Loudoun County Communications Commission Meeting

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Loudoun County Board Committees and Advisory Boards 1h 23m 8 agenda items transcribed 2 days ago official recording ↗

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What agenda items were approved at the start of the meeting?

Ron 0:00

All right, uh so I will call to order uh this meeting of the Loudon County Communications. Commission October twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Uh the first items on our agenda are an approval of the agenda and the minutes. Are there any additions to the agenda? All right, I will move to approve the agenda as presented. Is a second. Seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed or abstentions is Abstention

Unknown 0:38

from uh Commissioner Stone.

Ron 0:42

Thank you, Commissioner Stone.

Patrick Ryan 0:43

Abstention from Patrick Ryan.

Ron 0:46

For the minutes for the approval.

Patrick Ryan 0:47

Correct. Yes.

Ron 0:49

Wait, agenda, excuse me. So our our second item is the approval of the minutes. The minutes of September twenty-second, the meeting minutes. Has everyone had an opportunity to review those minutes?

Unknown 1:06

Yes.

Ron 1:10

All right, I'll move to approve the minutes of the September twenty second meeting. Seconded. Hearing a second, all those in favor say aye. All right. All those opposed. Any abstentions, I will abstain. Commissioner

Unknown 1:30

Stone abstention.

Patrick Ryan 1:33

Commissioner Ryan, abstention.

Ron 1:36

I mean. Yeah, there are four abstentions. The minutes are approved.

Unknown 1:45

Who's the fourth abstention? I'm sorry. Bye B, thank you.

Ron 1:51

Can they be approved? That's only four votes. Uh we have a quorum, so we have a meeting and we have a majority of the votes as ayes. Um so the next item in our agenda is public comment and discussion. Uh we have no members of the public I'm registered to speak with a slight. Can I

Patrick Ryan 2:15

ask a question? Since the meeting isn't published on the county calendar, how would any member of the public Join us. Without a link that.

Ron 2:24

Yep. Thank you for raising the question. It is a good and valid question. Um One that uh I have cited the bylaws back at staff to remind them of the obligation to post it. Um Can we? Turn to staff to ask. What indications were available to the public besides our own? Emails planning and scheduling this meeting. and our previous agenda posted which does state the time and date of this meeting.

Unknown 3:01

That would be it.

Ron 3:02

That would be it. So I think to answer your question, Ryan, uh technically it is there in the fine print of our last meeting, but it would be very difficult.

Ron 3:22

Right. Um so we'll move on to our next agenda item, uh discussion of franchisee related top topics. Uh neither of our franchisees are present tonight uh and comcast has apprised us of that. Um Verizon has taken the policy of not attending our meetings. Um merely leaving us a line to reach out if we need it. Are there any questions or discussion to be had of our franchisees.

Dave 3:54

Why aren't they coming anymore?

Ron 3:57

Verizon made it very clear that. they don't need to and that they are deciding not to as a matter of their own business. Ryzen made that business decision previously. We've discussed this before.

Unknown 4:12

Okay.

Bridge 4:13

Remember they said they downsized from they downsized only one or two government representatives from the entire state. And I think they'd I think I think I may misstate this, but I think they had determined that legally they were not obligated to. Right. And we also

Ron 4:28

asked that question of our staff. Who have confirmed to us that We don't have a legal expectation of their presence.

Dave 4:37

Um and how about the other ones now who don't want to come anymore?

Ron 4:40

Pomcast has kind of followed suit, though they continue to apprise us of that on a monthly Uh they seem to be more available if we have a specific question up.

Ron 5:02

Was there any other question of our franchisees? All right, now we'll move on to our next agenda item, which is a uh review and finalized proposed survey questions from the Board of Supervisors. So in the previous meeting, it was uh discussed as we Work on updating our bylaws. That we reach out to our Uh customers, the board of supervisors, as it was put, uh, with a consolidated list of survey questions. Uh I have not seen those circulated prior to the meeting. Do you have them for us? What's that? Do do we have uh those survey questions? I sent them to

Dave 5:47

Ron and Dave about two weeks ago.

Unknown 5:52

Dave, did we see those circulated? We had them and we provided staff input back to Mr. Littleton and the chair. to make a determination on what they wanted to share and we did not hear back.