No Metro Board for Connolly

Newly re-elected Fairfax Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly has no intention of going on the Metro board of directors, according to his chief of staff.

There had been discussion that Connolly might try to expand his regional influence by claiming the Virginia seat on the high-profile panel that will be vacated in January by the retiring T. Dana Kauffman (D-Lee).

But chief of staff Dominic Bonaiuto said it's not in the cards, and that he wants to move the current alternate, Supervisor Cathy Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill), up to principal voting member. A new alternate member to the Metro board will be appointed when the Fairfax Supervisors reorganize in January, he said.