Greetings, everyone. Well, the council has been in a meeting, so we're developing a quorum here. I was just going to let you all know why we're running a little bit late. You can go back to conversation while we're getting a little quorum together here, if you all want to. And I'll announce when everybody's here. Have we got it yet? One, two, three, four. Almost. We got it. All right. All right, then. I'll call the meeting to order. Thank you all for joining us tonight. We've got a big crowd. It's almost an overflow. First on our agenda is the calling of the roll. So, Madam Clerk, would you call the roll, please? Ms. Lawless. Mr. Martin. Mr. McCord. Here. Mr. Myers. Mr. Stennett. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard. Present. Mr. Blues. Ms. Crosby. Mr. Ellinger. Here. Mr. Farmer. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford. Here. Ms. Gorton. Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. And Mr. Lane? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Susan. Next is our invocation, and it's my pleasure to welcome the Reverend Kenneth Golfin of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Brother Kenneth, thank you for joining us tonight. Let us pray. O thou creator of the universe, the lover and the god of your people, we come before your presence thanking you for this council, thanking you for the opportunity to serve your people. We ask, Lord, as they gather tonight to consider the business of our city, that you would bless them with wisdom, that you would grant them courage, and that you would grant them peace, Lord, to understand that they have done the best that they could do under your direction. We pray, Lord, for the citizens of this community, that as we are followers of these leaders, that you would give us also, Lord, the courage to stand with our convictions, and to be the type of citizens who are concerned about our community and concerned about one another in a way that shows forth your love. In your name we pray and ask this all. Amen. Amen. Thank you, sir. We're showing a couple of presentations on our agenda tonight, And the suggestion of Council Member Stennett will take up the update on health insurance at the end of the meeting, if that's all right with the Council, and go through the docket first. And that way, folks who are here for issues that may be on the docket, it'd be a little bit more convenient for you. And first on the presentations tonight is recognizing and honoring all the folks, all those who participated in the July Jamboree, which was a part of our Youth Development Task Force work that was so well created, imagined, implemented by many in our community, but especially by Councilmember Chris Ford. I'm going to come around and ask Chris to come around so that we can hand out certificates for those who participated, And I'm going to ask Chris, if he would, to share his thoughts. And then we'll recognize one of the leaders in this whole effort, who is fortunately never without good thoughts. And that is Brother Aaron Mosley. But first, Brother Aaron, we're going to let Brother Chris Ford speak. All right, sir? Good afternoon, fellow council members and everybody who was assembled here today. It is with delight that I have the honor to join our council and our mayor in taking a moment to applaud the work of our community residents that have responded. There's been great response this summer for the benefit of our youth and public safety, but the July Jamboree is just one of those shining examples of the people working with this government, coming together and coordinating a task and having fun in a safe way along the way. So keep my remarks briefed and just thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for the sacrifice and for the care that you have put in to serving our youth this summer. Job very, very well done. Thank you. Council Member Ford, thank you. And I'm going to ask Aaron Mosley to come up now. And as Aaron's coming up, I'm going to say that he told Chris and he told all of us, He said, now, if y'all just give us, if the government will just give us the keys and the electricity, the castle would, then we'll bring the kids. Isn't that right? That's kind of it. Yeah, and Brother Bruce Mundy. Where is Brother Mundy? He's right here. Where is he? Yep. He said earlier tonight, he said, this was a great demonstration, a great illustration, like Chris just said, of what a community can do when it pulls together. It doesn't always have to have a whole lot of money. It doesn't always have to have a whole lot of resources, but it does need the community. It does need the commitment of people. And that's what has been demonstrated here. Aaron, thank you so much. You're welcome. I'm going to be brief. Even though I'm Baptist, you think I'm going to talk all day. It ain't going to happen. I just want to, first of all, I want to give all the honor and all the glory and all the praise to God. I ain't going to be shame of him down here so he won't let me in them pearly gates. They'll get mad at me later, but I have to do that first. And I just want to, there's some individuals that just came to the forefront. We're all going to get the same certificate. But Reverend Felix G. Williams III of Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church and Bishop Jerome Norwood, when they first heard that we were doing this, They came, they said, well, here, let us let you guys use our church vans so you guys can transport these kids all over. Then a brother, Wayne Grant, came through. He said, well, I'll use my personal van, and that way we can get kids from all over the city to this endeavor. And then what Southland Christian and Crossroads Christian and Lexington Leadership Foundation, and if I forget somebody, it's not on purpose. It's just that all of us came together as one for a community. that John F. Kennedy said it, but it's really not what our community can do for us. It's what we can do for our community. And I think this is a great illustration of us reaching out to the city, to the mayor's office, to the council. And I want to thank you guys. I want to thank each and every council member and the mayor and everybody for giving us the opportunity because we couldn't have never done this without an opportunity. You know, the work that Angie Green and Denny Hamlin, everybody that's with Parks and Rec. I mean, we had 18 different entities come together as one and put this thing together. And Councilman Ford coming to visit us. We had the police department that was coming there two and three times a night to make sure nothing jumped off. It was just a beautiful, beautiful thing that we did over there. with a whole lot of people coming together for us to do it. So I've got 15 seconds, and I'm going to use them very wisely. I also want to, what ML King Academy done, what they're doing over there and reaching out to the community with Mark Sellers, Linda Fraser, Crancy Murdoch, Tom Parker, and the work they're doing helping these kids get graduated and working within the communities. It's just a holistic type thing, and I just want to tell each and every one of you guys out here, thank you. I hope we're a picture of what all the communities in Lexington can be by just coming together and doing something for the common good, because we surely didn't have no money. Mayor Gray didn't give us no money. I want that to be known. So we had to do it on our own. So thank you, Mayor, and thank you, everybody. All right, sir. All right, sir. Stay up here with us. Stay up here with us. We're going to hand out these certificates. Now, just ask the council if you all just be patient and some of our members of the audience and our viewing audience. We'd like to give the certificates to everyone who participate who's here tonight, and we'll call out the names, and you all come right up here, stand, get the certificate, and then we'll get a quick picture, okay? I'm going to call out the names. Now, if you're not here, that's okay, too. First, Logan Averitt. Logan, thank you, sir. Now, I know Employment Solutions is here. Rick, you've got some of your folks. Workers for a Fresh Approach. Right. The entire group. There we go. Linda Frazier. Linda? All right. And Eric Gary. Eric here? Eric is here. Yes, I already saw Eric. Thanks, buddy. I'm losing my mind. Thanks, Eric. Angie Green. Is Angie here? Yes, Angie. Now, Wayne, I'm going to, Wayne Garant, right? Is Wayne here? Wayne's not here tonight. Wayne is here. Yes, sir. Wayne, yes, sir. You got it right there. And Frank Hall. Is Frank here? Frank? Denny Hamlin, you mentioned Denny already. All right. And Billy Mallory. Billy's here. I saw her. Maddie Morton. Maddie. I know Maddie's here. Maddie, thank you. Maddie had a great summer with the Youth Employment Program. She just celebrated that this week, wasn't it? This week, last Friday. And Bruce Mundy. Brother Bruce. Quincy Murdoch. Quincy. Yes, sir. Kirby Neal. Kirby Neal. Not here. Bishop Jerome Norwood. I hadn't seen the bishop. Is he here? This is a man who's known all the way up in... I met a friend of yours in Baltimore about two months ago, Bishop Norwood. You know who I'm talking about. Bob Owsley. I saw Bob. Bob, Mr. Bob, come on up here, Bob. Thank you, sir. And Tom Parker. Is Tom here? Tom's not here. Kevin Pate and Missy Pate. They're not here. All righty. Audra Patrick and Marcus Patrick. They are here. That's right. I bet y'all. All right, Connie Rayford. Is Connie here? Yes, ma'am. And Minister Mike Reese. Is Minister Mike not here? Okay. Mark Sellers and Brenda Shanks. Okay. Linda Shirley. Mark is here. One of the kids from MLK Academy has accepted Mark Sellers' certificate. Thanks, Aaron. Thanks, Brenda. Linda Shirley, Shontes Taylor, and Dr. Felix Williams. Felix G. Yes, yes, sir. And Michael Jackson. Is Michael here? Michael's here? Yeah, Michael. And finally, and finally, big hand for Aaron Mosley and his certificate. Chris, have we got a picture? Well, get everybody together. Council members, y'all stand up if you can. Get in the picture, too. It'll be easy. Jump up. That's really great. Group in. If you get like 2 or 3D, 4D. Okay. Let me run that side there a little bit. Alright. You can't see the camera. Can't we see the camera? Alright. Here we go. One, two, three. Three. Good again. Ready? One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Good. All right. Thank you all. Thanks, everybody. I was there from the beginning. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda are committee reports, Vice Mayor Gorton. Thank you, Mayor. The Committee of the Whole Work Session met August 23rd, and I have four items to come tonight. I move to recommend to the docket a multi-way stop at Londonderry and Dunkirk. Second. A motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Are we ready for a vote? All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Do we have a... I move to refer to the parking authority the issue of bike lane striping and have them report back their findings to the full council, and this is the process for striping for bike lanes. There's a motion I have, seconded by the Vice Mayor, seconded by Council Member McCord. Is there any discussion? All right, take a vote then. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I move to direct the Division of Public Works to remove the bike lane striping between Woodland and Kentucky Avenues and replace with parking space striping. Second. That's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Lane. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And I move to recommend supporting the administration's option for the two-year plan of the Sanitary Sewer Consent Decree Implementation Ten-Year Financial Model Remedial Measures Capital Improvement Plan, and that's the two-year design storm, Mayor. So moved. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? All in favor then, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. And that concludes my report. All right. Next on the agenda, ordinances requiring a second reading. Madam Clerk, can you give us Ordinances 1 through 17, please, a reading? Ordinance number 1, an ordinance change in the zone from a professional office P1 zone to a neighborhood business B1 zone for 2.55 net, 3.05 gross, acres for property located at 4268 Seren Drive, a portion of, subject to certain use and buffering restrictions imposed as conditions of granting the zone change, Thunder Properties LLC. Number 2, an ordinance amending Articles 5-9, 17-4, 23C-13, and 26-12 of the Zoning Ordinance to provide for civil citations and civil penalties related to zoning enforcement. Number three, an ordinance amending Articles 1-11, 8-17D, 8-19D, 8-20D, 8-21D, 8-22D, 8-23D, 8-24D, 23A-4D, 23A-9D, 23A-10D, 28-3D, and 28-4D to define and regulate temporary structures. Number four, an ordinance submitting Articles 1-11, 8-16B and D, 8-17D, 8-20B and D, 8-21B and D, 8-22D, 8-23D, 23A, 9B and D, 11-2I and 11-4 to define and further regulate circuses and carnivals. Number five, an ordinance accepting the bid of sensible design and construction in the amount of $189,000 for a pole barn storage building for the Division of Police and appropriating funds pursuant to Schedule number 24. Number six, an ordinance accepting the bid of Godwin Pumps of America Incorporated in the amount of $25,900 for a sewer overflow response program emergency response trailer for the Division of Water Quality and appropriating funds pursuant to Schedule number 25. Number 7, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayton-Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures in appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule Number 27. Number 8, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayton-Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $225 from neighborhood development funds in the Division of Code Enforcement for Property Abatement in Appropriating and Reappropriating Funds, Schedule Number 28. Number nine, an ordinance submitting certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fade Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $4,277 from neighborhood development funds in the Division of Parks and Recreation for William Wells Brown Community Center Summer Programs and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 29. Number 10, an ordinance closing a steel alley determining that property owners abutting the street to be closed have been identified, provided with written notice of the proposed closing and consented thereto in writing and authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a quit-claim deed transferring the former right-of-way to the abutting owners subject to the reservation of easements for access and maintenance of existing utilities in the former right-of-way. Number 11, an ordinance submitting Section 22-5-2 of the Code of Ordinances creating four positions of Program Specialist Grade 112E, abolishing four positions of Administrative Specialist Senior Grade 112N in the office of the Mayor. Number 12, an ordinance redistricting the districts of the Fiscal Court Commissioner justices of the peace, magistrates, and constables. Number 13, an ordinance levying ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes for the fiscal year July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012, and on the assessed value of all taxable property within the taxing jurisdictions of the Lexington-Fayton-Arbon County Government, all taxes on each $100 of assessed valuation as of the January 1, 2011 assessment date as follows. General Services District, .0800 on real property, including real property of public service companies, .0990 on personal property, including personal property of public service companies, non-commercial aircraft, and non-commercial watercraft, .1500 on insurance capital, .0150 on tobacco and storage, and .0450 on agricultural products and storage. full urban or partial urban services districts based on urban services available on real property, including real property of public service companies, .1431 for refuse collection, .0210 for street lights, .0094 for street cleaning, .0920 on insurance capital, .0150 on tobacco and storage, .0450 on agricultural products and storage, and levying an ad valorem tax for municipal purposes at the rate of .0880 on each $100 of assessed value on all motor vehicles and watercraft within the taxing jurisdiction of the Lexington-Fayette-Irvin County Government as of the January 1, 2012 assessment date. Number 14, an ordinance levying ad valorem taxes for purposes of support of the Agricultural Extension Office for the fiscal year July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012, on the assessed value of all taxable real and personal property within the taxing jurisdiction of the Lexington, Fayette, Urban County Government. All taxes on $100 of each of assessed valuation as of the January 1, 2011 assessment date as follows. .0032 on all taxable real property, including real property of public service companies. .0035 on taxable personal property, including personal property of public service companies, non-commercial aircraft and non-commercial watercraft, and excluding inventory and transit insurance capital, tobacco and storage, and agricultural products and storage, and levying an ad valorem tax for purposes of support of the Agricultural Extension Office at a rate of .0032 on each $100 of assessed value on all motor vehicles and watercraft within the taxing jurisdictions of the Lexington-Fade Urban County Government as of the January 1, 2012 assessment date. Number 15, an ordinance levying ad valorem taxes for purposes of support of the Soil and Water Conservation District for the fiscal year July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 on the assessed value of all taxable real property within the taxing jurisdiction of the Lexington-Faylor County Government, including real property of public service companies at a rate of .000416 on each $100 of assessed valuation as of the January 1, 2011 assessment date with the tax bills computed and collected at a rate of .0004 on each $100 of assessed valuation. Number 16, an ordinance adopting the request of the Lexington Fayette County Health Department under KRS 212.755 and levying a special ad valorem public health tax for the fiscal year July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 on the assessed value of all taxable real and personal property within the taxing jurisdiction of the Lexington-Paylor County Government, including real and personal property of public service companies, non-commercial aircraft, non-commercial watercraft, and inventory in transit, and excluding insurance capital, tobacco and storage, and agricultural products in storage at the rate of .028 on each $100 of assessed value as of the January 1, 2011 assessment date and levying a special ad valorem public health tax at the rate of .028 on each $100 of assessed value on all motor vehicles and watercraft within the taxing jurisdiction of the Lexington-Fayette-Irban County Government as of the January 1, 2012 assessment date. Number 17, an ordinance amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 222-2010, amending the schedule of meetings for the Lexington-Fayette-Arbon County Council for the calendar year 2011 from September to the end of the year to reflect a change in the rules of the Council, decreasing the number of standing committees to six and establishing weekly Council work sessions. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Yeah, we've got a quorum if we've got Mr. Ford back up here. We've got 10 now, right? All right, is there a motion to approve the ordinances? Councilmember Ellinger makes a motion seconded by Councilmember Beard. Is there any discussion? No discussion? All right, then we're ready for a vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. I'll oppose no. Motion carried. We can take care of that with a roll call. Yes, I missed that. Thank you, Council Member Blues, for correcting. Madam Clerk, would you call the roll, please? Yes, sir. Mr. McCord. Yes. Mr. Stennett. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard. Yes. Mr. Blues. Yes. Mr. Ellinger. Yes. Mr. Farmer. Yes. Mr. Ford. Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. And Mr. Lane? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the ordinances. Madam Clerk, are you ready for the first reading of ordinances? There's actually a motion that is supposed to be for number 18, and I think Hillary is going to make a copy of that. Okay. So can I go ahead and read 19 and we come back to 18? Okay. Yes, ma'am. Oh, I'm not showing that on my schedule. It is a... Here she comes. Thank you. Can you explain? If he reads the motion, I think that will explain. Explain it, okay. Yes, sir. Council Member Forward. I move to amend Ordinance Number 18 on the docket for first reading to amend the title only to include a text amendment to Article 8-22B of the Zoning Ordinance. The proposed language was included in the body of the ordinance, but the article was not listed in the title of the ordinance. Second. Motion by Council Member Ford. Second by Vice Mayor Corton. Hearing discussion on the motion. All right. Ready for a vote then? All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Ordinance No. 18 as amended, an ordinance amending Articles 8-21B and 8-22B of the Zoning Ordinance to allow shredding and baling of paper scrap and storage of waste paper in the Wholesale and Warehouse Business B-4 Zone. No. 19, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fed Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures in appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 31. Number 20, an ordinance granting a waiver to the Richmond Road Landscape Plan, Ordinance Number 212-83 for 2299, 2349, and 2399 Richmond Road. Number 21, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Pate Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for the funds in the amount of $3,796.91 from Neighborhood Development Funds in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services for training, equipment, and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 32. Number 22, an ordinance amending section 21-52 of the Code of Ordinances, abolishing one position of administrative officer, grade 118E, in the office of the Commissioner of Public Works, and creating one position of administrative officer, grade 118E, in the office of the Commissioner of Environmental Quality and Public Works, and amending section 22-52 of the Code of Ordinances, abolishing one position of Commissioner of Public Works and Development, grade 211E, one position of construction supervisor, grade 118E, one position of administrative specialist senior, grade 112N, changing the name of Commissioner of Environmental Quality to the Commissioner of Environmental Quality and Public Works, creating one position of construction supervisor, grade 118E, and one position of administrative specialist senior, grade 112N, all in the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works. And number 23, an ordinance meeting, Section 23-5B of the Code of Ordinances, abolishing one position of police captain and creating one position of police lieutenant in the Division of Police and accepting, excuse me, and appropriating funds pursuant to Schedule number 30. Thank you. So we're ready for Councilor. I'm sorry. Mr. Stinnett. Thank you, Mayor. Normally I wouldn't do this on a text amendment, but because of the timing and because we don't have a meeting for another three more weeks, I want to ask for second reading on number 18. So I'll make a motion to suspend the rules to give number 18 a second reading. It's a motion by Council Member Stennett and a second by Council Member Lane to suspend the rules on item number 18. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of suspending the rules on item number 18, please indicate by saying aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Stennett. Madam Clerk. Second reading of Ordinance No. 18, an ordinance amending Articles 8-21B and 8-22B of the Zoning Ordinance to allow shredding and bailing of paper scrap and storage of waste paper in the wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone. All right. Is there a motion? Second. Motion to approve by Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Stenet. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, we'll take a roll call vote on it. Yes, sir. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. And Mr. Lane? Yes. Thank you. Okay, the vote reflects passage. Thank you. Madam Clerk, are you ready for? Yes, sir. Second reading. Perfect. Rock and roll. Resolution number one, a resolution accepting the bid of environmental landscape, LLC, and the amount of $219,275 for the Newtown Pike Enhancement Project for the Council Office. Number two, a resolution accepting the bids of Advanced Turf Solutions, Harrells, LLC, John Deere Landscapes, Agrim Advanced Technologies, Regal Chemical Company, Residix, Turfgrass, LLC, and Pennington Seed, establishing price contracts for golf course horticultural products for the Division of Parks and Recreation. Number three, a resolution accepting the bid of Adamson Industries Corporation, establishing a price contract for prisoner restraint cages for the Division of Police. Number four, a resolution accepting the bid of Van Hook Enterprises, Incorporated in the amount of $699,000 for the West Hickman Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Solids Building Odor HVIC Improvements for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Van Hook Enterprises Incorporated related to the bid. Number five, a resolution accepting the bid of Univar USA establishing a price contract for liquid chlorine for the Division of Water Quality. Number six, a resolution amending Resolution number 297-2011 which established a residential parking permit program for the 700 block of Tremont Avenue to combine the 700 block of Tremont Avenue with the residential parking permit zone for Beaumont Avenue and the 700 block of Melrose Avenue, established by Resolution No. 75, 2010, and retaining all other provisions of Resolution No. 297, 2011. Number 7, a resolution changing the street names and property address numbers of 3064 Beaumont Center Circle to 3084 Lake Crest Circle of 1 Imperial Court to 779 Newtown Pike of 1012 Wellington Way to 3705 Palomar Center Drive and of 1201 Devonshire Avenue to 1035 Red Mile Road. Change in the property address numbers of 196 Arkeem Avenue to 204 Arkeem Avenue, of 4141 Boone Creek Road to 4153 Boone Creek Road, of 1710 and 1726 Bryant Road to 1730 and 1740 Bryant Road, of 117, 111, and 109 and a half Burley Avenue to 121, 119, and 115 Burley Avenue, of 270 Driscoll Street to 272 Driscoll Street, of 1100 Horseman's Lane, units B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9, B10, B11, and B12 to 1040 Horseman's Lane units, 101, 104, 102, 103, 201, 204, 202, 203, 301, 304, 302, and 303 of 1100 Horseman's Lane units, units A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, and A12 to 1054. Horseman's Lane units 101, 104, 102, 103, 201, 204, 202, 203, 301, 304, 302, and 303. Of 165 Jefferson Street to 167 Jefferson Street. of 500 Lake Tower Drive Units 110 and 111 to 500 Lake Tower Drive Units 145 and 146 of 445, 449, 447, 445, and 431 Patch and Drive to 455, 457, 459, 461, and 463 Patch and Drive of 3457 and 3459 Red Coach Trail to 3470 and 3468 Red Coach Trail of 363 Woodview Drive, Unit 8A to 365 Woodview Drive, and of 365 Woodview Drive, Unit 8B to 363 Woodview Drive, and change in the street name of 164 Delmont Court Units A and B to 164 Delmont Drive Units A and B, of 154 Delmont Court Units A and B to 154 Delmont Drive Units A and B, of 1192 Devonport Drive to 1192 Devonport Circle of 1519, 1523, 1527, 1533, 1537, 1541, 1549, 1553, 1601, 1609, 1613, 1617, 1621, 1625, 1629, 1633, 1637, 1641, 1645, and 1649. Leastown Road to 1519, 1523, 1527, 1533, 1537, 1545, 1549, 1553, 1601, 1609, 1613, 1617, 1621, 1625, 1629, 1633, 1637, 1641, 1645, and 1649 Ode Leastown Road. and of 239, 243, 245, 247, 250, 251, 257, 261, 265, 269, 271, and Street 2, 239, 243, 245, 247, 251, 257, 261, 265, 269, and 271 Shropshire Avenue, all effective 30 days from passage. Number eight, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways, to increase the amount of reimbursement to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet by the amount of $56,957.76 from up to $216,098.97 to up to $273,056.73 for installation of mast arm pole system for the Newtown Pike Extension Oliver Lewis Way Project. Number nine, a resolution declaring a surplus and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington-Fade Urban County Government to execute deeds and any other necessary documents for the sale and transfer of property located at 183 Old Georgetown Street and 183 1⁄2 Old Georgetown Street. Number 10, an ordinance, 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 extension of the FY 2008 fiber optic cable installation project through July 9, 2012, at no cost to the urban county government. Number 11, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Michael Keith Horn, 3,504-16, biweekly, Glenda H. George, 3,346-08, biweekly, David J. Barbary, 3,425-12, biweekly, grade 123E, managing attorney in the Department of Law, effective September 12, 2011, Marie London, environmental inspector, grade 113N, 18.388 hourly, in the Division of Water Quality, effective August 22, 2011. Mary C. Filthy, Deputy Director of Administrative Services, Water Quality, Grade 120E, 2009-49-84, biweekly in the Division of Water Quality, effective August 22, 2011. Approving the unclassified civil service appointments of Laura Hatfield, administrative aid to the Mayor, Grade 118E, 2082-72, biweekly in the Department of Social Services, effective August 15, 2011. Joan Dix, Family Support Worker, Senior, Part-Time, Grade 112 and 16.610, hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective August 29, 2011. Paul Sims, Microcomputer Support Specialist, Grade 113 and 20.992, hourly in the Division of Police, effective August 1, 2011. Scott Shapiro, Senior Administrative Aid to Mayor, Grade 120E, 3192-31, in the office of the Mayor, effective August 11, 2011. Approving the unclassified civil service pay increase in the office of the Urban County Council, Willard J. Fogel, aid to counsel, grade 000E, increase from 2058-80 biweekly to 2089-56 biweekly, effective July 1, 2011. Approving council leave for Rebecca McFarland, financial coordinator, grade 112N, and the Division of Grants and Special Programs requests 90 days council approved leave without pay from August 9, 2011 through November 9, 2011. Number 12, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation from Ms. Wanda Shepard of a Victorian couch and chair for use at the Bell House at no cost to the urban county government. Number 13, I mean, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility usage contract with Fayette County Board of Education for the Extended School Program and Recreational Enrichment and Learning Program. Number 14, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute lease agreements with Area Health Education Center, Bluegrass Community Action Agency, Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, National Association for the Advanced of Color People, and West End Community Empowerment Program for use of space at the Black and Williams Neighborhood Center. Number 15, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Irma County Government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents and to accept deeds for property interests needed for the Crimson Kink. Coldstream Stormwater Improvement Project at a cost not to exceed $975,000. Number 16, a resolution establishing a residential parking permit program for the 400 block of South Upper Street from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and waiving the provisions relating to the mechanics of designating residential parking permit areas adopted by Resolution No. 168-90 and amended by Resolution No. 450-91 and 433-2006. And number 17, a resolution establishing a residential parking permit program for Lexington Avenue from 257 Lexington Avenue to East Maxwell Street, 24 hours per day, Monday through Sunday, along the west side of the block, and waiving the provisions relating to the mechanics of designating residential parking permit areas adopted by resolution number 168-90 and amended by resolution numbers 450-91 and 433-2006. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve the resolution? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, there's a motion by Council Member Blues and a second by Council Member Henson. She hasn't gotten any of that yet. There's a rush for that one. All right, is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. And Mr. Lane? Yes. Thank you. The vote reflects passage. All right. Madam Clerk. We're ready for the first reading of new business resolutions. Resolution number 18, a resolution amending sections 1 and 2 of Resolution number 149, 2011, which authorized the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment to agreement with Granicus Incorporated to include authorization for monthly support and maintenance for web streaming and the Council Chamber voting system and to include two monthly license fees for the word add-in module and one word add-in template at a cost not to exceed $33,520. Number 19, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Imani Family Life Center, Incorporated, $600, and Kentucky Humanities Council, $700 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 20, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment to the system maintenance agreement with Lexington, Call Mobile Incorporated, a sole source provider for maintenance of the 800 megahertz analog trunk radio communication system to extend the term of an additional year beginning September 1, 2011, at a cost not to exceed $134,163.51. sense. Number 21, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an extension of the lease and option agreement with William L. Hassett, Jr., as trustee under the Restated Revocable Living Trust for the Benefit of William L. Hassett, Jr., Charles D. Mitchell, Jr., Elizabeth Mitchell, Executives Estate of James L. Mitchell and Ann Hassett-Zell, in extending the contract period for 166 North Martin Luther King Boulevard to June 30, 2012. Number 22, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $500,000 federal funds under the Community Challenge Planning Grants Program and are for the planning consultation services for the North Lexington Gateway Plan. Twenty-three, a resolution amending Resolution No. 255-2011 to change the name of the entity from which the ZUMRO air shelters and equipment are being acquired to advanced ecosystems incorporated, a sole source distributor, and increasing the total cost an amount not to exceed $189,365.60. Twenty-four, a resolution authorizing and direct to the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $16,183 federal funds and are for continuation of the juvenile surveillance program, professional services, professional development, drug testing services and supplies, and educational materials. the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $1,798 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Twenty-five, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following, Lauren Bolender, Environmental Inspector, Grade 113N, 16.974 hourly, and the Division of Water Quality, Anthony Link, Treatment Plant Operator, Grade 113N, 23.532 hourly, in the Division of Water Quality, and authorizing the beginning of probationary civil service probationary period upon successful completion of a physical or medical examination as required, effective upon passage of counsel. Number 26, a resolution ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Vincent Davis, Public Service Worker Senior, Grade 107N, in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective July 31, 2011, Andre Germain, Trades Worker Senior, Grade 109N, in the Division of Streets Houston Roads, effective May 15, 2011, approving probationary sworn appointments of Thomas Perkins, Police Sergeant, grade 315N, 28.588 hourly, in the Division of Police, effective September 19, 2011. Darren Salyer, Police Sergeant, grade 315N, 28.588 hourly, in the Division of Police, effective September 19, 2011. Jacqueline Richardson Newman, Police Sergeant, grade 315N, 28.588 hourly, in the Division of Police, effective September 19, 2011. Mark Brand, Police Lieutenant, Grade 317E-3025-14, biweekly in the Division of Police, effective September 19, 2011. Chris Schnell, Police Lieutenant, Grade 317E-3025-14, biweekly in the Division of Police, effective August 1, 2011. 27. a resolution authorizing the increase of the purchase order LF0008 to 806 by the amount of $1,149 for the Division of Water Quality on behalf of the urban county government to purchase three mixing compresses for the town branch wastewater treatment plant from Seahe Pumps Incorporated, a pair of Kentucky Sherman and Schroeder Equipment Company, sole source provider increasing the amount from $40,689 to $41,838. Number 28, as walked on at the beginning, a resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 18-86 to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of Dunkirk Drive and Londonderry Drive. Number 29, a resolution approving the recommendation of the Division of Water Quality to select a two-year, 24-hour storm event as the design storm to form the basis of implementation of the LFUCG Sanitary Sewer System remedial measure plans required by the U.S. EPA consent decree. Thank you. We have a walk-on, Vice Mayor Gorton. Thank you, Mayor. Council members, you should have received a copy of the resolution regarding the sheriff's tax settlement for 2010. I moved a place on tonight's docket of resolution approving the Fayette County Sheriff's Settlement 2010 taxes for taxes collected as of April 30, 2011, and granting the sheriff a quietus. If you want to know more, ask our attorney. All right. That's a motion, right? Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. There's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a voice vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. The motion carries. And Madam Clerk, can you give the first reading? Resolution number 30, a resolution approving the Fayette County Sheriff's Settlement 2010 Taxes for Taxes Collected as of April 30, 2011, and granting the sheriff a quietus. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for suspensions of the rules for second reads? Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 28, please. It's a motion to suspend the rules on item 28. Motion by Council Member Henson, second by Council Member K. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right, are there any other, are there more? Mayor? Yes, sir. Keith, yeah. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Is it prudent to give two readings to number 20 related to the agreement with Lexington Call Mobile for the 800 megahertz communication system, because the agreement is going to expire before the council comes to its next meeting? Move approval. It's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Ellinger, related to item number 20, right? Okay. Is there any discussion regarding the motion? All in favor, then please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Also, number 25, which is the conditional offers for employees so that they can be sent for physical examinations. All right. Is there a motion? It is approved. Motion by Vice Mayor on item number 25. Is there a second? There's a second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. And lastly, number 30 for the tax settlement and quietus for the sheriff because of the timing. Move approval. Motion on item number 30, motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Blues. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk, will you give a second read? Most certainly. Resolution number 20 for second reading. A resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment to the system maintenance agreement with Lexington Call Mobile, Incorporated, a sole source provider for maintenance of the 800 megahertz analog trunk radio communication system to extend the term of an additional year beginning September 1, 2011 at a cost not to exceed $134,163.51. sense. Number 25, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following, Lauren Bolander, Environmental Inspector, Grade 113N, 16.974 hourly, and the Division of Water Quality, Anthony Link, Treatment Plant Operator, Grade 113N, 23.532 hourly, and the Division of Water Quality, and authorizing the beginning of probationary civil service probationary period upon successful completion completion of a physical or medical examination as required effective upon passage of Council. Number 28, a resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 18-86 to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of Dunkirk Drive and Londonderry Drive. And number 30, a resolution approving the Fayette County Sheriff's Settlement 2010 Taxes for Taxes Collected as of April 30, 2011 and granting the Sheriff a quietus. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Hanson. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, Madam Clerk, can you take the roll? Certainly will. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. And Mr. Lane. Yes. Thank you. All right. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Next on our agenda, Roman numeral number nine, our communications from the mayor's office, Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, the Council met in its confirmation hearings previous to this meeting, and based on the need for more information, I move to remove Mr. William Berkley from number 8. Second. It's a motion to remove Mr. Berkley from item number, from the recommendations item number eight. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, all in favor please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Is there a motion to approve communications? Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there discussion? Hearing none, we can vote then. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Next on the agenda are announcements. Are there any announcements by council members? Council Member Henson? Okay. I was just going to ask for the announcements, but that's all right. We'll do that. We can move to the presentation. That is the, Benji, you're here for the presentation and Griggs. All right, benefit insurance marketing will give us an update on the health insurance project. Griggs Cochran. Well, thank you, Mayor Gray. Excuse me. We've been busy, have we not, Kevin? Starting out, maybe just working through some of the agenda or the updates since the last time we met. Obviously, we formed a selection committee that was created to vet the different vendors who responded to our RFPs. I say we've been busy, and then we had five meetings with the committee. Two of them were all-day meetings. They were exciting, informative, and well-attended. Also, during the early part with the selection committee, we started to share a strategic vision. The last time we were in front of the council, we were talking about kind of the state of the situation. And now we started moving to the second phase, which was kind of starting to share a strategic vision about, you know, what are solutions to the problems that you all have, and we've been sharing that with the committee. We also scored and weighted a lot of different RFPs, and we are achieving tremendous value through that process. and savings and opportunities there. We also listened to the finalist presentations. Those were the meetings that took place over two days. And right now we're in the throes of an employee survey. I'm not sure if council was on some of those e-mail strings, but I think it's going to be some very interesting information to provide us feedback from the standpoint of the employees. Tonight what we want to do is kind of touch on the strategic vision. And as you look at this slide, I know it's probably a little bit busy, but we're talking about the concepts of supply and demand. And to be quite honest with you, LFUCG has probably spent 99% of your time over the last years spending it on the supply side. And that's important. But that's talking about taking a retail health care claim that might cost $100 and repricing it down to a $50 claim. And very little time has been spent on managing the demand for health care. And we absolutely think that's going to be a critical success factor for you all going forward and that we believe that, you know, you can reduce the cost of health care by reducing the demand for health care. Spend just a little bit of time in that. You know, we're talking about clinical health improvement. There's a group of employers out in the country. It doesn't matter if they're public sector or private sector, but the ones that are focusing on improving the clinical health of their employees are achieving flatline health care costs. They're also increasing productivity of their workforce, so we think that that is a key element to our strategy. We're also talking about risk factor reduction. It's going to be a new metric, a new vocabulary. Peggy and Kevin and certainly Steve, the people that have been attending some of our meetings, have a new vocabulary and understand what a risk factor is, and I'll elevate that. We're talking a lot about prevention. How can we avoid the frequent flyer claims that come up later that could have been prevented? Huge opportunities to achieve return on investment in that area. Disease management adherence. You know, how many people within your, say, your diabetic population are compliant with the treatment for diabetes? And we're looking at that. We're also talking about wellness centers, full-service pharmacies, and potentially different incentive packages to drive the, you know, to drive what we're trying to accomplish. This particular slide, if you'll look, it's sourced with the Centers for Disease Control. And this kind of starts elevating this idea of risk factors. Risk factors are things that people are walking around with that haven't necessarily resulted in a claim hitting your claims docket. These are, you know, people that have elevated weight. And probably the Center for Disease Control said if we did an X-ray of any company across the country, probably 60 to 70 percent of the people would be overweight. A startling statistic to me, probably one of the highest cost items in any population is diabetes. Ten percent of your population has diabetes, but the people that are unaware of it is a huge risk factor. Tobacco products, and of course, 25 have high blood pressure, the number one risk factor for stroke. It's interesting when you think about blood pressure, it's called the silent killer. It's called the silent killer because people don't know that they're walking around with elevated blood pressure. So what we're wanting to talk about is a strategy that will get after these risk factors. If we did an X-ray of LFUCG and we're starting to pull the data together to be able to do that, we would probably find that 42% of your population has five or more risk factors. When I'm talking about risk factors, I'm talking about lifestyle risk factors, And I'm also talking about medical risk factors, lifestyle risk factors would be things like sedentary lifestyle, smoking, nutritional habits. Probably five or six are lifestyle risk factors. The other on the medical side would be elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, blood sugar levels being abnormal. And if we took an x-ray of your population, we would probably find that 42% of your employees have five or more of those risk factors. And the key that we talked a lot about with your committee is cost always follows risk. Cost always follows risk. So we're honed in on identifying the risk factors within your population. When we talk about cost-following risk, we've got this particular slide, which talks about somebody that has zero risk factors in terms of their health care spend, in terms of their productivity. It would cost on average $2,807. Yet the more risk factors they have, you can see not only is the base cost there, but they've got excess cost. They're consuming excess amounts of health care because they've got, you know, either lifestyle or medical risk factors that they're living with. So a big key to our strategy going forward is going to be able to identify risk factors within your population. You know, one of the things we want to do is we want to stop those bar graphs dead in their tracks. If somebody's got these risk factors, we want to stop them right now. But over a period of years, we also want to negate them. We want people that are living with risk factors for them to go away. And we can do that with the strategy we're deploying. Turning the corner just a little bit, probably the catalyst or an opportunity that LFUCG has that can have the highest impact on improving the clinical health of your employees is thinking about a wellness center. And we're going to introduce that concept to you very briefly today. We're talking about forward-thinking employers, public sector employers, who are developing worksite wellness centers. Glowing statistics. If you Googled this concept, you would see that this is an industry that's really starting to take off. Job site health clinics open doors to savings. Workers get health care at the office. Employers and employees can both save money. I really like this one. Workers praise on-site health care. You know, we're talking about something that's high quality, obviously very confidential, all the protections around that. Worksite clinics, a popular way to control health care costs. And so this is a concept. We've been introducing the concept of what are the risk factors with an LFUCG? What are people walking around with that will be future claims if we don't intervene at some point in the future? And the best way, the highest impact way to get at those risk factors and negate cost is going to be through the delivery, in our opinion, of on-site health care through a wellness center and also the potential for a full-service on-site pharmacy just for LFUCG employees that are really focused on improving the clinical health. I know this is a busy slide, but when you think about this on-site wellness center, we're talking about delivering primary care, acute care, disease management, prevention, wellness, occupational health, and full-service pharmacy. That is the most robust model that you can possibly build, and you can read down through some of the slides there, providing health care coaching, helping the people that might be living with a diseased state understand what it means to be compliant. The other thing with an on-site wellness center is the fact that there's very low cost barriers to care. What we've been modeling for the committee and talking about is giving employees, retirees, and dependents full access to the wellness center without any deductibles, without any copayments, basically without any out-of-pocket expense if they use the wellness center. We're also talking about an on-site pharmacy where we might be able, because of the savings, to reduce co-payments versus what occurs in the retail marketplace. Real quick, I've got just a few more slides, Mayor, but probably in this region of the country, in terms of municipality that is really progressive, forward-thinking, is the city of Chattanooga. And if you look at that blue line and the red line, there's a lot of different arrows and strategies they've implemented over a period of time. But in 2010 alone, by them implementing a wellness center and full-service on-site pharmacy, they've opened up a claims gap of almost $3.5 million in 2010. In other words, if they had kept on the same path where they were, their health care cost, their health care spend would be $3.5 million greater than it is today. What is not reflected in this, which it really leverages the value of the wellness center, is integrating it with occupational health. The city of Tattanooga, when they were acquiring occupational health out in the retail health care sector, were spending somewhere around $3 million a year. By putting occupational health and integrating it with their wellness center, for all testing, police, fire, all that testing that you have to do, as well as just good, robust, high-quality occupational health. They've saved over $2 million annually in occupational health. So we're talking about primary care, acute care, disease management, the whole shoot and match. The other thing that will be a little bit different in your vocabulary is these percentages on the right and that you all will be measuring how many people are getting their PSA test, how many people are getting their annual physicals, how many people are being driven in to have the gender-specific, age-specific prevention measures done. And just look, for example, this is actually the city of Chattanooga down there on PSA testing for men. In a previous year, they had 17, but they're really boosting the number of men that are getting that test. In fact, they increased it over 12 months. That's just six months in that one year from 17 men going through the test to 88 in six months in the new year. But here's what I want to tie that back in. In the previous slide, when they had this 18 men go through the PSA test, they found one that had a marker for prostate cancer. By intervening with that particular person, they had the potential cost avoidance of $42,000 by intervening with that. So you can imagine exponential opportunity to save money if we can get high percentages of your population having the baseline preventive, gender-specific, age-specific, and trying to avoid those future frequent flyer type of claims. Huge opportunities. Finally, this is just kind of a conceptual slide. I said earlier there's high-performing employers is what we call them. There's high-performing municipalities. The city of Chattanooga would be a high-performing municipality in that they have flatlined their health care costs. They're creating huge amounts of cash opportunities. But right now, if we do nothing, conservatively, I would say that LFUCG is on an 8% trend line. You're currently spending $30 million in health care a year right now, left unabated by the year 2016 in a static environment, not modifying your benefits. that you'd be spending $47 million. If we put in some of these proposed strategies, which the takeaway is concentrating on improving the clinical health of your employees and retirees, we think we can bend that trend line down to 2%, if not flatline it, if we really get after it. And look at the exponential cost savings when you start compounding something at 2% versus 8%. Huge opportunities there, not to mention a workforce that's more productive. fulfilled with, you know, this could be a tremendous benefit for them as well. Next actions, we're in the throes right now of negotiating with the finalists and trying to acquire as much value from that process as we can, and there's been tremendous strides made in that regard. We're getting ready to release an RFP for an on-site pharmacy. That's a real interesting industry that's out there. We think we're going to get quite a bit of response for people wanting to come in and set up LFUCG's own on-site pharmacy that will be for your employees and retirees only. Tremendous cost savings there. That third bullet point is pretty fluid. What we're wanting to do or what we're trying to communicate with that is I know this is a new concept. There's a learning curve here. You're probably saying, what's he talking about, on-site wellness center? How does that integrate with our current health care delivery system in the retail health care sector that our employees are accessing? What we want to do is provide you with as much information, allow you to kick the tires as hard as you can kick them, to understand this concept, you know, and make an informed and objective decision as a council that this is your potential strategy. And then finally, if in fact we can get aligned, you know, we're working towards a January 1st effective date to implement this strategy. You know, we'd love to potentially, but this is your all's business, bring this to a vote potentially. So those are my comments. I appreciate you all listening. I'm sure you might have some questions, and maybe some of the people that were on our committee might have some. Okay. Several have signed up. I probably should have given a little bit more of an introduction, Briggs, before you came up. You guys, you all have been approaching this project with a healthy amount of discipline and examining of benchmarks and with the business discipline that this problem requires. You know, it's inconvenient and uncomfortable. to have to talk about our not having managed effectively this issue and this project and this problem, but that is where we are today, and it's going to be uncomfortable and difficult and a challenge, and it is going to cause stress and tension. I think we have to keep that in mind. As we talk about the benefits that are coming, we also have to recognize that with change, there is always, always tension. There is always challenge. Change which is accepted better is change which is understood. And what we are trying to do is examine this issue, this problem, this project, as carefully as we can and bring the options to our employees, to our employee population. So I'm only introducing that by way of context because the challenges and the pushback that we can expect is not something that should be unexpected. It's going to be coming, and our challenge is to be fiscally responsible. That means financially responsible stewards of the public's trust and the public's money, and at the same time do our best to provide our employees with responsible health care and responsible benefits. So thank you very much. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much, Briggs. Nice to see you again. I appreciate the discussion we had. I have forgotten when that was, early in the summer or late in the spring? I think it was summer, early summer. You were getting going on some of this. And I just have a couple of questions. On the third slide, I guess after the cover page about for every 100 employees, the Center for Disease Control, is there any reason to think that our employees are any different than these? I trust these are nationwide. They are nationwide, and I think this would probably be a realistic projection of any population, any employer in the state of Kentucky, minus a plus or minus margin of error. It might vary a little bit on something that in general fit into those. I would think so. It shouldn't be an indictment on my company or the city or any other employer. These are risk factors that are prevalent within any employer's population. Okay. And then I wanted to look for just a quick minute on the third from the end, the one that has LFUCG potential cost avoidance, that graph, and then the numbers for 2010 through 2016. I just wondered in the projected savings column if those are savings, are net savings after the cost of operating facilities. This is a conceptual slide, certainly. Right now your gross health care spending and the cost to administer your plans is approximately $30 million. dollars. And, you know, other employers, other forward-thinking employers that have adopted this as their strategy have been able to bend that trend line way down. You know, again, left unabated, if you just keep focused on the supply side of the solution, you're going to be woefully disappointed, and it's still going to be unsustainable. So what we're demonstrating here, and there's, I could fill the room up with employers that have adopted this strategy and or achieving these kind of results. But I just wanted to kind of model for you how you can create exponential boxcar type of numbers with savings potential. I mean, you compound $30 million at 2% or compound it at 8%, so it's conceptual. But I think that with a well-thought-out strategy that is supported and, you know, these types of – this can be achieved. So the concept is that this potentially could be savings after the cost of operations and everything figured in. It's just the inflationary pressure. We're bending the inflationary pressure on health care consumption by focusing on improving the clinical health of your employees and your retirees. So I guess there would have to be a more specific financial model. Sure, sure. done in order to take cost of operations versus, you know, savings. And we've looked at it retroactively, Vice Mayor. We've looked at, and, you know, you would probably fall in line with the current strategy. That's going to occur if you do not adopt a new paradigm or perhaps put your weight into the paradigm of concentrating on the demand. Okay. And I just wonder, for my own clarification on the page before that, a forward-thinking city. Yes. This is still Chattanooga, correct? It is the city of Chattanooga. And are your criteria under the criteria column, for example, hypertension over 140, does that say that three participants had a systolic blood pressure of over 140? What you've got to do is correlate the slide that you're looking at with this slide. And what this is saying is, you know, in a previous 12 months, the city of Chattanooga was posting these types of results. you know, 234 employees or retirees members had annual physicals, health risk assessment, PSA testing. And what the city of Chattanooga has done is put together a really robust communication strategy to drive increased participation. And so in the 17 men that in the previous 12 months took the PSA test, you found one with a marker for prostate cancer, which has a potential cost of $44,000. If we ran 88 men through that test or 288 men through that test or 500 men through that test and we caught those markers earlier, we're going to avoid that expend there that you're seeing there of $42,000. So just by doing this process, the cost avoidance that the city of Chattanooga potentially experienced, it's the term cost avoidance, was $342,000. They're correlating catching somebody early in the preventive stage and bringing them into compliance either with their disease state or giving them the medications they need to not make their heart have to overwork as potentially saving on hypertension, diabetes, prostate cancer. That's a correlation. Again, a concept slide, but the reality of their data is validating this out. These are strategies they've implemented, But you look in 2010, they opened up a $3.5 million claims gap. If they hadn't adopted this strategy, they would have spent $3.5 million more in health care in 2010 than they did. Okay. I think I understand. It's a concept. And I was looking at the hypertension one specifically. So the concept is if they found three participants who had over 140 systolic blood pressure, the projected cost and the total, that's what that represents. If we take one of your employees and move them from a body mass index of 30 down to 25 and we move them from a sedentary lifestyle to an active lifestyle, I cannot tell you that we avoided a $45,000 heart attack two years from now because he did that. But statistically, the sciences of health care consumption and financing, it's in there. I do want to state this once again because this is a powerful statement and something. When they integrated their occupational health with their wellness center, they reduced hard dollar spend from $3 million down to $1 million just in occupational health. On top of having the wellness center really focusing on giving people high-quality care, no barriers to care, et cetera. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. Briggs, you mentioned on several occasions, on-site, what site, where site, multiple sites, only 15 percent of the employees work in this building. Right. The rest are, there's a big bunch on old Frankfurt Pike, many more than in this building. Right. It's interesting, you know, and I keep, I don't want to answer the question by always saying City of Chattanooga, but the City of Chattanooga is, it's positioned geographically as well as their population very similar to Fayette County and the City of Lexington in that they've got employees probably coming in from contiguous counties, and they're going to one site, And that particular site for the city of Chattanooga happens to be downtown. There is potentially a team within the LFUCG government that is working on procuring a site that might be in the center of your highest geographic population. And that's beyond the scope of our work, but we're talking to them about what the requirements are, what the building needs are, how much square footage we need. but there is a team here, and I'm really not prepared to talk about this building, that building, that building, that's working on that diligently. But we would anticipate that it would be one site inside New Circle Road, and it could potentially be that old Frankfurt Pike corridor, Vassell's Road corridor. That would be an ideal opportunity. But what we think, Julian, the tipping point is going to be is there's low or no cost barriers to care. Right now, your employees, regardless of where they live, they might be going to a physician close to their home. But at the same time, they might be going to a number of different places. What we think the wellness center will have a tipping point is the low cost barriers to care, the high quality that will be delivered there, the experience that we believe the wellness center clinicians will provide for your employees will be at a very attractive clinic for employees to go to. Can I mention something? Yes, sir. Sorry to interrupt, but I saw a chance there as you were breathing. Thank you. Actually confirming what you're saying, and we're not going to be able to say where right today. But I did want to say, I think this is an appropriate time to mention that you guys, we've been in contact with Chattanooga. I happened to run into the mayor of Chattanooga, met him for the first time at Mayor's Conference in Baltimore. Nice guy, been mayor for a while. Before that, he was Commissioner of Public Works for Chattanooga. So he's been in the business of government for a very long time. And he has offered, actually, to come to visit with us and to share and to talk about this, how they did it. You know, I think we can wear ourselves out in trying to be persuasive on something like this. If we go to the source, somebody who's actually done it, I think that would probably be more helpful than anything. And that's what we're trying to do. And I think, you know, Julian, that will help a lot of us. It will help me, too. I just don't want to see this thing set itself up for failure. For instance, if the center was in this building, where do we park the cars? And so on the third try, they say, hell, I'm not going to do that. I'll go back to what I was doing before. And I would rather have two centers and make it a home run than one center and push away 30 or 40 percent of our employees. Great comment. That was my concern anyway. Thank you. Council Member Luz. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for this presentation, this update. What are the mechanisms for creating the critical mass of employees using the wellness center in the ways that you've outlined? I mean, are there carrots and sticks? Well, I'm going to speak to the city of Chattanooga again to answer your question. with our selection committee, we've got actually a meeting this coming Monday to start talking about what some of those incentive strategies are. But in addition to not having a deductible or not having a copay, which in itself, something that's high quality, top shelf, all those intrinsic values to drive employees to the wellness center will be there. The city of Chattanooga has actually recognized through some strategic planning certain behaviors, certain initiatives that they want their employees to avail themselves of. And they're actually incentivizing them with a reward system, almost like something you would see with American Express, where employees are incentivized to have their preventive physicals. They're incentivized to go to the on-site pharmacy. They're incentivized to take advantage of the wellness center. So there's a science to driving consumer behavior. It's very prevalent in the retail consumer sector. and we put out an RFP for a wellness incentive provider. We had four responses. We're meeting with the subcommittee this coming Monday to talk about what those solutions look like. But you're right, Tom, in that in addition to low-cost payers-to-care, what other incentives can we put there to drive the types of behaviors that we want, The types of wellness activities. So perhaps when we come back and report to you again, we will say, you know, here's the wellness incentive provider. But that was one of our four RFPs. TPA, prescription benefit manager, somebody to manage the wellness center, and then we put out a wellness incentive RFP, which we're introducing to the selection committee this coming Monday. Huge critical success factor. It could perhaps be the glue that holds this thing together. As we open the doors, we want to incentivize employees to take advantage of it. Does that answer your question? Yes, it does. Thank you very much. It's a very challenging proposal here, and I think it's something that we really need to pursue. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Blouse. Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Briggs, for the presentation. I've had the opportunity to participate in not the beginning of this process, but after I came back from vacation, pretty much everything has happened since then. And I think it would be useful if you'd spend a minute or two telling the council of what an ideal timeline might be for implementation with the various RFPs that are out there, how that's all going to come together, and in the best of all possible worlds, what would it look like going forward? Right. As part of our RFP process, we ask them how much runway they need to get it up. Ideally, it would be 120 days. Probably a hard stop would be 90 days out. So for the wellness center, you know, we've got to hire a world-class team of clinicians. That's going to be important. You know, we need to start thinking about that with whoever that provider we select is going to be. They'll want to do that. But short answer, Steve, would be that obviously sooner rather than later, but a hard stop would be 90 days to get it up on January 1st. So October 1st would absolutely be the drop-dead date where if we don't get moving on it, you know, We don't have alignment on it. It very well could not get off the ground on January 1st to coincide with your new benefit year. Ideally, what we would like to do is communicate your current benefit structures. We've still got to have health care for cancer, heart attacks, pregnancy, specialist. Those benefits are still going to be there, and we're going to build those out. But what we also want to put right beside those is this voluntary wellness center opportunity simultaneously with that. So we've got challenges on open enrollment, being able to communicate both of them. But we're sitting right now with confidence that we can get this wellness center up and going January 1st, having it function at a high, high level. Part of the vendor selection, we've been kicking the tire saying you cannot get out of the gate with lines or poor service. We've got to have high quality, high value. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Briggs. I've enjoyed the RFP, and people would think I'm crazy for saying that, but I really have. And the concept of the wellness center, I think, is a good thing. And one thing that impressed me quite a bit is that it also has a possibility, maybe you could speak on that, of saving even more money because there are employees that are required to have regular physicals that the government pays quite a bit of money for. Right. and the exercise, if we could get our own gym or something. Yeah, that would be the future. Yes. So I'm dreaming a little bit, but that would be a cost savings as well. Absolutely. But I just want to thank you. I'll tell you how much I enjoyed it. Great. All right. Anyone else? No other questions? All right. Vice Mayor Gordon needs to. She didn't tell me to announce this and she hadn't gotten all the way. She has to get on the road. She has an event at Fort Campbell early in the morning. Briggs, thanks very much. Benji, thank you all for being here. Tell us a little bit of a picture, a forward picture. You gave this October date. When can we expand? I mentioned that we are asking Mayor Littlefield of Chattanooga to come and visit with us and share the experiences of Chattanooga. We're trying to get that on his schedule, I think. Tried to actually get him for today, but the notice was too short. Right. He actually considered it, though, because he does want to share what they've done in Chattanooga and what he feels like are the merits of it for the city and for the employees as well. Okay, give us next steps. Right. One, the next step would be to provide you with as much education as you need. Obviously, Kevin and Peggy and Steve Kay and Julian was with us in the early part of the process. But others, we want to avail you of as much education as you want to. We initially thought about potentially doing that on September 13th at the Cal meeting. We don't know if that will do it justice. This idea, Mayor Gray, could be the centerpiece of your benefits program, so it needs to have time. If we get alignment, if we get alignment, we'd love to think that we could potentially do a first and second reading on September 15th, the Thursday. And if we get that green light go, then we'll be able to start the engines and get this thing built out and put something on, you know, the playing field January 1 without a problem on the wellness center. On the on-site pharmacy, we're anticipating that being somewhere in maybe the February-March time frame. but that would be the timeline. Okay. Take away from me from one of those slides going back was the one that showed 48 million. If we continue on the current path, the headline to me is that one. We continue on the current path. You're saying that I heard you say 2018. I see 2016. Is that right? That's 2016 on there. Okay. I was thinking you said 2018, but this model is showing that continuing on the current path, we will be spending instead of $32 million, we'll be spending $48 million. Correct. So if we continue doing what we've done, we will continue getting what we've got, which is? Not sustainable. Not sustainable and way over budget, right? Okay. Thank you. All right. If there are no further questions, then Council Member Beard, yes, sir. An 8% annual rise is going to mean we'll double in nine years. Correct. A 2% rise is 32 years. Or 36 years, I'm sorry. That's someone speaking who's been in the math business for a long time, financial services. Rule of 72. Yes, sir. All right. Thanks so much again, guys. Back to our agenda then. Are there any announcements? Any council members have an announcement? Council Member Hanson. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to quickly reiterate what Council Member Stenet said on this past Tuesday as far as the importance of getting a new director at the Fayette County Detention Center. I continue to get letters from employees, and it's very disturbing to me. and I just was afraid that maybe the administration was going to wait for the council committee to look at what was put in committee and not do a search. But I just wanted to make sure, get that word out there. Thank you. Right. Thank you, Council Member Henson. I would like to comment on that quickly. You know, the issues at the detention center we all know have been problematic. I think whenever there's change, we all know that whenever there's change, there is often distress and there's often tension. And there are those who may be asked to make changes and they're uncomfortable with those changes. I've always discovered that, at least in my experience, and Peggy, you and I have talked about that in a managed environment that we have that. From my own point of view, I feel, I sense some level of relief that we have someone in Ray Sabatini who has a level of experience and a level of judgment recognized nationally for his experience, that we have someone that we could bring into this role. And, you know, it's not going to come overnight, these changes, and some of them are going to come with that pushback that can be expected whenever we try to engage a new form of discipline and protocols in management. So I think it's going to be important for us to take it one step at a time with the good management. For what it's worth, too, I ran into three of the more senior employees, and, you know, it's good to see smiles on their faces, and these weren't necessarily folks who were on one faction or another. They are ones that I've come to recognize and respect. And there were some smiles and saying it's a breath of fresh air that we sense a new spirit and direction. Things won't be perfect, but there is a new direction. And coming from someone who has a good deal of experience in it. So we hear, you know, the purpose of these meetings is to have different points of view expressed, and I want you to know that I appreciate what you're saying, and we'll do our best in examining and evaluating this and keeping you informed. How's that? Same here. Thank you very much. Thank you, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Anybody, any other council reports? Council Member Farmer. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I need to do one for Council Member Lawless, who is not here this evening, and asked us to walk on an NDF and potentially give it two readings tonight. I would like to make a motion right now. I'm going to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement with Bluegrass Community Foundation for use by the Urban County Council Office. This is authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement an agreement with the Community Foundation for $700 for the Office of the Area County Council at no cost not to exceed the sum stated, which is the total of what the pass around NDF was this evening. So moved. Okay, I didn't quite get it, but did the rest of you? Well, I mean, it's... Okay, that's all right. We've got a motion and we've got a second. We've got a motion for some reason, but I can't tell you exactly what it's for. All right, but we'll... You've got a motion? Motion from Council Member Farmer, a second from Council Member Blues. All right. All right. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Anything more? I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and give it a second reading. What about I? Oh, right. What about I give it first reading and then we suspend the rules? There we go. Is that all right? Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. Resolution number 31, I believe. Yes. All righty. Resolution number 31, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Bluegrass Community Foundation, Incorporated, $700 for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Now. Now. Oh, yes. I move to, I'd like to suspend the rules and give this a second reading. And this is for the Community and Anchor Institution Project, which is contracting with Omar Bailik and U3 Ventures. The funding is to help offset costs associated with the project to work with all parts of the community and the university's U.S. Medical Center, the Bluegrass Trust Historic Preservation, and private individuals. The goal is to examine economic development, sustainability, quality of life, and community engagement. So moved. Thank you. There's a motion and a motion by Council Member Farmer and a second by Council Member Ford. Is there any discussion? All in favor of the motion to suspend, please indicate by saying aye. All opposed, no. The motion passes. Resolution number 31 for second reading. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Bluegrass Community Foundation Incorporated, $700, for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. It's a motion by Council Member Blues, second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, take a roll call vote. Yes, sir. Mr. McCord. Yes. Mr. Stennett. Mr. Beard. Aye. Mr. Blues. Mr. Ellinger. Yes. Mr. Farmer. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford. Yes. Ms. Henson. Yes. Mr. Kay. Yes. And Mr. Lane. Yes. All right. Motion. Vote reflects passage. Okay. Yes. Any other announcements? Okay. I've got one quick one. First, I don't think I've ever recognized and thanked Hillary Perrine for picking up the work of getting the docket ready and prepared and stuff like that. And when we have some little issues and problems, with a smile, you pull them together. Thanks, Hillary. I also want to recognize and welcome Scott Shapiro. I think some of you all have met Scott. If you haven't, I hope you will soon. Scott is here because his wife is a native of Lexington. Karen and their three kids. His wife Karen is a doctor at the university today. and Scott's role as senior advisor, among other of his activities, will be working with council members, like all of us, have that privilege and honor and opportunity. And we've asked him to get to know you all, and so I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him and welcome him. I will say parenthetically that had Karen and the kids as allies in the recruitment because he was also looking at a job in Washington with the FDA, and so there was a lot of tugs and tussles to make it happen. So, Scott, welcome. Thanks. Public comment? It looks like nobody's here for public comment. No. Motion to adjourn by Council Member Lane and a second by Council Member Allen. You're all in favor. Please say aye. Motion carries. We are adjourned.