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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Alexandria City Council meets Tuesday for its June 23 legislative session, with a docket that runs from a police oversight briefing and school board election reform to housing policy and industrial bond issuances. An executive session is scheduled for 5:45 p.m., with the regular meeting beginning at 7 p.m. at the Del Pepper Community Resource Center, 4850 Mark Center Drive, and streaming on the city's website and government Channel 70.
Here is what to watch.
A police oversight report on an in-custody death
Among the evening's oral reports, the Independent Policing Review Auditor is scheduled to brief the council, a day after releasing its final report on the in-custody death of Allan F. Tucker II. Tucker, a 32-year-old Woodbridge man, died Aug. 15, 2025, at the city's adult detention center after an arrest for public intoxication; the medical examiner ruled the death accidental and prosecutors declined to charge the officers involved. The civilian Independent Community Policing Review Board will hold a public hearing on the auditor's report June 29. The Alexandria Brief has more on the report and the oversight process in a separate story.
The same presentation notes the auditor was separately notified of an officer-involved shooting at Canterbury Square and will open an independent administrative review after the criminal investigation concludes.
Ryan Belmore
A committee on school board elections
The night's most closely watched action item is a resolution to establish a City-ACPS Ad Hoc Committee on School Board Election Reform — a temporary, balanced body of two council members and one alternate appointed by the mayor, and two school board members and one alternate appointed by the board chair, supported by city staff. Under the draft resolution and the city manager's memo, the committee would begin meeting in July, work through the fall, and report to both bodies — with the resolution citing a Nov. 10 deadline and the manager's memo describing work sessions running through Oct. 30 — aiming to produce a charter-amendment recommendation in time for the 2027 General Assembly session.
The resolution answers a formal request School Board Chair Michelle Rief made in a May 18 memo, which itself builds on a board resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 7, 2024. The board is asking the council to seek a city charter amendment making two changes: extending board terms from three years to four, and shifting from concurrent elections — in which all nine seats are decided at once every three years — to staggered terms, with one member from each of the city's three districts elected annually.
The board's case rests on turnover. In its memo, the board says School Board elections have produced an average of five new members per cycle since 1997, including January 2022, when six of nine seats changed hands, and cites analyses finding the current structure carries a greater than 60 percent probability of majority turnover in a single election. The board argues this instability undermines multi-year initiatives in areas such as math achievement, attendance, and services for English learners and students with disabilities. It notes that roughly 90 percent of Virginia school boards serve four-year terms and about two-thirds use staggered cycles, and that ACPS is the only comparable Virginia division still using concurrent three-year terms.
The committee's scope is the live tension. The board's memo states its request is narrow — term length and staggering — and explicitly addresses a point of disagreement: while some council members, including Abdel Elnoubi, a former board member, have pushed to also reduce the nine-member board's size, the board says it is open to that conversation but considers it separate, arguing that reducing size without addressing the election cycle would not solve the turnover problem. The resolution before the council, however, frames the committee's charge to include board composition and size alongside terms and staggering, leaving that disagreement for the committee to work through. When the council took its first step in May, Councilwoman Sandy Marks said she wanted the effort kept narrow and focused on the electoral questions rather than a sweeping governance review.
Ryan Belmore
Housing 2040, on first reading
The council will take up the implementation ordinance for the Housing 2040 plan, the city's housing blueprint through 2040, on first reading. The council approved the plan itself at its June 13 public hearing on a recommendation from the Planning Commission; Tuesday's vote concerns the ordinance formally incorporating it into the city's Comprehensive Plan as a Master Plan Amendment, a procedural step toward final adoption.
The plan organizes the city's housing work around 10 goals and roughly 100 strategies, though many of its most consequential pieces — including new affordability and preservation targets — are to be set after adoption. The plan documents a sharp decline in market-affordable units, from roughly 18,000 in 2000 to 6,900 in 2025.
Ryan Belmore
A rewrite of recreation fees
The council will consider receiving the Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities' 2026 Resource Allocation and Cost Recovery findings and approving an updated cost-recovery policy. Such policies govern how much the city subsidizes versus charges for recreation programs, classes, and facility and field use — the kind of change that can affect what residents and youth sports leagues pay, and which often draws public comment.
Industrial bonds, leases, and tax relief
Several items move on the consent portion of the action docket, typically approved together without separate debate. They include resolutions authorizing the Industrial Development Authority to issue refunding bonds for National Industries for the Blind and revenue bonds for The View at Goodwin Living; lease extensions for artists, galleries, and founding members at the Torpedo Factory Art Center; a resolution setting the 2026 personal property tax relief rates; a release of contingency funds for an animal control officer salary adjustment; and an electronic participation policy for public meetings.
The council will also take up first readings of two rezoning implementation ordinances tied to properties at 1019 Cameron Street and 4154 Duke Street, both approved June 13, and consider its upcoming meeting schedule. Earlier in the meeting, the council is set to receive an Alexandria Fire Department update alongside the policing auditor's briefing.
How to participate
Residents can address the council by registering through the Zoom link on the meeting docket or submit written comments to the City Clerk at CouncilComment@alexandriava.gov. The full docket and meeting materials are available at alexandriava.gov/council.
This is a preview based on the council's published final docket; items and outcomes may change. The Alexandria Brief will report on the meeting's results.
