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The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors convened on December 17, 2025, for a full-day work session starting at 2:00 PM and an evening session at 6:00 PM. The work session covered annual updates on the county's economic development, airport, finances, and citizen satisfaction. The evening session featured a formal tribute to the late Supervisor James M. "Jim" Holland, recognitions for retiring employees, and a lengthy agenda of new business, zoning requests, and public hearings. The meeting adjourned after 10:30 PM.
The meeting adjourned to the Board of Supervisors Organizational Meeting on January 7, 2026.
Good afternoon and welcome to the afternoon session of the December 17th Board of Supervisors meeting. Madam Clerk. Mr. Chair, the first item on the agenda is approval of minutes for the November 19th Board of Supervisors meeting and December 2nd legislative reception. Any questions or can I get a motion? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Item two, request to postpone agenda items and additions, deletions, or changes in the order of presentation. Staff has no requests. Item three, everyday excellence, Dr. Casey. Good afternoon, members of the board and the public that is with us here today, including students, uh that we'll be recognizing shortly. But as we start every meeting uh with Everyday Excellence, it's just illustrating to the public and reminding ourselves of the value we place amongst the the entire workforce of Chesterfield. I know that are you know behind the scenes that may not get recognized as well elsewhere. Uh today is a no exception. Uh and it's really a nice combination because it shows that each department sometimes has a team and a support network within itself that is not just one person getting things done. So I will turn it over to Mr. Minx uh to recognize his three everyday excellence employees. Thank you. And Mr. Chairman, members of the board. Um really thank you for the opportunity to celebrate um all of the legal work that this team did. Um this is Rob Robinson, Andrew Fulweiter, and Kelly Harmon, um, from our office that we worked on the Zomod ordinance. Uh in its um which the board adopted in September, but which began uh five years ago, over five years ago. Uh Rob actually was working on Zoom out at the beginning. This is all pre-COVID stuff, if we can remember that. Um Kelly was providing the the legal support for that as as uh Rob's paralegal. So um that's where it began. Um Dr. Hilton uh, you know, saw Rob with Zoom odd all the way through the planning commission. And um so it uh it was but it was this team because Andrew joined in in two thousand twenty-two. Um and it was this team that got the ordinance through from a legal standpoint, it got it crossed finish line in September. Um in fact, Andrew joining the um to the team in 2022. I will say that in my entire career here with the county, I've had one lawyer come to me and ask to do land use work. And that was Andrew. Um I don't expect it to ever be repeated again. Um, but uh he did some really wonderful work along with with Rob, and I can confidently say that the three of them have legally analyzed every single provision of ZoMod. They've written or edited countless provisions. Um Rob and Andrew attended most of the meetings uh on the ordinance, uh, considered or wrote thousands of emails concerning ZOMOD, legally analyzed the many comments received from the public, um, answered numerous inquiries from planners, administrators, the planning commission members, citizens, members of the ZOMOD advisory committee, and of course, um any inquiries that were made by this board. Uh so they were on top of that. I I made a crude attempt to quantify their efforts, and between the three of them, they dealt with approximately 3540 emails, attended over 210 meetings. Um we got an estimate of a of 300 hours that can't possibly be right. Um spent on phone calls and teams meetings uh uh to to get through uh to get through this ordinance. Then there's all the internal communications between the three of them and with me. Um so I can say with confidence that the legal issues have been thoroughly vetted on ZOMOD. There's other work that they did though, which is a whole lot less glamorous than than working on the ordinance itself.