County, city welcome future NGIC employees

Albemarle County and Charlottesville officials and representatives will make a trip to Northern Virginia to hold a town hall meeting for the 650 to 800 employees who will move to the county-based National Ground Intelligence Center.

The NGIC facility, located at the Albemarle-Greene County line off of U.S. 29, is set to expand by 2011.

Local government, business, real estate and schools representatives will make the trip Sept. 9 “to provide an introduction and overview [of the Charlottesville area] to people who are considering relocation,” county spokeswoman Lee Catlin said in an e-mail.

The meeting will be held at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington that morning and another meeting has been scheduled for the Defense Intelligence Agency building in Herndon that afternoon.

The DIA is expanding its operation at NGIC and is building a new facility to accommodate 1,000 employees.

DIA recently finished selecting which positions it wants to come to Albemarle, and those employees will have to decide whether they want to make the move, seek early retirement or apply to another agency.