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What agenda items and motions were adopted at the start of the Leesburg Planning Commission meeting?

Madam Chair 0:01

I call to order this January 15th, 2026 meeting of the Leesburg Planning Commission. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Madam Chair 0:31

Okay, let the record reflect that we do have a fiscal quorum. We have one commissioner out who has left us, unfortunately.

Madam Chair 0:53

Yes, okay. The agenda, do I hear a motion to adopt the agenda as submitted?

Brian 1:00

Madam Chair 1:02

moved. Second?

Brian 1:02

Second.

Madam Chair 1:04

All those in favor?

Brian 1:06

Aye.

Madam Chair 1:08

The minutes, do I hear a motion to approve the minutes of December 4th, 2025 meeting? So

Brian 1:14

moved. Second.

Madam Chair 1:17

Are there any alterations, suggestions, questions? All those in favor?

Brian 1:28

Aye.

Madam Chair 1:29

OK. Are there any disclosures? Candice, we'll start with you. No, ma'am. No? No, ma'am. No, ma'am. No. None for me. No. OK, fine. Are there any petitioners that wish to speak this evening? Anybody sign up? No one signed up. Is there anyone who would like to speak this evening as a petitioner? Then I'm going to skip right over that part. Okay. Let us get into our first item for work, which is the fiscal year 2027 capital improvement plan presentation. Doug Wagner, assistant director of capital projects and public works, is going to talk with us. The zoning rewrite will follow afterwards.

Doug Wagner 2:25

Doug. Good evening. Can everybody hear me okay? Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the Planning Commission, Councilman Steinberg. I'm Doug Wagner. I'm the Assistant Director of Capital Projects. I'm here this evening to present the currently proposed 2027 to 2032 Capital Improvements Plan. I've also got directors of each of the departments here with me, should you have any specific questions about department-specific projects. A little bit of background, a capital project is construction, renovation, demolition, or acquisition of real property of more than $60,000 with a useful life of at least five years. This year, as opposed to previous years, very similar, the CIP continues to grow with number of projects and costs continuing to grow.

Doug Wagner 3:19

Last year, we had 92 projects totaling $948,000. This year we have 98 projects totaling $1.03 million. Makeup of these projects as currently proposed is about 50% streets and highways, about 24% utilities, with the remainder being admin, general government, parks, stormwater, and airport. New projects added in this CIP, you'll notice in your memo I mentioned nine. The first one is actually a study, not a project, so there are eight current projects. The first one is the Tavstuck Pond Rehabilitation Study. It is to study what needs to be done to a current pond that we are responsible for to bring it up to current standards. That will turn into a CIP, I believe, after the study is complete. The other makeup is we have three airport projects and five utility projects.

Doug Wagner 4:13

I won't go through each individually, but at the end of this presentation, I'd be happy to discuss any projects or any portion of CIP with you all. Summary of what was completed in 2006. The enterprise video management system townwide project was complete. The town hall fire system upgrade, which will take our current fire system and separate it from the parking garage, is in design, will be constructed by the end of this fiscal year. The Morven Park sidewalk is for all intents and purposes complete. They're working on punch list right now, should be complete by the end of this month. And the Morven Park crosswalk is in design and in land acquisitions right now, anticipating that it will be constructed in the spring.

Doug Wagner 4:57

did want to note that the police department expansion which was about a 28 million dollar project is in final punch right now and will be for all intensive purposes substantially complete in february the reason it's not pulled into 26 6 is we are planting landscaping in the fall to be sure it's got the greatest chance of survival so there will be a little bit of money expended in fiscal year 27. Removed projects, town hall campus improvements, those improvements mostly made up of ADA projects. So we consolidated this project into the miscellaneous ADA and pulled that project out. Changes to priority futures and potential future projects. We had three utility, four utility that were moved from priority to potential future projects.