# Urban County Council Special Meeting - Budget Hearings - May 29, 2012 > Auto-transcribed civic record · May 29, 2012 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/2540 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/2540?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2012-05-29 - **Last revised**: July 17, 2026 - **Length**: 556 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Council met on May 29, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 200 E. Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky, with Mayor Jim Gray presiding. The meeting focused on four public hearings addressing fiscal and tax matters. All four agenda items were approved: the Public Hearing on the Mayor's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2012–2013, the Public Hearing on the Municipal Aid Program, the Public Hearing on the Coal Severance Tax, and the Public Hearing on the Mineral Severance Tax. The council took one motion and vote during the meeting. No public comments were recorded during this session. ## Attendance The following individuals were present at the meeting on May 29, 2012: * Farmer * Ford * Gorton * Henson * Kay * Lane * Lawless * Martin * McChord * Myers * Stinnett * Beard * Blues * Crosbie * Ellinger No absences or late arrivals were recorded. ## Votes and Decisions The special meeting concluded with a single motion to adjourn. [timestamp: 0:05:11] **Motion to Adjourn** Ellinger moved to adjourn the special meeting, with a second from Myers. The motion passed by voice vote. ## Public Hearing on the Mayor's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2012–2013 The Council conducted a public hearing on the Mayor's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2012–2013 [timestamp: 0:02:18]. Mayor Jim Gray presided over the hearing. No citizens appeared to provide public comment during the hearing. As a result, the Mayor closed the public hearing. The proposed budget was approved. ## Public Hearing on the Municipal Aid Program A public hearing on the Municipal Aid Program was held during this meeting [timestamp: 00:04:05]. Mayor Jim Gray presided over the hearing. No members of the public appeared to speak during the hearing. With no public comments received, Mayor Gray closed the hearing. The Municipal Aid Program was approved. ## Public Hearing on the Coal Severance Tax The Council held a public hearing on the coal severance tax [timestamp: 00:04:38]. Mayor Jim Gray presided over the hearing. No public comments were received during the hearing. Following the absence of public testimony, Mayor Gray closed the hearing. The Council approved the coal severance tax. ## Public Hearing on the Mineral Severance Tax A public hearing on the mineral severance tax was conducted during this meeting [timestamp: 00:04:38]. Mayor Jim Gray presided over the hearing. No members of the public appeared to speak during the hearing. With no public comments presented, Mayor Gray closed the public hearing. The hearing resulted in an approved outcome. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed: Motion to adjourn the special meeting --- ## Full transcript all right looks like the chamber has gotten quiet even before three o'clock so welcome everyone this today we have a little bit of a special arrangement in our meeting in our meeting schedule we will first have a special meeting of the Council for the purpose for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the budget and the protocol for that is that we will first have a roll call by our clerk and then we will conduct the public meeting and anyone here who wishes to speak to the budget will be asked to speak okay madam clerk will you please call the roll mr farmer yes ma'am mr ford here miss gorton here miss henson here mr k here mr lane here miss lawless here mr martin here mr mccord here mr Myers here mr. stennett mr. beard president mr. blues miss Crosby yes ma'am and mr. Ellinger here thank you thank you madam clerk all right now in in compliance with the urban county government charter we are providing an opportunity for residents to make comments about the budget for the upcoming fiscal year a summary of the mayor's proposed budget is on the table at the back of the the room. So I will now call the public hearing into session. Are there any comments from the public? All right, Mr. Mundy is saying that we have no one signed on for public comment. So then according to our protocol, I will now then declare that the public hearing is closed. And we can now then proceed with the meeting of the Council for its work session. Mayor, if you would give us about five minutes for transition or three minutes for transition of this software, please. Thank you. There's been a question about this. I need Ms. Hillary here. The other can you come here just a minute please. Thank you. All right. We do have three more public hearings that we'll need to do, but we will not need to call the roll again. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So before we adjourn, I will now call a public hearing regarding the Municipal Aid Program. Is there anyone here from the public who wishes to speak regarding the Municipal Aid Program? All right. Then hearing none, then I will declare that the public hearing for municipal aid is closed. The next public hearing that we need to engage is a public hearing for the coal severance tax. Is there anyone here, is there any resident here, a citizen, wishing to speak on the coal severance tax? Mr. Mundy, has anyone signed up? All right. We have no one wishing to speak on the coal severance tax, so I will declare that hearing closed. And finally, a public hearing related to the mineral severance tax. Is there anyone here wishing to speak to the mineral severance tax? Mr. Mundy says no, so I'm able then to declare that the public hearing regarding the mineral severance tax is closed. There's a motion to adjourn by Council Member Ellinger. seconded by Councilmember Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion to adjourn? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. The meeting of the council is adjourned. Now we can proceed to