Greetings and welcome. We have an overflowing crowd tonight. We have a lot on our docket, on our agenda tonight. And first we begin, for those of you who are new to a council meeting, the first thing on the council agenda or docket is a roll call. And our council clerk, Meredith Nelson, will call the roll. Thank you. Ms. Evans? Here. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Here. Mr. Gibbs? Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. Mr. Lane? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Scutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. And Mr. Brown? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And next on our agenda is invocation. And we are honored tonight to have Pastor Ron Edmondson of Emanuel Baptist Church with us. And among his many experiences in life, he was once the vice mayor of a city in Tennessee, Clarksville, Tennessee. And he now refers to himself as a recovering politician. Absolutely. And I always like to just say on behalf of the public, we thank you. Government is a thankless job sometimes. sometimes, but we are told to honor our elected officials. So we do that now. And would you pray with me? God, thank you as I think about this room and the history of it, the many who have served even before this council, all the decisions that are made to make this city work. What a great city it is. And God, for those who are here in this room now that have been chosen, elected to serve this city. We thank you for them. For those who are serving tonight, even in the cold, to keep our streets safe and to make sure the lights are working at the stops and goes. And God, thank you for them. And God, may you give this room a spirit of wisdom and unity with a common goal to make this city the best that it can be. And we'll give you the honor for it. And God, thank you for a city also where we're free to worship. We're free to have a freedom of expression. And all races and all creeds and all beliefs can come together in unity, even here. And so it allows me to pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. Pastor, thank you so much. I routinely will say we offer you the invitation but not the obligation to stay with us. We know you're busy. Thank you so much, Ron. Next on our agenda, I'll ask for a motion to approve the minutes of the November 17th and January 29th council meetings. Is there a motion? So moved. A motion by Council Member Lamb and a second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on our agenda is the science fair recognition, the annual science fair recognition, and I'm going to swing around to the podium here for that, and we have this great audience with us tonight. That's why. All right. Well, once again, we have the special opportunity this evening to honor the winners of the Kentucky American Water Science Fair. and the Kentucky American Water Science Fair is celebrating its 31st anniversary this year. It's coordinated by the Fayette County Public Schools and this year's fair was held at Tate's Creek High School where more than 700 students in grades 4 through 12 competed. The Central Kentucky Regional Science and Engineering Fair will be held this February 28th at the University of Kentucky. So, representing Kentucky American this evening, we want to welcome Cheryl Norton, who is president of Kentucky American, and Susan Lancho, who is external affairs manager. Thank you all. And representing Fayette County Schools is David Helm, who is the learning and innovation specialist. David, thank you. You've been at this a long time. And also welcome to all the students and the parents and the friends, all of you. Okay, we have over 150 winners tonight, and that is a new record. In fact, we have so many winners and proud parents tonight that we're going to break our honorees into three groups, Elementary, middle, and high school. Now, we have certificates for everybody, but they will be retrieved. Those certificates will be retrieved downstairs in the lobby. The parents and the children will get theirs downstairs in the lobby. But we will recognize each school and the group in front of the horseshoe to get a picture. So, beginning with the elementary school students, I want you all to raise your hand. I'm going to try to get this right. I want you to raise your hand if you attend, and I'm going to call out each school. Raise your hand. Well, first they get you to come up front. Oh, that's right. See, I said I was going to try to get this right. They're coming in. All right. There we go. They're cycling in. Y'all can give them a round of applause as they come in. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So you guys know what it's like to be a celebrity now, don't you? Okay, now, I'm going to call out the name of the schools, and as I call out the name of your school, okay, raise your hand. All righty. So beginning, alphabetically, beginning with Ashland. Everybody in Ashland, raise your hand. All right. Congratulations. Athens Childsburg. Athens Childsburg. All right. Congratulations. Breckenridge. Breckenridge. Congratulations. Cassidy. Cassidy. All right. Christ the King. Congratulations. Glenn Dover. Congratulations. Woo. Big congratulations. Julius Marks. Julius Marks. All right. Lansdowne. Lansdowne. All right. Well, we're there anyway. Lexington Christian Academy. All right. Congratulations. Lexington Universal Academy. Lexington Universal, we're going to clap anyway. Maxwell, Maxwell. Metathorpe, congratulations. Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks. Sandersville, good job. Scappa. Scappa, all right. Four more. Stonewall. Good job. Tate's Creek. Tate's Creek. Veterans Park. Veterans Park. And Wellington. Congratulations. Okay, now I'm going to ask David Helm to recognize our overall winners for the fourth and fifth grades. Okay, we're going to do the pictures first, all right? So, Brenna? Ed Brullo's right here. Ed's right here. Ed, you're going to... Ed does a great... Ed's really good at this, y'all. You can tell. Did you see what that is? We can have the meal, too. That's okay. I think so. First picture of the year. First picture of the year. We might have. Yeah, this cute little guy with the suit on. Yeah. And this little girl, too. Good job. There you go. Oh, no. There you go. Thank you ladies. Good job. Okay, I just wanted to give a little bit of special recognition to the overall grade level winners that we had this year. In the fourth grade from Meadowthorpe Elementary was Dorothea Gow. Thank you. Thank you, Dorothea. And in the fifth grade from Cassidy is Menachie Ambadi. Okay. Okay, see you then. See you, buddy. We're losing a lot here. This is the big delegation, it looks like. . I can see there's a car. I think it's always the ones that you found. I don't think they're going to be the ones taking care of me. I'm going to get hands. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to ask you if you recognize the winner from Sure Thank you. All right, shortly we're going to have the middle school students cycle in. Parents are arriving. Thank you. Yes, no, I should have to she Thank you. Yeah. And you better notice that the quality of it gets a different . I think that's part of your office. You are correct there. It's good. It has nothing to do with the good time. It's good. All right. All right, okay. All right, here come the middle school students. Let's give them a round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. Leader. All right. You all should feel like celebrities for sure. Okay. Now what we're going to do is this. I'm going to call off the name of the school, beginning alphabetically. And will you all raise your hand if you go to that school that I call off the name for? Okay, got it? It's a deal? All right. Beginning with Beaumont. Okay, there we go. Congratulations, Beaumont. Bryan Station. Congratulations, Bryan Station. Carter G. Woodson Academy. Congratulations, guys. Christ the King. Congratulations. Eve J. Hayes, congratulations. Homeschool, congratulations. Lexington Christian Academy, congratulations. Lexington Traditional, congratulations. Congratulations. Lexington Universal Academy. Martin Middle School. Congratulations. Good job. Saints Peter and Paul. Scapa, School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Seton, Catholic School. Tate's Creek. Trinity Christian Academy. Winburn. Winburn. Congratulations. Okay, that gets it. Congratulations, everybody. Now I'm going to ask David Helm from the Fayette County Schools to please come back up, and David's going to recognize the winners for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. David? Thank you, Mayor. Okay, the overall grade-level winner for 6th grade from Morton Middle School was Evan Winkler. You have to love that middle school kid. You just see this hand, you don't see a body, so it's kind of fun. The 7th grader from Winburn was the overall grade-level winner for 7th grade is Kushi Borokar. And our overall eighth grade winner from Beaumont Middle School was Rachel Seavers. Now the photographs. He's done this before. He's done this before. Oh, take it in. We're past here. I got to turn to water. How about you? Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. You're done with the Alderman's. Yeah, you're done with that one, unless he decides that he decides to keep it. Thank you. and and everybody's He's between 8th and 9th grade, but he's right there. Oh, God. All right, man. Oh, let's break this way down. Very nice. Hold that. We're going to pop three of these, so everybody remain calm. Very good. Hold that. And one more for good luck. Very nice, guys. Hold that. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I said, which one was yours? Both tall kids in the back. I had one from elementary and one from... Wow! You did good! Thank you so much. You're right there. Thank you. Thank you. . . . . . Go, go, go. Thank you. All right. I think our high schoolers are now entering the chambers. Congratulations. Okay, guys, so this is the way we're doing it. I'm going to call out the name of the school. And when I call out the name of the school, if you'll please raise your hand so we can recognize each of you from the school. Okay, the first is Lexington Christian Academy. Thank you. Congratulations. And next is Locust Trace AgriScience. And next is Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Congratulations. And finally is Sayre School. I thought we had somebody. Nobody can say it. Okay. Okay. I'm going to ask David Helm from Fayette County Public Schools to come up and recognize the overall winner now from the high schools. And before he comes up, I'm going to share with you all that David said that he's been doing this now for 24 out of the 31 years that the Science Fair. Pardon? 24 out of the 31 years that the science fair has been in existence. And he said at the first year there were 25 entries and this year 660 entries. Wow. Thank you, Mayor. It's my honor. And this award is a big award, especially when we got to this level. This is the best of show. This is the top of the top of this category. And if you didn't have a chance to get to the fair, the projects were amazing. I mean, they're truly, truly amazing. And it's a real pleasure for me to recognize Daris Stanlin from Lexington Christian Academy. Daris. Okay, now we're going to get pictures. Okay, Ed. Okay, yeah. By the way, while Ed is organizing everybody, you all, certificates are downstairs, okay? You get your certificates downstairs. Right? That's it. I figured I could remember the one name. The other one just moved my way. Go right ahead. All right. Okay, thank you, John, everybody. All right, guys. Very nice. A smile. Thank you. Good. You got it. Hey. All right, one, two, three. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, just one final big clap for all of our winners. And a big thanks to Kentucky American and to our Fayette County Schools. Thank you. All right. Okay, now we can get back to the inspiring routine of the ordinances for a second reading. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. 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 42. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Approval. Second. It's a motion by Council Member Henson and a second by Vice Mayor Kay. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Scutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. And Mr. Brown? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to ordinances for a first reading. Madam Clerk, whenever you are ready. Ordinance number two, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified civil service position of administrative officer, grade 523E, and creating one unclassified civil service position of administrative specialist, grade 513N, in the office of the chief administrative officer appropriating funds pursuant to schedule number 44. And number three, 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 43. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for walk-ons or suspensions for second reads? All right. If not, then we can proceed to resolutions for a second reading. Resolution number one, a resolution accepting the bid of Crown Castle NG Central LLC doing business as Crown Castle in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 126-2014, creating and offering for sale a short-term franchise for the operation of a non-exclusive telecommunications system in Fayette County, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a franchise agreement with Crown Castle, incorporating the terms and conditions of Ordinance No. 126-2014. Number two, a resolution accepting the bid of Air Technologies in the amount of $27,020 for Air Compressor for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number three, a resolution accepting the bid of Paul Miller Ford in the amount of $18,533.64 for a 2015 Ford Focus for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number four, a resolution accepting the bids of Owens Communications, Inc., L&W Emergency Equipment, Inc., and First Response Technologies, LLC, establishing price contracts for vehicle equipment installation for the Division of Police. Number five, a resolution accepting the bids of Grogan's Incorporated and Boundtree Medical LLC, establishing price contracts for emergency medical supplies for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services. Number six, a resolution accepting the bid of L&W Emergency Equipment Incorporated, establishing a price contract for reflective vehicle decals for the Division of Police. Number seven, a resolution accepting the bid of Kalamazoo Flag Company in the amount of $64,085 for legacy trail flag poles for the Division of Engineering. Number eight, a resolution accepting the bid of Recreation Insights, LLC, establishing a price contract for wood fiber safety surface for the Division of Parks and Recreation. Number nine, a resolution accepting the bid of Montgomery Tractor Sales, Inc., establishing a price contract for tractor parts and accessories for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number ten, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number one to the agreement with Smith Contractors, Inc. for the Town Branch Wastewater Treatment Plant Vector Truck Unloading Station Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $81,998 from $310,000 to $391,998 and extending the contract term from July 31, 2014 through September 30, 2014. Number 11, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a donation from Mr. and Mrs. James Adkins of ceramic molds to be used by the Division of Parks and Recreation and various programs at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 12, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B Education Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grant to Bluegrass Green Source Incorporated at a cost not to exceed $30,000. Number 13, 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 surplus right-of-way located between 760 and 810 Montclair Drive to the abutting property owner. Number 14, a resolution approving pursuant to KRS 62.055 and Section 2255.1 of the Code of Ordinances the bond with surety of Donald W. Blevins, Jr., County Clerk, $400,000 and directing the Director of Risk Management to record the bond with surety along with a certified copy of this resolution in the Office of the Fayette County Clerk. Number 15, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute professional services agreements with Carrie Barnett, Susanna Moberly, Angela Wallace, Lauren Vincent, Melissa Young-Flynn, and Bridget Holleran as sexual assault nurse examiners 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 16, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County government to execute a software maintenance agreement and end-user license agreement with Horizon and Information Systems Incorporated for the representative payee software for the Department of Social Services at a cost not to exceed $586.50. Number 17, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the University of Kentucky for space in the University of Kentucky Hospital Emergency Room for use as a clinical practice area for the sexual assault treatment program at a cost not to exceed $3,000. Number 18, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute amended purchase of service agreements with Repairers of the Breach and Mission Lexington Incorporated, moving the Faith Pharmacy Services from Repairers of the Breach to Mission Lexington Incorporated at no cost to the urban county government. Number 19, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept donations of five Monkey Joe's admissions passes valued at $48, two Gaddy Town adult passes, two Gaddy Town game cards, and two Gaddy Town buy one get one free, Kids Buffet passes valued at $50, and two Chuck E. Cheese's passes valued at $60 for client incentives for families served by the Family Care Center. Number 20, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a partial release of easement, releasing a sanitary sewer easement on the property located at 4053 Elora Lane. And number 21, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary documents and accept a deed conveying a permanent easement across the property located at 4053 Elora Lane for a sanitary sewer line at no cost to the Urban County Government. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve the second reading? Move approval. Second. Motion by Council Member Henson, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Scotchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. And Mr. Brown? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move on to resolutions for our first reading. Whenever you're ready. Resolution number 22, a resolution accepting the bid of Classic Clean Pro LLC, establishing a price contract for Custodial Services Health Center for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number 23, a resolution accepting the bids of Lexington Quarry Company and Vulcan Materials Company establishing price contracts for rock for the Division of Streets and Roads. Number 24, a resolution accepting the bid of C.W. Nielsen Manufacturing Corporation establishing a price contract for police badges for the Division of Police. Number 25, a resolution accepting the bid of Lagco Incorporated in the amount of $278,900 for boiler replacement water softener for the Division of Community Corrections and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with lagco incorporated related to the bid number 26 a resolution accepting the bid of ads llc in the amount of 98 400 for capacity assurance program flow monitoring field services for the division of water quality and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with ads llc related to the bid Number 27, a resolution accepting the bids of Bluegrass Realty, Central Kentucky Turf Incorporated, Kodiak Construction and Engineering Incorporated, Landscape Supply and Design, Lexcut Lawn and Landscaping, Walker Harris Landscapes and Hardscapes LLC, Rights Home Improvement and Mowing LLC, and ZKB Services LLC, establishing price contracts for mowing and nuisance abatement for the Division of Code Enforcement. Number 28, a resolution accepting the bid of free contracting incorporated in the amount of $319,001.13 for the Hill and Meyer pump station decommissioning 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 29, a resolution accepting the bid of hydraulic specialists incorporated establishing a price contract for hydraulic cylinder repair for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number 30, a resolution accepting the bid of Building Crafts Incorporated in the amount of $1,899,543 for the Town Branch Wastewater Treatment Plant Processing Improvements for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Building Crafts Incorporated related to the bid. Number 31. Thank you. Permanent civil service appointments of Jonathan McCoy, vehicle and equipment mechanic, grade 512N, 15.874 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective December 30, 2014. Jeremy Hobbs, human resources analyst, grade 520E, 1,808.55 biweekly in the Division of Human Resources, effective February 25, 2015. And L'Ray Cole, child care program aid, grade 508N, 16.719 hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective August 10, 2014. ratifying the unclassified civil service pay increase in the office of the urban county council james waddell aid to council grade 518 e from 2100.80 to 2424 bi-weekly effective january 26 2015 and ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment to the office of the urban county council shante hall aid to council grade 518 e 2192.30 bi-weekly in the office of the urban County Council, effective February 9, 2015. Number 32, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offers to the following probationary civil service appointments. Robert Royalty, Vehicle and Equipment Mechanic Apprentice, Grade 510N, 13.879, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of council. Barry Brock, Engineering Bonds Officer, Grade 514N, 18.838, hourly in the Division of Engineering. Robin Thompson, Administrative Specialist Senior, Grade 516N, 20.629 hourly in the Department of Law, Charles O'Connell, Telecommunicator Supervisor, Grade 520E, 2019.55 biweekly in the Division of Emergency Management 911, and Jenny Cord, Telecommunicator Senior, Grade 516N, 20.769 hourly in the Division of Emergency Management 911, and Vanna Armstrong, Social Worker, Grade 513E, 1,606.63 biweekly in the Division of Family Services, all effective February 23, 2015. And authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offers to the following probationary sworn appointments. Ryan Bates, Joseph Dilger, Stephanie Edsel, Misty Marshall, Jason Crossley, and Ethan Payne, all community corrections officers, grade 110N, 14.530 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective March 2, 2015. Number 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Windburn Neighborhood Association Incorporated, $150, and Sandersville PTA, $250, for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 34, a resolution approving pursuant to Section 2255.1 of the Code of Ordinances, the bond with surety of Jim McKenzie, 2nd District Constable, $10,000, and directing the Division of Risk Management to record the bond with surety along with a certified copy of this resolution in the office of the Fayette County Clerk. Number 35, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an exchange of information agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, Office of Employment and Training, and Bluegrass Area Development District for the use of the Employee Kentucky Operating System for the Department of Social Services at no cost to the urban county government. Number 36, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the Bluegrass Area Development District to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $109,148 federal funds and are for the operation of Senior Citizen Center in fiscal year 2016, the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County Government for the expenditure of $181,158 and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 37, 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 surplus right-of-way located between 509 Pike Road and 1125 Red Mile Road to the abutting property owners. Number 38, a resolution approving the first material modification to the consent decree and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute the first material modification to the consent decree amending paragraph 15G7 of the consent decree to provide that the final deadline for all remedial measures, capital construction projects, shall be no later than December 31, 2026. Number 39, a resolution approving and authorizing an assistance agreement between the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government and the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide $31,801,000 of loan funds for the Town Branch Wet Weather Storage Tanks Project. Number 40, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a partial release of easement releasing a storm, sewer, drainage, and sanitary sewer easement on properties located at 3689 Polo Club Boulevard and 3693 Polo Club Boulevard. Madam Clerk, if you'll hold just a second. And Councilmember Farmer has a motion on number 41. Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend resolution number 41 pertaining to the property acquisition at 2401 Richmond Road to lower the stated amount from $2,020,000 to $1,820,000. So moved. Second. Motion by Councilmember Farmer and second by Councilmember Ford. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Resolution number 41 as amended. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a certificate of consideration and any other documents necessary and to accept a deed for the property located at 2401 Richmond Road for construction of a wet weather storage facility and authorizing payment in the amount of $1,820,000 plus usual and appropriate closing costs. Number 42, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $12,827 federal funds and are for the Fire Prevention Project Outreach Program. Number 43, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to donate to the Lexington Fayette Urban County Airport Board a 1986 Pierce Arrow fire engine, which has no more useful life for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an easement granting Columbia Gas of Kentucky Incorporated an easement for construction of a pipeline across a portion of the Gay Brewer Junior Course at Piccadome, located at 469 Parkway Drive. Number 45, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit three grant applications to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to provide any additional information requested in connection with these grant applications and to accept the grants if the applications are approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $228,136 federal funds, are for the Traffic Safety Program $77,873, the Speed Enforcement Project $60,063, and DUI Enforcement $90,200, 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 46, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement of affiliation with Bluegrass Crime Stoppers for authorization of funding by a $1 fee added to Fayette County court costs. Number 47, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Southern Police Institute for hosting investigation classes at a cost not to exceed $12,600. Number 48, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a three-year agreement with NAMI Lexington National Alliance on Mental Illness for initial funding for the Mental Health Court Project at a cost not to exceed $300,000. Number 49, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute contract modification number two to the Engineering Services Agreement with CDP Engineers Incorporated for the Loudoun Avenue Sidewalk Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $3,750 from $48,152 to $51,902. Number 50, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B Infrastructure Incentive Grant for stormwater quality projects to the Transit Authority of Lexington, Kentucky at a cost not to exceed $286,630. Number 51, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute Supplemental Agreement No. 6 with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the acceptance of additional funds for the Todd's Liberty Road Improvement Project in the amount of $438,000 for utility relocation, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds. No. 52, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute Change Order No. 1 to the agreement with Wood Connection LLC for the Pump Station Building Renovations Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $3,095 from $37,200 to $40,295. Number 53, a resolution changing the property address numbers of 3990 Briar Hill Road to 4000 Briar Hill Road, 490 Pilgrim Court to 484 Pilgrim Court, 484 Pilgrim Court to 490 Pilgrim Court, and 317 East 2nd Street to 319 East 2nd Street, and changing the street names and property address numbers of 1200 Red Mile Road to 1101 Windback Way, all effective 30 days from passage. And number 54, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with the Pearls of Foundation, Incorporated, $800, Omega Harvest Incorporated, $600, Lexington Rescue Mission, $820, Kentucky Chinese American Association Incorporated, $900, and the Well, Lexington Refuge Incorporated, $775, for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sums stated. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for walk-ons or suspensions for second reads? No motions to suspend. Oh, thank you, Council Member Henson. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules to give second reading to number 32. and this is so human resources can make the conditional offers and go ahead and hire these folks and get them working. Second. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Motion by Council Member Henson, second by Vice Mayor Kay. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And I have one more, Mayor. Yes, ma'am. I move to spin the rules and give second reading to number 48. And this has been a long time coming in my opinion, but we need to get this program up and running in the mental health court. So moved. Number 48, motion by Council Member Henson and second by Council Member Evans. 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. Anyone else wish to make a motion to suspend the rules and second read? All right. If not, then I'll ask the clerk to please give us a second read on those. Number 32 for second reading. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offers to the following probationary civil service appointments. Robert Royalty, Vehicle and Equipment Mechanic Apprentice, Grade 510N, 13.879 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective upon passage of counsel. Barry Brock, Engineering Bonds Officer, Grade 514N, 18.838 hourly in the Division of Engineering. Robin Thompson, Administrator Specialist Senior, Grade 516N, 20.629 hourly in the Department of Law. Charles O'Connell, Telecommunicator Supervisor, Grade 520E, 2019.55 biweekly in the Division of Emergency Management 911, and Jenny Cord, Telecommunicator Senior, Grade 516N, 20.769 hourly in the Division of Emergency Management 911, and Vanna Armstrong, Social Worker, Grade 513E, 1,606.63 biweekly in the Division of Family Services, all effective February 23, 2015, and authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offers to the following probationary sworn appointments. Ryan Bates, Joseph Dilger, Stephanie Edsel, Misty Marshall, Jason Crossley, and Ethan Payne, all community corrections officers, grade 110N, 14.530 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective March 2nd, 2015. And number 48. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a three-year agreement with NAMI Lexington National Alliance on Mental Illness for initial funding for the Mental Health Court Project at a cost not to exceed $300,000. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Move approval. Second. Motion by Council Member Hanson, second by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, then I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Ford? Yes. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Kay? Yes. Mr. Lane? Yes. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Scutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Recuse on item number 41, please. Thank you. And Mr. Brown? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to communications from the mayor. Move approval. We have a motion by Council Member Farmer to approve. Is there a second? Second. Second by, who was that? Council Member Evans. Thank you. 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 for information only, communications. And next is announcements. The floor is available to council members for announcements. Please sign up. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. There's a motion that should have been placed at everyone's seat before the meeting. There's a conversation that's been going on inside the administration, and I've had contact with it, and I know that Council Member Stenet has. they're wanting to spend or add more of a scientific approach to how we inspect our streets in order to repave them rather than using kind of a volunteer force we're going to go to more of a scientific opportunity so with that in mind I would like to move to place the issue of pavement management into the environmental quality and public works committee so moved so motion by councilmember farmer and a second by councilmember massadi everybody understand the motion all right 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, Council Member Farmer. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Unfortunately, I need to take my leave and go to a meeting on Lakeshore about some nefarious activity in that neighborhood. So I'm sorry I won't be here for the rest of the meeting, but I'm looking forward to Tuesday and to the discussion that should be in our packet, which I haven't seen our packet for Tuesday yet, that has to do with our wet-weather storage tanks and what that means to our physical horizon for the next couple of years. Thank you. All right, sir. Thank you. Anyone else wish to have provided an announcement? Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to put into the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee a motion to reduce the speed on Cromwell Way between Clay's Mill Road and Cornwall Drive to 25 miles per hour. So moved. Motion by Council Member Sadi and second by Council Member Henson. And this has already been given, been blessed by Traffic Engineering, and they have already recommended this. So I don't know if we want to move this on to the full committee, or it's the pleasure of the council to just go ahead and go forward with this at this time. Is that, okay, we have the motion, and we have a second on the motion to put it in committee. So we want to vote on that. Is there any discussion on that motion? All right. If not, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Masati, you want to? I was saying since we've already gotten the authorization, I've had it here since October, since it's been already agreed upon with traffic engineering since October, I just wanted if we could suspend the rules and just go straight to council and have that done at this time and take it out of committee. So moved. So there's a motion by Council Member Masati to remove it from committee and go ahead and vote on it. So is there a second? All right. Motion fails for lack of a second. Any further, anything further, Council Member Masati? So it does go into committee. That's fine. Thank you. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. All right. Does anyone else wish to take the floor for announcements? All right. If not, then that allows us to move to public comments, and I have Susan Delph who signed up for public comment. Ms. Delph. Hello again there. We thank you for cleaning up the community in. I hear there's no more bugs up there, but I'm not allowed to go back up there. I'm afraid to, as you can imagine. I come to you today, I've been discussing with your homeless department, which I haven't got back with yet, that he hasn't got back with me actually yet. I've been calling him at least four or five times this week. No response. He offered us last month pods, our tiny homes. This is what they look like. Got this from the public library. They're nice looking. Some of them want to buy them. But we have some questions. What are you going to do for the people who have families? You know, small children. What are you going to do with those? They won't fit in these. You have to climb up some ladders to get to the bed. and what are you going to do with people who cannot climb up ladders like myself because I've got a pulled ligament. I can't work. And what are you going to do with people who are in wheelchairs, who have a false leg also, and who are in walkers? They can't go in these houses. But we've got some ideas in this book to help out. you could stretch out the plan. It says so in this book. That's what we want to know. And where are you going to put it? That's not a big question they got. We're willing to pay money for these houses. Some of us want to rent. We're willing to put down $200 to $250 a month for them. because tenant services is not working out for us, as you know. They are defaulting on their contract. They pay out a deposit, and they say three months' rent. Well, when the money is out on the three months' rent, where are we going to go? Back on the streets. This is our only choice right now. We also want a meeting house. We also want to know if we could grow our own vegetables and teach them how to can them, preserve them for the winter. And we got some other ideas that we want to initiate with this to get these people back on where they need to be. because this is the third time I've been up here, as you all know. Susan, excuse me just a second. And we appreciate that you've been here before. And then you may know that there is a council rule for three minutes. That time has expired, but a council member may make a motion to extend your time. Is there a motion to extend the time from a council member? So moved. All right, we have a motion by Council Member Lane and a second. Second. We have a second unless there's objection. You can go ahead. Okay, thank you, sir. We have some ideas of what we want to do. We want to do some craft stuff for these people. Maybe we could sell them with the farmer's market over the summer, even on Facebook or eBay. We teach them how to crochet, knit, weave, sew. Might as well. Some people do it for a living. We could do this. Our ideas are big. We also want to start up the newspaper up again, the homeless newspaper. We got a name for it. We also want to start up the coffee shop. This is what they want to do. but we also got two shelters that we want to put up here too. One is a woman's shelter, which would be a great idea because you only have two here. But people like me who do not have an addiction problem cannot go to the Hope Center for women. And I should not be down Salvation Army again because that's mostly for addiction. We cannot have cell phones or laptops there. We are restricted. There is too many rules and regulations for all this. They need to update their policies. Plus, they also need to, it's more like being in the service. The Army, actually. We need some rules and regulations to say differently. But we definitely do need these tiny houses, or pods, as they're called. you think you all could do this for us we'd be willing to do this thank you thank you susan thank you thank you for those ideas i know charlie lanter is here if charlie it's up to you if you wish to comment we're doing well on time i just thought you might bring us up to date on things and maybe perhaps what susan is sure well we always appreciate feedback from folks and I did meet with Ms. Delph and a number of her friends a couple weeks ago and we'll continue that communication. As you all know and may have heard we had our annual homeless count last week where we went out into the community. We had over 50 volunteers that went out to various sites trying to identify how many folks we have both in the shelters and not you know out on the street. We did get some interesting results from that. We had just 37 people that we found that evening. It was not a particularly cold night, so that surprised us. We're still waiting on the final numbers from the shelters. They have a couple of weeks to submit that because it requires a lot more detail in their reporting. But that was some positive news. I think what I wouldn't go so far as to say it means our homelessness has decreased. Two years ago when we did this count, our numbers were about 1,400 across the community and 91 unsheltered. So we went from 91 to 37 over the past two years. But this is a point in time count. So there's a number of circumstantial things that could impact it. We know for sure there's at least 10 or 20 out there that we missed because they just weren't in their camp when we went by. So I think that was positive news. And I think that combined with our mental health court project that you approved this evening, that's actually already operating. It just needed the funds to go ahead and get the staff up and running. Housing First is probably within days of placing someone in housing. They've screened over 180 individuals in the community as potential clients for that. Of course, you know, we only have 20 slots, so what we're doing is assessing folks for risk and then prioritizing based on a research-based assessment. So I really feel like we're in a good place. Obviously, there's a ton of wonderful ideas out there that we can't do everything at first. A lot of this is going to take a lot of time, probably a number of years. So I appreciate that, and I'm always glad to answer any questions. Thanks, Charlie. And Ms. Delph, thank you for coming because you allowed Charlie to offer some comments and give us an update. No one else has signed up for public comment, Mr. Mundy. All right. So I'll ask for a motion to adjourn by Council Member Stentz, second by Council Member Scutchfield. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. Thank you.