♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Let's call the meeting to order. First item on the agenda is public comment on issues that are on today's agenda. Does anyone have any comment for the council? Seeing none, we'll proceed. If you could step to the podium and give us your name and address. Before we do that, let's recess and take care of the special council meeting. Madam Clerk, I guess we need for you to call the roll, if you would. Mayor. Do we have a few minutes until we get things organized? Well, let's see. Are you talking five minutes or 20 minutes or what? Five minutes. All right. Let's just stand in recess for five minutes until we get it squared away. All right. All right. All right. All right. I was under the impression that next week we have a special council meeting, and I'm advised that the reference to the special meeting on the calendar for this week was an error, that there is a special meeting next Tuesday prior to the work session, not this Tuesday. Correct? Now, if anybody has any questions about that before you get away, Susan, let's take them up now. Council Member James. Can we have Jerry come to the mic? I mean, Jerry, on our budget schedule, was today the day of the special meeting per our budget schedule? I don't have that schedule. I didn't bring it. I don't know if it was a special meeting, but it was the day that a motion was to be made by the vice mayor to ratify the mayor's proposed budget. But we normally do that in a work session. Yes, you normally do it in a work session. All right. So we don't need a special council meeting to do that, correct? Right. All right. I think the vice mayor can just go ahead and do it. Okay. Council Member Stennis. So I guess we will have a special meeting next Tuesday then. Right. Because it really doesn't matter whether we do it today. We've already advertised it. It's just first reading for the budget. And that's next Tuesday. That's next Tuesday. But didn't we advertise it for today? We advertised a special meeting. No, sir. There has never been a special meeting advertised for today, a special council meeting. And next Tuesday is a regular scheduled council meeting. So you did not advertise a special meeting? No, sir. The council never made a motion to have a special council meeting today. So. Yeah. All right. So that being the case. Mayor, can I just ask one question? So when we look at our council scheduled meetings, that was just a special council meeting to ratify? I am not sure who created that document nor where it came from. So I'm not familiar. I've seen that document. And I did not. I mean, there's never been a special council meeting scheduled for today. So we just do it. The only thing that we have to do today is get a motion on the docket to ratify the budget for the next council meeting, which is Tuesday. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Yeah, Mayor, I just would note that it's not on the website, but it is on the packet that was given to us. So that's all I can verify at this time. All right. Then let's move on with the docket for today's work session. And, Mr. Rochelle, I think you wanted to address an issue that's on the agenda for today. Well, actually, I'm hoping it's on the agenda. I want to discuss budgetary items. I'm confused, too, sir. That's why I'm here. There is no discussion of the budget on the work session agenda for today. Next Tuesday. Where would I have heard that? I don't know. Well, it's out there somewhere. Apparently he's got it on his. The budget will come up at next Tuesday's regularly scheduled council meeting that will be held at 3 o'clock. Okay. Now, if you'd like to comment just generally, you can certainly do that at the end of the meeting, which, given a relatively short docket, wouldn't be too much later today. If you'd like to stay for that, you're welcome to do so. Following up with urgency, are we talking five minutes or 20 minutes? At the end of the meeting, we have public comment for issues not on the agenda, and you could have three minutes to address the council then. I'll certainly find out where it was publicly stated that that would be discussed today, and I'll let you know. But that's why I'm here. Okay. Does anyone else wish to address the council? We don't have a docket to approve today. We do have a summary to approve from the June 8th work session. Is there a motion? Move approval. I have a motion by Councilmember Gorton and a second by Councilmember Stennett to approve the June 8th summary. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. No budget amendments today, but we do have a few new business items to address. Second. I have a motion by Councilmember Beard to approve the new business items and a second by Councilmember Gorton. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. The Services Committee has. I think Councilmember Crosby had a comment. I was just yes on everything, no on D. Pardon me? No on D, thank you. Okay. Councilmember Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. The Service Committee met on the 8th of June. There were four items on the agenda. The first item was the peddler ordinance that Dr. Bluse put in. He said the ordinance would accomplish, it would enable an enforcement officer at their discretion to cite or arrest a vendor who steps up a stationary sale site in public right-of-way in violation of the ordinance without having to give a second notice within a day's time limit. Plus, it would raise the penalty for the violations up to a range of $25 to $100. A motion, and I have pushed this forward, a motion by Councilmember Crosby to move the draft peddler ordinance forward to full council, a second by Councilmember Henson. It was passed without a second. So moved. I have a motion by Councilmember Ellinger and a second by Councilmember Myers. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. The second item was the golf management operations put in by Councilmember Cord. He gave a brief overview of this issue. He said his ultimate goal is for Lexington's surrounding region becomes a golf destination. To put together a plan and use this as an economic driver for our region and city. He said it is about taking the golf resource we have and managing it in such a fashion that it becomes a golf destination. Jerry Hancock, Director of Parks and Recreation, did a PowerPoint presentation on what they do. A motion by Councilmember Cord for, and I'll move this forward, a motion by Councilmember Cord for Council to create an enterprise fund for golf, and I'll move this forward. Could you restate the motion? A motion by Councilmember Cord for Council to create an enterprise fund for golf. Second by Councilmember Beard. And that is your motion now? Yes, sir. Is there a second? I have a motion and a second by Councilmember Blutz. I'm sorry. I apologize. Any discussion on that motion? Councilmember James. Thanks, Mayor. Can you talk a little bit about what that means, the golf enterprise fund? What would that mean? What does it look like? I can, but I think Mr. McCord probably would be better to answer that question. When we put this issue into the Services Committee, there's been a number of discussions over the last number of years, and you saw it at InterGov about a year or so ago, of public and private and what is the apples to apples comparison. How do we benefit all and not just one or the other? And one of the things that came out of the PowerPoint discussion that Director Hancock brought forward was that golf really needed an enterprise fund so that it could stand on its own, so there wasn't a confusion of monies and so forth like that. So one of the other things he's going to report out here in just a second is kind of the discussion of how we move forward. But I made the motion that we go ahead and form that enterprise fund. I seconded the motion moving it forward so we have some time to kind of discuss that. If it's something that we need to postpone or tweak as we go through the process for council meetings, then that's fine. But when it was presented to us by Parks, it was asked that we would create an enterprise fund for golf, so that's why I made the motion. Had Parks also talked about other recreation that should have enterprise funds created as well? Not in this discussion, because it was only centered on golf at that point in time. Okay. Thank you. I'm wondering, too, how this works in with the Parks funding group, Jay, or Councilmember Kord that you and I are both members of with Councilmember Feigl. So I'm not too sure about separating the types of recreation out. I mean, I'm supportive of enterprise funds. I think I am. But I'm trying to figure out in relationship to all the other recreation how that really plays out in a holistic Parks and Recreation division. I think, Councilmember James, one of the issues that has come up is exactly what you're speaking to, and that is that some of our activities create revenue, certainly golf does, and having an enterprise fund for golf allows them, allows us, I should say, the opportunity to look at golf from a financial standpoint, what does it do, what isn't it doing. And as it is right now, so much as general fund this and we don't really count this capital and so forth and so on, so it's very difficult to know how well we're doing. And so, as I say, when the Parks director said, hey, one of the suggestions is we'd like to have an enterprise fund so that we can show that golf stands on its own or it pulls its own weight and so forth, that was why we made the motion. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Councilmember Ellinger. Are there any other questions? Could you clear the screen for us, Madam Clerk, so we can, I can't track who wishes to speak at this point, still can't. All right. Now I'm back. Councilmember, let me clarify one thing, if I could, with Councilmember Ellinger. I guess the motion is to place on the docket for the next meeting a resolution or ordinance, whichever the case may be, to create an enterprise fund, correct? It would be, yes, sir, to create an enterprise fund for golf, yes, sir. Okay. Councilmember Blues. Thank you, Mayor. I have some serious reservations about this proposal. A year ago we had spokesmen for private owners and operators of golf courses come to council to argue that the competition from city-owned and operated golf courses was unfair, and the answer to that from that point of view was that no competition would be fair, and we were asked to darken all our golf courses. This year we're asked to put golf courses on what would be a self-sustaining basis, and presumably that would mean that we would be obligating our golf course operations to pretty much defend for themselves. In order to do that and become self-sustaining, I guess we'd be authorizing them to close some golf courses, to lay off employees, to make other, you know, make other cuts and adjustments. It seems to me that what we are talking about here is death from 1,000 cuts rather than, you know, all at once. I'm a little confused about the claim that the Director of Parks and Recreation wants an enterprise fund since we received an e-mail from him this morning asking us to not move it forward, that the proposal took him by surprise, and that there are a number of questions to be worked out. So as I say, I have a number of reservations for this, on this, and since golf is an extraordinarily important recreational program, our golf courses make golf affordable for a number of people who would not otherwise be able to afford to play. Our golf courses support, you know, the training and learning of golf for young people. They support high school golf practice. It's a real return service for our taxpayers. This is something that needs some considered discussion, and for that and other reasons as well, I will not vote in favor of moving this proposal forward to the docket. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Kind of a follow-up to Council Member Beluza's statement. I heard last Tuesday that the Park Director say we should create an enterprise fund on the microphone. So I want to clarify that. I'm not sure if Jerry is here or not, but we also did receive an e-mail yesterday that contradicted that because I sat here and heard it during the discussion, and that's where it came from. So I'm kind of confused with now the same director saying we don't want one. I think that the big premise behind creating an enterprise fund was to track revenues and track expenditures because right now we can't accurately track the revenues or expenditures in golf. So that's the feeling of trying to get to an enterprise fund, not to go private. It has nothing to do with going private. I'm not a fan of going private. We're trying to create a fund that we can track everything in golf operation with. Commissioner, do you want to address the discrepancy there? Yes. Council Members, let me try to address that. Jerry did state that, and it was recommended as part of the Parks Master Planning process as well as management partners that we establish an enterprise fund. And Jerry, he's not here today, but he did state that last week. I don't think he was expecting it to happen the following week. I think it's something that we have to study and figure out what does that mean. There's a lot of legal questions. There's a lot of questions involving the civil service employees as to what does establishing an enterprise fund for golf mean. So I think when Jerry realized that, oh, you know, that you're taking off with it right now, I think he thought it would go in committee and a group be formed to study what are all the positives and negatives. Just establishing a fund does not give us the ability to measure all those things. The reason that we don't have better tracking systems on revenues and expenses are not because they're in the general fund. It's items like the utilities for Picadome or for the entire complex. So dividing those out either requires some analytical tools to make estimates or separate metering. So it's not, we don't have as accurate information as we would like on our golf operations, but it's not because of the fund that it is supported from. Well, I think if this council chooses to establish an enterprise fund, I think there will be a lot of discussion over how to set it up, the time frame. I think all that can still happen in the services committee and report back to the services committee as to the progress. I don't think anyone in this room or any wild imagination would think it's going to happen tomorrow because it really probably needs to happen and coincide with next year's budget. But if we don't start today down that path, we won't have enough time between now and next year to establish a budget for golf using those fund numbers. And that fund will give us better data going forward to know how much we are expending on golf. So thank you, Mayor. Council Member Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. First, I have a question for Council Member Ellinger. Did you have a full discussion and vetting of the details of what an enterprise fund means and the kinds of things that would need to be considered, or was it more of something else? I would agree that it wasn't. We didn't fully vet this as an input. No, we did not. Okay. It seems to me from the conversation that there's a lot of discussion left to have about this before we actually vote to do this. So it might be – I certainly would support finding out whether this is the best thing for our government and our golf, but I think it might be a little bit premature to actually vote to set up the enterprise fund when we don't know about the personnel issues. Commissioner Cole, you made some of the points I was going to mention about the personnel issues, the capital improvement issues, and the various issues that might be tied up with the enterprise fund. So I'm thinking a vote today is premature, and I will not support the motion. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. One concern I have is, for instance, in code enforcement, we've tried to get the collection fees for when they're reimbursed for abatement and funds so that they don't run out of abatement money, and put that into a dedicated fund until it reaches a certain amount. So once again this year they've run out of abatement money, and it's a serious – it's often a life safety issue not to mention. But we keep being told we can't give dedicated funds, and I don't know how that's different than an enterprise fund for golf. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I guess my question maybe, Commissioner, if we were to do this enterprise fund, would there be value in doing an enterprise fund for other aspects of what Parks does rather than just single golf out? I think the premise behind an enterprise fund is it's an operation that can fully fund itself, and I don't believe that there are current other Parks operations that fall into that same category. So it hasn't been explored at this time. Okay. So are there any other values in doing an enterprise fund? Wouldn't part of that value just simply being to ascertain how much of Parks funding is going to support tennis and how much it's going to support swimming and all these different – or is it just to look at an example of an opportunity that can support itself? It sounds like if we were to try to find out how much we spend in supporting tennis, as your example, so much of that is the manpower that are involved in setting up the programs and doing the coaching of tennis and then the infrastructure funding. We would have – that would be a time allocation and how directly we captured those costs for those activities. So that would be a different type activity than an enterprise fund. Okay. What about swimming? Swimming, due to the seasonal nature, we have the direct cost and direct expenses of swimming. We would have to make estimates on the civil service component of that and the infrastructure component that is annual, not just during the season. So, again, an enterprise normally is to have a cost benefit to pay for itself and swimming would not meet that criteria. We've got a model in Parks that we've used for our activities as far as what should be fully supported and what should be partially supported and what should be fully subsidized based upon the type of activity and the participants in the activities. So that's the model that we've been using in setting our fees. Okay. So, and I know we're kind of moving off subject right now, but with that example you just gave, what is the criteria that you used to look at, say swimming, to say that the amount of subsidy we're providing or the cost benefit for the number of people who use that service is of enough value to continue on providing that service? Because that to me is – and I think I'm corrected, but that to me I thought was part of the value of the enterprise fund, is to once you ascertain how much you're spending on a certain topic or activity, then you can put your arms around whether or not we want to continue to subsidize it at that extent or can we do some things to increase activity so that it will increasingly pay for itself if not be self-sufficient. You can do that type of measurement outside of having an enterprise fund. An enterprise fund is just saying the funding for that activity is completely a part of that fund. Our ESP program, our after-school program at parks, is an enterprise activity. Okay. Thank you. Vice Mayor Gray. Thank you, Mayor. My inclination is to – I think there was some conversation about exploring this more, examining it more deeply. It's certainly a significant issue. It gets a lot of conversation. I would vote against the motion as it stands now but encourage it being referred to either back to services or into a task force that would dedicate itself to examining it. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member McCord. Well, and I'm very glad we've had this discussion today. And, Council Member Ellinger, I really appreciate you actually bringing this out and so forth. And I think it demonstrates that here is something that was a part of the Parks Master Plan that this body funded. It was a recommendation to do. It's something that had been recommended by parks prior to, and we have a presentation on GOLF as to what they are doing. And in that presentation, which we will get you all a copy of so that you can see it, it says one of the top recommendations is to create an enterprise fund. The reason that we made it here is the presentation. When we made that motion, it was something that, here is something that the Parks Department is asking us to do. It's something that allows us to track better, because we don't really have that idea, as to where we are and how we can improve our golf situation. And so that's why I moved it in the form of a motion. I will be voting for it because I seconded the motion. But I think that it demonstrates the difficult time that we have sometimes when somebody says this is what we need to do and this council takes action, and then all of a sudden folks aren't ready to go. And so I think that I would love to see this vetted, but I think what Council Member Stenitz said is very, very critical. We are constantly going to be in a situation where we don't have good information as council members of what are we doing and what are we not doing. If the private side is saying one thing, the public side is saying another, and we as a policymaking body do not have the accurate information, then we should put policy in place that allows us to get that. And that's what this motion was about. So with that, if the motion fails, I would like for someone to certainly put it into committee and to direct that committee as to what to look at specifically. Council Member Gordon. I just had one question in response to something that Council Member McCord just said. I think I heard you say, Commissioner, that we don't actually need this policy to get the information we need about how Gulf is doing, for example. You said we don't have to. I think I heard you say we don't have to establish an enterprise fund right now to get the information we need about Gulf. Or did I misunderstand? I agree. The presentation that was made last week does have a lot of information about Gulf, about our revenue and expenses by golf course. Just moving it to an enterprise fund doesn't improve that information. It would take other items to be implemented to improve that information. So you think that without the ‑‑ if we postponed actually passing the enterprise fund right now, we could get more information to help guide us as to whether that's what we want to do? The information that we provided is the extent of the information we've got with the tools we have today to track the information. So to have better information, we would have to spend some money in better ways of collection. Thank you. Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. The debt service for the bonds on the Gay Brewer slash Picadome Golf Course, is that charged against parks and the golf operation? I do not believe it is. Someone from finance could probably answer that for sure. But none of our bonded projects are charged against particular activities within the government. Okay. And this is part of what the level playing field that the private courses are talking about. One suggestion or comment that was made to me was that in all probability, a new irrigation system will be needed for Lakeside at some point soon. And he also mentioned that his course is about the same age and he's going to have to put in an irrigation system. Generally, that would be bonded. It's a pretty good-sized number if we had the capacity to do so. And he has to go borrow money from a bank. It is not a level playing field, and we have to at least strive to get there at some point. We're talking about golf in general as being a 7% to 10% of the public taxpayers out here that are getting the benefit of something that the other 90% are paying for. So that's what's bothering them, and it, to a certain extent, bothers me. So I just wanted to let the council understand that these are the types of things that an enterprise zone would uncover, not that they're being hidden, but they would uncover them, at least on a piece of paper you'd see a line item, and then decisions could be made based on those. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Any further discussion on the motion? The motion on the floor is to add an item to the docket for the council meeting on June 26th. Is that correct? I believe, whatever week from Thursday is, to create an enterprise fund for golf. Any further discussion? June 24th. All right. Those in favor, please indicate by voting aye electronically. Those opposed, vote nay. Motion fails by a vote of 6-7. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. McCord also asked Blue Grass Tomorrow to create a work group which would bring the public and private interests together to promote Central Kentucky golf. Mr. Rumke stated, who is president of Blue Grass Tomorrow, that he will have to run it by his board. However, he will be putting a meeting together and facilitate that. He will get back with either Mr. McCord or myself once he's talked to them and see if the board is willing to create the work group. The next item on the agenda was the solid waste ordinances. Council Member Stennett gave an overview of this issue. Steve Feese with the Division of Waste Management went over the changes to the ordinance. Mr. Stennett stated the changes are a way business chooses to have their trash collected at the time the herbage can be placed in the curb and the placement and enforcement. A motion by Council Member Henson to approve the ordinances with the addition of allowing carts to be placed in the side yard was seconded by Council Member McCord and passed without dissent. And I move this forward. So moved. I have a motion by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Wallace. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. The fourth and final issue on the agenda was the review of the leaf collection program. Council Member Henson gave an overview of this issue. She stated some of the issues could be stormwater issues with the leaves going in the storm drain. She asked if this is a program we want to continue with the stormwater issues. Tim Clark with the Division of Parks and Recreation did a PowerPoint presentation on this issue. Mr. Schoeninger stated this is charged to the solid waste fund. Ms. Henson stated the program is going to continue. She would like to work on some of the issues from the fall. And Mr. Clark said he would work with Ms. Henson on these issues. We'll keep this in committee. And if anything further comes from this, I will report it from the committee. There were items from the agenda that were taken off and removed, but that was committee work and we adjourned at 240. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks. Any questions for Council Member Ellinger? Council Member Gordon, do you have a question for Council Member Ellinger? Are you ready to give a council report? All right. All right. We'll move on to Item 7, the Council Reports. Council Member Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I only have one item, and that is that I wanted to welcome my new legislative aide who is sitting with the Council Administrator today learning. Her name is Jennifer Benningfield, and today is her second day, so I'm hoping you don't overwhelm her yet. But welcome. We're happy to have you in our midst. Thank you. Welcome, Jennifer. Glad to have you. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Mayor. Just very quickly, I want to say publicly how much I appreciate all the folks who came out to Second Sunday on Sunday. But more importantly, I want to thank Eric Frankel and the Blue Grass Airport executive team and their board for taking a serious risk and doing something that was out of the box that really stretched not only this community but is being picked up nationally as something that has never been done before. And the success of that event was sort of monumental. The police estimates have it at around 15,000 people came out that day, and so it was all because of a very well-coordinated effort. Renee Jackson with the Downtown Lexington Corporation and her team, Diana Doggett and the Extension Network, the Family and Consumer Science folks, Blue Grass Pride, the airport. It was just one of those things, our police department, where it just could not have gone better with regard to the folks who really worked to put that on. And I think that the community found that this was a pretty amazing event and something that was very signature to us. And so I appreciate those that could come, and I appreciate the well wishes from texts and tweets and so forth. And we look forward to using this as a springboard for, hey, if we don't have it, let's just borrow that infrastructure for a day and go out and be healthy. So thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I, too, want to compliment all those who were involved in that event on Sunday. It was one of the better events I've been to and this community has put on. It was definitely a family-friendly environment. It was a lot of fun and it went off really well. It was very well put together. It was a lot of fun. And second, Council Member Crosby had to leave because of an emergency, but she asked me if I would put on a motion for the June 15th work session here, that an installation, a multi-way stop at the intersection of Hayes Boulevard and the Levi Todd Boulevard, as recommended in the June 11th, 2000 Steward Hall Neighborhood Association Traffic Calming Request Memorandum prepared by the Urban County Government Division of Traffic Engineer, who did recommend this. So I would put this on for the 24th Council meeting. Second. I have a motion and second to add that item to the agenda for June 24th. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Wallace. Vice Mayor Gray. Thank you, Mayor. I'm pleased to be able to make a motion today that amounts to ratifying the budget. But first I'd like to recognize a lot of hard work by the Mayor, by the Administration, by members of the Administration all along the last several months, a lot of late nights working on this, I'm sure. Commissioner Rumke, you're smiling back there. A lot of you all are. As well as all the effort, the calories that went into managing the links in the process of confirming the budget. The Council budget staff, Jerry, thank you for your work on this as well. So with that I will read the motion. I move based upon the recommendation of the Council Committee of the Whole to amend the Mayor's proposed budget, which is scheduled for first reading on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010, with the detailed changes that are reflected in Schedule 1, Schedule 3, Schedule 4, and the late items list, Schedule 5, which schedules are attached and incorporated herein by reference. So moved. I have a motion by Councilmember Gray and a second by Councilmember Myers. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I have a no from Councilmember Martin. Otherwise, all votes were cast in favor of the motion. Councilmember Blues. Thank you, Mayor. I would also like to add my compliments to all those involved in making the second Sunday event at the new runway such a special day. And I think we should not overlook the efforts of Councilmember McCord, who really got this event, shall we say, on the ground. It was a really special day for Lexington. So many people on bikes, walking, jogging, skateboarding, bicycling, you name it. It was extraordinarily well organized. It was hot, but it was breezy. There was plenty of water. There were plenty of things to see. My grandchildren got to ride in fire trucks and motorcycles, look at airplanes up close. It was really a memorable event. So, Councilmember McCord, take a bow on this because you did some really great work. I have some announcements, beginning with tonight's meeting at 7 p.m. of the Masterson Station Neighborhood Association, their quarterly meeting. That will take place in the Masterson Station Clubhouse on Thursday, June 17. The Spiegel Heights neighborhood will meet at 7 p.m. at Antioch Baptist Church. I think this will be an important meeting with some important parking issues to discuss. Next Monday, June 21, the Windburn Neighborhood Association will meet 6.30 p.m. in the community center in Martin Luther King Park. On a very sad note, in the second district and, in fact, in my neighborhood, as you know, there was a dreadful event, the beating death of Umi Southworth last week. And to memorialize her and to show support for her, at 9 p.m. tomorrow evening, that's Wednesday, June 16, there will be a candlelight vigil for Mrs. Southworth. Friends and neighbors will gather in the open area just off Antique Drive, which runs parallel to the Leestown Service Road between North Forbes and Burke Road. That's 9 p.m. tomorrow night in the Meadowthorpe neighborhood. Thank you, Mayor. That's my report. Thank you. Council Member Wallace. Thank you. I found my paper. Tonight at 7 p.m., the Elizabeth Street Neighborhood Association and the North Elizabeth Street Neighborhood Association will be meeting at the First Christian Church at the corner of Audubon and Forest. Everybody is welcome to attend. On June 24th, the Goodrich Neighborhood Association will meet at 7 p.m. at the end of Goodrich Drive, and everybody is also welcome there. The Southland Association hosts the Southland Jamboree every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m., and you can bring a lawn chair or a blanket or a picnic and join everybody for some bluegrass music. And on the 22nd at the Southland Jamboree, Eardell Ann Bradley will be performing. She's an international bluegrass female vocalist, so you might want to mark your calendars for that. Thursday Night Live is going on at Cheapside Park. Every Thursday night it's been very well attended and very lively and a lot of fun. Farmer's Market, I remind everybody that it's on Saturday in Cheapside Park, and then on Sundays in Councilmember Martin's district on Southland Drive. So get your fresh veggies. And I need to ask about this. I'm not sure if this is in committee or being studied. I know we've talked about it before, but there continues to be problems with street cleaning and cars parked on the street, and if it's not in a committee, I'd like to please ask that that be put in services. Do any of the committee chairs know whether that issue is pending? All right. All right. Then I have a motion to refer it to services committee. Yes, please. Do I hear a second? I have a second from Councilmember Ellinger. Councilmember Gordon. Just a technical question. What would be the ‑‑ is it enforcement of the no parking, or what is the issue that services would discuss? There's a lack of enforcement in some areas, and so the streets don't get cleaned. And then in some areas, they can't park from like 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon, and the street will be cleaned. There's one street that's cleaned always by 9, 920, and then they can't park there for the rest of the day. So it seems like it's ‑‑ yeah, parking is the issue, both using up the parking more than they need to, and then people parking and they may get a ticket, but the street doesn't get cleaned. So does that clear it up? Yes, thank you. Thank you. The motion is to refer that item to the services committee. Any further discussion? All in favor, vote aye. All opposed, vote nay. Motion carries. Council Member Wallace, anything further? Thank you very much. All right. Council Member James. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve the NDF. I have a motion by Council Member James, second by Council Member Martin to approve the NDF. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Also just a note to all of you. You may or may not be aware that tomorrow is Lextran's Dump the Pump Day. Riders can ride Lextran and Wills for free all day tomorrow. So keep the car keys at home and hop on the bus and see what it's like to ride our public transportation and give your input of crosswalks and shelters and all that good stuff. So I hope you take advantage of that. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks. Council Member Wayne. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to comment a little bit about our budget and first say that I think our community is very fortunate that our unemployment rate is the lowest that we have in the state. But even in that status, during the last three years, our revenues have either been static or declining slightly. And so this has put us in a lot of pressure for the budget because we do have increases in payroll, health care, and energy costs that we really have no control over these items. So I'd like to thank Mayor Newberry and his finance and budget team for their work on the budget. And I'd also like to thank the Vice Mayor and the members of council for their effort in reviewing the Mayor's proposed budget and coming up with the numbers that we have today. Having said all that, I just felt it was appropriate to mention that with all the work we put into the budget, we're going to have to draw about $5.8 million from our rainy day fund and just give you an idea of how tight our budget is this year. And I felt our community should be aware of the situation that we're in. This budget is sort of a budget of shared sacrifice, and a lot of people are taking cuts. A lot of our community partners are taking cuts. And I'm hoping that we'll see our economy start picking up towards the end of the year, and we will be back into the good old days where we have increases every year. So I just want to say thanks to all the council members and staff. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Any further reports from the council? All right, we'll move along. Although I don't have a formal report today, I did want to mention the fact that we'll be doing our Mayor's Night Inn on Thursday evening from 5 until 7. So if you have constituents that have issues that you'd like to discuss with me, invite them to come down here at the Government Center from 5 until 7 on Thursday. That concludes my report. Mr. Rochelle, Council Member Lawless. I'm sorry. I believe today is Council Member Gordon's birthday. Is that correct? And Dr. Blue's tomorrow. So happy birthday. And Peggy Henson this week. So, wow. Thank you, and congratulations to both of you. We won't get into any more specific details about that. Mr. Rochelle, if you'll step forward now, you'll have three minutes to address the council. Thank you very much. First and before I start, I'd like to mention that my source of that information today was on the site for Fayette Alliance. I called the council clerk and she told me, in fact, that this would be on the agenda, which it is written here that it would be, and that's why I came when I did. She said I'd be able to speak before, but it's okay. I'd like to maybe carry on a little bit with what Mr. Lane was saying and say these things. And I would like for you all to correct me at any point where I'm wrong. Tell me where I'm wrong. Record job losses, not just here, but in the state, across the United States. Record foreclosures. Wherever street you live on, look down the street. Look at the houses for sale. Look at the houses people can't sell. Vacancies everywhere. People desperate to be able to rent their properties. Those are both residential and commercial. Unemployment like it's never been. Really, indications are it may not get any better. Today you've talked about golf courses closing and the budgetary constraints that you have there. Record declines in revenue. Never been before, folks. Budget shortfalls. Getting into the rainy day fund. Social services cut to the bone. People can't even afford utility bills. Go to the Hope Center. Look how many people are there. It brings me to the fact that everybody, of course, is suffering and everybody feels this pain. Everything but PDR. I continue to ask that this not have any money taken from it. It's okay to take it from anybody. Take it from the babies. Take it from the children. Take it from the people that we just laid off work here in this government. I wonder how they feel about PDR. Sometimes people try to convince you too hard that things are correct. The Herald-Leader has written five articles in recent times. Most recent they used was written, there was an article written as an editorial by Frank Penn. And Frank Penn talks about what a good deal the rural service area is and how it costs less there than it does in the urban service area. I'm sure you all read it. So I went and got the report that they quote. I'd like to point out these things that are in that report also. The rural service area, which constitutes about half of our city, and it is in our city, brings in about 1.7 percent of our property valuation taxes and only 2.87 percent of our payroll taxes. I'm asking that this be postponed. Let's not do it this year. Let's not pay it. Let's all look at this and really see what it's worth. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rochelle. Does anyone else wish to address the council? I hear a motion to adjourn. Council Member Lane. I'd like to respond to Mr. Rochelle's comments. I represent the 12th District, which contains most of the agricultural area in our community. And, you know, I'd heard that there might be some comment about this today. So I felt it was important just to provide a few additional facts here, is that the rural area of our community, the agricultural area, is ranked as the number one agriculture market for live animals, and we're ranked number two in the state in agriculture. So the agriculture business is a huge part of our economy. In addition to that, our live animal sales here at places like the Bluegrass Live Animals Sales Pavilion at Fasig-Tipton and at Keeneland are running somewhere between $850 to $900 million a year. That's another huge cash crop for our community. With regard to, you know, a balance between the rural and the urban area, I had, you know, pulled up a list of the bonded projects that have come across for the last four years. And out of that, PDR received $8.6 million, and that money was matched with an equal amount of money in order to generate $16 million in reinvestment in the agricultural community. The, you know, infill and downtown projects were equal to about $42 million. So I think looking at a balance of investment in the downtown versus the rural areas is a very fair and appropriate approach for reinvestment. And I think we have to look at the agricultural community as a strong component of our economy, and the investments we put in there are very valuable. I'd also say if anybody would like to take a look at this on page 51 of our financial statement for the year into June 30, 2009, the purchase of development right values on our balance sheet are $55.8 million. So these rights are shown as an asset to the government, and we actually own the right to develop this property. So at any time in the future that some of these farms might want to be developed under the formula there, they would have to repurchase their rights and they would have to find replacement land to make up that land. So there's a disincentive for, you know, commercial development of that property. But I feel like this program has been in effect for about a decade, and we have about another decade to go. And just like any other economic development program, you have to consistently fund this program or it loses its viability and continuity. And just like with Commerce Lexington is doing our other economic development area, their funding needs to be consistent on a year-to-year basis too. You can't turn off and turn on real estate development and economic development. So I just wanted to add a few comments on that, and thank you, Mayor, for the time. Is there a motion to adjourn? I have a motion by Councilmember Ellinger and a second by Councilmember Myers to adjourn. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries.