March 2 2022 Board Budget Work Session and Closed Session Minutes 310
MINUTES
BUDGET WORK SESSION & CLOSED SESSION
FREDERICK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2022
5:30 P.M.
BOARD ROOM, COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
107 NORTH KENT STREET, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
ATTENDEES
Board of Supervisors: Charles S. DeHaven, Jr., Chairman; J. Douglas McCarthy, Vice
Chairman; Robert W. Wells; Blaine P. Dunn;Judith McCann-Slaughter; Shawn L. Graber; and Josh
E. Ludwig.
Finance Committee Citizen Members: Jeffrey S. Boppe; and Gary R. Oates
Staff present: Michael Bollhoefer, County Administrator; Jay E. Tibbs, Deputy County
Administrator; Roderick B. Williams, County Attorney; Karen Vacchio, Public Information Officer;
Wyatt Pearson, Planning Director; Cheryl Shiffler, Finance Director; Bill Orndoff, Treasurer; Seth
Thatcher, Commissioner of the Revenue; Mike Marciano, Director of Human Resources; Clay
Corbin, NRADC Superintendent; Jennifer Place, Risk Manager/Budget Analyst; Sharon Kibler,
Assistant Finance Director; Lenny Millholland, Sheriff; Tamara Perez, Director of Emergency
Communications; Scott Varner, Director of Information Technologies; and Ann W. Phillips, Deputy
Clerk to the Board of Supervisors.
CALL TO ORDER
Chairman DeHaven called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m.
DISCUSSION—SALARY SURVEY REPORT
County Administrator Michael Bollhoefer reviewed the compensation study report recently
received from Management Advisory Group, Inc.
DISCUSSION— BUDGET SCENARIOS
The Board reviewed and discussed the proposed budget scenarios. It was noted that the
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Board will meet jointly with the School Board in one week to discuss the Schools' budget request,
but the meeting will occur after the deadline for advertising for the budget public hearing. By
consensus, the Board directed the Finance Director to advertise the budget public hearing per her
proposed budget scenario "A".
Vice Chairman McCarthy left the meeting.
CLOSED SESSION
At 6:48 p.m., Supervisor Wells moved that the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County
enter a closed session pursuant to Virginia Code Sec. 2.2-3711(A)(8) for consultation with legal
counsel employed by a public body regarding a specific legal matter requiring the provision of legal
advice by such counsel, the matter concerning the Board's legal rights and responsibilities with
respect to education funding, including with regard to the extent to which it may provide funding for
private primary and secondary education, and permissible means for doing so, and pursuant to
paragraphs (7) and (8) of the same subsection for consultation with legal counsel and briefings by
staff members pertaining to actual or probable litigation,where such consultation or briefing in open
meeting would adversely affect the negotiating or litigating posture of the public body, and for
consultation with legal counsel employed by a public body regarding specific legal matters requiring
the provision of legal advice by such counsel,the litigation and matters concerning notices of zoning
violation issued against and an appeal to the Board of Zoning Appeals filed by Winchester Wireless,
LLC and Williamson Enterprise, LLC, trading as Winchester Wireless, regarding the construction
of a telecommunications tower at 101 Greenway Court, and concerning the legal requirements
applicable to a conditional use permit application for such telecommunications tower. Supervisor
Dunn seconded the motion which carried on a voice vote.
At 7:34 p.m., the Board members being assembled within the designated meeting place in
the presence of members of the public and the media desiring to attend, the meeting was
reconvened on motion of Supervisor Wells, seconded by Supervisor Dunn, and carrying on a voice
vote. Supervisor Wells moved that the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County certify that, to the
best of each member's knowledge, (i) only public business matters lawfully exempted from open
meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the closed meeting to which this
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certification applies, and (ii) only such public business matters as were identified in the motion
convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered by the Board. Supervisor
Dunn seconded the motion which carried as follows on a recorded vote:
Blaine P. Dunn Aye Josh E. Ludwig Aye
Shawn L. Graber Aye Robert W. Wells Aye
J. Douglas McCarthy Absent Charles S. DeHaven, Jr. Aye
Judith McCann-Slaughter Aye
ADJOURN
There being no further business, at 7:36 p.m. Chairman DeHaven adjourned the work
session on motion of Supervisor Wells, seconded by Supervisor Graber.
Charles S. DeHaven, Jr. Michael Bollhoefer
Chairman, Board of Supervisors County Administrator
Minutes Prepared By:
Ann W. Phillips
Deputy Clerk, Board of Supervisors
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