Town Council Meeting - May 12, 2026

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Thank you.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 1:54

I would like to call to order tonight's Town Council meeting of May 12th, 2026. If anyone in the room needs hearing assistance, please see the clerk.

How does the Town Council open and approve meeting minutes and agenda changes?

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 2:05

Council Member Cummings will be giving the invocation and I will follow with the salute to the flag. Council Member Cummings.

Nicholas Krukowski 2:12

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Let's all just take a moment in silence.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 2:22

Please join me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let the record reflect that all members of Council are present. We have two minutes to approve tonight, the work minute sessions from April 27th, 2026. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Council Member Cummings. Second? Second. Council Member Kurkowski? All in favor indicate by saying aye.

Mariam Kalyani 3:05

Aye.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 3:06

Opposed? Abstain? Abstain. So that's 6-0-1. Correct?

3:12

Okay.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 3:12

REGULAR SESSION MINUTES OF APRIL 28, 2026. DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. COUNCIL VICE MAYOR SIMONEAU-JOHNSON. SECOND. SECOND. COUNCIL MEMBER NACY. ALL IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING AYE. AYE. OPPOSED. THAT PASSES 7-0. Before we adopt the meeting agenda, I would like to make a motion to suspend the rules to add an item under the new business directing staff to amend resolution 2025 ADOPTING THE 2026 TOWN COUNCIL MEETING CALENDAR TO ADJUST THE MEETING DATES IN AUGUST. THIS MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES MUST BE UNANIMOUS. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER STEINBERG. ALL IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING AYE. OPPOSED?

Why did the Council unanimously suspend rules to amend the 2026 meeting calendar?

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 4:04

ALL RIGHT. I AM GOING TO PROPOSE TO DIRECT STAFF TO AMEND A PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 2026 COUNCIL MEETING DATES, MOVING THE AUGUST 10TH AND 11 MEETINGS TO AUGUST 24TH AND 25TH. DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. COUNCILMEMBER STEINBERG, SECOND. SECOND. COUNCILMEMBER CUMMINGS, ALL IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THAT PASSES 7-0. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT BECOMES EILEEN, WHERE DOES THAT GO IN THE in the agenda.

Town Clerk / Staff (Eileen) 4:42

You've already voted on it, so we can just... Oh, okay.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 4:45

You're good.

Town Clerk / Staff (Eileen) 4:46

What we'll do, Madam Mayor, just for housekeeping, is we'll prepare an amended resolution with the change date, and we'll have that as a consent item at your next legislative meeting.

Mayor (Madam Mayor) 5:00

Okay. We're changing the... Usually, we meet in August. We usually only meet on the second week, the Monday and Tuesday, and we don't meet on the 4th, but because of the change in the school calendar, we're changing that so that we're gonna meet, we're not gonna meet on the 10th and 11th, we're gonna meet on the 20th and 25th. So that's what we just did, in case anybody was confused. All right, we have a presentation tonight. This is the Golden Grabber Award winner. Small group was Mark Newton, I'm sorry, I'm hearing a large, large group was Potomac Station HOA and there was a staff group, the public works dash admin.

Sustainability Manager / Staff (presenting Keep Leesburg Beautiful) 5:53

Ran your sustainability manager back to talk some trash with you all to highlight the 2026 keep Leesburg beautiful event. So, as you know, every April we celebrate Keep Leesburg Beautiful by encouraging our residents to volunteer and help us pick up litter throughout the community. This year, our kickoff event was held on April 11th because of the calendar, which is funny, we were just talking about editing that. But despite that, we actually had events all month long. So the first event or the first group that went out went out on April 4th, and then the final event was actually May 1st. So we were able to spread out our efforts this year quite a bit, and that's reflected in the volunteer numbers and was a goal from last year.

Sustainability Manager / Staff (presenting Keep Leesburg Beautiful) 6:37

We want to take a moment to shout out all of the 2026 business supporters. So every volunteer received one of these cards that had different incentives for every like at every business. So if you scan the QR code, it will show you what discount or incentive is available at each location and for what time period.

Who won the 2026 Golden Grabber and what were the Keep Leesburg Beautiful results?

Sustainability Manager / Staff (presenting Keep Leesburg Beautiful) 6:58

So we just wanted to shout them out one last time. And then we also wanted to shout out our partner in Patriot Disposal. They are the ones who went out and weighed all the trash bags for the Golden Grabber this year, which allowed staff to participate without any animosity about who might be using a scale a little heavier than others.