Angelica Ramos
Contributing Writer
MONTGOMERY COUNTY- Some members of the Board of Supervisors have announced their intent to run for Board of Supervisors again, while some acknowledged their intent to step down at the end of their terms.
Supervisor Todd King announced his intent to run for reelection during the Jan. 27, 2025 BOS meeting. King has served on the Board of Supervisors for a number of years, serving as Chair of the Board in 2019 and Vice Chair of the Board in 2017. He currently serves as District D’s supervisor and representative.
During board reports King said, “I don’t have [a] report, but I would like to announce that I will be running for reelection this year.”
Current Vice Chair Steve Fijalkowski announced his intent to run for reelection as well. Previously he has served as Chair of the Board in 2020 and 2021 and served last year, 2024, as Vice Chair. He was recently reelected for Vice Chair for 2025.
“My big announcement was,” Fijalkowski said, “and I kind of feel guilty about this – for about the last, I don’t know, six months or so I’ve been telling people ‘you know I think this will be my last year’, ‘you know I think I’ve done what I can’. I intended on staying for two terms which I’m going to do, but after a long discussion with my wife, she says I should stay on the board. So, I plan on running for reelection if my constituents in District C will have me.
“I’d like to be around to see some of the things coming up because we have so many projects in the works and I think back to my predecessor, Gary, that he wasn’t here to see the field that was named after him finished,” he continued. “He passed away before that, but I’d like to see some of these things and there’s so many. I started thinking there’s no way to list them all, but Christiansburg High School, if I don’t stick around, I’m not going to see that finish. The 250th year anniversary is a biggie, and I really think that our museum got recognized because how can you ignore it when the county has the same date as the country. I mean that’s just a unique thing, but improvements in Oldtown field, the Ellison Fire and EMS building has got some way to go, and we’re going to be making some changes here in this government center and things are just really progressing very well and the train. I can’t list them all – there’s just too many and but I don’t want to miss them is what I’m what I’m saying. So, hopefully I’ll be around to see those done, but probably we will come up with more and more projects, but I can’t keep doing it forever. I’ll leave it at that.”
Supervisor Sara Bohn announced that she will not be running for reelection to the Board. Bohn won her seat on the Board of Supervisors in 2021 and has served District A since. In December, Bohn was censured by the Board of Supervisors for missing too many in-person meetings for various boards and committees. She said, during the Jan. 27, 2025 meeting, “I would like to say that I will not seek reelection.”