Finance/Government Operations and Economic Development Committee - Dec 09, 2025

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Loudoun County Board of Supervisors 3h 51m 3 speakers 7 agenda items transcribed 4 days ago official recording ↗

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What agenda items are covered in the opening consent agenda?

Unknown 11:53

Okay, great.

Unknown 12:00

I would like to call to order the December 9th, 2025, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Finance, Government, Operations, and Economic Development Committee meeting. This room has a hearing loop. If you need hearing assistance, switch your hearing aids to telecoil mode. If you need a headset, we have those available as well. Please see the clerk to request one. Questions and comments in this meeting are not timed. However, once a motion is on the table, committee members Members will have three minutes to ask questions and to make comments for all items. I am sure that Supervisor Laterno is on his way. Chair Randall had to go to a meeting in Perciville, and she will be a little bit late to this meeting.

Unknown 12:40

I imagine she'll get here between 6:30 and 7. With that, I will um read the consent agenda. The proposed consent agenda is as follows. Item three, contract award construction of the Sterling Boulevard, Washington, Old Dominion Trail Overpass. Item four, contract award, automatic external defibulator, AED and accessories. Item six, Shellhorn Road, formally Sterling Boulevard, extension, additional funding request. Item seven, Fiscal Impact Committee 2025 Annual Report. Item eight, Fiscal Impact. Impact Committee bylaws amendment 2025. Item nine, Sheriff's Office utilization of federal and state asset forfeiture funds. Item 10, Disability Services Board bylaws amendment. Twenty twenty five and item eleven, Board of Equalization twenty twenty five annual report.

Unknown 13:34

I will move the consent agenda. Do I have a second? Thank you. Um by way of comment on the consent agenda. Um I did want to say that uh really happy to see the Sterling Boulevard, Washington and Old Dominion Trail overpass uh getting started. Um the uh The um request from the Sheriff's Department for uh the asset forfeiture includes $180,000 for a TRM Forensics Pro, a tool to trace and investigate cryptocurrency. It includes 210 for an analyst notebook. Uh 12 notebooks is industry standard tool to analyze and visualize large complex data sets. For a zodiac boat with motor to enhance water-based search and recovery operations. 30,000 for Cayman ballistic helmets. These are 20 helmets for the tactical support unit to replace their outdated helmets, and we know we we that we want them to have those.

Unknown 14:39

And 75,000 for thermal imaging devices. Um that will um expend about a little over 500,000. Of the $1.5 million we have in that fund and uh strongly support um those purchases. I know around the country there are some odd purchases out of those funds, but I I think our sheriff is um using those funds um f really appropriately there. Any other discussion on the consent agenda? Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. And so that motion will pass 302 with Chair Randall and Supervisor Laterno off the dais. We will continue with our monthly economic development report.

Unknown 15:36

Good evening. Hello. Tonight I'm joined by Mr. Tim Shimbar from the Economic Development Advisory Commission, who will provide an update after I provide some brief remarks and then we're happy to answer any questions. In this fiscal year to date, DED has secured 57 wins and has logged over 500 business retention based activities. DED's business development activities to date support the creation or retention of over 4,600 jobs. In terms of workforce, the number of job listings for Loudoun County in November were just over 3,000 newly posted and just over 11,400 total active listings. We continue to monitor these workforce numbers closely given the shutdown and other various impacts. However, unemployment data more broadly since September remains unavailable due to the 43-day federal government shutdown.

Unknown 16:27

We do know, however, that the number Number of weekly continued claims for unemployment in Loudoun has remained steady in the range of a thousand to eleven hundred per week, according to data from the Virginia Department of Workforce Development and Advancement. And while employment data continues to lag, the overall economic uncertainty continues to be a primary focus in our outreach.