Greetings. Welcome to the meeting of the Urban County Council. And I'll call the meeting to order. Thank you everyone for joining us tonight. Thank you all. First on our agenda is the roll call, and I will ask our clerk to please call the roll. Meredith, please call the roll. Mr. Ford? Here. Ms. Gordon? Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. Mr. Lane? Here. Ms. Lawless? Mr. Martin? Here. Mr. McCord? Mr. Myers? Mr. Stenna? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Mr. Blues Ms. Cosby Mr. Ellinger and Mr. Farmer Thank you Thank you Ms. Nelson Alright next on our agenda is our invocation and tonight's invocation we're pleased to have with us Father Thomas Galloway from St. Andrew Orthodox Church Father Galloway thanks so much for being here with us Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Amen Will you bow your heads in prayer with me Dear wise and loving Father, let me say thank you on behalf of all who are gathered here today. Thank you for your many and abundant blessings. Thank you for life itself and for the measure of health we need to fulfill our callings and sustain us and for our friendships. Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities. Thanks as well for the freedom to embrace you or the freedom to reject you. Thank you for loving us even so, your bounteous and gracious nature. In the scriptures you have said that citizens ought to obey the governing authorities since you have established those various authorities to promote peace and order and justice. Therefore I pray for our mayor, the various levels of our city officials, and in particular for this assembled council. I am asking that you would graciously grant them wisdom to govern amidst the conflicting interests and issues of our times, a sense of welfare and true need for our people, a keen thirst for justice and rightness, confidence in what is good and fitting, and the ability to work together in harmony even when there is honest disagreement, personal peace in their lives and joy in their task. I pray for the agenda set before them today. Please give an assurance of what would please you and would benefit those who live and work around and are a beloved city of Lexington. In this, your most blessed name we pray. Amen. Amen. Father Galloway, thank you so much for the thoughtful wisdom of those words and that prayer. Thank you, Your Honor. Yes, sir. Next on our agenda tonight, minutes of previous meetings. We have minutes from several previous meetings, and I'll ask for a motion to approve all the sets of minutes. A motion by Council Member Blues, second by Council Member Crosby. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. We have two presentations this evening, but before we begin, I'd like to take just a minute to recognize Deputy Council Clerk Meredith Nelson, who graduated this spring with a Master's in Library and Information Science from UK and was inducted into Beta Phi Mu Honor Society. Meredith, you know that Susan Lamb encouraged that this be done, And so we all want to thank you and recognize for what you're doing. Thank you. Appreciate it. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. It has been brought to my attention that we may have a baseball team here. Is that correct? With us somewhere? Is there a baseball team here? Who we thought we might recognize with you, Mayor. There we go. go right and yes ma'am I'm not sure you may want to find out which baseball team this is John okay okay so okay John can and just yeah alrighty all right in just a minute then okay all right thanks vice mayor I'm gonna I'll go to the podium now for the presentation. Council Member Stenney. All right. Well, first things first, congratulations to Coach Kathy Brognax and the Defenders Track team on bringing the title back to Lexington. As we get ready for the Summer Olympics in London, it's exciting to see our young folks exceed, excel. And so Council Member Kevin Stinnett has a special presentation. Come on over, Council Member Stinnett. Thank you, Mayor. Now, as many of you may not know or may not be able to tell by looking at me, I wouldn't be a member of the track team. But I was a defender, and I did participate in sports many years ago at Rife Station, So this is a very terrific honor to be here, really, to see the accomplishment that these young men have done for our community. Because any time a Lexington school can win a state championship, not only is it rare, but it's also noteworthy. So thank you for coming tonight, and it's a pleasure just to be able to honor you as a former alumnus of Bryan Station. And without further ado, Mayor, you want to give the proclamation? Here we go. Stay up here with me, Kevin. So I am real proud, we are all real proud, to proclaim June 7, 2012, as Bryan Station Track and Field Day here in Lexington to recognize this outstanding achievement. That's it. Thank you, Coach. Yeah. Kathy? Kathy, come on up, Coach. Come on up. You've got to talk. Thank you. Here we go. Thank you so much. Here we go. We're going to pick those congratulations. Okay. Thank you. Mayor Gray, Council Member Stinnett, all other Council Members, thank you so much for this honor. It has been such a privilege. This is my fifth year as the head coach at Bryan Station High School. And every year I've sat there and watched those Louisville schools just eat away at the points. Every year they were kind of untouchable. And this year we had such an amazing group of boys who worked hard all year long. And they wanted this championship more than I could have wanted it for them. So I'd like to just introduce the boys. There were 18 that were on the team. We have nine here. So first of all, I'd like to introduce two of my assistant coaches, Donnie Catlett and Christina Coleman. Yeah, when I call you, if you'll come up. That way we'll be ready for the photo. Come on. Right up here, guys. Come on, Paige. The seniors that I have on this team, which will be a tough loss for us, but they are ready to move on to college. Trey Duncan. Devon Thomas. Clark Blackburn. Woody Lapier. Benidore Bataka The junior members of my team, which I get to keep for one more year, which is great. Corey Williams Ishmael Webb Jacob Meclamal and then two of my outstanding freshmen which I'm sure we'll see as state champions in the next coming years Balaji Ogbulu and John Rhodes Again, thank you for this honor. It means so much for us to be able to bring this back to Lexington and to make all of you as proud as we have. So thank you again. Well done. Well done. All right. There it is. Thanks. Sorry. Good job. It's all right. You see all our council members. Easy, sweetheart. No. No. No. No. No. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you all so much. And next on our agenda, I'm going to call on Councilmember Chuck Ellinger to introduce the next presentation. Thank you, Mayor. It's my pleasure to welcome John Whittall to the mic, and I think you also have some guests with you. And I'll just give you a brief little background. I lead a ride on Wednesday nights out at Shinaway, and I saw John in there afterwards, because we usually go into a tropical smoothie to get a smoothie. And he said, you know, I do a ride in Columbus and raise money for cancer, and I'm thinking about doing something here. I said, that would be a great idea. Any way that the Blue Rats Cycling Club could help, let us know. That was in March, and here we are now. A couple months later, John's taking the bull by the horn. We've got a ride coming up. John, you can give all the details about it, but we've moved right along here, and it's going to happen on the 25th of August, and we just need everybody's support. John, thanks so much for what you've done to get us this far. Thank you, and I'll tell you, my son has never been in here before, and I was telling him on the way up the steps, I said, you know how nice it is after 18 years coming in these chambers off and on for Daddy to actually come in here and everybody's going to like him. I think I might have kind of stumbled onto something finally. But thank you very much for having me, and I won't take much of your time. Quickly, I want to introduce Christy Martin with the Lexington Cancer Foundation that's with me, and then some of the members of my 2012 Eastern Little League regular season champion Orioles. Now, I had to say regular season champion because Scott Cosby told me that this thing wasn't over yet. We set a tournament to play. But in any event, they're here to support this effort. Chuck's right. Last May, I'd never ridden a bicycle, you know, a road bike before. And I had some friends who were trying to push me into that. And they finally succeeded. Well, one of the guys that was responsible for that, and gals, said, you know, John, we know your mom's a cancer survivor. We know your mom had breast cancer, survived the disease now, going on 30 years, still counsels breast cancer patients, and so forth through Reach to Recovery. You need to come up here to Columbus, and you need to participate in Pelotonia with us. I mean, this is a ride that benefits the James Cancer Center at Ohio State. It started three years ago, and you'll be blown away by it. You need to set it as a goal to do this. And I said, well, okay. So that was last May, and I went from there and went to Columbus to do this 100-mile ride in a day. And as Chuck can tell you, I'm not anywhere near Chuck's caliber, but that's an accomplishment to go that far in a day. At least it was for me. What I was blown away by was the fact that there were over 5,000 people that participated in this event. Everything from children riding tricycles and big wheels to competitive cyclists like Councilman Ellinger that were prepared to go 100 miles or 75 or 50 or 25. That's how this thing was set up. And what further knocked me off my feet was that when the event was over, just from Internet donations, from the participants in the ride, sending out an email blast to their friends and their coworkers and whatnot, $10 here, $25 there, $50 there, $13 million. That's net was raised in this event. And it goes straight back into the James Center. And what's being done with the money there is fantastic. So, you know, enough about that. Along the way, I was on the way home that following Sunday. And I thought to myself, why in the heck aren't we doing this here? I'd gotten into cycling enough to know that Lexington, central Kentucky, is absolutely far and above just one of the best cycling communities in the country. with what we had to offer in terms of topography and roadways, horse country and so forth. It's just bar none. And so when I really got to thinking through this thing, I thought, I remember seeing the mayor back on New Year's Day. I said, you know, wouldn't it be great if we could do something like this and stage it right from downtown? And the problem with Ohio is they have to start from Ohio State University and they have to go a long way to entice serious riders to ride because it's so flat. People want some excitement and some bit of challenge, so their ride last year went all the way to Ohio University, and this year it goes to Kenyon College. I'm like, with our product here, we can go, we can start from downtown, and we can end in downtown. So that drove our planning. Enter the Lexington Cancer Foundation. And the work that they do, they were looking for an event like this that was more healthful, and I was looking for an organization that focused on cancer, period. That's kind of my passion. And so we thought, well, they do cancer-specific education and cutting-edge research and provide personal care needs to people that are going through this. I mean, you think about it, people that have cancer, you see them, and if they're going through chemo, they've got a bandana or whatnot, you don't know that some of those people don't know where to go to get wigs or their families don't have anywhere to stay when they come to Lexington. Well, somebody has to fill in the gap there, and that's what that organization does. So we paired up, and then as Chuck said, just fortuitously, one of my friends said, you know, you need to talk to Chuck Ellinger and Don Leach or Bill Cole, some of these guys at Blue Guys Cycling Club. They've done this. They can get you up the learning curve quickly. And I just happened to see him at Tropical Smoothie one Saturday, and he was coming back from a ride, and I was coming back from working on a baseball field. And we had a lunch the following week, and the next thing you know, we were kind of all joined at the hip the way we have been about every day since then, trying to put this thing together. And these guys jumped in right away, Don Leach, Bill Cole, Chuck, and others, and help us design our routes. We're in that process right now. The next thing became logistically, what do we do? Well, I talked to Woodford Webb, and he said, do this thing from right here. Do it from Centerpoint. You can do it from right here in the heart of downtown. So that's how we're going to do this thing. We're going to start and stop pretty much from downtown and try to accentuate our community with events Friday and Saturday night. and what we're after here is to involve the whole community i know we're not columbus ohio i know we don't have their kind of corporate presence but we've got some pretty darn good people in this community and we've got a good cycling community and anybody can do this right it's for all skill levels start to finish and um so that's pretty much what we're doing on august 25th mayor i want to thank you and your staff lori hoolahan has been fantastic we're going through the application process now and getting all that stuff lined out, and we're going to do what we have to do to accommodate our routes to make the police department happy and all that stuff. Last thing I'll say about the event is, cancer has no idea, folks, that there's a recession. Doesn't have a clue. One of my good friends that's fighting for his life right now told me a couple things that I've not forgotten. Number one, he said, you know, every single day, my doctors and these researchers are in the lab, and they're trying to beat Mickey Mouse. But 24-7, 365, whether they're in the lab or not, the cancer's trying to figure out a way to come back as goofy. It's just that mean, and it's that tough. But we're gaining on it, and that's what I learned in Ohio from the doctors up there. The other thing a friend of mine told me, and this is what really stuck, and this is why I'm doing this. is that, you know, he said, John, I can walk down there, I can get on my private plane, I can fly anywhere in the free world I want to go tonight, and I can have all the money that I can spend, hope to spend, when I get there. But I'd trade it all in one second. One second, just like that, to sit there and have your health and have your sons. So for those little boys over there, that's why we're doing this. And I really appreciate your help to get to us. All you've got to do is go to www.lexingtonfoundation.org, follow the Role for the Cure link, and it's easy. You set up your own personal website on there, and you can send an email blast to all your friends. They can go on there, and it will explain why you're doing what you're doing. And this was something that I did last year in Ohio, and I can't explain how successful it was for me physically and emotionally. One of the best things I ever did. and I really appreciate you helping me out here, Mayor, and getting behind the event. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I think just to wrap up, thanks again, John, for all you've done so far, because we've made great strides here. It's going to be around the corner, so we're going to need as many people as we can get to volunteer, to help raise money, because I think there is a commitment in this that when you do this, So now you can go online. And why don't you give them the online site? Yeah, let me do that one more time. The commitment. The online site, the easiest way to get to us is just www.lexingtonfoundation.org. And when you go to the site, there's a Roll for the Cure link. It takes you right there. To ride, there's no entry fee. All you're pledging to do is raise $500 through your friends, coworkers, and whatnot. and once you get on site, if someone makes a donation, a thank you note goes to that person. I think you'll find our website is very user friendly, especially for a first year event right out of the box. That's a great cause and I know with you being involved it's going to be very successful. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thanks John. Thanks Councilman Ellinger. Thank all y'all for joining us tonight. Thanks John. See y'all. All right. Next on our agenda is the second reading of ordinances. Madam Clerk, will you give us the second reading of ordinances? And, Meredith, number three requires a public hearing, so I'll call a public hearing when you get to item number three. Meredith, thank you. Ordinance number 1 and ordinance amending ordinance number 37, 2012 relating to the creation of the Department of Planning, Preservation, and Development to correct a typographical error in Section 4 to reflect the correct number of staff assistant positions. Number 2 and ordinance amending Section 2152 of the Code of Ordinances abolishing one position of HCM Manager Enterprise Solutions, Grade 119E, and creating one position of Information Systems Service Level Manager, Grade 121E, in the Division of Enterprise Solutions. All right. Thanks, Meredith. I'll introduce the public hearing now. There's a public hearing tonight regarding industrial building revenue bonds for additions and improvements to the campus at Transylvania University. The hearing is now open. Does anyone wish to address the council in regard to this matter? All right. I don't have anyone signed up. Thank you, Mr. Mundy. The hearing is now closed, and I will ask the clerk to continue reading the ordinances. Ordinance No. 3, an ordinance of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government authorizing the issuance of its Industrial Building Revenue Bond Series 2012 Transylvania University Project in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,350,000 and the loan of the proceeds thereof to Transylvania University for the purpose of financing various additions and improvements to the campus of the university, authorizing the execution and delivery on behalf of the urban county government of one, a trust indenture pursuant to which the bonds will be issued. Number two, a loan agreement between the urban county government as lender and Transylvania University as borrower, providing for loan repayments sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as the same become due. Number three, a bond purchase agreement providing for the sale of the bonds on a negotiated basis. And four, an official statement relating to the bonds and taking other related action. Number 4, 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 Number 71. And number five, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $2,000 in the Division of Code Enforcement from the Neighborhood Development Funds for Sidewalk Repair and Replacement Match Grant Fund for property owners in the Fourth Council District and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 72. Move approval. Second. There's a motion to approve and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Cosby? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? and Mr. Farmer. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Next on our agenda is first reading of ordinances. Item number six, the number of people who are here signed up to speak to item number six, so we'll ask for public comment now on item number six. I've got We've got Brandon Dunn and Corey Dunn. So whoever wishes to speak to this, this is our procedure. You all may know this already, but Corey may have already informed you about it. I'll ask you to just please give your name and address, and there's three minutes. and then I have the unpopular role of being the timekeeper. So I may raise my arm and do this if we pass three minutes. Thanks so much. Ready to go. Yes, sir. I'm Lexington-Fayette, Urban County Human Rights Commissioner Anthony Everett. I come here today as the lead Christian social activist for NIA Community of Faith, a United Methodist faith community here in Lexington, Kentucky. We wish to express our very serious objections to Ordinance 0555-12 under consideration today, which amends Section 2451 of the Code of Ordinances. These amendments are unjust, placing undue burden on the marginalized members of our community. NIA Community of Faith recommends that the Division of Community Corrections seek funding for these calls from the Commonwealth Attorney's Office. because of their aggressiveness in targeting the indigent of our community and their focus on incentivizing our Lexington, Fayette, Urban County Police Department to target the indigent, especially ethnic people of color. They are the major reason why the increase in costs for the division of community corrections are as they are. Inmates are not and should never be treated as second-class citizens. it is immoral and unethical to include them as a source of income for any budget. The practice is very much like a former prominent institution in Lexington called slavery. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Everett. Brennan Dunn, 2709 Red Clover Lane, Lexington, Kentucky, 40511. I'm here on behalf of community organizers of Lexington. There are several other groups here with us. Stop the Violence, Save Our Youth, Stop the Violence, Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice, Nation of Islam Prison Reform Ministry, and Men of Action. But our group, community organizers of Lexington, did some research and found that the Fed County Detention Center's prices on phone calls, hygiene, some textiles and durables are overpriced and marked up anywhere from 40 to as much as 300 percent more than the working class pays. No information was available for the median income for inmates at the Fed County Detention Center. So to raise prices 200% on booking fees and 75% on, well, to raise co-payments 200% and booking fees 75% on top of the high canteen prices on heavily dependent inmates could be and seems that it could be intentionally preying on and taking advantage of a group of people in a selfish and unfair way. If this ordinance is approved by Council, it will be enabling the Division of Community Corrections to exploit the taxpaying citizens of Lexington who have to take care of their incarcerated family members. So as public service, I would strongly urge Council to think about the people and the taxpaying citizens that will be affected by the Division of Community Corrections request. But that's all I had for today. And we have several other members also. Yes, sir. Thanks, Mr. Dunn. My name is Damian Muhammad. I'm with the Nation of Islam Prison Reform Ministry here in Lexington, Kentucky. And I just want to echo what my former comrade said before me. I think it's a very unethical practice. And if the ordinance is passed, it would do nothing but increase the rate of recidivism. You know, when you're attaching debt to people, of course, that are not able to pay the debt, and if they are not able to pay the debt, then we are putting unjust burden on their friends and loved ones. And I would like to think I'm part of a community that is looking out for all of its citizens. As Corey has a sign that says, the inmates are people as well. You know, they shouldn't be treated as second-class citizens. They shouldn't be treated as a commodity. They should not be unjustly exploited. There should be other means of seeking assistance for the budget of the correction system, but it just cannot be off the backs of the inmates. Again, I think it's unethical. And it's the job of the government to uphold ethics. So I'm praying that you all deeply look at this and shoot this ordinance down. Thank you. Thanks, Mr. Muhammad. My name is James Lewis Thunderville Mason, Jr. I was born and raised here in this city, in Fayette County. And I would like to say that it is really unjust the way that people want to do the people of color. Now, when they go to jail, they're already down. They're down bad. and the people outside could care less. And that's not right. It's not right by any means. Also, on top of that, I would like to extend an invitation for each council member to go through the jail thoroughly and see how the inmates are treated. Because they have no money. You put taxes on them, you put money on them, and you could care less if they have money or not. On top of that, what I've seen myself, people get injuries in the county jail. Who cares? You know what I'm saying? they don't have the money. And now you want to put more money on them. On top of that, the ones that suffer more than them are their relatives. Because they don't have any money. And we all know how the economy is nowadays. It's rough. I mean, sometimes it's beyond rough. And some of those inmates that become inmates that go to jail are in there because the economy is so rough. And when they go, excuse the expression, who gives a damn? You know what I'm saying? You got people, I think the best way, myself, that y'all can really get a down-to-earth feeling, thought, whatever else about the inmates, is to personally go yourselves, individually. You got guards in there that can walk you around. you know and y'all do have the clout I mean nobody's going to bother you you know if you go there and take a bird's eye view of everything I mean everything and if you have any humanity about you at all whenever this comes up Shoot it down Hard, fast And continues it Thanks Mr. Mason Thank you sir Yes ma'am Hi, Joy Berry with Save Our Youth Stop the Violence And also with Men of Action I'm here to put a personal face to Someone that is Incarcerated at the Fayette County Detention Center My son is currently There, has been there for the last Couple of months And I want to let you all know that I am against the proposal for the increased revenues. It already comes on the backs of inmates that have already been punished. To me, it seems like it's an added punishment to add these increased costs to them. It's also a burden financially. My son's income is $8,000 per year. so you know that there's just no way that he could afford to come out and have this added debt on him, nor can I. There's also stigmas and barriers to reenter society once they're already released. And this financial debt that can come on them is something that they don't need to deal with. Also, I'm not sure of the phone companies and the commissaries that we have, the basket things that are there for inmates to purchase, but what about those companies that make millions of dollars per year? How about asking them to maybe give an increased commission, if that's how it works, instead of asking individuals that are making $8,000 per year like my son or making $10,000 or $15,000 a year? Why not ask them to give that kickback or commission to you all to make up for that money? Also, it is. It's tension. It's stress on an individual and the family when they are incarcerated. And I just don't think it's right to place a heavier burden on them. Let's get into the position of trying to help individuals to reenter to society and to make it after that. It's difficult. We're all the same. They've just made some misjudgments. But I think it's our responsibility to ensure that we do anything and everything we can to assist them. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Berry. Mr. Corey Dunn. Hello, I'm Corey Dunn. I live at 3185 Pimlico Parkway. Oh, to whom it may concern, inmates are people too. I would just like to say, first and foremost, that we are not here to attack council. We are fully aware that council did not make the proposal. We are not here to attack public safety. we are not here to attack the director of the jail, Mr. Ballard, because he is doing a job. He's been given a job, and he's doing the job to the best of his ability. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that his proposal is the best proposal. My concern is that I have been in the jail. I can't speak for anybody else that has spoke to you, but I will say I have been in the jail several times, plenty of times. Look my record up. It's ridiculous. I'm not proud of it, but it is what it is. With that being said, I have a first-hand understanding of how the jail works. If you raise medical co-pays, if you raise the booking fee, if you raise the medication fee, that's cool. It will generate approximately $200,000 for the jail to offset the cost of incarceration. That is cool. However, we're not talking about money. We are talking about human lives. We are talking about the level in which people are living, the standard of living, I should say. So the problem that I have, and this is based on first-hand information from being an inmate myself, a former inmate myself, if you raise medical fees, inmates will not go get medical attention. Because there are some inmates who can spend hundreds of dollars on hot card and cold card and commissary. But for every inmate that has a lot of money to spend, on the other end you have an inmate with no money. So you have inmates who may get $20 a month. If I've got to choose between getting a prescription filled, going to see the doctor about the bump on my back or a sprained ankle, or writing letters to my kids whom I love, it's going to be letters to my kids. If I have to choose between getting Prilosec for my stomach because I have ulcers and stuff due to gunshot wounds that I suffered in the street, and being able to call home and tell my girl I love her or to be able to talk to my brother and say, Hey, Brennan, I'm in jail again. Can you send me another 20 bucks because I'm hungry? Then I'm going to call Brennan. I'm going to call my girl. And that's the problem that I don't know if it was ever considered. I'm not saying I'm not here to nitpick or point fingers or say you did this, you did that. That's not what we're here for at all. We are simply here to say that you can text inmates, but you're not taxing the inmates, the money's not coming from the person who committed the crime. The money is not coming from, oh, if you don't mind, I'm going to borrow Ms. Mallory's three minutes as well, just in case I go over a little bit. You know, it's just the criminals are being affected. However, like the booking fee, for instance. I've been to jail. If you don't pay the booking fee when you get released, you still have that balance on your books, A negative balance and the next time you come and the next time you come you keep accumulating balances. Eventually you get stuck in there and you got to pay that money. So when my dad dropped $100 on my books, I didn't get a dime of it because I've been in jail for five times. And I didn't pay him a dime because I knew I could get away with, you know, pass my money off. Well, that's an issue. I believe that this proposal, when Director Ballard made the proposal, I believe he meant well. I believe that he sees that the jail is broke. The city is broke. We are in a bad time. However, there are other ways to make money. This guy just sat up here and said they made $14 million riding bikes and doing this and that and others. So, I mean, if we can go to the private sector, first of all, I think that one of the issues is that the community, it's community corrections, but the community doesn't have any say-so in the way it's corrected. So if the government can start working with the community sector and say, hey, what do you think about this? If the community is included in the process, I think that the proposals that you guys will get will be a little bit better. They will be more well-rounded because it won't be coming from just an administrative standpoint or a law enforcement standpoint. It will be coming from a, hey, I was in jail, so I know this. You know what I mean? If you're going to charge me $35 booking fee, please do not have me sleeping on the floor in that county jail. There are inmates sleeping on caddies. We call them caddies. You're a little blue caddy, you put the mat on top of it, you lay there, you got a blanket with all kind of holes in it and whatnot. We're charging people to go to jail, but they change clothes once a week. Once. You get a jumpsuit every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, depending on whatever pod you're in, and you wear that same jumpsuit, whether you go play basketball in the hot sun, whether you spill something on it after you eat a meal, you wear that same jumpsuit every day for an entire week, for seven days. So, I mean, if we're going to raise money, and that's the issue of all of a sudden the cause of incarceration, then my question is, where's that money going? Because inmates have homes in their blankets. Inmates are sleeping on the floor, and, you know, it's like, if I had my kids in my home sleeping on the floor, there's a good chance that social services would come and take them. But in the county jail, these types of things are happening. And it just upsets me personally because I've been there. So I do know, and I'm speaking from experience. I mean, it feels like that the government has a monopoly because you don't have options in health care. I can't say, you know, I want to go to this clinic or I want to go to UK. You go to this doctor, you get this service, we're going to take the money from you. You know, I mean, with my bills, I have a choice of whether I'm going to pay or not. If it goes to collections, oh well. Those inmates don't have that option. So I'm just saying, please keep the humans that are in jail. They made a mistake, but they are still human beings. They are still in jail. I mean, and they're serving their time, which is their sentence is time. That's it. Not money, time. So let them serve their time. Let's not take money from the brothers who took care of me the whole time I was locked up. So thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Corey. Thanks, Mr. Don. All right. Yes, sir. Hi. My name is Jacoby Williams. I live at 5052 Magnolia Gardens Place, Texas Creek Community. I am a history professor at the University of Kentucky in the history department. I speak to you today not as a representative of the university, but as a concerned citizen, one whose books and research and career has focused on social justice and critical issues that are relevant to underprivileged communities. And so I come here to speak in solidarity with the various community members. I won't repeat some of the comments that they've made. I think they've expressed that enough. To say that I also encourage the council members here to hopefully vote in opposition for this ordinance for all the various reasons. What I would like to add is, speaking on my experience in working in communities as a member of the university and in various communities in Chicago and in Los Angeles prior at UCLA and Los Angeles prior to joining the University of Kentucky staff, is especially in the summertime and when the ways in which those arrest numbers tend to go up in the summers, is to encourage you not to impose these kinds of fines or penalties, but to focus more, focus on prevention, or if you are focused on prevention, to increase those efforts, especially during the summer months. So you have these communities where opportunities are already nonexistent, but those opportunities are exacerbated in the summertime when school is out, etc., X, Y, and Z, which increases those numbers. So some of the work we've done in the city of Chicago and Los Angeles, which goes without saying much larger locales than Lexington is, we're able to bring some of those arrest numbers down in the summer by putting those preventive measures and focusing on prevention, rather than fines and some of the measures that are outlined here in this ordinance. So I'm hoping those kinds of efforts would be a way to circumvent costs. If you can lower the arrest numbers, then that will somehow, I hope, in some logical way, rational way, assist the so-called financial needs of the prison correction center. The less inmates you have, the less cost you will have. And so I'm hoping as a humanity, a social justice, a community issue, that we can focus on prevention. As much of the work that I'm now doing in Lexington with various groups in conjunction with the research that I do as a member of the university, focus primarily on such prevention programs, which I know have worked in the city of Chicago, which I know have worked in Los Angeles, which I'm assuming will also work here in Lexington, and encourage the state city government to look at some of those preventive measures as a way to curtail some of the costs in correctional facilities. So thank you for hearing me. Good to see you again, Steve K. I'm Jim Gray, just a few people I do know. And I hope you do vote in opposition to this bill. Thanks. Thanks, Professor. Thanks, Professor Williams. And another good example of the ways in which our university contributes enormously to our community through the points of view, experience, and perspectives of folks from other places as well as from our own community. And that's one of the remarkable things about democracy and a process. And I think so the protocol and the process that we engage here, we have a, as you all may know, we have a first reading of a resolution or an ordinance, and then we have a second reading. Tonight is the first reading. So between tonight and its second read or its final approval or its failure to pass, We will have the opportunity to discuss this with our administration at the jail, at the corrections facility, Director Ballard and Commissioner of Public Safety and others. And so we very much thank you all for being here and for sharing your points of view and perspectives tonight. Thank you. So, Madam Clerk. Yes, Council Members. Oh, we have some Council. All righty. I didn't see that. I apologize. Council Member Lawless. No problem, Mayor. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I brought some of these same issues up when this was first proposed, and we voted to, as a council, to put it on the docket. And some questions that I would like answered is, are, number one, what is the markup on a Snickers bar or Twinkies? I think that's what they referred to, that they made X amount of money per month on those things. What is the markup on commissary items? some kind of average or data on how many inmates have in their commissary account. What's the average? How many have $20 a month? How many, you know, some kind of data on, you know, I'm sure there are some that have lots and lots of money in there, but I think probably most have very little. And what kind of basic necessities, like hygiene items, et cetera, are they required to pay for out of that account? So I would like to gather some of that information before we take a vote on that, if I could get that, please, from. Thanks. Thanks, Councilman Lawlesson. Vice Mayor Gordon reminded me that the Council will be having a workshop on this issue on June 19th at 9 a.m. Okay, and those are some of the questions I'd like answered. Thank you. Okay, Councilman Ford. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, members of Council. I appreciate the opportunity for the citizens to come and raise the concerns. What I'm basically understanding and getting a real good clear picture of is the economic considerations that led the administration and our director, Mr. Ballard, as he continues to learn his way here at Irma County Government, the economic considerations. And I understand those. But what I'm really getting a value of today is hearing the impacts that this has on social justice. I do recall, I don't recall all the comments that were made at the work session as it's been a few weeks ago, but Councilwoman Lawless, I remember you making those comments. Mayor, as such, I would look forward to the opportunity to attending that workshop on the 19th. My understanding is that there is a council meeting that follows on the 21st, which would then be second reading. considering such I think it would be prudent for us to table this matter at this time to ensue to have the workshop and then gather on that information that we get there perhaps if we still consider that a first reading and a second reading is in order but I think that is a good faith sign to the citizens of our community and those impacted at the jail that that's just not a futile effort that we're doing on the 22nd. So I'll make a motion to table until after the workshop on the 19th. Motion by Council Member Ford, a second by Council Member Beard to table item number 6. And a motion to table is non-debatable. There is a question. There was a question related to the motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. I just have a technical question for budgeting. June 21st is the final meeting for the Council this fiscal year. if count is this ordinance depending on how it plays out does this qualify for an ordinance that cannot be given two readings in one night because it has fees attached to it that would really be a question for a while but well while shaking his head yes i guess yeah so then if something were to come forward on the 21st we would need to set a special meeting for a second reading? Our assumption as far as it pertains to the budget was that we would bring a budget amendment forward in July to get two readings at your July meetings, if we did anything that impacted the budget. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. So, can we prepare to take a vote? All in favor of the motion to table, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no? The motion to table carries. All right. Now we can proceed with the reading of the ordinances. Madam Clerk. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. Council Member, since it's tabled, do you still wish to speak? Yes, sir. I was just going to suggest that we send—I have several questions about this as well, and I would like to send those to Commissioner Mason and Director Ballard prior to the workshop to make sure that those are addressed. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Good suggestion. Thank you, Council Member Henson. All right. Council Member Lane, you used to speak to this as well? All right, sir. Would it bother if you made just a short statement about this ordinance? I'm sorry? May I make a short comment on the ordinance? On the ordinance that we just tabled? All right. This is more for informational purposes for the general public. All right. Then we'll accept. Okay. Since we've already passed on it. Okay. Then I'll bring it up under council report. Okay. All right. Madam Clerk. Ordinance number seven and ordinance amending section 2180 of the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Fayette Irma County Government and to add the Commissioner of Finance or his or her designee as an ex officio voting member of the Board of Commissioners of the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority, effective July 1, 2012. Number 8, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $750 for the Division of Parks and Recreation from Neighborhood Development Funds for the Better Bites Concessions Program and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 75. Ordinance No. 9, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $1,225 for the Division of Parks and Recreation from Neighborhood Development Funds for the purchase of new bleachers for the Kenwick Community Center and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 74. Ordinance No. 10, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets. Mr. Horne reminded me there's a motion for this one. Yeah, there's a motion to amend. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you very much. This has to do with end of the fiscal year budget amendments, and this was requested by the administration. I move to amend item number 10 under first reading of ordinances to include schedule number 0073. To add budget amendments to provide funds for various divisions, it is necessary to walk this on tonight in order to get to readings during calendar year 2012. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Stenet. Thank you, Mayor. There was one item left off that motion, so I'll make a motion to amend and add journal number 4271. This is moving the money that we put in last year's budget for an entrance wall from the Mayor's special projects to our NDF so we can get it completed in this fiscal year. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Standard, seconded by Council Member Farmer. To amend the amendment, is there any discussion? Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor of the motion to amend the amendment, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay, so now we can vote on the amendment to amend. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk. Ordinance number 10 as amended, 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 number 73. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Other motions for walk-ons or suspensions? Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docker for tonight's Council meeting, the ordinance is offering for a bid a short-term natural gas franchise and a short-term electric franchise in order to keep franchise agreements in place while the long-term franchise ordinance are finalized. So moved. Motion by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on your motion? All right. In hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Opposed, no. The motion does carry. Council Member Stenet. Thank you, Mayor. I do have a walk-on ordinance for first reading. This has to go with our scrap metal ordinance that we passed a couple weeks ago. This is actually establishing the dealer fee along with the list of all of our other fees that are already established. So I move to place on the docket for the June 7th. Councilman, an ordinance amending Section 13-13B of the Code of Ordinances to provide for the scrap metal dealer's license fee. So moved. Second. It's a motion by Council Member Stenet. Second by Council Member Blues. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. The motion carries. Any other motions? All right. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Thank you. and or delivery of gas within Fayette County, and further providing for compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and standards, a performance bond, indemnification, insurance, access to property and inspections, reporting, audits, notice of filings with the Public Service Commission, cancellation or termination, penalties for violations, and bid requirements, all effective on date of passage. Number 12, an ordinance creating and establishing for bid a non-exclusive electric franchise for the placement of facilities for the transmission, distribution, and sale of electrical energy within the public rights of way of Fayette County for a three-month duration with additional extensions of time not to exceed six months if a long-term franchise is not offered prior to expiration in return for payment to the urban county government of the sum of at least 3% of each franchisee's gross annual revenues received from electric service provided within Fayette County and further providing for compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and standards, a performance bond, indemnification, insurance, access to property and inspections, reporting audits, notice of filings with the Public Service Commission, cancellation or termination, penalties for violations, and bid requirements, all effective on date of passage. And number 13, an ordinance amending section 1313B of the Code of Ordinances related to special fees to add a scrap metal dealer's license at $500 per year. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. whenever you're ready to proceed with resolutions for second reading? Second reading for resolutions. Yes, ma'am. Resolution number one, a resolution accepting the bid of W. Rogers Company in the amount of $4,313,000 for the Wolf Run Pump Station Relocation Contract A for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with W. Rogers Company related to the bid. Number two, a resolution accepting the bid of J.R. Horn Company, LLC, establishing a price contract for sandblasting and painting of existing final clarifier mechanisms for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor to execute any related agreement. Number three, a resolution accepting the bid of Windstream Communications, Inc., establishing a price contract for telephone maintenance for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number four, a resolution accepting the bid of Herrick Company, Inc., in the amount of $244,650 for the West Hickman Thickener No. 2 replacement for the Division of Water Quality, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Herrick Company, Inc. related to the bid. Number five, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute four agreements with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for extension of the Special Operations, Hazardous Materials, and Technical Rescue Equipment Project, the Hazmat Training Project, the Hazardous Devices Unit Robot Upgrade Project, and the Dynamic Entry Training Project through December 31, 2012, at no cost to the Irving County Government. Number six, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for extension of the Fiscal Year 2012 Metropolitan Medical Response System, MMRS, project through December 31, 2012 at no cost to the urban county government. Number seven, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an eighth amendment to agreement with AmeriNational Community Services Incorporated for loan servicing for the home and CDBG housing rehabilitation and home ownership programs to extend the agreement through June 30, 2014 at an additional cost not to exceed $60,000. Number eight, 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 fiscal year 2011 Metropolitan Medical Response System, MMRS, project through December 31, 2012, at no cost to the urban county government. Number nine, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for extension of the Newtown Pike landscaping project through June 30, 2013, at no cost to the urban county government. Number ten, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for extension of the Safe Routes to School project through June 30, 2013 at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 11, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a donation from former Planning Commission Chair Walter May of seven planning-related books and publications for use by the Division of Planning at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 12, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute Change Order No. 1 to the contract with ABR Construction Incorporated for the Lexington Mall sanitary sewer trunk realignment, increasing the contract price by the sum of $6,028.06 from $555,431.65 to $561,459.71. Number 13, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with U.S. Geological Survey for the continuing and ongoing maintenance and operation of existing stream flow and precipitation gauges at a cost not to exceed $115,740. Number 14, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute contract modification number one to the Engineering Services Agreement with Strand Associates Incorporated for the Lexington Distillery District Improvements Program Feasibility Study for streetscapes improvements and the Town Branch Trail along the corridor from Oliver Lewis Way to South Forbes Road, increasing the contract amount by the sum of $83,202 from $418,000 to $501,202. Number 15, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a development agreement with the Fayette County Local Development Corporation for a transfer of properties located at 440 and 445 Chestnut Street, acquired under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program for Rehabilitation and Construction by the Corporation for Rental Housing for Low-Income Households. Number 16, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Thompson West for online legal research and publications for the Department of Law at a cost not to exceed $35,000 on an annual basis. Number 17, a resolution establishing a residential parking permit program for the 1200 block of Castle Road for the following addresses only. 12-11 through 12-31 on the west side and 12-16 through 12-40 on the east side from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday from September 1 through May 31 and waiving the provisions related to the mechanics of designating residential parking permit areas adopted by Resolution No. 168-90 and amended by Resolution No. 450-91 and 433-2006. No. 18, a resolution amending Appendix A, Rules and Procedures of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council amending Section 2.204, providing that the Council may consider and act on any matter related to a Council committee. And number 19, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Lansdowne Elementary School PTA Incorporated, $575, and Southern Heights Neighborhood Association, $770, for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve the second reading of resolutions? Motion by Council Member Beard. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Wallace. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Mr. Ford? I'll accuse on number 7, number 15, yes, on all the rest. Thank you. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? I'm your number 14. Thank you. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Crosby? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. And Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the resolutions. All right. Whenever you're ready. Madam Clerk, please give us a first reading on resolutions. Resolution number 20, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a mutual release agreement with Gershman, Brickner, and Ratton, Incorporated, Routware, Incorporated, and C2 Logix, Incorporated, and authorizing final payment to Gershman, Brickner, and Bratton, Inc. for the Materials Recovery Facility Project and Waste Management Routing Project at a cost not to exceed $45,000. Number 21, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute Change Order No. 1 to the contract with Van Hook Enterprises, Inc. for West Hickman Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Solids Building Odor HVAC improvements, increasing the contract price by the sum of $5,830.18 from $699,000 to $704,830.18. Number 22, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an entry permit with Marathon Pipeline LLC for access to a portion of the West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plant property for a pipeline testing project at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 23, a resolution approving the renewal for one year of the contract for services with Group CJ of Lexington, Kentucky for Stormwater Public Outreach and Education for the Division of Environmental Policy authorized by Resolution No. 201-2011 at a cost not to exceed $209,000. Yes. Number 24, a resolution approving professional services agreements for landscape architectural services for the Division of Water Quality with Perkins Landscape Architecture, LLC, M2D Design Group, PLLC, and Barrett Partners, Inc. for a one-year term with five one-year renewals at the discretion of the urban county government. Number 25, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with Sensaba Design and Construction for a pole barn storage building, increasing the contract price by the sum of $3,275 from $189,000 to $192,275. Number 26, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a modification to agreement with the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management for extension of the project to replace a generator at Fire Station 1 through June 13, 2014 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 and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family 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 $314,247 federal funds, are for continuation of the New Chance Program in the Division of Family Services, 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 28, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice 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 $16,183 federal funds under the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program, are for continuation of the juvenile surveillance program, professional services, professional development, drug testing services and supplies and educational materials, the acceptance of which obligates the Irman County Government for the expenditure of $1,798 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 29, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a contract with the Verdon Company, a sole source provider, for restoration of the historic Sculler Street Clock at a cost not to exceed $25,415. Number 30, a resolution accepting the collective bargaining agreement with Bluegrass Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 4, on behalf of police officers and sergeants in the Division of Police. Number 31, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a lease agreement with West End Community Empowerment Project of Lexington, Inc. for lease of space at the Black and Williams Neighborhood Center at 498 Georgetown Street. Number 32, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an affiliation agreement with the University of Kentucky designating the University as the affiliate sponsor for a paramedic education program for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 33, a resolution of the Lexington Fayette-Urban County Government authorizing and acknowledging the execution and delivery of, one, a Third Amendment to bond purchase and loan agreement among the Lexington Fayette-Urban County Government, Central Bank and Trust Company, a Kentucky banking corporation, and the Lexington Christian Academy Incorporated, and two, any and all other related documents necessary thereto. Number 34, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the... Excuse me just a second, Meredith. Yes. Councilman Stone has a... Thank you, Mayor. I have an amendment number 34, some late additions to our NDF list. I believe, Meredith, you have it, correct? Okay. I'll go ahead and move to amend item number 34 and add the following NDFs. One, the first NDF is for Brown Station High School for the, actually, the track athletes that we just saw for $1,000. The Junior Miss Pageant for $500 for scholarships. The Lexington Main Society, $2,000 for funding for a future campaign. And then Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass, $2,000 to assist in the matching program. And then the budget amendment we did earlier, the $5,575 for the Damian Corners Neighborhood Association for brick wall entrance. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Stinnett. Second by Council Member Crosby. Is there any discussion on the motion? Are you asking for a second reading on all of them, or are you walking on? I'm amending item 34 to put them on the list. They didn't make it last two weeks. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, thank you. We haven't had a meeting since then. Okay, thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Number 34 as amended. Yep. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Highlands Neighborhood Association, Inc., $500, Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association, Inc., $300, Georgetown Neighborhood Association, $1,625, Dove Creek Town Home Owners Association, $200, Lansdowne Neighborhood Association, Inc., $750, Southern Elementary PTA, Inc., $350, Central Kentucky Radio I., $525, Sisters Road to Freedom Incorporated, $100. Cardinal Valley Neighborhood Association, $500. Downtown Lexington Corporation Foundation, $800. Eastland Parkway Neighborhood Association Incorporated, $500. The Cottages of Liberty Woods Neighborhood Association, $500. Sweet Blessings Incorporated, $250. Bryan Station Alumni Foundation Incorporated, $2,000. Victory Christian Church, $600. Vineyard Neighborhood Corporation, $2,780. Eastern Little League Baseball Incorporated, $3,000. Visually Impaired Preschool Services, $1,800. Institute 193, $250. Latitude LLC, $250. WGPL Neighborhood Association, $500. Columbia Heights Neighborhood Association, $500. Mentel Park Neighborhood Association, $500. Cheapside Entertainment District, $500. Bryan Station Football Boosters Incorporated, $1,000. Kentucky Junior Miss Pageant Incorporated, $500. Lexington Humane Society, $2,000. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Incorporated, $2,000, and Danby Corners Neighborhood Association, $5,575. For the office of the Urban County Council, at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I've been alerted that there are a number of walk-ons tonight, and we'll start with Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I have two walk-ons. The first, Councilmembers, you received an email from Patrick Johnston last week. And this is about the property and casualty excess insurance. And these expire at the end of June. I move to place on the docket for tonight's Council meeting a resolution authorizing the Mayor to accept the proposals for excess insurance for fiscal year 2013 from multiple companies for a total cost not to exceed $1,097,171.49 and to execute any necessary contracts and documents. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Kay. Is there any discussion on the motion? By hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member. My second motion, Mayor, has to do with bids. I move to place on tonight's docket a resolution accepting the bid of Wayne Supply Company in the amount of $37,963.56 for replacement batteries and chargers for wastewater treatment plant generators for the Division of Water Quality, a resolution accepting the bid of Minifield Enterprise in the amount of $11,300 for electrical work for the Charles Young Center for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, a resolution accepting the bid of Gulls, Inc., establishing a price contract for a web-based quartermaster program, public safety uniforms for the divisions of police, fire, and emergency services, and community corrections, and a resolution accepting the bids of Ennis Paint, Inc., and Colorado Paint Company, establishing price contracts for traffic marking paint for the division of traffic engineering. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I have two motions as well. First motion, I move to place on the docket under first reading of resolutions a personnel resolution ratifying probationary civil service appointments, permanent civil service appointments, council leave unclassified civil service appointments of the Office of Urban County Council, and the unclassified civil service pay increase in the Office of the Urban County Council. Motion by Council Member Henson, is there a second? Second. Seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there discussion on the motion? Vice Mayor, you got a question? Yes, ma'am. I just wondered what those are, since we haven't seen them. They had to do with Council office, so does anyone know? Melissa or Hillary? just since council members haven't seen that and don't know what it is I don't know which council members are proposing I think maybe a raise for one aid and adding an Are you hiring your aide? One said leave. They're the typical HR personnel stuff that gets added. It's adding Steve Smith. Okay. And usually when it talks about council-granted leave, it's granting, I think it's a 90-day leave to an employee who had requested it. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion? Where was the second? Oh, Councilman Ellinger had a second, right. Did you get that, Meredith? All right. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Councilman Hanson? I move to place on the docket under first reading resolutions a personnel resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offers to probationary civil service appointments and unclassified civil service appointments in various divisions of government. So moved. Motion by Council Member Henson, second by Council Member Kaye. 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. Council Member Ford. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering, pursuant to Code of Ordnance Section 18-86, to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of Radcliffe Road and Hagrid Lane. So moved. Motion by Council Member Ford, seconded by Council Member Kaye. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Ford. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. I believe there's one more person on the speaker list. I don't see one. Who is it? Mr. Farmer. Council Member Farmer. It's not showing up. Council Member Farmer. This goes along with a handout I passed to each of you earlier about entrance improvements in the Ashland Park area. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor to execute an agreement with Ashland Park Neighborhood Association for a public right-of-way beautification project. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer. Second by Council Member Ford. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All on the table, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. All right. My monitor is not showing everybody. But now it's all right. First reading of the new resolutions? Yeah, please give us first reading. Number 35, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept the proposals for fiscal year 2013 for excess insurance from and to execute any necessary contracts and documents on behalf of the Urban County Government with the following insurance companies and or their respective brokers. Workers' compensation insurance from New York Marine and General Insurance Company at a cost not to exceed $351,018. Excess property, boiler, and machinery insurance from Public Entity Property Insurance Program at a cost not to exceed $274,882. Excess special liability from National Casualty Company at a cost not to exceed $460,995. International from Great Northern Insurance Company at a cost not to exceed $3,250. Self-insurance auto no-fault bond from International Fidelity Insurance Company at a cost not to exceed $2,545, and aviation liability from Phoenix Aviation Managers at a cost not to exceed $4,581, all subject to sufficient funds being appropriated. Number 36, a resolution accepting the bid of Wayne Supply Company in the amount of $37,963.56 for replacement batteries and charges for wastewater treatment plant generators for the Division of Water Quality, two bids low. A resolution accepting the bid of Minifield Enterprise in the amount of $11,300 for electrical work for the Charles Young Center for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management for bids low. Number 38, a resolution accepting the bid of Gulls Incorporated establishing a price contract for a web-based quartermaster program public safety uniforms for the divisions of police, fire and emergency services, and community corrections. One bid. Number 39, a resolution accepting the bids of Ennis Paint Incorporated and Colorado Paint Company establishing price contracts for traffic marking paint for the Division of Traffic Engineering, two bids low. Number 40, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Dustin Baker, GIS programmer analyst, grade 117E, 1,881.20 biweekly in the Division of Computer Services, effective June 25, 2012. Tamoy Carter, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 15.080 hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective June 4, 2012. Connie Godfrey, Director Adult Services, Grade 120E, 3332.32 biweekly in the Division of Adult Services, effective May 21, 2012. And Michelle Haynes, Telecommunicator Senior, Grade 113N, 20.262 hourly, in the Division of Emergency Management 911, effective June 4, 2012. Ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Greg Isaac, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, in the Division of Waste Management, effective May 7, 2012. Jeffrey Clay, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, in the Division of Waste Management, effective May 7, 2012. And Barry Prater, Commodities Marketing Manager, Grade 115E, in the Division of Waste Management, effective May 7, 2012. Ratifying the approved council leave for Siglinda R. Faulkner, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, In the Division of Waste Management, effective August 18, 2011 through November 10, 2011, ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Stephen Smith, aid to counsel, grade 000E, 2057.68 biweekly. in the Council Office, effective May 2, 2012, ratifying the unclassified civil service pay increase in the Office of the Urban County Council, Ronald Seymour, Aid to Council, grade 000E, from 2057.69 biweekly to 2089.57 biweekly in the Office of the Urban County Council, effective May 21, 2012. Number 41, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. James Smith, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective upon passage of council. Timothy Lee, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 16.033, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective upon passage of council. Darrell Turley, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management. Ursula Killins, Storrs Clerk, Grade 107N, 14.499, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of council. Preston Thomas, Electrical Instrumentation, Tech, Grade 113N, 19.332, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of council. Number 42, a resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering pursuant to Code of Ordinances, Section 1886, to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of Radcliffe Road and Haggard Lane. And number 43, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Ashland Park Neighborhood Association, Incorporated for a public right-of-way beautification project at no cost to the urban county government. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions to suspend the rules for second reading by council members? All right. I do have Council Member Martin. I move to spend rules to give second reading to item 34 so that these NDF funds can be distributed to the various associations prior to the end of the budget year. So moved. All right. Motion by Council Member Martin. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member, no. Mr. Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. I have two. Number 29, we'd like to have a second reading on number 29 for that. But I, the scholar clock, we're ready to start working on that. Please. I'll move that. Motion by Council Member Ellinger. No, I'm sorry. Motion by Council Member Lawless. Seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. I have one more. Number 41, we have some conditional offers that HR would like to go on. I have second readings on those, please. Which one? 41. 41. Is there a motion on number 41? Which one is that? That's a walk-on with the conditional employees that we... The conditional personnel? That was a walk-on. The conditional... Those are conditional offers to employees that have to be made before we can send them for testing and whatnot. All right. It's a motion by Council Member Kaye, second by Council Member... Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion, Council Member Ellinger? You got a question? No. Okay. All right. Hearing no request for discussion, then please, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk. Please give a second read. Thank you. Resolution number 29 for second reading. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a contract with the Verdon Company, a sole source provider for restoration of the historic Sculler Street Clock at a cost not to exceed $25,415. Number 34. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute agreements with Highlands Neighborhood Association Incorporated, $500. Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association, Incorporated, $300. Georgetown Neighborhood Association, $1,625. Duff Creek Town Home Owners Association, $200. Lansdowne Neighborhood Association, Incorporated, $750. Southern Elementary PTA Incorporated, $350. Central Kentucky Radio I, $525. Sisters Road to Freedom Incorporated, $100. Cardinal Valley Neighborhood Association, $500. Downtown Lexington Corporation Foundation, $800. Eastland Parkway Neighborhood Association, Inc., $500. The Cottages of Liberty Woods Neighborhood Association, $500. Sweet Blessings, Inc., $250. Bryan Station Alumni Foundation, Inc., $2,000. Victory Christian Church, $600. Vineyard Neighborhood Corporation, $2,780. Eastern Little League Baseball, Inc., $3,000. Visually Impaired Preschool Services, $1,800. Institute 193, $250. Latitude LLC, $250. WGPL Neighborhood Association, $500. Columbia Heights Neighborhood Association, $500. Mentel Park Neighborhood Association, $500. And Cheapside Entertainment District, $500. I'm sorry, add the other ones on as amended. Bryan Station Football Boosters Incorporated, $1,000. Kentucky Junior Miss Pageant Incorporated, $500. Lexington Humane Society, $2,000. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Incorporated, $2,000. And Danby Corners Neighborhood Association, $5,575. for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. And number 41, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. James Smith, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective upon passage of council. Timothy Lee, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 16.033, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective upon passage of council. Daryl Turley, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 109N, 18.750, hourly, in the Division of Waste Management. Ursula Killins, Storrs Clerk, Grade 107N, 14.499, hourly, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of council. Preston Thomas, Electrical Instrumentation Technician, Grade 113N, 19.332, hourly, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of council. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion? Motion by Council Member Stennett. Second by Council Member Blues. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, we can take a vote by roll call. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kaye? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. Myers? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Blues? Yes. Ms. Cosby? Mr. Ellinger? Yes. And Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Next on our agenda, communications from the mayor. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. All right. Motion by Councilmember Ellinger. Second by Councilmember Beard. Is there any discussion on the motion? Mayor. Councilmember Martin. I just have a question. The recommendation from the Urban County Council, did we vote on that previously, or how does that get made? I don't know. The recommendation of the, you're talking about item number two? Number two? Yeah, yes, sir. I asked that same question. I don't remember I got an answer. Vice Mayor? I can answer that. Our council administrator put out a request. Stacey? This is a question about the assignment to the internal audit board. Do you remember when you put out that request to council members? Was it in April or March? No, I'm sorry. This is the item on the communication. It's the citizen. So anyway, she emailed council members around March or April for recommendations. And after about a month, two recommendations came in. And so this is the person who surfaced to the top? I guess I don't understand surfaced because it's not from the Urban County Council. Who picked between the two? Actually, I did because of qualifications. So this is a recommendation from the vice mayor? If council would like to vote on this, I think it would be fine. I think it's appropriate because otherwise it's not really a recommendation from the council. Well, here's the situation, and I will just say it straight out. Our council administrator has had very much difficulty getting any recommendations from council members every time she puts out e-mails. And I have encouraged her, and she has put them out two and three times. So, yes, she has. Those of you who've read your e-mails know this. And this was very difficult because this person's name didn't come in until after she had emailed council members several times. Well, Vice Mayor, with due respect, if there were two choices, they certainly could have been circulated to the council. They were circulated. Do you remember when you said that? May I finish, Vice Mayor? Yeah. We meet once a week. It's not like we're never together, and we're meeting a lot of in-between meetings between that. So I guess I would just simply ask, well, I'm happy to vote on this, but the next time a recommendation comes from the Urban County Council, perhaps we can vote on it. These were circulated to Council members to ask your opinion on which two you wanted, and I don't think anyone replied. And we have the e-mails if you want to see them. I mean, I'm just telling you that. But that's not a recommendation from the Council. I realize this. Let's vote on. Is there any further discussion? Councilman Farmer, do you wish to speak? I made one of the recommendations of the two, I guess, and I had a 50-50 chance and lost on my appointment, and this person previously served on the audit board. So I do have a little bit of a question about process, and I guess I read more than a couple of emails, but I don't disagree with the appointment necessarily, but some of the process questions are valid. Thank you, Mayor. All right. If there is no further discussion, we can take a vote. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. Item number 10 is for information only. Next on our agenda is announcements Councilman Lane, do you wish to speak at this time? I think maybe a public comment would be a better time Oh, thank you You want to speak in public comment? All right, okay, that's fine All right, we have two police disciplinary hearings before I open the floor to the Council. Actually, this would be the place of Council Member Lane after the disciplinary hearing. Yes. I will ask Commander Kelly Edwards, who is already at the podium. Commander. Thank you, Mayor. We have two items for approval tonight for disciplinary matters. The first one is an allegation that has been made against Officer Greg Wims, has committed the defense of inappropriate action in violation of KRS 95-450 and General Order 73-2-H, Operational Rules, Section 148. Officer Williams has accepted the Chief's recommended disciplinary action of a written reprimand and has signed the agreement of conformity. Move approval. There's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Ellinger. to approve to is there is there discussion on the motion hearing none we can take a vote all in favor please indicate by saying aye opposed no motion carries commander thank you mayor the second one an allegation has been made that officer Greg Wims has committed the offense of misconduct in violation of KRS 95 450 and General Order 73-2H, Operational Rules, Section 1.02. Officer Wims has agreed to the Chief's recommended disciplinary action of a 90-day suspension without pay and a participation in mandatory employee assistance program. Officer Wims has voluntarily signed the agreement of conformity. Thank you, Commander. Is there a motion? Motion approved. Motion by Council Member Ellinger, seconded by Vice Member Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? Is this you, Council Member Blues? No. All right. All right. If there is hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Commander. All right. The floor is now available for any announcements by Council members. Council Member Lane? Council Member Blues? Are you? Thank you, Mayor. Is this announcement time now? This will work. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. It will work. I just wanted to go back to ordinances for first meeting number six. and my vote on the motion to table to June 21st, any action on that motion. And since June 19th is the date of the workshop on that issue, and no action would have been taken until June 21st anywhere, I thought that the motion was gratuitous and unnecessary, and so I voted against tabling. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Ville. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. Just a few announcements. On June 9th, this Saturday from 8 to 11, Good Foods Co-op and Bluegrass Pride and the Southland Association and a number of other groups are hosting a cleanup of Southland Drive in conjunction with Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup. Parking and check-in will be at Good Foods Co-op at, I guess, 8 a.m. or whenever you get there. And Donut Days will be providing some refreshments, so it's definitely worth a stop by. If you have any questions, please contact Danielle Dove at Good Foods Co-op. Also this Saturday at 9, I guess June 9th from 10 till noon, the Gethsemane Lutheran Church will be hosting a bike show for motorcycles and bicycles over in Garden Springs. And so if you have any questions, please contact Pastor Laura Altman at 277-6096. Also on Saturday, I guess Friday and Saturday, the Open Gates neighborhood will be having a garage sale. It's a neighborhood-wide garage sale. I'm talking too fast here. It's amazing for a councilman. Open Gates is located east of Clay's Mill Road and south of Pasadena Drive. So there's always great deals at these neighborhood garage sales, so please come out and check that out. Last but not least, on June 12th, on Southland Drive and the Southland Jamboree, Katie Penn and Newtown are performing for the Southland Jamboree. And if you haven't seen Katie Penn before, you just can't believe how good they are. So they're lots of fun. and the Oslin Daily Jazz Tette will be at the Big Band and Jazz Series over in Beaumont Circle. And that's Miles Oslin's jazz quintet, I guess, from UK. And they are just world-renowned musicians. So come out to Moondance at Midnight Pass at 7 p.m. on next Tuesday as well. So good things happen in the 10th District. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Martin. Councilman Lane. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to comment on the ordinance, too, and I, too, also felt that we would have this workshop before we would vote on it. And so that's why I voted against tabling this evening. But I wanted to say that some of our citizens came here and advocated not passing the ordinance because of the burden it may place on some of the inmates in the jail. And I thought about that a bit, and I regret that we do have to have a jail and that we do have people in there. And I wish that all people be able to take personal responsibility for their well-being and not have to be incarcerated. It's very disappointing. but the point I wanted to make is for the taxpayers and the citizens of our city here to know what the cost of the jail is and it costs us approximately $35 million a year to operate the jail our general fund is budgeted at I think $296 million this year so that's about 12% or 12 cents out of every dollar to operate the jail We have approximately 1,000 beds there, so each bed in the jail costs us $35,000 a year to operate, just to put things in perspective. So this is a heavy burden on our citizens. And if each bed costs $35,000 a year, that's about $700 a week. The issue of health care, our budget for that is a little bit over $2 million for health care for the inmates this year, and that figures out to $48 per week per bed. And the co-pay that was proposed, and I don't think we know exactly what the amount of that co-pay is, but it's around $200,000 a year in co-pay from the inmates. That would be about $4 per week per bed. So I just wanted to put things in perspective. This is a huge burden on our community, and maybe asking the inmates to pay a small co-pay would not be unreasonable, and maybe it would help us operate the jail in a better way. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Lane. Council Member Hanson. Thank you, Mayor. I just have one announcement. In addition to the Southland Great American Cleanup event that's going to take place on Saturday that Council Member Martin has already mentioned, the Cardinal Valley Neighborhood Association's meeting is this coming Monday at 6.30 at the Harvest Worship Center. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Hanson. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. I wasn't going to speak to this, but since others have, my comments about the jail, in addition to wanting more information, also suggested that people of great means that are in the jail should be paying for their stay there. And we should look into that because there are people occasionally that have a lot of money and have committed such an egregious crime that they stay there for a long time and could well pay their $100 a day to stay there, but we subsidize them. So I just think we need more information and what the impact would be. That being said, I too want to remind people about the Southland Jamboree and the Southland Drive cleanup. It is now shared by three council districts. So, and remind people about the Triangle Park flicks on Friday night. Thursday night live has started, and there are many events going on downtown. And I believe Ellsford Neighborhood Association is having a garden tour this weekend. and I'll send that out in an email. And also, for some reason, my email is not working correctly. So somebody got an email yesterday that I wrote and sent on April 2nd. So if you get an odd email or I don't answer, please let me know, because apparently there are gremlins in my email. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. Thank you, Mayor. Just real quickly speaking to the issue of the resolution about the jail. I respect the decisions that the Council Member Blues made, but I want to respond to it. I thank Council for allowing us to table that motion. I consider it to have been a responsible thing to do. When we give a resolution on ordinance first reading, we're starting the process to adopt policy. I don't think we often put things on, give it first reading, preceding the second reading to prepare to vote it down. What we had today was, and I didn't offer any opinion yet because we haven't voted on it, but what we had today was citizens that came forth, exercised their right to voice their concern. They asked us to reconsider this. I think it's responsible to get all the information before we start the policy process. And two weeks' time to bring forth and consider first reading, I don't think it's too much to ask in this process. So I thank those that allowed us to table this. our attendance record, to be quite honest, Council members, has not always been the best at workshops when the information is provided to us. We're very busy. It's kind of tough to get all of us here at the time. I hope this will allow us, if we're really interested in getting more information, to attend that workshop on the 19th and see where our policy process may go. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Ford. I don't have anybody else signed up to speak as counsel from counsel, so we'll move on to public comments. Mr. Bernard McCarthy. Your Honor and members of the Council, this is admittedly different from what I originally intended to nag you over, but the attempt to extort fees from jail inmates raises some very serious issues. Number one, some of those inmates are inmates over non-payment of fines, child support, civil judgments. some people who were acquitted of the charge for which they were arrested the first time get rearrested for non-payment of their legal aid lawyer I mean I've heard enough horror stories to where our jail is already being used as an attempt to extort money from people least capable of paying it Or in this case, since the person locked up has no money, it's an attempt to extort money from their friends and relatives. If someone has no friends or relatives willing to hand over money, or none who are able to, are you going to deny an inmate medical treatment and let them die in their cell because they can't pay the co-pay? If so, would this government perhaps be liable if any of the relatives who didn't cough up money to save them decides to file a wrongful death suit. That's something you need to consider. Number two, if you just go ahead and provide the treatment, but you pile on all these debts and say, well, this person owes you this money, you're either going to not let them out on the day when their original sentence is up because they haven't paid this fee, or maybe you let them out but say you're going to re-arrest them and haul them right back and then tack on more such fees if they haven't paid by some deadline, you're setting up a vicious circle. You are creating situations where somebody originally thrown in jail for not being able to pay their traffic fine essentially winds up serving a life sentence in the county jail for poverty. and that is very disturbing. I mean, I know the British used to throw people in jail over unpaid debts centuries ago, but we were supposed to have done away with that practice, and yet I still see it happening. As expensive as it is to lock people in jail, now, the really bad ones, the thieves, the murderers, then it costs more to have them turned loose in terms of the additional crimes they will commit. But when we lock people up for non-payment of something or for anything for which a person who had money would simply buy their way out, there we're creating more expenses on ourselves. And that's something you need to consider. All right. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Mr. McCarthy. Motion to adjourn. There is a motion. Council Member Ellinger has offered a motion to adjourn and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion? All in favor of a motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries.