Seeing none, we'll move along. We do not have a docket to approve. We do have a couple of summaries to approve. Have a motion by Councilmember Ellinger and a second by Councilmember Gordon to approve the summaries. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. We have no budget amendments. We do have a few items of new business for your consideration. Move approval. We have a motion by Councilmember Gordon and a second by Councilmember James. Excuse me, Councilmember Ellinger. Councilmember James. Thank you, Mayor. I had a, I just wanted to get a little bit more verbal, thank you, a little bit more verbal on item F. Anthony, just want to see if you'd give us a little bit more information of what the KBI is and what this means for our city. Thank you, Councilmember. One thing I'll say about that, we've tried, remember back in the fall we wanted to do a session to educate all the Councilmembers on the new changes with the state incentive as it relates to projects that we want to bring in, but now the incentive also allows to be used for existing companies as well in the state of Kentucky. And it is very similar to the KGDA tax incentive that we had where the local government participates at one percent and the state participated at that point in time at four percent. Their percentage is down to three and they still want us to do our one percent. We actually have two companies here today that are going to be, I think that are also part of your packet. And I'd like to give their officials, their CEOs an opportunity to be welcomed by all of you all at the Council, to let them address you and to let you see that they of course are adding jobs to our community, which I think is good. But in specific answer to your question, one thing that Jen and I found out is that there is a session on July 8th at the state where all of the state incentives will be discussed. There will be a training on that for anybody and everybody who is interested. And Jen is very interested in, Commerce Lexington is very interested in funding your attendance to that event. So as opposed to us trying to put together another training, we had a lot of trouble narrowing down a particular date when everybody could be available. But I think with this amount of notice, July 8th, it gives everybody plenty of time to try to get there. And it will be a much more comprehensive understanding of what the various incentives are at the state to be used for business investment. Excellent. Thank you. July the 8th, and for more information, should anyone contact Jen at Commerce Lexington or directly at the state? Me. Me or Jen. Because really what we need to do is just get it out to you. We've just been working a lot with a consultant this week, but we'll get that information out to you. Okay. And is there a minimum threshold of the amount of revenue a business needs to make to qualify even before coming to you? Before coming to me? You know, should a mom and pop that makes, I don't know, $25,000 a year, would they qualify for a KBI? Well, there is an incentive. The incentive is based upon the jobs and the wages, the salaries that are assessed with that. Okay. So there's a minimum level of salary that would be required, and then you've got to hit a minimum number of jobs. Okay. Before you can actually qualify for it. Okay. This is Kimberly Salisbury, part of the team. Okay. So the state incentive program wants to bring new wealth into the area. Okay. So those are some of the thresholds. But the 51%, so unfortunately sometimes for local businesses, unless they have a lot of the revenue coming from outside of the state, they're not going to be able to qualify for it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So if they come from outside of the state, they would not be eligible for KPI. Okay. Thank you. I'll check it on the website. Thanks, Mayor. And Anthony, you want to introduce your guests? Sure. Would love to. We have two gentlemen here with two of our companies in our community. They're both expanding, which I think is good news for us. After all that discussion we just had about budget, we now see some revenue opportunities that are going to be coming to the community. Software Information Systems, Mr. Steve Seig is the CEO. Steve, come on up and say a few words. And then also behind him will be Greg Fosensky, who is the Chief Operating Officer for Summit Biosciences. Sure. Excuse me. Well, certainly it's my pleasure to be in front of you today. You know, it's, we're not a new company. We've been in Lexington for 28 years and grown from one two-person company today about 90, 95 employees in about a five-state area. So we are taking on this initiative of expanding our business. We're going to build what we call a cloud computing data center for outsourcing services. Why are we doing that is because the market's changing dramatically and if we don't change then we will not be in business. So we are making the investments. It's a big investment and it was interesting how it all evolved. I spoke, called Patrick Powell for Economic Development and Commerce in Lexington and said, you know, Patrick, here's what we're trying to do and we're trying to figure this out. You know, do we do it in Lexington? Where do we do it? And he shared with me through Kimberly and Connie and the Economic Development Commission at the state the programs that were available. We had no idea. And so in the whole initiative to put this together, we plan on hiring 15 people and all of those jobs will be here in Lexington. They will be consulting from here, running the data center here, but consulting throughout the four or five state area and bringing in new customers. So we're very excited about it and appreciate very much the support of the city and of the state to help us make this happen. We'll be trying to implement by year end. We in the whole process, we don't have the facilities today. So we've got to get the facilities to handle this type of an operation. So we'll be in the process of doing that and then we'll be hiring people to round out the skills that we already have. Thanks. Steve? Thank you. Greg? Just before Greg comes, I want to mention on SIS's addition, it's a $5.5 million investment, average salary of $80,000 a year. So good salaries. Hi. My name is Greg Plushinsky. I'm the COO at Summit Biosciences. We were incorporated in late 2008, right about the height of the downturn. We leased our manufacturing facility in August of 2009 out on Cold Stream Research Campus. And after we were approved for KBI incentives in December and also a forgivable loan from the state, we've hired nine, no, 11 full-time employees and nine part-time. We've been bringing employees on consistently and we're going to need more in the near future. Our company makes nasal spray drug products for systemic absorption. We're currently working on our lead product, which will be for migraine headache. And it's currently sold by GlaxoSmithKline. The market is about $100 million a year for this particular product alone. So that is one that we are accelerating development on. We expect to commercialize it in, I think, early 2012, depending on the FDA review time. We have a lot of good things going. We're currently seeking additional investment in the state. We want local investors that have an incentive to hire locally, buy locally, stay within the state. Our previous founder, Ed Cohen, started the company here in 1998. In that company, he invested over $3 million into the University of Kentucky and brought in, we estimate, over $37 million in outside money to the state of Kentucky over the course of about eight years. So we're prepared to, we're poised to repeat that with multiples on it. We're very optimistic about what we're doing and we're thankful that we can have this opportunity and receive these incentives. Thanks so much. I appreciate you being here. Any questions for Anthony or his guests? Thank you very much. Councilmember James. Thank you, Mayor. I also had a question on E. It's like Leslie Jarvis or Commissioner Rumpke would be the contact for that, either of them here. Okay. I'll wait until she comes back, Mayor. It looks like Artie's come to get her. All right. Oh, there she is. Anything further on the new business items? She's on her way back in. Okay. I'm sorry. Mr. Rumpke, that is the ICMA Retirement Corporation repayment through payroll. Yeah, there's not a lot of information on the attachment, so I wondered if you knew why are we ending this? You know, I do, but I need to go get my notes for it. I apologize. Okay. I'll move to table. If you could table, and I've got them out there, and I can bring them right back. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion to table item E. It's non-debatable. Let's vote. All in favor of tabling item E, let it be known by saying aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. We're now back to discussion of items A through D and F through I. Any further discussion on those items? And those in favor of approving those items, please indicate by saying aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Blues, do you have our Water Resources Oversight Committee report today? I do. Thank you, Mayor. The draft version of the April 20 Water Resources Oversight Committee minutes has been distributed to all the council members. Highlights of the meeting include the following. First, a discussion of the $25 million landfill fund balance. At issue was the question of whether at least some of those funds can be invested longer term and for more substantial potential returns than for money market and CDs. Council Member Stinnett requested that Acting Commissioner Bush provide the committee with a plan for possible investment of any funds not obligated to reserve for landfill closure and maintenance. Then by unanimous vote, the committee endorsed the Capital Construction Project Identification Validation Procedures document, which was prepared and presented by Water Quality Director Charlie Martin. This procedure will be used to ensure complete transparency in keeping property owners fully informed throughout the process of assessing and appraising and possibly purchasing properties in floodplains for purposes of demolition. The committee discussed at some length the problem of properties identified in FEMA maps as located in floodplains but which, because of higher elevations or other variations within designated floodplains, are not prone to flooding. Such properties in a floodplain may unnecessarily obligate property owners to high-cost flood insurance, and that problem is particularly acute for residential areas developed before 2001 when urban county government tightened obligations on developers in the Zoning Ordinance. So following discussion, the committee unanimously adopted Council Member Stinnett's motion that the Divisions of Engineering and Water Quality identify areas where this problem exists both pre- and post-2001 and come back with a possible solution that will offer relief to affected property owners. Director Martin announced that information on the incentives program connected to the water quality management fee is on the urban county government Web site. Class A residential grant applications are due April 30, and Class B commercial and institutional grant applications are due May 28. He also informed us that, of course, as we know, the consent decree is still in Judge Forrester's court. Thank you, Mayor. Any questions for Council Member Blues? All right. Are we ready to proceed, Council Member James? Yes, we are, Commissioner Romke. I think the appropriate thing to do, if you're ready to take that item off the table, would be to move to take it from the table. Okay. I move to remove item E off the table, please. I have a motion by Council Member James, second by Council Member Ellinger to take item E from the table. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. So that item is back on the floor for consideration now, Commissioner Romke. Thank you. And we have our Acting Director of HR, Leslie Jarvis, here, and she can give further information. Did you hear the question before? I'm sorry. Okay. The question was just why are we ending this agreement? Why would we want to agree with the agreement to discontinue the deductions? To remove ourselves from the money handling situation that we're in. For example, when a person would take a loan through ICMA, then we would deduct that payment out of the person's paycheck. Then what would happen is if the loan was paid off in March, then in July, June or July, we would receive a check from ICMA for five or six people's refunds because they hadn't stopped the loan at that time. So what it did is it was putting us in a money handling responsibility where we had to decide how much to refund to each person that had been taken after the loan was paid off. Okay. So we're trying to remove ourselves from that money handling position and let the employee deal directly with ICMA. Okay. And Council Members, I asked one of my questions to Commissioner Romke was how is this different than like a United Way allocation or a Lexar's allocation, and she said it's not electronic. I know they're dealing with paper documents and there's not really a system of tracking, I guess, besides just paper that comes in, which makes it more difficult, gives us more manpower to where we're actually handling something as opposed to it being set up automatically. Right. This would go to some of the internal control conversations we were just having at the last meeting, and I think it's important to be able to tighten up on any time you're handling money that it just, you know, if we can get out of the business of handling money, that's a good thing. Is it an extra fee for, do you know if it's an extra fee or anything for the participant if it goes directly to them as opposed to coming to the employer? No. The only fee you set up is when you initiate the loan in the beginning. Okay. There is a processing fee for that. Okay. Well, I move approval of item E, new business. I have a motion by Council Member James and a second by Council Member Feigl to approve item E. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Council Member Gorton. Thank you, Mayor. The Council's Planning Committee met April 20th, and the first item on our agenda was the Downtown Master Plan update, and as you will recall, the Downtown Master Plan has been approved in concept by the Council, and so Harold Tate from the Downtown Development Authority updated the Planning Committee on the 16 recommendations in the Master Plan, and there was quite a bit of discussion in our meeting about the individual recommendations and quite a bit of sentiment from Council Members to move forward on some specific recommendations and do the work that it would take to do that. So there was discussion about two-way traffic and converting the streets downtown. There was some discussion about the parking authority, which has been formed, and that was one of the recommendations in the Master Plan, and because of the questions which were daylighted about the parking authority and possible shortages on parking and garage repairs and things like that, the Planning Committee will hear a presentation from the parking authority at a future meeting. Design guidelines and formed-based guidelines were discussed at length, and this is an issue which the joint meetings of the Planning Commission, the Planning Committee, and the Chairs of the Board of Adjustment and the Board of Architectural Review have discussed, and so there was a motion which began to forward a discussion of design guidelines, and the final motion, which is an internal motion to Planning Committee, is that the Committee will hear a presentation from Planning on formed-based guidelines versus design guidelines so that we can compare the two and perhaps move forward with some sort of recommendation out of that. To do that, we have scheduled a special Planning Committee meeting. It will be May 27th at 3 o'clock p.m. to discuss that issue, and then the issue of the CVS property on Main Street came up as to design guidelines, and we were informed by Chris King of Planning that Planning is engaged in discussions with the applicant for that property in order to discuss design. Councilmember James asked about the recommendation for a new Rupp Arena and how that fits into the Downtown Master Plan, and based on discussion about the new Rupp Arena, the Committee has asked Mr. Schoeniger to get some sort of an update from Mr. Owens at the Lexington Center regarding any update on a new Rupp Arena. And the second item, which we discussed, was an update on the infill and redevelopment plan. Jimmy Emmons from our Planning Division updated us and talked about the balance between neighborhood stabilization and opportunities with infill and redevelopment, and one of the things that he told us is that 77 percent of the objectives and recommendations of infill and redevelopment projects are in the works, things like bus stops, streetscape, et cetera, and so those recommendations are moving forward in a good fashion, and there were no motions to come before the Council, and the meeting was adjourned at 2.48. Thank you, Mayor. Any questions for Councilmember Gordon? All right, we'll move along. Mr. Burke, if you'd come forward and fill us in on the LEXTRAN budget, we'd appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor Newberry, members of Council. This is about this time every year I come before you to present the upcoming fiscal year budget for LEXTRAN. It's one of these deals that you all have to accept our budget or reject, and this will be the third time I've presented this budget to you folks, so with no further ado, I'll launch into this. First thing I wanted to do is just take a few minutes and talk about some of the accomplishments that we've had this past year. You can see that, you've heard me say this to you before, I think we had over 6 million unlinked trips last year, equates to about 21,000 unlinked trips per day. This past year we increased the number of service miles a little over 2 percent, which means we're putting more service out. Overall ridership for this past year was up about 5 percent, and I think that's really noteworthy if you've looked at the newspapers or paid attention to much of the news at all around the nation, that's not the norm. Most bus systems around the country and cities are experiencing about a 5 percent loss in ridership, and I think it's all tied to the economic situation and loss of jobs. People typically use public transit to ride to work, and without jobs they don't ride the bus, but here in Lexington we've kind of bucked that trend a little bit, I think, so it hasn't affected us that much. So we're very fortunate to be 5 percent over where we were last year. Some of the other neat things that we did, we created a partnership with the Blue Grass Domestic Violence Program, which essentially makes the buses a safe haven or shelter for people that feel they might be abused or threatened in some way, so we partnered with those folks to do that. This past year we've added 40 new benches around the city, over 73 shelters, and 55 new trash receptacles. Again, those are the amenities that were almost nonexistent a few years ago, so we've really worked hard to put those up around the city, and a lot of this was accomplished with President Obama's stimulus funding, so we're very fortunate to have had that. The newest addition, of course, are our new trolleys for downtown. Just a reminder, we purchased three brand new trolleys, two of those being hybrid electric and two used trolleys from the bus system in Austin, Texas, so we're running two routes every day, and it's been very, very, very positive. In the last 10 days we've had over 3,000 people ride the trolleys. We had about 1,500 people actually rode the trolleys out to Kingman this year, which is significant over where it was last year, so I think the word is spreading that we have a pretty good bus system and it's a good way to get around, so we're really, really pleased with that, and again, just in the first, you know, three weeks of trolley service it's been amazingly good, and I would encourage you to go down and ride the lunch some day or do something like that, it's kind of cool. Something else that we're pretty proud of, we implemented a company-wide customer service training program. You know, one of the things that we get complaints fairly often about customer service, you know, the bus driver's being rude or whatever the case may be to our passengers, so we instituted a transit-specific customer service program, so every quarter all employees at LexTran go through the program, and that's something that will continue as far out as I can predict. So that's been well-received. Of course, the continued partnership with Arts in Motion, I mentioned shelters a minute ago, you know, we have the 73 kind of the off-the-shelf type shelter, but we continue to work with Yvette Hurt and Joey David from City Planning with the Arts in Motion program, so we have two shelters out. The one on the left was the ribbon-cutting, very cold that day, by the way, out at the bottle stop, and then the one on the right at the third and Elm Tree Lane, so very, very positive feedback on those, and people that come to our city to visit me from a public transit arena, you know, can't believe we're doing these kind of things, it's pretty cool. One other thing, too, I just, you know, as I was sitting back there making some notes, I left off a couple things I just wanted to share with you briefly. You know, also this past year we completed a five-year comprehensive operational analysis, which is our strategic plan that takes us out five years, so we had some transit consultants come in and do that, that will help us plan the bus system for the next five, so we did that. There were significant renovations down at our transit center, we basically gutted the place and, you know, made the inside really nice for our bus operators. In addition to that, we partnered with LexArts, and you see some public art is up down there now. We wrapped the poles with some of the neat horse kind of pattern on our poles, we're looking to put up some greenery, some flowers and things like that, so just trying to make it more appealing. And in addition to this, we also awarded a three-year contract this past year to Red Cross for Paratransit Service, so those are three that weren't on the list, so I'll continue now with the slide in front of you. This just shows you what our ridership is doing over this past year. You can see that the only month in the entire year so far was July, where we didn't exceed ridership from the previous month, so on out you can see that we have exceeded ridership every month, other than this past July. Now kind of getting into the budget, which you're all really here for today, just try to keep this as simple as possible so we've got plenty of time to answer your questions, but this is simply a pie chart that shows where our revenue comes from, and as you all might expect, the majority of our revenue comes from the property taxes. That's the six cents out of every hundred dollars of property value that comes to us. The next major category is federal funding. Those are the formula grants, primarily, that we get each and every year. And then next is the passenger revenue, which is, you know, on the low side at eight percent, and then we've got some other advertising and other revenue in there, but that's the lion's share of where our money comes from. Next I just wanted to show you now, reversing, and tell you where the expenses are all going. Again, you probably would expect 33 percent of the budget goes toward wages, which is the number one. The next on the list are our fringe benefits. Paratransit costs comes in at 17 percent. Diesel fuel, of course, is a huge expense of ours. You can imagine the number of miles that we operate. And then the other smaller categories, but I just wanted to show you that from a pie chart perspective, and we'll get into the specifics a little later, more in-depth in the numbers. On this slide here, I just made some key budget assumptions for you folks, so to kind of boil all the numbers down. When I talk about mass transit revenue, you know, we get over $15 million a year from the property tax. Our federal assistance, that's the formula grant that we get each and every year, almost $4 million. And then we've got other sources of revenue. Of course, our expenses this year, we're predicting them to be, or budgeting, almost $22 million, 21.7. So that will be our budget number on the operating side this coming year. Of course, we always have some capital expenses as well. This year, we're budgeting a little over $9 million. Buses, you've got some capital construction costs going on, some capital maintenance, and some money had to be put in to pay for the trolleys, benches, and shelters. And then, put a number there, $7.8 million came in this year from federal assistance. That's in addition to the formula grant that we get each and every year. And then, for all this federal money that we get, we always have to put in at least 20% matching funds. So that's the $1.3 million that comes out of our local money to match all this money that we get from the federal government. There were, actually there are four major drivers that have increased the budget from the same time last year. Fringe benefits are going up about 12%. Most of that is health care costs. We don't have the final number in yet, but our insurance broker is at least predicting a 10% increase in health care coverage. Because of the contract, the way it's written with Red Cross and the Paratransit Service, there's a 17% increase in that, and part of that's because we have assumed the cost of their fuel is one of the things, and the assessments for people wanting service. So that's the reason that's gone up. And then, of course, the big driver is the diesel fuel. For example, we're budgeting $3.25 a gallon. That's what our suppliers are predicting it will be. We've probably averaged this past year about $2.10 a gallon, I think. And I mean, that last price we paid for diesel fuel was about $2.40, so we're seeing it continue to go up. So we've got to err on the safe side. This is really too small for, I think, probably you all to see, but it's in your budget packet. But essentially what it is is just more of a line item type budget for what I've already shared with you. So I think at this point, I'd be willing to answer any questions that you might have. Essentially, you know, we've got a – let me – there's one other chart though. Let me go through the capital real quick for you. The capital plan, you know, I've kind of dwelled on operating for the most part. But on the capital side, you know, they're not – when people think about capital expenses for a bus system, you think of buying buses and those sorts of things. And we're not going to be buying any buses this year. So essentially what we're talking about primarily are, you know, the capital cost of bus maintenance, fair transit service. You know, our tire leases are in there, buying more benches and shelters and those sorts of things. But generally, it's not much compared to the operating expenses, it's only $9 million. So we've balanced the budget. As again, it's a little over $21 million. It's about a 1% increase over where our budget – of the same budget presented to you last year. So with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Rocky, I appreciate you meeting with me yesterday and Council Member Lane to go over some of these numbers and to dive deeper into them. I won't do that today like I normally do to you. But I just want to say, you know, there's been a lot of things presented to us at this body since we passed the LexTran referendum. Some of the information that was presented, as was proven by the data I had, was not correct. But I have a lot of confidence in what you're presenting to us the last couple of years. I just want people to know that because it has changed dramatically. I don't know if it's because the board's changed 50% or it's you, but we'll give you the credit, okay? Thank you. If you're here and taking our questions. But I do appreciate, you know, what you're trying to do and the accomplishments over there. I think you've made a lot of strides, especially with the task force report from 2005. You know, I think you've accomplished everything on there or in the process of it except for two things. And that's pretty remarkable because most of our task force, you know, either end up sitting on a shelf or, you know, we don't fully implement them. So I think you're working in that way. And I appreciate you listening to us and this body the last couple of years and trying to do the right thing. I just have a couple of things I wanted to follow up with you on, though. One is the benches. I think we met. You and I met about a month ago with our department of public works. Do you want to, I think, explain to council and the viewing public what the deal is with the benches, the color, and what's going to happen with them? Right. Yes, with regard to the benches, you know, you saw this, you know, this statistic I put out there. We've got about 73 benches. I'm sorry, there's 44 benches around the city instead of the particular shelters. At any rate, we have the first benches that we bought using some of the stimulus money that we got. We bought the concrete benches and they were blue, not necessarily the blue that we'd hoped they would be. So at any rate, after some criticism, we purchased 20 more, but bought the stone color, the more neutral type color, and we put those around the city now. Very few comments. The reason we bought that style of bench was simply because they're heavy. They can't be moved. They can't be stolen and those kinds of things. But once they're put down, they're kind of hard to move, so we've learned our lessons with that. But at any rate, with Council Member Stennant's suggestions, you know, some of the benches were put in locations less than desirable. You know, we've put them places where, you know, with people sitting on them, you know, they've worn out the grass and there's mud and those kinds of things all around them. So we have a contract with E.C. Matthews to help us put up shelters, so we've also engaged them to help us with placement of some pads, putting the benches level and in places where they truly need to be so that we give people access to sidewalks and those kinds of things. So we're working toward that end. In addition, we've agreed to meet with Commissioner Webb's folks in public works, along with people from city planning. Whenever we have locations for benches, we've agreed to put together a checklist essentially to go through that, make sure everybody's okay with it, that we're not in a right of way. You know, a homeowner is not, has been contacted at least to say, yes, it's on my property, but it's okay to put it there. Or a business, again, if it's in the right of way, that the highway people have blessed it and those kinds of things. So we are putting that checklist together now to make sure they go in the right place and, you know, they're accessible where they need to be accessible and those sorts of things. So we're working toward that. And I think we're actually probably going to be on our third variation of a bench. We have seen the benches that are up in Thoroughbred Park, the nice green metal strap-type bench. In addition to that, if you go out to the Legends ballpark, you'll see the same type bench, but the Legends logo etched in them. So we're thinking about doing that with the Lifestrand logo. They're a little less expensive than our concrete benches. So we're looking to do that as well. Yeah. Thank you for covering. That's correct. We're working really hard to do that. We actually have a team of four people that travel around the city every day doing nothing but cleaning shelters and benches and picking up trash. So we're on that. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. We've got to get 55 new trash cans out as well. In my last bit of time here, the only other thing that I want to encourage you to keep pursuing that we talked a little bit about yesterday is the Economic Contingency Fund. Develop one of those for Lakestream because, you know, it's one thing to have a reserve or leftover money each year, but to be able to use it at will, it raises a lot of concerns on this council and in the community. But if you can earmark portions of that to a contingency fund with some criteria as to when you can dip into it, I think that would go a long way. That if you did have a surplus, which, you know, we're glad you do right now, that you could earmark it for the appropriate times to use it like we do here. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. Rocky, two questions. First, on the trolley routes, are all four trolleys operating at the same time? Yes. Okay. Second question, if I was to go to Victorian Square or Civic Center shops, how long would I have to wait for a trolley to show up? With the headways that we design and the miles in each, without the construction delays that we have right now, you should see a trolley come by every five to six minutes. Okay. Now, a harder question. Fringe benefits at 63% of salary seems way out of line. 63%? If it's 21% of the whole, and 33% is 63.636363, to be accurate. All I can tell you, Council Member Beard, is, you know, in our fringe benefits, you know, of course, that includes our pension, health benefits, life insurance, work comp, sick pay, holiday pay, vacations, uniforms, tools and boots, and all those sorts of things. I don't know how to answer the question other than that is what it is. We work diligently with, for example, our insurance broker to keep that number down. Last year, there was no health insurance cost to the employees at all. We provide, I guess it's one of the Cadillac plans, if you will. Our pension plan is not probably the best in the world, but we're trying to better that. So I guess my point is, we certainly will look at ways to reduce that cost, but right now, again, the major driver this year is going to be the health insurance, which is going to go up at least 10%, we think. Yeah, I know, I understand about health insurance, obviously, but still, in the private sector, 30% roughly. Now, you were talking about uniforms and work boots and that type of thing. Maybe those ought to be pulled out and put into a different category, because it somewhat clouds and shocked me, I will say that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Crosby. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Rocky. I have a few questions. First, I'll just comment maybe regarding the trash cans, because all my fellow council members know that I've had issue with the new recycling bins we have downtown, but the advantage to that is there are a bunch of trash cans now that are being refurbished and being used in different areas per request from council members, and perhaps maybe you might consult and see if you can utilize some of those trash cans for maybe free. That would be great. I think there are a lot of them. And then, are you all tracking ridership for the trolleys? Yes, ma'am, we are. Every day. For example, just before the meeting started, since the 13th or the 12th of April, on our blue route, which runs the east-west, we had 920 riders so far. So we are tracking that. And for example, our green route for the same time period was 1,253. So we know exactly where they're getting on at the various stops and those sorts of things. Great. And then my last question, I'm looking at the revenue and expense summary. Yes, ma'am. I wanted to clarify, for total revenue projected, and then for FY2010-2011, and it says does not include local matches revenue, I guess my first question is, did the projected FY09-2010, did that include the local match in that number, or does that include the local match? Because there's a pretty good difference between. I'm going to ask my budget expert to come to the microphone. Are you on the last page, Council Member Crosby? I'm on a revenue and expense summary. Yes, it's right before questions, the last table. And your question again relates to? Did the projected revenue for last year, it says does not include local matches revenue. So did last year's include the local match, because that number's, there's a pretty big difference. So I was just wondering if it included that match or not. No, this does not include the local match. It does just list all the funding sources, and we would have listed that in the net change portion. So the projected FY2009-2010 did not include the local match either. Okay. That answers my question. Oh, and where'd you say is the local match? I'm sorry. In the net, oh, in the graph on that page? Okay, I got it. Thank you. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Rocky, again, for coming down. And, you know, I think as Council Member Sinnott said, you know, your forthrightness is something that offers a little bit of stability. I know that we would be, I don't think we'd be dealing with reality if we didn't say that there's a lot of concern in the public still. And I think that, you know, there's a lot of folks who view that tax referendum through a different set of lenses, and I think we need to do everything we can to show good stewardship with that money. And so a couple of questions that I had was how much did we take in this year from the property tax? What was the amount just for, stated for the public? Sure, I understand. The projected property tax was $15.2 million. Now, is that up or down from last year? That is... That is about 2% greater than what we had at this time last year. Okay, so more money coming in, roughly 2% more than we had last year. The, as far as, I think Council Member Sinnott mentioned, having a cash balance and, can you give me any idea what, how much we have right now in cash balance or how much Lextran adds? Well, in assets we have about $12 million. Okay. And our five-year plan shows that that will be spent at the end of these essentially five years, unless, you know, other things take place. But given the current state of affairs, it's about $12 million. I think I would echo what Council Member Sinnott said. I would recommend very hard for you and your board to bring forward an economic contingency fund plan because, again, I think from the citizen standpoint, if something were to change or there was a situation like we've had here locally, thank goodness that a few years ago we put in place an economic contingency plan. I think that has put us at least in a position to where we can weather some of the storm. I would encourage you all to do the same because, again, that's an area that citizens can look at and say, yeah, they've got $12 million in cash and how are they going to spend that and I don't have any control and so forth. The other is to what Council Member Beard had mentioned with regard to health insurance and so forth. Where are you all right now with regard to collective bargaining and so forth? Our contract actually expired past June 30. So we have been going through a series of negotiations with the union and we do not have an agreement yet. So we're kind of at a stalemate at this point in time. Fortunately, the labor relations are still very good, but we don't have a contract yet. As we get down to that health care cost, there's coming a point and it's coming probably sooner than most people realize where folks are going to start to realize that the reason why health care costs are going up is that you have a very unhealthy population. And the employees that work for this government and that are on the taxpayer's dime, I think, have a responsibility as it relates to the employer covering them, the employer actually being the citizens and the taxpayers of the city, to managing that health better and providing a much more healthy workplace and workforce. And I think there's going to be some serious changes with regard to that that come very soon in our culture because we can't just keep doing this. And I think that the private side, as Councilman Beard says, looks at this and says, you know, 63 percent or, you know, they're going to cover this kind of health care. Well, I don't even get health care anymore. Or, you know, I get some money and that's about all I get. I think that the days of just kind of covering it and the days of pensions and things like that, you know, it's coming to an end in the way that we know it. You just can't keep the system going like this. I think the citizens know that. like this. I think the citizens know that, and I would just say to you and to the board and to the staff that there needs to be a sensitivity to the citizens becoming more and more frustrated, and it comes out as, well, I don't see people on the buses, but what I think they're really saying is, you know, I'm giving my dollar to this, I want to see it used to its maximum effect. I think that you're doing much, much more than was done before, and I applaud that. I just would encourage you and the board to have some very serious discussions around those items. Thank you very much for coming down. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Hi, Rocky. Thank you for coming down, and I know that I appreciate you giving me your budget ahead of time, and I said I would call you if I had any questions. I've just got a very few simple questions. Sure. I apologize that I didn't call you. But all right. But you implemented the company-wide customer service training program. Did that also include wheels, paratransit? Yes, ma'am, it did. Because I thought there was a real need there, and even though a person has maybe a significant disability, they need to be treated with respect. Yes, ma'am. We actually even had the program tailored just for the paratransit operators, so we did that. Well, thank you for doing that. And I also wanted to ask about the assessments that are taking place. I know it looks like it's what, well, you've got it included in the cost of wheels, but just wasn't sure what the breakdown was as far as the assessments. We are, you know, right before I came down, I tried to put some numbers together. We're averaging about 80 assessments a month, and I don't remember how much an assessment is. I don't remember. So an assessment is $25. Right. So I don't have that breakdown. Okay. You don't know what that would be, do you, Rep Tucker? That's fine. I can do the math. I think it's just a very minimal cost. It is. Yes, ma'am. And have you gotten into doing the assessments of the, is this just new riders? It's new riders right now. No, we haven't even begun to tackle the issue of people that are already using the system. Okay. And I appreciate the work you've done, and I think it's made a big difference in the city. Well, having the dedicated tax certainly has made a big difference and taken a lot of stress off of a lot of people. And as far as the housekeeping goes, I too would like to make sure that the trash, you know, we get complaints about the bus shelters in the neighborhoods and trash being left and also the glass on the shelters not being cleaned. So those two little things, but thank you so much. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Rocky, thanks for coming in. Yes, sir. I had a question about the operating budget increase. The way I read this, you're projecting a 9.7 percent increase for fiscal year 11? Correct. I guess I'm a little perplexed because, is that from the health? The three drivers, diesel fuel cost itself is up about 44 percent. So and of course that being, we average paying, like I said, about $2.10 a gallon, I think. So we've taken it up to three and a quarter where we think that's going to be. The paratransit costs, because the contract is an additional 17 percent, it was there. The fringes are up 12 percent. And utilities, we're projecting a 13 percent increase there. So that's, in a nutshell, how we got to the 9 percent. And what is purchased transportation? That is the paratransit service. Is the increase in the health, I guess the fringe benefits, is that a discretionary increase or is that required by existing agreements? We are, the health, the benefits are negotiated as part of their contract. And so, you know, again, every year we go through the insurance. We have a committee, if you will, of members from my staff and members from the union. And, you know, our agreement is we'll get the best coverage we can with the same level of benefit. So that's essentially where we are with the way it's written in the contract. Well I guess the thing that I'm, I guess, concerned with is that the rest of the government is looking to decrease 5 to 10 percent across the board. And you guys, I guess, are increasing by 10 percent-ish. Have you all made efforts to cut back and to? Well, we have with everything except these categories. And, again, these things that really have no control over, you know, it's the fringes as we talked about, diesel fuel, you know, I could have budgeted $2.50 a gallon or $2.75 and then be the end of the year in a predicament where we didn't guess very good or project very well. And, again, the wheels was just simply part of the contract that we negotiated, which was contractually bound to do that. But if you look at everything else and all of our line item budgets that are presented, there's nothing in there that's anywhere close to being these, like these drivers. And with the utilities, you know, we had to think about what's this KU thing going to do. We know with the stormwater runoff tax that we're paying now, we've got that huge parking lot over there. And then, you know, with just water usage. So those are the things and we felt like that's what we had to do. Well, I guess it's I think it's important to try to really hold the line in these times and particularly when you're running a surplus. I think the rest of government's really hurting right now and I think all of us need to get by on bare minimum until the revenues recover. Thank you, Mayor. Vice Mayor Gray. I think actually Councilman Martin asked a lot of the questions that I was going to ask too. Roger. So, but just to confirm, this increase in the fringes, that 10 percent, 12 percent, you said that it's $500,000, $553,000 and that's primarily in health care premium increase? The broker has told us there will be a 10 percent increase in their health care premium. Yes, sir. Okay, so. Sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. So that's the major driver of this. There's some more comp costs associated with it as well. Nikki, do you know what else goes into that that would contribute to the cost that I'm missing? I wanted to just clarify what your question was a few minutes ago about based on the projected or the budget because we have two different numbers that we look at when we're talking about this year's budget actually being more than last year's budget. It's just one percent. The nine percent comes from what we've saved money this year and we did not have last year. We thought we were going to have a huge health insurance increase and we did not. So that money has been saved and we've also saved the money for the diesel fuel. So that's part of the difference where it looks like that health insurance is so much higher than what the projected is. But the budgeted amount assumes that all employees have health insurance. And at this point we have a few people that don't. But when we budget we assume that all employees have health insurance. We also have employees that we, because we put the vacation pay into the fringe benefits and we have a group of employees that when we got the tax referendum and we implemented the service back up to a higher level, those employees are now at a higher rate of vacation pay. So that also increased the cost a little bit of the fringe. Okay. So of the $552,000, how much of that, just order of magnitude, how much of the $552,000 is associated with the health care increase? Just order, like half of it, 250? You got that number? Vice Mayor, what are you looking for? I see total insurance. The total increase in fringes is $553,208 the way I'm reading it. Right. I see where you're at. So you're wondering what part of that $553,000 is health? Yeah. A 10% increase that you said was in health care cost premium. I'm reading that to mean, I'm interpreting the fringe benefits to include all fringes, including whatever negotiated. Correct. Right. Negotiations, contract negotiations. So of the $553,000 that you're predicting, how much of that is the health care premium increase? It's about $400,000. So the health care premium increase is $400,000? So you're currently paying $4 million? Our current that we're paying, that we expect to pay this year is $1.6 million. $2 million. So you're talking about a 40% increase in health care? No. $1.6 million. It's actually 21%. The 2011 budget. $400,000 on $1.6 million. 20%, so yeah, you're about 25%. The 2011 budget is 21.26% more than what we project we'll spend this year. Okay. So $400,000 of the $553,000 is health care? Yes. Okay. Can we turn over to the fund balance number, just so we're clear on that? The fund balance has increased since the new fees were passed and that revenue has been received. That fund balance has gone up to $12,568,000, right? Correct. Just so we understand it correctly, you're going to be spending $1,095,000 more this year than your income, so you're going to go down? Correct. Okay. I think it would be helpful to see how that increase, how many years it's taken us to build up to the $12 million, and in the last two years, or this year, we're going to be taking it down. This will be the first year, I think, in the history of the fund that we've taken some out of. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Rocky, for coming in today. I just have a few questions for you. On your key budget assumptions for FY2011, will you have mass transit revenue, that $15 million? That's the tax, right? Correct. Yes, sir. Okay. A couple lines below that, it says other revenue. What does that consist of? Is that the money you get from ridership? Or does that make up several different things? I'll let Nikki answer that question. Yes, that's passenger revenue as well as advertising. Okay. That line item for 2010 and 2011, you have it as flat at that $15 million, 221,130? Yes, sir. Do you know what that was for 2009? 2%. What was the number? The budgeted increase? No, the actual tax that you received, the revenue you received from the tax. 2009? Yes, sir. We have the year-end projection to be 15, 221,130 is what we're projecting. And, of course, for this coming year, we're suggesting that it's going to be flat, that we're not going to experience any sort of property tax increase. But for this past year, the year before that, we projected a 2% increase. Is that right, Nikki? Right. I believe that 2009 was right at $15 million. Okay. And then, if we can go back to the paratransit assessments. Yes, sir. I think last year when you were here, was there a conversation about maybe an organization that either could do those for free or that they had some funding that they could get from another entity to pay to have those assessments done? I can't remember exactly. I don't specifically remember that, but the process that we went through, we did a request for proposal and had many local organizations that do that. For example, we awarded the contract to Cardinal Hill. But there were two or three others that responded to the bid and at $25 per assessment, we felt that was very reasonable. But to answer your question, I don't know of anybody that could provide that service to the individuals for free and it'd be subsidized through some other thing. I don't know the answer to that question. Okay. But there again, we can certainly do some research to see if that's a possibility. Okay. I will do that. And do you know how much you spent last year in aggregate on those assessments? On assessments for this past year? Nick, you know what that answer is? No, I don't know off the top of my head. Like I said, I know we were doing about just looking, we were doing about $80 a month. But I mean, and that's the information I had for like the last four months. So I'd have to go back when this started, but I can certainly get you that number. Okay. Can you do that for me, please? Yes, sir. I have two other quick questions and I'm going to ask Council Member Hinson to respond to the question on the paratransit assessments. But hold on, hold on, because my time's almost up. My other two questions are do you have an incentivized wellness program for your employees? Getting back to what Council Member McCord was talking about in terms of the cost of your benefits. And what do you mean by incentivized? So I'll make sure I answer your question in a proper way. Well, there's a whole different host of incentives. Say incentivizing employees not to smoke or incentivizing employees to work out or to maintain a certain level of weight. We don't do anything like that other than last year for the first time we actually had health day for everybody. So we had an awareness day. In addition to that, we offer membership to the YMCA at a reduced cost. But those are the only two programs that I'm aware of right now. Are you planning on including that subsidy for the YMCA memberships in this next year's budget? Yes. Yes, sir. I think that's a good idea. Could you maybe talk to our HR department? We've got a pretty pretty robust and it's increasing every year program from our employees. Could you maybe talk to them about what we're doing and see if you can incorporate some of those things in? I certainly will. Yes, sir. And then do you have any capital projects coming up in the next year to like a facility? Those of you who've been to their facility on Loudoun know that the old building that's on the corner of Loudoun and Broadway is the old kitchen planning center. We own that building. Along with our board, we have a long-term plan is to build a new operations and administration facility on that location and take the building that we're currently residing in and make it the maintenance complex. Right now the board has decided to not move forward with construction. But what you might see is we're considering we're planning on doing the architect and engineering design for a new facility. And in addition to that, demolition is being discussed so that we can clean up the lot and not have all the issues that we have every winter with burst water lines inside the building and things like that. So what you might see in the very near future is that we take that building down and plan for the future. But in this budget, there is no construction plans for a new building. That's one follow-up question. If you take that building down, does that then almost require that you go forward with your construction plans in the future? No, because right now it's not used for anything other than some tire storage and we've got some old parts in there that we're actually cleaning up right now. Essentially it's just taking up space and we use it for nothing really. Our makeshift parts warehouse, if you will, is in there but we could certainly make provisions to store parts elsewhere. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member James. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, Rocky. I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate your work in my district and for the Commission for Citizens with Disabilities. You and your staff have been exemplary and commend you for that and appreciate it. I wonder with the cost of diesel fuel, if you're working that into your future plans and if your future bus purchases will be more hybrid. I know it's more costly on the front end but I wondered if you've weighed that operating cost versus the capital investment. We have and of course, as I mentioned earlier, two of the trolleys are hybrid electric and we bought those for twofold. One for the clean air piece of it as well as projected savings on the cost of fuel. We also have new buses on order that will be delivered in 2011 and I believe there are three or four of those are actually hybrid as well. So the board's made that conscious decision to continue with every order, a percentage of the order be hybrid electric. The other thing that we're exploring obviously are all the biodiesel fuels. We're a partner with Eastern Kentucky University, for example in a big project where they're actually going to grow switchgrass and it actually feeds algae and from that it gets processed and we're going to be the end user for this. So we're always looking for ways to decrease the use of petroleum-based fuels and that sort of thing. Very cool. If you could report out to us when you can see whether those are saving and operating there. You hear that it is but you never really hear the bottom line so I'm really curious to see the feedback on that. There are some studies out there that I've seen on hybrid electric buses. A hybrid electric bus they're supposed to last 12 years. So doing the cost analysis, the ones I've seen is that you can recoup about 85% of that differential. Okay. But it's still so new that no one's really got hard data to support that yet. You talked about the Ardent Motion project and those are wonderful. And you also talked about some off-the-shelf shelters and I'm wondering if you have a shelter placement plan right now. I know at one point we talked about expediting the permitting process for that. How's that going and will we see more of those off-the-shelves going in? Yes, ma'am. We do have a shelter plan. The consultant that did the comprehensive analysis helped us put that together. So we know where shelters are needed based on boardings and alighting. So we have that plan. The process with the urban county government is much, much better than it was two years ago. And the plan is to continue to put shelters up. Okay. I'm not off the top of my head to remember how much money we have left out of the stimulus money to put up shelters, but there's still several more to go up. Okay. And I was thinking back to Council Member Myers' question about the assessments and one thing that came up when the Commission for Citizens with Disabilities was engaging that, Council Member Myers, is that we were having a difficult time finding or we were just trying to find folks for Lex-Tran. We couldn't find someone that wouldn't be conflicted out of the assessment process that wasn't already involved in either some kind of patient transportation or something like that. I think that came up in the very beginning. So as we move forward with that, that was one thing to just kind of keep in mind is who would or would not be conflicted out that has the ability to do that in determining whether the clients get acceptance or not. And then lastly, I'm just going to ask if there's a board, if there are any Lex-Tran board members that are here. I don't know. I wouldn't recognize them by face, but I'm just wondering if they're here and if they'd like to speak on anything and I'd give them my last little bit to say anything, if they'd be wanting to say anything about Lex-Tran's operations or anything. Who wants to speak? Okay. I have Mr. Steve Kaye and Bob Stark, who are members of my board that are here. Well, they don't have anything to say, but we do appreciate our citizens on our boards are very critical, especially in something like it's a dedicated tax revenue. So we do appreciate your work and we hope that you are speaking up on behalf of our citizens and assume that you are. So appreciate it. Thanks, Mayor. I'd like to thank Council Member James. I was going to ask you a couple of questions about board oversight. Do you feel that you're providing really good accounting information to your board and they have adequate oversight of your expenses? Yes, sir, I really do. We at every board meeting, you know, we go through key performance indicators. I probably bore them to death with all the information that I give them. But yes, we're very, very, very transparent in what we share with them. We always do the annual audit. In addition, this past year, we actually asked a firm to come in and do the audit as it related to the findings Critley Allen found with several of the boards and presented that information. So we're doing all we can to be as transparent as possible. But the board has a tremendous amount of oversight of what I do. Very good. And then I just wanted to say I like the new trolley program for the downtown area, linking a lot of the merchants and restaurants with other businesses downtown and going over to the campuses. Could you just quickly just give us a quick overview of the initial response to that and how that's been going for you? It's been outstanding. It really has. You know, I have been on both of the routes. You know, there's still, of course, some people that will see one of the trolleys that doesn't have anybody on it. But at the same time, I've also been on it when it was full. It's just a matter of. And I think the point I want to make, too, is, you know, we started this with what we thought was the best plan, the best route, the best times. And all the stakeholders and I've always agreed that as time progresses, we need to make changes to that. We certainly will. But what's happening is exactly what we predicted. I mean, the people on the green route between the universities are riding late at night and not many during the day. And same thing with the blue route. Most of those folks are riding at lunchtime and not as often at night. So we're getting exactly what we thought. But as I said, we're getting some suggestions already for some possible changes. And as I mentioned, the other part, too, is we get some complaints because they can't get to the trolley because of the sidewalks that are torn up and different things. And of course, you know, the work on Limestone has impacted that. So we've got to already have a detour and route in place there. But it's going very, very well. Thank you very much, Rocky. That's all I've got. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to comment, Rocky, on Council Member Myers with the assessment. I know that many of the individuals I've worked with at Employment Solutions already have evaluations that would say most of it is a vocational evaluation that would say that person cannot stand or walk for long periods of time. It's not necessarily targeted to transportation, but could give you the information you would need. I know that, you know, the cost is minimal. I figured 24,000 a year for assessments is what you're paying out of 3.8 million. But still, you know, you could save some costs by maybe using something that they already have and not making them jump through another hoop, which I have a problem with. But also, you know, many of them receive social security disability or SSI. So they would also have had evaluations to receive those benefits. Okay? Something to think about. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Mayor. Rocky, thank you very much. I don't have a question or a suggestion. I simply want to say that my experience with LexTran covers about 12 years, and I think right now we have perhaps the best partnership in terms of board work with our LexTran director that we've had in a long, long time. And, of course, with the referendum tax money in place, I just feel that you have done a terrific job, you and your board, and we're in a very positive status overall. So I appreciate your work. I appreciate that over the year that we've been able to have a lot of conversations about LexTran. So thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Rocky, for being here. And thank you, your board, and all of your staff for the services that you provide this community. It's absolutely indispensable. And more specifically, I just want to mention that several months ago in the St. Martins neighborhood when you folks proposed some changes in the route that didn't sit well with the neighborhood residents, you met with them, listened to them, and decided that you could better serve them by keeping the route as it already was. And I think that kind of responsiveness and listening to your patrons, your passengers, really speaks well for LexTran. So thanks again. Thank you. And I will volunteer that we'll come to any of your All-Neighborhood Association meetings. We like doing that. We get good feedback when we go out. Thank you, Mayor. Just to piggyback on what Councilmember Henson said about that, I guess it may be a policy issue or something for you. Can you take a look at whether or not you can utilize alternative sources of documentation, I guess I'll say, to see if you can maybe in some of those instances not have to pay for the assessment but still be able to provide that service and get back with us on that? Yes, sir, I will. Okay. The other thing I would say is I'd just like to take the time to say that I see some of your employees out here in the audience and to give you a compliment the same way that Dr. Blues did is that there have been different routes in my district that people have had concerns about or they've said, you know, if the route goes the opposite direction instead of this direction, it would make out so much better for them. And in all those cases, you guys have been very responsive and met me out on the scene and we've made changes that have been equally received favorably by not only the people who ride LexTran in the district, but also the people who live around those stops that we had some difficulties with as well. So I do want to thank you. I think that things are running much different than they were before you got here. And we do appreciate your service. Thank you. Thank you. And I am very, very fortunate to have my staff. They're a wonderful group of people. They really are. Vice Mayor Gray. Thank you, Mayor. And I know this is an overtime, so this is a quick post script, just an anecdotal evidence of support. I was with a woman yesterday, an alternative student at the University of Kentucky. She's about my age. And she said she had to downsize in order to go to school to get a master's. And so she sold her car. And so she's taking LexTran. And she said for all those folks who say there's nobody riding the bus, they should be on it early in the morning when I'm on it with people who are going to work and they might want to join in the afternoons late when it's also full. And so I think that's very useful for us to hear and to understand. One other, it's a post script, and it is to the comment that, or the commentary that Council Member James had to offer about art and motion. And I know you mentioned it, Rocky. Can you just, just for our information, I think it'd be worthwhile, remind us of the cost of a bus shelter that I think it's E.C. Matthews is doing is a prototype one for you. And what are we paying for that today? You know, memory serves me right. Just for the shelter itself, it's probably $3,000, $4,000. And installation. And then the installation on top of that. So with each of our shelters, we probably get close to $8,000, $9,000, $10,000, depending on the location and all that sort of thing. That's the model that we're using now, right? Yes, sir. And I know the art and motion, including the sculpture and everything, was, Andrew, just order of magnitude. And we got $40,000. That included the sculpture and everything. I guess what I'm saying is that as we evaluate strategically this move to the shelters, maybe we can consider the uplifting value of what has been created through the art and motion work. And where there may be the potential for supplementing and creating a really inspiring piece of work where people are going to be greeted in the mornings and in the afternoons, that we can consider that as well. We certainly do. And as again, we partner with Yvette on all of our projects and are always at the table and willing participants. Yes, sir. I just would also thank you for taking the time to meet with me earlier. And you had answered a lot of my questions. And thank you for coming today and making this presentation. But I did want to just add a comment about the art and motion. It looks like that the Corridors Commission is probably going to be a good partner on those. It looks like we've partially funded one and maybe just supplemented that funding. So I think there's a great partnership there. And I think it's a great addition to the community. So I hope to work with you more on that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Burke. That I think concludes the questions. We appreciate you being here. Thank you all very much. We're now ready for council reports. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to make sure all my colleagues know we changed Tuesday's CAL meeting until 10 a.m. A couple of you weren't in the room when we did that. But we have a CAL meeting on Tuesday, which is a continuation of our budget process at 10 a.m. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Wallace. I just wanted to announce that the Goodrich Neighborhood Association is having their first meeting for this year at the Goodrich Park, which is at the end of Goodrich Drive off of Nicholsville Road. If you take a right there and go down Goodrich, you'll run right into it. So it's at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Mayor. I look forward to attending and participating in tomorrow night's meeting of the Westwood Homeowners Association. That's going to be at 7 p.m. in the Masterson Station Clubhouse. Then on Thursday evening, I'm hosting the second quarterly meeting of 2010 of the second district neighborhood leadership meeting. We're going to meet at McConnell Springs at 6.15. There will be a tour of the recently dedicated water quality wetland project. That tour will be guided by park naturalist Laurie Thomas. I think it will be of great interest, and I look forward to joining the neighborhood presidents and leaders in that event. Following that, there will be some short socializing with refreshments, and our regular meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the Nature Center. Then on Friday, April 30th, the Joyland Neighborhood Association is sponsoring a park cleanup in Mary Todd Park. Volunteers, neighbors should meet at 6 p.m. in the park. Monday, May 3rd, two neighborhood meetings. Georgetown Neighborhood Association will meet at 6 p.m. in the O'Rear Center in Douglas Park, and then at 7 p.m., Green Acres Hollow Creek Breckenridge Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting in the community center in Green Acres Park, and that's at 7 o'clock. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I have a few announcements. First, I would like to thank everyone with Urban County Government that organized and put together the Disability Expo. It's been a huge success. And Christy Stanbaugh, who works for social services, is like a machine. She is the hardest working individual. So I just really, really appreciated what she did, along with Rick Curtis and some others. Also, I'm having a community leaders meeting for the 11th district on Thursday at 630 at Pimlick Piccadome Clubhouse. I almost said Pimlick. And if you would like to mingle with the at-large members, and I don't think, Mayor, I don't think you're able to attend, but someone from your office will be there. 615, you can greet and meet with the at-large members in the Mayor's office. And we will have speakers, Susan Bush with Water Environmental Quality will be speaking along with the police department. And also I wanted to express my sympathy to the Brown family. Marie Brown passed away and was buried yesterday. And she was past president of the Cardinal Valley Neighborhood Association. And worked extremely hard in the neighborhood. And her son is on the Lakeland Fire Department and has been for eight years. So just wanted to that's a big loss for our community. And I wanted to send a sympathy out to their family. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Crosby. Thank you, Mayor. First I want to thank Artie Green for his quick response every time we call in or email him regarding trash along the streets. It is so quick when they're getting out to take care of this. And I know that's due to his efforts. So I really appreciate your assistance with that, Artie. And then I have a question regarding our Budget Committee of the Whole meetings on 527, Council Member I'm sorry, I didn't know you were here. Okay. It says all council link and individual council recommendations to be submitted and then it says submissions via electronic or hard copy. Is that due by 5 or are we actually having a meeting on that day? It just says to be submitted by hard copy. So I just want to confirm we're not meeting. Yeah, that's just a submission for the upcoming meeting. Okay, thank you. And then today, I don't know if Commissioner Rumpke is prepared maybe to answer this question now, but I asked a question during our Budget and Finance Committee meeting about whether or not there were any fees that were built into our budget. And I was just curious, she did mention the Parks and Rec fee which I understand the link found out about today. But I was just curious as to what, one, if there were any more fees and then two, what would be considered a broad based fee? Well, in my unofficial polling in the back of the room, and Commissioner Helm is not here, the only fees that we're thinking are in the budget are the two that I mentioned. One increased fees on golf, and Commissioner Cole can give you the specifics. And then I know that the pool admission, we had recommended a dollar increase on the pool admission. And then beyond that, we're not aware of any other fees that were actually loaded into the Mayor's proposed budget. We have, from the revenue aspect, we have as the Mayor discussed, increased efforts on tax collection revenue from the Commissioner of Revenue, or Director of Revenue. But other than that. And then your second question, I apologize, was broad based fees. How do you define a broad based fee? In what context? Well, in the context that you all used in presenting the Mayor's proposed budget, no broad based fee increases. I'm just curious as to what. Golf and pools are not used by every citizen in the community. So broad based fee would be, if it was an increase garbage collection increase. I'm sorry, I was looking at you, Council Member Gordon, only because we just talked about the Urban Service District funds. But that would be a broad based fee where it would touch every citizen versus just individual pockets of citizens. So that's how we use that in the budget. Okay. So I might have concern with some of the things we talked about earlier. This may not be the time to debate it, but if that is the definition of a broad based fee and we're utilizing general funds to pay for solid waste items as part of our proposed budget as our capital improvements and not everybody in county pays the solid waste fee, then I guess I just would have some further questions regarding that. And we can talk about it further. One of the clarifications I would like to make, and we talked about it afterwards and it didn't occur to me at the time. We flow our general obligation bonds through the general fund revenue. However, for the Herbie's anything from Urban Services, we can use dollars out of that to pay for that portion of the bond. So if we spend $100 to buy a Herbie, we can use the fund to repay that bond from the Urban Services fund. So we can dedicate that revenue. That's not how it was shown to you, but we can specifically tie if it's used by the Urban Services fund and only those residents are getting the benefit, then we can use that revenue to repay that portion of the bond through transfers. Well, I'm not sure that that's not only what was shown to us, but that wasn't what was told to us in the last meeting. I'll rewatch the table. And it wasn't. And that's why I'm providing you a clarification now. We have the ability to do that. So you're saying that you can track that? Yes, we can track it. Okay. We'll follow up through our link. Thank you. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple of announcements. One, next Wednesday at 1 p.m. there's going to be a unique press conference held at the airport that possibly is one of the neatest things to happen to our community. It's in regard to Second Sunday, but it's the upcoming announcement that will be made at 1 p.m. at the airport regarding the June 2nd Sunday. Also next week on Friday the 7th, there will be a ribbon-cutting for the new school, the Keyshire School over by Lexington Christian Academy on Keyshire Way. Also that same day, May 7th from 5 to 7.30 p.m., there is a dedication of the women's garden at Wellington Park. And at the same time, there will be an introduction to the sensory garden that will also be going into Wellington Park. Something very unique to our community that there is no thing like these two gardens, but specifically the sensory garden, which was something that Christy Stanbaugh, that was mentioned earlier, and Brent Claiborne in our therapeutic rec area had talked about basically providing a garden space and an interactive classroom for the five senses and specifically for folks with physical or mental challenges. So I would encourage all folks to come to those announcements. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank everyone in the Tastebook Neighborhood Association last night and all the candidates for Mayor that came out for the debate and the moderators and the host of the event that went off without a hitch last night. It was a fantastic debate. And I want to thank everybody who participated. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Martin. Thank you, Mayor. The Pasadena Neighborhood Association will hold its spring meeting this Friday, April 30th at 6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at Broadway Baptist Church at 2500 Harrisburg Road. This is a neighborhood association meeting for the residents of the Pasadena area, but all residents in Fayette County are invited to attend, especially those in District 10. Thank you, Mayor. Does anyone else wish to file a report? All right. I do not have a report today, so that takes us down to the last issue, a public comment on issues not on the agenda. Does anyone wish to address the Council? Do I hear a motion? We adjourn. I have a motion by Councilmember Lane, second by Councilmember Myers. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Music Music Music