# Urban County Council Meeting - October 9, 2014 > Auto-transcribed civic record · October 9, 2014 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/3478 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/3478?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2014-10-09 - **Last revised**: October 9, 2014 - **Length**: 17,907 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Council met on October 9, 2014, at 6:00 PM in the Council Chambers in Lexington, Kentucky, with Mayor Gray presiding. During this meeting, the Council approved the minutes from the September 25, 2014 Council Meeting and heard an informational presentation on 23 Blast Day. The Council took 2 motions and votes, heard 2 public comments, and addressed 2 agenda items overall. ## Attendance The following individuals were present at the meeting on October 9, 2014: * Scutchfield * Stinnett * Akers * Beard * Clarke * Ellinger * Farmer * Ford * Gorton * Henson * Kay * Lane * Lawless * Mossotti * Myers No absences or late arrivals were recorded. ## Votes and Decisions **Ordinance 0975-14** [timestamp: 0:34:01] A zone change for the property at 3400 Todds Rd. from Single Family Residential to High Density Apartment was voted on by roll call. The motion was made by Akers and seconded by Scutchfield. The ordinance passed with 15 ayes and 0 nays. All voting members supported the measure: Scutchfield, Stinnett, Akers, Beard, Clarke, Ellinger, Farmer, Ford, Gorton, Henson, Kay, Lane, Lawless, Mossotti, and Myers. **Resolution 0970-14** [timestamp: 0:38:44] A resolution accepting bids for 2014 Construction Unit Price Contracts for the Division of Engineering was voted on by roll call. The motion was made by Ellinger and seconded by Myers. The resolution passed with 15 ayes and 0 nays. All voting members supported the measure: Scutchfield, Stinnett, Akers, Beard, Clarke, Ellinger, Farmer, Ford, Gorton, Henson, Kay, Lane, Lawless, Mossotti, and Myers. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting approved two financial agreements: **Professional Services Agreement with Pa. Coalition Against Rape** Resolution 0949-14 authorized a $1,000 contract with the Pa. Coalition Against Rape for on-site training services. **Hazardous Waste Disposal Agreement with Clean Harbors Environmental Services** Resolution 1007-14 approved a $149,550 agreement with Clean Harbors Environmental Services for the disposal of hazardous waste. ## Public Comment Two members of the public addressed the council during this meeting. **Corey Dunn** [timestamp: 1:42:26] spoke about trust in government, expressing concerns regarding the accountability of council members. Dunn urged the council to adopt a code of conduct. **Susan Delph** [timestamp: 1:55:19] addressed homelessness in Lexington, discussing the challenges faced by homeless individuals in the community. Delph proposed utilizing vacant homes as a potential solution to the homelessness issue. ## Appointments Kenzie Gleason was appointed to the Commission for Citizens with Disabilities. ## Contested Items **Trust in Government** Corey Dunn raised concerns about the accountability and conduct of council members during the meeting. Dunn questioned whether council members were adhering to applicable laws and ethical standards. This reflected broader community opposition regarding trust in government institutions and the oversight mechanisms in place to ensure official conduct. The nature of the disagreement centered on governance accountability and the ethical standards expected of elected officials. No specific outcome was documented in the meeting record. ## Minutes of the September 25, 2014 Council Meeting The council reviewed and voted on the minutes from the September 25, 2014 meeting [timestamp: 00:04:32]. **Outcome** The minutes were approved unanimously by the council. **Key Participants** Myers and Gorton were the key speakers on this agenda item. ## Presentation - 23 Blast Day A proclamation was presented to recognize the national premiere of the movie "23 Blast" [timestamp: 0:05:06]. The presentation highlighted the film's story of hope and courage. **Key Speakers** Mayor Gray and Judy Taylor were the primary speakers for this agenda item. **Presentation Content** The proclamation recognized the significance of the "23 Blast" film premiere at the national level, emphasizing the inspirational themes of hope and courage that the movie conveys. **Outcome** This was an informational agenda item with no formal action required. The presentation served to acknowledge and celebrate the film's premiere and its positive messaging. --- ## Decisions - **Ordinance 0975-14** — passed (15-0): Zone change from Single Family Residential to High Density Apartment for property at 3400 Todds Rd. - **Resolution 0970-14** — passed (15-0): Accepting bids for 2014 Construction Unit Price Contracts for the Division of Engineering. --- ## Full transcript Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, with that wonderful music and the pictures in honor of County Kildare, our visitors, let's give a little applause. That's really good. We will come right back to you all in just a minute. Okay. but first of our routine protocol we will begin our council meeting with a roll call by our by our clerk please madam clerk miss scotchfield mr. stennett miss acres mr. beard present mr. Clark I'm here mr. Ellinger here mr. Farmer. Aye, Erland. Mr. Ford. Here. Ms. Gordon. Here. Ms. Henson. Here. Mr. Kay. Here. Mr. Lane. Here. Ms. Lawless. Ms. Massadi. Here. And Mr. Myers. Here. Thank you. Thank you, Meredith. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And next on our agenda is invocation. Is Chaplain Tatum here? He is. Chaplain, thank you, sir. Chaplain, if you'll give us our invocation. Chaplain Cecil Tatum of the fire department. Thank you, Chaplain, for joining us tonight. All right. All right. I ask you to bow your heads. Let your heart pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you and we honor you today for who you are and all that you've done. We ask you to bless this session, Lord, to bless the members, to bless the council people, to bless the mayor, Lord, to just guide them, to lead them, to instruct them, Lord, to order their steps in your word. Lord, we pray, Lord, that you allow tonight to be a productive night, Lord, that it shall benefit this community. We ask you to bless each and every individual here tonight. Lord, we just ask you to move in a mighty and miraculous way, allow unity, allow strength, Lord, and we just thank you and we honor you, God, just for being so great and greatly to be praised. Let every heart say amen. Chaplain, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Alright. Alright. Next on our agenda is I'll ask for a motion to approve the minutes of previous meetings. Second. Motion by Council Member Myers and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alright. Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And next on our agenda are several presentations, actually, tonight. We have four presentations and or proclamations. So I will come around to the podium and ask some of our council members to join me in just a minute. Our first proclamation, I'm going to ask our representative in Frankfurt, Judy Taylor, to join me. Judy, join me. Our first presentation tonight, we are recognizing the national premiere of the movie 23 Blast. It is the true story of a high school football star, Travis Freeman, who was suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness. Travis had to decide then whether to live a safe, handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he once loved. So I'm going to read the proclamation or parts of it and then let Judy share a fuller story. Whereas Travis Freeman played football in Kentucky for Corbin High School in the mid-1990s despite being blind, and whereas 23 Blast is based on the incredible true story of Travis Freeman written by Bram Hoover and Tony Hoover produced and directed by Dylan Baker and produced by Gary Donatelli and Tony Hoover and whereas 23 Blast was filmed in the state of Kentucky depicts a story of hope triumphing over despair of courage and faith overcoming fear and a victory prevailing over adversity and whereas Lexington is hosting one of two national premieres of 23 blasts. The Kentucky homecoming premiere will be October 23rd and proceeds will benefit visually impaired preschool services of Lexington. So now, therefore, as mayor of Lexington, I declare October 23rd, 2014 as 23 blast day in Lexington. Judy, why don't you share a little bit more? All right. Thank you. It's been my privilege to coordinate this premiere. I met many of these folks during the secretariat filming at Keeneland, and over the years have gotten to know quite a number of them. And so when these folks came to Corbin, and by the way, the state legislature gives incentives to companies to come film in Kentucky, and hopefully that the return on that investment is great, and it has been. Corbin was absolutely wonderful, And I can tell you that when we invited many of the actors, the directors, producers up to Keeneland for the afternoon, all they could talk about was how wonderful everybody had been, how the churches opened their doors to them, the schools opened their doors. They had never really experienced that kind of thing. And so when they got ready to do the premieres, Dylan Baker called me, and you each have a brochure in front of you about this movie with much of the information. Dylan called me and said, Judy, will you help us do the premiere? I said, yes, and let me ask you something, Dylan. Do you think we could do it for a good cause? And most of you do not know, but I have a severely disabled grandson who's legally blind who has benefited from visually impaired preschool services. So it was such a natural tie-in that this is a fundraiser for VIPs, and I think it's just a wonderful opportunity. It's going to bring people here who have not been here. They'll go to the New York premiere on Monday night. Many of the actors are coming in. The director, the producer, a number of these people are coming in for this premiere. So I would appreciate your support of this proclamation. Thank you. All right. Judy, thanks so much. I'm going to present the proclamation to Judy. And then, and Chris just said that he has a two-and-a-half-minute trailer that we can play right now. All right. Okay, here we go. So you can present this. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Travis. I'm Jerry. Can you throw? Can you catch? Roll, roll. Touchdown, Travis Freeman. I didn't cheat. You copied off my papers. Yeah. Off of you. That's friends. Don't count. Whoa. This is a great deal of infection. We need to get him into surgery quickly. Travis. Travis. Why can't I? Travis. You're blind, son. I don't know why things like this happen to good people. Hey, Travis. really check out the nurses look left smile sexy i still got it it's been almost three months and he's barely left his room i'm patty wheatley travis's mobility coach let's figure out how to whip this feel the texture Keep your head up. Keep your arm out straight. Why? There won't be anybody to guide you. You'll be on your own. I'm good because I don't want any special treat. My man. Travis, how you doing? Hey, coach. You got a funny look in your eye. Travis, I never coached a boy who loves football as much as you. I'm thinking you should come back on the team. They can't catch the ball. So you're going to have to play center. You're not a gazelle anymore. You're a pit bull. Oh! It's gonna be a long season. This is... Wanna tell me where you're taking me? Jerry, oh my gosh, clean out your drive, this thing is nasty. Ashley, I ain't gonna have you looking like crap out there. Feel your balance through your cleats. Not bad. Not bad. Relax. Is that moving? Oh my gosh, that's moving! I see the light. You can't really play, right? I see the light. I think he deserves a chance. Get your hat on, Freeman, now and ever. I see the light. Oh, hey there, Mr. Duncan. I almost didn't see you. Whoa! All right, now we have another proclamation, and this one I'd like to ask Vice Mayor Gorton and Mayor O'Loughlin to join me here at the podium. Thanks, Mayor. So, as many of you know, of course, in the council and others in the chambers today, our sister city relationship with County Kildare, Ireland, provides Lexington with a cultural richness that would be really lacking were we to stand alone and apart. Mayor Fiona O'Loughlin, thank you for traveling the 5,951 kilometers or 3,697 miles to join us for this anniversary. I'm proud to proclaim today, October 9th, Lexington, Kentucky, County Kildare, Ireland, 30th Anniversary Sister Cities Day. I'm going to ask the Vice Mayor to speak in just a minute and also Mayor O'Loughlin, but first I'll read the whereases. beginning with whereas the Sister Cities program was launched in 1956 as a way to promote world peace and to give citizens the opportunity to participate in international relations and to experience the language, art, music, and culture of other countries. And whereas in 1984, Lexington, Kentucky, and County Kildare, Ireland, joined together to become Sister Cities. and whereas October 2014 marks 30 years of meaningful exchanges between the citizens of Lexington and County Kildare, Ireland. Now, therefore, I, Jim Mayers, Mayor of Lexington, on behalf of all Fayette Countians, declare October 9, 2014 as Lexington and County Kildare 30th Sister Cities Anniversary Day. Now, that's a clap. That's a clap. So I'm going to ask Vice Mayor Gordon, who has been an extraordinary advocate of the Sister Cities program and has been able to take a number of trips, and I have been really envious. And Kay knows this, to speak now. So Vice Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to recognize our Irish visitors, all of whom have arrived within the last one to two days. If our Irish friends will stand up, please. Thank you so much. They've all traveled to be here for several days with us. and we have there even some of them are even going to see the waste treatment plant. Excuse me, I had to mention that. But this is such a wonderful partnership where we learn from them and they learn from us. And so now I'd like all the folks who are here to support the Sister Cities, some of our commission members, our chair, Bill DiOrio, and lots of our commission committee members, Will you all stand up? Bill Farmer, council member, is on the commission. Our committee members, yes. Thank you all. This program is such a cost-efficient program. Our government supplies one person's salary. The rest of the work gets done by all these volunteers that you've seen who stood up, and by donations, and it's a wonderful partnership, and we're thrilled that you are here to celebrate the 30th. So I'd like to introduce Mayor Fiona O'Loughlin and ask her if she'd like to say a few words. Thank you Mayor and Vice Mayor and good evening to councillors and to all our friends that have both travelled with us in the Irish delegation and the wonderful friends that we have here in Lexington. It's certainly a huge political privilege for me to be here before you as Mayor of Kildare, but it's also a great personal honour to be here. The Mayor mentioned the kilometres, I think it was 5,951 kilometres that we travelled to come here. And yesterday morning, myself and my friend Mary left Newbridge and we had a very pleasant journey to get here to a wonderful welcome, both at the airport and then when we all gathered in O'Neill's for the halfway to St. Patrick's Day party, which was one we couldn't have had a better welcome. But in many ways, the journey that brought me here in front of you today took a lot longer than that. And that really happened 30 years ago, when my father, Jimmy O'Loughlin, was very proud to co-sign the first Sister City Declaration with the then Mayor of Lexington, Jim Amato. and I grew up in our home with names like Jim Amato, Jack Guerin, Ed Houlihan, Kay Sargent and it's wonderful that Kay is still involved and has been a shining star right throughout. And Mayor, I'd like to thank you for last year when my father passed away taking the time to send a personal video message to my family and to the council and we certainly appreciated it very much. During that 30 years, we've had numerous exchanges of cultural, social, educational, business and professional exchanges. And many friendships have been forged and made. And there's no doubt that we have all learned a lot from one another. We have had lots of cule and crack, as we say in Ireland, music and fun. And I think that the fact that 30 years later that there is this enduring friendship and enduring program involving so many from our county and from your county is a great testament to those who started the program 30 years ago. It's a great testament to the memory of Michael Osborne, who really initiated the whole process when he worked here in Kentucky. And coming from, of course, one of the greatest bloodstock counties in the world, and working here in another great bloodstock county of the world, he came back and initiated the whole process. So it's really in the memory of all of those people who put so much time and energy that all of us are very happy. And we owe it to the memory and the dedication of those people to continue working and to continue developing the legacy in different ways. And while we're over here, we have wonderful events. We have started already today and we have particularly emphasis on the University of Kentucky and the University in Maynooth on this occasion. We're delighted that we're going to be joined by four staff members from Maynooth for meetings on Monday. And I think that's going to be an incredible exchange between our young people and your young people. I want to thank the Council for your help in supporting the Sister City programme. That's vitally important and none of this would have happened without your help and support. The exchanges between the mayors and the time that the mayors have given to come to Ireland, and I want to extend after the November elections an invitation to hopefully the incoming mayor again to definitely ensure that he puts it into his diary to come to Kildare and to meet with us. So again, thank you very much. I wish all of you well in your elections in November. We have just come through elections in our own county and it is an arduous task and certainly I was very honoured to be re-elected and then to be elected as Mayor. I would like to present this to the Mayor for the Council. It was a great honour to unveil the exhibition in the lobby here as part of the 30-year anniversary And I certainly believe in things coming full circle. And it was a real pleasure to see the very first presentation from Kildare County to Lexington, which was a pewter plate that my father presented, and his name is on it. And this, as well as being famous for horses in Kildare, were very famous for our bogs. and this is a small piece of bog oak with bog cotton which my brother put together and it's really a delight for me to present this to you mayor for the exhibition space and that that will I think fit in very well with the plate that my father presented 30 years ago and my brother did this to present to you. So three O'Loughlands in one little space in Lexington. Thank you very much. And now we'll have a photo, right, with the council. Yep. Now let's ask all of our guests from Ireland, from County Kildare, please come up to the front and we will have a picture. All right. You'd rather be the mayor or the vice mayor. What's that? You'd rather be the mayor or the vice mayor. Wow. Thank you. All right, guys. We're going to have two personal things. All right. All right. Another one for your book, gang. And one more time. Thank you very much. One of the most councilors, his father was to go to the office. And his father came to the office. And his father came to the office. And his father came to the office. And his father came to the office. And his father came to the office. And the gentleman here, and the gentleman here, and the gentleman here, and the gentleman here, No, you need to. Where is it? We need to give this to the lady. Oh, they needed the picture of that. I'll just hand it to her. Picture her and him in the thing. Mayor, there you go. Yeah, shoot. Turn and take a picture. One more presentation, one more proclamation. I'll ask Councilmember Farmer to join me here at the podium. This is the Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary Day. and Councilmember Farmer, you are a Toastmaster, aren't you? Yes. Go ahead and confess. Mayoral moments and all sorts of things. I'm going to let you do the honors. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. This is our Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary Day. I, Jim Gray, Mayor of Lexington, in celebration of the 90th anniversary of Toastmasters International and in recognition of Toastmasters, an outstanding leader in communications and leadership skill development, do hereby proclaim October 9th, could be a dual day, 2014 Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary Day in Lexington. It is so signed and so sealed. And Mr. Haberman? Yes. Thomas? Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you very much. For all of us. There is a professionalism about good communication, and this man talks about it. Oh, gosh. Thank you. Yes. Toastmasters International is an organization, and I recognize a few people. I didn't realize the Barkers were members. Anybody else in Toastmasters here? Okay. You're all welcome to learn more about Toastmasters at our 90th anniversary celebration and open house at the Northside Library this Monday, October 13th, which is Columbus Day, and I know that's a government holiday. You're all welcome to come. Seven o'clock at Northside Library. You're all very welcome to attend and learn more about Toastmasters' speech and leadership programs. Thanks. Thank you. We'd like to get the council to take a picture at the front. That'd be great. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thanks again to all of our guests and especially our sister sitter, Sister City County Kildare. All right. Thank you all. We'll see you later, perhaps. Have fun. Yeah, where are they going? Oh, Thursday Night Live. Thursday Night Live. And they're going to something else. That's great. All right. Next on our agenda are ordinances for a second reading. and um madam clerk if you'll please give us a second reading on the ordinance i'm sorry one uh one through six council member k okay but wait wait wait just i believe council member there's a motion to be put back on for second read at the end at the end at the end all right okay madam clerk you can proceed then council member k has a motion at the second reach number at the after number six i'll call on council member k ordinance number one an ordinance changing the zone from an expansion area residential three transition area ear three ta zone to a community center cc zone for 14.82 net 16.49 gross acres for property located at 2500 polo club boulevard a portion of including a height variance a&m hamburg llc council district 12 number two an ordinance changing the zone from a single family residential r1d zone to a high density apartment r4 zone for 3.66 net 4.54 gross acres for property located at 3400 todd's road and over townhouse partners pllc care of doug charles council district 7 number three an ordinance amending article 23a of the zoning ordinance to allow a second building exceeding 50,000 square feet in size in the Community Center CC Zone Urban County Planning Commission. Number four, an ordinance creating and establishing forbid a non-exclusive telecommunications or related non-cable franchise for the placement of facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of telecommunications or related non-cable services within the public rights of way of Fayette County for a 12-month duration with an additional extension of time not to exceed six months if a long-term franchise is not offered prior to expiration and providing for compliance with other relevant laws regulations standards and ordinances definitions work materials and construction standards wire moving and tree trimming performance bonds indemnification insurance access to property and inspections notice of filings with the public service commission no vested rights limited assignment notice of foreclosure and bankruptcy cancellation or termination violations and penalties permitting and inspection fees additional permitting and other requirements for substantial new construction and bid requirements all effective on date of passage. Number five, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 16. Number six, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $750 for the Division of Environmental Policy from Neighborhood Development Funds for the tree planting project on Eastway Drive, Schedule number 19. Oh, wait. My way. Councilman McKay. Thank you, Mayor. This is a motion related to an item that got referred to the General Government Committee. We met on October 7. The item was discussed, and the motion was to make this motion to place an item back on the docket. So I move to place on the docket under second reading of ordinances, an ordinance abolishing one position of security officer grade 106 n and creating one position of administrative officer grade 188e in the division of facilities and fleet management so move and this would basically put it back on where it was two weeks ago second it's already had first reading all right thanks councilmember kaye motion by councilmember kaye and second by councilmember henson is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none then we can vote all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries all right madam clerk if you'll give that this will be ordinance number 6a and ordinance amending section 2152 of the code of ordinances abolishing one position of security officer grade 106n and creating one position of administrative officer grade 118e both in the division of facilities and fleet management appropriating funds pursuant to schedule number 12 effective upon passage of council all right thank you madam clerk yes there was a motion motion by council member acres and a second by council member scutchfield is there any discussion on the motion this is to approve all seven second readings ordinances and second readings any discussion council member scutchfield thank you mayor i just Just on ordinance two, I wanted to, I guess, put on the record, basically, there were objectors to the original plan, but we worked with the citizens, and all of the issues were resolved regarding making sure that there was not a street that went into the neighborhood, making sure it was blocked off, and other conditions that the neighbors wanted to have taken care of. So I just wanted to make sure that because there are objectors shown on here, I wanted to make sure that the council knew that this was something that was worked out with planning. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Scotchfield. All right, any further discussion on the motion? All right, and hearing none, Madam Clerk, you may please call the roll. Ms. Scotchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. And Mr. Myers? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to first reading of ordinances, numbers 7 through 11. Ordinance number seven, an ordinance changing the zone from a professional office P1 zone to a neighborhood business B1 zone for 0.588 net, 0.852 gross acres for property located at 626 to 634 Euclid Avenue, Collar Properties, LLC, Council District 3. Number eight, an ordinance amending sections 2458, 2460, and 2462 of the Code of Ordinances relating to the membership requirements, election of officers, and meeting requirements for the Commission for Citizens with Disabilities. number nine an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds schedule number 18 number 10 an ordinance amending section 2252 of the code of ordinances extending the term of the temporary position of one administrative specialist principal grade 518 e and three positions of administrative specialist grade 513 n for a term of two years beginning September 23rd 2014 and expiring on September 23rd 2016 in the division of water quality effective upon passage of council number 11 and ordinance amending section 2252 of the code of ordinances abolishing one position of equipment operator part-time grade 510 in and creating one position of clerical assistant part-time grade 505 and both in the division of family services effective upon passage of council but just say all right thank you madam clerk are there any motions for walk-ons or suspensions councilmember hansen thank you mayor i move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number eight please all right there's a motion to suspend the rules and give a second reading number eight is Is there a second? Second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Are there any other motions for suspension? Okay. Then, Madam Clerk, you may give a second read on number eight, please. And we'll vote on. Number eight and ordinance amending sections 2458, 2460, and 2462 of the Code of Ordinances relating to the membership requirements election of officers and meeting requirements for the commission for citizens with disabilities all right thank you ma'am is there a motion motion approved motion to approve council member ellinger is the second second by councilman acres is there any discussion all right then we can vote all in favor please say aye opposed no this would actually be a roll call that's right need a roll call yep thank you thank you all right miss scutchfield yes mr stennett yes ma'am ms acres yes mr beard all right mr clark yes mr ellinger yes mr farmer yes ma'am mr ford yes miss gorton hi miss henson yes mr k yes mr lane yes miss lawless yes miss massadi yes and mr myers yes ma'am thank you all right thank you madam clerk The motion passes, allows us to move on to a second reading of resolutions, numbers 1 through 22. Resolution number 1, a resolution accepting the bids of the Allen Company Incorporated, ASL Excavating Incorporated, LM Asphalt Partners, LTD, doing business ATS Construction, Bluegrass Contract Incorporation, Senseba Design and Construction, LLC, Todd Johnson Contracting Incorporated, Tom Chestnut Excavation and Construction, LLC, Woodall Construction Company Incorporated and ZKB Services LLC establishing 2014 construction unit price contracts for the Division of Engineering. Number two, a resolution accepting the bid of Crown Services Incorporated establishing a price contract for temporary labor for general services facilities management. Number three, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Tyler Scott, Administrative Officer Senior, Grade 120E, 200320.72 biweekly in the Department of Finance, Teresa Maynard, Administrative Officer, Grade 118E, 2005-05.12, biweekly in the Department of Social Services, both effective October 6, 2014. Ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Alex Hicks, Public Service Supervisor, Grade 111N, 18.458 hourly, and Randall Wilson, Public Service Worker, Senior, Grade 107N, 12.325 hourly, both in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective August 24, 2014. and Demetria Melhorn, Program Manager Senior, Grade 120E, 2608, biweekly in the Division of Environmental Policy, effective September 10, 2014, and ratifying the unclassified civil service appointments of Araceli Castillo Ramirez, Family Support Worker Senior, Grade 112N, 16.150, hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective September 15, 2014, and Leslie Adams, ESP Supervisor, Grade 114E, 1,756.96 biweekly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective September 22, 2014. Number four, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to donate to Ms. Sandra Sharkey the police horse panzer who is being retired due to injuries. Number five, a resolution accepting the proposal of Group CJ to RFP No. 26, 2014 and establishing a price contract for graphic design services for various departments and divisions of the urban county government number six a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the fayette county commonwealth attorney's office for a fast track prosecutor for the street sales drug enforcement project at a cost not to exceed sixty five thousand six hundred and fifty six dollars number seven a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to extend multi-year agreements with vbridge highland enterprise content management system for on-base maintenance for five years beginning fiscal year 2015 for the division of computer services at a cost not to exceed seventy one thousand three hundred and sixty one dollars and eighty six cents for fiscal year 2015 number eight resolution specifying the intention of the urban County Council to expand and extend partial urban services district number three to provide garbage and refuse collection finding a need for this service in the area included and finding the ability of the urban County government to provide this service in this area which area is defined as certain properties on the following streets bobwhite trail feliciana lane tradition circle beacon street majestic drive monarch street veranda place and wall street number nine a resolution specifying the intention of the urban county council to expand and extend partial urban services district number seven to provide garbage and refuse collection and street cleaning finding a need for these services in the area included and finding the ability of the urban county government to provide the services in this area which area is defined as certain properties on the following streets summersley place deerhaven lane meeting street russell cave road newtown pike our tibbs trail stolen horse trace wentworth place lock mere loop lockmere court old school house lane and lockmere place number 10 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement for professional services with pennsylvania coalition against rape for on-site training to enhance coordinated community response to domestic violence at cost not to exceed one thousand dollars number 11 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a release of easement releasing sanitary sewer easements on properties located at 3401 nicholasville road 3555 nicholasville road and 3615 nicholasville road number 12 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a release of easement releasing storm sewer easements on properties located at 3401 nicholasville road 3555 nicholasville road and 3615 nicholasville road number 13 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of of the urban county government to execute a three-year lease agreement with var resources incorporated to provide apple macbook pro laptops through cdw government incorporated cdwg to the coroner's office at a cost not to exceed four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and thirty six cents fiscal year 2015 with future fiscal years subject to sufficient funds being appropriated number 14 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the kentucky justice cabinet to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $40,380 federal funds are for continuation of the sexual assault nurse examiner program, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $28,150 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 15, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept the proposals of and execute engineering services agreements with the following pre-qualified engineering firms. AFA Engineering LLC, CMTA Incorporated, Shrout Tate Wilson Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, and Paladin Incorporated to provide professional services HVAC under RFP number 34-2014 with future work awarded and funds budgeted on a project basis. Number 16, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an addendum to the memorandum of understanding with the lexington fayette county health department for fats oil and grease training services renewing the memorandum for one year at a cost not to exceed twelve hundred dollars number 17 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility usage agreement with lexington center corporation for use of the lexington opera house for kitty capers at a cost not to exceed eighty one hundred dollars number 18 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the u.s department of justice which grant funds are in the amount of $34,405 federal funds under the state criminal alien assistance program are for reimbursement of costs related to the incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 19, a resolution approving the granting of an inducement to Fenay Lexington Technology Corporation pursuant to the Kentucky Business Investment Act KRS sub chapter 154.32, whereby the Lexington Fayette urban county government agrees to forgo the collection of 1% of the occupational license fees for a term of not longer than 10 years from the activation date subject to the limitations contained in the act and any agreement Funai Lexington Technology Corporation has with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority and or the urban county government related to the project and taking other related action. Number 20 a resolution approving the granting of an inducement to creative lodging solutions LLC pursuant to the Kentucky Business Investment Act, KRS Subchapter 154.32, whereby the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government agrees to forego the collection of 1% of the occupational license fees for a term of not longer than 10 years from the activation date, subject to the limitations contained in the Act and any agreement Creative Lodging Solutions, LLC, has with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority and or the Urban County Government related to the project and taking other related action. Number 21, a resolution accepting the response of URS Corporation to RFP number 37-2014, Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Regional Intelligent Transportation System Architecture Study, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an engineering services agreement with URS Corporation to provide services related to the RFP at a cost estimated not to exceed $77,250. Number 22, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation of 30 hard hats from Bullard, a protective equipment company for use at the groundbreaking of the new senior center at no cost to the urban county government. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay, hearing none, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Ms. Scotchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? yes ma'am mr beard all right mr clark yes mr ellinger yes mr farmer yes ma'am mr ford yes miss gorton aye miss henson yes mr k yes mr lane yes miss lawless yes miss massadi yes and mr myers yes ma'am thank you thank you madam clerk vote reflects passage of the motion allows us to move on to resolutions for a first reading resolution number 23 sorry allergies a resolution accepting the bid of tw telecom holdings incorporated establishing a price contract for internet access provider for redundancy and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a standard terms and conditions agreement with tw telecom holdings incorporated related to the bid number 24 a resolution accepting the bid of nugent sand company establishing a price contract for sand for golf courses for the division of parks and recreation number 25 a resolution accepting the bid of republic services of kentucky llc establishing a price contract for single pass loose leaf collection services for the division of streets and roads number 26 a resolution accepting the bid of judy construction company in the amount of 19 19 million 108 000 for the town branch wet weather storage facility for the division of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with judy construction company related to the bid. All right. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend resolution number 27 under the first reading of resolutions to add Deborah Sloan, council administrative specialist, grade 520E in the office of the Urban County Council, at a rate of $1,200 biweekly to the personnel action on today's docket. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and a second by Councilmember Massadi. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay, then hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Councilmember Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend Resolution No. 27 under the first reading of resolutions, Resolutions, removing Cendra Brown, Grant Manager, Grade 523E in the Division of Grants and Special Programs from the Probationary Civil Service appointments. Thank you. Second. Motion by Council Member Scutchfield and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alright. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Whenever you're ready, Meredith, you can read the motion or the resolution as amended. Yes, sir. Resolution number 27 as amended, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointment of Gary James, microcomputer support specialist, grade 515N, 19.724 hourly in the Division of Waste Management, effective October 20th, 2014, and ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Erica Williams staff assistant senior grade 510 n 13.879 hourly in the division of human resources effective October 1 2014 and Stephen Florence telecommunicator grade 513 n 14.596 hourly in the division of police effective September 25th 2014 ratifying the permanent sworn appointments of Paul Boyles James Doan Larry Kennard and Jeremy Russell all police lieutenant grade 317 n 2306.31 biweekly and Clay Combs Kevin Metcalf and Ronald Spurlock police lieutenant grade 317 in 3025.24 bi-weekly all in division of police effective august 4th 2014 and brian baker william bellamy adam brown brian cobb charles farley robert gray lance green travis holt jeffrey horn christopher johnson matthew laney blake leathers ronald jones daniel kimball jason malay antonio muniz stephen newton dilliana nicolova michelle patten james powell kevin Preston Monica Rosalski Jordan Truitt Jordan Tyree Glenn Wagoner Mackenzie Willoughby and Jeremy Wilson all police officer grade 311 in 17.8 I know hourly in the division of police all effective September 18 2014 and ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Deborah Sloan council administrative specialist grade 520 e 1200 bi-weekly in the council office effective October 20th 2014 number 28 I was yeah councilman scutchfield thank you mayor i move to amend resolution number 28 under the first reading of resolutions to add deborah sloan council administrative specialist grade 520 e in the office of the urban county council at a rate of 1 200 bi-weekly to the personnel action on today's docket is that the one we i think you may have already done that for the previous resolution they had it for and if you do if you can go ahead and do it that way but you might want to give the 27 two readings tonight as well as 28. i thought it was one was 27 and one was 28. or you can go back and correct the previous one and add it to this one i'll withdraw my motion that work and that'll take care of that okay all right okay yeah that'll work thanks jennifer all right go ahead meredith resolution number 28 a resolution authorizing the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Mayling Williams Reese, administrative specialist senior, grade 516N, 19.931, hourly in the Department of Law, and Tricia Platt, early child care teacher, grade 512E, 1,525.68 biweekly in the Division of Family Services, both effective October 20th, 2014, and David Arnold, equipment technician, grade 516N, 24.094, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective of November 17, 2014. Robert Mangione, Vehicle and Equipment Mechanic, Grade 512N, 14.832, hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective upon passage of council. And authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary community corrections officer appointments. Franklin Anthony, Katie Applegate, Robert Carter, Stephanie Cooper, Dwight Cunningham, Tony Erie, Kimberly Fischter, Leonard Harris, Leighton Hudson, Tony Masters, Therese McLaughlin, Aaron Moss, Brandy Nicholas, Harvey Richardson, Brian Smith, Trevor Smith, and Donrisha Talbot, all community corrections officers, grade 110 and 14.536 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective upon passage of counsel. And authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointment, Jeremiah Harville, Police Sergeant, grade 315 and 28.828 hourly in the Division of Police, effective October 27, 2014. Twenty-nine, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Division of Emergency Management which grant funds are in the amount of $145,000 federal funds under the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program are for the construction of a storage building for decontamination equipment, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds, and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. 30 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a class b infrastructure incentive grant for storm water quality projects to g and j pepsi cola bottlers incorporated at a cost not to exceed 302 557 dollars number 31 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the agreement with dmh construction incorporated for the idle hour north stormwater improvements project increasing the contract price by the sum of 12 493.51 cents from 522 665 to 535 158.51 number 32 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a certificate of consideration and to accept a deed of easement from karen crossgrove for the property located at 729 woodward lane for the Wilderness Road Woodward Lane sanitary sewer project and authorizing payment in the amount of $1,000. Number 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Clean Harbors Environmental Services for disposal of hazardous waste at a cost not to exceed $149,550. Number 34, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Department for Local Government, which grant funds are in the amount of $100,000 federal funds are for Phase 4 of the Brighton Rail Trail Project, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $100,377.92 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. All right. Thank you, Meredith. Council Member Massadi has a question on number 35. Yes, Meredith, before you read number 35, Mr. Maxwell, can you tell me what a new case document means in reference to number 35, and you said that we're going to execute a new case document for Lexington Fayette, Urban County Police Fire and Retirement Fund. Yes, that's for the police and firefighters retired that are over 65 that are Medicare A and B eligible. I guess I don't know what a new case document means. Oh, it's basically a summary plan description. It explains how to pay the claims. Is that something we do every year? yes it's a contract every year we renew it and uh the renewal was at uh 6.5 i think at 20 a month okay i just wasn't wasn't sure what that term meant i thank you sure appreciate it thank you councilmember sani thank you john um meredith continuing you're ready or what councilmember acres i had a quick question on number 30 um for charlie i guess this would be number 30. okay it's not a big deal hi charlie why don't we take the question if we can take the questions when we get discussion on the resolutions okay sure we're going to get a motion and then what i'm saying is we'll get a motion okay like we usually do and then discussion okay 35 you're on 35. resolution number 35 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a new case document for lexington fayette urban county government police and fire retirement fund with humana insurance company for the period of january 1 2015 through december 31 2015. number 36 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a partial release of easement releasing a utility easement on the property located at 450 west Reynolds Road. Number 37 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with Fayette County Public Schools for the operation of the parent resource center at the family care center at no cost to the urban county government. Number 38 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a lease agreement with the Lexington Art League incorporated for use of the Loudoun House for which the Lexington Art League incorporated will pay $500 per month. Number 39 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amended agreement for the central kentucky 911 network with the existing members of the network and a revised agreement including amended language with any additional jurisdictions approved by lexington fayette urban county government's e911 board to clarify the responsibility of damages and term length at no cost to the urban county government number 40 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the contract with bluegrass contracting corporation for the meadows Northland Arlington Public Improvements Project, Phase 5B, increasing the contract price by the sum of $68,352.92 from $737,798.75 to $806,151.67. Number 41, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute certain change orders meeting the criteria provided in this resolution to the contract with Marillia Design and Construction for the construction of the new Senior Citizen Center. Number 42, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the contract with O'Rourke Wrecking Company for additional demolition for PSOC Project 1A, increasing the contract price by the sum of $13,710 from $252,000 to $265,710. Number 43, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, $1,025. Transylvania Park Neighborhood Association, $520. Salvation Army, $2,500. Stonewall PTA, $500. The Gulf Town Homes at Andover Estates, HOA Incorporated, Phase II, $400. The Gulf Town Homes of Andover Forest, HOA Incorporated, $400. WGPL Neighborhood Association, $750. dollars stephen parks neighborhood association incorporated 1725 tates creek choir booster club 1725 dollars and bryan station football boosters incorporated 500 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated number 44 a resolution designating the speed limit on ellerslie park i'm sorry march 44 number 44 a resolution designating the speed limit on Jewett Creek Drive as 30 miles per hour and authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering to install proper and appropriate signs in accordance with the designation. Number 45, a resolution designating the speed limit on Ellerslie Park Boulevard as 25 miles per hour and authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering to install proper and appropriate signs in accordance with the designation. Number 46, a resolution authorizing the Division of Traffic Engineering pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 1886 to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of blazer parkway and north eagle creek drive number 47 a resolution authorizing the division of traffic engineering pursuant to code of ordinances section 1886 to install multi-way stop controls at the intersection of rio dosa drive and north locust hill drive number 48 I'm going to call on Vice Mayor Gordon for an amendment. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, council members, today you received by email the J.D. Power and Associates, uh, performance and reliability, uh, survey in, um, residential service by various cable and communications companies. And I hope if you have not yet read it, you will take the time to read it. And we felt several of us talked, and I have a motion to include this J.D. Power survey, satisfaction survey, in our resolutions. So I move to amend the following resolutions to include reference to the results of the 2014 J.D. Power Residential Wireline Television Service Satisfaction Study in the Findings of Fact for each resolution. First, resolution number 48 under first reading of resolutions, which pertains to denying the approval of the transfer of control of Time Warner Cable to Comcast Corporation. And second, resolution number 49 under first reading of resolutions, which pertains to denying the approval of the transfer of control of Comcast Corporation to Charter Communications, Inc. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and a second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote on the motion. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Meredith, when you're ready. Number 48, a resolution relating to Lexington Fayette Urban County Government denying approval of the transfer of control of Time Warner Cable to Comcast Corporation. Number 49, a resolution relating to Lexington Fayette Urban County Government denying approval of the transfer of control of Comcast Corporation to Charter Communications Incorporated. Thank you, Meredith. Are there any motions for walk-ons or no motions for walk-ons? How about suspensions? Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to spin the rules and give second reading to number 28. This is the conditional offer for employment. Second. All right. Motion by Council Member Henson and second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, if not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And then I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 30, please. All right, motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion by Council Member Hanson on number 30 and a second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, if not, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And finally, at the request of Public Safety Commissioner's Office, I move to spin the rules and give second reading number 42. All right, motion on number 42 by Council Member Hanson, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, if not, then take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 33 so we can execute the agreement before we actually have the event next week. Thank you. Motion by Council Member Stennett. Who is a second by Council Member Scottsville? Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 43. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield and a second by Council Member Henson on number 43. Is that right? On number 43, is there any discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Vice Mayor Gordon. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to go ahead and move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 27. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon, seconded by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Any further motions? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please give us a second to read. Resolution number 27, resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointment of Gary James, microcomputer support specialist, grade 515N, 19.724, hourly in the Division of Waste Management, effective October 20th, 2014, and ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Erica Williams, staff assistant senior, grade 510N, 13.879, hourly in the Division of Human Resources effective October 1 2014 and Stephen Florence telecommunicator grade 513 in 14.596 hourly in the Division of Police effective September 25 2014 ratifying the permanent sworn appointments of Paul Boyles James Doan Larry Kennard and Jeremy Russell all police lieutenant grade 317 in 2030 6.31 bi-weekly and clay combs Kevin Metcalf and Ronald Spurlock police lieutenant grade 317 in 3025.24 bi-weekly all in the Division of effective August 4th 2014 and Brian Baker William Bellamy Adam Brown Brian Cobb Charles Farley Robert Gray Lance Green Travis Holt Jeffrey Horne Christopher Johnson Matthew Laney Blake Leathers Ronald Jones Daniel Kimble Jason Millet Antonio Munez Steven Newton Deliana Nicolova Michelle Patton James Powell Kevin Preston Monica Rosowski Jordan Truitt Jordan Tyree Glenn Wagner Mackenzie Willoughby and Jeremy Wilson all police officer grade 311 and 17.890 hourly in the division of police of all effective september 18th 2014 and ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of deborah sloan council administrative specialist grade 520e 1200 bi-weekly in the council office effective october 20th 2014. number 28 a resolution authorizing the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments mailing williams reese administrative specialist senior grade 5 16 n 19.931 hourly in the department of law and tricia platt early child care teacher grade 512 e 1005 25.68 bi-weekly in the division of family services both effective october 20th 2014 and david arnold heavy equipment technician grade 5 16 n 24.094 hourly in the division of facilities and fleet management effective november 17th 2014. robert mangione vehicle and equipment mechanic grade 512 in 14.832 hourly in the division of parks and recreation effective upon passage of council and authorizing the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary community corrections officer appointments franklin anthony katie applegate robert carter stephanie cooper dwight cunningham tony erie kimberly fisher leonard harris leighton huston hudson tony masters treese mcglothan aaron moss brandy nicholas Harvey Richardson, Brian Smith, Trevor Smith, and Donrisha Talbot, all community corrections officer, grade 110N, 14.536 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective upon passage of counsel. And authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointment, Jeremiah Harville, police sergeant, grade 315N, 28.828 hourly in the Division of Police, effective October 27, 2014. Number 30, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a class B infrastructure incentive grant for stormwater quality projects to G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers Incorporated at a cost not to exceed $302,557. Number 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Clean Harbor's Environmental Services for disposal of hazardous waste at a cost not to exceed 149 550 dollars number 42 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the contract with o'rourke wrecking company for additional demolition for psoc project 1a increasing the contract price by the sum of 13 710 dollars from 252 thousand dollars to 265 710 dollars number 43 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with carnegie center for literacy and learning 1025 transylvania park neighborhood association 520 dollars salvation army 2 500 stonewall pta 500 the golf town homes at andover estates hoa incorporated phase two four hundred dollars the golf town homes of andover forest hoa incorporated four hundred dollars wgpl neighborhood association 750 dollars stephen parks neighborhood association incorporated 1725 tates creek choir booster club 1725 and bryan station football boosters incorporated 500 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated and i believe that's all of them second motion by council member henson to approve and second by council member ellinger is there any discussion on the motion that's where acres you had asked about earlier you're okay all right um all right hearing none then um madam clerk you may call the roll Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane is absent. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. And Mr. Myers? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. all right thank you madam clerk the vote reflects passage of the motion allows us to move on to communications from the mayor these are for information only uh wait a minute no we do need a motion need a motion is there a motion to approve motion by councilmember farmer second by councilmember ellinger 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 next is for information and that allows us to move on to announcements is there any are there any announcements wait a minute i'm not getting my All right, Councilmember Farmer. First off, I wanted to just make sure everyone knows we're having the groundbreaking for the Senior Citizen Center on Monday. I look forward to joining many current and future senior citizens there for the groundbreaking. And then just to the council for the Planning and Public Works Committee meeting on Tuesday, I've placed the first item there is kind of the what's usually the last item in most committee meetings Which is to clean up the issues list because we always seem to run out of time and so if you have an issue that's on the list and want to make the case for For keeping it there or doing something with it Please please come to the at least the beginning of the meeting so that we can really I'd like to kind of draw that list down here towards the end of the year. Thank you mayor Thank you, Councilmember Farmer. Councilmember Ford. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmembers, you guys have a copy of a motion that I'll make in just a few moments for the purpose of scheduling a public hearing in regards to a proposed new TIF district, tax increment financing district. I think we have several folks here from the administration that can speak to this, and I was asked on behalf of the administration to bring this forward. in that regard. I do apologize for the timing, but I understand the dynamics of it are the reason we're bringing this forth this afternoon. So as such, I move to schedule a public hearing on the Midland Avenue Corridor Mixed-Use Tax Increment Financing Development Plan on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers, second floor Government Center, 200 East Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky to receive public comment regarding the development plan. So moved. Thank you. Motion by Council Member Ford and seconded by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Farmer? I think we have a copy of the map of this over there to put on the overhead. I would just, can you give me a thumbnail here of I'm just not familiar with this application or the turn here. I'm not against it. I just want to know more about it. That's all. Mayor Gray, I would ask if we can ask Kevin Atkins to come forward. Council members, I have in the last few days been privy to the information that you guys are seeking, but I don't have a hands-on role in this as yet. If I had, you guys would have known more information prior to, but maybe Kevin can help us. Can we get the map on the overhead, please? There we go. Thank you. Right. Council Member Farmer, to answer your question, this is step two in the process of doing a TIF district. The first step was actually taken earlier today when the Planning Commission certified the district. What we do to come up with a map like you've got up on the screen right now is with the work of folks like John Ferris, who's standing behind me or was. You look at the district, you see where the gains could possibly come from and the improvements that you could make. What the state always cautions us to do, and I think we've accomplished in this to date, is not to make the districts too large. Make them compact so that the reporting is easier to do and monitor and you can get the most lift within the district. So this is step two where we can discuss more at the public hearing what the district really is. Just a couple of quick follow-ups. If someone wanted to change any of the boundaries of a district like this, is that hard to do? Is it easy to do? I'm sorry. If you wanted to change the boundary in any capacity. It's a little checkerboard in a couple of spots. Until the ordinance is completed. All right. So it's like any other ordinance, it can be amended. I mean, the district could change. And then I guess when I think about these, I think about them based around a certain economic driver that's going to make something happen. And I'm just interested in what's the driver here. Or at least that's my term. Yeah, I think we have a couple of drivers in this one. One, Phil Hollebeck, who's here with us tonight, obviously has the property that's down on the point. It's below. below main street yes and then community ventures is also one of the other large drivers and they're some of the property okay i appreciate the diligence today thank you sir thank you mayor thank you councilman farmer councilman massadi thank you mayor maybe mr holibut can answer this question for me can you come up to the podium please thanks phil i'm just curious how How do we get two parks in there? I just don't understand how that would be in part of the development. How and why the parks are in there? Yes. I think as far as TIF boundary creation, Mr. Ferris is probably better equipped to answer those questions than I am. Before you step down, what do we have? Potential mixed-use development here? Is that what we're looking at? Yep. There's mixed-use. First floor retail, upper floor office and residential in most cases. on the community venture site, types of things that are being looked at is not just retail, but retail that fills some of the needs that specifically were called for in the East End small area plan. So food-based, finance-based, healthcare-based. One of the goals is to, whenever possible, especially on the community venture site, make sure that the retail is locally owned, trying to create local jobs and local ownership of businesses as well. The housing on that community venture site is targeted for potentially senior housing and also for workforce housing, which we're defining as, you know, between 60 and 120 percent of median income. One of the key things we want to do is we're looking at creating more jobs and service jobs as well in the downtown areas, make sure that we've got affordable housing that's within walking distance of those jobs. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. John. Council Member Kay. Thank you, ma'am. I didn't answer. He was going to answer the park. Can he answer the park question? All right, sure. I didn't hear that part of it. Thank you. Yes, oftentimes a TIF is a partnership between a private developer and a local government to apply to the state, one of the state programs. And in this particular TIF, you have two public parks that there's some planned infrastructure improvements on. So they become if the council and the local government approves the plan and the TIF, there's possible excess revenues that can be spent on those parks. So we wanted to include them. What would you do to improve Thoroughbred Park? I'm just thinking out loud. As far as specifics, I'll leave that to the development team. But, I mean, over time, you want to include if there is potential to improve those areas, then certainly you would want to include them in the TIF district. Thank you. Council Member Kay. Thank you. I guess I have follow-up questions. I guess I'm concerned that the way that the map looks, there's a potential for a lot of misunderstanding. So could I ask you more about the parks? it's not clear to me why if the let's just talk about Charles Young if Charles Young is owned by the city why what potential benefit is there for there to be a TIF related to that parcel of land well the potential benefit would be if there's excess revenues from the state the city could use to improve the park. Certainly, one would want to consider the, there's not a revenue generation portion of the park. There's no plans to change it from anything but a park, but if there are improvements, landscapes, other things that can be used with the dollar, excess dollars that come from the state, one would want to include them because they don't count against the baseline. So the benefit would be that the increment could be used to make improvements that otherwise we would have to take out a general fund if we wanted to use them. Exactly. And that's an advantage. Exactly. Okay. That's helpful. Secondly, as someone has already noted, it gets a little patchwork. And can you explain the reason why some properties as you go down Third Street are in, some are out? Yeah, sure. And Phil can probably speak to this as well. Well, you have, you know, when you're creating a TIF district, it's going to require a lot of reporting, as Mr. Atkins spoke to. And right here, you have four property owners. The more property owners you add, the more difficult it becomes to coordinate a TIF. at the end of the day, the state is going to write one check to one party and deposit it in a special district fund, in which in the past the city has then only wanted to write one check to reimburse one development entity. So here you have four that are coming together to create one joint group that's applying for a TIF under a joint partnership agreement. Okay, thank you. That's very helpful. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Beard. Thank you, Mayor. Phil, if I might ask you to come back up. The Community Ventures project is located where? The Community Ventures Corporation owns the land that is in that triangle, I guess just to the right and below Charles Young Park. So it's bordered by 3rd Street, Midland Avenue, and Shropshire. Okay, what happens to 400 East Main Street? That's located in the TIF, I think. Yeah, 400 East Main is at the other end of the district. I understand, but one of these maps has a structure on it. What kind of a structure is that? Is that a parking structure? So 400 East Main is the Main and Vine parcel where Main, Vine, and Midland come together. The plans for that are for a mixed-use project, which is first-floor retail, residential above, and a parking structure as well. Okay. That's what I guessed, but I just wanted to hear it from you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. A place in my heart for 400 East Main Street, because when I founded First Security Bank of Lexington, that was our first domicile. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Beard. Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you. My question is back to parks, so Mr. Ferris maybe could answer it. So we all know that the Thoroughbred Park is, I believe, we've tried to do things on that park before, and the Triangle Foundation is the, they may even be the owner of it. Yeah. And so what involvement does the Triangle Foundation have, and what are your thoughts about why that is included in the TIF? Yeah, and maybe we should take a step back and note that to include the parks, and the only reason to include the parks, is that if they were excluded and we wanted to use state dollars and excess revenue to make improvements in the future, then we wouldn't be able to. So that's a starting point. Okay. And then as we move from there, I think the development team has been in contact with the Triangle Foundation and notified them of, you know, their intent to include them in the TIF district. Okay. And so tonight I think, you know, a lot of this discussion usually happens at the public hearing or at a work session. tonight. I think that the submission of the development plan that will come before the public hearing will explain a lot of this. We invite the Triangle Foundation and others to come speak and talk about the specific boundaries and specifically leaving things in or out at that time. Okay. And who will invite them to our meeting? Kevin, will that be you. And then my other question is, at what point does the council look at the TIF increment analysis and the financial, the numbers? Sure, sure. So there's the public hearing, which is being considered to, for, I think, a couple weeks from now. And then after the public hearing, before the council does anything, they need to review, I think, You know, we had spoken about a potential work session. And then also there is a local participation agreement that will need to be reviewed by council and the mayor's staff. So maybe a workshop or to inform council members of the financials and all the up-to-date information. Sure. Before or between October 23rd and the first reading. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. and that's been the practice in the past to do to do at that point and and you would have that financial information yes we have that all right thank you very much thank you Vice Mayor Councilor Lawless thank you I'm really excited about this and public parks have often been part of the TIF, they were part of the, in fact, where Centerpoint is, was actually the Phoenix Park TIF. They did recently change the boundaries and took Phoenix Park and Cheapside and the courthouse out of it. The city did. But that's a perfect use of any excess funds. And so that triangle there that's in the, all of this is in the second except the Maine, Vine, Midland, current rebel pal as we enter our city. And there have been many attempts by Mr. Hollaback and different folks to get something going there. and so i think this is a perfect it is blighted you know and there also has to be some um and mr ferris you can uh correct me if i'm wrong but it has to have some kind of contiguous uh footprint you can't like have so that probably is a big part of why thoroughbred park is in there because you can't just kind of have skip five blocks and then, you know, and make it all part of one TIF. That's just my two cents. TIF 101 from DL today. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. Council Member Ford. Thank you, Mayor, members of Council. This is just a few points I want to share in regards to parks, and all these questions are very, very important. there are actually four parks, if I'm correct, based on the map. Of course, we have Thoroughbred Park, Charles Young Park, a smaller park, which is northeastern, which is on the corner of eastern and short, and then we have the new Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden that's coming in. In regards to Charles Young Park, this council and this administration has gone to great lengths and working with our community to support Charles Young, and I appreciate what Mr. Ferris says about having parks within the boundaries of a TIF district because their potential increment can be used to further enhance those parks without competing against the sacred general fund dollar. As we speak, Charles Young Park and the advisory board are working with our Division of Historic Preservation to pursue listing on the National Register of Historic Places. So Charles Young Park is going to be critical here, but it's only to the improvement, not to the detriment or the danger of the park. What I've learned in my short meetings is that the potential from my standpoint, of course, I think all of these developments will have to conform to the East End Small Area Plan, but the developers and their financing, of course, are going to try to optimize their potential. From my standpoint, and should be that of the government, the infrastructure possibility are attractive. perhaps what we can do on Millen Avenue streetscape traffic enhancements particularly East 3rd Street one thing that I did learn and while I do the comments mr. Councilmember Farmer made and Councilmember Kay is that while the boundaries may change just the existing boundaries as they speak now cover both sides of East 3rd Street that mean if we were to bury utility lines or enhance streetscape even with the existing boundaries it would it would be eligible. The last thing I would say, and council members, you guys know this is not my style for us to be here. First, only first hearing this. Please share with us the timing of why we're here tonight at council meeting, asking for this and kind of in an unorthodox fashion for my council members. If somebody can talk to us about the schedule and the calendar of events, uh john if you if you could sure there's a sense of urgency that the reason we're here tonight you guys yeah um although the state is on a fiscal year the tiff reporting is on a calendar year and um for multiple reasons it would be helpful to be at the state by the end of 2014 to count 2013 as the baseline since a lot of events have to happen before we go to the state. In addition, it's not like the difference between coming in on December 31st or January 1st. The state, as many know, they'll go into a legislative session in January and stay through April. So the staff is pretty distracted at that point in terms of, so it could either, we could either be in by January or it may be April or May. So I think although the calendar is tight and we want to make sure everyone is informed and understands the process and the potential here, it would be ideal to move it through in 2014 so that we could have it to the state so that they can review it and consider it as a 2014 application. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Ferris, could you, the Vice Mayor asked what information we might have for the public hearing. Sure. Can you share with us what information is going to be shared with the public at that time? Yeah, so even before the public hearing, we will file a TIF development plan with the city. It will be online. And that plan has many statutory elements that lay out all the findings, including the economics. And, in fact, the public hearing is to discuss that specific TIF development plan. We would talk about that there. and then at a then there's a 30 a mandatory 30-day waiting period but we could have a work session talking about the the elements of that as well sure very good thank you council member acres thank you mayor john um can you tell me what you all provided to the planning commission and what their part is in approving the tiff district or how that works as well lexington does it a little different than others really other communities around the the state is one of the required elements receive a letter from the Planning Commission certifying that what we're trying to do in this TIF district is within the comprehensive plan. Lexington actually takes a what I call belt and suspenders approach not only does a letter but the Planning Commission reviews it a very qualified staff write a detailed letter of how it how it complies with the comprehensive plan and then planning commission actually takes a vote on the um the compliance with the comprehensive plan so um those steps were taken over the last few weeks and they they were simply certifying that the elements of this proposed development fall within the comprehensive plan and there's a letter from planning commission i don't know if if that was provided to council members uh we certainly can um make sure that you you have that material um and so that you can review it it's a it's quite detailed letter and uh staff does a does a great job on on on very comprehensive i look forward to reading it um what all we received was these were these three maps um and were passed out just you know minutes you know 20 minutes or so ago and so this is the first that i think most of us have heard of this at all and so i'm just and i'm not again i'm not opposed to it either but i just you know just would have liked to have known maybe well i think tonight was is was really just to set a public hearing to talk about it so we may have the cart way in front of the horse i mean i think we want to make sure everyone has all the materials to review it so that we can come and give a full explanation of it but in the past that the council has been willing to set a public hearing to talk about all this stuff and we provide all the information and then there's a full full discussion of it okay thank you if you provide nobody else signed up to speak i'm going to i'm going to say something if you provide any security to anybody. I didn't know about it either. So, I mean, I saw John walking down the street. I said, what are you here for? He said, for the planning commission. I said, what for? He said, Midland. I said, oh, where's that? Okay. So I'm just, just saying. All right. Yeah. No, but no, my point is that they're saying they need a public hearing. They're just getting started. Now you did say step two, Kevin. Well, what's step three, four, five, six, seven, eight. How many steps are there? I mean, you have to remind, you know, there are always changes in council members, and so somebody that may have gone through a TIF process three years, four years, five years, six years ago will not have that information today, and that's what I think some of the anxiety may represent. And step one and two normally happen simultaneously, so that's probably part of the confusion, meaning that, you know, these are the very preliminary steps, you know, where you set a public hearing and you file a TIF development plan to discuss all of this. And then there, as the mayor says, there are probably at least a dozen more steps. And there will be lots of time for comment. And certainly want to make sure everyone has all the materials. And my staff, as well as the development team, are willing to answer any questions you have. so you know how to reach me or reach me through Kevin and we can we can answer your questions but this is I we did not anticipate a we didn't even anticipate showing the map but we didn't anticipate this this type of discussion to to set a public hearing just has it's not it's a little bit out of the norm okay anybody else wish to speak all right all right so is there any further discussion all right then why don't we let's just remind ourselves what we're what the motion represents so council member ford or maybe is it needing interpretation from law perhaps no yes Mayor, it's just a, you know routinely we have public hearings at the beginning of council meetings. This would just set that public hearing for our next meeting, which I guess is on October 23rd. All right. All right. So we can take a vote then. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye and voting electronically. Aye. Opposed, no. All right. Motion carries. Any other announcements? Council members. Oh, I have one. Vice Mayor Gordon. Just one quick one. Council members and the public also. Before the meeting today, Mayor Gray and Mayor O'Loughlin from County Kildare dedicated and unveiled our beautiful cabinet that's dedicated to our sister cities relationships and it's now in the lobby where the public can see it so if you haven't had an opportunity yet to go down and see it please take some time the next few days because it has each of our sister cities highlighted with things that have been presented over the years and it's really beautiful and I'm very happy that it's also available to the public. Thank you. Any other announcements? Councilman Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say in regards to this TIF, I'm pleased, very pleased to hear Councilman Ford say that, along with the developers, that this TIF is in accordance to the East End Area Small Plan. And as you know, the 8th District is in the process of doing a small area plan right now. and one of the things that we want to get across to our citizens our business owners in the district is the importance of them participating in that plan and this is one of the real values of that plan you know you can't get anything done there's no vision without a plan and when you have that plan then you have investors that want to come and invest in that plan and move things forward and advance the community so I like the way that this is all working out and this is what we hope to model in the 8th district as we do our plan so thank you very much Thank you, Council Member Myers. Council Member Ford, you're speaking. Thank you, Mayor. Just quickly, in regards to the timeline that Mr. Ferris did mention, the action we just took now for full transparency for the citizens now allow our council clerk, I think, to advertise this hearing twice before, once, to advertise it once in the Herald Leader before our meeting. And again, I just thank you for your flexibility in moving this forward. thank you councilman ford all right no foot no further announcements then we can move to public comments i have one two three four five six signed up for public comment beginning with Corey Dunn. How you doing tonight? All right, Corey, if you'll give us your address for the record, please, sir. 117 West 6th Street. I got an issue. I'm just going to be quite honest with you. I have an issue. I mean, some serious issues. We can't address all of them right now, but we can get started. Doing the work that I do in the community, one thing I realized is that a lot of people mistrust government, all branches of government. I mean, it's just real. So what we did is we decided to say, hey, instead of fussing about what the government's not doing for us or how we're not getting along, how we don't trust them, you know, how there's two groups of people in the community where you have the ones that believe everything government does is okay. then you have a younger generation that just doesn't trust because a lot of things that we see doesn't seem to be quite right. You know what I mean? So we went to the police department and said, hey, people in the East End community where I'm from have issues with policing. We talked to the chief. He says, hey, I'll clean house. If there's anything wrong, report it. If there's violations, we need to know about it and we can work together because the same way we're policing the streets, we're going to police our department as well. Say, hey, I respect that. We went to the prosecutor's office and we talked to them and there's a few issues and we didn't quite get to see eye to eye. However, he said, I'll clean house. If someone is doing something wrong in my jurisdiction or my department, I'm going to handle it. Then it brings us to city council and I'm here. And y'all don't have to worry about the time because half the people signed up and said I can borrow some from them. Billy Mallory ceded her time to you. Brandon Dunn. And Brandon has too. Okay. So yeah. So we got plenty. There we go. So when it comes to city council, you know, we talk about trust. I would love to trust my government. Unfortunately, I can't say that I do. And I'm just being honest with you. Stuff is going on and it's getting to be ridiculous. I mean, you got several community advocates in the crowd. The same way y'all surprised about what's being done out East End. Well, heck, we surprised too. This is the first time we're hearing about it. Good thing that we were here at this meeting tonight so that we could hear about it, so that we can get the word out to the community and let everybody know what's going to be done to our community. But that's one of the issues. But we still trust that government elected officials would be professional, have some moral code that they go by, whatever. There's an oath, if I'm not mistaken, that says, I do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth and be faithful and true to the Commonwealth of Kentucky so as long as I continue a citizen thereof and that I will faithfully execute to the best of my ability the office of, council member, whatever, according to the law. I'm going to pause right there because the rest of us talking about duels and we don't do that anymore in some communities. And that sounds like a great oath. However, I watched the news. I get emails. I'm on social media. And you'd be surprised some of the stuff that you find out. I mean, we're talking about people who make laws for the city. And my question is, are you held accountable to the law? You know, talking about a moral conduct is one thing. Everybody's morals are different. Religious beliefs are different. But we did pray before this meeting started, if I'm not mistaken. Now, I don't know which God we were praying to, but there was a prayer. So that means there's some type of code of ethics that goes along with being in a religion. But it's a lot of stuff going on. Every time I cut on the news, we're talking about civil suits. You're talking about sexual harassment. You're talking about members up here with criminal charges and whatnot. And it's like, how the heck can we trust our government to uphold the law, to write the laws, if government officials aren't even necessarily abiding by the law? That's concerning to us citizens, you know, on this side of the horseshoe. So I would just like to ask that, you know, we have a charter. There are rules and regulations. However, the charter basically says as long as you don't commit a crime or a fraud or some type of money issue, then it's okay. Which means that our council members can do anything. And, I mean, when you have council members that are saying that they're planning on using government property for sexual services, and I'll stop there. I don't want to get too explicit, but, I mean, that's very— Mr. Dunn. Yes, sir. All right. we're going you're moving over the line here and i'm what mayor what what is the line may i ask what the line is because i thought that you're going to be attacking individuals personally i did not mention the name uh mr gray i did not mention the name i said individuals i'm just saying you're getting there close so be careful may i say this uh we have freedom of speech supposedly i'm exhibiting my right to speak to my government who is governing all the actions of my community, what's going on in the city. And I'm just asking that if you guys are making the laws, can you follow them? Is there some code of conduct that we can, to be proactive, to prevent me from having to watch the news every night to wonder what my council members are doing? Now, for the most part, you'll see people talking about, we want to increase the police in this neighborhood, or we want to make this better, or we're doing skate parks and all, and that's beautiful. However, the negative is more memorable than the good things. It's very easy to forget all the good stuff that y'all do. And I'm not saying that every one of y'all is bad, because I know you're not. However, when there's questionable things going on, it's like, how come city council can't, let's see, what's the word I'm looking for? Govern. If you're going to govern a people, can you govern yourselves? Can we clean house in some capacity? Because I mean, It's like the chief of police says, yes, if my men, my employees or whatever are wrong, I'll correct them. The prosecutor's office says the same thing, but city council is getting to be like scandal. I mean, I apologize, but what can I say? I mean, it's very concerning to me as a citizen. Point of order, Mayor. What's your point of order? Point of order is? Say what it is. Where are we going with this? I guess I don't know. Can we be proactive and do some type of legislation the same way you make laws to govern the citizens? Can we make laws to govern the behavior of members, elected officials? Mr. Dunn. Yes. It's not appropriate. Let me say, please. It's not appropriate to tell the truth to the city council. It's not appropriate. I'm sorry. Go ahead. For applause in these chambers. Now, I'm going to say one more time that you're crossing some lines here. One more time. Can you please clarify what those lines are? I'm saying if you make personal attacks. I'm not making personal attacks. I'm a taxpayer. I'm a taxpayer. I'm not attacking. I'm a taxpayer. That's a slight difference. You understand? I mean, the time's ticking. That's right. So my question is, is it possible for you who are the leader of this organization, is it possible for you and everyone around the horseshoe to come together to make some type of ordinance, not just saying you can't have fraudulent dealings and embezzlement type of stuff. Is it possible? That's the point of order. Is it possible to do something to actually clean house and deal with inappropriate behavior? That is my question. I don't think that's crossing the line. I mean, you may feel as though it is, but I mean, the taxpayers don't believe so. People are concerned. and unfortunately the actions of a few are causing masses not to have trust in our own government. So, I mean, what can we do about that? Is there anything that we can do about it or do we just sit here and watch the time? We're listening to your presentation. It's not a presentation. It's not questions and answers to this council or this body. It's a rhetorical question because I know you wouldn't dare answer it. We are not here addressing that. You have an opportunity for public comment. Now, we're not going to engage in this, and the sergeant-at-arms is prepared, and we have others who will enforce this. Prepare for what? Have I broken any laws? You've got 42 seconds left. Well, let's just sit here and look at each other for 42 seconds. I have a moment of silence for all the taxpayers at home who are upset that we can't get any answers from our leaders. That is an issue. You might not feel it is, but there are a lot of individuals who do. So I got 24 seconds. Let's just 22, 21, 21. I mean, come on, man. This is ridiculous. I apologize if I upset anybody. I really do. But we are citizens. We are taxpayers. You expect people to vote for you. People vote you in office, and then we get let down. That's discouraging. But y'all have a good evening. All right. Peace. Thank you, Mr. Dunn. Mr. McCarthy. For the record, my name is Bernard McCarthy. My address is 515 Harry Street. And as far as I know, all of you are bound by the same laws that you inflict upon us, and I'm not going to accuse any of you of any of the stuff the previous speaker did. But I would like to point out that I believe if you want to create bike lanes along a street, the proper way to do it is add four feet of pavement on each side of the street. Don't take lanes away from the cars. And I say this because whether I pedal or drive to some place often depends upon what the weather is doing that day, what I expect it to be doing by the time I'll be ready to come home. what size, weight of things I need to either take with me or bring back, and the breakage or spillage potential of those things, plus how much physical activity do I expect to participate in at my destination. In other words, I may pedal a bike to my job at the highway department office because I know I'll be sitting behind a desk most of the day, but drive the pickup truck on Saturday to a Habitat build because I know I'm going to be burning off plenty of calories at that destination and be thoroughly exhausted by the time I'm ready to come home. But I think we need a transportation network in which one mode's gain should not be at the expense of another mode's loss, first off. And second, we do need a street network that offers some flexibility. We may have large numbers of people switch modes according to what the weather is doing on any given day. And we need a street system that can cope with that. And we need a local source of revenue dedicated to improving transportation within Fayette County. We can't count on getting enough money from either the state or the federal governments to handle all the traffic generated by Lexington's growth. I really wish that you guys would start charging all developers impact fees based on the amount of traffic that that type of land use is expected to generate and put the money into improving the road system. And I happened to notice the other day that traffic on Manowar is getting downright awful over in front of Hamburg, that maybe proposals for widening that stretch need to be speeded up. Thanks, Bernard. All right. Does anyone else wish to be signed on to speak, signed up to speak tonight? All right. Susan, is it Susan Dell? All right, Susan. Hello. My name is Susan Delph. I'm a street person. Thank you. I have come to you today. I'm addressed on issues that the mayor's campaign has come up to. We are the street people of Lexington, Kentucky. Here's my speech. Dear mayor and city council members, Many towns and cities had an area which contained the poor and afflicted, such as Skid Row in New York City, for example, where was an area known as the Bravo. The battle was where alcoholics were to be found sleeping on the streets, bottle in hand, rescue missions offering soap and salvation. A phase introduced by the Salvation Army sprung up among the borough through thoroughfare, including the oldest one, the borough mission. The mission was founded in 1879 by the Reverend and Mrs. A.S. Rothfelsen. In smaller towns, there were hobos who temporarily lived near train tracks and hopped onto trains, especially following the American Civil War. A large number of homeless men formed part of a counterculture known as hobomania. all over America. In the 1930s, this Great Depression caused the return of homelessness. There were two million homeless people migrating around the country. One visible effect of the Depression was the advert of Hoover's residents lived in shacks and begged for food or went to soup kitchens. Authorizes did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and occasionally removed the occupants for techno trespassing on private lands, but they were frequently tolerated out of necessity. And the U.S. during the late 1970s, the patients from state. Susan, excuse me. Right here. I'm sorry. Right here. Right here. Yes. Excuse me. So we have, we want to be very patient with your presentation tonight. And thank you for coming. We have a rule of three minutes now. Okay. I thought it was five. That's all right. If you have, are you Ms. O'Hare? Delph. I know you're Susan. Right, Susan Dell. And I also have signed up D'Artagnan O'Hara. So she's not here. D'Artagnan. Yeah. All right, sir. So you want to speak again? I was going to speak to go ahead and do a reminder. Okay. Okay. I'll go to the brief ending of this, if you don't mind, because it's mostly history. And there's a law in here also that was passed. We have come before you to voice our opinion. We, the people of the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, come to you today so we can come to an understanding. We need a place where we can have a place for our people that are in wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and crutches. The places we can go to is the New Life Day Center to hang out and for the day. But it is not for the physical handicap. And as you know, that is against the law. 99% of the women on the streets today comes from the Salvation Army and that 1% comes from the Hope Center or somewhere else. We are a city within a city, as you should know. Some of us have been on the streets for more than two years. Yes, some of us have revolving doors at the jailhouse. We, the street people of Lexington, Kentucky, would like to come to an understanding before you. What some of us would like is a place where we all can sleep at with no bed bugs like the community in. and at the Salvation Army. We would like to have more than labor-ready and jubilee jobs. I have been working with a church that things can help us out. they are thinking of an overnight stay for us away from all of the bed bugs and a good place to wash our clothes. We can also hang out and eat there too. And on the band of houses, why not let us have them for $1 and we can fix them up and live in them because in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, that's what they are doing. So why this city and county too? Excuse me, one more time. So another three minutes. Are you able to give us an idea of how much more time you're going to need? I just got one more paragraph. Oh, okay. All right. Thank you. and in other cities there is tent cities that is a warehouse with tents inside the warehouse there is a soup kitchen showers and a place to wash clothes and bathrooms for both thank you thank you thank you all all right now uh mr o'hare seated his time but if a council member would like to make a motion to give Mr. O'Hara his time. We're good. Okay. We got a motion and we got a second. I don't think there's any objection. Right. That's good. We have a motion. My name is D'Artagnan O'Hara. Some of you guys know me as admin. And you know I fought very hard to get you into office, Mr. Gray. Walked many miles. You know my website. You know, my whole situation was, you know, I had a lot of promising in you. I've seen some of it come to fruition. I've seen some of it that I don't know if it ever will. Mine's more or less not a dictation, but a challenge. We have a city. I love this city. I've come from another state, been down here. It's a beautiful city. it's a little bit of country a little bit attitude okay i've learned being down here that uh yeah if you're kentuckian you better be guaranteed of two things one you better like the wildcats or get out of town okay number two don't take off any kentuckian woman because she will turn around skin you alive like a raccoon and leave your lane. But, you know, Kentuckians are great. I love you to death. I love this town. I'd really like to spend the rest of my life here. But it's a challenge that if we're going to progress, one of the her subject there, homelessness. Homelessness has become a situation where now it's a business. Put them into programs. Do programming. Get state and federal funding. Don't turn around and do anything. You know why? Why do people want to work? They can turn around and get three free meals. You know, men at the Hope Center are turning around wearing the same pair of pants that our police officers wear at $185 a pair. They dress as good as our police officers and don't have to do anything because police pants are donated to them. You know, from the same place our city buys them. There's a lot that we have become enablers in the city of Lexington. I was over by the Hope Center and one day turned around and heard a guy talking about he was from Oregon. He was told about Lexington, best town in the country you can go to if you're homeless. We're becoming the homeless capital of the world. downtown it's multiplying is becoming chaotic we're enabling them we're giving them free shelter free food three meals a day they can turn around go over sit watch tv all day while you me and everybody else works are but off to turn around pay them they turn around nine eighty five percent of them get disability checks they turn around below market force to have a pay because they have rights what rights do we have work and then do whatever they want you know there's a lot of things in this town gone wrong and i really truly uh... still so jim you know me we have talked many times actually both want to believe that you can do it Prove me right. We appreciate your being here tonight. And, you know, I have this unpopular role of being the timekeeper. Okay. And so you're overtime. Yeah, you and me know that. We said many times. Thanks for being here tonight. Prove me wrong. That's a challenge. All right. Thank you so much. All right. Is there anything, anybody else? I don't have anyone else signed up for public comment. Second. Motion to adjourn by Council Member Stenet. Second by Council Member Ellinger. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. Music I want to give you my love, but you just take a little piece of my heart. You've got my love and name, and you turn across your love for a night. I want to give you my love, but you just take a little piece of my heart. You come under the flame And you turn across your Don't fire at night You come under the flame And you turn across your Don't fire at night