# Council Work Session - September 13, 2011 > Auto-transcribed civic record · September 13, 2011 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/2171 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/2171?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2011-09-13 - **Last revised**: July 17, 2026 - **Length**: 11,412 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-Fayette Urban County Government Council met on September 13, 2011, under the presiding of the Mayor. During the meeting, the Council took 11 votes and heard 5 public comments. The Council addressed 9 agenda items, including rezoning requests and docket approval, budget amendments, and new business, all of which were approved. Additional informational items included continuing business, the Facilities Use Policy, Council reports, the Mayor's report, public comment, and a closed session. ## Attendance The following individuals were present at the meeting on September 13, 2011: * Council Member Stennett * Council Member Stanton * Council Member Farmer * Council Member Myers * Council Member Ellinger * Council Member Beard * Council Member Henson * Council Member Martin * Council Member Lane * Council Member McCord * Council Member Blues * Council Member Gordon * Council Member Lawless * Council Member Hanson * Vice Mayor Gordon * Mayor No council members were absent or late for this meeting. ## Votes and Decisions The council took the following actions during the meeting: - **Motion to put item number seven on the docket without a public hearing** [timestamp: 0:00:38] - Moved by Council Member Stanton, seconded by Council Member Farmer - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to approve the docket** [timestamp: 0:01:46] - Moved by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Myers - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to approve budget amendments** [timestamp: 0:02:59] - Moved by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Beard - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to approve new business items** [timestamp: 0:03:29] - Moved by Council Member Beard, seconded by Council Member Ellinger - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to substitute a new memo for item S, approving the vendor only and not the contract** [timestamp: 0:07:16] - Moved by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member Henson - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to amend the deadline for blue sheets to close of business on Tuesday instead of Thursday** [timestamp: 0:54:42] - Moved by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member McCord - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to place consideration of health and active lifestyle design guidelines into the planning committee** [timestamp: 1:01:29] - Moved by Council Member McCord, seconded by Council Member Farmer - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to place possible revisions of Section 17-2 (addressing ordinance) into the planning committee** [timestamp: 1:07:33] - Moved by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Vice Mayor Gordon - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to approve NDF requests** [timestamp: 1:06:57] - Moved by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Lane - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to approve the mayor's report** [timestamp: 1:14:05] - Moved by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Ellinger - Outcome: Passed by voice vote - **Motion to go into closed session for pending litigation** [timestamp: 1:14:37] - Moved by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Kay - Outcome: Passed by voice vote All motions passed by voice vote with no recorded abstentions. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting included authorization for the following financial actions: **Contract Authorization** - A one-year agreement with Mr. Sabatini was authorized. No specific dollar amount was documented for this contract. **Brownfield Grants** - The Division of Environmental Policy received $200,000 in brownfield grants designated for hazardous substance properties. ## Public Comment Several council members and the Vice Mayor addressed the meeting with updates and policy concerns. **Childhood Obesity and Joint Use Agreements** [timestamp: 1:00:02] Council Member McCord emphasized the urgency of addressing childhood obesity in Lexington and advocated for bold policy changes. McCord specifically recommended leveraging joint use agreements with Fayette County Schools to improve access to facilities for youth. **Facility Use Policy and Transparency** [timestamp: 0:41:01] Council Member Henson requested a comprehensive list of city facility occupants, their relationships to the government, and the services they provide. Henson expressed support for the proposed policy to improve transparency and accountability in facility management. **Neighborhood Meetings** [timestamp: 0:46:04] Council Member Blues announced two upcoming neighborhood meetings. The first will be held for the Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association to discuss the use of tennis courts, and the second for the Greenburn Neighborhood Association. **Old YWCA Property and Community Corrections** [timestamp: 1:08:08] Council Member Hanson shared updates on the redevelopment of the old YWCA property and praised community corrections for their environmental cleanup efforts. Hanson urged continued public awareness of these initiatives. **City Events and Dog Paddle Fundraiser** [timestamp: 1:11:22] Vice Mayor Gordon highlighted the city's 9/11 commemoration ceremony and reported on the success of the 11th annual dog paddle fundraiser. The event raised private funds for dog parks through a public-private partnership. ## Appointments Leslie Jarvis was appointed to the position of Council Administrator. ## Contested Items The September 13, 2011 meeting included three areas of substantive disagreement among council members. **Facilities Use Policy and Lease Terms** Council members engaged in a heated discussion regarding the city's facilities use policy and lease arrangements with nonprofits. The central dispute involved the fairness of subsidizing nonprofit organizations through city facilities. Council members called for a numerical valuation of indirect contributions made by the city to these organizations, recognizing that current arrangements lacked clear financial accounting. The debate also addressed a proposed transition plan for existing tenants occupying city facilities. Members emphasized the need for a legal ordinance to formally enforce the facilities use policy, rather than relying on informal arrangements. This discussion reflected broader concerns about fiscal responsibility and the need for transparent, standardized terms governing nonprofit use of municipal resources. **Blue Sheet Deadlines and Workflow** Council Member Stennett raised procedural concerns about the late submission of blue sheets—documents used in the council's workflow process. The late submissions were creating challenges for staff preparation and meeting efficiency. In response, a motion was introduced to establish a deadline for blue sheet submission by close of business on Tuesday. This initial motion was subsequently amended before being passed. The amendment reflected an effort to balance the council's need for timely information with practical constraints on member schedules, ultimately improving the timeline for staff preparation. **Council Involvement in Redistricting** The mayor questioned the appropriate level of council member participation in redistricting meetings. This procedural dispute centered on whether council members should attend such meetings at all. The discussion clarified an established rule: council members may attend redistricting meetings but are not permitted to speak or attempt to influence precinct movements. This distinction between attendance and active participation was important to maintaining the integrity of the redistricting process while allowing members to remain informed. ## Rezoning requests and docket approval [timestamp: 00:38] The council discussed and approved the docket during this agenda item. Council Members Stennett, Stanton, and Farmer participated in the discussion. The council took the following actions: * Authorized a one-year agreement with Mr. Sabatini * Voted to place item number seven on the docket without a public hearing The docket was approved by the council. ## Budget amendments The council approved budget amendments during this agenda item. Council Member Ellinger moved to approve the amendments, and Council Member Beard seconded the motion [timestamp: 00:02:59]. The council voted to approve the amendments with no discussion. **Outcome:** The budget amendments were approved. ## New business The council reviewed several new business items during this portion of the meeting. [timestamp: 00:03:29] **Items Discussed** The council considered three main matters: - Internal advertisement of vacant positions - A proposed vendor agreement with Humana - Interlocal cooperation with Jessamine County Police **Key Action** Council Member Stennett moved to substitute a new memo for item S, proposing approval of the vendor agreement only, rather than approving all items together. **Participants** The discussion involved Vice Mayor Gordon, Council Member Henson, Council Member Stanton, Council Member Martin, and Commissioner Graham. **Outcome** The new business items were approved. ## Continuing business The Budget and Finance Committee provided an informational report on several financial matters affecting the organization. [timestamp: 0:24:23] **Topics Covered** The Committee addressed four main areas: - Monthly budget review - Revenue forecasting model - Banking RFP (Request for Proposal) - Preliminary reduction plans Additionally, the Committee discussed the CAFRA schedule and the management letter received as part of the audit process. **Key Participants** Council Member Ellinger, Commissioner Driscoll, and Commissioner Diskell led the discussion on these financial matters. **Goals and Next Steps** The Committee identified a goal to complete the audit fund balance review earlier than previously scheduled, indicating an effort to accelerate the audit timeline and financial reporting process. **Outcome** This agenda item was presented for informational purposes, with no formal action or decision required at this meeting. ## Facilities Use Policy Jamshid Baradaran presented the proposed Facilities Use Policy to the council at approximately 27 minutes into the meeting. The policy aims to standardize lease terms, improve transparency, and establish a five-year lease limit with a phased transition for existing tenants. **Key Discussion Points** Council members participated in the discussion, including Council Member Stennett, Council Member Lane, Vice Mayor Gordon, and Council Member Henson. The council identified the need for a legal ordinance to support the implementation of the proposed policy. **Outcome** The agenda item was presented as informational, with no final action taken at this meeting. ## Council reports Vice Mayor Gordon provided updates on several matters of council business. He discussed upcoming committee meetings and provided information on the redistricting committee's work. Vice Mayor Gordon also addressed the status of the citizen advocate position. Council Member Blues announced that neighborhood meetings would be held, though specific details about timing, location, or topics were not included in the available information. Council Member Lane raised a request for an updated report on supplemental pay for IT employees. This agenda item was informational in nature, with no formal action taken. [timestamp: 0:43:45] ## Mayor's report The Mayor provided updates on several city matters during this informational report segment [timestamp: 0:56:32]. **City Events** The Mayor discussed the recent 9/11 ceremony and provided an update on the dog paddle fundraiser. He also highlighted an upcoming deadline for the Stormwater Quality Project Incentive Grant. **Redistricting Concerns** The Mayor raised concerns regarding council members' attendance at redistricting meetings, though specific details about these concerns were not elaborated in the available information. **Outcome** This segment was informational in nature, with no formal action or decision required. ## Public comment [timestamp: 1:14:37] The council opened the floor for public comment on issues not on the agenda. No members of the public spoke during this portion of the meeting. ## Closed session The council moved into closed session under KRS 61.810.1C to discuss pending litigation [timestamp: 1:14:37]. Vice Mayor Gordon and Council Member Kay were present during this portion of the meeting. No public discussion took place during the closed session. The session was held in accordance with Kentucky Revised Statutes 61.810.1C, which permits public bodies to meet in closed session for matters involving pending or threatened litigation. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed: Motion to put item number seven on the docket without a public hearing - **Motion** — passed: Motion to approve the docket - **Motion** — passed: Motion to approve budget amendments - **Motion** — passed: Motion to approve new business items - **Motion** — passed: Motion to substitute a new memo for item S, approving the vendor only and not the contract - **Motion** — passed: Motion to amend the deadline for blue sheets to close of business on Tuesday instead of Thursday - **Motion** — passed: Motion to place consideration of health and active lifestyle design guidelines into the planning committee - **Motion** — passed: Motion to place possible revisions of Section 17-2 (addressing ordinance) into the planning committee - **Motion** — passed: Motion to approve NDF requests - **Motion** — passed: Motion to approve the mayor's report - **Motion** — passed: Motion to go into closed session for pending litigation --- ## Full transcript I have to figure out another way. Well, I'll call the meeting to order and open the floor for public comment for issues that are on the agenda. Does anyone wish to speak to issues that are on the agenda today? I don't have a list of anybody. Does anybody have no list? Okay. All right. Item number number two are rezoning requests and docket approval. Council Member Stennett, do you have something on? Yes, Mayor. Put number seven on without a public hearing. Second. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Motion by Council Member Stanton, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing none, we can take a voice vote then. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Is there a motion to approve the docket? I will move. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Myers. Is there a discussion? Okay. We can vote on it then. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Council, did you want to discuss? You asked for discussion already, yeah. Okay, I missed that then. You want to vote no on it and then go ahead and give us the discussion. Okay. We're putting on the docket the authorization of a one-year agreement with Mr. Sabatini. Is that where we are? Where are we? Docket. Okay. I'll wait for that. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Well, we voted, so did you cast your vote? For the docket approval, no. All right. Next on the agenda is approval of the summary. There is none. All right. There are none today, so just acknowledge that. Budget amendments, item Roman number four. Second. Motion by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Beard. Is there a discussion? Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. All opposed, no. The motion carries. All right, now we're down to new business, Roman numeral number five. There is a motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there a motion? I mean, is there a discussion? All right. Just a minute, please. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I had a couple of questions on new business, and I guess my first one is to the administration and maybe Janet Graham on item D, which asks us to approve internal advertisement of vacant positions. and I thought that we were under a job freeze. And so has the job freeze been lifted, and what's the situation? Vice Mayor, I don't think we've ever had a true job freeze recently. I think every position has been being looked at for economic reasons. Is it essential? And then you all passed a resolution that I think was good through June the 30th for internal advertisement. And this is kind of a variation on that. That one went out June the 30th. This one lets you do internal advertisement if a division director requests. And then if they don't get a good pool of candidates that first week, then it goes to external advertisement. So it saves us a little money on advertising. Okay, so we don't have a job freeze. and so when these are advertised, it's possible other jobs will come open and then move from there. That's correct. I mean, it's more of an internal mobility. It lets people and then, you know, lets us look at each position to see if there's some efficiencies there. Okay. How many positions is it? This would be internal advertisement of any vacant position, and I don't have the current number of vacant positions for you, but it would be whatever division director, if they have a vacancy, if they'll notify HR that they want to just do internal ads, that's what this will do. Okay, so all vacant positions are being internally advertised. If requested by the division director, under this one they would be. Okay. Do you mind to email me how many this is, how many jobs? Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner Graham. Yes. I wanted to question further on item B. The recent layoffs that we had, those folks are now external applicants. Is that correct? Yes, that would be correct unless they got another position. I think we did have some folks that were able to move internally that were going to be laid off. Okay. So in order for them to find employment within the government, we are paying unemployment for them, correct? If they have not found another position and if it's within the unemployment guidelines. Okay. But they would have to qualify for these positions by applying as a normal process. Okay, thank you. That's correct. Council Member Stanton. Thank you, Mayor. I do have a change on item S. I'd like to make a motion to substitute a new memo. Everyone should have received it both on your e-mail and in front of you right now. this effectively changes item S so that we are approving the vendor only and not the contract yet. That contract is still being negotiated, so I'll make that motion now to substitute the changes for item S. So move. Second. Second. Motion by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member Henson. Floor is available for discussion. Vice Mayor. Thank you. Do we know when the negotiations will be finished and when we'll have our next motion? We will start meeting with Humana on Monday, and so hopefully after that things will move pretty quickly, and hopefully we can have something to you by the end of the month. And when is open enrollment? We have moved it back, and it will begin in November. First part of November, mid-November, any idea of dates? Leslie, do you mind coming? I do. It would start, I believe, that Monday is the 7th, but whatever that first Monday is in the month of November. And is it how long? Two weeks? Two weeks and three days. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Can I finish my report, ma'am? Councilman Martin. Pardon? Can I finish my questions? Yeah. Anybody? Any other discussion? Is that what? Okay. Councilman Martin, you're up, but we've got the motion on the floor. So you're not asking to speak to this motion. All right. Anybody else then to the motion? All right. Ready to vote then? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. And then I had a question on item B. I know, Mr. Inmonds, you gave an update to the planning committee a few moments ago, and I was watching via satellite about the commissioner of planning. Can you give the whole council an update on the commissioner, Serge? I know this item is approving the actual position. that was budgeted. I guess my question is, why is it reporting to or being established in the office of the CAO and not like every other commissioner directly by itself? What was the purpose of changing that wording? Because most commissioners are standalone versus this one is under the CAO. Is that a legal issue? I don't know if there was some kind of rationale behind that. I can report on the rest of it while Jamie's coming up. I'm working on this myself. I've been working on the job description, working with Leslie on the job description, been putting, been sharing this job description with others, you know, beyond the county borders, hoping to get I hesitate to use the word national search because typically those kinds of things those kinds of initiatives can have raised expectations that are a couple of things one they say that our own people can't do the job perhaps or people within our own community and the other is that to raise expectations however that said urban planning and the model, the academic experience is valuable and important, and so I feel like we can go to some pretty good institutions to get some help. And I'm told that there is currently no Department of Planning, and when that hire is made, then we will form a Department of Planning and it will be exited out of the CAO's office. Okay, and so I assume other departments will fall underneath that commission eventually? It would be obviously the Department of Planning, Historic Preservation, PDR, and elements of the Department of Engineering. Okay, and then can we get a copy of that job description? Yeah, sure. In fact, I was going to say, anybody's got any suggestions, please, you know. Yeah, I was just wanting to. Please, you know, get with me on it. It would be nice to just have a copy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sir. Perfect. And then on item E, I believe this applies to the CO's office since we're on that topic. You're getting rid of one person and going to two part-time? Is that how that reads? So are these field positions already? Or is this who are we getting rid of and who are we hiring in this scenario? and also it's part of i guess i don't know why we bundled it with the community development director position is this one that we advertise and it's already been advertised i've already been gone through the process we've already done that and we've already hired will be the person will be coming on and opt over okay so what about your office are we getting somebody leave or we have someone that's going back to part-time and then we're going to put somebody up another person and we were able to save some money by going part-time with both of them people and hiring them. So new people? We're going to hire some money. We're keeping one of them. We're hiring a new person. Okay. It would be in my office. Okay. Okay, wait. Just make sure that you're clear on it. You're saying two part-time with a cost savings? There will be a savings. Okay. and then mayor on item m i don't know if chris king's in the room or not maybe irene gooding can answer this as well who are the do we already have applicants for the brownfield grants selected people that will receive these funds or is this going to be something that we're going to have available to other properties in town that we can utilize or do we already have the five selected it mentioned five properties in there They're not selected. This gives us funding to do the hazardous substance properties as opposed to the petroleum. Okay, so this is a second one. It's a second one. It's another $200,000. Originally, we could only do the petroleum properties, and this gives us the ability to do the hazardous substance. So it could be some of the same properties. Okay, and how do we advertise this, get the word out? Are we going to work through? We will use, obviously, a consultant, and I believe that we've been given permission already from EPA to use our existing consultant for these properties as well. I'm honestly not sure. This would be Tom Webb, but I'm honestly not sure how we get people to participate. Commissioner, do you have a? I don't have much. The first one we got was for gasoline, petroleum areas. Right, and originally when we applied for the first time, we wanted to do chemicals and petroleum, and only got the petroleum, but that was a victory. It was our first Bramfields grant in the city. And have we spent that grant? No, not yet. Now, that program is being managed under Tom Webb in Susan Bush's Division of Environmental Policy, and I'm not knowledgeable on the details of how those properties have been selected, but I know that they're available for people in really a lot of the areas they've been focusing on are potential brownfield locations, which could be anywhere in the city. But we do have several areas in this particular grant, which goes from, I want to say it's from Lee's Town around through the north side of downtown primarily. But I'm not positive that would exclude other areas, and I can find that out for you. Okay, very good. Thank you. And then lastly, Mayor, on item O, this is an interlocal cooperation agreement with Jessamine County Police Department. this gives some movement towards an idea that we probably need to have a conversation with the University of Kentucky. We've had some issues obviously in Elizabeth Street area, Linden Park or Linden Walk and Chevy Chase area. There may be an opportunity to have this same type of agreement. I don't know if the commissioner and their game day task force has begun this conversation, but an opportunity to do an agreement with UK to assist us in those areas that are having these issues with not only game day issues, but also student issues on the weekends may be something we need to look at. Commissioner, I don't know if you want to comment on that. Have we started on that path? I'm looking at cooperation with UK and expanding their jurisdiction a block or two east and west to assist us. Not this current year. I'm just getting up to speed on some of the historical conversations that have gone on. This one is pretty limited geographically to some parkland area down in Jessamine County, but we'll take that under advisement and I'll raise that question. Because I would see UK being able to do blocks, university area, State Street, all those kind of areas that we've been having these issues, be able to do the same geographic boundary. I'll look into that. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. That's Mayor McCord. Thank you, Mayor. Just very quickly, is Leslie Jarvis in the room? Or Janet? Oh, there you are. I just want to ask you about item number R, or item letter R, the authorization of the agreement with Marathon Health. Can you give me just the time frame again of this particular portion of what we're doing? We would like this to be up and running and available to our employees on January 1st of 2012. The decision is still the location and finalizing those decisions. Okay. And once we have that date set, is it something that we're going to – how do we roll that out to the employees saying, hey, this is what you have and this is where it is and so forth like that? Marathon will be on site. There will be a lot of education components that go into that when people start making the choices for their insurance. That product will be introduced to them as well as what the benefit is, how do they go about accessing that benefit. So they'll be given those specifics, and there'll be a lot of education. And Marathon has agreed to come and facilitate those discussions with our employees. Do we know where this is going to be located yet? In the education, we want to do several locations for education, not just one opportunity, but to host it in several of our divisions. So there'll be more than one opportunity for employees to attend that. Obviously, we can't have Marathon Health on site for all of those discussions, but they will be here closer to the time for open enrollment. And then for the wellness piece itself, do we know where we're going to land there yet? No. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Also, just real quickly, John Sheet, if you're in the room, let me ask you about letter L and the facilities usage contract with the Fayette County Board of Education. Do we have a standard joint use contract with Fayette County Schools that we use often, or is this something frequently that we do? Not in this particular. I'm not worried about this particular one. I just want to know about the joint use arrangement we have with Fayette County Schools. Those specific contracts are initiated and negotiated by Jerry Hancock's group, so I believe he can probably give you a better answer on that. Okay. Anyway, Jerry, just real quickly, you're going to hear me, I'm just going to go ahead and give you a fair warning that over the next year, you're going to hear me talk a lot about joint use agreements and leveraging all the aspects of our population for health and wellness and so forth. What so far do we do with the school system as it relates to joint use agreements or facility use agreements? We simply go to them and say, we'd like to use your gym, we'd like to use their track. They send us their document. They're not the easiest folks to deal with. Their lawyers and our lawyers sometimes take more time than it would seem reasonable. But they send us a pretty straightforward agreement that we bring here to use one of their gyms, and it's primarily custodial expenses. Okay. A grander, big-picture agreement with them is not in place to my knowledge. Okay. Mayor, I'm going to task you or challenge you as I come away from this meeting in Washington, D.C. about childhood obesity. I'm going to offload a lot of things. But when you sit down and talk with Superintendent Shelton face-to-face, I'd really like for you all to talk about a joint use agreement with their facilities, our facilities, and how we can offer greater access for kids in our community, because I think we've got some things we can use that maybe we're just using kind of ad hoc or as we've got an event. but I think that's something that I'd like to pursue with you. We can formalize a joint use agreement between us and the school system. Great. Thanks. Sure thing. Thanks, Council Member McCord. Commissioner, Mayor. Yeah. I just wanted to clarify the question that Council Member Sten had. You may have seen Susan pop in the back there just as I sat down. she did clarify that these grants are available community-wide, and now that we've been awarded that money, if there is a site that you have an interest in us taking a look at and assessing, that you can contact Susan Bush in the Division of Environmental Policy, and they'll work that with our consultant. So, sorry I didn't know that earlier. Okay. Councilman Blues. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner Taylor, I should have called you earlier. I have a question on Kay. With the PSA to the UK Arboretum for water quality-related workshops, no disrespect to the folks at the Arboretum, But I'm wondering why that particular entity rather than, let's say, some of the other organizations which are, I think, more directly connected to water quality issues, Bluegrass Pride, the Cane Run Watershed Council, and so forth. Well, when we created the water quality management fee, you may recall as we went through that deliberation, part of what was budgeted in there was $150,000 for three primary purposes. One was $50,000 for education at McConnell Springs for the naturalists. Another $50,000 was for Raven Run Naturalists and the educational programs they can do there. And then the third piece was actually for the arboretum. That piece, this is our second year of contract with the Arboretum, and they've been providing a number of classes for us now. This will be the third year going in. They've done community gardening, little sprouts, which is kids learning how to do plantings, different sorts of things. They've done earthworm, composting. We did grubby workshops out there for the kitchen composting. But it's the same sort of setup that we've had for the last two years. When that was set up, I am not aware that that was bid, but that originally was what was intended for that 50,000-year mark in the first water quality management fee budget. So we've just been following that direction ever since. It could be done a different way, but that's why it's the way it is today. I thought this was a new initiative, but it's not. No, it's not a new initiative. I want to say it's the third year that we've done this, but I have a gap in my memory, as you know, so I believe this is the third year in a row that we've done this. I know we did it the year before I left, so we did it that year. I believe Susan did it last year. And the programs include a number of different workshops, and we do keep very specific records on how many people are served. I know with the Grubbies, for example, the very first sign-up we had, 400 people signed up for that workshop. So we're talking several thousand people being trained, and our results seem to be pretty good, and the feedback on the workshops is they've been top quality. So we continue to work with them, but it's certainly open for discussion if there's a different way we want to do that. Great. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Is there any other council members? Is there a motion to approve new business? Do we get a motion? I got it. All right, so we can vote now. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All righty. Okay, next on our agenda is continuing business. Council Member Ellinger, report from Budget and Finance Committee. Thank you, Mayor. We met on August 30th. We have four items. First item with the monthly budget report. Commissioner Driscoll informed the committee that they had initial meetings with Ken Trosky on developing a revenue forecasting model and will report back as they make progress on the model. She also stated they began preliminary work on the banking RFP and also informed the committee they are asking agencies to prepare a preliminary reduction plan. In the event we will need one, they are asking the reduction plan across all funds of 5% to 10% to be returned by this coming Monday on the 19th. Bill O'Meara gave an overview of the July monthly budget report. Employee withholding is down 3.4% for what was budgeted and down 8.1% compared to July. and fiscal year 10. Overall, we're up 0.9% for July 11th budgeted and down 4.5% overall compared to July 10th. The second and third item were the timetable for fiscal year 11, the CAFRA, and fiscal year 10, the management letter discussion. Commissioner Diskell went through the preliminary CAFRA schedule and the management letters, stated that they entered into the audit agreement letter mid-August with Dean Dorton Allen and Ford. She also stated that January 2010 was not completed because the OPEB, the Post Employment Benefits Actuary, had not been completed. They received the OPEB report in February, and the CAFRA was completed at the end of February. She stated that it is not the way that things should be done and that they are going to improve on that this next year, and they briefly went over the management letter. Vice Mayor had asked us when to expect the audit fund balance. Commissioner Driscoll stated the draft financials could be ready in November. After the technical review, Vice Mayor Gorton asked if this policy would keep moving things up to get a final audit fund balance earlier. Commissioner Driscoll stated the goal is to have it completed sooner. The last item was the budget process brainstorming ideas, and we have asked council members to give ideas on how to make the budget process more inclusive on the front end. And if you have any suggestions, please email myself or Paul Shoniger to bring this forward in the September meeting. No motions were brought forward on the items referred to committee, and we adjourned at 149. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, sir. All right. See? Don't need any money. Okay. Next on our agenda presentation is Facilities Use Policy by Jamshid. Mr. Baradaran. I believe, John, you've got a flow diagram in here, too, right? You've given us, or you distributed this flow diagram, right? I believe it should be in the packet. Right. Yes, sir. I appreciate the opportunity to present to you the proposed facility usage policy and procedures. This is a work that's been ongoing for the past two years, best of my knowledge, and it was previously handled by another subcommittee, and since the changes, it's been referred to the General Government Committee. We were asked to provide an overview as well as what's been drafted so far. I want to apologize ahead of time to the members that were there this morning because a lot of the material that's going to be in this presentation probably would be redundant for most of you. But we're going to try to keep it brief and move forward and give you an opportunity. If you have any questions, comments, we'd appreciate your feedback. The primary goal of the policy is very clear. What we were charged with a few years ago was, number one, to get a handle on all the facilities that city own, operate, what have you, which has been completed and it's ongoing and it's been updated as we move forward. Through the process, we also came across quite a few leases that's been out there floating, some of them for quite a few years, some of them not as long. A lot of them use different languages. There's no really a continuity from one lease to the other. Some of them are completely open-ended. Some of them are short-term. Some of them are mid-term. Some of them have been expired for maybe about five, six, seven years. So we found some opportunities there to go on ahead and as we evaluate all the facilities that we own and creating that inventory to also get a better feel on who is occupying these facilities. As I mentioned this morning, there are three primary groups that are considered to be our tenants. One is obviously the largest group is the LFECG employees and operations. The second one, which is the next larger, is what we call partner agencies. And then the last group to a much smaller extent are what we call the retail operation. We still own a few facilities out there that we rent for fair market value to for-profit groups, stores, and retail. The primary goal of this policy is to identify the leases that have lapsed, as well as evaluating the leases that are currently active, and being able to create and improve the program's transparency and accountability, by which you will have in your packet one page is the flow chart that we provided. I think we'll simplify matters quite a bit. It follows the entire process from beginning to the end. Obviously, the beginning of the process would be a determination of a need by an outside or a partner agency that will come to the city and inquire about some sort of a subsidy. In case of us, it would be a facility or a space. And so we wanted to spell out exactly what steps need to be followed in regard to making sure that everyone, every group has been evaluated and considered for any type of subsidies that city will be providing. Some of the items that we found out that needed to be clarified during the process, number one, obviously, is the organization, non-for-profit, if they are, there would be an opportunity for them to provide documentation as to such. Also, one thing we want to do is when they come and ask for subsidies, we need to make sure they've actually done their homework in terms of a business plan, some sort of a plan that identifies the source of the funding, the need analysis, how they arrived at X number of score footage that they're going to need. And we can provide those services to them. Another one was to also providing, they need to provide to us exactly what kind of services they're talking about in terms of providing to the community. So that right there would provide a very good amount of information to the city in order to be able to get a better feel at what is it that's being requested of them and how it's going to benefit the community. Next one, obviously, that's going to be identified is what level of subsidies that is being requested and what level the group is going to feel comfortable and can justify to provide. I want to remind you all that this is going to be a accumulation of different groups coming in. Obviously, we have internal partners with different departments that are going to be involved in the process. We'll have the administration that's going to be looking at this and making that determination. But also, finally, the final decision is going to come before they cancel in form of a blue sheet process that will provide you an opportunity to ask questions and give us some feedback about what's being presented to you for approval and review. Contracts, as I mentioned before, we've got so many different variations. So we're working on providing a template, which we feel like is going to provide some sense of continuity, not to mention minimizing any kind of confusion. There were some really good ideas and feedbacks that came out of the General Government's meeting this morning. One of them was by CM Steneth about making sure that we can get all the contracts possibly started July 1st, which would make it probably a whole lot easier when it comes to anticipating potential incomes and expenses for each fiscal year. So we're going to be working on that. I'll be going to definitely fine-tune the application that you all see. There's about four pages, and there's one page with explanation of what each terms are. There's a lot of information on there, and I encourage you to read it and would welcome any feedback you all can give us. As I said, primarily what we're trying to do right now is put everybody on the same page on what it is we're trying to do, and go back and incorporate any of the feedback and comments that's brought to our attention back into this and then bring it up for a final review. The question that we had was, one was that we got some entities out there that have been provided with full subsidies in terms of space. but once that's provided, I don't think there is a venue available to them or the requirements for them to come back either to the administration or to this council and provide a report, let's be in an annual report of some sort, that would identify exactly what type of services were provided and to what extent and be able to quantify those. Another thing we're proposing is to keep the lease length down to five years, three initials with two additional ones. That way there's some opportunities there to make the adjustments, be it from the city side or the tenants, in order to make sure that our needs are all included part of the lease. The next question we had was the people who are actually being our tenants, our customers, how do we go about transition these changes? So CM Lane proposed a three-year transition, first year starting in fiscal year 2013 at $4 a square foot per year, second year six, and third eight. The eight, as I mentioned this morning, came about very roughly based on what we are experiencing in terms of cost of maintenance and utilities for our facilities. Now, that said, not all the facilities would be costing you $8. Some would be more, some would be less, depending on the age and condition. So this was something we felt like probably would be a fair one to do. We've already had some discussions with potential tenants about what might be coming up. We are getting ready to actually send a notice out to every one of them. Give them a heads up because I understand most of them rely on budget and source of funding outside of their control. We want to provide them with adequate amount of time for them to be proactive and make sure that they incorporate potential expenses part of the lease as their budget. What we're proposing is for any other new groups that are asking to join and occupy our facilities, we start at an $8 a square footage. We want to emphasize the fact that we're not doing this in order to generate income. What we're trying to do is to offset the cost that city bears on running and maintaining all of these facilities. And as I mentioned, there's a flow chart there. If you have issues with the quality, I'd be more than glad to provide you the electronic version. It pretty much spells out every step of the way, as I mentioned before. There are a few conditions and terms that each of these groups are going to have to meet, not all of them. In most cases, if you meet one of those conditions, you qualify for consideration. And then again, it would be up to the committee to make that decision to what extent the entity will be provided, what type of subsidies, be it part of the professional services with funding, be it facility only, partial payment with rent and expenses, that all needs to be determined throughout the whole process there. But we just want to make sure we provide a process map where anybody can just follow step-by-step on what needed to be done from beginning until the council either reject or accept the proposed lease for each of these organizations. That's primarily it. I mean, I'd be glad to answer any questions that you all might have. Thanks, Chairman. Mr. Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to give a couple of takeaways from the earlier presentation this morning. I know we had a good conversation. I'm sure the Chair of the General Government link will probably want to add in, but I think a couple of the takeaways from my colleagues who weren't there. One is try to get every lease on the same duration, begin date and end date, being July 1, preferably our fiscal year. The second being is making sure the nonprofits that we support with indirect contributions, such as free rent and utilities, making sure we put a numerical value and economic value to those numbers so that we can be fair across the board when we compare agencies apples to apples. Because some agencies are telling that they don't get funding from LFUCG yet. They're in one of our buildings, free rent, free utilities, so we are funding them. So I think those are the two takeaways I got from this morning that should be two of the most important, other than changing some of the least information and other points. So I'll leave it open to my colleagues who are there, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about those. Mr. Lane. Yes, I was in the meeting this morning, too, And the other thing that we requested is for the legal department to draft an ordinance that would give authority to general services to manage the leases, enter into the leases, to set terms and rights for them, and to have a system whereby we could review that here in council. So we have a little bit of teeth in it rather than just discussing it. So I think you're going to try to have that brought back at our next general government meeting. Thank you. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I also wanted to mention something that I mentioned at the meeting, and that is the entities that we have who are in our space who sublease space and receive rent. I think that Mr. Baradaran said that he would be giving us some sort of information and looking at those entities, because that's kind of a different piece to the other, so to be sure to include that. As I mentioned, the lease portion of it is pretty much most parallel with the proposed policy. We feel like there's a lot of improvements that can be made, and as a matter of fact, they're sub-leasing, and there's about two or three other items that we've got on our to-do list to make sure it's incorporated into the final lease. Very good. Thank you. Sure. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. I know we've been asking for this for a long time, a long time before you were here, and it seems like we're probably finally getting a handle on things. Do you have a list of the occupants of our facilities, their relationship to the government, and the type of service that you could send us? Yes, absolutely. As I mentioned, the morning session will probably be forwarding within the next week or two. Okay. We've got a lot of data. we can be more than glad to sit down and analyze them and kind of put them into a report module and send it to everybody for your review. Yes, we've got a list, and it's what I was bringing up, one of the concerns we've had. We're actually doing physical audit of all the facilities, actually going into them room by room and figuring out who's where, how long they've been there, and what, and so forth, just to make sure that we verify people are actually there. I mean, we had on paper, for example, a couple of groups that are supposed to be at one of our facilities for the past year or two, and they haven't been there. So that's what, once we get this proposed policy in place, I think that really would take care of a lot of those issues, but I'd be more than glad to provide the council the full report on those. That's great. Also, I mean, I really appreciate this work. there are a lot of like vacant properties, land that the city owns. Is that your responsibility? Absolutely. We've already gone through two with surplusing some of these numerous parcels. They've just been sitting here and there. As a matter of fact, with coming up with the third ones, we've got to go through a lot of different processes to make sure that, for example, water quality people or any other group that would have an interest in that parcel and identify if it can be go ahead and be surplus and sold, obviously some of them we have to sell them with conditions. So, but that's something that's continuously we're moving forward with. As a matter of fact, I think we've got close to about 10 or 11 that we're going to be bringing up fairly soon for clarification and sale. So they've all been identified? Absolutely, yes. And can we have a list of that as well? We're glad to provide that to you. Thank you very much. Okay, nobody else signed up. Chumsheet, thanks very much. Thank you. All right. We'll move on now to council reports. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I had a few items. I wanted to just remind council members that Thursday, September 15th at 5.15, we have our committee of the whole to discuss and determine whether we want to make a recommendation to the Planning Commission. And Mr. Will Berkeley is coming back to meet with us. At 5.50, the council members need to be in the chamber here for our official council photo. and on Thursday the 15th also, the redistricting committee is meeting and it possibly will be their last meeting. And in anticipation of that, because in their original charge I had asked them to report back to the council by the end of September, So if they're finished, we will anticipate setting a joint meeting on September 27th at 9 a.m. for the redistricting committee to make their presentation to the council so that we can begin any work we may want to do. And that will be in the Phoenix building on the third floor. And then finally, just as an update on the citizen advocate position, the work group is meeting tomorrow to finalize the job description to forward on to the full council for its review and approval. And then we can move on with the citizen committee, which will actually do the advertising and interviewing of candidates. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Mayor. A couple of announcements of neighborhood meetings tonight. The Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. in the community center in the park. The neighborhood association is in some ways unique in that to be a resident of the neighborhood is to be a member of the association. So folks don't have to feel that they have to join. They are already counted as members and have all the rights thereof. So I'm hoping to see tonight a good turnout. The principal topic of conversation will be the best use of the parks tennis courts. Already some surveys have been taken on that. Chris Cooper, writer of Parks and Recreation, will be there to discuss this issue, and I expect that the neighborhood will vote on that question. So it's an important meeting. It has to do with the future of an important segment of the park. Hope to see a good turnout. Then, on Monday, September 19th, the Greenburn Neighborhood Association will meet at 6.30 p.m. in Martin Luther King Park Community Center. And those are the two meetings I wanted to announce. Thank you, Mayor. That's my report. Thank you, Council Member Blues. Council Member Lane. Yes, is Leslie Jarvis still here? No, she's not here. Okay. Well, I was just going to ask for an update on the supplemental pay for IT employees. And, you know, this issue came up back in April, and it was sort of an agreement that we would try to have a report on that by the end of August. and I understand there's some additional effort being expended on this, but I feel like it would be good to have just a little update on that. Okay, if we can't get it today, you want to get anything, Janet, for right now? I'll talk to Leslie and see where we're at. That'll be fine. Thank you. All righty. Anything more, Mr. Lane? That's it. You got anything more? All right, sir. Thank you. Mr. Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Mayor, I want to welcome you to our work session. No one's done that yet. We're so glad to have you back. Thank you so much. I'm sure it's an old hat to you now. Thank you so much. Just a couple things. One, many of you have asked about the Waste Management Task Force. We'll actually have our first meeting this Thursday at 3.30 in the fifth floor conference room. Any of the colleagues here around the horseshoe, you're more than welcome to attend our first meeting. Second, I know, Vice Mayor Gordon, I know we've had discussion about hiring a council administrator, but what about the other position that council approved, the staff position? I think that's probably a more urgent position we need. Where are we at on hiring that person? Actually, we have not started because we want to, I think, it would be a good idea for us to look at our budget. Since we're already in the process of hiring a council administrator, and I don't know for sure if we're going to be asked or not to cut our budget. I've had a conversation with Mr. Barrow about it, and although we're listed on the budget cut list as a proposed cut, we've not been officially asked to make it yet. So some council members have been talking about whether or not we should advertise for that second position or not. That will be up to council. Well, maybe we need to have a Calumet to thoroughly discuss it because we did cut 20% of our workforce up there in this budget, and we cut our budgets 33% at each individual council member. So I think we've done our part, but I think the workload is overwhelming. Given what happened this week with our docket, it's unacceptable to get our docket on Monday afternoon and not be able to assist our staff in getting it prepared. So maybe we need to have a special Calumet to discuss all these issues on workflow and what we really need help on up there because I'm not sure if we need a council administrator position, but if the rest of my colleagues feel like we need one, that's fine, but I think we need the staff more than anything to assist us. Also, I would make a motion to put a resolution on the docket for Thursday night that any and all items that are to be blue-sheeted will be done by the close of business day on Thursday before the Tuesday work session meeting in order to prepare the docket. Otherwise, it has to wait until the following Tuesday or be a walk-on on Tuesday. So moved. Second. Second. Okie dokie. There's a motion and a variety of seconds. Motion by Mr. Stenet, second by Mr. McCord. And this is a discussion on this? Okay. I'm just trying to figure out. We've just kind of gotten lackadaisical a little bit on some of the deadlines, all of us. So this is not pointing fingers. This is just saying from now on, if a council member or somebody wants to blue sheet, we need to have it done like we used to by close of business day, to be fair, to staff. And so we can get the docket before we get here on Tuesday. Okay, the floor is open for discussion on the motion. Vice Mayor Gordon. My question is whether it should be even earlier, because those of you who've been here a while know that we used to be fortunate enough to have our docket Thursday night when we were here for a council meeting. Do you remember that? And so the deadline was earlier. I don't know what it was, whether it was Thursday morning, but I think that perhaps it would be a good thing if we could get back to getting our packet Thursday night. And I would ask Ms. Williams what the appropriate deadline would be because you might remember when we used to get them. Our blue sheet deadline is on Tuesdays right now. So would it work to have the deadline for the packet Thursday at noon or earlier? I prepare the packet on Thursdays after the blue sheet meeting when I get the blue sheets. And so it would be best to have all the blue sheets in if you wanted on the packet for the following Tuesday to have all blue sheets in to the administration by Tuesday. So, Council Member Stenna, is that what your motion is? Well, the motion was to have the blue sheets in by Thursday, close the business. so it can be prepared Friday. But I know how it used to be. We used to get it Thursday night before council meetings. So I'm open to whatever works. I just want to give administration enough time, not be too early, sometimes hard too, so we'll miss out on information and getting business done. I don't want to slow up the work of the government for a day. But Ms. George, it's you. Part of the problem this time was our transition and switching from the previous system to the new system. It might be a good idea if we could hold off on this resolution, and now that we're back into the swing of things, we shouldn't have this problem anymore. It was just timing and the transition of switching from one system to another that we had this problem. So if I could just finish, Mayor, then so can we shoot for getting the packets by Thursday night like we used to? Okay, thank you. Richard, do you need to speak to this at all? If you don't need to, that's fine. I'm just saying, you know, if this is going to be an issue that might compromise flexibility, speak to it. If it's not, fine. I think we're okay. Okay, and like I said, if I don't have it in by Tuesday or Thursday, we go on and do the blue sheets. I don't know why we didn't do it last time. If we had to wait this long, we shouldn't have had to wait. Well, it might have been because we just made a pretty significant transition. That's what Glenda is trying to say. Well, that's what I said. We shouldn't be waiting on two blue sheets, sir. All right. I don't know. I'm just saying, you know. you know change it what? alright, any more discussion? Jeanette, you need to say something about it no? okie dokie alright, ready to vote? Mayor, if I could based on the discussion and I know this was a transition but modify the motion to close the business on Tuesday versus Thursday and that will give us enough time to prepare it second okay, this amendment then All right. There's a motion to amend. Councilman Restendent seconded by Councilman McCord. All in favor of, is there a discussion on the amendment? Okay. All in favor of the amendment, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. Ready to vote on the motion then. All right. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Thank you. on October 1st. A tribute to Johnny Cash on October 9th, and that was a big hit when we visited the second time. And downtown country band on October 15th. So check out MoondanceLex.com. Every Sunday over on Southland Drive is the Farmer's Market near Save-A-Lot, so please come out and take a look at that. Next week is the deadline for the current round of Stormwater Quality Project Incentive Grants. And so check out lexinky.gov slash incentives to see if you'd be eligible and to check out those applications and deadlines. Our Division of Water Quality has been working in Garden Springs. We've had a lot of sewer backups in the basements over there. And I just want to say thanks to Charlie Martin and his team for really taking this new grant and getting it off the ground. A lot of folks, it's very unpleasant to get three feet of sewage in your basement. And so we're looking forward to see how this takes effect and whether we can sort of bring some relief to folks while we do the larger stuff. Lastly, it's come to my attention that a number of council members are going to the redistricting committee. And I thought we were supposed to stay away from that. I know the last meeting is coming up on Thursday. And I guess I just sort of want to know whether we as a council are all going to go or we're all going to stay away. I guess the perception is that council members are getting involved with the process. So I just didn't know. Did we set a procedure for whether or not we're going to go and sort of get involved in that? Okay. Thank you, Council Member Martin. I'm not involved in that, so Vice Mayor Gordon is vice mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, the rules which were set in the beginning were that council members could attend the meetings, but they're not allowed to speak or give input into the discussion of precinct movement and all of that. And there have been several who've attended and sat quietly if you're asking about the meetings themselves. Okay, so we're all allowed to attend this. Oh, yes. Several have floated in and out. And possibly the last meeting will be September 15th at 10 o'clock on the third floor in the conference room in the Phoenix building. Well, the report I heard was less floating in and out and more hovering. And so maybe I'll come in on the 15th and sort of check out the last meeting. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Councilman McCourt. Thank you, Mayor. As I mentioned, I had an opportunity last week to go to Washington, D.C. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation had put on a Childhood Obesity Summit. And I just want to reiterate some things that were brought up there. But as it relates to us as a city, you know, this is a – we have an epidemic. And a lot of folks kind of say, well, yeah, sure, whatever. We're seeing it on this council as you battle the health insurance debate. and we talk about the spiraling costs and so forth. The reason you have that is that we have a very unhealthy population in Lexington, and it translates sometimes into our employees. And it's not about cost savings and it's not about money. It's all about life. We use quality of life. We throw that around a lot. But this is about life and having the opportunity to have a better life. And I think the big thing that this council needs to understand, and people watching it need to understand, is that in 1995 there was no state that had 20% or more of its population that was obese. Today, every state but one, Colorado, is 20% or greater. And Colorado is actually growing at three times the rate of other states right now, so they're playing catch-up, unfortunately. Four years ago there was no state but West Virginia that had a population of 30% or greater that was obese. Today there's 12 states, Kentucky being one of them. So this is affecting every taxpayer because you are having to cover that cost through Medicare, Medicaid, through health insurance, these types of things. It does trickle down to all of us. And people say, well, it's a personal responsibility and this and that and the other. Yeah, but when you don't take personal responsibility, then it starts trickling into government. And one of the things that I want to share with my colleagues and with you, Mayor, is that what's really going to have to happen over the next year is that there's going to have to be some bold policy change coming from this body. because nothing's going to change from a programming standpoint. In fact, nobody's going to fund that stuff. What Robert Woods Johnson is interested in and a number of other funders is what policy changes are we addressing? Now, we have a gift. We've been given the gift of being the most sedentary city in America, as known by Men's Health magazine. That puts us on a radar and gives us an opportunity to leverage that, and it's my expressed intent to leverage that to the fullest. That's why I was asking about our joint use agreements with the Fayette County Schools. We have playgrounds all over our city that we could be using. Right now we don't because we don't, as a council, have a document that guides that. So the first motion I want to make starting today is, Council Member Farmer, in your planning committee, I want to put into the goals and objectives portion of the comp plan the consideration of health and active lifestyle design guidelines as modeled by New York City. I'll be submitting those to you as to what they use and utilize, but I'd like for us to roll those into the goals and objectives of our comp plan going forward. So moved. Second. Motion and a second to place the planning committee. Place the into planning committee. How specifically did you? Just to consider. Okay. Rolling those goals and objectives. Okay. Goals and objectives. Just to place the issue in committee, not in the sole objectives. Yeah, place the issue in committee. Right, okay. All right, there's a motion in a second. Is there any discussion? All right, hearing none, all in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Close note. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. A couple other things. As it relates to the issue of sidewalks, and we sat in here and we have a lot of folks that have strong feeling about the sidewalk on Tate Creek Road. At the end of the day, that's a must-type thing, and that's a bold move that the city has to move towards and take the heat for. It's those types of policies that we, as a body, need to be looking for at every turn. The last thing I'll say that really has bothered me for a long time and it came back up in this discussion, this budget, is about our parks and recreations and how we fund them, how we don't fund them, how we don't support them. I think that's evidenced by saying we don't even have a commissioner of general services that we've appointed. We have a parks director who really gets direction, but from whom and from where. And I think that it's incumbent upon the administration to make that a priority. But as I look at this document that we paid $150,000 for a couple years ago that I had grave problems with, What I see over and over and over is nothing but a giant org chart change, an administrative org chart change, and that is shuffling the deck furniture on the Titanic. We have a world-class city that deserves world-class parks. It's the only place where every member of this community can exercise and can start to move. And so I am placing this on us as a council that we need to look at this document in a whole different light. and we need to absolutely leverage our Parks and Recs Department to the fullest if we're going to attack this issue. And I think that we have some outside money opportunities where we don't have to do it the same old, same old way. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Thank you, Councilman McCord. Councilman Myers. Thank you, Mayor, and welcome back to our legislative meetings. Thank you, sir. Sure. Last month, the 8th District had, on the 27th of August, we had an 8th District movie night. And it's something that we had talked about doing since we were fortunate enough to get all the resources put into Gainesway Park and got that project completed. I want to thank, first of all, Commissioner John Sheed for helping us with that. They did a phenomenal job. Everyone from Parks and Rec, and particularly Elena, did a fantastic job of actually managing the site during the event and preparing it beforehand. Parks and Rec staff, police department, fire department were out with trucks and vehicles and bicycles and things and did a fantastic job to help us out. From our neighborhoods, Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association, leadership, Lou Gregory, Mary Lou and Mike, Matoa and family, Danny and Hugo Peterman, Gainesville Neighborhood Association, Diana Rast. Dover Creek Town Home Owners Association, Alan Thacker, Center Parkway Neighbor Association, Marissa Wallace. All you guys did a fantastic job. Bluegrass Pride came out, did some water testing, did everything to engage the kids into the pond. They also raised some issues that I want to actually, I'll just get with you on that, Commissioner, and we'll go from there on how we want to address that. But the pond itself, they had some concerns about the health of the pond after we've done all that work there. And so they raised some concerns. I'd like to share those with you and see what we might be able to do to maybe abate some of those things. But Patty Stivender and Carol Bradford from Bluegrass Pride came out and helped us out with that. We had a little over 200 people come out, and it was basically fashioned after the Free Friday flicks that we do out in Jacobson Park. But we had it there on site right above the pond, and it was a fantastic turnout. And didn't advertise it very much. Nobody really heard about it because we were afraid to get a couple thousand people in there and not be able to manage it. and then have problems as a result. So kept it small, local, but we had a fantastic time, and I just want to commend members of the administration for helping us out with that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member Myers. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Let me add my welcome to you at work session. You've been warming up in the bullpen, sir. We're glad to have you here. Thank you, sir. Based on our new meeting type, I need to make a motion to approve the NDF requests. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Lane. Is there any discussion on the motion? No discussion? All right. Can vote then. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Pursuant to the meeting that myself and Council Member Lawless had with the neighbors on Richmond Avenue, I would like to ask the council to consider placing into the planning committee possible revisions of Section 17-2, which is the addressing ordinance. I think it's something that could be updated. I'm not saying it has to be, but I think it would bear discussion after meeting with all of the neighbors over there and with the professionals on behalf of the city. I think we need a little bit more discussion about it, and so I would so move to place possible revisions of Section 17-2, the so-called addressing ordinance, into the planning committee. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Vice Mayor Gordon. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you all, and that concludes my report, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Hanson. Thank you, Mayor. I have a few announcements and comments. I had an opportunity last week, and I sent emails and pictures to you, but I wanted to just give everyone an update that lives in the district or may have an interest in the old YWCA property on Cross Keys Road. It's under development, and I toured it last week and got some really good pictures, but it is coming along, and the projected grand opening will be mid-December, around December 16th. I'm really excited for that area, which needs something positive to happen. And then I've been very vocal about community corrections and getting the negative letters and things like that. But I have spoke with both Richard, the CAO, and the mayor, and I'm confident that that will be corrected. earlier this week well I guess that would be yesterday sorry I was out riding through the district and the guys from community corrections the inmates were picking up the trash along for sales road and I stopped and thanked them for their work I was telling them how unfortunate it is that we really have to pick it up. The best scenario would be if it wasn't thrown there to begin with, and I know I appreciate everything environmental policy does and environmental quality. I spend a lot of time working, cleaning out streams and things like that, so when they pick it up off our streets, that's preventing it from getting into our creeks or watersheds. but I just can't stress enough the importance of that so every chance I get I will say something try to get the word out to as many people as possible I'm not sure if we're not addressing this in the proper way getting the attention of the audience that we need to get but I do appreciate the efforts that are going on and hope that they will continue but Community Corrections does a great job with that. Also, I wanted to let the guys in Streets and Roads know, although it's a contractor, but Alexandria Drive being paved in front of Kroger was a very big plus, and I've gotten lots and lots of comments. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Vice Mayor Gordon has some additions to her report. Yes, Mayor. Thank you. I meant to say two things. The city, on Sunday, 9-11, the city put on a very, very nice 30-minute ceremony in commemoration of September 11th, and I appreciate the administration's and the city workers' part in that. I thought it was beautifully done. and just write for the day. And then the second thing is, I meant to mention, many of you know we had our 11th annual dog paddle Saturday. And this is the one fundraiser that Friends of the Dog Park does every year to raise private money to put back into the dog parks. and we were directly up against the University of Kentucky football game. However, we did find out that everyone doesn't go to the game or watch it on TV necessarily because we had approximately 550 dogs. And with those dogs, usually there's at least one or two people who attend and we had many people who came and simply paid $5 to get in and watch. And so it was a very successful event, and I want to especially thank our Division of Parks. We partner with them to do this every year, and it's a good partnership. And the Friends of the Dog Park are the entity that find all the volunteers. We use many volunteers at that event, and so it's a really terrific partnership. I think it's a good model for public-private partnerships to bring in money and camaraderie, which centers around our parks. So thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Gordon. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I forgot to acknowledge and thank Elizabeth Chatterton for all her hard work in the council office, in my office, and she's done a phenomenal job since she's been here, and I really appreciate her. That's why I do that publicly. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to remind council members on Monday the 19th, starting at 9 o'clock until 3, we will be interviewing six candidates for the council administrator's position, and all council members are welcome. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Council Member Ellinger. Any other council members? All right. So that moves us then from council report to mayor's report. Move approval. Second. It's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Next on our agenda is public comment for issues that are not on the agenda. Does anyone wish to speak to issues that are not on the agenda? All right. Next on our agenda is a closed session related to pending litigation. Is there a motion? Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.810.1C for the purpose of discussing pending litigation. There's a motion by Vice Member Vorton, seconded by Council Member Kay. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Move into closed session then. Thank you.