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Audit committee certifies June 16 closed meeting complied with Virginia law
Summary
The Fairfax County School Board Audit Committee unanimously certified that its June 16, 2025 closed meeting addressed only matters lawfully exempted from open-meeting requirements under the Code of Virginia and that no action was taken in the closed session.
The Fairfax County School Board Audit Committee certified that its closed meeting held June 16, 2025, complied with the Code of Virginia requirement that members confirm closed sessions involved only lawfully exempted matters and that the discussion matched the motion authorizing the session.
A staff member said the committee must make the certification under the Code of Virginia and asked for a motion. The motion to certify was moved by Mister Moon, seconded by Miss Lady and approved unanimously by the three committee members recorded on the roll call: Mister Moon, Miss Lady and Mister McElveen. Committee members stated there was no action taken during the closed meeting, and the committee adjourned.
The certification references the Code of Virginia closed-meeting statute commonly cited as Code of Virginia §2.2-3712(D), which requires the body to certify after a closed session that only exempted public business was discussed and only matters identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were considered. The transcript of the certification meeting contained an alternative citation format; the committee’s statement and the recorded motion together serve as the formal compliance record.
No substantive debate or additional public business was recorded in the open session surrounding the certification. The item was procedural: staff prompted the certification, a member moved, another member seconded, the committee voted unanimously, and the meeting was closed with no further action required.
