The Finance, Government Operations, and Economic Development Committee (FGOEDC) of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors met on October 14, 2025, to discuss economic development, capital projects, property tax methodology, affordable housing loans, a space strategy for the government center, budget development items, and healthcare services at the adult detention center. Several action items were approved on consent, and multiple votes were taken on affordable housing loan applications and a major facility relocation decision.
I would like to call to order the October 14th, twenty twenty-five, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Finance, Government, Operations, and Economic Development Committee meeting. This room has a hearing loop. If you need hearing assistance, switch your hearing aids to telecoil mode if you need a headset. Questions and comments are not timed, however, once a motion is on the table, committee members will have three minutes to ask questions and make comments for all of the items. Um who will also be offered an opportunity to ask questions after the committee, ask questions. Um committee members without objection, I would like to ask that we add item fifteen, design endorsement courts complex phase four renovation, and item sixteen, design endorsement arcola enslaved quarters. And item twenty, Village of St. Louis deferred forgivable loan program to the consent agenda. Seeing no objection, I thank you for helping us shorten the meeting. Sorry, fourteen fifteen and twenty. Thank you, ma'am. Other groups that actually were had a had asked too. So I I don't I don't care if it I don't do not care that it goes on consent. I just want to make sure that when it gets to be the time that everyone is all the appropriate committees are reached out to. Item 12, proposed repeal of Chapter 888 of the codified ordinances, Loudoudon County Real Estate Tax Classification of Property Owned by surviving spouses and certain persons killed in the line of duty. Item 13 proposed amendments to Chapter 878 of the codified ordinances of Loudoun County Transit Occupancy Tax. Item 14, design endorsement arcola quarters for the enslaved, that's in Dulles District. And item 15 design endorsement courts complex phase four renovation that's in Leesburg and Item 20, Village of St. Louis Deferred, excuse me, forgivable loan program that's in Little River District. Do I have a motion? Second. Motion made by Supervisor Sane, seconded by Supervisor Laterno. By way of uh comment before we vote, the um design endorsement design endorsements are new. Um this is a way for staff to bring an item to the board and the committee sort of midway, so we don't uh see something after a lot of work has been done on it. So we get a chance to do a quick review. Um, and so those were on consent. Thank you, colleagues. Um, madam chair, it was at St. Louis, the one that you wanted to make sure all folks were at the table. No, that was Arcola. Arcola, okay, thank you. Um the St. Louis Forgivable Loan Program is a uh we'll be we'll be coming to the full board. So this is basically endorsing the concept, and then staff will come back to us uh with a plan on how they plan to move forward on that. Um I think those are all of the comments I have. Colleagues, do you have any comments on consolidated? Madam Chair. Yes. Um two things. One, I do want to thank staff for all the work that continues to be done on the village of St. Louis item in every way. I think I've said this before that uh I do believe the village of St. Louis is a part of Loudon County that have been overlooked. I won't say ignore, but I'll say overlook for a very, very long time. And um now we are doing uh kind of circling back around and doing some of the things. Fact that the the they they were the first to get the village plan done. I think it's very apropos, and I want to thank all the staff that worked on that. I also want to say that we start working on um the uh loan or rather the um issue for military members and their and their family or their spouses. We start working on that last term. Sometimes these things do take a while to to get to fruition or to happen, but I want to thank all the citizens who brought this to our attention last term, and that we've been working up for such a long time, and again, thanks staff.