Prince George County board amends agenda, holds closed session and cancels two January meetings

Prince George County board members amended the meeting agenda to add a closed session to consider prospective candidates for county attorney, approved electronic participation for a remote member, and later convened in closed session under a Virginia Code personnel exception.

Early in the meeting the board approved allowing "Mister Webb" to participate electronically. A separate motion to add a closed-session agenda item was made to permit discussion of prospective candidates related to the county attorney position; the board voted to add that item and to approve the amended agenda.

Later the board voted to enter closed session, with a motion specifically citing Virginia Code §2.2-3711(A)(1) as the legal basis for personnel discussions. After the closed session the board reconvened and certified compliance with Virginia Code §2.2-3712(D), stating that only matters lawfully exempted and identified in the motion were discussed; the board recorded the certification on roll call.

The board also accepted staff’s recommendation to cancel the Jan. 27 meeting and the Jan. 28 pre-budget work session due to hazardous weather and rescheduled most items to the Feb. 10 meeting, with two planning public hearings moved to a later February meeting to comply with public-notice requirements.

The meeting concluded with approval of the agenda items and an adjournment. Because the closed session concerned personnel matters, no public details about candidate discussion or decisions were disclosed in open session aside from the statutory certification that the closed meeting’s scope was limited to the stated personnel matter.

Recorded motions and votes in the meeting minutes reflect the actions above; where a mover or seconder was not identified by name in the transcript, the minutes record the action and the roll-call outcome rather than attributing the motion to a specific individual.