Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go. Okay. All right. Oh, wow. All right. Okay. Greetings, everyone. I'll call the meeting of the work session to order. And first on our agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda. Nobody signed up. Mr. Bundy, all right, sir. Then that allows us to move on to docket approval. I believe there's a move by Council Member Ellinger, a second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Let's see. Wait just a second. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Clear 1-0-2-0. All right. Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I've got two items. First, I move to place on the docket for the October 24, 2013 Council meeting an ordinance amending Section 22-5, two of the Code of Ordinances, creating one position of administrative office senior, grade 120E, with a term to expire in three years in the Division of Planning, Preservation, and Development. So move, and the Commissioner is here to explain if people need explanation. All right. Thank you, Council Member Kay. It was a motion by Council Member Kay, second by Council Member Ellinger. Second. We had a second, but thank you. There's another second there. Second by Council Member Ellinger. So the floor is available for discussion. I think Council Member Kay asked Commissioner Paulson to come up. This is a temporary position. This is for the implementation of a SELA into building inspection and planning. The reason it's temporary, it's very similar. This is basically the exact same model that Charlie Martin used when they implemented Acela into Division of Water Quality. So we're basically just taking the same model. The reason we asked to bring it on today is because of the break next week. If we waited until next week and then two full readings, it would be the 21st of November. We'd just like to try to get this moving a little bit quicker so we can get someone hired and start working on the software implementation. All right. Vice Mayor Gordon. Commissioner, thank you. And how long is this temporary position expected to last? Three years. Okay. And so it's designated? Designated to expire in three years. Three years? Three years. Okay. From start to finish, I think that's kind of the max it would be. This is four. And this is, again, following the same model that water quality used. This would be to get things, because at this point we need to start moving on how we start organizing things and using the money for the rest of this year, fiscal year, as well as setting up the budget for next year in terms of the implementation, and then actually seeing it through the actual implementation and a little bit into the implementation. Okay, and I understand that, and I'm supportive of that. I did have an HR question. I thought our government rules said that a temporary position could not last longer than six months. Can someone from HR speak to that? Do we not have some restrictions on temporary positions? As an acting role you're thinking of, he's creating an unclassified position. which I think has to have an end date, and so that's, I think, three years is about the max. Okay, and so it's our acting positions that aren't supposed to go longer than six months. Is that correct? Correct. Thank you, Mr. Maxwell. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Kay. Second item, Mayor. I circulated an e-mail to Council regarding the item that was placed on the table, I'm sorry, Council Member Kaye. I'm sorry. I thought you were still speaking to this original motion. We're still under discussion on that. Does anyone else wish to, before we vote, does anyone else wish to speak on the motion? Council Member Lawless. If this is, I still don't exactly understand what this position is supposed to be doing, and it seems like. It's associated with the Capacity Assurance Program, and with Capacity Assurance one of the things we need to do is bring building inspection and the Division of Planning onto the same software system as the Division of Water Quality. So what we are doing is to do that, we need to implement the software, and that's what this person will be hired to do. I mean, I think that's great and, you know, how excited I would be for that to happen. But wouldn't that be something that the new CIO would be involved in? In what respect? This is not something – this is – the way we've done it in the past is to actually have a project manager to actually implement the software. This is a very full-time job, so this is not something that the new CIO would want to take on. They will be involved in it, but this is not something that they would want to do themselves. Oh, I know that. They will be here involved in hiring. The reason we're trying to get it put on today was because if we were not, it would be waiting until the 21st before we could start the hire. She'll be here on the 4th, I believe. Okay, thank you. So she'll be involved, yes. All right. So no one else wishing to speak or comment, and we can take a vote. All in favor of a motion, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. As I started to say, I circulated a memo to Council members regarding the item that was placed on the table at the last Council meeting, and there was also additional information provided by Shay Raybold from the mayor's staff. I hope that this answered the questions that people have. And in regard to that, I would like to make a motion to place on the agenda the previously tabled item 1095-13, which is authorization to execute an agreement with CZB LLC for the purpose of developing a comprehensive affordable housing strategy. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Kaye and a second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Mayor, point of order, if it was tabled at a council meeting, it has to be taken off the table at a council meeting. That's right. The point of order by Mr. Stenet is that the point of order is... I can't remember if it was tabled at a council meeting. Or a work session. It was work session because I was excited about not having to be here on that Thursday night. So it would either be a motion to take off the table for work session, but wouldn't go to the docker directly, go blue sheet, back on new business. It was removed from new business. Start all over, if you would, with the point of order and restate the point of order. No, if you can do it now, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't at a council meeting that it was tabled, but it was at a work session. Okay, it's been confirmed. So it's confirmed that it was tabled at a work session. All right, and the additional point of order is? Then we'd have to vote again to put it on the docket. All right, so the motion is appropriate. The motion to? No, not done. All right. I'm trying to get it straight. One person, please. Parliamentarian. He can make a motion to remove it from the table. All right. For discussion about putting it on the docket. You can't do it all in one motion. And can I make the second motion? Yeah. Then I withdraw my first motion. And I don't know who seconded, but... Me. All right. To the motion for withdrawal. Council Member Kaye. Then my motion is to take off the table. previously tabled item 1095-13 as I previously described. So move. All right. Motion by Council Member K. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? It's not debatable. Or is it debatable? No, it's debatable. Yeah. To take it off. It is debatable. All right. Is there any discussion on the motion? It's debatable. It's debatable. All right. Yeah. Hearing none, then all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Motion carries. Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. Then I do move to place on the docket a previously tabled item 1095-13, so move. Second. Motion by Council Member Kaye, second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Council Member Lane? Thank you, Mayor. I moved to place on the docket for the October 24, 2013 Council meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor to submit a grant application to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet requesting federal funds in the amount of $1,130,400 under the 2014 Transportation Alternative Program for enhancements to Old Frankfort Pike. So move. Second. I'd like to just give a little bit of additional information. There will be no match from the Urban County Government because land and money and a bronze horse have been contributed for the match portion thereof. And this is on the scenic byway where the roundabout connects with Alex or Andrea Drive. Thank you. All right. We have a motion by Council Member Lane and a second by Council Member Massadi. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. All right. Now we can, is there any further discussion on the original motion to approve the docket? Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I move under ordinances under first reading to place number five on the docket without a hearing. So moved. Second. All right. Motion by Council Member Myers. Second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? Councilman Clark, or you've got another motion. Okay, all right. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the October 24th Council meeting in ordinance number 1135-13 without a public hearing. It's listed as number 6, so move. Second. All right. Motion by Council Member Clark regarding number 6. To place on the docket without a hearing. And it was second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. All in favor, then please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to approve the docket? Council Member. All right. Vice Mayor Gordon. Okay. Council Member Masati. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the October 24, 2013 Council meeting a resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering, pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 18-86, to install multi-way stop controls at South Point Drive and Great Oak Lane. All right. Second. Motion by Council Member Massadi, second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I believe that's all. Who signed up then? No. Vice Mayor Gordon, all right. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to point out, since the chair of our planning committee isn't here, that number seven on our docket under first reading is the Tattoo Parlor Rehab Home text amendment. And I hope you'll be sure and read what we got from planning because they did change the language, and there was quite an interesting discussion in the Planning Commission about this item that came from Planning Committee. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Vice Mayor. All right. I believe we can take a vote now on the motion to approve the docket. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Is there a motion to approve the summary? So moved. Second. Motion back. Council Member Beard, second back. Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Lawless. This is back to Vice Mayor Gorton's issue about number seven. I thought it was going to go back to the planning committee. It's come, and Mr. Sally is here if he wants to clarify. It's come to us and was voted on by the planning commission. we got the packet on it and they approved alternative text as I understand. That's correct. This is an item that had been your Planning and Public Works Committee back in the summer. It was referred back to the Planning Commission and this is their report after their consideration of that item. Okay. It was my understanding that we were not finished with that whole text amendment. It's here. We had done those parts, but okay. All right. We have the motion. The discussion is on the motion to approve the summary. Is there any discussion on the motion to approve the summary? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Is there a motion to approve the budget amendments? No. Second. That was a motion by Council Member Massadi, second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Is there a motion on new business? Motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. No discussion on the motion. Then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. Allows us to move on to continuing business. Move to approve NDF. Motion by Council Member Ellinger to approve the NDF. Second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Yes. On the NDFs? I'm going to add one. Okay. All right. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend the NDFs for the October 24, 2013 Council meeting and to execute an agreement with Highlands Neighborhood Association in the amount of $300 to provide funds for their annual holiday party. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Akers and second by Vice Mayor Vorton. Is there any discussion on the motion to amend? Okay. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Back to the original motion. Is there any further discussion? Then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Motion as amended carries. And next we have a summary of the October 8th Environmental Quality Committee. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Our meeting was held on October 8th at 11 a.m. The monthly committee summary was approved by motion. The second item on our agenda was the monthly financials, and I'll briefly go through the Sanitary Sears Operating and Capital or Construction Fund, Water Quality Operating Fund, and Water Quality Construction Fund, as well as the Landfill Fund. This is year-end, as we were talking earlier today, June 30, 2013. The Sanitary Sears Operating Fund had a total revenue of $45 million, Total expenditures were $40 million and a fund balance of $4.6 million. The under-restricted fund balance as of June 30th was $4.8 million. The capital reserves for the sanitary sewer operating fund was $56.2 million. On the sanitary sewer construction fund, again, revenues were $21 million for FY 2013. The expenditures were $16.5 million. The fund balance was $5 million. and then the capital reserves again are still $56.2 million. The Water Quality Operating Fund had total revenues year-end June 30th of $10.9 million, expenditures of $11.5 million. It did take money on the available fund balance of a negative $674,000. Total unrestricted fund balance in the Water Quality Operating Fund is $7.2 million. Landfill Fund, the total budget ending June 30th was $6.9 million. Total expenditures were right at $11 million. It did take money out of the fund balance, once again, of negative $4.1 million. The unrestricted fund balance as of June 30th was $11.1 million. Next on our agenda was the climate adaptation resolution presented by Mr. Rick Kluet. This covers three different areas in the event of extreme weather, energy utilization, and economic challenges. He discussed having each council member, along with the mayor, sign a form committing to implementing energy efficiency programs, transitioning to renewable energy sources, and using information technology and green infrastructure to optimize energy efficiencies. Each council member will get a copy of this in your mailbox after today's meeting. You can choose to sign it or not. I know the mayor and administration are reviewing the request as well at this time. I also noted during the meeting that we are already under several of the items that he mentioned we could do locally. We are already undertaking several of those items in the Division of Emergency Management and the Division of Solid Waste are all implementing some of those energy efficiency procedures. The next part of our meeting on our agenda was item number four on Empower Lexington. Amy Schoener with Bluegrass Green Source made a presentation. Again, our goal for Empower Lexington was to reduce energy consumption by 1% annually. This includes sectors of residential energy, transportation, industrial, commercial, institutional, land use, food, agriculture, and waste management. In the residential sector, Lexington hosted the Midwest Energy Conference, used home energy audit kits. Smart Builders Program was adopted by the Home Builders of Lexington. In the transportation sector, Lexin increased bicycle and pedestrian opportunities, increased in transit services and ridership, and expanded ride-sharing efforts. In the industrial sector, Lexin has distributed 1,143 LED exit signs for buildings and has secured over 200 Live Green Energy partners from the business community. In the land-use, food, and agricultural sector, Lexington has started a tree canopy survey, continues to reforest the bluegrass program, and has initiated a local food coordinator pilot program, thanks to Council Member Kay. Shoner also said that in the waste sector, Lexington has improved its household waste management practices, increased in recycling efforts, and established a drop box for unwanted pharmaceuticals. Here are some data that Council Members may find interesting. At the end of the four-year annual consumption data, she stated that electricity consumption decreased by 7.6% and 1.9% annually in 2011. Natural gas consumption increased 1.1% in the last four years and 0.3% in 2011. Transportation miles decreased 1.4% in the last four years and 0.4% annually in 2011. And last but not least, the landfill tonnage decreased 11.3% in the last four years and 2.8% in 2011, with the population in Fayette County also during that time frame increasing by 8.4%. And then last but not least, we run over the items for the next agenda, which will include the Energy Investment Fund review, the CAO Policy 15R regarding change orders in the vision of water quality, and we'll follow up once again on the climate adaptation signatures by the council members. We adjourn the meeting at 1.05 p.m. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Stennett. Chairman Stennett. Vice Mayor Gordon. I believe there's a table of motions summary. Thank you, Mayor. Council members, what's on here for me to report out is our October 10th and our October 15th committee of the whole motions, which all relate to the fund balance. And I think since we are still working with the fund balance, and one of these has already changed, the pothole patcher, I think it would be more appropriate for me to bring these plus today's motions with the final list at one time, once we're finalized. So if, Stacy, if you could see that those all get on when we're finished, don't you think that would be, is that okay? All right. So I'll report those out when we're finished. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Vice Mayor. All right. That allows us to continue to council reports. If council members have council reports, please log in. All right. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to report that this past weekend, in the pouring down rain, We had a festival at Wolf Run Park to clean up Wolf Run Creek, and it was a really, really good turnout. I was amazed how many people are dedicated to our water quality because I was muddy from head to toe. But it was a really, really good event. And this Saturday, beginning at 2 o'clock, there is a fall festival at Valley Park. And I'm hoping that the mayor can be there. And anyone else is welcome to come as well. But I just wanted to announce that, and that's at 2077 Cambridge Drive. And it's to kick off our Halloween holiday. So I will be in costume. So you will be expected to be in hospital. Thank you. Bye. All right. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Council Member Stenet. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place in the Budget and Finance meeting a review of our debt management policy that this council drafted about four years ago now. I want to go ahead and think it's time that we get it formalized and adopted by the whole council. So I move to place it into the committee first for a review and maybe any modifications. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Stennett. Second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. All right, sir. Thank you, Council Member Stennett. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple of things. just to remind council members that our Committee of the Whole Fund Balance discussion is in recess until right after this meeting. So if you all can, please stay for a short while, maybe a short while. And we'll finish that. And then I just wanted to say frequently our employees retire, and we learn after they're gone that they're retired. And so I just wanted to, or they leave, mention three people in particular, one of whom has left, and that's Billy Van Pelt. I meant to do this before he left, but he has run our PDR program for many years and did a really wonderful job with it, and I just thank him for his dedication. And then I want to wish Richard Maloney well as he gets ready to retire at the end of October. See, we don't have a meeting next Tuesday. And to thank Richard for his long service to urban county government on and off for many years, and then to wish Jennifer Benningfield well as she leaves her service to the council, which has been several years now, and goes to work for CAO Hamilton. I'm sure you will appreciate her work ethic. So just to thank those people. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thoughtful and certainly appropriate. Thank you so much. All right. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place in the General Government Committee the issue of restructuring to remove the Division of Budgeting from the Department of Finance. Second. Motion by Council Member Massadi and second by Council Member Ford. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. What was the motion? To put the issue of restructuring. Oh, okay. All right. Sorry. All right. All right. So is there no discussion on the motion? If not, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I have several announcements. First of all, the Georgetown Street Neighborhood Association is hosting a Halloween party this evening from 6 to 8 p.m. for children 12 and under, and that will be held at Douglas Park. The Melrose Oak Park Neighborhood Association is also meeting tonight at 6.30 p.m. at the Church of God at 108 Thompson Road. The Highlands Neighborhood Association will be meeting on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Community Center at Highlands Park. And this Saturday, the Booker T. Fall Festival will be held at Douglas Park, and that is from noon until 4. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Rakers. Councilman McKay. Thank you, Mayor. I want to take a moment to recognize a couple of events that happened last weekend. For those of you who unfortunately missed one or both of these events, the first was that Native Son and jazz great Les McCann was part of the concert at the Lyric Theater on Friday night, packed house, and the highlight for some of us was that when Glenn Brown came to represent the mayor to present a plaque, Mr. McCann thought that Glenn Brown was the mayor. And he thought, well, that's pretty good. We have an African-American mayor. But we straightened that out. Glenn handled that very well. Mr. McCann was in a feisty mood, I'd say. He was very colorful that night. And then the following day, he came to the dedication for the new mural that's on the East End, the new renovated East End Market on Conroe III and Race. He is one of the people who's featured in that mural. His visage, his face is on there. He came. He spoke to the group. He was incredibly gracious. I just wanted to kind of note that, that we recognize the people who have come from Lexington, especially in this case from the East End, who have gone on to do some really wonderful things. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Kay. Any other council members? Okay. On the mayor's report, just real quickly, the Spindletop Hall tonight will be recognized as a – it is being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and that's happening tonight. And Partners for Youth is having an event at Nick Ryan's, and I will see you at the Halloween party, Councilmember Akers, at Douglas Park. All right. Okay, Mr. Mundy, anybody here for public comment? All right. Well, then that takes us, unless there's anybody else that has something to say, that takes us to a motion to adjourn. All in favor of the motion to adjourn, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries.