I'll call the meeting to order. Thank you all for being here tonight. We've got a large crowd and And we are waiting now for our council clerk to arrive. And so before we – the first thing on our agenda will be a roll call. I believe we have a quorum. And then what we'll do while we're waiting for Meredith to arrive is we can do the – we have a couple of proclamations. Is Rabbi Roberts here? Yes, sir. Yes, I didn't look out. Yes, hello, Rabbi. And we can do the public, some of the public work. All right, so Tiffany, do you have the list of council members? I believe we've got a quorum, so if we can go ahead and call the roll, please. And then we'll get, we'll, Tiffany, one other thing. And as you'll note, as council members arrive, I know that Vice Mayor Gorton and Council Member Massadi and Council Member Scutchfield are outside with Martha. All right. Thank you. Council Member Stennett. Yes, ma'am. Council Member Akers. Yes. Council Member Beard. Present. Councilmember Clark. I'm here. Councilmember Ellinger. Here. Councilmember Farmer. Here. Councilmember Ford. Here. Vice Mayor Gordon. Councilmember Henson. Here. Councilmember Kay. Here. Councilmember Lane. Here. Councilmember Lawless. Here. Councilmember Massadi. Councilmember Myers. And Councilmember Scratchfield. All right. So I know that Councilmembers Massadi and Scutchfield, Councilmember Scratchfield has arrived and Vice Mayor is here and Councilmember Massadi as well. Yes. Okay. All right. All right. So what we were discussing while you all were out was that we'll just go ahead with presentations while we're waiting on Martha to arrive. Meredith. Meredith to arrive. Yes, right. All right. So first we'll ask, we have as our guest clergy tonight, Rabbi Daniel Roberts. And Rabbi, if you would give the invocation tonight. Thank you so much, sir. Our God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Jesus and Mohammed. God of those who founded this great democratic nation and those who continue its growth. The God of the dying soldier, of the rejoicing mothers and fathers who gaze in wonder at their newborn child. God of those who are privileged to see the accomplishments of their loved ones God of those who have no God We come together this night with words of thanksgiving lingering on our lips for this glorious nation in which Jew, Christian, Muslim, Baha'i and those who have no religion as well as those who are rich and those who are poor can all dwell together in a world which is environmentally sound in a city and region where we can receive the best medical care in the world. And at this point, we would say in that medical care lingers Foster Pettit, the first mayor of this merged county government, who was in the hospital, and we send healing to him and strength to his doctors. And for all of this, we are grateful. As we gather together this day to give thanks for the strength and vision of the members of this urban county council, whom we support for their dreams and efforts are to work together for a better world for the citizens of Lexington and the county, which might lead then to a world of peace, a world where there shall be no hunger, no war, no poverty, and we, their constituents, aid them in their quest to build such a world, for us by investing in them our trust, our finances, and our devotion. May each member of this council be given the strength and health to carry out their sacred duty and their dreams. And to that we all say, Amen. Rabbi, thank you so much for joining us and for your joining our community as well. And what I routinely say to the clergy who have joined us is that you are welcome to stay, but you have no obligation to stay for our council meeting. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. And thank you also for your prayers and comments for our former Mayor Foster Pettit. Next on our agenda is a motion. I'll ask for a motion to approve minutes of the previous meetings. No, Madam. Second. Motion by Councilmember Stennett, second by Councilmember Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And next on our agenda are presentations. And I'll go to the podium for the presentations. All right. Our first presentation, our proclamation tonight, will be presented to the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass. In the last 25 years, Fayette County's senior citizen population has increased from 25,000 to 45,000. That's an 80% growth rate, far stronger than our overall population growth in the same period. Lexington is an attractive community for our seniors, and it will become even more attractive when we finish our new senior center. Our seniors and all of our citizens in need of personal care are fortunate to have many quality institutions in Fayette County. Dedicated staff members can and do make a difference in the lives of those in need, allowing individuals to maintain a high quality of life. So we want to all thank you, those nursing home staffs, to our dedicated nursing home ombudsman, and to all of the seniors who have chosen to call Fayette County home. So now, before I ask Ms. Bader to say a few words and join me at the podium, I will read the... Oh, here we are. Hey, here we are. Hey, Tristan. Hi, Tristan. It's good to see you all. Come on up here. So I've got a proclamation here that I'm going to present to Crystal and Madge, and it reads this way. Long-term care residents' rights month, whereas there are more than 2.6 million persons living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the United States, and whereas the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 guarantees residents their individual rights in order to promote and maintain their dignity, and whereas the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass works to protect the rights of residents and to improve the quality of care for residents living in long-term care facilities. Now, therefore, I, Jim Gray, Mayor of Lexington, on behalf of all Fayette Countians, commemorate October 2014 as Long-Term Care Residence Rights Month in Lexington. Thank you. Thank you. And that will, that general, there we go. Thank you. So, Crystal, why don't you say a few words, and then we'll take a picture right here up front with you all and the council. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for making long-term care residents a priority in your community. We have ombudsmen throughout Fayette County for each facility visiting residents, monitoring their care, making sure their needs are being met, and trying to make systematic changes, as well as keeping up with laws that are changing that would affect those residents. So thank you so much. We are here for the residents, and we're here for you. If you need information about long-term care, that's our specialty, so please come to us. Thank you. Thank you. It could be anything. Our next proclamation is for advocacy and inclusion on a mission, and the acronym is AIM. AIM is about breaking down barriers and working to be inclusive of all citizens, including citizens with disabilities. Students at Julius Marks Elementary explored their differences and celebrated their uniqueness during a pilot run of Disability Education Week, and they focused on advocacy and inclusion on a mission. AIM will also be piloted at Stonewall next week and at Mill Creek and Cassidy Elementary in the spring. Annette Jett is the parent liaison. Come on up, Annette. You're going to get to speak. You're going to get to speak, too. Obligation, unlike the rabbi. All right. Annette Jett is the parent liaison for Fayette County Public Schools, Parent-to-Parent Resource Center, and she's the PTA president at Julius Marks. And she is here to receive the proclamation, which I will read now, and it says AIM Day. That's pretty cool. Jim Gray is mayor of Lexington in celebration of AIM advocacy and inclusion on a mission and its work on behalf of students with disabilities encouraging students, staff, and families to learn together about the power of advocacy and community inclusion to hereby proclaim October 22, 2014 as AIM Day in Lexington. Thank you so much. Hi, and thank you for having us tonight. We have been at Julius Marks, as Mayor Gray said, all week, and we have been educating students on not only what disabilities are, but also on how to be an advocate and how to include those students in lives. One of the most important pieces of this is that we don't want it to stop at the school. We want to take inclusion beyond the doors of the schools and include the entire community because we know that our children eventually grow up and need internships and employment and friends and recreation within the community. So we want to, as a byproduct, educate families and community members on how that can happen. So we've had a lot of support, and we so appreciate this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do I need to read their names? Okay, I'm going to let you help me with that. Okay, we've got one more presentation. You all see these scouts over here? That's who it's going for. Council Member Farmer earlier welcomed them, took them around City Hall. the government center. It's now my pleasure to recognize the scouts from PAC 93, Dan 4. These scouts have been working toward their citizenship badges. Now, I've been told that the scouts know a few things about citizenship. So I'm going to ask one question. And you guys, Okay. You've got to help me with the answer. Okay. Explain why you should respect your country's flag and tell some of the special days we fly it and when to salute the flag and show how to do it. Now, that's complex, isn't it? All right. First, Council Member Farmer, you're going to help me with this. That's right. Yes. Thank you. There we go. Why, hold your hand up, why you should respect our country's flag. Is it working, Chris? It says power. Oh. Well, that's a, wait. Check, check. Oh, okay. All right. I was going to. Okay. This is a pretty fancy podium here. So the question is, and we had a raised hand, and what's your name? Did you want to answer? Mike. Michael, grab this in here. Michael Blanche. I respect your country flag because it, like, represents your country and your state and your agency. and our history and we would like symbol every day. There we go. Michael, thank you. Thank you. Okay, next question. Tell when to salute the flag and show how to do it. Hold your hand up. When to salute the flag. There we go. And this is what's your name? Jacob Felix. Jacob Felix. Can you salute? You salute the flag when, like, if it's like a national thing, like a baseball game maybe or in the morning at school and what? You want to do it? That's good. Yes, and now show us how. All scouts show the salute. Scout salute. All right. Good job. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Now, guys, okay, now I'm going to ask, I'm going to call each of your names, and we've got, we have now your citizenship badges to present. to Eric Triplett, Benjamin Reynolds, Christopher Keller, Tyler Erpenbeck, Jack Latuka, Jacob Felix, Michael Blanche, and Luke Mattingly. And our scoutmaster needs to do the presentation. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. I can't. I can't. Eric. Eric. Eric. Benjamin. Jacob. Christopher. Tyler. Good job, buddy. Tyler. Good job, buddy. Jacqueline Tucot. Good job. Luke and Adley. Where are you, buddy? We just did a two-night camp out in the mud last weekend. So we're all still recovering as the parents. And Michael Blank. Good job, Les. All right. Is this right, please? One more. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Next on our agenda is a public hearing in our legal counsel. Our law has, David Barbary has said that we can proceed with that. I'm still waiting on our council clerk, but it's appropriate, right, David? Yes, Mayor. You would just need to go ahead and open the public hearing for public comment. Okay. All right. The public hearing, this is a public hearing on the Midland Avenue corridor, mixed-use tax increment financing. I declare the public hearing is now in session. Are there any comments from the public? Mr. McCarthy. Oh, there's a list coming. Oh, there's a list coming. I wish somebody would describe exactly what this financing is paying for. In other words, is any of this going to expand the capacity of our street system to handle the traffic that the development will be generating? For instance, I can think of some modifications at the main, middle, and vine intersection that would be a good thing to do, especially. But in general, I want to know, are you actually doing anything that would be useful to the rest of us, or is this all decorative stuff? Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Now, Amy Clark, Amy is here. Amy, do you wish to speak on this? Is this the issue you wish to speak on, the Midland? All right. Yes. Yes, okay. My name is Amy Clark, and I live at 628 Castle Road. And I have to say this is a great collaboration to revive and renew the neglected corner of our city. I welcome it. I especially like it that, you know, four owners are getting together and collaborating on this. One of them is the CDC. You're aiming to make walking and biking safer, adding links to make our transportation network better connected throughout the center of the city. I like that you're mixing the uses and aiming to provide more housing at the city center. My main message here is I would like to ask you to give more as a council in order to get more. That's to say, surprise, surprise, I think this isn't enough money to spend on this project, and here's why. If you look at the map you have before you, this is not exactly the TIF district. There's a little bit omitted at one end. this is what was presented of the TIF district in the planning commission hearing. You'll notice that it looks as though only a couple of places, the ones I highlight in yellow, extend to three stories. This is early days. It's a draft. Things can get better and better. but I think this precious a piece of large piece of land right near the city center needs greater density it's on a major road it's a big wide road you can go up five six stories you can really get some density in this and I think it would help the project parking is always an issue and I've looked at the parking there, and the pinkish-reddish areas are surface parking. And the tiny blue box, and I believe the box outlined in blue, are garage parking. That's really a very little bit of garage parking, even if you include outlined in blue the ground floor parking for that structure there. And it strikes me that if the city can dedicate further tax revenue, the city and the state, through a TIF project, if we could have more garage parking, which runs 15,000 plus per space, we could achieve the density that probably isn't otherwise possible, isn't feasible. So my word would be take these buildings up. Let's make taller buildings. Stack a lot of residential density on top here. I will not be the first ever to utter the phrase build up, not out. Here's a good place to build up. You have parkland outlined in green, those two areas. Personally, I find the park with the fountain and the horses. it's a lovely park to look at it's a benefit to our city it's at a gateway to our city it's not a place you'd send your kids to play because there are cars speeding all around it in every direction so for usable parkland we have the Charles Young Park outlined in green on the other side and that's well used already and could stand to be even better used taking some of the surface parking and stacking it in garage parking instead ought to offer a lot more room to build up to increase the density and give also more room for green space. Amy, excuse me, the three, now, if you'd like to continue, then I can ask for a motion from a council member to extend your time. Oh, no, that's fine. We don't want to truncate it unnecessarily. You think you got through what you wanted to? Yeah. All right. I will say this. We have student housing. We have masses of new student housing, and it runs 750 a month per bedroom and up. We need to balance that in our central city with housing that's affordable for other people. Thank you. And just to clarify, I am in support of this. I just think it could be even better and may well get better. Thank you. Thank you. that's all who signed up for public comment. Are there any comments from council members? All right. If not, then I will declare the public hearing closed. And next on our agenda is, well, I was going to ask for a motion. from Councilmember Clark. Are we able to take minutes? And David, help me here. Mayor, I think we can. I think between Tiffany and I, we can go ahead and proceed with the meeting. I may do some of the reading for the council clerk, but the legal requirement is that they be read out loud, and I think I can accomplish that. We may have some issues with recording the votes electronically and that kind of stuff. But if you want to go ahead and entertain Mr. Clark's motion at this point in time, that'd be fine. Thank you, David. All right. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mayor. We have a number of people here to speak on an issue that's come before us, and so I move to suspend the rules to have a first reading of Resolution 34 that you'll find on your docket regarding the permanent barricading of Agape Drive out of order and to allow public comment specific to this issue at this time. So move. A motion by Council Member Clark and a second by Council Member Ellinger. 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 all right councilman Clark you have another motion oh wait a minute I included my second motion in that motion mayor so I think we're ready for public comment if you if it's appropriate that's correct first we need first reading that's correct David can you give us a first read on it a resolution directing that a gate agape Drive be permanently barricaded at its northern terminus point all right thank you and now we can ask for public comment there are a number of number who have signed up for public comment beginning with justin williamson and mark sock all right justin if anyone if anyone wishes to yield their time if if you've made any effort toward their councilman clark maybe it had been any conversation about that just i think most of our comments will be brief and okay well i was Consideration if you wanted to go more than three minutes, I was just going to say that would be you would certainly encourage to yield your time Someone else might want to yield their time to you. Okay. There we go. Thank you. I'll be brief I'm Justin Williamson. I'm president of the Dogwood Trace Neighborhood Association, and we're here today to ask For consideration of a motion to block permanently block the end of agape in What you're going to hear from a few of our residents here in just a few moments, there are some more details associated with our specific concerns with the Agape Street and our concerns about potentially opening in the future. And we just want to be proactive and protect the character of our neighborhood and the safety of our neighborhood relative to the amount of traffic that we believe future developments would introduce to our neighborhood. And so I appreciate your time. I just wanted to express on behalf of the Dogwood Trace Neighborhood Association our desire to see agape permanently blocked. Thank you very much. Thank you, Justin. And next is Mark Sock. Mark. Thank you, Mayor. We have some other residents that have signed up. I'd like for them to go first. That's okay. All right. All right. John and Patty. Yozwiak. Yozwiak, right. Okay. All right, Patty. And John? Okay. All right, sir. And Gloria Stratton? Gloria? Okay. To Mark, right? Okay. All right. Patrick? Patrick, you're going to speak now, right? If you'll just give your name and address, please, sir. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Patrick Wazoloski. I live at 2425 La Crosse Court. I live at the Terminus. And, wow, this is kind of weird. I ask that you consider blocking this for the safety of the residents and for the young kids. I'm very active in the cycling community, and our subdivision is divided by one main street, and people that live on one side where I live, you see kids and families on bicycles and walking and strollers. And on the other side where the cut-through that happens out towards Brannon on Clay's Mill Extension, You do not see that, and I'm asking that you consider keeping it the way it is so that our families can be safe. Thank you. Thanks, Patrick. Charles Payne? Charles, you want to speak on this issue or something? No, I don't. Okay. Greg? Greg? Greg? Greg, I'm having trouble. Sorry. My name is Greg Kermins, 4788 Agape Drive. My wife, my two young children are actually four months new to the Lexington community. Just commuted here from Greensboro, North Carolina. And obviously as part of that decision, you know, with two small children, one being of school age, one thing that we do very much consider in this move was, one, the quality of the schools, and more importantly, where we decided to place our family. One thing that I've found from a safety concern standpoint since our move into Agape, there has been a little bit of a surprise in the amount of traffic that already extends through our street. not really knowing that beforehand, obviously. But one thing that we do get concerned about from a perspective of safety for both of our children, obviously a lot of that burden weighs on us as parents to protect those children. But like I said, there already actually has been some incidents where my wife has actually already been hit a few times on agape. I actually back into my own driveway and actually have people that will swing out around me to try to avoid me or speed up to get around me. So my main concern really is for the safety of my children. with two young kids, you can't always be there all the time. So I appreciate your time. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Greg. Shannon Bizarre. Is Shannon here? Hi. Shannon Bizarre from the Dogwood Trace community. This past spring I attempted to make a first time run for the urban county at large position. And while I didn't make the top six out of 13 candidates running, I am proud of acquiring 5% of the vote along with carrying my precinct. This very issue we are discussing here is one of the reasons my precinct supported me. And what I have personally learned from this one issue and my community as a whole is invaluable. A few things that I would like to point out is that in the last hearing of this issue revealed in relation to the connector roads planned within multiple comprehensive plans, that developers carried the upper hand in the past development plans, leaving the constructing of many planned connector roads undeveloped. This result gave the appearance of developers in the Planning Commission carrying more authority and policy over elected city government and citizens, while also weakening the purpose of Agape being a connector street. And after attending a few technical planning zoning committees and hearing the complexity of developing construction ordinances, time efficiency and cost, I gained a better understanding of why this unfortunately appears to be so. But the authority lies within the hands of the elected council, and the citizens desire this Council to serve everyone equally without prejudice while maintaining a transparent and responsible balanced budget for its most important priorities. In closing, we the citizens of this Republic are the owners and financial supporters of our community with a respectable understanding of the role that you the Council members play in carrying out accountability of legal and equal representation while overseeing our financial obligations, investments, and keeping in mind all revenue authorities draw from our budgets and the comprehensive plan affects our quality of life. Voting for the barricade helps to maintain the quality of life for our community, and we look forward to having your support on this matter, and thank you for your time. Thank you, Shannon. And now we're at Mark. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. My name is Mark Sock. I live at 4752 Agape Drive. I've just got a brief PowerPoint presentation I'd like to present to you. And a lot of it has to do with the committee meeting that the Public and Planning Works Committee meeting. That's right. You can raise the point, too. There's just a couple of supposed to raise the point. You can raise the point. And one of the main issues that was addressed at the Planning and Public Works Committee meeting last month was the issue of connectivity. And I just wanted to address some things there that came up in that meeting. The issue of emergency vehicles and a concern regarding their ability to travel in and out of Dogwood Trace if Agape Drive remained closed. Well, as you well know, and as Mr. Clark well knows, Dogwood Trace has been one way in and out for 25-plus years, and there's never been any issue at that point regarding emergency vehicles being able to access any part of our neighborhood. And we do know that there's really no way that, given the new development on the Harvey property, that an emergency vehicle to get into the new development would come into the Dogwood Trace neighborhood down Agape Drive to get into the new development, nor would they come into the new development into Dogwood Trace via Agape Drive. Our trash service is private. Postal service, we have two carriers that carry throughout the neighborhood. I can't imagine that they wouldn't add another carrier for the new development because at this point we're getting our mail later and later, it seems like, every year. So the other point in regards to connectivity is the Dogwood Park access. I think Mr. Clark so aptly addressed during the Planning and Public Works Committee meeting. just the shortest distance between two points is to go ahead and implement the walking and biking trail that would go from the new development to Twain Ridge, then over the small ped bridge over to the park. And there is green space built in around the new development to allow for that. Connectivity. We truly believe in the Dogwood Trace and Harrods Point South communities. We believe that the safety of residents and maintaining a neighborhood's character and livability should never be sacrificed for the perception of connectivity. And that's what our greatest fear is in Dogwood Trace and Harrods Point South if Agape Drive were to be open. Speaking of the one-way in and out, of course, there's been precedence set already. Many of these communities and apartment complexes you're probably familiar with. And I'm sure each one of you have one way in and out apartment complexes and neighborhoods in your council districts. And the precedent for permanent barricades, there are numerous permanent barricades throughout the city. One, Westerfield Way, Cedarwood Drive, and the Oakwood Subdivision. And, of course, the permanent barricades are necessary to prevent the street from becoming a cut-through and destroying the character and livability of an existing neighborhood, which, once again, we fear that will happen if Agape Drive is open. The reasons for a permanent barricade, and Mr. Ford, I think you asked this question at the Planning and Public Works Committee meeting last month. This is that northern terminus of Agape Drive. It is less than 30 feet wide, and as you mentioned in that meeting, there's two cars legally parked there, and a third car that would eventually, if that were to be opened, would be traveling through Agape Drive at that point. You can see that it's extremely narrow, and it does not meet any guidelines, current or any future developments, as far as width is concerned for a connector street. So that is a main concern for people like Mr. Wesoloski, who lives down on that end, and Lois Dixon, who also lives right across the street from them. The other reasons for a permanent barricade is the safety of our residents. My wife and I happened to come across this scene one Sunday afternoon. This is not staged. This is what we see quite often on our end of Agape Drive. Families walking, families cycling, enjoying the fact that there's very little traffic on this street. and this is something that will definitely come to an end if Agape Drive is opened over to the new development. Another reason for the permanent barricade is the fact that all the people you see here, if you'll raise your hands if you live in Dogwood Trace or the Harrods Point South subdivision, a small fraction of the residents there, 80% of the homeowners in Dogwood Trace signed onto a petition asking for the permanent barricade of Agape Drive. Just recently, we added the Harrods Point South residents, and you see that in the shaded area on the south side of our Dogwood Trace subdivision. And with their signatures and the signatures from Dagwa Trace, there are over 600 residents that signed on to the petition that are seeking a permanent barricade of Agape Drive. Opening Agape Drive would be totally contrary to the goals and objectives of your own neighborhood traffic management roadway manual. And, of course, the main goal is for the Fayette-Urban County government to establish procedures and techniques that promote neighborhood livability by mitigating the negative impacts of automobile traffic on residential neighborhoods. And as far as objectives are concerned, I'm sure you all are familiar with these objectives as well. To promote safe and pleasant conditions for residents, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists on local neighborhood streets. If Agape Drive is to be opened, we will not meet any of these goals or objectives that are in the Fayette Urban County goals and objectives for neighborhood traffic management. We in the Dogwood Trace and Harrods Point South subdivisions would like for you to attain your goals of what is stated here. and there's really only one way to do that, and that's to put a permanent barricade at the northern terminus of Agape Drive within the Dogwood Trace subdivision. So we ask for your support in doing that, keeping the character of our neighborhood as it has for over 25 years, and we thank you for your time, and we appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mark, and thank those. John, yeah. We'll try it. Yes, sir. John Yoswick, 4860 Bud Lane. One thing that we haven't seen because they haven't cut anything through is the traffic analysis on what opening up agape would mean to the people in Dogra Trace. and the people who live on Agape. So here's my analysis, okay? Currently, Agape traffic from its current northern terminus to Dogwood Trace Boulevard, that traffic is generated by 61 residents. Those are residents in La Crosse Court, Doubletree Court, and the part of Agape north of Dogwood Trace Boulevard. Opening up Agape to what is proposed, the English Station, as well as the Ball Homes, I guess the development of the Harvey property. We're talking about 45 homes additional from English Station, 62 homes and 196 apartments from the Ball Homes development. We're talking about, you know, that 61, we add another 283 residences that would be using that small part of Agape to either get to Harrisburg Road via Dogwood Trace Boulevard or to continue south through Jessamine County to the ever-popular Kroger store at Bella Reef Plaza. So that's, you know, the number says its potential 471% increase in traffic volume on Agape, again, a street that doesn't meet the width requirements to be a connector street anyway. I'd like to point out also that below the English station development is a Kamek property that is right now undeveloped. But if that were developed, and you guess that a number of, say, 30 additional homes get added there, you're talking about an even worse situation. So I don't think that one of the points that came up in the planning meeting was the option of could we delay this. And my point here is it doesn't make any sense to delay barricading Agape because the situation only gets worse when the Kammick property gets developed. So I think these numbers support the fact that the quiet neighborhood and the safety in that area would be blown out of the water if Agape were connected. This would become nothing but a hazardous cut-through street to get to Point South. Mr. Salk's presentation earlier demonstrated that the goals and objectives for the neighborhood traffic management are not satisfied, so in the interest of brevity, I won't repeat those. The bottom line is that I think now is the time to put the comprehensive plan aside and to do the common sense thing, which is barricade Agape Drive permanently. Thank you. All right. Thank you, John. All right. Bernard? Is this on? Yes. You haven't, yeah. Your Honor, members of the council. You spoke on this. Didn't you speak on this? I. You have a minute left anyway. I want to say I object to any barricading of any street anywhere, including the existing barricades that were cited as precedents. In order to give one neighborhood protection from anybody being able to cut through their territory, you actually force that much more traffic onto other roads elsewhere, and you magnify the amount of traffic by making people take the long way around. We need more cut-throughs and more streets that connect, not fewer. And I realize I'm probably the most hated person in this county because of having voiced such opinions for the last 40 years, but that doesn't make any less the truth. All right. Thank you, Bernard. All right. Now, I think that Council Member Clark, you're going to ask for a second read after the first reading of resolutions. All right. Will that work? All right. All right. Then, David, this is a Council Member Farmer. I didn't see you. I'm sorry. That's all right. If I may, since we're having public input on this issue, I noticed that at our places is a memo dated today from staff. I'm wondering, did any staff want to make comment to this issue at this time? And if they don't, that's fine, but I'm just asking. Is Commissioner Paulson here? Does anyone wish to speak? Director King, Commissioner Paulson? We do have a few members that would like to speak. Chris King would like to go on record as well as division of fire. So if we could just briefly, again, a quick little talk. Good evening, council members and respected members of the community as well. I just want to make a very brief statement. As you know, the staff did make presentation extensively at the Planning and Public Works Committee, and I have presented at your place an email, pardon me, a memorandum summarizing our objections, why we believe that in the overall interest of citizens today and those that will inhabit this neighborhood in the future, that integration in a physical sense of the street system is the best way that makes stronger neighborhoods in the long run. We do feel that the width is adequate. We have demonstrated to you by drawing how many streets in Fayette County are this width or less. Many of those are continuous streets. And again, we just point out that we have, want to just advocate also for those citizens and families that are not yet here. You have heard about them on the Harvey property and that will be there at some point in the future. And we do believe it would be better if they, to go to their neighborhood park, did not have to traverse through that development, make a left turn onto Harrisburg Road, and then make a left turn onto Trace Boulevard in order to even access their neighborhood park. So again, I don't want to belabor that point. I'll be very, just wanted to make those statements of the division planning, again, known to the full council. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. Mayor Gray, members of the council, my name is Captain Greg Lingo. I'm with the Lexington Fire Department Water Control Office. I attended the September 9th Planning and Public Works meeting. At that meeting, we supported our approval for the connection. Again, today we support and have that same view of the connection. There are some questions that were brought up and that I'd like to answer and address at this time. Agape Drive is part of a long-term comprehensive plan. This connection is a public street. It's not a new idea. It's not fire's idea, but we do support the connection. The connection would run from Harvey Properties to Dogwood Trace. Dogwood Trace does currently have one entrance and exit into Fayette County. Agape Drive does connect into Jesmond County. I know that came up as a possible entrance for fire in case of emergency, and we could use that entrance. We do go by the NFPA 17 response standard, which is four minutes or less for a first driving engine company, eight minutes or less for an EC unit, and that's for 80% of the runs. The closest fire station is Firehouse 20, which is located at 3001 Arrowhead Drive. That's down Harrodsburg Road. It's roughly 2.8 miles to Dogwood Trace Boulevard. With a normal driving time, this is six minutes. Using the second entrance going into Jessamine County, going from, say, Merrowhead Station, it's roughly three miles, and you're looking at seven minutes, another 20 seconds to Dogwood Trace Boulevard. So you're looking at maybe a seven, seven and a half minutes response time. I'd like to point out that fire makes all kinds of runs. from minor runs to major runs. Some of these runs, minutes, do matter. If you take a more severe run like a cardiac arrest emergency, the brain starts dying in just four to six minutes after someone experiences a sudden cardiac attack, cardiac arrest, I'm sorry. Survival is directly linked to the amount of time between the onset of the cardiac arrest and defibrillation. Chances of survival are reduced 7% to 10% with every minute of delay. Few attempts of resuscitation are successful after 10 minutes. Engine 20, the closest fire station, is A8LS company, and they have an automated external defibrillator on board, so that's good. Also, just to state fire doubles in size every minute, response time matters. there's a structure fire on Vail Drive at 3 a.m. on Monday morning September 29th of this year that's less than a month ago so structure fires happen everywhere point out engine 20 was on the scene in five minutes keep in mind this is at 3 a.m. in the morning with no traffic so it takes time to get to this neighborhood even though we got a straight shot Councilmember Stennett, you brought up a request for run volume, Dogwood Trace. I got that information. For the last five years, you have an average run of 50 runs a year to this neighborhood. There were 11 vehicle wrecks at the intersection of Dogwood Trace and Harrodsburg Road. And these are wrecks and runs at the fire and EMS response, do not police. I don't have their numbers. Um, Council Member Massadi, you brought up, um, old schoolhouse lane development, uh, kind of addressed some issues with that. I know you weren't too happy with that development, or at least the way I understood it. Um, when old schoolhouse development plan was shown, um, it's known as the Harvey properties, when it was shown to fire at technical subcommittee and planning commission, The Agape Drive was shown on the plan to connect English Station Drive, and it was shown to connect to Dogwood Trace eventually, and that was on the comprehensive plan. Once the Harvey property connects to English Station, English Station to Old Schoolhouse Lane will be closed. So if you're following me there, once you get up in the Harvey property, English Station will no longer have that cut through to Old Schoolhouse. So I know Dogwood Trace people are here today, but this is starting to turn into a RV property issue for us as far as access. And that is found on a 1993 record plat that will go away, the access from English Station. NFPA Fire 1, which is our fire code that the city has adopted, states, more than one fire department access road shall be provided when it's determined by the authority having jurisdiction that access by single road could be impaired by vehicle congestion, condition of terrain, climate conditions, or other factors that could limit access. There needs to be more one access point for Harvey Properties. So I'm kind of getting away from Dogwood Trace here, and I'm focusing on Harvey Properties and their needs. And like we established. Nobody from Harvey Properties here is yet to represent themselves because that development is ongoing. Also on that plan, the Harvey Properties that showed a Twain Ridge drive connection. That connection will not be completed until government funding is obtained. That project could be years. Furthermore, my fear is if Council blocks Agape Drive, which has been in the comprehensive plan for 20 years. I got a feeling Twain Ridge people will be here wanting to block that access as well. So the plan that the Division of Fire signed off for Harvey Properties had three access points getting into Harvey Properties. Now we're down to one access point. That's an issue for us. It's a concern. I want to tell the people that the connection of Agape Drive to the Harvey properties to Dogwood Trace would serve as an alternate route or maybe even a primary route to the streets of La Crosse Court, Doubletree Corridor, 4700 block of Agape. This road, in my opinion, would be a plus, but the fact of the matter is Harvey property needs this connection even more so for public safety. I think in the term... Excuse me just a second. I'm sorry. That's all right. Any idea of, just an idea of how much longer your presentation is? 20 seconds. Oh, goodness gracious. Shouldn't interrupt. All right, go right ahead. I'm sorry. No, it's all right. We're good. Glad you let me speak. We're good. I think the term public safety is prevention and protecting the general public from harm or danger. Adding this connection and giving our first responders an additional tool to respond to an emergency in this area would be a plus. That's all I have. If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer. All right, sir. And I suspect maybe if we go into council comments or questions now, then there may be some. I'll stand by. You'll take a seat not too far away. Thank you, sir. Since we're on the topic and it's fresh and we have the audience, members of the audience or citizens infected, I think it would be worthwhile for us to just continue the conversation now. so um council member farmer do you wish to speak now was this the earlier all right council member council member sida do you wish to speak to this issue i'd like to ask mr king a question if that's okay okay sure uh chris thank you sir you might want to stay close by too thanks chris you stated that there would be no opportunity for connection to the park are you talking about pedestrian connection or are you talking about vehicular? Vehicular. Okay. Because there are plans to the Greenway to have alternative pedestrian connections ultimately through this area. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Sock, you stated you had 80% of the residents. Do you have your petition with you? Because I'd like to make that part of the record. Do you have that and we can make that part of the record? Perfect. If you would do that, if you give that to the clerk, that would be helpful. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Sadi. Council Member Lane. I'm the 12th District Council Member. I live off of Tate's Creek Road in the southeast part of Fayette County. And about six years ago, there was a proposal by traffic engineering to tie Sarin Drive together. And the road's dead, and there was an undeveloped piece of land in between. And this came before Council on a number of occasions. Many of the neighbors came and spoke to the issue. My office sent a letter to every one of the neighborhood associations that were along the Saran Drive corridor and to ask their input on whether or not they would like the road to be connected, and all of the neighborhoods said no. However, at the meetings that came up, the planning department, traffic engineering, police, fire, all recommended that the road be connected for public safety and the long-term traffic planning for our city. And so it ended up, we did vote on it as a council, and the vote was 7 to 7. One council member was not there. That was the lucky one. And anyway, the mayor, Mayor Newberry at the time, cast the deciding vote that broke the tie, and Sarin Drive was connected. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up is now it's six years later. I still live right on the Seren Drive area. And in that six-year period, not one neighbor, not one neighborhood association has complained about connecting the road together. When at the time this came up, everybody was opposed to it. So I'm just bringing this up to show you that these planning people do know what they're doing. and the public safety people know what they're doing. And this turned out very well for Sarin Drive, and I would hope, you know, that the same thing would be true for your neighborhood, that in the long term the effect of connecting all the roads together would be beneficial. So I just wanted to share that with you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Lane. Councilmember Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question for Chris King. Chris, when the adjacent property where Kroger is, is in Jessamine County. So when a development like that occurs, do they work with Fayette County at all? The information is shared. In fact, originally, the council back in the 80s or 90s put a barricade on Agape at that end, going into Jessamine County until they were aware of what had happened. And then the council had that barricade removed and does allow the neighborhood access to that shopping area internally. Okay. And I guess what, if I were looking to purchase a home in an area, and I purchased a home on a street that I felt was fairly quiet and, you know, the character, it was a character that I liked, not a lot of traffic or whatever. And how would I know to look at the comprehensive plan to say, oh, no, I don't want to buy a house here because the comprehensive plan shows my street as being a connector? That is a question that we've been wrestling with. I've been in this for 43 years, and it's the same problem. We always wish that we had the ability and the authority to require that this kind of information be made a part of real estate closings. But as I think most council members know, state law dictates what that is, and even you would not have the right to pass such a law to make such information. So, again, it is just incumbent that people know or check. And, again, too oftentimes people don't know to check, and this is something that we're all too aware of when you have situations like this. Right. Well, I guess I think about the development out there. Dogwood has been there 25 years, I think they said, and I'm familiar with Agape. And I know that if I lived in that neighborhood, I would use it to get to Croker. Having said that, I don't think they would, I mean, this is my opinion, that they would want everyone in the surrounding neighborhoods coming down their residential street to get to Kroger. And I really think that is exactly what would happen. So I guess what the comprehensive plan looked at Agape as a connector street, did it also look at it as a major corridor to Kroger? It looked at it as a street that would parallel Harrodsburg Road. We had a situation as that area was developing with multiple narrow properties, and the only way to make Harrodsburg Road as safe and efficient as we possibly could would be to provide for internal streets paralleling to serve traffic so that everyone doesn't have to. Again, I do know, and this is something we are very sympathetic and understand when you've had a neighborhood that's a good neighborhood and has been this way for a long time. And, you know, if the Harvey property had developed 22 years ago rather than now, it probably would be a much different feel. But regardless of that, it's planning's opinion that those folks are going to be future neighbors. They will be the neighbors of the folks that are there. Their children will go to school together. They'll play together on sports teams. And, again, to have the connectivity in the neighborhood, we just think, builds an overall stronger neighborhood. I guess I just have this feeling that when it was all said and done, that even if the Harvey property had been built 22 years ago, would Kroger have been in the picture at that time and that shopping area? And I don't know, I'm just trying to think of another area in Lexington that's even similar to it. Because I think about where our major shopping centers are and try to think of an area where you would travel through a neighborhood to get to the shopping center. Even Sarin Drive is not a good example. So, Seren Drive is wide, and Agape is not as wide as Seren Drive. So, Agape is not as wide as Dogwood Trace is, but my time's up. So, thank you, Chris. I said my piece. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Hanson. Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. As a member of the planning committee, when we met, I expressed my reservations about this proposal. And I said at that time that I would favor moving it to council so that we could have the council, the whole council, take a look at this issue. And since that time, actually before then, I have met with Councilmember Clark, who has been diligent in moving this effort forward. He's been very persuasive on this issue, and I appreciate the work he's done on it. I still have my reservations. I have not only listened again tonight, I've read all the emails. I understand, I think, what the issues are in terms of the impact on your neighborhood. But I believe that our responsibility as a council is to look not just at the present, but at the future. This is planning. This isn't just about what happens tonight. and the issues that we've been presented with I think are fairly complex. If we had to make a decision tonight about whether or not to open Agape Drive, I might be in a different position. But I take very seriously one sentence in Mr. King's memorandum. I'm going to read it. He says, The permanent closure barricade is premature at this time as there is an undeveloped agriculturally zoned property the Carnic property, between the existing Dogwood trace terminus of Agape and English Station slash Harvey property area to the north. What that means is that when and if that intermediate property is developed, this question will be back before the Planning Commission and then before the Council. They will have to determine at that time, no matter what we do tonight, whether or not to open that road. and we may or may not know more about what was going to be the case with Twain Ridge at that point. I would say one other thing. The people who are going to be living in that new development, the planned development, are not here tonight. We don't know who they're going to be, but we're pretty certain there are going to be people living there. And the people who may come to live in that piece of land that is yet to be put forward for development are not here tonight. So it's very hard to balance the present decision against the future. I think it's very hard to balance the interest of your neighborhood against the larger community interest in having that connection. So because there will be an opportunity later to review this exact same issue, I'm not going to be supportive of the proposal that's before us tonight. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Kay. Council Member Lawless. This is kind of in response to one of Council Member Henson's comments about you don't know of any streets that are cut-throughs to shopping centers. Well, if you come to the center of the 3rd District, the cut-through streets are about half that wide, and it's the cut-through to downtown, UK, all those neighborhoods are cut-through all the time. Except for mine, I'm very lucky. I live on a dead-end street, so I'm pretty secure there. And I think this is a hard question, and I understand both parts of it. And one question I have, did anybody look at doing it on a temporary basis, closing it on a temporary basis? Well, I would say, as Director King, Chris, do you... I mean, open it on a temporary... There's nothing there. So it's the... There's no road there. Chris. There is no ability to physically connect it beyond where it is now because of the Kamek property. We're certainly not proposing that the Urban County government go through, acquire right-of-way, and force that connection. Again, the issue would come up if and when the Kammack property comes up for development. So if there were concern as the area north of that developed that there might be people just cutting across the private property, certainly a barricade could be put up to prevent illegal intrusions on that property. I mean, it seems to me that there are several things in play here that might have a temporary solution that could possibly then be looked at differently once the development's put in. I don't know. but I think you should also, you know, we don't, I'm going to support this, but we don't live in Mayberry anymore. Children are taught not to ride their bikes out in the middle of the street or they do it anyway, and that's really bad. But so anyway, it just seems like there has to be some kind of compromise or other solution. But I'm sure if there was somebody smarter than I am would be would have come up with it already. But thank you. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mayor. one thing that Chris says in his memo, and Chris and I have remained friends through all this, I should say. We have a difference of opinion. I'm taking the side of residents who are tremendously impacted by the possibility of opening the street. And Chris says, the current width of Agape Drive north of Trace Boulevard is sufficient to safely handle the anticipated traffic associated with connection. And that's absolutely, in my opinion, absolutely not true. This is a street that's 29 feet wide when a connector street, as it's classified, is something like 36. And that's what Twain Ridge was, is now. And if you go back into around, I guess, 1988, 1989, something like that, when this road was constructed, if it was part of the comprehensive plan then, and this city agreed to make that street 29 feet wide and still call it a connector, then this city was absolutely wrong. And it's wrong now to consider, even consider the possibility of opening this street up as a connector to 528 bedrooms in this new development. That's wrong. And I'm absolutely, absolutely supportive of the comprehensive plan, folks. I understand it. I understand connectivity. And I agree with it most of the time. This is a perfect, perfect example where the comprehensive plan is wrong. It's wrong. And we can see it in all the comments we've made. We can see it in the pictures. And I'm amazed that the fire department would suggest that they had to have this road to make a trip to Dogwood Trace, which they do all the time, or to make a new development, why in the world would they need Agape Drive to go to the new development? Why would they come through Dogwood Trace? And it absolutely makes no sense. It does not hold water. And if it has to do with wrecks, then all you're doing, and it's more than Kroger's fault, folks, is people escaping from the new development out Agape Drive and out then Dogwood Trace to get onto Harrodsburg Road, and that's going to happen. It will be an escape route. Are you talking about wrecks? We'll have a lot more wrecks if that happens. I have no reason to think it's premature. Council Member Kay says it's premature. What's premature about it? We don't know when this land's going to be sold to a developer or the same developer and how soon that road could be through there. we could be talking about in the next six months, eight months, a year. It's not premature at all. It needs to happen now if we're going to do what's right. And I could go on, but it is our responsibility, the future, Council Member Kay. It is our responsibility. It's our responsibility, the future of these people who live on Agape Drive and who have trusted us to protect their safety and the peace of their neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Councilmember Clark is wise in his caution about it. I should have earlier said that the rules of the chamber are that generous demonstrations like clapping and so forth are discouraged. All right? That's the way I should put it. All right. Then I know you all will respect that. Thank you. All right. Council Member Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Mayor. Council Member Clark just made both the points I was going to make. and Council Member Kay made my third point in that if in the future this property ever is developed and I'm presuming that from Mr. King's comments there's not a proposed development right now it could be 10 or 15 years we don't know when and at that point it could come back to the council for discussion of Agape Drive so that's all. Councilmember Ford. Thank you, Mayor. I want to ask the gentleman who in his presentation put the photo, the photograph of Agape at the Northern Terminus. Mayor, if it's okay. Mr. Sock. Yes, Mark. Chris, do we have that? If we can go back to that photo. And I appreciate, sir, bringing that. And I do recall making or raising that question at the meeting, committee meeting. And so my question would be, if a picture is worth a thousand words, how does, to Council Member Clark's point, how does that 29 feet wide, nine inches wide road accommodate traffic as it is now? I'm assuming, I'm not certain, but I'm assuming that the residents on that section of Agape utilize the benefit of the on-street parking outside their homes, perhaps on both sides of the street. So if that is the case, and this is just a practical question, I don't know if anybody from staff wants to talk a little bit or address that, but just looking at that photo, it just makes it, it speaks of congestion 2.0 easily. can can staff can somebody from staff speak to that in regards and i'll speak briefly council member uh clark i know has studied this issue uh to a great deal and much more versed than i am but he defined a collector street as 36 feet well that's not 36 feet that we have on that visual right there can somebody just talk in practical terms how we anticipate if that were to open up how we'll be able to accommodate traffic on a two-way pattern with on-street parking on both sides of the street. Certainly, again, if you look, most streets in Fayette County, and I mean not just cul-de-sacs, but continuing streets, are 30 feet or less in width. And I gave a picture to show that. The average car is somewhere between six, six and a half feet wide, according to data. But again, you need distance between to get comfort, you know, to pass each other and things like that. But this is an acceptable continuing, continuous street width in the subdivision regulations. Again, you see, when you have a situation like this, it tends to slow down traffic and make cars go slower. And at times, cars have to wait. I'm sure you've all experienced where a car waits for another car, and then you go. and again versus a wider street would certainly be a more, there would be a freer flow of traffic. There's no doubt about that. But back, it was actually an amendment. The original width of a copy to the north was 40 feet as originally approved in 1988. Later in the year, an amendment was filed to bring it down to the 30, 31 foot back-to-back cross section. And it was reviewed at that time and felt like with the density in there and that it would not be a major street like Trace, which at one time was projected to go all the way through at that time, all the way through continuously to Clay's Mill Road, a lot more traffic. Right. So it was agreed by, reviewed by the Planning Commission, Traffic Engineering, and others that 30 foot was acceptable for Agape at that time. Thank you, Chris. And not to put you on the spot, I just want to just quickly respond to it. Council Member Clark just mentioned it. And, you know, I wasn't here, of course, back when that decision was made. But it was, in hindsight, a wrong decision for the growth that has taken place now. And I think we would be compounding that if we were to go this way. And I thank the residents for bringing this photo. I think I recall my question being, and then I'll be done, Vice Mayor. I recall my question being, if the road was opened, if the connector was opened, and there were two cars parked on both sides of the street, on-street parking, could two vehicles traveling in different directions pass at the same time in free flow of traffic? And my assessment of the visual overhead, that answer would be no. So it would depend, you know, obviously on the width of the vehicles. If somebody had a big pickup truck or a big SUV, I mean, but clearly, if the average car is six and a half feet and you've got 30 feet, divide by four, theoretically they can. But you need a certain width before you feel comfortable passing along as well. And that's all figured into this. And, again, I hear what you're saying, and I think that's exactly the respectful difference of opinion that Councilmember Clark and I have had on whether the width is adequate. Thank you, Chris, and thank you to the gentleman for bringing that photo. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilmember Stennett. Thank you, Vice Mayor Chris. Before you leave, my first was to follow up for you after our last planning committee meeting. I asked about Twain Ridge. Have we, since that meeting, I asked at that meeting, we had not begun a process to look at connecting. Have we done anything since then to look at connecting that and getting it part of our plan? Now, again, the terrain ridge, first of all, I'm sure that the council would wait until the developer had actually built the part that we could require them to build. But as you know, because of the lawsuit we lost many years ago, the public, the urban county government, would have to pick up the cost of bringing it across the greenway. And again, that would be something that would be brought to you in a budget cycle at the right time. It's not time to do it right now, obviously, until the Harvey property development gets going in full swing and you look at it. But it would be brought forth, I'm sure. It would be a pretty expensive connection, no doubt about it, going across the drainage area. I can appreciate that. And being around here the last 10 years, I know it takes us a long time, too, to find money and to get things in our process. So what do you think the time frame is at this point with the Harvey development once it gets going? Are you looking five years down the road? Are we looking 10? Again, depending and looking at the speed of residential development these days, it could be anywhere from two to five years before it would even be an issue to bring to the council in the budget. I would just say it's something to get on the radar, though, and get our ducks in a row, because we can move fast if we want to, is the point I'm trying to make. As you know, and those of you that have seen the memo, I give equal comment to the need to connect that facility as well. Thank you. And I know a lot of comments have been made tonight, and I'm done, Chris. You can sit down on questions. But Councilman Lane brought up a good point. You know, six years ago we had a seven-hour hearing on connecting Saran Drive. Much different situation. You had two neighborhoods already built, basically, and connecting those neighborhoods. I'm fortunate to live in a neighborhood that does have one way in, one way out now. And 20 years ago a developer petitioned this council to not connect it to the neighborhood next, to my neighborhood. And one, it wasn't the neighbor's petition, as you are tonight, but it was the developer at the time. And to our fire credit, and Captain, thank you for coming. You took a great deal of detail and time. There was an incident in my neighborhood recently where an ambulance was there, done with a call. They got another call. Well, they couldn't go to the street right behind my house because that road wasn't connected. They had to drive all the way around, and it costs valuable time. So there are cases when firing. I don't want to ever discount what they're trying to tell us, but there are cases when it is valuable, when neighborhoods connect and they can go from one run to another quickly. But there's also times when we're sitting up here that common sense has to prevail over process. And when you're talking about a neighborhood, and you want to talk about building strong neighborhoods, let's start by listening to our residents who actually live in those neighborhoods. Because we not too long ago also had a hearing about a salt barn in here in my neighborhood, my district. And the neighbors showed up, and we didn't put it there wisely. We listened to the neighborhood. And tonight, I think at this moment in time, it's about listening to the people here tonight, listening to that petition that is being circulated now throughout council. Will this issue come back up in the future? It probably will for a future council when that land becomes available and someone wants to develop. But as it stands tonight, I agree with what's been said about keeping it closed, and I think it's the right decision today. And Councilman McCartney, I appreciate your passion for this. But also, depending on what happens in November, of course, the passion needs to be on Twain Ridge. The passion needs to be planned for that road and seeing what happens in the future. Because as Councilman Ford alluded to, we didn't do a good job of planning this out 20 years ago. Let's not make those same mistakes as we move forward. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilmember Lawless. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just very quickly, I'd like to point out that when the decision was made to make that road more narrow, we didn't have Hummers and SUVs and cars the size of the cars we have now, which is one of the big problems we have in the older neighborhoods, where many of the streets in my neighborhoods in the 3rd District were built before there were even any kind of car, much less everybody in the household having an SUV or a van or something to drive. So I think 20 years ago, it was a much different traffic situation. So thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Lawless. all right no other council members wish to speak all right then that allows us to move to um okay merida thank you for joining us and speak with under and leaving your son's soccer game i understand so thank you very much um we are where we can get a second reading now ask you for the second reading on ordinances and then after the second, there are only one, two, three. There are only three. We've done the first read. Am I right on this? Am I right on this? Then he would. That's on resolutions. Right? No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Oh, it's on resolutions. Right, right, right, right, right. So it's not too far downstream is what I'm saying. So our guests, our audience members tonight, it doesn't look like we'd have to wait too long until we get to the point where we can get a second reading. All right? Is that good? All right. So, Meredith, if you will please give us a second reading on ordinances. Sure. Ordinance number one, 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. Ordinance number two, an ordinance amending section 2252 of the Code of Ordinances extending the term of the temporary position of one administrative specialist principal, grade 518E, and three positions of administrative specialist, grade 513N, for a term of two years beginning September 23, 2014 and expiring on September 23, 2016 in the Division of Water Quality effective upon passage of council. And number three, an ordinance amending section 2252 of the Code of Ordinances abolishing one position of equipment operator part-time, grade 510N, and creating one position of clerical assistant part-time, grade 505N, both in the Division of Family Services, effective upon passage of council. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Motion to approve by Council Member Hanson and second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion? Okay. All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, I'll ask you to call the roll, please. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Aye. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Scotchfield? Not here. thank you all right thank you madam clerk the vote reflects one two three four vote reflects passage of the motion allows us to move on to ordinances for first reading and I believe councilman Lane you have a motion on number four yes sir I do to amend motion to remove number item number four under ordinances for first reading as the applicant has requested to withdraw this zone change application so move all right there's a motion by council member Lane and a second by council member Masati is there any discussion on the motion motion to remove all right if not then we can take a vote all in favor please say aye I oppose no motion carries all right madam clerk will return to the first reading of ordinances when you're ready please thank you not that you'd start with number five then, right? Thank you. Ordinance number five, an ordinance amending article 217A of the zoning ordinance to allow as a minor amendment the reduction of surplus parking spaces depicted on the original development plan, Urban County Planning Commission. Number six, an ordinance amending section 2224 of the Code of Ordinances to provide that all full-time, non-sworn, unclassified civil service employees and deputies in the office of the coroner meeting the criteria set forth in section 2127H of the code of ordinances shall receive a hazardous duty salary supplement effective upon date of passage. Number seven, an ordinance amending section 14976 of the code of ordinances relating to smoking indoors to amend the definition of smoke or smoking to include electronic smoking devices including but not limited to e-cigarettes or e-cigs creating section 14978 of the code of ordinances related to smoking indoors to define electronic smoking device. Number eight, an ordinance pursuant to section 21A of the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government adopting a schedule of meetings for the Council for the calendar year 2015. Number nine, an ordinance pursuant to sections 3.0224 and 6.12 of the Charter of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government renaming the Division of Environmental Policy to the Division of Environmental Services, abolishing two civil service positions of public service worker senior grade 509N in the Division of Parks and Recreation and one civil service position of equipment operator senior grade 512N in the division of streets and roads in creating two civil service positions of public service worker senior grade 509N and one civil service position of equipment operator senior grade 512N both in the division of environmental services appropriating funds pursuant to schedule number 23 effective upon date of passage. Number 10. 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 20. Thank you madam clerk are there any motion the motions for walk-ons and suspensions are there any walk-ons walk-on okay councilmember henson is it walk on or suspension oh question all right yes ma'am ordinance number six states non-sworn unclassified civil service employees and actually the deputy coroners are sworn and so i was gonna ask for a second reading on this but since we probably should get this corrected all right who's here to speak david can you speak i could amend it i don't know the answer to that mayor we'd have to look into it but if she's correct it would be better to just go ahead and wait until the next meeting so we can correct it okay thank you all right so It reads and deputies, and it's not referring to them being non-sworn. It refers to the other employees as being non-sworn. Uh-huh. It's and deputies. You see that, David? And, yes. Didn't make the distinguish on that. Something might be correct. I think it's assumed they're sworn. And is there any downside to, I think what David is suggesting is we wait for a second reading and correct it if it does need correcting. He can't confirm. So is that okay? Thank you. All right. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. All right. Is there any further, are there any motions to suspend any other for a second reading? No? All right. Then that allows us to move on to resolutions for a second read. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We've got to vote. Right? No? That was first. That was first. That was first. Now we need second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. My notes. Okay. Let's, no, you're right, Wes. Sorry, my fault. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please. Thank you. Resolution number one, 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 two, 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 three, 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 four, a resolution accepting the bid of Judy Construction Company in the amount of $19,108,000 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. Number five, 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. Number six, 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 from $522,665 to $535,158.51. sense. Number seven, 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 Cosgrove 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 eight, 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 four 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. Number nine, 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 10, 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 11 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 12 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 loudon house for which the lexington art league incorporated will pay 500 per month Number 13, 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 E-911 board to clarify the responsibility of damages in term length at no cost to the urban county government. Number 14, 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. cents. Number 15, 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 16, 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 17, 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 18, 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 19, 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 20, a resolution... Madam Clerk, hold on just a second. Vice Mayor Gordon has a motion relating to the next two resolutions and the progress that we've made on negotiations with Time Warner. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, at our last full council meeting, we had the first reading of the resolutions to deny transfer of control of Time Warner Cable to Comcast, which is number 20, and the denial of transfer of control of Comcast to Charter, which is number 21. And since that first reading, the negotiating team has been called back to the table and has met with Time Warner Cable again, as well as Comcast and Charter, and we have made some progress. so the team has future meetings scheduled and so with that I move to table number 20 and number 21 until November 13th. So motion motion by Vice Mayor Gordon second by Council Member Beard is there any discussion on the motion? All right hearing none then we can take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries all right that's all is there a motion to approve second reading motion by vice mayor gordon is there a second second by councilmember lane is there any discussion on the motion all right then hearing none we can i'll ask the clerk to please call the roll yeah wait wait wait just a second is this a second this is the first three wait a minute wait a minute we did have a first read it's a resolution it's the next round resolutions are coming up Well, this is a resolution. No. Second reading of resolutions. Yes. Okay. Right. His is under first reading. All right. Was the question, should we go ahead and read resolution 34 as part of this group? That is the question. But it hasn't been given second. We assume you're going to give a separate vote on that anyway, so you might just want to do it separately. Just go ahead and do these and then do that separately. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right, Meredith, so we're going to vote on these right now. On resolutions 1 through 19. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Stennett, 1 through 19. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, on all. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. I'm just trying to see where we can fit this in. David, give me a suggestion here. You can take a motion to give it second reading and then go ahead and make another motion to go ahead and make the vote on that one if that's what you want to do. Well, we wanted to let these people get out. Yeah. All right. So, Council Member Clark, will you give... I'd like to move to suspend the rules to give a second reading to Resolution No. 34. Second. Motion by Council Member Clark, second by Council Member Ellinger. is there any discussion on the motion nope thanks everybody's saying all right all in favor then please indicate we got a vote on this we got to vote roll call all right okay all in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye opposed no all right the motion does carry right right that's right that's 11. julian did you yeah i thought i did that once there it is All right. Vote reflects passage of the motion. All right. Meredith, whenever you're ready. Resolution number 34 for second reading, a resolution directing that Agape Drive be permanently barricaded at its northern terminus point. Motion by Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion? All right. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Aye. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gordon? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? No. Mr. Lane? No. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Thank you. All right. The vote reflects passage of the motion. And, um, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please continue with the first reading of resolutions. Resolution number 22, a resolution accepting the bid of free contracting incorporated in the amount of $361,124 for the Blue Sky Treatment Plant demolition and lagoon dewatering for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette Urban County government to execute an agreement with free contracting incorporated related to the bid. Number 23, a resolution accepting the bid of Ron Cooper Company Incorporated establishing a price contract for record-keeping supplies for the Fayette County clerk. Number 24, a resolution accepting the bid of Rio Grande Defense Company, Inc. in the amount of $145,800 for new chain link dugouts, various locations, 2014 for the Division of Parks and Recreation and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with Rio Grande Defense Company, Inc. related to the bid. Number 25, a resolution accepting the bid of Langley and Taylor Pool Corporation, Inc. in the amount of $49,885 for sand filter system for Silatone Main Pool for the Division of Number 26. Grants Manager, Grade 523E, 2,276.81 biweekly in the Division of Grants and Special Programs, both effective October 27, 2014. And William Faust, Fleet Operations Supervisor, Grade 519E. Excuse Meredith, let me ask for the... Alright, it looks like it's calming down. Alright, now we can hear you. Great. Please continue. 2,290.86 biweekly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective November 13, 2014, ratifying the permanent civil service appointment of Melissa Murphy, Attorney Senior, Grade 528E, 2006-72.05, biweekly, in the Department of Law, effective October 7, 2014. Number 27, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Shamara Jackson, Records Management Analyst Senior, Grade 517N, 21.807, hourly in the Office of the Council Clerk, effective upon passage of counsel. Courtney Goodpaster, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 2000, biweekly, and Amanda Sutton, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 1,838.69, biweekly, both in the Division of Human Resources, effective November 17, 2014. Jennifer Youngworth, telecommunicator, Grade 513N. Meredith, excuse me. I believe we've lost a quorum. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We have. All right, let's hold off for a second until we get everybody back. May I? I have a question about this ruling. Which ruling? About this conversation right now. About the quorum? About the quorum. All right. Isn't the purpose at the beginning of the meeting to establish quorum and have quorum when we make a vote, rather than to maintain quorum throughout the entirety of the meeting? Well. I mean, my thing is we need quorum when we establish it and when we vote. During the reading of these. Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying it's not essential during the reading? I'm asking that to see if there's a different opinion or another shot at it. Well, I don't know. Mr. Parliamentarian, you want to step up on this one? You do. He is actually correct. We have had this issue come up about 10 years ago. Okay. As long as we have a quorum when we vote and at the beginning and at the end of the meeting. Oh, well, that's fascinating. Anytime a motion is made, you need a quorum. Thank you. At this point, she's just reading. If you're in for a zone change, you only have to have a third board to begin with. Okay, let's, I'm going to ask the clerk with this to go ahead and let's try to get folks back in as soon as possible. That'd be great. Can't vote until they're back in. Looks like we have one arriving. Yeah. All right, go ahead, Meredith. Grade 513N, 18.104 hourly in the Division of Police, effective November 17, 2014. Renee Morrison, Child Care Program Aid, grade 508N, 13.564 hourly in Hosna Aura, Child Care Program Aid, 508N, 13.190 hourly, both in the Division of Family Services, effective November 3, 2014. Authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment, Dwayne Osborne, Friend of the Court, Grade 522E, 200990.88 biweekly in the Office of Circuit Judges, effective November 3, 2014. Number 28, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a three-year lease agreement with VAR Resources, Inc. to provide Apple iMac desktop computers through CDW Government, Inc., CDWG, to the coroner's office at a cost not to exceed $4,199 fiscal year 2015, with future fiscal years subject to sufficient funds being appropriated. Number 29, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a certificate of consideration and accept a deed conveying permanent sanitary sewer and temporary construction easements from owners of record for the Loudoun Avenue sidewalk project at a cost not to exceed $15,000. Number 30, a resolution changing the street name of 904, 905, 908, 909, 912, 913, 916, 917, 921, 925, 929, 933, 937, and 941 Dawson Springs Way to 904, 905, 908, 909, 912, 913, 916, 917, 921, 925, 929, 933, 937, and 941 Dawson Creek Way, all effective 30 days from passage. Number 31, a resolution authorizing the mayor. We're losing it again, so not the quorum. Just where we can hear Meredith speak, we've got a quorum, right. It's just the decibel level is elevated. Madam Clerk, let's try again. Sure. On behalf of the Urban County Government to execute modifications to agreements with the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Division of Emergency Management, for extension of the agreements for funds for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program for fiscal year 2011, fiscal year 2012, and fiscal year 2013 through September 30, 2015 at no cost to the urban county government. Number 32, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute standardized memorandum of agreement with recycling agencies for processed materials at LFUCG's materials recovery facility. Number 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number two to the contract with TEM Group, Inc., for emergency generator connections, increasing the contract price by the sum of $6,309.50 from $373,067 to $379,376.50. Number 35, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $391,424 federal funds and are for the upgrade or replacement of the exhaust extraction systems in all LFUCG fire stations. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a contract with Fayette County Public Schools for the operation of preschool classrooms at the Family Care Center at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 37, a resolution approving the payment of $20,000 to the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce for the urban county government's sponsorship of the Kentucky Manufacturing and Innovation Conference, a BEAM initiative. Number 38, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment and settlement to sublease and management agreement with LexArts Incorporated, discharging LexArts' remaining obligations under the sublease and management agreement for the Downtown Arts Center. Number 39, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $34,000 federal funds, are for the purchase of equipment for the hazardous devices unit, 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 40, a resolution authorizing the Division of Fire and Emergency Services on behalf of the urban county government to purchase thermal imaging cameras from Bullard Thermal Imagers, a sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $31,500. Number 41, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $70,000 federal funds, are for the purchase of equipment for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services first responders, 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 42, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a professional services agreement with Victoria Nash as a sexual assault nurse examiner to provide on-call forensic examinations under the sexual assault nurse examiner program at a cost not to exceed $40 for each scheduled on-call period, $230 for each completed forensic examination, $50 per case for professional testimony in court, and the reasonable cost of medical liability insurance. Number 43, a resolution declaring a surplus and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to execute deeds and any other necessary documents for the sale and transfer of 2602 and 2606 Mabel Lane. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Aylesford Place Neighborhood Association, $500 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a quick claim deed and any other documents necessary transferring a portion of a non-utilized right-of-way located adjacent to the property at 1747 Lakewood Lane to the abutting property owner. And number 46, a resolution of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council related to the Bluegrass Workforce Investment Area recommending that the mayor not sign the proposed amended interlocal cooperative agreement and recommending that the urban county government take the necessary steps to have Lexington Fayette County area declared a workforce investment area. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any walk-ons or suspensions? I have a walk-on, Mayor. You have a walk-on? Yes, sir. Council Member Ford has a walk-on. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Council Members, this afternoon I presented a memo of explanation. I was requested by the administration to bring a walk-on resolution in regards to catering service at the Family Care Center. So I moved to place on the docket for the October 23, 2014 Council meeting a resolution accepting the bid of Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods, establishing a price contract for catering services for the Family Care Center for the Department of Social Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods related to the bid. So moved. Second. I missed that. Okay. Motion by Council Member Ford and second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Ford. Council Member Lawless. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and give a second reading to number 44, which is neighborhood development funds for planting trees that need to go in pretty soon. Second. Motion by Council Member Lawless and second by Vice Mayor Gorton. That's on number 44. On number 44, suspend for a second reading. All right, thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Mine is a motion to give a second reading or suspend the rules for a second reading on number 45 to allow this quitclaim deed to move forward. So moved. Second. A motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. Motion carries. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 27. All right, so move. Motion by Council Member Clark on number 22nd. Is there a second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor Gorton. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Stenet. Thank you, Mayor. Number 28, I move to spin the rules and give a second reading so we can move this item forward and go ahead and get the purchasing of the computers. Second. All right. Motion by Council Member Stennett and second by Council Member Ellinger. Which number was that? Number 28. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor Gorton. thank you mayor number 31 is the agreement with the department of military affairs and it all relates to our csep program at no cost i move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 31. second motion by council member by vice mayor gordon and a second by council member Ellinger on number 31. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And secondly, on number 38, this is our management agreement with LexArts, and I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 38. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton on number 38 and a second by Council Member Beard. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Ford. Thank you, Mayor. I have a request to suspend the rules, but first I would ask us to back up just one second. If we could ask the clerk to actually give a first read to the walk-on resolution that I presented, number 47. Thank you, Council Member Ford. Madam Clerk, could you give a first read on that? This will be resolution number 47, a resolution accepting the bid of Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods, establishing a price contract for catering services for the Family Care Center for the Department of Social Services, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County government to execute an agreement with Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods related to the bid. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Council Member Ford. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. I now have two requests. The first request is to suspend the rules and give second reading to resolution number 46. It's in regards to our workforce investment area. So moved. Motion by Council Member Ford and seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion? Mayor. Council Member Stanton? Council Member Ford usually would yet to say why, and I was just curious. I know a couple people haven't been tonight. Yes. Thank you. I think this will allow the Council to demonstrate our recommendation to the administration to kind of give them clear guidance in going forth and dealing with this issue. I know there's a lot of dynamics going on, and Kevin Atkins luckily has traveled back to town safely if the council needs any further clarification. But just allow us to get this done before we go on our recess. All right. Is there any further comment on the motion? All right. Then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. That was on 46. Okay. Council Member Ford, you got another one? I have one more, Mayor. This is in regards to Resolution No. 47. This is the resolution that we just walked on. Again, Council Member, I provided a memo to demonstrate the necessity. I so move that we give second reading to No. 47 to meet that November 1st deadline. So move. Motion by Council Member Ford and a second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, we can take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries thank you mayor thank you councilmember clark are you you've already done yours all right all right that's fine then all right then uh that's madam clerk um whenever you're all collected and want to start all over again. Go right ahead. Resolution number 27. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Shamara Jackson, Records Management Analyst Senior, Grade 517N, 21.807 hourly in the office of the council clerk, effective upon passage of council. Courtney Goodpastor, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 2000 biweekly, and Amanda Sutton, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 1,838.69 biweekly, both in the Division of Human Resources, effective November 17, 2014. Jennifer Youngworth, telecommunicator, grade 513N, 18.104 hourly in the Division of Police, effective November 17, 2014. Renee Morrison, child care program aid, grade 508N, 13.564 hourly in Hosna Ara, child care program aid, 508N, 13.190 hourly, both in the Division of Family Services, effective November 3, 2014. authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment. Dwayne Osborne, Friend of the Court, Grade 522E, 200990.88 biweekly in the Office of Circuit Judges, effective November 3, 2014. Number 28, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a three-year lease agreement with VAR Resources, Inc. to provide Apple iMac desktop computers through CDW Government, Incorporated CDWG to the coroner's office at a cost not to exceed $4,199 fiscal year 2015, with future fiscal years subject to sufficient funds being appropriated. Number 31, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute modifications to agreements with the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Division of Emergency Management for extension of the agreements for funds for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program for fiscal year 2011, fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2013 through September 30, 2015 at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 38. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment and settlement to sublease and management agreement with LexArts Incorporated, discharging LexArts' remaining obligations under the sublease and management agreement for the Downtown Arts Center. Number 44. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Aylesford Place Neighborhood Association $500 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 45 A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a quick claim deed and any other documents necessary transferring a portion of a non-utilized right of way located adjacent to the property at 1747 Lakewood Lane to the abutting property owner. Number 46 A resolution of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council related to the Bluegrass Workforce Investment Area recommending that the mayor not sign the proposed amended interlocal cooperative agreement and recommending that the urban county government take the necessary steps to have Lexington Fayette County Area declared a workforce investment area. And number 47, a resolution accepting the bid of Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods, establishing a price contract for catering services for the Family Care Center for the Department of Social Services, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Chef Doug's Gourmet Foods related to the bid. Move to approve. Motion by Councilman Ellinger and second by Councilman Lawless. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then when you're ready, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Mr. Stennett? Mr. Beard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Aye. Mr. Ford? Yes. Ms. Gorton? Aye. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Ms. Lawless? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Thank you. at light thank you thank you madam clerk the vote reflects passage of the motion and allows us to move on to communications from the mayor of approval motion by vice mayor gorton and second by council member stennett is there any discussion all right hearing none then we can take a vote all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries Next is FYI for information only. And next are announcements. Are there any council members wish to make an announcement tonight? Council Member Farmer? Council Member Lane first, sorry. Council Member Lane. Oh, I'm showing that you want to, that you're. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Due to feedback and interest in the ongoing Kentucky Theater renovation project, I'd like to request an update from all parties as to the status and investments made to date for the theater. Therefore, I'm making a motion to place the issue of the Kentucky Theater Renovation Project into a general government committee and request this item be discussed during the November 11 general government committee meetings. So moved. All right. Motion by Council Member Lane. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilmember Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Councilmember Farmer. We're going to be gone for two weeks, Mayor. I hear you. And there's a lot of change in the meantime. But I wanted to take a moment. This is one of the two portraits that we had restored so that it could be displayed in the chamber. And this is marked E.M. Dowden. He was mayor from 1851 to 1853. And this was when you and I first saw it in the archives. It was in pretty sad shape. And it has been really well restored. And since he's here in the corner, I want to take a moment. Edward M. Dowden was born in Lexington in 1807. He married Amelia J. Plunkett in 1830. And they had two sons, William W. and M.S. Before serving as mayor, Doughton was a grain dealer with offices on the southwest corner of Broadway and Water Streets. Doughton was elected to the office of mayor in 1851 and served until 1853. During his administration, a gas company was established, leading to the replacement of the oil lamps on the streets of the city. On June 29, 1852, the death of Henry Clay was received in Lexington with much despair. His funeral was the largest ever held in Lexington. At a subsequent public meeting at the Fayette County Courthouse, it was decided that a monument should be erected in his honor. That monument is perhaps the most prominent feature of the Lexington Cemetery. Mr. Dowden died at his son's residence on 3rd Street on May 6, 1867. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Councilman Lawless I was just going to remind the public that we will be off for two weeks and Halloween will be happening and the zombie thing parade and so be very careful about watching out for little ones that are out trick or treating and hopefully getting more treats and doing this trickery. But there are a lot of real exciting things going on in the next two weeks. So check the DLC's calendar and the Lexington, what's happening, et cetera. There are a lot of events that I think people will find very interesting. and if you don't find it interesting, it's Harry Clark's fault. Thank you. All right, thank you, Council Member Lawless. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mayor. I resent that. I would just like to take this opportunity to commend Council Member Farmer on bringing us history. I think it's awfully important, and sometimes we just forget that what we do here today and this term is based on the foundations that these people have established for us. So I think it's very important, and Council Member Farmer, I really appreciate it. I call myself a student of history, but I think this is really important, and I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, sir. All right. does anyone else wish to speak vice mayor gordon i'd like to just uh wish everyone good luck on november 4th there we go i say it with a huge smile and uh anyone else yeah just one any but just before we i asked for a motion to adjourn And Rabbi earlier offered prayers and thoughts for former Mayor Foster Pettit, and I know that all of us here share that sentiment. We're all right there thinking about him. All right, is there a motion to adjourn? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Bernard, you wish to speak again? This is it? Mr. Mundy, anybody else? Mr. Payne does. Oh, Mr. Payne, Charles. Oh, well, that's right. Come on up here. Yes, sir. Oh, well, of course. Remember, it's a free country. Okay. My name is Charles Payne. Live at 1528 Bell Harbor Court, Lexington, Kentucky. So I'd like to thank everybody on the council for the unanimous vote on the resolution that Chris Ford put forward. Workforce investment is a very important issue, especially to our city, and its future is in your hands. I'd like to point out that I believe is 1998 law still in effect. The conditions for declaring your own area, if you will, are going to be different under the new law, But under the existing law, I'd like to point out that the criteria for petitioning of the governor has already been met in terms of the auditor's report revealing the activities that they did surrounding workforce investment and the emails that I sent from you or sent to you that I got through open records detailing the continuing misappropriations and activities on some of the ad out there. So, like I said, I'd just like to point out that if you guys so choose, you can go ahead and petition now under the old law to declare your own area. Again, I'd like to thank you guys and wish each and every one of you the best of luck in the upcoming elections. So thanks for all the hard work that you guys have done and for putting up with me and all the information that I've inundated you guys with. Thank you, Charles. All right. Anyone else wish to speak? Public comment. All right. Mr. Mundy says no. There's a motion by Councilman Ellinger to adjourn and a second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Unless there's an objection, we are adjourned. Thank you. This broken man, how can a loser ever win? Please have a...