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Personnel and Compensation Committee Meeting   10/28/2025

Attachments
  • October 2025 P&C Committee Meeting Minutes.pdf
  • October 2025 P&C Committee Meeting Agenda.pdf
  • June 2024 P&C Committee Meeting Minutes.pdf
    • SPEAKER_00
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      Beth, we're live.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Okay.
    • 00:02:48
      Good morning, everyone.
    • 00:02:49
      Good morning.
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      Good morning, Beth.
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      It's a very Tuesday morning for a meeting, but we will push ahead here and get the work done of the morning.
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      So appreciate everyone being here and hopefully Cynthia will be able to join us so that we have Neil joining.
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      livestream here.
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      So welcome, Neil.
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      Wanted to go ahead and open up the meeting and we'll need a roll call vote for attendance.
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      Mary Estelle, would you do that, please?
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      Yes.
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      Ms. Rhinehart?
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      Here.
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      Mr. Payne?
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Here.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Ms. Lawrence?
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      Ms. Bushu?
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Here.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Mr. Crawford?
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Here.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Ms. Robinson?
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Here.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Ms. Drake?
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      Here.
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      Wonderful.
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      Thank you very much.
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      I'm going to move to Joan who's going to give us a safety briefing.
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      Absolutely.
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      Thank you.
    • SPEAKER_04
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      So we are currently sitting on the 24th floor of 919 East Main Street, also known as the truest building.
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      For restrooms, if you go out this conference room and do a U-turn, the restrooms are located down the hall on the right hand side.
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      For emergency services, Tiffany, would you take the lead on calling 911 should we need it?
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      Absolutely.
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      Thank you.
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      I will take the lead on CPR as I am CPR certified.
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      Mr. Westerman, would you take the lead on meeting first responders should we need them?
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      Yes.
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      Thank you, sir.
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      The AED is located in the copy room, which is around the other side of the floor.
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      The first aid kit is located in the kitchen, also on your way towards the other side of the floor.
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      In case we have a fire evacuation, there are stairwells located near the restrooms, as I just described, and on the opposite side of the floor, kind of midway by the freight elevator.
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      We also have fire alarms to pull should we need to, and they are located by the stairwells as well.
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      fire extinguishers located by the stairwells, the restrooms, and over by the copy room as well.
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      Should we need to evacuate for fire or any other reason, we will meet at 9th and Capitol Square.
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      I would ask everyone to pay attention to the person on their left and keep an eye on them as we evacuate calmly and together.
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      I will maintain a head count for the group.
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      In case we have an active shooter, the ritual is to flee, hide, and fight.
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      One of the folks who is normally on this building, we have, or in this building, we have a number of rooms that are more secure than others.
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      So if we need to evacuate, follow Westerman, Maristela, myself to the engineering conference room, which has a lockable door and no windows.
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      And Neil, for you and Susan and anyone else participating remotely, I would just encourage you to be safe and have an evacuation strategy should you have any sort of emergency.
    • SPEAKER_02
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      Thank you.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Thank you, Joan.
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      We'll move to the approval of the minutes from our last meeting, which was June 7th of 2024.
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      That was a virtual meeting and you should all have received those.
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      I would entertain a motion to approve.
    • SPEAKER_01
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      So moved.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Thank you.
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      And a second.
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      It wasn't in the meeting, so I feel uncomfortable.
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      I don't think I can see that.
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      When was it?
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      June 7th.
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      It was,
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      27, 2024.
    • 00:06:20
      Neither was I. I haven't started yet.
    • SPEAKER_01
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      It's your second.
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      Knew it wasn't.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Did he just be a second?
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      No, he was in the meeting.
    • 00:06:31
      Oh, he wasn't in the meeting.
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      Does that require that someone have been present to make the second?
    • SPEAKER_06
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      Not to make the motion, but... Are there minutes to vote?
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      It doesn't make a lot of sense to approve.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Yes.
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      I did most of that after the fact, but I wasn't there, so.
    • SPEAKER_06
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      I mean, just skip that agenda item, Joan.
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      Okay.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      And on the next agenda then.
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      And it's only going to get older after the next agenda.
    • SPEAKER_06
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      I just think we don't have the ability to meaningfully vote on the minutes at a meeting that they weren't at.
    • SPEAKER_04
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      We'll comment on the minutes accordingly.
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      I may have been on it but I wasn't a member of the committee.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      But you're now a member of the committee.
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Do we have other committees?
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      I think we need to post that because in the last board meeting I had no idea I was a member of this committee.
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      We did.
    • SPEAKER_02
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      I think we'll have to go back and we can reflect this in the next meeting minutes too but I think it was one of my first meetings as chair
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      When we passed the resolution for, we had a couple of new members that weren't a member of finance or PNC and I think we put you on PNC and Neil on finance.
    • SPEAKER_04
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      So because we have the rotating schedule now, every summer we have a couple of board members who roll off.
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      and every time we have new folks roll on, they will be assigned one of the two committees.
    • SPEAKER_03
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      Okay, because I came on in 2023.
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      So is everybody, I think every board member should be on a committee.
    • 00:08:08
      Yes, I think they are.
    • 00:08:09
      Okay, thank you.
    • 00:08:10
      I think every member is either on PNC or finance.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      So we'll forego the vote for today.
    • 00:08:17
      Yeah.
    • 00:08:18
      Okay.
    • 00:08:19
      All right.
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      Thank you very much.
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      With that, we're going to move into closed session.
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      I'm going to ask Charlie
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      Pastor Rita Sintra.
    • SPEAKER_01
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      Well, Madam Chair, thank you.
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      I move that the Personnel and Compensation Committee convene in a closed session pursuant to Section 2.2-3711A1, Code of Virginia, for the purpose of discussing prospectively the potential terms of a revised employment contract between the Board and the Executive Director, and that the legal counsel and the VPRA Chief Administrative Officer attend
    • 00:08:55
      and closed session because their presence is the necessary blade committee and consideration.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:09:02
      Thank you.
    • 00:09:03
      Is that a second?
    • 00:09:04
      I'm sorry.
    • 00:09:06
      I said second.
    • 00:09:07
      Thank you, Thelma.
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      With that, I think we need a roll call.
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      Ms. Reinhardt?
    • 00:09:14
      Yes.
    • 00:09:15
      Mr. Payne?
    • SPEAKER_00
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      Yes.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      Ms. Lawrence?
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      Ms. Bushu?
    • 00:09:19
      Yes.
    • 00:09:20
      Mr. Crawford?
    • SPEAKER_00
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      Yes.
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      Thank you.
    • 00:09:26
      Yes sir.
    • 00:09:28
      Thank you.