# Council Public Safety Committee - January 13, 2013 > Auto-transcribed civic record · January 13, 2013 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/2825 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/2825?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2013-01-13 - **Last revised**: July 16, 2026 - **Length**: 409 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Public Safety Committee met on January 15, 2013, at 2:30 p.m., with the Vice Mayor presiding. The committee convened to address one agenda item: the Election of Committee Chair, which was approved. During the meeting, the committee took three votes and heard no public comments. The meeting resulted in the successful election of a committee chair to lead the Public Safety Committee. ## Attendance The following individuals were present at the meeting on January 13, 2013: * Chuck Ellinger * Chris Ford * Shevawn Akers * Diane Lawless * Bill Farmer * Kevin Stinnett * Jenny Scutchfield * Jennifer Mossotti * Harry Clarke * Peggy Henson * Jenifer Benningfield No absences or late arrivals were recorded. ## Votes and Decisions **Nomination of Councilmember Peggy Henson for Chair of the Public Safety Committee** [timestamp: 00:01:05] Councilmember Stenet moved to nominate Councilmember Peggy Henson for chair of the Public Safety Committee. Councilmember Ellinger seconded the motion. The motion passed by voice vote with no abstentions. **Election of Councilmember Peggy Henson as Chair of the Public Safety Committee** [timestamp: 00:02:08] Councilmember Ellinger moved to elect Councilmember Peggy Henson as Chair of the Public Safety Committee. Councilmember Beard seconded the motion. The motion passed by voice vote with no abstentions. **Motion to Adjourn** [timestamp: 00:03:56] Councilmember Henson moved to adjourn the Public Safety Committee meeting. The motion passed by voice vote with no abstentions. ## Appointments The following appointments were made during this meeting: * **Peggy Henson** was appointed to serve as Public Safety Committee Chair. * **Stenet** was appointed to serve as Public Safety Committee Vice Chair. ## Election of Committee Chair [timestamp: 00:00:00] The Public Safety Committee held an election for committee leadership positions. Councilmember Peggy Henson was elected as chair, and Councilmember Stenet was elected as vice chair. During the discussion, committee members Stenet, Ellinger, and Henson participated in the proceedings. Beyond the election of leadership, the committee addressed administrative matters related to future operations, including discussion of upcoming meeting dates and a review of agenda items planned for the next meeting. The election was approved. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed: Nomination of Councilmember Peggy Henson for chair of the Public Safety Committee - **Motion** — passed: Election of Councilmember Peggy Henson as Chair of the Public Safety Committee - **Motion** — passed: Motion to adjourn the Public Safety Committee meeting --- ## Full transcript We have one item on our agenda. It looks like we have a quorum. We have one item on our agenda, and that is to elect a committee chair, and then the committee chair can go ahead and appoint a vice chair. and although we don't have it on the agenda, we could also, depending on the chair's preference, look at the items in committee. So I will ask you to log in, except that we can't log in right now. Now we can. Thank you, Stacey, for motions. And I see, okay. I see Councilmember Ellinger. Looks like you had Councilmember Stenet's first. Councilmember Stenet, did you want to make a motion? Go ahead. If you're on, you hit me first. Well, I don't care who does it, but Councilmember Stenet, you were first. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to nominate Councilmember Peggy Henson as chair for the Public Safety Committee. Second. Okay. Thank you. Council Member Stenet has moved and Council Member Ellinger has seconded to place her name in nomination. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor of adding Council Member Henson to the list, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. Are there other motions? Seeing none, is there a motion to accept Council Member Henson as chair of the Public Safety Committee? Second. Second. Council Member Ellinger moved. Council Member Beard seconded to elect Council Member Henson as chair of the Public Safety Committee. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. Congratulations, Council Member Henson. And do you have an appointment yet for Vice Chair? Well, I was going to ask Council Member Stennett if he would be... Okay. Thank you, sir. So, Council Member Henson is Chair and Council Member Stenet is Vice Chair. All right, I'll go ahead and turn the meeting over to Council Member Henson. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I know that a lot of work goes into this, and I really appreciate all of your hard work. Is there, I guess I would just want to ask if anyone would like to discuss any of the items in committee. So we will, I will be looking over the agenda items with our council staff and come up with the items to be discussed in our next committee meeting. So I guess I would entertain a motion to adjourn. All in favor? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.