You are exactly right. I would not count on the sheriff to do anything that requires him to do actual work.

Of course there were, Dolph….and today, there are unknowns about tomorrow. However, at least a couple of things have come into clean focus: 1) Following passage of the Rule of Law Resolution, ESOL enrollment is down considerably, resulting in an annual savings which I understand to be in the neighborhood of $8M. 2) Foreclosures are up…of course they’re up on mortgages that shouldn’t have been made in the first place. 3.) Those in this country illegally are scared, and it’s Corey Stewart’s fault. Shameful; abide by the law and don’t fear

Concerning your comments about :

‘The “other” side had their opportunity to roust the Board during the last election, clearly the “enforcement” supporters prevailed. It is now time to move forward.’

It would be my guess that the “other” side probably can’t vote. You are ignoring many PWC residents who might not want to go to the cost and extremes that you do but who want to spend limited resources a bit differently.

We have some very challenging economic times ahead of us in this county. Our schools will be very short changed. We will need many extra county employees to handle the added responsibilities of vacant houses. We need extra police officers to keep a vigilant watch on vacant houses and businesses.

When you have less coming in and more to spend, something has to give. I very much support the 287g program at the jail. I want the jail to have more employees trained to do the 287g work so they don’t all quit in disgust from working 60 hour weeks. I want to keep criminals off the street.

I don’t think we can afford to have the criminal alien unit with the police dept at the present time. When supervisors voted for the resolution, there were a few unknowns. As a county, we must use the public coffers wisely and adjust as the need arises. If that is compromise, so be it.

they spend next to nothing for the decals are sent out with the PP bill and it is only the cost of the stickers which is very little.

The county needs to generate money and I pointed out at the Board meeting how they could add just .016 to the tax rate and generate the same amount of money based on an average assesed value of 390,000 and two cars per house. If this penny and sixth hundreds of a cent were added to the tax rate then vacant land, commercial, multifamily, industrial and public facilites would being paying this income as well as the home owner. If your property was assesed for less then 390,000 you saved money or if you had more then two vehciles you saved a great deal more. The BOCS do not care what it cost you so of course they will not do this to save you one penny. Enjoy getting the shaft folks..

I don’t care who is culpable; I want to hold their feet to the fire and ensure that they follow through on their commitments and fund and enforce the resolution.

The “other” side had their opportunity to roust the Board during the last election, clearly the “enforcement” supporters prevailed. It is now time to move forward.

As far as putting Corey’s feet to the fire about fully funding and enforcing; I am mailing him a check made out to “Prince William County” with “Resolution only” in the check memo, and a note that this is a voluntary contribution to ensure that the resolution is fully funded and enforced.

My daughter got stopped because her inspection sticker was expired and she was driving it to the garage to get the repair work done. Not only was she pulled over, but they did ask for her DL, reg, ins. and wrote her a ticket. I understand that this is the law and I don’t have a problem with her being pulled over, but I do have a problem with others driving around with expired tags, inspection stickers, etc and “they” are not supposed to be stopped and cited? Give me a break! I am soooo sick of the double standards. If you aren’t “legal” w/respect to the requirements to operate a vehicle on the road — valid DL, tags, registration, inspection, etc — then you deserve to be pulled over, and questioned.

FYI, I don’t agree with the car tax as a source of revenue, I would agree that it is probably not cost-effective when you consider the admin costs. My point is, there needs to be one standard for EVERYONE and it needs to be uniformly enforced.

The bottom line is that they are disguising a tax as a fee and putting residents through the annual paperwork and “decal scraping” exercise to generate a bit of extra cash. I would prefer to generate this bit of revenue somewhere else… and (as a Conservative) really don’t like paying a tax disguised as a fee. I wonder how much the County pays to administer this system?

I stated in my e-mail that I would like to send a check earmarked specifically to fund the Resolution. Because of the market correction, our RE taxes are going down a bit this year. I want to send the difference to fund the resolution, and ONLY the resolution. We should all do so to communicate our commitment to funding the resolution.

The whole point of the Resolution is a “broken windows” theory — enforcement at the smallest level. It is a proven method of reducing “big” crime by cracking down with zero tolerance on the “small” stuff.

We want our community back. The Resolution is working. It is imperative to stay the course!