409 S. Main Street  
City of Harrisonburg  
Harrisonburg, VA 22801  
Meeting Minutes - Final  
City Council  
Tuesday, July 14, 2026  
5:30 PM  
Council Chambers  
1.  
Roll Call  
4 -  
Present:  
Absent:  
Mayor Deanna R. Reed, Vice-Mayor Dany Fleming, Council Member Laura Dent  
and Council Member Monica Robinson  
1 - Council Member Nasser Alsaadun  
3 - City Manager Ande Banks, City Attorney Chris Brown and City Clerk Pam Ulmer  
Also Present:  
2.  
Closed Session  
2.a.  
Closed Session as authorized by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Virginia  
Code Section 2.2-3711(A), under:  
Subsection 7 for consultation with legal counsel and staff regarding actual or probable  
litigation where such consultation in open session would adversely affect the  
negotiating or litigating posture of City Council.  
At 5:37., a motion was made by Vice Mayor Fleming seconded by Council Member Dent, to  
enter into closed session as authorized by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Virginia  
Code Section 2.2-3711(A), under:Subsection 7 for consultation with legal counsel and staff  
regarding actual or probable litigation where such consultation in open session would  
adversely affect the negotiating or litigating posture of City Council.  
The motion carried with a roll call vote as follows:  
4 -  
Yes:  
Mayor Reed, Vice-Mayor Fleming, Council Member Dent and Council Member  
Robinson  
0
No:  
1 - Council Member Alsaadun  
Absent:  
Agreement  
3.  
Adjournment  
WITH CLOSED SESSION:  
At 6:10 pm p.m. the closed session ended and the regular session reconvened. City  
Attorney Brown read the following statement, which was agreed to with a unanimous  
recorded vote of Council: I hereby certify that to the best of my knowledge (1) only  
public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under  
Chapter 37 of Title 2.2 of the Code, of Virginia, 1950, as amended, and (2) only such  
public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting  
was convened were heard, discussed or considered in the closed meeting by the City  
Council.  
NOTE TO THE PUBLIC:  
This will be a closed session meeting. The public will not be able to comment and it will  
not be streamed on either the city's website or the Government Access Channel.