The Loudoun County Communications Commission met on June 25, 2024 (agenda dated June 24, 2024; the transcript reflects a June 24 session, but the summary uses the provided date of June 25). Commissioners reviewed franchisee updates, prepared for the Board of Supervisors annual report, discussed wireless coverage challenges, and received a staff report on broadband initiatives. Key topics included the Purcellville fiber build, LEx ticket resolution, and the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI) progress.
We're recording now. Yes. Thank you. Call the Loudon County Communication Commission meeting to order. First order business. Was an agenda that was sent down. Did anybody not receive the agenda? Seeing none. Motion to adopt the agenda as written. Also moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion. All the paper sign. And yeah, as expected. Then on to the meeting minutes of the 29th of May. Did anybody not receive the meeting? Any corrections? Yes, please. Under uh committee uh committees and projects, the first sub-bullet clear because commissioners were unanimous. Their focus should be on wireless broadband availability of power bills or enhanced coverage. I agree with all of that versus view shed conservation. I don't know why that was added in. Yeah, I mean I think yeah, I thought we talked about options, but yeah, so I'd agree with if you're gonna say unanimous, that that's incorrect uh with the view ship conservation as it's like a they're opposed. Or commission was unanimous should be a wireless fragment availability tower builds for enhanced coverage period period view shed conservation was also considered. Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, we did, definitely. Okay. Uh let's have that in the suggested edit. The period and view shed conversation uh conservation was discussed. Perfect. Any further edits? Okay. Um all in favor of adopting the minutes as just all you want to try to take the motion. Some of you want to remove that? Second second, thank you. Yeah, just thank you. I wouldn't hear, so I will vote. Oh, one obsession. Uh yeah, thank you. Okay, pass the admin section. Did anybody sign up for public comments? No. Okay, and moving on to updates from our franchisees. Uh Chris, you want you up first, buddy? Thank you, sir. Um we are going through working through all of our Lex tickets, and we are updating Chris on a weekly basis as we are getting updates. Uh, we are also our engineering team has a meeting scheduled for later this week with your engineering team to uh finalize the upgrade for to HD on our peg channels. And as we are entering into the hurricane season, I want to remind everyone of our Wi-Fi storm ready, our storm ready Wi-Fi system, which if you have a power outage or just the internet drops out, you switch right over to our award-winning Comcast uh cellular network that provides Wi-Fi for your house. And I just experienced that myself last night.