Board of County Supervisors Meeting - Work Session - May 20, 2025

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What was discussed during the opening and public comment portion of the meeting?

Unknown 36:51

Thank you.

Deshundra Jefferson 37:28

It would help if I turn on my microphone. It is 2 o'clock on Tuesday, May 20th. Let's begin with a moment of silence.

Deshundra Jefferson 37:47

Thank you. All rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, if you are able.

Deshundra Jefferson 38:09

All right. Thank you, everyone. It seems so empty after we had all those proclamations and commendations last meeting. All right. We are moving into agenda item number three, public comment time. We do not have anyone signed up in person to speak. I'll turn it over to Supervisor Bailey for remote public comment time.

Unknown 38:27

There is no remote public comment time, Madam Chair. Back to you.

Deshundra Jefferson 38:31

All right. Thank you so very much. We will move on then to agenda item number four, county executive time. Mr. Shorter, the floor is yours.

Unknown 38:39

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, members of the Board. Good afternoon. Happy to be here this afternoon with you. Three directives were issued last week at our last meeting. I want to go over those really quickly. Staff was directed to look at increasing the net financial worth limitation for tax relief for elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities. This directive was assigned to our finance department. We were also asked to develop a draft ordinance that establishes a local foundation and soil management fund. This was assigned to our public works department. And then finally, we were directed to work with the Marine Corps based Quantico to analyze and provide the board with recommendations on how to further implement comprehensive land use plan land use policy 30.

Unknown 39:34

And this was assigned to our planning office. There were no Directives closed during the last meeting. In terms of Memorial Day and the Memorial Day event this evening, I just wanted to remind the Board and obviously the public that we will be tonight celebrating the Memorial Day event. The event will be held at the Freedom Park War Memorial at 6.30 p.m. this evening. So all are welcome to attend. And then finally, Madam Chair, I wanted to just give a quick highlight and announce the launch of the 3-1-1 system. The system was launched last week. We are very, very excited about what the future will hold now that our county is among so many where we have a now automated system in so many ways for our residents to engage us.

Unknown 40:35

Instead of going through it verbally, what I want to do is pull up the video that the communications team put together. And there we go.

Unknown 40:58

Connect. Chat with Ask Will, our 24-7 virtual assistant, for quick answers and guidance. Tap the mobile app to report issues, request services, and track updates right from your phone. Click through the website to submit service requests and explore helpful county resources. Call 311 to speak directly with a customer service representative. Four simple ways to connect. Chat, tap, click, or call to connect. Obviously, we're going to keep it going. Obviously, very, very excited about this and about the launch. We talk often about the customer experience here in Prince William County. This is a tool to to certainly get us to a place where we want to be in terms of increasing and improving the customer experience with our county.

Unknown 41:55

Many modems, many ways that now residents could get in touch. And not only that, ways for us now to track how we are doing in terms of how quickly we're getting back and whether we are responding properly to the service request. So to Rob Mancini, the entire HR team, thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work. And did I say, so IT, did I say? HR. HR, IT, I meant IT, so do it. The Department of Information Technology, Rob Mancini, Director, did the work in putting us um, putting us on a path to get here. I will also just want to acknowledge the 11 agencies that are first, uh, sort of first out the gate in terms of, uh, coming onto the platform, I think 43 or 44 service request types. Uh, so just again, want to acknowledge the great work, um, and look forward to, uh, all of the, all of the reporting that we will be able to do the, this board into the community about the ways that we have, uh, helped and we do help this community.

Unknown 43:00

That said, Madam Chair, I think that is all for me by way of announcements.