The End Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And greetings to everyone who's joined us today. and welcome back to session all council members i want to take a moment before we before we get started to thank everyone last week was an election and everyone deserves thanks for participating in our electoral process and in that sense everyone including especially our citizens were winners. I also want to recognize and thank today on Veterans Day our veterans for service to our country. I was myself at American Legion Post number eight today along with Tom Kenney who spoke. Anchor Tom Kenney and especially for council members if you all haven't heard Tom's he has a poem that's particularly inspiring and I asked him if he'd get a copy for all of our council members. I believe now we can move to our agenda, but first, Vice Mayor Gordon may move for American Bloom presentation to be moved to the beginning. We also have a closed session today. First, before I ask for the motion for American Bloom, I will ask for a public comment for any issues on the agenda. Is anyone, Mr. Mundy, Is anybody signed up for issues on the agenda? All right. No? Okay, and is that Mr. Tipton? Are you here for an issue that's on the agenda, David? Okay, that is on the agenda. Right. That is on the agenda under new business, so you can speak to that now. What? So she's walking. Oh, okay. All right. It's not on the agenda. So if you'll just wait for a few minutes until we get it on the agenda. All right. Thank you. All right. So that allows us to move on, and I'll ask Vice Mayor Gordon for a motion related regarding the American Bloom. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, we have quite a number of people here for the presentation G, which is the recognition of America in Bloom, and it's my understanding they may be gathering after this meeting to meet. So I move to relocate item G to the beginning of our docket right now. All right. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Then if not, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right, so we'll move that presentation to the beginning. And, Vice Mayor, are you going to introduce me? Yes, and then you'll join us. All right, we're going to move down here. All right, we're going to move down. I'm going to ask the Vice Mayor to join me down at the podium. I'm sorry if you'd like to I have a few comments that I'm what you get here okay all right so the mayor and I are both and the council are all familiar with the America and Bloom effort that took place last summer, and some of our council members actually participated in some of the meetings. So I want to introduce Ann Garrity, who's really been our spark plug. I don't know how to say it any better. And she has been the mover and shaker on this. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sitting down is a good chance because I could only take 30 minutes worth of your time. No, I want to thank you all today for hearing us and having, allowing us to come present the awards that we won at the symposium in Philadelphia in October. I'm going to just take the over. We have the judge's evaluation. It is on the government website. I think all of you have a copy. And I just want to go over some of the general recommendations. And it's a big picture of our community. It started on the airplane when the judges were coming in and saw all the green with our city in between. And I wasn't out of the airport when I got the questions, Are we in the county? And I said, well, we're in the city and the county. And I explained our merged form of government and the urban service boundary. And this picture by Jeff Rogers portrays our scenario so beautifully, and it is actually on the cover of an American Bloom tips book, among other pictures. So what they had to say about the urban service boundary was that, quote, Lexington has long demonstrated a healthy respect for the agricultural lands that surround the city. As far back as 1958, the city council enacted the first urban growth boundary in the U.S. This boundary impressed them even from the air as they landed this summer. Now, I didn't know we were the first. Maybe you were the first, but these judges travel all over the country and see a lot of cities, so I trust that they know what they're talking about. The second good impression was that they arrived right at the conclusion of the Lexington Council Garden Club's Lexington and Bloom contest, and they saw some of the places that were judged, and they saw the plaques in the ground. And there's some similarities. In fact, Liz Pattengale, who coordinates it, and I have had discussions about how we don't confuse the public about these two concepts. Here's the suggestion that they have. Since 1992, you have had the Lexington and Bloom program sponsored by the Lexington Council Garden Clubs. And now American Bloom offers you the opportunity to extend your reach of the program. Congratulations on earning a prestigious four-bloom rating in your first year. Now, they give five blooms. Some of us thought we would be happy to have three blooms, but to get four was very pleasing. So we've talked about urban service. We've talked about Lexington and Bloom, the competition concept. And the third thing is we nailed the community profile. I think you probably mostly have read the community profile or looked at it. they were impressed with the way we organized to compose that profile. There were six committees, one for each of the beautification criteria in their judging, and there were about five people per committee who researched and wrote sections of that profile. AIB's advice for novices is to report all the good things happening and leave the problems for another year. so we tried our best to capture as much as possible even though we know we missed some things. And here's what the judges had to say about their profile. As you now realize, the community profile summarizes your achievements and all of the criteria that make Lexington a great place to live. It is an outstanding economic development tool as well. Be sure to have copies at City Hall, the Library, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Visitors Bureau. You might even be able to sell advertising in it if you were to do a reprint. I'll point out here that we have a Facebook page. It's called American Bloom Lexington. I haven't posted a lot there, but I think that will be a place where we can share ideas with the public. So now what? How do we organize ourselves? I mean, we're a large city. We're probably the largest city in the competition this year. We have a lot of people doing a lot of things. So I wanted to know from the judges, from the moment they hit the ground, how do they suggest that we organize this effort based on what they've seen in other cities? So I went back and looked through the evaluation for answers to this question. This question, I came up with three. The first is, you have so many civic groups, agencies, and businesses that it might be worthwhile to host an annual roundtable to share ideas, promote synergy, and even partner on projects. It might also be a way to recruit new members. Okay, recommendation two. To increase efficiencies between city departments and community organizations, your city could convene an annual early spring workshop to share ideas and resources and enhance collaboration. LFUCG staff that are involved in design, planning, and maintenance those formerly involved in non-governmental initiatives, and those formerly involved could all be included. Third, if it isn't already being done, encourage all your volunteer organizations to track volunteer hours and report them to a central agency. You will be amazed at the time the people of Lexington give, and the information can be used as the matching portion of some grant applications. And on that point, I get it. I know that Friends of the Arboretum track their hours for the Arboretum. Master Gardeners track their hours for the Master Gardeners. I'm sure many groups, Boy Scouts and others, are tracking hours, and if we accumulated them, those are the numbers that speak to grants. So what's the takeaway? Some cities have foundations, partnerships. Some are very informal, but the way we're thinking maybe it would work for us is to develop as a clearinghouse an advocate for beautification of public spaces as well as partnering on specific projects when appropriate, such as the Breeders' Cup next year. On that, we are ready and eager to do our part to help create a memorable event. Before we get to work, let's celebrate the awards that recognize the very good things that we have going on and first I would like to thank the many citizens and municipal staff who some of whom are able to be here today who have participated in creating the success we celebrate about 30 to 35 people have had some input into this profile or done other things so I want to thank them for what they've done and for what I hope they will continue to do to help make Lexington even more beautiful so if those members of our committee who are here today would stand, we'd appreciate it. Second, we present to Mayor Gray and Vice Mayor Linda Gorton and all of the members of the council this plaque, which commends our four out of five bloom ratings. And this plaque also recognizes our community's landscaped areas. They were very impressed with both public and private landscaping throughout the community. So this is for you to place wherever you like. Now, the Oscar, although, okay, we present to you this special award for best commercial streetscape. And this is, was given, were 33 participants in this year's competition and 13 won an award of any kind. So I think everyone got a plaque of some sort, but not everyone got this. There were about 10 of these, and these were not even the high-level awards for best landscaping, best cultural preservation, etc., which is an even bigger piece of glass. So that's something we can work toward. But this one says, just congratulations, best commercial streetscape, Lexington, Kentucky. And so I asked exactly what streetscape, judges, and it was, we drove down Main Street, they got out and walked, they saw recycle containers at Fifth Third Pavilion, they saw rain gardens, which I had never noticed before, right on the sidewalk. Some of them were just, some had drains in them, but they were all beautiful. The beautiful pots hanging and the banners, they were just very impressed with our main street. That's where we stand, and we look forward to working together to help make our city even more beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, can everybody come up? Okay. volunteers and those who were involved Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm going to ask for a motion now for closed session. Bless Mayor Gordon has a motion. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101C for the purpose of discussing potential litigation and pursuant to KRS 61.8101F for a discussion that may lead to the appointment of an employee. It's a motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and seconded by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Unless there's an objection, the council will now enter a closed session in the council chamber. So if you all want to stay here, anybody who wants to stay in the chambers is welcome to. Thank you. 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Part of our packet was this amendment to Article 22 to establish a planned unit development PUD2 zone. I assume it's in here to be docketed. It is not currently part of the docket. and I may be supportive, but I find that I know little about this subject and would prefer to have information about it, maybe not to the tune of an entire zone change hearing, but more information or conversation in front of the community about creating this zone. Is that something that Commissioner Paulson, would you be able to address for us? Or bring us a little information at a subsequent meeting? I don't know. I just would like to know more about what was presented. I'm going to start by apologizing. I was in the midst of reading an email. Would you repeat your question, please? Oh, that's all right. Oh, that means he's asking to repeat the question, please. Yes. P-U-D-2. It's in here. And I just think the public should have some commentary about it, and we should, too, before we docket it personally, because it creates a whole new zoning ordinance style for a group of different uses. and I would just, I guess I would move before we would docket it to have a presentation on it at a work session in order to docket it because I think we need some background before we do so. So I would so move. Second. If you'd like, we can get you some information beforehand and we can figure out how you want to do it. I can get Chris to get you guys some information about that planned use development first off and then we'll figure out what you guys would like. Like a map. There's no map in here. Okay. I mean, it describes it completely, but it doesn't show you a map. It gives an awful lot of uses and a lot of different ways to do this that have been used before Here, and I think the public should be aware of that before we docket it and pass it. That's okay We will do that. Thank you Mayor or vice mayor or whoever to have a presentation all right is there any discussion on the motion hearing none then we take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries thank you councilmember beard Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion. I move to place on the docket for the November 13, 2014 Council meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to negotiate and execute a grant agreement pursuant to the jobs fund program with Sumitomo electric wiring systems in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for the creation of 10 new jobs for a 10-year period with an average hourly wage of at least $23.69, exclusive of benefits. Motion by Council Member Beard and seconded by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Ellington. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a long motion that I'd like to place on the docket for the November 13, 2014 council meeting the following items related to the issuance of bonds. One, a resolution authorizing advertising for bids and the distribution of the preliminary official statement for various purpose general obligation bonds, series 2014B in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $29 million, and II taxable qualified energy conservation bond series 2014C in a principal amount not to exceed $3 million, too. An ordinance authorizes the issuance of various purpose general obligation bonds series 2014B in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $29 million, and energy conservation general obligation bond series 2014 C in a principal amount not to exceed three million and approving and authorizing other necessary related actions three an ordinance adopting policies regarding post issuance compliance with federal tax and securities laws so moved motion by councilman Ellinger and second by council member councilman Henson is there any discussion on the motion any discussion all right hearing none we take a vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries all right next councilmember Massadi thank you mayor I move to place on the docket for the November 13th 2014 council meeting a resolution authorizing and directing the division of traffic engineering pursuant to code of ordinances section 18-46 to install no through truck signs along South Point Drive and Clearwater Way. Second. A motion by Council Member Sidi and second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Lawless. I move to place on the docket for Thursday, November 13, 2014, Council meeting under first reading resolutions, a resolution establishing a residential parking permit program for the first 300 feet of the east end of the 600 block of Mount Vernon Drive. So moved. Second. A motion by Council Member Lawless and a second by Council Member Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. Oh, yeah, right. All right. Thank you. David, if you'll please come up. Thank you, sir. David, the procedure here is if you'll just give your name and your address. Okay. And then you've got three minutes. Great. Mayor, my name is David Tipton. I live at 688 Mount Vernon Drive. I'm here to represent a group of about 12 owners on the section of Mount Vernon past Castle Drive. We're fans of the RPP program, and we've noticed that some of the other streets have been granted that permit status. And unfortunately, that's caused a lot of student parking on our street. And we've all chosen to live in this area so that our children can walk to school safely. and now it's just become inundated with student parking. So if I'm not mistaken, I think Tremont and Barrie and another street, Providence, that all surround us already have this designation. Mount Vernon from Castle all the way to Tate's Creek I think has this designation too, and please correct me if I'm wrong. So we're kind of like an island inside of all this residential permit parking, and again it's just kind of caused the density of the student parking to increase so we we're here to humbly ask for any kind of relief we can we can get thank you thank you thanks a lot so you're for it yes i'm sorry yeah yeah there we go thank you all right is there any any discussion about Councilmember. Councilmember Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I'm not opposed to the RPP. In fact, in most situations, I think it's absolutely the right thing to do for the residents. But if there's one thing that we have learned from a vote earlier this year is we need to have public input before we do this. I ultimately will more than likely vote for this, but I'm afraid that if we don't put it into committee first, as it used to be in our council rules. I'm afraid that we're going to run into issues in the future. And again, this is doing it right this time so that we do it right every time. We should learn from the mistakes we've made in the past to make sure that it's fully vetted and we don't have people come back afterwards upset, feeling like we've pulled the wool over their eyes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Scottsville. Councilman Lawless, do you wish to speak to the issue? The ordinance procedure for changing how this is done was put in place and voted on by this council, and it followed that procedure. It was changed at one point, I believe, from the discussion. Harry, you might remember this a little bit more than others, but it was changed in order to take that public notice out. Ten years ago, I was not on council then. I think what we discovered is we would like, when we talked about it, Harry, with your issue, is we would like to have that public notice. I think most of us as a council had said we wanted that public notice back in. And I just would like to move forward with these issues so that we truly do have the public input. And, again, I think this is something that will pass, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do the right procedure. I'd like to make a motion that we put it into committee before we pass it. All right. There's a motion on the floor, so we've got to vote on the motion on the floor first or make an amendment, a motion to amend it. All right. Okay. All right. Does anyone else wish to speak to the motion? Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mayor. And Councilmember Scutchfield, I believe, I don't know, this is not my issue, thank goodness, but I believe they have followed the exact procedure that we adopted. I believe that's correct, and I think Gary may be here and can speak to that. David is here, and Gary Means is here. If you don't mind if Gary could speak to this, maybe that would clarify it. First, Mr. Tipton. With regards to public notice, I do know that they've posted signs. With regards to public notice, I'm not sure what the true definition of public notice is, but the procedures that we're aware of is they posted at this intersection signs. I think, David, and David, I think Gary Means can speak to that in terms of the procedure and the protocol. So you're correct. Many years ago, the council or whoever was involved with it deviated away from the public notice. But, yes, recently a new ordinance was passed, putting that back in and rewrote that section that requires once the petition is done and we do the study, We work with whatever council member is bringing this to the table and set up what work session it will be. And two weeks out from that, we're to be able to send out letters and then post notices on the street, which we did. So this, in fact, would be that public. And in this case, it's a half a block. So because you don't have a lot of representation doesn't necessarily mean there's opposition. But this was a fair opportunity for anybody to come and make comment, and this would be considered the public hearing. So we followed it, and I think it's done what it should be doing. All right. What you're saying is that the procedure that is currently in place has been followed. And I think what Council Member Scotchfield is saying, that maybe perhaps there's a procedure in the past that has allowed for even more vetting. Is that right? Right. And so that's what you're encouraging. All right. Does anyone else wish to speak to the motion? All right. Council Member Lawless. I'd just like to reiterate that I think that of all the RPPs, there are only three or four that are not in the 3rd District. It is pretty much a U.K. thing, and it is, again, essential for living in those neighborhoods. So we voted on the changes in the ordinance to make it the public notices, and the parking authority has been generous to do all the sending out the notices, et cetera. So if you want to go back and change the ordinance again, but this followed the ordinance that we adopted that went through committee and the council voted on and passed. Thank you. All right. and they've been waiting a long time and another couple of streets have been waiting a long time for that ordinance to change the ordinance and put this on hold so that they could go on and get this done thank you is everybody clear on that okay all right then does anyone else wish to speak to the motion all right if not then we can take a vote all in favor please say aye Aye. Opposed, no. All right. Motion carries. All right. Is there any other motions to amend the docket? I believe Council Member Ellinger. You did yours. Is there a. Council Member Massadi, did you have one? No. the three trucks at South Point? You did that one. All right. I had Council Member Akers down too. All right. All right. Then we have all the motions to amend, and we have a motion to approve the docket. Is there a motion to approve the docket as amended? Second. What's that? All in favor of the motion? Aye. To amend. All right, I oppose. All right, motion carries. Moving on now to the approval of the summary. There's a motion to approve by Council Member Stennett, second by Council Member Massadi. 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. Next on our agenda is budget amendments. is there a motion to approve? Move approval. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is new business. Is there a motion to approve? Move approval. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there a second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor Gordon. Is there any discussion on motion council member lane thank you mayor on item k uh i'd like for mr martin to come up and speak to that that's in the blue sky rural activity center and it's been a moratorium on sanitary sewer in there for over a decade and because we have now installed new uh sanitary sewers in compliance with epa that moratorium has been dropped i was just going to ask charlie to speak to that for a second if you don't mind. You hit the highlights already. I mean, basically, this has been a longstanding problem that the council had passed a resolution and modified that previous resolution that restricted building permits in the Blue Sky Service area because of the sewer sanctions. By closure of the plant that I reported to you about a month ago, that now we've petitioned the state. They have released or lifted those sewer sanctions, which now allows us to consider an ordinance that removes the building permit sanctions and allows future customers within the rural activity center to be considered for sewer service, just the same as anybody inside the urban service area, same level playing field. Thank you, Charlie. This is a good thing because there are businesses out there that wanted to expand, and they can't get sanitary sewer tap-ons for 10 years, so they were unable to do so. Now we might see some additional business growth out in that area. Yeah, it was very restrictive. They had to petition us specifically, and if it was something more than a bathroom for employees or something, basically they just couldn't happen for the entire time we've been involved out there since 2003. Thank you, sir. Charlie, thank you. I tell you, there was another question on here. We had asked for information on the Change Order Z regarding $650,000 to the existing professional service agreement with Stantec, Sanitary Sur Capacity Assurance Plan. And can you give us any more detail on the $650,000? Is that just additional professional fees, or is there some kind of a new assignment they have? There's not a new assignment. The original budget that we had projected for CAP, Capacity Assurance Program Development and Implementation, was roughly the $1.9 million area. The original contract, though, we did for much less than that. We did it for a five-year term, but we did it for amount that it was to get the plan written and endorsed by the stakeholders, approved by EPA. They did that, plus they got us a year into implementation. You know, we have the CTIMS software program that they run for us. All new extensions go through them to verify that we do have capacity before we build new stuff. As you've asked me before, we want to make sure that we're not putting new infrastructure in and then find out we can't even meet our own future needs. So this is essentially to tap into the remaining original budget, but allow them to continue to work and fulfill their long-term contract obligation, which was a five-year term, which would end in 2017. Right now, the average, we're projecting about $100,000 a year in them doing their actual work. So this basically, if the council is willing to approve this, this basically allows us to work with them in the driver's seat of our cap program for the next four years without us having to come back every year and ask for more permission. The main thing is, though, it's capped at what we originally projected to spend on the capacity assurance program to start with. Thank you for your explanation on that. that's all I've got and with regard to sanitary sewers I would like to just go on the record say that I recuse myself on item X because I provided professional services to the firm involved with that just to go on the record thank you mayor all right all right councilmember Massadi thank you mayor I think councilmember Henson is in front of me it's not showing okay well go ahead Peggy go ahead councilmember Henson that was it would have been fine Jennifer thank you I had a question about the temporary kitchen at the detention center I don't know if Director Ballard's here or not. And this is item U. So this project has ended up costing about, what, 50% more than it was going to? No, I don't think 50% is correct. Okay. What happened was there was some confusion on when drains would be ordered that caused the project to run a little longer in FY14. So in FY14, we paid that $68,000. And then in FY15, we didn't accept the floor and the condition it was in, and the contractor had to redo the floor. We're currently working out the damage payment with them to offset the balance of that payment of $33,105. So there's a possibility that we'll be reimbursed for part of this? Yes, ma'am. Well, depending on what we actually, what law department actually settles with them, it could be anywhere between $15,000 and $19,000. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. I have a few. First on number Q or item number Q, Mr. Reed or Commissioner Reed, please. Thank you, Mr. Reid. Thank you. How are you, Commissioner? How are you? Good. Tell me about CUPE. Tell me about the Lexington History Museum, what we've got going on there. That is $35,000 that was included in the budget and passed by the council for money to pay for expenses associated with the operation of the History Museum. Okay, gotcha. I just wonder what kind of, how many people go through that History Museum? Any idea? Not many right now. Didn't think so. Well, there. That's a good answer. You need to. Thank you. It's also paying for the pocket museums that we have around. Those are getting a lot of... We appreciate good humor. Everybody appreciates good humor. Commissioner, it might be worthwhile to explain the museums that they're using. Please do so. Yes. But we have these other locations around that are being utilized and used. Brother, I don't have exact attendance numbers. I don't think you would. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you, sir. I have two other questions, please, Mayor, and hopefully I'll know the answer to these before I ask them. Item number X on the TIF financing on the Bayer property. All right. Can you ask the question? Yeah, I'd like to know what it says that we've got. They're amending the master development plan. Just wondering what they were doing. Kevin Atkins coming up to the podium. Thank you, Mr. Atkins. Council Member Vazotti, what this was, these were just updates to the MDA and the LPA we passed about a year ago. In between the time then and now, KETFA has given it final approval. They had an additional consultant's report done, changed the numbers a little bit, and during that period, construction costs went up about 20% on the project. So the new numbers just reflect those changes. We didn't change any of the other items in the documents. When do we anticipate they're going to start breaking ground on that? Do you know? March. Okay. Thank you. And that's all, Mayor. Thank you. That's all the questions. Council Member Masada? Yes, sir. All right. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple of questions. On letter C. All right. What's it relate to? That is the engineering agreement regarding the town branch floodplain analysis. All right. Brad, thank you. I just wanted to get some information on this because I know that we discussed in the past having a floodplain analysis done as part of the TIF that was going on in that area. And we had some hesitation with Council paying for that. I'm trying to find out if this is the exact same thing that we talked about before. As far as it being a part of the TIF, as I recall, and I may have to defer to Commissioner Polson, The council set aside funding to go ahead and have the town branch floodplain within the distillery district area to have it studied. And that's what this is. We put a proposal out on the streets. We had five consultants go ahead and submit on that. We interviewed the top three, and we went ahead and made a selection, which is vision engineering. As I recall from being here at the podium at the meeting a while back, I think you allocated nearly half a million dollars to this endeavor. And that was, I guess, another follow-up question is when we were talking about it in the TIF, it was $500,000 as we were going to spend. So is this, I guess I'm just trying to get the larger picture of why it's only $100,000. And, I mean, that's good. Yeah, no, this was coming from the bond, separate from the TIF. I mean, it was part of the TIF, but this was part of the bond that was, I think it's been years ago. How long? 2010. And we did allocate $500,000. That was originally we thought the scope might be that much. I think the benefit is that in receiving the bids and looking at what really needs to be done and how they can do it, it's just the costs have just dropped dramatically from what we originally estimated. Okay. And how quick of a turnaround do you think? Can I? You can guess. Under promise, I will tell you we hope to have it by the end of the summer, but we really hope it might be sooner than that. But some of it depends on calibration, which is rain events. Okay. Well, yeah. And I had another question, Jeff. I'm sorry. Just real quick about the same thing that Council Member Massadi promised it'll be quick. Like, I just had a, you know, we have a lot of these organizations that we give money to. Do we have any idea, you know, we get economic updates from a lot of the organizations that we fund. Do we get something like that from the History Museum? They provide us information on a routine basis. We work closely with them. We'll be happy to get you what they're providing. You know, they're in a transition phase. They're into new things. They're doing some exciting things. and staff has been working very closely. We'll be happy to get you information. Thank you, and that is something. And I wanted to give one quick comment. This is Jeff. You're done. Thank you. On number T, I think Councilman, Vice Mayor Gordon will agree. This is moving, authorizing to make a new administrative division. Christy Stambaugh has done such a phenomenal job, And I think this is such a great idea for us to do. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Scotchfield. Councilmember Clark. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Scotchfield really asked my question, and I was very interested in the floodplain study, and I was remembering the 500,000, and I was thinking, all right, now we're at 100,000, and this is really exciting. So that pretty much answers my question, but it is exciting, and it's a first step to some other things, I think, as well. The one question I did want to ask, and maybe Brad or Derek could answer this, we had also talked about this including U.K., and does this study include any of the U.K. property? It has to go ahead. As far as them doing the modeling and determining the flows that come downtown branch, it does have to include those areas. So it will include the upper reaches as far as what the variables will be as far as imperviousness, time of concentration, things like that. So they do have to go ahead and model the entire upper reach area. That's what I was curious about. Is UK going to share this cost with us? Is UK going to share this cost with us? I'm twisting the arm, but they won't do it. No, in all seriousness, no. That's what I figured. All right, that's what I needed to know. Thank you both very much. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Stenet. Thank you, Mayor. And Commissioner Paulson, on C, since we're on that topic, what is the balance of that fund now that we approved back in, actually, 2009, November, on that bond? If we approve the 109, what does that leave us? I'm going to guess if we can probably get a better estimate. We can get you more absolute numbers. I think it's around 1.5. Is that around, right? Maybe a little bit higher. Are we earning interest on that money at all? Or is it just sitting there? I'll let the finance man come speak to that. Okay, Mr. Romero. I know we're paying debt service on it. We are earning a marginal amount of interest. We're limited by federal regulations not to earn more than what we're paying on it, and we'll have to do arbitrage calculations to see if we have to pay taxes in case we earn too much on that money. But there is some nominal interest on that balance. Well, thank you. I knew that would be your answer. So my next point, I know Commissioner Colson has a ton of things we could use this money on possibly, so if there's a better opportunity cost available, I think the council will be open to what other things we need to use, and we can always come back and rebond later on at a future date for this project once it gets finally moving. So I'd like to see that door open and see what other things we have. We can save money where we're paying 8%, 9%, 10% maintenance costs that we can go ahead and take care of today. Then item Y. This is on the Meadows Northland Arlington Public Improvement Project. Just curious on this change order, why we didn't know there was fencing that needed to be replaced, and it seems like that's the bulk of the change order when you begin a project. Was it not there? Was it new fencing that we agreed to add? No, the fence actually did exist. We originally put in the contract to take down and replace, or I'm sorry, and reset the fences that were there. This portion of this project had a considerable amount of sanitary sewer work that had to be done. It lasted over a year. The fences were taken down. They were set aside. Some of them were put back up temporarily. They were taken down again. Most of them collapsed and fell apart. They were old. At the end of the project, rather than trying to piece together what was left of these fences, we replaced all of them. Okay, and is this still the low bid on the project? Yes, sir. It is still the low bid. Very good. Thank you. And then, Mr. Martin, Charlie, I know you spoke on Z earlier. You don't have to come up unless you just want to. But the question is, there's a balance left in this budget. Are we anticipating using the rest of that money for Stantec's work, or is that just going to another area of our CAP program? Another area of the CAP program. The consent decree requires us to do annual flow monitoring to validate those credits that we use, to validate the rehab that we claim. And so we do that through a separate contract rather than doing it through Stantec because that way we don't endure a markup. Yeah, I just didn't want to say, hey, here's the budget billows for all of it. And that way we, you know, that situation. We do everything through individual task orders. And we hold them to finishing those task orders before we authorize a new one. Okay. Very good. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Mine on item C, which is the town branch floodplain analysis study, would you just send me a map? I would just like to see the boundaries of where the floodplain is that we're studying. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Then next is, you all will have seen it, it's item G, where we're updating some things on the Corridors Commission roster, just to change some names to what current usage is versus what it was when the original ordinance was drawn. And then item V, as in Victor, which this is the, I guess, actually this says proposed transfer of right-of-way for Washington Avenue. And it looks like some do object and some don't object, looking at pages 48 and 49. Commissioner Holmes is risen to the podium. So we had several meetings with UK discussing this matter. resolve the issues that we had that were primarily public safety issues and access, and we have worked those out with UK. Those accesses will be permanently included in the quick claim deed that we will be giving to them in the property, and all the departments are happy with those changes that we have made. And this is all part of the overall campus plan that was presented to you all what the vice mayor brought forward about a month ago. So this is the first process step in doing that. We had a presentation on it in the planning and public works committee meeting. You did. Just by way of update. So I guess with specificity, there's a 20-foot continuous emergency access with two 8-foot concrete sidewalks and a 4-foot grass strip. So by that being there, it remains closed. It's closed, but it is. Our public safety concerns are resolved with that. It allows fire department to get in and do any fire prevention it needs to do to the buildings that they're getting access to. That are there. And then it also sets out that the university has to make changes to the traffic signals or the traffic signal involved there and keep Uglet Drive open. There are a couple of contentions there. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Then on item X, which is, again, the Bear Property Summit TIF, and I don't remember what the numbers were from a year ago, but what number do we reach before their TIF activates at this time, and did it change between last year and this year? We didn't change the activation number. So what was it, just so I'll remember? That one's 20, right? 20 million. Thank you very, very much. I appreciate that. And, Mayor, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Farmer. We don't have anybody else signed up for discussion on new business, so we can take a vote on the motion. All in favor of the motion to approve new business, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Yes on all, no on V, as in Victor. V, as in Victor. Council Member Farmer voted no. All right. That allows us to move on to continuing business and presentations. And the first is we have a public hearing required for the Urban Services District. Procedurally, as the chair of the meeting, I will declare this public hearing on the Urban Services District to be open and ask if there is any comment from the public. All right. If not, then I will declare that the public hearing is closed. Next on our agenda is NDFs. Is there a motion? Move approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and second by Council Member Clark. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is the committee summary on the General Government Committee by Council Member Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. This is the summary for the October 7th meeting of the General Government Committee. The first item was approval of the summary for September 9, 2014. That was approved without dissent. The second item was facilities and fleet management regarding abolishing security officer position and creating administrative officer position. Jamshid Baradaran commented on the issue and offered to respond to questions. There were some questions for clarification about why this was being done. Commissioner Reid then stated that this action is not an attempt to privatize security and welcome the participation of council members in the selection process for the position. After further discussion, there was a motion by Council Member Acres, seconded by Council Member Gorton, to move this item back to the Council docket for second reading. That motion passed without dissent. That motion to place it on the docket has already been raised and approved, so no further action is required at this time. The next item on the agenda was an e-cigarette ordinance, and Vice Mayor Gorton introduced this item, provided information regarding the Clean Indoor Air Ordinance. Uh, Carol Riker with the Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy presented the request for amending the existing ordinance to include e-cigarettes. Tony Florence stated that nearly all users of e-cigarettes are ex-smokers and referenced studies regarding the safety of the levels of byproducts produced through the use of e-cigarettes. there was then further discussion after which a motion by vice mayor gorton seconded by council number four to approve the draft e-cigarette ordinance and move it forward to council that motion passed without dissent that motion to place it on the docket has already been made no further action required at this time the next item on the agenda was items referred a number of items were removed by consensus and the meeting was adjourned at 1208 thank you mayor Thank you, Council Member K. Next on the agenda is a Planning and Public Works Committee summary. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. This is on page 80 of our packet today. These are the minutes from our October 14th meeting. We approved our summary, and then item two, we went through the referred items because we always had them at the end, and we were unable to get through them. So through the course here we eliminated several items from the committee referral list and then took up more today in our meeting earlier. Item three was the leaf collection update which actually leaf collection within the city started yesterday. I need to be, I need to remind folks, if you, we have a very interactive system you can go online and see when we're coming to your area or even to your street. We would like for you to rake your leaves hopefully on the weekend before we will be on your street. and to rake them to the curb but not into the street. And we've had several pretty specific pieces of input from people who are riding bicycles and other conveyances and have to dodge leaves in the streets. So we just want to remind folks to keep leaves on the curb rather than into the street. So that was a really good update. They gave us a background that we needed. So leaf collection began yesterday. Our next item was the snow removal plan, which evidently will begin tomorrow. It's my little joke. Thank you. So the snow removal plan, we highlighted and did keep it in committee kind of for it to play out a little bit. Both in our October meeting and today, we had a discussion about electoral inspection fees that resulted in no action by the committee then or today. We did leave the item in committee for further conversation. The Inspection Bureau is asking for some additional fees, and so far, that has not resulted in action by the committee or the council. Then we also, item six, took up code enforcement nuisance abatement process, both at this meeting and again today. Today it kind of resulted in some follow-up that we'll have in a set of minutes here very shortly. There were no motions for many of this, and that would conclude my report, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Next is the Special Committee of the Whole meeting on October 21st. Summary by Vice Mayor Gordon. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. The Special Budget Committee of the Whole met October 21st. And in summary, the first item was that Council Member Clark recommended that the summary be amended. and it now reflects comments from Bruce Sully about the Lyric Theater, which is that the Internal Audit Board has authorized an internal audit of the Lyric and that his topic will be revisited with the Internal Audit Board after accountants have done their work. The monthly financial report showed that for September, the general fund revenue was $0.6 million over budget. and expenses were about $4.5 million under budget, leaving a positive variance of approximately $5.1 million through September. That was good news. We entered into a fund balance discussion, and Commissioner O'Mara described the purpose of the fund balance discussion, And the first step for council was to consider part of the comprehensive annual financial reporting. And then the second step was to spend any fund balance that we deemed that we wanted to spend. And so the council needed to approve categories of fund balance for the CAFR. and I will just enumerate those. The contingency assignments included $2 million for health insurance, $8.1 million in prior project assignments, and $4.177 million in unassigned fund balance, which left $2.2 million to be used for non-recurring uses as authorized by the council. Uh, the commissioner recommended an $8.5 million in litigation reserve, and, uh, $25 million was reserved for economic contingency fund, $6.38 million for the 27th pay period in fiscal year 17, and $637,000 for the energy improvement component. So a motion to come forward was made in committee by Councilmember Farmer to approve the assignments as proposed by the administration. So moved. Second. A motion by Vice Mayor Gorton and a second by Councilmember Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. So the next item which was discussed was the fiscal year 2015 bond, project bond issue adjustment for the qualified energy conservation bond, which council had heard in a previous meeting. And so the request was to – Kentucky has allocated $2.9 million in qualified energy conservation bonds to Lexington that expired December 31st. And so the council needed to approve that, and that motion also was made by Councilmember Farmer to direct the administration to proceed with the $2.9 million of qualified energy conservation bond money. So moved. Second. Is that a motion? Yes, and a second. A second. Mm-hmm. All right. We got a motion by Vice Mayor, and we got a second. Who is the seconder? Council Member K. All right. 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. The next motion coming out of the Budget Committee of the Whole was by Council Member Masotti to allocate an additional $1.5 million to the fire station number two relocation. and that motion places the $1.5 million in the bond that had been currently approved by the council. So moved. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gorton and a second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And so there was a small amount of discussion about the fund balance process going forward, and the council set a special budget committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, November 13th at 3 o'clock to consider any other available fund balance. And that ends my report. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Next on our agenda is a presentation which is required annually by the state stormwater permit. And the presentation will be by Charlie Martin. Is there something brewing over here? Oh, sorry about that. Charlie, you're a little premature on that. Sorry, we'll come right back to you. Just hang around. Take a seat, though, depending on how long the Council Member Farmer's summary is. Council Member Farmer, Corridor's Commission. Well, I've organized a few thoughts, Mayor. All right. There we go. As chair of the Corridor's Commission, the vice mayor brought to my attention that we meet on the fifth floor in the conference room. We don't meet down here. We do expend some of the funds of the government, and we really haven't reported back to council, so to speak. So by way of updating both the council and the community, this is kind of a quarterly update for what the Corridors Commission has been working on. As you can tell in the new business items today, we're trying to update our bylaws and our ordinance to clean up the names of organizations and changes due to reorganization within our government and within some of the organizations. Councilmember Clark has been very instrumental in the Harrisburg Road welcome signage, which is currently in the design phase, and we look forward to having it out there as shortly as possible. Similar to what the council did with the report brought by Susan Pluger, we also sanctioned the name change of environmental policy to environmental services, moving budget and positions to that newly named area. And we, like the council, approved the idea of additional monies needed for civic beautification for the Breeders' Cup preparations, county road maintenance, and tree removal. We spent several months within the committee working on what our corridors were and really where our area of expression should be. Following on that, we were having a follow-up discussion at the suggestion of Councilmember Kay and kind of to further narrow ourselves down with the discussion of the purpose of the Corridors Commission and the development of a mission statement, which would kind of go along with our inventory of corridors that we're trying to focus on. We're working on a revision of the Corridor's Commission's webpage to include the latest projects and items under consideration. We'll have minutes of the meetings and any press releases that go along with any of the work that is being done or that we're a part of. And from just a deeper policy aspect, we're having a discussion of the process for removing trees and plants planted by the Corridor's Commission on private property. And this is one of the ongoing things within the Commission about where we take action to beautify the community and sometime down the road, it seems like the property owner forgets that they were partnering with us in all of that. We want everyone to remain vigilant for how we've used those tax dollars and make sure that the money is well spent and followed up on. That does it for this quarterly report. We look forward to the next one. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Councilor Farmer. Now, drum roll. Okay. Charlie. Thank you, Mayor. As the Mayor mentioned, this is an annual requirement that we essentially provided information to the Council. This is similar to something I gave to the Planning Commission last month. Again, our permit requires us to cover these topics. And I also have along with me here to my right our new stormwater quality or our MS4 coordinator, Jennifer Carey. Jennifer has joined us from Tetra Tech. Most of you who know Richard probably also know Jennifer, Richard Walker. So Jennifer has taken Susan Pluger's place, and we're really excited. Urban County government is very fortunate that we're able to plug someone of her skill and her experience because she has actually predated me as far as being involved in our stormwater program when it was transferred to water quality back in 2007. So I wanted to bring her along, and I didn't want to give her baptism under fire, but this is the last time I'll be doing this, and we'll be turning this over to Jennifer in the future. Two main topics is our stormwater's impact on streams. Most of you have seen this before, but it's always important to have a reminder. And also the status of our MS4, our Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit. A lot of folks don't realize that we have a state-issued, well, it's actually a federal permit issued by the state that allows us to operate a storm sewer system and actually discharge from it. This is a photo we've used in the past that basically kind of orients what it is we're trying to do. We're trying to regulate industries to make sure that they're not storing undesirable things and allowing them to leak out through 55-gallon drums or what have you. make sure they're using best management practices to prevent pollution. Municipal separate storm sewer systems, such as ourselves and other communities. Construction sites, which is always a big, huge focus for us as far as preventing erosion. And probably for many of you, somewhat of a challenge is mud tracked down the street from construction sites. You've seen this slide before as well. all the different types of pollution that there is. I mentioned as far as like the drums and those kind of things like that. You know, we're trying to help industry, commercial facilities, those kind of folks do the right thing and prevent the unmentionable from happening. At the same time, we try to focus on people from not doing things to us and themselves. This is one photo I've had for a while where someone has changed their oil from their car and dumped it down the storm sewer. unwittingly but obviously a fairly over the top type of thing and I know that Susan and us you know as far as with environmental policy whatnot we focus very heavily on the trash we're in an urban setting and then it is a challenge daily to manage trash but I think we've made a lot of progress in being more responsive one preventing that but also having a means to be able to collect it when it does happen. You've also seen this slide as well. You can't read it, but the main thing of it is this, is that that is Fayette County and it represents the different streams that are in Fayette County. A red box is not good. Basically, that is not meaning its designated use based on water quality criteria for those streams. Yellow box means it's of a concern. green means that it is in good shape. This whole program is geared towards over the long run changing those red box to yellow and then to green. That's really what we're about. I mentioned the stormwater permit. We've had been operating under a permit since 2009, actually longer than that. When I inherited the program the permit was three pages long. It was 65 pages or something like that the most recent time around it's something similar to that now we've been operating under that permit and it expired august 31st of this year we're still operating under that but you know we've had state inspections including the one that's noted up there and we're getting positive reviews from frankfurt that we're headed in the right direction we're required to submit a renewal which we have done and the draft permit was issued in september and a required 30-day public comment period. That has closed, and we're just basically waiting to hear from the state or wait to hear whether or not that it's going to be issued. I don't expect there to be any problems with it because Jennifer or the rest of the team had worked very closely with folks in Frankfurt as far as what the content of that would be, also with our stakeholders that I'll mention here in a later slide. What we did anticipate that the permit would include is stormwater controls from redevelopment. There continues to be a lot of emphasis on redevelopment sites and the impact of stormwater runoff coming from those and requirements to retain runoff using green infrastructures. We expected that to be reflected in the new permit and have an impact on the engineering manuals because that seemed to be where things were headed nationally. However, as you can see, the EPA abandoned rulemaking in post-construction stormwater requirements earlier this year and has shifted its focus. But as a city and as elected officials, we always need to be mindful of that, and that continues to be a point of emphasis in that assuming that our permit is issued as we expect it to and it has an absence of stronger language that was discussed earlier this year, it is something, as a community, we're going to have to probably deal with in the future. Highlights of the current draft, we're going to continue to have the annual training such as we're having today. We're going to try to modify it a little bit and expand it beyond land use type of things and try to cover things that are of more relevance or continued relevance to the council. We're going to continue to enforce our programs regarding stormwater runoff for new development and redevelopment sites that are greater than one acre, particularly the sites of common plan and development, where you've got multiple lots as an initial development, but when they start selling lots off, you've got a lot of moving parts and a lot of different people involved. We've worked very closely with the Home Builders Association, Todd Johnson and his team, in trying to make sure that we have a very fair and balanced approach in which how we're dealing with what is really often very difficult type of developments. New development trying to manage the stormwater controls to where the 80th percentile rain event is retained on that site. Interesting point is that that is the same percentage that other communities around us have. We're all required to do the same thing. And that was an important point for us as far as this new permit. We wanted to make sure that we weren't setting a benchmark that was different than other cities surrounding us, because that's difficult for the industry, that's difficult for commercial facilities, that's just difficult for our customers to have different sets of rules to deal with in adjacent counties. We're going to continue to enforce the stormwater manual, which has the water quality requirements for new development and redevelopment. We are going to try to institute more low-impact development guidelines through the stormwater manual. We're going to be required to do that in the next three years. Essentially, we changed the manual to allow that to happen. Now it's time to start putting, I guess, some meat on the bone, so to speak, as far as how particular folks should do that at particular sites that are redeveloping at a high intensity. There are other potential ordinance updates relative to the stormwater program that I anticipate we're going to be introducing in the next year. So some of you may remember in the aftermath of the consent decree, there were a lot of stormwater ordinances that we had to put together relative to retention basins, detention basins, things like that. Well, now that we've been in this for five or six years, you know, we've learned a few things, and I think there's some tweaking that needs to go on relative to some of the ordinances that we have. Switching gears and coming to the home stretch here, I mentioned before about how we've, on our permit, in drafting that permit, that we've tried to work very closely with stakeholders. We have a stakeholder advisory committee that has been in place since, I believe, 2010, and you can see what their mission statement is. Basically, it is that we consider them to be partners, and it's everything from the folks who might consider to be very much on the green side to the people who are very much on the non-green side. And the whole idea is to try to get some balance, get some consensus before we start making decisions relative to a permit or local ordinances. You can see that it's not just urban county government, a bunch of internal staff getting together. We've got folks in the private sector, citizens groups. We have watershed representatives. is it's kind of surprising that we've got more and more folks that are forming basically citizens groups like the Friends of Wolf Run, the Friends of South Elkhorn, the Friends of Kane Run. You're seeing more and more citizens get involved, which we obviously welcome that. You know, we basically invite all players. You see the lengthy list of the different folks that are represented on the stakeholder advisory committee. I keep peeking at the vice mayor considering her long history and experience in stormwater issues. And as she returns to private, I'll make sure that I keep her on my phone list. Because we would appreciate anybody and all folks' participation. With that, I'll entertain whatever questions. We have the customary picture there that you can't see. that that's Council Member Henson out here cleaning up a stream for us. Thank you very much. That's a good picture. All right. Any questions for Charlie or comments? Sorry, I went through that really fast, but I know you've had a long day, so thank you. So good, Vice Mayor. I just want to remind you there are a few others up here, too, who you might consider. Oh, yes, I would consider all of them. I peeked around it and tried to make eye contact with as many as I possibly could. Thank you. Thanks, Charlie. All right. That allows us to move on to council reports. If you'll please sign up for council reports and starting with Vice Mayor Gordon. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Well, today is November 11th, Veterans Day, and so I just wanted to make a few comments about Veterans Day and its importance. This is also, this year is also the 70th anniversary of D-Day. and so with that said I wanted to say that in January when the 114th Congress is seated it will begin a new era. It will be the first time in 70 years that no World War II veterans will patrol the halls of the Capitol guiding legislation and contributing to foreign policy debates. Today, only 20% of those in Congress have served in the military, and in the United States population, less than 1% serve today in our armed forces. So it's a very small number of people. With that said, I wanted to show you a couple of things. The first is Arlington Cemetery. This year, Arlington Cemetery celebrated its, I guess if you want to say celebrate, its 150th anniversary. And Arlington Cemetery is served by the 3rd U.S. Infantry, known commonly as the Old Guard. And many of you know that my son served in the Old Guard and was on the salute battery for all of the funerals. and many of the presidential salutes and events. And it's a very, if you've never been to Arlington Cemetery, it must go on your list of places to go, places to take your family and children. It's a very sobering place. And, of course, most everybody knows about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is also there. And then the other thing that I wanted to show is this is a pamphlet I brought back from the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. And the Sister Cities took a delegation to Normandy this past September. And one of the great honors of my life and our delegation's life was that in partnership with our Sister City folks from DeVille, we held a wreath-laying ceremony at this memorial. And if you look at this, you can faintly see in the background on both sides white. Those are the actual cemetery plots and the headstones. And the statue in the center with the left arm raised facing the headstones is a 22-foot statue, and it is entitled The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves. And it was specifically done because most of the folks buried in the cemetery in Normandy were 18, 19, and 20 years old when they fell in Normandy. There are 9,387 headstones, and this land was given in perpetuity by the French government to the United States. And so the French, to the people in Normandy and in France, they are very devoted to being sure that their children remember the Allies and who it was that made them free. And so they take this very seriously, and it was a very sobering place to visit and to lay a wreath. So if you can put that on your bucket list and you have not been to Normandy to see the American Cemetery, I highly recommend it. And just with that, I'll end by thanking our Lexington Fayette Urban County Government employees. There are many who have served in the military. and I want to thank them for their service and also thank their family and friends support groups because most military members, in order to serve well, need a support group who backs them up. And so I thank our employees who have served. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. That was very meaningful. Thank you. Councilmember Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor, for always reminding us of the importance in our community. I think our veterans are extremely important, and I want to wish everyone a happy Veterans Day and thank those that there are many that live in our community that have served. including many of my relatives, and I won't name them because I will forget somebody. But I'm most proud that my father was in Germany. He was serving in Germany when D-Day occurred, a World War II veteran. And I'm very proud of him for that, but he passed away in 1970. So I was very young, didn't have an opportunity to really talk to him about the war and what it meant. But I know it's not something that he liked to talk about. But I also have family members that are Korean War veterans and also retired veterans where they spent their 20 years in the military. and a nephew that's an Iraqi war veteran. But I just know what they go through and the importance of our support for them. But, Vice Mayor, I think for that reason I'm going to miss you. I mean, lots of other reasons, but I know that you're very passionate about that, and I admire you for that. And I have one announcement, And that is Cardinal Valley Small Area Plan meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday. And it is at 7 o'clock at Cardinal Valley Elementary. And that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Hanson. And Councilmember Farmer, this looks like we're eminently on a mayoral moment. Yes, sir. Since we're doing a little history here for all the right reasons, I was going to follow up on that with a brief introduction for Mayor James J. O'Brien, who was mayor from, well, from 1928 through 1931. James J. O'Brien was born in Lexington on September 30, 1874. After attending parochial schools, he learned the printing trade at the Lexington transcript, later moving to the Lexington Leader, where he worked for 11 years. He then relocated to Washington, D.C., where he worked on the Times and in the government printing office. On April 6, 1904, Mr. O'Brien was married to Margaret Barrick, who was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of John A. Barrick. They had two children, James Jr. and Mary Ann. Later, in 1904, Mr. O'Brien returned to Lexington and became a secretary to Mayor Thomas A. Combs, a position he would hold for four years. He went on to serve in the same capacity for Mayor John Skane. In 1911, Mr. O'Brien was elected city clerk and held the office until 1919 when he was elected city commissioner, assigned to the Department of Finance. He was elected mayor in 1927 and served one term. Upon his retirement from City Hall in 1932, Mayor O'Brien was honored for his 28 years of continuous public service. He died later on November 7, 1936. Mayor O'Brien, thank you. Mayor, thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I do have a question or a motion to put into public works. Leaf collection, obviously, is going on right now. I would like us to review the timing of leaf collection. There are certain districts that continually are the very last ones every year to get collected, and that is a constant source of upset in my district. I would like us to review and determine if we can alternate during the year. So motion made. Would you restate the motion? Yes, a motion to put into the Public Works Committee or I guess whatever committee, it would still be Public Works. But to look at the possibility of alternating the collection yearly. And so sometimes someone would be later of leaf. Okay. All right. Great. So we've got a motion by Council Member Scotchville and a second by Council Member Stennett. 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 Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I, too, want to take an opportunity and a moment to briefly recognize all of our veterans and thank them and their families, of course, for their service to our country, for those who used to serve and who currently serve. I had the pleasure of calling my 93-year-old grandmother this morning, who is a World War II veteran, and I asked her quietly, I said, you know, what was the best thing? What do you think was the best thing about serving and fighting in World War II? And she said, freedom. And we often take freedom for granted. We have the freedom here to go to the grocery or to leave our house whenever we want, but she didn't, what she was fighting for. And freedom is what I want to remind all of us to appreciate today, to all the families, men and women, who gave the sacrifices for us to have that freedom. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Stenet. Council Member Ford. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmembers, I just wanted to highlight there's been a lot going on in the news aside from the activity of the elections last week, but we do now know that our superintendent of schools, Dr. Tom Shelton, is going to be leaving for a new opportunity, and we wish him well professionally. Unlike many cities our size, we understand that here at local government, we have no direct authority or control over our schools. But we definitely, tens of thousands of youth go through our public school system. I think some 40,000, I think, if that number is correctly. So, Mayor and Councilmembers, I don't know if there's any opportunity that if we can be of assistance to the school board members and the leadership of the central office in helping identify and bring a dynamic superintendent, I think it may be worth our while. And again, we wish Dr. Shelton well. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Ford. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Barrera, Dan, would you mind coming to the microphone quickly? Or not so quickly. All right. She said hi. No. I didn't mean to have you run up here. Just for a quick moment, I meant. I had some calls from some folks that work in Deem, and they said that all the smoke detectors, CO detectors are all gone, and no sprinkler system. Is that going to be, or will they be replaced? Will those things be put in place at the old Frankfurt location? That's the new, the temporary new location? Temporary new, correct. Yeah, we're still doing a final walkthrough with us. As a matter of fact, our MEP group this morning did a walkthrough and issued the final work orders. There's a few outstanding items that we taken care of for the next couple of days. Okay, so they will be assured that they'll have the smoke detectors of fire and so forth. The issue has always been nobody ever filed a complaint with us or filed a work order. They did not go through the proper even internally, letting someone knows about their concerns, and that's what we're trying to address to make sure find out where the communication lines need to be reestablished. Okay. Well, hopefully, maybe I can help you in that way. All right. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Thank you, John Sheen. Thank you, Council Member Massadi. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mayor. I would also like to just recognize our veterans and would also like to comment just quickly on the Vice Mayor's comments as well. And Julian and I may be the only ones that can remember World War II. but I certainly can. And my father was in France and Germany, as a matter of fact, and I was alive at the time. And remember the dedication that people showed, not just the veterans, but the communities that we lived in. And I was on the East Coast about five miles from Norfolk Naval Yard, which is probably one of the major targets that we were concerned about. But I remember so much about the dedication of the people, not just those who had enlisted, but the people who were totally dedicated to making this a free country. So I have some special memories, and the Vice Mayor brought some of those to my mind. So I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Clark. Council Member Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I do want to recognize our veterans and their families and the sacrifice they've made for us, certainly, to be able to sit here and do what we do today. And secondly, we have our next neighborhood workshop for Armstrong Mill West small area plan. It's going to be tonight at 530 p.m. to 730 p.m., and the address is going to be at the Gainesway Community Center at 3460 Milano Road. If you haven't filled out the survey yet, you can do that by going online to www.amwsap.com. But we'd love to have you come out tonight and provide your input in person. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Myers. And that's all signed up for council reports. That takes us to the mayor's report. Move approval. Second. Motion by Vice Mayor Gordon and a second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is public comment for issues not on the agenda. No one signed up. All right. There's a motion to adjourn. And a second is, unless there's an objection, we are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you.