Party: Independent

Dolmo wants to limit the politicization of education and promote the hiring of teachers in order to remedy shortages [1].

Dolmo wants to sponsor the “include Fathers” bill that will allow parents to minimize conflict while simultaneously providing custody to both mothers and fathers. Dolmo wants to preserve the cohesiveness of families in black communities through the inclusion of parental figures [1].

Olenik wants to shrink the size of the government and describes himself as a fiscal conservative. He is pro-crypto currency and wants to use tax money from marijuana sales and casino revenue to stimulate the economy. He wants to reform the fiscal tax code [1].

Olenik believes school board members and superintendents must have a child in the school system to be elected. He believes education should be non-partisan and that students should be provided with a strong K-12 education [1, 2, 3].

Olenik wants alternative therapies, medications, and tools to be available as solutions to addressing mental health. He wants to focus on the mental health of both veterans and civilians. He describes this as the most important issue facing Virginia [1, 2, 3, 7].

Olenik describes placing term limits on all elected officials in Virginia as his top priority. He wants elected officials in Virginia to be held to the same standard of two terms that applies to the U.S. President [1, 2, 3].

As a community activist, Foley wants the district to serve more for its inhabitants. Foley wants to include people of all age groups and backgrounds in the community [1].

Foley has worked in her community to protect the seniors in the area. Through past projects like the BWSSCWoW, Foley has demonstrated her passion for senior care and plans to extend this to community projects [1, 2].

Welch wants to donate his entire Board member salary to a Fairfax County charity every quarter. Additionally, he wants to keep real estate taxes unchanged for residents [1]. Welch also wants to allocate more funding to housing, transportation, environment protection, and food security, as well as hold Fairfax County Public Schools accountable for creating reasonable budgets [2].

Welch wants to ensure that every single constituent question/comment is responded to [1].

Welch advocates for stronger commitment to using solar power and incentivizing green development. He also supports funding disaster relief plans, albeit not with higher real estate taxes. Additionally, he wants to limit the removal of old-growth trees during development and increase or preserve tree coverage in new developments, with significant penalties if not followed. Finally, he wants to work with Fairfax County Park Authority to combat invasive species issues and resolve budget-related challenges [2].

Welch supports community gardens and making them accessible to whoever is interested, as well as setting aside land for garden development and removing land use barriers barring the development of urban agriculture, especially those pertaining to rooftop gardens and vertical farming. He also supports necessary funding to Fairfax County Public Schools to make sure that no student goes hungry and partnering with religious communities to address food insecurity issues [2].

Welch supports transit-oriented housing development and including a range of affordable housing options for different income levels in such developments. He wants to increase housing funding by reducing expenses elsewhere, as opposed to increasing real estate taxes. Additionally, he wants to work with nonprofits to curb displacement and expand the outreach of government programs designed to help homeowners get assistance for buying a home [2].

Welch wants to improve public transit with current funding levels, only increasing taxes if needed. He also supports creating safe cyclist and pedestrian access that works within the constraints posed by overall traffic concerns and funding, as well as traffic calming measures. Welch supports focusing investing on safe cyclist and pedestrian options for students to go to school but does not support achieving this through extra funding [2].

Morgan plans to spend less tax money by forcing supervisors to focus on providing early Budget Guidance [1]. 

Morgan wants to focus more on student education rather than politics [1]. 

Morgan hopes to protect the environment while listening to citizens’ inputs on the laws [1, 3]. He believes that forcing private property owners to give up property to establish wetlands is unethical [1].

Morgan wants to relocate the homeless shelter further away from high schools or remove it [1].

Morgan hopes to improve the designs of roads; he has been skeptical of plans to install road diets and feels dissatisfied with results [1].

Campbell believes that money negatively affects the election process and creates other priorities for elected officials, so he is not accepting campaign donations [1, 2, 3].

Campbell wants to increase revenue by installing solar panels and geothermal heating and cooling systems in all of Fairfax County’s public buildings [1. 3].

Campbell wants to encourage the use of trains to decrease the amount of traffic on highways by signs on the area’s highways which would display wait times for the Virginia Railway Express. He would also like to build additional bike rental stations and a new light rail system [1, 3].