Music Thank you. Thank you. guitar solo Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and I will call the meeting to order. This is a meeting of the work session of the council. And first on our agenda is public comments for issues on the agenda. The floor is available. Is Mr. Monday, has anybody signed up? Okay. No one has signed up for public comments for issues on the agenda, which allows us to move on to requested rezonings and the docket approval. Is there a motion to approve? Move for all. Second. Motion by Council Member Beard, seconded by Council Member Henson to approve the docket. Is there any discussion on the motion? Are there any motions here? Council Member Beard, did you want to make a motion here or later? Later. Okay, all right. Okay. All right. Then if there is none, then no discussion, then we can take a vote on the docket. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Approve. Object? No? All right. Motion carries. Next on the agenda is the approval of the summary. Is there a motion? Moved. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Object no. Motion carries. Next on the agenda is budget amendments. Move approval. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Second by Council Member Akers. Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. All in favor? All right. I'm sorry. Council Member Stenet. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I move that the budget amendment request list on pages 7 through 10 of the work session packet be amended to add budget journals 75660 and 75661 to provide funds for streets and roads for additional salt in the amount of $304,365. Funds are being reallocated from the budgets for the temporary salt storage facility and landline phone accounts within the general fund. So move this. Second. Second. And this is in front of all the council members. Motion by Council Member Stenet, seconded by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Is this Council Member Farmer? So is salt available to be had for $304,000? Here comes Charlie. And a tax leadership position for you, sir, today. Commissioner Martin. Motion. All right, ready for discussion. Charlie, thank you. Thanks. Does the market provide opportunity for you to make that purchase, sir? Yes. We had a contract that has a total amount of 15,000 tons with the vendor, and we are approaching that complete order right now. There's 2,000 tons being delivered to us today. So, yes, we can spend. The PO has been issued to them, and we will get every dollar's worth of salt that this will buy. it's just the truth of the matter that we only plow about 33% of the city's roads, and really, logistically, we can't get them all. But knowing that, there are people in neighborhoods all over the city, not just in the 5th District, who are just exceedingly winter weary. They're tired of the bumpy pothole street in front of them that's frozen solid. But I had a series of emails with a constituent last night that referred to the street in front of his home as the luge run. And I had asked for some help. And Mr. Miller has been very, the professional staff that we have out there doing this job is doing a tremendous job. But we're at a point now where this is still so long and so cold. There's some people who are just tired and want a little salt on their street to feel the love. and you all have been very giving in that and I'm glad to help with this budget amendment today and this opportunity to have enough salt to do the job with. We can't cover every corner but we can help where help is needed and I think that's the message I want to get across. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Council Member Farmer. Council Member Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you Mayor. Charlie I do appreciate all the work you and your folks and everybody in government who's been working on the winter weather and the snow and ice. I was just thinking as Council Member Farmer was speaking, traditionally we always used to put a million dollars in the budget. And last year we carried over salt, as I recall. I don't remember how much, but one of the reasons I think we didn't put a million dollars in our budget was we carried over an amount of salt. and we thought maybe with the money and the budget and the salt we would be good. So I don't want you or anyone to do this now, but maybe when springtime or summer comes, it would be helpful to look back at our salt budgets and how much we've put in and how much we've used, see kind of a trend because I think in a way it all tends to even out because we have some bad winters and then we have some not so bad winters. So I do appreciate all that you all have done. I know lots of people have been working a lot of extra hours. But maybe we can kind of do that this summer sometime when we're not worried about salt and roads. So thanks for all your hard work. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Lawless. Is there more questions for Charlie? Is that or not? Okay. It's just a comment, if I may. Thank you so much, Mr. Martin, for taking on so much. And I really appreciate it. I appreciate all the workers that have been really busting it to get these things done. And I'd just like to, you know, this has been an extraordinary winter. It takes us back to 1978, for those of you who are old enough to remember that. And there's just only so much we can do. I don't know if we can make you the acting commissioner of controlling the weather. if you'd like to take that on. But I'd just also like to ask people, the clearing of the sidewalks is the responsibility of the property owner or manager, but the sidewalks right now, many days, are almost impossible for a healthy young person to clear. So you can put sand down, and I think kitty litter, is that another one that you can put down? or shovel or get an ice pick. But if you're out there doing that and you have a neighbor who isn't physically capable of doing that, if you all would spread the love and watch out for your neighbors and also keep an eye on and keep your pets inside where they can stay warm. Thank you, and thank you, Charlie, and all the folks working for you. You're a great job. Thank you, Councilman Lawless. Councilman Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner, thank you for coming today. Could you just briefly run through for the citizens watching at home the different levels of streets and then how we, the hierarchy for addressing them? Well, you know, as you know, there's a snow plan that's available on the website. And it's basically a priority one, two, three, and four. It's basically driven by the amount of traffic that's on a particular road, major arterials and then secondary arterials, and it works its way down to it. And then there's basically everybody else. You'll get some stuff that comes in as special needs because they're associated somewhere near a school, and Fayette County schools will make requests. There are specific hills that are designated, And it is an ongoing, from what I've always seen from the balcony while I was at Water Quality, every spring that you folks as a body, you know, debated the merits of the list and made adjustments to it based on what we've learned. You know, this year, obviously, such a huge outlier because we didn't get what we usually get, which is a couple of days of bad weather. Then the sun came out and everything warmed up and it magically disappeared. Instead, it has lingered for over a month now in some places. Council Member Farmer mentioned the luge. I mean, I live on the luge as well. There's 18 houses on my street, including myself. It's a dead-end street. The salt truck will never see my street. It just won't. But that's basically a function of the vehicular traffic associated with it. And then there's also, I think, a subjective amount of an assessment of the risk because of schools, hills, and other safety-related issues. So if you're on, for example, a cul-de-sac that's on the top of a hill or at the bottom of the hill, we can call and see if there's possibly an opportunity to get some sand or salt spread down there, possibly. Possibly. You know, I mean, where we're at right now, though, and this is as difficult as this is to say, is that, you know, we're down here doing an emergency budget amendment. Vice Mayor mentioned about looking at the SALT budget. Really, right now, it's about supply and demand, as all of us have seen on the national news, is that there's a question of supply. And so if we had a billion dollars, there's some risk associated with being able to get more. And so we're trying very hard to conserve it as much as possible. I went to a gentleman's house yesterday afternoon. I believe it was in your district. He had called our office. And in talking to him, I told him I hate to use prayer as being part of that action plan. But, you know, looking forward in the weather here, seeing that maybe we're going to approach the 40s this weekend, I never thought I'd be celebrating 41 degrees. But, you know, on specific cases, yes, we will. But we're just trying to be very, very conservative about it because if this continues or it spikes back again, obviously we've got to be concerned about the broader safety of the community as far as those arterial roads, whether it be Newtown Pike, Main Street, or Tates Creek Pike. Yeah, thank you, and thank you for getting to that point. And I went out to see a constituent in my district last night as well. But that's really the point that I wanted to get across is that if we start breaking it down to that level and we have more snow, and we see on the news that there's a lot of cities right now that can't get snow or can't get salt. They're completely out. And so if we exhaust our resources on those smaller, minor, dead-end streets, if you will, and we get hit again, we can end up like these other cities and be completely out. So you guys are doing a great job, and thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. Charlie. Do we get a contract with these folks early on rather than when our back's against the law? And do they move that price on us to kind of like the gasoline companies? Well, Council Member Beard, I inherited this when it came on as the acting in November 1. they already had a contract in place, and it had a total amount of 15,000 tons at a specific price. Statistically, over the last few years, we had used nothing close to that, and we started out with nearly 5,500 tons either on the ground or in the barn up on Old Frankfort Pike, and so going into this year, we looked good. great wisdom in having that upset level of 15,000 tons because the other cities haven't had that, and our vendor has honored what they committed to deliver us at a certain price. But once we go past that, once we have reached that 15,000 ton limit that was in the contract, then it's going to be between us and the vendor to try to secure additional supply if we need it, and at what price, and as you know as well as anybody, then it gets into a supply and demand issue because they contractually have not agreed to that set price. They only set it up to that upset limit. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Charlie, I just want to circle back to something that Councilmember Farmer mentioned. we only have enough equipment and salt to do roughly 33% of our roads, a third of our roads in our city. When was the last time? Can we go back and look and see when we expanded our capacity? Have we ever expanded since the city's population has grown? And how many roads do we typically add per year? And what would it cost to expand services, say, to 50% of our city and do half the city? I know you're not going to have that today, but can we go back and look at that? And as we're preparing this year's budget, if that's something this body wants to entertain to do more roads, because it seems like there's a few that constantly aren't on the list but keep getting asked about. And I know it's not hundreds in each district, but there's a couple here and there that always keep arising to the top, so to speak, each snow season. And maybe we need to start thinking about here's the cost versus reward of adding to it, because obviously it's going to have to be balanced with other needs. And we don't want equipment, expensive equipment, sitting in a yard year-round with it not being used either. So I know that's a fine balance there and a fine line, but maybe some history of have we expanded it? How much does it cost to expand it? Thank you. Council Member Masati. Thank you, Mayor. Charlie, just a couple of quick questions. I know that last year we alleviated a second location for a salt barn. Has that had any effect on this year's distribution, et cetera? No, none whatsoever. Albert and his team have been able to manage it very well because we're still storing some salt outside, but he's able to get it broken up because sometimes it gets crushed, I mean, gets frozen and stuff, and they have to kind of massage it a little bit. But it has not negatively impacted supply at all. They still want to pursue a second facility. That was my next question. We'll be talking about that here in the very near future. The target location is out at the Blue Sky area. We feel like that geographically it makes sense. You know, we purchased the property out there that was over two and a half acres to close the treatment plant out there. And we don't need that full two and a half acres once that plant is closed, that treatment plant is closed. So it's always been part of my long-term plan is that we then repurpose that property for this second salt facility, which then will give us two locations geographically opposite to one another to where we can maximize our coverage and minimize our windchill time in providing the service. That would probably begin to happen. We're supposed to close the plant by December 31st of this year. So we'll start really getting an interest in it in calendar year 2015. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. I represent all the speakers who signed on. If there's no further discussion, we can take a vote. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. That allows us to move on to new business. Is there a motion? Second. Motion back to Council Member Farmer, seconded by Vice Member Gordon, to approve new business. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I had some questions about a couple of the items. Mr. Reid, I had a question on letter B. Is Mr. Reid here? On letter B? Yes. So Mr. Reid's not here. This is something that I apologize. Mr. Baradaran. I mispronounced it, I was told the other day. Perfect job. We had a discussion before I came down. Commissioner Reed is in a meeting right now, and he was trying to make it down here as quickly as possible. Primarily, I understand that you had requested a breakdown on costs. Primarily, what he found out was in regard to purchasing of concrete and material for forms and so forth. But I think he's still working on trying to get you the documentation for specific items. Okay, and I think more specifically, we talked about this today during the presentation in general government, but I love the idea of a rock wall, these added things to our aquatic centers, but I'd like to seek, looking at other cities that have done the same type of thing, what their return on investment has been, has it increased, I guess, the public going to the pools, the aquatic centers, if we can get a little bit more information. There is currently one installation at Shelato Aquatics. Our understanding is there are only two manufacturers in the country that manufactured the aqua wall. And both of them showed interest in this specific project. The issue with one of them was that the type of wall they've got does not have the flexibility of the one that we would like to have. One is pretty much is in a set point, and in terms of amenities and so forth, very limited. This company provided flexibility of being able to relocate the grips and steps and so forth to kind of change the walls function. That was the primary reason why they're asking for single source for that specific project. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Scotchfield. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I said quick comments or questions on three. The first one is on item D, as in dog, about the widening of Rose Street from Rose Lane to Euclid Avenue to include bike lanes. This is a change order that changes the original kind of significantly, but I'm assuming gets this project done. Item D? Item D, as in? So you are? Okay. Diane. Yes, sir, it does. In working with the University of Kentucky, as far as working with them on the design and what will be needed for them with their input, we will need to go ahead and have this so we can go ahead and do plats, property acquisition, you know, acquire right away out there. So this will be for the design portion for that. They're the property owners on both sides of this part of this street? Is that it? Yes, sir. And does this get the documents ready, or does this get the job done? This gets the design portion of it as far as the right-of-way, the debrief search, everything is needed as far as to go ahead and to acquire the right-of-way, except for the purchase of it. So when would it be done then? We're going to start construction in June, and we should be finished by August. So after school's out, kind of. All right. Yeah, we purposely are doing it during summer break. So it doesn't impact there. All right. I see the original inception date here is in August of 08. So I was just kind of interested in the outcome. Glad to have that one moving along. Thank you, gentlemen. Next was just a general inquiry about item G, creating and abolishing a position in the Division of Budgeting. And probably this is something we've been briefed on. I just wanted to know this. This is someone specifically to focus on analysis. Is that it? M. Luecker. Good afternoon. This is, we had a position that became vacant in our office, and when we looked at those job duties, we determined that those job duties were no longer needed in the division because of some automation, and we've been asked to do more forecasting. We've done the urban service analysis, the 10-year projections, and things like that, so we're wanting to focus more on that type of thing as opposed to some manual input that this previous position had. So a more focused individual with obviously a little more background it looks like. Yes. I think forecasting is good for us. It's worked well over these last couple of budgets. Thank you very much. And lastly, item I, which is the contract with Art in Motion, which I just can't say enough good things about Art in Motion. They strive at every place in the community to make public transit hip, cool, and something you want to get on. So I'm glad to support this and any of their other endeavors, but this one on the front of Gardenside Shopping Center will be a great restoration. I look forward to being there for some sort of a ribbon cutting or a first bus ride or something. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Lawless. Yeah, I wanted to speak briefly to item B, the aquatic climbing wall, and I believe this is for the woodland pool. and what has happened the Woodland Aquatic Center of course was built several years ago so a lot of the things have declined this particular piece of equipment or whatever is replacing high dives which they are finding to be a lot more dangerous in park pools, in any kind of pool. So it's kind of a nationwide trend to do away with high dives and putting things like this in. So it's kind of like a cross between a climbing wall and a diving thing. So I just wanted to explain, and it is in the budget. So but it's it's going to replace the high dive because they seem to be dangerous and create a liability Who knew? Thank you Thank you council member Lawless council member stannett. Thank you mayor. I too had a question on item D back on the road street bike lanes Brad this started in 2008 This is 2014 what's been delay in getting the design done? I'll have to turn it over to Keith because I apologize. I wasn't here in 08 to give you any of the background of the history on that. You know, the other issue is this is a 33% change order. Do we not anticipate needing these documents when we started this project? What changed? In hindsight, I would have to say that, you know, we probably could have anticipated that maybe that would have had to be done in working with the University of Kentucky. I think at the time they had an interest in what the design would be, and as time went on that, as you were saying, that it wasn't anticipated, but now we see that we do, working with UK, getting their input on getting this facility done, that this has to be a part of it. But yes, sir, to answer your question. Okay. Keith, what's been the delay in getting this project? It seems like a simple project, but six years, I guess, a little more complicated than we thought. Well, it is. Working with the university, they have a lot of issues to deal with. We had to, there's a lot of underground utilities that we had to investigate, and we, part of when we started the design, we didn't know where those utilities were. We didn't know if we could even do the project. So that's why we didn't include preparing the plats at the beginning. We wanted to look at the design, and then if it was a feasible project, then we would go through the right-of-way acquisition. So it was evolving a lot of public input, working with the university and their staff and the students. So, and working with the utility relocation, that's taking some time as well. Okay, specifically, where does this project go? From Euclid back to downtown? No, it goes from Euclid to Rose Lane. It's that one block that doesn't have a bike lane on it. Okay, and parking won't be affected by it? No, there's no parking there. And actually, I wanted to also emphasize that the university is donating the right-of-way for us to do this project. Okay, very good. Thank you. And then item J, this will probably fall under Commissioner Mason. Can you tell me exactly who's heading up this project, and is this for a new position at the jail, or is it someone in the jail using the funds to – I see it's only extended for six months, and it's a temporary program. What happens at the end of six months? I picked up the wrong agenda. Item J, it's the grant from federal grant for National Council on Crime and Delinquency. This is just something we started last year. Item J. It's in the... Oh, right. It is a grant position that is a federal program. It's not adding a position. But $44,000 was the original. What's it being used for? Oh, I've got the person that's actually with the grants office. This is at the Division of Community Corrections. And the purpose of the project really was to provide training to staff, volunteers, consultants, and even the actual inmates about prison rape. And it was to eventually help eliminate prison rape. And it's part of a national program. So there's no staff that we're paying for with this project. We bought training equipment, and we spent a lot of money on conferences and training activities. So the next six months, we need more training? We didn't get enough? We will complete it. We just have not completed the project, and we asked for an extension, and they've provided us with one. Is there some type of certification our officers will get after completing the training? No, there won't be a certification. We will just be, hopefully, a lot closer to compliance. There were policies that had to be rewritten. In fact, most of the policies at the jail had to be rewritten. Sexual assault is defined somewhat differently in these situations than it is in the general public. So one of the activities involved creating a disc so that inmates, as they are booked into the jail, understand what sexual assault means. They know to report. And we have policies that train them, staff, volunteers, and consultants. Okay, well, that answers it. So after September, training will be complete. And who will monitor the success of that training? Are we keeping a record of these type of assaults in our facility now? And we'll be able to monitor if the training was effective? Yes, and actually we don't have that big of a problem there because it's a direct supervision of inmates. So it's not a big problem, but it is something. There is a national law, and this helps the division become more compliant. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. They've also, some of the spending has been for equipment that is co-located with the police department, because the police department would be the agency to come in and investigate, and so they've been able to purchase some high-tech equipment to analyze crime scenes that the police can use in other sexual assault situations as well. Good information. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Scotchfield. Mayor, you can let Council Member Rager just go. I don't have a council member. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mayor. We're trying to be polite. I had a question regarding letter A and letter E. For A, I guess I'd like to know a little bit what the need is for this and who it is impacting. All right. that would be an issue for either Commissioner Martin or Acting Commissioner Martin or, and what was the other one, Council Member Scutchfield? I'm sorry, I was back. Council Member Scutchfield, he was, she's asking about letter A. That's the sole source vendor for the weather forecasting service. Charlie? This is just a switch over from what we have used previously. Previously, it was just at one single location, and now this is a smartphone application to where they can access this information mobily as compared to what they were before. I'll apologize that it's late getting on here as far as when it should have. I think this was something that got stuck in the transition of former Commissioner Maloney and myself coming in, and then you all going on break. That's why you're finally seeing it here at the beginning of February when you really should have seen it before the season. So will this be a complement with the National Weather Service, or is this something that we use? This is something that we use that is a little bit more focused than that. You know, Albert will tell you that he doesn't always necessarily rely on the National Weather Service or even some other news things. This is more of almost kind of a network of folks like ourselves on the ground that are either in Louisville, Terre Haute and stuff, that are talking more about real-time conditions that they're experiencing, because then we can anticipate for those themselves. At least that's my understanding of it. All right. Thank you. And then as to E, Commissioner Bill, I guess I wanted to take a look at this, because we're at phase one, which means there's probably a phase two. If we can get an idea of what the, or there might be more than two phases, what the overall cost may be, and how is this, I guess, going to help us? How is this going to help that our current systems are not helping? I guess what is the benefit of this over what we're using right now? Thank you for the opportunity. I could talk for an hour to answer that question. But we have a legacy system. It's 1980 vintage to support our number one revenue source of the occupational license fee on both payroll and net profits. We need to look at alternatives to that. We put out an RFP. We got responses. We have a very viable candidate that has answered that RFP. But we feel that it needs to be vetted to make sure that their estimate fully understands what needs to be done in order for us to migrate to a more robust system. And so we had into this year's budget some dollars to do that. That's what this is. They will come in for a week, analyze our systems, our processes, overlay that into their application and see what they can do for us. The second stage would be part of our FY 2015 budget, and we'll be asking for the funding and actual to purchase that software system and to implement it. And there will be a lot of automation. There will be a lot of manual systems that we do, key punch and processing that would be automated. We're talking about scanning on the front end. We're talking about automatically contacting people when they fail to file rather than after we audit an account and discover it. And so it will basically bring a lot of the current systems that are standard practice embedded into our practice here as well. Is there an anticipated savings, I guess, with the implementation? I would reverse that and say there's anticipated revenues with the implementation. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. That's all who signed up. To speak to new business, if hearing no further discussion, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. allows us to move on to continuing business and presentations. Is there a motion for the NDS? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is a report from Council Member Stenet on Environmental Quality Committee meeting. Thank you, Mayor. The committee met back on January the 28th. First item for business was approval of the summary. That was approved without dissent. Next item on our agenda was the Keep Lexington Beautiful Annual Report from Jim Pendergast. This is their annual report that they provide to the Environmental Quality Committee annually. Basically tracking the new littering law was the highlight of our discussion. Several questions were asked in terms of neighborhood grants and smaller projects, as well as their annual budget, which is approximately $16,000 for the entire year. Councilman Myers asked about illegal sign placing falling under their definition of litter. It is actually a code enforcement issue, as stated by Mr. Jarvis from code enforcement. We can distribute a copy of that report for anyone who would like to have that as well. The third item on our agenda was the waste management audit follow-up. This was actually a second follow-up from the previous waste management report. It was reported that many of the issues that council asked to be corrected have been corrected going forward in terms of communication and how they're handling internal processes. And those processes have been identified. And Mr. Salee has gone back and made sure that those changes are being made, not just in this audit, but in other subsequent audits, whether it be this department or other. And we also had discussion around the standard operating procedures and how those are communicated to staff. A discussion was also made about the uniforms that were identified as a benefit and the audit findings in regards to those uniforms by Councilmember Clark. And that information has been, according to Mr. Sally, depends on the type of uniform to be worn and has been communicated to the employees in terms of the benefit and the IRS requirement that we reported. The last on our agenda was the monthly financials for all operating funds within the sanitary sewer, storm or water quality, and landfill. I won't go back through all those and the meeting adjourned at 1230. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member. Standing next on our agenda is Council Reports. If you'll please log in. If you have a Council Report, Council Members. Council Member Lawless and Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion, I guess, to put in planning and public works committee review and possible changes in code enforcement fines. Is that a motion? That's a motion. Would you restate the motion, Council Member Lawless, please? Review code enforcement fines. It's a motion to put into budget. Into planning and. Planning committee. Planning and public works because code enforcement comes under planning. Okay, wait a minute. Just let's try to get the, yeah, the line. Okay. You're asking a question now whether or not it should be and. I think the vice mayor was asking if it should be. and I was saying code enforcement is under planning now. Oh, okay. All right. So the motion is to... Review for possible changes in code enforcement fines. All right. And there's a motion and there's a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Also, to place into planning and public works, a motion to place in planning and public works the enforcement of local ordinances that were under building inspection and are now civil rather than criminal. to review the enforcement of local ordinances that were under building inspection rather than state building requirements that are now we made civil rather than criminal, such as gravel, my favorite topic. So the enforcement of those. Is there a second? Second by Council Member K. Is there a motion there? Second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I'm sorry, Council Member Farmer. This was in planning and public works, and we took it out, but I'd like to put it back in, off-premises signage in planning and public works committee. and that covers a wide variety of things, but one of the things it covers is the, like, rental signs that are kept up, kept on a property, but it's not for that particular rental property. You'll see them all around, up and down Euclid High, Elizabeth Street, et cetera, probably in other districts, too. so off-premises signage that ordinance needs to be tightened and defined and enforcement so moved motion by council member Lawless second by council member Masati is there is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none take a vote oh okay councilmember Henson thank you mayor I was told recently councilmember Lawless I don't have a problem putting this in committee but that the planning division is looking at all signage and because I had a complaint about signage and they said they would be revamping all of the well And bringing it to us. I've been trying to get this done for five years. Yeah. So. I'd be happy to have it just go into committee. You know, signage is one of those. It is a little bit, particularly some types of signage, they are permitted. It kind of crosses a couple of divisions. So you've got zoning compliance and planning, and then you've got signage permitted and building inspection. And then with certain signs, they get picked up by code enforcement. So it's all good. So I think we'd be happy to talk about. It's such a broad topic, signage, and I think what you all are looking at is commercial signage. We're looking at several different things. So I think we could probably just come and give a general presentation on signage. Well, thank you. It's definitely a conversation we need to have. Yeah. So thank you. And just one more. Your time has gone into the red zone, but go ahead. Okay, I can punch back in. No, that's dangerous. I'll do this quickly. This is for, I'd like to. It is a challenge, yeah. Oh, haven't voted on the last one. No further discussion. Take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Go ahead. Okay, and the last of these that I'd like to refer to committee goes into public safety, and it's an ordinance that we looked at before and didn't get too far with, and there have been a lot of things that have gone on since we looked at it before, and that is reexamining our taxi ordinance, and so taxi cab ordinance. So I'd like to place that in public safety, which is where it was before, so moved. May I ask the question? There's a motion by Council Member Lawless, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? Vice Mayor Gordon. Council Member Lawless, is there something specific that you want the committee to have as its focus? There are several things specifically. That is the number of cabs that a company has to have to start the business. the big thing was, oh, you have to have a big company in 25 in order to secure that they'll whatever. And a cab company did not default it on their insurance and their bonds. And so that wasn't found out for a while. There were individual cab owners who the cab owners will work for the company and own their own cab, had their cabs painted, and lost all of that and didn't have a license. And then Christmas evening, I called a good friend who was a lobbyist for one of the major taxi cab companies. Christmas evening at midnight. I was at the Bluegrass Airport after a plane landed by myself for about 30 minutes waiting for a cab because they said, oh, if you have 25 cabs, you'll have cab service all the time. He appreciated my Christmas call and called me again the next morning. But anyway, I think it's something we really need to reexamine. Thank you. Okay. motion by councilman lawless second by councilman myers is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none i'll get in there councilman myers thank you mayor i i agree that this needs to be looked at and i remember when this went in committee before i think it was voted unanimously in the committee to have maybe 10 calves to be able to start a company i forgot that was it 15. there was 25 we did not but it came out of the committee first with a lower number And then when it came to full council, that was overturned. But the committee voted unanimously to have a lower number than 25 cabs. That's correct. I remember I made a comment about the lobbyists coming in and all the votes changed. But I think we need to look at this again. I think it's ridiculous that we require people to have 25 cabs to start a company. And I remember one of the people who came in here and spoke, a young lady was going to buy, I think, 10 brand new minivans to start her business. And we didn't allow that to happen. and why the government would be in favor of crying out competition doesn't make sense to me. So I applaud you for putting this back in committee. Thank you so very much. And it was that lobbyist that I called on Christmas night at midnight. And there's a South Hill Neighborhood Association meeting. We've got a vote on that, Dan. Okay. If there's no further discussion, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion. All right, show of hands, please. All in favor? All right, just vote electronically. Oh, whoops. Vote electronically, please. All right, all in favor, please vote electronically. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. to know if anyone wants to. Let's come from. All right. The vote and the motion carries. This is just to put it in committee. The motion carries. All right. Are you finished? I just want to say there's a South Hill neighborhood association meeting tonight six o'clock 200 west high street first floor entrance in the back first nine myths church thank you and have a happy slide home council member beard thank you mayor i moved to place on the docket for the february 13th 19 20 19 amazing 2014 council meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor and the commissioner of finance to execute a master development agreement with Bayer Properties, LLC, related to the Summit-Lexington Development Area TIF. Motion by Council Member Beard. Motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Beard. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple items to place into Mr. Farmer's committee of planning and public works. Well, seeing that we're entering again, once again, into construction season, and we've never really had this issue dealt with publicly in terms of the order and the list of magnitude of our streetlights, but I would like to have that discussion in the planning and public works before construction season opens up again as to how many crews we're going to ask KU to operate, how many people are on the streetlight waiting list, and what order we're going to eventually do these streetlights because it seems to be changing daily, depends on who you ask, in terms of the order, the number, and when KU is actually going to get more than one crew out on the street and how those discussions are going. So I want to put that in committee. Let's have a good discussion so we can be ready in April when the weather frees up, hopefully, and we can move forward. So moved. Motion by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Commissioner Martin. I just wanted to add is that I'm already kind of working on this for budget and finance already, and I guess I was going to at least introduce that concept so you wouldn't necessarily be duplicating your work in two different committees. Well, I'm more worried about the process, not the money. I'm working on the process and the money because based on the conversation that we had in budget and finance, I got the feeling that the committee was equally interested in the process. We can do it whenever you feel it's easier. So I've been trying to attack this with most of those. I met with representatives at KU at the end of last month. We got kind of delayed because of all the cold weather. They got distracted. But we have a schedule. It's probably not at the level of detail what you just described, which would be a concern. Except I had it scheduled that we were going to be in budget and finance with this, I believe, next week. Well, we can do it next week. It's entirely up to you. Even better. I would draw the motion. We'll do it next week if you're ready. I think I can cover most of what you just brought up there. In that way, citizens can understand where our list is and when we'll get to them approximately. What the driver was, Council Member Senate, was the issue about the ad valorem tax and the refunds. And so, to me, it was focusing on what are we doing to prevent it moving forward. And that really focused on how many fixtures installations are outstanding and then how many of them that KU believes they can do. So I think I'm pretty close to what it is that you're looking for. We just need to set expectations in those neighborhoods who don't have them that are waiting for them, paying the tax. So I'm just trying to get an outline. I understand. So I would draw that motion. The second one, since we have it fresh on our minds, the snow plan and the information I asked for earlier, I know Charlie will be working on it. If we can have that discussion while it's still fresh on our mind, maybe in March about our snow plan when the last time we expanded it, Yes, Council Member Farmer. I'll put that into planning committee so we can get ready for next winter. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Stennett. Second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. We had a very constructive budget retreat on Friday led by the vice mayor and some able folks from outside the council sphere. It was a very nice retreat. One of the issues that I had talked about at the retreat was trying to, I guess in my mind, the Lyric Theater is trying to succeed because there's been a master plan for it, and we've tried to focus on having Lyric Theater succeed. I don't feel that same energy around the downtown arts center. And in kind of talking about that in our retreat on Friday, I was, Council Member suggested I would enter this issue into the General Government Committee in terms of the Downtown Arts Center and a plan to make it a success or a plan to make it better than what it is or a plan to keep the lights on. But the Downtown Arts Center is a great focus that needs focus, and I would just like to place the issue of, I don't know how to title it, but let's just say Downtown Arts Center utilization into the General Government Committee. so moved motion by council member farmers second by vice mayor gorton is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none we take a vote all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries now we meet again on thursday but don't in the time warner time on friday is it thursday also it's thursday at 4 30 in this chamber isn't it there's been an it's almost an almost equal number of emails about salt and streets as there has been about Time Warner Cable. So this Thursday at 4.30 in these chambers is the opportunity for folks to come forward in person or just an email or let us know their thoughts about this cable provider and its service to our city. Is it a workshop? But will we not take input from people or what? It is not. Well, then don't come. Please, please. I think this is an issue that has a lot of interest around it. Vice Mayor Gordon. Yes, thank you, Mayor. This is a council workshop based on all the public hearings and public input we've received. And we have Linda Ayn coming. She's the telecommunications person. We have statistics we're bringing you about the public hearings and what kind of comments were made. So it's for the council to look at what the public has told us. Will it be in these chambers? It's in the caucus room. Okay, very good. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I want to start by inviting Ms. Liza Holland to come to the podium. Ms. Liza Holland. She is the secretary for the state PTA, was the past president of the 16th District PTA, and is still currently the president of Tates Creek High School PTA, if I've got all three of those correct. Or am I close? Thank you. Corresponding secretary for Tates Creek, but yes. Overly involved in PTA. Okay, thank you. Mr. Edwards, could you put the flyer up for me? I asked Ms. Holland to come. We were in a meeting last week, and we were talking about how to get scholarship information out to the students and the families. And we had this conversation about the Urban Family Engagement Network. And it's, in a nutshell, an opportunity for parents to be engaged in a series of workshops that will really enlighten them as to all the different resources that are available to Fayette County Public Schools for their students, their kids, to make sure that their educational experience is the best it can be. So I wanted to bring this Holland and let her speak about that for a little bit and kind of get the word out that these things are getting ready to gear up Thank you very much Councilman Myers I really do appreciate the opportunity to to bring this forward to yourselves and your constituents because I think it's in a really amazing program Just a little bit of background research shows that when families are consistently involved in their children's education That students perform better in school students with engaged parents or caregivers achieve higher test scores enroll in higher level classes, miss fewer school days, develop stronger social skills, and are more likely to graduate from high school, attend college, and secure productive work and rewarding careers. This is true regardless of the family's economic standing. And particularly in urban areas, often families do not have a real good connection with school. They feel a little intimidated by it. Some differences in cultural norms and languages present obstacles. There's a lot of misperceptions about the educational institutions. And so there can be some resistance. So this is actually a program from the National PTA that we are bringing here to Lexington. We received a $20,000 grant to bring this program here. It actually was started by the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund. And then National PTA partnered with them to make it kind of a broader across-the-board program for parents. But basically what it does is it's a real collaborative effort to bring organizations in the community together to be able to mobilize volunteer leaders to become peer mentors to families of students in the community. And these leaders are deployed to teach families about the school system and how to collaborate with school administrators to improve student learning and overall well-being, how to navigate the school system and champion improvements, and strengthen parent access to community resources. Our grant does allow for the vast majority of that money is going to be spent making sure that we overcome any obstacles that parents might have to be able to come. We provide free child care. We can provide transportation assistance if needed. We feed them, but it's nine sessions. The next one is starting here on the 19th at BCTC. And I'm just going to read you real quickly the curriculum. It covers parents' rights and responsibilities, parent-teacher partnership, structure and function of the school site, the structure and function of the school district and the board, engaging father figures, the politics of education, responsible leadership and teamwork, facilitating and participating in productive meetings, developing an action plan, strengthening communication skills, and reflections as leaders. And then they also do a, they're encouraged to come together to do some sort of a project to make their school and their systems better. We had the pilot program in the fall out at the Northside Library. It was really extraordinary. From the very first meeting where parents were very reticent and it was very difficult to pull out any responses from them, by the very end of these sessions, we had these parents teaching each other about different resources that were available and what they had discovered. They gave Tom Shelton a good run for his money with some really good challenging questions. and I really feel like these parents felt empowered to be advocates for their children. And so I just highly recommend it, and I really would appreciate any help that you would be able to provide in letting our constituents know that it's available. The weather has hampered that effort from the school system's perspective, so anything that you can do for us would be wonderful. Does anybody have any questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. And again, that starts February 19th through April 23rd from 530 to 8 p.m. And if I had one more thing, I know my time is up, but last week I got a letter from the grass ad stating that I had been put on a subcommittee. And while I love public service and I love community involvement, I had no knowledge of the fact that I was being put on this committee before it happened. And so I guess if you could have somebody explain how I got there, and then also if we've got that cleared up because I'm not going to be able to serve on that committee. Okay, what are you asking now, George? I got put on one too. You got put on one also? No one asked me ahead of time if I wanted to be on it. Well, maybe they should come up and apologize. Who's going to do that? All right. Well, it was a recommendation, and I apologize we didn't make the phone call. That isn't my fault. We'll correct the issue, though. Okay. Thank you very much. I think he told you that. I was in the hallway the other day when you all were talking about that. So we'll go right ahead. I was asking if it would get cleared up because I'm not going to be able to serve on it. Okay. Okay. Yes. Thank you. All right. Council Member Skutchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to real quick give a shout out to Albert Miller, Charlie Martin, Robert Allen, Angie Dixon, and the rest of our crew that's been out working the roads. I know that you get lots of complaints, but there's lots of people that appreciate what you do. And I know I appreciate you, the council up here, the mayor. We appreciate the hard work you do. And in freezing cold weather outside for hours, 12-hour shifts. So thank you all. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mayor. All of you have seen the proposed ordinance about naming Lexington as a branding purpose, and I would like to move to put that issue in the General Government Committee and so move to use the name Lexington for branding or promotion purposes into the General Government Committee. Motion by Council Member Clark, second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Councilman Clark, anything additional? That's it. All right. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I just have three announcements tonight. First of all, the Meadowthorpe Neighborhood Association will be meeting at 7 o'clock at the Community Center on Larch Lane. um the also the public meeting for the town branch wet weather storage project has been rescheduled and that will be held next week on february 19th at 6 30 and that will also be at the metathorpe community center and lastly um everyone knows that i have been advocating for the distillery district for some time and um i upon request from some business owners there scheduled a business owners meeting, and that will be held tomorrow night. And that is for anyone who owns a business in the distillery district to meet tomorrow night at 6 o'clock at the Grand Reserve. And we'll be discussing ways that we can form similar to the Southland Drive Association, but a distillery district business association of sorts to help with promotion and branding and marketing efforts in the distillery district. So we sent letters, and I hope that everyone will come tomorrow night at 6 o'clock at the Grand Reserve. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Rekers. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to remind council members that we have a zone change hearing at 5 o'clock. I know several of you cannot stay, but if you can, we'll be here at 5 o'clock. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. All right, that's all. Council members signed on for council reports. Allows us to move to the mayor's report. Is there a motion? Move up for vote. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton, seconded by Council Member Scutchfield. 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. Allows us to move to public comment. Mr. Mundy, nobody signed up. All right, no one signed up for public comment. That allows us to move on to a motion to adjourn. Is there a motion? Council Member Massadi, seconded by Council Member Scotchfield. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned.