Public has three days left to weigh in...

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2024/03/05

There are only a few days left before most Americans will adjust their clocks to continue a practice that readjusts time away from the regular sequence, shifting patterns that will disrupt some but may not be noticed by others. Will the 106th transition to daylight savings time affect the production of Charlottesville Community Engagement? I’m Sean Tubbs, and I won’t know the answer for another 130 hours or so. On today’s show:* The regional body that makes decisions on transportation projects

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15:28

March 4, 2024: City's transit union asks Council to...

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2024/03/04

Recent editions of this newsletter and podcast have demonstrated my thrill at the existence of Leap Day, and that is followed up by my absolute love of March 4th, a position on the calendar that is also a triumphant command! This is the Charlottesville Community Engagement edition for the 64th day of 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, a lover of calendars. In this edition:A lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and former chair of the public housing authority is now a member of the

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24:31

March 1, 2024: Belmont Bridge construction to be...

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2024/03/01

Now we march into the third month of the year, having leapt to our heart’s content in the previous 24 hour period. This is the March 1, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast that now can also be heard on the radio every Saturday morning at 6 a.m. on WTJU 91.1 FM in Charlottesville. I’m Sean Tubbs, glad to be able to do this. On today’s show:* There’s another delay in the completion of the $38 million Belmont Bridge* Several speakers ask for adjustments in

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17:07

February 28, 2024: Charlottesville to respond to...

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2024/02/28

It’s the final day of February - usually. Instead the word penultimate can be used to describe this 24-hour period in relation to its placement in the month. There is something about Leap Day that thrills me, but otherwise this has nothing to do with what’s in this particular installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, a person of simple pleasures. .On today’s show:* The City of Charlottesville will respond by March 15 to a lawsuit calling for the overturning of the new

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23:14

February 24, 2024: Details from VDOT on work expected...

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2024/02/24

Saturday editions of Charlottesville Community Engagement are rare, but then again the existence of February 29 is also rare and we have one of those going on this week as well. This newsletter and podcast exists to bring you and thousands of others some but not even close to all information about decisions made that affect what’s known as the built environment. I’m Sean Tubbs, hopeful that this work may lead to a better community. On today’s show:* There was a shooting on the downtown mall just

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20:10

February 21, 2024: Richardson unveils $629M Albemarle...

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2024/02/21

There are now eight days until Leap Day, a 24-hour-period that only happens every four years and for which there do not appear to be any large celebrations. Will there be an edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement on that day? For now, it may be better to simply proceed with the February 21, 2024 edition of the program. I’m Sean Tubbs.On today’s show:* A man is dead after being struck last evening by a moving vehicle on U.S. 29 between Stonefield and Seminole Square Shopping Center*

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February 20, 2024: TJPDC gets support for road safety...

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2024/02/20

According to data collected by the website eBird and curated by the American Bird Conservancy, there are at least 488 species of our feathered friends in Virginia. Every edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, including this February 20, 2024 edition, is fueled by observations of the activities of winged creatures who are unaware of the existence of journalism. I’m Sean Tubbs, and perhaps there’s grant funding available to attempt translations to penetrate an untapped market? On today’s

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22:25

February 16, 2024: RWSA completes installation of...

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2024/02/16

The Wikipedia entry for Writer’s block currently suggests five distinct causes for the phenomenon ranging from “physiological and neurological basis” to “negative self-beliefs and feeling of incompetence.”None seem to apply to the inability for Charlottesville Community Engagement to swiftly write up all of the desired stories in the timeliest of manners. Time is required to sift through all of the elements to see what segments result. I’m Sean Tubbs, understanding there are no more than seven days

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26:32

February 14, 2024: After one week, Lyons is out as...

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2024/02/14

Today is a day intended to celebrate one version of love, but there are many forms of devotion. This is the 636th edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast that seeks to provide as much information as possible about a particular region of the United States of America. I’m Sean Tubbs, and this love is what I got. On today’s show:* One of Charlottesville’s Deputy City Managers is no longer with the city, and there are two other new top vacancies* The United States

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21:19

February 13, 2024: Sanders puts decarbonization study...

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2024/02/13

We are in an age where perhaps we need new metaphors to describe 21st century life. Sometimes people will say they are “drinking from a firehose” when they’re placed in a new situation, or perhaps “in the deep end” or perhaps “in the weeds.” These may no longer be relevant. Sadly, the research budget for Charlottesville Community Engagement does not include funding for neologisms, but your suggestions for phrases, new and old, are requested. I’m Sean Tubbs, not sure if this a sequitur or the non

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26:09

February 8, 2024: Council approves city’s purchase...

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2024/02/08

Ordinarily we could say that February 8th marks the beginning of the second quarter for this particularly-shaped month, but we’re in one of those years with an extra day.How are your plans to mark Leap Year shaping up? Would you support an alternate plan to make that extra rotation its own special month, and if so, what would it be called? This assemblage of information is called Charlottesville Community Engagement and I’m called Sean Tubbs, and this is called the last sentence of the intro. On

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