October 28, 2025 Board of Supervisors Meeting - Oct 28, 2025

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What opening remarks and memorial recognitions are made at the start of the meeting?

Jeffrey C. McKay 0:22

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our board meeting of October 28, 2025. And we are going to begin our board meeting with a moment of silence to be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. But before we do that, we do want to recognize anyone who would like to keep folks in our thoughts and prayers. And let me just begin by notifying everyone that we know that our urban search and rescue team is on hold for the moment, but will be deployed to Jamaica. 35 members of our Virginia Task Force One urban search and rescue team will be deployed to Kingston, Jamaica to deal with Hurricane Melissa. And I think we all know this is a really scary moment, what is being predicted on an island with very little infrastructure.

Jeffrey C. McKay 1:07

And so everyone is expecting widespread damage. It's forecasted that this would be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record keeping began in 1851. And so we want to keep our Fairfax County urban search and rescue team and our thoughts and prayers, their family, as well as all of our fire and rescue department who backfills these stations while they're away. They potentially could be away for quite a while. And so we'll get regular updates from Chief Butler and Tom Arnold as that progresses. But if we could keep that in our minds today, I would appreciate that. Secondly, while not in Fairfax County, somebody that I knew well and I predict others on the board knew well, Supervisor Jim Holland, who represented the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, passed away after a battle with cancer.

Jeffrey C. McKay 2:02

He was 73 years old and was the longest tenured member of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, having served for 17 years, dating back to 2008. We knew him well throughout his career because of his major contributions at the Virginia Association of Counties. He also was chair and vice chair for different periods of time of the Chesterfield County Board, an Army veteran, a certified public accountant. And I think all of us had the privilege of knowing him. He served statewide a number of roles, including the Opioid Abatement Board. But Jim was just a real gentleman for those of us who knew him well, a supporter of counties, always a supporter of what we were trying to do, for Fairfax County at the Virginia Association of Counties as well.

Jeffrey C. McKay 2:50

So if we could keep Jim, his wife of many, many years, his family, as well as our colleagues in Chesterfield County in our thoughts and prayers. And then finally, Robert Jungentob. I think a lot of us knew him. Sadly passed away on October 18th, also following a battle with cancer. And Bob was executive chairman and founding partner of EYA. LLC and obviously we're aware of the work that EYA has done throughout the DMV area But particularly some some major projects in Fairfax County for over 30 years He played that role and as I said, there are communities all over the county first-class communities built by EYA that many of our residents live in but he really was a pioneer and looking at new ways to build housing and

Jeffrey C. McKay 3:42

Build high quality housing, but also make sure that affordability was at the forefront of so many of the projects that they worked on so if we could keep Bob and his family as well as his colleagues at EYA and our thoughts and prayers this morning I would appreciate that as well and with that Be happy to recognize any other board members. Let me start on this end supervisor Herity

Pat Herrity 4:05

Yes, mr. Chairman sad to share the passing of retired FCPD officer Don Goddard on October 16th and Between Arlington County and Fairfax County, Goddard served our community as a police officer for over 40 years. He was one of the first responders at the Pentagon crash site and selflessly assisted for several days following the 9-11 attacks. Like many of our first responders who were exposed to toxic fumes, as a result of the 9-11 crash sites, Goddard was diagnosed with acute myeloma leukemia, or AML. He was known for being a force of positivity and kindness from a career in public service to a career to caring for his aging parents and volunteering at the local YMCA service was a part of his DNA.