Board of Supervisors - Work Session

Page County Board of Supervisors · July 6, 2026

0:00/1:22

1:22:55

0:00

20:00

40:00

1:00:00

1:20:00

Shenandoah National Park update and Q&A

Presentation

0:51 → 0:59(8s)

Kristen Gibbs, deputy superintendent of Shenandoah National Park, introduced herself and reported visitation roughly steady year-to-date, noted a drop of about 3,000 visitors at the Thornton Gap entrance in May, described a new 15-year concessions contract (operator will use a local sub‑brand "Shenandoah Hospitality" and may seek office/warehouse/housing in Page County), explained planned automated entrance fee machines to capture after‑hours fees and enable remote gate control, described consolidation of wildland firefighters into the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service with operations continuing,

Keywords:

Speakers:

Page County Board of Supervisors heard a Shenandoah National Park update, approved a special-use permit for a Riverbend wedding venue after discussion of traffic and sight-distance conditions, scheduled hearings for two other event-venue permits, adopted an updated Emergency Operations Plan, approved stormwater fee schedule changes tied to DEQ, and set a public hearing on incentives for volunteer fire/rescue personnel.

AI-Generated Content

The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.

AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.

Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.

No transcript available.