May 22 2024 Board Closed Session Minutes 377
MINUTES
CLOSED SESSION
FREDERICK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2024
5:30 P.M.
BOARD ROOM, COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
107 NORTH KENT STREET, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
ATTENDEES
Board of Supervisors: Josh E. Ludwig, Chairman; Judith McCann-Slaughter, Vice
Chairman; Blaine P. Dunn; Heather H. Lockridge; John F. Jewell; Robert W. Wells and Robert T.
Liero were present.
Staff present: Michael Bollhoefer, County Administrator; Jay E. Tibbs, Deputy County
Administrator; Roderick B. Williams, County Attorney; Scott Varner, Director of Information
Technologies; Karen Vacchio, Public Information Officer; and Ann W. Phillips, Deputy Clerk to the
Board of Supervisors.
CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Ludwig called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
CLOSED SESSION
At 5:31 p.m., Vice Chairman Slaughter moved that the Board of Supervisors of Frederick
County enter a closed session pursuant to Virginia Code Section 2.2-3711(A)(7) and (8), for
consultation with legal counsel and/or briefings by staff members pertaining to actual and probable
litigation, where such consultation or briefing in an open meeting would adversely affect the
negotiating or litigating posture of the public body and where such matters require the provision of
legal advice by such counsel, specifically regarding the matter of The Estate of Ian Strickler,
pending before the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, and specifically regarding a
matter pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.Supervisor Dunn seconded
the motion which carried on a voice vote.
At 6:24 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 Vice Chairman Slaughter, seconded by Supervisor Wells, and carrying
on a voice vote.Vice Chairman Slaughter moved that the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County
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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 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
Wells seconded the motion which carried as follows on a recorded vote:
Blaine P. Dunn Aye Robert T. Liero Aye
John F. Jewell Aye Robert W. Wells Aye
Heather H. Lockridge Aye Josh E. Ludwig Aye
Judith McCann-Slaughter Aye
ADJOURN
There being no further business, at 6:26 p.m. the meeting was adjourned to the Service
Learning Forum portion of the meeting.
Josh E. Ludwig Michael Bollhoefer
Chairman, Board of Supervisors County Administrator
Minutes Prepared By:
Ann W. Phillips
Deputy Clerk, Board of Supervisors
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