Welcome all uh to our special session today.

In accordance with Virginia Beach me as mayor of the city of Virginia Beach, I hereby call for a special formal session of the Virginia Beach City Council.

Tuesday, March 12, 2026 at 3 30, uh City Council Conference Room, uh 2034, Building 1, 2nd Floor, 2401 Courthouse Drive.

The purpose of this special form or session is to allow the city council to convene into a closed session to consider the following legal advice, limited threat curfew ordinance at four o'clock.

Okay, certifying the closed session, and then the ordinance authorize a temporary additional curfew for unaccompany unaccompanied minors, and to authorize certain additional actions to assist law enforcement at the resort city.

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Okay, I think we're just call for special session too, Mayor.

Okay, so oh call for special.

Oh, yeah, right here.

There we go.

That's what he meeted.

All right, the chair will entertain a motion to recess into a closed session pursuant to the exemptions of the open meetings allowed by section 2.23711A Code of Virginia is amended for the following purposes.

Consultation with legal uh counsel employed or retained by a public body regarding specific legal matters requiring the permission of legal advice by such council pursuant to section 2.23711A, and that is the imminent uh uh threat curfew ordinance or have a motion.

So moved.

Second, okay.

Council Melinci, yes, Councilman Cobbings.

All right.

Council and lady is moving right in late, council Hutchison.

All right, uh maybe running later, maybe absent.

Council?

Aye, council.

Aye.

Okay, we are adjourned into closed.

I want to call this uh meeting to order.

And uh once again, can we have the roll call, please?

All present okay.

Uh motion to certify the closed session.

Second.

Mayor, give us just a second.

We have just a couple members coming in, so we need to have them vote for the certification as well.

Go ahead and open the vote here.

The vote is open.

By vote of 11 to 0, you certified the closed session to be in accordance with the motion to recess.

Okay, the only item up for uh discussion is the ordinance authorize a uh temporary additional curfew for unaccompanied minors to authorize certain additional actions uh to assist law enforcements.

Are there any speakers tonight?

There are no speakers, sir.

Okay, we have a motion.

Okay, unless we have any discussion, let's go ahead to the vote.

Okay, Jennifer.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to ask a couple of clarifying questions that I got from um some parents.

So um one of the calls I got um this week since our Tuesday meeting was concern from a parent who saw the uh curfew from 7 p.m.

to 5 a.m.

And she said, Well, you know, what about kids that have ring dance that are going to events or dance, they're participating in sporting events.

So um, before we vote, can we clarify somebody clarify what the exemptions are to this um uh imminent threat curfew and also the geographic boundaries?

Is it citywide or where are um where is this going to be implemented?

Thank you.

Mr.

Mayor is looking at the chief response to that.

Mr.

Mayor, yeah, she's looking at the chief response.

Yep.

Members of council, council member, thank you for the question.

And I think it is important to clarify, and that's something that uh if the council does vote in favor of this, that we're going to work with the city comms team to make sure that there are no questions about what we are asking for.

So the geographical boundaries are going to be from Rudy Loop to 31st Street, uh, West to Pacific.

It is a very clearly defined area, and of course, there are the normal exemptions for trailing to and from legitimate events.

And I can tell you that your Virginia Beach Police Department is going to do a very empathetic job with the curfew enforcement.

And I think the numbers that we have from the previous years, where we have issued less than 60 speaks to how we utilize that tool.

So I think to the community, to the council, our primary response is going to be try to gain voluntary compliance.