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Hello, greetings, and welcome everyone to the meeting of the work session of the Council. I'll call the meeting to order and start with public comment for issues on the agenda. Mr. Money, anybody signed up? All right, sir. Thank you. And next on our agenda is rezoning or docket approvals. Is there a motion? Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Fair. Just one second. All right. Council Member Crosby. The motion is to approve the docket. Okay. Okay. Mayor. Yes. There are two ordinances that need to be approved with or without a public hearing. number 12 and 13, please. All right. They need to go on the docket. Well, they're on the docket, but they need to have motions made with or without a public hearing. All right. All right. So we'll get it. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket without a public hearing an ordinance changing the zone from a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone with conditional zoning restrictions to a high-density apartment R4 zone for a 9.3 net, and that's 11.67 gross acres for property located at 4250 and 4290 Harrodsburg and at 4113 and 4204 Reserve Road. So moved. That's a motion by Council Member Martin, 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, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Mayor. I move to put number 12 on the docket without a public hearing. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Blues, second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any 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. All right. Council Member Crosby? Council Member Crosby? That's why I was here. There you are. I move to place on the docket for Thursday, December 6th meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a certificate of consideration and any other documents necessary and to accept a deed for the property located at 3,700 alumni drive for multiple sanitary sewer remedial measure projects and authorizing payment in the amount of $78,000 plus usual and appropriate closing costs. So moved. Motion by Council Member Crosby, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? I sense you. All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Aye. Thank you, Council Member Crosby. Council Member McCord? Thank you, Mayor. It's with great pleasure that I walk onto the docket a motion for Thursday night, December 6th, Council meeting, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a supplemental agreement number four with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the acceptance of additional federal funds for the Claysmo Road Improvements Project in the amount of $2,480,000. So moved. Motion by Council Member McCord. Second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Then all in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Hanson? Thank you, Mayor. I have a walk-on. I moved to place on the docket for Thursday, December 6th, a resolution pursuant to Code of Ordinance Section 18-66, designating the speed limit on Della Drive between Appomattox and Harrodsburg Road as 25 miles per hour, and authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering to install proper and appropriate signage in accordance with the destination. Thank you. Second. Motion by Council Member Henson and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Lane. Yes, sir. The motion that Councilman Blues made regarding the zone change at 161 and 181 Leastown Center Way is shown initially as the 10th district, but I believe it's actually the 12th district. And I want to make sure we just have the right district number on there. So if it needs to be amended, can the clerk tell me do we need to amend that or not? I believe that it would be fair to say that just a statement that it will be corrected before it gets first reading on Thursday night. It was just a mistake on the ordinance, so it hasn't been given first reading. Okay, thank you. That's all. All right, thank you, Council Member Lane. All right, we can now go back to the original motion to approve the docket. If there is no further discussion, we can take a vote. All in favor of the motion to approve the docket, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on our agenda is a summary approval. Is there a motion? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Myers. Is there any 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. Is there next on our agenda budget amendments, is there a motion? So moved. Motion by Council Member Myers, second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. There is? No, this is from before. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on our agenda is new business. Is there a motion to approve new business? Move and approve. Thank you, Council Member Blues. Motion by Council Member Blues. Second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I think Charlie Martin is probably in the house. Mr. Martin, Charlie, can you come up, please, sir? Thank you. Charlie, I wanted to ask you about item D, the change of order to the Deep Springs pump station and force main, and specifically on page 20, item number one, the increase. I guess this is the increase in the size of the force main. Is that what that means? Yes, it is. $13,275. Is there a reason that we didn't know about the size when we bid it out? Yes, there is. This was one of the four projects that was listed in the consent decree as early action projects, and we had to complete it by a certain deadline specified in the consent decree. Unfortunately, that deadline was before we had done all the modeling and all the analysis that we had to do to develop the remedial measures plan. So as we got through the modeling, we'd already started the design on this, and we realized that it wasn't going to be big enough. What happens with a lot of our systems is that you've got a pipe that's able to carry this much when it's not raining, but when it is raining, it needs a bigger pipe. That's what ended up happening here, is that we needed a slightly larger force main in order to not create a cap violation immediately downstream. Okay, usually we know those things ahead, don't we, or do we? Right. We just didn't have time. Well, the sanitary sewer assessment work was completed after we had initiated the design here, so we didn't have all the information that we needed. That was one of my complaints to EPA about us doing early action projects. They wanted us to do more projects, and I kept saying we don't have enough data in order to be able to make decisions on what size they need to be. Fortunately, we've gotten through those first four early action projects with minimal damage. This is one of them that had some minimal damage to it. All right, Charlie. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Mine is on new business item H, the authorization to execute a memorandum of agreement accepting federal funds from the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. According to the item, it says accepting federal funds in the amount of $40,000 from the Kentucky Justice Cabinet, and there's a 20% match of $10,000, which, I don't know, 20% of $40,000 is $8,000, not $10,000. So I'm wondering, is it $10,000 and a 25% match or a 20% match and $8,000? There just seems to be an imprecision there. Grant match is figured on the entire project. The entire project is $50,000 and 20% of $50,000 is $10,000. Thank you. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Thank you for the call center. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, ma'am. I had a question on item P, I guess, Director Ballard, if he's here. My question would be, is the new positions that are being created or changed around, is the detention center going in a new direction as far as getting folks ready for reentry? I guess I would just like an understanding of, I know in the past the jail has done some really good things with trying to help those before they reentered society, I guess, or were released, that they would help with employment needs or whatever needs they might have. So is that what these positions? It's actually one position, a reentry coordinator. I had the opportunity, I had a lieutenant that got promoted to captain, and I've chosen to fill that position with a civilian reentry coordinator. As your former deputy commissioner with the Department of Corrections, we walked House Bill 463 through the General Assembly, and reentry was a major focus of that bill. One of the things that we need to do is start looking at evidence-based programs. Those are programs that have research to them that show that they are successful. The other part of the program I need to do is then connect those programs on the outside to the inmates that are on the inside. Because it doesn't do any good for me to put them in a substance abuse program and then turn them loose and defend for themselves when they get released. With the help of the reentry coordinator, we'll start working with our neighbors and our partners in the community and trying to work up a continuity of care so that when they leave our place, they've got someplace else to go to continue their substance abuse training, be it an AA meeting or an outpatient. patient. I like this direction that you're going. And I was wanting to make sure that these positions will not be sworn. It's not. Neither of them. No. And it wasn't that the person that we had wasn't doing an outstanding job, but her background was in corrections and had a criminal justice degree. I worked with John Maxwell and his team. We're looking for somebody with a master's level in social worker education to deal with the counseling piece of this. Okay. Because I know I've worked, had the pleasure of working with some of the inmates in the past, trying to help them with employment needs before they were released, or even getting them into skills training. So I'm hoping that would be a component of this. It is. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Thank you directly. Council Member Lane. Okay, this is for Charlie Martin, please. Mr. Martin. Good evening. I wanted to ask about a new item, Q, which is authorization to accept the report of the Capacity Assurance Task Force. And the only, I just want to get your opinion on this. essentially you're asking the council to approve it, and in reality the council is not a professional engineer or we're not maybe technically qualified to approve it. So I guess my question is, it's also a subject being approved by the EPA, which can change the plan anyway. So do you feel like it's really necessary for the council to approve this, or could this just be something that was done administratively? Because the reason I have a problem with this is that you're asking me to vote on something, and I'm not technically knowledgeable about all the ramifications, and I think I would rather prefer to have a recommendation from the PE, this is a good plan and we're recommending it, and then have the administration recommend it, as opposed to us just vote on it and approve it. I know that sounds a little bit radical, but if we're going to be going into the future where every time we award a contract to put a line in to pay for professional fees, et cetera, and we're asking the council to approve this, and we're not knowledgeable enough really to approve it without some additional expertise provided to us, I just wonder if this is a good procedure for us to follow. It is not essential that you approve this because we have to submit the plan to EPA January 3rd, irregardless. The reason why I was looking for an endorsement from the council was the same reason I did on the remedial measures plan. I think we're asking for something that could be interpreted by EPA as being not necessarily consistent with the intent of the consent decree, might be interpreted as being somewhat liberal with that, particularly the grandfathering. And myself, if I do get any type of resistance from EPA, having a resolution from this body that says that we support this and this is what the community wants, that helps me. It's not essential, but like I said, it's helpful for me. Just the same as this body endorsed the two-year, 24-hour storm. The consent decree was mute on that, but it may be very clear that this body, this community, that was the benchmark at which they wanted to establish. Similarly, in this case, the grandfathering. I'm a little concerned that they might, they being EPA, might consider the grandfathering request to be somewhat liberal. And if I'm right and there is this intention of pushing back, I can draw a circle around this and say, you realize that if we're going to try to negotiate over this point is that you're going to meet resistance from Fayette County because of it. But it's not required and not essential that you pass a resolution for this. Okay, well, I just have a problem voting for it. I mean, I've reviewed it. I generally understand it, but it is very technical, and there's a lot of issues that are there. And I don't know how my fellow council members feel about it also. But this is a concern that I have is that, you know, this is a 10- to 12-year project. We're going to continue to send things to the council to vote on. And I don't feel like I'm technically confident. I can't speak for my other council members, but I do worry about having to vote and make a decision on this. Let me be clear on something, and you make a good point. I wasn't clear on my answer on that. This will be the last thing that you're asked to review like this. This is the last plan that is deliverable under the consent decree. All the other deliverables, the remedial measures plan, all these things have been submitted. Now it's time to turn our attention to the implementation of those plans, which we obviously won't be coming back to you folks other than through a budgetary process to make sure we continue to fund them. and then the construction projects which were in the remedial measures plans as submitted, it says bill them by such and such a date. The award of construction contracts will be the only thing we come back. You will not be asked to look at another plan relative to the consent decree because this is the last one. Okay. Well, I would appreciate if some of the other council members maybe would just speak to the issue. I'd just like to get some of a collective opinion on it. Thank you very much. I don't mean this in any way to be a criticism of any of the work that's been done. I just, it's an issue of comfort level, and to be voting on spending money, major money for the taxpayers and not feeling I am qualified to make a recommendation on it. That's my concern. Thank you. All right. Other council members wish to speak to this issue. Is that what you signed up for? Yes. All right. Councilman Blues? Thank you, Mayor. I think that the point that Council Member Lane just made, that taxpayers are going to be spending a considerable amount of money on these projects, is one important reason why the entire council ought to be involved in the decision-making and supportive of it. if all seems right, since we're the ones responsible for doing our due diligence and for responsible expenditure of those public funds. I would say that the capacity assurance plan task force is made up of six council members, and of course I'm the only civil and technical engineer on that board, plus the commissioner of planning. And while none of us has inherent engineering expertise, we did have the advantage of a really powerful consulting team, Stantec, led by Joe Herman, our director of water quality, who is no slouch as an engineer. having also graduated from the University of Michigan, of course. And through a number of meetings through the summer and into the early fall, I think we did get a fairly good grasp on the technical issues, although by no means complete. But also, these are, in many ways, political issues as well. The whole question of grandfathering, of course, would be a case in point. And I think there, too, it's appropriate for the Council to be involved. Finally, I would say that the task force having deliberated and listened and making 19 recommendations, not only with the advice of the water quality team and the consultants, but also with a number of stakeholders from a number of entities throughout the community, many of them with the kind of engineering expertise that is important. also representatives from the business community, from the legal community, and trying to come to consensus through listening to, and in many cases, abiding by and using their input. So I think that this indeed is a project that involves the whole community. It certainly, the conclusions were come to by a number of community representatives as well as the task force. And I think we do need the entire council's support of Charlie as we go forward on the actual projects of making this plan work. So I think, Council Member Lane, that you can be assured that there may be some room for difference, but we did not just blindly go forward. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Blues. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I will just add one thing because I think Council Member Blues summed it up very well. I know that Joe Herman is in the audience. He's with Stantec, and in every decision that the task force made, Council Member Lane, we relied heavily on Stantec, which was our technical engineering guide. And so I do feel that along the way, as well as having the stakeholder input and actually give and take back and forth discussions in the meeting with the stakeholders, Joe was there to also answer the technical questions and help guide the task force on the engineering issues. And I know he has been here all along the way. Each time Charlie's made a presentation, Joe has been here as the consultant technical person. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor Gordon. Councilman Martin is on this issue, on item Q. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Charlie, what was the vote by the task force? Were they unanimous in supporting this, or was there a vote? Based on my recollection that they were unanimous on supporting this, there might have been one of the recommendations that there was one no vote. But generally speaking, I'm looking at the chair to make sure my memory is correct, that it was unanimous. I understand Councilman Lane's concerns. And had we been a party of that hearing, Obviously, we'd be better up to speed about the various issues in the debate and what the various concerns are. We're basically getting a finished product that's being presented to us and really not having had it tested in front of us. Obviously, you guys went through that, so we didn't have to. But I just really want to know how, I guess, unanimous the decision was when it came to the committee. Like I said, that was my recollection. And through the two presentations that I've given on this to this point, trying to cover what I consider to be the most challenging ideas, none of the six have brought up any dissension. And you've done a great job. And as Councilman Lane said, there's no criticism at all. As far as the context of this current conversation, I thought that was important for the Council to know. Okay. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, sir. Council Member Cosby. I guess I'm a little lost because we create task force all the time of people who are experts to give recommendations to us. I wouldn't claim to be an expert in this area, but I think our role would not be if there's any type of, like you said, financial obligation that comes into these recommendations. That's where we have the opportunity, too, to reject if it's something that we don't agree with or understand. Is that not correct? I would say yes, that's correct. There's a lot of decisions that the Planning Commission zoning of this body is going to make because we have to write ordinances to match what we're putting into this plan that we're sending to EPA. So there's sufficient time to debate or discuss the actual implementation of the recommendations that are being made in this task force. Thank you. All right. Mayor, do you think the representative from Stantec might like to just make a short comment since he's here and gave us the professional advice on this? I think it would be helpful. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Harmon, you've been invited. The capacity assurance program is required in the consent decree, so really what the task force came up with was how we're going to choose to implement it. The EPA has got guidelines in it, and so there's some things that the EPA says you'll do it this way. There's a lot of items in there that you're allowed to kind of tweak to fit you best, and that was part of why we had the stakeholders involved as well as the task force itself. to answer your earlier question which was more directed towards Charlie is if you look in the task force report of the appendices there's the meeting notes from all 11 meetings in there it will show the votes Charlie's recollection was right I think one of the votes on one of the individual recommendations we had one dissension and it was more of they felt we needed more time to talk about it it was essential services but by and large I think that was the only one that wasn't unanimous the other thing you have at your advantage Your consent decree came a little bit later than some of the other benchmark communities, like the Knoxvilles, the Louisvilles, and the Cincinnati's. They already have programs. There's not anything we're really, 90% we're following that precedence, so there's not a whole lot of controversial or, hey, it's never been tried before kind of stuff. There's a couple things, like Charlie mentioned, the grandfathering, where the recommendation is to be fair to the development community. We've grandfathered in quite a bit more than any other community has previously, but we think that was fair since we've approved their plans, their development plans and whatnot. That's part of why the resolution was important because they may fight back on that. If they think they have to fight the whole community, it might weaken their resolve a little bit. So I'll stop filibustering. No, thank you, sir. Sure. All right. If there's no further discussion, then we can take a vote on the motion. is all in favor of the motion to approve new business please indicate by saying aye opposed no motion passes okay next on our agenda is presentations continuing business first need a motion on the nds to motion on the ndf motion by councilmember stennett second by councilmember henson is there any discussion on the motion by hearing none then we take about all in favor Please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on our agenda is a summary of the November meeting of the Planning and Public Works Committee by Councilmember Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. We met on November the 20th. First, we approved our summary from our October 16th meeting. Then we had a review of the Street Tree and Street Tree Protection Ordinances, which was a lively discussion which culminated in our kind of suggesting to the tree board that they put in a request during the budget process and made some suggestions about recommendations for changes to the code of ordinances and to bring things back to our Planning and Public Works Committee. There was no motion involved there. Next, we had the issue of trying to inspire a partnership between ourselves and the Fayette County Public Schools to share some costs as it relates to salting services for roads, especially on days when they're going to have school. And basically we're going to hold this item in committee and try to do some more outreach there. I think we're trying to quantify what we're asking them to do in terms of helping us salt the roads. However, there has been some outreach that has let us know that they would be interested in partnering with us to buy salt together, as it were, so that a lower cost could be provided. Once again, we left this item in committee and there were no motions. Our fourth item was vacuum leaf collection, which we had a rather complete discussion about that, similar to the presentation we had here at Council last Tuesday, reminding people of where to rake their leaves to, to not get them in the street or make them part of anything that would be in the gutter or get into the sewer system. We talked about the use of leaf bags and some of the other conveyances to pick up leaves in the meantime. this was this was mostly an overview of what we do and how we do it and just let folks know we started very actively picking up vacuum leave back with vacuum leaf collection last week and it continues even as we speak and will for several weeks our last item for discussion that day was the design excellence task force update councilmember blues brought forward some of the background there told us that they were working towards the selection of a consultant and that that the deadline for those responses would be November the 28th and we provided for the opportunity for him to do another update if he would like to do so at our next meeting of the Planning Public Works Committee which would be on the 11th we had a brief item change in terms of one of the items in committee that was for the only motion which was vice mayor Gorton made the motion to refer amendment of article 5-1 a quote right of entry back into the Planning Public Works Committee this was seconded by Councilmember Kay and passed without dissent. And I would so move on behalf of the committee to recommit that to our work plan. Motion by Councilmember Farmer, seconded by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? I'm hearing none. Then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. We adjourn after that. That completes my report. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Farmer. Next on our agenda is a summary by Councilmember Myers of the Social Services and Community Development Committee. The Vice Chair is going to make it all right. Councilmember Henson is Vice Chair of the Social Services and Community Development Committee. Will you give us the summary, please? The Social Services Community Development Committee met on November 20, 2012 at 11 a.m. and received an update on the Workforce Investment and Development Program. Commissioner Mills provided a presentation on the history of the Workforce Investment Funds and the Mayor's Training Center, which was closed in 2007. Council A. Paul Schoeniger discussed the 17-county Bluegrass Workforce Investment Board, their purposes, programs, budget, and governance. Commissioner Mills also discussed some of the community partners involved in workforce investment projects in the area. There were no motions or actions taken during this meeting. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Hanson. All right, next on our agenda is the capacity assurance project update, status update. Charlie Martin, Director of Water Quality. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you. I'm back to talk about this. This is the last of three installments of trying to at least try to give the council the opportunity to understand what is, as Council Member Lane pointed out, a very complex issue. So you see the agenda. It's similar to what we had talked about before, but we're going to focus on conditional approval, credit allocation priority, the developer earned credit program, and then ultimately the schedule. This is the slide of the things that we've already talked about. On October 16th, we covered four pretty key items. And then on the 13th of November, we've visited three more of them, continuing to reinforce the schedule. Reinforcing the schedule is that we have to have a plan delivered to EPA by January 3rd of next year. And for us, for real life, it's basically the cover letter is written, and it's going out on the 21st of December with the holidays and everything like that. It pretty much needs to be in the can before the week of Christmas. So I'm going to jump into some of the other, I guess, the last installment of what are the key recommendations. This, I think, was a really important one. It's called conditional approval. During the deliberations with the stakeholders, Commerce Lexington and other folks who are responsible for trying to bring in essentially large economic development footprints, they were very concerned about their ability to be able to market Lexington without some level of assurance that they would have sufficient capacity if and when they wanted to come. And so the task force developed this conditional approval concept. It's a commitment by LFUCG that sewer capacity would be available for whatever proposed development at the given time that it needed to be there. Essentially, we would set aside dedicated funds for that purpose. the dedicated funds concept is important because we have an existing schedule for remedial measures and there was a lot of concern is that we didn't want to pull the plug on somebody who'd been expecting a project in their neighborhood and and reallocate money from their project over to an economic development project that there would be some concerns about social justice regarding that So what there would be is a dedicated, essentially, reserve fund for this particular purpose in order to be able to land, I guess, that unique type of project that might be available. The conditional approval would require both the approval of the Commissioner of Finance and the Commissioner of Planning. That way, you've got checks and balances. Obviously, the person who is going to provide the money and the commissioner of planning who's really in charge of making decisions such as major footprint type of economic development opportunities. Basically, I already covered this as far as the why, but we felt like it was really a good suggestion because it gave Commerce Lexington the ability to be able to move forward and market potential tracks to what would be, I could consider to be a significant or unique economic development benefit. Most importantly, though, it complies with the consent decree, and it doesn't really have any impact to our program's administrative costs. And so we felt like that it was a good and solid recommendation, and that's what the task force has recommended. A second one is the recommendation is the credit allocation priority. There was the concern about how in a particular credit bank, how does it go? Should it go first come, first serve? Should it be depending on who you are? Obviously, first come, first serve makes a lot of sense. But there's always this issue where a small requester may come in. There's an existing waiting list by large requesters. do you make the small requester that only needs 100 gallons a minute wait behind a subdivision that's a 10-year rollout? There was a lot of discussion about that, and what the task force has recommended is that there would be a reserve amount created in each one of the banks that was up to 2,500 gallons per day reserved for minor connections, a pizza shop, a sub shop, a dry cleaner, something that was a small footprint, that that way they didn't get stuck on a waiting list if we had one stuck behind a 50-unit apartment complex, three subdivisions, and a manufacturing facility. We do have a mechanism as far as the get-out is that it can be waived by the commissioner of planning is that if that bank has a reserve amount and there really isn't any kind of need for that, If it's in a highly developed area, for example, and that there's no real potential for redevelopment, then the Commissioner of Planning can waive that. So again, the task force believed it was a fair and objective, transparent way to be able to allocate. It avoids long delays for small capacity projects that are queued behind large developments. My goal is to not have a waiting list. We're going to work really, really, really hard to make sure that we don't have a waiting list. But that is a risk, and so we wanted to make sure that we at least addressed it through the task force part of it. The waiver where the Commissioner of Planning can waive that requirement where he considers it to be not necessary is we certainly don't want to create reserves just for the sake of having reserves. And lastly, those last two bullets, which are benchmarks for us in anything we recommend, it complies with a consent decree and it has a minimal impact. Last recommendation I'm going to cover today is the developer earned credit program. Another one of those topics we talked a lot about is that other communities have this sort of thing. It gives the developer who needs credits the opportunity to go out and do the work themselves using their forces and their finances to be able to obtain credits that they need for a development they're wanting to fast-track. It essentially eliminates this, well, I've got to wait on the government to get around to doing it, because we sometimes fairly or unfairly get the reputation of taking too long. So we wanted to be able to provide a different mechanism or a fast-track mechanism for a developer to move forward. That third bullet is a real important part of it, though, is that LFUCG will retain the ability to stop work if necessary. If, for instance, someone decides they want to do all of their rehab work to obtain credits at 3 o'clock in the morning in everybody's backyard in your district, they've got to use reasonable and appropriate measures to do that. But the developer earned credit program is voluntary. We would look to work with them as much as we can in order to be able to facilitate that. It would be a contractual agreement between us and the developer as far as how those things got done. But they would have the credits for their use and disposal because their private money invested in them. and so those credits would never be returned to the public bank unless they wanted them returned to the public bank. Again, there's the why, and I won't read those to you. I think I've already pretty much covered those already, except for that second one is it does provide LFUCG with some opportunity, is that if someone wants to invest their money to be able to get credits, I mean, we benefit from it, is that we get a better sewer system along the way, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Okay, we talked about this earlier already, is that we're asking for the council to consider approving the resolution that would endorse the task force's recommendations. In that resolution, basically, what you see there is that schedule. We've got to submit the cap to EPA on January 3rd, irregardless of what council does. Otherwise, we set ourselves up for stipulated penalties that accrue over time. In that, it says that we have to begin implementation within 30 days from approval. So you see that February date. That's assuming they approve it the day they get it. Well, we know they're not going to do that, highly unlikely that's going to happen. But we've set up a schedule in the plan that we're submitting that says six months from submittal, we will go live. And that's what the July 3rd of 2013 date is. The task force, again, felt like that moving forward with this was important because development is going to continue. Development plans are going to continue, subdivision plans, and having folks developing those type of projects and making that investment without having some type of net at which they were working over was very risky for them. And so the task force's recommendations outline what the rules of the game are going to be in an EPA-enforced cap world. I'm going to jump into the questions because we've already kind of covered this ad nauseum. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Any comments or questions by council members for Mr. Martin? Mr. Farmer. Hello, hello. Thank you, Mayor. So this is a framework, isn't it? It is. Yes, it is. It is very much of a framework. There's going to have to be enabling ordinances that go in place, The zoning ordinance, land subdivision regulations. Ed Gardner and I were just back there in the corner talking about it before I came up here. Our plan would be coming forward with ordinances sometime early next year. We certainly wouldn't want to crowd into when the mayor delivers his FY14 budget address because obviously you guys will have a whole different set of things to deal with. So I'd like to be able to get them in front of you before then. and we're going to have to work out how we're going to do this, but I don't want to exclude our stakeholders from that. They've gotten us this far, and they need to be part of the process as we develop the ordinances that would allow implementation. And I guess where I'm going is we're kind of all trying this on for the first time together. I mean, a lot of hard work has gone into your recommendations and a lot of diligence. and us passing this or putting it on the docket or giving you a nod to move forward doesn't mean that there can't be changes if we as a council desire in the future. I'm asking you as a question. I just want to make sure that this is not like we're pulling a ripcord on a parachute that we can never pack up and do again. We can make changes as we go forward if we desire as a group, as this council desires as a group, I'm assuming. To some extent, yes, and to some extent, no, is that there are some things that are required by the plan that once EPA approves the plan that we would have to go back to EPA and get them to change. That's not easily done. Agreed. But there are other things that are not in the consent decree. We are not submitting those to EPA in the plan because it's none of their business about whether they decide we do something or not. A good example of this is the, are we going to charge an administrative fee or some type of capacity fee for reviewing and allocating sewer capacity? EPA doesn't care, and I'm not going to offer that. That's going to be a local decision. If we decide in the beginning we don't want to have a fee and then we realize our overhead is tremendous and we want to change, we can do that. We can do the reverse of that. But how we allocate sewer capacity, it's very clear, is that if we can't certify capacity, then we have to use credits in order to allow a connection to be made to the system. That's not negotiable. And that's the crux of this plan is that we've got to be able to certify capacity or have credits in order to trade for that capacity, or otherwise we're in violation of the consent decree and we would be subject to stipulated penalties because of it. I have two things. First, I think you've been very judicious about just answering the questions that the EPA has asked us, not answering questions they didn't ask us. I think it's been very wise. That leaves us as much opportunity as possible. I think, by and large, the citizenry still isn't aware of what we're going to be doing here and how some of the landscape in Lexington is going to change in terms of where there will be storage tanks, where transmission will be different, the size and scope of some of these projects. And I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm just trying to make everyone aware. We're on the threshold of a lot of change in Lexington that has to do with problems that we've had for many years, and we're taking them on in a compacted time frame with an end point that is kind of date certain. I mean, it's not exactly 10 years, but it's more like 12 years or somewhere in that range. And we've got a lot of things to do. I just want our citizenry to be as ready as they can be when we show up in their neighborhood. I share the same concerns that you do with this cap. I mean, it's a game changer how we do development in this community. And, you know, but it's hard to, you know, how do you get it out to the right people? You know, we contacted a lot of the folks that I know that play in that sandbox, so to speak. They contacted some of the people they know, and the word has gotten out, but there's certainly people that don't know that there's a cap that's going to be in place come July of next year. There's certainly people that don't realize that we're talking about building 96 million gallons of offline storage in this community over the next 11 to 13 years. you know me I tell everybody that's willing to listen usually sewer stories aren't particularly gripping for the average person but I do my best having these things part of these presentations and stuff like that is part of being able to get the word out but you're right we still have a lot of work to do with that the website I know Mark York and his team have done a really great job we have a remedial measures website that is going to be built such as that it's interactive is that people can see when work is going to be scheduled in their neighborhood. It is an ongoing process, and it's a project that is going to live for a long, long time. I just appreciate it. We're leaving as much wiggle room as we can between ourselves and the EPA. I just want to make sure we leave that opportunity between ourselves and our constituents because I think some of the actualities of some of the costs and some of the projects are going to be jarring to people. I just think we're going to have to be vigilant as we move forward here. I mean, this is a large change for really no member of the public to be here today. There's a lot of people in this room, but there's not an average Joe in my estimation. And average Joe is going to see this on their bill, and some of them in their backyard and their front yard and down the street from them. And it's just a hard reckoning among many hard reckonings we've had during a tough time in this country and in this community. And I have great faith in the work that you all have done and glad to give you my vote of support today. But I also want us to be ready for some of the unpleasantries that some of this change will bring to some people and to their neighborhood. But it will be for a greater goal in the end. I know you're well aware of that. We share a lot of feelings on it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. All right. Thank you, Charlie. Council Member Ellinger, I'll move. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, on this issue, there are some stakeholders in here. I was going to see if they would like to respond or make some comments. I see Mr. Johnson, Mr. Quick, Ms. Fongnagel. Would you all like to, since you were part of this process, would you like to give your input here? put here because I know they were I see not so I won't they're giving the thumbs up so that's all I want to know that's that's that's good thank you okay thank you all right then we can move on next on our agenda is the 2012 PDR and courthouse area design overlay zone annual report by Mr. Billy Van Pelt. Good afternoon, Council members. You should have received a map and a spreadsheet in your packet. The map that you have illustrates the easements that are held by the Purchase of Development Rights Program, easements that have been purchased or donated to the program, as well as easements held by other entities such as the Bluegrass Conservancy. On the second sheet, on the spreadsheet, you'll see the percent of goal, the total acres that we have to date, number of farms, types of farms. And then under round 10, you'll see the acreages and addresses of the farms, the easements that were acquired in round 10, plus a withdrawn application and the reason that that application was withdrawn. Our current round, we've received one donated easement so far, and we've made an offer. And then in the round 12 for FY14, we have 42 applications on just over 3,700 acres. And I can answer any questions. Councilman McCord? Thank you. Not a question, Billy. Kind of a parting comment, since this is my last time to address council on a Tuesday and last time to address you. Thank you for all the hard work you do in overseeing this program. I have said before that I think that it's important for the PDR program to look at incorporating a trail easement portion of this. We've talked before. I want to put it on record that the way to go about this, in all likelihood, is for PDR to grant those that are wishing to apply, that have road frontage with their farms that come with that, that would be willing to put a trail easement into the package, I think that we should give them an extra scoring point or two that could help tip them in favor of getting their farm approved. And the key thing that I see with our PDR program is that the further away you are from the hard edge, the more you're scored favorably. And we need to be looking at that hard edge and what can we do in the green areas. And I think that there's a similar type of mechanism as it relates to trail easements. And so I just want to go on record and let you know that this is the last time I get to say this from this seat. But it is important to the farm community. I think Mr. Penn said it well when he realized when we put Legacy Trail in that these are preservation tools. Trails are preservation tools. And if we're about preserving this landscape, then I think we need to do everything we can to put as many people out into this landscape to appreciate what we have. And when you do that is through a trail. And my parting comment on that is name me another place where 10 or 15 feet of asphalt can put a world-class athlete and a handicapped individual, a grandparent and a grandchild, all in the same place to enjoy what's unique to our landscape. And so I would tell the Fayette Alliance, I would tell the farm community and the PDR program that a missing element is some sort of bonus, some sort of extra incentive for someone wanting to put their farm into PDR that is willing to give up an easement, whether it be road frontage or through their farm. I do believe that that needs to be a policy decision. Commissioner Paulson, I put that on you as well as a policy decision going forward. Thank you, Billy, for all your efforts. I couldn't agree with you more, Council Member McCord, and that exact subject has come up in Vice Mayor Gordon's recreation and tourism ZODA work group. We've talked about trails in the rural area. As a user of the Legacy Trail, I couldn't agree with you more, and we know that rural access is a reality, and it's a fact. We're going to be working toward that. Well, I appreciate that, Billy. And while I have the mic and just a few more minutes, a few more seconds, I would also challenge the Fayette Alliance as well as the farm community that in a conversation that we had on this topic about two years ago, that it was a commitment that was made by the farm community and the Fayette Alliance to find the next avenue out into the countryside. And I'm very much looking forward to seeing where that is. Here we are two years later. and I'm putting that onus on you because you know best where we should drive that trail into the rural landscape. And so I would challenge whomever is working on that to make that a high priority as to where can we go again and with the farm community's blessing. In fact, I do believe it should be the farm community that decides that very aspect. So, again, thank you and thank you guys for all that you do. Thank you, Council Member McCord. Council Member Lawless. Well, once again, I'm very supportive of PDR, as you know, and love the job you do and appreciate the coalitions that come together to help. And bravo. So, but I do have one question. When someone donates their development rights, are we able to use that as match when we get the federal funds we get? Not exactly. That's something we've talked to our federal funding partner about in the past. and if an owner is willing to accept less than the appraised value of the easement, that's something that's documented as part of our closing documentation with our federal funding partner. I think that I need more information, and I'd be happy to get that information from them and submit it to you in writing. Well, I mean, you don't have to submit it in writing. it just seems to me that that is money, basically, that we have. And I just was curious if that had been explored as being part of that match. We have discussed it with our federal funding partner, and I'll have to revisit that with them again, and we'll get back to you to answer your question. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Billy, for your annual report. On your last page where you have round 12, fiscal year 14 at the very bottom there, are you currently holding 42 applications that farms have made? Yes. Okay. And so that is 3,747 acres about. Now, what's the money situation right now? Is there any money left in the account to roll toward those easements, or will it be in this offer of 255.9 acres? If the owners that we're currently negotiating with in the current round will exhaust the funds that were appropriated by the council for FY13, They will? Yes. Okay, so you'll be at zero balance. That's correct. Okay. Well, just a couple of comments. I think that as the Council has seen all these incentives come forward for businesses, and Bob Quick was here earlier from Commerce Lexington, Council has promised, I would say, and, Mayor, I don't know what the number is, I don't know who keeps track of it. Maybe Kevin Adkins. Probably millions of dollars worth of incentives now. Does Kevin have those numbers, or who would budget it? I think that Commerce Lexington would be able to provide those numbers, but I think it should be recognized that those are forward incentives, and they are not funds from the government. The tax incentives and tax breaks. They only occur when a business is generating the new. Yes, it's something we would get in the future if they're generating business. If they are generating business, then it is a yes. Okay, right. I think it's quite different than the model for the PDR. Yes, of course, it is different. Although I think the agriculture businesses, which we're talking about with the PDR farms, it's a different model, but they're all businesses that we're enabling. And I know that a few years ago we talked about how we felt like the PDR program needed to balance with the infill and redevelopment, and we should be putting money into both to make those even out because they're connected. We can't do one without the other. And so, Billy, I appreciate your hard work on this. I think many farmers, large and small, have been enabled to be in farming because of the PDR program. And then you look at the surveys of why people come here. We've heard on the ZODA task force from Mary Quinn Raymer, and number one is the farm community. And the surveys that the Convention and Visitors Bureau has done showing why people come here is very compelling in terms of seeing that rural area and the rural landscape that we have. So it's kind of a twofold, you know, bringing tourism in but also enabling the agriculture. So I appreciate your hard work on this. And, you know, I think every council and every mayor in the past since Mayor Miller began this with that council has been supportive. So thank you for carrying through on it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And Councilman Martin. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to follow up a couple of comments that Councilman McCord made. I think that one thing that we lack, and I know this is an overlap between the bicycle folks and trail folks and the PDR folks, but what we really have lacked is a sort of coherent long-term vision about where our trail system is going to go. and to the extent PDR is able to think and coordinate its efforts with the efforts of those other folks, I guess I would encourage you to look along our streams and creeks because we don't have a great river going through Lexington. We have a small one buried someplace, I think, but not a big one. But in central Kentucky, one of our assets is our creeks and streams and the sort of scenic byway those create. And you can't, last time I saw you, you can't farm a creek, but you can allow people out in the countryside to enjoy it without destroying the agricultural value of farmland that is productive. And so I'd encourage you to, as you look through this in the years ahead, to consider making use of at least a portion of the resources to capturing and, I guess, preserving our byways along our creeks and streams. Because they, in itself, can be a scenic way for many, many folks in Lexington to enjoy the incredible beauty we have in central Kentucky. and so I would just leave you with that thought and Council Member McCord I think we're going to be here on Tuesday so we're not oh you won't be here Tuesday well we will miss you then we will miss you then he's got a better offer so thank you Billy thank you Mayor thank you Council Member Martin Council Member Lane thank you Mayor this is my eighth year on council and I've of course been representing the 12th district and I've been working fairly closely with the PDR program and the Rural Land Management Board. And I just want to take this opportunity to say how extremely well I think the board and the PDR program are managed. And I know I talk with Billy Van Pelt more frequently now because there's a lot of things going on. And I just would like to say thank you, Billy, for doing a great job. The PDR program, in my estimation, is a real asset to our farmers in Fayette County, and I appreciate all the efforts you put into it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Lane and Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I have one last question. Billy, you did say that if the owners of the property on which you have an offer do accept the offer, then the funds will be exhausted. So thinking ahead to the budget next year, when would the deadline be for the federal? Well, first of all, I guess I should ask, is there still federal money available for a match of anything in our budget? I met with Commissioner Paulson last week, and we were discussing the protocol for the FY14 budget. and currently there's no farm bill, so there's no federal application or federal application deadline as of yet. We will be notified when the farm bill is passed and when the application is made available. The board will work with Commissioner Paulson and submit our funding request through him to forward on to the administration. So I don't have a deadline yet. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And I'll just reinforce the comments from the chair that others have made. Billy, thank you very much for your disciplined and vigorous work for the PDR. I know you're going to move on to courthouse area. Yes. Design overlay. I also want to recognize Frank Penn and Farm Bureau and Knox here from the Fayette Alliance and others who have been vigorous supporters. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. On to the inside, courthouse area design overlay zone. As you all know, Council Member Blues has been chairing a design excellence task force over the last two years to talk about design excellence in our downtown area. We have a process currently that's worked very well, and that's what we'll talk about today. But we are working towards taking it to the next level. The current area is about 24 acres. Our board meets on a quarterly or on an as-needed basis, and we've adopted next year's meeting schedule. These are the members that served in 2012. These representations from the community are defined by the ordinance. It's been a good year. The board has approved 10 projects. I've approved two, and we had one preliminary board review. Over the last 11 years, the board's approved 55 projects, and staff has approved 30. This is a list of the addresses of the projects that were approved by the board in 2012. And then here are just a few examples. This is the public art installation on top of the Downtown Arts Center. This is the Taste of Tide building at the corner of Main and Limestone. The corner entry is going to be reintroduced that was there originally, and the windows are going to be added that were currently filled in with brick along the sidewalk on Limestone. This, of course, is Center Point. This is the intersection of Upper and Main in the latest iteration of that project. This is Parley Social, which is going to be adding a four-story and a rooftop terrace on top of that building. And that project is actually still evolving. The owner now wants to add a second outdoor terrace on the roof of the fourth floor addition. So we'll see how that progresses. 21C, you may have already seen these images, but these are just before and afters of the Main Street frontage and changes that will be made as well as the upper street frontage. As I stated, I've served with Councilmember Blues on the Design Excellence Task Force, as has the chair of the courthouse board, Mike Moiser. There are no financial records pertaining to our operation, and I can take any questions that you have. Thank you, Billy. Thank you. Any questions or any comments for Mr. Van Pelt? Mr. Lane? I'll just make this short. I think downtown's looking real good. Keep up the work, okay? Thank you. Mr. Councilmember Lawless. Bravo. When I think about four or five years ago, six years ago, what downtown looked like and what it's looking like, We've got so many incredibly generous people investing in our downtown, and you all are doing a great job. Thank you. It's just real exciting. It's fabulous to be me. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. All right. I know other Council members signed on to comment or speak, so we appreciate your presentation. Thank you. Billy, very much. Thanks. We can then move on to Council Reports. The floor is available for Council Reports. Council Member Blues. Thank you, Mayor. I'd just like to call Council Member's attention to the memo that was put in your mailboxes, I think, yesterday. and really sort of an update on the Corridors Commission work this past year. As you know, for the first time in a few years, the Corridors Commission had a significant allocation of funds in its budget, And I just wanted to provide you with the ways that the commission has decided to allocate their money and to suggest that this has been a pretty hardworking and very conscientious group, and I think they've been very responsible and sensitive stewards of public funds. so that i hope in the future that that that the quarters commission continues to receive council support and make a a real difference in uh in the appearance of our of our principal roadways in lexington so you'll have that for for reference and i'm sure that the commission will be coming to you when the 14 budget rears its head in a few months. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Blues. Council Member Martin. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to thank Dr. Blues for chairing the Corridors Commission. He's worked very hard on it, and I wanted to really be, as I'm winding down my time on the council to highlight in a small way how important I think the Corridors Commission is. Because I think that many, I always think in terms of economic development and community development, but in many ways people can go work anywhere. And one of the things they use to choose a community is how welcoming it is and how beautiful it is and what a gem it is. For really a relatively small amount of investment every year consistently, Lexington could have corridors that rival Richmond Road and Gratz Park, but it takes a consistent long-term vision to do that. And I don't know how to really instill that in this year-to-year mechanism we have as a city, But I would hope that my fellow council members would consider continuing its commitment to the Corridors Commission because everybody loves Richmond Road because of all the old mature trees that are there. And there's just no reason why we couldn't have many places in Lexington that rivaled Richmond Road or in Greenville, South Carolina, where the Chamber visited, which I was just enthralled with when I visited on another occasion. And so I want to thank Dr. Blues for his work on the Corridors Commission and just emphasize that it should not be government stepchild. It is an important long-term vision for making Lexington a place where people want to be. And that is, ultimately, we're talking about retaining and attracting high talent, smart talent, talent that creates the next big thing, and that's how you bring wealth to a community. So thank you, Dr. Blues. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Martin. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Just two things. Council members, Commissioner Mason sent me a request. The hazardous materials ordinance has been reworked and been through law and been through public safety. And so I've sent you all an email putting that into Public Safety Committee. Just wanted to let you know that. Apparently, it's been a long time since it's been discussed, and there were some changes that needed to be put into committee. And so that will be heard in the Public Safety Committee in the new year, I believe. And then just one final quick thing is that plans are in the works, full-blown plans to get everything ready for the swearing-in ceremony January 6th at 2 o'clock at the Kentucky Theater. And I want to thank Lori from the mayor's office and Chris Edwards from GTV3, Stacey Maynard, who've really helped get the ball rolling on our plans so that you all can be sworn in in good fashion. So that's all, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member McCord. Thank you, Mayor. As Council Member Martin said, I have a better gig than next Tuesday. I'm getting married on Saturday and will be in Mexico next week. So if I'm not with you all, I'm sorry, but I won't be Skyping in or watching it via the web. So let me just say, so this is my last council work session for my four terms, and I want to take the opportunity to thank folks publicly. A lot of folks watch this more than they will on Thursday night, and so I just wanted to say to all the folks that I have worked with, first the three mayors and three vice mayors and the multiple council members, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve Lexington with you. To the employees, it's an honor to work alongside of you for the betterment of our city, and I certainly appreciate every single employee and what they do and the time spent in making our city a great place. It's an honor to serve the city you've grown up in and lived in your entire life, especially that portion of Lexington that you've lived in. And until you do that, until you run for office and realize all that it takes, you really don't have a real appreciation for the work that goes on up here. And while folks sometimes watch and become very frustrated with government and with us as elected folks, again, it takes a whole lot of courage to step out and actually run and to serve. And so, again, to the colleagues that are here and to those who have served before in elected office, I applaud you for being willing to serve in the capacity that you do because it is something that only peers realize what comes with the job. A couple of things, you know, people ask what are you going to do next and those types of things, and that is kind of a wide-open discussion for me. But just know that what's near and dear to my heart, the health of this community, the physical health of this community is something that you will find me working on every single day and in whatever capacity I can do that best in going forward. I believe Lexington has a tremendous opportunity to lead the nation in that, in our turnaround, and be an inspiration for that. So those are the types of things that you'll see me involved in, in one way or another. Last thing I want to say is a challenge to my colleagues. In Rudy Giuliani's book on leadership, one of the things he said was, no matter how long you've been in office, no matter how good or bad you were when serving, people will only remember you for one thing. Generally, they're only going to remember you for one thing. And so my question to you is, what's the one thing you want to be remembered for? Focus on that, because if there's been any lesson for sitting up here for eight years, it's that people forget about you pretty quick as soon as you step off of this. And the work that you put your heart and soul into sometimes either gets changed by law or forgotten about or people kind of just move on. And what's really important is to look back over your time served, however long that is, And to be able to look in the mirror and go, I'm glad I worked on that stuff. And I wanted folks to know publicly that for eight years, championing the causes that I've been able to champion and to build some of the trails and change some of the policies as it relates to a healthier community have truly been a great thing and something that I'm very pleased and proud of. And so, again, thank you for the privilege to serve with you guys. And we'll see you on Thursday night, but not next week. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member McCord. Well said. We'll have at least another week to acknowledge our thanks, appreciations to you and other retiring council members. But I know all council members share in our thanks for your commitment and your persistence, your determination and enthusiasm. Thank you, sir. Council Member Lane. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to say that Jay McCord and I and Kevin Stinnett and George Myers, I believe, all ran eight years ago and got elected to the council. I'm disappointed to see Jay leave. It's been a pleasure and a privilege serving with you, and I think you've done some very good things for our community, and I appreciate very much all the time and efforts you've expended, and we will definitely miss you here. And I thought while I'm at it, I might as well just add another comment that we have some other wonderful council members that are not going to be coming back. And one of those is Council Member Blues, who's taken a lot of initiatives to run some of these task force and spent a lot of time. And I appreciate your being able to invest your time in that. And I'm disappointed that I couldn't have been on every one of those task force also. But I appreciate your service. What can I say? And Doug Martin over here next to me, he's my wingman here during the council meeting. And, you know, I think he's done a very good job of bringing the attention to the public on the issue of the Police and Firefighter Pension Fund and the work that needs to be done to make that financially solvent and safeguard the benefits for our employees. And I think that that will be your accolade for the job well done also. And Casey Crosby, who's also been a strong advocate of public safety, and she's been on my left wing over here, so maybe I scared them both away. But thank you all for your service, and I just wanted to take a moment to comment on that. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lane. All right. No other council members have signed up for council reports so we can move on to the mayor's report. Just a couple of quick announcements. First, the Christmas parade is Thursday night, December 6th at 7.30 on Main Street. Santa Claus is coming to town. And on Friday night, starting at 7 o'clock, the Spotlight on Youth event will be held at the Lyric Theater. Commissioner Mills and her folks, including Laura Hatfield, will be celebrating young people who are involved in Partners for Youth and the I Do programs, showcasing their talents, dance, singing, drumming, and more. And in addition, we will celebrate recognition that Lexington has received for the sixth year from America's Promise Alliance. Once again, Lexington has been named one of the top 100 communities in America for young people. That award means that we are putting young people first in Lexington. So we hope everyone that can will be there on Friday night at 7 at the Lyric. Is there a motion to approve the mayor's report? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Who is that second from? Council Member Blues. Thank you, Council Member Blues. Seconded by Council Member Blues. Is there any 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. All right. Next on our agenda is public comment for issues not on the agenda. Mr. Mundy, anybody signed on? Nobody signed on. All right. Then I will accept a motion to adjourn. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn by Council Member McCord. Thank you, Council Member McCord. Duly noted. Second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any, unless there are objections, we'll declare the meeting adjourned.