The Danville City Council and Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors are both holding meetings this week to prepare for the new year, though neither body is having a regular business meeting.
Danville will hold its inaugural meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. This meeting is held every two years to swear in the most recently elected council members, who serve staggered four-year terms.
All five incumbents who ran in November were reelected: Lawrence Campbell, Barry Mayo, Sherman Saunders, Lee Vogler and Madison Whittle. They will be sworn in again in the city’s municipal building.
The council will also vote on a mayor and vice mayor from among the council members.
In Pittsylvania County, the board of supervisors will also convene Thursday for its 2025 reorganizational meeting, which will be held at 6 p.m. in the county administration conference room in Chatham.
This meeting is held every year to approve the meeting schedule for the coming year.
The agenda for this meeting can be found here. The board will nominate and elect a new chairman, who will then lead the rest of the meeting, and a vice chairman.
The board will also consider standing and special committee appointments, as well as other chairman appointments. Current chairman Darrell Dalton, who has led the board for two years, said at a December meeting that he will not seek the position a third time.
At the end of the meeting, the board will go into closed session to discuss personnel, according to the agenda.
Vincent Shorter, who has been the Pittsylvania County treasurer for eight and a half years, took on a second role of interim county administrator at the beginning of July, after former county administrator Stuart Turille resigned suddenly in April, just over a year into his contract.
Shorter is now nearing the end of his temporary six-month stint as interim county administrator.
The next city council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 7, and the next board of supervisors meeting for Jan. 21, though the county planning commission will meet before that, on Jan. 7.
