The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ¶¶ Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The End Thank you. Our agenda is public comment regarding issues on the agenda. Is there anyone who wishes to comment on the agenda? If not, we'll go to entertain a motion on approval of summaries from March 15th. Council Member Beard moves. Council Member Blue seconds. Is there any discussion of the summary? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. With that, we'll go ahead and review our docket. And this is starting on the first reading of ordinances on the inside of the cover of your packet. and the first three items, 12, 13, and 14, each need an individual motion to place on the docket. Let's look at number 12. Do I hear a motion? So moved. Council Member K. moves to place number 12 on the docket without a public hearing. Do I hear a second? Second. Second, Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. Is there a motion for number 13? Sorry, Vice Mayor, I would like to make a motion that we place number 13 on the docket without a public hearing. Council Member Farmer seconds. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Is there a motion for number 14? These are all zone changes for the interested public. Council Member Farmer. I would make a motion, Vice Mayor, to place number 14 on the docket without a public hearing, please. Council Member Farmer moved and Council Member Lane seconded number 14 to be placed on the docket without a public hearing. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All righty. Thank you. Now, is there any referral, additional information needed, or item to be removed from items 15 through 24? First reading of ordinances. Are there any questions? All right. If not, we'll move right on to page three, where we have first reading of resolutions, starting at the bottom of the page, starting with number 12. Is there any request for additional information or item to be removed or referred to a committee? Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just on item number 23, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment to agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for an extension of the Maxwell Street bicycle pedestrian project at no cost to Urban County Government. And the supporting document is on page 39. I just wondered, does this potential change affect or decrease or increase on-street parking in the area that it would be implemented? Is Commissioner Taylor or anyone from Streets Irene Gooding is here to answer that? This plan does eliminate some on-street parking, but the amendment doesn't. The only thing the amendment does is extend that project. Very good. The project itself was approved some time back. Thank you very much. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay. Council Member Crosby. Thank you. I have a question on number 18. That's corrections. Is there anyone here from corrections or the Commissioner of Public Safety, perhaps? I just noticed it was a sole source provider. Can you explain in more detail why? No, I don't have any particular information on that. I will get back to you on that. Thank you. Is there anyone else who has a question or any kind of a motion? Okay. Okay. Council Member Crosby? Can somebody tell me on number 12 and also number 13 what funds these will be coming out of? And number 12 would be a current bond fund that's been allocated for that specific purchase. And number 13 comes from a bond fund that you all approved last November. Thank you. Council Member, can we go on to Council Member Lane? Okay. All right. Am I getting too far ahead? Can I ask a question about number 32? That's Department of General Services. Yes. That's fine. Yeah, this is with regard to the lease with the State Police Office for Driver's Licenses. I just wanted to know, are they paying fair market rent on that? We have not asked for any additional amount. That's going to be an extension and renewal on that lease, and that's something we're going to be looking at the next 12 months and update the numbers. We feel comfortable with that amount. Okay. So it says this to authorize executing the lease renewal agreements. Are you saying the rate is already established in there or are you already negotiating? Yes, $10.75. Okay. All right. Thank you. Sure. Are there other Councilmembers who have questions about first reading of resolutions? Council Member Crosby, did you have anything else you wanted to ask? Yes, I actually have someone, number 37, regarding the PSA with the Downtown Lexington Corporation. If there's anybody here who can speak to that. Is there anyone here from the mayor's office who could – the CAO is here. Yes. Would you like to – I'm sorry, you wanted to know information? This just appears to me to be somewhat similar to the Spotlight Lexington agreement that we got into with the – It's similar, but we're doing it with the downtown because they have the staff to go out and raise money, and we felt that this would be a lot more better chance to do these programs without – take the cost away from us to be more efficient for them to go out and get the sponsorships. and that's why this leads with the downtown. So I guess my question is if they don't raise the funds in some areas, like we found because last time we couldn't enforce the fact that government was trying to raise funds to cover things that Spotlight Lexington should have been paying for, such as public safety reimbursements. They made agreements with the Fourth of July. They are taking on agreement that they will reimburse us in certain events, our employees, and that is in the contract with agreement that they will reimburse us. The question is, though, if they do not raise the funds. Well, they should have the funds for this year because they've already over $17,000, so that's more than. That's going to be transferred from us. So there won't be any additional reimbursements that they'll have to pay. Because I just noticed it says, like, for example, under number 2, A, for personnel costs up to $15,000, and it says park operating costs will be reimbursed upon approval of the organization. So they will be approving perhaps costs that we have. I mean. I can find out for you on that one. Okay. Thank you. I'll get back to you on that one. I think I'll get back to you. Council Member Lawless wanted to respond to that. One of the differences is one of the problems we had with Spotlight Lexington was it was done by Lexington Fayette County, Urban County government. It was not a private entity. So we didn't have anybody to go back to when they came up short with their budget. So by contracting this out to the downtown Lexington Corporation, they will be taken on the responsibility and financial liability to make it happen. So that's one way it's very, very different than Spotlight Lexington was. And we have contracted with them in previous years to do our Fourth of July and the Christmas parade or other special events. Council members, do you have any other questions? I appreciate that explanation, but I guess it's the only thing that's lined out in number two is for parks. If there's other divisions within government, are those having to be approved by the organization to be paid? Renee Jackson with the Downtown Lexington Corporation. We made an arrangement with the city to take on these five events. There are five events that are affected. And what that did was there was a staff position within the mayor's office that was not filled because we are going to fill that role and work very closely with the city. And I believe I'm not overstepping my bounds. The mayor doesn't want there to the public to be any lessening of services for those events, such as Fourth of July or the Christmas celebration. He wants that to be a seamless transition. and LFUCG will stay on as a partner and a sponsor of all of those events and support it with staff. The reason that there is reference to parks is because parks had significant overtime on the Bluegrass 10,000. And there had been a discussion in the past, even when it was a city event, about covering those personnel costs because the Bluegrass 10,000 also raises a lot of money. And so what we'll be doing is they have to hire a whole staff to support the office just to handle registration because there's over 3,000 runners. So that's what that's specifically put in there for. LFUCG will still provide personnel to support these events in the actual day of. But what we'll do is get them ready to go and raise sponsorship dollars because often corporate sponsors are more willing to sponsor when it's not government, is the hope and the model that we're striving for. I guess I just – I don't disagree with the intent of what you're trying to do. My fear is that, once again, we're counting on somebody to raise funds to cover reimbursement costs and whether or not, I mean, that will happen. Well, it's in the PSA. We're not going to be reimbursing you for police because you're going to get a sponsorship level on those events. we're going to reimburse for certain costs on those events and still produce them. Can you explain to me or somebody maybe what a sponsorship of – you're going to go out and ask somebody to – I'm just confused, I guess. You're going to ask somebody to sponsor police through DLC because you said they're more willing to provide sponsorship? No, not at all. So who's getting sponsorship? Who's getting the money to reimburse the police on the days of the events and fire? That is going to be handled by LFUCG in exchange for LFUCG's sponsorship of those events. And I will say that the Special Event Commission, we just had a meeting, and Richard met with all the affected divisions that support events, and because a lot of events come through and they ask for those costs to be absorbed, And so that group is in the process of prioritizing and letting the divisions know so they can plan accordingly in their budgets for what events are priorities. And I don't know what that prioritization will be. You can look at other cities and kind of see models. Is it a community-wide event versus a single organization event? And I think when that comes out, that may change. But presumably the events that the mayor's Office of Special Events in the city of Lexington have been producing in the past are probably going to be priorities. Now, that may change. I mean, there is a wine festival event. There's the Christmas chorus, Christmas parade, the holiday market, and the entire Fourth of July celebration included in that PSA. So, you know, there might be a change in that prioritization. We are right now, we have directors from all the departments. As you know, this budget just came out. And we are going to start prioritizing. There will be some events that we will not be able to fund. But these events here, we know we want to make them our top priority because of the Fourth of July, the Christmas, and those are being ongoing. And this meeting will continue on for the next couple months. and I believe Hillary you might want to mention a little bit about the committee that we're meeting with our directors. Yeah, we're working on a spreadsheet right now of all of the events that are done through the city the last two years, whether they've been private, whether they've been a city event so that we can prioritize what the divisions are spending on each of these events, whether it be financially or just the people they have working for their division. I'm getting feedback from some of my colleagues that maybe the appropriate thing to do would either be to table this or put it into a committee so that we can look at it. We don't have those costs associated with it. Multiple people have said that to me. So I'll make a motion that we put this in general government until... I think one of the things we were just saying was for those events, the divisions have never been reimbursed. For the 4th of July. For the 4th of July, the Christmas Chorus and the Winter Festival, they were never reimbursed for those. What about the spinach one and the, there's five or six events in here, so... None of them have never been reimbursed. I guess I'm just a little uncomfortable with this. I don't know if my colleagues would want me to put it into committee or table it. There's someone else signed up to speak, so I will. I'll be glad to clear it up. The thing is we felt that they had the staff and the manpower to go out and get more sponsors, and we want a partnership with these folks. They do a tremendous job. And over the years, we think we can do better than what this parade is and what we have. And that's why we gave this opportunity this year to try to let these folks do this. And Lori here is going to be our ombudsman working with them. And it used to be this staff used to have two or three people overwhelmed, as you all know, the parades and all that. They have a staff to do that now. And that's one reason why we put these kind of events in with this group. And that's what goes back to what we're trying to do with cost efficiency, trying to make sure we get the best for this city. And we felt this at this time, with the short staff we have, that this might be the best way to try something, a new project. And that's the reason why we're trying this year to make this work. Now, understand, these programs that they have took over have never been reimbursed. The city's always done it. The parks have been involved, the police and everybody. These are the ones that the city has never, ever reimbursed back. we've always volunteered to do this. And that's why we're trying to do something that these folks have time to do. And I think you've already been out getting sponsored now for the parade. And I think this is a good opportunity for a good partnership. And that's why we asked if you all could please move this forward. We are actually incurring costs to produce these events for the city currently. And this particular $120,000, I think just so that everyone in the public that may be watching understands, these are not dollars that came out of the general fund. These are private dollars that have been raised in the past that were sitting in a special account. So it is all corporate or sponsorship dollars from years past that are typically used by that office to incur costs for the future because we're putting out significant outlays to make sure that we have fireworks. Are those dollars line-itemed with the events they were raised for? What was that again? Are those dollars line-itemed? For example, she said that this is privately dollars that are sitting in a government fund. In a government fund. And so my question is, if they raise the money for the 4th of July, are those line items under 4th of July? And will they be spent towards 4th of July with the DLC, or will they just be given $120,000? $120,000 will go to them to set up the parade. And this money, what we have right now is sponsored money. Instead of us going out and setting up the parade and getting everything, we're going to hand it off to them. they will go out and sponsor the parade and raise more money and put it under them. That's not my question. I think I know what you're saying. My question is if you had, say, $80,000 of that money was above and beyond what you needed for the 4th of July parade and it's line item for the 4th of July parade, when we turn over the money, is that money going towards the 4th of July parade or is it going to support? There's five or six that you all mentioned, but I see a whole list of things on here. It's going to be supporting all five. There's some money coming out of Christmas. Thank you. I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. But when we received that money, our intention would be to understand if it was $80,000 that came out of the 4th of July, $10,000 that came out of this event, that event, and then when we put it into our budget, we would put it in as incoming revenue toward those events so that we would be re-spending that money toward those particular events. That's what, you know, assuming that this is accepted, that's what we were going to do, was put the money in. MS. Towards all events or just specifically the event that it was given to? Thank you. Okay. Council Member Stinnett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I mean, given the comments that have been said, and, you know, I'm not sure there has been staff reductions that Mr. Marlin, that you're talking about that we no longer fund because if you look through the CAO budget and the mayor's budget, every position is filled except for one. So I think the appropriate thing at this point, we can all get a handle on it. There's eight other councilmen who's going to sign up to speak as a table this and then have a true presentation on this to see. And Ms. Hulham said she's working on a spreadsheet. Let's get that spreadsheet. Let's see what it's all about so we don't have to sit here and keep going in circles. We've got some clear, defined answers. So I'll make a motion to table it. Councilmember Stenner moved to table number 37. 37. And Councilmember Crosby seconded. And that's not debatable. So all those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? No. Okay, let's take a – can you do an electronic – thank you – an electronic vote? Vice Mayor. A point of order, I guess. The only thing that's allowed in a motion like this is a question about the time frame for tabling. So typically, is there a specified time or is this an indefinite period of time? I was cut off, so I will tell you the specified time that I was thinking was April 26th, work session. Thank you, Vice Mayor. It's two weeks. Give me a corner order. This is also a committee of the whole meeting and actions of Councilor can be voted on. We have to refer that to the General Councilor. It will go to the Thursday night with any other motions. Until April 26th, Council Member Stennett. Yes, ma'am. So will you please register your electronic vote? Has everyone voted? Okay, that vote passes 10 to 5. So number 37 is tabled until April 26. And I'm thinking by then maybe you'll have your spreadsheet done. Okay, excellent. Clay Mason has the answer for the other question. Okay. Commissioner Mason has some answers for Council Member Crosby. Yes, on number 18. Okay. Mr. White, it's a sole source proposal. Yes, welcome, Mr. Bishop. Thank you. I apologize for being late. I was trying to get here before it came up on the agenda. The reason for the sole source contract is that these are assays that we have found to be in our drug testing program much more reliable and much more compatible with the equipment that we're using. We have experienced fewer false positives with these particular assays with microgenics. We've tried other vendors, and we found that we have more false positives with some of the other vendors using some of the other assays. This is a very important area where our work needs to be very precise. We report these findings to the courts and to other agencies who have contracts with us. And oftentimes a person's liberty is at stake, or it may be ordered by the court for a child custody issue. So we wanted to make sure we had the most absolute, precise assays that we could get that happened to be compatible with the existing equipment that we are using. and also panels of tests are sometimes requested by the judges and the panels are expanded sometimes for a drug of choice or a drug that is new on the street. Our most recent panel added has been oxycodone and that was at the request of the judges and we have just found that microgenics assays are extremely accurate and we have fewer false positives. Questions? Yes, Council Member Crosby. So you've used this vendor before? Yes. Have you ever had to, since it's a sole source, you wouldn't have to come back to Council for approval if there needs to be additional cost associated with this? Have you found that to happen in the past, or will it stay at this dollar figure? We've always been able to stay within this dollar amount. Thank you. Okay. Are there other council members who have questions about the first reading of resolutions? If not, we'll move on to second reading of ordinances. Is there anything to bring up here? If not, second reading of resolutions. Okay. We'll move right along then. Our review of budget amendments is on pages 17 through 20, and this will be an opportunity for any questions. There don't seem to be any questions on budget amendments, so the Neighborhood Development Fund list for your information is on page 68. And then item, well, we'll go back here to agenda items referred from Council Members. Are there any motions to be made? Council Member Martin, did you? I think Council Member McCord has a motion. Oh. Council Member McCord. I got you. I'd like to make a motion to refer to the April 14, 2011 Council meeting, a resolution electing Doug Martin and Peggy Henson to the Transportation Policy Committee of the Lexington Area MPO as representatives for Council's districts 9, 10, and 12, 3, 5, and 11, respectively. So moved. Council Member Ellinger seconds. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Anyone opposed? Okay, now, is there any other motion from Councilmember? If not, we'll go forward to item B, after Neighborhood Development Funds, and this is the core staff work group report, interim report. Councilmember Stennett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. As my colleagues know, we started the core staff work group about a month ago in examining the council office's staffing. As you know, we've lost three of our five employees on the council floor at this time, and the duties and the responsibilities on a daily basis are being taken by several of the aides as well as a couple of our current staff members that are left. So in an effort to keep things moving forward, the first recommendation now from the core staff work group is to proceed with advertising the job for the council administrator's position and a copy of the job description that HR uses to advertise that position is attached in the packet. I will tell you we do have a correction to that. I'm going to pass around as well an address here in a couple of minutes. But I just wanted to make sure that everyone understands this is just the job description for the advertising the job position to the public so we can begin collecting the applications and applicants can begin applying. This is not the roles and responsibilities on a daily basis. Those are defined in the council rules, so we will be bringing those changes from the council rules to the full council here in the short term. But in the meantime, we would like to ask the consent of council to go ahead and advertise the position. The recommendation from the council is to keep the position pay grade at the 121 pay grade, which is listed there on the sheet. This is the same pay grade as most directors in government. We also chose to keep the title as council administrator, so there are no changes there either. There is one change that we would like to make that's different from the attachment in your packet, and that is in red on the document that's going around. We'd like to add two specific items to the job description that would probably better define the roles and responsibilities that we would all like to see in the council administrator based on the survey results as well as conversations this morning at the core staff meeting. Those changes, first of all, would be added under supervisory duties that they would serve as the council's budget analyst. going forward, and also under knowledgeable skills, we would add on the second page that they have to have knowledge in preparing and analyzing budgets. So those are the two changes we'd like to add in there, and that's the item we'd like to substitute and make a motion to move that forward so that we can get in that process. So moved. Council Member Stennett moved to move forward the council administrator job description. Council Member Ellinger seconded. Is there discussion? Will you push your electronic monitor if you have comments? Council Member Blues. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I know that the history of this job at one point, the council administrator did serve also as budget analyst, and then we split those two functions. I gather you've considered whether the job is still manageable by recombining them. We did have serious discussion on that issue. I think it came down to, you know, mainly the budget analysts. The busiest time of year, so to speak, is during these next two months, May and June. But the rest of the time, there was obviously work could be done, but hadn't been done in the past. And this was an opportunity, one, to abolish a position, save money in government to take part in our role. but also to give the council administrator a 40-hour work week so we make sure we're getting the most of our money and have the skill set because obviously they need to be skilled in watching what's happening in other people's budgets as well as our own. So having them as our budget analysts, obviously they're in two months, it would take a lot more of their time, but the rest of the year they would still have enough time to do their council administrator duties. Thank you very much. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Vice Mayor. in your all's work in redefining the administrator's job, does this redefinition then give us the opportunity to shed one or both of the two empty positions that we have in the administrative staff? Well, obviously, yes, that will be an opportunity that council can make when we discuss the core staff. We are envisioning, with the budget analyst being included as a role for the council administrator, that obviously that so-called position could be eliminated, but you may want to add another one back in its place once we get done with the rest of the core staff work group. But the thoughts on the core staff work group was to get the council administrator moving forward so they could take part in that process of hiring a core staff because they're going to be the ones managing it. We'd like to get that person on the ground so they can assist us in those efforts. And then there are, I mean, it just seems to me that the core staff is a much smaller staff than it used to be because of the presence of aides for each one of us. So in part of this discussion, was there a discussion about not having an administrator or having an administrator of a different capacity? And I appreciate Charles' work. I'm just trying to flesh it out for myself, that's all. I understand. And we discussed several of those things, but I think the recommendation from the committee at this point is to have an administrator in there that has this job description used for advertising. And we're currently working through the council rules that identifies in our council rules currently what their daily duties are. And we'd like to add to one of those duties to serve as budget analysts. Because I know our staff now, all of ours, are doing a lot of extra work individually to cover all of the vacancies that we have. I just want to make sure that we re-administer the best opportunity for the council's effectiveness, but certainly for physical effectiveness. Thank you. Are there other questions about the motion or comments? Seeing none, the motion is to move forward the job description, the amended, the new job description updated to the Thursday night council meeting. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. Are there any other agenda items to be referred by council members before we go to committee reports? Okay. We'll hear then from Councilmember Farmer, Chair of Planning and Zoning Committee. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Planning and Zoning Committee met on March 1st in Chambers. We had two areas of endeavor. One, the Building Inspection Task Force report, findings and recommendations, followed by the Circus and Carnival's definition text amendment. In this issue, I'm going to defer to Councilmember Stennett, who chaired the Building Inspection Task Force to lead us through the motions that are part of that committee report. Council Member, and thank you for doing that. No problem at all. It's my pleasure. The first motion to come out of the Planning Committee meeting on March 1st was a motion by Council Member Blues to approve to the full Council recommendation number three to the Planning Commission and then back to Council. It was second by Vice Mayor Gordon. The motion passed without dissent. And I did pass around a couple sheets that would enlighten the council members as to what that motion would entail. But it was basically to allow in our code ordinances a right of entry so that building inspection could have an opportunity to enter properties to inspect for building code violations. I would so move on behalf of the committee. Thank you. Council Member Blue seconded. Are there any questions or comments about the motion? Council Member Crosby. Council Member Stinnett, I've got these two handouts. Which one? At the very top five, that's okay. 51A, I'm sorry, yes. The rest pertains to something else. Are there any other questions or comments? This motion is about the right of entry, and everyone has the new language. If there are no other questions, all those in favor of moving this forward, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Thank you very much. Council Member Farmer, is that for Council Member Stenet? Do you have the second motion? There we go. Thank you. Yes, the second item was to approve recommendation from the task force, and that was listed on page 72 of our packet, a motion by Council Member Steve Kaye to approve incorporating recommendation number four in with the previous motion. And that motion had to do with currently we use a criminal process for violations of zoning enforcement. This would move it to a civil process, which would be handled in-house, a lot more expedient. It would be heard by the Infrastructure Hearing Board at their monthly meeting. Should someone define a zoning violation, they could appeal to the Internal Infrastructure Hearing Board. Again, this is as opposed to the current process, which is a criminal justice system process. And that language is underneath the right of entry language on the documents I passed out. Did you so move? I will so move on behalf of the committee. We're tag-teaming. Thank you. Council Member Blue second. Okay, is there discussion about the motion to move the zoning violations from a criminal to a civil process? No? Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. One last one from that same part of the report. And on page 73 of our packet, the last major motion coming out of the recommendations from the Building Inspection Task Force was a motion made by Vice Mayor Linda Gordon to approve and ask for counsel a text amendment on temporary structures. This was seconded by Council Member Tom Blues, and it passed without dissent. This was the second item that stapled that was handed out. There was some verbiage change throughout our zoning ordinances that would more codify exactly what a temporary structure is and how long it could be up and the size of that structure. I would also ask that any changes or appeals would have to go before Board of Adjustments to seek any conditional variances or allow a business to keep it up year-round, year after year, to get that permanent conditional zoning. Again, all of these things will have to go to the Planning Commission for further review and analysis, and then they'll come back to the full council once again. So we'll see this information again. I would so move that on behalf of the committee also. Okay. I have a motion from Council Member Farmer. Do I hear a second? Council Member Blues, thank you to initiate a text amendment. And as Council Member Stennett said, this would go to the Planning Commission and come back to us. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay, that motion passes. And the rest of the motions were from the Building Inspection Task Force or kept into committee and or the administration agreed to proceed with it. One of those being what we discussed earlier was splitting the planning department up, or I'm sorry, building inspection department up and allowing them to enforce building code and move zoning enforcement to another area. So the rest of them will either stay in committee or be achieved by the administration. Thank you. Thank you for your work there and here today. Our other item of business was Circus and Carnival Definition Text Amendment, which resulted in a motion by Vice Mayor Linda Gorton to approve the text amendment and seconded by Council Member Chris Ford that the motion passed without dissent. This is a conversation where Council Member Henson stated that she wanted to protect entrances to neighborhoods in the instance of circuses and carnivals and requested a setback in definitions to allow a 200-foot buffer near those neighborhood entrances. And this would result in the Texas Amendment process as we have just gone through with the previous report. So I would so move it on behalf of the committee also. So I have a motion to initiate a text amendment. Do I hear a second? Yes. Second by Council Member Henson. And this is on page 73 of your packet. Is there discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay, that motion passes. Thank you, Vice President. That concludes our report. Thank you very much, Council Member Farmer. Now, I'll call on Council Member Lane for the General Government Committee update. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The General Government Committee met on March 22nd at 1.10 p.m. There were four items on the agenda. One was a briefing by Mr. Barbary and Mrs. Mazzotti on the franchise agreements to be coming up for renewal. And we're expecting to get an additional report back on that on June 7th meeting. Citizens Advocate Work Group provided an update of information about the duties and powers of the Citizens Advocate. And that was further updated by a meeting we had this morning for today's meeting, which will be reported out at our next council meeting. And the Council Member Myers gave us an update on facilities use policy for the lease of property owned by the government to not-for-profits. And that also was updated today with another presentation. And we'll be reporting that out at our next council meeting. The internal audit committee, Mr. Chalet, gave an update on the response to the state auditor and discussed the preparation of bylaws and the ordinance authorizing the expansion of the members on the board. And that will also be coming out at our June 7th meeting. Information was presented today on that. and the council will be getting a copy of the ordinance and the bylaws to review, you know, prior to being reviewed by the council at a future meeting. And those were the issues. There were no motions or anything that needed to be reported out. So it just gives you an update on it. We should have some actions for you to address our next go-around. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Now, are there any council members with council reports? Council Member Blues. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to announce a couple of neighborhood meetings. The first one is tonight the Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting at the Meadowthorpe Park in the Community Center with some socializing and refreshments from 6.30 to 7, and then the meeting itself at 7 p.m. On Monday, April 18th at 6.30 p.m., the Windburn Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting in the Community Center in Martin Luther King Park. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Today we were presented the Mayor's proposed budget, and one of the items in the Mayor's proposed budget was a $5 million reduction in the public safety budget. Recently, the investment advisor to the police and fire pension has advised that the pension will run out of funds in 20 years without large additional annual contributions, starting at $15.5 million per year and increasing to approximately $33 million per year in year 20. The council, nor LFUCG, has an extra $15.5 million sitting around. So instead of a $25 million or $26 million shortfall, we're really looking at a $41 million shortfall. And so I just, as part of my council report, I just wanted fellow council members to be aware that this government and this council made promises to these public safety workers when we hired them. And so it's time to pay the piper. And so I encourage the council to be aware of what our true challenge is in fulfilling the promises that have been made to these public safety workers. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just a couple things. One, I know we had a – was the budget address going to an official council meeting? Yes. So we didn't do roll call vote on that. We may want to make sure we're compliant with that. I don't want the mayor to do it again. So – but we didn't do that. We may want to catch that. A couple other things. One, we did get the mayor's proposed budget today, and it is a nice green color. So I'm glad who picked that out. We'll know which year was our worst budget ever in the green paper we printed. So – but I just have a question about this year's budget. Do we have a budget reduction plan yet? Because the mayor talked about not using any of the rainy day fund and FY12 budget, but we still haven't determined how much to use in the FY11, which is, to me, more of a severe issue. We have two months left. Yes. We have continued our analysis of the personnel. We are on target to reach the personnel numbers that we presented to you at the budget workshop. We have taken some measures internally to encumber some additional funds so those operating changes are on target, as well as capturing the proposal to capture the $750,000 in capital maintenance dollars that we had talked to you about before. And I'm sorry, I don't have that list in front of me. In addition to that, we are working on a couple of other areas which we will need council action on. We talked to you as proposals from the Park Acquisition Fund as well as SALT and how that relates to the Urban Service District funds. So all of those together, we are still a little shy of our target of $9 million, but our goal is still, we may spend some of the, not the economic contingency fund, but the $2 million ending fund balance. But we're still working. Our goal is still not to dip in that either. So we look good on target not to dip into the economic contingency fund for current year. We're working on closing that much smaller gap to date. But I don't have the plan in front of me, but once we finalize. Six council meetings left, counting Thursday night. So if there's any action, we would need to see it as soon as possible. Right, and that was our goal. Again, we were working, for example, some of the mayor's proposals in the budget today, closing pools, for example. those will impact current year as well if those don't open. So we're obviously, some assumption we make will depend on some council action in that regard as well. And obviously those are serious questions we're going to have to address in the next week or so because pools and golf courses, if we don't open them now, obviously it's council action, that we approve them to stay open in this budget. So if you all have plans on not opening them with this budget, we would need to know that so we can make appropriations. and changes. Understood. And the example of the pools, we don't want to fill them with water if we're not going to open the pools. But they open when Memorial Day? Yes. So, you know, that's 45 days away. We need to make that decision pretty quick as a council. I think there's other questions. Yes, there are other questions on this exact issue. So if we can suspend the list just for a moment. Council Member McCord. Well, and as chairman of the budget link last year that dealt with general services, that's a very big issue about timing of parks, pools, and golf courses. My question, though, have you, Commissioner, spoken with the Home Builders Association as it relates to the Parks Land Acquisition Fund because they are the ones that actually have to sign off on saying yay or nay whether you can use that money for that? I have not. We've been working through the Director of Parks. and, again, to finalize that those would be the decisions that we make to move forward. Well, as a matter of historical note, the home builders set that fund up. It was done with the expressed intent to acquire land. And in the past, they had been asked, because there is a precedent where they've been asked to tap that and go back. But as part of that, last time they were asked, they told them that would be the last time they'd ever be asked. So if you haven't talked to them, I would say that you probably ought to, because it's going to be a very big surprise to them to see that, you know, they're going to be using, that we've planned on using those funds to help balance this. But I've been in talks with them, and they had not heard, so that was my question. And I will follow up on that. Okay. And if you could just to add to Council Member McCord's in the past, we have actually asked for a letter from the Home Builders Association stating just that fact that they've approved using those funds. So I would think that would also be appropriate to have that letter. Thank you. Are there other questions for Commissioner Driscoll on this issue? No? Okay. Thank you very much. Can I finish my report? Yes, you may. Thank you, Vice Mayor. A couple last items. One, I know we had a lot of rain last evening and today, So if there's anyone that has flooding issues or sanitary sewer issues, please call 311. We're getting a lot of calls. I know some of my colleagues are too. But just, again, please call 311. They're working through those lists as fast as possible, especially with the raw sewage in people's homes. So we're working on that as well. And last but not least, Councilman Martin didn't mention it, but Friday night, or Saturday night, actually, colleagues were having a celebrity curtain call at the Children's Theater to benefit the kids there. It's their annual fundraising. Councilman Martin is participating as one of the celebrities. So there will be some bad acting but some good causes there to support. Fortunately, my wife has many, many more lines than I do. That's good for all of us. But come out and support it if you have an opportunity. Saturday night aren't doing anything. It's at 7 p.m. at the Children's Cater there on Short Street against the Celebrity Curtain Call. There's a lot of good local people in there helping support those kids over there in the arts. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilmember Henson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I've just got a couple of announcements. Tomorrow at noon at Cardinal Crossing Apartments Community Center, there's an apartment managers association meeting. And next Monday, the Gulfview Neighborhood Association will meet at the Open Door Church. And they will, Gary Means will be there, and we're going to be discussing permit parking for that neighborhood. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The Budget and Finance Committee was not on the schedule today, but we do need to move ahead with getting the proposed committee, the whole budget schedule. So I will be sending that out between now and Thursday's meeting so you can look over it. And then I'll be bringing that forward on Thursday's meeting so we can go ahead and get that passed so we can get the schedule down. It looks like the first item that we have to get on the schedule will be the review of the mayor's proposed budget that will be presented by our budget staff, and then we can look at the rest of the items that are going to be part of the budget process, but we need to get this passed, so I'll bring this forward. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Tonight at 6 o'clock at Maxwell Presbyterian Church, I believe. I lost my paper. There will be the South Hill Neighborhood Association will be meeting. Lisa Higgins-Horde from UK will be there. Myself, Officer Gaines, and to discuss some of the problems they've been having in that area. Also, the farmers markets open, and that's a pretty exciting time of the year. They're on Saturdays and Tuesdays and Thursdays. They're on the corner of Broadway and Maxwell, right? Not yet. In May they're going to open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thank you. And then they'll have the Sunday market on Southland Drive probably later in the year. I also want to remind people that Thursday, April 21st, at the Crestwood Christian Church, Sustain Lexington, the website is sustainlex.org. They're having a local food summit. I suggest you go to their website and look at it. There are a lot of really neat, interesting things there going on. And that's all I have because I lost my paper. Thank you. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would ask Councilman Ellinger, the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, that on the 26th, April 26th, when we have a review of the mayor's proposed budget, that our budget staff will also provide an analysis of the impact of the proposed restructure and how that impacts the budget as well. Thank you. Council Member Ford, were you on the list? Did you drop off? Do you want to be on the list? I thought I saw your name there. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I guess just quickly, just for a new Council Member as myself and just for the interested folks watching at home, If you can kind of just very quickly, Vice Mayor, explain what the council's role is now and what our task will be in working with the administration in adopting this budget for the next fiscal year with the link process and all those kind of things. Well, just briefly, when the mayor gives his budget address, then the proposed budget becomes the council's budget. And so we work through the budget in our links groups, which are groups of three council members each. We focus on the different departments, and we work through our revenue estimates, our looking at the budget, and making any proposed changes that council members want to see. Council members have the authority to remove things from the budget or add things to the budget, change things. And then we will have first and second reading of the budget in June. Thank you, Vice Mayor. It sounds like we all have a lot of work to do, so I look forward to chiming in and learning the ropes. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And I apologize. I appreciate the Council's indulgence. I'm just not comfortable with the amount of information we're getting about the current budget year, and I'm uncomfortable sort of delegating our duties to supervise and, if necessary, to intercede in order to bring in our expenditures in line with our revenues. And so as a question, I guess maybe to Council Member Ellinger, just because of the seriousness of it, is the Budget and Finance Committee going to try to get concrete details? Because last year, January 4th, we got concrete details about what the plans were. Here, I don't know what's going on, and I don't have a comfort level with it. And at what point does the council step in and make cuts ourselves? I think that's a good question. The vice mayor and I were discussing that. I believe that still is the administration's role to balance that budget at this point. But I wouldn't like to get more information from them. And I think, Commissioner, as you hear from the council, I think we would like to get information as soon as possible because I know there's a lot of heartburn up here of how we're going to balance the fiscal year 11 budget. So any information you can get to us, we would appreciate the sooner the better. Thank you. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I forgot to say in my report, in the last meeting, I think there was a discussion about acting positions being filled for more than 90 days, I believe it was. And I think we've got at least one person in the government that fits that role. I think they've been in that position for 13 months. And so without saying that person's name, I would like to see if we can get something from the administration on when they're going to make a decision in that regard. So I can handle the rest of it offline, but I just wanted to let everybody know that Let everybody know that I was going to ask that question. Thank you. Okay. Other council reports? Council Member Henson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I was just thinking we were supposed to get an update on E911 and corrections that I believe Council Member Crosby asked for. So I was just curious when that would happen. Is that something needed yet? Commissioner Clay Mason. We're going to try and have, I think it's May 10th. I had an email yesterday for the Public Safety Committee meeting for an update. So it will occur at the Public Safety Committee meeting? Yes. Okay, thank you. Okay, Council Member Lawless. Wasn't that a request for a presentation to the whole council? I thought it was to be to the whole council, but does anyone else have a different memory? I know I made the request, but I don't recall if I made it during the public safety meeting or during the council. I think I made it actually during the council meeting ticket, but I don't know that I specified. Can we just – we can adjust and do that. Personally, I think that's something that probably the entire council would like to hear the presentation. If that's not the case, then we'll deal with it in public. But it's a pretty big deal. I think there's a consensus of head nodding that we would like it at a work session, committee of the whole work session. Vice Mayor. We set that date, so he... Yes. You said you had planned to do it on the May 10th. Yes, ma'am. Public safety. So could you have it ready for the May 10th Committee of the Whole work session? I think we can do that. Okay. Does that suit, Councilmembers? Is there good consensus for that? Okay. Thank you very much. If I recall, Council Member Crosby, your request was that there be a report by Sheriff Witt's report and the one that was being done internally by Assistant Chief Boggs. That's correct. I ask that we also get a copy of her report and that be included as part of the presentation. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I've heard considerable discussion from the council members. Commissioner Driscoll, I think the council is really concerned about fiscal year 11. Is there any way, what would be the soonest that you could have a more concrete proposal to us for fiscal year 11 and how we're going to be able to make sure we have a balanced budget. So you can bring that presentation to the council or to, if we have to, we could have a special budget and finance meeting. Because I know there's a lot of concern up here that is there anything that we need to be doing that we're not, we feel a little uncomfortable that we don't have all the facts at this point or all the information. I understand that. I apologize for that. As we're working through the current budget, we have some decisions for the proposed budget were affecting our plans for current year. So when would... When can you get that to us? When would you think would be the soonest that you could get to us that we could have a presentation? I would think in the next two weeks. Does that suit council members? If I might, could that would... The next work session is the 26th. Okay. Would that be... Would you be able to... We will. Thank you very much. Okay. Very good. Thank you. So during the committee of the whole work session at 3 o'clock on the 26th. And, Commissioner, that would be something if we have that at the work session, and this session, and this would also be true, I believe, Commissioner Mason for the May presentation on the E911 and corrections will need the information for the packet 72 hours ahead. So that would be, Jeanette, you put the packets together Thursday morning, Thursday by noon the week before. Can you do that for us? Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, Council Member Crosby. I was just going to say, Mr. Schoeniger brought down, my motion was to the Public Safety Committee, which we have changed, but I also had asked that Sheriff Witt provide us with a copy. So I think that somebody needs to see if, I'm not sure if Commissioner Mason or Mr. Maloney can check with Sheriff Witt, too, because we'll need her information as well. Thank you. Commissioner Mason, would you put that on your to-do list to get the report from Sheriff Witt for the packet? All right, thank you. Council Member Lawless, you were on there. I disappeared. This is a question that you don't need to answer today, but I think it would be helpful to us as we're talking about this year's budget, et cetera. If we are going to close a golf course, we bonded all those golf carts. So if we could have some kind of report about... Oh, that's okay. I'm sorry. I don't know anything about golf except you get to ride in a cart. You have to go to a different course to ride in a cart. And I think it might be good to see if Sheriff Witt could be here to make her presentation and answer any comments she has along with the commissioner, if we could extend an invitation. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? Council Member Crosby. I'm sorry. I forgot to ruin myself. That was what I was going to say. You had suggested that he get her report, but we had requested that she attend, so somebody needs to extend the invitation. That's all. Okay. So given that the E911 corrections updates were made through a motion, does anyone care to make a motion that we hear those on May 10th at the work session instead of in public safety committee? So moved. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay, thank you. Now, the next item on our agenda is public comment. Issues not on the agenda. Anything in the whole world? No? Okay. If not, do I hear motion to adjourn? So moved. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. 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