Music guitar solo Thank you. guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. guitar solo I'll call the meeting of the work session of the council to order and ask first for public comment for issues on the agenda. Mr. Mundy, has anybody signed up? All right, sir. Thank you so much. Next on the agenda is a requested, is a rezoning and docket approval. Council Member Ford. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. Number six, Council Member Ford is on here, and I've been requested to put this one on without a public hearing, so move. Motion by Council Member Ellinger and second by Council Member Farmer. 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. The motion carries. Is there a motion to approve the docket? Move approval. Second. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? Yes, ma'am. Council Member Akers. And I have. And Vice Mayor Gordon also. I have some things to add to the docket. All right. Yes, ma'am. Okay. The first, I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Georgetown Street Area Neighborhood Association for the amount of $1,050 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated, so moved. Motion by Council Member Akers, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. One more. Oh, another one? Okay. Council Member Akers. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Highlands Neighborhood Association in the amount of $500 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. So moved. Motion by Council Member Akers. Second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, no? Motion carries. Vice Mayor Gorton. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to just explain a little bit before I make my motion. Each of you should have in front of you, and you also received last week via hard copy and email, the Arboretum amended agreement with the University of Kentucky, and it included a copy of the actual agreement and a copy of the new map with the new boundaries. And the new boundaries represent the fact that the current agreement under which we operate only includes 50 acres of the Arboretum for protection as an Arboretum. And so the new agreement includes the full 100 acres and it takes us to 2086. And this was passed by the Board of Trustees at the University of Kentucky on April the 1st. And this is an agreement that's been in the works for about a year and a half. And we've appreciated the work that Mayor Gray and President Capilouto have done to get us here. And so I'm going to be making a motion. I also want to recognize Molly Davis, the director of the Arboretum, who is in the audience and knows infinitely more than I if there are any questions. So I move to place on the docket for the April 10, 2014 Council meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute the Arboretum Third Amendment amended agreement with the University of Kentucky. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon. Second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Lane. I'd first like to say that I'm generally in favor of this agreement, but I just had one question, and that had to do with the cost incurred to enter into the agreement. And one of the paragraphs says that the LFUCG and the university will continue to contribute to arboretum operations, will share in future costs for operations and maintenance. Do we have any idea of what those past costs have been? I get the idea. It wasn't very much, but I just was curious. Well, I can give you a basic primer, but Molly could also answer. In the very beginning, in 1986, the government put $500,000, half a million, in to help establish the Arboretum. And each year since then, we have contributed things like asphalt, mulch, money for a new bathroom, those kinds of things. We have shared with the university the expense of an education person. For several years, we did that. So there's no real agreement on an amount, but we have always seen it as our duty, if you will, as a partner in this agreement to help along the way where we can. And thank you, Mayor. I did hear the $50,000 in the budget for the new education wing. So it's that sort of contribution. Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I will be voting for it. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion on the motion? Do you want to add anything, Molly? Molly, would you like to add anything? This is kind of a big deal, folks, because it takes us 50 years beyond the current agreement. Good afternoon or evening, whichever it may be. Thank you so very much, Mayor Gray, for your generous contribution toward our visitor center expansion. I've been the director since January 1st of this year, so I'm just getting my toes into the water, so to speak. and I am glad that we were able to host the council retreat back in February so that some of you who hadn't been there before might be able to see it. It is a lovely space. It is a very well-used space. Currently, the College of Agriculture contributes about $300,000 per year, and the physical plant contributes another $300,000. That's not including the monies that we have to raise for other items. We have a lot of contributions from friends and supporters, but all told, it costs quite a bit every year to operate it. And if you've ever been there on a weekend afternoon, you will see that it is jam-packed with people from all over the region, and especially in the city. So it is very well loved, and I thank you for anything you might be willing to offer toward its maintenance and ongoing care, and I thank you very much. I'd be happy to answer any questions, and I did include a bookmark up there because it does say the UK LFUCG Arboretum will be hosting the mayor and President Capilouto for the proclamation of Arbor Day on April 26th at 10 a.m. Hope you can come. Any questions? Thank you, Molly. Thank you. All right. Any further discussion? In hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the April 10, 2014 Council meeting a resolution accepting the response of clean energy to RFP 37-213 and authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with clean energy to establish a temporary natural gas fueling station and provide fuel. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer. Second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. We can now vote on the motion to approve the docket. Is there, unless there's any further discussion. All right. Okay. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Next on our agenda is the approval of summary. Is there a motion? Second. Motion by Council Member Beard. second by council member Myers is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none then we can take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries next is a budget amendments is there a motion motion by Vice Mayor Gordon second by councilmember Clark is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none then we can take a vote all in favor please say Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is new business. New business, is there a motion? Motion by Council Member Beard, second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor. All right, Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Mine's on the new business side and it's on. Page 38. This is grants and special programs. I guess this is just rolling these over. And it's Gainesway Trail, South and Drive, Loudon Ave. And the last one on the list is Tate's Creek Road Sidewalk. I just wanted to make sure that this is just a formality that just rolls all these until the next, I guess, for six more months. So here's Mr. Keith Lovin. I've had a couple of questions just in my particular neck of the woods about when Tate's Creek will be finished. I figure this is a good place to ask that question, too. Sure. That is the puts on the docket is just to renew the grants for another extension. In Tate's Creek, we are waiting for the weather to improve to cut the sod. They're out there. They should be finished by the end of the month. Very good. Thank you, sir. And then there's the three business items that I'm interested in that are, they're all Manowar intersections, Manowar and Pink Pigeon, Manowar and Richmond Road, and Manowar and Alumni Drive. And I'm just interested in the scope of these projects. These say that they are, they request council authorization to accept award federal grants for the design phase. And I'm interested in what the point of the design, what change are we trying to affect at these three intersections with Manowar Boulevard? Yes, sir. Starting with the first intersection at Alumni Drive, it will be improving the turn lanes there. The right turn lane as you come southbound on Manowar and want to turn onto Alumni Drive as though you're going toward New Circle Road. We're going to extend that right turn lane. If you're northbound on Manowar and you want to turn left on Alumni Drive, again, still wanting to go toward New Circle Road, we're going to improve that left turn lane there, more storage for more vehicles to get through, and doing the exact same thing as I described with Alumni Drive as you're heading toward Manowar and you want to make a left like you're going to Richmond Road. So just get more stacking then or more lane capacity? More storage, more lane capacity for the turning movements. All right. Go down to the next intersection, which will be Manowar at Richmond Road. If you're on Manowar heading toward Richmond Road as though you came from the interstate and you want to go toward downtown, that right turn lane, we're going to add significant footage of storage to that right turn lane there. The final one is Pink Pigeon Parkway at Manowar. If you're on Man O' War heading toward the interstate and you come to Pink Pigeon, there's a single left turn lane. We're going to get into that median and make it a dual left, and so that you can go ahead and turn on to Pink Pigeon there with two lanes instead of one. All those are good. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I have first a question and then a comment. On item O, I just wondered, this is the Corridors Commission, and this is converting a non-voting status representative to a voting, and I wondered what the rationale for that is. I can tell you exactly. I imagine Council Member Farmer could tell. In its simplest form, it is to reward the person that has served in that spot for the longest time to give them a vote on the commission. I do, however, from reading this, note that it will give the commission an even number rather than an odd number, which is something that I had not anticipated nor had I read in this until we were sitting here. So if we want to withhold or make other action there, I'm fine with that. We do have a very long-serving member who we were trying to reward with a vote for being such a long-serving member, but if it throws our balance off, we may want to reconsider how we do it. If you have very many tie votes. Well. Something like that. That hasn't been the case. I mean, it's. Well, you've had an odd number. Oh, we've had some odd. Yes. Yes, you are correct. If you want to pull it or hold it, I'm certainly agreeable. I was just curious. And I'm not, I really didn't intend to pull it. I just wondered what the rationale was. Well, as I read it, I kind of came to the same conclusion you did. This gives you an even number, but we have not had contentious conversation or votes, but that doesn't mean we might not come up with one of those. But nearly almost what happens is more than one of the voting members is not there anyway. So we end up with trying to make our quorum, and this is another way to kind of help us get to an active status, because this person is there nearly all the time. Okay, that answers my question. Thank you very much. And then I just wanted to make a comment because in new business, we have several of the Class B and at least one of the Class A neighborhood grants for the stormwater quality projects. You know, a few years ago when we implemented the water quality management fee, one of the things it was intended to do was to award these grants for not only neighborhoods, but businesses to do projects that would decrease their water runoff and, you know, help with our stormwater. And I particularly wanted to point out item B, which is on Southland Drive, that property. I was very impressed. I'm looking at Charlie Martin because this owner is going to put in pervious surface in the parking lots, as I understand the information that's included. And this is a grant to help do that. And the grant is for $275,000, which is a nice chunk of money for this commercial owner to use as part of the funding to help do this. So I think it's really important to note that these projects are moving along exactly as we had hoped and planned. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Lane. Thank you, Mayor. I had a question for John Maxwell regarding item number DD on page 66. That's $136,340 for written examinations to be used in the promotional processes for the Division of Fire and Emergency Management. And I just felt like that was a pretty big number, and I wondered if you could explain what the scope of the services on that is and why it's so expensive. Sure. It's a promotional process for fire that includes the lieutenants, captains, and majors. We do it every two years. This year is a little bit different in that we got a RFP. We put an RFP out to do not only the written, but also included is what they call the practical, which makes up about 80% of the process. And the crux of it is, the cost, is that they're doing a job task analysis on the positions, and they have to get subject matter experts, and they also have to do surveys and do basically job analysis on each procedure that they do so that they can tie it back to both the written and the practical. And they also developed the practical, which is a test that makes five scenarios, and it's video graphed, and then they have raters that actually score those. So, and the CPS corporation that's doing this will validate, completely validate, both sections of that test, both the written and the practical, which is something that we really need because of the kind of the scrutiny we've been under with the Department of Justice. So, that's really the cost. How many officers or firefighters will be tested? We anticipate that there will be 50 testing for lieutenants, and that's kind of the maximum. We expect around 40 for captains and 20 or so for majors, roughly. Now, this list is good for a couple of years. Of course, we don't have that many positions, but they'll be testing under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Okay, so you're thinking about 100 total? Is that your number? I'd say 120, maybe, roughly. Okay. Thank you very much. Sure. Council Member Basati. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question on number M, maybe Charlie Martin, if you wouldn't mind, or Mark York, if you're here. Charlie, I just wondered if we had a day set aside yet for this hazardous waste material collection day. I've had a lot of constituents ask me about it. Do we have anything set aside this year at all for that? We're targeting the fall. Obviously, a critical component of this is getting the grant, which is this application. But we are targeting fall, and as soon as we do get a date, we'll be advertising that. I'll be happy to share that directly with your legislative aide. but fall, probably September, October sometime. Okay. Thank you very much. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. I wanted to ask about the stormwater quality project incentive grants. Are they still available this year? Are they still taking applications? I'd have to check. We do it annually, and sometimes our sequences get a little bit off, and I'd have to go look. Whenever somebody's interested in these water quality management fee grants, we advertise it on the website. You can get the forms for it. You can get all of those type of things there. And so interested parties should be always kind of monitoring that as far as when they grant things available. But I'll check the website before I leave today, and I'll send you an e-mail. Yeah, I checked it not too long ago, and it looked like the 2014 deadline. We should be working into a new sequence with the FY15 budget obviously presented today. We're going to be sequencing into that FY15. Now, whether or not we're going to work through the applications and try to get them done in this fall as opposed to award them next spring, I can't tell you. Although I would suspect we're a little bit on a delay for FY15 since Susan Pluger always played a huge role in that. And with her now down here and Susan Bush's role, that has fallen on the shoulders of the remaining staff. And I'm sure that they're struggling with staying up with that until she gets replaced. Well, I know that there's usually a different time frame for the Class A and Class B. And I also know that there have been years where they didn't allocate at all, and so they took applications afterwards. So if you find out anything, would you let me know? Chris Dent is who is heading things up right now. I'll have him contact you directly so you can get it up there, because you're right, it is somewhat of a moving target. Yeah. But Chris Dent, you know, if folks have questions about the water quality management fee and particularly about the grants, there's two different resources, one being the website. Secondly, contact LexiCol. They'll get you in touch with the right person. That way you can talk to a living body. I know I like that myself. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Councilman Lawless. Councilmember Akers. I had a question about G.G. I believe it's Commissioner Mills. What is that? It's the, it says an amendment, execute an amendment to an agreement with the Bluegrass Add for operation of Senior Citizen Center. Okay, it looks like. So I just. Commissioner Mills is going to help us with this, perhaps. So we operate it, correct? That's correct. Money comes from them to us to operate it? Yes, we overmatch the amount of money we get from the Bluegrass ad. Okay. The way I read it, it looked like that they would be operating it, for the Bluegrass ad to be operating the Senior Citizen Center. No, we turn in units of service and we get reimbursed based on how many services we do. And we have over-served what we get in the budget from them, so we're just putting the money in line with the units of services that we provide. Just making sure. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Akers. If no further comments or questions, then we can take a vote. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on the agenda, continuing business. Is there a motion on the NDF? With approval, Mayor. Motion by Council Member Farmer. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we'll take a vote. All in favor. Please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is the Planning and Public Works Committee summary. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. This is our March 4th meeting with summary and motions. We approved our February summary, then we took up the issue of homeowners' rights and responsibilities. This was a lively discussion that culminated with myself and Councilmember Akers talking about the opportunity to work with the legislature for other advocacy on this issue and maybe bring it back to the committee, which I think we still have the opportunity to do so. Next, we talk about historic preservation fees, which Betty Kerr made a presentation about her fees. not very much money involved there, but there were no motions, but we did decide at that time to leave this issue in committee. And we had item four, which fees for planning, preservation, development, and commercial services. This was a little bit longer discussion and did result in a motion, motion by Gorton to request a proposal that would look at stratification of fees based on size and complexity for discussion by the committee. And this was seconded and passed without dissent, Something that will come back to the committee for potential further action. We had a really good update about the Oliver Lewis Way construction and some of the ancillary projects that are going on with that whole situation. We took up items that were referred to committee, and we adjourned at 254. That would complete my report at this time. All right. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Next on our agenda is Social Services and Community Development Committee meeting. And Council Member Ford is not here. Is someone else going to report? All right. Then we can perhaps get that at the next meeting. Next is the Budget and Finance Committee report. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. The Budget and Finance Committee met on March 18th. The First Order of Business was approving the January 25th summary. The next item was the monthly financial report. Commissioner O'Mara, Mr. Cook, and Ms. Luker went over the report. Unemployment rates are moving down. County, Kentucky, Fay County is under 6 percent. Building permits are up. New business are slightly up. Home sales are also up. Foreclosures are down from the previous year. On the revenue numbers, we are 4.4 million above budget. We are at budget on personnel, or we are ahead of budget in operating due to professional services, utility supplies, and equipment and grant match. Commissioner O'Meara told the committee that we currently have a surplus of money due to favorable budget variances and better revenue forecast. He proposed that we reallocate the current year budget dollars to alleviate some of the needs coming in the fiscal year 15 budget. We took care of that, and we had three motions, and I reported that out the date of March 18th. So I will move on to the next item, which was the Procurement Task Force. And Todd Slayton provided background on this issue that was addressed by the task force that was created as a result of the state auditor's audit. Most of the concerns dealt with personnel services and our policies were changed. Other concerns dealt with the spending and vendor preferences. The task force addressed these and concluded that our minority and women-owned preferences is working. The local vendor preference works short-term but will eliminate competition in the long run. We spent 49% of our dollars in 2010 and 52% in 2012. The local spend is more to professional services. They are many things that you can't get locally, i.e. fire trucks. And they added that regulations are being revised. The current regulations were created in 83, revised in 2003, so we're working to revise and bring that up to speed with the current spending levels. He also commented on state laws and how we define who is local. When we do RFP selection, we look at the degree of local employment. The next item was the wellness center. Council Member Stenney explained that the lease for the wellness center is up this year, and it fills its time to decide what will be done. We're looking at locating and going forward, and what type of resources do we want around it, and what service will be offered. Commissioner Hamilton commented that the first part of the lease is up December 1, 2014, and we have two options to renew for three years each. The conversation was generated by the concept of a wellness center that would incorporate our health, clinic, and pharmacy. The Y came to us with a proposal that perhaps they could add square footage to the front of one of the buildings and we could use that for a wellness center concept. If we were interested in this idea, we should only enter to a lease for one additional year and work on what it would look like. We would have to do RFP and compare it to the rent we are currently paying. and Council Member Stinnett stated that the concept to have is included was discussed previously and still a good one. He feels we need a central location for the medical and pharmacy facility. A motion by Council Member Stinnett to proceed with the Wellness Center concept to extend currently at least for one year. I so move. Motion by Council Member Ellinger. Second by Council Member Scotchfield. 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. And then we had two items in the committee that were moved, and we adjourned at 2.53. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Rellinger. Next on our agenda is Council Reports. If Council members wish to offer a report, please log in. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. First, I need to take up an item of business and ask for the Council's consideration and approval. In making way for the opportunity to attend the celebration today, we shuffled a couple of meetings around and canceled our general government and our planning and public works meeting. The planning and public works agenda included affordable housing, the design excellence update, and residential parking permit procedures, which are things that I think still have key constituencies and folks who want to give input and hear what our agenda had in it. and the voluminous emails back and forth among council members about how to accomplish today and next week's tasks. The chair of the Public Safety Committee, Council Member Henson, offered that if we would like or so sanction, we could cancel her Public Safety Committee meeting and insert our Planning and Public Works Committee meeting that was going to be today in its original agenda form, just having it next week on April 15th. Is that the 15th? April 15th at 1 o'clock. And so I would move to change our official agenda to take out the public safety meeting and add in the planning and public works meeting. Second. All right. Second. I motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing none, take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Lawless. Thank you. I have several things. First of all, I want to thank all our city employees in many divisions for their extremely difficult work during and after the last four NCAA games. I know I was up until 4.30 or 5 after each game and had a lot of contact with police, And they were very responsive. And it certainly was sad. It was, they were horribly outnumbered. And the streets and injuries and people getting hurt and throwing firecrackers. And I don't know how to stop that. maybe get a basketball coach that doesn't know anything about basketball, but I don't think that's going to happen. But they really, a big thumbs up to our police, fire, waste management, street sweeping, code enforcement, EMS, for being out there all night and certainly were verbally abused by many, just trying to keep them safe. So go Cats. I'm glad they won. I wish their fans had as much discipline and integrity as our players. So thank you to everybody that went into that. I also wanted to say that many, as you know, all of us have gotten a lot of emails from people supporting a lot of agencies that did not get funded. and tomorrow or I guess tonight at midnight there's KentuckyGives.org and it's a 24 hours of giving and many of those agencies plus other non-profits are on there and some of them have matching gifts so if you give 10 I think 10 dollars is the minimum donation so that they can raise a lot of money and help with those budget deficits. And then, like I say, some of them were not on the list that applied but are still providing great things. So you might have to search around if there's one in particular you want to support. So that starts, it's from midnight tonight until, I guess, 1159. Yeah, it's 24 hours, whatever that is, starting at midnight tonight. I'm still recuperating from last night. And then Avall's AIDS Walk is set this Sunday, April 13th at 1 p.m. at West 6th Street Brewery. And the walk itself starts at 2. And you can go to the AVOL's website, which I believe is avol.org, but I'm not 100% sure about that. But I'm sure you can find it. So the AIDS Walk is this Sunday starting at 1. You can download the forms or go online and contribute and register. And I hope to see you all there. it's extremely important. And they are also one of the agencies that was previously funded that did not receive any funds. And if you can't be there and would like to, you can sponsor me and give me a check, and I'll be glad to turn it in. So every little bit helps. On May 6, which is a little ways away, at 7 p.m., Ellsford Neighborhood Association is having a third district candidate forum at 7 p.m. at Woodland Christian Church. and there's free mulch Saturday the 12th and the 19th at the old landfill at 1631 Old Frankfort Park. It starts at 8 a.m. to noon or till supplies run out. And I believe that's all I have to say. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you, Vice, I mean, thank you, Council Member Lawless. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple of comments. I also wanted to give kudos to our police and fire and, oh, my gosh, all of our folks that did the cleanup. And it's the blessing we put up with, right, for having a really good basketball team in town. So I do appreciate all of our employees. and mayor I wanted to say on this day which is my 16th beginning budget season I look forward to digging into your budget and seeing what all is in there and so so we're all ready to roll rock and roll ready yes ma'am thank you vice mayor anyone else wish to speak as council reports all right that allows us to move on then to the mayor's report. Is there a motion to approve? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton, second by Council Member Akers. 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. And next on our agenda is the public comment for issues. Mr. Mundy, no one? All right. All right. There's a motion to adjourn then by Council Member Stenet, second by Council Member Ellinger. Unless there's an objection, we'll stand adjourned. 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