Okay, got uh slim pickings for a committee so far, but we've got enough to form a quorum.

So happy new year.

First meeting of 2026.

I'd like to call to order the January 15, 2026 facility standards and manual public review committee meeting.

And pursuant to the code of Virginia or Section 2.23708.3 and in accordance with the Board of Supervisors policies procedures on advisory boards, commissions, and committees dated October 6, 2022, and the May 16, 2023 PRC bylaws.

I want to let everybody know that Keith Simpson is participating in our meeting or remote location in Richard Virginia that is not open to the public.

And he cannot uh and do a personal matter.

Made this request within the time frame required by the policy.

County attorney has determined that he meets the qualification participate promotion as required by law.

And the PRC has made arrangements for Keith's voice to be heard by all persons in the large counter.

Record shall also reflect the member participating remotely, the reason and the location record also reflect that we are each members of one or more affected groups in our respective declaration of interest are kept on file and the minutes of the facility standards may go public.

Do we need to update our declarations each year?

Just that we haven't been doing that.

We've only been doing it at the beginning.

If you want to any time you want to update your declaration, you can.

If something is changed, this would be a good opportunity.

Okay.

Or they could have declaration reflects the current employer.

I might not.

I'll go check yours.

Yeah.

We don't have anybody any public comments of that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um wish Pete was here.

You want to proceed to something else?

Give him a few more minutes.

If you want a few minutes.

Normally elect a chair and vice chair.

And we can have heat your present.

Do anything if that's all right with everybody.

Why is that?

Um, so let's move on to review and approval of the meeting minutes from the December 18th meeting, which I did not attend, so I don't have a personal comment on.

Okay, um, I can do a quick run through.

Um we had a flow planning work group update that was pretty brief at that meeting.

We went through ENCODE at the seminal scale.

I demonstrated their new artificial intelligence search assistant and um tool, and then we got some feedback on tools, and then we switched to the head year private road reserve fund letters, sort of like a final review on a couple of final stop funds and the committee game final amendment.

Um we left it that I would draft a tech memo on that today.

And then lastly, we went through gated communities.

We all shared our feedback.

I don't had the discussion at the end of this particular session.

Um Betsy requested that everybody safety related criteria related to gates.

Um I think the deadline for that is technically this meeting because we thought we were gonna move this meeting, but uh I did receive some and appreciate that and not meeting.

That was really the extent of it.

Does anyone have any uh visions, addendums, comments on the minutes?

A move to adopt the minutes.

Thank you, Matt.

Second, thank you, Derek.

All in favor of adopting whose minutes as presented, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

We'll bounce back to elections.

Pete and I have chatted prior to the meeting.

If you'll have us we're willing to continue in our roles.

But also happy to entertain anyone else that would like to uh take over the uh be shared share.

I'm sound full so this is the guy is that good with you still just changed you not just right okay thank you all in favor okay I think your name just oh sorry you said aye right to look I yeah yeah yeah all right we have one other administrative thing to cover uh at the beginning of each year we are supposed to say readopt virtual meeting and remote attendance policy this last year um so I'm just gonna read what we've been told to present the committee um the Virginia code requires advisory bodies to adopt the all virtual meeting and remote participation policies in their bylaws once annually the procedure will remain the same no changes to the current bylaws are proposed adopting the policy enables us to hold all virtual meetings and to participate remotely in PRC meetings pursuant to state law for the remainder of the calendar year so I'm gonna make the motion to move that building standards public youth committee adopt article that of its bylaws for purposes of holding all virtual meetings and remote participation for calendar year 2026 I have a second awesome there are any discussion questions or come all in favor of the motion please say aye aye aye any opposed all right um and would you clarify there was a change in how many uh percentage of all virtual meetings that we could potentially have so that you may have heard the state code change to go from 25 percent uh all virtual meetings rounded up to the next whole number to 50 percent however until we adopt that in our bylaws and go through the transfer committee and the board it would not change so we will be presenting a bylaw amendments we're supposed to present those to the board um by June so that's coming and then Kevin will get to read the motion again and we will readopt because we'll probably have a new section in the room in the protocols so to increase it to 50 percent we'll have to do this again so just if we could just take a minute I wasn't able to participate in last month's meeting did that seem like it went well what are y'all's feelings about you know 100% virtual meetings versus in person preferences in person there's advantages no objection my feeling is it we work better in person as well I think there may be times where maybe the content of our meeting isn't so intense or you know text driven or subject to debate discussion then we may want to take advantage of that but the when like I've do we we have to announce ahead of time whether it's going to be all virtual right so it's not like something where like if it's bad weather or something we can all of a sudden decide like oh we're I don't know but that's a question.

But if it's bad, really bad weather, will we cancel um for the board policy?

Because if the polls are closed, we can't meet.

Okay.

So there's that.