What’s On the Agenda? Stafford’s Board of Supervisors Meets Today

Stafford County’s Board of Supervisors will hold its next meeting today, Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 5 p.m. The meeting will be streamed live, and the agenda will be posted online.

The board will review revisions to the Code of Performance for 2025. At the last meeting, on Jan. 7, the board learned that if they wished to add new language to the draft they worked on in 2024, they would have to re-review the entire draft Code of Performance and Ethical Standards which the By-laws Committee worked on over the summer of 2024 and consider it again for adoption.

The board requested an additional consideration that County employees would be required to take leave for any board activities, work meetings, or constituent outreach. Those leave requests would be submitted to the County Administrator for public review. This rule would likely have the most impact on the new Chairman of the Board, Deuntay Diggs, who is also a Deputy with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. The agenda states the requests will be considered and a new draft presented at a future meeting.

The board will also discuss whether to create a committee to review the purpose of the Diversity Advisory Coalition (DAC), which was formed in September 2020 in the wake of protests and riots following the death of George Floyd. The DAC website shows no meetings since 2022, although many were scheduled in 2023. The meeting notes from October 2022 state DAC had reached out to the board for participation in DAC events, but received no response. In November 2022, they decided not to hold a December meeting. We reached out to the members listed online, but received no response.

The board will also consider a draft of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Stafford County Economic Development Authority (EDA) and Stafford County Department of Economic Development. The Director of Economic Development was given the task in January 2024 to clearly define the tasks and duties of each entity and ways in which they need to collaborate. The office of Economic Development consulted with county administration to draft a division of duties chart, which they then presented to the EDA who approved it in August 2024. A future, finalized version will be presented for consideration at a later meeting.