This was a lengthy business meeting convened at 9:00 a.m., extending past midnight, to address a broad agenda including consent items, public input, committee reports, and numerous action items. Key topics included zoning compliance reforms, data center approvals, capital intensity factors updates, a pilot commuter bus termination, traffic management guide updates, and multiple board member initiatives.
Well, good evening, supervisors, good evening, staff, and good evening, Loudon. I'd like to call to order the June 16, 2026, Loudon County Board of Supervisors Business Meeting. This room has a hearing loop. If you need a hearing assistance, please switch your hearing aid to the telecom mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Pursuant to Virginia's code section two point two-three seven oh eight point three of the Court of Virginia. Vice Chair Turner requested to participate in this meeting by electronic communication. A physical quorum of the Board of Supervisors is present in the boardroom, and the board has made arrangements for the voice of Vice Chair Turner to be heard by all persons in the boardroom. Vice Chair Turner made this request within the required time frame, and the county attorney determined that the request meets the qualifications to participate remotely. The board will record in this minutes that Vice Chair Turner participated from a remote location in Missouri due to personal reasons. And so they're coming from different places and they will get here as soon as as soon as they as soon as possible. Miss Briggsman, would you please um provide words of inspiration and then lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Yes, I will, Madam Chair. Um Madam Chair and I attended on Sunday uh race amity day at the Baha'i Center in Stirling, and um there was a Baha'i sacred writing in the program that I would like to share. It says racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. It deprives a portion of humanity of the opportunity to cultivate and express the full range of their capability and to live meaningful and flourishing life while blighting the progress of the rest of humankind. It cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions of society that will uplift all and not designate anyone as other. And I also want to say that there was a mistake made when my wonderful but young staff sent out the um uh my BMI on researching the legality of prohibiting federal civil immigration enforcement and county owned facilities. That was never supposed to be on consent. I I don't want that on consent. I actually want to have the conversation. It was inadvertently placed on consent, so there will be no need to pull it off because it didn't belong on there, and it was never on my on my um on my uh uh forms, it was never on the consent agenda in the beginning. So you won't need hear that, and you and there's no need to pull it off because it was is it was it was that was a mistake. It's a button you push or or a box you check, and he's just forgot to uncheck the box. So that was all that was. Um so the proposed consent agenda. Madam Chair Um I had a point of inquiry under additions and deletions. Okay. Um I'd like to um ask through ask Mr. Hemp Street through the chair, if I may. Um the third closed session item was added after the tenant of agenda was sent to the board. According to our rules of order, number five, general rules governing placing items on the board agenda and establishing the consent agenda, subsection E5 items may only be added after the tentative agenda goes out under very specific circumstances, and it lists like six circumstances. I'd like to ask Mr. Hemp Street through the chair, please. How was the third closed session item added to tonight's agenda? And if possible, please tell the board which of the six possible justifications was used to add it. Mr. M Street. Uh the item was added by at the request of the chair. A verbal request. Yes. Okay, thank you. Okay. All right. Uh the proposed consent agenda is as follows. Item R1, resolution to recognize Dr. Judy Leidek, provost of Northern Virginia Community College. That is for approval only. Item R2, proclamation to recognize July 2026 and June 2021, 2026 as park and recreation month and play all day, Virginia.