Music Good evening and welcome everyone. We have a full chamber, a full congregation, so welcome everybody. Our procedure for a council meeting, for those of you who may not have been here before, is the first thing on the agenda is the calling of the roll by our clerk. Meredith, would you call the roll, please? Mr. Lane? Here. Ms. Lawless? Mr. Martin? Here. Mr. McCord? Here. Mr. Myers? Here. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Present. Mr. Blues? Here. Ms. Crosby? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Here. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Here. Ms. Gordon? Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Meredith. And next on our agenda is the invocation, and thanks to Councilmember George Myers, who helped us in scheduling. Pastor Ashley Wilson, who is pastor of the LifeGate Church. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to briefly read this scripture, and then we'll pray. Proverbs 24, verse 3 and 4 says, By wisdom, a house is built, and through understanding it is established. Through knowledge, its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. What the Bible says about a house, I believe, is also true of a city. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for your blessings. We thank you for your grace. Lord, we thank you for your mercy. God, we thank you for these men and women, Lord, who you've put in leadership over our city. And God, we just pray now your wisdom. We pray your understanding. God, Your Word says that the heart of the King is in Your hands. And God, I thank You that their heart, their decisions are in Your hands. And God, I just pray that You would bless them tonight. Lord, that You would bless our city. God, make it a place full of beautiful and wonderful treasures, I pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Mayor. Mayor. Mayor. Thank you, Pastor Wilson. Councilman McCord. If we might, Pastor Wilson, a lot of times folks come to the mic and people, you know, don't know who they are or when we say LifeGate Church and so forth, would you mind just telling us, we always ask for people's addresses when we have public comment, just where you are and maybe who you are a little bit. Yeah, I am Ashley Wilson. I was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, raised in Tennessee, but as a persecuted Kentucky fan my entire life, and felt a call to come to Lexington in 2007 to plant a church. We started LifeGate Church almost three years ago. we meet at Veterans Park Elementary School on the south side of town. Our services are at 1045 on Sunday morning, and we'd love to have you come check it out. God bless you. Thank you, Pastor Wilson. All right. All right. We have three presentations tonight, And the first presentation will be honoring the 2012 National Championship, again, University of Kentucky Cheerleading Squad. And I'm going to ask Councilmember Jay McCord to turn this over to you. We're going to let them come on in. Mayor, I'm going to say a couple words, and I'm going to let you proclaim this. But I want to tell you, first off, how proud I am of you all. I was the Wildcat mascot at UK from 1988 to 1991, and I know exactly what went into this championship and what it means to each one of you and what it means for us that are alumni of that program. But I do want to put some context to this because as we started looking around, the University of Kentucky is certainly known for basketball and seven national championships. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, but that's over a 64-year period. Huh, okay, let's do the math. We've done 19 national championships with folks like yourself and the folks who came before you in less, we did 19 national championships, and the first one was in 1980, 1985. So in just a very short amount of time, in a very short amount of time, you've almost tripled what this university is known for. And again, you need to be very proud of who you are and this team, but as T. Lynn always says it's it's your all of this is built on the shoulders of who came before you but for those who came before you let me tell you how proud I am of you and again T. Lynn congratulations to you Jomo Thompson congratulations to you because University of Kentucky certainly is the standard of excellence and we're known for a lot of things mayor worldwide but but this is the one thing that we do exceedingly well above and beyond everybody and I want to welcome to the council chambers and to receive the honor that you're due. And so, Mayor, if you don't mind, maybe give him... All right. What we've got is a proclamation. And it says, UK Cheerleading Day. All right. There we go. Council Member McCord, I can read this pretty quick, so I'll read the whole thing. It's deserving. It says, I, Jim Gray, Mayor of Lexington, Fayette County Urban Government, in recognition of an unprecedented 19th UCA national title and inspiring all of us to achieve greatness, do hereby proclaim February 16, 2012, UK Cheerleading Day. Thanks, guys. Can the council members squeeze in behind everyone? And that's kind of who we're celebrating now for a long time. You can pick them up. Yes. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Just take them out. Take them out. Yeah. Make sure people say this. Don't possibly stare as that is. You're luckier than you are. Well, that's true. All right, guys. Looking good. Hold that. Look this way, gentlemen. Hold that. What? Where's there? There we are. All right, guys. One more time. Hold that. Look at that. One more down. Nice smile from everybody. Hold that. Give it. Thank you very much. If I might, before you leave, Joe Moe, if you wouldn't mind saying a couple words, because, again, I think it's pretty important for folks to hear from you as a former Wildcat cheerleader, but now the coach of this. But if you don't mind taking a couple words and speaking about this team. I'd like to thank you guys for having us out. It's a great honor to be here. I'd just like to say how hard these group of young individuals work this year. Last year we came in second by a very slim margin, and it was our goal to make sure we get back on top. One of the mottos that we coined was climbing the mountain, and they did a very good job this year climbing the mountain, getting back to number one. And we do that because we want to make the University of Kentucky, all the constituents of this great town, we want to make everybody happy. So I'd like to say thank you. I'd like to just read their names real quick. And if they could just step forward and wave, and that'll be it. First, we'll start with Matej Kavnik, all the way from Slovenia. Zach Alviar, from Chicago, Illinois. Rob, from New Jersey. Blake Johnson, Alabama. Mason Levy, Georgia. Blake Bridges, Arkansas. David Patton, Louisiana. Anthony Holabick, Alabama. Ryan Heinrich, Kentucky. Dylan Smith, Rhode Island. Stephen Bush, Georgia. Mandy Bendenhan, Lexington, Kentucky. Michelle Smith, Chicago. Olivia Rink, Indiana. Jacqueline Lopez, Kentucky. Kaitlyn Chamberlain, California. Juliet McCrary, North Carolina. Lindsey Goddawith, Kentucky. Stephanie Johnson, Kentucky. Lauren Grady, Mississippi. Addison Targos, Arizona. And Chelsea Parker, Georgia. And again, we'd like to thank you guys for having us out. It's a great honor to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. One more photo for them. One more photo. Sway, hold it. And one more time. What you guys have is my smile. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Okay, where's your back answer? Thank you all. And we got another great presentation for a great collection of folks. and I'm going to ask Vice Mayor Linda Gordon to join me. This presentation is to the Boy Scouts celebrating the 102nd birthday this month, Boy Scouts of America. And we are joined tonight by some local scouts and the president of the Bluegrass Council, Billy Forbus. And you know there's not a better representative for the Boy Scouts, the leadership skills that it represents, and the recipes for success in life instilled through the Boy Scouts than that of our former colleague, Dr. David Stevens. So I'm going to ask Dr. Stevens if he'll come up now. Well, thank you very much, Mayor Gray, and I appreciate being back here in the council chambers. It's a little different from this side of the horseshoe, but it feels pretty good, I'll tell you that. You know, when I first got on the council, the then vice mayor, who was Teresa Isaacs, said, Can you take my place on the Boy Scout Board? All you have to do is go to lunch one time a year. And I was dumb enough to believe her then. But it's turned out to be a little bit more than that. I was happy, however, when Billy Forbus replaced me as the president of the Bluegrass Council after four years. And I'm here tonight to tell you a little bit about the Boy Scouts. You know, we have 55 counties we represent in the Bluegrass Council. That goes from the Ohio River down to the Tennessee border and from the Big Sandy over east or west of here a little bit. Yeah, Frankfurt's the most west part of that. and Frankfurt had one of the first troops in the United States. The Bluegrass Council was organized in the 20s. Frankfurt was before that. And if you've ever been down past Monticello, you'll see a little roadside sign down there that said that was the first Boy Scout troop in the United States. But there's nobody around there now that knows about that, so we can't confirm it. but Kentucky has been an important part of the Boy Scout movement. Some interesting information, one of which stuck in my mind, was of the 22 men or astronauts that walked on the moon, 20 of them were Eagle Scouts. So, boys, you can see eagles really do fly. And if you all would come up, I think it would be appropriate for everybody to stand up in both the scouts and the leaders, and that includes our staff from the Bluegrass Council. Dr. Stevens, I just want to say I had the pleasure of attending the Klondike Derby this year. Oh, is that right? Yeah, which is two days. This was like in the middle of January during an ice storm, so you camp out all weekend. So these guys really lay it out. They are tough. we appreciate everybody coming tonight and we appreciate very much the urban county council and the mayor proclaiming uh the boy scouts of america mayor gray all right dr stevens thanks so much this is the proclamation and it proclaims boy scouts of america week celebrating and honoring the 102nd birthday of the Boy Scouts of America and our very own Bluegrass Council. So, there we go. Thank you. In recognition of all you're doing for the community, we want to give you the scout coin. On one side it has the 12 walls, and on the other side it has the scout and the scout and the motto of the second century of scouting is prepares the rocket certainly to our mission thank you thank you very much thank you thank you thank you so much I'm going to tell you all I'm going to call Bob his interest to the other. Bruce Will. Billy told me last night, I saw him last night, he said, his son Will said, Dad, do we have to stay for a full council? If council members can't have a vote, we're both behind y'all. Is this issue? No. Yeah, I'll hold this in the group. I'll hold this in the group. What? Good job. You deserve your hiding behind the shoes. All right, young man. Look this way, if I can see you. All right. Look this way again. Very nice. Two quick. Holy God. And one more time. Oh, my God. There you go. Oh, right here again. Nice smile. Thank you very much. Some of them are staying the whole time because they're working on their citizenship marriage. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, some do have to stay for the whole meeting, Dr. Stevens said. Does that include grandson David? All right. We have one last presentation, one final presentation tonight. I'll bet there's a few in this room who watched the Super Bowl. And if you did, then you may have seen some familiar faces, some local faces, in one of the Super Bowl TV spots that was sponsored by Toyota. So it's not every day that we see Central Kentuckians, our own friends and colleagues, broadcast around the world, showcasing the level of talent and the level of commitment in our Central Kentucky, right here in our backyard. So we can take a quick look. If it's working, Chris. Okay. I'm going to guess probably close to a million cameras out there that have had my hands on. One of the first things I ask myself is, would I want this in my car? And I do ask myself that a lot. We don't take shortcuts. We want to make sure that people are proud of us. I've seen the people that put the motor in, and I've watched them assemble this car. My people here in Kentucky. For 25 years, millions of Cameron stories have started here. See them at Toyota.com. Okay, and there is one more. When you go out to buy a new car, I don't think anybody really intends that, hey, our baby's going to take that car to college. I've got a tiny age. Well, in 1992, at the first of the month of May, we ordered our brand new Camry. A couple weeks later, Allison, our daughter, was born. Now that we look back at it, there's this connection with Allison in the car that we didn't really foresee. It's just been a process of watching her grow up and the Camry being there through it all. I can just picture her in the back seat. That was her spot. Her getting Bayer, taking her to school, going to their cousin's birthday parties. It's been through life with us. And I think that she knew that someday I was going to give that car to her. It had had enough dings and dents in it from its previous owner, our oldest son. I didn't want to give it to Allison in that condition. So it ended up being a huge undertaking. But it was worth it because we wanted to do something special for Allison. So at her graduation, we finally said, okay, this is your graduation present. It was pretty cool because there was a part of us that was going along with the car when we handed it over to her. My dad, he always smiles with his eyes. And that day, his eyes were smiling because he was so proud. After it was painted and it was official, I just think it meant a lot to her. Because it wasn't just about the car, it was about the love behind all of the work. It just kind of always felt like it was my car in a weird way. I always claimed the back right seat, mostly because I wanted to see my dad's face. And so when the keys were officially handed to me, I finally knew that it was actually my car after all those years. It was the car that my parents brought me home from the hospital in. And now here I am driving off to college in it. And I just have this freedom to go off and make my own memories in it. Okay. Thanks. So, we're all, you know, you all made us all real proud that night. And we are grateful to Toyota for giving us and teaching us a lot of lessons. and right here, thinking globally from right here in central Kentucky. So tonight there's some freshly minted, brand spanking new Henry Clay ambassadorships that we're going to present to you all. Now, I'm going to tell you that they carry about the same level of authority as a Kentucky colonel C does. So use it liberally. Use it generously. All right, and I'm going to ask Kim Sweezy, who many of us know, our ambassador of goodwill all over Lexington and Kentucky, to share with us a little bit more about those who are receiving. Well, first of all, I want to say hello, Mayor and Vice Mayor Gorton, and say hello to all the council members. And on behalf of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, I just want to say we are very honored to be here tonight. The only thing I can truly say is that we are so proud to be selected to be a part of this huge nationwide audience that was presented during the Super Bowl. And it gave us an opportunity to be able to showcase the Bluegrass, our incredible team members, and our amazing reinvented 2012 Camry, made by over 6,600 MVPs at Toyota. So we're very proud of them. So right now I'd like to introduce some of the folks that were able to be here with us tonight, and you may recognize some of their family members who also appeared in the commercials. But let me go ahead and introduce, first of all, if you want them to come up to the front. First I'd like to introduce Sean Cooley, who was our voiceover for the commercial as well. Sean Cooley. Next is Lynette Campbell, who also has her little girl with her, who was also in the commercial as well. Rafael Garcia. Richard Kirtley. and also with us here tonight is Tim Condor his wife also was in the commercial and also you may have noticed some of those streets looked very familiar coming through Lexington because Allison is a proud graduate go Defenders of Bryan Station Senior High School as well as a student now at Transylvania Also not being able to be with us tonight, but also appearing in the commercial of Bruce Bryan, Tony Threates, Mark Conley, and Susan Henson. So we're all very, very proud of these folks. I'm going to take pictures. I can take pictures. Council, if you all want to come back one more time, please. Thank you. One more time. One more. Okay. There you go. All right. All right. Let's do it. All right. All right. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Let's do it. Thank you. Lexington. I'm sure that's not the exact name of it, but you deserve just a round of applause and congratulations for all the great stuff you do. I see you everywhere, and we all do, and so congratulations. Thank you. All right. Thank you all again. All right. We can move now into our business section of the council meeting. And first on the agenda is a second reading of ordinances, and I'll ask the clerk if she will please give a second read to the ordinances. Ordinance number one, an ordinance changing the zone from a heavy industrial I-2 zone to a high-rise apartment R5 zone for 8.10 net, 8.29 gross acres, and from a wholesale warehouse business B4 zone to a high-rise apartment R5 zone for 2.03 net, 2.4 gross acres for property located at 474, 497, and 498 Angliana Avenue, Trinitas Ventures, LLC. Ordinance No. 2 and Ordinance Amending Section 2252 of the Code of Ordinances creating one temporary position of public information officer, grade 118E, three temporary positions of evidence technician, grade 112N, and one temporary position of police analyst, grade 111N, with terms to expire on December 31, 2014, effective upon passage of council. Number three, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 51. And number four, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $620 from neighborhood development funds in the Division of Parks and Recreation for the Showstoppers National Dance Competition Dance Attack Competition Program and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 52. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve that? Move approval. Second. There we go. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton, and there was a race for second. Second by Council Member Stinnett. Is there any discussion? Any discussion on the motion? Okay, hearing none, we can take a vote. Actually, Madam Clerk, would you call the roll, please? Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stenet? Yes. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Crosby? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Aye. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. And Mr. Kay? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The vote reflects passage of the motion. And when you are ready, Madam Clerk, please give us a first reading of the ordinances. Ordinance No. 5, an ordinance amending Articles 1740 and 1770 of the Zoning Ordinance to allow canopy signs in the Professional Office P1 Zone. No. 6, an ordinance amending Article 29.6 of the Zoning Ordinance to update references to codes for properties within the neighborhood design character overlay ND1 Zone. Number seven, an ordinance amending Section 2252 of the Code of Ordinances abolishing one position of equipment operator part-time in the Division of Family Services and creating one position of equipment operator part-time in the Division of Youth Services, effective upon passage of council. Number eight, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $575 for the Division of Adult and Tenant Services from Neighborhood Development Funds for Emergency Financial Assistance Program for hot water tanks and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 54. Number 9, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 53. Number 10, an ordinance amending Article 39, Chapter 2 of the Code of Ordinances, Town and Gown Commission, to add bluegrass community and technical college representation, and more specifically amending subsection 2.421B and section 2.427 of the code to pluralize the term university and add the term college, amending section 2.422 of the code to decrease the number of appointed members from 18 to 16 and to increase the number of ex officio members from 3 to 8, to add proximity to the universities and college as a consideration, to reduce the appointed urban county council members from 2 to 1, to add the first district council member, the commissioner of public safety, or his or her designee, and the student government presidents or their designees as ex officio members, and to add a Bluegrass Community and Technical College appointed board member while eliminating one University of Kentucky student representative, and amending Section 2.423 of the Code to provide for replacement of the Public Safety Commissioner upon termination of employment. Number 11, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $725 for Senior Services Commission from Neighborhood Development Funds and Appropriating and Reappropriating Funds, Schedule No. 56. Thank you. Is there a motion? Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to No. 10, the Town and Gown Commission Changes, which will enable us to move forward with appointments to the new positions. Motion and a second regarding item number 10. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, you can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Are there any additional motions? All right. Madam Clerk, you can call the roll. I'll need to give it a second reading. Number 10 for second reading, an ordinance amending Article 39, Chapter 2 of the Code of Ordinances, Town and Gown Commission, to add Bluegrass Community and Technical College representation, and more specifically amending Subsection 2, 421B and Section 2, 427 of the Code to pluralize the term university and add the term college. amending Section 2422 of the Code to decrease the number of appointed members from 18 to 16 and to increase the number of ex officio members from 3 to 8 to add proximity to the universities and colleges as a consideration, to reduce the appointed Urban County Council members from 2 to 1, to add the 1st District Council member, the Commissioner of Public Safety or his or her designee, and the student government presidents or their designees as ex officio members, and to add a Bluegrass Community and Technical College appointed board member while eliminating one University of Kentucky student representative and amending Section 2423 of the Code to provide for replacement of the public safety commissioner upon termination of employment. Move approval. Second. There's a motion and a second to approve. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. We'll need a roll call vote. All right. Call the roll, please. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stenet? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Cosby? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Okay, we can move on to Bermuda 6 on our agenda. Resolutions for a second reading. And, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Resolution number one, a resolution accepting the bid of Pomeroy establishing a price contract for security cameras and equipment for the Department of General Services. Number two, a resolution accepting the bids of Solid Rock Construction, LLC, and Sensaba Design and Construction, establishing price contracts for UPC demolition of residential structures for the Division of Water Quality, and authorizing the mayor to execute any related agreements. Number three, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $16,500 Commonwealth of Kentucky funds under the Law Enforcement Protection Program and are for the purchase of 30 body armor vests for the Division of Police. Number four, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a rental agreement with the Lexington Center Corporation for use of the Opera House for the Kitty Capers Program at a cost not to exceed $10,000. Number five, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a purchase of service agreement and a lease agreement with Lexington Fayette Animal Care and Control LLC for animal control services at a cost not to exceed $1,076,690. Number six, 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 develop a model and a manual to identify high-priority parcels and facilitate installation of stormwater quality and or runoff reduction facilities in the Wolf Run watershed at a cost not to exceed $7,200. Number seven, 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 Andover Estates Homeowners Association, Incorporated, to design and construct a retrofit to an existing riprap channel to eliminate instability and erosion and to provide education to the neighborhood on related issues at a cost not to exceed $8,000. Number eight, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute rural and inner-city Adopt-A-Spot program agreements with Christ United Methodist Church, BSA number 220, $1,304.12, Christ Centered Church, BSA number 59, $1,567.20, Emmanuel Baptist Church, BSA number 41, $1,231.68, Rosemont Baptist Church, BSA number 98, $1,157.40. Beaumont Presbyterian, BSA number 279, $1,038.28. Greater Faith Apostolic Church, BSA number 238, $1,103.60. First Alliance Church, $1,265.40. Bluegrass Chapter Order of Demolay, $1,332.32. Christian Youth Fellowship, $1,942.51. Phillips Memorial Church, $2,191.56. Boy Scout Troop No. 103, $298.85. Boy Scout Troop No. 13, $1,992.32. Boy Scout Troop No. 186, $273.95. Boy Scout Troop No. 382, $448.27. Greater Faith Apostolic Church, BSA No. 238, $522.98. Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, B.S. Troop 226, $921.44 Alpha Kappa Alpha Eta Rho, $636.12 Lexington Swingers Golf Club Incorporated, $1,616 and Alpha Kappa, $1,023.12 for participation in the Adopt-A-Spot Roadway Cleanup Program at a cost not to exceed $21,867.12 Number 9 Mayor. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Mayor. Regarding this conditional offer to lease the Health First Bluegrass for 913 Georgetown Street, we will be having a presentation on this matter at work session on February 21st. And so I therefore move to table number nine to the February 23rd council meeting. Motion by Council Member Blues and a second to table. Motion to table is not debatable. So ready to take a vote? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Resolution number 10, a resolution authorizing the Division of Police on behalf of the Urban County Government to make necessary repairs and maintenance to the police helicopter by R.J. Corman Aircraft Maintenance, LLC, a sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $126,152.32. Number 11, a resolution authorizing the payment of the annual maintenance fee for the Acela Incorporated asset management software required by the urban county government's consent decree for the division of water quality at a cost not to exceed $95,863.80. Number 12, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number 2 to the contract with GRW Engineers Incorporated for the investigation and design of the expansion area 2A pumping station in Force Main, increasing the contract price by the sum of $37,350 from $425,000 to $462,350. Number 13, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a data usage agreement with RAIDs Online, Bear Analytics Incorporated, for an online data program at no cost to the government. Number 14, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the contract with Disponet Service Company Incorporated for the Dunbar Community Center Retrofit for the Division of Environmental Policy, increasing the contract price by the sum of $47,424 from $465,200 to $512,624. And number 15, a resolution accepting the collective bargaining agreement with Fraternal Order of Police, Town Branch Lodge No. 83, on behalf of officers and sergeants in the Division of Community Corrections. Move approval. Thank you. There's a motion to approve by Vice Mayor Gordon and second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, Madam Clerk, you can call the roll. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Crosby? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes on all. I abstain on number 15. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. And Mr. Kay? Yes. Thank you. So the vote reflects passage of the motion. All right. Next on our agenda, item number seven, resolutions that need a first reading. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Resolution number 16, a resolution accepting the bid of Senzabah Design and Construction, establishing a price contract for sidewalk ramp installation reconstruction program 2011-2012 for the Division of Engineering and authorizing the mayor to execute any related agreement. Number 17, a resolution accepting the bid of Jay Endinger & Sons, Incorporated, establishing a price contract for stainless steel dump bodies for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number 18, a resolution accepting the bid of Radio Communications Systems, Incorporated, doing business's RCS communications, establishing a price contract for emergency vehicle lighting and siren system for the Division of Police. Number 19, a resolution accepting the bid of A-plus vending, establishing a price contract for vending services for the Division of Community Corrections. Number 20, a resolution accepting the bid of Mignone Communications, Inc., establishing a price contract for Fund Guide 2012 printing for the Division of Parks and Recreation. Number 21, a resolution accepting the bid of United Mail, LLC, establishing a price contract for the distribution of Fund Guide 2012 for the Division of Parks and Recreation. Number 22, a resolution accepting the bid of Trillieri, Inc., doing business as Site Restoration Group in the amount of $11,919 for refurbishing of park benches for the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works. Number 23, a resolution accepting the bid of Comtronics Incorporated, establishing a price contract for installation, repair, removal of hardware items for waste management route management system for the Division of Waste Management. Number 24. Excuse me, Mayor. Yes, sir. Before she reads number 24, I have a question on it. I believe these are the hiring of the police recruits we announced back in January, or the fire recruits we announced back in January, correct? Commissioner, can you answer that? And I know tonight's just first reading, but between now and second reading, have we identified where the money's going to come from to pay these folks? Because I understand this is just a conditional offer, but I would hate to make that offer and not have the budget. We are looking at the overall budget, especially with fire, to see where there's flexibility and some savings from people who are no longer on, looking at health care savings. Some of those costs are just now starting to go through the payroll to adjust and see what other areas we can trim and make some adjustments in. areas such as some of the utilities and things like that have been less than expected. So we're looking at that right now. So we don't have an answer if we do have it? I mean, when will we know? I mean, we get second reading next Thursday. What happens after that if we don't have the money? We'll have better figures for next Thursday. Before next Thursday? Yes. Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Farmer. Mine's going to be similar, Mayor. I just want to make sure that we do have I mean Council Member Stenet is correct in bringing up the point that this may be as the Commissioner says part of the recruit class and I want to make sure we get them all taken care of because our emergency services task force met and tried to complete their work today and it's motivationally important that we have these people for a whole lot of reasons and they're not enough But when the commissioner is, when we blue-sheeted and we're having our first reading and we're still looking for money, I'm concerned. And I think everyone here would share that concern because this needs to happen. Yeah, I'll speak to that. Thank you, sir. Commissioner Driscoll, would you like to speak to it? And I will as well. I'll let you navigate your way up. I would say on the way up that a budget of $275 million, there's no exact science to it. And, Council Member Farmer, being in the business yourself and Council Member Stenet being in the business yourself, I think you know that a budget is made to give us some level of predictability to the decision-making that we engage. And there is no precision down to the precise digit on these budgets. What we've done as a government is make this commitment, And now we are working to execute on that commitment. I think that's pretty much the way we do things in private business, in my experience. Do you have something to add to that, Commissioner Driscoll? I just wanted to reinforce some of the points Commissioner Mason made. We have been looking at our expenditures to date in payroll and adjusting for, we obviously had a significant payout in fire. We're adjusting the payroll for that, as well as the increased health insurance over the budget, taking that into consideration, and then looking at fire's budget individually for those savings that the commissioner mentioned in fuel, in their equipment allowance. It looks like there's some flexibility there as well that they wouldn't need to expend, as well as the fire hydrant costs. So we're looking at a lot of those adjustments to come back to you with our estimates of dollars that will be required for this new class. And we appreciate the questions that Council Member Stennett and Council Member Farmer and their inquiries associated with this and the level of precision that you've gone to, Commissioner Driscoll, to try to confirm these funds. I assume that's what you all are looking for. That's pretty helpful to me. Go ahead. No, it is. Because back in December, we had asked for a final tally after January 1. So if you can bring that before next Thursday as to how many left and the impact that on payroll and payouts and what our net was, because I assume we have some net from what we had budgeted. So if you can bring all that, that would be great for next Thursday. Right. Yes, we have those exact figures on payouts now. Thank you. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. To me, this is kind of a never-ending cycle because there's no question that we need more firefighters and that we're short-staffed. We're experiencing brownouts. A large number of folks retired. But we really don't know where this money is coming from. We heard from social services that they don't have enough money that they're going to have to cut programs in order to take any more hits. and public safety is taking a larger and larger percent of the budget each and every year. And I think we have to retool for a new financial reality in this city because not only do we need the money to pay for these folks in this fiscal year, but we need about $300,000 a person to pay for their pensions as well. And so I think it's premature. Sure, we've got the pension task force that's working hard with some good folks from the police and fire department, but I think we are kidding ourselves if we can continue to operate in this day and age and for the next five or ten years the way we've always done it, because the money is disappearing. And so without any changes to our operations, we're just throwing more money at it. And so I think we have to really take a hard look at ourselves about what we need and what can we do. I mean, the U.S. military has been downsizing and things. So I just throw that out there for the mayor and our fellow council members. But, you know, we are, if we just keep throwing money at it, it's not going to get any better. We definitely need those folks. There's no question we need it. But we have no idea how we're going to get out of the financial crisis that we have. And so, Mayor, I appreciate your leadership on this. and I just thought I'd bring that to the attention of the Council. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Martin. Does anyone else wish to speak to Item 24? All right, then we can move on. Madam Clerk. Resolution Number 24, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. William Evans, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 13.912, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, Barbie Tapp, Telecommunicator Senior, Grade 113N, 15.900, hourly, in the Division of Emergency Management, 911, Charles Patrick, Skilled Trades Worker, Grade 111N, 21.017, hourly, in the Division of Community Corrections, and Andrew Dixon, Public Service Worker Senior, Grade 107N, 11.557, hourly, in the Division of Streets and Roads, all effective upon the passage of counsel. Authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments. Nicholas Baldwin, Kevin DeWeese, Daniel Burton, Timothy Boniface, Francis Abel, Christopher Mulberry, Nathaniel Clark, Thomas Barnes, William Fields, Nastassia Alsias, Van Tsao, Michael Jordan, Rashid Siraji, Daniel Dinsmore, Benjamin Ishmael, Joshua Coleman, Richard May, Jason Onan, Michael Steger, Matthew Mosley, Larkin Lair, Andrew Kenner, Michael Durham, Derek Parr, Aaron Aubrey, and alternate Jordan Brown, firefighter, grade 311N, 14.420. Hourly in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, effective upon passage of counsel. Authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment. Courtney Thatcher, Staff Assistant Senior, Grade 108 N, 12.500. Hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective upon passage of counsel. Brittany West, Administrative Officer, Grade 118 E, 200884.62 biweekly in the Division of Waste Management, effective upon passage of counsel. Number 25. A resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Tamara Walters, Human Resources Manager Senior, Grade 121E, 200744.96 biweekly in the Division of Human Resources, effective January 30, 2012, and Kenneth Kelly, Public Service Supervisor, Grade 111N, 19.185 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective January 16, 2012. ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Sherman Cook Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N in the Division of Waste Management, effective February 7, 2012, Stephanie Hong, Director of Youth Services, Grade 120E, in the Division of Youth Services, effective January 19, 2012, and Joanna Rhodes, Director of Family Services, Grade 120E, in the Division of Family Services, effective January 19, 2012, and ratifying the probationary sworn appointments of Albert Johnson Police Sergeant, Grade 315 N, 28.588 hourly in the Division of Police, effective February 20, 2012, and Timothy Bowman, Community Corrections Lieutenant, Grade 114 E, 1,947.84 biweekly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective January 30, 2012. Number 26, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an assistance amendment with the Environmental Protection Agency for extension of the performance period for the South Elkhorn Pump Station project through June 30, 2012, at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 27, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents for acceptance of fee simple rights of way and construction easements on approximately 27 properties from owners on record for the Tates Creek Road sidewalk improvement project at a cost not to exceed $130,000. Number 28, a resolution accepting the response of PFM Asset Management, LLC, for Treasury consulting services for the Department of Finance and authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with PFM Asset Management, LLC, related to these services in an amount not to exceed $50,000 in fiscal year 2012. Number 29, 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 Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association, Inc. to provide education on water quality issues and provide materials and support for the construction of 25 rain gardens in the neighborhood at a cost not to exceed $17,000. Number 30, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility usage agreement with the Fayette County Board of Education for use of the Winburn Middle School Gymnasium for the Winburn Community Center Learning Program at a cost not to exceed $10,043.98. Number 31, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for extension of the communications grant project through June 30, 2012, at no cost to the urban county government. Number 32, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a consultant service agreement with GRW Incorporated for engineering design services for elevators in the Phoenix and Police Headquarters buildings at a cost not to exceed $56,000. Number 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an alarm contract and addendum with Sonitrol of Lexington, Incorporated, for alarm system improvements at the technical services unit facility at a cost not to exceed $132 per month. Number 34, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a paramedic training program agreement with Madison County Emergency Medical Services for paramedic training at no cost to the urban county government. Number 35, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Justice and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $44,000 federal funds under the Intellectual Property Theft Enforcement Program and are for enhancing the capability of the Major Violator Unit, MVU, of the Division of Police to investigate crimes related to counterfeit goods. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation of $2,705.58 from United Way of the Bluegrass to support the free tax preparation sites at the Family Care Center and the Central Kentucky Job Center. Number 37, a resolution authorizing the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works to sponsor the Lexington Philharmonics concert, The Planets, in an amount not to exceed $2,500. Number 38, a resolution authorizing the Division of Water Quality to accept a payment adjustment owed to employees of Tobacco Rose Farm for the SSA Group 1 Sewer Shed Field Activities Manhole Raising due to prevailing wage requirements in the amount of $117,481.38. Number 39, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement with Judy Construction Company for modifications and repair of Clarifier No. 8 at the West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plant at a cost not to exceed $231,500. Number 40, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with March Madness Marching Band, $600 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 41, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an airspace agreement with Earthman LLC for the benefit of Alltech for placement of an overhead pipe bridge over the right-of-way of Cross Street at no cost to the urban county government. Number 42. Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. Number 43, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a participating addendum under Western States Alliance Wireless Communication Services and Equipment Master Price Agreement Number S-1523 with Sprint Solutions Incorporated at no additional cost to the Urban County Government. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the Division of Police on behalf of the Urban County Government to purchase various software services from Open Portal Solutions, a sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $49,600. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to accept a donation from Mr. Barry Ewing of Eagle Sport Chairs for a multi-court exchange wheelchair and a set of Spinergy Sport Wheels for use at the Division of Parks and Recreation at no cost to the Irving County Government. Number 46, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute professional services agreements with Leanne McBride, Carrie Barnett, Susan Noll, Bridget Ganahl, Rosemary Daly, Angela Wallace, and Susanna Moberly as sexual assault nurse examiners to provide on-call forensic examinations under the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at a cost not to exceed $40 for each scheduled on-call period, $230 for each completed forensic examination, $50 per case for professional testimony in court, and the reasonable cost of medical liability insurance. Number 47, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority for transfer, management, repair, and operation of parking facilities. Number 48, 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 Heartland Homeowners Association, Incorporated, for capital improvements to an existing stormwater basin at a cost not to exceed $50,000. Number 49, 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 Heartland Homeowners Association, Inc. for capital improvements to address erosion and bank failure on a stream in Heartland at a cost not to exceed $37,230. Number 50, 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 the Board of Education of Fayette County for the design and construction of rain gardens at four Fayette County schools at a cost not to exceed $10,836.20. Number 51, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irma County Government to execute an engineering services agreement with CDP Engineers Incorporated for the Coldstream Park Stream Corridor Restoration and Preservation Project, a supplemental environmental project required by the consent decree for the Division of Water Quality at a cost not to exceed $250,000. Number 52, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Tactical Energetic Entry Systems, LLC, for dynamic entry training for the Division of Police at a cost not to exceed $35,000. Number 53, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents and to accept deeds for property interests needed for the Meadows, Northland, Arlington, Section 5A Public Improvements Project at a cost not to exceed $175,000. Number 54, a resolution authorizing the Division of Fire and Emergency Services to obtain special operations, hazardous materials, and technical rescue equipment from Thermo Fisher Scientific, a sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $55,000 under the 2011 State Homeland Security Grant Program and authorizing the mayor to execute any necessary documents. Mayor, excuse just a minute. Council Member Lane. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to speak to item 55 where we have a $55,700 increase over the $100,000 consulting agreement that's already been approved. And, you know, I think this is setting a bad precedent. We paid somebody $100,000 to do a study, and now we want to get a revision, and they want $55,000 more to revise it. But under the current conditions we're in where our money is very tight, and I don't really have enough information on this to make a judgment. I don't know whether we could have the consultant come and make a presentation to council on what the 55,000 is for and maybe what the prior report was because I don't know anything about that either. But I just have a concern that these change orders go through and they're eating up a chunk of money there. 55% increase is a substantial amount. Right. And I'm going to let Commissioner Mason speak to it because I'm not familiar with the details of the transaction, but what I am familiar with, I think, and Council Member Lane, from your experience, would recognize this as well, An original scope was tendered, was bid, and then a revised scope in order to save money has been initiated. And in order to go to a revised scope to save money, it requires work, work effort, engineering effort, consulting effort. The word consulting sometimes has negative connotations. I understand that. In order to get the precision level of detail that is necessary, my view is if we're going to save money at the level that this is anticipated and that Council Members Stenet and others have encouraged, then we would want to get the best advice we could in order to ensure that there is clarity to scope and precision in the RFP. That's it. Okay, well, I'm not saying that. I may be wrong. I'm just saying that's from my experience. I think we can provide some amplification on this. I think Assistant Chief Stack and Battalion Chief Paul C. from FIRE can speak to the technical issues here, and that's what this is. It's not just a study. It's helping in developing with the re-scoped RFB and then moving forward into the evaluation phase of the technical proposals that the companies will be presenting for our radio system. So I'll let them provide a little more amplification and then answer some questions. Good question. Thank you, Council Member Lane. I can understand. Watching those pennies and nickels and dimes, that's great. Well, we need to be ever vigilant about our budgetary issues. And I might say this may be the greatest idea that ever happened, but maybe having a little more information, even in your motion data here, that this is not really a change order. Maybe it's an expansion or additional study required as opposed to a change order. Maybe it's the way it was worded. I think the best way to describe it, Councilman, is this is a significant reduction, a tremendous reduction from what we presented in December. We were sent back with instructions to bring back something that was much more cost-effective for this government. We put that out to bid yesterday. The amount is less than half of what we brought you in December, so we're talking quite a few million dollars. The work needed to do that is an expertise that's beyond anybody in this government. This is about a once-in-a-30-year purchase for this government. It's got to be done right this time. And this is an expertise that we don't want to rely just on my personal judgment, Battalion Chief C.'s judgment. We need some outside expertise to make sure that we spend the money correctly and that we're good stewards of the taxpayers' dollars. I think what we're going to be able to present you in the end is going to be able to accomplish that and save this government somewhere in the tune of probably $6 to $8 million. I like that a lot. So thank you for your report on that. And it would be helpful. I still think it would be nice if the consultant were available when they're in town maybe to come before council and give us a mini-report on some of the technical issues, not in broad general terms, not too specifically. But that helps a lot if we're going to save $8 million. I would spend $55,000 to save $8 million all the time. I want to let you know that when we get into the next phase of this purchase, which is the actual radios that go in cars and on the hips of police officers and firefighters. We're going to need their expertise, not nearly on this scope, but to help us identify which one of these 15 or 20 companies out here that sell these is giving us the best offer and the best price and helping us identify the ambiguous language that they always throw in their contracts and their loopholes. That's what we're paying this person to do. Even when we bring the urban county government's legal advice in, And a lot of this language is so technical, it's beyond the scope of many of us to understand. That's all I have. Thank you. Council Member Stennett, your question is the same thing. I wouldn't sit down yet. Commander. Thank you, Commander Stennett. I don't know whether I've got the right salute or not. And I voted against this on Tuesday because of some of the information you just provided. I think we were lacking to put this on the docket. But I agree with Councilman Lane. I would like to see the consultant come and explain to us what he provided us for the first time was an overall radio system for the whole system for the whole city. I think we've scaled that back. I'm not sure why that data and information he provided then is not being able to be used in-house now. I mean, what's going to be different between then and now? And also, why aren't we going to ask him for a recommendation? I mean, that's what we're paying him for, his expertise. and that was my concern on the first 100,000, why we didn't ask him for his opinion at the end. Because we did blue sheet it, we put it out of the first reading, and all of a sudden we pulled it off. You know, that raises concerns for me. Where was the consultant in that process? Was he advising us to pull it off? And why aren't we using that information he provided before? So if we can get that answer between now and next Thursday, that would be helpful. I can answer some of that now, but I would be happy to bring the consultant back and let him answer any other questions. Would you rather wait until he's here or would you like to hear? We can wait. I mean, I don't want to belong tonight any longer, but as long as we have those answers. If we're already on this issue, why don't we go ahead and answer it? We can answer it, yeah. Go ahead. Got a lot of talent here at the podium. Thank you all. Let me get cut right to the chase. His greatest value and the greatest number of hours that he's going to give us in this new agreement is when we actually sit down with the vendor that we select and go into two and three days of negotiations, picking apart their bid and getting the price down. I can tell you from our last attempt, he was very beneficial in knocking millions off of the last process. He identified a lot of ambiguous language, loopholes, things that none of us in this city would be able to recognize. He was extremely valuable. It was not his recommendation to pull the last bid back. There were many issues in the negotiations that we couldn't overcome, and there were some extraneous factors, but it was the right decision at that time to pull that back. Had we gone forward at that time with an agreement, we would have been locked into something that I think we would have regretted. And without getting into a whole lot of detail that could be used against this government later, I would just tell you it was the right decision at that right time, and it was the best decision for the taxpayers' dollars in December of last year. And I can appreciate that. I can also appreciate trying to watch every dime we're starting to spend because, as we just talked about the recruits, we desperately need this radio system, too. There's no doubt for both police and fire. But right now our budget's tight, so we have to scale back. And I understand that, and I'm glad we did, and I appreciate that. I just want to make sure we're not paying for something we already have in-house and he's already provided. You mentioned negotiation tactics. He was in on the first negotiations. He was in the negotiations the first time. Most of his costs this time will be days. First, he will take about 20 to 30 binders and digest those binders. Like last time, it was probably about 9 or 10 binders. We anticipate a lot more vendors this time because the scope is much smaller. A lot more vendors can participate this time. He's going to take all that information, digest it, point out the problems with every vendor's proposal. That will probably take him, he estimates, 20 to 30 hours of just reading binders on top of another two or three days of negotiations. That's the majority of this money right here, that and travel and things of that nature. He's got to digest that for us and help us. And this is not uncommon. We do this all over government for a lot of other projects. I don't want anyone to believe that. But will we use him on the radios when we do the RFP for the radios under the same contract for $55,000? I don't anticipate it being near this much. And the reason why is we have a lot more expertise with Battalion Chief C here and my staff in the Division of Police who understand the portables and mobiles. There will be another change order. There will be. It will be extremely small compared to this. I can assure you that. This was actually knocked off. We negotiated this down $25,000 from what he asked. I don't need as much help. I should say we don't need as much help next time. It won't be near as difficult when we get into portables and mobiles. We buy those all the time. Sure. But we don't build towers, and we don't do that. But once every 30 years, this is an area that's foreign to us. Thank you for your work, Dennis. I appreciate yours and Major C. Thank you. Would you still like him to come in for a council meeting and do a presentation? I'll leave it up to him for the rest of the discussion. I think some people would be interested in that. And it would probably be a change order to his agreement because he's going to want more money to do that. Well, you did a good job if you brought him down 50 percent from $75,000 to $55,000. That's a 50 percent. That's a good negotiation. Vice Mayor? No, I'm still not. All right. Anybody else wish to speak? Yeah, I'm lit up over here. Council Member Beard. Forgive me. Forgive me. That's quite all right, Mayor. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. I guess the thing that's confusing me first, I think any bid that you look at that says it's $100,000 all the way up to no cents looks like a dart at a dart board. But this isn't really a change order. And this process is wrong. There should be a blue sheet, I think, for each one of these activities as opposed to taking something at $100,000 and then start adding to it and adding to it and adding to it without knowing the information behind it and what you've attained. I very much think that you've done great work here, and there's no problem with that. It's just the process triggers thoughts and actions by the Council that we're looking at a traditional change order, and it's not a traditional change order, in my opinion. Thank you, Mayor. To answer your question, sir, we checked with purchasing to see if we needed a new blue sheet on this and we needed a new contract. This is an extension of an existing contract. So that's the reason why we took the approach we did. We're asking questions, Commander Stack. You know, purchasing isn't sitting up here. Let's put it that way. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I don't know that we need to bring somebody in if it's going to cost extra to do it, or maybe we need to have a conversation about that. But I guess I want to go back. Is the overall issue here the whole 800 megahertz radio system? That's what this is all? No, sir. That's not the larger issue. The larger issue is in years past, this council and this government was aware that there was a deadline to meet the FCC's requirement to narrowband our frequencies. Yes, sir. This issue has been rolled forward to this administration to deal with. Understood. We have until December 31st of this year to be in compliance to avoid fines from the FCC that could be quite staggering to this government. We have the remainder of this year to get an infrastructure in place and get new radios in place that meet this requirement. So that is what's driving this process right now. It's the division of police. It's not fire. There may be other divisions of government that have this issue, but right now it's primarily police that have a radio system that is not going to be able to meet that requirement. I guess what I have a stab for is more information, because that was a $10 million expenditure is what I recall. Yes, sir. And you're now saying that it's going to be $4 million or $3 million? In this fiscal year, we expect to spend between $5 and $5.5 million that is budgeted this year. for this project. We're going to request $4 million in the next fiscal year for portables and mobiles. In future years, we're taking a phased approach. Instead of trying to hit the urban county government in two fiscal years with the whole project, we're actually going to spread this out. The other aspect is we've gone back to the other public safety agencies that are interested in this project, and we're no longer paying for their consoles, their radios, and they're part of the infrastructure. We basically told them, you have to pay your own way, and they're interested in doing so. So that cut a tremendous amount out of the expenses here. So that's where you're saying the savings of several million dollars is? That, and we've scaled back how we approach it in the Division of Police. We have cut back the number of radios that we would put in cars. We're going to go to portable radios for some of our detectives and other staff, which is going to save us a substantial amount of money. In the future, if we decide to add those radios, that would be something that would be eligible for things such as asset forfeiture to cover. Thank you for trying to illuminate more there. I appreciate that it's a dynamic and ongoing endeavor. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Commander. Thank you all very much. Thanks, Chief. C. Sorry. All right. Where were we, Meredith? Reading number 55. All right. Can you proceed then? Yes, sir. Number 55, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with RCC Consultants for the Public Safety Radio Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $55,700.75 from $100,000 to $155,700.75. And number 56, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass, $1,300, Lansdowne Elementary School PTA Incorporated, $300, Board of Trustees of Victory Baptist Church, $25, and Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association, $100, for the office of the Irving County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. Thank you, ma'am. Are there any motions for walk-ons? Vice Mayor Gorton. Thank you, Mayor. The Council held its confirmation hearing today for your nominee for Planning Commissioner, and so I move to place on tonight's docket a resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Derek Paulson, Commissioner of Planning, Grade 212E, $4,423.07 biweekly, effective February 21, 2012. There's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member McCord. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, then we can ask for a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. I'm not showing any walk-ons, any motions from the administration. Oh, Council Member Henson. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket a resolution expressing the desire of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council that the mayor hire director for the Division of Community Corrections. Second. Motion by Council Member Henson. Second by Council Member Stennett. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Are there any further motions? All right. Are there any motions to suspend the rules? Council Member Stennett? Thank you, Mayor. I'll make a motion to suspend the rules on number 56 and give it a second rating. Second. Motion on 56. Is there any discussion? We can take a vote then. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Any, Vice Mayor Gordon? I move to suspend the rules and give number 57 a second reading. All right. We'll just take these one at a time then. Mayor, we'll need to read those two walk-ons first before they can be suspended. Okay. Go ahead with those. Go ahead, then. Okay. Thanks, Meredith. Resolution number 57, a resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Derek Paulson, Commissioner of Planning, Grade 212E, 4,423.07, biweekly, effective February 21, 2012. And resolution number 58, a resolution expressing the desire of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council that the mayor hire a director for the Division of Community Corrections. Thanks. Now we need to. So what now, then? Ms. Gordon, can we resume her motion? Okay. Vice Mayor Gordon. I move to suspend the rules and give a second reading to numbers 56, 57, and 58. Second. Second. Motion, Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member McCord for 56, 57, 58. So we'll take these in globo then, right? and we'll let you read them after. All right. So we'll take a vote now. Is there any discussion on those? All right. None. Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. Madam Clerk. Resolution number 56 for a second reading, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass, $1,300, Lansdowne Elementary School PTA Incorporated, $300, Board of Trustees of Victory Baptist Church, $25, and Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association, $100, for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. Number 57, a resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Derek Paulson, Commissioner of Planning, Grade 212E, 423.07 biweekly, effective February 21, 2012. And number 58, a resolution expressing the desire of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council that the mayor hire a director for the Division of Community Corrections. Thank you, ma'am. Council Member Farmer? Thank you, Mayor. Mine is suspended. It's number 27. I didn't really ask a law if there was a reason not to, but it's one relating to right-of-way acquisition for the Tates Creek Road sidewalk improvement project. So moved. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Cord. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Resolution number 27, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents for acceptance of fee symbol rights of way and construction easements on approximately 27 properties from owners on record for the Tates Creek Road sidewalk improvement project at a cost not to exceed $130,000. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Vice Mayor Gordon. Move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 42. Second. Motion by the Vice Mayor. Second by who was the second? Second. Oh, second by Council Member Kaye. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, you can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk. Number 42, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with March Madness Marching Band, $50, Forest Ridge Maintenance Association Incorporated, $325, Lansdowne Neighborhood Association Incorporated, $500, Bellowood Neighborhood Association Incorporated, $325, Beaumont Residential Association Incorporated, $650, American Lung Association of Kentucky Incorporated, $700, and Lexington Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association Incorporated, $50, for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Any more? All right. Hearing none, is there a motion? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton, seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll, please? Thank you. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. And Mr. Kay? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Next on our agenda, communications from the mayor, pages 14 through 15. Is there a motion? Move approval. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member McCord. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can take a vote all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries and commissioner mason all right yes oh second reading request okay can we back up then i missed that yes we had a request from the administration for second reading on two um number twenty five and number 55. All right. Can you tell us, give us some details? Well, 55 is... Welcome curiosity up here, so... 55 is the consulting agreement, and we're in the process of trying to push this thing through rapidly to meet the deadline. 25 is a promotion that was inadvertently left out when it was put together with a group of others for the police department. So they were requesting that to be second read. Motion approved 25. Second. Oh, it's a good theater. Motion on number 25. Council Member Ellinger seconded by Council Member Stenet? No, Council Member Gord. Okay. Is there any discussion? All right, hearing none, you can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion goes. I think, Clay, you better, I think there's more questions on this. You know, we listened. Yes. Okay. We listened to what Commander Stack had to say. Has he departed? Oh, okay. Why don't we ask Commander? Yes. Fortunately, not departed yet. We're still with us. We're still with us. Let me give you a sense of urgency on this. Yeah. We've lost a lot of time. Now, one of the things that we can always ask the FCC for is grace. And we can do that. I'm not opposed to that. This consultant has done a lot of work for us with grace, without pay, and he's gotten us as far as we are right now. And he stuck his neck way out for us. The reason why I asked for this tonight is because he's done that for us. now you can choose not to and that's that's your choice but the second thing looming is the fcc is going to be watching how quickly we move this project along i have doubts we will meet the deadline right now every week we put this off we're getting closer and closer to that deadline it's going to take everybody this year to meet it thank you all right is there Vice Mayor Gordon? Well, I listened to your explanations and reasons on number 55, and I have no other questions, so I'll go ahead and make the motion to suspend the rules and give it a second reading. We'll see if it flies. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion on the motion? Any discussion on the motions? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. Okay. Show of hands. All in favor. You want to hold your hand up. All in favor. One, two, three. I've activated the screens, too, if you want to log in a vote. Okay, great. All right. As the motion fails, it takes 10 votes to suspend the rules. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I do think that, Commander Stack, I do think that in terms of good faith intentions, that the consultant might interpret that the Council did pass it on the first reading. Is that correct? And it could still. Yep. First reading will be. Second read will be. Right. All right. We still have to vote on 25. We still need to vote on 25. Ready for a second read on number 25? Yeah. Number 25 for second reading, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Tamara Walters, Human Resources Manager Senior, Grade 121E, 2007-44.96 biweekly in the Division of Human Resources, effective January 30, 2012, and Kenneth Kelly, Public Service Supervisor, Grade 111N, 19.185 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective January 16, 2012, ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Sherman Cook, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, in the Division of Waste Management, effective February 7, 2012, Stephanie Hong, Director of Youth Services, Grade 120E, in the Division of Youth Services, effective January 19, 2012, and Joanna Rhodes, Director of Family Services, Grade 120E, in the Division of Family Services, effective January 19, 2012, and ratifying the probationary sworn appointments of Albert Johnson, Police Sergeant, Grade 315N, 28.588, hourly in the Division of Police, effective February 20, 2012, and Timothy Bowman, Community Corrections Lieutenant, Grade 114E, 100947.84, biweekly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective January 30, 2012. Motion to approve by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, all in favor, please let the clerk call the roll. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. McCord? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Aye. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. And Mr. Kay? Yes. Thank you. All right. Back to the agenda now where we left off, item, Roman numeral number nine. For information only, no action is needed here, looks like. Okay. And next item, number 10, is announcements. The floor is available for announcements from the council. Vice Mayor Gordon. Simply to welcome back Council Member Ford. Congratulations on your new baby. Thank you, Vice Mayor and Mayor Gray and the members of the council. I'm glad to be back and I'm glad that my wife and our newborn are both doing well. My family is being very supportive, So I want to express appreciation for all the kind thoughts that have been sent our ways. We really appreciate it. Good to be back. All right. Thank you, Council Member Ford. No one else signed up. Next on our agenda is public comment. And Mr. McArthur. McArthur. Arden McArthur. Okay. Your Honor and members of the Council, I strongly object to any proposals to rip out any of our existing streets or sabotage the movement of traffic, especially within our downtown. And the recent proposal for how to, quote, renovate the Civic Center appears, as published in the Herald-Leader a couple of times over the last few weeks, appears to call for doing exactly that. Because I noticed the picture they printed, a portion of Vine Street seems to be missing and also a portion of Jefferson Street seems to be missing. Now we had one major squabble over that piece of Vine Street some years back. Do we really have to refight that battle again? And I think if you tore out Jefferson Street in addition, that would create a bigger mess. I also wish to point out that aside from lousing up traffic, such a proposal would be financial suicide. It's crazy to tear down parts of our civic center that are structurally sound, still functioning as they were designed, and then go and replace them with separate buildings scattered over a bigger area. That is a terrible waste of money. and if this government is really as poor and has money disappearing as Mr. Martin pointed out earlier on another issue, throwing money at the Civic Center is, as I say, financial suicide. And I object to where we have all these things, the arena, Heritage Hall, and the Civic Center shops all under one roof. nicely connected to each other. I like having it that way. I wouldn't want them broken up in pieces and scattered around. I like being able to get from one thing to another without going back out into whatever the weather is doing at the moment. And I also wish to point out, if your goal is to bring more people downtown, I think some of these things you propose will backfire on you. While I can still walk down here to gripe at you guys over how bad you're messing up our traffic, but any place that I can't drive a motorized contraption to, I will not be purchasing any objects that weigh more than 10 pounds or take up more volume than about three of these. I say that because the saddle baskets on my bicycle, each side can hold 10 pounds of weight and about that much space. Or about what I could carry on foot would be facing the same limitations. Thank you, Bernard. Your being here always reminds me of the great wisdom of Isabel Yates, that no matter how thin the pancake, there are always two sides. And we thank you very much for being here. All right. Is there a motion? Second. Motion by Council Member Blues to adjourn. Second by Vice Mayor Gordon. All in favor, if there's no discussion, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you.