October 22, 2024 Board of Supervisors Meeting - Oct 22, 2024

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What is discussed at the beginning of the meeting, including the moment of silence and thanks to emergency responders?

Jeffrey C. McKay 0:01

And welcome to our Board of Supervisors meeting of October 22nd, 2024. And we are going to begin this morning as we always do, which is with a moment of silence to be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. And before those are able to rise, rise for our moment of silence, I do want to keep some folks in our thoughts and prayers this morning and ask my colleagues if they have anyone they would like to offer. And before I I think we know this m many of us know this already, but it's uh worth mentioning again that uh last Wednesday Our federally funded and trained urban search and rescue team, Virginia Task Force One, and members from the Department of Public Safety Communications and Department of Emergency Management returned from their hurricane deployments.

Jeffrey C. McKay 0:48

And we want to thank all of those team members and equally important their families and their colleagues here who were backfilling uh stations and helping make sure uh Fairfax Account. could continue its emergency operations. Uh that they all uh made Fairfax County proud and our hearts continue to go out uh to our friends in Southwest Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas and all the places impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Um and as I stated at our last meeting, uh and I think you know folks who aren't familiar with our Task Force One and their operations, these uh statistics are important that Virginia Task Force One deployed as a FEMA type one eighty person team conducted operations in Florida before then being redeployed to North Carolina.

Jeffrey C. McKay 1:41

In addition uh to the Type One team, Virginia Virginia Task Force One personnel are also serving in various support roles within FEMA, including a human remains canine strike team, very specialized team. Elements of the National Capital Region Incident Management Team and the National Capital Regional Communications Cachet were deployed to Washington County, Virginia. These specialized Fairfax County-based teams provided critical equipment and personnel to Abington, Virginia, setting up emergency management centers and restoring communication networks essential for search and rescue efforts. Four of our Fairfax County 911 dispatchers disployed to North Carolina with teams from Loudoun County, Prince William County, Charlottesville, and the National Capital Region Incident.

Jeffrey C. McKay 2:30

Management team, which also included members from Fairfax County. The Department of Emergency Management and Security Staff member deployed to Southwest Virginia as a member of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, VDEM. Virginia emergency support team Vest, uh serving as the access and functional needs coordinator, assisting local first responders and ensuring emergency services were accessible to all individuals. And so uh having said all that, I think uh if we could just reflect this morning on the bravery. uh of all the men and women uh and canines uh who serve us uh on all the various capacities that I just mentioned, from dispatchers to our Virginia Task Force One urban search and rescue team.

Jeffrey C. McKay 3:15

Uh and again, uh they return on Wednesday. Uh great to see them be able to reunite uh with their family who was left behind uh picking up the pieces uh as many times uh happen uh with family members and uh most importantly for them to see their colleagues be able to return to their stations and duty service uh in Fairfax County but certainly uh saw them on TV uh got international attention, uh national attention and made all of us in Fairfax County proud so we salute them Yeah. uh this morning. And if anyone else has anyone they would like us to remember, Supervisor Hardy.

Pat Herrity 3:52

Uh yes, Mr Chair Chairman, I'm sad to announce the passing of John Ryan on october third, twenty twenty four. John was an army veteran and uh military history expert. He served as a legislative staff member with the Environmental Protection Agency when it was new, helping pass the Clean Water Act in 1972. In addition, he was a prosecutor for the DEA, a special agent, uh special assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C., legislative director for two U.S.