City Council Meeting

good evening i would like to call the regular meeting of june 9th 2026 to order thank you to all of our guests here in the chamber tonight as always it's always wonderful to see people wanting to participate in our city council meetings if you are able and so choose please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god invisible with liberty and justice i will now ask the city's refuse and recycling department to come down to the well for the proclamation acknowledging national waste and recycling workers appreciation week okay it's always so important to be able to pivot and adapt i want to thank all of you for being here thank you so much you all are some of the most important people in this city beloved i'm telling

you beloved whereas the nation celebrates the week of june 15th as national waste and recycling workers appreciation week and whereas the city employees who provide this essential service handling the solid waste in our city are often overlooked despite their vital importance to the sustainability and sanitation of our city demanding recognition and appreciation for their dedication and hard work and whereas our crew members generally work very long hours and operate under all weather conditions ensuring the efficient removal of waste and recycling thus playing a crucial role in preventing the spread of disease protecting our national resources from pollution litter and illegal dumping and help maintain the appearance of the community providing an essential service and dedication to our residents and city

and whereas committed staff members employed by the city make a significant contribution to the safety health and welfare of our residents and whereas the city of fairfax values and celebrates all of our trash and recycling workers street cleaners truck drivers and all others employed in the refuse and recycling industry to serve residents and now therefore i katherine s reed mayor of the city of fairfax do hereby proclaim june 15th to 21st 2026 is national waste and recycling workers appreciation week in the city of fairfax and encourage all residents and local businesses to participate in opportunities to thank our hard-working staff members in the sanitation industry thank you all so much those who are here and those who are not miss stephanie kubka

well thank you mayor and city council for recognizing national waste and recycling workers week today we honor the dedicated men and women who provide one of the most essential public services in our community each week and all types of weather and often under challenging conditions our waste and recycling crews work tirelessly to keep our keep fairfax clean safe and healthy waste and recycling collection is consistently recognized as one of the most physically demanding and hazardous professions in the country these employees and perform critical work that often goes unnoticed yet our quality of life depends on their commitment and professionalism as we celebrate national waste and recycling workers week i encourage everyone to show

their appreciation and here's a few simple ways slow down and give collection crews plenty of space when passing or driving near crews place only accepted materials in your trash and recycling carts and please consider leaving a thank you note or leaving treats or drinks for your collection crews on behalf of the city of fairfax thank you to all of our waste and recycling workers for your hard work dedication and service to our community we are truly grateful for everything that you do yes thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you this will be our fourth annual Juneteenth celebration and I'm very appreciative to those who have in fact worked every year to put together a wonderful

celebration here in the city all right come on down there we go there we go all right look at this wonderful wonderful okay whereas Juneteenth has been celebrated by the African American community since the late 1800s marking the anniversary of the arrival of Union General Gordon Granger to Galveston Texas on June 19th 1865 bringing news of the Emancipation Proclamation enacted two and a half years earlier freeing enslaved people from bondage and whereas this year's theme of Juneteenth brings balance to America's celebration of freedom holds special significance as it aligns with the nation's 250th anniversary the semi-quincentennial or the cester centennial take your choice on that one and reinforces the role of Juneteenth in completing the promise of liberty and whereas the city of

Fairfax though small in geography holds a meaningful place in Virginia's black history with communities of free and formerly enslaved African Americans contributing to the social spiritual and civic life of the region since the 19th century and whereas local landmarks such as the Mount Calvary Baptist Church Fairfax Rosenwald School or also known as the Fairfax Colored School Germantown Cemetery and family homesteads stand as enduring testaments to the presence perseverance and legacy of African Americans in the city of Fairfax Fairfax and whereas June 19th each year is recognized as a time to celebrate the journey of black Americans from enslavement to full citizenship through reconstruction the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter protests and the ongoing quest for social justice.

What began with stolen lives and stolen labor in Virginia in 1619 and spread across the southern colonies and then the western United States culminating in a civil war over the establishment of free states or slave states reached a turning point with the ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865. Now therefore I, Catherine S. Reed, mayor of the city of Fairfax, in concert with the city council, recognize June 19, 2026 as Juneteenth in the city of Fairfax and urge our residents to join our Juneteenth celebration at the Sherwood Community Center on Friday, June 19th at 6 p.m. Let's come together to celebrate the arc of the moral universe as it continues to bend toward the racial justice across our city, our commonwealth, and our country.

And who is speaking. Thank you so much, Mary Reed. Good evening, mayor, council members, and city staff, and members of our community. On behalf of the Fairfax City Juneteenth Committee, I want to say thank you for this proclamation celebrating Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates June 19th, 1865, when the last enslaved African Americans in Galveston finally learned that they were free. More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. It is a day that reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied. And progress requires people willing to continue pushing our nation closer to its ideals. This year feels especially significant because it's our country celebrating 250 years.

And as we reflect on these 250 years of American history, we have to tell the full story of our nation. Black Americans have been part of America's journey from the very beginning. Black labor helped build the country's foundations. Black soldiers defended it. Black entrepreneurs, educators, artists, activists, and public servants helped shape it. America's story is incomplete without Black America. And here in Fairfax City, this story continues. We honor Black residents, staff, families, businesses, faith leaders, and community advocates whose contributions have strengthened our city and helped make Fairfax a vibrant and welcoming community that it is today. Juneteenth is not only about looking back.

It's about celebrating resilience, culture, community, and possibility. It is about ensuring future generations understand that there are both challenges that we overcome and progress that remains possible when we all come together. So thank you so much again, Mayor Reed, City Council, for recognizing Juneteenth and for supporting opportunities for our community to learn from our history while celebrating our future. And I want to give a special thanks to staff. Without them, we wouldn't be able to put this together. Come join us. All right. Thank you. A photo. A photo. Thank you. you This way. Can we see her? Yes. Oh, sorry. We're as tall as we are. Alright, big smile. Alright, perfect. Thank you all so much.

Alright. I'm now going to ask the city's fire department and parks and recreation staff to come down as we proclaim CPR month. Alright. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Where are my people? Where are my people? Okay. Excellent. Whereas, according to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one person dies every 34 seconds from heart disease. And whereas 70% of cardiac arrests happen at home, residents called upon to perform CPR will most likely be trying to save the life of a loved one or close friend. And whereas effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double

or triple a victim's chance of survival. But only 40% of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander. And only 12% have access to an AED. And whereas the city of Fairfax is committed to improving cardiac arrest care and outcomes through trained city staff, conducting residential awareness and training programs on the use of hands only CPR for residents and students in our local schools and encouraging local businesses, fitness centers, senior communities, and faith based organizations to purchase public access defibrillators for those for use during an emergency. And whereas the city of Fairfax encourages all residents and visitors of our community to learn hands only CPR and not be afraid to perform these life saving skills on someone in need.

Your actions can only help. If you see an unresponsive adult who is not breathing or breathing normally, call 911, push hard and fast on the center of the chest and use an AED if available. Now, therefore, I, Catherine S. Reed, mayor of the city of Fairfax, on behalf of all residents of the city of Fairfax, and in support of National CPR and AED Awareness Week, do hereby proclaim June 2026 SCPR month in the city of Fairfax, and urge all residents to recognize the life saving impact that CPR and AEDs have throughout our community and the globe. And with that, who is speaking? Okay. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Thank you, Mayor, Council. Appreciate the opportunity to highlight CPR, the importance of CPR Awareness Month.

The mayor stole some of my statistics I was going to use, but the American Heart Association recognizes and has statistics that prove you're twice as likely to survive if you have bystander CPR. Our statistics match that. In 2025, we resuscitated 20 patients and 47, over 47% of those received bystander CPR. And I'm very proud of our staff. I'm very proud of our staff. We've already trained this year. We have over 1,450 students at Katherine Johnson and St. Leo's in partnership with Gwyneth's Gift Foundation. I've got to get that right. And our volunteers have trained over 40 people in their monthly trainings. If you're interested in learning hands-only CPR, please go to our website. Our volunteer department holds trainings once a month.

So just sign up there. And it's a great opportunity to serve your community. So thank you. Thank you. All right. Sorry. I want to thank FIRE. Oh, thank you for letting me join them up here tonight. I'm excited to announce the rest of the community that the city of Fairfax is the first municipality in the state of Virginia to receive a grant from the Aliver Foundation. The Aliver Foundation is committed to increased awareness and access to AEDs at public sport, outdoor recreation areas and sport facilities. And the generous grant will provide a secure, accessible AED unit that will be installed at Draper Park in the coming weeks. And so this comes at a perfect time because the governor recently signed Senate Bill 87,

which will require AEDs to be available at government sporting facilities and outdoor facilities as well. So this will be the first one that we'll be seeing come to the city of Fairfax. But there will be many more to follow. So thank you, everyone, for helping us get this grant and supporting us through the process. Wonderful. What a great announcement. дедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедедеде

Jennifer Rose. And graduates. Come on down, graduates. Come on. I can hold this for you. It's a service I provide. I got it. Graduates, come on down. So while they're coming down, I just want to thank the city, the Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce and the Fairfax Forward Foundation, which is our chamber's foundation, have now, for the second cohort, put together Civic Connections, which is a wonderful program designed for Fairfax City residents and business owners to learn how their city works. You know, I sit in that back corner every week at city council meetings. I get to see a lot of citizens speaking and engaging with council, which is wonderful, but they don't always understand how things work.

So the chamber decided, well, we're going to help solve a problem. And this is our second cohort. Last fall, our first cohort graduated 29 participants. We have 16 that are graduating tonight, giving us 45. Better educated citizens and friends of the city, because we've got a few non-residents that participate, that are now able to go out into their community as ambassadors and help their neighbors and friends understand why things are the way they are and to get involved and to get engaged. I'm pleased to say that some of our graduates are now running for office, although that is not a requirement. You don't come through our program and have to run for office. But they're more engaged now. We had one graduate from the fall cohort who went to work for the town of Herndon

because she fell in love with how important local government is. This is where it happens, my friends. Local government's where it's at. So I'd love, again, to thank the city for their support. I know Matthew Kaiser's around here somewhere. He was instrumental in making sure that we were able to have our venues and all of the different programs and departments come and speak. all the staff that stayed late on Wednesday evenings to share their knowledge. So thank you, guys, everybody. Thank you for your support. Thank you. And congratulations to our cohort. Okay. Photo. Photo. Photo. Photo. Photo. All right. Go to the chin. Go to the chin. Make sure we can see everybody. Make sure we can see everybody.

Okay. Big smile. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. okay we can move to the consideration for remote participation uh council member hall in accordance with city council adopted policy and as permitted by virginia code section 2.2-3708.2 i move to approve council member hardy chandler's requests properly submitted in writing prior to tonight's meeting for remote participate remote participation subject to compliance with the requirements outlined in the city of sorry in the city council adopted policy and applicable law in all or portions of the city council special meeting of june 9th 2026 is there a second second okay um a motion has been made and seconded a roll call vote

council member amos aye council member hall aye council member pearson aye council member bates aye council member mcquillen aye motion passed unanimously we will go to the adoption of the agenda council member hall is there a motion to approve the agenda yes i move to adopt the agenda as presented is there a second second the motion has been made and seconded a roll call vote council member amos aye council member hall aye council member hardy chandler aye council member peterson aye council member bates aye council member mcquillen aye motion passed unanimously we did not have any speakers sign up for initial general public comments so we can move to the consent agenda all right are there any questions on any of the items on the consent agenda start there okay seeing none

is there a motion to approve the consent agenda council member hall i move to approve the consent agenda item 7a through e as presented and the accompanying motions in the staff reports second a motion has been made by council member hall and seconded by council member peterson a roll call vote council member mcquillen aye council member bates aye council member peterson aye council member hall aye council member amos aye council member hardy chandler aye motion passed unanimously we will go to the public hearings our first public hearing is a public hearing and council action on an ordinance enacting and authorizing a license agreement between the city of fairfax and fairfax e-roof committee for the placement

of e-roof facilities on existing joint use utility poles and the public right-of-way i'm going to recognize brian lubcomen our city attorney for the staff report thank you melissa let's try this again there we go uh good evening mayor and council um i'll start with a little matter of personal privilege before this was initially done in 2021 i don't believe the city council and certainly i had ever heard of an erud facility um this has now been in place since 2021 as noted in the staff report the current license agreement is expiring um i think the fact that uh you've received almost no comments about this other than individuals in favor of it shows uh how unobtrusive this is um and what an excellent concept it is so the staff report is self-explanatory i know we have members of the of the

public who would like to speak about this so i'll keep my presentation very brief other than uh to note that the staff is recommending uh approval of an extent of a of a new license agreement uh to continue this for another five years and with that i'll be happy to answer any questions not seeing council member mcquillan i do have a question why five year that is the maximum period of time that cities in virginia can do licenses you've read my mind i was just going to ask if we can extend thank you absolutely okay okay so i will now open the public hearing ms shinaberry has this public hearing been properly advertised yes it has and i had five people sign up prior to the meeting so after i call those five

people up to speak we'll open the floor if there's anybody else in the room that would like to speak on this item so i'm going to call the first speaker up which is elliot goldberg good evening mayor and members of the city council thank you so much for uh this opportunity i would like to uh speak in favor of the new license for fairfax air roof uh in 2021 your predecessors uh was it we weren't in person that was a fun time we all did this on zoom uh helped create the first air roof in northern virginia there are uh several in dc and a number more in montgomery county as well but this is this was this was a very important first for the jewish community uh here in uh the fairfax area uh since since 2021 the past five years have been uneventful and non-disruptive um that is from the

air of perspective uh regarding uh you know uh city operations and the life of its uh residents um our a roof perimeter just a i mean there's some some material that you have in front of you our air of perimeter is just over 20 miles it encompasses the eastern portion of the city uh where people um who uh needed to walk uh carrying items to uh to services either at chabad on little river turnpike in prince william or on take a little further into mantua neighborhood so it helps where where they live uh we as you know that part of the city has a lot of different options for housing so we have families that are in single family homes in the apartments and the condos and so it really enables us to uh to support a diverse

uh diverse community um while our errors route through the city itself uses approximately 100 utility poles um 75 owned by dominion 25 by verizon uh the way that the the power lines are configured most of them require no attachments no modification whatsoever so of that of those approximately 100 poles um we are only uh seeking license put attachments on nine of them um and by the way you'd say what is the attachment uh here is a short one foot uh piece of attachment just a piece of tvc pipe uh there's nothing in it and it uh blends in perfectly well uh we'd like to think with uh all the all the other stuff that uh that utilities and other users um have on the poles uh so it is um it's not an eyesore um it blends in and

um and to date we've we've heard nothing about uh you know any disruptions to to the utilities the pole owners city services residents visitors um so i do want to extend because i have 40 seconds left i want to extend a special shout out um uh to uh to the city staff uh uh to uh to brian and the folks in the public works department for their support in helping us make this uh make some route adjustments last year with um the realignments that's happening or going to be happening on blenheim in front of the city fairfax high school uh some of those poles were being moved and were no longer feasible for us so we were working with the city staff we redesigned the route um and uh and they were very helpful in that

regard so i want to thank uh thank all the staff for helping us um thank you very much for your time and uh have a good evening our next speaker is melinda hofstetter married council members my name is melinda hofstetter i'm a resident of fairfax of the city of fairfax my husband and i downsized from a big house in mantua to a townhouse within the city um and within the a roof to maintain our friends our congregation and so that our grown children when they come to visit can carry or push our grandchildren uh and to accompany us to services and to holidays when they come to visit otherwise if there were no a roof we can't carry on shabbat so that would be sort of that would be a big deal that they couldn't participate with us i'm also

the secretary of the aero board and have been for several years now when the aero was going up we spoke to dominion power and the other utilities about using their poles to establish the um the aero and we said that we check the aero every week 52 weeks out of the year to make sure it's up every week they asked in that case they said would you mind telling us if there's a problem with our poles or our wires because we don't check every week so it's been a mutually beneficial relationship for us observant jews not just us but the utility companies as well in more ways than one thank you our next speaker is mandy book good evening mayor b good good evening council members thank you for the opportunity

um i want to say that my name is mandy book i am a realtor in in this area over 20 years i also happen to be a member of staff over at the jewish community relations council of greater washington and with both of my hats i just want to speak to the um really tremendous benefit that having an air roof has brought to our community over the years um in in essence in a nugget it helps us in a very tangible way to demonstrate just how welcoming fairfax city is to all of its residents which is a beautiful thing um we saw that when we first approached the council you know some five years ago now and we we watched really the beautiful remarks of every single council member in support and welcome and we were so touched by that we remain touched by that um this particular piece

of communal infrastructure allows me to uh show my clients all kinds of property inside the city that maybe is more affordable than things a little closer to the synagogue it keeps our community diverse and thriving it welcomes young families young couples first-time home buyers all of these things to be able to join our community in a way that they couldn't if the infrastructure wasn't there and as others have mentioned it's a particular element of community and structure that our infrastructure excuse me that it's nearly invisible and inconsequential to the rest of the world but to us it's so significant um so we thank you both for the structure and for the strength it brings to our community

and for the incredible message of inclusivity and welcome that it sends to all of our area jewish residents thank you very much our next speaker is david goldberg good evening my name is david goldberg i i wish to please speak in support of renewing the license with the fairfax era committee um i first would like to express my gratitude and thanks to mayor reed for all the support you've given to the era of committee and the jewish community in general um as well to all the council for everything you all have have done to help make fairfax city a very inclusive welcoming in place not just for the jewish community but for all residents of the city so so thank you for that um my wife and i have lived in the city of fairfax for uh just over 22 years we've raised our children

here uh we have a dog here now um now that the children left in any event um uh you know as a jew who is dedicated to observing the rules of the of the sabbath the shabbat we're not i'm dedicated to not driving anywhere i don't i can't i have to walk i do not get in a car on saturdays from friday night till saturday night and so to go to the synagogue two miles down the road i have to walk um but for the era of i would not be able to carry anything i wouldn't be able to carry a bottle of water i wouldn't be able to put a key in my pocket i wouldn't be able to walk my dog because there's thing you know with the leash and the other things you have to carry when you walk a dog there's just you know carrying food to a neighbor's house to have dinner for example all those things i wouldn't

be able to do but for the era and the era of which is sort of this ritual enclosure it is a ritual enclosure that extends the home that in which i can behave as if i'm in my home instead of out in the streets is what allows us to do all of those things and to make the observance of shabbat and all the things that we want to do on shabbat doable feasible and so it's a really wonderful thing and we we just hope that um i would ask and and request that the council please renew the license for another five years thank you very much our next speaker is shalom simon recovering from a knee replacement surgery um this is awesome i i you're seeing representative democracy on a local level um thank you so much for the time that that you all put in and listening to

listening to your citizens that's the way it's supposed to work um my name is a rabbi shalom simon um much of the maybe all of the arab fairfax airboard watched the live stream of your meeting five years ago when you voted unanimously to approve our permit all six of your predecessors spoke about the inclusiveness to all cultures and ethnic groups and how it enriched the social fabric of this community and how much it meant to the city of fairfax it worked and as a side benefit fairfax actually became known nationwide among the religious jewish community of america as a welcoming place i'm here to tell you how much it meant to the jewish community of fairfax and even more so today not just on a day-to-day or shabbat shabbat level but um but on a grander and grander scheme of

things we are currently living uh during a unfortunate rise in anti-semitism and we've even reached a state where we've had to coordinate with the city for police protection for some of our events um and a positive vote here today sends a powerful message to the jews of fairfax and america that says you're still welcome here and a message that says you're part of the wonderful wonderfully diverse tapestry of fairfax and that we value you today just as much as we valued you five years ago so thank you very much for your time and consideration is there anybody else in the room that would like to speak on this agenda item okay okay seeing none i will now close the public hearing is there a motion councilmember hall yes i

move that the city council enact an ordinance approving and authorizing a renewal of a license agreement between the city of fairfax and fairx eruv committee for the placement of eruv facility on certain existing joint use utility poles in the public right of way second is there any discussion on the motion council member hall so i grew up in a very jewish area of wilmington delaware and i was googling before to see if we had an eruv in our area and we did not we actually had three uh synagogues within about a mile radius of each other and i was not super observant growing up um but i was just surprised that in such an area like that we didn't have anything like that and they still actually don't have it now so i'm very excited and happy to continue to support this and bring recognition to

our wonderful jewish population and community here thank you and i appreciate the comments that you made about the previous mayor and council and i want to say their names here because it really matters when people initially made a stand and welcomed you in this very important way into our community and it was it was mayor david meyer and council members joe harman sang ye janice miller john staley so limb and tom ross and i hope in five years when this license comes up again whoever is sitting in our seats will will understand the the responsibility that we have as a dais and as the local government to support this eruv for as long as this eruv needs to exist so with that i will ask for a roll call vote

council member amos aye council member hall aye council member peterson aye council member bates aye council member mcquillan aye council member hardy chandler aye motion passed unanimously we'll go on to the second public hearing which is a public hearing and council action of an ordinance amending and reenacting chapter 38 in parents environment article 2 and parents noise of the code of the city of fairfax virginia pertain to noise mitigation and the regulation of loud disturbing and unnecessary noises i'm going to recognize brian lubkman our city attorney for the staff report thank you and hello again mayor and council um i won't say a lot of words this evening we've talked about noise at a number of meetings but um if you'll review the staff report as you all have i'll just in

going through the first paragraph i'll just note again this is a continuation of the public hearing that was opened on march the 24th continued to may 12th and then to this meeting as i noted since the initial public hearing date we've been having discussions receiving additional public input and additional changes have been proposed uh primarily due to a desire to avoid unintended consequences and to reduce enforcement issues and as as i noted when we started this process the beginning point of the suggested revisions to the noise ordinance were not that we have a huge problem in the city of fairfax i don't believe and i think the statistics show we don't have a large problem we certainly don't have a problem in the city of fairfax that's any anything out of the

ordinary compared to what other jurisdictions deal with and i would argue we may actually have a better situation but the fact remains that as as we previously noted the last time the ordinance was visited was quite a number of years ago and i identified the need to have updated definitions to clarify certain things to have items reflect sort of the the the changes in culture that have occurred since then changes in work habits the effects as we all know the pandemic and uh sort of the the the modern uh the advent of of working at home a lot more so um it's a it's a balance it's a balance between an understanding that um there's an inevitable amount of noise in a suburban setting uh it's just

simply impossible to to live without noise and i think many people would argue that living without noise wouldn't be it wouldn't be a lot of fun i mean it's part of the thing that makes life life worth living um however uh there are circumstances and we decided that that it made sense to recommend some tweaks um so we we clarified exemptions we clarified hours where there were absolute prohibitions so there are absolute prohibitions in the in the noise ordinance as proposed uh and then there are standards that are that are for measurement and the absolute prohibitions uh are are a recognition that there's just either certain times of the day or certain types of noises uh that that most most everybody finds objectionable and

certainly at certain times of the day um the other thing we found in the in the period between when the public hearing was opened is um i had some conversations with uh some of the stakeholders and you all had asked that i do that um and so some one of the exemptions in particular and i'll go through this in a section had to deal with um items such as uh the city community pools which was something that we just didn't think about and we actually get no complaints about the city pools but um the fact that that essentially they were de facto exempted from noise regulations was something that we felt we needed to address and we did that in here so what i will do very briefly is just go through in the staff report

there were a couple areas that i bolded um one question that that came up there there had been some concern that we were introducing criminal penalties uh for for noise violations and what i wanted to make clear is the it's an either or uh the reason we included criminal penalties and some other jurisdictions have done this as well is in the very isolated egregious situations a civil penalty just won't cut it we hope that we almost never have to use the criminal route um it's it's not favored it's not a way to to achieve compliance but in in circumstances where we just can't get compliance at least that's a tool to have uh the second thing was to introduce and it's it's a little bit unique but we thought it was worth

a try uh that if we cannot enforce on something because again the violations of the noise ordinance as with many ordinance require that a city official witness the violation in most in most cases but there is an avenue now for residents in egregious cases if they can convince a magistrate uh to go seek remedies in in that manner i will also note that despite noise ordinances residents always as with any matters involving neighbors and other residents you don't lose your ability to seek civil remedies if you have a neighbor that's trespassing on your property you have remedies you could do things you if you have a neighbor that's um impeding upon your right to quiet enjoyment and folks often misconstrue what quiet

enjoyment means it doesn't mean you get to enjoy your property quietly you get to enjoy your property in an ordinary manner and and you get the right to uh to to expect your neighbors to to comply and and to respect your ability to to to use your property so uh civil penalties will continue to be the preferred route we have an escalated uh system of enforcement on that another area and the area that seems to be the the the greatest issue with respect to noise violations has to do with the amplified sounds music speakers etc so when we originally drafted these revisions uh we had floated the concept of essentially uh having the standard be that at any time of the day uh if you could discern and hear any of these type of

noises with your doors and windows closed that that was a a de facto violation um as we examined it further we realized that that there are some issues and and the the primary issue is there's all sorts of different types of housing stock all sorts of different types of construction quality um and and all types of different sensitivities uh among residents so what we did instead is we went back to a a a time of day restriction on the doors and windows closed and that would effectively be the nighttime because i think most everyone would agree that nighttime is a time you don't want to hear a bunch of music or other sounds coming into your residence so we backed the time up from 11 p.m to 9 p.m daily and that's aggressive

and uh so i'm just offering that i suggested nine um council can certainly do something different we can try this and and and we can bring this back if it turns out that's that's too aggressive and then extending to 8 p.m 8 a.m every day so uh i don't say it's a quiet time but it's it's a recognition that there are times of the day uh that folks want uh relative quiet in their house related to that it's not just audible within uh residents of the doors and windows closed it's if the noise can be heard uh more than uh 50 feet away from the noise source so uh if you have a loud noise and it happens that it isn't heard in another residence because there's more than the you know they're just not loud enough to

hit somebody's residence it's still not going to be permitted if it's if it's more than 50 feet from the source of the noise generation i'll note that the the the within the residence another has always been in the noise ordinance uh we we just we we we clarified the definition we want it to be discernible and and audible and so those are their definitions of there that that that make it easier to uh to enforce at other times of the day we will continue to have noise pressure uh regulations and i'll talk about that uh at the end of this at the end of the staff report um let's flip through a couple of other briefly here the second clarification that i made between the original draft and now was we want to make sure

that it's clear that the on the noise level standards it's not at the source of the noise it's on the receiving property so if i have a if i have a radio if anybody still has radios but if i have a radio on and it's loud enough to hit the noise decibel level at measurement it's fine if it succeeds it on my property it's when it crosses over my property onto another residential property that it becomes an issue so the measurement is always at the property line or the area where it's likely to have the loudest sound so we clarify that in this version as well um the third we talked about the noise within the property uh we also had yes on the and i talked about this briefly so um we the language

we had in there's noises arising from any city sponsored or partnered festival or event and there was a period after that and then what we did is we added language in this latest iteration to make sure that events that are indoor or outdoor activities occurring at or in any city park or city building that's permitted so um uh not to put a fine point on it the the largest issue currently is pickleball we have pickleball going on at green acres we didn't want that to be a de facto violation i will say i don't know if summerfield is still here uh we are always working on and as is every jurisdiction around the country i would imagine with dealing with pickleball and uh uh issues that that arise and and so that's a that's an ongoing ongoing battle but we wanted to make sure that that

was covered any other activities going on in city parks we didn't want those to be per se violations and then we talked about the community pools so the language we have in there is a community pool located within the city when the pool is open because we didn't want to just blanketly exempt the community pools because if someone goes in there when it's closed and has a party we wanted that to be a violation there would be other issues there and otherwise in compliance with any conditions promulgated by the city manager by permit or waiver what we're anticipating is um and we had talked to at least one of the representatives of one of the pools um is sort of getting a business plan what the plan is for the pools to be open what they anticipate their regular activities to be and sort of

memorializing it that maybe maybe not in a formal agreement but in an mou or a list of standards so that there's something that we can look to if um uh subsequent leadership in a pool or subsequent membership in a pool uh decides to exceed what's what's sort of permissible because again these pools for the most part are in residential areas and we want to make sure that we're protecting there and then the last thing just wanted to go into the waivers again we had a situation the genesis for most of this language as you recall with uh whatever we want to call it ice mageddon or the february storm uh we there were some complaints about individuals having snow or ice it wasn't really snow at that

point ice cleared um at at all hours and a lot of that was a function of the fact that it was very difficult to get contractors and and you needed some pretty serious work to be done uh so the ability for the manager to uh to sort of waive the requirements of the noise ordinance on a short-term intermediate um so we'll work through that process and we'll probably come back and have a discussion with the council at some point about how that is going uh but what we didn't want to have happen is have an inability in in in certain circumstances for the manager to be able to waive that uh and have to wait for uh some sort of formal action um the last thing is we are still recommending a delayed effective date i know uh individuals want this to be um in effect as soon as possible uh the common

i'll make is we have a noise ordinance it's still operative it still works uh the the enforcement issues are still the same that's what i was going to say the enforcement issues remain so um the nighttime enforcement a lot of the enforcement i'd say most of the enforcement rests on the shoulders of the police department you get calls after hours um the the the for the number of violations or perceived violations that exist within the city uh it doesn't make a lot of sense to sort of ramp up the number of staff uh that do noise enforcement uh however there there there are ways to do targeted enforcement we're going to look at some of the more egregious cases and see if we can do um uh for lack of a better term maybe a strike team or some ability to look at the

situations and see if we can uh work on work on issues the other thing that we're that we're really trying to do the police department has been very very good at this is um uh sort of community mediation working with residents trying to get them together to work through their issues so that uh you deescalate so we will continue to do that as well uh so uh the suggestion is here in here is a delayed effective date of july the 15th i'm actually asking this evening if council would consider doing a delayed effective date that we do september the first we would like to do a community education campaign between now and when this becomes effective one of the things as i mentioned when we first started this

was um putting out a chart so that residents and having it on the website as well so that residents can look clearly if they have a particular type of noise that they're hearing what do i do who do i call what are my expectations we'll do that and we'll do some communication and additional outreach to the business community we've we've heard back and forth from some of the businesses especially the you know the bars and nighttime activities i've had some conversations i think we've worked through most of those issues we just want to make sure that uh that we're able to work through all of that so with that i'm happy to answer any questions um that you all have all right i'll see if there are questions

for mr lubkomin at this point council member mcquillen just so i can better understand the extension to september that you're requesting or that it's to just educate the public to put some signage out not signage but perhaps uh just what we the two things that we need to do we want to work out the sort of the uh stepped up enforcement ability okay now we don't need an extension to september to do that i mean like i said we have july 15th in here um if if you don't want it to go all the way to september then perhaps we'll just make it august first which gives us a little more time uh to do it i mean between july 15th and august first but we're not waiting to the date uh i think we would just like a little bit

of time uh from the date that the council on access which hopefully would be this evening to work out any of the kinks and just be sure that we're ready to go okay um i personally feel that our residents who have been waiting on this have been waiting and have been very patient and i am not comfortable with extending it even further i think it's completely acceptable to be able to provide some sort of educational component by the time that that july 15th date i'm not comfortable with pushing to september but thank you thank you other questions council member peterson just take a picture i'm going to maybe summarize and paraphrase and let you tell me if i understand this right but we've discussed this quite a bit lots of issues here where things stand right now as i understand it

is that we have covered the bases in terms of so far as we can tell all of the issues that need to be covered in the ordinance is that a fair character i believe we have i never want to say we've absolutely covered everything because uh that's that that's a dangerous statement but yes i believe i believe we have to the best of our ability yes i'm not saying we're not going to come back again it's not going to be 10 years but um we think we think we've moved the needle significantly on this okay as we've done that um my take is that you're comfortable that we have adequate enforceability as we've done that enforceability yes uh enforcement ability is always the question is whether we have the resources to do

that but we have the mechanisms correct okay and then the final question is we also have adequate discretion in terms of how we enforce so that we can kind of grade that out and graduate it but make the solution really you know sized right to what's going on is that a fair characterization that's correct the starting point the philosophy on enforcement on most items such as noise and and well i don't mean to belittle it but the more what we call the minor levels of violations is we always try to deescalate first i mean the starting point is it would be great if and our police department does a wonderful job at this especially in the evenings they go out to the property they try to deescalate citing people is a

is a matter of last resort um so yes we we we have the ability to enforce we try to do it on a graduated basis and as i mentioned at the beginning the the new concept of criminal violations i i would be surprised if we see that very often at all but we have the capacity if somehow or other the message doesn't get through the first time we can kind of uh carry it first or second yes absolutely all right thank you very much that's remember hall thank you and thank you for all the work for staff and the police and everyone that went into this i know it was not easy and i know we thought we had it lined up and then you know fortunately we heard from the public and recognized that there were some concerns i'm

i'm happy with the timing of it as far as the pools had the option to understand that there was an issue and you know other businesses and other community uh events and activities so that we could try to really make sure that we're capturing as much as we can um i think we do need to understand it's never going to be perfect and if it was perfect then we would all be living in some sort of silence or some sort of super city whichever you you know wherever you fall in the spectrum there um i am also not in favor of delaying it to september 1st the only i'll call it moderation that i would be willing to consider would be to give us maybe a two-week period where i recognize we're not going to be out there doing a

lot more enforcement than we currently are but you know maybe a two-week window after it's actually enacted to give people a reminder as opposed to you know that next level um but i do think that our staff and you know city has done a great job of making people aware of this all the outreach that has been done so i don't know that we need to do anything but i was open to what others wanted to say or thought about it and that was my kind of you know maybe negotiation on it so but otherwise i'm totally fine on july 15th especially because i think people tend to do most of their loud situations more in the summer time and i think september 1st is it's too late for that and that's fair i will say that the

another area where we get a lot of noise issues have has to do with college students residing within the city and of course during the summer they're not around but that's fair i think noise is an all-year problem councilmember amos thank you i just had one question and a few comments just real quick for clarity on the property line versus the 50 foot and kind of how we're adjusting that how would that and this is mostly because i just recently moved into ardmore how does that work with duplexes if you don't mind explaining so is it just from within the residence adjacent even though they're connected in a duplex you're and the duplex example might also apply to apartments right because if you're right correct each other the noise yeah i mean uh obviously

the 50 foot thing isn't going to come into play in uh duplexes that are next to each other exactly it will come into play in a set of units and a unit 50 feet away or more so that's why you have the the double you don't want it just to be audible in a residence with the doors and windows closed as the only criteria because you can generate a lot of noise and it's not in hurt hurt in anybody's house but it's still loud enough to bother the neighbors because you might be sitting outside yeah i just want to make sure that was clear and uh this is not and that is the current standard now yes okay we're not changing that we're just clarifying it and that's not a dig of my neighbors y'all are great

um the only other few things i'll mention one i just wanted to thank you i know you've been working on this for years at this point um well maybe not years but i appreciate that well the perception of some is years but uh just a thank you to staff on it and for really core coordinating and incorporating the comments and feedback you've received i know it was pretty robust um and thank you for also reiterating that we always try to especially when it comes to code issues we always try to go to voluntary compliance first that is always the first mechanism we're not going out there hunting people that's just not how it operates zoning is another example as you all know we try to work out zoning issues before they become violations and you've said this multiple times that

this is really targeted at very unique or outlier situations that it's not it's not that we've had a significant number of issues it's really in certain instances where we have repeat offenders that we just can't really enforce for this time being yes i mean it this really is clarifying and tweaking and changing timelines um and then adding adding a few more tools in the toolbox but it's not as you know it's not a wholesale revision and it's not a recognition or a at any point or a statement that we have a major problem in the city it's just it's modernizing the noise ordinance for lack of a better term that's that's great the only other thing i'll say regarding the july 1st and september timeline i'm in

agreement with my colleagues i think september 1st is far it's too far out um primarily because we've had a robust public process to this point i mean i think we had our first major discussion on it what last october then we had another one in march and we extended that period to include more feedback uh and again i think this is primarily targeted at very unique situations and repeat offenders that i think it'd be better just to go ahead and start sooner than later we can educate and enforce simultaneously and that's fair and and in terms of extending out to september 1st a lot of that was also just because of the comments we had received previously that we wanted to make sure the public was

aware but i agree with you the public is aware of this um respectfully i'd still suggest july 15th but extending beyond that isn't necessary council member peterson i know we covered this before at least i think we did but let me ask again for the benefit of the public loud mufflers and drag racing where does that fit in to noise enforcement here in the city there there is a provision in here regarding vehicles there's also state law requirements regarding mufflers etc so that as i think we mentioned at the time as you can imagine the biggest problem with dealing with muffler issues is by the time you show up the muffler's gone and what it's attached to so um we will attempt to do that as much as possible but there are state

law restrictions there's provisions in here that deal with what you can and can't do to your vehicle and it just becomes an enforcement question and and we don't get a lot of complaints by the way i know that the ones that we the ones that you get are i'm sorry to say this audible you hear about them uh but uh there's not a huge problem in the city with uh with mufflers well some people think that i understand if it's happening to you it's a it's a problem just to to clarify one prior thing you mentioned that there's a requirement for these uh incidents to actually be witnessed by enforcement personnel i'm wondering and this may get into kind of the literalism of the law here how does that um

impact um automation remote sensing and other technology-based approaches to enforcement does that render them meaningless or does it enable them because they fall under that definition so um there is a pilot uh that's been authorized in the commonwealth of virginia and i'm not quite sure on the details of that but the city manager may know a little more but it's a i'm sorry i'll be loath to get into the legislation and legal aspects of it but um there is a pilot i've asked the police department to look at automated noise enforcement related to vehicles in our city to see whether there's applicability here it would be a different process not unlike what you would see from automated red light

or speed zone enforcement so it would it would fall into what amounts to a civil process it'd be different probably than what we would structure under our ordinance but there would be a mechanism for automated enforcement under that scenario there's a pilot that exists now we're looking at again our ability to potentially bring that to you as an option uh moving forward thank you that's really great to hear there are cost issues associated with that and because of the limitations on what you can use the funds that are generated from that uh but in terms of automated enforcement generally there's no enabling authority in virginia for uh for that generally with respect to noise violations so we can't

stick uh decibel meters up and monitor them remotely or record there's just simply not that authority in virginia is there any interest and has there been any interest uh in the general assembly towards enabling that i'm not aware i think the difficulty from a technological standpoint is again the same reason we have difficulties in enforcing with decibel meters is dealing with uh sort of the background noise in urban settings is i think technology will evolve sufficiently to be able to deal with this at some point it's not there yet okay thanks any other questions council member bates um so i think that uh where we've arrived here shows that um this involves trying to find a balance between uh not wanting to

over penalize uh what would otherwise be normal behavior but also that we need to lend maybe a bit more of our teeth to what we have here um for the cases where there really are egregious activities that um detrimentally affects quality of life for their neighbors so um again really want to thank uh the city attorney and staff for all their work on this um and i think it's also important to note that uh this is something that we can come back to later um and i hope that we will continue to collect feedback and see how these new provisions work out as well as the new uh um you know response and enforcement activities that uh we might see so um i want to just clarify so july 15th we're okay with that um

yes certainly that's the reason we suggested is well we can certainly be ready to go yeah yeah all right so um sounds like that's the consensus and uh so yeah look forward to um hopefully doing some good with this anything from you council member hardy chandler before we open the public hearing no i just echo the sentiments of gratitude and all the work that went into this and incorporating the feedback um i support the the july 15th timeline um and even separate from this we talked about this for being you know more um extreme cases before any of this i hope that we all just encourage people to be neighborly and let people know when they're going to have a party or when something's going to happen

um just there are a lot of things that we can do to prevent some of the things uh simply by neighborly behavior but i'm glad that we have this in place and all of the tweaks that have been made to bring it in alignment so i support it thank you all right at this time i will open the public hearing ms shindaberry has this public hearing been properly advertised yes it has i had two people sign up prior to the meeting but looking back at the minutes from the march meeting they actually spoke when we originally opened the public hearing so they won't be able to speak again so i'm going to just open the floor now if there's anybody else in the room that would like to speak on this agenda item for the

noise ordinance i just have a quick question what about fireworks um authorized fireworks displays are permitted they're an exemption under the noise ordinance i'm sorry to answer the question directly let's just be very pragmatic and practical mr attorney yes excellent all right um i will now close the public hearing is there a motion council member hall yes i move that the city council enact the attach ordinance amending and reenacting chapter 38 environment article 2 noise of the code of the city of fairfax virginia pertaining to noise mitigation and the regulation of loud disturbing and unnecessary noises second a motion has been made by council member hall and seconded by council member peterson is there any discussion on the motion seeing none a roll

call vote council member mcquillan aye council member bates aye council member peterson aye council member hall aye council member amos aye council member hardy chandler aye motion passed unanimously so we will go on to the the second general public comment is there anybody in the room that would like to make a general public comment thank you i unfortunately was not able to speak before the the vote but i did have some comments i wanted to make and maybe this can be addressed in a future uh conversation um my name is zach burrows i think i know most of you i've reached out to you in the past i'm resident of sutton heights community uh and also president hoa uh came here to speak about the north ordinance i've shared some of my

concerns in the past uh one most of them are around um adding to the language and modifying slightly the noise ordinance obviously is there to be to help the welfare and health of the residents that can be no that can be music that could be fireworks could also be large vehicles large trucks uh we live on picket road we are surrounded by a number of other residential communities parishes keep pickets reserve there is a planned development immediately next to our community that's planned to be two very large warehouses with bays of upwards of 60 trucks we've spoken with a developer in the past and they've indicated that there's not necessarily a limit on the hours of operation uh or the number of trucks that might be transiting we could see hundreds of trucks coming overnight

as you can imagine that would be a tremendous impact to our community and those around us we've spoken with the other other communities and they share the same concerns what i was proposing potentially to add to the noise ordinance was something to address planned consistent and loud noises overnight which would include large trucks transiting that area again our concern is the overnight period where you have large number of trucks potentially 100 or so uh going up and down picket road driving their engines using the air brakes at 2 3 4 in the morning we already hear that with the tank farm and our concern is that with a number you know potentially large number of trucks added to that traffic that will have an impact on

on the on on us and our ability to enjoy our our our rest in our our homes what i was recommending potentially was to potentially modify the potential routes around so there there could be some language added that would potentially have those the those two businesses take an alternative route where they could over the during the overnight hours maybe go down south toward little river turpike and avoid going immediately along you know hundreds of residents of fairfax city that hopefully would be of minimal impact to their business operations but it would have tremendous impact for us as community members so i would hope that uh potentially we consider this in the future to again balance the needs of our businesses and the residents of the community thank you

is there anybody else in the room that would like to make a general public comment okay all right seeing none i will now recess the regular meeting to go into a work session we will stay in the council chambers our one work session item for tonight is discussion on sustainability matrix and green building policy i'll recognize stephanie kuka our sustainability program manager for the staff presentation you'll have to go through teams good evening mayor and city council members good evening mayor and city council members so why are we here tonight over the years council priorities have expanded in regards to sustainability energy and waste programs over the years the city has established ambitious and sustainability goals and we've made significant progress in meeting those goals

through strategic capital investments obtaining grants and developing new programs and policies and we're going to be able to do that in the future as a result the environment sustainability division now manages an increasingly large and diverse portfolio of programs projects and initiatives at the same time programs are becoming more complex and their new regulatory and compliance requirements the city needs to meet while all the division's initiatives are important available staff capacity and resources are limited and we're at the point where the demand for new initiatives and projects are exceeding the staff capacity so we can't implement all these projects simultaneously at the february 3rd work session provided council with a status update on the division's programs and projects

and shared some of the challenges we were having with staff capacity and implementation council requested that staff complete a project a project that was a project that was created a project that was created a project that was created a project that was created a project that was created a project that was provided by council so staff created the prioritization matrix and implementation schedule which i will be discussing in future slides so the goal of this work session tonight is to align expectations regarding what can be accomplished with our available staff capacity and resources and also establish a framework for decision making to help the city focus on efforts that have the highest priority and impact for the city

so as some background the environment sustainability division is charged with with improving the environmental economic and social well-being of the community the division manages a wide range of programs including climate action energy efficiency and renewables waste reduction recycling environmental protection collaboration and education and outreach for fiscal year 27 our division structure is shown on this slide our division is located within public works the sustainability program manager and the division lead we currently have two full-time vacant positions the environmental sustainability specialist and the energy programs manager which was just created this fiscal year thank you very much for your support with that position

we plan to post those positions this summer and and we'll hopefully have them filled by the fall the fall we also have an energy efficiency uh outreach coordinator this is a fully grant funded position which is a one-year position and part-time and uh mckay pierce serves in this role and he started with the city in april i'll now discuss our current staff capacity the city so for staff capacity recurring day-to-day operations consume the majority of our division's time as shown in this pie chart some of the example day-to-day tasks include ongoing administration of existing programs public outreach education and event management interdepartmental and regional meetings and collaboration data management reporting and metrics customer service calls and visits

and city-wide policy and planning support so after the ongoing day-to-day tasks are completed there are a limited amount of time left for special projects so for my position i have approximately 13 hours a week available the environmental sustainability specialist will have approximately 10 hours a week and the energy programs manager will have approximately 15 hours a week assuming the majority of their time will be used for implementing the green building policy the energy outreach coordinator works 30 hours a week however they are only allowed to work on the energy efficiency conservation grant which is also known as eecbg so they are limited to what they could work at so overall the division has approximately 38 hours a week for special projects and these are mainly cip projects that are

one-time projects and are not recurring so currently the division has 16 special projects majority of which are funded the ones that are not funded can be done internally with existing staff as mentioned earlier at the february 3rd work session the council provided staff with a set set of criteria to evaluate and determine which projects would provide the most benefits to the community so using those feedback uh we developed these criteria so these criteria were used to evaluate projects and they evaluate if the project has compliance requirements or grant requirements if they generate cost savings or revenue they evaluate what their environmental impact is and also what impact they have for the community so how what's the the scope of the project how many people does it help

also does the project help vulnerable or low income residents and also does it improve public safety so for each of these criterion the staff uh came up with a score for each of them between one and five uh and then after scoring was done for each of the criteria the projects were ranked and sequenced based on their total scores and any logical dependencies so after that direction i coordinated with senior leadership including the city manager assistant city manager chief financial officer and the director of public works to develop the prioritization matrix and score all of the projects over several meetings senior leadership reached a consensus on a final priority ranking and implementation schedule as shown in this slide

so we base this on the pr the total prioritization matrix uh score staff capacity so how much time would staff need to spend on each of these projects budgetary considerations and also what are the city's needs and priorities so after that uh consensus the highest priority projects identified that our division would work on for fiscal year 27 include the eecbg grant ev charging station installations that are mainly funded through the cfi grant led streetlight conversion project for the dominion owned and operated electric street lines implementation of the green building policy the gas to led street light conversion project utility data management setup and the residential and commercial waste and recycling assessments

solid waste ordinance update and the solid waste funding study um and then the pro the priorities for fiscal year 28 and beyond include the sustainability strategic plan climate action plan solid waste management five-year update green building policy incentive research solar feasibility assessment electric vehicle readiness plan ev charging station installations and solar energy installations so please note that this schedule is subject to change and staff will do the best to implement these projectly projects efficiently and effectively the environmental and sustainability the environmental and sustainability field is continually growing and advancing and we do expect that new initiatives will be requested as technology improves as best practices improve as grant and offer grant and partnership

opportunities arise and when state and federal regulations are adopted so this slide proposes an intake process for managing new initiative requests as we receive them and some of the area organizations that we receive requests from include the city council the environmental sustainability committee the public senior leadership and regional state and federal agencies so when a new initiative request is submitted what we're proposing is that staff would evaluate the proposed initiative against the matrix framework that we discussed at the previous slide and then also what the existing staff capacity is what available resources we have and what our existing commitments are and then we would analyze the opportunity cost of implementing the initiative and then determine any prioritization adjustments

so if a new initiative is requested and it is ranked high using our priority framework that we would evaluate if we do this project right away what other projects would may need to be deferred so that way we have staff capacity to complete that that way staff is always working on the highest priority projects that have the biggest impact for our community one of the other projects i'd like to go over in more detail with you is the green building policy the green building policy and what i'd like to review with you is the green building policy implementation process which is shown on this slide so as you know the green building policy is scheduled for adoption for consideration for adoption on june 23rd

the green building policy will include proposed standards for both the public sector and the private sector standards for the public sector standards however some additional work will be needed to prepare for the launch of the private sector standards so those will be enacted later on by the fall of approximately september 20 20 20 20 26 we hope to have the energy programs manager hired and onboarded during fiscal year 27 staff will work on the pre-launch planning preparation and coordination for the private sector green building standards and then in july 20 27 the private sector green building standards will be enacted and launched and then annually the staff will prepare prepare an annual report on the green building policy implementation so the council has regular updates for how green building policy implementation is going

and if we're meeting our our set goals and then in fiscal year 31 we would conduct research to analyze green building incentive options the proposed green building policy does not have incentives built into them so we're proposing to analyze those after we've had time to get the the i guess first phase of the green building policy enacted so we can learn some lessons and also learn what would be the most impactful incentive that would give us the biggest environmental and economic and social benefits and then in fiscal year 32 staff will present a five-year update of the policy and that would include an incentive incentive program if that is directed by the city council and every at least every five years we would review and provide any updates to the green building policy so that way we remain

up to date with best practices so in closing we are seeking the council's endorsement and acknowledgement of the prioritization framework which was covered on slide six the implementation schedule which was shown on slide seven the intake process for new requests on slide eight and the green building policy implementation process on slide nine and happy to jump back to those slides if you'd like to cover any of those thank you very much for your time and i'll now open it up to any council questions and comments thank you so much for the presentation very illuminating council member mcquillen i have one of those like deep dive questions i'm looking at slide six and i'm just curious as to um the differential between a one and a five like one

versus a five what would that look like for something like the first component is this a compliance requirement or strict grant deadline yeah so that first one is more cut and dry so if it does have a compliance requirement it would get the full score of a five you know if it has a grant strict drink grant deadlines it would also be a five however it didn't it would be like a zero like an all or nothing okay so that was more of a yes or no okay for that one so so pick one that wouldn't be a yes or no and explain to me just how that's weighted or scored please sure so i guess i'm trying to pick one that that's so for environmental impact so there may be a project so let's pick solar installations on city

buildings where the environmental impact since the you know the solar panels they wouldn't be very large projects so the impact would be smaller than something that it was a city-wide project like the led street light conversion project which is very large and has a very big impact for improving energy efficiency okay where we have limited uh you know roof space for solar that would be a lower impact so for that one that would get a lower score because it's not a city-wide impact for environmental benefits understood excellent thank you for going into a little more detail for me and then i did have just one more question about the incentives um looks like that wouldn't be until fiscal year 31

will there be any reevaluation to see prior to going and studying that um if it's something that we should be studying or if everybody else is doing it so we should do it or maybe no one's doing it so we do will we reevaluate if it's even necessary at that point i guess is what i'm yes so as part of the policy we're proposing to do an annual report so annually we can assess that each you know each year to see you know does it make sense to evaluate those incentives earlier because maybe we have a new enabling authority which allows us to do certain things so as best practices and regulatory requirements change maybe we might want to do that sooner or maybe we might want to extend it out so there is

flexibility and when that study would be completed but as of now based on the priority matrix ranking that is looks like it would be done in fiscal year 31 but of course this subject is the schedule is subject to change because things are in constant motion especially with this kind of emerging technology okay thank you appreciate all that council member peterson it's great to see all these uh brings back memories council member hall and i were on the environmental sustainability committee for some years and helped to usher these forward so it's great to see them graduating to actual implementation you made this clear i think but just to reiterate this is not a budget decision you're asking us to

make these are already funded or absorbable or otherwise possible existing resources correct yeah they are i think the other thing to consider i know stephanie mentioned from the outset is that based on council's investment in sustainability we're not bringing you seven matrices matrices we're bringing you one because we have additional capacity now so i want part of that is to credit stephanie with all the work that she's done you're just seeing a tip of the iceberg and the different scenarios that she drew and iterations that we went through so again based on council's investment and and prioritization we're able to lay this out i also say that this is a living breathing process i know we're kind of inferring

that through the discussion but to councilmember mcquillen's question things may change as we go through but we certainly wanted to bring you something to start with so i think that point is important also and that's a key point i would like to pick up on because my reading of this is that what you need from us is stability you need to know that you've got an implementation pathway here that you can invest in in an act without the uncertainty of having it go off the rails and having to be reconsidered etc you're working as i read it with very tight choreography here in terms of your staffing and resources you've done a great job of laying out pathways by which you can match those sources and uses together over a

you know a period of time you've got a wonderful gantt chart here but if that keeps going back to the drawing board it kind of makes life life tough and you've done enough of that i think so i would be in favor of us giving you some real stability here not that it should eliminate flexibility because we should always be monitoring things and making changes as needed but i would really be in favor of providing you the stability that you need to move forward with these actions and and get the show on the road one quick note on stability on stability and capacity i would just observe i think the environmental sustainable specialist is a replacement for melissa mcdonald is that correct yes and i know there are

many highly qualified people in the marketplace today which is a wonderful thing on the other hand i kind of think those are big shoes to fill so she did a great job and we would be looking forward to other people coming in to try to follow in those footsteps i know these are desirable positions but i wanted to call that out because i think she deserves recognition for a lot of great work she did over the years here my last question and i i don't want to spend too much time on this but if you go to slide seven and it's the matrix with everything on it there's nothing in there that i you know have reason to disagree with i have a question or two but i think the big question and really this is for the public also in your words when you go through these we don't have the

exact rankings behind all the different criteria that you use to do this but what is it that resulted in these top actions rising to the top why did that happen why are these the best actions that rose to the top and you know for first half dozen or so yeah so the the first two are associated with a grant so they had very high scores because they they were grant related and had multiple community benefits for environmental impacts helping reduce costs for residents helping vulnerable communities etc so those two are going to be very impactful projects the streetlight projects save money for the city plus increase energy efficiency while improving public safety because it'll improve lighting reducing glare and

also lighting pollution so those are going to have a big impact citywide also the green building policy will be transformational for how future development will be conducted here in the city of fairfax so there's big environmental benefits plus economic benefits with that utility data management system will allow us to track our utility data to make data driven decisions to reduce our environmental footprint while also saving the city money on the residential and commercial waste assessments ordinance update and funding study so that's really going to help improve our solid waste services which will reduce waste and save the city money while making our services more efficient and effective so i guess those are some of the highlights for the the projects that were uh going to be that had the highest ranking

and just to then maybe ask another part of that for those that didn't end up the top set a lot of them are planning and assessment procedures and i don't know whether the uh the results of the ranking is really reflective of the tangible benefits that come with the actions that are more immediately implementable which the top set of actions really look like they are and whether that's what's going on here because the planning and assessment with the exception of one study i think are really kind of down the pike and that may be well justified on the other hand if you need to put planning and assessment in place to prepare for the future of prepare and implementation you might not want to let that go on too long because then you've really got

a delay before you can get the train on the tracks again so i i would just ask that you take that in consideration as you sort through this and if you have any if i've missed something on why that looks to be that way let me know but it does have the appearance that the planning and assessment work is kind of staged later probably for that reason is that a fair i think it is um there's a significant spreadsheet you're not seeing i won't ask stephanie to bring it up but there this was data informed she just went over kind of a qualitative overview of a lot of very well establishing the criteria and some of the outcomes of her process but there's a lot of data behind how she arrived at this i think

the other thing about your point council member is that we're going to need to evaluate this on a pretty consistent basis in terms of you know what gets measured gets done and so you know as we go through this process and and start to do the work we're going to need to bring back the outputs and outcomes associated with that work and evaluate that in real time and so if we wait a year or two down the line we're going to miss opportunities to be doing that type of ongoing assessment and and potentially pivoting where we need to pivot so an important part of this process is going to be the kind of the kpis and the metrics part of this as we go great thanks and again i think it's great to put this in four-wheel drive we really need to

move ahead here thanks councilmember hall thank you and thank you for all the work that went into this uh just a couple questions on slide six um so there's six different criteria here presumably a max score then would be 30 if something you know where to check all of the boxes in all the most appropriate ways um are there any of these criteria here that are more quote unquote important than the others when it comes to decision making or do they all kind of factor in equally i guess for for this scoring criteria we rank we weighted them equally okay okay so and then if you're you know if you end up with the same score for different projects then you would look at them together discuss them further and see okay well these scored the same but we really

think x is better than y in the short term compared to the long term yes and there there were multiple ties so we evaluated those and there were some where one project actually got a lower score than another so an example of that was our solar solar panel assessment ranked lower than the installations but you have to do the assessment before you can do the installations so those were swapped so it wasn't a you know perfectly ranked based on the scoring so we had to evaluate those and make those decisions project by project okay i appreciate that thank you i think to that question too uh it's important to recognize obviously uh compliance requirements and strict grant deadlines are going to tip the scale in a lot of

ways so good question but that's certainly a variable that that factored in heavily council member amos and then council member hardy chandler i'll be quick and won't beat a dead horse uh great work this this is looking really good i will say on slide nine a little disheartened to see the incentive options pushed out that far i know that was kind of one of the things i raised originally with the green building policy was i don't really see why you would do that without the incentives already built in uh to some degree and i do feel like it'll be a missed opportunity especially the current climate and how difficult it is pro forma wise to get a lot of these developments moving forward and that's not

just uh residential but i'm talking commercial retail the entire market's kind of uh in a tough spot so just kind of wanted to reiterate that but i understand part of it is a capacity issue staffing issue but also getting an understanding of moving forward and probably working with the development community just uh seems a little far out for my taste councilmember hardy chandler so going back to slide number seven and this might actually add to uh councilmember amos's um comments i love a gap chart and typically uh the ones that i use have not only the implementation and this might be a part of some of the background information that um you have supporting this higher level presentation but i'm just wondering for some of the uh later things is there pre-work or pre pre-phased

components to this that actually happened before the implementation the green on these timelines and i say that because um sometimes you'll get into a project and you look back retrospectively and you wish you had collected some data um and just wondering if some of the other information that is supporting this presentation actually addresses some of the um you know preparation phases that lead into the implementation that um um support that work that's being done and maybe address things like the incentive deadline if there if the incentive evaluation is happening for example later are there steps prior to that in terms of information or data collection that are happening that we may not be aware of

uh well with the green building policy i guess to address that one uh we will be creating that annual report so we can make part of the annual report evaluating incentives maybe maybe we can make that a piece of it where we gather feedback from developers so that way we can collect data as we go so that's something we can look into so that where we're gathering input from the development community in that aspect so that is an opportunity so so yes so i guess there definitely can be pre-work and we will be you know the green building policy is a living document so that's something that we will be constantly looking at improving uh but and this the proposed schedule for updating every five years how it's written in there

is at a minimum five years that it will be updated so if we're directed by council to do that sooner that's something we can look into and then another example of pre-work is the utility data management system so right now we don't have a system to track up our all of our utility data and that data is critical for the development of our climate action plan so we're going to need a lot of data and information that will be used to develop the greenhouse gas inventories and climate action planning strategies so having that utility data management set up first is definitely uh one of those steps that we need that that information first before moving on to the planning effort so that was something that that we

considered as well in the the ranking of projects okay and so if i heard you correctly some of the projects sequentially need to happen in order to support later projects and are actually the pre-work for some of the later projects is that kind of the case yes okay okay so and just to um yeah i i just wanted to emphasize that there may be things that happen before implementation and so that's really helpful thank you other questions or comments council member bates uh i just want to thank you for your extensive work on this um so just clarify uh the solar feasibility assessment and solar energy installations that includes uh city buildings except for schools is that right because schools are in the um i believe the scps queue for their installations

it's actually both so schools will definitely be more complicated so i have started talking with the our you know city schools administrator uh to see how that can happen it can happen however it's very complicated because fairfax county public schools pay the utility bills but we would the city is responsible for any kind of infrastructure upgrades to our city school buildings and that would include solar panels so if we do want solar panels on our city schools the city would need to fund those however it's a mixed incentive because the cost savings would then go to fairfax county public schools so we would have to have some kind of arrangement with them so we could somehow see the cost savings so that there'd be another layer of complexity that we would have to work out some agreement there

so that way we are seeing the benefits from reducing our utility bills from solar okay so there's a possibility that schools might be included in that after all depending on how that works out yes and we might even get it sooner with the the upgrades that are being completed at our city schools so i'm part of those discussions and i am advocating to hopefully and either make our our roofs solar ready to ensure that our schools can support solar or somehow get solar in those major renovation projects so i'm working with them to figure out the feasibility of that uh so one of the schools the roof cannot support solar but they are putting it in a new roof so one of the things we're evaluating is can we um do we have enough funding

to make our roof more structural structurally supportive so we can install solar panels on it so i guess there's multiple complexities there due to the funding structure and also roof structural capacity yeah that's great to hear as i recall um yeah i do recall hearing that they were uh talking about making them solar ready but great to hear that there's maybe possibly more that we're thinking about doing there um yeah so that's uh otherwise again you know thank you for all your work on this and uh uh um i have faith in your judgment on uh how these were ranked in the implementation schedule thank you thank you council member peterson so i want to ask the regional issue and i think we always have to do what's right for us on the other

hand what we can do uh is oftentimes affected what by what others are doing around us and i know that you are networked into uh the region and uh the advancements that other jurisdictions and your peer group are making and on these kinds of issues in other areas overall when you look across the whole package here uh how do you i guess compare this or benchmark us with other jurisdictions in the region in terms of their level of focus and investment on these kinds of issues overall i mean we are a small city so in some ways the larger jurisdictions are ahead of us so arlington fairfax county alexandria do have very aggressive sustainability programs uh so in some cases we are behind but we are catching up uh one of the initiatives we do have planned is a sustainability strategic plan

and as part of that plan i am suggesting that we benchmark ourselves and one of the criteria programs we can use is the lead for cities framework and so with that plan we can then benchmark ourselves not only with jurisdictions in the region but nationwide using the lead for cities framework so we can use that to identify what new initiatives programs policies we can adopt to bring us to that that higher level to improve the city's sustainability well great good to hear and then on green buildings my understanding is we're not alone in having a green green buildings policy fairfax county for instance has an established policy and i think this came up earlier i don't think they include incentives for that

and one of the things that came up in the earlier conversation is the need for us to get started uh with the simplest program possible to get that established and we certainly have a precedent in fairfax county for them having done that so this is a great uh really a great step forward here that we're acting without delay to get this policy moving forward and there's great precedent for that right here in the county itself so thanks again anything else the only thing i will say is i think the key to all of this is that we have made a commitment of resources staff and we have prioritized this as something that's important to the city you know a five-year plan based on technology that is probably

going to change so many times between now and 2032 that we don't even know and it just seems to go faster and faster and faster this is a great plan but more more so it's the process you know allusions have been made to all the work that you did in your spreadsheet to kind of get to where we are as far as the the criteria you know and i have faith that this city has made a commitment to be at the forefront based on the resources that we have to give to this that this will be a priority and i hope that is true regardless of who is sitting on this dais from now through 20 2032 that we will always prioritize and put resources in to being green to being sustainable to looking out for what we can do

on climate and what we can do to help our residents and our businesses get on board too because some of this we can do and part of this is inspiring everyone to do what they can do and and this is a good plan but i just want to tell everybody we don't know what we don't know and sometimes you can't prepare for what you don't know but what you can prepare for is we will always prioritize this and keep it centered as a place where we are going to continue to put resources and so that i think is a consensus that i have heard from all the remarks here tonight on this plan so thank you again for the presentation and for sharing with us the work that you've done so far thank you very much thank you and with that

i will now reconvene the regular meeting and turn this over to our city manager thank you mayor and council future meeting topics we covered this in pretty significant detail in our last meeting um earlier today you should have received your initial information on the 23rd meeting and so there's some detail associated with that that you would have received just as a review we had the green building policy today and then you'll see that adoption in public hearing on the next agenda on consent we have purchasing resolution and changes that need to be made there and then a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign the standard project agreement with nbta for the blendem project so those items are coming to you we also have again amendments made to chapter 86 based on

code changes at the state level and then the public hearing on compensation for mayor and council scheduled for public hearing work sessions will be on the review and updates to small area plans and also on the north facts linear park design guidelines again much of that information has come to you today happy to answer any questions over the next week or so i think we've offered some one-on-ones to you on some of these these items too so looking forward to that next meeting on july 7th as we've just discussed before there'll be discussion on an application for gallery at city center we will bring back city level of service and dynamic capital impact model i think we discussed that today today with staff and we'll probably offer one-on-ones with you ahead of that discussion so we can answer

any questions that's a pretty significant topic there also hoping to bring back on a little bit of a lighter note media scribe and our translation and and get a kind of an overview and and demo and hopefully use of of that system that important system we've talked before about um the consideration of award a construction contract for university drive you're going to see this twice both listed on the 14th and 28th depending on when we can get those items on the agenda um so those are those are coming forward the 14th will be busy as we talk urban forest master plan bringing you an update on that housing trust fund an update there an ongoing discussion on the small area plan zoning ordinance amendments and

then a follow-up discussion on on code of ethics moving into the 28th we'll bring back 80 use as we've talked about detached adus and that discussion at a public hearing and we have slated in here tentatively the one percent item depending on what happens in richmond over the coming weeks in the work session for the 28th we talked about the briefing on 3541 chain bridge road and a redevelopment there and also the courthouse plaza application will be on that work session that takes us to our break however i will note on here for the first that'll be our first opportunity to meet earlier we will certainly want to schedule as a staff and take any input from you on items to ensure we take advantage of that time at the work session

to do work session um and so we'll we'll do that listed on here also we have a tentative discussion on youth sports uh i will take the time now to say that you know there's been ongoing community dialogue about new sports i know that we had a forum and we participated in a forum around that issue recently we would we believe that it created somewhat of a framework to continue the discussion we certainly would want to be a participant in that discussion but i think there's still a lot of work to do around that um i've asked stacy summerfield to address any questions or concerns the council may have but we would like to continue that momentum and to be part of that discussion and bring back potentially solutions adjustments at that september 1st work session but i want to make that point

because i know there's still some concern in community more so focused i think on soccer programming and uh we're certainly aware of that and and want to see if we can move the needle on that so i wanted to raise that within the context of this discussion to let council know that we're going to be involved in that uh and happy to take any guidance or input from you relative to that council member hall i think september 1st was the time we were planning on starting the 4 pm work sessions should we expect that more things then will be added to that that was my yeah i think i was trying to say that earlier okay that's what i thought just wanted to make sure yeah thank you yep yes the only thing i will say is is as we're looking at this we have a dwindling number of work

sessions and meetings with the break in october i mean in august break in august you know it's it's fewer meetings than you probably are realizing and fewer work sessions so that september 1st work session after the break might have a lot of things on it in fact i fully expect it will have a lot of things on it because we have such a limited number of meetings after that work session in order to actually vote on things that are going to be voted on by this council so just be aware time time is passing the next council member peterson i think we discussed this last time i just in case we didn't close the loop on july 14 under consent the construction contract for university drive bike lanes which

segment of university drive is that you're cool the segment that we're talking about this is a segment from uh north street to layton hall and then there's a change to the layton hall intersection taking away the slip lane the right lane making that a i believe a four-way stop um with a right hand turn and is there i think we may have raised this is there a plan for the segment that goes from there all the way down to fairfax boulevard with i can like lane enhancement there is not at this time um we have done the traffic calming along that intersection i mean along that stretch between layton hall and fairfax boulevard so adding in bike lanes along with the chicane chicanes the little curves um will be difficult to do

there isn't a plan right now for that there could be um the option of putting sharrows in that area um but it's not scheduled at this time okay thanks and then just if you could clarify we're canceling a university drive intersection improvement project that's number two the tentative consideration of resolution to cancel that's right after the second item there yes um trying to think of what intersection that is oh i know what it is sorry um the plan or the thought was that we were going to have to do a signalized intersection at layton hall and university drive we no longer are required we don't require the signalization um so we're just returning those funds and no dollars have been spent on that project thanks councilmember hall the university drive just

made me um talk my memory a little bit are we closely monitoring accidents at fairfax boulevard and university drive i know we've had conversations about the it's a left turn lane and a right and straight lane and i know that there's been signage added on both sides um i know wendy's not here but um i feel like that's still a very concerning intersection i know i don't i don't love i don't mind turning left when i leave university to go on to fabrics boulevard from like the um compass coffee or andy's side of it but coming down university i feel like every time i go through that to continue straight it's it's like i'm ready i'm on the horn i'm ready to i'm happy i have my camera going in my car like it's just it's

concerning there still and i understand why we don't make it a right and straight lane but on the other hand some days i feel like people just end up going in the right lane because because it's a left turn and a straight lane you sit there forever and you might be four or five cars back and you might not get to actually go through the intersection so i do feel like there should be some additional analysis of that intersection if there's no other opposition up here as to why we shouldn't but i just i don't think it's a very efficient use of that intersection for the timing of the lights so thank you any other questions or comments at this point okay mr city manager i have nothing more to report nothing more nothing more all right so that is

our future meeting topic topic so now i'm going to ask for the manager's report out nothing else for me to report today thank you oh wow you've done the whole thing all right in that case we will do council comments um this time i'm going to start with council member hardy chandler council member well thank you um i'm going to just start out with uh really being um impressed by all of the proclamations that we had today and i just feel a strong connection to all of them um i feel for the uh waste and recycling workers uh i know it's appreciation week but i certainly appreciate them every tuesday with um when they come by my home and i i i just know the contribution that they make to our city that's often as you mentioned mayor um overlooked so every tuesday is a waste and recycling

appreciation for me uh the juneteenth acknowledgement um i was very honored to be awarded the legacy of freedom award um uh last year and i just think this is a celebration for our community we talk repeatedly about how inclusive and welcoming we are um this is another signal um of that that uh really reflects the evolution um of what we celebrate what we celebrate tells a story and so again i'm i was very honored to be an award winner last year and i absolutely plan to be at the celebration this year and i encourage everyone to attend the celebration uh the city connection graduates uh was so happy to welcome them during the first day of their cohort and to now see them graduate uh really excited about

the contributions that uh they have been making to our city and will continue to make with this additional information about local government and about all of the the um departments and and everything they learned along the way so really the the beginning and the end of that for this particular cohort was particularly rewarding for me and cpr month um just uh uh my um husband because he knows cpr um during the time that uh i want to say a year and a half ago he was at a banquet and because of what he had learned in terms of cpr he was actually able to save someone who was at the banquet um so all of these proclamations just feel like they're very close to home uh for me and um the other thing i just wanted to highlight was

i really appreciate everyone who came out to the youth sports forum that we had on um um june what is what is the month now may 28th um we have to i think i think we have a responsibility as public servants to provide spaces for people to have conversations about what we value um how we're going to express that value how we're going to work together as a community how we're going to exhibit sportsmanship and um so i think it was definitely not intended to be an ending but a beginning so i echo the city manager's comments about a commitment to seeing how this moves forward not only for youth sports but perhaps for other conversations that we need to get together and have around the same table

so i'm looking forward to what's going to evolve around that and again i think having hosting spaces for those kinds of conversations to happen is a really important part of public service so that's the end of my comments thank you very much and thank you council member amos uh three quick things i want to echo council member hardy chandler's comments regarding juneteenth uh and wanted to give a shout out as well to for an event this saturday over at vienna baptist church the juneteenth parade so in addition to our cellar ceremony next week feel free to drop by that um i also want to recognize my church they're hosting a cabaret uh saturday evening at seven o'clock they're doing it for fundraising for uh annual partnership

they do with feed my starving children where we do meal packing uh for uh for kids around the world and so highly recommend stopping by that and supporting them in that effort and then uh just to also share the sentiments regarding the cpr training uh as i shared earlier 47 percent of cases were civilian civilian led uh cpr resuscitation and chest compression saves lives so be sure to be well trained and if any of you watch youtube and watch dr mike he always goes chest compressions chest compressions chest compression so make sure you know that council member hall thank you um i just want to acknowledge the wear orange national gun violence awareness event that we attended on sunday it was great

um to be there um council member bates did a great job reading the proclamation in your absence and it was just nice to see members of our community and the community at large come out to support something that is really near and dear um again very proud of this council for passing the weapon i'm sorry the firearms ordinance that we did um it's not perfect and it's not going to catch everything but it's certainly like everything else we do it you know kind of draws the line in the sand and says where we stand and what we're willing to tolerate so thank you again to this council for uh making that happen i was very happy and pleased with the rest of you up here to attend the graduation of fairfax high

school last week um i uh it's always bittersweet since now my son is going to be moving into that senior year one i've always been the parent that just got to take the photos of other people's students and send them to them and get so excited and i'm i'm going to be a hot mess um i do want to congrats um old glory on their match win over the weekend they um beat the team from chicago it was a fantastic match um it the weather could not have been better it was a little hot but it was great um we had a really really great time and there was a ton of people there lots of residents were there um just it was just a great great opportunity and if you did not attend a match this year i highly encourage you to check them out for next year it's they're just amazing

people and i think one of my favorite things about them when we went to the very first dinner after the first match is that they invite the other team and they go there and they get together and they actually give awards to each of the teams you know they talk about like what great things the other team did and they all have a beer together and they all just have a really really good time and they play really hard on the field on the pitch and then they they come back and they hang out and i just think that's a really really cool example of what we all should strive to do and that kind of relationship that you know you put it all out there and then you still come back and then at least be cordial and friendly to each other um finally um i'd like to wish in advance a happy father's day to

all who celebrate on sunday june 21st i kind of thought we're going to have another meeting between now and then but we don't and i'm not complaining um but so thank you to all of the fathers or stepfathers or whatever type of father you are to somebody else father figure anything um it's our kids really need this and if you can do anything to help another another child somewhere please feel free so thank you for everyone council member peterson thanks i want to actually uh also thank the uh everybody who was involved in celebrating the uh the occasion on sunday against gun violence and i had a chance to to talk to chief pedroso uh while we were there and he did express real appreciation for

actions the council took all together above and beyond uh the ordinance itself to put in place additional capacity for crime safety uh analysis and the police department he felt that that was a very important uh enabling thing for the program uh he also expressed real appreciation for the action that we took to try to foster greater um cooperation and integration between our health and human services and police departments and to tap into the behavioral health management programs that are really emerging in this area um so i think the council uh really deserves a lot of credit for uh going above and beyond and in this case not only doing an ordinance but strengthening it uh to ensure that there was some actual

implementation capacity added to make this happen so and i know that everybody who was there really appreciated that and it was a complete effort so uh much appreciated i wanted to double check june 30 is the blenheim boulevard construction information meeting here at city hall is that correct i have that at uh five o'clock that's correct yeah i think we we just received notice of that today we'll spend some more time i'll put together a message to you regarding that and then we'll flesh out a little bit more of what the communication strategy is going to be around that project and every other project that's going to be happening around that area so we have that significant piece but there will be a lot of other communication

about how we're coordinating and deconflicting and explaining all the various things that are happening around that road as time goes on really appreciate that this so the the meeting on june 30 is a meeting for the public that's that's the intent okay really good timing as i think everybody knows things are a bit busy uh on blenheim boulevard right now the construction and everything going on there a lot of interest i know everybody in country club hills daniels run woods great oaks far croft people who are going and coming from fairfax high school daniels run elementary st leo's van dyke park you name it this is a really busy stretch and right now it's beginning this whole process that's going to run a stretch so i i i would

just like to make sure the public is aware of this and to invite everybody to come on in and be a part of this and everything else you do it's a really important project but the way that it's carried out is going to be really important as well so thank you so much for really paying attention to that the last thing i'd like to say is that juneteenth is a day for celebration and commemoration um and it should be taken um very seriously as a part of our nation's history there's another part of juneteenth that um is a little bit different for me personally i lost my sister june juneteenth last year june 19 and i just wanted to acknowledge that we all miss her and many people got to know her through my work here in the city and um i wanted to be sure that we all continue to remember

sue she played a really active part in my campaign she played an active part in the work that i had done until she passed away on the council and i just wanted to you know share that and let my family know that we're thinking of her too because like anybody who's had a loss in a family it affects a lot of people so thanks councilmember bates i just want to echo my colleagues acknowledgements and congratulations and condolences and also thank our staff for another wonderful uh fairfax pride this past saturday um really uh you know a powerful moment for the community and uh just want to express my support for continuing to celebrate the um contributions and the lives of members of the lgbtq community in fairfax thank you councilmember mcquillen yes i wanted to thank everyone um all of

staff who presented this evening uh thank you for all of the time and attention you've put into um all of the the green building policy everything um i also want to say a special thank you to our fairfax city fire department for their cpr work with our katherine johnson middle school students one of those students was my child and he came home right away and told me all about what he learned and how if i was choking he's got it he's we're good so um we're not choking i'm sorry if i was in emergency he's got it and i'm good um but over 14 14 1450 students is is pretty incredible and so i just wanted to give a big shout out because they do it every year i also want to wish all of our middle school and elementary school

students city school school students um a wonderful and smooth last day and a safe summer next week um i know you guys are are hanging in there as is all of the teachers and school staff i also wanted to wish my sister a happy birthday she had her birthday a few days ago and also wish all of those fathers out there a wonderful father's day coming up thank you all right i just want to say thank you to councilmember bates for doing the proclamation for the wear orange day he ably covered that event as the acting mayor while i was gone this weekend i want to thank everyone who came out for the pride event at the sherwood center on saturday at 11. i was at 11 a.m sitting in the notre dame basilica in montreal thinking of you all and hoping as uh council member bates expressed that

our community will continue to be accepted and protected and safe in our city in our commonwealth and in our country but i appreciate all who came out to celebrate pride is all the month of june so find a pride event uh the other thing i would say is congratulations to george mason university they just hired their new provost marion k underwood from colorado state university who will be joining the university on july 27th i think we should all make friends with the people next door and the coaches caravan on saturday the 27th of june will be in old town square and again we are fortunate to live next door to one of 131 r1 research universities it provides opportunities for us it provides opportunity

for the students and i know that this council is is focused on how we can take our relationship with the university and make it a win-win for everyone involved so looking forward to meeting provost underwood and with that i am now going to adjourn this meeting at 9 13 p.m on tuesday the shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows shows