I'm going to go ahead and put it in the middle of the day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next video. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's a big crowd tonight. So it's almost time to get going, or it is time to start our meeting. So I'll call the meeting to order and ask that council members, if you please take your seats and we'll get started. Welcome, everyone. We do have a big audience tonight. madam clerk are you ready yes sir would you please call the roll mr. Ellinger here mr. farmer mr. Ford dear miss Gordon here miss Henson here mr. K dear mr. Lane here miss Lawless mr. Martin here mr. McCord here mr. Myers here mr. in it mr. beard president mr. blues and miss Crosby thank you madam clerk for our invocation tonight we will stand for a moment of silence please thank you All right. And a moment of silence and thanks for all our blessings. So tonight we have two presentations on our agenda. and the first presentation, we're going to be guided by Steve Fease from our Waste Management Division, our Director of Waste Management, Steve Fease. And let me tell you a little bit of context, and then Steve will go into more detail. Students from 26 Fayette County schools competed in this year's Cans for Cash contest. And the contest challenged public and private schools in Fayette County to collect and recycle as many aluminum beverage cans as they could during the month of October. So Steve is going to share with us more about this project. and I guess my guidance tells me that I'm scheduled to come around and help you all with this presentation. Okie dokie. Thank you, Mayor. Lexington's efforts were coordinated by the Reduced Reuse and Recycle Team of the Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community. The team included Bluegrass Pride, the Tracy Farmer Institute of Sustainability for the Environment, Wise Recycling, Phoenix LLC, Central Kentucky Fiber, Goodwill Industries, Seed Leaf, Keep Collections in Beautiful, Habitat for Humanity, Fayette County Public Schools, and the Irving County Government. We've recycled more than 243,000 aluminum cans this year. In terms of weight, that's 7,618 pounds, and that's a 32 percent increase from last year. And all of the schools that were involved this year took the cans to a buyback center. They were paid by the pound for all the cans they took there. In addition, Wise Recycling, Baker Iron and Metal, Phoenix LLC, the Urban County Government Division of Waste Management, all contributed to monetary prizes to reward the schools that collected and recycled the highest number of cans per student in their respective size category, as well as six schools that collected the most cans regardless of their size, of their student population. The schools that collected the highest number of cans in their student in their respective size category will each receive $1,000. The six schools that collected the most cans regardless of size will receive $600. Schools are only eligible to receive one of the monetary prizes. So it's now our pleasure to present certificates to all the participating schools and to show our appreciation and also to present monetary awards to the schools that recycled the most cans. So I'd like to call Gary Hoover from Fayette County Public Schools and Maxine Rutter from Bluegrass Pride. They will be reading the names out of the winning schools. Every school that participated in the cans for cash contest will be recognized either with a certificate or with a monetary award. I'm going to read the names of the schools that will be receiving certificates and then Gary will be reading the names for the schools that are getting checks tonight. The schools that participated in our earning certificates are Ashen Elementary School, Athens-Charlesburg Elementary School, Cassidy Elementary School, Crawford Middle School, Deep Springs Elementary School, Dixie Elementary School, Lexington Family Care Center, Locust Trace Agri-Science Farm, Fayette County Tech High, if they would come up and get their certificate. Excuse me. Excuse me. Henry Clay High School, Lee's Town Middle School, Lexington Day Treatment Center, Morton Middle School, Rosa Parks Elementary School, Russell Cave Elementary School, Tates Creek Elementary School, and Temple Adeth Israel Preschool. I will have the pleasure of reading the schools that earn certificates and prize money. The under 300 student size category, Montessori High School of Kentucky, $1,000. Thank you. the category of 300 to 599 student category Sarah school $1,000 Thank you. $1,000 the next category the six schools that collected the most cans are Lexington Universal Academy $600 Thank you very much. Meddlethorpe Elementary, $600. Thank you. Cardinal Valley Elementary School, $600. Cardinal Valley does not have any representation here this evening, but that check will be sent to them. Christ the King School $600. Thank you. Wellington Elementary School $600. okay oh there Montessori middle school $300 Thank you. and the last award will be to Paul Lauren Stormball High School for $300. Thank you. Just to finish up, recycling does a lot of things, and it helps to save energy and natural resources and creates jobs here in central Kentucky, high-dollar manufacturing jobs. It's a great lesson to learn from all these young people. So we would like to congratulate them for all their hard work. We would also like to thank all the businesses who helped support the contest for Fayette County and all the students, volunteers, and employees who made this happen and made this such a success this year. Steve, thanks so much. And congratulations to all the schools and students. Okay, we've got one more presentation tonight. And I'd like to welcome the folks of Liberty Mutual to tonight's meeting. They have a nice check with them. and Battalion Chief, Chief Battalion Chief, Marshall Griggs is here. All right, Marshall, will you lead the parade, please, sir? And just come right up to the microphone and share with us the good news. Absolutely. I look forward to it. With me today is some folks from Liberty Mutual, Brent Bolin, Jennifer Marshall, and Joey Doom. and there was a contest that came about and I'm gonna let Joey just explain real briefly about the contest and then I'll tell you what what we did with how we participated and what we're gonna do with with the funds. How's that sound? Great. Super. Thank you Marshall. For the past three years Liberty Mutual gives ten ten thousand dollar grants to local fire departments across the United States. They're divided into three areas small, medium, and large. Unfortunately Lexington is in the large category which is 100,000 in population and above so that means we're competing against the Los Angeles's of the world the Chicago's of the world this year the way that the be fire smart challenge works is everyone that completed a 10 question fire safety quiz that was one point towards the goal the Lexington community completed over 1,500 quizzes in a two-month period We had more votes, more quizzes than any other community in the United States. So, exactly. I personally want to thank a lot of folks that helped. We had a great, great help from the fire department, Marshall and his crew. A lot of folks here at the city did a great job for us. We really appreciate that. And then, of course, he also mentioned Brent, who's our manager here in Lexington. Full support from him and all of our office. And then Jennifer, who is our marketing manager for our area, did a tremendous job in getting all the marketing together. So I want to thank them personally as well. They did a great job for us. But each year, it is 10 $10,000 grants, and we do have a check here that shows that the Lexington Fire Department will win $10,000 this year. Super. right and um want to get a picture with the council members up here will that work yeah that'd be excellent yeah that was my instructions i heard it was straight came straight from you that sounds good let's do it that sounds good just push the chairs back Yep, yep. Yep. Mighty big check. Thank you. I'd just like to mention real quickly how much I appreciate the support of the community on this whole event. I know that Susan Straub and the mayor's office sent it out to the city. And to me, this is an excellent example of how social media has changed things. Our social media networks within the fire department here in our community, I was shocked that we were able to even compete with some of these larger departments. And so it really shows the support of the community for the fire service and for the city. So I just really appreciate that. I know I think Councilman Stennett mentioned it in one of the council meetings, and many of you did that voting as well. So we're going to put this money to good use, and you'll each be getting it back in your individual districts through public education and fire education programs. So thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks, Chief. All right. All right. Okay, we can move on now to the next item on our agenda. Agenda. Here's the second reading of ordinances. Madam Clerk. Ordinance number one. Ordinance number one, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fade-Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures in appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 45. Number two, an ordinance closing the right-of-way located between the properties at 444 Fayette Park and 503 Willie Street, determining that all property owners abutting the portion of the walkway to be closed have been identified, provided with written notice, and the proposed closing and consented thereto in writing, and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a quitclaim deed transferring the former right-of-way to the abutting owner subject to the reservation of easements for access and maintenance of existing utilities in the former right-of-way. Number three, an ordinance amending Section 2152 of the Code of Ordinances abolishing one position of Director of Litigation, Grade 123E, and amending Section 22-52 of the Code of Ordinances, creating two positions of Attorney, Grade 117E, from the date of passage to December 31, 2015, all in the Department of Law. Number four, an ordinance of expanding and extending the full urban services district. Number one, to provide street lighting, street cleaning, and garbage and refuse collection to include the area defined as certain properties on the following streets, Calypso Breeze Drive, Cardusi Street, Coronero Lane, Falling Leaves Lane, Firethorn Place, Golden Bell Place, Greenville Terrace, Gray Lag Way, Hardwood Road, Keowai Drive, Magnolia Gardens Place, Polo Club Boulevard, Sandhurst Cove, Seneca Park, Sarbaten Way, Sperling Drive, Sunflower Street, T. Olive Way, and Town Square Park. Number five, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district. Number three, for the urban county government, for the provision of garbage and refuse collection, to include the area defined as certain properties on the following streets, Blue Bonnet Court, Blue Bonnet Drive, Golden Trophy Trail, Waveland Museum Lane, and Winthrop Drive. Number six, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district. Number five, for the urban county government, for the provision of garbage and refuse collection, and street lighting to include the areas defined as certain properties on the following streets, Albany Road, Albemarle Road, and Halifax Court. And number seven, an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 218-2010, expanding and extending Partial Urban Services District No. 5 to remove certain properties on Spring Hill Drive and changing the Urban Services Districts on said properties back to the Urban Services District No. 2 and Urban Services District No. 4, respectively, to correct a clerical error. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion? Move approval. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Ellinger to approve. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we can take a vote then. Madam Clerk, would you call the roll, please? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Lawless. Excuse me, Ms. Lawless. Sorry. Mr. Martin. Yes. Mr. McCord. Yes. Mr. Myers. Yes. Mr. Stennett. Yes. Mr. Beard. Yes. Mr. Blues. Yes. And Ms. Crosby. Yes. Thank you. All right. The vote reflects the passage of the motion. Madam Clerk, when you're ready, just go ahead with the first reading on the ordinances. Ordinance No. 8, an ordinance mini Article 8-1D of the zoning ordinance to allow an historic house museum as a conditional use in the AR zone. No. 9, an ordinance change in the zone from a single-family residential R1D zone to a professional office P1 zone for 0.99 net 1.19 gross acres with dimensional variances for property located at 154, 158 through 162 North Ashland Avenue, subject to certain use restrictions imposed as conditions of granting the zone change, the Lexington Hearing and Speech Center, Inc. Number 10, in order that's submitting Section 21-52 of the Code of Ordinances, changing the job title of one position of Human Resources Manager, Grade 119e, to the one position of Payroll Manager, Grade 119e, in the Division of Accounting. Number 11, in order that's pursuant to Section 2-1a of the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Payton County Government, adopting a schedule of meetings for the Council for the calendar year 2012. Number 12, in ordinance closing a portion of Manor Drive, determining that all property owners abutting the portion of the street to be closed have been identified, provided with written notice of the proposed closing, and consented thereto in writing, and authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a quitclaim deed, transferring the former right-of-way to the abutting owners, subject to the reservation of easements for access and maintenance of existing utilities in the former right-of-way. Number 13, an ordinance submitting section 16-15F of the Code of Ordinances related to refuse collection to exempt peace officers performing their official duties from this section. Number 14, an ordinance creating subsection 14-10F11 of the Code of Ordinances, Lexington-Faddam County Government, to provide for the enforcement of violations of Article 13 of the Zoning Ordinance by the Director of Historic Preservation and Historic Preservation Specialists, effective January 1, 2012. Number 15, an ordinance submitting certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds. Schedule number 46. Number 16, an ordinance approving and adopting regulations for the procurement of personal and professional services on behalf of the Urban County Government through its Division of Central Purchasing, effective January 1, 2012. Number 17. An ordinance amending section 21-5-2 of the Code of Ordinances, abolishing one position of engineering technician principal, grade 115E, abolishing two positions of engineering technician, grade 111N, and two positions of laboratory technician, grade 109N, and creating one position of electrician, grade 114N, one position of maintenance mechanic, grade 113N, and two positions of laboratory technician senior, grade 112N, and amending section 22-5-2 of the Code of Ordinances, abolishing one position of staff assistant senior grade 108 in all in the Division of Water Quality and appropriating funds pursuant to Schedule No. 47. And I think there's a motion on the floor. Thank you. Is there a motion? Council Member Farmer. Mayor, I'd like to suspend the rules and give a second reading to No. 12, which is a redevelopment area in the 5th District, and a second reading would provide opportunity for them to move forward on it. And I would add others after that. There's a motion by Council Member Farmer for a second reading on number 12 and second by Council Member Blues. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Thank you. All opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. In the work session Tuesday, we talked about bringing forth a motion to amend the calendar so that we're going to reverse the social services meeting that's on November. I forgot the dates. It's already on? Yeah. Where's it at? It's already actually on the calendar. Oh, okay. Okay, I'm told that the calendar's already been amended, but we have to make the motion to do it. All right. What's the question? Okay, I'm told that the law department said that we could go ahead and do it the way that it's been done. Vice Mayor Gordon. I just wanted to ask a question. So you all can change what we've put onto the docket? Probably confusion caused by me. I meant to go ahead and make the change in the body of the ordinance because I knew this was going to happen, not that you wouldn't have to make your motion to go ahead and do it. Because we moved it onto the docket in a different form. Correct. Yes. So then can I just make the motion to amend the calendar as amended? Or do I need to state? I would suggest you make a motion to switch those two meetings like you did at the work session. Okay. My difficulty is I don't have it all in my mind. We're going to take the March 13th social services meeting and move it to March 20th, and the March 20th environmental quality meeting and move it to the 13th. So moved. Motion by Council Member Myers, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? No. all right hearing none we can take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries thank you very much mayor yes sir thank you councilman Myers uh do you want to get a second read now we we can we can give second reading to number 12 um okay it's it's your choice we can do that or we can go ahead and take the walk on whichever you want to do okay uh i'm showing Is there any walk-ons? Council Member Lawless? Council Member Beard? Yes, I'd like to make a motion to place on tonight's docket an ordinance accepting the bid of TP mechanical contractors in the amount of $111,129 for a heater for the Division of Community Corrections and appropriating funds pursuant to Schedule Number 0048. And this is an emergency situation. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none. How big is this water heater? Discussion. Looks pretty big. $111,000. I just would like to know more about the $111,000 water heater. I'm sure we need it. Yep. I'd just like to know a little bit more about it. Is anybody coming up to the microphone urgently? Oh, hi. Commissioner Clay? Commissioner Mason, rather? It's not your normal house water heater. Unless you're Tim Allen from Home Improvement. It's about a 50,000-gallon water heater for the correctional facility. Thank you, Mayor. It went bad. Okay. All right, sir. Thank you. Mr. Stennett. Thank you. This may be a question for Keith. Why is this an ordinance and non-resolution? Normally when we accept these type of items, it's resolutions. There's a budget schedule attached to it. But we don't have it, so I'm not sure how we can put this on a docket without it. Where is that schedule at? Do we have it? This is a walk-on. Normally we don't walk on budgetary changes like that without the schedule. It's my understanding that in the packet with the information, the schedule is attached, but I haven't actually seen this bid. I haven't either. just told that it's in the let me see if it's actually attached to the your screen item i don't think it's attached to that i have the document here if you would like for me to i mean i think it's important to know where the money is coming from from moving it from one account to the other given the financial situation we're having thank you for helping us um the schedule has not been prepared yet i wasn't informed that this was going to be walked on tonight, but the funds are coming from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. But I can provide the schedule for you first thing in the morning. I'd like to see the budget of that fund and what we normally use that fund for when we're using it for our water here. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Okay, but we can provide that for you tomorrow. Okay, thank you. Vice Mayor Gordon. My simple question, Commissioner, is is the current one is not operating this is an emergency replacement and they have no hot water yes well they have hot water but they've got i think two out there and one of them has gone completely okay thank you i think the reason they're putting this on tonight is it has to get two readings it cannot get two readings tonight because of the budget schedule which means it would have to get second reading on tuesday if that doesn't happen this won't happen until you guys get back from winter break. All right thank you Keith. Thank you. Is there any further discussion? All right if there's no decision we can take a vote then. All in favor please say aye. All right. All opposed no. Motion carries. All right. Madam Clerk can I give a second read? I can give that one first reading. First read on this one and then. And then I can give the ordinance 12 second reading. Yes, sir. This is ordinance number 18. And it is an ordinance accepting the bid of TP mechanical contractors in the amount of $111,129 for a water heater for the Division of Community Corrections and appropriating funds pursuant to schedule number 48. That's for first reading. and then I can go ahead and give second reading to number 12. An ordinance closing a portion of Manor Drive determining that all property owners abutting the portion of the street to be closed have been identified provided with written notice of the proposed closing and consent of thereto in writing and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a quit claim D transferring the former right-of-way to the abutting owners subject to the reservation of easements for access and maintenance of existing utilities in the former right-of-way. Now a motion would be approved. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a motion, please? Motion to approve. Motion by Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can take a roll call, please. Thank you. When you're ready, Madam Clerk. No rush. I'm trying to rock and roll here. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ellinger? Thank you. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Sinnott? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. And Ms. Crosby? Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Council Member Beard, you had a question earlier. I do have a question. I'm not sure who might answer it. Keith, maybe you. number 13 is the ordinance amending section 16-15F, which kind of slips my mind what that is. I was wondering just what exactly does this mean? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There's a section of that, that section of the ordinance, that relates to basically people either dumping things in the trash receptacles we have are taking things out that was never intended to apply to law enforcement. And an issue arose in the prosecution of a case recently by the Commonwealth Attorney's Office where a challenge was made where a police officer did a drug pull from a trash receptacle. And this is just language to make clear that that section is not intended to prevent police from doing those types of drug pulls. Makes sense now. Thank you. Thank you, Madam. Yes, sir. Thank you, Councilman Beer. Thank you, Mr. Horne. Thank you, sir. I wonder how... All right, we're ready to move on then to resolutions for second read. When you are ready, Madam Clerk. Second reading of resolutions. Number one, a resolution of the accepting the bid of Lagco Incorporated in the amount of $426,040 for the Black and Williams Center energy efficiency improvements for the Division of Environmental Policy and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with Lagco Incorporated related to the bid. Number two, a resolution accepting the bids of Rhythm Engineering, LLC, Iron Armor, LLC, Signal Control Products, Inc., and Pathmaster, Inc., establishing price contracts for adaptive traffic signal and control equipment for the Division of Traffic Engineering. Number three, a resolution accepting the bid of Lexpress, establishing a price contract for waste management newsletters for the Division of Waste Management. Number four, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Winona Embry, payroll manager, grade 119E, 2005-8696, biweekly in the Division of Accounting, effective December 7, 2011, and Karen Beatty, administrative specialist senior, grade 112N, 22.213 hourly in the Division of Traffic Engineering, effective November 21, 2011, and ratifying the permanent civil service appointment of Connie Hayes, staff assistant senior in the Division of Purchasing, effective July 17, 2011. Number five, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Humanitarian $475 for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number six, a resolution authorizing the mayor, the fire chief, and the director of Division of Emergency Management 9-1-1 on behalf of the urban county government and pursuant to KRS chapter 39F to execute a statement of affiliation pertaining to the establishment and designation of the urban county government's division of Fire and Emergency Services Special Operations Technical Rescue Team as the recognized rescue squad for Fayette County at no cost to the Irvin County Government. Number seven, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute Change Order No. 2 to the contract with Woodall Construction Company Incorporated for the Lexington Streetscape Phase 1 Improvements East Main Street Streetscape Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $60,601.05 from $2,646,542.45 to $2,000,000. $2,707,143.50. Number 8. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number 3 to the contract with Woodall Construction Company, Incorporated for the Lexington Streetscape Phase 1 Improvements East Main Street Streetscape Project increasing the contract price by the sum of $55,938.35. from $2,707,143.53 to $2,763,081.85. Number 9, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute Change Order No. 2 to the contract with Charles DeWeese Construction for the Lexington Streetscape Phase 1 West Main Street project decreased in the contract price by the sum of $3,272.25 from $1,930,561.75 to $1,927,289.50. Number 10, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute a regulator easement and right-of-way agreement with Columbia Gas of Kentucky Incorporated granting a pipeline easement. Number 11, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute a paramedic training program agreement with Jessamine County Emergency Medical Service for paramedic training at no cost to the urban county government. Number 12, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with AdSuccess for the Mobility Office Marketing Campaign for FY2012 at a cost not to exceed $44,400. Number 13, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to agreement with AMIC Environment and Infrastructure Incorporated, formerly known as AMIC Earth and Environmental Incorporated, for additional brownfield site assessment services at a cost not to exceed an additional $246,430. Number 14, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number 2, final to the contract with Morelia Design and Construction for the Maxwell Street sidewalk and bike lane project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $52,480.53 from $308,438.21 to $360,918.74. Number 15, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $267,609 federal funds, are for the continuation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System, the acceptance of which does not obligate the Urban County Government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 16, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, Department of Military Affairs, to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $8,000 Commonwealth of Kentucky funds and are for the purchase of equipment for the Dive Water Rescue Program, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds in authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 17, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept four grants from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $360,800 federal funds under the 2011 State Homeland Security Grant Program, offer the purchase of special operations, hazardous materials, and technical rescue equipment, $121,000, a specialized training class for hazmat units, $23,800, the purchase of equipment for the hazardous devices unit, $161,000, and training and dynamic entry for the Kentucky Explosive Incident Response Task Force, $55,000, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds in authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 18. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $11,000 Commonwealth of Kentucky funds and are for the purchase of EMS equipment, the acceptance of which does not obligate the Lexington-Payton-Urban County Government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the Mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 19. A resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a statement of work and master services agreement with Global Compliance Services, Incorporated, for installation and administration of the fraud tip line at a cost not to exceed $5,175. Number 20, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irvine County Government to execute a facility usage contract with Beck County Board of Education for the use of Windburn Middle School Gymnasium at a cost not to exceed $285.05. 21. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irvine County Government to execute a lease agreement with Pilgrim Baptist Church for parking at a cost not to exceed $1,000. 22. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irvine County Government to execute a National Safety Council DDC private sub-agency training agreement with the Tennessee Regional Safety Council Incorporated establishing the Division of Risk Management as an authorized agent to teach training programs to employees at an annual cost not to exceed $55. Number 23, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Zavis Solutions, LLC, for the purchase and maintenance of a data collection program for the Senior Center at a cost not to exceed $7,500. Number 24, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an engineering services agreement with Hazen and Sawyer, PSC, to provide for sanitary sewer capacity, management operations, and maintenance program. deliverables for consent decree implementation at a cost not to exceed $287,500. And that's it. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? There's a motion by Council Member Blue, second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion? No discussion. All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. K? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Sennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Collins? Yes. And Ms. Crosby? Aye. Thank you. Thank you. The vote reflects passage on the motion. And when you're ready, Susan? You can give us first reading on resolutions. Number 24, 25. One of those numbers. A resolution accepting the bid of Brentag Mid-South Incorporated, a silo-sham price contract for odor control chemicals for the Division of Water Quality. 26. A resolution accepting the bids of Volk Manufacturing Company in the amount of $5,760. J. Ettinger & Sons Incorporated in the amount of $8,614.72 and Central Parts Warehouse in the amount of $1,990 for snowplow parts for the Division of Streets and Roads. 27. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Bluegrass Community Foundation, $300. Forest Ridge Maintenance Association Incorporated, $150. and Spiegel High Hill Community Center $400 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. 28. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments of Jennifer Newton, social worker, grade 113E, 138720 biweekly in the Department of Social Services, John Day, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 15.089 hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Robert Bailey, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750 hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Donald Marks, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 12.097 hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Ricky Johnson, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 12.459 hourly in the Division of Waste Management. and Joseph Higgins, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109 in, 12.459 hourly in the Division of Waste Management, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments. Roman Sorrell, Jeffrey Brangers, Robert Sinat, Chase Allen, Stephanie McLean, Cliff Godbold, Kenneth Brown, Jr., Ronald Mazzotti, Stephen Jude, Anthony Beatty Jr., Ronald Willis, Kelly Shortridge, Anthony Sullivan, Robert Holland, Jason Mitchell, Nicole Gibson, Benjamin Riggs, Aisha Johnson, Ryan White, Alejandro Zaglul, Mary Shuffner, Wesley Farley, Meredith Myers, Brian Weir, Colin Perdue, Philip Toms, Benjamin Fielder, Salish Babineha, Jared Carroll, Kendall Buford, and Adam Peek, police officer, grade 311N, 17.649, hourly in the Division of Police, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment of Meglin Hemphling, staff assistant senior, grade 108N, 13.461, hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective upon passage of counsel. Number 29, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Leslie Jarvis, Director of Human Resources, Grade 123E 3461-54, biweekly in the Division of Human Resources, effective December 5, 2011, and Robert Harris, Public Service Supervisor, Grade 111N, 20.625, hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective November 28, 2011, ratifying the probationary sworn appointments of Sean Campbell, Community Corrections Captain, Grade 115E 2005-2240, biweekly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective November 28, 2011. Number 30, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, which grant funds are in the amount of $40,000 federal funds for the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks Program, the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County Government for the expenditure of $10,000 as a local match, and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 31. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute two amended memoranda of agreement with Fayette County Public Schools for operation of the National School Lunch Program through the end of the current school year and the Child Care Food Program through December 30, 2011 at the Family Care Center and the Day Treatment Center. Number 33. A resolution approving the granting of an inducement to CMS Text LLC pursuant to the Kentucky Business Investment Act created by House Bill 3 of the 2009 Extraordinary Legislative Session whereby a Lexington-Fayette-Irban County government agrees to forego the collection of 1% of the occupational license fees that would otherwise be due to it, which shall be retained by CMS Text LLC for a short term of not longer than 10 years from the activation date established by the Kentucky Business Investment Program subject to the limitations contained in the Kentucky Business Investment Act and any agreement CMS-Tex LLC has with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority related to the project and taking other related action. Number 34, a resolution approving the granting of an inducement to GE Lighting LLC pursuant to the Kentucky Business Investment Act created by House Bill 3 of the 2009 Extraordinary Legislative Session whereby Lexington-Faylor County Government agrees to forego the collection of 1% of the occupational license fee that would otherwise be due to it, which shall be retained by GE Lighting, LLC, for a term of not longer than 10 years from the activation date established by the Kentucky Business Investment Program. Subject to the limitations contained in the Kentucky Business Investment Act and any agreement GE Lighting, LLC, has with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority related to the project and taking other related action. Number 35, a resolution approving the granting of an inducement to Shatterbox, LLC, pursuant to the Kentucky Business Investment Act created by House Bill No. 3 of this 2009 Extraordinary Legislative Session, whereby Lexington-Fayton County Government agrees to forego the collection of 1% of the occupational license fee that would otherwise be due to it, which shall be retained by Shatterbox LLC for a term of not longer than 10 years from the activation date established by the Kentucky Business Investment Program. Subject to the limitations contained in the Kentucky Business Investment Act and any agreement Shatterbox LLC has with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority related to the project and taking other related action. Number 36, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an internal revenue service sponsor agreement with Civil Rights Assurance for volunteer tax assistance programs at the Central Kentucky Job Center and the Family Care Center at no cost to the urban county government. Number 37, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a Class A neighborhood incentive grant to the North Limestone and Neighborhood Association, Inc. to develop an environmental improvement plan for the Limestone-Lowden area at a cost not to exceed $50,000. Number 38, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a Class A neighborhood incentive grant to the Spindletop Community Association, Inc. to improve water quality in the subdivision and pond with a bottom aerator, holding educational seminars on the Royal Springs aquifer and topics related to what residents can do to improve water quality, stencil neighborhood storm drains, and hold a stream cleaning event at a cost not to exceed $2,180. Number 39, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with Hazen and Sawyer PSC for the sanitary sewer assessment reports and remedial measures plans extending the current contract through FY 2012 and increasing the contract price by the sum of $1,500,000 from $2,000,000 to $3,500,000. Number 40, a resolution authorizing the Division of Water Quality to purchase Allen Bradley Automation Equipment to upgrade the blower system at the Town Branch Wastewater Treatment Plant from CED of Lexington as distributor for Rockwell Automation at a cost not to exceed $42,000. Number 41. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irvine County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the National Police Athletics Activity League, Inc., to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $15,000 federal funds, and are for the Police Activities League mentoring program for the Division of Police. 42. A resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which grant funds are in the amount of $1,400,000 federal funds are for the continuation of the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program, the acceptance of which does not obligate the Urban County Government for the expenditure of funds, authorizing the Mayor to transfer and encumbered funds within the grant budget and authorizing and directing the Mayor to execute a three-year agreement with a volunteers incorporated for continuation of the project at a cost not to exceed $1,391,000. Number 43. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of understanding with the court appointed special advocate incorporated family excuse me Fayette family courts the cabinet for health and family services and the Fayette county attorney's office outlining the relationship among the parties concerning the operation of the court appointed special advocates program at no cost to the urban county government. Number 44, a resolution accepting Software Development Incorporated as the entity to perform billing services for emergency medical services and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Software Development Incorporated for these services at a cost not to exceed 3.5% of the receipts from the previous calendar year, which are estimated to be $214,000 for fiscal year 2012. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility rental agreement and catering contract with Lexington Convention Center and Hyatt Regency for the police awards banquet at no cost to the urban county government. Number 46, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amended 2010 equitable sharing agreement with the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, amending the 2010 agreement. Number 47, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amended 2011 equitable sharing agreement with the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, amending the 2011 agreement. Number 48, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute lease renewals with the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the lease of state police CDL and driver's license offices at no cost to the government. Number 49, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irvine County Government to execute an agreement with awarding a Class B Infrastructure Incentive Grant to the Bluegrass Stockyards, LLC, to design and construct four stormwater control facilities in collaborative with UK Locust Trace Agri-Science Farm and Fayette County Extension Office and Conservation District in allowing the site to be used by students for research and environmental learning at a cost of the state. not to exceed $150,000. Number 50, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a class a neighborhood incentive grant to the friends of Wolf Run Incorporated to perform stream cleanups, removal of invasive plant species, and planting of net native vegetation along Wolf Run and its tributaries at various volunteer selected stewardship sites, providing education outreach through communication with streamside property owners and installation of educational signage at stewardship sites and purchase of a multi-parameter water quality meter at a cost not to exceed $11,770. Is there a question on that one? We're on number 50. No, never mind. No, I think we're okay. Number 51, a resolution authorizing and direct to the mayor on behalf of the urban county Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class A neighborhood incentive grant to the Lansdowne Neighborhood Association, Inc. to develop a conceptual plan to address stormwater runoff and stream bank erosion in the tributary running from Zandale Drive to West Hickman Creek and organize educational opportunities for residents at a cost not to exceed $10,000. Number 52, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B Education Incentive Grant to Group CJ LLC to collaborate with WKYT-TV and EKYT-CW to write, produce, and air approximately 20-30-second education commercial messages for a Doing the Green Thing campaign at a cost not to exceed $34,650. Number 53, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Irvin County Government to execute facility usage contract with Fayette County Board of Education for use of Jesse Clark Middle School Gym for the basketball program at a cost not to exceed $8,012.40. Number 54, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation from Don Jacobs Volkswagen of a 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo Edition for use at the Division of Police at no cost to the urban county government. Number 55, a resolution accepting the and approving Harris Corporation as the provider of the first responder radio system for the Department of Public Safety and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington-Vader and the Urban County Government to execute the system purchase agreement, system maintenance agreement, software FX agreement, software license agreement, and any other necessary agreements or documents with Harris Corporation related to this project at a total project cost not to exceed $18,148,232, subject to sufficient funding in future fiscal years and payment in fiscal year 2012 not to exceed $3,204,258. And number 56, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Baby Health Services Incorporated $250 and Rare Inner City Ministries Incorporated $250 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for walk-ons? I have a walk-on, Mayor. Okay. All right. Go Council Member Ford and then Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. I have two motions to bring forward. The first one is on behalf of the administration. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement with Mutani Catering for provision of meals under the Child Care Food Program at the Family Care Center. So moved. Second. Second. Motion by Council Member Ford, seconded by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. I can take a vote then. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And secondly, Mayor, I move to place on the docket a resolution approving the recommendations of the Charles Young Center Task Force Report and directing the recommendations be implemented as soon as possible. So moved. Seconded. Motion by Council Member Ford, seconded by Council Member Henson. is there any discussion on the motion maybe some discussion by council members I also have a number of our citizens who have joined us tonight who have signed up to speak on this issue okay unless there's objection by the council council member unless there's objection by the council I think it would be appropriate to ask for those who have signed signed up to speak that we would ask you all to join us at the podium now. I have Patricia Muhammad. Ms. Muhammad, you signed up to speak. You wish to speak tonight? Okay, all righty. So I'll ask you to come to the podium now. Let me say that I do have 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 17 I have 17 folks who have signed up tonight does and I will call I'll call your name and if you if you don't wish to speak or if you if someone has already spoken to the issue then it's alright you just let me know that you're willing to cede your time to someone else or willing to just go ahead the other i think i've said before i said the other night didn't i miss mohammed i said that i have the unpopular job of timekeeper and the council has a rule that that there it's called our three minute rule and our clerk has the clock and she starts that clock running and you can see in fact on the corner up here all right good enough good evening mayor nice me just a minute if you would miss Muhammad council member Crosby I just didn't want to be rude to the people who have come to talk to us on this issue or councilman or councilmember Ford I know who has another motion motion unfortunately I have an annual neighborhood meeting that has already started that I was I'm scheduled to be there so I pop I will not be able to vote on your next motion I apologize Thank You councilmember Crosby all right good evening mayor and councilmember and councilmember Ford and citizens who are here and at home on behalf of the friends of Colonel Charles Young Center and Historic East End Community Association we would like to give you all a presentation about some of our feelings as citizens and community members and so let me hand it over to mr. Corey Dunn greetings mayor and council members I'm a member of the community who grew up in the east end of Lexington would you would sorry to interrupt would you give us your name and then the address okay great my name is Nam Nam Oshun and And again, greetings to the mayor and the council members. And I'm just going to get straight to my point because there is a time limit. But I wrote a poem, and this is a poem about what we're going through. I remember Charles Young. The East End downtown of Lexington got a community center named in honor of a World War I Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young. He was honored right here in Lexington, Kentucky. I bet that building has some tales to be told, tales that are good for our soul as we grow old. Instead of reliving this unique glory of Charles Young, we have this sad story of no more forgotten parties, no more roller skating in the gym, no more bands on stage, no singers' voices to be heard, no more deciding on who's going to sit on the one table and one bench in Charles Young Park. Why him? The third black man to graduate from West Point, who commanded troops everywhere. In 1903, he reached the rank of captain in the cavalry, commanded Buffalo soldiers boldly, building roads to a future we now live in. He was a champion. A few great people do something. Well, Charles Young was accomplished. He served his attaché to Haiti and Liberia, commanded troops from everywhere. White officers under his command complained constantly, causing him more than just stress and since he was one of our best he pressed on in 1917 he was forced into early retirement but he didn't give up or in he got up on his horse rode 500 miles it took 16 days and without hesitation despite orders to retire Charles Young refused to be tired we should overcome as an understatement to a man with self-motivation but instead of showing appreciation congratulating and giving him the respect and rank he earned the army done what Lexington should never do. They sent this icon to crumble and pass away. Does anyone expect this to happen to the Henry Clay estate? What will be said about us? How many buildings will be named in our honor only to be neglected? Because the base of support has been relocated. The projects are torn down, just like we are letting happen to its legacy. Because in 2011, early retirement for Charles Young means Mayor Gray has a $274 million budget and he only vetoed funding three things. Frisbee golf, something else and helping the handicapped into the Charles Young Center? Hmm. It's a government-run and owned building that is not being kept up to the codes of the government that owns it. Keeping it ready for use? Hmm. Would that complicate the private developers' plans for that neighborhood? Didn't the mayor read the name of the center and be like, prior to William Wells Brown, prior to Malcolm Martin and Farrakhan, prior to March and prior to a whole lot of results and change, there was Charles Young. Prior to the current people who also failed to appreciate this legend who was recognized everywhere else in the world and prior to those who think it's too late there is Charles Young. So March 12, 1864 needs to come back just so he can be born again because it's 2011 and 1922 is happening all over. Charles Young is dying. He is right here in Lexington, Kentucky, a symbol of his legacy. We could be traveling through a time machine called the Charles Young Center where everyone who entered remembered not just why they came that day, they remember how that day came to be. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Oshler. Thank you, Mr. Oshler. Yes, sir. I just want to apologize to the folks here. I didn't know that you're going to be here, so it wasn't on the docket. I have another obligation, and so I can't stay to hear all of this, and I look forward to maybe you coming back and hearing you again. I support the lyric, and I certainly support this, and I just want to apologize for having to leave. Thank you, Council Member Martin. Okay. Mr. Dunn? Actually, we have a fan-made, well, fan-made, a community-made video that we'd like to show at this time. Is it? It's pertaining to Charles. Is it prepared? Yes. Okay. So do you know what I've been asked how much time it is, Corey? Do you know how much time it is? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I believe we recognize number three. Yes, sir. Hi, my name is Quentin Roberts. This is my friend right here at the start of the video. His name was Amari Faulkner. We shot that video to get people to come out for a rally to sign a petition. I brought him up here with me because I was here 15 years ago trying to find somewhere to go play ball. You know, I went down to Charles Young. We played down there, me and my friends. We played down there for hours and hours at a time. and eventually me and my friends got to the neighborhood that lived blocks away from Charles Young and ended up winning the 2001 state champion in boys basketball. And if it wasn't for Charles Young, that wouldn't have been possible. We'd have probably been, you know, spending those hours getting in trouble. Charles Young is the backbone of the East End community, and if you tear it down, it's going to hurt that community. It's going to hurt the youth of the community, and they will have nowhere to go. William Wells Brown would never replace Charles Young. For one, it looks like a detention center. It's not as pretty as Liberty or the other schools that was built during the same time. And for two, the kids don't have the time to go to William Wells Brown and play. They get four hours a week. It would never replace Charles Young in that aspect. So I think we need to open Charles Young up to Powell Teen Center, which has ties back to the East End community from 1985, 84, that the people of the community trust. And even the new groups like the East End Empowerment Program, the Friends of Colonel Charles Young, stuff of that nature. But I also just want to say that we're losing a lot of our youth to violence. They're flunking out of schools. We just want to open up programs by our people of the community who know what the community needs. Not everybody appointed that don't live in the community. Just because somebody's in the community don't mean they're a part of the community. We want people a part of the community on our advisory board to make the decisions for child young. So people like Amari here, you know what I'm saying, go down there and play ball. Go to tutoring programs. You want to say something? Don't say child young, man. Save child young. Yeah, all right. Thanks, Amari. Yeah, instead of calling by name, whoever wants to just come up and talk, that's good. Y'all just introduce yourself, if you would, and give me the address. Our rules require that, so thank you. Sorry, my name is Dwayne Pierce, 1548 Meade Court. I grew up in East End, primarily middle schools through high school years. use the center for after hours basketball court pretty much means to escape some of the things I've seen growing up in the neighborhood. I met a great amount of people in and out the doors, Quentin included, Corey included, some of the other adults in the center, Ms. Dawn, Mr. Ed, they gave me a greater respect for authority. Having to listen and having to understand that there's a place and time for everything further helped me as I joined the military and gained a greater sense of community when I became to understand that just because you live in the same neighborhood as me, you fall under the same laws, you're governed by the same rules, and you're working for the same cause. You're on the board to help make Lexington better. We're where it starts. We're the reason. We're part of the solution to getting crime out of the street, getting youth back involved in school, having them basically take responsibility for their actions. We want to take responsibility for our community. We want that to spread for others to see that it can be done. You don't have to sit in your house and worry about who's out on the corner, what are they doing, what's the noise coming from. We're asking more for your help and your time. To show these kids who don't care for themselves that we care for them, that we want to be there for them. That's our mission. That's our main goal. Opening up the doors to the community center is just the first step. When they're in the doors, we want to provide them with a safe haven. we want to show them responsible adults we want to show them that somebody cares and it's not all about money it's about our time that's my time thank you mr. Pierce mr. Cory Dunn my name is Cory Dunn I live at 117 West 6th Street first I'd like to address a couple questions that the council had that we weren't able to answer Tuesday councilman Senate as why did you spend ten million dollars why do we still need Charles Young as opposed to William Wells Brown elementary school have access to William Wells Brown as a recreational center two days a week for a total of three hours middle school has three days a week for a total four and a half hours in high school the kids who are more likely to get in trouble and are involved in a lot of the balance and stuff is going on our city get it out one day an hour and a half a week. William Wells Brown will be closed from December the 16th to January the 2nd. So the entire time that there is no school, the kids in the community have nowhere to go. Councilwoman Crosby, she asked how come, what is going to make Charles Young different from the other ones like the Lyric or William Wells Brown? I think the answer to that is simply love. We love our community, so people in the community, if we are allowed to have a advisory board, we care more about the community so we're going to make sure things get done. It's not going to be a job for somebody to come in from 8 to 5. It's going to be every single day because we care. We will be there. The people sitting in this room will be there on Christmas Day if need be because it's our community that we're trying to save. Councilwoman Lawless asks, why don't we do fundraising? I think why is a very important question. I have a lot of why. Like, why is the very first African-American community center closed? Why is it not a historic site? Why do my kids, how come my family doesn't have a place to, you know, to play? Why don't they have a place for men to do it? How come we have the city champs sitting right here in this room today? Little league city champs in the room today and they don't even have a field to practice on. They practice in the dark half the year because after daylight saving time, you know, there are no lights out there for these kids. We are trying to save lives. I want to see each one of these kids, you know, a positive member of society. Everybody in my community knows Ray Larson. But we don't recognize the vice mayor or the mayor. Why do we know Ray Larson? Why do we know Ricky Lance by name? Why do we know so many officers by name when, you know what I mean? It's like we stuck in the streets. We are killing our kids by not opening up the doors to Charles Young. If Charles Young is not open, it's not an issue about money. It's about life. These kids that we are sitting here in this room right now, they will be dead in 10, 15 years. Because that's what's happening. We have nowhere for them to go. We want these children to grow up and be Chris Fords. Play football for UK. Why not? We want these children to have a place to go where we can say, you know, Miss Muhammad taught me about pregnancy and stuff, so I don't want to be a teen mother. So the government will not be responsible for taking care of me and my kids for the next 18 years. The government will not be responsible for incarcerating him and him and all the rest of it, a third of the black man in this room for a year, which is a number that exceeds that $17,000 that we're asking for, first of all. Corey, I'm just going to just, Ms. Colightley, Teresa and Ms. Colightley, Teresa has given her three minutes to you. So continue, sir. All right. All right, now, y'all. I mean, I don't mean to ramble, but it's just our community is dying. Quentin said that Charles Young is the backbone. I say it's the heart. It's the heart of our community. If you take the heart out of anyone else's chest, you ain't going to make it too long. That's why our community is in the state that it's in now, because unfortunately due to budget cuts, our heart has been taken from us. And we love Charles Young. We love the community, and our community wants to do good for itself. But we can't do it by ourselves, so we're going to need assistance from the government. And, you know, we're asking for a small amount of money compared to, you know, the $18 million that the police are asking for. It's necessary because they are going to use that money to save lives. The money we are asking for for Charles Young is also necessary because that money will go to saving lives. We can incarcerate six kids, six juveniles for one year for the price that it would take to bring Charles Young up to code. That's a one-time fee. Now, every year after that, every year after that, that price is going to be reduced dramatically because we have people in the community, Sister Mohammeds, the Brennans, the Quentin Roberts, the Mr. Kenyans. I mean, we have so many people in this room that love Charles Young, and we want to make it a place where our kids can grow up safely. Right now, my kids have to walk past drug dealers, prostitutes, drug addicts, murderers, and everything else just to go to a community center that the door's locked. You didn't see all the stuff in that video that little boy had to walk through? This is what we see on a daily basis. And truthfully, we are tired. I know y'all are probably tired of hearing us talk about it, but we're tired of having to talk about it. We are tired of having to fight for something that technically should be part of us being citizens because we pay taxes. My tax dollars shouldn't just go to fixing the road for the equestrian games, or even though they said it was private funding, or it shouldn't be used to renovate Rep Arena to make millions of dollars for the city. because that is important and, you know, Big Blue Nation all the way, right? But the thing is, that's fun and games. We're talking about saving lives. We're talking about making sure that these kids in this audience today have a chance to be here when they're 31 my age and say, you know, I'm here because the mayor and council decided to open up Charles Young. And now we have a place to go. Now we have something to do. We have something to turn towards as opposed to the drug dealers in the streets. Seeing all the big rims and cars, you know, it's great. But they need to see positive people, positive black males like Mr. Myers and Mr. Ford who have jobs. Kids in the neighborhood don't think it's cool to work because all they see is the drug dealers. Well, let's give them a place where we can show them that it's cool to work. And we're going to get plenty of money working. And then we can take over our community and our neighborhood East End, the historic black neighborhood, will be just as good as any other neighborhood. And we won't feel less than because we are from East End. So, I mean, we can say, you know, $173,000 for the Charles Young Center, cool. saving Lexington, saving these kids right here in front of you, that's got to be priceless. Thanks, Corey. All right. Good evening, Mayor. Yes, sir. Vice Mayor and Council members, audience. My name is Charles Fields. I live at 661 Shropshire Avenue. I'm involved here in the recreational atmosphere in Lexington with youth. I have been for about 38 years. I'm going to take a little different approach tonight, I'm going to deal with accountability. Charles Young has become a focal point of budget constraint issues. Do we need it? Why do we need it? Let's take a little different report here. Who gave anybody the right to think for what we really wanted? Don't we have a say? Accountability means people who sit up there as well as people in this audience need to be accountable for what happens We all will live and die together. But the problem I see right now is those 14 homes that were displaced. You curve the road around to get to the school. The school exists. I happen to teach martial arts there. Lovely, beautiful facility. What does that have to do with Charles Young? The issue has been about what's replacing what. why is East End such a lacking environment when it comes to our ethnic and our historical historical structure? Everybody needs something to look at that belongs to them. Charles Young belongs to us. Not to the general public. Not because it's slant on who you are. It's a reality. It was built to entertain, encourage, and help black individuals enjoy their lives. What happened to that mission? Parker's mission evidently had been held to a high esteem of accountability because it was there had been any answers dealt with in the right way about commitment about what we're willing to do if we're going to tear it down, not tear it down. But on the other end, let's look at this for just a quick moment. If you tear Charles Young down, which I'm wondering about that too, what does accountability ever step up to the plate? Who gave anybody dominion over other people's feelings without at least giving them a say about who they are, what they are, and what they want. We live in East End, just like I live a quarter mile down the street from the center. Nobody ever gave us an effective, valid, honest poll about what we really wanted. It was all the extra entities involved who wanted to make money, set that building up to where it was going to be destroyed, and then turn around with a nerve to say, we gave you the lyric. You didn't give us nothing. We already had the lyric before most of y'all were born. No harshness intended. Perception is 99.9% reality. Most people sitting in this room have a bad perception of how we've been handled. Why? Accountability. Think about that. When you walk up and ask for a vote, how accountable are you for what we want in our community? Hello, my name is Brandon Dunn, 2709 Red Clover Lane. I'd like to talk to you about the economic development. And the thing about it is the gentrification of our urban neighborhoods is not just a local thing, it's a national trend. So when you start looking at the inner cities and looking at what's going on in our inner city, like the redevelopments, the community is not actually helping out the community. So everybody in the community, like the citizens and everybody, well, let me start all over. But the first thing when you look at Chris Ford's scope, the first thing is evaluate the social and economic services and needs of the East Indian neighborhood. So when you think about the needs, it's clear to see it's an impoverished neighborhood. It's poverty stricken. So when you're looking at the poverty, the main thing that you need to bring people out of poverty is job creation, not incarceration. So, you know, when you're looking at the big picture, all these millions of dollars for police radios is a big business to start incarcerating our people. The development is good, like I said, in the community, but we don't have any prevention programs. We don't have any school. The school system is actually not meeting the requirement that failing our kids. I mean, that's a big problem once you look at no prevention programs, schools not educating our kids, no job training, no economic development. So then you sit back and wonder why you have all these shootings. It's all because of lack of education and all no positive job training in our neighborhoods. I mean, so we need to start coming up with economic ways to make people self-sufficient instead of allowing people to use the government as a crutch. Because once you start redevelopment, the property value of these neighborhoods start going up. It's a good thing, but if you're in a poverty-stricken area, the people that were there can't even afford to live in a poverty-stricken area because the people are coming in, raising the value, and they can't even afford to live there themselves. So then what does the government do? you're not going to educate them. You're just going to move them somewhere else. So it's just like when your mother tells you to clean up the room, you throw all your toys under the bed. That's what's going on here. Instead of coming up with prevention programs, job training, so people can actually be self-sufficient, we're just moving them on to a different side of town, and we've got to stop it. It's time to start empowering our community and show them, Like when you're looking at the Charles Young Center seeing $173,000, why not get some waivers out of the neighborhood to work on the Charles Young Center? You know, teach them that you can work and be self-sufficient and make money. So all my time is up, but thank you. You did a great job of sharing your thoughts. Now, I'm not sure we got, I said I should know your name, but I'm not sure we got, did we get? Susan, did you get, I'm not sure we got your name. Brennan Dunn. Thanks, Brennan. Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. Actually, you all will have copies of this. Chris has them. So I want to say thanks to Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, any officials and citizens here and that may be watching. my name is Sharon Reed I live at 569 Pemberton Street I've been in East End for 15 years now I volunteer as a foster grandparent at Russell School Head Start I read to succeed reader over at Shiloh Minister Youth Services at the House of Prayer at 558 East 7th Street and happen to be a Kentucky Colonel okay now the money's already allotted to renovate and improve the Charles Young Center the real issue at hand is whether and how it can be maintained and operated in a poverty-stricken community I propose that we cannot afford not to reopen the center at the same time as Charles Young was closed we also lost the Phyllis Wheatley YWC on Chestnut Street and the teen center located the corner of Wraith Street in Arbor Grove Mr. Monday has tried to keep the teen center going out of his home but the space limitations and liability must encounter will seriously inhibit expansion of this neighborhood beneficial program. The Lyric Theater is open only for events and for those who can afford to attend shows and the museum. Williams Wells Brown also is limited as to time, space, and availability. The gymnasium and many rooms at Charles Young affords much more opportunity for dawn-to-dark activities and classes. Why have these in place? To give especially children and young adults opportunities not provided anywhere nearby. Many of us truly believe these activities may even redirect the minds of our young neighbors from a life of crime to that of responsible citizens. One of the main concerns of this council must necessarily be of cost effectiveness in maintaining such a center with such activities. Looking at the alternative lack of guidance, what does it cost not to help these people? Kentucky youth advocate J.R. Hopson was able to supply me with the following statistics compiled in June of 2009. It costs $152 a day to incarcerate just one youth, of which the county must pay $94. Emergency shelters run $92.50 per day per youth, and supervised foster care is valued at $78 per child per day. This last may occur when one of our young mothers and our fathers are themselves locked up, meaning the actual cost for one offender would be $172 per day. Multiply that by the number of teens who could have been saved through tutoring, community activities, boys and girls clubs, PAL, self-worth classes, job training and search, and one-on-one mentoring. There are others like me who would gladly serve just a few hours a week to teach, coach, and just simply befriend those of the next generation. With the help of our elected officials, a small piece of the financial pie, and whatever other funds we acquire, we can improve the entire atmosphere of the East End community and save the Lexington Fayette, Urban County Government, money and reputation as a progressive and compassionate city thank you good night everybody I mean good evening I say good night in a minute my name is Darlene Hurd Madison 155 Curley Avenue is my property but I live at 524 Kildare court. I want to say to you all, I don't understand if y'all know how much this means to us. I'm 52. I started going to Charles Young at the age of 12. That was always something to do for us. if you had nothing else to do and nowhere to go, we had Charles Young. My children had Charles Young. The little boy that was in the movie, that's my grandson. And I want my family to stand up. Joy, and that's my son Larry, my three grandbabies, and my daughter-in-law, Joy. I want my kids, my grandkids, to be able to go to Charles Young. I remember going to many a day and somebody donated us skates. I thought that was the best thing since sliced bread. Didn't know how to skate from Adam. And I seemed to get the raggedest pair of skates they ever had, but it was fun. It gave us something to do. And I remember laying on the floor and looking at the sky many a day from falling off those skates that didn't mean, there wasn't no good, but they was ours. And that meant a lot to us. A lot of us from East End, even people older than me, said that they played there as a child. Charjong means a lot to us. And I just wanted to, I wrote down a couple of things I just want to say. I want to bring it to you all's attention. As you can see, we have a need and a passion as constituents of Lexington and past and present East End neighborhood residents for Charjong Center. First off, we love and need that building to continue to be a part of us as it has been for decades. Yes, you have built and revitalized the Lyric Theater, and we appreciate that. But the Lyric is not free. Every time I've been to support any event, I've had to pay to go in, except for Roots and Heritage. They gave us a free concert. and if we want to rent the building it's expensive and it's non-refundable fees at least when you go park to rec and you want to do a home get together with your family or something you at least get part of your money back and I'm bringing this to you all from a family standpoint from a mother's point of view from a sister's point of view and I just want to say yes, y'all put us in there Williams-Well Brown, but it's only open to maintain school kids, gym, the robots, and times. I'm taking Bruce Mundy's time. We want and need, as taxpayers and voters of the city of Lexington, is for Charles Young to be revitalized as a neighborhood center and a historic site. That is not torn down as a part of downtown development. Please. We see Charles Young Center as a place for all of us to utilize from babies, youth, teens, adults, and senior citizens. I went to Charles Young as a child myself, like I said, and I skated. That was my highlight. But we just hung out some days when there was nowhere else to go. And even as an adult. We want to utilize this building like most neighborhood associations do, where we can still have access to weddings, receptions, birthday parties, basketball games, dance teams, senior citizen lunch clubs, and Zumba classes, et cetera. We just done a Save a Charge Young rally a few months ago. Is that my first three minutes? No, that's all right. No, you're doing good. All right. Okay. We did the rally a few months ago, and we all had such a good time. as a family neighborhood past and present and future, because our babies was there too. We received over 800 signatures and served over 1,000 hot dogs. Everybody was glad to be there and just fellowshiped while the kids danced, played basketball. These young adults rapped and sang and showed their talents, and the older adults just got a seat and reminisced and sat and taken it all in, just showing love to each other and long-lost friends. So basically what I'm saying is we voted for our council members. We voted for you all. And the mayor, and we all need you all to help us as citizens and voters of Lexington. This is what we want. For all of you to vote to keep Charles Young Center open, refurbish this historic site to the 21st century standards that it needs to be. Set a trustee board in place and whatever means necessary to get this recreation senior citizen youth team slash family center back to the families and constituents of Easton and Lexington. Reopen the doors, please, of our neighborhood center like we've been asking this city to do for years. Let's finalize this thing, please. That's my time. Thank you, Ms. Madison. Mr. Carl White. Okay. My name is Carl White. I live at 655 Chestnut Street, Lexington, Kentucky. Honorable Mayor Gray, Councilmembers, concerned citizens. First off, I would like to congratulate and really thank First District Councilman Chris Ford for all the work that he did. I would also like to thank the mayor and the vice mayor for commissioning this task force for the redevelopment of Charles Young. I would also like to thank the other two councilmen who sat through all the meetings and took quite a bit of ribbon in those meetings. I'm going to take you on a small journey about Charles Young. I'm not going to go into what I did there as a kid. I've been basically in the East End the majority of my life, still live there as of right now. During the 1960's, during the civil rights marches in Lexington, all the elders would gather at Charles Young and they would head out from there to march downtown. Charles Young stays in their mind also, which was evident by the East End Reunion, which attracted over 2,000 people. The mayor came in, everybody had a wonderful time. We had people there from newborns to 90 years old. All families came in, set up their tents, and they reminisced about Charles Young. You should have heard some of the stories that were told at that time. The only thing I've got to say, I've got people in line who are willing to offer CNA programs for free, school suspension programs where when kids are suspended from schools, they can come there and still keep up with their work. I've got people standing in line who want to do these things. We can't do this at Lyric Theater. We can't do this at William Wells Brown School because they have their own school there and the kids will be suspended and they have nowhere to go. They drop them off at Charles Young. I got people who say we'll teach them while they're suspended from school so they keep up with their work. But I think everybody said enough about Charles Young. The motion's on the floor. So all I ask you to do is just approve the motion and vote for us. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. White. Ed Prentice, 396 Fox Harbor Drive. Councilman Beard is my councilman. So Mr. Mayor and Vice Mayor and the council, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I agree with all the comments that have been made tonight, And I'd also like to commend Councilman Ford and the committee for all the hard work that they did do. I believe I am on the did sign. So I'd like to commend all of them for the hard work that they did do. I know what has been said, and I constantly read Herald E. each day, but I feel I live in two different Lexington's. There's a black Lexington, there's a white Lexington. And I don't think no one should have to beg for this council to do the right thing. I read the plate and I see what they're doing, the rope, the skating rins, all these things that is happening in Lexington. all the private money that is put forth and all the projects that they are doing. The reason for the imbalance that we do have, and you all know, is because of slavery. We are not on the same economic scale, and so I don't think we should be treated as second-class citizens. I have to come here and beg you all to do the right thing. So I just want to ask the council and the mayor and the vice mayor to think about including some of the blacks, although they don't have the money, about the rock area, all these things that you intend to do in the city to come up with some kind of committee to try to include some of the blacks who do have good ideas, some of the blacks who do have money, and let us all be a part of this city. We downtown and a lot of us we are attend things because you give us scholarships just for a little dinner or you want to play some of the blacks there and say come out. But we don't, we are not on the same economic scale and even if we go to the lyric, the lyric might have a problem later because it might not be able to afford the fees as far as entertainment. So I ask all of you to think about putting forth effort to bring all the community together as far as downtown and all these other projects and keep us from every time we go out to these beautiful horse farms to think I'm going to a plantation. So I'm asking all of you to just think about what is going on here. Thank you. Hi, my name is Leah Parker. I live at 2932 Majestic View Walk. I have a non-profit organization called Young Mothers in Pursuit, and then I'm a partner of Beautiful Mothers of Kentucky. We are trying to do pregnancy prevention. We're promoting young mothers, and the Charles Young Center would be a great place for us to be able to bring these people together and to just basically tell them, you know, we're here to help, we want to help. I also do rape crisis and where else would be a better place than to start and a place to where not many people is looking to help someone. We're really trying to bring a positive image because I may be 22 years old, but I still see things. I still witness things and I have young nieces and nephews to where I don't want them in jail. I don't want them to be teen mothers. I want to be someone there who can tell them it's okay. You can go to college. You can be somebody. You can be president if you want to be. You don't have to limit yourself. So I'm hoping that you'll see that Charles Young is a place for us to start, make a beginning, and give us a safe place to go and be free and let us do what we need to do to save our own community. And that's really all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Everyone was great. Our tradition, we want to bring on our elders last and give our elders all the time that's left, which is a lot of time. Before I bring him on, I just want to say that tonight you're voting on five recommendations. The task force has five recommendations. We have a vision. We want to make sure that those recommendations become vision. Because we had a vision for the Lyric. The Lyric was a cultural center for African American culture. As African Americans, we have two national cultural events, Juneteenth and Kwanzaa coming up in 25 days. if this was an Irish center and they had no St. Patrick's Day event what would we say? The Lyric has no Kwanzaa event for me to bring that I would have to pay over $20,000 just to have a building that's not the food that I would have to bring so I just want to say we have a vision where there is no vision the people perish. Tonight you saw our young people and our older people. And the Bible, Joel 2, 28 says, and it shall come to pass in the last days that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. And And as you see tonight, our young people shall see visions. I'd like to bring on our elder, Mr. Henry Kenyon. Thank you, Ms. Mahoney. Mr. Kenyon. Hi, my name is Henry Kenyon. I live at 467 Douglas Avenue. Mayor, vice mayor, council. I have nothing prepared, so I'll have to call up on my computer, my hard drive, and my audio system. I have been affiliated with Charles Young Center since I was 10 years old. I have lived within the area except for four years, no more than seven miles from Charles Young Center. It provided me recreation when there was none. It provided us with a place that was better than Henry Clay's gym. It provided us a place that was better than Lafayette Gym. We played a lot of kids in those gyms. At that time, it was integrated. This was the one place that kids from other schools played us and learned how to play real basketball. The Charles Young Center has been one of the great gyms in this community. I, like I said, I've been there since I was 10 I'm now 73 So I have seen the changes I've seen it go I've seen it come back And now we're revitalizing again To have lost this gym like this in 2008 No one had ever presented this to us The one thing I knew about That it had been closed since 2008 I gotta say some of this is my fault because I did not continually keep up with one of the gems in the city I got into my ivory tower on Douglas Street and I didn't come over here as much I should have been as vigilant as everyone else we have a man here who is also a great American he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Mr. Alvin Seals worked there. He's another American hero. We let, I know, we let different things go that we should have been watching. I did not know about the degradation of this center until Melvin Cunningham called me over and said, I want you to see something. Down the middle of the gym was plywood. It had been permitted to deteriorate to this condition. Water was running in the dressing rooms and the men's toilet room. There was paint peeling off of the ceiling. I did not follow up. I allowed this to happen because I did not bring it to the attention of the people that sat in this room. And I want to thank everybody. I want to invite the council to come and see our glorious gym in Lexington, Kentucky, Fayette County, our wonderful Commonwealth of Kentucky. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kenyon. That was a wonderful introduction of Mr. Kenyon, Ms. Muhammad. all right with it since thank you all those of you who have spoken and now what we will do is move to um to uh comments by our council members discussion on the motion and first up on for discussion i'm showing is council member blues is that correct thank you mayor thank all of you for being here tonight and demonstrating this really impressive commitment to the to the center and to the revival of the community and to your what I take to be your your your promise to put all of your efforts and resources into making this work and I want to be able to to support this motion tonight. I do have some questions, Councilmember Ford, and the first one has to do with item number one. And regarding the advisory board, whose function as describing your recommendation is to prioritize and govern community-based programs and services at the Charles Young Center. I'm wondering whether that is fully consistent with the ordinance that governs our community centers, and you've very helpfully included that on page 21, where it says, and this is paragraph 2, item double I. It says, it shall be the duty of the Neighborhood Center Board to identify the needs for program services of its neighborhood and to make recommendations of priorities of such needs to the commissioners. That's, of course, consistent with the entire tenor and content of the advisory board, which is to recommend to the commissioner, to the appropriate authority, and so on. So I have this concern. Your motion includes the retaining of ownership by the government of the center. and it will be when it returns to life again it will be a center in the sense that Black and Williams is a community center that Carver is a community center and Dunbar and so on but I'm wondering whether the wording of that of number one of your recommendations is in conformity to the ordinance. And that's what concerns me. Will the, does this, would this mean that the advisory board would govern the center? And if so, what would be the implications for the governance of our other community centers? That's a great question, Council Member Blues. I think the important, in answering the question, I think the important thing is that with the recommendation number one to establish an advisory board is the need to have sustainable community input. And during our task force deliberations, I think great mention was given to the void that fell upon the community, for instance, for the lack of responsiveness. And not only the time of the closing in 2008, but the few months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months prior to. This has been a long time coming. I think so. It's important that we have community involvement. My correlation with the word government is leadership. Because what we have seen has definitely been a lack thereof from our government, ourselves included. And so we're going to rely upon this advisory board to be very hands-on in identifying and evaluating the needs of the community, but doing more than that, not just identifying a need, but going and taking the means to address and satisfy that need. And so govern, lead, be very proactive as stewards of this community and this resource that we hope the council will afford this opportunity. I will say in regards to the Appendix D that's on page 21, this council, if we take upon this recommendation as I'm asking tonight, as we're asking tonight, we will have the opportunity to establish this board in 2011, 2012, 2020 terms. This ordinance, my understanding, dates back to the 70s and to the early 80s. And so times have changed, and the needs of this government and responsive citizens have changed as well. So we're recommending per this ordinance as a precedent, but this council has the ability, if we so wish, to set the parameters to allow that governing board, that advisory board to help us, and likewise for us to help them. Well, I appreciate that, and you're absolutely right that community involvement, active involvement and commitment is going to be critical. That's correct. But the concern remains, and I would like to ask for advice from Mr. Horn on this, whether the language of the word govern in number one of the task force recommendations is consistent with the ordinance that governs our community centers. I haven't had a chance to examine the recommendation or the ordinance in question. If the idea is that this advisory board is not going to act like the advisory boards of other community centers, then you may need to make some changes either to that ordinance or to the ordinance, a separate ordinance that would establish a separate board for this community center. And so, Council Members, that would be something that would have to be considered here, whether we change the ordinance that relates to all of our centers or whether whether the Charles Young Center would be a unique entity in this respect. So I raise that issue, which I think is a is a concern. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Beard. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I want to follow up on some of the comments Council Member Blues made, Council Member Ford. during your discussions at the task force what was the membership composed of or should be composed of did you have that discussion about the governing board um i would add that normally when we do create a board it is a separate ordinance from my past experience here so it wouldn't it may be a better opportunity in that case to create a an ordinance but in that ordinance should be who should be the membership because if you're not going to make people from the community members of that board permanently, then it's not going to succeed in my view and what I've heard tonight. So what discussions were had about that membership and what it looked like? Great question, Council Member. The ordinance in reference on page 21, part of the ordinance, I think, calls for 11 members. And again, our recommendation is referencing what's already on the books. Eleven members. Nine members to be representative of the community and two members to be representative of the government, particularly division or commissioner level appointees. Of all the public input that we had, and I'll speak just from my perspective as one of the members of the task force, of all the input that we had, this was perhaps the most profound contribution of the public to this process. Me personally speaking, and I guess that's the value of having 14 meetings, and this perhaps came about midway along the process, was the need to have an advisory board. So definitely, Council Member Stenet, the public will be represented. We did not, however, as a task force, and we would hope that the council and the government administration will help us. The motion that I have on the floor is to recognize and accept the recommendations and then to implement them. So we did not definitely go to the extent to classify the levels of representation or even more so, we definitely did not attempt to personalize who should be on the board. Primarily, our biggest recommendation that a board needs to exist for the benefit of the community, and I contend also for the benefit of the government. We need the help. Very good, and I look forward to those discussions. You know, I grew up in the north end of Lexington and lived here all my life, and I played many basketball games at the Charles Young Center, and I went to even a couple dances down there, believe it or not. And, you know, Mr. Kenyon said, that's the letter you learn how to play basketball. Well, one of my coaches was George Brown growing up, and he taught me a lot down there, and I understand that. So I have a special place in my life for places like Castlewood where I grew up and played and places like Kenwick Center and Charles Young Center. Those centers out there meant a lot to me growing up. You know, I miss the days when our park and recreation had summer programs in the parks because I spent many a summer playing box hockey and those sort of things here in Lexington. We don't do that anymore. So I have no problem supporting this, but what I do would like for maybe the mayor and this council to work together on is the issues with the Lyric. For one, I think, you know, there needs to be two or three nights a week when the public have free access to that building. Council Member Ford, you and I talked about this earlier, and you're on the board, and I know you're having a retreat tomorrow, So I think there's a lot of good information here you can take to that retreat because if it's not going to be open to the community, then it's not owned by the community. And we were told when we were designing it that that's what it was going to be designed around was the community. And it apparently has missed that goal. Same being with the William Wells Center, Mayor. I know the school system has changed some of the scope of what we originally, you and I were on council when this happened. You know, having that school closed after hours just doesn't make sense to our kids. and I'm glad Mr. Dunn brought that up because we didn't know that this council didn't know that and that's not what when we put 2.9 million dollars in there what we envisioned we envision a center open on Saturdays we envision a center open on snow days you know so we may need to have that conversation with the superintendent to see if there's something programmatic or maybe we need to ask for our money back because I know you could use 2.9 million somewhere else very quickly in our community. So I appreciate you bringing this forward, Chris. I look forward to, obviously, funding is going to have to be identified later, but this is the right step in the right direction. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Bennett. Council Member Henson. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Ford, I know that in our discussions of the task force and we talked about the makeup of the advisory board that I do feel like that it would be best to have an ordinance that specifically goes with the Charles Young Center and the makeup of the board what their job duties or what the the task of the that advisory board would be and so forth and but I I think using the ordinance on page 21 would be a very good guide to go by. It's got very good content, but yet customize it, tailor it to fit the Charles Young Center. And that's all I really had to say, but I just applaud everybody. I think Corey, the film was great. And actually, I understand very much. It's not just in the African American communities. It's our children that need to be saved. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. Council Member Stinnett, I agree with almost everything you said. That's a first. I was going to say you might want to put that in your diary or something. Note that. I live, I don't know, maybe a half a mile from the Charles Young Center. I pass it every day and have for 17 years. And I was, when I was the director of the Rape Crisis Center, I participated in writing the HOPE VI grant, and I agreed that a lot of the things that we all thought were going to be happening there, as beautiful as it is, aren't happening there. and I also think there's an opportunity I think there are a lot of people in this community that I like your idea of having things going on at the Lyric that are open and free to the public I think there are a lot of people in this community probably in this audience on this council watching that have art or artifacts that could be on loan and be there at the Lyric to be open and free to the public. I love 3rd Street. Like I say, I've driven it several times a day for 17 years, and I strongly support this, and I think it is a historic building that is, like many of our historic buildings that have fallen into disrepair that the city owns. So, and I think we also, as far as it being a governing board or an advisory board, you know, looking at wording that, that's something very simple that can be worked out and of value. So thank you, and thanks to all the members of the, to Council Member Ford and members that worked on this and people in the community that have supported it and worked on this. And I look forward to those doors being open. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. Councilmember Kay. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a couple of comments and then I've got a couple of questions for Councilmember Ford. As a participant in the task force, I've been concerned really since the beginning about how to balance the need for input and appropriate responsiveness from the community with the government's responsibility as a official body that is going to own the building is going to be expected to maintain the building i've expressed my concern about the this third recommendation which is the rfq and how it is how it's implemented and i just to take a slightly different tack from uh council member lawless i don't think that the question of how you balance governing and advisory is an easy question. The bottom line is that finally, decisions have to be made somewhere. Somebody is going to have control over some or all of what happens at Charles Young. And I've said from the beginning that it's hard for me to imagine that government is going to relinquish total control and yet maintain and support that building. I continue to believe that that's an issue and that we'll have to address it. I have a concern also that from the beginning, well, I'll back up half a step. Initially, the first group that worked on this set of the RFQ had a presumption that the building would be sold, and I was opposed to that. But I was also opposed to precluding that. I believe that there may be a possibility that someone could come forward and make a proposal that met the needs of the community, that included the community in governing in an appropriate way, I continue to believe that that's possible. But what I would like to do then is ask Council Member Ford, if you would, there are five recommendations. It would help me if you would walk, and we've talked a little bit about this already, but it would help me and I think perhaps other people on Council. Yes, sir. if you would walk through each one and talk a little bit about how you envision the implementation of that recommendation. I can do. Can do. If it's going to be helpful, you guys want to put these on the overhead for us, please, Susan? Council Member K., I'll be glad to do so. There are five recommendations very quickly, and I'll summarize them. I won't even read them verbatim. wait for Randy to put those on the overhead the first recommendation is to to establish the Charles Young Advisory Board the second recommendation is to for LFUCG to retain ownership and also to partner with that advisory board the third recommendation is for both the government and the advisory board to initiate the formal process by soliciting the RFQ, interested parties and programs and services. The fourth recommendation is the funding source. We've identified 173,000 of needed renovation costs and we recognize the Community Development Block Grant as a source of funds. I want to, for the Council's benefit tonight, share some information in that regard that may help us in our decision-making. And lastly is to incorporate what we call the Ann Street footprint which is a stretch of vacant land now that was once home to residences that was demolished for creating the Shropshire Boulevard extended the best I can do is that our scope of work the original scope of work call for us to do five things and I think by my estimation these recommendations satisfy each of those to evaluate the social and economic service needs to create an advisory board nobody knows best but the people in the neighborhood to do that to identify utilization of services councilmember k is correct i also shared with him as the task force did apparently that uh we were against the selling of the building so we focus on facility uses and those five preferred uses were in the report so we've done that calculate the cost. And we've done that. $175,000 approximately for structural needs. Not cosmetic per se, but structural needs, code needs, things to help folks get into the building. The other scope of work, to identify public and private funding sources. We did that in two ways. We did that from the public funding source, which is to say the Community Development Block Grant, a funding source that's been around since the mid-70s that's definitely eligible for this and I'm going to come right back to that and then the need for private investment. We recognize that with the government, with the governing advisory board, excuse me, and the interested third parties that would come to us via the request for qualifications process that they would identify at a time after our report the private investment that may come and to integrate local planning efforts. We know there's been many plans here in the last five years or so and we recognized those and we respected those and one of those plans initiated the request for qualifications process a formal process that any and everybody could apply to for the fund so those are our recommendations and those are our recommendations as they relate to our initial scope of work that we took out in January of this year. The two biggest, not the most important recommendations, but I will say this, is that the establishment of an advisory board and a commitment from LFUCG to retain ownership for that advisory board to work. Because there's really no need for an advisory board if the government fails to own it. Fails to own it. And lastly, Council Member Kent, I'm hoping I'm answering your questions. The other important of the advisory board is that we need citizens' help. The support, the operational support that the government once had at this facility was via parks and recreation. and Parks and Recreation abandoned that support at Charles Young when its budgeting dollars went up to William Wells Brown. There could have perhaps been some other things that Parks and Rec could have done even when programming went up the street to help the community do something with the facility, but that failed, and so there is no confidence that that will improve, so we need a governing board. So those are the recommendations that we're providing, Council Member K. I got a little long-winded. I'm sorry. Thank you. All right. Council Member Ford, you want to speak to more? You want to do that now? Why don't you? Yes, sir. I think it's probably appropriate to do that now, and I definitely want to give attention to the questions from council members that are logged in. Recommendation number four is to community development block grant funds. And we know what our government receives in block grant funds every year. Just this afternoon, in response to our work, we have a potential funding source, council members and ladies and gentlemen of the audience that may provide assistance to us in these recommendations perhaps more quickly than we perhaps ever thought possible through the basically what are known as recovery dollars American Recovering Reinvestment Act dollars that came down with the new administration. I would like Mayor if it's okay at this time You want to ask Irene? Yes sir it okay she is here and Chris you you I'm sorry council member Ford you you'd met with with Richard Maloney and you met with Irene yes sir afternoon and in the sense of transparency council members and in the folks in the audience we're sharing information as information is available. Just as this task force, our job was to look into things and share the information and this is a discovery that I think is because I know council is concerned about funding. Everybody should be in these times and so Irene if you will. I want to start with this is just a possibility and whatever action you take tonight does not put those funds in place for this activity because there's still a process to follow. The funds that were provided for CDBG under the ARA funding, $555,600, the stimulus commission which probably most of you were on, do you remember that? All of you decided how all of these funds would be spent. And for the CDBGR program, you decided that it's spent for energy efficient rehab and private housing. And some of that money has been put into an agreement and given to Community Action Council for this purpose, not proposing to take any funds away from them. But the rest of the funds are for our housing rehab program, energy efficient rehab. We are not spending those funds fast enough. We have some structural problems when it comes to spending those funds. So to me, it looks like now I am not really confident that we will meet the deadline for expenditure of those funds. So I'm thinking that possibly we could create a new project with CDBGR funds. We would have to use the citizen participation plan requires that we go through a public process to make that amendment. There are some other issues to be addressed. We would have to do an environmental assessment. But the other day when I was sitting in council and I was looking at this, I thought, well, maybe we ought to look at that and see if we could do this. And I did call our HUD rep this afternoon and discussed it with her. And we think this is possible, so we would have to work very hard to get this done. But it's doable. there are only a few things on this list that I think might give us trouble the the one that I'm a little concerned about is the ADA issue and that's only because it changes that front door and I know that the the Heritage Council could give us some problems with that but this you know it's it's possible again there would have to be a public hearing there's a public process which So, Irene, thank you very much. I hope you don't mind me saying Irene instead of Ms. Goody. We want to, for those of you who don't know Irene, she is responsible for our grants program, And she is generally very cautious. So she has expressed some level of caution. And what Council Member Ford said earlier was that this is information that has really surfaced in the last day, or actually for me, is in the last hour and a half. And I suspect for you as well. It's just about, Mayor. That's right. Oh, actually, two hours. Mayor, if I could. Go ahead, Council Member Ford. just in regards to that funding source i i know that the significance of that and we want to say that it's an opportunity right simply because i you know that it was as projects go budgets change things don't pan out and so what we have here is we have a pot of funds that's unexpended in the deadline i think that irene shared with me if it's correct is september 30th expended not obligated not committed so as we sit here the first first day I believe in December to use these funds to find a use for these funds for basically a shovel ready project would be a benefit to this government not only just to this to this project the other benefit of this opportunity is that we understand that our block grant funds are very competitive we understand that the need exceeds the funding that we have and perhaps it was a it would this is an opportunity that this project does not have to negatively impact the competitiveness of products that we funded in the past and products that we may fund in the future and they are if there's any more questions i'd be glad to try to answer those pretty we have two other council members that have signed up to speak. Vice Mayor Gordon and Council Member Blues again. Thank you, Mayor. My comments will be brief. First, Council Member Ford, I want to thank you for chairing the task force, and I want to thank those who served on the task force. And it really was the best kind of task force because it had on it people from the community. many of whom were past users of the Charles Young Center. And I think that's where you get your very best outcomes with the task forces, is from people who do care deeply. And the other thing I wanted to say is I saw that tonight, comments of those of you who are here, and was quite impressed by the depth of feeling for the Charles Young Center. And I said the other day at the meeting, I had never read the history of Charles Young, Colonel Charles Young, until I attended the public meeting at the center. And he is a person of whom we should be very proud. and I'm going to be very supportive of your motion and trust that we can work through these questions, the funding questions, the advisory board questions as we move forward to carry this through. So thank you for your work. Thanks, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilor Myers wishes to speak and his monitor is not functioning exactly right, it looks like, so it's not showing up. But since you've already spoken, Councilman Blues and Councilman Kay, I'm sure that's okay. Councilman Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Ms. Gooding, could you come up for just a second? Yes. In Tuesday's Social Services Committee meeting, when you went over the CDBG program, I believe Councilman Stennett asked you if there was any leftover funding from any of the CDBG grants, and you said no. So could you help us understand how this money appeared? It is not leftover money. It is committed to a project. It's committed to two projects. It's committed, one, to Community Action Council's Energy Efficient Rehab, and it is committed to our own housing program. We do quarterly reports. Federal government requires us to submit reports quarterly to federalreporting.gov. The last time we reported, it looked like we might be on track to spend the dollars because that's what the dollars were committed for. Council approved that in their stimulus commission. So they're not leftover dollars. I want you to understand they're not leftover dollars. They are simply dollars that are in a program that I'm no longer confident that we're going to be able to complete by the deadline. Those are not leftover dollars. Okay, what happened since Tuesday that you didn't know about on Tuesday when you say that you're not confident that we can finish spending that money? How come you didn't bring that information on Tuesday? I'm not sure why I didn't bring it. I'm not sure. It wasn't part of the scope of my presentation. So it wasn't part of the scope of the presentation. And again, these funds, if you choose to change the project, what you will be doing is amending, doing a substantial amendment to your consolidated plan, that will have to be done with the public process. This I have presented as a possibility. It is not something I'm even saying that you should do, but if you want to do it, we can proceed with the public hearing, change the program. So, yeah, let me intervene for just a second, Council Member Myers, because I understood your question to be that in the meeting, the inquiry of Ms. Gooding was whether there were any funds left over. And what she is describing is a pattern of spending on this project, the pace of which has not been as aggressive. And so she is predicting that there may be, based on the current pace of spending, there may be funds available. So I think there are two different questions there. These funds, we will not get an extension on these funds. They will end on 9-30-2012. There will be no extensions. There are no extensions possible. Congress is no longer favorable to this program. So those funds will be de-obligated. So if we don't spend them, they're gone. A regular round of CDBG, this is not to be confused with the regular round of CDBG funding, where we every year simply have to meet a certain threshold. Okay, so then I guess it's important to us to look at that process on how we do our strategic plan for that funding then so that we don't end up in the future putting together a plan that we can't spend the money for and have to give it back. And we haven't given up funds yet. But the Recovery Act funds were a very special program that we're not going to see again. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Blues and then Councilmember Kay. Thank you, Mr. Woodward. Thank you, Mayor. Just to return briefly to the point I was addressing at the outset and which Councilmember Kay touched upon, I think this is not a trivial point. I think that that between our authorizing the first reading of of this of this motion tonight I think that's what we'd be doing would we not would we be giving this the first reading that's correct that's my intent council member and and a and a second reading next week I think it it needs to be clear we need to be clear ourselves as a council it's essential that the community be clear about what the terms are and we need to know in advance whether your recommendation number one is consistent with the ordinance and so we know what we are obligated to going uh going forward so i i i certainly support this as this first reading but i would ask the law department between now and and and and our next council meeting to uh to provide an opinion to the to the council on on on whether that language is consistent uh with with the governing ordinance for community centers Thank you, Council Member Blues. Did you get an answer? I know you didn't get an answer. Did you, and you got, you received an acknowledgement that that can be done. Did I, I'd miss that, so. Keith, did you say? We can do that, but I can tell you, looking at this language in number one, it's broad enough that it could mean nearly anything, but we can certainly send you an opinion on the ordinance. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Horn. Council Member Kaye, does Ms. Gooding need to be up, does she need to remain at the podium? No. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Kaye. Thank you. I just wanted to take briefly the opportunity to kind of summarize my own thinking about this since I've gone through the process from the beginning, and it's been a very informative, educational, and inspirational experience for me. So a few things. I believe without doubt that the Charles Young Center should be open as a community center. I think there should be an advisory board created that is as responsible as possible to the East End neighborhood residents in as many ways as possible. I believe the RFQ should be moved forward as soon as possible so that we can get an idea about the kinds of activities that people propose for that center in a way that is done in a fair and open manner. I very much respect the positive history of the Charles Young Center, and I understand as much as I can the meaning it has for the people for whom it has been a part of their lives for so long. I think that's very important. And I think I also understand the negative history of the way in which our government has treated that neighborhood and its residents for so many years. So, I have some reservations, and I've expressed them. But despite those reservations, I will be in support of the motion. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. K. Mr. Stinnett. Actually, I was just going to call the question, because I think we were ready to vote. All right. This forward. All right. All right. We've had good comments. tonight and we appreciate our audience participation as well. So we are ready to vote. All those in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. All right. All right. Okay. Thank you all. Thank you all very much. All right, next on our... Moving, continuing on our first readings. We'll take a second. Go ahead if anybody wants to leave. We're good. We're good. Thanks, Corey. All right. Mr. Beard. Thank you, Mayor. I have a walk-on at the request of the administration. I move to place on tonight's docket a resolution approving the 2012 general term orders for the Fayette County Sheriff and the Fayette County Clerk. I'll move. There's a motion. Second. There's a motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Is there any discussion on the motion? Great. All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. One thing, Mayor, we do have to have two readings on this, not tonight. I mean, we have to have a separate reading next week. Yeah, did you all understand? That would just automatically happen. All right, sir. Yeah, we'll have a second reading on it next week. All right. Are there any motions for suspending the rules for a second reading? Mayor, I think it would be in best interest to give first reading to these three items, please. Oh, yes, ma'am. Thank you. Please proceed. Process. Yes, sir. Thank you. Resolution number 57. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with MTANI Catering LLC for provision of meals under the childcare food program at the Family Care Center care center at a cost not to exceed $1.20 for each lunch, $0.90 for each breakfast, and $0.70 for each snacks. Number 858, a resolution approving the recommendations of the Charles Young Center Task Force report and directing that the recommendations be implemented as soon as possible. Number 59, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute the 2012 general term orders for the Fayette County Clerk and the Fayette County Sheriff, establishing the number of deputies and assistants allowed to each and the compensation allowed to each deputy and assistant, subject to the limits for each category as specified in the general term orders and subject to the fees collected by the officers respectively in their 75% accounts. to KRS 64.3501. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right, Council Member Stannett. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to ask for suspension of rules and give second reading. Normally I wouldn't do this with our council meeting being Tuesday, but this is a critical one, number 28, and this is the police recruit class. Every day is precious, especially right before the holidays, and if we can get it approved tonight, hopefully the letters can go out either tomorrow or Monday, and it speeds it up by a couple days during the holiday season. So I would ask number 28. So moved. Motion by Council Member Stenet, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 41. Motion on number 41. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Kaye. Is there any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say aye. All oppose, no. Motion count. Motion carries. Are there any other requests for suspensions? All right. No. All right. Madam Clerk. Number 28 for second reading. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Jennifer Newton, Social Worker, Grade 113E, 138720, Bi-weekly in the Department of Social Services. John Day, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 15.089, Hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Robert Bailey, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750, hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Donald Myers, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 12.097, hourly in the Division of Waste Management. Ricky Johnson, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 12.459, hourly in the Division of Waste Management. And Joseph Higgins, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 12.459, hourly in the Division of Waste Management. authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments. Roman, Sorrell, Jeffrey Brangers, Robert Sunnett, Chase Allen, Stephanie McClain, Cliff Godbold, Kenneth Brown, Jr., Ronald Mazzotti, Stephen Jude, Anthony Beatty, Jr., Ronald Willis, Kelly Shortridge, Anthony Sullivan, Robert Holland, Jason Mitchell, Nicole Gibson, Benjamin Riggs, Aisha Johnson, Ryan White, Alejandro Zegul, Maurice Joffner, Wesley Farley, Meredith Myers, Brian Weir, Kaylin Perdue, Philip Toms, Benjamin Fielder, Shalice Babini, Jared Carroll, Kendall Buford, and Adam Peake, Police Officer Grade 311N, 17.649 Hourly in the Division of Police, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment. Megan Hemphling, Staff Assistant Senior Grade 108 in 13.461, hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective upon passage of council. And number 41, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the National Police Athletics Activity League Incorporated to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved which grant funds are in the amount of $15,000 federal funds and are for Police Activities League mentoring program for the Division of Police. Thank you. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon to approve. Second by Councilmember Blues is there any discussion all right hearing none madam clerk you may call the roll and we've got a few absent here that mr. Farmer yes ma'am mr. Ford absent miss Gordon aye miss Henson yes mr. K yes and please note my extension on number 27 thank you I'm sorry I'm ahead of myself I and mr. Lane yes miss Lawless yes mr. Martin is absent mr. McCord is absent mr. Myers yes mr. Stenet mr. Beard all right mr. Blues and miss Crosby's says. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. Next on our agenda, there are no communications for information, only communications from the Mayor. And next on our agenda are announcements of floors available to Council members for announcements. Does anyone wish to speak. I see no one signed on. So we can move on to public comment. Public comment. If I have no one signed up for public comment at this time, if there's no other business, then I ask for a motion to adjourn. There is a motion to adjourn by Council Member Standard and a second by Vice Member Gordon. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. We are adjourned. Thank you.