CMS property manager accused of embezzling $365,000

An Alexandria woman who worked as an agent for a Fairfax County property management company has been arrested for allegedly embezzling $365,000 from the account of an Alexandria apartment complex.

Wendy R. West, 35, was a management agent for Control Management Systems & Services Inc., . . .

A more equitable and cost-effective parking plan?

Currently each of the 220 units have an assigned space, and are allotted two stickers each to park in the 68 unassigned spaces — no sticker is required for owners (and whoever they permit) to park in their assigned space.

The problem is that this plan potentially has 440 cars competing for 68 unassigned spaces. It’s also costly to administer.

Here’s a proposal for providing more equitable, and cost effective, access to the unassigned spaces.

Issue one movable pass, bearing the owner’s unit number, to each owner. The owner, or his guests, may then use this pass to park in any unassigned space.

This proposal would not change the use of assigned spaces, but there would then be 220 cars (instead of 440 cars) competing for the 68 unassigned spaces.

It would reduce administration costs because each owner gets one pass with their unit number (no need for street names since unit numbers do not duplicate).

The management agent would not have to track who has what pass. Parking enforcers would need only to see if cars in unassigned spaces have the movable pass.