Would it be okay with y'all, is there any objections, since we have some folks here who might need to move on? We've got one presentation that includes honoring our 2011 Junior Fire Chief. Judesha is here with us today, and we have Marshall Griggs is here with us today. So is it all right, y'all, if we do this presentation first? Okay. Thank you, sir. All righty. Thank you so much. All right. Judacia Robinson, come on up here. Marshall Griggs, come on up here. All right, you all. All right, let me give a little bit of background for this. Going back 50 years, Council Member Blues, 50 years. That's right. Going back 50 years was when this junior fire chief whole deal was first established. and this year's junior fire chief is jadasha robinson and she's right here with us she is a fifth grader at william wells brown elementary and jadasha was selected through a poster contest to illustrate this year's fire protection week theme which is protect your family from fire and marshall griggs is going to tell us more about that in just a minute but let me tell you a little bit more about Judacia? She enjoys art and cheerleading and dance and fashion. She's a good student and her favorite subject is math. She's active in her church and she sings in her church's youth choir. Congratulations Judacia. She has been a very busy junior fire chief in the last two days, haven't you? You've been riding in parades, you've been getting proclamations and a lot of stuff. now is your mom here today is tabitha here she is hey there tabitha you had your whole family there yesterday at william wells brown congratulations to to your principal to yvonne peace and to your teacher amanda yates all right now i'm going to introduce battalion chief marshall griggs who everybody who's anybody of course knows marshall are you going to you i want you to present this. Alright, is that good? Well, Judacia's gotten to know you real well. So, Marshall's going to share a few thoughts with us about what this represents and then Judacia's going to speak too, right? Alright. Marshall. Thanks, sir. As the mayor mentioned this year, the theme of the Fire Prevention Week as a whole and of course our parade is protect your family from fire, which opens up a lot of categories, obviously, but we're really focusing on ways that families can stop fires from ever starting and then ways that they have early detection to prevent those things. So things like making sure you're careful with cooking, not leaving candles burning, keeping safe distances from heaters, and then, of course, having an escape plan, making sure you have working smoke detectors, and then a meeting place afterward. And so Judacia's poster really encompassed many of those things. So I'd like to introduce her to you now and let her say a few words. I'm honored to be selected as the junior fire chief for this school year, and I'm looking forward to participating in all activities and representing my school in the Fayette County School District. My poster shows a family outside a burning house. I was thinking how important it was to protect my family by planning to escape and leave outside the house to make sure that everyone was okay. All right. So at this time, we're going to make this proclamation. This is Junior Fire Chief Day by Mayor Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington, Fayette, Urban County Government, in honor of Judacia Robinson, do hereby proclaim October the 11th, 2011, Junior Fire Chief Day. So this is for you. All right. Okay, Dottie, you get that picture now. Go. Come on in. Yeah. Zero in. Good smile, Judacia. Oh, great. Got it, Dottie? Okay. Thank you all. Thank you very much. Judacia, today she's already done several things with us today. You mentioned the parade yesterday. Really, the whole program is not just to recognize a child, but it's to promote fire safety in the community. So her whole school has been involved in this. And so I appreciate all those folks out at William Wells Brown, as well as schools all over our area, for participating in this. She went to the Webb Building today to get to see how important fire prevention is in those larger buildings. And she got a great view of the city. And so she'll be doing several other things this week. So thank you all for your time today. Great. Thanks. Thanks, Chief. Thanks, Judation. That was a great parade, wasn't it, Council Member Farmer? Yes, sir. Yes, he was, Mayor. You were right there on the reviewing stand. I was at the finish line. Yes, sir. And Mr. Maloney was, too, wasn't he? Yeah. All right. Okay. I don't know. It's chronic, though. It is chronic. All right. Does anyone here wish to speak to issues on the agenda? Anyone in the audience wish to speak to issues on the agenda? Okay. All right. No one has signed up, so we'll move on then. Is there a motion to approve the docket? Mayor. Mayor. Motion. Before we do that, I wanted to make a motion on the docket itself. On page 6 in first reading resolutions, number 32 is the actual goals and objectives that have been forwarded to us from the Planning Commission. So I'd like to make a motion to place that resolution into the Planning and Public Works Committee so that we can work on it accordingly before we bring it back to Council for approval. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion? Council Member Farmer, would you one more time, it's on page page 6 number 32 and it's just the resolution that are the goals and objectives as drafted by the Planning Commission and forwarded in the blue sheet process it has not really been made part of the council committee structure and the purpose of my motion is to do that is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, we'll ask for a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. All right, so we have a motion to approve the docket and a second. Is there any discussion? Mayor, can you give me the motion or a second? The motion for the approval of the docket was Council Member Ellinger, and the second was Vice Mayor Gordon. That was the motion to move this off the docket. No, the first one was, I'm just carrying back to the... All right. Who seconded the... Council Member Ellinger's motion. All right. Council Member Farmer did, Jeanette. All right. All right. Is there any discussion? Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. Next on our agenda is approval of the summary. Second. Motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing none, please, ready for a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. Next on our agenda, item Roman Memoir IV, budget amendments, pages 12 to 13. Are there any questions? Yes, sir. Mr. Farmer. Just in looking over all the budget amendments, and I don't know exactly who to address this to, but there are one, two, three, four, five different places that refer to expenses for audits. And I don't remember seeing so many expenses for audits at one time. or the amount of expense that went with them. And so I was just wanting just a quick background on why so many at one time and so much money. Okay. I don't know that answer. And is Ryan okay? Can you help us, sir? Thank you. Something general. I mean. Just something general. There's obviously one combined audit we do for all the hundred or so funds that we have. and obviously some of the smaller funds vary year to year in terms of dollars. So we're just putting in place some of the minor expenditures to pay that fund's pro rata share of the entire audit bill. That makes sense. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Move approval. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer to approve the summary, second by Council Member Ellinger. Council Member Stenet? Yes, I had several questions. I hope for discussion. amendments, yeah. Okay. On journal 55364B, Ryan, you may want to stay up here for a second, or Commissioner, I'm not sure which one, but this is adjust the ad valorem taxes for property values. I guess this has shown as we have extra money going into there than we anticipated. Yes, it's happened in the past. When the numbers came in, they were slightly above what we had put in the budget. Put $7,000 to the good? Yes, I believe that is correct. Yes. On page 13 of our package, yeah. Yes, sir. All right. And then on the next page, on page 14, Journal 55588 on the bond package. This is using money from 2009 equipment package to fund 2010A bond package. So are we taking money from a bond we didn't need as much from and moving it to a bond we needed more? None of these, to my knowledge, are additive. These are just facilitating the actual account transfers that was approved in the budget. If you recall, we didn't issue new capital, new money. We were reallocating dormant or completed projects. So we didn't have all the detail at the time, so we're just following through with the normal process now. Do we get the detail on that one on which bond it's coming from and what projects it will be used on in the 2010A? Yes, I'll pull that one from the budget book and shoot it. And then on the same page, the 55376, the Water Quality Fund, the KIA Stormwater Loan. Do we have details on how much that loan was for? Because this is just the debt service. Yes, sir. Can we? I will get that from the prospective department. And then the next one on page 15, the last journal item entry. This is taking money from the prisoner account fund to buy mattresses for the jail. This says from the fund balance of the prisoner. What is the fund balance of the prisoner's account fund? Well, the prisoner's account fund on a cash flow basis had additional revenue over expenditures. If you look in the budget book, there was hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional revenue. We didn't have detailed capital expenditures vetted fully at the time. Just didn't have time. But this is a lot of the studies and research that's been done at the jail. This is a needed expenditure. Well, you answered it, but you didn't give me the detail I was looking for. What was the exact fund balance? Can we get that? And then what are those things we'll be spending that money on? Do we have a list already? You said we didn't have it at the time, but do we have one? This is just one item. Right. So it wasn't particularly fund balance. I apologize and answer that clearly. This is actually additional revenue that's budgeted that has not been allocated. It's not necessarily previous year fund. Okay, just whatever that unallocated fund balance is then. whatever that number looks like, because this is taking $80,000 from it. I assume there's an ongoing plan to take additional revenue from that. It's being developed. Okay, so if we can just see what the current balance is, that would be great on that one. Very good. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. On page 12, journal number 55377-78, and it's to recognize reimbursement from the Lexington Community Land Trust for park maintenance overtime for a neighborhood block party. can anybody speak to that i don't know anybody that can is anybody here that knows anything about that all right okay mr hancock councilwoman i apologize i should know what this is i believe that we provided labor to this event and they reimbursed us and we're simply moving the money back into our labor accounts. I guess I'm just curious why Lexington Community Land Trust money was used for a neighborhood block party. It's an event that they put on, and we supplied labor, I believe, and they've reimbursed us for that labor. Okay. If somebody could find out, it's not a large amount of money, but it's just not as curious. Yes. Suggest that it's a few people's labor time. I'll send you something. Well, is that a routine? I think maybe the systemic question is, is this a routine process that you go through if parks supplies labor and then you're reimbursed? Yes, sir. That's the routine, right? Our protocol is to deposit all checks into the general fund and then budget amend them back out to reimburse whatever the... So this is a recognition of that protocol? Yes, sir. I mean, basically, this is a financial transaction that confirms that? Correct. All right. Okay. I understand the reimbursement part. I was just confused why it was being reimbursed by the Lexington Community Land Trust. They may have chosen to have been a sponsor for this block party, and the check simply came from the— Oh, I think we have an answer emerging from the left over here. No, this direction, Jerry. Sorry. Council Member Blues. The Community Land Trust sponsored a community day, a picnic, and a get-together for the entire community so that the neighborhood could meet the new executive director of the land trust. The land trust funding does not come from the urban county government, so I don't see what your problem is. There's no problem, it was just a question. I see. Well, I hope that answers it. Very well, Dr. Blitz. Okay, great. All right. We've resolved that one. Next, Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I also have a question about the Community Corrections Fund 55585 I remember this specifically coming up during the budget process, and there was no money for mattresses. And I was just curious as to why this wasn't brought up during the budget process, if this money was there. Here we go. Okay, Richard, you can rest. Richard, it's okay. Brian, rest. Brian. In terms of general fund appropriations, I would say that's yes. There was no appropriation for mattresses. The prisoner activity fund, as we've talked about before, do the same thing with MAP funds that we've talked about several times. Obviously, we've got a lot of funds that don't necessarily have the appropriate amount of resources and allocations. to run and look through all the financials. So this is one of those cleanups. If you look, this answers Council Member Stenna's question as well. If you look at the prisoner activity account, we have two revenue and two sources, services and other income that generates about $1.8 million. We have operating expenditures that are substantially less than that. So this $80,000, again, this is projections of revenues, but this $80,000 is an appropriation of that additional revenue. It's not necessarily fund balance. So I think, Council Member, you were referring to general fund monies, but this is a different account that has stipulations on it, and we're working through some of that now. And there's additional capital needs we all know out at the facility and in public safety in general. So there will be some additional requests made out of that as a body. I know that I remember the questions coming up. I can't remember the specifics of them as to what they could be used for and what they could not. Yes. And I know that there was a big deal made out of mattresses because we felt like the inmates should have new mattresses if they needed them. And we talked about alternating them like a hotel, motel would instead of replacing them all at once. So I just find it odd that all of a sudden we have $80,000 to suddenly purchase them. But I'll look back through my notes, and if I have any more questions, I'll contact you. Yes, I'm happy to. And again, the general fund, we didn't have additional appropriations. We were actually working on cutting out of that fund. This fund is one of the things, again, these don't necessarily have the money. These are revenue projections, like all revenue projections. Okay. Thanks, Ryan. Council Member Stenet? Yeah, I was just, Mr. Barrow, thank you, Mayor. I was just going to ask real quick before you turn that off. So you're saying the difference was about $600,000 that we have to spend this fiscal year, obviously $1.7 to $1.15. Is that the current balance? Well, again, I would caveat with these are revenue projections, and there was some additional revenue enhancements that were supposed to be performed at the jail. So, again, I mean, in looking through the financials, again, these are revenue projections. This isn't money in the bank. And I believe some of that was growth associated with electronic monitoring. It has not necessarily been fully implemented yet. Okay. And then can you get us a list of what the prisoner's fund can and cannot be used for? If you wouldn't mind flipping back. I apologize. We don't put that detail. I'll follow up with that. You can do that. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Stenet. Anybody else? Okay. All right. I forgot. We had a motion in a second, so no other questions? All right. All in favor, if we're ready for a vote, all in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. New business. Any questions related to new business? Motion approved. Motion to approve by Council Member Ellinger. Close second by Vice Mayor Gorton. There was a competition. Is there any discussion? Yes. Mr. Stennett. Question on letter L. This is the COPS grant that we asked about a week ago Thursday night. I believe Mr. Reed spoke at the time in regards to what the money would be used for. It says in here that it will be used for equipment, training, et cetera. Is that correct now that we find that answer out and this is the answer? That's the answer I found out. So then do we have an idea of what will happen with the $700,000 that we put? Jeff, yeah, Mr. Reed, yeah. He might want to come up to the microphone. Otherwise, bad things happen. I understand. The question was, I forgot on the way up, what the $700,000 would be used for. We weren't sure. The grant can, in fact, be used for training. That's a question that you all brought up at the last meeting. It can be applied. We haven't given much thought yet to what the $700,000 that you budgeted for this year would be applied to, but we've now got it budgeted in two places, basically. Okay. Very good. And, again, thank you for your hard work on this. I know we saw the entire list of 80 or 90 communities out there, and we were, what, 13th on the list of funding? So that's pretty impressive out there. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. I have a question on the same item, Mr. Reed or Ms. Gooding. I don't know if she's here. Did you find out if, being pretty familiar with federal grants, more familiar than I wish I was, did you find out since we had already budgeted that money for 25 new officers, are we obligated to also hire those 25 new officers? because most federal grants will not let you supplant. Let me answer it a little differently. These 25 are not in addition to the 25 that you envisioned hiring. Because basically you had training money in next fiscal year with the thought that you were going to bring them on board the following fiscal year. this money can be applied to the same 25 that you envisioned hiring. In other words, there's not going to be 50 more combining your two. This can be applied to the 25. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. Council Member Hanson, you might not want to leave yet, Jeff. No. No, he can leave? Okay. I have a question on item B. Item B. Yes, ma'am. I guess for Charlie, I was just curious because it's such a substantial increase. What brought it about? It is a substantial increase. What brought this about, this is one of the four capital projects that were required specifically by the text of the consent decree. So essentially we were forced to move ahead with this project in the design and construction phase before all the assessment work was done. So while we were doing the assessment, we finished the hydraulic models, and we really found that the flow that would be coming to that pump station was greater than what we had anticipated. So a couple of weeks ago, you folks approved the change order for the engineering firm because they had to go back and redesign it and put these additional pumps in. Now we're here with the change order requesting approval to modify the station and put the third pump in. Thank you. So, Charlie, I think it's worthwhile a conversation about this just to explain. When we do have an increase of this amount, you've done a nice job of illustrating the context, the reasons for it. You started out with an engineering contract based on the original consent decree, right? And once the assessments were done, realized that it required some scope changes, right? That is correct, yes. So in going back, I think this relieves the anxiety I think that our public would have about the way in which we spend money. In going back to the contractor, you ask them for an increase in scope for additional equipment, right? Yes, additional materials, additional equipment, yes. And so we negotiated very hard with them on this. And this has been going on really since June because I was kind of holding it really tight. They were the lowest bidder as far as the award. And in comparison to this, they were low by $14,000. And there were several bidders. And there were several bidders. Yes. So you had a lot of competition. Correct. For the project. And because we're adding substantial materials, a third pump that was never contemplated, this cost would be reflected in all those other four bidders as well. So this isn't additional work that the low bidder left out. That's not the case. Okay. I think it's worthwhile, and I think that's where Council Member Henson's inquiry is going, so it's useful. Thank you for that added dimension of explanation. All right. Anybody else? Council Member Stennett? Yes. I was just going to add, Charlie, before we go, this also happened on another pump station at the same time, Deep Springs down the road, where we didn't really fully understand our capacity. I think the bigger question going forward, as we saw our bill of a $300 million fix going forward on our sewer side, is what are we going to do in the future to change this? And you don't have to answer this today, Charlie, unless you have it. I do have that answer. Because if we keep underestimating our flow capacities and we keep having to come back and re-guess it, so to speak, or re-estimate it after the project has begun, we're always going to be deeper and deeper behind. So what are we going to do to change going forward? This is the last time this, I think, is going to happen. I should just accuse my words carefully. When we were negotiating the consent decree, I feverishly argued with EPA that we did not understand our system well enough to move forward with early action projects. But they were very insistent that we have early action projects, and these were the four. This is the last one. Everything now comes now after. The design, the construction comes after. All of the assessment is done now. We have a clear picture of what the capacity needs are. So this will be the last one. And it's really a fact is we had to make a decision on this in 2008, and we didn't get the data to make a decision until 2010. And that's what I wanted you to reassure the public, I know, because when we say we're going to have to increase our contributions into that fund, we have a better handle on the capacity today than we did three years ago. Much, much better, yes. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks. All right, anybody else? No one else? All right. So is there a motion? Did we get a motion? Yeah. I made the motion. We have a motion and a second. All right. If there's no further discussion, we can vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Next on our agenda, our presentations. Councilmember Lane, do you have a report on the General Government Committee? Yes, I do, Mayor. The General Government Committee met on September 13th and reviewed real estate and property management issues and planning for parks as recommended by the General Services Links Committee. These issues were referred for additional input from today's General Government meeting, which occurred at 10 o'clock this morning. There were no referrals from the September 15th meeting to today's work session. And a detailed summary of that meeting, which has a lot of details in it, is attached for the Councilmember's review and information. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next, I'm showing we have a report from Public Safety. Councilmember Lawless? Yes. I believe public safety is still listed as public safety and public works in Granicus. So the title of the report is wrong in the packet, and the fully typed report is on page 47 through 48. The public safety committee met on September 20th. There were three items to be addressed. Number one was the fireworks ordinance. Council Member Stennett discussed details of the amendment to the fireworks ordinance. There was discussion by all committee members of the complaints their offices had received. There were no motions on the draft at that time. It was agreed upon to allow the item to stay in committee for another 30 days. This item will be on the agenda for the October 18th regular meeting. Agenda item number two was the taxicab ordinance. Rick Curtis with the public safety presented and updated the committee with the progress and interaction with the current taxicab companies and interested citizens. Council members discussed several issues to be addressed at a later meeting. I'm hoping that that will be ready by the special meeting we're having on November 1st at 10 a.m. in Council Chambers. The third item was really misnamed. It should have been two items that were referred by the public safety links. One, the CAP program, which is home incarceration, and the other was transportation of prisoners and taking on federal prisoners at our local jail. Mr. Sabatini, the Director of Community Corrections, gave a presentation showing models for the jail. There was discussion to clarify what the committee's original request was. The committee desired a presentation with focus on funding, management, state statutes, best practices, current ordinance review, and micro issues relating to the jail. However, that discussion was in large part due to the confusion of how that particular item was labeled. It was clear that there needed to be some more financial data gathered by Mr. Sabatini and more information given to the Sheriff Witt, who may or may not take over those functions, saving us money. So I have sent an email and have not had a response yet. Again, if that can be ready on November 1st, it could be heard at that special meeting. If the taxicab ordinance and these two public safety link items are not ready for the November 1st meeting, there probably is not a reason to have it. No motions were made from any items presented, and all items will be in the committee and will be presented at a later date. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. Council Member Ellinger, Budget and Finance. Thank you, Mayor. The Budget and Finance Committee met on September 27th. It can be found in your packet on page 49 and 50. The summary, we dealt with two items. The first one was the monthly budget report. Bill O'Meara gave a PowerPoint overview of the monthly budget report for August 2010. The average employee withholding was up 7.4%. The total was up 5.6% from year to date July-August. was up 3.9% of the total. Less amnesty, it was up 3.3% for the total. The second item was administration's fiscal year 12 budget reduction exercise. Commissioner Driscoll gave an overview of the budget reduction exercise. Administration asked for a 5% to 10% reduction plan and say that it was asked for all funds. And then when we were dealing with the items referred to committee, vice mayor asked about having a joint work session before the budget has started. and I'm working with the Vice Mayor of the Administration on getting this schedule. No motions came forward and we are adjourned at 145. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Ellinger. Council Member Myers, Social Services Community Development Committee. You got a report? No, sir. It's not in the packet, but I thought there might be a report. No? Okay. All right, sir. Council Member Gorton, how about it? Would you like to report on the Special Committee of the Whole redistricting? Yes, thank you. And this is in the packet, pages 51 through 59. And Council Members also received this packet on October 6th, and we copied the CAO, the Fayette County Clerk, and the Commissioner of Law. The Council Committee of the Whole met on October the 4th to discuss the redistricting proposal brought forward by the Committee of Citizens. And so with that, I'm going to have a motion. I'd also like just to say that along the way we've tried really hard to be sure that the public was informed of everything that this committee was doing. So as the committee did its work, everything was on the web, all minutes, all proposals. And today I have worked with our folks to have the proposed redistricting map, as well as the precincts that will move to new districts, on the homepage of lexingtonky.gov. So it will be very easy for citizens to go onto the home page and click on that link and get the information for redistricting. And then at the good suggestion of Councilmember Farmer, I think that we need to go ahead and set aside just a special recognition time for redistricting comments in the public comment at our Thursday night meetings and our Tuesday work session so that when we ask for public comment, we also ask for specifically public comment on redistricting so that we can get as much public input and awareness as possible. And I want to thank our GIS folks who worked really hard to create a new map which actually specifies the areas that are redistricted so that the public can go on and see if they're in a new district or not. So with that, I move to place on the docket for Thursday, October 13, 2011, a proposal to redistrict the council districts of the members of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council. Second. There is a motion by Councilmember Gordon, seconded by Councilmember Lane, by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Councilmember Lane, related to the redistricting. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Congratulations. We're not quite done yet, Mayor. Yeah. Congratulations at this interim step. Yes. All right. Well, a lot of work. A lot of work. Council Member Farmer. Vice Mayor, do we need a motion to make a time during public comment for the redistricting commentary, or can we just make a directive to our... Maybe simply a request to add that into the public comment. It needs to be there so that the public can see that it is there for the next two Tuesdays and the next two Thursdays so they know redistricting comment is part of public comment. If we need a motion, fine. If a simple directive works, I think we need the public to know. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda is the presentation related to collective bargaining and the fire contract. and I'm going to ask Commissioner Janet Graham to lead us in this presentation. And Janet had asked me earlier how much time you think we need. The presentation will be probably ten minutes itself, and then Joe will take questions. Well, just fairly significant, so we'll watch the clock but not be controlled by the clock. How's that? Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to introduce Mr. Joe Schaller. He was our lead negotiator for bargaining in the firefighters contract. He's a partner with the law firm of Frost Brown Todd. He works up in Ohio, and he works in their labor and employment section, and a regular part of his practice involves collective bargaining for public sector employees. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Joe Schaller to let him explain the provisions of the contract. Thank you, Commissioner Graham. As she mentioned, my name is Joe Schaller, and my partner, Don Crane, is negotiating with your police union as we speak. On behalf of Mr. Crane and I, I want to thank you for the opportunity to represent your fine community at such a crucial time. I'm very proud of the contract that I'm about to describe to you. and you have a lot to be proud of today as well. You should be very proud of your negotiating team who worked tirelessly during these negotiations. This includes Assistant Chief Jordan, Rick Jordan, Battalion Chiefs Randy Gilm and Harold Hoskins, and I'm there in the audience today. Ed Gardner from the legal department, Leslie Jarvis and Ashley Case from Human Resources. and Ryan Barrow from Budget. We also received valuable assistance from Mayor Gray, Jeffrey Reed, Jamie Emmons, Commissioners Janet Graham and Jane Driscoll, and Bill O'Meara from the Budget Office. Your negotiating team was successful because they've maintained credibility and an overall positive relationship with the union leaders, and that occurred long before I arrived. You should also be proud of your firefighters, and its union leadership. I know Mr. Bartley is in the audience today, and I respect Mr. Bartley and his union team very much. These firefighters stepped up when it was critical for your community, and they sacrificed more than they probably expected to sacrifice when they began negotiations. And this was not an easy process. It wasn't easy for our team, and it wasn't easy for the union, which is why on more than one occasion we began negotiating in the early morning and negotiated until near or after midnight. I'm very proud of how the parties handled themselves during negotiations. There was nothing good about the things that we had to discuss at the table. But despite this, everyone maintained a professional demeanor at all times and worked together to find common ground. And this was not without anguish. And more than once, I thought that one side or the other was on the brink of walking away. But the sides didn't walk away. They stuck it out, and they pushed through it. And when there appeared to be no more push left, Mayor Gray was willing to talk through some of the sticking points and help the sides reach agreement. I'm confident that the LFUCG got the best deal it could have gotten at the table, and I'm confident that the union would say the same thing for themselves. So with that, I'll give you an overview of the contract. I want to talk first about the financial savings, because the financial savings was critical to the agreement. In the first year of the contract, the contract is going to cost approximately $2.3 million less than it cost last year. And here's where the savings come from. A wage and step freeze, reduction in the health insurance pool dollars, a change to the way uniforms are maintained and distributed, a reduction in vacation, a reduction in holidays, and a reduction in some premium pays for holidays. In the second year, the savings is a little less. It's $2.1 million. In the same areas, you save money in the first year of the agreement. And in the third year of the agreement, the savings is about $300,000. I'll come back to the third year agreement in just a few minutes. Regarding the non-economic issues, there are several areas where we revised the agreement to increase operational efficiencies. You can't necessarily put a dollar amount to the changes that we've made, but hopefully most of you understand that when you make changes that make your department run more smoothly, there are certainly cost savings in one way or another. The first is in discipline. The LFUCG can implement discipline of two weeks suspension or less before the issue is decided by an arbitrator. So it doesn't have to go through a long, drawn-out process before discipline of two weeks suspension or less can be implemented. We also made things more operationally efficient with respect to shift trades, drug testing, scheduling of leaves, and a modified duty. In exchange for these concessions, the city had to make some concessions of its own. And the first concession is a no layoff clause. That means for two years of the agreement, the first two years of the agreement, the LFUCG can freeze, can lay off firefighters, but it can freeze and limit hiring, and it's not required to fill vacancies. The other concession is with respect to staffing. Again, this is only for the first two years of the agreement. After two years, this is gone. And I mentioned a few minutes ago that I'd come back to why the savings was different in the third year. when the layoff prohibition goes away and the staffing guarantees go away, our savings went away as well for the most part. With respect to staffing, emergency care units will be staffed with three bargaining unit members, which has been the practice for the last 25 years. And in addition to that, the LFUCG is going to fund two paramedic classes for two years at a cost not to exceed $40,000 per class. so that's the general summary of the of the agreement if any of you have any questions i'd be happy to to answer those at this time so council members just if you'll sign up on the monitors council member stennett then council member lane thank you mayor i do have a couple just brief follow-up questions you mentioned discipline yes since i've been on council we've had about five, approximately five police hearings and one fire hearing or quasi-hearings. And in those discussions, we were not allowed to bring up prior discipline for the previous two years. Is that still the same? Because I noticed in this agreement, it says four years now. Do you remember? I don't recall that changing. Okay. I believe that it's... Because it could be different for police and fire. I think the police and fire discipline articles are very different. Okay. That's what I'm probably thinking. Police was two and fire was four. I just want to make sure that wasn't, or if it was changed, verify why. If you'd like to hear from Mr. Barton, he's apparently willing to speak. I was told to come up here, by the way. Nothing's changed with that. There's certain disciplines, like if you're suspended, that lasts for four years on your record. A written is two, so that's why some things go away. Okay. So that stayed the same. Very good. And then on the health insurance, I noticed a significant reduction in the benefit for the subsidy from LFUCG, but I guess there were no changes in the family and spouse benefits. They remained the same? Well, what happened is that the pool dollars for everyone is reduced by $100, and that's where the significant savings come in. But the spouse benefit and the family benefit stayed level? Those are the same as they were previous. We didn't address that directly in the contract. And do we have the cost of the contract, the savings in the first year? I know the press release that was put out, the council, or at least I haven't seen it, what were the total cost savings the first year? Do we know what they are? $2.3 million. $2.3, yes. Okay, and then do you have the financials on what the pay jumps up to in the third year and how much that total is after the freeze for two years? That's included in, you received some documents, one of those being the draft contract, and then you received at a later time appendices A and B. And you can see in those that has the wages for 2012, 2013, and 2014, so you can see how much that is. But the increase in pay would be a step increase in the third year on the anniversary dates, and then a $400 across the board shift in the wage schedule. Okay. And when did you send those appendices? Because I have three documents here that we've received. I believe Ms. Graham sent those out yesterday. Yesterday? Okay. This morning, perhaps. This morning, yeah. So we haven't printed them out yet. Okay, so then we can get you copies of those right away. Yeah, if we have questions, we'll read through them. But I do know we got the ones yesterday. I just didn't see the appendices in there. So thank you, sir. Sure. Anyone else? Council Member Lane. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Thank you. My question has to do with the 2011 pay scale. And if we were to compare 2011 to 2012, the numbers would be the same. The only difference would be some of the adjustments and expense reimbursements. Holiday time off. It should reflect a wage freeze and a step freeze. So it should be the same, yes. All right. And then the other question I had is that if we have a few people, for whatever reason, resign from their forest school on active duty and all that, what is our obligation to fill those vacancies? We're not required to do that? Are we all required? That's a very good question. And I want to mention that there's a history. Obviously, you've been in the fire business for a long time. You have a history. And there's a history of retirements every year. And you were not, under the no layoff clause, you were not required to fill those positions. Okay. I'm not saying that we wouldn't want to fill them. Yes, you're not required to. If something catastrophic happened and funding was bad, that would give us a little bit of flexibility. That's exactly right. That said, I thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you for having me. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. Did the union agree that their contract is subject to the approval of the Urban County Council? We did not discuss that at the negotiation table. There's a clause in the first page of the contract which refers to the contract in front of me. I have one. Was that there's a clause in the first page? Yeah, I thought it was in the first page, but I'll have to get that out. Is the cost of hiring the two classes of paramedics, is that what I understand? In this contract there's two classes that will be hired. No, no, that does not refer to hiring new people. That refers to training new people to become paramedics, and that's very different. So it's training existing workforce. That's correct. Okay, yeah, okay. That's very different. Okay. The summary says that the paid union leave is capped at 800 hours except for the union president. Is that 800 hours per year or per life of the contract? Yes, 800 hours per year. Okay. And how many employees does that apply to? All of them. All of them. So each member of the union can take off 800 hours a year? No, collectively. 800 hours collectively. That's good. Yes, it is. That's a lot of hours. I thought that was a good question to ask. So, yeah, it's Section 3 of Article 1, recognize the mayor and the mayor's needs as a sole representative. Section 3 of Article 1? Yeah, on the first page. So the Irving County Council passed an ordinance requiring its approval before the mayor signs, and there's an opinion of the Attorney General, I believe, and maybe also backed up by opinion of the law department, that that provision can be a part of the union negotiations in the union contract. So my question was, was it ever brought up? You indicated it was never brought up? That's right. This was not an open article for negotiations. We didn't open it, and the union didn't open it. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Martin. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for coming in today. Going back to the cost for training the paramedic class, did you say it's not to exceed $40,000? Each class. Yes. Do you remember what the previous cost was for that? About $40,000. I thought when we had it in our council link, it was... I don't know that for sure. I may have misspoken there. Go ahead, Brian. Some of the previous quotes associated with that was around $400,000. Chief Jackson needs to be commended. He revised the training structure. Basically, the $40,000 represents certain individuals with specialized training, but the majority of it is going to be during time, during work hours. So they actually got it from $400,000 all the way down to $40,000, and they're going to receive the complete training? Yes. is the plan I've looked through that Chief Jackson has submitted along with the other administration. I think they've done a really good job. That's an excellent job. That's one of the things our link looked at, and to be commended for that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Barrow. Is Chief going to help us here? Just to follow up on the paramedic training, how that was reduced. Chief Jordan. Yeah, go ahead. To follow up on how that was reduced, all of this training is done on duty. with on-duty personnel, on-duty companies. The downside of that is it costs us operationally. We started a class effective today with nine students. As we roll forward with our staffing, it's going to reduce the number of personnel that are available for responding. It's not an easy thing. It's not a crystal clear easy package, but there's a cost associated. So as a follow-up, could I ask, previously, was the class 24 for the $400,000? I believe that is correct. That was a projection, yes. So will the classes just be nine now instead of 24, or can you do 24 for them? We're planning on nine classes of about $30,000 to $40,000 per class, and that's some of the associated costs. There are some days when they all have to be there, and there are some instructors that have to be paid to support that training. So then to do a class of 24, what would the cost be? it would require overtime, which would shoot that cost back up to that $300,000, $400,000. So there is a savings here. All you're doing is not your discipline class. The savings is there because we're doing it all on duty. The cost is that we're taking units out of service to do that training. So if you do two classes, that will train 18? Yes. As opposed to 24? Yes. At a cost of $80,000 instead of $400,000. So there is savings, but it's not, you only end up with 18. It's financial saving, but it comes with an operational cost. Okay. I was just trying to compare apples to apples. That operational cost is staffing response units. Okay. So comparing apples to apples, at the end of two years, or at the end of two classes, instead of having 48 new paramedics, we'll have 18 or 36. Yes. I believe that's correct. Okay. And it'll be 80,000 instead of 400,000. class at $40,000. We're hoping to start another one of those classes after the first of the year, another class of nine on a separate shift. Okay. I mean, if these guys are at work every day, they'll spend their Monday, the days they work Monday through Friday, they'll spend it in classroom. And as we move forward with retirements at first of the year, our minimum staffing will be affected, which could roll into response capability impact. Okay. Are you satisfied with having, so what's the total number you're going to have? Just 18 then? There'll be nine. There's nine that started today, and we're hoping for another nine after the first of the year. Okay. And are there going to be any more classes in this three-year contract or just those two? We hope to do another one, yes. Okay. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. First of all, I want to thank you for your and your partners' negotiating skills with this and the contracts that you're working on. Thanks for having us. Maybe I missed it. You said you were going to come back to things in the third year of the contract. Did you revisit those? I did. I talked about the $2.3 million savings in the first year, the $2.1 million in the second year, and then $300,000 in the third year. That's significantly lower than the $2.3 million and the $2.1 million. The reason that we were able to get the 2.3 and the 2.1 savings is because we were also agreeing to do a no layoff clause at that time, and also we were agreeing to maintain staffing on the ambulances. Those things go away in the second year, and when the prohibitions went away and the staffing guarantees went away, the savings went away at the same time. So that's what I wanted to express to you is that there's a reason it's significantly lower in the third year because we weren't willing to give the employment protections in the third year to get that. So the savings go away, which means then that costs go up. That's right, costs go up. So do they go up relative to what previously they were then or in what scale? They would go back to about, and Ryan, please correct me if I'm making a mistake, but I think they would go back to around 2011 levels. In 2014, the cost would be at around 2011 levels. All right, that was the best way to end it. I see why you do so well at your job. Thank you. Thank you very much. And, Mayor, I would be remiss if I didn't take time to talk about the press release that went along with this because I always have fun with you in press releases. No. Just momentarily. And I appreciate this because it says, through the budget, the mayor and council. And I think that is very good because the mayor and the council did act in concert on the budget. And I appreciate that. I tried. You did a great job. I tried. Thank you, sir. At the top of the next page. Uh-oh. Here we go. The vetoes included $400,000 instruction of frisbee, golf courses, lacrosse fields, and other capital projects. And I assume that those fields and projects did not come up during the bargaining discussion. I guess what I'm saying is this is a great press release, and that detail could have been left out, sir. We'll certainly talk about that, but we appreciate any guidance. I will add that those things did come up during the negotiations. They were very important. Look at Chris nodding his head back there. Okay. Welcome. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple technical questions. In the agreement, there are a few places where it says temporarily suspended, and most of them are for two years. Right. So then after two years, do all of those that have that language automatically kick in for the next year? For the third year of this agreement, which is covered by this contract, and those were the savings that I was just telling Councilperson Farmer about, how in the third year we lost some of the savings. And that's how. Some of the things that were suspended are no longer suspended. So it's an automatic in the third year. That's correct. Okay. And then I've also talked with Mr. Gardner about the, I realize this is no longer a draft. I don't think it is. It's a final version. That's correct. And for his suspense file for three years from now, you have one of those, I'm sure, to look at the technical wording of the first paragraph of the military leave, to be sure that that actually complies with the technical terms that the military uses. Could you tell me the article number, ma'am? It's page 36, article 23. Thank you. and specifically, and I've had a conversation with Ed about it, but I want to be sure it doesn't get lost in the future, just to be sure the use of military reserve and some of the technicalities of that paragraph are actually the way the military says it. So that's in the suspense file. I appreciate that very much, and you'll be happy to know that primarily this article is in this agreement, to help educate the union members that can't supersede federal law and can't change federal law. Right. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Would anyone else wish to comment or speak on the issue? Okay. Councilmember Lane. Yeah. I just want to make sure I have one thing clear here. Each year under, like, entry year one, two, three, they're showing incremental increases. Those increases are also frozen, or will the firefighters also be getting the step increases, too? Wages and step increases are frozen in year one and year two, and in year three they get one step. Okay. All right. Well, that's very good because steps are running around 4.4 percent. So that's where we need savings. And I would like to say I think that our firefighters have done a very good job in negotiating on behalf of themselves, but also on behalf of the government and the taxpayers, because our budget is very tight, and I appreciate the effort they put into it. And they maybe should get a lot more recognition for what they've done. But also we had a good negotiator working on our side, too. but I don't want to diminish your effort. Your team had great relationships with the union leadership, and that went a long way to helping us get to where we needed to be. Thank you again, both to you and the firefighters. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lane. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. In February, we were given a presentation on overtime, And this was the day after former Chief Hendricks was, I guess, suspended or relieved. And as a part of that presentation, the purpose of the presentation was to talk about the amount of fire over time and how difficult that is to manage. And I guess one of the chiefs talked to us up here and mentioned that a lot of this related to the collective bargaining contract. CAO Maloney stood up and described to us which was something of a multiplier effect for overtime. That one individual would take overtime and the next individual would get time and a half off. Another person would take off time to work that time, and they get time and a half off. So one hour turned into an hour and a half, turned into three hours, turned into six hours. Has that been addressed in this contract? My understanding is that the new chief has significantly reduced the amount of overtime that the employees are able to get. That's not my question. I'm getting there. I'm getting to work. It has significantly reduced the amount of overtime that the employees are able to get. In this contract, we have taken steps toward that. The specific article is Article 34, I believe, and that talks about the number of employees who can be off each shift. And we have addressed that, and we've reduced the number of employees who can be off each shift, which in and of itself would reduce the amount of overtime if overtime is ever reinstated. And so under this contract, will employees be able to essentially up their overtime by filling in for each other? Will an hour turn into an hour and a half, turn into three hours, turn into six, turn into 12, or nine, I guess it is? If I'm understanding you correctly, I think that presently the chief has addressed that issue and that that issue is not a major issue at this point, and I don't know whether it's you. It was specifically said that their hands were tied because of collective bargaining contract. And we have changed that somewhat, especially with respect to Article 34 that I talked about. But there really isn't a lot. I mean, the collective bargaining agreement does tie your hands somewhat, but it's the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is a federal law, that also, I mean, we can't change that. So we have, we've done what we could do. Chief Jordan's right behind you. Chief, help me out here. This would probably be not fair to Joe since he wasn't here during all of that. A big part of that was the accumulation of comp time, which occurs either if members take comp time or overtime when they work back. The retooling process and the presentation that was here last spring addressed all of that, and I think we have done a good job of curtailing that. And I commend you all for taking that on. And I just remember of a specific part that this contract was blamed for a lot of that. And so I thought this was an appropriate time to talk about that feature. That's an understandable question, but with a reduction in the overtime, it reduces the amount of comp time required or built up, so it's kind of pretty much cut that out. So our experts are telling us that we don't have to worry about that one anymore. I think so far this budget here, we've spent $4,400 in overtime and late runs. Well, I just want to say I appreciate sincerely what the fire unions, Mr. Bartley, and his team did. These are difficult and desperate times, and I think the paper was correct. I think you guys came to the city's rescue, and I applaud you and applaud your sacrifice. We're all going to get to the end together, and I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Martin. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I had a follow-up question. Were any of the pension issues talked about during collective bargaining at all, the funding mechanisms, et cetera? Pension isn't part of the collective bargaining agreement, and I understand that Mayor Gray has put together a task force to address those issues. So directly, no, but I do know that the fire union understands that the firefighter budget includes a significant amount for pension. And if it's going there, it's not going to them. So they understand that, but it wasn't spoken about extensively during negotiations. Implied but understood. Okay, I understand. But the other question is, in your past work with other municipalities, is pension funding part of the collective bargaining agreement or the retirement funding? Generally not. Okay, so it's not a standard practice? Right. Okay, very good. And then I also, too, want to thank Mr. Bartley and the rest of the fire folks here today for your generosity to the city in stepping up and setting the precedent. I know it was very hard for all of you to get this passed. I know it wasn't unanimous. I know there's still some naysayers out there on this contract. But at the end of the day, we all have to show up and work together to get it done. So I do appreciate you and, Mayor, I appreciate your staff and all the time you all spend, too, to bring this to us because it's not something that's easily done, and that's why we do it once every three years. And I appreciate everyone's effort involved. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Stenet. Council Member Wallace. Just quickly, I want to say thank you to all involved and to the firefighters and Chris Bartley. You rescued the city every day in your work, and you rescued us again with this contract. So thank you for your service and for your generosity and realizing we're all in this boat together. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Wallace. Vice Mayor Gordon. A couple things. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate everyone's hard work on this and the fact that everyone realized what kind of situation the city is in. Thank you very much. Mayor, would you like a motion? It seems to me that when the council passed its directive, we need to have a motion to either approve or endorse. I'm not sure which would be. Would law like approve or endorse? Okay, I move that the Council endorse. Accept or reject is what's in the resolution. So the most appropriate motion would be to accept the contract as negotiated. I move that the Council accept the collective bargaining agreement between the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government and the Lexington Professional Firefighters. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, ready for a vote? Council Member Martin, yes, sir. I guess a question for legal. I think at this vote it's done. It doesn't have to go to the full council, does it? It goes. Eddie? I mean, it doesn't have to go to Thursday night. It probably goes without saying that this hasn't been interpreted very many times. That's right. But at any rate, it just simply says that it's supposed to be presented. You get an opportunity to question negotiators, and you either accept it or reject it, and then there are some things that happen if it was rejected. But I think this vote would be sufficient to accept it. So we don't have to take this to Thursday night? That's my opinion. The law department will get their heads together, and if we change our minds, you'll see a resolution on Thursday night. Oh, that's encouraging. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions then? All right. Are you ready to vote? Ready to vote? All in favor, please indicate both saying aye and voting electronically. Aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Chris, did you want to vote? I guess I already voted twice. Okay. Can I say something? Yes, sir. Well, let me do say that the vote reflects passage of the motion. All right. Mr. Bartley. Thank you for letting me address you real quick again. I just wanted to thank my team. Everybody says my name, but my team is the one that pretty much gives me all the information and worked diligently. And all the members in the department stepped up with an overwhelming vote for this. And I just want to point out that with all the turmoil going around the country with collective bargaining and public unions and everything else, this process does work if given a chance and if the right relationships are fostered between labor and management. So I thank you and work with you on other endeavors. Chris, thanks. Yeah, as you're walking back to your chair, I'll put a footnote on it. appreciate the spirit and the commitment, the spirit and the commitment and the passion, really, that went into this work effort. Derek, there were times when, fortunately, you all can understand that there were times when we were looking for a little bit of good humor, and you offered that, and Chris did, too. And, you know, I learned a lot in the process myself. I'm glad that Chief Jordan is laughing there. I see you're laughing, and that's good. I think you were. But Chief Hoskins and Gilliam. Joe did a good job of illustrating that there were early mornings and late nights. and in many respects I think Chris you said it very well that it illustrated, this process illustrated what bargaining and negotiations can represent in their healthiest way and most mature way. So thanks a lot guys. And thanks to the council for your endorsement. Next on our agenda, Council Reports. Is that where we are? Yes, Council Reports. Vice Mayor Gordon. be healthier. We had another run this weekend, and I had some contact from citizens that the run that occurred out at Coldstream blocked the dog park, and people who came out there to use the Coldstream dog park were not able to get in, and we also did not mark at the park that it was to be closed that day. And these parks are used by thousands of our citizens every day. And so those citizens who were not able to get in because of the run have contacted me. So I'm wondering, Mayor, if you could ask someone in the administration to look at the route out there for the next time that this occurs so that we don't end up closing one of our parks for a run. because I think it wasn't known ahead of time, and I think there was a good bit of angst by the folks who went out there to try to use the dog park. So if you could, I'm not sure who the appropriate person would be, but you'll know. Well, I don't know where Richard ran off to. Oh, there he is. He's holding his hand up. We'll look into that. Thank you. Don't. Thank you. I just appreciate your looking into that. If you want to, Richard, do you know about it already, or are you just going to check into it? He already knows. Oh, you do know about it already? He's this. Yeah. Okay, but you're going to look into it. Is that what? Nothing to report right now. There were several citizens who brought it to our attention. And then the second item I had is a really terrific honor, I think, for us here in Lexington. For those of us who have been involved for lots and lots of years with Lafayette Band, we learned over the weekend that they have been invited to the Tournament of Roses in January of 2013, so the Lafayette Band will be in the Rose Bowl Parade, and I know that it has created a good bit of excitement. Our Fayette County community in Central Kentucky have a wonderful reputation for marching bands, and they are places where young people learn to work as a team, and they gain a great deal of self-confidence. And I know in the next year and some months, Lafayette Band will be looking for support from the community because it's going to cost them a whole lot of money to go to California. But it's a terrific honor. And so, Mayor, I would ask that we invite the principal of Lafayette, the Lafayette Band Director, Chuck Smith, his assistant, Terry McGee, Dr. Terry McGee, and honor them at a council meeting with some sort of honor that you will devise. and just to let them know that we're all on board, the city's on board, to support them as they go forward with this terrific honor. Great idea. Thank you. We'll sure do it quickly. Yeah, thank you. All right. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilman Blues. Thank you, Mayor. If you've driven out on the Newtown Pike lately in the area of Main Street, and particularly on Newtown between Main and Forth, you couldn't help noticing, I think, the new vegetation. Thanks to a transportation enhancement grant that was awarded to the urban county government, Through the good work of the Corridors Commission, the Corridors Committee actually when this was done, there are now 102 new shade and flowering trees in the public right of way. There are 51 evergreens, 277 large shrubs, and 750 low-flowering shrubs and perennials. this new vegetation is certainly going to make the corridor near the Main Street entry to downtown much more attractive and appealing. So it's the result of a lot of hard work on the part of a number of people, and I'm looking forward to spring already when these new plants are really going to be in bloom. A couple of weeks ago, I announced the free flu Friday program. I want to remind everyone of that. the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department will hold a special one-day clinic, which is designed to give up to 2,000 flu shots to Lexington residents who want not to get the flu this fall and winter. This event will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, October 14th. that's this coming Friday, at the Health Department's Public Health North Campus, which is at 805 Newtown Circle. You turn right on Main Street, pass the 102 New Shade and Flowering Trees, and proceed out Newtown and just pass New Circle Road. First light, take a left, and you'll be at the Public Health North Campus. and be able to get a free flu vaccine, which will protect both against the ordinary flu and H1N1. I'd also like to announce that the Treasure Finders program in the 2nd District will take place on that same day, Friday, October 14th, in the O'Wear Center at Douglas Park, in which a number of volunteers will make calls to try to return property that's now in the custody of the State Treasurer's Office to its rightful owners. So we look forward to seeing if we can reunite people with their property, and we're grateful to the number of volunteers who will take part in this program. Two meetings coming up, Mayor. Tonight, the Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association will hold their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. in the community center in the park. Look forward to a good turnout there. And on Monday, October 17th, the Windburn Neighborhood Association will meet at 6.30 p.m. in Martin Luther King Park's community center. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Blutes. Councilman McCord. Thank you, Mayor. It was a fantastic weekend this weekend on many fronts. We have the fourth annual Bourbon Chase, again, 200-plus teams, 250 teams from across the country, thousands of runners coming down the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the 200-mile race course that finished in Lexington. And I wanted to thank the Convention and Visitors Bureau specifically, along with Race Director Mike Kuntz and all the volunteers who made this an unbelievable event. Again, it's a great way to showcase our area, the bourbon side, the horse side, and Lexington gets to be the host of that, and it was another successful race. Also on the heels of that was Second Sunday, and this is the fourth iteration of Second Sunday. And this one was kind of unique in that the fact that we were coming off the heels of being labeled the most sedentary city in America by Men's Health Magazine, being lampooned by Steve Colbert, and that was picked up by NPR and MSNBC, New York Times, a lot of outlets that really put Lexington in a light that maybe we don't find so favorable. And there were a couple of things that happened shortly thereafter. A group called Get Healthy Lexington said, well, we're going to create a response. We're going to create a go-nowhere sedentary parade, and we're going to invite Steve Colbert to be the grand marshal of that parade. Well, we couldn't quite get that worked out exactly with his schedule, but on second Sunday, they partnered with us in this statewide effort to do that here in Lexington. And, Mayor, I appreciate you joining me on the mechanized couch along with my daughter and Tim Francis, who created that mechanized couch. And as of right now, I just had gotten a report back that that story, the AP story of that sedentary parade and the call to action that we've issued has hit over 200 news outlets across the world from the United Kingdom all across the United States. And so what we did was we took something that was certainly a negative, a slap in the face, and we are using that to change the way we're looked at. and Second Sunday is designed to be a day where you showcase what you have year-round. It's not just a one-day event type thing. And so what's going to happen going from here is a call to action. And in this city, and my council member colleagues, you will see that over the next year, I'm going to be bringing a policy change after policy change after policy change under what I'm calling the Fit City Campaign to draw attention and new resource to our community because I will tell you right now there are hundreds of millions of dollars out there to change this obesity thing, especially with our children. Vice Mayor, I want to say that while some of those folks were very upset about not getting into the dog park, I want to tell you why that is. It's because for the first time our school system stepped up to be a part of Second Sunday and the PTAs of Fayette County stepped up to create a 5K that would incorporate these kids into this movement. And three weeks before second Sunday, there were 29 people signed up from across our whole school system. And that day, 750 people showed up and ran and walked and blocked the dog park. And so I apologize to a couple of folks who were inconvenienced and they couldn't get their dogs in there. I saw a couple of those folks, and I understand how frustrating that is. But I would just say to those folks and I would say to everybody watching that to have 750 kids and their parents and their teachers say from now on we're sick and tired of being sick and tired and we are going to be a part of changing Lexington and moving Lexington to be the inspiration for the nation as it relates to childhood obesity, I think that's a tradeoff I'll take. And we can work with coordination in the future. But at the end of the day, there's one person, Mayor, I want to really thank because it was her vision that really caused a lot of this to happen, and that's Lori Houlihan. When the Get Healthy folks came to her and said, we want to do a sedentary parade, we want the mayor's office to be involved and you to be in the parade along with myself, it was Lori Houlihan who said, the day you need to do it is on Second Sunday. This would not have happened had she not made that connection. So I want to publicly thank her. I want to thank everybody that was a part of it. But that just shows you the power of one person kind of knowing the connection. And with that, we all of a sudden have a springboard. And again, it is nothing short of placing Lexington in a position of being the inspiration for the nation. And if we're the most sedentary city in the world, or in America, and we are doing these types of things, it will cause notice. In fact, it already has. So, again, Mayor, thank you, and please pass along to Lori when you see her my sincerest thanks. I'd say she's probably already gotten a couple of calls after your having said that. Mayor, let me just also say this, that how we're going to take this forward is every month, Second Sunday will now happen in almost kind of the gallery hop fashion. It's got a fitness hop, and local businesses are going to start to open their doors for free on the second Sunday of every month for folks to come in and be a part of it. So we'll close roads down in downtown in October and join with the state and other communities around the country. And then in June, we'll close the airport runway every year. And again, we will start to create policy change that puts Lexington on the map. Thank you. All right, sir. Thank you. Councilman Lawless. Just a couple of things. I want to remind people that this Saturday is a free day to dispose of household waste at the dump, and you can go to lexingtonky.gov backslash recycle to get information on what's accepted at what dump site, electronics versus appliances versus others. So that's a big savings if you're trying to clean out your house or have things that need to go to the dump. Also, the South Hill Neighborhood Association will be meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in the Parsonage basement. and the WGPL Neighborhood Association is having a, on the 15th and 16th, they have 1,700 perennials that they're going to be planting at the Goodrich Park, which is at the end of Goodrich Drive. If you're going out of town, take a right on Goodrich and go straight down the end of the street, bring your gloves and if you have digging utensils or whatever, trowels and shovels, bring those. So they're going to need a lot of help with 1,700 perennials, but it's going to be really beautiful. So thank you very much, and that's all. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I had just a couple things, too. I just wanted to remind folks that the Friends of the Library book sale is ongoing, actually in the 5th District this year. It's on Young Drive, just off of New Circle Road. And I took my mom out there on Sunday, and I think we bought almost her body weight in large print books. So it goes on through this week and until 7 in the evening, and then I think next Sunday is the dollar for an entire bag of books. So I encourage people to support the library by going to that. I haven't talked to other council members, but when the report came in the paper about Lexington Police and Fire to supervise Enhanced 911, that was the first I had heard or read about it. And if there had been something circulated inside the house, I was unaware of it. So just for purposes of counsel understanding of this or questioning of it, I'd like to have a presentation made to us about the changes that were made. And I would prefer to hear about these things, talk about them, be involved in them, rather than read about them in the paper. Thank you. I think there were two comments there, Councilmember, or two. One was I wanted to hear a presentation about it. I suggest a presentation. That would be super. I don't think I'm mistaken in this, that we've been in the conversation regarding this management adjustment has been pretty much underway for, and I can understand how it wasn't front of mind perhaps, but it has been underway and encouraged quite a bit. I'm appreciative of that. But we'll certainly always try to do better. I hear you. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Councilmember Byers. Thank you, Mayor. Speaking of presentations, about a month ago I asked for a presentation on all the positions that were acting in the government. And I think at that time we heard that you had a candidate to fill one of the commissioner's positions. That's probably going to happen that next week. We never got that presentation. Oh, are you going to make it? Okay. Okay. Can we put that on the agenda for maybe next? Wait, wait, wait. Let me, yeah. Okay. The request is to put the presentation on. Yeah, I think, I don't know if next week is going to work or not. Okay. We've got to load next week. Could you get with the Vice Mayor, please, and work it into the schedule? Okay. I need to get with Hillary, right? Actually, Hillary's working with us. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. All right. Council Member Henson. Peggy, I don't think you're, is your, now it's on. Okay. Sorry. Tomorrow at noon, there's an apartment managers association meeting, Cardinal Crossing Apartment Community Center. And then on next Monday, there'll be a meeting with American Burley Avenue neighborhood neighbors. That's the 17th at 630 at the American Legion on Manor Place. And since it's a special meeting to help discussions about planned changes for their neighborhood park, and they did ask that I invite the council members at large if you're interested, and I'll send you an email. If you can't come, I know how hectic our schedules can be. And also this will be a new district precinct for Council Member Lawless. So I was going to ask if I think she's already left. But I thought it might be a good opportunity for her if she wanted to attend. But thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Just had a couple questions and a couple comments. One is about the assistance advocate. Vice Mayor, I know I understand we currently do not have one in that office. They have taken another position in government on our docket. So can you let the public know what our plans are to fill that role once that is truly vacated in terms of who will be taking those phone calls? Because I believe we need to name an acting pretty quickly according to Charter. I have, when this came up before I started working on it, The current acting citizen advocate's last day is October 19th, and I've met with a couple of folks in the administration as well as council, and we've identified some former employees that we're going to ask to fill this role temporarily until we hire the new citizen advocate. Is that committee we submitted names back in the spring, are they currently meeting? No, they're not meeting. We just now have the job description on the new business today, so we passed the job description. We've confirmed they're all ready to meet, and I think we also need to get our resolution. We've talked with law about a resolution that we've got to approve naming those folks to this committee, and then we're ready to roll. Well, as soon as we get who's going to be acting, let's make that public so everyone can know who to call and be fair about that. And then a second, I just want to echo Councilman Farmer's comments about the article about the 911 center. I know we've been discussing in the background, but apparently there is even a location already chosen for that new center, which Council has not been made aware of. That was alluded to in the paper. So it would be nice to have that presentation to be on the front end before it is made public in the future. So I appreciate your following up, Mayor, and recognizing that. So thank you. Wait a minute. I wasn't quite completely attentive there. So I have to confess. I'll just say it. Now, what's that about we hadn't done what? Well, I don't think Council knew about that. There apparently was a location that would be more conducive. For the? 911 Center. Oh, for the 911 Center. That's a report in the article. Well, you know what I've said before about what you're reading the newspaper. So that's not true? I'm sorry, Beverly. I really didn't say that. So I look forward to it. I don't think it is. So nothing. It's like a lot of things, yeah. Very good. Thank you. All right, sir. Council Member Lane. Thank you, Mayor. High Soul Farm Park grand opening was on Saturday, October 1st and this 280 park is the site of Lexington's first archery park and it was a pretty cool day and it was overcast but I want to say that a large crowd attended including the vice mayor and council member Farmer and I appreciate their coming out for that I thought the opening was extremely well managed, and I wanted to thank Jerry Hancock and his team out there. It was a really nice event. If any of our residents of Fayette County would like information about it, you could go to lexingtonky.gov and go to Parks, get some information on it. I think it's important to mention that Heisel Farm Park is located on a property that was originally owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heisel, and they gave the property to the Erden County government, so we should also recognize them for their gift to us. And it's located at 3601 Bryan Hill in the 12th District in northeast Fayette County. Thank you very much, Mayor. I would like to add also that I was a little surprised to see the article in the paper about the changes in 9-1-1. I don't want to beat up on you either, but I do feel that it would have been nice to have gotten information on that before the paper did. Have you ever heard that line? Something if you do, something if you don't. Yes, you've heard that. I would never use them. Beverly Fortune is an ace reporter, so she beat out the council. Well, okie dokie. All right, we'll just continue on. Mr. Martin. Thank you, Mayor. Changing the subject. Moon Dance at Midnight Pass will be closing out its season this next week at Downtown Country Band on October 15th at 730. And for more information, check out the Moondance website at moondancelex.com. On October 7th, I had a great visit with the Pasadena Neighborhood Association. I appreciate Council Member Kaye's aide was there as well, and they had some nice hospitality. They elected new officers, and we talked about some of the issues here in Lexington and our efforts recently to try to save some of the trees along the Harrodsburg Road interchange. There's been a lot of trees coming down with KU and the work being done there, but we were working hard to try to save some of those. On Friday, this Friday, October 14th from 10 to 2 p.m. at the Residence Inn just off Beaumont Center Circle, I also will be working with Kentucky State Treasury to help identify folks in the 10th District with unclaimed property. So this is free money. and so I need your help we're looking for volunteers to help us look through lists find your friends and families and their kids and all that kind of stuff but what happens is money that's at the state for refunds and things like that they mismatch where they're supposed to go and so it just stays at the state and they've got these long lists so this is a way for us to look through those lists and help folks that we know to help claim their property for the state if you'd like to volunteer please contact my council aide Jonathan Hollinger, and the number is 425-2285. Thank you, Mayor Gray. Thank you, sir. Council Member, Vice Mayor Gordon. I move to place on the dock at the Neighborhood Development Fund list. Second. There's a motion and a second regarding the NDF. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, all in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. All right. Okay. No other counsel? Council Member Martin, are you? You're showing up. Okay. You're done, right? That's it? Okay. All right. Next on the agenda is the Mayor's report. Is there a motion? All right. Motion by Council Member Lane, second by Council Member Blues. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, I can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you so much. Public comment next on the agenda. public comment for issues not on the agenda. I don't have anybody signed up for the public comment. I do have, thank you, Hillary. You're reminding me that I must make a little announcement. On our agenda for next week's work session, we will need to, in the interest of the timing and the schedule, we will be asking benefits, insurance, marketing to present the City's new health insurance plan options at next week's work session. And, of course, the purpose of that is to share these options with the Council and with our employees as well. Finishing touches are being put on the new designs, So what I'm announcing today is that we'll be having this presentation next week and work to provide as much advance notice, as much advance information as is responsible. So council members can expect the plan designs to be delivered in the next few days, and benefits insurance will be, the firm will be available to answer questions before and after next week's presentation. Okay. Any questions? All right. Okay. If there are none, then I'll accept a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion by Council Member Lawless, second by Council Member McCord. All in favor, please uncape by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. We are adjourned. Very good.