# Council Work Session - January 19, 2010 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Council · January 19, 2010 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/1181 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/1181?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2010-01-19 - **Body**: Council - **Last revised**: June 18, 2026 - **Length**: 8,717 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview This City Council meeting was presided over by the Mayor. The Council addressed four agenda items during the session, covering routine administrative matters as well as a public safety recognition. Business conducted included approval of the summary from the previous Tuesday's meeting, approval of new business items, and approval of a rescheduling of a police disciplinary hearing. A Safety Awards Presentation was also delivered as an informational item. Over the course of the meeting, the Council took 8 votes and heard 1 public comment. One presentation was given in connection with the Safety Awards agenda item. ## Votes and Decisions All motions at the January 19, 2010 Council meeting passed by voice vote. No roll call votes were recorded, and no individual vote counts are available. - **Approval of the January 12th summary** [timestamp: 0:06:11] — Moved by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member McCord. Passed by voice vote. - **Approval of new business items** [timestamp: 0:07:45] — Moved by Council Member Martin, seconded by Council Member Gordon. Passed by voice vote. - **Reschedule police disciplinary hearing from March 22nd to March 1st** [timestamp: 0:18:15] — Moved by Council Member Crosby, seconded by Council Member Meyers. Passed by voice vote. - **Move Budget and Finance Committee meeting from 1:00 to 1:15** [timestamp: 0:34:41] — Moved by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member Gordon. Passed by voice vote. - **Place the issue of graffiti into the Services Committee** [timestamp: 0:40:06] — Moved by Council Member Feigl, seconded by Council Member Martin. Passed by voice vote. - **Approval of the January 19th NDF fund list** [timestamp: 0:42:55] — Moved by Council Member Beard, seconded by Council Member Meyers. Passed by voice vote. - **Move the Partner Agency Oversight Committee meeting** [timestamp: 0:44:29] — Moved by Council Member Meyers, seconded by Council Member Gorton. Passed by voice vote. - **Go into closed session for discussing pending and proposed litigation** [timestamp: 0:59:53] — Moved by Council Member Lawless, seconded by Council Member Gordon. Passed by voice vote. ## Public Comment One member of the public addressed the Council during the public comment period at this meeting. [timestamp: 01:53] - **Jim Newton** spoke on the topic of housing and nuisance violations, raising a concern about the form letters currently being used for housing violations. Specifically, Newton stated that these form letters do not include all items required by ordinance, pointing to items 5 and 6 of **PM107.2** as elements that are missing from the notices. His comments suggest that the existing form letters may not be in full compliance with the applicable local ordinance governing how housing violations are communicated to residents. No other public comments were recorded for this meeting. ## Contested Items - **License to Sell Beer at the Golf Course**: The council engaged in a heated discussion regarding the prospect of obtaining a license to sell beer at the golf course. The debate centered on the implications of such a license, with members raising concerns related to risk management and operational considerations. The structured data does not identify specific council members by name in relation to their individual positions, nor does it record a definitive outcome from the discussion. *Note: The available data for this agenda item is limited. No timestamps, vote tallies, or named participants were recorded in the source material for this item.* ## Approval of the summary from last Tuesday [timestamp: 06:11] The Council took up Agenda Item 3, the approval of the summary from the previous Tuesday's meeting. During the discussion, Council Member Martin noted a correction to the summary before the Council moved forward with its consideration. The item was ultimately approved by the Council. ## New business items [timestamp: 07:45] The council took up several new business items during this portion of the meeting. A notable discussion centered on obtaining a license to sell beer at the golf course. Council Members Crosby, Lane, and James were among the key participants in the discussion. The council considered the matter and ultimately approved the new business items. *Note: The available record does not include further detail on the specific arguments made, concerns raised, or the full scope of all new business items discussed beyond the golf course beer license topic.* ## Police disciplinary hearing rescheduling [timestamp: 18:15] The Council took up a discussion regarding the rescheduling of a police disciplinary hearing. Mr. Horne addressed the Council on this matter, presenting a proposal to move the hearing date from March 22nd to March 1st. The Council approved the rescheduling of the police disciplinary hearing to the earlier date of March 1st. ## Safety Awards Presentation [timestamp: 26:04] Patrick Johnson presented the annual Safety Awards to the Council, recognizing various divisions for their safety accomplishments. The presentation was informational in nature, with no debate or action required from the Council. No additional details regarding the specific divisions recognized, the criteria used for the awards, or the names of individual recipients are available from the meeting record. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the January 12th summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of new business items - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Reschedule police disciplinary hearing from March 22nd to March 1st - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Move Budget and Finance Committee meeting from 1:00 to 1:15 - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Place the issue of graffiti into the Services Committee - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the January 19th NDF fund list - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Move the Partner Agency Oversight Committee meeting - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Go into closed session for discussing pending and proposed litigation --- ## Full transcript Let's go ahead and call a meeting to order, if we could. First, uh, item on the agenda is public comment on any issues that are on today's agenda. Does anyone wish to address the council? Yes, sir. If you'll step to the podium, please, and give us your name and address. You'll have three minutes. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. Uh, my name's Jim Newton. I've been a homeowner in Fayette County for 17 years now. Uh, my item of concern is, uh, is the agenda item number three, the approval of the summary from last Tuesday. Um, concerns, uh, uh, page seven, item DD, authorization of an ordinance to amend chapter 12 of the Code of Ordinances regarding housing and nuisance violations. I'm sorry, could you repeat, uh, which item it is that, uh- DD. Okay, thank you. Um, from the agenda last week, um, part, uh, of that item was to, uh, clarify that a criminal penalty, uh, may be pursued in lieu of a civil penalty for housing violations. Um, my concern is that, uh, currently, the form letter for housing violations that, uh, code enforcement is sending out, um, does not include, uh, completely two of the seven items that are required by ordinance, uh, Chapter 12PM107.2, uh, to be included in the notices. And these, uh, to me are, uh, of a grave concern. Uh, they would be a red flag item to me, if I was to receive a notice where, without them in there, I might not give it as much, uh, credibility as it really has. Um, the two items in PM107.2, which are not being included in the current form letters that Code Enforcement's sending out for housing violations, uh, is, uh, item number five of seven. It begins by saying, "Including information, uh, for the procedure to contest a correction order." And then there's a comma, and then, uh, let me quote this, "And a statement to the effect that should the person fail to contest the correction order within the time allowed, the person shall be deemed to have waived the right to contest the correction order, and that the determination that a violation was committed shall be final." End quote. And none of that is in the current housing violation notices, as required by ordinance. The second item is right after that, item number six of the seven that are to be included in the notices, and that's a statement as to the amount that the fine could be, if they were fined. And, uh, there's no dollar amount being given as to possible fine in the current notices either. Um, I'd like to request, uh, if, uh, the rules could be waived for the three days of presenting this material, and I have copies for each of you, if I can present those. Let m- let me make a suggestion to you. Since this involves code enforcement, and since I don't see, uh, the, our D- Director of Code Enforcement here, David Jarvis, um, Commissioner Bennett, would you mind visiting with Mr. Newton for just a moment and getting his information? Uh, if you'd raise your hand so you c- a- Mr. Newton, if you could get together with Mr. Bennett and assist- I'm sorry, I didn't see. He's s- sitting in the back. Okay. Okay. Um, perhaps you all can come to some agreement about the terms of the notice, and we'll get it straightened out. If that doesn't work, then come back and let us know, uh- ... maybe at the end of the meeting, and we'll, we'll, uh, try to take it up then. I did, uh, sign for comments on items not on the agenda because I wasn't familiar with exactly how you- I understand. ... but okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anyone else? All right. We'll proceed. Uh, we don't have a docket to approve today. We do have the January 12th summary. Do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. Have a motion by Council Member Stennett and second by Council Member McCord to approve the January 12th summary. Any discussion? Council Member Martin? Mayor, on, uh, page eight, under the council report, a motion w- was made by CM Martin. Okay. Um, not Council Member Marin, right? We haven't gone by Martin except f- for the old country, but ... Okay. That's all I have, Mayor. All right. That's, uh, under item seven, sort of the second paragraph, the motion by Council Member Martin to add to the NDF list. Any other additions or corrections? If no objections, we'll amend as indicated. All those in favor of, uh, approving the summary as now amended, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. There are no budget amendments. We do have, um, a few new business items to consider today. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Have a motion by Council Member Martin and a second by Council Member Gordon to approve the new business items. Any discussion? Council Member Crosby? I just had a question on H. Um, the only, the only question I have on this really is, uh, I'm, I'm not opposed in any way, but I just was wondering, um, is, i- if this is a change... I don't... Do they... Currently, I guess we don't... I gu- if we're obtaining a license to sell beer at the golf course, does this increase any type of risk management? Um, i- is there, is there any ty- type of risk management issues associated with that? I just don't know the answer to that. I was just wondering. Pending your approval, risk management hasn't had an opportunity to weigh in on this. There will be some likely increased exposure that insurances might need to be tweaked. The government doesn't currently hold an alcohol license, and so I'm sure they would want to review that. But I can't tell you today what those are. So, so we haven't looked at it in comparison to other golf courses or anything? W- I guess then my question would be, why did we decide to do this? Different question. The answer to that is twofold. One, we believe that we can provide a better service. We have, for 10 years, provided alcohol on two of our golf courses through caterers, and those caterers have found it difficult to provide regular service in the wintertime when business is very slow. And when we have a day that's 40 or 50 degrees, golfers show up and there may or may not be lunch available. So number one, we're looking to do this to improve our food and beverage service to our customers. And secondly, we believe we can raise a substantial amount of money for the general fund through having it done in-house versus through a caterer who takes a profit and pays us a commission. Thank you. I, I have a follow-up question on that, please. If I could, Moore, jump in and interrupt and answer Council Member Crosby's question? Ah, all right. Let's finish that, and then we'll go to Council Member Lane. About the insurance, I checked with our claims department, and our current CGL, which is commercial general liability coverage policy, does cover us for the current locations for sale of alcohol. Thank you. Council Member Lane. Uh, uh, thank you. Yeah, my, my question was, how do you make a determination during the winter months on when or when not to operate the golf courses? Uh, is it on a day-to-day basis, or do you have certain periods where you have blackouts? Uh, we do not have blackout periods other than Christmas Day, and we make the determination based on a five-day forecast. If it's going to be in the upper 40s or 50s, we'll muster some, uh, seasonal people to work for us. Our civil service people are there every day with the exception of their vacation and other scheduled times off. It's really a weather forecast function of scheduling. I see. So by using your temporary, uh, workers when you are open, that keeps us from having regular payroll when we're not open. So except for your, you know, regular, uh, management efforts. Our civil service people are, they're fixed. Their expenses are fixed, as you know. And our seasonal people, we would schedule them to come in on a good day. And if we're gonna have 50 or 60 people, we would effectively break even and actually might make a few dollars on a given day when it's 50. Okay. Um, the reason I asked is I had several people make an inquiry about our policy and when the issue of the liquor license came out, gave me an opportunity to ask you. Thank you very much. Glad to help. Thank you. Anything further? Council Member James? Thank you, Mayor, um, Jerry. A question. Hmm, same, same item, item H. Um, what are the hours o- of operation for the places where the, um, beer would be sold? At Kearney and Picadome and all the rest of our golf courses, in the summertime, in the good weather months, we're open from dawn to dark. So, in the summertime, we'd be open from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. This time of the year, we're open at maybe 8:00 until 5:00 if it's gonna be a, a warm day. We don't play after dark. It's a dangerous thing to do. And we don't start before dark. So we're open basically daylight hours. Would, um, the sale of malt beverages be within those operating hours, the same as those, or would they be set hours? Um, that's a good question. Uh, since we haven't taken over the, the management of those two courses for the last 10 years, we would have to set regular hours. But we would want to be open for coffee, Danish, packaged products, and that sort of thing early. Would we sell beer at 8:00 in the morning? Frankly, I hadn't thought about it, but there's probably not a great demand. In effect, it's gonna be in a cooler, and if someone asked for it, I presume we would sell them a cold beer at 8:00 in the morning. They may have worked the night shift, and this is their evening. So it's really hard to say. Okay. There, there are a lot of people- Sorry. ... who do work nonstandard hours. Okay. Um, can you get, can you get, um ... Are there rules about drinking and driving a golf cart? Not to my knowledge. Do you think there should be? Golf carts are unlicensed vehicles, and so they don't apply in the same way that registered vehicles on the highway do. Fr- in my experience, it's difficult to drive a golf cart and drink at the same time, because you end up wearing much of it. But does it happen? I presume that it does. Okay. And is there, is there training needed for our staff for the sale of alcohol? Yes, and we will go through the same state legislated courses that every bar and restaurant does. Is that- I think it's called TIP Training or something. Is that a free service? I'm sorry? Is that a free training? Um, yeah, I think it becomes a part of the license, which is about a $200 fee. There may be individual seat fees, a modest fee. I honestly don't know what that is for the training, but I- it's provided by the state. Okay. And do you have to be a, um ... In order to buy malt beverages, do you have to be, um, someone that's golfing, or can you just walk in and, and buy beer there? We would like to encourage citizens to eat lunch at our establishment, so we would sell a beer to someone who came in to simply eat and buy a, a beer as well. We would not discriminate on the basis of whether or not they're playing golf. Okay, thank you. Thanks, Mayor. Councilmember Stennet. Y- d- um, Jerry, just had one quick question. Uh, because we're serving alcohol, are y- who's gonna go undergo the server training of alcoholic beverages, same as restaurants go through? We passed about five years ago here. Uh, is your staff, you gonna have everyone, every golf course go through it? I'm gonna ask the golf pros at each of my golf courses to go through it. They'll be hiring the seasonal people who will be actually manning the grill periodically, so I'm gonna ask that there be somebody at each of our courses that's so trained. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Anything further on the new business items? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. Those in favor of approving the new business items, please indicate by saying, "Aye." Aye. Oppose, "No." Motion carries. Um, Mr. Horne, if you'd step to the podium for just a moment. We ... This isn't exactly new business. It's probably more in the Old Business department. Um, I think we have some scheduling issues to attend to. A- as I've indicated to you in an email, purely my error. I shouldn't have made an assumption that I made, and we need to reschedule the police hearing that you scheduled for March 22nd. I have dates that, uh, Mr. Miller said he was available, and I guess we need to try to land on one of those dates. As I recall, we were anticipating a hearing that might go as long as four to six hours, and we had talked about a Monday afternoon around 3:00. Um, that being the case, as, a- and m- . ... Mr. Horne, what would be the earliest time that you might be prepared to, to present the case? For me? Yes. I would be prepared February 4th or 5th. Neither one of those is a Monday. All right. Let's start with that, and, um, and move forward. Is, um, the afternoon of February 8th acceptable? It doesn't match up with Mr. Miller's schedule. Okay, I'm sorry. Uh, what Mondays are available on his schedule? Got the 15th and the 22nd. It would be February 22nd or March 1st, if it's a Monday on his schedule. All right. Fourteenth? We got February the 22nd or March 1st. Those are both Mondays. And I think we're talking about starting at approximately ... We had been talking about starting at 3:00 in the afternoon. How many people ... Who would not be available on the 22nd? I may not be- Not any questions. Okay. Got two- And, and a maybe. ... and a maybe. All right. What about the 1st? How many people would be unavailable on the 1st? Looks like the 1st is, is the preferable date. Yeah, 1st. So let's put it down for March 1st at 3:00 PM. Can ... If someone is willing to make a motion to switch the hearing from the 22nd to March 1st- Second. I have a motion by Council Member Crosby and a second by Council Member Meyers to move the, um, police disciplinary hearing from March 22nd ... Excuse me, from March 22nd to March 1st at 3:00 PM. Any discussion? All in favor of holding a special meeting at that time, please indicate by saying, "Aye." Aye. Oppose, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. That takes us down now to our, uh, presentations and the first is from the Intergovernmental Committee. Council Member James. Thank you, Mayor. The, um, Intergovernmental Committee meeting, um, for January 12th, um, the minutes are in your, the summary is in your packet, pages 28 through 30. Um, there were no motions that came out of the committee. Um, so just in very quick review, um, there was a discussion of the E911, um, call center management. This item was put into committee by Council Member Lawless, um, to deal specifically with, um, over, over, uh, the council break session, there was a brownout. Um, uh, there were several brownouts and we started looking ... No, that's not it. Um, there was a discussion prior, uh, there was a discussion we heard from E911 workers about the inability for them to take out, uh, take their overtime, use their, um, over time. And so there was discussion amongst the council members and a motion that came forward that maybe it had something to do with, um, personnel management, and that we needed to be apprised of how E911 was, um, managing their call centers. So we had that presentation, uh, David Lucas, um, director of E911, uh, presented information to us. Um, the, what came out of the discussion was a follow-up, um, meeting will happen, hopefully soon. Um, Council Member Lawless will be working with David Lucas, um, on, uh, determining methods to aid staffing and management issues. Um, and Paul Schneger will follow up with us and let us know when, when that presentation is ready to come back. Um, I've, from, from my understanding, it would be within the next one or two, um, intergovernmental ... I'll get right to you, Diane, in just a moment. Um, me- um, meetings. Diane, did you have something? Uh, just a slight correction in that I offered to consult with them, I haven't heard from them. I made a offer to volunteer. Oh, okay. And so if, uh, Commissioner Bennett or Mr. Lucas would like to get in touch with me, the offer still stands. Okay, great. I'll send a reminder note as well on behalf of the Intergovernmental Committee. Um, that's the only item we had on the agenda. And, um, we removed an item. The item of the new compensation system was removed from our agenda list. Um, mainly Council Member Beard's explanation, I believe, had something to do with budgeting. Um, maybe budget constraints and would we even have the ability, um, to have, to have the money to pay for a new compensation system if it came forward. And that was, uh, that was agreed upon, um, by the committee, so we did re- move that item from the list. That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you. Any questions for Council Member James? All right, we'll move along to the Corridors Commission. Council Member Feigl. Thank you, Mayor. Um, the, uh, minutes are in your packet. Uh, in, in more detail than what I'll share right now, but we met on, uh, January the 12th, and, uh, as is true with every other part of the budget, uh, the mayor asked us to red- reduce our budget by 5%. And so there was a motion and a second, and we reduced our budget by $4,500. Um, which actually, uh, doesn't give us a lot of money to work with. So in anticipation of some of the projects that are being discussed at this point, at the next Corridors meeting, we will, uh, take a look at a, a kind of a proposed budget to spend those funds, uh, for the year. Um, there was a very spirited discussion about, uh, some landscape, uh, specifications that came before Corridors. Uh, this was a contract that we, uh, I guess, uh, is, is some years old, and the, uh, specifications have been done in coordination with other departments in the city, uh, such as Parks, those that are, those that deal with landscaping. So these, uh, landscape, uh, specifications will be considered at the next meeting. If you would like to take a look at those, we can certainly provide you a copy and ask for your input. Uh, the commission heard updates on, uh, three transportation enhancement grants for Sayles Road, Newtown Pike, and Old Frankfurt Road/Alexandria Drive, um, fence project. Tim Querry, our urban forester, reported, uh, that he had removed the diseased trees at the airport and that these trees will be replanted in the spring. Uh, he also had asked the count- the co- commission to, to consider helping to fund, uh, a treatment for some of the, um, ash trees, uh, particularly the significant trees that are in our parks, the, the very old trees. Uh, so that's something that we will take up at our next meeting to see if, if we can work that into our budget. Uh, we also heard from Kim- Kinsey Glayson about bicycle ped- pedestrian, uh, projects. And also heard from Susan Bush about the litter control projects, um, in the Department of Environmental Quality. And learned also that there are seven different initiatives to address litter, uh, in our community, including Keep ... the new Keep Lexington Beautiful initiative. Uh, the commission also heard, uh, about, uh, several complaints that had been made about the, uh, intersections of most of our corridors with New Circle Road and the way that they appear, primarily with, um, people ent- emptying their ashtrays, uh, along that corridor. And so we will be taking a look at some type of a beautification project, uh, for those intersections, and possibly take a look at some wildflower projects that other states are doing. And, um, the next meeting for corridors is February the 9th, and we invite you to attend. That's all. Thank you. Council Member Lane. Yeah. Uh, Chairman Feigl, uh, I just had a question. Uh, out near the airport, they have cut those trees down, but the stumps are still remaining. Is there, is it on the schedule to ground those stumps out, or do you know what the plan is for that? Well, no, he didn't specifically address the stumps. I will certainly get back to him and find out what their plans are. But I do know that they are planning to replant the trees, so I would assume they would address the stumps at the same time. Thank you. Thank you. Any further questions for Council Member Feigl? Thank you. Uh, I'll now call to the podium Mr. Patrick Johnson, who will talk about our 2009 safety awards. Patrick. Good afternoon, Mayor, council members. I'm pleased to present the annual Safety Awards today. Uh, I'd like to thank the mayor, council office, commissioners, division directors, and employees for their active support and participation in our safety this past year. It was a good year in comparison to some prior years. As in years past, it was very difficult to select the winners for today. In the selection process, there are many elements to be considered in order to narrow the field. These include a statistical comparison of va- various safety indexes, uh, which include vehicle accident rates, OSHA recordable rate, and claims frequency and severity. Uh, we consider the size and complexity of the areas, the operations in relation to the daily challenges and their demands on safety. We consider history and leadership in the area. We consider safety activities engaged during the past year, such as training, program development, updates, and other safety improvements. And finally, we consider the direct impact the area have on other divisions, fellow employees, as well as our community. There are two categories of the awards. One is for the administrative office areas, and the other one's for the operational areas. I will announce the third, second, and first place winners of each category. All award recipients will receive a certificate plaque. So if you would, have a representative come forward when I announce the winners. We will have a group photo with the mayor after all awards have been presented. First area is for the office areas. The third place winner had the following accomplishments. They placed second in FYO8, first in FYO7, second in FYO6, and first in FYO5. They achieved 100% participation with both their safety meeting and inspection requirements. They had no claims for the past three years. Our third place winner is the Council Clerk's Office. The second place winner had the following accomplishments. They achieved 100% participation with both their safety meetings and in inspection requirements. They've had no claims for the past four years. They provide a valuable photo opportunity for safety training programs. Our second place winner is Division of Internal Audit. The first place winner had the following accomplishments. Placed second in FYO4, they achieved 100% participation with both their safety meeting and inspection requirements. They've had no claims for the past four years. Last but not least, the administrative officer for this group attends the monthly safety meetings held here in council chambers and provides invaluable input for all facets of the LFUCG safety program. Our first place winner is the Office of the Commissioner of Public Safety. Now for the operational areas. Our third place winner had the following accomplishments. They achieved 99% participation, both their safety meetings and inspections. Their OSHA reportable rate is lower than the LFUCG average. They reduced their accident costs by 46% over FYO8. Based on million miles driven per year, their vehic- vehicle accident rate was significantly lower than the LFUCG average. Our third place winner is the Division of Water Quality. The second place winner had the following accomplishments. They achieved 94% participation in safety meetings and 100% for inspections. They had only one auto accident during FYO9. During FYO9, they had one injury, which did not result in a lost time. They have succeeded in reducing their OSHA recordable rate for three consecutive years. Our second-place winner is the Diviv- Division of Building Inspection. Our first place winner had the following accomplishments. They were the 2005 first place winner. They achieved 95% participation in safety meetings and 100% for inspections during FY09. They had no workers' compensation claims and no auto accidents during FY09. They collaborated with the Division of Fleet Services and Risk Management to design an enclosed cone cage featured in the April 2009 edition of the Employee Extra, making highway work safer for their employees. What's really remarkable, uh, this type of equipment, if bought on a trailer, would cost about $70,000. Fleet Services helped them put it together for about $2,500. Our first place winner is the Division of Traffic Engineering. If we could, we'd like to have everybody that won up front for a photo with the mayor, please. Where's the cash award? Oh. The cash reward? I don't know. I think that's it. sir. Thanks, sir. Okay, everybody look here, please. One, two. One more. Everybody smile. Before everyone gets away, just wanted to say a word of congratulations to all of you, uh, and to Patrick and everybody in Risk Management for, uh, getting the awards together. A couple of words are in order. First of all, we ask people on our payroll to do probably more crazy things than anybody else in town. I don't know anybody else that hires, uh, folks whose part of their job description is to run into burning buildings. I don't know anybody else who hires people and tells them part of their job description is to crawl down and work in sewers, but, uh, we do it. And as a consequence of that, having, uh, uh, a- an aggressive effort to minimize our risk for our employees is vitally important to Irvin County government, and we very much appreciate the efforts which everybody in Risk Management has done, and which you all from the various, uh, divisions ha- have, uh, shown some leadership this year. I would also tell you, as part of our cost-cutting methods, uh, efforts, uh, this has previously been the object of, uh, uh, breakfast meeting, but, uh, Patrick, we appreciate your reining in the expense and doing it here today. And hopefully this gives everybody a little more visibility at the same time. So we're very appreciative of your efforts, and particularly the folks in Traffic Engineering. Congratulations. Thanks. Councilmember Stennet. Um, Mayor, I believe that's the council report. Sorry. I'm so s- I thought, uh, we'll turn it over. We're ready for council reports now, so Councilmember Stennet. Thank you, Mayor. Just a few announcements. Uh, one, in light of the Mayor's Merged Government Address next week, um, I'd like to have a motion before council to move the buildiens- building, uh, I'm sorry, Budget and Finance Committee meeting from 1:00 to 1:15 so that we all can have time to get back here next week from, uh, from downtown. So moved. Second. Second. Have a motion by Councilmember Stennet and a second by Councilmember Gordon to move the Budget and Finance Committee meeting, uh, time from 1:00 to 1:15. Any discussion? All in favor say, "Aye." Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. And also while we're on the topic of, uh, the Budget and Finance Committee, I know Councilmember Meyers made a motion a couple meetings ago to request a review of the public, uh, or the library's, uh, annual budget. And Mayor, it's my understanding we're having some difficulty getting a copy of that, so I'd like to publicly ask for the library to come forward so we can schedule them in the Budget and Finance Committee meeting and bring a copy of their public budget because this is a budget that's open to the public for transparency, and we'd like to have an opportunity to- to take a look at it. So, Mayor, I don't know if you all have made a formal request. I'll be glad to do so myself. We, we will make one for you. Uh, Mr. Askew has been in fairly regular communications with the folks at the library, so if you would request a copy of the budget, Mr. Askew, I'd appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor. And then second, uh, the Building Inspection Task Force had their second me- had our second meeting last week. Uh, we reviewed the current operations of building inspection. Uh, our next meeting is scheduled for February the 11th at 3:00 PM. It's on a Thursday before a council meeting. Everyone here is invited to attend. Uh, next we'll be taking on the, um, task of looking at the zoning issues as it pertains to building inspection enforcement, so that'll be the next topic on the agenda for the Building Inspection Task Force. And then last but not least, we have a neighborhood meeting I'd like to announce. Next Tuesday night, the Eastland Parkway neighborhood will have their bi-monthly meeting at 6:30 PM at Christ Center Church. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Blues. Thank you, Mayor. Some meeting announcements. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 20th, the Western Suburb Neighborhood will meet at 7:00 PM, and that meeting will be in the Ave Maria Building of St. Peter and Paul Church. Uh, it's best to get to that, uh, to that building off S- Sonyer Alley between Short and West 2nd Streets. On Thursday, January 21st, uh, the first, uh, the first quarter meeting of the 2nd District Neighborhood Association and Homeowners Association, uh, president's meeting will take place. That meeting will be, uh, in the main conference room at the Town Branch Wastewater Treatment Plant. The theme of the meeting will be water quality issues and how, uh, how neighborhoods can participate in improving our, our water en- en- environment. There'll be lots of information on the new water quality fee, on watersheds, on sewersheds, uh, on, on the whole environmental issue of water quality. The presentation will, will be directed by Susan Bush, who is the Director of Environmental Policy. At 6:30, the, uh, there will be a tour of the, of the, of the laboratories in the, uh, in, in, in the administration building, and the meeting itself will take place at 7:00 PM. So if you're a neighborhood association president, uh, or, or homeowners association president or representative, and haven't yet re- uh, RSVP'd, uh, would appreciate your contacting my office and letting us know that you'll be able to attend. I think this is gonna be a very informative and, uh, and important meeting. On Saturday, January 23rd, at 2:00 PM in the North Side Library, the Brookfield Chase Neighborhood Association will, will, will hold a neighborhood meeting. And then on Monday, January 25th, two neighborhood meetings. Radcliffe-Marlboro Neighborhood will meet at 7:00 PM in the community center in Marlboro Park. The Oakwood Neighborhood Association will meet at the same time, 7:00 PM, in the community center in Oakwood Park. Thank you, Mayor. That's my report. Thanks. Council Member Feigl. Thank you, Mayor. I'd just like to report that on January 20th, um, from 5:00 to 7:00, the, uh, small group that has been meeting to discuss this Chevy Chase redesign will again meet at Buddy's, and that's, again, from 5:00 to 7:00 on January 20th. Uh, at 7:00 on January 26th, the Kenwick, uh, Neighborhood Association will have a meeting at the Kenwick Community Center. And, um, I have one other item that I'd like to, to bring up. In the 5th District, there has been a real serious, uh, rash of graffiti damaging, uh, private property, and, uh, I, as, as I've looked more and more at this and, and driven through town, I've realized that we have a lot more graffiti than I ever dreamed we did. And in preparation for the World Games, I think it would be to our advantage to take a look at this in committee and see if there is some way that we can address this problem, uh, hopedively, ho- hopefully, uh, preempt some of the future graffiti. So I would like to make a motion that we place this issue of graffiti in our community in the Services Committee. Second. Second. Have a motion by Council Member Feigl and a second by Council Member Martin to place the issue of, uh, graffiti into the Services Committee. Any discussion? Council Member Lawless. Um, there is a group that has been studying graffiti removal and reduction through the police department, and I think Parks is part of that. Um, so you might wanna check with them. I can get you some contact information. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Yeah, I was just gonna follow up. Uh, Parks really has this down. They, they are, they are rocket stars on, on the graffiti removal. Don't- But, but the issue about how to prevent it to begin with is one I support, uh, looking more at. I think we're all very familiar with seeing graffiti on the back of stop signs and things like that, but now we're beginning to see it on, uh, private property where they've gone in and actually put graffiti on, um, on brick walls in neighborhoods. And so I just feel like it's something that we really need to take a better look at, so. Motion on the floor is to ref- refer... Council Member Crosby. I was just going to say that, um, we, I, I totally support your motion. We have a, a... My husband's law firm downtown has been tagged four times now. Um, and, you know, after multiple calls and everything, it repeatedly keeps getting tagged. And also, I was running through your district this morning, and we noticed on the side of a house, a, a brick home down in Ashland- Mm-hmm. ... uh, by, uh, the home of, um, the Henry Clay home that, uh, a home had been tagged by graffiti. So I think it's a great idea. Thank you. Motion is to refer the item, uh, the topic of graffiti to the Services Committee. If there's no further discussion, we'll vote. Those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Those opposed, no. Motion carries. Anything further, Council Member Feigl? Uh, no, that's all. Thank you, Mayor. All right. And Council Member Beard? Thank you, Mayor. I'd, uh, like to move approval of the January 19th, uh, MDF fund list. Second. Motion by Council Member Beard and a second by Council Member, uh, Meyers to approve the NDF. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Oppose no? Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Lawless. Um, yes, I just wanted to let folks know that, uh, the moratorium small work group has been meeting and will be meeting again later in the week, um, making progress looking at boarding homes, lodging homes, um, and such matters. Um, also tonight, um, the Elizabeth Street Neighborhood Association, um, is having a meeting at 7:00 PM at the church on the corner of Forrest and Ottoman. And I always forget what kind of church it is, but I think it's First Christian. First Christian, Yes. Um, anyway, um, and anybody in the third district, there have been quite a few people in the third district who have inquired about attending. Uh, of course anybody's welcome, but all of the neighborhood associations or just interested citizens are invited to join that meeting of the Eli- Elizabeth Street Neighborhood Association at 7:00 PM tonight. Thank you. Thanks. Council Member Meyers. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I'd like to move to, I guess, council cancel and reschedule the, um, outside agency oversight committee meeting scheduled for next Tuesday at 11 to February 2nd at 11:00 AM. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Council Member Meyers, second by Council Member Gorton to m- move the financial, uh, excuse me, the Partner Agency Oversight Committee meeting. Any discussion? All in favor please say aye. Aye. Oppose no? The motion carries. Anything further Council Member Meyers? No, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to, uh, repeat the mi- announcement of last week that tonight at 7:00 PM at the Alika Shrine Temple, uh, we're gonna have an informational meeting regarding the proposed redevelopment of Turpin Mall. Uh, representatives of Rubloff Development Group will be there to answer questions and to sort of tell folks about what their plans are and to, uh, give us a better idea of what they have in store. So, uh, uh, thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Thanks. Council Member James. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I received notice from Chris King in the planning department that tonight at, uh, 6:30, they will be holding their fourth presentation meeting on the one-way conversion. Um, the one-way, two-way conversions, um, that will affect the downtown area. Tonight's meeting is just intent- is intended for the general public, anyone that has been able- unable to attend the previous meetings. They've had meetings before, some for businesses, um, some for neighborhood associations, um, and I forgot what the third one was. Um, but tonight is just intended for anyone that wants to know about, um, the two-way, one-way conversion. It will be held, um, in the Phoenix Building on the third floor. Um, it's an open house format, starts at 6:30, 7:00. Fi- fi- uh, starts at 6:30, um, to 7:00, with just the open house, kind of going around looking at the information presented. Um, and then there'll be a brief presentation, um, and a video, followed by a question and answer session. So please try to attend that tonight if you have any, um, concerns, thoughts on the one-way, two-way conversion. Also, wanted to announce that on Thursday, January 28th, will be the final, uh, design presentation of the Isaac Murphy, uh, Memorial Art Garden. That'll be held at the William Wells Brown Community Center. It's on Thursday, January 28th, from 6:00 to 7:00. Um, it is, um, hosted by Parks and Rec at William Wells Brown and the Bluegrass Community Foundation, as well as the Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden Board. Um, so please try to come and give your input on that final design of that, um, park that will be at the intersection of Midland, 3rd, and Winchester. And, um, last but not least, I wanted to thank everyone that participated in the Martin Luther King Day of Service. Um, phenomenal, um, projects. I think they were, uh, we were at our record number. Um, it's a growing number of projects every year. Um, anything from quilting to hula-hooping for a cause, um, building tomato cages for community gardens throughout, um, the city. Just a wonderful, um, array of, uh, service day. Um, and everybody, we had a little, uh, presentation at the end of the night here in the ballroom. Thanks for, to the security for being here for us. And, um, just a, a wonderful display of service, um, people wanting to do more. Um, just a great, great thing. It was a great day yesterday. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to let everyone know that, uh, Kelly Flood's office got in touch with me today regarding the two, um, uh, resolutions that were, that we sent to Frankfurt for consideration. So hopefully they're... it sounds good that they're moving on those, regarding the building inspection, zoning violations and so forth. So I'll let you know more as I hear from them. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Feigl. Um, I just wanted to offer my congratulations to Andrea Ja- Council Member Andrea James for having received the, uh, Spirit of Ivy Award from the Alpha Kappa Alpha organization. And, uh, I think it was a well-deserved award, and I congratulate her. Thank you. Congratulations. Does, does any other, uh, council member wish to report? I only have a couple of matters, uh, both of which are fairly short. Commissioner Taylor, if, uh, you'd be, bring, um, Ms. Morris up and provide just a, a brief word of introduction, I would appreciate it. And, and Mr. Dawaraha, if you'd come on down, we'll be, uh, ready to adjourn here shortly. Commissioner Taylor. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I'd like to introduce Maggie Morris. Uh, she's the development director for the Lexington Children's Theater. And she wants to tell you about an opportunity that hopefully you all have heard about. If not, hopefully you could help others hear about it, so... Thank you. Commissioner Taylor's been a really great friend of the Lexington Children's Theater. She's a really great advocate and mother of, um, some of the children that participate in our programs. But I'm here today to promote Lexington Children's Theater in the Chase Community Giving Facebook competition. I see a few faces that have voted. Thank you, Mayor and Vice Mayor and Councilman Martin. You guys have been great in, in promoting this for us, but, um, what it is, it's the first of its kind. It's a Facebook competition that basically awards a million dollars to the top vote getter. Um, we are one of 100 competing organizations throughout the nation. We, um, earned our way into the, uh, top 100 in, uh, late November and December by, um, getting votes on Facebook, um, through many networks and, uh, many vehicles, um, that just clicked away and voted for LCT. We earned a $25,000 grant in December through that distinction, and now we are competing this week for a million dollars. And so that would double our operating budget and would do a tremendous amount for the theater and our outreach programs in, um, the Appalachian region of Kentucky. And I thought, um, and Commissioner Taylor especially thought that, um, through the many communication vehicles that you all, um, have, your newsletters, your Facebook profiles, your Twitter accounts, one of you might be Twittering right now, I hope so, um, that you might be able to, um, bring in some votes for LCT. Um, the five runner-ups of the competition get $100,000, um, from Chase, and there is an extra million dollars floating out there that the advisory committee, um, decides at the end of the competition who gets that money. So what we're thinking, the executive directors that I'm networking with on Facebook, are thinking that it might, um, turn out to be like a golf tournament where the money is trickled down. So the better that we compete, even if we don't make it into the top five or the number one position, we may get some more money from Chase, which would be amazing for our kids. So, um, I have, um, simple instructions for how you can vote, and I hope that you will promote it through your, um, communication tools. Hmm? Have, have you shared that with Coach Cal yet? Yes, and I was going to thank him also. Um, he Facebooked for us yesterday and tweeted for us yesterday. Ah, all right, great. And so, the... I saw a boost in, in votes, uh, definitely brought in a couple 100. So hopefully, the more that we promote, the more that we tweet, the more that we update about it, um... I've only lost three friends on Facebook so far because of my incessant tweeting and Facebooking, but, um, hopefully it all pays off, so... Thank, thank you very much. Thank you. If you'll just pass that around, we'll, uh, we'll pick up on it. And, uh, uh, Councilmember Meyers. Thank you, Mayor. If she could put one of those up on the overhead, so we could put that on for the viewing audience at home. Uh, great idea, good idea. Oh, yeah. Can I have that? Thank you very much. You're the public information officer, right? Uh, Chief Information Officer. Chief Information, sorry. I learned that in Leadership Lexington. Thank you. You guys put that on the face... or on your website today, the link to vote. So thank you very much. Um, you've already been a lot of help, but I thought that I'd come and talk to the, um, ones I haven't been, been able to reach out to and talk to personally, so thank you. Tha- thank you very much. And then I've asked Mr. Dawaraha to, uh, come and visit with us today. I think, uh- Councilmember James wanted an update. Go right ahead. All right. Uh, good afternoon, members of Council, Mayor, Vice Mayor. Uh, since the last reporting period, uh, for division of Enterprise Solutions, uh, it was back in October, uh, we have completed time and labor benefits, uh, and payroll. Uh, the payroll team completed fourth and fifth live payrolls in the PeopleSoft system, uh, this, this month. Additionally, we've, uh, also completed our pensions module, and we brought that up live last week. So we've made significant progress. While we have, uh, successfully implemented a number of, uh, modules, we continue to face some challenges regarding organizational readiness and changes because, uh, this is an enterprise system. And, uh, before primarily Computer Services was involved in running payroll and some of these functions, now they're going further down into the divisions. The following activities, uh, are the ones that we're involved in right now. Uh, we're working on the sick check payroll that has to be run this month, uh, our current payroll, year-end processing, W-2s, uh, 1099s. Uh, we're continuing to, uh, staff, uh, the division of Enterprise Solutions, primarily the hiring process that we're going through is, uh, uh, is what I'm talking about there. Uh, tax balance true-up and, uh, paycheck distributions, we're looking at that and seeing how we can become more efficient there. We're also working on a charter for the division of Enterprise Solutions, uh, and a transition plan that we worked on is now being enacted. ... um, so we're in the clean-up transition and what I call the support phase of the project currently. Um, working to create some service level agreements that we're gonna put in place. Um, currently, um, uh, bank reconciliation management reports and the budget module, we're working on that to bring that up as soon as possible. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Questions for Mr. Dewaraha? Council member Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I just ... This, uh, isn't really a question, but, um , I wanted publicly to thank Rama. Um, I asked him to, uh, clearly delineate on the Urban County government pay stubs what tax is for the schools and what tax is for the city, and I appreciate that you were able to go back in and have that changed on the, uh, payroll stubs. So thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Any further questions? All right, thank you. Uh, council member James. Excuse me. I don't have any questions. I just wanted to thank you for bringing the information to us. Thank you. Thanks. That concludes the mayor's report. I only have one individual who's indicated a desire to speak on issues not on the agenda, and that's friend Florence Huffman. You'll have three minutes, Ms. Huffman. Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor, council members. My name is Florence Huffman. I'm pleased here, to be here with you today to, uh, advise you about a very unique and exciting program that is not only, uh, going to be repeated, uh, later in February, but also is ongoing, uh, right now. It is sponsored by the Bluegrass Area Development District and, uh, uh, by contract awarded to Kentucky Student Ventures Corporation. We are ... have accepted 25 economically disadvantaged, uh, individuals ages 18 to 24. They are being taught, uh, and w- also, uh, have a work experience. This is, uh, first of all, this is called the Bluegrass Green Entrepreneur Program. It is an interesting mix of teaching individuals how to write business plans, how to think about going green in a business or running a green business. They will be experiencing, uh, eight weeks of training and mentoring, and also work experience. They're being paid $7 and a quarter an hour, and we are soliciting not only more applicants 18 to 24, economically disadvantaged for the second class, but also we are in need of more employers to serve with these students and, and take them into ... They, they, the students will be working, and the employers will not be paying the $7 and a quarter an hour. Uh, this is, uh, again sponsored by the Bluegrass Area Development District, and the one requirement, uh, is that the employers take time to introduce to the students information about human resources, information about risk management, information about personnel, information about the operations of the business, so that not only, uh, is the employer getting the benefit of an, uh, of someone who's going to be working for them for eight weeks at no cost, but also being able to share and give back to the community. Uh, the students will be learning how to write a business plan. Uh, they will be introduced to a number of, uh, independent contractors. They will have guest speakers. They'll be going around and doing a variety of other things in the community. And, uh, Kentucky Student Ventures and Bluegrass Area Development District, and also Lincoln Trail Area Development District, last summer actually participated in an, a competition, uh, that really was, uh, again a very exciting and unique program. California, uh, many other states are leading the way in this green initiative, but I thought you would be interested in knowing that your own community is participating in this type of, uh ... And again, there's the, uh, uh, there's the, uh, the rest of the brochure. One other aspect of this, um, is that the students will be receiving a home computer. It is a refurbished computer. They'll be taught some of the applications, and if they successfully, uh, successfully complete the eight-week program, they will own the computer. Thank, thank you, Ms. Huff- Ms. Huffman. Does anyone else wish to address the council? Seeing none, a motion ... Uh, Council Member Lawless. Uh, yes, I'd like to move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS61.810(1)(c) for the purpose of discussing pending and proposed litigation. Second. So moved. Have a motion by Council Member Lawless and a second by Council Member Gordon to go into closed session. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no? Motion carries. Thank you. And thank you. Thank you.