# Urban County Council Meeting - June 16, 2015 > Auto-transcribed civic record · June 16, 2015 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/3685 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/3685?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2015-06-16 - **Last revised**: July 15, 2026 - **Length**: 555 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council met on June 16, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at 200 E. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507. Mayor Gray presided over the meeting, which included three agenda items. The council took one motion to a vote during the session. No public comments were heard during the meeting. The agenda included a first reading of an ordinance, along with announcements and a public comment period. ## Attendance **Present:** Stinnett, Akers, Bledsoe, Fred Brown, James Brown, Evans, Gibbs, Henson, Kay, Lamb, Lane, Maloney, Massadi, and Gutchfield. **Absent:** Farmer. **Late arrivals:** None. ## Votes and Decisions **Ordinance 0812-15** [timestamp: 00:07:23] The council voted on the first reading of the FY16 Budget, which included appropriations, a capital improvement program for FY2016–2021, and funding for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Tourist and Convention Commission at 99.5% of transient room tax revenue. The motion was made by Lamb and seconded by Scutchfield. The ordinance passed unanimously with no abstentions. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed funding allocation for tourism promotion in Lexington-Fayette. **Tourist and Convention Commission Funding** Ordinance 0812-15 appropriated 99.5% of the revenue from the Transient Room Tax to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Tourist and Convention Commission. This funding mechanism directs nearly all revenue collected through the transient room tax directly to support the commission's operations and tourism-related activities. ## Ordinance – First Reading [timestamp: 00:05:48] The Council conducted the first reading of Ordinance 0812-15, presented by Lamb. This ordinance appropriates revenues, expenditures, and interfund transfers for multiple funds across the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016. The ordinance addresses three primary matters: - **Budget Appropriations**: The ordinance establishes revenues, expenditures, and interfund transfers across various funds for the upcoming fiscal year. - **Capital Improvement Program**: The ordinance approves the Capital Improvement Program for the period FY2016–2021. - **Transient Room Tax Allocation**: The ordinance allocates 99.5% of transient room tax revenue to the Tourist and Convention Commission. The first reading was completed without additional discussion or noted concerns. The ordinance will proceed to subsequent readings before final adoption. ## Announcements No announcements were made during this portion of the meeting. ## Public Comments No public comments were submitted during this portion of the meeting. [timestamp: 00:07:23] --- ## Decisions - **Ordinance 0812-15** — passed: First reading of the FY16 Budget, including appropriations, capital improvement program for FY2016–2021, and funding for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Tourist and Convention Commission at 99.5% of transient room tax revenue --- ## Full transcript The The End ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ Hello, everybody. greetings that clock's wrong by the way sorry about that martha our clock's off a little bit it's 304 it's 304 oh that's right for two well no that's it was for an hour okay all right well hello everybody and i'll call the meeting to order Well, actually, before the work session, we will have a council meeting with one agenda item, the first reading of the budget on it, but we'll go through the routine protocols of the roll call. And Martha, if you'll call the roll. I'm going to call the council meeting to order now and ask the clerk to please call the roll. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Here. Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Lane? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. And Ms. Gutchfield? Here. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next on our agenda is first reading of the ordinance. Ordinance number one. An ordinance appropriating the revenues, expenditures, expenses, and interfund transfers for the General Services District Fund, the Tenant Relocation Fund, the Full Urban Services Districts Fund, the Police Confiscated Federal Fund, the Police Confiscated State Fund, the Public Safety Fund, the Municipal Aid Program Fund, the Miscellaneous Special Revenue Fund, the Police-Confiscated Treasury Fund, the Lexington Jobs Fund, the Affordable Housing and Homelessness Fund, the Fiscal Year 2016 Bond Projects Funds, the Sanitary Sewer Revenue and Operating Fund, the Sanitary Sewer Construction Fund, the Lexington Fayette-Irban County Government Public Facilities Corporation General Fund, the Lexington Fayette-Irban County Government Public Facilities Corporation Parks Projects Fund, the Water Quality Management Fund, the Water Quality Management Construction Fund, the landfill fund, the right-of-way program fund, the extended school program fund, the prisoner's account fund, the enhanced 9-1-1 fund, the central Kentucky 9-1-1 fund, the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government Public Library Corporation Fund, the city employees pension fund, the police and fire retirement fund of the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Government, the medical insurance fund, the property and casualty claims fund, and the reallocation of bond project funds. On a divisional level by four control levels for the fiscal year ending june 30 2016 for the lexington fayette urban county government and its agencies and instrumentalities approving and adopting the capital improvement program for fiscal years 2016 through 2021 as a portion of the fiscal year 2016 annual capital improvements budget and approving funding for the lexington fayette urban county tourist and convention commission from the transient room tax said funding to equal 99.5 percent of the revenue from the tax thank you madam clerk next on our our agenda announcements are there any announcements all right next on our agenda is public comments mr. money anybody signed up for a couple of cut public comments thank you all right if not then I'll accept a motion to adjourn is there a motion motion by council member lamb second by council member henson is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none unless there is objection we are adjourned the council meeting is adjourned and that allows us to move to the work session i'll call the meeting to order and