-: My name's Christine Warren
and I'm chief of staff for one of the Fairfax County
board of supervisors.
I'm chief of staff for one of the 10 Fairfax County
board of supervisors.
Our district supervisor represents 123,000 constituents.
Primarily my job is constituent services
from anywhere helping people with their stop sign
that may have fallen down
to residential and commercial land use.
Every day is a busy day.
I don't think we don't have busy days.
On board days, which can start at 9:30
and they could end at 10:00, 11:00 at night,
it depends on how many public hearings we have,
I'm meeting with constituents throughout the day.
We may have phone calls with developers
that want to do some sort of mixed use
building in the community.
We may have some transportation issues.
We also work on health and human services.
When it rains, our district's in Alexandria,
so we're always concerned about flooding
and the impact on residents.
It runs a gamut.
In the Lorten community there are 2,000 acres of land
that Fairfax County bought in 2000
that used to be a prison for D.C.
For the last 15 years we have been working to
try to figure out how to adaptively reuse the prison site,
how to bring in commercial properties,
how to bring in residential properties,
also including park land, open space,
and that includes public meetings,
that includes lots of staff meetings in preparation,
a lot of land use and engineering meetings as well.
Every day is different.
I may have to go to a breakfast in the morning
with the Chamber of Commerce,
come back, have our staff meeting.
Constituents typically have HOA meetings
and community meetings in the evening because people work
and so a lot of times we do have meetings
in the evenings as well.