# Council Committee of the Whole Work Session - June 21, 2011 > Auto-transcribed civic record · June 21, 2011 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/2064 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/2064?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2011-06-21 - **Last revised**: July 17, 2026 - **Length**: 9,535 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington City Council met on June 21, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in the Lexington City Council Chambers, with the Vice Mayor presiding. The council considered 10 agenda items during the session, taking 7 motions and votes and hearing 7 public comments. The meeting included a mix of legislative actions at various stages. Two items received first readings: new business ordinances and resolutions, as well as a council staff reorganization proposal. The council approved three measures: the Open Data Resolution, the renaming of the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons, and the General Government Committee Report. The Public Safety Committee Referral was also approved. Two items were tabled for later consideration: the Resolution on E911 Addressing Process and the Special Social Services Committee Report. Additionally, the council received an informational presentation on Government Reorganization. ## Attendance The following individuals were present at the meeting on June 21, 2011: **Council Members:** - Council Member Ellinger - Council Member Lawless - Council Member Lane - Council Member Stinnett - Council Member Martin - Council Member McCord - Council Member Crosby - Council Member Gordon - Council Member Kay - Council Member Ford **Commissioners:** - Commissioner Maloney - Commissioner Graham - Commissioner Driscoll - Commissioner Sheed **Other Officials and Staff:** - Mayor Gray - Kevin Adkins - Terry Moricle - Dr. Eric Ostertag - Howard Yellen - Peggy Malkins - Brad Patrick - Dale Williams - Jenna Greathouse - Kimberly Rossetti - Kelly Kane - Susan Lamb No members were recorded as absent or late. ## Votes and Decisions **Resolution 29 - Motion to Table** [timestamp: 00:14:57] Council Member Lawless moved to table Resolution 29 until the August 16th work session to ensure proper notice to residents. The motion passed 7-4 on a roll call vote. Voting in favor were Council Members Ellinger, Lane, Stinnett, Martin, McCord, Crosby, and Gordon. Voting against were Council Members Kay, Ford, Blues, and Lawless. The tabled resolution is subject to the condition that residents must receive 30-day notice prior to the August 16th work session. **Item 3 - Government Reorganization: Division of Budgeting Transfer** [timestamp: 00:18:32] Council Member Ellinger moved to amend and transfer the Division of Budgeting to the CAO's office, seconded by Dr. Blue. The motion failed 4-7 on a roll call vote. Voting in favor were Council Members Ellinger, Stinnett, Martin, and McCord. Voting against were Council Members Lane, Crosby, Gordon, Kay, Ford, Blues, and Lawless. **Item 3 - Government Reorganization: Office of Economic Development** [timestamp: 00:22:11] Council Member Martin moved to eliminate the Office of Economic Development from the reorganization. This motion failed with no votes recorded in favor. **Ordinance Renaming Senior Services Commission** [timestamp: 00:33:17] The Vice Mayor moved to rename the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons to the Senior Services Commission, seconded by Dr. Blue. The motion passed unanimously 10-0 on a roll call vote. **Resolution on Open Data** [timestamp: 00:47:19] Council Member Lane moved to place a resolution promoting open and transparent government and open data on the docket, seconded by Council Member Martin. The motion passed unanimously 10-0 on a roll call vote. **Motion to Amend Referral to Public Safety Committee** [timestamp: 00:52:45] Council Member Kay moved to amend the motion to refer a jail study to the Public Safety Committee by removing the direct reference to the sheriff's office, seconded by Council Member McCord. The motion passed unanimously 10-0 on a roll call vote. **Motion to Place Job Descriptions on Docket** [timestamp: 00:31:41] Council Member Stinnett moved to place new council positions and rule changes on the docket for first reading, seconded by Council Member McCord. The motion passed unanimously 10-0 on a roll call vote. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting included approval of local financial incentives totaling $51,000,000 for five businesses. These incentives were authorized through Resolutions 39-43 and directed to the following recipients: * Transposagen * Lockheed Martin * Neogen * Tempur-Pedic * ASC The appropriation was structured as local financial incentives designed to support business operations in the area. ## Public Comment Council members made several announcements and requests during the public comment period: **Community Events and Activities** Council Member Lawless invited community members to participate in a work day at Goodrich Park on Saturday and Sunday for mulching activities. She also reminded the public about the farmer's market and Southland Jamboree [timestamp: 00:02:08]. Council Member Martin promoted upcoming community events, including the Southland Jamboree on Tuesday nights and Moon Dance at Midnight Pass on Thursday nights, highlighting live music and community programming [timestamp: 00:04:19]. **NASCAR Events** Council Member Stenet announced that Lexington will host a NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Sparta on July 9th and will be a stop for NASCAR haulers on July 6th, with public viewing and a parade [timestamp: 00:47:53]. Council Member Lawless provided additional details about the NASCAR hauler visit, noting that 40 NASCAR haulers will visit Lexington on July 6th. Public viewing will be available at Hamburg Walmart and Lowe's parking lots, with a parade proceeding through downtown to the interstate [timestamp: 00:48:24]. **Neighborhood Meetings** Council Member Blues notified the public that the Oakwood Neighborhood Association will meet on June 27th at 7 p.m. in the Oakwood Park Community Center [timestamp: 00:50:02]. **Council Business Matters** Council Member Kay requested an amendment to remove direct reference to the sheriff's office in a jail study referral to ensure a neutral review by the Public Safety Committee [timestamp: 00:51:12]. Council Member Ford advocated for improved budget communication, requesting that the council prepare a council-wide summary and press release following budget adoption to better communicate council actions to the public [timestamp: 00:56:09]. ## Contested Items The June 21, 2011 meeting included three significant areas of disagreement among council members. **Government Reorganization - Budgeting Division** A motion to transfer the Division of Budgeting to the Chief Administrative Officer's office resulted in a split vote that failed 4-7. The disagreement centered on structural control and checks and balances within government operations, with council members divided over whether the proposed reorganization would appropriately distribute authority or compromise oversight mechanisms. **Open Data Resolution** Council members engaged in a heated discussion regarding an open data resolution. The debate focused on multiple concerns: the potential future costs of implementation, compatibility issues with existing IT systems, and whether the resolution would impose binding obligations on the city. Members expressed particular concern about the long-term budget impact of the proposed initiative. **Jail Study Referral** A procedural dispute arose over a jail study referral. Council member Kay moved to amend the referral by removing language that Kay characterized as bias toward the sheriff's office. This amendment motion proceeded to a formal vote, indicating substantive disagreement about how the referral should be framed and what perspective it should prioritize. ## First Reading of New Business Ordinances [timestamp: 00:11:38] The Council proceeded with the first reading of new business ordinances (agenda items 16-19). The ordinances were reviewed and approved without objections from Council members present. The first reading resulted in approval to move forward with the proposed business ordinances. ## First Reading of Resolutions [timestamp: 00:12:12] The Council proceeded with the first reading of resolutions during this portion of the meeting. The resolutions under consideration included measures related to local financial incentives for businesses. Key speakers during this agenda item included Kevin Adkins, Terry Moricle, Dr. Eric Ostertag, Howard Yellen, Peggy Malkins, Brad Patrick, and Dale Williams. The Council approved the first reading of the resolutions with no objections raised by members present. ## Resolution on E911 Addressing Process [timestamp: 00:13:16] Resolution 29 addressed the E911 addressing process. Council Member Blues and Council Member Lawless were the key speakers on this agenda item. The council considered a motion to table the resolution until the August 16th work session. The motion was made to allow adequate time for proper notice to residents regarding the E911 addressing process changes. Additionally, the council requested a complete record of all contacts between the E911 division and property owners prior to further consideration of the resolution. The resolution was tabled, meaning consideration was postponed to the scheduled August 16th work session to permit the requested notification period and documentation review. ## Government Reorganization The Council discussed a proposed government reorganization during this agenda item. [timestamp: 00:16:50] **Key Proposals** The reorganization plan included two main components: - Transferring the Division of Budgeting to the Chief Administrative Officer's (CAO) office - Creating the Office of Economic Development **Discussion and Participants** Council Member Ellinger, Council Member Stinnett, Council Member Martin, and Commissioner Maloney participated in the discussion of the reorganization proposal. **Outcomes** Two motions were brought forward during the discussion: - A motion to transfer the Division of Budgeting to the CAO's office failed - A motion to eliminate the Office of Economic Development failed due to lack of a second The item concluded as informational, with no reorganization measures approved by the Council. ## Open Data Resolution [timestamp: 00:34:27] The Council considered and approved a resolution promoting open and transparent government and open data initiatives. The resolution directed the city to develop strategies for publishing public data sets and encouraged the creation of software applications based on publicly available data. Council Member Martin, Council Member McCord, Council Member Lane, and Council Member Kay participated in the discussion alongside Mayor Gray. The resolution was approved by the Council. ## Council Staff Reorganization [timestamp: 00:29:28] The Council discussed changes to council core staff positions during this agenda item. The discussion focused on new job descriptions for two positions: research analyst and council administrative specialist. Council Members Stennett, Lane, and McCord participated in the discussion of the proposed reorganization. The Council approved moving the staff reorganization items to the docket for first reading, advancing the proposed changes in the legislative process. ## Renaming Commission on Community Services for Older Persons [timestamp: 00:32:46] The Council considered an ordinance to rename the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons to the Senior Services Commission. **Key Speakers** The Vice Mayor and Dr. Blue participated in the discussion of this agenda item. **Outcome** The Council approved the ordinance renaming the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons to the Senior Services Commission. ## Special Social Services Committee Report [timestamp: 00:33:52] Council Member Lane moved to table the Special Social Services Committee Report to the next session. The report was not discussed further at this meeting and was postponed for consideration at a future session. ## General Government Committee Report [timestamp: 00:34:27] The General Government Committee presented a report covering two main items: energy-efficient vehicles and an open data resolution. **Key Speakers** Council Member Lane, Council Member Martin, Council Member McCord, and Council Member Kay participated in the discussion of this agenda item. **Items Discussed** The committee reported on initiatives related to energy-efficient vehicles and presented an open data resolution for consideration. **Outcome** The open data resolution was approved by a vote of 4-2 and moved to the docket for further action. ## Public Safety Committee Referral [timestamp: 00:51:12] The Council discussed a referral regarding a jail study to be sent to the Public Safety Committee. During the discussion, Council Member Kay and Council Member McCord participated in the deliberation. The Council made an amendment to the referral to remove direct reference to the sheriff's office. This modification was made to ensure that the Public Safety Committee's review of the jail study would remain neutral and unbiased. The referral was approved following this amendment. --- ## Decisions - **Resolution 29** — tabled (7-4): Motion to table Resolution 29 until August 16th work session to ensure proper notice to residents - **Item 3 - Government Reorganization** — failed (4-7): Motion to amend and transfer Division of Budgeting to CAO's office - **Item 3 - Government Reorganization** — failed (0-0): Motion to eliminate the Office of Economic Development from the reorganization - **Ordinance Amending Code of Ordinances** — passed (10-0): Rename Commission on Community Services for Older Persons to Senior Services Commission - **Resolution on Open Data** — passed (10-0): Motion to place resolution promoting open and transparent government and open data on the docket - **Motion to Amend Referral to Public Safety Committee** — passed (10-0): Amend motion to refer jail study to Public Safety Committee by removing direct reference to sheriff's office - **Motion to Place Job Descriptions on Docket** — passed (10-0): Motion to place new council positions and rule changes on docket for first reading --- ## Full transcript 21st, 2011, the longest day of the year. And as Council Member Ellinger said, and it's getting longer. So, Council, I'd like to ask if we might do two recognitions of two groups of folks who have waited through this entire 3 o'clock meeting. The first is I'd like to call on Council Member Ellinger to recognize, I think we have a few senior interns left in the audience. If you'll just say that. Thank you, Vice Mayor. We had not anticipated when we were going to recognize them that we would be deliberating that long. And our council meeting, it was supposed to be kind of open and closed, but of course we have some deliberations that we needed to do, and that's good. But I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce whatever senior interns are left. I'd be scared to ask them to stand because I don't think we have one, maybe two left. But we have a class, actually the largest class we've had, over 44 people, along with also the people on the committee. I see some of the committee members back there in the blue shirts, too. I want to commend them for all their hard work and all the council members who have helped participate in the administration who have given of their time to provide the senior intern program a great opportunity to learn about urban county government. Every year for a week we have kind of a government summer camp where seniors can come and learn about government on a firsthand basis and have an opportunity to meet with the people who are the decision makers in government. And we also have a nice private-public partnership with ARP, with PNC, and also M&M Sanitation, who help actually pay for most, if not all, the programs. So it's a great opportunity for both private and public partnership. But if you are involved with the senior intern program, I would ask you to stand up at this point and give you a little round of applause here for all those. All right. And we'll give you extra credit for when you graduate on Friday. Thank you all. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Ellinger. And then the second group that I would like to recognize, Council Members, we have on the docket items 39 through 43 for first reading of resolutions are local financial incentives for several businesses, including Transposagen, Lockheed Martin, Neogen, Tempur-Pedic, and ASC, which is Specialty Vehicle Acquisition Corp. And I'd like to ask Kevin Adkins if he would come forward and introduce the folks who are here today. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This is a pretty nice day to be with you all. The group that's here today represents $51 million in investments for Lexington, 395 new jobs, as well as 1,937 jobs retained. So just to make that brief, the first person we'd like to call up is Terry Moricle, who is the Vice President of Animal Safety for Neogen. Thank you very much. I would just like to take a moment to thank you for consideration of these incentives as Neogen considers its different options for expanding its operations here in Kentucky and in other areas as well. Lexington is a great place to call home, and we appreciate the support of the city and Commerce Lexington. Thank you. Thank you. Again, I failed to mention Neogen's 75 new jobs with an average salary of $42,000 plus benefits. The second speaker is Dr. Eric Ostertag, who is the founder and CEO of Transposagen, and this is 21 new jobs with an average salary of $50,000 plus benefits. Thank you. So Transposagen is becoming a major supplier of resource research reagents for pharmaceutical and academic researchers. And I think the theme from the last meeting is definitely that we're in some financially difficult times. But I'm pleased to announce that we are rapidly increasing our revenue and we're rapidly adding jobs. We plan to essentially triple in size in the next three years. So I would like to thank the mayor. I'd like to thank you, Vice Mayor, and thank the council members for this incentive, which was a significant factor for us deciding to create our expansion in Lexington. Thank you. Thank you. Our next company is Lockheed Martin. We have Mr. Howard Yellen, who is the vice president, and Ms. Peggy Malkins, who is the communications director. This is 1,700 jobs retained, 224 new jobs with the average salary of $40,000 plus benefit. Thank you, Kevin. I'm delighted to be here today to speak on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Thanks for the invitation and the opportunity to highlight the impact the Kentucky Business and Senate program will have in our business and here in the Lexington community. I'm Howard Yellen. I'm the Vice President for Lockheed Martin Special Operations Forces Contractor Logistics Support Services, SOF CLSS, line of business at Bluegrass Station, and as of the 20th of February now a taxpaying resident in the City of Lexington. I served for 34 years in the United States Army, initially as an infantryman, later transitioning to aviation and then into the special operations community. I retired in 2006 as the Deputy Commanding General for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, having served my last five years in that position. As a former special operations officer, I know firsthand the importance of having responsive logistics and sustainment services to ensure the success of a military mission. Now as the Vice President of SOF CLSS in September 2010, and I've had the unique privilege to lead almost 3,000 employees dedicated to providing a responsive, flexible, and reliable logistics and sustainment enterprise to our military customer. My vision is becoming a reality through the state's incentives program, which plays a significant factor in enabling Lockheed Martin to commit to an investment of almost $26 million into the state of Kentucky and the Kentucky state-owned buildings that we reside in at Bluegrass Station. Use of this investment will be targeted towards improving the quality of the work environment for our employees and improving efficiencies in the way we do business. A few examples include essential facility improvements such as increased lighting, new heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, power generators, security entry systems, and improvements to our bathrooms and break areas. Lockheed Martin will also invest in strategic equipment purchases such as logistic tools, IT storage systems for storing essential warehousing data, and production flow devices for our manufacturing and production areas. These modifications will improve workflow, increase efficiencies to allow our team to increase productivity, save our customer and our American taxpayers money, and ultimately help us to bring new business into Lexington and throughout the state of Kentucky. The Lockheed Martin's far more than facilities, modifications, repairs, and sustainment. We are a Defense Aerospace Corporation dedicated to the communities that we live in and work in. This investment is a testament to that commitment. The corporation supports science, technology, engineering, and math education in many ways, including our commitment to dedicate 50% of our philanthropic donations to education programs. And in 2010, our employees logged almost 1.3 million hours to volunteer service. In conclusion, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the City Council for allowing this package to move forward in the Kentucky Cabinet of Economic Development, Mayor Gray and Commerce Lexington for coordinating this effort, and supporting Lockheed Martin in growing our critical business, jobs, and our people here in the state of Kentucky. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor, one more company today, Tempur-Pedic, and we have Brad Patrick and Dale Williams with us. 237 jobs retained at their headquarters here, 65 new jobs created for an average salary of $72,000 a year plus benefits. And while Brad and Dale come up, I also want to mention that we have the other members of our economic development team here, Jenna Greathouse, Kimberly Rossetti, and Kelly Kane are also in the back. So, Brad? Good afternoon. I'm Dale Williams. I'm the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tempur-Pedic International. I've been in Lexington and part of Tempur-Pedic for eight years. In that eight-year time frame, Tempur-Pedic's gone from about a $300 million private company to a $1.1 billion public company. Our goal over the next three years is to double again. So this is a business that is performing very well, that has grown tremendously, and still has tremendous growth ahead of it. And we're very thankful to the city, to the state, in terms of helping us to, since we've outgrown, the facilities that are available around here that are helping us through the economic incentives to build a new global headquarters. I emphasize global. This is the global headquarters for Tempur-Pedic. We have operations and sell our products in over 80 countries around the world, and that's all based here in Lexington. And our goal is to make sure that the world knows that they would sleep better on temper, because they do. And we're also the most highly recommended bed in America, and hopefully we can recommend a Tempur-Pedic to each of you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Kevin, thank you very much, and thank you to the Commerce Lexington folks who are here. and there are two council members who wish to make a comment. Council Member Lane? Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd just like to thank these companies for the expansion of their businesses in Lexington and for their confidence in the quality of life and the business environment that our city offers. I'd like to give them a big hand if the council members will join in. Council Member Lawless. I, too, would like to thank all of you for choosing Lexington to grow your business and make it a better community. And I will also say that I bought my first Tempur-Pedic mattress about 18 years ago, and it has improved my quality of life. Thank you. Thank you all very much for being here. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on an issue on the agenda? If not, there is no summary to be approved. So, Council Members, we're on page one of our packet, and we'll start reviewing our docket. The first items are 16 through 19, first reading of new business of ordinances. Is there any referral or removal or question? If not, we'll move right on to first reading of resolutions on page 2. And this goes through page 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And these are first reading of resolutions. Are there questions or items you wish to have removed or referred to committee? And these items do include those items 39 through 43 for the incentives we just heard about. Okay. If not, we'll move right along to second reading of ordinances starting on page 6. This is 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and to the top of page 11. Council Member Lawless. Yes, number 29 was tabled because the residents had not been given proper notice. I was told that they would be sent proper notice, but I'm not sure if they have received it. Last I heard, they had not received their letters from the addressing committee. So I would like to table it, I guess, until after break. And surely the letters will have gone out by then, if Mr. Lucas is here. Second. Did you make a motion? I made a motion to table it. Oh, to table it again? Yes. Okay, that's not debatable. So the motion is to table number 29. Now, Council Member Lawless, we actually are not on second reading of resolutions yet. Oh, I thought you said all the way to page. We're still on second reading of ordinances. I'm happy to hear the motion right now, but then we'll go back. So the motion is to table number 29? Yes. All those in, is there, the technical question is, is there a time frame in your motion until when? The first meeting back from break, hoping that they will have gotten their appropriate 30-day notice in the mail. August the 16th. August 16th, thank you. Okay. So the motion is to table number 29 until August 16th work session. Yes. Thank you. All those in favor, please say aye and log in. We had two aye votes. If you'll log in, please. And all those who are nay, please log in. Okay. That motion passes seven to four. Did everyone vote? Yeah, everybody voted. We had 11 votes. So it's 7 to 4. That passes, so it's tabled until August 16th. Thank you. And again, this is to give them proper notice. Okay. Now, are there any items on the second reading of ordinances starting on the bottom of page six? I would like to go ahead then and to turn the chair over to Council Member Ellinger. Okay. Vice Mayor. Thank you. I wanted to say something and then make a motion regarding item 3 on page 7, which is the government reorganization. And the first thing I want to say is that I greatly appreciate the work that the administration put into this. And, Council Member Maloney, I want you to know that, and the commissioners, because I know that you have been thinking of what's very best for government, and I think that's a good thing. There's one item in here that I would like to make a motion to amend and remove because I have gotten quite a bit of input about putting budget under finance. And I realize that you feel that you have the right people in place, which I would agree with you on that. It concerns me greatly that budgeting would be placed under finance, and this has nothing to do with the people at all. It has to do with the position, and it has to do with the checks and balances. So I make a motion to amend item number three and to transfer the Division of Budgeting and to transfer it into the CAO's office. We have a motion and a second. Now discussion. I see Council Member Stinnett. Other topic. Any discussion on this particular item? Seeing none, we'll vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. We're going to take a, Dr. Blue seconded it. We better take a electronic vote, please. Okay. All those in favor, would you vote and say aye? Aye. All those opposed, nay. And vote. And that looks like that fails. Four to seven. Anything else, Vice Mayor? No. I will pass the gavel back. Okay. Thank you very much. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I had a question on the RE-ORG on number three. Maybe the commissioner of law can answer this question. Should the budget, this current budget, not pass, what happens to the RE-ORG? Because they won't have budgets, so. Well, we couldn't. I probably, you know, they won't be funded. Right. So you're going to. Lay a bunch of people off? Well, I don't think any new. I'm trying to think on the new positions in the reorg. Do you want to get back to us on that before Thursday night? I mean, do you have a... That's what... We don't think the reorg creates any new positions that are not... You know, it changes. It makes them promotional opportunities, but I don't think it creates any positions that you'd have to then. But it moves accounting budgets under different items. So if we don't approve the budget, that wouldn't happen. So how are you going to track the budgets? The control level is by division. As I understand, the real order has not been involved in developing it. However, it's moving divisions to different roll-ups, as we just talked about, reporting mechanisms. So the control level is division, the four different accounts. So basically, the budget as loaded would be appropriate. It's just the roll-ups in terms of who reports to who in the hierarchy. So the systems can be loaded with the divisional budgets and will function appropriately. So if you move forestry, say, to environmental quality, how are they going to obtain the forestry money if it's back in streets and roads budget? That is the one example that will cause challenges. Primarily the divisions are not going to be of issue, but individual divisions, if you break those up, those are going to be a challenge. Well, your budget, for instance, budgeting, where is it currently? Is that under the Commissioner of Finance? That's where we currently, we assume since this received first reading, we went with the ordinance as written. So there would be issues if we didn't pass a budget to the RE-ORG accounting-wise? The issues would be in the roll-up, not in actual chart fields being loaded appropriately. Can you look at that before Thursday and just make 100% sure? We'll take a look at it. What the ramifications would be? So basically look at it as if it passed as is and if it passed or if it failed as is. Just make sure there's nothing we're missing. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The proposed reorganization in Item 3 contemplates the creation of both an Office of Economic Development and the Office of the Chief Development Officer. As I understand, the Office of Economic Development has no employees, And so I'm not sure what the strategy is for creating a division which has no employees. And so I believe that if the administration wants to, if and when they want to actually create new employees for this empty office that they want, that they should come back to the council and we can talk about that then. So I make a motion to eliminate the Office of Economic Development from the reorganization. Do I hear a second? That motion dies for lack of a second. And CAO Maloney, did you want to speak to that? Yeah, I just want to get clarification. There was a mistake put on that chart. There was useful. The old one, that should be just one economic, what one is it? Come in there. It's not a mistake. It was an old one that we had and we cleared it up. That's what it was. You might stick around for more questions. Okay. I have a quick question. I was curious about why in the new reorganization, and this is a very teeny tiny itty bitty point, the solid line leading from the council to the council clerk was made a broken line, which to me would indicate less of a connection. Vice Mayor Gordon, if I may, the council clerk actually reports to the county clerk. Yes. And so that's why it's denoted with a broken line, just so we know that it's not solid, that there is other supervision. So was that a recommendation by law to do that, since it has been a solid line in the past when they reported to the county clerk? I don't know that it really makes that big of a difference, solid or broken. It's just that we are all aware that there is another level of supervision. We can switch it back to solid because that's the way it has been, but just to be clear that there is another level of supervision for the council clerk that doesn't lie with the urban county government. Well, I was curious, since it's been solid for a long, long time, why it went broken. That was bought by the county clerk. I mean, Susan Lamb brought that to my attention, that they needed a straight line. They report to the county clerk. That's why we put the line in there. So Susan brought that to our attention. Okay. Council Member Crosby. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have a question. I'm actually backtracking a little bit. I got sidetracked on number 38, and this is for Commissioner Graham. I don't have a specific question for you to answer here, but if you could please send me a memo on the RFP Selection Committee, who was on that committee and who attended that meeting from that committee that day, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Are there any other questions about the items on second reading of ordinances? If not, we'll move to page 11, second reading of resolutions. Are there any questions on items 23 through 38 or motions? Any questions? Referrals? Okay. Thank you very much. Budget amendments are on page 62, and these are for your review, Council Members. Are there any questions? These all relate to new business items. And then item five on the agenda. And we do have a question about budget amendments. Council Member Blues. I'm sorry. I apologize. I would like to go back to Resolution 29. I do have a request regarding it, if you wouldn't mind. Okay. On page 11, Item 29. Thank you. Since we are going to, since this issue has been tabled until we return from summer recess until August 16th, I would like to request that the Division of E911, by the time of that work session, provide counsel a complete record of the office's contacts with the property owners in question and with Council Member Lawless from the beginning of the process, which as I understand it began at least a year ago to the date of our discussion. I think that this is an extraordinarily important issue with implications for the way that the E911 division operates on important matters of address and street name changes, and that we should hear from that division and have a complete and accurate record of their transactions on this issue over the last year. Would you like that in the packet for August 16th? Yes, I would. I think that would be very helpful. Okay. So, Jeanette, I'll, okay, if you can request that from E911. Thank you. Is there any question on budget amendments on page 62? If not, we'll move right on to item five on the agenda, which is any items referred by council members. Does anyone have any items they want to walk on or refer to committee? Council Member Stennett, do you? I can do the core staff now, or we can wait until the committee reports. Either way, Simon, we're happy to hear it now. Okay. Council members, as you know, I emailed everyone last Thursday, work from the core staff work group, which was formed to take a look at the positions within the council core staff that we previously had. And we have recommended a few changes. You already approved one, and that's the council administrator's job description. I emailed everyone a copy of the new research analyst position as well as a position that two different people will fill, of the council administrative specialist position, so we'll hire two of those. That would bring our total core staff that's already budgeted in this budget to four positions. That's down from five positions that were budgeted last year, so we did cut one from that. So the recommendation would be to move this forward to the docket to approve the job description. We will need, if you all do accept the outlines that they were presented Thursday night to go into closed session to discuss the current personnel that will have ramifications on when we abolish the old position and actually create the new position. So we'll need to have that discussion hopefully Thursday night. This is the final report out. We also have changes to the council rules that reflect some of the work of the committee. We gave that to you last week, so you had time this weekend to review those changes to the council rules. We're open to questions today or before Thursday night's meeting. I just simply ask to place the job descriptions and the changes to council rules on the docket so we can at least have the first reading Thursday night in order to keep the process moving forward. So is there anyone? So that's a motion? Yes, ma'am. And second by Council Member McCord. Is there a discussion of the motion? Council Member Lane? First, I'd like to say, Council Member Stanton, thank you for chairing this committee. I'm sure it was a lot of fun working on this, and we appreciate your effort. The only question I have is, are we still within our budgeted amount for the next fiscal year? I presume that we are, but I just wanted to double-check. Yes. We are. Obviously, it depends on how much we hire each position in at, so that will have a ramification, but the maximum salaries are budgeted. Okay. Thank you, sir. Any other question about the motion? All right. All those in favor of moving forward to Thursday night's docket, the new council positions and the rules changes. And this is just the job descriptions, not the actual positions. Yes, the job descriptions. Thank you. Say aye. Aye. And if you'll log in. All those opposed? Okay. That motion passes 10-0. Thank you, Vice Mayor. You're welcome, and thank you very much for your work chairing that committee. Now, I'd like to ask Council Member Ellinger if he would take the chair, please. Vice Mayor. Thank you. All of you should have before you an ordinance which amends the Code of Ordinances. This is a very simple name change. We currently have the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons. It's difficult to say. It's difficult to remember. And the Commission has requested that the Council change the ordinance to rename the commission to be the Senior Services Commission. So I move to place on the docket an ordinance amending sections 2-189 through 2-197 of the Code of Ordinances to change the name of the Commission on Community Services for Older Persons to Senior Services Commission. We have a motion by the Vice Mayor and a second by Dr. Blues. Any discussion? All those in favor? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? That passes. Anything else, Vice Mayor? Vice Mayor, it's all yours. Thank you. Okay, is there any other item under number five? If not, we will go to committee reports. And first up is the Special Social Services Committee, which is reported on pages 63 through 77. And Council Member Myers chairs the committee, and Council Member Henson is the vice chair. So is there any member who wishes to give the report? If not, we can delay that report. Council Member Lane, do you want to give that report? I make a motion. We table this report to the next session. So move. All right. Thank you. Motion to table the social services. All those in favor, say aye. Anyone opposed? All right. Now, next up is the General Government Committee. Council Member Lane chairs that, page 78. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The General Government Committee met on June 7th, and the items on the agenda included a report on energy-efficient vehicles and a resolution to make government-generated data readily available to the general public. The General Services Acting Commissioner, John Sheed, made a report on energy efficient vehicles. He agreed to provide a cost analysis of an energy efficient vehicle versus a non-energy efficient vehicle to the council so that we could review the differential in cost. There was no action taken by the committee on this matter. The council, however, did approve 4-2, the following resolution related to open data. And that resolution is a resolution promoting open and transparent government and open data and directing the election of Fayette, Irving County Government, to develop agreements with regional partners to publish and maintain public data sets that are open and freely available, develop a strategy to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media, and organize regional contests to encourage the development of software applications to collect, organize, and share public data. This resolution was adopted four to two by the committee, so I'd like to make a motion to put this on the docket. Second. There's a motion and a second. Are there any questions? Madam Chairman, I think that Mr. Barton may have a few comments on this, whether you want to let him speak to it now or under the discussion area. And that concludes my report. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Members, this is something I put in committee last year, approximately in last summer. And during the course of our committee examination of this, we heard from Doug Robinson of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. and as it turns out, Mr. Robinson's office is across the street and this is the association which the state information officers from all over the country belong to this and gather together periodically throughout the year to talk about issues that they face. One of the things that they are very supportive of is the processing and gathering of state and government information and forms that other people can use. And I have a – I want to show you briefly. This is a – if you can – San Francisco is sort of the model on all this, but Louisville and lots of other towns of our size are subscribed to this. But essentially, this resolution is a resolution of support in asking the city of Lexington to, you know, really over time to move toward making its data available so that the public can use it and so software folks in town and elsewhere can make new applications that utilize this data. The San Francisco site has a lot of information that they have available, such as geographical information, crime statistics, zoning and historic districts, public parking, city budgets, demographics, city salaries, restaurant inspections. And we sent some information around to the council, but I've met with, talked with Richard, and I've talked with folks down in computer services. And this is really just kind of a statement of support at this point. There's no required budget for this at this point. There's no required metrics right now. It is a statement of the council that we believe that the city should move to make its information available to the public so that it can be open and transparent. And, of course, what we're talking about is information that's nonspecific to individuals. The government has so much different information than it collects, such as the salaries of people or crime statistics, how much crime is going on in a specific area. But it's very difficult to be open and transparent if this information can't be accessed by the consumers, by the citizens, and by taxpayers. And so many of the applications that you'd see like this, for example, you can have an application that uses the GIS information, the geographical information, and overlays that with crime statistics or with demographics so that we could see how an area in Lexington is actually progressing over time vis-à-vis their quality of life or their income or their age or various types of things. I guess the way this would work is that in future years as additional resources became available at budget time, we would try to encourage our computer department to gradually move the information that we keep into a standardized format that is compatible with these nationwide standards. standards. And so the purpose of having the resolution is really so that they can start thinking now about what they would do in two or three years as they make plans about how they keep and store data. We are in a very difficult budget time, and there is no intention to try to add additional, I guess, tax their resources in any way. But this has been in committee for about a year. It is supported, I think, by the administration, and perhaps someone from the administration might be able to speak to it. But I think it is, as Mr. K said during the discussion, I think it's long past due, and many cities of our size and of our quality have already adopted this in many years past. And so I think it's time for Lexington to step forward and to embrace an open, transparent data policy. The resolution in front of you is nearly identical to the resolution adopted by the Portland, Oregon City Council in December of 2009, and that's been a big effort out there in Oregon, and I'm hoping that we can take our first baby step today. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Martin, you had mentioned a couple of things that I just wanted to follow up on. One is you had said, well, this is just a statement of endorsement that we think this is a good idea. But by doing this, do you have any idea if this interfaces with PeopleSoft system? Well, it's a – we keep our information in a lot of different formats. What we don't have – and I'm proud of you, we're going to get a little technical, but the information currently doesn't have what's called the metadata with it. We actually have these data sets. For example, we have the GIS data set. But what we have to do is we actually have to install, I guess, put in the program what the fields are sort of with this machine-readable format so that someone over in Frankfurt can read it or someone else outside of city government can read it. And so there is, as we say, low-hanging fruit as far as easy to modify and to put out information, such as GIS information. And there's things that are medium sort of difficulty and things that are very difficult. And so at this point, I think we're looking at moving forward on just the very simplest to convert data. And I don't have anyone from IT here who can speak to that. But this is something that they have thought about. They have just joined the National Association of State Chief Information Officers as well. And so they are certainly aware of this and I think are comfortable with the flexibility that this requests of them. So they'll be able to get it on their own time. Council Member Martin, do you have any idea about the future costs? You had mentioned, hey, this doesn't do anything right now. But as you move forward, as you start to take on some of these tasks and so forth, have you costed those things out with Louisville and some other places, and do you have any kind of numbers that, hey, in the future years, this is what that would mean in our budget? I think it depends on how complex the software is, and I don't have any numbers for it, you know. But I think they will come to us and let us know when they need projects. Some of these things might require an RFP for services. Obviously, that's not in this budget at this time. And it's really an opportunity for them to start thinking about sort of down the road. We don't think long-term very often. And this is sort of a situation where it's a long-term type of policy. And I don't really expect, nor do they, that they're going to be spending money at the beginning of the budget year trying to do this. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lane. Yes, I did support this in the committee vote. My thinking was that having government data that's available to technology companies located here in town, they would be able to take the data and make it into a format that would be readily available to the general public. And as I was said at the meeting, there's about 40 companies that indicated an interest in becoming involved in open data. So that was it. I, however, am not, you know, encouraging that we invest a whole lot of money in this. I think this is more of a policy to make the data available to technology companies that might want to design applications to use the database. Thank you. Council Member Kay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I also supported this in committee and would like to say a few words in support of it again. First of all, I think we're committed to open government, and this is just one of the ways in which we become more of an open government. I think that makes us more efficient. We basically commit ourselves to using technology wisely. Secondly, this resolution is general and very permissive. It does not obligate the government to do much of anything, really, at the moment, except to start thinking about these things. I think, again, as we go down the road, we'll have more detail about what it would take. In addition, I'm told by some of the younger people I know in this community who are much more technically savvy than I and who work in this arena that if we begin to work on this now and we have such a resolution, it puts us in a position to compete for some of the kinds of funding that will be made available to encourage open government and open data. So I urge support of this motion. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. I'm not on the committee, but I think it's a fabulous idea. I know Take It Art Side is an iPhone app that's really useful. It can tell you where you are and what art's around. There's the Lexington Tourist and Convention Bureau has an app for iPhones and other. And so I think this is just an extension of those kinds of things, and I'm all for it. Rock on. Is there any other comment on the motion? Councilmember Martin? I think Mr. Edmonds has a comment, and I wanted to speak to it briefly. Sure. As a general concept, the mayor absolutely agrees in this transparency move. We don't think, I briefly read it. It only came out yesterday. But we do need to talk more to the IT folks across the government to make sure it's not going to obligate us too much. But at first read, it seems fine with us, and we're happy to support it. Thank you. Is there any other comment about the motion? The motion is to move forward to the docket, the open data resolution. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay, that passes 10-0. And did that complete your report? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member. Very good. Is there anything else on committees? Now we'll go on to Council Report, and we have Council Member Stenet. Just in time. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just a couple of announcements. In working with the mayor's office, we were able to, as most of you probably know or maybe not know, we are hosting in Kentucky for the first time ever a NASCAR Sprint Cup race up on Sparta on July the 9th. This is a huge deal for our state actually hosting the big race, and this is one of the big ones on the circuit this year. Well, fortunate for us, Lexington was chosen as one of the stops. As they move the vehicles from track to track, they stop here in Lexington. And these are the haulers that actually haul the vehicles with the vehicles inside. They're actually used on race day. Lexington will be able to, on July 6th, host the haulers here in town. They will be located in Hamburg at the Walmart and Lowe's parking lots at 10 a.m. on July 6th. It's open to the public to come, view the haulers, talk to the NASCAR officials, walk through them and see them. And after that, at noon, we'll start a parade of haulers from Hamburg coming down Winchester Road through Main Street and back out Newtown Pike to the interstate so they can go on to Sparta. They're on a very tight schedule. They do a pretty good job of scheduling their events between tracks. But Lexington will actually have 40 haulers. And if anybody has seen a hauler from NASCAR, they're pretty big vehicles. So they are paying for police escort. So this is not something we'll be paying for as a government. that's important, I know, during these times. I want to make that clear. But this whole event is open to the public. It'll be at noon, the parade through Lexington to get back to the interstate. So people working downtown on your lunch break, come down, take a look at them, because it's the first time we've ever been able to see them here locally live. Louisville is only getting two of them. Cincinnati is getting two, but Lexington gets 35 to 40 of them. So it's a pretty unique event, and they chose Lexington to bring most of their haulers here. So anyone that wants to come out to Hamburg on July 6th, it's a Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to noon, You can actually go through them, look in them, see the cars, and then after that there will be a parade through Lexington back out to the interstate and back home. So I'd encourage anyone to come out. Obviously it's going through Council Member Blues and Council Member Ford's districts as well as all the at-large. Council Member Ellinger wants to know if they can drive the cars. You can ask. They can always say no or yes, but the cars will be in the holler, so someone can take a look at that. Second of all, Autumn Ridge Neighborhood Association will be meeting Monday night at 630 at Crossroads Church and on Todd's Road. So thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just have one announcement, and that is that the Oakwood Neighborhood Association will meet on Monday, June 27th, and that's at 7 p.m. in the Community Center in Oakwood Park. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Kay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have an issue that I want to bring back up for Council, and this relates to the question that we dealt with when Council Member Myers made a motion, or the, I'm sorry, the Vice Mayor referred to the full committee, the recommendation from Council Member Myers regarding the jail and the study of the jail, and it's being referred to the Public Safety Committee. At that time, we had the opportunity to review the tape, and in fact, the wording was exactly as Council Member Myers had indicated, and the motion went forward. What I should have done at that time was made an amendment, or proposed an amendment, because I believe that the sentiment of the group about that report was that the recommendation to study should not be biased one way or another, and that the reference to the sheriff should be more generalized. So I'm going to make a motion that that, it was a motion to refer to committee, that that be amended, and to remove the direct reference to the sheriff's office and to read, refer to public safety committee, review of the report on the jail, and discussion of the best system of management for the Fayette County Jail. So move. Second. Okay, Council Member Kay moves and Council Member McCord seconds. And I believe you said report. Did you want both reports? Both reports, I'm sorry. To review both reports of the jail to the Public Safety Committee. Any discussion on motion? So that would amend the issue that's in committee. If I can just say one more thing. I think maybe it's a subtle point, but I think it's an important one. And I think that the committee, when looking at that, should not start with a bias one way or another. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Is there a discussion on the motion? If you'll let me know by hand. No. Okay. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. That motion passes. Thank you very much. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just a couple things. One, I wanted to say a very large thank you to our airport, to Eric Frankel, the director, Scott Laidner, the chief of police, Amy Cottle, their marketing director, and, of course, their whole board. A couple weeks ago we had Second Sunday at the airport, and what we saw again was that there were well over 10,000 people coming out to blade, bike, walk, push a stroller to enjoy a day of being together as a community but also a day of physical activity. And Vice Mayor, I want to thank you for coming and the mayor for being there. And what it says about our community is that recognizing the health challenges that we have, not only in the state, in our community, in our country, but that Lexington is a solutions provider, that we are very creative in how we approach these types of things. No community in America does what we're doing. And what we're doing is we're sending a message that if you don't have the infrastructure, if you're in economic hard times and you can't build certain things, if you can't build recreational infrastructure, borrow it. And we borrow it in a big way. The airport has been gracious to have us out there, but they are even more creative than we might imagine as they've started to look at this as an event, not only that we can celebrate, hey, we did two of these, but an ongoing event, something that we would have every year in June. And so I applaud them and thank them as well as all the folks that were involved with making it a success. I also want to point out something that we're doing right in our own parks system here, and Stacey Diamond especially I want to give some credit to. At Southland and Woodland Pools, our Parks and Rec Department has partnered with the Tweens Nutritional and Fitness Coalition to create these Better Bites menu. And basically at Southland and Woodland Pools you have a healthier menu, and you have things like apples and so forth like that on the menu. and they are using those two pools as a test program right now to see how responsive we are to those types of things so that maybe next year we can start to push it into all of our pools. But I want to congratulate them for taking a step in the right direction in the administration. John Shee, I appreciate Jerry Hancock and all these folks in general services really taking a look at how can we make a healthier Lexington. And so this is a major step in that direction. I want to thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Ford. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I want to focus my comments and my report in regards to going back to the budget for fiscal year 12. And I want to make some clarifications. First and foremost, I do recognize how much time has gone into the process. I didn't intend to allude to the fact that we haven't done anything, because that would not be accurate. We have a lot of work that's gone into it. However, I still feel long-term a need for us to look at priorities. I also want to make a clarification. When I indicated going reviewing the budget line by line, I wasn't literally meaning taking the green book and going line by line. The point I'll make is this, is that I don't think that, and I would still welcome an opportunity, if any, for us to just summarize what we've done. For example, I look at the budget ordinance that was read today, and it has a lot of legal ease. It does not describe financially and fiscally what we, the council, has done to the budget. I do think I have in my hand an email that came from Connie Underwood, our budget analyst, that did a great job for us this year. And if I'm correct, it shows total funds at roughly $275 million with a fund balance of $600,000. And it has line items, major line items. And so, again, I make that clarification in regards to revenue and in regards to appropriation. I would like to discuss this because I still don't think that we have, after we've done our work as a council, We have not presented our findings and discussed them as a council or presented them to the community. That's just my take. When the mayor presents his budget to us, he comes and gives us a presentation, and he kind of summarizes, not line by line, but he summarizes the high points based on what Connie provided us. There's importance to that because it gives some clarity in regards to what we've done, such as proposing a new recruit class of 25 persons. It also provides, again, for us to check the work from the mayor's proposed budget, even during that process. We had a list of omissions. We had a list of clerical mistakes. That happens when you're dealing with $275 million. That would just be my recommendation. recommendation if we don't do it this year, I'll try to find a way through the process for us to build that into our budgetary process as a council in the future. After all, we've gone through the work of two months. How do we return the information to government and to the public before we officially adopt the budget? Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. And I know that Commissioner Driscoll is very interested in getting going earlier this next budget cycle so that we can have better collaboration, and perhaps that would be something we could talk about early on, how to make that happen. And, you know, just because we did it this way in the past doesn't mean we have to do it this way in the future. So if there's some new ideas and new collaborative efforts, I think that we can get toward that with Council working with the administration. May I ask one more question? while I have just a few minutes, Vice Mayor? This is my first time, so I'll just go ahead and ask it. Has our budget analysts on behalf of the council had an opportunity to review the numbers with the administration? It's my understanding. She did meet with Ryan. I don't think he's in here. And had a session with Ryan about the numbers. Is that your understanding, Commissioner? Mm-hmm. Before she left, she actually did have that interaction. Is there anything that we can do in the immediate? I'm going to push this forward in the future for next year, budget of the year, fiscal 13. But is there anything that we can do in the interim of the second read Thursday night to summarize the budget that we have developed as a council? And I'm not speaking in good or bad. I'm just talking factual. Is there something, because we haven't done that, I don't think that the only thing that the citizens know about the budget that we've adopted is what they read in the newspaper. Is, Commissioner, is the budget that the council put on the docket and had first reading of, is that online yet? I know it's been a short time frame, but that might be one way, Council Member Ford, if it's online so people can see it. Yes. It is not. We are working through some issues with the system today, but we can keep you updated on when we're trying to get that obviously completed for you to have to vote. And Council Member Stenet had a comment. I was just going to respond to Council Member Ford. That's been part of the council's frustration for years. The mayor gets an opportunity to put out a press release based on our decisions, but the council as a whole never does a press release. We don't have a news conference. The only opportunity we get to or have in the past, and I referenced it earlier, is Thursday night before we vote for the budget, we have an opportunity to speak about it. And is that covered by all the media? No. It's not going to be covered unless someone's going to say something controversial, and that's just the facts of it. So maybe in the future, maybe we do need to put out a summary as a group. I mean, again, we're not going to agree with everything in that summary, but it is the actions of the collective whole and put out a detailed summary and do a press release as a group. And I think that would solve a lot of these issues because you're right. We did a lot of things, a lot more than what was covered in the paper, I can tell you that. A lot of good things. So it needs to be publicized. Well, thank you, guys. Thanks, Vice Mayor and everybody. We'll see how it goes in the future. So thank you for your patience. Well, I'm going to write it in my little red budget book for the future so that we don't forget. Council Member Lawless. Yes, I want to let everybody know that this Saturday and Sunday the Goodrich Neighborhood Association will be hosting a work day in Goodrich Park, and they need people to come and help spread mulch around the newly planted trees and shrubs in the park, if you want to help, please bring a pair of work gloves, and maybe if you have a shovel or a rake, that might help too. They could use all the help they could get. I want to remind everybody again about our wonderful farmer's market at Cheapside Park on Saturdays. And it's at South Broadway in Maxwell. I remembered the street names today. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and on Sundays, I believe it is on Southland Drive. So you can go to LexingtonFarmersMarket.com if you want more information. And the Southland Jamboree is each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. and on Southland Drive, Collins Bowling Alley. This week's featured bluegrass group is Dix River Crossing. So this is an area that's right on the border of Council Member Martin and I. And I knew Maxwell and South Broadway, so, you know, I'm up to about 30%. Anyway, you can bring a chair, blanket, come on out. Thursday night live is every Thursday night, and everybody's having a great time with that. There are a lot of things going on downtown, so please look at the websites and have fun. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I also wanted to remind folks about the Southland Jamboree. It's just a great thing on Tuesday nights. tonight at 7 p.m. over in Southland, but also the Moon Dance at Midnight Pass out in Beaumont Circle is having movies on Thursday nights and having a range of new acts out there. It's kind of our little slice of riverbend. And they bring a blanket, bring a lawn chair, bring a picnic, and there's some just great things going on out there. Some of the jazz band's going to be out there and some ballet. But Thursday nights are, I think, last week they had Blade Runner. So a moving night for last Thursday. So check the schedule. It's on my council newsletter as well on my website. So it's just a really neat thing to do for the south side of Lexington. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. And then I just had one item the Committee of the Whole met yesterday, and the single agenda item was to take a look after six months at the council restructuring. And as soon as law can get us those changes, I will move that onto the docket. And we're hopeful to do that before we go on break. And I think that's doable, isn't it? Yes. Okay, very good. Thank you. And I appreciate law's support on that. Is there any other council report? If not, is there any public comment of issues not on the agenda? If so, please come to the podium. I don't see any, so there's a motion to adjourn in a second. All those in favor, say aye. Anyone opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you.