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APRIL 13, 2023
Purcellville Interim Town Manager Quits Mid-Meeting BY HANNA PAMPALONI hpampaloni@loudounnow.com
Purcellville Interim Town Manager John Anzivino quit in the middle of the Town Council’s meeting Tuesday night, after Council member Mary F. “Boo” Bennett made a motion to amend the proposed town budget lowering the cost of living raise for staff members from 5% to 2%. Anzivino, who has been leading the council through a series of budget work sessions to allow detailed review of each department, objected to the motion, which was made without prior consultation with him and outside the established budget deliberations. Anzivino said he had never seen anything like it and other actions taken by the council in his 40 years of experience with municipal governments. “It’s not something I’m going to continue with,” he said. He called the motion by Bennett a surprise. “You have two meetings scheduled
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Interim Purcellville Town Manager John Anzivino quit in the middle of the Town Council’s meeting on Tuesday.
that are general, public discussions on the budget by the council. Those are where your amendments should take place … but it’s not so much the council exercising its right to reduce the budget, it’s how it’s
being done,” he said. Mayor Stanley J. Milan said he would be willing to delay consideration of the budget amendment until the April 26 budget meeting.
Summit Pushes to Protect Rural West for Everyone BY RENSS GREENE
rgreene@loudounnow.com
At a Tuesday summit, leaders across tourism, conservation, government and industrial circles made the case that preserving the county’s rural spaces is good not just for the people living there, but all of Loudoun. “People want to move here from all
over the world, to live, to work, to recreate, have families and even to retire, and that’s an exceptional thing. That’s not true everywhere in the world,” Piedmont Environmental Council President Chris Miller said. “… And what we produce here is increasingly the most important thing in the global economy—data. So all that’s combined with one place and that’s amazing. We also have a legacy of
challenges that are not fully met, and future issues that we have to squarely acknowledge.” The Loudoun Together Summit at Salamander Resort and Spa, organized by the Town of Middleburg, put Miller on the same stage as tourism and hospitality businesses, Loudoun’s town mayors, Montgomery County, MD’s land preservation expert, and Chuck
“Is that what you’re suggesting?” he asked Anzivino. “I’m not suggesting anything. I’ve made my position clear … As I said, it’s a partnership between the manager and the council and this is completely unannounced to me tonight. I had no room, no time for preparation and I’m looking at the staff, I’m looking at the public here. And I’m here because I want to be. I don’t have to be here. And I came because you needed help … at the same time I expect a little heads up on things, and I’m not getting it, so I’m ready to go,” Anzivino said. He said he had talked with Milan that week about when budget amendments should be proposed during the review process. “I’ll stand by my principles as a professional … if that offends the council, I’m sorry,” he said. It concluded Anzivino’s second stint as the town’s interim town manager. In 2017, he stepped into the job after the departure ANZIVINO QUITS continues on page 37 Kuhn, a Loudoun businessman who made his fortune as the founder of JK Moving and CapRelo, develops data center projects, and is by far the largest creator of conservation easements in Loudoun County. And despite their different background and perspectives, Miller and Kuhn agreed Loudoun’s growth and af-
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