# Council Planning & Zoning Committee - January 11, 2011 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Council · January 11, 2011 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/1835 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/1835?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2011-01-11 - **Body**: Council - **Last revised**: June 18, 2026 - **Length**: 453 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Planning & Zoning Committee convened on January 11, 2011, at 1:00 PM, with the Vice Mayor presiding over the session. The meeting covered 2 agenda items, both of which were approved: the Election of a Committee Chair and the Selection of a Vice Chair. These organizational items reflect the committee's work to establish its leadership structure at the outset of the new year. The meeting included 1 vote and no public comments were heard during the session. ## Attendance All seven council members were present at the January 11, 2011 meeting. No members were absent or late. **Present:** - Gorton - Ellinger - Kay - Ford - Blues - Beard - Farmer ## Votes and Decisions The Council meeting of January 11, 2011, included one recorded motion and vote. - **Election of Bill Farmer as Chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee** [timestamp: 0:03:04]: A motion was made by Ellinger and seconded by Beard to elect Bill Farmer as chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee. The motion passed by voice vote. As this was a voice vote rather than a roll call vote, individual member votes for or against are not recorded. ## Appointments The Council made the following appointments during the January 11, 2011 meeting: - **Bill Farmer** was appointed to serve as **Chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee**. - **Ellinger** was appointed to serve as **Vice Chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee**. ## Election of Committee Chair [timestamp: 03:04] The committee took up the election of a chair as the first item of business. Ellinger and Beard were the key speakers during this portion of the meeting. The committee voted to elect Bill Farmer as the chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee. The outcome was approved. ## Selection of Vice Chair [timestamp: 03:34] Under Agenda Item 2, the Council addressed the selection of a Vice Chair. Farmer, having been newly elected as chair of the committee, exercised his authority in that role by appointing Ellinger to serve as Vice Chair. The appointment was approved. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Election of Bill Farmer as chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee --- ## Full transcript The Finale თნეშებდელ განელ ტებელისტები მცლის ბრელელანელთ თელი მევების ტებელის გჯღეგის გრებლელის იჶჳლი თედელანელი დგნბის ჟშლელს ვილქშგღერი რბის ტყლი ვაჰზნ მირემწლ უელიტებანინრლ ფყს It is January the 11th, 2011, and I'd like to welcome everyone back and go ahead and convene the Planning and Zoning Committee of the Council. And we do have a quorum, and we have one item of business today, and that is to select and elect a committee chair, and then the committee chair will appoint a vice chair. So I would like to know if there are any motions to elect someone chair. Mr. Ellinger. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would like to nominate Bill Farmer for chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee. We have a motion by Councilmember Ellinger, second by Councilmember Beard to elect Councilmember Farmer chair of Planning and Zoning. Is there any discussion? No? If not, we'll take a vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Anyone opposed? All right. Congratulations, Mr. Farmer. And then if you will go ahead and take the chair and let us know if you've selected a vice chair. Thank you, Vice Mayor. It's a pleasure to return to service. Assuming this role, I would turn to Councilmember Ellinger and ask if you would have interest in being vice chair for this committee, sir. I have selected the vice chair. My motioner. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. So we've established a new chair and a new vice chair. We do not have other items on the agenda unless there's other conversation. Yes, sir. There is an item I would like to add, but I can't add it because I'm not a member of the committee. But if someone would add the Building Inspection Task Force, the final report, it was supposed to happen at the end of last year, but it needs to happen as soon as possible. There are several legislative rules and changes that we need to present to the whole Council. So if we could have on the February docket or February Planning Committee meeting chair, it would be the pleasure of the task force chairman and myself. We will do our best to make that happen, sir, unless someone wants to make a motion at this time. As long as you're willing, I don't think you need a motion. I will tell you I am willing. Yes, sir. Thank you. We'll report out in February, then. Okay. Very good. Other items of interest? Welcome to all. Mr. Ford, welcome. Mr. Kaye, welcome. Having no other business, I would ask for a motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor? Opposed? Like sign. We stand in adjournment. Thank you all very much.