# Board of Architectural Review - March 27, 2013 > Auto-transcribed civic record · March 27, 2013 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/2931 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/2931?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2013-03-27 - **Last revised**: July 16, 2026 - **Length**: 46,501 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 Board of Architectural Review met on March 27, 2013. During the meeting, the board considered nine agenda items, including eight project proposals and approval of minutes from a previous meeting. The board took five motions and votes and heard two public comments. Of the eight project proposals reviewed, six were approved: the removal and replacement of a deck with a brick patio at 414 North Limestone; installation of signage and a small outbuilding with courtyard re-landscaping at 207 South Limestone; replacement of rear steps and deck at 600 South Mill Street; installation of a pool and patio changes at 611 Russell Avenue; enclosure of a rear porch at 125 South Hanover Avenue; and replacement of an existing wall sign at 426 East High Street. One proposal was denied: the painting of a masonry structure at 454 East Maxwell Street. One item—a conceptual review for installation of new openings at 466 West Sixth Street—was presented for informational purposes. The board also approved the minutes from the February 13, 2013 meeting. ## Votes and Decisions The board took five votes on applications during this meeting, all conducted by voice vote. **414 North Limestone — Deck Removal and Patio Replacement** [timestamp: 1:08:49] The application to remove an existing deck and replace it with a brick patio passed. **207 South Limestone — Signage and Outbuilding Installation** [timestamp: 1:10:57] The application to install signage and a small outbuilding passed with five conditions: - Arm of the sign reduced to 30 inches - Distance between sign and corner board no more than four inches - Paving alongside building held off foundation - Final details to come back to staff or board - Changes to be reviewed by other LFUCG divisions and returned to staff **454 East Maxwell Street — Masonry Painting** [timestamp: 1:36:03] The application to paint the masonry structure failed. **600 South Mill Street — Rear Steps and Deck Replacement** [timestamp: 1:54:35] The application to replace rear steps and deck passed with conditions: - Second and first floor decks moved off corner of building - All exposed wood except flooring and stair treads painted or opaque stained - Railing height as required by building code - Final details to come back to staff **125 South Hanover Avenue — Rear Porch Enclosure** [timestamp: 2:12:02] The application to enclose the rear porch passed with conditions requiring resubmission of drawings: - Redesign to give more transparency to porch infill style and respect horizontal language of filling between columns - Drawings resubmitted to staff for input and approval ## Public Comment Two members of the public provided comments during the meeting. **Brianna Shelton** [timestamp: 1:34:25] addressed the painting of brick on a historic home. She questioned the distinction between painting trim and painting brick, noting that trim is painted for protective purposes. Ms. Shelton asked why brick, which is not typically painted for protection, cannot be painted. In response, she received an explanation that painting brick would alter the historical character of the structure. **Montel Buckles** [timestamp: 1:52:23] raised concerns regarding deck construction at 600 South Mill Street. Mr. Buckles expressed worry about the long-term structural integrity of the building if the concrete porch is removed. He specifically noted concerns about an exposed 18-inch stone foundation and the potential for damage to occur during excavation work. ## Contested Items **Painting masonry at 454 East Maxwell Street** A heated discussion arose regarding a proposal to paint the masonry at this address. The applicant argued that painting the house was necessary because the structure looked unattractive in its unpainted state. Board members, however, strongly opposed this plan. They advocated for preserving the original brick, emphasizing its uniqueness and historical value as reasons to maintain the masonry in its current condition. **Deck setback at 600 South Mill Street** The board experienced a split vote on a proposal involving a deck setback at this property. The applicant opposed moving the deck back one foot, contending that such a minimal distance would make little practical difference to property use. Board members took a different view, stressing the importance of the one-foot setback for long-term structural integrity and to maintain aesthetic consistency with established guidelines. ## 414 North Limestone: Remove existing deck and replace with brick patio; re-landscape yard [timestamp: 1:08:49] This certificate of appropriateness application proposed removing an existing deck and replacing it with a brick patio, along with re-landscaping the yard at 414 North Limestone. Staff recommended approval of the application as submitted. The applicant was not present at the meeting. No discussion occurred regarding the proposal. The motion to approve passed by voice vote. ## 207 South Limestone: Install signage and small outbuilding; re-landscape courtyard This agenda item concerned a certificate of appropriateness application for 207 South Limestone, which proposed installing signage and a small outbuilding, as well as re-landscaping the courtyard. **Presentation and Discussion** Applicant David Jones appeared before the board [timestamp: 1:10:57]. Jones agreed with the staff recommendations presented for the project, indicating alignment between the applicant's proposal and staff guidance. **Conditions** Five conditions were stated as part of the approval process, though the specific details of these conditions are not provided in the meeting record. **Public Comment** No further discussion or public comment was recorded during this agenda item. **Outcome** The motion to approve the certificate of appropriateness passed by voice vote. ## 454 East Maxwell Street: Paint masonry structure **Proposal** Applicant Anthony Humphress requested approval for a Certificate of Appropriateness to paint the masonry structure at 454 East Maxwell Street. The proposed work included painting the brick yellow or green and the stone white. **Staff Recommendation** Staff recommended disapproval of the application. The recommendation was based on established guidelines that prohibit the painting of previously unpainted masonry. **Board Discussion** Board members, including speakers identified as Sarah and Graham, expressed strong support for preserving the original brick on the structure. The discussion reflected concern about altering the building's historic masonry character through painting. **Outcome** The Board voted to disapprove the application by voice vote. The motion to deny the Certificate of Appropriateness passed. [timestamp: 1:36:03] ## 600 South Mill Street: Replace rear steps and deck [timestamp: 1:54:35] Applicant Andy Biggers requested a Certificate of Appropriateness to replace a concrete stoop with a wood deck at the rear of the property located at 600 South Mill Street. **Proposal and Staff Recommendation** The applicant sought approval to remove the existing concrete stoop and install a wood deck in its place. Staff reviewed the proposal and recommended approval, contingent upon specific conditions designed to ensure compatibility with the existing structure and long-term durability. **Key Condition** The primary condition imposed by staff required that the deck be moved back one foot from the building corner. This adjustment was intended to address concerns related to the project's structural integrity and visual appearance. **Discussion** The discussion centered on structural integrity and the long-term appearance of the proposed wood deck. These considerations were central to evaluating whether the replacement would be appropriate for the historic district. **Outcome** The motion to approve the Certificate of Appropriateness passed with the conditions specified by staff, including the requirement to relocate the deck one foot from the building corner. ## 611 Russell Avenue: Install pool; change patio [timestamp: 1:16:26] Applicant Scott Campbell presented this certificate of appropriateness request to install a pool and change the patio at 611 Russell Avenue. Campbell agreed with the staff recommendation regarding the proposed work. There was no discussion or public comment on this agenda item. The motion to approve the certificate of appropriateness passed by voice vote. ## 125 South Hanover Avenue: Enclose rear porch [timestamp: 2:12:02] Applicant Frank Godofka presented a proposal to enclose the rear porch at 125 South Hanover Avenue. Godofka appeared before the board and indicated his agreement with the staff recommendations for the project. During the discussion, board member Sarah raised concerns about the porch infill design. Specifically, Sarah noted that the proposed design did not adequately respect the horizontal language of the existing structure, an important consideration in maintaining architectural consistency with the property. The board voted to approve the certificate of appropriateness with a condition: the applicant must resubmit drawings for further review to address the design concerns raised. This conditional approval allows the project to move forward while ensuring that the final design better reflects the architectural character of the existing building. ## 426 East High Street: Replace existing wall sign [timestamp: 1:20:21] The board considered a certificate of appropriateness application for a wall sign replacement at 426 East High Street. Applicant Christine Oberst appeared before the board and indicated her agreement with staff recommendations for the project. This application was processed as part of a group of eight similar sign applications, which the board handled together in a single motion. All eight applications were approved by voice vote, with the condition that any changes to the proposed signs must return to staff for review and approval before implementation. The application was approved. ## Conceptual Review: 466 W Sixth St: Install new openings This agenda item was listed on the meeting agenda but was not discussed or addressed during the meeting. No presentation was made, no speakers participated in debate, and no vote was recorded on this conceptual review for installing new openings at 466 W Sixth St. The item remained informational only, with no action taken. ## Review and approval of February 13, 2013 minutes The minutes from the February 13, 2013 meeting were presented for review and approval. No discussion or debate was recorded during consideration of this agenda item. The minutes were approved without objection or recorded vote. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed: Approval of application to remove existing deck and replace with brick patio at 414 North Limestone - **Motion** — passed: Approval of application to install signage and small outbuilding at 207 South Limestone, contingent on five conditions - **Motion** — failed: Approval of application to paint masonry structure at 454 East Maxwell Street - **Motion** — passed: Approval of application to replace rear steps and deck at 600 South Mill Street with conditions - **Motion** — passed: Approval of application to enclose rear porch at 125 South Hanover Avenue with condition to resubmit drawings --- ## Full transcript Sing a song about the heartland, the only place I feel at home. Sing about the way a good man works until the daylight's gone. 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And now I'm down, I'm down Baby, it's amazing, you don't understand Never throw inside my head People think I'm crazy, but I'm in deep air Never heard it, you got said it Mama's gonna worry I've been a bad, bad boy I know you say you're sorry It's something that I hate to hear Like how you're feeling Like how you're feeling Like how you're feeling Like how you're feeling Thank you. ! Times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. But if we are wise, we know that there's always tomorrow. Lean on me when you're not strong and I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on for it won't be long till I'm gonna need somebody to lean on. Please swallow your pride If I have faith You need to borrow For no one can feel Those of your needs That you won't let show You just call on me brother When you need a hand We all need somebody to lean on I just might have a problem Then you'll understand We all need somebody to lean on Lean on me When you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long Till I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on You just call on me brother When you need a hand We all need somebody to lean on I just might have a problem that you'll understand We all need somebody to lean on If there is a load you have to bear That you can't carry I'm right up the road I'll share your load If you just call me Call me If you need a friend Call me Call me If you need a friend If you ever need a friend You're sailing softly through the sun In a broken stone where you snow You fly so high I get a strange magic And what a strange magic Oh, it's a strange magic Got it Strange magic Got it Strange magic You're walking meadows in my mind Making waves across my time Oh no, oh no I've got a strange magic Oh no, strange magic Oh it's a strange magic Got a strange magic Got a strange magic Oh, I'm never gonna be the same again Now see the wind, it's got to rain Sweet dream, sweet dream Strange magic, oh I know Strange magic, oh it's so lovely Strange magic, gotta Strange magic, gotta Strange magic, it's magic It's magic, it's magic Strange magic, oh what a world Strange magic, always around Strange magic Strange magic Strange magic Strange magic Strange magic Strange magic Strange magic, oh, yeah Strange magic, yeah Strange magic, yeah Strange magic, yeah Got a strange magic Got a strange magic You know I got a strange magic Yeah, I gotta come straight by All is quiet on New Year's Day The world is quiet, it's underway I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes On New Year's Day On New Year's Day I want to be with you again I will be with you again Under a blood-rared sky While the ground is gathered Black and white I'm since one It shows this view When you sleep and say Who stays Say it's true, that's true We can't run through No time in two We can't be one I, I will begin again I, I will begin again guitar solo guitar solo I will be with you again. I will be with you again. I will be with you again. I will be with you again. Thank you. It's alright if you love me It's alright if you don't I'm not afraid of you running away, honey I get the feeling you want You say there is no sense in pretending Your eyes give you away Something inside you is feeling like I do Is it all there is to say Baby, break down Go ahead, give up to me Break down, honey, take me through the night Break down Break down, not standing here, can you see? Break it down, it's alright It's alright It's alright Breakdown Breakdown Take me through that Breakdown I stand here, can you see? Breakdown, it's alright It's alright It's alright As if it's been ten years Since we said I'd do I've always heard Mary Made one seem like two But you're looking better than you did back then You still make this old heart give in And if I had it to do all over I'd do all over again If tomorrow I found one more chance to begin I'd love you all over again The preacher man said Till death do us part That seemed like forever To a young man's heart Now the days seem much shorter The longer we love And the memories just keep adding up And if I had it to do all over I'd do all over again. If tomorrow I found one more chance to begin, I'd love you all over again. If tomorrow I found one more chance to begin I'd love you all over again Music Winter is here again, oh Lord I've been home many years ago I hope she holds on a little longer I sent a letter on a long summer day Man, I still not a play Oh, I've been running down this dusty road Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning I don't know where I'll be tomorrow Wheel in the sky keeps on turning I've been trying to make it more Got to make it before too long Ooh, I can't take this very much longer I'm standing in a sleep and rain Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again The morning sun is rising It's kissing the day The wheel in the sky keeps on turning I don't know where I'll be tomorrow The wheel in the sky keeps on turning Oh, oh, oh For tomorrow Hey everyone, welcome to Retail Perspective. I'm Devin, I'm here at Bella Road. Pretty woman Walking down the street Pretty woman The kind I like to meet Pretty woman I don't believe you It must be true No one can look as good as you Mercy Pretty woman Won't you pardon me Pretty woman I couldn't help but see Pretty woman Oh you look lovely As you can see Oh you know me Just like me Welcome back. I'm Devin with the DLC, and I'm here with Betty at Bella Rose. How are you doing today, Betty? Wonderful. I'm so glad you all are here. Yeah, happy to be here. So tell me about Bella Rose. I know there's a lot of history. There certainly is. Devin, we are celebrating 33 years in business this year in the spring, and we're in the business of cheering up women. We have been blessed with we can dress you, your mother, and your grandmother. So we can get you ready for derby, weddings, prom, just a casual dinner out. We have several trunk shows scheduled. We have hat designers that will be coming in in about, oh, really a few weeks that will be doing custom hats to match your dress. We have bridesmaids' dresses downstairs. And, Devin, an area of the business that is growing beautifully is Mother of the Bridegroom. Mother of the Bridegroom is so, they're younger and peppier, so they don't really want to look like the grandmother, even though we dress lots of sassy little grandmothers. But that is something that we really take a lot of pride in and enjoy being part of those special days. it's almost as though there's always a special event going on here in the community. There's a fundraiser. There's Art in Bloom coming up. There's the Heart Ball. And we keep track of where dresses are going in terms of we don't want you to show up with the same dress on. So we really honor that feature that we're able to do and have a great selection, as always. You can just look around. There's no lack of beautiful dresses here. Notice a ton of gorgeous accessories and purses and dresses for all sorts of occasions. So where are you located downtown? We're on the corner of Upper and Maxwell. It is a destination, and it's definitely worth it. We are Bella Rose, big city fashion and small town charm. It's come on in, kick your shoes off, and stay a while. The right dress is here for you, whatever your event might be. We are open 10 to 6, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thursday is our late day. We're here until 8, and it's always a fun girls' night out. And then on Saturdays from 10 to 5, and you can find us on Facebook. We have a website, but it's basically just kind of a home page. We really want you to come into the shop and have the experience and just to let us assist you in getting ready for whatever your occasion might be. Absolutely. So what do you like about being located downtown? well there's so much opportunity down here i mean just when i came to this corner 33 years ago it was uh very different with all the condominiums and all the downtown life just the whole pulse of downtown is it's so energetic i mean i love farmer's market i love seeing the families walk parking and walking on the weekends you know all of the camaraderie with our sports with with the basketball you know it's just we always enjoy that and get always get new people in that have never that have been by and never made it into the shop and just the convenience of being downtown I mean it's beautiful the tree-lined streets and just it's it's just magical the historical neighborhood is one of the most beautiful and sought after in the in the community absolutely Being close to the universities and, again, in two seconds being downtown. We have a Shoshana trunk show coming up, which we've, I think this will be the fourth or possibly fifth year in a row, that we have a great, successful outcome from that. That gets us rolling into Derby, Easter. You can get your Easter dress from Shoshana. We have shipments of Millie coming in. We have, of course, Keeneland, graduation, prom, and then those famous two seconds, two minutes of the Kentucky Derby, which we are very well represented at the Derby with the custom hats and one-of-a-kind outfits. So we're just very excited to be celebrating 33 years in business and just feel so blessed that we have the privilege of dressing so many women. And we're just grateful for this community and surrounding communities that we have, the repeat clientele that we do. And the age range, that's quite special. Absolutely. Definitely such a nice addition to downtown and a destination. We love our location. I've had so much fun here today at Bella Rose and for everything that's going on downtown, visit downtownlex.com. I'm Nikki Heckelbeck. I'm the director of media services for the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau. I'm sorry. Visit Lex has a couple different purposes. All of them are to bring people into town, into Lexington, whether it's a convention or a meeting or maybe a family reunion, military reunions. We have a whole staff of salespeople that are out there looking for meetings and conventions to bring into Lexington. And then we have the visitor side where we're looking to bring leisure tourists into town. So the overall goal is always put people in those hotel rooms overnight and drive tourism in Lexington. We were down at the corner of Rose and Vine for about 17 years, and that was a great location for us. But we have a new president now, Mr. Jim Browder, and he wanted us to be closer to kind of the hub of downtown where the hotels are, the convention center, that sort of thing. thought we'd see more foot traffic right here in Victorian Square, and so far that has proved to be true. We worked with Solid Light, who's over in Louisville, to help design this space. They've done some other very prominent locations around the state, some of the bourbon distilleries, Heaven Hill and Maker's Mark they were also involved with. So we had a great team of designers over there that helped us put together a center that really showcases the horses, the history, the bourbon, and a new section that we have called Explore My Lex, which is everything from restaurants to festivals and events, different things that happen throughout the year that are of interest to both locals and people who are visiting us. Well, certainly we always welcome people here at the Visitor Center, so just come on down and see us. We're open Monday through Friday from 8.30 to 5 and also on Saturday from 10 to 5, and then during the summer months also on Sundays. You can also go online 24 hours a day. We have a very robust website at www.visitlex.com. We've got a lot of great interactive displays here at the Visitor Center. Center. Several touch screens that showcase different areas of interest. This one obviously is for bourbon. You can learn all sorts of things about bourbon, see some videos of the local distilleries, that sort of thing. You can even come over here and if you'd like to smell what one of the bourbons smells like, that's a really fun thing for folks to do and a great interactive tool for us. Behind you here we have a replica of a working still, which I think is a lot of fun. Bourbon, of course, is a big driver for tourism here in the central part of Kentucky, so we definitely wanted to get that information out there for people. This screen over here is all about the history in central Kentucky, so when you click on that it will take you to, again, a library of films that we put together on different areas around town. We have all sorts of information for folks to pick up and take with them. Any kind of attraction that they'd like to go to, we can help them with that. We also are selling some merchandise here now in our new location. We're very proud to have a Lexington KYT shirt now. We also have blue ones for the kids, and those, I think, have been quite popular. Now, something that everybody wants to do when they're visiting a new destination, I think is eat food that's local to the area. So, you know, not everybody wants to eat at a chain restaurant when they're on the road. So what we have over here is Beyond Grits. This is one of our very new guides that we have. It's a nice little booklet that gives profiles of some of our chefs here in Lexington and the central Kentucky area, and then all sorts of information on winery tours and that sort of thing, along with the brand-new Brewgrass Trail, which is a collection of local brewers that are setting up shop here in Lexington and the surrounding areas. I can't wait until spring break. Attention kids in the Cardinal Valley area. Do you enjoy the fun and activities at the Village Branch Library? Then we have great news for you. This spring break, the fun moves outside to Valley Park. There will be food, games, and good times the week of spring break beginning April 1st. From 1 to 4 p.m. each day, kids can enjoy the outdoors while taking part in a variety of activities, including sports, games, and arts and crafts. The event is free for all ages and open to the public. Can't wait to come to Village Branch in spring break. Come to Valley Park, located at 2077 Cambridge Drive, for an afternoon of fun and play this spring break. And if I weren't here, I'd be, like, home for, like, having nothing to do or nothing to write or read. I can't wait until spring break at Village French. On April 19th, help keep downtown Lexington clean and green. Clean up downtown Lexington by volunteering for the 2013 Downtown Lexington Corporation's Downtown Trash Bash. Show your support for downtown and the environment in honor of Earth Day. Clubs, schools, business people, and everyone in between are invited. Volunteers will be armed with bags and gloves to clean up downtown streets. Get there early to receive your free volunteer t-shirt. Food and Pepsi products will be available at no cost to volunteers. On Friday, April 19th, come to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to sign in. Once you've picked up your shirt, gloves, and bags, you'll be assigned an area downtown to clean up. Just bring your litter-filled bags back to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion, where they will be properly disposed of by our friends at the City of Lexington Division of Waste Management. The Downtown Trash Bash is an annual spring cleaning event and the local branch of the Great American Cleanup. All the trash collected is trash saved from being washed down the storm drains and into our local rivers. The Downtown Trash Bash is sponsored by the Downtown Lexington Corporation and is held in conjunction with the Great American Cleanup, which is coordinated locally by the City of Lexington. In case of rain, the Downtown Trash Bash will be held on Friday, April 26th. For more information about the Downtown Trash Bash, contact me at the Downtown Lexington Corporation. Sad, sad feeling when you're living on those over dreams But it's okay It's a lonely night Can I put my arms around you? It's a lonely night Trust me if you're too lonely people like me guitar solo She calls me baby She calls everybody baby It's a lonely night But ain't it all It's a lonely night And I put my arms around you It's a lonely old night Cause it's been made for too long There are people like me It's a lonely old night And I put my arms around you It's a lonely old night Custom made for two people like me Yeah, like me and you Yeah, like me and you Thank you. It seems so good to see you back again How long has it been? It seems like a mighty long time It seems like a mighty long time Oh, I'm so glad I'm so glad You stopped by to say hello to me Remember, that's the way it used to be Girl, it seems like a mighty long time Shabbat shabbat, my lady, ooh It seems like a night in heart, so high Oh, yes, I'm so mad You're here again, yeah How long has it been? Girl, you're not gonna stay Please don't tease me like you did before Although I still love you so It seems like a mighty long time Shabbat shabbat, my baby It seems like a mighty long time Shabbat shabbat, sing the song It seems like a mighty long time Shabbat shabbat, my baby It seems like a money You look like an angel Walk like an angel Talk like an angel But I got wise You're the devil in disguise For yes you are, devil in disguise You fooled me with your kisses You cheated and you schemed Heaven knows how you lied to me You're not the way you seem You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel, but I got wise. You're the devil in disguise, oh yes you are the devil in disguise. I thought that I was in heaven But I was sure surprised Heaven helped me, I didn't see The devil in your eyes You look like an angel Walk like an angel Talk like an angel But I got wild You're the devil in the sky Oh yes you are the devil in the sky You're the devil in disguise Oh yes you are Devil in disguise Oh yes you are Devil in disguise Oh yes you are People in the sky, oh yes you are People in the sky, oh yes you are After all the jets are in the boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers merry A broom is drearily sweeping Of the broken pieces of yesterday's life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind, it cries Mary guitar solo The traffic lights, they turn up blue tomorrow And shine the emptiness down on my bed The tiny island sags downstream Cause the life that lived is dead And the wind screams Mary Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past And with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom It whispers no, this will be the last And the wind cries Mary I'm a man. The. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm out. Thank you. Good evening. I'd like to welcome you to the March 27th meeting of the Board of Architectural Review. We appreciate those of you in attendance today. The board was established by zoning ordinance in 1958. Our first historic district was Gratz Park, and we now have a total of 15 historic districts. The board, which is appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the Urban County Council, is part of the Division of Historic Preservation. The Historic Preservation Office maintains a full-time staff to assist you with your projects. The board encourages and recommends that applicants use them as a resource. The Historic Preservation Office is located at 101 East Fine Street, Room 220. It is our procedure to consider applications in the order in which they are listed on our agenda. In each case, we will have a presentation by the staff and will hear any additional comments from the applicant. The board will then ask questions or make comments regarding the application and then hear comments from any other interested parties. The chair will then ask the board members to enter a motion. If you wish to address the board, please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the public record. We also ask that you write your name on the sign-in sheet by the door so the information can be recorded correctly. I'd like to note the following staff approvals before we begin our review of applications. There are certain items that the staff can approve, eliminating necessity for all applicants to appear before the board. There are a total of 19 approved applications noted on today's agenda. First of all, in the Ashton Park Historic District, at 118 South Hanover Avenue, replace fence. And 267 South Hanover Avenue, replace tree. In the Alesford Historic District, 456 East Maxwell Street, repair porch. 300 Transylvania Park, remove deteriorated tree. 338 Woodland Avenue, install installation of satellite dish. In the Bell Court Historic District, 530 Sare Avenue, renovate front porch. At 486 West 2nd Street, renovate rear addition. In the Constitution Historic District, at 155 East 3rd Street, replace windows. 159 East 3rd Street, replace windows. In the Ellsmore Park Historic District, at 632 Ellsmore Park, replace fence. And at 638 Ellsmore Park, renovate rear porch. In the Fayette Historic District, at 414 Fayette Park, install radon pipe. In the Northside Historic District, at 305 North Broadway, remove damaged tree. At 411 West 3rd Street, renovate front porch. 412 West 3rd Street, renovate structure. 417 West 3rd Street, install gates. at 466 West 3rd Street, install satellite dish. At 466 West 6th Street, remove tree and tuck point structure. And in the South Hill historic district at 207 South Limestone, install and replace fencing. We shall now proceed with the review of applications for certificates of appropriateness. The first case on the agenda this evening is at 414 North Limestone. remove existing deck and replace with brick patio or re-landscape yard. Is that applicant here this evening? The applicant is not here but has received a copy of the staff report. Very good. Thank you. Just to review the recommendations for that, are that staff recommend approval as submitted? Are there any questions or comments from the board at this time? No. I would entertain a motion. Regarding case number 11660414F at 414 North Limestone, I move to approve the application as submitted. Thank you very much. Is there a second to the motion? I second the motion. Is there any further discussion of the motion? No. Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, the motion passes. The next case on the agenda this evening is at 207 South Limestone. Install signage in small outbuilding, re-landscape courtyard. Is that applicant here this evening? If you'd like to come down to the microphone, please, and introduce yourself. Give us your address for the record. David Jones, address 1284, Cape Cod Circle. Very well. Have you had a chance to review the staff's findings and recommendations this evening? Yes, we have. And are you in agreement with those recommendations? Yes, we are. Very well. Just to review, I'm going to read those. Staff recommends approvals submitted with the following conditions. Number one, arm of the sign be reduced to 30 inches. The distance between the sign and the corner board be no more than four inches. The proposed paving alongside of the building be held off foundation. Number four, all final details come back to staff or board. and number five, once reviewed by other LFUCG division, any changes come back to staff for the board. Is that what you read and understood as well? Yes. Very well. Any comments from the board at this time for the applicant? No. Is there anybody in the audience to speak to this case this evening? Again, this is at 207 South Limestone. Seeing no action from the crowd and hearing no further comment from the board, I would entertain a motion. Regarding case number 11670207N at 207 South Limestone, I move that we approve the application contingent upon the conditions earlier stated, five conditions earlier stated. Thank you very much. Is there a second to the motion? A second. Very well. Any further discussion with the motion? No. Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes. Thank you. Next case this evening is at 454 East Maxwell Street. Applications to paint masonry structure. Is that applicant here this evening? Would you like to come forward, please, and introduce yourself at the microphone? Get your address for the record. It's Anthony Humphress, and you need the address we're talking about or my home address? Home address, please. 1108 Fontaine Road. Very well. Have you had a chance to read the staff's recommendations of findings this evening? I have. And are you in agreement with those findings? I wouldn't be heartbroken. It'll save me money and time. but i was going to say that um when i bought the place i bought it with i guess a vision of making it look more like a bed and breakfast so i've already removed the vinyl columns that were made out of siding and removed the vinyl soffit that was used as lattice underneath and i've been waiting to do the landscaping until i can figure out the painting on it and i know the guidelines call for not painting the bricks and just not been painted but I'm not so sure personal tastes of most everyone wouldn't agree that it might look better to paint the brick so that's why I was making a request to paint it sure that I hear what you're saying and I understand the guidelines are pretty clear on this if we need to have the staff give their presentation we can do that we can have conversation. If you don't mind, what I'd like to do just for the efficiency of the meeting, we have a couple other, I think, cases that we could sound quickly. Yeah, sure. If you'd like, if you don't mind, if it's okay with you, I'd like to run through those and get them out of the way and then come back to this and have a discussion. Yeah, that's no problem. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. Setting this case aside for a moment, The next case on the agenda is at 600 South Mill Street. Replace rear steps and deck. Is that applicant here this evening? If you'd like to come forward, please. Hello. If you'd introduce yourself and give us your address. Andy Biggers, 110 Browns Mill Road. All right, Mr. Biggers, good to meet you. Have you had a chance to review the staff findings and recommendations at this time? I have. And are you in agreement with their recommendations? Well, I am if I need to be. The request that I would make is that since I'm really not putting on an addition, hopefully we can read the regulations to say that it's not an addition and it wouldn't have to step back a foot. The porch that I'm putting, I'm really just changing a concrete porch to a wood deck, and the area that is above that that would be second floor, there's also evidence on the brick that there was a flashing of some sort that that also came to the edge of the building at some point. The aesthetics of it, I'm sure anybody could argue. I'm looking at not having to tear out a very large concrete porch just to move the edge in. It already comes to the edge of the building. It doesn't step back now. I hear what you're saying. I understand. Again, much like the case before yours, if you don't mind, I'd like to set it aside for just a moment and sound at the rest of these that we can quickly and come back to these for a discussion. Thank you very much. We'll be right back with you. Setting that one aside for a moment as well, the next case on the agenda is at 611 Russell Avenue. Install pool. Change patio. Is that applicant here this evening? Good evening. Hi, I'm Scott Campbell, 124 Forest Avenue. Hello. And I'm actually not the owner. I'm helping with the installation, design, et cetera. Well, good. Have you had a chance to review the findings from the staff and their recommendation at this time? Yes, I have. That's pretty favorable. Are you in favor of their recommendation? Staff recommends approval submitted. And that being the case, any comments or questions from the board at this time? No. Anybody in the audience speak to this case this evening? Again, this is at 611 Russell Avenue. All right. Seeing no action from the crowd and hearing no further comment from the board, I'd entertain a motion. regarding case number 16520611g at 611 russell avenue i move that we approve the application as submitted thank you very much is there a second to the motion i second thank you is there any further discussion of the motion at this time no hearing none all those in favor please say aye Aye. All those opposed? The motion passes. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Next case this evening on the agenda is at 125 South Hanover Avenue. That application is to enclose the rear porch. Is that applicant here this evening? Would you like to come down and introduce yourself, please? I'm Frank Godofka, 787 Shinaway Road. I'm actually the contractor that applied for the certificate. Good to have you here today. Have you had a chance to read the staff's findings and recommendations at this time? Yeah, and I kind of agree with everything on there. Kind of agree. Does that agree agree? That's agree. Okay. It's not a problem. Okay, good. Well, just to review those, I'm going to go through them real quickly. Staff recommends approval as submitted with the following conditions. Number one, that the trim boards of the wall be limited to around the door and the window openings, including mullion between paired windows and the corner boards. And number two, that the final drawings of the elevations be submitted to staff for review and approval prior to the issuance of COA. Right. And you're okay with that? Not a problem at all. Very well. Are there any comments or questions from the board at this time for the applicant? I do have a comment, and I think we might want to defer you so we can come back and talk about it a little bit more completely. And if you would do that, I'd appreciate it. Okay. If that's okay with you, if you're agreeable to a prolonged conversation in a moment, we'll set this aside and come back to you. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. The next case on the agenda this evening is at 426 East High Street for place existing wall sign. Is that applicant here this evening? Christine Oberst, 2071 Hume Road. Good to meet you. Before we start on this case, there are several in a row that are almost identical that I think you're a part of. If it's okay with you, I'd like to treat them like one big conversation. We'll have to do separate motions for each one, but I think we can speed things up a bit if we just speak about them kind of all together, if that's okay with you. For each case, the staff recommendation is pretty favorable, right? It just says staff recommends approval with the conditions that any changes come back to staff or the board. So that's pretty positive. If that's okay with you, we'll just see if there are any questions from the board at this time for you on any of these individual cases. Any questions, any comments? Okay. Well, that being the case, anybody in the audience this evening to speak to any of these cases? They cover 426 East High Street, 317 Transylvania Park, 318 Transylvania Park, 336 Transylvania Park, 375 Transylvania Park, 374 Aylesford Place, 337 Linden Walk, and 350 Linden Walk. All nearly identical applications. And seeing no motion from the audience, hearing no further comment from the board, we have several motions to make. let me just go through them one by one here we really do have to vote each time okay regarding case number 09290426426 east high street move that we approve the application thank you very much is there a second to the motion thank you is there any further discussion with the motion Did you want to include the condition that changes come back? That was in the staff recommendation. It's going to take longer to say. Well, I amend my motion to refer to the condition that any changes come back to staff. Do you accept that amendment and you're second to the motion? Yes, I do. Very well. Thank you for the catch there. Ms. Tate, for the record, could you actually hit your mic when you speak, please? It's there. You're just kind of far away from it. Okay. Thank you. Very well. All right. Now that that's been straightened out, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Now for 317 Transpany Park, I would entertain a motion. In case number 19130317A, 317 Transylvania Park, I move to approve the application pursuant to the recommendation that any changes come back to staff. Thank you very much. Is there a second to the motion? I second. Any further discussion of the motion? No. Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? That motion passes. Next, we have 318 Transylvania Park. Relative to case number 19430318C, 318 Transylvania Park, I move to approve the application pursuant to the condition that any changes come back to staff. Very well. Is there a second to the motion? I second. Any further discussion of the motion? No. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, and that motion passes as well. Now for 336 Transylvania Park. Relative to case number 19130336D, 336 Transylvania Park, move to approve the application as submitted, presented to the requirement that any changes come back to staff. Thank you very much. Can I get a second to the motion, please? I second. Very well. Any further discussion of the motion? No. Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? And that motion passes as well. Next, we have 375 Transvenia Park. If I could get a motion. Regarding case number 191-30375, 375 Transvenia Park, move to approve the application pursuant to any changes coming back to staff. Thank you very much. Can I have a second to the motion, please? I have a second. Very well. Any further discussion of the motion? No. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? And that motion passes as well. And now for 374 Aylesford Place. If I could have a motion, please. Regarding case number 00980374, 374 Aylesford Place, I move to approve the application pursuant to the requirement that any changes come back to staff. Thank you very much. Can I get a second to the motion? Second. Very well. Any further discussion of the motion? No. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? And that motion passes as well. Now for 337 Linden Walk. Regarding case number 11720337, 337 Linden Walk, I move to approve the application, pursuant to the requirement that any changes come back to staff. Thank you very much. Can I get a second to that motion? I second. Very well. Any further discussion of the motion? No. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? And that motion passes also. Now for 350, Linden Walk. I think people should know that it's not usually this much fun. So case number 11720350, 350, Linden Walk, I move to approve the application pursuant to the requirement. Then any changes come back to staff. Thank you very much. Is there a second to that motion? I accept it. Any further discussion of the motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed. And that motion passes as well. Thank you very much. And just to be clear to anybody that's watching what just happened, each of those cases were nearly identical. So it was the same conversation over and over again. We just had it once. And now we're moving on. That takes us to the bottom of the formal agenda. So now we can go back to those cases that we set aside for just a moment. So if Mr. Humphress would come back forward, please, we can discuss the case at 454 East Maxwell Street. And thank you again for your patience for letting us rifle through those. No problem. Sorry, I pulled you up here. Actually, what I'd like to do first is have the staff make their presentation. So if you'd like to sit close by, we'll have you back for questions, comments, and whatnot in just a moment. Thank you. This is the house at 454 East Maxwell Street. I think we ran all the way around. The owner of this circa 1911 colonial revival style structure is requesting the board grant a certificate of propanism to paint the previous unpainted brick walls. and chimney of the structure plus the stone lentils and sills. The foundation walls would remain unpainted. The proposed colors would be either yellow or green. The proposed colors for the stone lentil and sill is white. And I think we have, these were to show the two, the top slide is the one of the yellow and the bottom is of the green that would be preferred. We've listed the guidelines for your reference. The findings, the proposal to paint previously unpainted brick and stone masonry of this historic structure is inappropriate, not within the guidelines. Design Guideline 11A and 113H respectfully state, architectural details and features shall be maintained, retained, and shall not be removed or changed if original to the building, and brickwork and masonry that has never been painted should not be painted. Staff recommends disapproval as submitted. In the field report and the pictures taken, while you were there, did you notice any damage, any problems with the existing masonry finish? No. None at all? Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Martin while we have them? No. Thank you for your help. Would you like to come back and we can hear what you have to say there? Sure. I only have one argument, and that was just that I thought the house was very unattractive with that color brick. And so I wanted to do it like my neighbor's house, which was yellow with the white trim, just simply because I thought it was way more attractive. It won't hurt my feelings. If I don't get to paint it that color, I'll just save a lot of time and money, like I said. But I did think it would look a lot better for the neighborhood. Sure. Well, I appreciate you saying that and obviously appreciate your opinion on the matter, certainly as the applicant and the homeowner. And I'll just start off with my thoughts. The guidelines are really clear on this issue. Sure. We don't often debate it. So I have to stand by the staff's findings and recommendations, but we'll hear what the other board members have to say. I don't know if it will make you feel any better, but I think it's a very handsome house, and I like it better than the two painted ones. So maybe that counteracts your neighbor's taste a little bit, and I would like to see it stay unpainted. Sure. I'd second that. In fact, I would go further than that and say that I think that the brick is a really stunning color, and it's a really unusual brick, and I think it has great value. And furthermore, I think that that color, if you were to work with that color and to develop a color palette for your trim and your detailing for the rest of the house, You could do some things that would make that house look better than any house in the neighborhood. There's no doubt in my mind because of the color of the brick. It's a remarkable brick. You just don't see that very often. It's really common for people to have your opinion about yellow and orange bricks for some reason. I'm not really sure why that is. I think partly because it's difficult to choose colors that work with them, and I think often because people default to white, which doesn't work well with them. While it tends to work well with reds and browns, it doesn't work well with the yellows and the oranges. And so I just, you know, I hope you can find a way to look at what you have there as something really special because I think it really is and really try to pull together a color palette. Be bold with your color selections, and I think you'll be amazed at how good that could look. It is a beautiful house. Option two is to go with a darker brown and a cream color and sort of somewhat of an orange-ish type. Are those the type colors for the trim? Or perhaps this conversation we could have later, if you had. Yeah, you know, color selection is not as simple as doing it well is not as simple as some people may think. And, you know, this is totally my personal experience with this, so it really has no bearing on the guidelines or on your situation or anything. But I have found with yellow brick structures that cream colors usually can be found that really work well with them. And oftentimes turquoise accents like on doors or small features can really look great. Choosing the right version of those things is sometimes a little tricky. But, you know, if you are careful, I think you can find something that works great. And I just repeat again, I think that brick is really outstanding. And look around and see if you can find another house that has that brick. I think you'll have trouble finding that. I'll just add, you know, a couple things. One, generally we don't have much opinion on paint colors. I mean, officially, as far as motions go, and I know the Historic Preservation Office will tell you that too. That when it comes to paint color, we just have a good day You can get a list of historic colors and and other things like that from the historic preservation office and They're pretty good with that. So give them a call sometime And then second of all, I mean these two are really good architects. So if they're telling you it's good-looking, that's That's pretty good. I think But that being the case, I think you're hearing what we're saying pretty clearly We're all kind of saying the same thing as far as which way we're leaning Do you have anything else to add? No, appreciate that. Okay. Well, hang tight there. Is there anybody in the audience to speak to this case? Again, this is 454 East Maxwell Street. If you'd like to add something, come on down and introduce yourself. My name is Brianna Shelton, and I'm a U.K. student. I'm here on a school project. I need your home address, please. Oh, do you want my local address or my home home address? Local mailing address would be fine. Thank you. 701 Sports Center Drive, Lexington, Kentucky. My comment is more of a question. Why is it that you can paint trim on a historic home, but you cannot paint brick? Well. How would that deface the value more than? I'll let our. This is more about the historical character of this structure. This particular structure has never been painted before, so painting it would change its character. Okay. But its trim has been painted before. That's right. Okay. You always paint trim because you want to protect the wood. Okay. That was my question. Thank you. Appreciate you asking. I'm glad we can give you a good answer there. Staff is always here to help. Anybody else in the audience speak to this case? Seeing no further action from the audience and hearing no further comment from the board, I would certainly entertain a motion. Related to case number 12670454D at 454 East Maxwell, I move to accept the staff recommendations to disapprove the applicant's request to paint the masonry on the structure at that address. Thank you very much. Is there a second to the motion? I second the motion. Any further discussion of the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? and the motion has been voted down. Thank you very much. I appreciate you participating in the process. I'm sorry it wasn't the answer you were looking for. But good luck with your project. It's a heck of a nice house. If Mr. Biggers would like to come back up, well, I'll tell you what, have a seat. We'll have the staff make a presentation on your case, and then we'll talk to you all about it. This is the structure at 600 South Mill Street. And the owner has been working on restoring the structure, and he's at the point now that he would like to address the rear of the structure. Right now you've got a stoop that's concrete with sort of a mix of concrete steps and concrete block steps leading out the back door, and also a metal rail or metal staircase system that was sort of an emergency situation for before and an existing door. And so he would like to remove the existing metal stair and stoop and install a new deck system on the second floor and one on the first floor but have no stairs that would lead down. We just have a two-tiered deck stair system. To give you a little bit more image of the house, This yard, actually, the property line ends at the, this property line for 600 South Mill, there's a separate parcel behind the structure that ends at the paving that you see in front. And you can sort of see a side view of the deck or the existing stoop in the rear of the structure. and another view of both existing elements that he intends on covering the stoop at the concrete stoop with a wood deck system. For additional information here again is sort of a site plan of the structure. and then this is a floor plan showing the dimensions of it being the first lower level and then the upper level. He intends also on creating railing systems on either the north and the south end and then wrapping the fence into a gate fence system that would sort of close off the area between the back of the house and in front of the, sort of parallel to the stoop, just sort of hold bikes and garbage receptacles and things like that. This is sort of his proposal at elevation that he's annotated, showing the proposal of his plan. And then this is sort of a view on the side. You've got that in front of you that you can refer to, but cleaner than this one. He's submitted this plan because eventually his proposal would look like this. And sort of having this is the type of construction he intends on using. more construction details. This deck would be freestanding, so you saw the post against the side of the structure, or the elevation of the structure, and that. But he does intend on using vertical rails versus horizontal, or the vertical rails versus the wire. and this is sort of again another view of the overview of what he's proposing to use because of his zoning he will actually have to go before the board of adjustment to construct this just as a side note the guidelines are included for your reference the proposal to construct a two-story deck requires further discussion staff binds the concept to build a first and second a story deck onto the rear of the structure is within the guidelines. However, details of this require further consideration. Staff finds the proposed deck needs to be moved off the corner of the structure at least one foot to be within the guidelines. The design principle for decks, patios, verandas, and balconies states decks, patios, verandas are non-original additions to historic buildings and should be designed to be compatible as possible. When buildings is a new deck or patio, it should be placed at the rear and the side elevations, decks, and patios are not appropriate for placement on primary elevation. Second-story balconies may be added but are limited to rear elevations and should be as obtrusive as possible. Guidelines 2A for G-State additions should be kept to the exterior walls of the original building as intact as possible. Recommendation staff recommends approval is submitted with the following additions. The second and first floor decks be moved off the corner of the building. All exposed wood except for the deck flooring and stair treads be painted or piquely stained. Hide rail be required as building code and once reviewed by other LFUCG divisions. Final details come back to staff. And the applicant is present. Thank you for your presentation. Now if you'd like to come back and talk to us a little bit. So as you stated before, your issue with staff recommendations is the first one, which would have the edge of the deck step in one foot from the side face of the building. Right. As you stated, there is a concrete deck there. We saw pictures of their concrete porch with the foundation underneath it, I believe, I would think. I don't think there's a foundation under that concrete porch. It looks like circa 1940, 50, and it's probably just one big chunk. So once it's removed, there will be no evidence of that concrete porch was ever there, no edge to line up with, no footer to land on top of. It'll be gone. It can be removed, and we can step the deck back. That's doable. It's not my preference. Sure. But the only argument that I have, and again, it's just a little bit of work, is that what is there does go to the edge. There's evidence, as you can see in the pictures, that the previous whatever was up there, I don't know if it was a deck or whatever, also went to the edge. So I kind of thought it would be nice to go to the edge and I wouldn't have to tear the concrete out. But if I step it back, it'll be exactly the same deck to me. It's just the additional work to remove that concrete. The difference in what it will do with my property is negligible, one square foot or one foot of deck length. So if you were to leave the concrete there, what would the condition be at the edge facing the neighbor? What would you see there? Well, the corner closest to the house is in pretty good shape. And I had planned to simply bore into the concrete and anchor a post base to that. The edge that you see in the pictures, the front right edge as you look at the picture, it's not there. And I planned to bring the 6x6 post out, whatever, 4, 5, 6 inches from that, and it would disappear. And then as an underpinning, to hide that, the same board fencing style touching, there would be no opening, would be covering that concrete. And I'd probably just use a tap con and go right into the concrete. And that would border and hide that concrete. Brian, are you finished? Mm-hmm. How high above grade is the existing concrete slab? I'm sorry? How high above grade? As I remember, it's about 18 inches. And how do you plan to attach your wood deck to it? The decking boards would be parallel to the brick of the house so that they would run length rather than seeing the end of all the boards. Are you going to put it up on sleepers so that it'll light? I have room from the concrete porch that is existing now. I have probably 12 or 14 inches, and I'm actually going to sit a 2x8 on the concrete. allowing for the slope uh i may it won't be on the concrete the whole way because the thing's not it's not level and where were you planning on having railings on that lower porch there uh i believe if my math is correct i have 29 inches and not a railing so i'm hoping to put a steps all the way across as you would leave the house and there is a side view if you have all the papers there and i would put a rail there even though it's within the 29 inches i think it looks better uh from the street to have the railing on both okay now if i get the two by eights and the slope of the concrete is a problem and it comes up 30 inches and then i'll put hand rails and a rail on the front but i'd like to avoid that rail yeah okay Okay. The only other thing that occurs to me, I do feel like stepping it back from the corner of the building is the better thing to do. Can you just remove part of that slab and not have to? It's a concrete saw and a jackhammer. It's doable. it's whether y'all think it looks enough better to ask me to chisel out the concrete i can't disagree with you either way if you want to step back i'll do i've done all the work on the house i'm the guy that does it so it's not going to cost me any money it just cost me the time to do it thank you any other questions or comments from the board at this time for the applicant Is there anybody in the audience to speak to this case this evening? Again, we're discussing 600 South Mill Street. It's a little bit complicated by the fact that you have an existing slab that comes to the corner, and the guidelines pretty clearly state that when you build something behind a house, that it should defer to the volume of the house and step back, and that's why the staff suggested that it should step back a foot. It complicates things when there's some evidence that something was there that didn't do that at some point in the past. One of the things that I'm concerned about looking at this is that I'm afraid that when you screw the planks to the side of that concrete that it's going to look like a patch job. not what you would ideally have wanted, but you're having to deal with a condition that you'd really rather not deal with. And that's the kind of thing that degrades properties, that kind of move. It's a Band-Aid move. So that's a concern for me. I guess the ideal scenario for me would be that you'd take a concrete saw and cut the concrete back 18 inches and just remove that 18 inches of concrete along the edge there or enough of it to do what you need to do and get the more ideal appearance. Yeah, I think that was one of my questions, or at least where I was headed, with questions about what the status is of the existing concrete porch. and if you're going to go over it and you're going to cover up the side of it, I just don't even want to know it's there. I don't want any chance of it reappearing in the future. I don't want it to shift more in the future and change things or like Graham has said, sort of have an opportunity to have a negative effect on this project later in the future. So I agree with what Graham is saying and I think what I've heard so far from everybody else. If I may, my level of craftsmanship, I'm not worried at all about the boards. I think they'll look good if I do them. There'll be probably half-inch boards, give or take five-eighths, and I'm going to be putting them under a two-by, so they will be recessed and well-fastened. But in the future, I may not be there, and somebody else might let them fall over. My concern is more that when I remove that porch, I'm going to be exposing 18 inches of stone foundation, which is the mortar from the 1860s, and I'm a little concerned about what kind of damage I'm going to do to that foundation or what kind of efforts I'm going to have to take and what that exposed foundation is going to look like. And I can't tell you what that's going to be. I don't know. I doubt seriously there was any expansion joint or anything. I would imagine they poured the concrete right into the stone. And I can probably make it look pretty. I can chisel out stone and put new stone in it. I don't think it would compromise the house. I hope not. But removing that concrete also deals with dealing with either a foot or, I like your idea if you're going to go 18 inches and put the post in the ground. But then you're dealing with 18 inches of that foundation. I don't know. I'm not trying to play an extra card out of my hand here, but it is something that I'd be more worried about dealing with that than the boards on the side of the concrete. Sure. And I guess my point was I'm not worried about the work you do today or your craftsmanship. I'm worried about what happens to it in the future. Sure. You know, as wood shrinks and does what it does or wear and tear leads to problems. Oh, yeah. They'll have to be replaced. Right. So that's my concern. All right. Any other thoughts or comments at this time? Hearing none. and again, no additions from the audience at this time. No. If you'd like to come speak, go ahead. Hello. My name's Montel Buckles, and I live at 528 South Mill Street. I can attest to Mr. Bigger's craftsmanship. I think he's done an excellent job with his house. I don't know if you know what it looked like before he took over, but it is a marked improvement. I think my concern is the same as Mr. Hossfield, is what happens after Mr. Biggers is gone from this site. I want to be a good neighbor. I want to support my neighbor. But I'm also worried about the next person that may have that home. And I'm also concerned about the integrity of that porch if it's based on that porch. so that's my two cents worth thank you very much those are good comments any other comments from the audience at this time concerning this case again this is 600 South Mill Street seeing no action from the crowd and hearing no further comment from the board I would certainly entertain a motion at this time you want me to try a motion here I'm not sure how the other board members are feeling about this but I'll put out my what I think would be ideal what would be the best scenario so regarding case number 13150600G at 600 South Mill Street. I move to support the staff's recommendation of approval with the following conditions. That the second and first floor decks be moved off the corner of the building. That all exposed wood except for deck flooring and stair treads be painted or opaque stained at the height of the railing be as required by building code and that once reviewed by other lfucg divisions final details come back to staff my inclination is to allow you to make the call with regard to how to achieve the setback so whether you remove all of the concrete or the portion that's required to achieve that It would be your call. Very well. Is there a second to the motion? I second. Any further discussion of the motion? Very well. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? And the motion passes with those recommendations. Thank you very much. Thank you. The next case on the agenda this evening is at 125 South Hanover Avenue, enclosed rear porch. I'd like to have staff go ahead and make their presentation. This is the property of 125 South Hanover. and the proposed work is at this northwest corner. I guess I could highlight that. The applicant at this time is requesting that the Board grant a certificate of appropriateness to enclose the existing 16-foot by 24-foot porch located at the rear northwest corner of the structure. The proposed work would include the removal of the existing fluted aluminum-wrapped columns and construction of the wood frame wall system beneath the existing double 2x12 beam. The walls are to be finished in stucco with trim boards of various sizes. The existing aluminum and our vinyl soffit and trim are to be replaced with wood windows and door are to be a wood construction. We've listed the guidelines for your reference. The findings, staff finds the proposal to enclose the post-1972 rear porch addition to this circa 1920 Tudor revival style structure to be appropriate in courts with Guidelines 1.13D and 2.A.4.1, respectively, reference maintaining the height and shape of the porch roof and the use of compatible materials. However, the staff finds the extensive use of trim work in such a small area not in accordance with Guideline 2B1K, reference being appropriately scaled for the structure, plus given the building an imitation historic appearance, which also is noted in Guidelines 11D. A more appropriate trim of the walls would be similar to treatment of the existing structures, second floor, center window of the rear elevation. I don't know if that really showed ranking. I can get back to the photographs. Thank you. The thought is something more simple than all the trim pieces. Recommendation staff recommends approval is submitted with the following conditions. Trimboard of the walls be limited to around the door and window openings, including mullion between paired windows and the corner boards. Final drawings of the elevation be submitted to staff for review and approval prior to the issuance of the COA. Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Martin while he's at the microphone? No, I understand you. All right. Thank you. Okay. If you'd like to come back up, I think we have some questions for you. Now, just to be clear, you had already stated that you're okay with staff recommendations. Yeah, I don't have a problem with that whatsoever. Good. So you had some questions or comments. Go ahead. I thought this was going to be easy. No. My problem with this is I don't think that there's enough detail, attention, given to guideline 113D, and let me read it to you. Porches on the rear and sides of the building may be enclosed if the height and shape of the porch roof is maintained and the open character of the porch is retained with a maximum amount of glass area and a minimum amount of solid area. Right. I think that really throughout Kentucky's residential history, we've seen so many porches enclosed. and language has been established really in that history. You generally try to infill a porch so that it still reads like a porch and not an addition to the building. I think there's a combination of your proposal and the staff's recommendation that don't go far enough to address that. And here's what that pattern language generally reads. You do, as you put forth, want to make sure your columns are visible and articulated from the exterior so you can see it was. And I thank you so much for taking the aluminum ones out. Right. What we'd like to see is that windows go in each one of those infill panels, column to column, that the window glazing goes column to column, except for the three and a half inches that you'll need to trim around the frame. and that below that, generally, it's appropriate or it has been more customary to use some sort of wood siding, the profile of which would depend on the style of the house, and then a wood above, which you're going to do. And so I really started worrying more about how this was going to look after reading the staff's recommendation because they pulled back and said, no, we think you should just frame simply, put a window in between columns, frame simply, and don't connect any trim horizontally. But in these porches, you often see the header trim over the windows go all the way column to column, and the sill, the apron under the sill doing the same thing to establish those three horizontal sections. Right. And that reads porch, whether the glass goes down closer to the floor or whether it comes up to 30 inches or wherever. So I would like for you to consider and resubmit drawings which address that issue more. Fortunately, you're in a position that you can shift columns so you can select your windows for manufacturer's standard sizes and bring them column to column, even if you space more between the windows. But what I'd like you to try to respect is that you generally don't see a lot of siding on each side of the window. So you're looking like you have a band of window and not a window punched in a wall. Am I making a statement? I understand everything, but I think the issue she's having here, she has teenage kids and nowhere for a TV, and she really doesn't want everybody to be able to see into that room. That's part of the issue. The other thing is we have these great big aluminum columns, and I don't think those round, they're ugly. And she really doesn't want. And I don't think anybody disagrees with the removal of those. And I think the issue with going full glass around the whole thing is the purpose of this room is to have somewhere for the teenagers to, there's no family room in this house, put it that way. Well, I'd make a suggestion there. I think the transoms just look like they don't belong. Right. But what you might do is continue the upper sash of the band or the upper half of the window. And then under that, she can build in her TV or put a cabinet and TV on it or whatever. But I think the two at the upper height should stay as a continual band around the side and across the back. Right, keep all the windows at the same height around the building. And keep it the same window size. You just vary the height of it. I don't think anything that's been said so far limits the possibility of using this room as a TV room or otherwise. You still have a very solid wall on the existing house that's got lots of opportunities that a wall full of windows wouldn't. So you still have that variety of surfaces to use for a variety of functions. So I don't think we're undoing that effort as far as who can be there and what function it can serve. I think it's still a possibility. And just to clarify your request for a resubmital, we haven't made a motion yet, and I'm not sure where we're headed exactly, but would you be willing, with any recommendations that we make, to entrust the staff to handle that review. And if they feel like his resubmitted drawings are within the motion, that may or may not be approved in your recommendation so that they can handle it at that level. And if there's any sort of disagreement, that sort of thing can come back to us, which I think is actually already one of the staff's recommendations, but we would include any new recommendation covered in that resubmitted drawings. Go ahead. If that's okay. I think a motion could be crafted in that direction. I just want to say I completely agree with Sarah's observations, and I want to clarify that she didn't intend that you would keep round columns. Right. I could build in columns into the wall to look like it. You could even space them in different ways if it works. I think the idea is that the end result is something that looks frame-like and open rather than solid with punctured openings. Right. I might add that actually the infill between column to column recesses, let's say, two inches. Right. You really can build a stud frame wall and just make trim out a pile of stuff. Right, exactly, on the exterior. On the outside. And then you get to insulate the whole wall. You've got a better. Right. So I still have a continuous wall to insulate, correct? Yeah. And just build a half column on the outside. So would you prefer that that be, say, a siding on the exterior as opposed to the stucco that is on the existing house? I do. You know, with me, stucco reads masonry. Right. And a porch infill usually. You're looking at more of it looking like a porch infield on a stucco house as opposed to this stucco house continuing. We do favor that additions and renovations contrast the existing structure, so it's a notable change and it's not something that can be mistaken as the original structure, just to respect new versus old and make that conversation apparent. I don't know if there's any other siding on this house, but I'll have to walk around it and see if it would be better to mimic that siding, type of siding that's on there, or go to a different type of siding. You know what I'm saying? I don't think there's any, but, for example, if there was shake somewhere or an 8-inch laps or 4-inch laps. What I might say is clapper siding does not really reflect that period, that style building, as much as like a shiplap or just a tongue and groove board. Right. So, you know, just walk around and look at similar ones. But I would look at something other than shiplap for that bottom panel. Actually, a wood panel that has a deep frame around it, but simple. maybe that's broken with a vertical so it's not a big long one. Right. That may be the most appropriate thing. And I might add, I think it should be painted out all as trim. Right, yeah. Is that dark Tudor brown on that building? Yeah, it's brown, yeah. That's what I'd paint the porch, every bit of it. Every bit of it brown. But that's not to say it has to be done. That's not to say it. No problem. All right. Any other comments or questions for the applicant at this time? Hearing none, anybody in the audience to speak to this case? Again, this is at 125 South Hanover Avenue. Seeing no action from the audience and hearing no further comments or questions from the board, I would certainly entertain a motion. Do you want me to jump on this one? Go for it. Related to case number 08760125 for a porch infill at 125 South Hanover Avenue, I move that the recommendations, the staff recommendations for this project, recommendation number one, changed to read that redesign be resubmitted to give more transparency to the porch infill style and to respect the horizontal language of filling in between columns and that the drawings be resubmitted to the staff for their input and approval of having achieved that Goal. Very well. Is there a second to the motion? I second the motion. Any further discussion of the motion? I would ask you to consider an amendment to your motion. I would because I don't feel like I was taking it. No, you did very well. And the only thing I would add, because we're altering a recommendation made by the staff, is that maybe you reference the guideline you spoke of earlier and include that in your motion, please. Yes, you want me to make the amendment? So the amendment would just simply add, per guideline, 1.13.D to the end of the motion made. Do you accept that? I accept that amendment. Very well. Any further discussion of the motion? Very well. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? The motion passes with the recommendations. All right. Thank you very much. Good luck. All right. That concludes the formal portion of our meeting this evening where we hear certificates of appropriateness. And the next item on the agenda is conceptual review. Thank you. You can ask me to come out, tell her everything in your mind. Why don't you put your red dress on? You look so fine, move it nice and easy. Girl, you'll make me lose my mind Sherry, Sherry baby Sherry, can you come out tonight? Come out tonight Come out tonight Sherry, can you come out tonight? The story is I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd You're gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud It's my life, it's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live a life My heart is like an open highway I'm thinking shit I did in my way I just wanna live when I'm alive It's my life This is all ones who stood their ground Tommy and Gina, you never pat down Tomorrow's getting hot, I make no mistake Love can't even know you gotta make your own fix It's my life, it's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live my life It's my life, my heart is like an open highway Like money gets set up dead in my way I just wanna live my life It's my life Oh, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live my life My heart is like an open highway My finger said I did it my way I just wanna live my life It's my life And it's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live the life of life My heart is like an open highway My fingers said I did it my way I just wanna live the life of life It's my life Girl You'll be your woman soon Love you so much can't count all the ways I died for you girl And all they can say is You're not your kind They never get tired of putting me down And I never know when I come around But I'm gonna find her Don't let them make up your mind Don't you know, girl You'll be a woman soon Please Come take my hand Girl You'll be a woman Soon Soon You don't need a man I've been misunderstood for all of my life But when the same girl just cuts like a knife The boy's no good Well I finally found what I've been looking for But I'm thinking the chance they'll end in the show Sure they won Baby I've done all I can It's up to you girl You'll be your one of my soul Please Come take my hand Girl You'll be a woman You'll need a man Oh girl, you'll be your woman soon Please, come take my hand Girl, you'll be your woman soon You'll need a man Miracles don't often come along And I can't believe I've got all of my very own She's the one that'll make, got my mind and a whirl How could such a fussy lady be such a sexy girl, girl, girl? She can't help it, the girl can't help it, she's made that way. She just happens to have everything, everything it takes. Make me feel alive all over And all I have to do is hold her She can't help it, the girl can't help it She's got a special way about her But she don't even know it A certain little look that drives me mad But she doesn't even know she shows it With just one glance She makes my heart skip a beat And how she does it is a mystery to me She can't help it, the girl can't help it She's made that way She just happens to have everything, everything it takes To make me feel alive All over And all I have to do is hold her She can't help it, the girl can't help me She can't help it, the girl can't help me She can't help it, the girl can't help me Oh, the girl came in love, cause she's a baby. She came in love with the girl. Oh, the girl came in love, cause she's a baby. Oh, the girl came in love, cause she's a baby. The End cameras on the shoulders we'll be reading cue cards leave them long johns on the line if the kids look dirty that'll be just fine they're gonna put us on lifestyles of the not so rich and famous they wanna see us go honk wild over beans and barbecue They wanna see my fair lane up on blocks The holes in all our socks Talking about the lifestyles of the not so rich and famous Tell them about your mama and the bowling league Tell them about Junior and his baseball team I'll show my nine-point buck on the wall I'll blow a few times on my new duck call Let him see old Blue how he sleeps all day We'll bring out the Elvis TV tray They're gonna put us on lifestyles Of the not-so-rich and famous They wanna see us go hawk wild Over beans and barbecue They want to see my fair lane up on blocks The holes in all our socks Talking about lifestyles of the not so rich and famous Yeah, our idea of high class living Sitting on the porch on a cool night High champagne and caviar There's an RC Cola and a Moon Pie I'm talking about lifestyles of the not so rich and famous Lifestyles of the not so rich and famous All aboard! Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as fools Maybe it's not too late To learn how to love and forget how to hate Mental wounds not healing Life's a bitter shame I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I'm going off the rails on a crazy train Let's go I've listened to creatures I've listened to fools I was only dropouts Who make their own rules What was the tradition To rule and control The media tells it Can you leave the road Metal walls still screaming Finding me insane I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I know that things are going wrong for me You gotta listen to my words guitar solo That's what we've become. Inheritance trouble. I'm mentally numb. Crazy. I just cannot live. I'm living with something. That's your desire. Mental wounds. Not healing. Who wants to play I'm going off the rails On a crazy train I'm going off the rails On a crazy train I'm out. Mr. Brown is a clown who rides through town in a coffin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Who is Mr. Brown? I wanna know now He's nowhere to be found But men have built a slight of it Coughing, running around Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town Asking for Mr. Brown A man and a man just like a man Coughing, running around Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town Asking for Mr. Brown I wanna know who Is Mr. Brown Is Mr. Brown controlled by remote? Oh This is your chance Take your chance Prove yourself Down in parade Keep it rolling like a masquerade The boys make a rain Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the thing gets paid What's a thing in town Crows, chauffeur dribbling around Stacking as if they have never known The Monday call Mr. Brown I can't tell you where it's from now But man, I'm guilty, it's like a baby Coughing, running around I'll take, I'll take, I'll take I'm out. You're gonna set me on fire. My brain is flaming. I don't know which way to go. Your kisses lift me higher. Like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky. Burning love. I feel my temperature rising. Tell me I'm flamin', I must be a hundred at night Burnin', burnin', burnin', and nothin' can cool me I just might turn to smoke, but I'll be fine Cause your kisses live behind, like the sweet song of the wire And light my morning sky Burning love It's coming closer The flames are not lurking my body Won't you help me I feel like I'm slipping away. It's hard to breathe. My chest is a heaving. Lord, have mercy. I'm burning the whole world away. You kiss and live beside. Like the sweet song of a fire. Like the morning sky. Burn in love, burn in love I'm just a hug, a hug of burn in love Just a hug, a hug of burn in love A hug, a hug of burn in love Just a hug, a hug of burn in love A hug, a hug of burn in love Just a hug, a hug of burn in love A hug, a hug, a hug of burn in love I'm just a hunger, hunger, burning love I'm just a hunger, hunger, burning love I'm out. My darling, can you picture this? Dream camp courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses They feel the heat, the heat between me and you I don't just leave me standing Alone in a world that's so cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, too old. Maybe you're just like my mother. She's never satisfied. Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when the doves cry. Touching me with my stomach Feel how it trembles inside You've got the butterflies all tied up Don't make me chase you, even doves that bright You just leave me standing Alone in a world so cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father Too bold Maybe I'm just like my mother She's never satisfied Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like When the doves cry I'm living in love How can you just leave me standing Alone in a world that's so cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father To a fool Maybe I'm just like my mother She's never satisfied Why does she scream This is what it sounds like when love's crying When love's crying When love's crying When love's crying When love's crying We'll be right back. I'm back in the USSR. You don't know how lucky you are, boy. I'm back in the USSR. Been away so long, I hardly knew the place. Gee, it's good to be back home. Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case. Honey, disconnect the phone. I'm back in the USSR. You know how lucky you are, boy. Back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in the U.S. as long. Well, you're the great girls really knock me out. Leave the West behind, no. And my hustle, girls, make me sing and shout. And Georgia's always on my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my. Oh, come on. Yeah, I'm back in the USSR. You don't know how lucky you are, boys. I'm back in the USSR. Oh, the yellow green girls really knock me out They leave the west behind And the snow girls make me sing and shout And Jojo's always over Oh, show me round the snow pink mountains without sound Take me to your daddy's hall Let me hear your bell like it's ringing out Come and keep your comrade warm I'm back in the USSR You don't know how lucky you are, boys Back in the USSR Let me tell you, honey I'm back in the USSR Back in the USSR I'm going to edit. It's all for you, if you really want it It's all for you, you say you need it It's all for you, you gotta hide It's all for you, if you make a move It's all for you I see you staring at the corner of my eye You seem uneasy, won't approach me, throw me a line But there's something in touch, you grab your sense Who am I? I know exactly because it happens with all the guys Show you, so what you gonna do? Come on and join me Promise you won't even ever let you do Unless you sit next to me Don't join the list with these people who lose That ain't the way to be Yes, it's cool, yes, I'm in the mood It's in my days, yes, you're back in my heart You really want it Don't feel you You say you need it It's all for you. You better have it. It's all for you if you make a move. It's all for you. You can't be afraid of, keep me waiting for too long. Before you know it, I'll be out of here. I'll make a move. Don't try to be your way, but keep the end sky. Don't have to work that hard. Just be yourself and let me be your guy. So come and turn me by I promise you won't even have an attitude I bet you're still right next to me No love, no, this will be your move That ain't the way to be, no Yes, it's cool, yes, I'm in the mood It's all for you If you really want it, it's all for you If you say you need it, it's all for you If you gotta hide it, it's all for you You make a movie, it's all for you Tell me I'm the only one, it's all for you So yeah, we have a party, it's all for you Come on, can I get your sound? You make a movie, it's all for you To my girls at the party, look at that party Shookin' up and lookin' my baby's sweet Got a nice package, alright? That's all I have to ride for tonight All my girls at the party, look at that party She can nothing, I can never get sick In a nice back yard Guess I'm gonna have to ride it tonight Tonight, tonight, tonight It's all for you You really want it It's all for you, you say you need it. It's all for you, you gotta have it. It's all for you, and you make a move. It's all for you. I'm a girl at the party, look at that party. Shaking up, and you're making a whole thing. That's a bad job. It's all for you. I'm a girl at the party, look at that party. Shaking up, and you're making a whole thing. It's all for you. That's a bad job. Cause I'm gonna have to ride That's all for you Soon I'm the only one Soon you'll be having fun Come over here and get some Soon you'll be having fun Soon you'll be having fun Cause I'm gonna have to ride Cause I'm gonna have to ride And tonight isn't what I have to write Today Today For your eyes only can see me through the night For your eyes only I never need to hide You can see so much in me So much in me that's new I never felt Till I looked at you For your eyes on me Only for you You'll see what no one else can see And now I'm breaking free for you I don't believe Only for you Love, I know you needed me It's bad to see you free with me Only for you Only for you For your eyes on me, the nights are never cold You really know me, that's all I need to know Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine But you won't need to read between lines On your eyes only Only for you You'll see what no one else can see Now I'm breakin' free But your eyes only Only for you The passions that collide in me The world abandoned side of me Only for you For your eyes only Thank you. I wonder how you're feeling There's ringing in my ear I know what you relate to Self-deceived Who can I believe in I'm meeting on the front There has to be a force Who do I want? The stars around me shining But I'm not really wrong I want to Show me the way Every day I want to Show me the way Well I can't see no reason You're living on your nerves When someone drops a cup And I submerge I'm swimming in a circle I feel I'm going down There has to be a fall To play my part With someone I thought I'd need it But all I really want to learn Oh, won't you Show me the way Every day I want you Show me the way I want you I wonder if I'm dreaming I feel so unashamed I can't believe this is happening to me I watch you when you're sleeping And I want to take your love I want you Show me the way Every day I want you Show me the way One more time I want you Every day I want you Day after day I want you Show me the way Every day I want you Show me the way Night and day I want you Yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, hey, hey, hey Won't you come see about me I'll be alone Dancing, you know it, baby Tell me your troubles and doubts Given everything inside and out and Love's strange, surreal and dark Think of the tender things that we were working on Slow change may pull us apart When a life gets into your heart, baby Don't you forget about me Don't, don't, don't, don't Don't you forget about me Will you stand above me Look my way You'll never love me Rain keeps falling Rain keeps falling Down, down, down Will you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling Down, down, down, down Hey, hey, hey, hey Ooh, ooh, ooh Don't you try to pretend It's my only will When in any hour I won't harm you Or touch your defenses Vanity, insecurity Don't you forget about me I'll be alone, dancing, you know that baby Going to take you apart I'll put us back together, ah baby Don't you forget about me Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't you Coming up on Lexington Now, Pension Reform, our ongoing series about caring for ailing loved ones, and Thursday Night Live is back. There's some more up next on this week's edition of Lexington Now. I'm Sherelle Roberts and welcome to another edition of Lexington Now where we take a look at the news that shapes your urban county government. It was a historic moment for Lexington as Governor Steve Beshear joined Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and the presidents of the city's fire and police unions to sign House Bill 430, which implements the city's pension reform plan for police and fire department employees. This is a big day for Lexington, a bright new day for our city. Today, the governor will officially sign into legislation Lexington's police and fire pension reform bill. The biggest... Our city's biggest fiscal issue has now been solved. The pension for our fire and police is now on sound footing. For the first time in a generation, our police officers and firefighters can sleep better knowing their retirement system is strong. For years, the pension system was moving along like the Titanic. Our annual payments were ballooning beyond what the city could afford, but we have avoided the iceberg. So many cities around the country are facing enormous pension challenges. challenges, but Lexington has showed the way. In fact, Lexington was just held up as a model at a national conference on distressed cities last week. Today, in the spirit of earlier generations, this compromise confirms one of life's greatest lessons at every level of human interaction. We don't always get our own way when we work together to find a better way. This agreement, which is about to become law, is marked by shared compromise, but it's also marked by shared achievement. Our unfunded liability is cut in half from $296 million to $161 million. Actives and new hires will contribute more, and there's a lower cost of adjustment. The city is committed to paying more, and we're paying off the liability over 30 years. And let me be clear about this. No more bonding to cover our pension. So today is an historic one for the city of Lexington. Our police and fire pension system has been preserved and strengthened for the long term. And that is what our police officers and firefighters who keep our city safe deserve. Now, I want you to hear from our governor, Governor Beshear, who is here to officially sign this bill today. You know, it seems that lately a lot of people are spending a lot of time talking about pensions. I know I have, and I continue to. Many state and local governments across this country are wringing their hands, looking at the often very large amounts of money that they will owe to hardworking public employees and wondering how they will ever meet those obligations. Those conversations are happening right now, just up the road in Frankfort, I must tell you, those conversations are continuing. But perhaps all of these cities and states that are wondering what they should do and how they should do it should look no further than right here in Lexington. This city was facing a huge shortfall, some $296 million of unfunded liability for the pension system for police and firefighters. It was an obligation that threatened to knock the legs out from under the city's budget. The growing demands of the pension system would soon begin eating away at funds for services like road repairs and economic development. In fact, the city's urban county council approved a $34 million bond issue just to cover the city's pension fund payment this year. But then Mayor Jim Gray, members of the Pension Board, and representatives from the fire and police unions got together and decided that there had to be a better way. These folks put their heads together and worked out a plan to make this critical pension system sustainable for the long haul. With this legislation, the pensions of the brave men and women who fight every day and put their lives on the line for each of us are put into a very successful plan with this legislation. House Bill 430. These public servants, again, put their lives on the line every day to protect us, us, in Lexington, in Fayette County. The task force worked tirelessly to come up with a great compromise. When I say great, that means that nobody liked it, but when everybody came to the table, no one liked everything on the table. But when they left the table, there was an agreement, a consensus. And the majority of the police and fire and retirees voted for this plan. So that is a great compromise. You know, prior to that late midnight hour on Thursday night back in January, we didn't know what our future was going to be as far as this pension goes. But thanks to a few people that got together, and I think they've all been named here, we were able to make it happen. I've been involved in three negotiations, three contracts. I can tell you none of them are easy. This one wasn't any easier. But had it not been for the group of men and women of the police and fire departments who overwhelmingly voted on this, we wouldn't have it. So that's where the thank goes to the men and women of the police department and the fire department, actives and retires, who vote to sustain their pension. Importantly, this is a defined benefits pension. More importantly, over 55% of the men and women in this pension system are making under $40,000 a year. We kept them at a reasonable rate, at a reasonable COLA. We protected them as well as everybody else in this pension system. This was a lot of sacrifice on behalf of our members for really a problem, just like most city or most other firefighters and police officers across the country, a problem they didn't create. but we had to find a solution for it and had to work with the city to it. So I do want to thank the mayor for sitting down with us. And this had to be done to save the pension for all of our current and our retirees and our new hires. It provided, just like the mayor said, a defined benefit and continues to find benefit for the new hires, which is vital because we don't have Social Security. And this is our only retirement. I also believe this says a lot about how when given a chance, labor and management can work together to solve issues. And sit down collectively and come out with a plan that is sustainable, provides a dignified retirement, and is good for the taxpayers. All right. Let's get this done. There we go. Many state and city leaders say they're hopeful that Lexington's fix for its broken pension system will be an example for other municipalities. For the past few weeks, we've been sharing stories about those caring for ailing loved ones ahead of an expo coming to town to help citizens deal with that very issue. This week, we're talking to Esther Holbert, whose mother is in a nursing home. She shares how the decision was made to place her mother and how you can make the best of what some see as a scary last resort. A measure of love isn't based on where she lives or not, but on your approach to how you care for her in whatever circumstance she's in. And so sometimes when I just say that to a family is, moving her to a nursing home doesn't mean you love her any less. And say that out loud, I think it really helps them rethink what it really means to love and take care of somebody. A lot of it's in the approach rather than in the result. I mean, it wrecked me the day I moved my mom to a nursing home. That was one of the hardest things I did. but as I watched over time I really think my parents' marriage improved because then when my dad went to see my mother they could enjoy each other they had lunch, he'd read the newspaper and fall asleep like he did at home, in her nursing home room and she'd be doing whatever she would be doing so they could enjoy each other's presence without having to worry about toileting and bathing and arguing whether she was going to take her pills or those care issues, because he could hand off the hands-on kind of thing that was providing the stress, and then he could really just enjoy her. And I think it did them both good from that respect, is don't go with the intention of having to care hands-on. Go and enjoy the relationship then. And I think that that helps as well, just giving permission to be less vigilant. Because I think primary caregivers are on so much. I mean, they're turned on. It's always like they're always waiting for the other shoe to drop, that it's really hard to turn off and to let somebody else do some of the work and really rest. For more information about the April 14th event titled the I Know Expo, you can log on to the website here on the screen. Well, when we come back, it might not look like it, but it is officially spring, and that means Thursday Night Live is back. This stinks! Every time I picked them up, they're back again! Hey! Guy, what are you doing? Jeez! Don't you know that cigarette butts are litter too? A reminder, there is no cigarette fairing. Dispose of all litter properly, including cigarette butts. It's the right thing to do. Hi, I'm David O'Neill, your Property Evaluation Administrator, with an important message for homeowners that could save you money on your next property tax bill. If you're 65 years of age or older or disabled and you own your own home, you probably qualify for Kentucky's homestead exemption, saving you up to $410 a year on your property taxes. But don't wait until your birthday. Apply today at FayettePVA.com or give us a call at 246-2722. I look forward to hearing from you. Severe weather can develop quickly. Advances in forecasting allow the NOAA National Weather Service to predict severe weather before there's even a cloud in the sky. Severe thunderstorm and tornado watches give you advance notice that conditions are favorable for dangerous weather. When your area is in a watch, be sure to stay alert for changing weather. is not a warning. A warning is only issued when severe weather is about to strike. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma monitors weather conditions across the United States. They issue daily forecasts showing areas of the country that are likely to experience severe weather. In the hours before storms form, the Storm Prediction Center the weather with National Weather Service forecast offices within the areas at risk. The Storm Prediction Center then issues a watch to notify people in those areas to stay alert for severe weather. A watch also includes information about what type of weather you might see and the chances of it actually occurring. The risk level can range from a few storms with hail and high winds to a particularly dangerous situation when deadly tornadoes could occur. The most important thing you can do when a watch is issued is to stay alert for developing storms and understand your risk. Be sure to tune in to your local news for updated weather information. You can also get instant weather alerts from NOAA Weather Radio. Watches also provide an opportunity to review your family emergency plan, as well as check your disaster supplies kit. When the risk increases and severe weather moves in, you'll be ready if a warning is issued. If you need help developing a plan for your family or packing a kit, check out ready.gov for all the information. Stay alert and stay safe this storm season. For more information about emergency preparedness in Fayette County, visit BeReadyLexington.com. This is Tom Leach. A team plays their best when they're prepared. They have a plan so they know what to do to win. Just like a winning team, your family needs to be prepared for emergencies, severe weather, power outages, flooding, and fires. The Kentucky Emergency Management Association, along with your local emergency management agency, want you to be prepared. Be aware of potentially dangerous conditions. Put together an emergency kit for your home, office, and vehicle. Have a family emergency plan and update it regularly. For more information, visit kyema.org. Do you own a business? Would you like to do business with the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government? Then you need to register your company in the LFUCG Economic Engine Marketplace. It is the best tool we have to communicate with your business about opportunities to bid on projects. Please register at lexingtonky.gov slash economic engine. Once your company is registered, you will begin receiving invitations to bid on opportunities specific to your business. For more information, contact the Division of Central Purchasing at 859-258-3320. Welcome back to the show. Well, with the cold and snow, you probably still think it's winter, but it is officially spring, according to those weather experts. And if you're ready to beat the blues that the winner left behind, you're in luck. because Thursday Night Live at the Fifth Third Pavilion is back. Central Bank's Thursday Night Live kicks off its 18th season on Thursday, April 4th, down at the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion at Cheapside Park. The band that night will be the Payback, which is a James Brown tribute band. They'll perform from 530 to 730 p.m., but will be open for drinks and food sales from 430 until 8. We do have our entire band scheduled booked, and you can check that out on our website, downtownlex.com. We have a lot of our favorites coming back, plus a lot of new bands, the Johnson Brothers, the Big Maracas, the Swells, Kenny Owens, and more. The 2013 season kicks off on April 4th, and will take place every week through Halloween, October 31st. For more information, you can check us out online at downtownlex.com. Of course, you can also find us on Facebook at both Downtown Lexington Corporation and Central Bank Thursday Night Live. We also have a Twitter account, at Downtown Lex Corp. Welcome to Central Bank Thursday Night Live. For more information about the Thursday Night Live schedule, visit the downtown lexington corporation website at w w w dot downtown lex dot com was the weather warms up break in activity he's out and that's why lexington division of police officers are spreading the word about what you can do to keep yourself safe from car thieves it doesn't matter if your car is a classic that cadillac or a clunker easily be a target for criminals that's if you're not taking the proper steps to protect it Some people, that's how they make their living. They'll break into a car because it's easy for them. They can just walk by, look around. It's almost like window shopping to somebody. Officer Stephen Gond says the simplest things can lure crooks to your car. Purses, nice sunglasses, loose change in the cup holder or on the floorboard. If they see something they like, then they can break in and get it, and that's easy money for them. Easy money is something many are looking to come by in these tough economic times. In fact, last month, more than 300 cars were broken into in Lexington. Many times, those items are pawned. There are other times when someone has actually asked them, do you know somebody that might be selling this? And they'll specifically look at cars for that particular item so they can sell it on a one-on-one basis. The truth about LFAs or larceny from autos can be frightening, but you can do things to protect yourself. Locking the doors is the number one way to stop most LFAs. It may sound simple, but locking your doors is the key to prevention, says Gauntz. If they walk by and they check the door handle and the door opens on them, then they can route through the car and look for anything they want. But if it is locked, most criminals would see it as too much work to steal from. Some people wouldn't take the extra step to break the glass out or try to jimmy the door open. But don't underestimate the bad guys, says Gontz. They have sort of a sixth sense for detecting a crime opportunity, especially when it comes to electronics like GPSs. Even though the GPS may be taken down and the mount is removed from the vehicle, a lot of times thieves still know that you've had a GPS or some type of mount in the car because on the windshield it will actually leave a ring on the windshield. Officer Gantt says remove all trace of dust rings and suction cup rings and then remove any other items from your car. Hide valuables. Don't leave valuables sitting in a car seat on your dash. Even though you think it's not very valuable, like the loose change on the floorboard, that is still one reason that someone will try to break into the car. And one last tip to remember as you're getting out of your car, be sure to take one last look. Make sure you didn't leave anything on the seats, so that way you won't be an easy target. For more information about how to protect your car and other property, visit the police page at lexingtonky.gov. The Division of Government Communications is always working to help to make your morning commute a little bit smoother, especially on days like today with our show, Crosstown Traffic. The show airs live weekday mornings from 6.30 to 8.30 and gives you the most up-to-date traffic news and even a street view with our live cameras so you can see where the delays are before you leave the house. Remember, that's Crosstown Traffic only on GTV3. Now, here's a look at this week's Lane Closure Report. Thank you. You can stay up to the minute with traffic happenings in real time by following us on Twitter at our handle, at LexRex. Well, this week in the urban county government is going to be a little bit lighter as the schedule goes because the urban county council is on spring break. Here's a sneak peek at what's on the schedule, but for a complete listing of meetings and events, visit lexingtonky.gov. Thank you. That's all for this edition of Lexington Now. We'll return next week with more news from your urban county government. But in the meantime, you can get the latest information on what we're doing by following us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. For the staff and producers of GTV3, I'm Sherelle Roberts, and that's it for now. Hey, kids, are you tired of having nothing to do? Will you be bored this spring break? Well, like when you're at home, you can't do nothing but watch TV. It would be boring to stay home because all you get to do is watch stuff and play video games. At home, I just sit with my sister. Then you should spring into fun at the Dunbar Community Center. For only $10, kids in grades K through 6 can enjoy a full day of fun during spring break camp. Beginning on April 1st, Dunbar Community Center will have a variety of activities each day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. I wasn't here last year for the camp, but this year I'm planning on going to the camp to see what it's like. And when we had our field day outside, we had to have water balloon pipes and stuff. And now we played in the gym, volleyball and kickball. Camp activities will include arts and crafts, games, step class, basketball, cooking class, where you will learn healthy eating tips. And you can also take part in the computer program and even learn African drums. Kids, tell your parents you must register before March 30th at the Dunbar Community Center, located at 545 North Upper Street. The $10 registration fee will cover a snack each day and a camp t-shirt. Space is limited, so hurry in and sign up today. For more details, please call Parks and Recreation at 859-288-2900. Spring and the 5! At Donovan Community Center! The Lexington Art League and Parks and Recreation have had a long established relationship. We do offer the Woodland Art Fair in partnership with Parks and Recreation each year. They provide unbelievable support for that event. We are very fortunate to have a very thriving and vibrant community that really has grown through the arts in many different ways. Parks and Recreation is a great supporter of the arts in our community. Hey golfers, this is it. Lexington Parks and Recreation golf courses now have new affordable golf rates. Check them out now. Play Kearney Hill Golf Links, Lakeside, Tate's Creek, and the Gay Brewer Junior Course at Picadome. And we haven't forgotten about the students. Check out the new golf rates and discounts for U.K. and Transy students. And don't forget about our fully stocked and awesome gift shops, too. From tees to drivers and shoes to hats, we have it all. For more information, please visit LexingtonKY.gov or like us on Facebook today. Play Golf Lexington. We started with the desire to have dog parks in every quadrant of the city. To me, this is one of the best public-private partnerships that we have had. Parks provided the land. We have about 36 acres of dog parks. They are all fenced, off-leash areas. Our dog parks are heavily used, and people love them. Okay, so you want to ride LexTrain? Well, it's easy as 1, 2, 3. First, plan your trip. Decide where you want to go and when. Second, buy your pass. Purchase your pass online at lextrain.com or at the Transit Center, any Kroger location, or our administrative offices on Loudoun Avenue. 3. Board the bus and use our easy to use spare boxes. 1, 2, 3. I'm Gary Means with the Lexington Parking Authority. My name is Gary Means. I'm the Executive Director with the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority. The renovation of the annex garage is a total of an eight month project. The first three months we were able to keep about 50% of the garage open, but we've had to close it now. And the last five months it will be closed completely to assist the contractors in being able to get all of the renovation work done in a safe manner where we don't have other vehicles in the area where they're jackhammering and creating dust or debris. Again, this project is about a $3.1 million project and most of the work is replacement of bad concrete and steel that's rusted. Steel that's normally embedded in the concrete has become rusted over the years and it causes concrete to pop loose which also causes the deck to be a little bit unstable and so we will make it safe and sound. We have a map on our website and we're also communicating through other media that the alternative parking locations during this closure are the courthouse garage where you enter in on Bar Street and the transit center garage where we're standing right now on the rooftop. You can enter the transit center garage off of High Street or Vine Street. And those locations will accept the validations from any of the LFUCG departments that you may visit, including the police department. And then the county clerk's office is also continuing to validate as they did in the past when you would have parked in the annex garage. They'll be validating if you end up in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And keep in mind, the library garage is nearby, but they do not accept the validations from the county clerk's office or LFUCG departments. At this point we're anticipating the garage to reopen in late spring. This project should go through some point in April and maybe hopefully thereafter we're opening back up. With this we hope to do a grand opening where there will be new lighting. Obviously the concrete will all be fresh, new and safe and new garage equipment for the entry and exit system as well. We appreciate everyone's patience during this project and again we've worked out ways to accommodate parking. We don't want people to feel like they need to avoid downtown because of this during these five months. There is plenty of parking available and we've worked out arrangements at the Transit Center Garage and the Courthouse Garage as well. I guess what we're excited about even though it's a bit of an interruption to folks is that it's going to be safe and clean and well lit and a great garage to park in once we reopen in the late spring. In the area of the annex garage there's not a lot of retail, there is some retail in that area, but a lot of our retail are more down towards the Lexington Convention Center, the Civic Center shops and the Victorian Square shops and so parking in that area is not going to be affected by this closure and like always we welcome everybody to come down and visit our downtown retail shops during the holidays. For information during this renovation or about the renovation or about where to park as an alternative you can visit the lexpark.org website and you can also follow the parking authority on twitter and we're updating with pictures and updates at our twitter account which is Lex Park Authority. So if you're headed down to visit somebody at the government center, or visit the county clerk's office, or if you're going to visit the division of police, and we don't need to know why, or if you want to come down to visit one of the departments, divisions, or organizations that are housed in the Phoenix building at 101 East Vine Street here, you can still get the appropriate validation if you've parked in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And even though the annex garage is closed during these holidays, we've still got plenty of parking downtown if you want to come down and do some shopping. Parks are so critically important to the health, welfare, and just the good-naturedness of our community. The leadership of Parks and Recreation give us the opportunity to have these great facilities for economic development, for quality of life, to be out in the open, to be able to do things as families. The investment that we make as a community in our parks is so important to making a great city even better. Hey kids, are you tired of having nothing to do? Will you be bored this spring break? Then you should head over to the William Wells Brown Community Center. We go to the gyms, we play games, tacos. We just cook healthy stuff to send our main food groups. If any boys and girls want to be on step, they can. And you just learn all these different kind of steps. Ages 6 through 18 can enjoy lots of fun during spring break. Beginning on April 1st, William Wells Brown Community Center will have a variety of activities each day from 5 to 9 p.m. Camp activities will include arts and crafts, physical fitness games, and healthy eating tips. You can also take part in the computer program and more workshops and clinics. Youth activities will be divided by age groups to ensure safety. I can come here for free and play around with pals and buddies. and then when you come here and play, it's good exercise and stuff. I like having fun with my friends because usually I never come outside. Kids, tell your parents so you can enjoy spring break at the William Wells Brown Community Center, located at 548 East 6th Street, part of William Wells Brown Elementary. For more details, please call Parks and Recreation at 859-288-2900. William Wells Brown Community Center! Okay, so you want to ride LexTrain? Well, it's easy as 1, 2, 3. First, plan your trip. Decide where you want to go and when. Second, buy your pass. Purchase your pass online at lextrain.com or at the Transit Center, any Kroger location, or our administrative offices on Loudon Avenue. 3, board the bus and use our easy-to-use fare boxes. 1, 2, 3. I'm Gary Means with the Lexington Parking Authority. Music My name is Gary Means. I'm the executive director with the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority. The renovation of the annex garage is a total of an eight-month project. The first three months we were able to keep about 50% of the garage open, but we've had to close it now. And the last five months it will be closed completely to assist the contractors in being able to get all of the renovation work done in a safe manner where we don't have other vehicles in the area where they're jackhammering and creating dust or debris. Again, this project is about a $3.1 million project, and most of the work is replacement of bad concrete and steel that's rusted. Steel that's normally embedded in the concrete has become rusted over the years, and it causes concrete to pop loose, which also causes the deck to be a little bit unstable, and so we will make it safe and sound. We have a map on our website, and we're also communicating through other media, but the alternative parking locations during this closure are the courthouse garage, where you enter in on Barr Street, and the transit center garage, where we're standing right now on the rooftop. You can enter the transit center garage off of High Street or Vine Street, And those locations will accept the validations from any of the LFUCG departments that you may visit, including the police department. And then the county clerk's office is also continuing to validate, as they did in the past when you would have parked in the annex garage, they'll be validating if you end up in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And keep in mind, the library garage is nearby, but they do not accept the validations from the county clerk's office or LFUCG departments. At this point, we're anticipating the garage to reopen in late spring. This project should go through some point in April and maybe hopefully thereafter we're opening back up. With this, we hope to do a grand opening where there will be new lighting. Obviously the concrete will all be fresh, new and safe, and new garage equipment for the entry and exit system as well. We appreciate everyone's patience during this project and again we've worked out ways to accommodate parking. We don't want people to feel like they need to avoid downtown because of this during these five months. There is plenty of parking available and we've worked out arrangements at the Transit Center garage and the Courthouse garage as well. I guess what we're excited about even though it's a bit of an interruption to folks is that it's going to be safe and clean and well lit and a great garage to park in once we reopen in the late spring. In the area of the annex garage there's not a lot of retail, there is some retail in that area, but a lot of our retail are more down towards the Lexington Convention Center, the Civic Center shops and the Victorian Square shops and so parking in that area is not going affected by this closure and like always we welcome everybody to come down and visit our downtown retail shops during the holidays. For information during this renovation or about the renovation or about where to park as an alternative you can visit the lexpark.org website and you can also follow the parking authority on twitter and we're updating with pictures and updates at our twitter account which is Lex Park Authority. So if you're headed down to visit somebody at the government center, or visit the county clerk's office, or if you're going to visit the division of police, and we don't need to know why, or if you want to come down to visit one of the departments, divisions, or organizations that are housed in the Phoenix building at 101 East Vine Street here, you can still get the appropriate validation if you've parked in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And even though the annex garage is closed during these holidays, we've still got plenty of parking downtown if you want to come down and do some shopping. The Lexington Art League and Parks and Recreation have had a long established relationship. We do offer the Woodland Art Fair in partnership with Parks and Recreation each year. They provide unbelievable support for that event. We are very fortunate to have a very thriving and vibrant community that really has grown through the arts in many different ways. Parks and Recreation is a great supporter of the arts in our community. On April 19th, help keep downtown Lexington clean and green. Clean up downtown Lexington by volunteering for the 2013 Downtown Lexington Corporation's Downtown Trash Bash. Show your support for downtown and the environment in honor of Earth Day. Clubs, schools, business people, and everyone in between are invited. Volunteers will be armed with bags and gloves to clean up downtown streets. Get there early to receive your free volunteer t-shirt. Food and Pepsi products will be available at no cost to volunteers. On Friday, April 19th, come to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to sign in. Once you've picked up your shirt, gloves, and bags, you'll be assigned an area downtown to clean up. Just bring your litter-filled bags back to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion, where they will be properly disposed of by our friends at the City of Lexington, Division of Waste Management. The Downtown Trash Bash is an annual spring cleaning event and the local branch of the Great American Cleanup. All the trash collected is trash saved from being washed down the storm drains and into our local rivers. The Downtown Trash Bash is sponsored by the Downtown Lexington Corporation and is held in conjunction with the Great American Cleanup, which is coordinated locally by the City of Lexington. In case of rain, the Downtown Trash Bash will be held on Friday, April 26. For more information about the Downtown Trash Bash, contact me at the Downtown Lexington Corporation. The End and to protect our public spaces. But sometimes, bad people do bad things. Their motivations are different. The warning signs may vary. But the devastating effects are the same. And unfortunately, you need to be prepared for the worst. If you were ever to find yourself in the middle of an active shooter event, your survival may depend on whether or not you have a plan. The plan doesn't have to be complicated. There are three things you could do that make a difference. Run. Hide. Fight. First and foremost, if you can get out, do. Always try and escape or evacuate, even when others insist on staying. Encourage others to leave with you, but don't let them slow you down with indecision. Remember what's important, you, not your stuff. Leave your belongings behind and try to find a way to get out safely. Trying to get yourself out of harm's way needs to be your number one priority. Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 911. If you can't get out safely, you need to find a place to hide. Act quickly and quietly. Try to secure your hiding place the best you can. Turn out lights, and if possible, remember to lock doors. Silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone. And if you can't find a safe room or closet, try to conceal yourself behind large objects that may protect you. Do your best to remain quiet and calm. As a last resort, If your life is at risk, whether you are alone or working together as a group, fight, act with aggression, improvise weapons, disarm him, and commit to taking the shooter down, no matter what. Try to be aware of your environment. Always have an exit plan. Know that in an incident like this, victims are generally chosen randomly. The event is unpredictable and may evolve quickly. The first responders on the scene are not there to evacuate or tend to the injured. They are well trained and are there to stop the shooter. Your actions can make a difference for your safety and survival. Be aware and be prepared. And if you find yourself facing an active shooter, there are three key things you need to remember to survive. Run, hide, fight. For more information about being prepared for emergencies, visit BeReadyLexington.com. Thinks that I am unforgettable too Thank you. anywhere anywhere Just a city born and raised right here in Houston It's up the midnight town anywhere anywhere I see you in a smoky room You smell wine and chew my fume For the smile you can share the night You go on and on and on Strangers, crazy Walking down the marble Their shadows Searching through the night Streetlights, people They were just in my motion Parted somewhere in the past guitar solo Come on, DC. Streetlights Beware I'll leave At the old emotion Parting Somewhere To the Nice Don't stop believing Move to that feeling Speed like fever Don't stop believing Speed like fever Don't stop, leave it Hold on, be straight to your feelings Streetlights, leave it Don't stop She sits alone by a lamppost Trying to find a thought that's escaped her mind She says, there's the one I love the most But life's not far behind She never lets me in Only tells me where she's been When she's had too much to drink I said that I don't care I just run my hands through her dark hair Then I pray to God you gotta help me fly away And just let her cry Every chance fall down my way Let her sing If it is all I need Let it go Let it walk right out of me And if the sun comes down tomorrow Let it be Let it be This morning I woke up alone Found a nose handling by the phone Saying baby, maybe I'll be back someday I wanted to look for you You walked in and I didn't notice what I should do So I sat back down and had a beer And felt sorry for myself Saying let her cry Let her sing If it's easy for me Let her go Let her walk around heavenly And if the sun goes out tomorrow Let her be Let her be Oh Oh Another bottle Let her cry If the tears fall down lightly Let her sing Feel it eases on her meal Let her go Let her walk right out on me And if the sun comes up tomorrow Let her breathe Oh Last night I tried to leave Cried so much I could not believe She was the same girl I fell in love with long ago She went in the back to get high I sat down on my couch and cried Yelling, oh, oh, oh, please help me Won't you hold my hand and let her cry If the tears fall down like a rain Let her sing Every evening's all the rain Let her go Let her walk right out of me And if something comes up tomorrow Let her be Let her cry If the tears fall down like rain Let her sing If it evens over a pain Let her go Let her walk right out of me And if the sun comes up tomorrow Let her breathe Oh, let her breathe We'll be right back. My name is Richard Mathie. I'm the chair of the Friends of McConnell Springs. The Friends are the nonprofit organization that helps fund many of the projects done at the park here. One of our major fundraisers for the year is the wine barrel tasting for McConnell Springs. All of the proceeds from this go to the friends who support projects in the park. This event occurs on March 30th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is a rain or shine event, so whether it's snowing, raining, sunny, please try to make the event. It's a fun event and it is our major fundraiser for the year. In order to participate in the event, you would go to one of the 17 participating wineries in the area. We did put a restriction on the distance to go to the wineries. Each winery had to be within one hour's drive of New Circle Road. They're in different directions, so somebody going from one end all the way to the other is going to spend a little time in the car. When you get to the winery, we'll have a McConnell Springs volunteer there. They will collect the $20 on the first winery you go to. They'll collect your name and an email address. give you a wristband and a wine glass. That wristband and wine glass will be shown at every winery you go to and so you're not charged again. And we're not going to try to collect the names and emails at each of the wineries as we did in the past. And this should speed people along. One of the nice features of this, you get to sample from the barrel or a picture of something that came from the barrel of a new wine that they're going to be bottling probably within the next six months so you can get a little taste of it. Here I have a sample of the commemorative glass that we're giving out this year. It states the annual wine barrel tasting for the springs and on the back side of it is the logo for McConnell Springs. This is hopefully to remind you during the year when you're taken a little sample of a wine in the area that, hey, we do have this event. And it's likely that if this is your first time, you'll think it's great and you'll want to come back. On our website, the friends, www.mccanalsprings.org, we have the brochure for the event. In that brochure, we'll give you the directions to get to each of the wineries. It'll also give you the telephone number of the winery. The Friends of McConnell Springs is a funding organization that is a non-profit. We support McConnell Springs. If you can't make it to this fundraiser, we sure hope you get a chance to come down to McConnell Springs. It's a beautiful park. If you want to make a contribution to the park, you can do that through our Facebook account. You can do that online. We always have a need for volunteers here at the park. Lori, the park naturalist, has a regular program where she has volunteers. The Friends of McConnell Springs has a need for volunteers for our events that we have during the year. The website is www.mcconnellsprings.org. If you have a a question about the event, there is a link on that website to contact the friends. In the brochure there's a telephone number you can contact if you want more information. You can always get more information down at the park here also. We're hoping for a fun event and we hope you can join us. Doesn't matter when, it's always a good time, then It's always a good time Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa It's always a good time Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa We don't even have to try It's always a good time Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa It's always a good time We don't even have to try It's always a good time It's always a good time Well, we designed a fishing pier to be handicap accessible with the new FENS program here, Fishing in Neighborhoods. We wanted to build upon that and make an element where everybody can come out and enjoy, you know, folks with, you know, handicap issues. So the new pier has parking that's accessible. Comes right off of that where you know the grades are such that you flow right out onto the pier and get set up. You know it's really unique and it you know it's a great place to bring even small children out to come and you know. It's a modular system that goes in as there are five by ten sections that went in really well with ease. The pier itself is not sitting on pylons that are driven into the lake bed, they're sitting on a cast foot, a plate, which really made the installation easy and pretty quick. The whole system went in within a day. It's aluminum, it's going to last, the decking is cedar, so it's built It's built to last and like I mentioned before, it's built to be accessible. There's a main walk and off that are eddies, so to speak, that make it comfortable for you know, I want someone to get to that and set up and be able to fish, you know, from the eddies. It allows them to move in and get comfortable and have a place to fish from, you know, where they're not feel like they're standing in somebody's way. The modular system allows it to be expandable. You can add on another 5 by 10 section or two more or three more and just keep creating eddies out the linear center part of it so we can get out further. That was the intent initially. You know, with budget constraints, we couldn't develop it fully, but we'll be able to in the future. Yeah, I wanted to get folks out, at least give them a shot to cast out to a deeper spot of the water, you know, to be able to maybe catch more fish, you know. But you never know where they're going to be. They could be on the bank or they could be out there, but I just wanted to give people at least a chance to cast out a little bit further. A lot of people fish just across the way there. They come to that one spot right on Richmond Road, which a lot of them park on Richmond Road. And, you know, we don't want to see anybody get hurt. So we wanted to give them a place to come, you know, to draw them away from that. So that was one thing that we hoped to do with the new pier. I would like for people who come out to fish to be, for us all to be good stewards of the land and pick up our trash when we leave. You know, it's great to come out here and enjoy this park and the water, but when you come out and you see bait tubs left behind and fishing line out there that's just left for somebody else to pick up or for even the animals to get in trouble with, But people really take that in consideration when they're using our parks. As a young kid, Lexington Parks and Rec always had a place for us to do something. It helped me in a healthy way to compete, but also learn how to be humble in victory and to have some dignity when we lost. Learning to do that allowed me to get to the point where I matured not only as an individual but also as an athlete. I am a product of Lexington Parks and Recreation. When you're in the mood to escape the hustle and bustle of city life in the bluegrass, you don't have to venture far from Lexington to experience nature at its finest. In fact, Lexington has several fabulous nature trails to offer the outdoor enthusiast. The Raven Run Nature Sanctuary is a remarkably short 12-mile drive from the heart of downtown. This is a unique 734-acre nature sanctuary dedicated to preserving and presenting early Kentucky history and the natural beauty of the Kentucky River Palisades. Over 10 miles of hiking trails provide access to streams, meadows, and woodlands characteristic of the area. There's a lot of fun for everyone when visiting Raven Run, not to mention tremendous photo opportunities. Some opportunities include birding at Raven Run, where you can see over 30 species of birds as they migrate through Kentucky. You'll learn to identify birds by sight and sound during this early morning program. On our Butterflies and Dragonflies Walk, you'll learn how to identify many common species on the wing and learn about insect folklore by viewing a PowerPoint presentation focusing on the life cycles and identification of butterflies and dragonflies. The walk will last about one and a half hours and covers approximately a mile of the trail. If your visit brings you to the area in the fall, enjoy the beautiful colors of the fall season at Raven Run on our Fall Wildflowers Walk. This program will focus on our meadows, which are carpeted in fall wildflowers. Learn about the fascinating folklore connected to these plants and take advantage of great photographic opportunities. And for the kids, try the Little Explorers Nature Tour. Bring your children to Raven Run for our children's program. Activities include a short nature hike and art projects with all supplies provided. Our next nature trail destination brings us to McConnell Springs Nature Park, a 26-acre natural wonder hidden within an industrial complex in Lexington. Heralded as the site where Lexington was named, it was settled in 1775 by William McConnell. Two miles of trails wander around the sinking springs, vegetation, stone fences, and vestiges of historical buildings. McConnell Springs boasts more than 130 species of plants and numerous species of urban wildlife that reside at or visit the park. There are a variety of hands-on activities for all ages at McConnell Springs Visitor Center. Here are just a few. You can learn to carve a wooden cooking spoon or a wooden dough bowl with the Lexington Woodcarver's Guild. Make your own walking stick and join us for a hike for the whole family. Children 10 and younger make bird feeders and learn about the birds that used it. In addition to the passive visitor who just wants to come out here and take a hike, we have a variety of scheduled or structured programs for the visitor. We've got weekend programs for the general public that are usually nature or history related and we also have junior naturalist programs that are geared towards the youth ten and younger. McConnell Springs and Raven Run provide natural, cultural and historical education opportunities for visitors when they visit Lexington. So keep it fresh. Plan to hit the trails when you visit the Bluegrass. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's our way to set the ground. Parks are so critically important to the health, welfare, and just the good-naturedness of our community. The leadership of Parks and Recreation give us the opportunity to have these great facilities economic development, for quality of life, to be out in the open, to be able to do things as families. The investment that we make as a community in our parks is so important for making a great city even better. My name is Jill Shanae Wilson and I am the Community Center Director here at William Wells Brown. This actually is a different type of setting for Parks and Recreation because we're located in a community school. And with that being said, that means that the school goes on during the daytime and then in the evening up until 9 p.m. the community center is open for activities for our youth, adults, and seniors. If you are looking for a cool place to come work out, get physically fit, network, and meet people, this is the place to be. Monday through Friday we have activities from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and then Saturdays from 10 to 2. So on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays our youth come in at 6 o'clock. Elementary students are engaged in organized sports games. We have boys group, girls group. We do arts and crafts. We have cooking classes, cool workshops for self-esteem and leadership skills. And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays our adults come in and there's activities scheduled for adults from 6 to 7 on Tuesday nights is aerobics and then on Thursday nights from 6 to 7 is Zumba. And usually after those two classes we have some cool activities if you want to do boot camp, kind of a little more high or intense activity. Also we have yoga, we do a support weight loss group through the health department. We also have adult cooking classes. We do cooking classes for our youth as well. So if you want to live a healthy lifestyle, this is the place to come to William Wells Brown Community Center. The coolest thing is everything here is free, free of charge. Right now we're standing in the weight room. This is our adult wellness room and we have a few pieces of equipment. We have our treadmills, our elliptical and our exercise bikes. We do free weights and we have little stations of medicine balls and kettle balls. Basically this room is filled to capacity starting around 5 30 p.m. to 9 p.m. we have two personal trainers and another staff that comes in and they do intense work on different tonings and if you want to target a particular area of your body if you just want to lose weight or tone up then you can come here and get those services for free actually there's been a lot of people coming in since we've been open and they have been very pleased each year we sponsor weight loss challenge and I work closely with the health department. They are my partner. They provide free resources, workshops, health literacy information. We also work with Central Baptist Health Works, and they come in and do a lot of our assessments for our weight loss challenge. We've serviced over, I'd say a thousand people in the last five years, and we lost a lot of pounds as well. But this is a great place to come if you want to just relax, enjoy yourself, work out, participate in some of our classes. is for the whole family and like I said before it is no cost involved everything is free people come from all through the city we're located in the East End area 548 East 6th Street but everyone that lives in the whole city of Lexington surrounding counties come and participate a lot of people come after work and work out they wait for their children to get out of school we've had a lot of parents to come in and the cool thing about it is if you want to work out and you have children, you can still come and work out. We have staff that can accommodate your kids with a lot of cool activities to keep them busy as well and then they can be engaged in the youth activities while everyone is having a great time. If you made your New Year's resolution, like a lot of people have, and the beginning of the year I want to work out, I want to get back in shape, well, don't think anymore. Come right to William Wells Brown Community Center. We can supply all your needs to make Make sure that you do live a healthy lifestyle and if you have any questions you can contact us at 859-389-6678. That's 389-6678. That's the number to the community center. We're also on the webpage for Lex and Fayette Urban County Government Division of Parks and Recreation. So you can link on there. And the other thing that's cool about this facility, we also are affiliated with Fayette County Public Schools. So if you can't get our information from Parks and Rec, you can always find us at the Fayette County Public Schools website at William Wells Brown Elementary. Hey kids, are you tired of having nothing to do? Will you be bored this spring break? Well, like when you're at home, you can't do nothing but watch TV. It would be boring to stay home because all you get to do is watch stuff and play video games. At home, I just sit with my sister. Then you should spring into fun at the Dunbar Community Center. For only $10, kids in grades K through 6 can enjoy a full day of fun during spring break camp. Beginning on April 1st, Dunbar Community Center will have a variety of activities each day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. I wasn't here last year for the camp, but this year I'm planning on going to the camp to see what it's like. And when we had our field day outside, we got to have water balloon pipes and stuff. And now we played in the gym, volleyball and kickball. Camp activities will include arts and crafts, games, step class, basketball, cooking class, where you will learn healthy eating tips. And you can also take part in the computer program and even learn African drums. Kids, tell your parents you must register before March 30th at the Dunbar Community Center, located at 545 North Upper Street. The $10 registration fee will cover a snack each day and a camp t-shirt. Space is limited, so hurry in and sign up today. For more details, please call Parks and Recreation at 859-288-2900. Spring and the fun! At Clubhouse Community Center! I can't wait until spring break. Attention kids in the Cardinal Valley area. Do you enjoy the fun and activities at the Village Branch Library? Then we have great news for you. This spring break, the fun moves outside to Valley Park. There will be food, games, and good times the week of spring break beginning April 1st. From 1 to 4 p.m. each day, kids can enjoy the outdoors while taking part in a variety of activities, including sports, games, and arts and crafts. The event is free for all ages and open to the public. Can't wait to come to Village Branch in spring break. Come to Valley Park, located at 2077 Cambridge Drive, for an afternoon of fun and play this spring break. And if I weren't here, I'd be like home or like having nothing to do or nothing to write or read. I can't wait till spring break at Village French. I'm Nikki Heckelbeck. I'm the director of media services for the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau. I'm not sure what you're doing. Well, Visit Lex has a couple different purposes. All of them are to bring people into town, into Lexington, whether it's a convention or a meeting or maybe a family reunion, military reunions. We have a whole staff of salespeople that are out there looking for meetings and conventions to bring into Lexington. And then we have the visitor side where we're looking to bring leisure tourists into town. So the overall goal is always put people in those hotel rooms overnight and drive tourism in Lexington. We were down at the corner of Rose and Vine for about 17 years, and that was a great location for us. But we have a new president now, Mr. Jim Browder, and he wanted us to be closer to kind of the hub of downtown, where the hotels are, the convention center, that sort of thing. Thought we'd see more foot traffic right here in Victorian Square, and so far that has proved to be true. We worked with Solid Light, who's over in Louisville, to help design this space. They've done some other very prominent locations around the state, some of the bourbon distilleries, Heaven Hill and Maker's Mark they were also involved with. So we had a great team of designers over there that helped us put together a center that really showcases the horses, the history, the bourbon, and a new section that we have called Explore My Lex, which is everything from restaurants to festivals and events, different things that happen throughout the year, that are of interest to both locals and people who are visiting us. Well, certainly we always welcome people here at the Visitor's Center, so just come on down and see us. We're open Monday through Friday from 8.30 to 5, and also on Saturday from 10 to 5, and then during the summer months also on Sundays. You can also go online 24 hours a day. We have a very robust website at www.visitlex.com. We've got a lot of great interactive displays here at the Visitor Center. Several touchscreens that showcase different areas of interest. This one obviously is for bourbon. You can learn all sorts of things about bourbon. see some videos of the local distilleries, that sort of thing. You can even come over here and if you'd like to smell what one of the bourbons smells like, that's a really fun thing for folks to do and a great interactive tool for us. Behind you here, we have a replica of a working still, which I think is a lot of fun. Bourbon, of course, is a big driver for tourism here in the central part of Kentucky, so we definitely wanted to get that information out there for people. This screen over here is all about the history in Central Kentucky. So when you click on that, it will take you to, again, a library of films that we put together on different areas around town. We have all sorts of information for folks to pick up and take with them. Any kind of attraction that they'd like to go to, we can help them with that. We also are selling some merchandise here now in our new location. We're very proud to have a Lexington KYT shirt now. We also have blue ones for the kids. and those I think have been quite popular. Now something that everybody wants to do when they're visiting a new destination I think is eat food that's local to the area. So you know not everybody wants to eat at a chain restaurant when they're on the road. So what we have over here is Beyond Grits. This is one of our very new guides that we have. It's a nice little booklet that gives profiles of some of our chefs here in Lexington and the central Kentucky area, and then all sorts of information on winery tours and that sort of thing, along with the brand-new Brewgrass Trail, which is a collection of local brewers that are setting up shop here in Lexington and the surrounding areas. Thank you. Well I'm calling, but you don't want no talking Well you're only calling just keep me hanging on Well you're making me up and then you knock me down You say you love me but you're talking around No I'm all mixed up Enough is enough baby driving me out of my mind So I'll be calling, calling But you never answer, no you just don't seem to care But the way you drink a little makes me so Brace it down, I can't take the most So I'm coming in To sell that fuel away To get you off of my mind Yeah, I can sing this song And we the world Way in the middle of the year Run by the way Way in the middle of the year By the grace of God And we land up We the world Way in the middle of the year We'll be right back. Thank you. I got a wife a while, she'll be late, I think it's a phone to be, keep me in all my day. Nothing to do but sit down and sing Rock by my saroday Rock by my saroday Rock by my saroday Nothing to do but sit down and sing Rock by my saroday Nothing to do but sit down and sing And rockin' by myself, oh, hey Dual polarization technology is a major upgrade to the current radar system. It allows forecasters a better idea of what's actually out there and can help keep you safe. Current radar technology transmits and receives information in the horizontal direction, which is very limited. Dual polarization technology, in addition to the horizontal, transmits and receives vertical energy, which allows forecasters to get information about the size, shape, and phase of the precipitation. We can use that information to better determine the precipitation type to expect at your given location. There you have it. This new technology is currently being installed in radars across the country and is already being used by National Weather Service forecasters to produce better, more accurate forecasts. Learn more here and follow us. For more information about emergency preparedness, visit BeReadyLexington.com. Severe weather can develop quickly. Advances in forecasting allow the NOAA National Weather Service to predict severe weather. before there's even a cloud in the sky. Severe thunderstorm and tornado watches give you advance notice that conditions are favorable for dangerous weather. When your area is in a watch, be sure to stay alert for changing weather. Remember, a watch is not a warning. A warning is only issued when severe weather is about to strike. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, monitors weather conditions across the United States. They issue daily forecasts showing areas of the country that are likely to experience severe weather. In the hours before storms form, the Storm Prediction Center discusses the weather with National Weather Service Forecast Offices within the areas at risk. The Storm Prediction Center then issues a watch to notify people in those areas to stay alert for severe weather. A watch also includes information about what type of weather you might see and the chances of it actually occurring. The risk level can range from a few storms with hail and high winds to a particularly dangerous situation when deadly tornadoes could occur. The most important thing you can do when a watch is issued is to stay alert for developing storms and understand your risk. Be sure to tune in to your local news for updated weather information. You can also get instant weather alerts from NOAA Weather Radio. Watches also provide an opportunity to review your family emergency plan as well as check your disaster supplies kit. When the risk increases and severe weather moves in, you'll be ready if a warning is issued. If you need help developing a plan for your family or packing a kit, check out ready.gov for all the information. Stay alert and stay safe this storm season. For more information about emergency preparedness in Fayette County, visit BeReadyLexington.com. On April 19th, help keep downtown Lexington clean and green. Clean up downtown Lexington by volunteering for the 2013 downtown Lexington Corporation's Downtown Trash Bash. Show your support for downtown and the environment in honor of Earth Day. as clubs, schools, business people, and everyone in between are invited. Volunteers will be armed with bags and gloves to clean up downtown streets. Get there early to receive your free volunteer t-shirt. Food and Pepsi products will be available at no cost to volunteers. On Friday, April 19th, come to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to sign in. Once you've picked up your shirt, gloves, and bags, you'll be assigned an area downtown to clean up. Just bring your litter-filled bags back to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion where they will be properly disposed of by our friends at the City of Lexington Division of Waste Management. The Downtown Trash Bash is an annual spring cleaning event and the local branch of the Great American Cleanup. All the trash collected is trash saved from being washed down the storm drains and into our local rivers. The Downtown Trash Bash is sponsored by the Downtown Lexington Corporation and is held in conjunction with the Great American Cleanup, which is coordinated locally by the City of Lexington. In case of rain, the Downtown Trash Bash will be held on Friday, April 26th. For more information about the Downtown Trash Bash, contact me at the Downtown Lexington Corporation. It may feel like just another day at the office. But occasionally, life feels more like an action movie than reality. The authorities are working hard to protect you and to protect our public spaces. But sometimes bad people do bad things. Their motivations are different. The warning signs may vary But the devastating effects are the same And unfortunately, you need to be prepared for the worst If you were ever to find yourself in the middle of an active shooter event, your survival may depend on whether or not you have a plan. The plan doesn't have to be complicated. There are three things you could do that make a difference. Run. Hide. Fight. First and foremost, if you can get out, do. Always try and escape or evacuate, even when others insist on staying. Encourage others to leave with you, but don't let them slow you down with indecision. Remember what's important, you, not your stuff. Leave your belongings behind and try to find a way to get out safely. Trying to get yourself out of harm's way needs to be your number one priority. No, stop that guy! Stop that guy! Hey! Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 911. Yes, sir. Help us! Help us! If you can't get out safely, you need to find a place to hide. Act quickly and quietly. Try to secure your hiding place the best you can. Turn out lights, and if possible, remember to lock doors. Silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone. And if you can't find a safe room or closet, try to conceal yourself behind large objects that may protect you. Do your best to remain quiet and calm. As a last resort, if your life is at risk, whether you are alone or working together as a group, fight. Act with aggression. Improvise weapons. Disarm him. And commit to taking the shooter down, no matter what. Try to be aware of your environment. Always have an exit plan. Know that in an incident like this, victims are generally chosen randomly. The event is unpredictable and may evolve quickly. The first responders on the scene are not there to evacuate or tend to the injured. They are well trained and are there to stop the shooter. Your actions can make a difference for your safety and survival. Be aware and be prepared. And if you find yourself facing an active shooter, there are three key things you need to remember to survive. Run. Hide. Fight. For more information about being prepared for emergencies, visit BeReadyLexington.com. I'm sorry. Would you have any bad dreams? Would you break any glass? Would you be my companion? Is there even a chance? You've been talking in circles Since I've been able to cry There's never been any reason For never telling me why Yeah. Save my life. I'm going down for the last time. Woman with the sweet loving better than a white line. Bring a good feeling ain't had in such a long time. Save my life. I'm going down for the last time. guitar solo Have you ever been lonely? Do you have any form? Do you ever think of me? I'm just the one, yeah You never give me no answer You never tell me the truth There's never been any reason For me to think about you There's never been any reason There's never been any reason There's never been any reason Save my life, I'm going down for the last time Woman with the sweet loving better than a white line Don't you know she could bring a good feeling Ain't had in such a long time Save my life, I'm going down for the last time I saved my life from going down for the last time Saved my life from going down for the last time Saved my life from going down for the last time Saved my life from going down for the last time Save my life I'm going down For the last time There'll be no strings to bind your hands Not if my love can't bind your heart There's no need to take a stand For it was I who chose to start I see no need to take me home I'm old enough to face the dawn Just call me angel, a morning angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel, a morning angel Then slowly turn away from me Maybe the sun's light will begin And it won't matter anyhow If morning's echo says we've sinned Well, it was what I wanted now And if we're victims of the night I won't be blinded by the light Just call me angel of a morning angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of a morning angel Then we'll slowly turn away I won't beg you to stay We need the light to be We'll be always Hey, just call me angel of the morning day, yeah Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning day, yeah Just touch my cheek before you leave me, darling Just call me angel, a parting angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, darling If she's guilty, so am I If she's forgotten how to cry If she's that's lonely, don't know why If she's guilty, so am I If she's changed, I'll take the blame If somehow she's not the same If there's a distant look in her eyes And she's lost the will to try If she seems bitter of other days Seems to have lost her aptest ways If the truth comes harder than a lie If she's guilty, so am I If she's guilty, so am I. If she's forgotten how to cry. She gets lonely, don't know why. If she's guilty, so am I. If she's guilty, so am I. If she's forgotten how to cry. She gets lonely, don't know why If she's guilty, so am I If she's guilty, so am I If she's forgotten how to cry She gets lonely, don't know why She's guilty So am I So am I So am I So am I So am I If she's guilty So am I am I get out on the redneck side of a narrowing thing Call her my baby She comes over and the party begins Yeah, she's a slick nickel She's right on the money I wouldn't give her up for a thousand bucks of money I'm her big cat daddy She's my little miss Honky ton She's got my number Knows my favorite songs On the G-Bomb Goes to getting down I'm crazy and the whole place rocks Yeah, we'll have a view Get the feeling right She'll be my queenie I'll be her neonite Well, I'm her big cat daddy She's my little miss Honky-ton Oh, I love her so Stand back Give her up, boys And watch her go guitar solo She comes through the door I sure stop her when she gets to Going out on the floor Oh, we leave all our troubles and cares Way behind us I feel like she's king When I'm out with her harness I'm her big cat daddy She's my little miss All we talk Oh, I love myself Stand back, give her room, boys, and watch her go Yeah, we leave all our troublesome cares way behind us I feel like a king when I'm out with her highness I'm her big cat daddy, she's my little miss, honky-ton Yeah, I'm her big cat daddy, she's my little miss, honky-ton Oh, I'm a big cat daddy She's my little miss Honky-tonk I love you, honey Summer lovin' had me a blast Summer lovin' happened so fast I met a girl crazy for me Met a boy cutest for me Summer days driftin' away To a little set of an ice Oh well, oh well, oh well Tell me more, tell me more Did you get very far? Tell me more, tell me more She's been by me, she got a crown He went by me, he got me so dead I saved her life, she nearly drowned He showed up, I was flashing around Summer sun, summer's begun Right up, over summer nights Tell me more, tell me more, what's the love of this song? Tell me more, tell me more, I think she put up a fight. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Took a moment in New York, baby. Who was coming to California? We made out of the dawn. When you run, run, run, run Summer fling, don't need a thing But I'm gonna set up on my night Whoa, whoa, whoa Tell me more, tell me more But you're not gonna break Tell me why, tell me why Shoo-ba-ba, shoo-ba-ba Shoo-ba-ba, shoo-ba-ba Shoo-ba-ba, shoo-ba-ba Shoo-ba-ba, yeah She got family home in my head While she got family down in the sand She was sweet, just a little But she was blue, with a lot of me Summer heat, boy, and the real good For the summer night Thank you. joining me today Andrew Grenwald, municipal engineer with the urban county government, and Joshua Samples, transportation engineer with the transportation cabinet in Kentucky. I brought these two here today to talk about the widening and construction projects along Leastown Road. So first we're going to talk to Joshua about the widening of Leastown Road. Hi Joshua, thanks for coming. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. So can you tell me a little bit about the project and what instigated the project? The amount of traffic that's on Lee's Town on a two-lane facility, it backs up generally at least twice a day, every day, and there's also some safety concerns with some site distance issues. So we have it in our plan to try to improve the safety and the capacity on the roadway, and we're going to make it a four-lane facility with bike lanes on there as well. And so that's where it came from. And was there community input involved in the planning and design and that sort of thing? Yes, we had multiple public meetings to discuss the type of roadway we put out there. So we gathered input over several years before we went to finish our final design. And I assume the bike lanes was inspired as well from community input and groups? That's one of the things that the public chose to add or would like, wanted to add to it, and so we were able to accommodate that. Good. Can you tell me a little bit about the timeline of the project? When neighbors and residents can start to see construction begin and how long the construction will last and when they might see a completed project? Well, we think that the construction should begin sometime early this summer. We will actually be putting that construction with Leastown at the same time as Citation Project. That's right. And so we will begin those projects so there might actually be construction on Citation Boulevard before there will be on Leastown. There will be continuing utility relocations on Leastown as there is right now. Right. I've seen some of that so far, the poles being relocated from KU. Yes, and so then we anticipate it to last. Possibly it will run into 2015 is when we're hoping it will, towards the end of 2015, we're hoping it will be open for full traffic and everything finished on it. And so the widening actually begins where and will end where? We're widening from Greendale Road, and we take the full four lanes all the way to Masterson Station Park, which is Ruffian Way, and then after that we'll start tying down to the two-lane facility. So it ends, actually it ends a little bit past Bracktown Lane. And then they just merge back into the two-lane highway. Okay, great. And so you mentioned Citation Boulevard. So, Andrew, do you want to talk a little bit about that and how this project blends in with Citation? Yes, ma'am. Citation Boulevard, it's been on the City of Lexington's plans for quite a few years, probably all the way back into the 80s. We originally did environmental assessment, and that was done in the early 90s. Citation Boulevard was originally designed to be a road to relieve traffic from the northeastern section of Lexington, which was opened up for development. Currently, we have constructed Phase 1, or Section 1, and that went from Newtown Pike to Georgetown Road. The section that we're currently getting ready to construct is from Georgetown Road, and it goes over to Leestown Road and then realigns Alexandria. So that intersection at Alexandria will be relocated, or will Citation line up directly with the existing Alexandria? Alexandria, that intersection will be relocated. Okay. Probably about, I'd say, 300 to 350 feet further out of town. Okay. Okay. And what's your timeline with that project as well, the beginning and how long construction might last and when you think it will be finished? As Mr. Samples had said, it will be bid at the same time as the Leastown Road widening. Okay. The two projects will work in tandem and the construction will go on at the same time. Most of that construction probably will not impact traffic since it is a new boulevard. and besides having people drive down Buck Lane and Mercer Road or Greendale Road, you might not see the construction unless you look off to your left or your right. So hopefully that will have a smaller impact than the Leastown Road wider. Yeah, we didn't actually talk about that, Joshua. So what are the impacts that people might experience during the construction? I'm assuming there will be lane closures and sections of the road maybe? What we anticipate, the plan as of now, is that we will maintain two lanes of traffic, one each direction, and turn lanes at all the intersections. Some of those turn lanes are going to be shorter during construction than they are now, but they'll still be turn lanes. And so there'll be small times of possible lane closures, but it will be constricted to the middle of the day, not during rush hour. but our attempt is to maintain what's out there now with the two lanes in both directions. The transportation cabinet does have some information on their website about the location of the proposed project and kind of a little bit about the funding. If you want more specific information like how it would affect a piece of property or how long turn lanes would be, it's probably best to either contact Joshua or myself directly. Okay. So I want to thank both of you for coming out today. I really appreciate it and sharing information, and I hope that we provided some great information to the citizens, and we look forward to less traffic congestion on the west side. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. We're going to take a break, and in just a moment we'll be back with Ben Edlin, Vice President of HDR Engineering, to discuss the Double Diamond Interchange coming at New Circle Road in Lee's Town. As a young kid, Lexington Parks and Rec always had a place for us to do something. It helped me in a healthy way to compete, but also learn how to be humble in victory and to have some dignity when we lost. Learning to do that allowed me to get to the point where I matured not only as an individual, but also as an athlete. I am a product of Lexington Parks and Recreation. Hi, welcome back. Again, I'm Siobhan Akers, the 2nd District Council member. and joining me now is Ben Eadlin, Vice President of HDR Engineering and the engineering firm that is overseeing the double diamond that will be installed at the intersection of Leestown and New Circle Road as part of the New Circle Road widening project. Thanks for joining me today. Glad to be here. So can you tell me a little bit of the history of this project and why it was needed and what brought it about? The overall project, which is really the widening of New Circle Road, which brought it all about, is obviously congestion on that end of town. Anybody traveling during rush hour along New Circle Road and Leach Town Road understands just how much traffic's out there. So they saw it as very important to get out there and get ahead of when it starts breaking down. And so why, I think the million-dollar question that a lot of people have asked me is why the double diamond versus any other option at the intersection there? That's a great question and one we've been asked a lot. The double diamond, we compared that to just upgrading the existing interchange, then also looked at about four other different options. And when we compared this, running our traffic models, we came to an understanding that the double diamond provided a lot better traffic movement and capacity for this project. So it by far exceeded the other alternatives that we looked at. And I know that there was a public meeting a few months ago in November, I believe, at Leeson Middle School. Have you had other public meetings and shared the information and the project to garner public input? Well, we do have a web page that is out and people can get on and view. But the public meeting was the first public input that we had. We started this project back in earnest about last May 1st. By the time we got our alternatives together and worked with our project team, the District 7 office, we had to get something on paper to show the community. So the public input we got was the one public meeting we had out of Lee's Town. And do you expect to have any more public sharing information meetings? I think as the project goes on, as it unfolds, like I say, we'll keep regular updates on the website. And then also, as the project impacts different communities, we may go back out to them and have specific public involvements with those neighborhood associations. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, maybe at neighborhood meetings and the like. What is your timeline? What do you expect construction to begin? How long will traffic be impacted on Lee's Town at that intersection, and when can we see completion? Well, the actual widening of New Circle Road should begin sometime early in 2014. And then the Leastown Road Double Diamond, construction on that could begin as early as late 2014. And we look at the widening of New Circle Road would take probably two years to complete. Can you tell viewers exactly where that will begin and end, the widening as well? Yeah, the widening of New Circle begins just through the east of the Bersales Road Interchange. It will tie into the Bersales Road Interchange. and it'll be widened to six lanes all the way around to where it's currently widened near the Georgetown Road interchange. That's great. Leashtown Road goes from there in front of the town center and goes out the Greendown Road and it ties into the Leashtown Road widening project. And so the double diamond will go through the bridge, I mean, or the overpass, under the overpass, similar to the Harrisburg Road diamond. That's right. It'll be very similar. Just some of the details will be different. But it would be very similar to the Harrisburg Road double diamond that's in place today. Okay. Great. And that wraps it up for us today. Again, I'm Siobhan Akers, 2nd District Council Member. If you have any questions, feel free to contact my office. The number is 258-3217. Or my email is sakers at lexingtonky.gov. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Welcome to the Myers Report. I'm HSE Councilmember George Myers, and we're here today at Community Action Council with the Executive Director Jack Birch. And we are here to talk about the budget cuts that the governor has proposed in the Childhood Assistance Program or Child Care Assistance Program at the state level. So Jack, could you first start out by giving us kind of an overview of not only the program, but the role that Community Action plays in Lexington as it relates to these programs? Yes. Let me first start out by thanking you for getting the local government's attention to the problem. Thank you. It makes a big difference when local government can speak to an issue like this than those of us who are involved in it all the time. It's not a proposed cut. It has been signed off on. And there are two programs that are being cut. People often confuse them. One is kinship care, where if for some reason a parent is unable to take care of their child, they're incarcerated or some other tragedy is going on, the state will provide financial assistance to grandparents who often cannot afford to take on that burden, so the child stays in the family. And the proposal is to eliminate kinship care. Now let's talk about that for a second because a couple of things about that that don't make sense to me is, number one, the Cabinet's main goal has always been to keep families together. That's correct. And this funding was specifically put in place to help that happen. That's exactly right. When they had a strategic plan process and they made that a goal, They set aside money to make sure that children stayed in their families. And so if they take this funding away and a grandparent is not financially able then to take care of their grandchildren, then those children will end up in foster care or some other part of the cabinet. Most likely foster care, but some children have to be institutionalized because there's nobody who will take them as a foster child. Okay, which means those programs are going to cost even more to the taxpayer than kinship care. They do cost more. Kinship care hardly takes care of the full cost for the child. It simply helps the grandparent, who's probably on a fixed income in most cases, with the extra expenses. Okay, and I know that even the president talked about in the State of the Union address last night that every dollar that we spend in early childhood care saves us $7 on the back end in terms of high school graduation rates, incarceration rates, and all kinds of other things that people end up in the system needing help with. There's no dispute about that. The research is there. It is solid. We do a lot of work on measuring outcomes on our work here. We know that always 90% of the children, four-year-olds who leave us, are school-ready. Children benefit from being in an environment that's designed and prepared to make them ready for the rest of their lives. Sure. And we all know if you have any work at all with early childhood development, that those first three years of life are phenomenally important for the development of a child's brain and their sort of aptitudes and their countenance, the way that they carry themselves. The brain research data is there, and there's no doubt about that. You surprised me earlier today, though, when you showed me some data on the huge difference in IQs cues of children who participate in a good early childhood experience and those who don't. Absolutely. And we will put that up on the slide for people to see that at home. So now talk a little bit about the second half of that program that's being cut. That's the Child Care Assistance Program. Kentucky said to low-income women when welfare reform occurred, if you will get training or an education and you will get a job, if your income is not sufficient to keep you above water, the state will do things to help you. And one of those things was to make sure you can get quality, affordable childcare. We've got to remember these are parents who may be net in a month $1,200. Quality childcare costs about $500 a month. You don't have to do the math. Then you can't afford to pay for the apartment and also the car and the gas and the food. Sure. And so obviously we want parents to become productive members of society that's why those changes are made in the welfare program so that people were able to get education or take on a job that hopefully will transition them into a better paying job over time and at that point in time then they can take care of themselves completely and be self-sufficient but if we take away this help along the way then it seems like we're basically shooting our foot shooting ourself in the foot we are and i think we're breaking a promise we made i have recently at a meeting, in fact, down at Urban County Government, had one mom with tears in her eyes say, I did everything people asked me to do, and all of a sudden they're not keeping their side of the bargain. And that's one thing that I've always been a sticker about is outcome measurements and making sure that if we ask someone to go through a program, that when they go through that program they're better for having gone through it. And this is a situation, like you said, we've made a promise to people that if you do certain things, we'll be there to help you along the way so that you become self-sufficient. And so talk about the shock that has gone across the community in terms of how quickly this change will take place. Well, it gives people no time, really. On April 1, people will not even be allowed to apply for child care assistance. After April 1, if you already are receiving it and your anniversary for recertification comes up, you'll be allowed to continue, but they cut the maximum income allowed by 33%. Explain that a little bit. So they changed the income requirements for being eligible for the program. They pushed this down so low that we will rank 50th in the nation in terms of the maximum income level allowed for child care. Wow. You know, we always say, thank God for Mississippi. People in Jackson are probably saying right now, thank God for Kentucky. Right. So when we talk about a state that cares about and values education, and we all understand clearly, like you said, the evidence is there, the analytic data is there to substantiate that everything that we can do to help a child be ready to start school helps further their progress while they're in school and on throughout their life. I wonder what the superintendents across the country, across the state, are thinking about how this is going to impact their kindergarten classes and their first grade classes moving forward. I've had discussions with superintendents over the years, and they all indicate that one of the ways to deal with the whole achievement gap is to make sure kids come in school ready. and they can take a look at the income of the families of the children coming in because if they apply for a free lunch, they're low income. Sure. And they test children coming in, and they know which children had an early childhood experience and which ones didn't. And we're basically saying to them, we're going to put you right back where you were 20 years ago. Right. So talk a little bit in the time we have remaining about what the folks listening can do to help change the governor's mind about the cuts that he's made? I think people have to speak up loud and clear. Send emails. Make phone calls to the governor's office. There's a group of parents right now that are using paper bibs and writing notes on them and taking them to the state capitol. The governor has the power to change this. The governor can go look somewhere else in the $9 billion budget and find something else that in many cases could be delayed. A construction project, in most cases, it won't hurt to delay a new building for two years or three years. Okay, and then what is Community Action going to do to help ensure that we can get this decision reversed? We're doing a lot of work communicating with parents. We're building a statewide coalition. As you know, because we've asked you to come join us, we're going to speak before the Health and Welfare Committee of the General Assembly. Yes. I'm not going to stop until there's just absolutely nothing else we can do. And I appreciate that. And let me just say that Jack called me a couple weeks ago when he first heard about this and asked me what I thought about it and would I help get involved. And I want to thank the Irving County Council. We did a resolution a couple weeks ago that was passed unanimously, and the mayor is going to sign that speaking to our state legislature that the city of Lexington is not happy with the cuts that they've made. And one of the things that I said in that conversation was that these cuts are not conducive with the values of the people of this great commonwealth. And so we hope that the governor will listen, we hope that the legislature will listen, and that they will reverse this decision that's already been made. And we're going to take a break, and shortly we're going to come back and hear from a grandparent who will be negatively impacted by this decision, as well as a single father who will be negatively impacted by this decision. Welcome back to the Myers Report. Today we're standing here at Community Action Council with Ms. Doris Perkins. Hi. And Ms. Perkins, thank you for coming in today. I wanted to ask you a few questions about the governor's proposed cuts in child care. And which program are you involved in right now? The Kinship Care. The Kinship Care program. Could you explain a little bit about that program and what that means to you and your grandson? Well, the kinship care helps me make sure that he gets the daycare, the clothes, the food, everything that he gets, kinship care helps me get. And, I mean, in all honesty, without that program, I'm not sure how I can manage to do it and make sure that he gets, you know, everything that he needs. So if that cut happens as proposed by the governor, you have maybe a few different choices that you could entertain. And would that be, would you be able to continue working? I do not see how I could continue to work. You know, I don't work a 9 to 5 Monday through Friday job. I have two different centers that Braylon goes to to get what he needs so I can work. And without the kinship care, I mean, I'm not going to be able to afford to work. Okay. So one of the other options would be foster care? I mean, ultimately, you know, if I can't take care of him, he has to get what he needs. And if that meant foster care, then, you know, that's last resort. But ultimately, it's all about protecting him and getting him what he needs. So if that's what it must be, then it must be. And ultimately, what we're looking for, and I believe one of the Cabinet's main missions, is to keep families together as long as possible when there's a viable opportunity to do that. And it sounds like to me that's what this program does for you? Oh, 100%. I mean, you know, my children are grown. I took care of them, and now I'm raising my grandson. And ultimately that's what I want is to keep him with his family. Right. But without the kinship care, I'm not sure if I can do that. Okay. Well, thank you for coming in today, and we are going to continue to work on this issue and see if we can get that changed so that the state government comes up with another solution to its budget problems. Exactly. I think there's a lot more things that could be cut besides the programs that help those of us that didn't ask to be put in this situation in the first place. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcome back to the Myers Report. We're here again at Community Action Council, and we have Mr. Michael Austin with us today. Thank you, Michael, for coming in. And we want to talk to you a little bit about the child care subsidy that you're getting to help educate your child. And just give us a little bit of background about yourself. First of all, my name is Michael Austin, native of Lexington, Kentucky, born and raised here. I am a single father who recently last year obtained custody of my youngest son. And I also do support and help raise another child in another household as well. So I'm pretty busy. Absolutely. Being a father. Absolutely. And we like that, being a great, responsible father. And so the Child Care Assistance Program helps you how? It actually provides daycare assistance for me during the day, so I'll be eligible to go to work. therefore to support family and whoever else I need to support underneath my roof. I do work awkward hours, so therefore it does help me out a lot with the daycare because, you know, babysitters are hard to find these days. Absolutely, and people that are competent that you trust with your child. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Well, if this subsidy that the governor is planning on cutting, if these cuts go through, how will that impact you and your son? That really haven't made you an impact. First of all, it had a major impact on the household as far as the bills and stuff getting paid. Because first of all, I wouldn't have a babysitter. I wouldn't be able to work my 40 hours a week. Therefore, the bills wouldn't be paid. The lights wouldn't be cut on. And first and foremost, I guess, support wouldn't be paid. So therefore, I'd be absent in my child's life because I'd be incarcerated if I didn't pay my child's support. Right. So, thank you. So this program enables you to be gainfully employed as well as be a father actively involved in your children's life. Yes, sir. And so I think we all know and understand the value of that. Yes, sir. And so we are going to continue to try to work with the state and ensure that the legislature does not follow through with the cuts that the governor plans on making. Please. Thank you again for coming in today. Thank you. And we appreciate what you do. Thank you for your time, sir. Thank you. And that concludes today's council report, the Myers report. And as you can see, we've got an issue here that's really important to our community. It's going to have a very negative economic impact to our community if parents have to leave their jobs or grandparents leave their jobs in order to be able to take care of their family members. But also it's going to create more problems down the road and more expense in dealing with the aftermath of this decision. We encourage you to get in touch with Community Action, to call your council members, also to call your legislators and the governor's office. Any opportunity you get to do that would be fantastic. And again, thank you for tuning in to the Myers Report. I can't wait for spring break at the Gainesway Community Center. Are you looking for something to do this spring break that will prepare you for life after graduation? Gainesway Community Center is holding a three-day college and career camp April 1st through the 3rd. Each day, students will visit a local university touring the campuses of Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky State, and Berea College. The registration deadline is Friday, March 29th. Tours will include transportation to campus facilities and information sessions on majors and housing. Students will have the chance to meet admissions counselors while getting a feel for campus life. The camp tours are free, but it is recommended that participants bring money for refreshments or pack a snack. Students must meet one hour before the tour starts at the Gainesway Community Center. Buses will leave promptly at 12 noon each day. If you have questions, please call the Division of Youth Services at 859-246-4300. Hello, I'm Peggy Henson, 11th District Council Member, and I am here today with Betty Amashani, hope I pronounced that correctly, with the Village Branch Library. I'm very excited to be here, Betty, because this library provides so much to our community, and that was my reason for wanting to come here today and have you tell us about the many, many different programs. And we'll start out, I guess. Can you give me a little bit of history about the library, when it opened? I'd be glad to, and thank you for being here today. We actually opened in 2004, so we're really, it's unbelievable that next year we'll be 10 years old. We opened, like I said, 2004, and of course the Cardinal Valley community, for many years, the two closest libraries were the Beaumont Library and the Downtown Library. As the community has grown and changed, traffic patterns have also changed in Lexington. And one of the many conversations that many residents had with the library was that they really needed a library in this area. particularly the traffic like I mentioned a lot of people don't like to go downtown and the parking structure is a little overwhelming. And then the Beaumont Center has grown so much that particularly older seniors who have been part of the Cardinal Valley community for many years have found that there's just way too much traffic on Harrodsburg Road and have really made wonderful use of this library. So like I said, in early 2000, the Bookmobile, which is part of the library extension department or outreach, had been serving different stops here in the Cardinal Valley area among them the village park, the valley, is it called? Valley Park. Valley Park. And they have seen a big change in the number of children in the area and the number of new families in the area. So the library began looking for a location, found this location here that's part of a shopping center. This is the only facility that the library rents rather than owns. And we've grown in the last 10 years. We have, gosh, this last month we had over 10,000 items checked out, which is a lot for us. And we probably have anywhere from 600 people come in every single day to the library. And there are days that's over a thousand, so it's a busy little place. Yeah. And you expanded since opening, right? In 2004, you expanded. Yes. When we first opened, it was this main area of the library. It was a small section. Correct. When we opened, no one really knew how the community would respond. Many of the Latino community members, we weren't sure would they use the library or not. So everyone has. And so we found quickly that we had no seating in the evenings, no place to put people. So when Dan's pawn shop moved down the street and built their own facility, the library was able to lease that area. And so we expanded making the public computer area larger, a meeting room, a multipurpose meeting room. So it's given us actually double the space. Well, I know I can't say enough nice things about this library and what it means to the surrounding residents. They are very much a need and you provide that so well. And I know that I've heard that this library is for Spanish speaking residents. That is absolutely not true. We know that just like the surrounding neighborhoods, it is very diverse. Correct. And many, many people use this library. You are correct. And in age and economics and just... It's a very diverse branch. We basically reflect the population of Lexington. We have every demographic from lots of families with babies and seniors we have a lot of latinos we have many many african-american families and children and then we have uh... many many long time angle residents of of lexington and new residents of lexington so it it it that them just like lexington carnal valley continues to change and grow we are part of the Lexington Public Library system. So we are one of the six locations in Lexington. We provide all the same services. We have the same hours. And, you know, we do have bilingual staff here because many of our residents need help. They're learning English. Sometimes the first language for many people is Spanish. And the other side to it is we have many Lexingtonians who want to learn Spanish. So they come here for classes. They also check out our audios, our DVDs. They want to listen and learn Spanish. So just as many people, we have learning English. On the other hand, we have many people interested in learning Spanish. Yeah, that's really great, I think. And I know that the entire staff here, in order to accommodate anyone that is Spanish-speaking, are bilingual. Just about. Just about. Just there's a couple of staff people who are not fluent in Spanish. But they know, you know, enough to be able to welcome people. But, of course, English is the language that we train on, that we do our computer work on. So it continues to be the primary language of the staff. The other thing that I forgot to mention is because we all have so many children in this area, we have a lot of activities, and I think we're probably going to go there next. Right. I was wondering about your homework help. Well. And I know you have some grant money. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. When we began in 2004, when we opened our doors, we found many parents coming in with your children asking, can you help our children with their homework? We cannot read either. Perhaps they could not read in English, or their reading skills were very poor, even in their own native languages. Or they just felt overwhelmed. you know it's been many years from I don't know for me since they were in school and they weren't sure if they were helping their children correctly so they we kind of scrambled and decided that this was one of the niches that we wanted to fill for the community and so we began a volunteer homework program since then it has grown so that we partnered with Fayette County School system through a grant, the 21st Century grant, which Martin Luther King Academy was instrumental in getting. Actually, the grant went to Martin Luther King Academy, which, as you may know, is an alternative school for many students who either have had behavioral problems or just not making it through the school, through regular school. And so they partnered for the same reason, to find a way to have these kids stay in school, succeed. And so they are able to get us paid teachers. So every afternoon, Monday through Thursday, we have two teachers who are qualified and certified and know what they're doing. And we particularly have them help the older kids because many of our volunteers can help the younger kids a lot easier. We also have high school students and college students who are part of our volunteer effort. They do community service in the case of many of our high school students. And then college kids, often they're either doing it for internship or service points or just personal interests. Perhaps they want to practice a little bit of Spanish, or they just want the experience of working with kids. So it's a very active program. We do all kinds of activities with them as well through the 21st century. It's not all academic. We want them to enjoy anything related to school, Plus, we want them to have a safe place to come to here in the community. That's very important. I know that any time I've been here in the evenings, it is wall-to-wall kids. Yes. So I know they wouldn't be coming here if they didn't enjoy it. And the parents feel comfortable with them being here. Yes. And, you know, it's kind of a two-edged sword. We want them here. Yeah, we have to maintain a sense of balance because we are a library, but it's a wonderfully used library. It's very vibrant. And not only homework, because I went to also, you know, of course, our collection, our books, our videos, our DVDs, our audios. It's all part of magazines. It's part of what makes us a library. We also have computers for both children and adults, free access computers to all residents. And we provide other services as well. Right. And I know on the many, many programs that I see here, it's like there's tax help going on right now. Tax help. We're very fortunate. We partnered with United Way this year, and they do taxes two days a week. I think it's our fifth year partnering with them, and they come in on Mondays and Thursdays to prepare taxes and bring new people into the library who might otherwise not come in. So, yes, it's another service that we provide. And recently, most recently, I think, well, I should say a few months ago, there was a mural that was done on the outside of the building. Can you briefly tell me just a little bit? Yes, that mural was funded by the Lexington Arts, by Lexington Public Library, by the 21st Century Fayette County School System, and then I want to say water quality, I think. Yes, the sustainability. Sustainability. And so, yes, it was a mural designed by teens, put up by teens, and we're very proud of it. Yeah. Very proud of it. And as I talk about teens and kids, you know, one of our most important things is our summer reading program. That's something that we do every year. It'll happen again this year, like clockwork. And we encourage it. It's for everyone, adults, children, and teens. So look for that when it comes. Thank you. I think we're about to run out of time, Betty, but I really appreciate you taking the time to tell everyone about these many programs here at the library. And please stick around with us for a while. Thank you. We need you definitely in this area. Thank you. Thank you for making time and recognizing the importance of the library and the community. Thank you. Hello, I'm Bill Farmer, 5th District Urban County Councilmember, welcoming you to our new edition of Lexplor. Today we've come to Ashland, Henry Clay Estate. It's a new season for them, and we're going to find out all about it. Please stay with us. Welcome back. I've been joined by Christina Bell, who is the Director of Development here at Ashland Henry Clay. estate, Christina. Howdy. Nice to see you today. Nice to see you. Thanks for coming over. Well, it's a pleasure to be here. And I need to stop first and thank you for the great job you have done during your tenure of awakening and bringing people to the estate. I just think it's great outreach and something so very important. It's a great team here at Ashland, and we have wonderful people that are dedicated, great staff. We have 80 volunteers. We have a volunteer board. That's a big volunteer core. It is, and we couldn't do it without them. So it's a great group of people, and we're ready for the spring. Well, I mean, the estate's closed in January and February. It is. So March is, in essence, your grand opening, your new year. It is. So what's up in the new year? We have some good things in this March. We are kicking off March with our March Membership Madness. Membership Madness, you say? Because, you know, March Madness is kind of big around the country. Right. So we have our own March Membership Madness here at Ashland. and we do our kickoff in early March and then the whole month of March. You can come and join and be a friend, get a friend membership at Ashland and support the preservation and our educational center here. And you may or may not know that Ashland does not receive any city, state, or federal funding of any sort. I think you need to repeat that. Yes. I think a lot of people think that we are federally funded. Right. Or underwritten somehow. We receive none of that, and we are funded strictly by sponsorships, events, and kind and generous donors in this community and beyond. And so that is how we support Ashland and keep it as it is. So people that are kind of Henry Clay fans become involved in a certain way? They do, and we have lots of ways for people to become involved. They can be a friend. They can be a Henry Clay Society member. that can be a volunteer, they can sponsor an event if they have a business or a company that would like to sponsor an event. We have the tree sponsored. Yes. And so that's how we do things that bring lots of new people on the property because we couldn't do it if we didn't have that kind of sponsorship or that kind of community support. So since Ashland has opened 365 days a year for the entire community to enjoy these 17 acres, we like to have everybody come and support, even if it's a dollar. If every person in the city gave a dollar, we'd have a good support system for the entire year. Well, but you're, it is an estate, but it's very much a part of the neighborhood. It is very much. You know, I think people don't realize it increases your property values to have Ashland here in the center of the city. We bring tourists from all over the, not only the country, but the world. Oh, yes. We educate thousands of school children every year. And I think it brings lots of tourism and business to Lexington. And so not only that, but it gives us all a rich history right here in the center of the city. Right in the center of it. Yes, ma'am. And 17 acres to enjoy walking paths, gardens, and just a contemplative quiet place, not to mention coming in the mansion and all the history that's here. So the March Madness, membership madness, excuse me, runs all month long. All month long. You can become a friend any time during the year. It's just that we kick it up when we open up in March and say, you know, come be a friend of Ashland. Excuse me. And then the newsletter goes along with that participation level? Yes. And is that once a quarter that that comes? We have a newsletter twice a year. Twice a year. And that goes to all our friends and all our supporters so that they can know all the events that are coming up. And there's lots of them. We've got, in this first newsletter that's just now out, everything through June. Yes, up through the long party. Yeah. I noticed that. You come to the lawn party. It's fun. Oh, yeah. I can walk home. But you use, in this instance, and we'll show a close-up of the front, a much younger portrait of Henry Clay, what I would call a much more virile portrait. I think it's a beautiful depiction. Well, it is a wonderful depiction, and it's on our website. Oh, okay. So people can see it there, and then they can get on and become a member on PayPal. We're all up in this century, Bill. We're on the Internet now. So people can join by getting on our Internet and doing PayPal, or they can call the estate, or they can come in March and become a friend. We make it easy. 2-6-6-8-5-8-1. Wow. Why do I remember? That's one of those. I just got it from the beginning. It's a good number to remember. And the other thing that we're doing in March, which is so fun, this is a brand-new event. You know, I don't know if you knew this, but Henry was a poker enthusiast. He liked to play some poker. I didn't know that. So we're having our first, very first Ashland Poker Tournament. And if you're a fan of the Texas Hold'em game, that is what we're playing. It's going to be at the Signature Club. On Landside Drive. We couldn't have it here at the estate. And it's going to be March 22nd. So again, look on the website. What day? Is that a Saturday? It's a Friday night. Oh, it's a Friday night. March 22nd. Okay. So if you're a novice, you can enter at the $50 rate for the fee. or if you're an accomplished poker player, there's a $250. If you don't play poker at all, we're still having blackjack. And so this is a fundraiser for Ashland, but the top winners of the tournament actually will win cash. So get on the website for all the rules and call and make your reservation because we can take, I think, 100 players. Oh, really? There's specific, those people that play poker. Right. I'm sure there's a very, I mean, there's a core of that group here, too. Yes, there are. Are you going to give a trophy or just a, what are they again? Money. Money. I'm sorry. Yes, ma'am. Money. The ultimate answer. People like the money. Money is everywhere. So the top three winners in each category will win a percent. We don't know how much that is yet because we don't know how many poker players we're going to have. But it's also a big fundraiser for Ashland. So they could even, if they wanted to, they could donate their winnings back to Ashland. Always on the mend, aren't you? Well, well done. Well, it's the way we've got to support this wonderful place. It's March 22nd. On 22nd. At 5 o'clock in the evening until 11, so it's a light night for the poker players. All right. And it's a signature club on Lansdowne. We will look forward to that. So maybe you want to come. I might. I would definitely. At least come by. There's a lower level. I'm glad, you know. But in the meantime, I think we have more things we want to talk about, and we want to move to another part of the house. Okay. So you will stay with us. I will. If you all be with us when we come back. Thank you. Hi, I'm David O'Neill, your property valuation administrator, with an important message for homeowners that could save you money on your next property tax bill. If you're 65 years of age or older or disabled and you own your own home, you probably qualify for Kentucky's homestead exemption, saving you up to $410 a year on your property taxes. But don't wait until your birthday. Apply today at FayettePVA.com or give us a call at 246-2722. I look forward to hearing from you. Christina, thank you again for having us up today. Our pleasure. Thank you for coming. We know it's the beginning of a new year and there's a lot of things going on. We've already talked about some of them, but at this point we've come into the study, which is one of my favorite rooms. It's a nice room. And this is where Henry might have come to drink a little bourbon. We have some of those implements right here. Yes, we do. And from talking to Eric's your curator, Eric Brooks. Yes, he is. And he says that he would have studied in here. He would have studied in here. And we are having a big event in April that goes to that urban thing. To the studying that he might have done here. Because I think that was the point, is he would have studied here, but he might have had a little sip of corn, too. He might have. And the whole month of April, we're doing a Clay Roots event. And it is the 400th anniversary of the Clay family coming to America. And they came in 16... 13? 13. Yeah, that would be it. And so we're having a whole month. We're inviting all the clays across the United States to join us for a giant family reunion. But even if you're not a clay, you can come and join us for a mansion open house. And we're doing family portraits. We're doing a lot of things about genealogy. So if you're not a clay and you think you might be a clay, you can maybe come and find that out. Or hear a lot about the clay family. And that was a big event on the 21st of April. Okay. I'm sorry. But this was the whole month, you say? Well, we have things throughout the month, which everybody can go to our website and see the difference. And name that website. HenryClay.org. Thank you. And then the next day, on the 21st of April, we're having a whole arbor celebration here at Ashland, because as you probably know, we have 400 trees on the property. Give or take. Give or take. So we're doing a whole arbor celebration. We're having a kids' climb, where kids can climb up in the tree just this one time, because we don't usually. Oh, really? Yeah, it'll be fun. No, you need to tell people. We need to tell people about that. That'll be fun. That's very, I mean. We have a climb company coming here to do, you know, the actual climbing up in the tree with harnesses, and it's all very safe, and we've checked it all out. So kids can come climb. The University of Kentucky Wind Symphony is coming to do a concert on the grounds that day. You can adopt a tree because. That's always been very popular here. It's something that still needs to be done. Yeah, and anywhere from $50 to $500, depending on which tree it is, and adopted a care rate for a year. All right. So that's a yearly subscription. It is. I didn't know that, but that's very smart because each year would be different. Well, as you know, all the weather that comes across the city, the ice storms, the wind storms, and the 400 trees, you can imagine. So they won't, and I hate to get off onto the side here, they won't be climbing the Norwegian spruce that we light at the holiday. No, not that one. They'll be climbing? It'll probably be the walnut right out in the back lawn. Oh, okay. It'll be safe and limbed up, and everything will be perfectly safe for the kids to do that. I mean, that's just so different. So different. We've never done that before. Well, but I think that's been kind of the hallmark of your development tenure here, is kind of doing things different to bring different groups to the estate and to the home and into the family, if you will. Exactly. We have lots of things to offer here. We have the wonderful rich history. We have the grounds. I mean, there's just so much here that people can enjoy. So we try to do different events to bring in different groups and different, you know, all age ranges. All right. And I don't want to take you somewhere you don't want to go, but 400 years of Clay family. How many people is that? I mean. Well, our curator again, Eric Brooks, and our director of tour operations, Avery Malone, I think it's somewhere in the thousands that there could be of clays across the United States. It'd be great if they'd all come here and see their heritage that weekend. That's a tremendous outreach just to think about. Yeah, so we're putting it out in the Clay Family Newsletter and invitations across the country to all clays. Of course, there's a lot of clays here. Right here anyway, here in surrounding counties. And there are a lot, I think, at least in our area, a lot of genealogy buffs, people who are interested in their heritage and their community's heritage. There's all those shows on television now, Who do you think you are and those types of things where people are really looking back at your lineage and heritage? I'm just always afraid I'm going to find out. I imagine it would be good, Jill. I really do. And then the last event in April is our tree and bourbon trail. Oh, now tell me about this. That's a new one, too. So we're having a tree tour around the ground. Okay. And at some stops on some trees, we're having bourbon. And so you can stop to learn about the tree and have a little bit of bourbon. And we'll have different distiller distilleries here around the grounds And so you can try the different types of bourbon and the reason for the bourbon is is that Henry Clay was a big bourbon fan Yeah, we used to take barrels of bourbon from Woodford Reserve What's now Woodford Reserve and took it to Washington because and you'll appreciate this film. He said it lubricated the wheels of government Smart man Yes So we are bringing another, again, another different group of people that might not have enjoyed Ashland, letting them see the trees and the history of the trees and the bourbon of the area and sample a little bourbon. And, again, people can get on our website at henryclay.org and learn all about that. And you can also adopt a tree that day as well. So how late in the month is that going to be? That's Sunday, April 28th from 5 to 7 p.m. So it's Sunday, Sunday afternoon. Right. We can come have a little. test of bourbon before dinner. Well, I just want to help you push that because that's totally different than anything you've done before. Completely new. We've done tree trails and you can come on the grounds now and do our outdoor tree trail if you want, but we've added the bourbon to it. Well, bourbon is more popular than ever and certainly is having a certain sort of renaissance here in the city of Lexington for that matter. So I think you're tapping into that at the very right time. Absolutely. And there are some trees on the As you mentioned, our Norway spruce that we light at Christmas is 138 years old. The giant ginkgo trees right in front of the mansion are really old. Henry Clay brought those here. They're not original to his time, I don't think, but he brought them here. And there are some original ash trees on the property. Have you all avoided the ash borer problem? We have treated it. And that's another thing that we do with the money. When people adopt a tree, we're able to do projects like that to save and preserve those trees, as well as limbing them up. This year we had a giant project that we're still trying to complete where we took all the vines around the bottoms of the trees and took them off because those kind of suck the life out of trees. So we've done a lot of tree preservation this year, and it takes a lot of money to do that. Well, and then you've, I mean, in years past you had a buffalo clover exhibit or something at the bottom? We still have parts on the grounds where you can see the buffalo clover. And then you added the Civil War monument at the back corner. Yes. And as you know, we had the 150th anniversary last fall of the Battle of Ashland with a giant Civil War reenactment, and we're going to do that again in September. I'm sorry I missed that. I would love to have seen it. It was a great day. The pictures were great. Over 500 people came that day. Really? Eric and Avery and all the staff here at the estate did a wonderful job. You know, reenactors, we had Henry Clay reenactor here. It had the mansion open with reenactments of things that would have happened in the day. So it was really interesting, and it's a great learning experience. And as you know, we're an educational center here. Oh, you are, for so many ages and stages of life. And then as I walked up, I had not noticed there's a Masonic kind of a plaque or a fixture out here extolling the many posts that Henry Clay held in the Masonic Order, which, again, something else popular at another time, but more popular now than ever. There's a lot that people don't know probably about Henry. There's that part. He was the Secretary of State. He was Speaker of the House. He was a senator. So there's a lot to know about Henry. More than we can do in this 15 minutes. That's true. So that's why people need to come here as often as possible And if you haven't been here ever or you haven't been here in 20 years the exhibits change And so we're having one March through June about political memorabilia Really and Eric again our curator Eric Brooks has come up with that And you know you might know that Henry ran for president three different occasions Yes, we have a lot of political memorabilia here for people to look at and as we've just come through a big election and a big political year, we thought it would be kind of interesting for people to see what might have happened in Henry's day, how he advertised, how he, you know. Well, but I mean, for a politician that's been passed away for as long as he has, he still has great popularity with current politicians, especially in Washington, I find. Absolutely. They're still quoting him in the Senate. Oh, yeah. They're still quoting him in the Supreme Court regularly. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, still talks about Henry. As you know, we had Speaker of the House Tom Boehner and Nancy Pelosi here last year. Yes. To receive the Henry Clay Medallion. It was a wonderful event. Big buffs of Henry. So still the best way to connect easily is through henryclay.org. Correct. That's our website. So you can go there to learn about history or also all of our events and see what's going on at Ashland and come on over and join us. You're the best. Yes. Christina, thank you very much. Thank you for all your support. Well, we like to take care of people right in the district, and you all are right in the district, so it's easy. I'm Bill Farmer for Lexplorer. We always enjoy the opportunity to visit with you. If you have a thought or a place that we should come and see, please let us know. But for now, thank you very much. Thank you. Hello, I'm Steve Kay, Council Member at Large, and I'm here with David O'Neill, who's our Property Valuation Administrator, to talk about their office and the kinds of things that they do. And I want to start first by saying welcome, David. I'm glad you took the time to be here. Well, thanks for having me. Glad to be here. Well, good. Why don't we start off by having you talk a little bit just about what your office does so people get an eye. If they don't have an idea, they'll have a better idea. Okay, good. Property valuation is one of the county constitutional offices like county clerk and sheriff. Okay, and that means if it's a constitutional office, that means it's elected? It is. It's a four-year elected office. It's on the same election cycle as county clerk, sheriff, mayor, council at large races. It's our job to assess all property value in Fayette County for the purposes of paying property taxes. Okay. So there's 110,000 parcels of property in Fayette County, the vast majority of which are residential. About 100,000 of the 110,000 are residential parcels, and the rest are commercial agriculture-exempt properties, which include churches, government buildings, hospitals, University of Kentucky. Okay, but you have them all on your list somewhere. As one way or another, they show up. Exactly, exactly. And I'm required by statute to physically inspect every parcel once every four years. It keeps you busy. It does keep us busy. So the way we do it is we've got the county divided up into neighborhoods. We have about 300 neighborhoods in Fayette County, and we do a fourth of those neighborhoods every year. So, and traditionally, when we were in a good economy, every four years when we inspected the properties, that's when they would be reassessed. Okay. But we haven't been doing a lot of reassessing the last few years since the recession in 2008, but hopefully that'll be changing. It looks like the market is picking back up and houses are selling again. So I think that we're in an optimistic period for our local economy. So when you, obviously you don't do it all yourself. You have staff who participate in the inspections every four years on that cycle. What do they look at? What are they looking for? We have a staff of 26 in the PVA office, and that's about five under what the state budget office recommends. But we're in a budget crisis just like every other government office, so we're not fully staffed. What we look at is what we go around. First of all, we take a new photograph of every property at the time of the inspection. We also have details on the property so we know how many buildings are supposed to be on it, what the square footage is supposed to be, what it's supposed to be constructed of. And we're looking for changes since the last time we've been there. So we're also looking at the overall condition of the property. We're looking at the overall condition of the neighborhood. And then we're evaluating the property, how it holds up to what we would expect the average in that neighborhood to look like. We do what's called mass assessing. So we can't know everything about every piece of property, all 110,000 of them. So we do mass assessing and we make some assumptions. We base it on sales in the neighborhood. So it's important that homeowners and property owners know what their assessment is and that they feel like it's a fair and equitable assessment. And if it's not, there are steps they can take that we can talk more about. Well, why don't we go right to that? So I get an assessment, and I look at it, and I think, I'm not going to complain, obviously, if it's less than I think my house is worth, probably. Right. But if I think it's more, then what do I do? There's a period of time set aside every year in the statutes referred to as open inspection, and that's when any property owner can come in and conference with me and my staff if they don't feel like their assessment is fair or equitable. And those are the key words. We're looking for fair and equitable. Nobody really likes paying property taxes, But as long as we know we're being treated the same as everybody else, then most people are comfortable with it. So before you go to the more detail about the open, open, open inspection, open inspection. And you can tell people more about that. But fair, equitable. Those are different things. Those are related things. I mean, yes, I think being treated fairly, that all property is being treated the same way. And the Constitution says that all property, unless it's specifically exempted by law, is to be assessed at 100% fair cash value. Okay. So you want to be treated that way, plus you also want to know that your assessment makes sense when compared to other property's assessments. Okay. And fair cash value, you already said this, it's kind of based in part on if there have been sales and what the adjacent property or... Fair cash value is what the property should bring in an open market with a willing seller and a willing buyer with the property on the market for a reasonable period of time. And law has pretty much held that the best indicator of a property's value is its sale price. So what we do, most of the assessing we do, particularly on residential property, is based on sales of like property in that specific neighborhood. So ideally, just to keep it simple, for example, if you were to live in the Stonewall subdivision, what we would do when reassessing Stonewall is take all of the sales in that subdivision and then apply them to like property. So we would be looking, if it's a one-floor ranch, we would be comparing that to other ranches. If it's a two-story, compare that to two-story. And then we make adjustments based on things like whether it has a basement, whether the basement's finished. if we know whether or not the house has been remodeled recently. We do follow up on building permits. When building permits are issued by the city, we get copies of those and we follow up on them. So even though we do do mass assessing, we try to apply real data whenever possible. So it sounds similar to if I wanted to get a bank loan and they asked to have my house, the property appraised. Right. So I presume it's something similar. It's similar except that I'm authorized by law to come onto your property and take external measurements and take a look around, but I'm not authorized to come in and look around. And property owners rarely invite me in to look around, oddly enough. You're a friendly fellow. I do my best. So an appraiser has the benefit of going into the house and covering it in complete detail from top to bottom, and we don't have that luxury. All the more reason for the property owner to be familiar with their rights. Right. So let's back up in this open inspection. Open inspection. It always begins the first Monday in May and runs for 13 consecutive days, including Saturdays. So for this year, it'll be May 6th through May the 20th. If you want a conference with me on your assessment of your property, then come in and talk to us. And you'll generally get to speak to the assessor who actually placed the value on your property. and we'll share the information, everything that we have that helped us arrive at that value, we'll share with you, we'll show you the sales in the neighborhood. Then if you have something that you want to share with us, for example, if you have a recent bank appraisal that suggests that we don't have the assessment correct, then that would be the time to do it. Okay. And if, after you talk to us, if we're still not able to arrive at a place that you believe is fair or equitable, then property owners can appeal that to the local board of tax appeals. and the only requirement for filing with the local board of tax appeals is that you do have to conference with my office before you make the filing. And the deadline for filing the appeal is the close of business the day after the end of open inspection. So open inspection ends on May 20th. The last day to appeal is May 21st. So if a property owner does end up wanting to appeal, we try to make that easy. There's a deputy clerk from the county clerk's office who works out of my office that entire week of open inspection. So if you come in and talk to us, you're not satisfied. You can go right to the deputy county clerk and file the appeal. Okay. I did have one specific question. I'm way too young to qualify, of course. What I understand is an exemption, a homestead exemption, for people of a certain age. Can you want to talk about that a little bit? There are. Most states have some type of a homestead exemption where the government tries to make it easier for retired persons and the elderly to remain in their home if they choose to. And in Kentucky, the homestead exemption takes a specific dollar amount off the assessed value for the purposes of paying property taxes. So it's a state regulation, applied locally. It is. And it's a dollar amount. It's a dollar amount. And that changes every two years. It's adjusted with the Consumer Price Index. So for the next two years, for 2013 and 2014, it's $36,000 off the assessed value. So if you have a house that I assess at $100,000 after you take the homestead exemption off, then you would be taxed at $64,000. And the age? The age is 65 years of age or older. One or more people who own that. Whoever gets there first. Your name needs to be on the deed. Yeah. So whichever spouse or whichever person on the deed gets to 65 first, then that's the name that it goes on. And you don't have to, don't wait until your birthday. If you're turning 65 in 2013, go ahead and contact us now so that we can get it in place before tax bills go out. Because otherwise then we have to go back and fill out a lot of forms and government red tape and get refunds. So anybody who's turning 65 in this calendar year, they can get it. But they have to apply for it. They do have to apply for it. It's not automatic. It's not automatic because we don't know exactly the Social Security number and the date of birth of every homeowner. My office maintains the official registry of who owns what home, but it's not tied back to anything that would indicate their age. So typically the way it works is we get a copy from the local board of elections of the voter file of the people who are turning 65 that year, according to the voter file. But as you and I and everybody else knows, not everybody is registered to vote for whatever reason. So I know that people are falling through the cracks. And just anecdotally, I run across people who were not aware of it, who were not taking advantage of it. I know we're not at 100 percent participation. So that's a goal of mine while I'm in office to get the homestead exemption at 100 percent participation. Now, if you're just now hearing about it, just now finding out about it and you are over 65, I can go back two years. So, anything that you were not taking advantage of prior to two years ago, I can't get refunds on that, but I can go back and refund it. But they can get a rebate? Two years. Okay. Yes. And the dollar amount of the exemption, depending on which taxing district you live in, is about $410 in savings in annual property taxes. So, it's not an insignificant amount of money. Okay. We've got a very few minutes left. Is there anything else that you think people need to know or you'd like to tell people about the office? Yes. One thing that people may not know is they have a very good resource at the PVA office on our website. It's Fayette PVA, as in Property Evaluation Administrator, FayettePVA.com, and there's a wealth of resources out there. In fact, we've launched a new product on the website today. As a matter of fact, depending on what day this airs, it may or may not be today. But we put out sales reports. So if you're familiar with the home seller section of the Sunday paper where you can see the properties that transferred, we've got an electronic version of that. So you go on the website, pull it up, and you can click a link. It will take you right to the property records for each of those properties. You can look up each of the 110,000 properties in Fayette County, see a picture of the property, see a sketch of the building, see the sales history, see the assessment history. We spend a lot of time researching the very best website applications out there, and I think we've got a really good resource at PVA.com. Well, great. Again, thank you for joining me today and sharing this information, and thank you all for watching. Again, there will be information about the PVA office up on the screen, especially for those who may be over 65 if you've not taken advantage of that homestead exemption. Now is the time to do it. Thank you for watching. We'll be right back. We just cook healthy stuff that's in our main food groups. If any boys and girls want to be on step, they can. And you just learn all these different kind of steps. Ages 6 through 18 can enjoy lots of fun during spring break. Beginning on April 1st, William Wells Brown Community Center will have a variety of activities each day from 5 to 9 p.m. Camp activities will include arts and crafts, physical fitness games, and healthy eating tips. You can also take part in the computer program and more workshops and clinics. Youth activities will be divided by age groups to ensure safety. I can come here for free and play around with pals and buddies. And then when you come here and play, it's good exercise and stuff. I like having fun with my friends because usually I never come outside. Kids, tell your parents so you can enjoy spring break at the William Wells Brown Community Center located at 548 East 6th Street, part of William Wells Brown Elementary. For more details, please call Parks and Recreation at 859-288-2900. William Wells Brown Community Center! are so critically important to the health, welfare, and just the good-naturedness of our community. The leadership of Parks and Recreation give us the opportunity to have these great facilities for economic development, for quality of life, to be out in the open, to be able to do things as families. The investment that we make as a community in our parks is so important to making a great city even better. Okay, so you want to ride LexTrain? Well, it's easy as 1, 2, 3. First, plan your trip. Decide where you want to go and when. Second, buy your pass. Purchase your pass online at lextrain.com or at the Transit Center, any Kroger location, or our administrative offices on Loudon Avenue. 3. Board the bus and use our easy-to-use spare boxes. 1, 2, 3. I'm Gary Means with the Lexington Parking Authority. My name is Gary Means. I'm the Executive Director with the Lexington & Fayette County Parking Authority. The renovation of the annex garage is a total of an eight month project. The first three months we were able to keep about 50% of the garage open, but we've had to close it now. And the last five months it will be closed completely to assist the contractors in being able to get all the renovation work done in a safe manner where we don't have other vehicles in the area where they're jackhammering and creating dust or debris. Again, this project is about a $3.1 million project and most of the work is replacement of bad concrete and steel that's rusted. Steel that's normally embedded in the concrete has become rusted over the years and it causes concrete to pop loose which also causes the deck to be a little bit unstable and so we will make it safe and sound. We have a map on our website and we're also communicating through other media, but the alternative parking locations during this closure are the courthouse garage where you enter in on Barr Street and the transit center garage where we're standing right now on the rooftop. You can enter the transit center garage off of High Street or Vine Street. And those locations will accept the validations from any of the LFUCG departments that you may visit, including the police department. And then the county clerk's office is also continuing to validate, as they did in the past when you would have parked in the annex garage, they'll be validating if you end up in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And keep in mind, the library garage is nearby, but they do not accept the validations from the county clerk's office or LFUCG departments. At this point, we're anticipating the garage to reopen in late spring. This project should go through some point in April and maybe hopefully thereafter we're opening back up. With this, we hope to do a grand opening where there will be new lighting. Obviously the concrete will all be fresh, new and safe, and new garage equipment for the entry and exit system as well. We appreciate everyone's patience during this project, and again, we've worked out ways to accommodate parking. We don't want people to feel like they need to avoid downtown because of this during these five months. There is plenty of parking available, and we've worked out arrangements at the Transit Center garage and the Courthouse garage as well. I guess what we're excited about, even though it's a bit of an interruption to folks, is that it's going to be safe and clean and well lit and a great garage to park in once we reopen in the late spring. In the area of the annex garage there's not a lot of retail, there is some retail in that area but a lot of our retail are more down towards the Lexington Convention Center, the Civic Center shops and the Victorian Square shops and so parking in that area is not going to be affected by this closure and like always we welcome everybody to come down and visit our downtown retail shops during the holidays. For information during this renovation or about the renovation or about where to park as an alternative you can visit the lexpark.org website and you can also follow the parking authority on twitter and we're updating with pictures and updates at our twitter account which is Lex Park Authority. So if you're headed down to visit somebody at the government center, or visit the county clerk's office, or if you're going to visit the division of police, and we don't need to know why, or if you want to come down to visit one of the departments, divisions, or organizations that are housed in the Phoenix building at 101 East Vine Street here, you can still get the appropriate validation if you've parked in the transit center garage or the courthouse garage. And even though the annex garage is closed during these holidays, we've still got plenty of parking downtown if you want to come down and do some shopping. The Lexington Art League and Parks and Recreation have had a long established relationship. We do offer the Woodland Art Fair in partnership with Parks and Recreation each year. They provide unbelievable support for that event. We are very fortunate to have a very thriving and vibrant community that really has grown through the arts in many different ways. Parks and Recreation is a great supporter of the arts in our community. Dual polarization technology is a major upgrade to the current radar system. It allows forecasters a better idea of what's actually out there and can help keep you safe. Current radar technology transmits and receives information in the horizontal direction, which is very limited. The polarization technology, in addition to the horizontal, transmits and receives vertical energy which allows forecasters to get information about the size, shape, and phase of the precipitation. We can use that information to better determine the precipitation type to expect at your given location. There you have it. This new technology is currently being installed in radars across the country and is already being used by National Weather Service forecasters to produce better, more accurate forecasts. Learn more here and follow us. For more information about emergency preparedness, visit bereadylexington.com. Severe weather can develop quickly. Advances in forecasting allow the NOAA National Weather Service to predict severe weather before there's even a cloud in the sky. Severe thunderstorm and tornado watches give you advance notice that conditions are favorable for dangerous weather. When your area is in a watch, be sure to stay alert for changing weather. Remember, a watch is not a warning. A warning is only issued when severe weather is about to strike. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, monitors weather conditions across the United States. They issue daily forecasts showing areas of the country that are likely to experience severe weather. In the hours before storms form, the Storm Prediction Center discusses the weather with National Weather Service forecast offices within the areas at risk. The Storm Prediction Center then issues a watch to notify people in those areas to stay alert for severe weather. A watch also includes information about what type of weather you might see and the chances of it actually occurring. The risk level can range from a few storms with hail and high winds to a particularly dangerous situation when deadly tornadoes could occur. The most important thing you can do when a watch is issued is to stay alert for developing storms and understand your risk. Be sure to tune in to your local news for updated weather information. You can also get instant weather alerts from NOAA Weather Radio. Watches also provide an opportunity to review your family emergency plan, as well as check your disaster supplies kit. When the risk increases and severe weather moves in, you'll be ready if a warning is issued. If you need help developing a plan for your family or packing a kit, check out ready.gov for all the information. Stay alert and stay safe this storm season. For more information about emergency preparedness in Fayette County, visit BeReadyLexington.com. On April 19th, help keep downtown Lexington clean and green. Clean up downtown Lexington by volunteering for the 2013 Downtown Lexington Corporation's Downtown Trash Bash. Show your support for downtown and the environment in honor of Earth Day. Clubs, schools, business people, and everyone in between are invited. Volunteers will be armed with bags and gloves to clean up downtown streets. Get there early to receive your free volunteer t-shirt. Food and Pepsi products will be available at no cost to volunteers. On Friday, April 19th, come to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to sign in. Once you've picked up your shirt, gloves, and bags, you'll be assigned an area downtown to clean up. Just bring your litter filled bags back to the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion where they will be properly disposed of by our friends at the City of Lexington Division of Waste Management. The Downtown Trash Bash is an annual spring cleaning event and the local branch of the Great American Cleanup. All the trash collected is trash saved from being washed down the storm drains and into our local rivers. The Downtown Trash Bash is sponsored by the Downtown Lexington Corporation and is held in conjunction with the Great American Cleanup, which is coordinated locally by the City of Lexington. In case of rain, the Downtown Trash Bash will be held on Friday, April 26th. For more information about the Downtown Trash Bash, contact me at the Downtown Lexington Corporation. We talk about your work, how your boss is a jerk. We talk about your church and your head when it hurts. We talk about the troubles you've been having with your brother, about your daddy and your mother and your crazy ex-lover. We talk about your friends and the places that you've been. We talk about your skin and the dimples on your chin. The polish on your toes and the run and your hose and... Hey everyone, welcome to Retail Perspective. I'm Devin, I'm here at Bella Road. Pretty Woman Welcome back. I'm Devin with the DLC and I'm here with Betty at Bella Rose. How are you doing today, Betty? Wonderful. I'm so glad you all are here. Yeah, happy to be here. So tell me about Bella Rose. I know there's a lot of history. There certainly is. Devin, we are celebrating 33 years in business this year in the spring, and we're in the business of cheering up women. We have been blessed with, we can dress you, your mother, and your grandmother. So we can get you ready for derby, weddings, prom, just a casual dinner out. We have several trunk shows scheduled. We have hat designers that will be coming in in about, oh, really, a few weeks that will be doing custom hats to match your dress. We have bridesmaids' dresses downstairs. And, Devin, an area of the business that is growing beautifully is Mother of the Bridegroom. Mother of the Bridegroom is so they're younger and peppier, so they don't really want to look like the grandmother. even though we dress lots of sassy little grandmothers. But that is something that we really take a lot of pride in and enjoy being part of those special days. It's almost as though there's always a special event going on here in the community. There's a fundraiser. There's Art in Bloom coming up. There's the Heart Ball. And we keep track of where dresses are going in terms of we don't want you to show up with the same dress on. So we really honor that. that feature that we're able to do and have a great selection, as always. You can just look around. There's no lack of beautiful dresses here. Notice a ton of gorgeous accessories and purses and dresses for all sorts of occasions. So where are you located downtown? We're on the corner of Upper and Maxwell. It is a destination, and it's definitely worth it. We are Bella Rose, big city fashion and small town charm. It's come on in, kick your shoes off, and stay a while. The right dress is here for you, whatever your event might be. We are open 10 to 6, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thursday is our late day. We're here until 8, and it's always a fun girls' night out. And then on Saturdays from 10 to 5, and you can find us on Facebook. We have a website, but it's basically just kind of a home page. We really want you to come into the shop and have the experience and just to let us assist you in getting ready for whatever your occasion might be. Absolutely. So what do you like about being located downtown? Well, there's so much opportunity down here. I mean, just when I came to this corner 33 years ago, it was very different. With all the condominiums and all the downtown life, just the whole pulse of downtown is so energetic. I mean, I love Farmer's Market. I love seeing the families walk, parking and walking on the weekends. You know, all of the camaraderie with our sports, with the basketball. You know, it's just, we always enjoy that. And always get new people in that have never, that have been by and never made it into the shop. And just the convenience of being downtown. I mean, it's beautiful. The tree-lined streets and just, it's just magical. The historical neighborhood is one of the most beautiful and sought after in the community. Absolutely. Being close to the universities and, again, in two seconds being downtown. We have a Shoshana trunk show coming up, which we've, I think this will be the fourth or possibly fifth year in a row, that we have a great successful outcome from that. That gets us rolling into Derby. Easter you can get your Easter dress from Shoshana we have shipments of Millie coming in we have of course Keeneland graduation prom and then those famous two seconds two minutes of the Kentucky Derby which we are very well represented at the Derby with the custom hats and one-of-a-kind outfits. So we're just very excited to be celebrating 33 years in business and just feel so blessed that we have the privilege of dressing so many women. And we're just grateful for this community and surrounding communities that we have, the repeat clientele that we do. And the age range, that's quite special. Absolutely. Definitely such a nice addition to downtown and a destination. We love our location. I've had so much fun here today at Bella Rose and for everything that's going on downtown, visit downtownlex.com. I can't wait for spring break at the Gainesway Community Center. Are you looking for something to do this spring break that will prepare you for life after graduation? Gainesway Community Center is holding a three-day college and career camp April 1st through the 3rd. Each day, students will visit a local university touring the campuses of Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky State, and Berea College. Registration deadline is Friday, March 29th. Tours will include transportation to campus facilities and information sessions on majors and housing. Students will have the chance to meet admissions counselors while getting a feel for campus life. The camp tours are free, but it is recommended that participants bring money for refreshments or pack a snack. Students must meet one hour before the tour starts at the Gainesway Community Center. Buses will leave promptly at 12 noon each day. If you have questions, please call the Division of Youth Services at 859-246-4300. I'm Nikki Heichelbeck. I'm the Director of Media Services for the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau. We'll be right back. Well, Visit Lex has a couple different purposes. All of them are to bring people into town, into Lexington, whether it's a convention or a meeting or maybe a family reunion, military reunions. We have a whole staff of salespeople that are out there looking for meetings and conventions to bring into Lexington. And then we have the visitor side where we're looking to bring leisure tourists into town. So the overall goal is always put people in those hotel rooms overnight and drive tourism in Lexington. We were down at the corner of Rose and Vine for about 17 years, and that was a great location for us. But we have a new president now, Mr. Jim Browder. and he wanted us to be closer to kind of the hub of downtown where the hotels are, the convention center, that sort of thing. Thought we'd see more foot traffic right here in Victorian Square and so far that has proved to be true. We worked with Solid Light, who's over in Louisville, to help design this space. They've done some other very prominent locations around the state, some of the bourbon distilleries, Heaven Hill and Maker's Mark they were also involved with. So we had a great team of designers over there that helped us put together a center that really showcases the horses, the history, the bourbon, and a new section that we have called Explore My Lex, which is everything from restaurants to festivals and events, different things that happen throughout the year that are of interest to both locals and people who are visiting us. Well, certainly we always welcome people here at the Visitor's Center, so just come on down and see us. We're open Monday through Friday from 8.30 to 5 and also on Saturday from 10 to 5. And then during the summer months also on Sundays. You can also go online 24 hours a day. We have a very robust website at www.visitlex.com. We've got a lot of great interactive displays here at the Visitor Center. Several touch screens that showcase different areas of interest. This one obviously is for bourbon. You can learn all sorts of things about bourbon, see some videos of the local distilleries, that sort of thing. You can even come over here and if you'd like to smell what one of the bourbons smells like, that's a really fun thing for folks to do and a great interactive tool for us. Behind you here we have a replica of a working still, which I think is a lot of fun. Bourbon, of course, is a big driver for tourism here in the central part of Kentucky, so we definitely wanted to get that information out there for people. This screen over here is all about the history in Central Kentucky. So when you click on that, it'll take you to, again, a library of films that we put together on different areas around town. We have all sorts of information for folks to pick up and take with them. Any kind of attraction that they'd like to go to, we can help them with that. We also are selling some merchandise here now in our new location. We're very proud to have a Lexington KYT shirt now. We also have blue ones for the kids. and those I think have been quite popular. Now something that everybody wants to do when they're visiting a new destination I think is eat food that's local to the area. So you know not everybody wants to eat at a chain restaurant when they're on the road. So what we have over here is Beyond Grits. This is one of our very new guides that we have. It's a nice little booklet that gives profiles of some of our chefs here in Lexington and the central Kentucky area, and then all sorts of information on winery tours and that sort of thing, along with the brand-new Brewgrass Trail, which is a collection of local brewers that are setting up shop here in Lexington and the surrounding areas. Thank you. Well I'm calling, but you don't want no talking Well you're only calling, just keep me hanging on Waving me up and then you knock me down Say you love me, but you're talking around Know I'm all mixed up And that's enough, baby, driving me out of my mind So I be calling, calling But you never answer, no you just don't seem to get in mind Cause the way you drink a little makes me so Break down and take the most of my pride And you sell it to the way to get you off of my mind Yeah, it's a new song And we the world away in the middle of the year Run by the way, run by the way We were by the grace of God And we the land, we the world away in the middle of the year We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The End our public spaces. But sometimes, bad people do bad things. Their motivations are different. The warning signs may vary, But the devastating effects are the same. And unfortunately, you need to be prepared for the worst. If you were ever to find yourself in the middle of an active shooter event, your survival may depend on whether or not you have a plan. The plan doesn't have to be complicated. There are three things you could do that make a difference. Run. Hide. Fight. First and foremost, if you can get out, do. Always try and escape or evacuate, even when others insist on staying. Encourage others to leave with you, but don't let them slow you down with indecision. Remember what's important, you, not your stuff. Leave your belongings behind and try to find a way to get out safely. Trying to get yourself out of harm's way needs to be your number one priority. Once you're out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 911. Help us! Help us! If you can't get out safely, you need to find a place to hide. Act quickly and quietly. Try to secure your hiding place the best you can. Turn out lights, and if possible, remember to lock doors. Silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone. And if you can't find a safe room or closet, try to conceal yourself behind large objects that may protect you. Do your best to remain quiet and calm. As a last resort, if your life is at risk, whether you are alone or working together as a group, Fight. Act with aggression. Improvise weapons. Disarm him. And commit to taking the shooter down. No matter what. Try to be aware of your environment. Always have an exit plan. Know that in an incident like this, victims are generally chosen randomly. The event is unpredictable and may evolve quickly. The first responders on the scene are not there to evacuate or tend to the injured. They are well trained and are there to stop the shooter. Your actions can make a difference for your safety and survival. Be aware and be prepared. And if you find yourself facing an active shooter, there are three key things you need to remember to survive. Run, hide, fight. For more information about being prepared for emergencies, visit BeReadyLexington.com. It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair One child Grows up to be somebody they just love to learn. And another child grows up to be somebody you just love to burn. Mom loves the both of them. You see it's in the blood. Both kids are good and bomb. Blood's thicker than the mud It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair One affair One affair Newlywed, a year ago But you're still checking each other out Hey, nobody wants to blow Nobody wants to be left out Uh-huh You can't leave, cause your heart is there But you can't see Cause you've been somewhere else You can't cry Cause you look broke down But you're crying anyway Cause you're all broke down It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair Yeah, a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair It's a family affair Boy, I'm You're nothing but Oops. Ready? Sing it for me. Y'all know what this is. Let's go. But I'm sure that the way I feel, I don't want it to go. Cause I cry my shaft in the same machine blues. But to keep you right here, I do what I got to do. So baby, call me. By the day or night, I never leave. So you don't have to be alone. I can do it where you want. Baby, just pick up the phone and call me. Like you and I. I'm gonna be your home and go. Yeah. See, there it go. See, there it go. So I, I, I, you've got the metal through like it break me down. It's like I get caught in the middle, like it get caught up a little any time that she's around. I be posted waiting to stand by looking to catch that head. I'm doing whatever whenever I never forgot I said I'd be there when you want to Get what you need if you want a receiver Please believe you can call me By the day or night I never leave So you don't have to be alone I can end it where you want Baby just pick up the phone and call Hey, are you in your home? I'm gonna be your home and go Oh Oh I'll do. Thank you.