Loudoun County FGOEDC Meeting - April 14, 2026
Loudoun County Finance/Government Operations and Economic Development Committee Meeting - April 14, 2026
The committee met on April 14, 2026, to consider a consent agenda, information reports, and action items. Key discussions included the monthly economic development report, capital improvement projects, a trailhead park design endorsement, and a conceptual interchange design. Several items were approved with votes.
Consent Calendar
- The committee adopted the consent agenda, which included items 2, 4-11, 14-21 (routine contract renewals, awards, bond resolutions, annual reports, etc.) with a vote of 3-0-2 (Supervisors Umstad and Laterno off the dais).
Discussion Items (Information Items)
- Monthly Department of Economic Development Report (Buddy Riser): Reported 97 wins, 6,290 jobs, and $2.5 billion in investment through March 2026. Unemployment in Loudoun at 3.2% (December data). Discussion on flex space demand (vacancy tight, rents up 50% since 2020) and the Launch Loudoun program's success with minority/women-owned businesses. The Economic Development Commission also provided updates on an ad hoc committee for Loudoun 2.0.
- Quarterly Report on Capital Improvement Projects (3rd Quarter FY 2026) (Shireen D'Arazio, Marilyn Brower): Highlighted completion of the Mental Health Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Center (Meadowview Court, Leesburg) with 10 beds, 16 recliners, and 24/7 operation. Other projects: recycling center, landfill commercial entrance (reduced congestion, served 900 customers on March 28), EV charging stations (16 of 31 phase 1 locations completed), various transportation projects (Cross Trail Boulevard, Sterling Boulevard W&OD trail overpass, bus stop and shelter improvements). Supervisor questions addressed delays and property acquisition issues.
Action Items
- Item 12: Goose Creek Trailhead Park Design Endorsement: The committee recommended (4-0-1) that the Board of Supervisors endorse the design for a 15.5-acre passive park along Goose Creek, including a 20-space parking lot, canoe/kayak launch, pavilion, restroom, and trails. The park will connect to existing trail systems and Beaver Dam Reservoir.
- Item 13: Conceptual Interchange Design Endorsement at US Route 50/Loudoun County Parkway: The committee recommended (4-0-1) endorsing a single-point urban interchange (SPUI) to replace the previously endorsed full cloverleaf. The new design reduces impacts, costs, and aligns with current conditions. Staff will proceed with detailed design.
Key Outcomes
- Motion to reconsider Item 12 passed (3-0-2) to remove language requiring "take community concerns into consideration" from the motion, as it was deemed superfluous and potentially problematic in election years.
- Consent agenda adopted (3-0-2).
- Goose Creek Trailhead Park design endorsed (4-0-1).
- Route 50/Loudoun County Parkway SPUI endorsed (4-0-1).
- No public comments were made during the meeting.
Note: Supervisors Umstad and Laterno were absent for the entire meeting.
Meeting Transcript
I would like to call to order the April 14th, 2026, Loudon County Board of Supervisors Finance Government Operations and Economic Development Committee meeting. This room has a hearing loop. Excuse me. If you need hearing assistance, switch on your hearing aids to telecoil mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Please see the clerk to request one. Questions and comments are not timed. However, once a motion is on the table, committee members will have three minutes to ask a question and make comments for all items that have a motion. And Supervisor Umstad will not be here this evening. Okay. Okay, I'm going to make a motion to reconsider first. I move to the finance operations and economic development committee. All in favor, please say I. I'm with the finance given operation committee, the belt and again of development committee for item 12, West Park Design Improvement Endorsements, Leedsburg to the April 12th, I'm sorry, to April 21st, 2026, Board of Supervisors Business Meeting, and allows to have time to host a disc golf demonstration event for the public and authorized staff to proceed with the completion of the final design documents. I will second that one as well. Would you like an opening? I would. Ma'am, um, thank you, ma'am chair. What I took out was the this the the part that says um take community concerns into consideration. And I did it for four reasons primarily. One, we are always going to take community concerns into consideration. We are elected officials. Taking the community concerns into consideration is what is basic to our job. And to have to say that can be a little bit superfluous. The other thing is, and I'll take this item specifically. We have two very different sides who have had discussions of what they want us to do. So when they say take community concerns into consideration, oftentimes, um, or let me change that. Sometimes I've had residents say to me, you didn't listen to me because I didn't vote their way. And I want people to know that we always listen, but that doesn't mean I'm always going to vote a certain way. West Park is a perfect example. I am taking considerations from the community from both sides into considerations. But we're gonna have to vote to have this golf or to not have disc golf. And I don't want one side to believe that we didn't take their concerns into consideration because we didn't vote in the way they wanted us to vote. We always take concerns into consideration, but sometimes a vote's gonna have to come down one way or the other. But my largest reason for doing this is because next year we're walking into an election year, and I have no idea right now who's running for this board again and who's not running for this board again. But I do not want a board of supervisors in election year to believe that at the end of every motion, we have to tack on the words, take community concerns into considerations for political reasons. That would be um hard and time consuming, and if a supervisor forgets to do that, everyone will believe that we're not taking community concerns into consideration. The um the belief should be, and I hope it is. Um, the default position is that we take community concerns into consideration. For the most part, community concerns for me is about 45% of how I weigh things, but it's not a hundred percent, and it never will be. And I just don't want people to think that if I don't vote your way the way you wanted me to vote, I didn't listen to you. And I don't want everyone's having to say this next on every motion. Otherwise, every single part of this motion is exactly the same. Nothing else changed at all except for that. Thank you, ma'am chair. Uh thank you, madam chair. Uh seeing no other lights on, I will just concur with everything you said, but also um the the motion was sent out that day without those extra words in it, and so I think it caught most many of us on the committee off guard when those extra words were added, kind of at the last minute, and we were all a little confused as to how to take those words out because we all thought those words should not be in there. So um thank you for correcting that um for us with your motion, and I will obviously be supporting. Would you like a closing? Only then we're taking your community concerns into consideration every single time.
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