The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors held its regular business meeting on November 6, 2025. The meeting included approval of the consent agenda, presentation of VACo achievement awards, updates on the federal government shutdown, a significant incident report from Fire and Rescue, a vaccination resources briefing, a report on personal property assessment methodology changes, appointments to advisory bodies, a reconsideration of the government center space strategy, and ceremonial resolutions. The board also entered closed session for collective bargaining and facility security discussions.
I think it's sorry, Mr. Turner. Good evening, Supervisors. Good evening, staff. Good evening, Loud. And I'd like to call to order the November 6th, 2025, Loudon County, Board of Supervisors Business Meeting. This room has a hearing loop. If you need hearing assistance, please switch your hearing aid to the telecom mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Please see the clerk to request one this evening. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh I have been pretty depressed since 2016 of the direction this country is headed in. And uh Tuesday night, I finally saw what I hope is the light at the end of the tunnel. And so my quote is uh along those lines. Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. Um so uh I do not have an addition to the agenda, but I know that Mr. Croney does have an addition to the agenda regarding the space strategy um update uh um for the Leedsburg Government Center from the October 21, 2025 board business meeting. If you will remember, then that that item went on the consent agenda. And so this is the first meeting past that meeting that she can bring back a reconsideration. A reconsideration if um as I am chair is always allowed, but it does need a supermajority to pass. And so what she's going to do is make a motion for the reconsideration and then she'll make a motion for the item, and then I will put the item in the agenda um um as the last action item tonight, and we'll deal with that um when it when we get there. So saying yes to the reconsideration does not say yes to the to the item, it just says we we agree to let her reconsider if if she'd like to do that. So, Mr. Crony, would you like to make a motion to reconsider? Yes. Do um do I have to make a motion to suspend the rules first? I mean suspend the rules, yes. Yeah. Okay, so I move to suspend the rules. And she's spending the rules so so she can talk about the spa space strategy update. Um there's discussion on suspension of the rules. Uh no, just that um I would appreciate the opportunity to uh discuss uh option one and option two. Um during the item. Okay. All in favor of suspending the rules, please say aye. Any opposed? That motion will pass um with six uh votes of people who are on the dais. That's a supermajority. So I'd like to make the next motion, ma'am. Yes. Okay, thank you, Chair Rennell. I move that the Board of Supervisors reconsider its action at the October 21st, 2025 business meet meeting to move the recommendation of the finance government operations and economic development committee that the Board of Supervisors direct staff to pursue option two and develop options, seek potential partnerships partnerships to recl relocate the government center east of Leesburg and accommodate a building size of approximately 300,000 to four of the hundred thousand square feet as outlined in the October 21st, 2025 Board of Supervisors Business Meeting Action Item. Motion is made to a second. Okay, point of point of um clarification just to know if we pass this motion. This still doesn't all this says is that this is the motion she wants reconsidered. So that's why the first sentence is she moves to reconsider the action.