NVTA finance committee certifies compliance with Virginia open-meeting rules after closed session

The finance committee of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority on Thursday certified that its just-concluded closed meeting complied with Virginia’s open-meeting provisions and approved the certification by unanimous oral vote. Chair moved the certification and a member seconded; the committee voiced its approval without recorded individual tallies.

The Chair proposed a motion "I move that the members of the finance committee of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority certified that at the just concluded closed meeting, 1, only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements under CHOPS are 37, title 2.2 in the code of Virginia, And 2, only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting was convened, were heard, discussed, or considered by the finance committee." The committee then voted after an oral call for the ayes, and the motion "passed unanimously," according to the transcript.

The motion constitutes a formal certification that the matters discussed in the closed session fell within the exemptions of the Code of Virginia, Title 2.2; the transcript records the committee’s certification but does not provide a precise statutory section number or a roll-call tally. After the vote, the Chair asked whether any members or staff had issues to bring forward; none were recorded in the provided transcript. The meeting proceeded with no further substantive business captured in the transcript.