Tell me how to curse I really hated myself because I couldn't stop and I just didn't know what was wrong with me, you know? It's like you're in this bad dream and you can't wake up from it almost. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. We got a quorum. Well, we got it. We have a quorum somewhere in the room. If we count liberally. If you're in the room, it counts. All right. councilman gibbs is on his way to his chair he's there one two three four five six seven eight yeah okay all right i'll call the meeting to order and first on our agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda mr mundy has anyone signed up for issues on the agenda no one signed up all right That allows us to go to a second item on our agenda, which is rezonings and docket approval. There's no docket required, no docket approval required this week. That allows us to move on to the summary. Is there a motion to approve the summary of the work session? Motion by Council Member Scotchfield, second by Vice Mayor Kay. 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, budget amendments. There are no budget amendments on the agenda today, which allows us to move on to new business. Is there a motion to approve, and then we'll ask for discussion. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion? Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I've been asked by the administration to have a motion to amend item D under new business to read as follows. Authorization to submit various applications to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Office of Local Programs and to the Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization requesting federal funds from the Transportation Alternative Program, TAP. TAP projects in Lexington are the Brighton Rail Trail Bridge, the West Hickman Trail South, the Legacy Trail Horse Park, If funded, this project will begin in fiscal year 2017 and will require a 20% local match. The funds requested are $5,475,187. The local match required would be $557,652. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Farmer. Thank you. And then just one more. A question on item E. This is for the design of the Old Frankfurt Pike Scenic Byway Viewing Area Project. And there's maps? There was no map in there, but that's not the reason I was asking, but thank you. I've got three. Okay. I've got three. Thank you. I feel lost out of that. But one map. I just know that in our Corridors Commission work for a while, Dr. Stevens was coming on behalf of a group that was trying to do this. Is this separate from his work or part of it in some way? I think maybe Irene would have. I don't think we're. I'm not sure. I think this is one that is a different, maybe a different group. I'm not exactly sure. Do you think it is? All right. Well, proceed with a little bit of commentary about it then if you would. Well, from what this is a, this was an outside submission, okay, for an outside group, which is possible in TAP applications. This is one that we are funding or we are managing the project. And in terms of, if you can ask me a little specifics, I can tell you a little bit more, but the total cost is around $600,000. And at this point we are, I think the design is going to be around $45,000, $48,000. So this is a project that we are managing through engineering. The design, if you go to slide three, so this is just to give you an overview there. Slide two is a little bit more. There's a little bit more of the actual design of it. Okay. All right. Where it will be. This works, but in the conversations he had with us, this is going to be kind of catty-cornered across the traffic circle from where this is. This looks like a better location for it. Right. So this is the latest that we have in terms of the location, and that is design. I believe the design should be bid out here. I think it is done, but we should be able to get it moving here pretty quickly. Again, the estimate is the design will be about $48,000 from CMW with a total cost of around $600,000. And what part of that are we going to bear? I believe this may be something Irene can help on in terms of the match. Hello, Irene. Yes. Part of the match will be documentation of the value of the land that's been donated for it. The rest of it the state of Kentucky will provide. Okay. Very good. Thank you. And, Commissioner, congratulations on nailing down the best parking spot in the structure. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Just a clarification probably on C item. On the authorization, Kentucky law requires the urban county government and notify each property owner by certified mail of a proposed increase. If there's no proposed increase, which there's not, is that correct? We don't have to notify? So this is not what you voted on in the last couple months. This is the annual update that we do for new development where they have moved from one tax district into another by the kinds of services we will be providing them. That's all that this is, and all we're asking is the authorization to go ahead with the schedule that we've laid out. Oh, okay, so you're doing certified mail for this specific, so it's not carte blanche or anything like that. That's all I need. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Council Member Sadi. Thank you, Mayor. Derek, I apologize. You were up here once already, but that's why you're in such good shape. On E, again, can you just give me a little bit more background on that? I've kind of forgotten. And I know that's going to be like a, obviously it is a view shed, just sort of a viewing area where they can kind of see the general area. So it's vehicle. You're saying pull off and you kind of look, it's an overview or an overlook kind of a location. Again, this was submitted by the neighborhood out in that general area and was awarded. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. If you could ask Commissioner Holmes to come up, I appreciate it. I've got a question on this. Commissioner Holmes. Let's see again. Maybe I can get a picture of two. Commissioner, I just need to get a clarification, and this has been going on for years, and I never really got a real answer, but I thought any new development that goes on in this city is required to go on our local city pickup. and all the roads are supposed to be up to standard and all that. Is that true or not true? Because I've had neighborhoods, new neighborhoods being built that I go out there and I don't see a city pickup or Herbie's, but I thought we passed this a long time ago that we required that all new development has to be on city pickup. I'm unaware of that, and I will look into that to you and get back to you. I don't know the answer to that. I think that clarified, I think it's not just for me, but for a lot of council members, because I get this daily. They want to know why they're not on the city pickup when they put in a house that's been built in the last five years. And I'm always told that anything being built has to be on the city pickup. I'll get back to you on that. Thank you. Councilmember Hensley. Back to me. If Commissioner Paulson will come back up for just a second. What is the time frame once you guys get through with the design on this to be projected to be done? Well, that's one of the great things about these. In terms of if you're asking about the individual tap projects, the Brighton Rail Trail, as well as the, I think, in terms of West Hickman, I don't believe there's much right away. The way all this works, the parts that kind of slow things down are right away and utilities relocation. So it's going to be highly dependent on those issues in this case. Legacy, I'm not, and this is another one, I'm not sure where the, in terms of, the design gets us the right away and utility, or basically tells us what utilities we need to relocate and what costs may be associated. We have an estimate with it. We have to work with utilities companies in terms of those relocations. Same thing with West Hickman in terms of Brighton, there shouldn't be much. But with Brighton, you're talking about a bridge. which will take a considerable more time, I would think, than just putting down concrete in an area. And, again, some of the issues you deal with, each one is slightly different. I do have images of each one if you want to take a look and see where they are. But they'll all have their own different design challenges. The West Tickman one, which is over by Veterans Park Elementary, will have probably some grade changes, may not have the utilities relocations, but may take some of those, may take some more time just in terms of how that construction goes. And, again, when we get notice of award, we'll determine when we, like, if we get notice of award, say around now, this time next year, which could be earlier, could be later. The awarding season and how quickly we can get things bid and a contract sign will determine whether or not we can start construction in the fall, in the summer, in the spring. So it is a little bit dependent on those issues. Cool. That's all I need is to just try and get a picture of what time this is going to interrupt people and those kind of things. Hopefully not too much. But I think with every construction project there will be a bit of disruption. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Councilman Maloney. Commissioner, I need to ask something about the trails. Is this, by veteran part, is this the last part we're talking about, the money to go through that bike trail through that area? For which one, sir? Is it the south? Southwest, the West Hickman? West Hickman Trail South. Is that close? Put it back up again, if you would, Chris. it is it's not fully connected I'll show you where it is it's the fourth one down so there's two parts to this West Hickman there it is so the red area is where the Southwest Hickman Trail that's the part that we have submitted for this grant this is kind of nearest Veterans Park the park going towards the school the northern part there is not funded and it has not been submitted This is one that there has been more of a concern from the neighborhood, and will take a little while. If you're talking about building the entire system, it will still take a while before we can do that. Okay, what I'm trying to get now, a few years ago before I became council member or CEL, I had a neighborhood over there. Is this the neighborhood that they would claim that they've been taken care of? The north section. So the top part is the one that the neighborhood, if you're talking about the neighborhood that was resistant to the trail? There was a neighborhood that resisted the trail being built. That is the northern part of this, the top mountain. We'll go through the park. The part that we were funding is the part that there was not a neighborhood resistance to. My advice for you is to be sure that you all get the neighbors involved. Right. No, we have. I don't want to sit here. That's what we have. The northern part of the West Hickman Trail is the part where the neighborhoods have resisted. Okay, but just make sure you verify these neighborhoods because I just know they're ready, and I just don't want it to surprise them. That's all I ask for. Right. No, that's all part of the process when we go through in the selection of these for TAP grants is going through with the different divisions as well as the BPAC group from the MPO trying to determine, you know, again, not just which ones we think will get funded, but which ones make the best connections and which ones are a little bit easier to actually get done. Okay. Thank you. So it's all taken into consideration. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Derek, I'm sorry. I just know that the trails are very, very popular, but could these funds also be used for other things? The traffic alternative program is, for the most part, it is associated with trails and off-road trails. There are CMAP grants, which is congestion mitigation, which can be used for other things. The TAP grants are not solely for trails, but they are more likely. It's a narrower scope, which really lends itself to trail applications. The thing I was curious about is, you know, we have many of our older neighborhoods, and we've had this discussion about sidewalks needing repaired, and I was just curious of trying to think of ways that we could accomplish that, too. I know the trails are extremely popular, but yet I think we have some other basic needs. There are some potentials with that. I think there are some limitations in the way the grant is written in terms of either both a TAP or a CMAQ, but those are things that we have tried for in the past, and we could possibly, again, the way that we, I think it would depend on the stretch of sidewalks and the length of sidewalk that we would be submitting rather than just doing small segments. I think if we had a more consistent, longer length that we would be trying to put in, that might be more attractive to the state and feds. So is there someone working on this? In terms of sidewalk plans? Yes. Okay. And we should be bringing that, I believe, it's in planning, maybe environmental quality in October. We're going to come and talk about some of those things. I believe that's at the request of Council Member Stinnett. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Paulson. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Looks like that's all the council members who've signed up for discussion on the motion. If there is no further discussion, then we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next on our agenda is continuing business and presentations. And first is NDFs. Is there a motion to approve the NDF? So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Massadi, second by Council Member Scutchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. That was just to move on to council reports. If your council members will please sign on electronically, and I will call on you. Council Member Fred Brown. Oh, all right. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I just have two items to place into committee as a result of our CAL from last week, The first of which is to place the Rural Trade Center presentation, kind of an update on when the Rural Trade Center is and what they're doing, into the Budget, Finance, and Economic Development Committee. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Bledsoe. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. And the second one is for the SCORE agency, which has also received funding from the city to also give an update, an annual update. So moved. Okay. Motion by Council Member Bledsoe, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. First, I have a question. I'm not sure. I guess probably Derek. Sorry, Derek. I actually had a question over the weekend when I shared, I posted an update about the Thistle Station development. And then someone asked me, well, what's going on with Newtown Pike Extension? And I know that we recently, we had a presentation, and I believe it's this fiscal year is the funding. I looked up MPO docs, and I tried to look up the Newtown Pike Extension website, and it has not been updated to current. So I just wondered if you have any information, and if you don't, I can ask. I do. Okay. So what I have. On the timeline for phase two. We should be doing construction, should start in 2016 with an anticipation of completion 2017. Those are kind of fungible dates, but that's where we are at this point. And let me see what if I can find a little bit more. And it's early next year. It's to be bid in September was what is the latest time. Right, this year. This September, correct. So I think it's early next year. I think it is. I think the idea with bidding in September is you don't have a lot of construction time. It is going through KYTC in terms of the bidding. So with that being led this month, in terms of getting the contract, this is kind of what I was talking about with Council Member Hensley. When this goes through, by the time we actually get the contract, we will probably miss this construction season. Sure. But it should be starting up in early 2016. That is our hope. And then getting that section finished by 2017. Okay. Great. Thank you very much for that. And then I have just two announcements or comments. First of all, I wanted to thank our parks department and everybody involved in recent festivals that were held at Masterson Station Park. We had both Crave and Moon Tower Music Festival this past weekend. Thousands of people were on hand for both events, attended both of them, and I attended one of them. And it was a great event, and I know that our parks staff, that was extra work for them and everybody involved. So I'm really glad to see Masterson utilized for large events like this, and I want to thank everybody that came out and attended them as well. So thank you. And lastly, it was mentioned in the last committee meeting, but tonight the Parks Department is hosting an aquatics town hall meeting for everybody to give input on the future of our aquatic system here in Lexington. And so that will be held in the 2nd District at Imani Baptist Church at 6 o'clock. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member Akers. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I have another committee referral. I move to refer to the Planning and Public Safety Committee, a review of nuisance ordinances, particularly those in Chapters 11, 12, and 17 of the Code of Ordinances. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Gibbs and a second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Gibbs, that's it. All right. Okay, sir. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to encourage my colleagues to visit the new international center that officially opened. It's been open, I guess, for a couple of months, but it officially opened Friday morning. And I was actually so blown away at the culture, the different cultures that were there. Thank you, Mayor, for being there. I didn't publicly thank you that day, and I apologize for that. But Isabel Taylor and CAO Hamilton played a big part in getting that up and running. But they had Cuban singers, Congo folks from Congo singing and Asian dancers. And it was just a very fabulous event. And I'm like, I want to do this every week. But everyone that was involved with that, I just think it makes Lexington that much more progressive. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple of things. I want to remind, I mentioned this today at our committee meeting, I want to remind everyone about the aquatics town hall meetings tonight at Imani and on Thursday night at Clay's Mill Elementary School. Come out and let us know what you're looking for in the aquatics system in Lexington and where you think we need to improve and put stuff in. And number two, I have coffee with Congressman Barr tomorrow morning at 7.15 at the Panera on Richmond Road. Come on out, Ben, bright and early. See if I'm awake. 7.15. And then I also have a couple of things to put into committee. I believe a couple of things, non-financial, we discussed. Lyric Theater and Lex Arts, I think they're kind of combined. But those two items, I believe, into budget and finance to review, basically, because we've changed the way that they're done, trying to make sure we take a look at, and correct me, because this was you, take a look at expenses versus income, correct? Was Kentucky Theater in that too? Okay, so it was Kentucky Theater, Lyric Theater, and Lex Arts. Okay, so those three things. Something that Council Member Maloney brought up a couple of weeks ago, and I had kind of not thought about it until I had several constituents and other people in the area mention it. But, Mayor, is there any consideration being given for trick-or-treat holiday this year because of the activities that are going on? Sorry, I've got lots of kids. You want to vote on that? I have a motion first, and then I'll let you. Okay. Discussion. Wait a minute. There's no motion yet. No, she motioned. Oh, you didn't make a motion? The vice mayor has seconded. Second, I believe. Oh. Yeah, this is the place. The place that's things that you can get. Oh, okay, okay. So we've got that. Before we get to that. All right. So there was a motion, then there was a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Councilman Farmer. So we're placing these in budget finance to review them in what capacity? Councilman, would you help me out? Sure. Okay. The committee meeting earlier today. I wasn't going to mention that it was discussed at the community of the whole. Oh, yeah, we have those. We do. Most of the discussion was formed in that a lot of these groups get money from the city without giving an annual report. Commerce Lex comes and gives an annual report once a year. Other groups do that, and we don't have these same now budget items or what we're considering to be economic development agencies of the city don't have that same accountability. Very good. So we're going to provide some accountability. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. And if I can clarify, this also came from the budget links. And so that's why I think the one that Councilmember Bledsoe was in had done the presentation for that. But I had offered to take it to committee. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Thank you, sir. Now, Councilmember Scottsville. Oh, what was it? Oh, yeah. Halloween. Halloween. I think we've. Oh, yeah. The motion. The motion. There's another motion? We have to vote on that motion, right? All in favor. You got me all distracted there. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. And now I apologize. The other thing. And I've just heard concern that people have been talking about it amongst themselves, and there are concerns. I guess it's just, have we thought about what we're going to do? Or if we're just going to keep it the same? Council Member Farmer wishes to speak. Somewhere Kevin Sinner is throwing something on the television right now. All right. I had comments about this early on and raised them here a couple times and got no traction. And then Richard raised this, I guess, two weeks ago. And got a little bit of traction, got a little bit of something in the paper about it. And, you know, and this goes, the first one I remember was when Halloween was going to be on Sunday, and Al Mitchell didn't want to have Halloween on Sunday. And probably the most valuable or among the most valuable lessons that then Mayor Pam Miller taught me was Halloween is on Halloween. I mean, there's always going to be reasons, valid reasons, safety reasons. Now, the mayor changed it up two years ago for a valid weather reason, I believe. Yes. Wasn't there a monsoon or a hailstorm? There was a monsoon over it, yes. Back to my point, Halloween is on Halloween. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Okay. I got a comment on that. You don't need to come to the podium. You coming to the podium regardless? You don't need to. I want to. You don't have to. Go ahead. I appreciate Council Member Farmer's comments. I would say that I've been over this several times at the police and traffic engineering. In fact, we found that normal day traffic counts are higher on Thursday and Friday than they are on Saturday. It's sort of hard to predict what might happen that weekend because you've got Breeders' Cup events all week long leading up to and to race days. so all that said we're looking for an alternative option for people who cannot trick-or-treat on saturday so to be determined exact plans but we will uh we'll be announcing something hopefully early october but there's no change in halloween no change in trick or trick or treat right all right i got a comment council member is there there's no motion but i guess we can Okay. I want to talk on the same issue. Okay. I mean, I appreciate Jamie coming up saying what it is. And I'm not trying to – I'm more concerned about the safety of these kids in these certain neighborhoods, which will be around the U.K. football time, which will go through a lot of districts. It would go through my Peggy district. It would go through the 8th and the 4th and the 5th and all that. The thing that I did find out, everybody said Friday was going to be a bad night because of high school football. But I've been told that the open night for a lot of footballs, they're going to have a night off that night. And that's just to let you know that there are not going to be a lot of football games in Fayette County that Friday night. So, and I know the football game may be at 12 o'clock in the afternoon or it may be 8 o'clock. No one's come up with the football. But I just want to be sure, and I put my trust on you guys, the police and all that, but I just feel like those neighborhoods are going to have a lot of kids that are running in for trick-or-treat. If there's a ball game at 8 o'clock that night and the Breeder Cup gets out at 530, it's going to take two hours for everybody to get out of that kingdom. And they're going to be, and it goes back to what I said, nobody's going to use the main drag because traffic's going to be so bad. The only alternative is to go through these neighborhoods. And you all, your council members for those areas know that. And that's why I brought it up to make sure that you all would like to know if that's really the best time for it or not. But from what you were the administration saying, and you all have wanted to make the final decisions that you want to leave it on Halloween night. But I just wanted to clarify that Friday night there will be a lot of open days for the football game. So Friday might be better. We've examined this pretty closely. And I tell you that what I said the last time is there are no good options. It's going to be challenging whatever night we do it. And that's true today just as it was a month ago when we talked about it the last time. But I would say that Keeneland has put an emphasis on transit. They are not expecting a lot of traffic out at Keeneland during the Breeders' Cup because of the bus transit. And in terms of leaning on our police, I think Chief Barner can tell you a little bit more about staffing levels and what he's planning. When you said a lot of traffic, you mean excessive beyond normal Keeneland activities? I believe the way they put it is that they are discouraging people from driving to Keeneland. They'd rather them take transportation from one of the major parts. Public transportation. Or scheduled transportation. Scheduled transportation. Okay. Chief Barnard. Yes, sir. So we're looking at options for everyone in Fayette County. This is a topic that not everyone will be pleased with. I understand that. There are parents that want to go to Breeders' Cup. There are parents that want to go to the U.K. football game. There are parents that want to trick-or-treat on a certain night compared to the others. But we have to be prepared as public safety for all contingencies. We are prepared for that. I can't tell you today what time the U.K. football game is. No one can. We won't know that 10 days out from the football game. So it's tentatively scheduled at one time, but we've had it before where because of ratings or schedules or records, they move it to a different time. So if I change it today and UK football game changes from 10 days to now, we might be back in this conversation again. So I guess what I ask, I ask all Fayette Countyans, I ask the council, and just to give us a little bit of lead ways so that we can plan for all the contingencies. We've built in every one of those contingencies, whether it's an afternoon football game, an evening football game, or providing another alternative for people in Fayette County to go to a centralized place and trick-or-treat on another evening. So we're trying to be accommodating in public safety as much as possible. It'll take a little bit of time, but I think as we get near October, we'll have more resolution to this. But we are prepared for any night that we have to staff this. We are capable, and Commander Maynard's in the back with our special operations. We've looked at the 31st for everything that we're doing that day, and we feel comfortable with our staffing levels. Thank you, Chief. All right. Councilmember Evans. Thank you, Mayor. This is also an issue that just came out of the links that was also discussed in the Cal. I would move to place into the Public Safety Committee. We can discuss that. A review of reducing the high turnover in the detention center personnel. That was a concern as they came out of the link. So I would make that motion. Second. Motion by Council Member Evans. Second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Akers. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. First, I wanted to invite the entire Council to the next Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee meeting. And just take a moment to review that when we have a committee meeting, all are invited. And like today, I didn't make it down to the general government meeting. I got to watch part of it. But all council members can be part of all discussions. They just may not be able to vote at that meeting because they're not part of the committee roster. So on September 8th, we're going to get our paving list information to the individual council members. And so you'll have a week to review that before we take it up, it and the whole paving summary, if you will, from the work that's been done over the summer to see about making decisions, in my opinion, as quickly as possible because we're at the time where if paving is going to be done, it's going to have to be done fairly quickly in the fall here, and some of it will not get done until the spring. But the faster we can review our lists, look at the new methods and opportunities that will be presented to us in terms of what gets paved or what gets fixed in a different way than before, The quicker we make those decisions, the faster that that $10 million can begun being spent across all 12 districts. So you'll get your lists on the 8th. We'll have our committee meeting on the 15th, and you're all invited. Certainly the 12 will be here would be my thought. Everybody else is always welcome. Also that day, we'll be taking up kind of the second version of the snow removal plan, which we've had some great follow-up meetings to submit some changes to that presentation based on input from the council. They asked us what we wanted, and I think they're trying to groom to that because I think, you know, one of the things we're doing subtly with this plan is taking Lexington away from town a little bit more to city. And we're looking at more road miles. We're looking at dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs, and we're looking at sidewalks. We're looking at doing things to a certain degree vastly differently, but we're going to have to decide as a group to what level of funding we want to go based on what we think the winter is going to be like. But in this second iteration, I think they're going to give us some options, which we ask for that will give what I've termed measured responses based on the amount of snow or the amount of cold after the snow or the situation in between the snow. so that we can be kind of dynamic so that every time we start out, we won't go and mobilize everything for a one-inch or two-inch snow. As we get more snow, we'll have different answers, and we'll go over that in the committee setting on the 15th. So there's two really important discussions that will affect really the entire council and the city of the city and the county. So I just wanted to kind of give you all that background and kind of my thought on we've had a little bit of back and forth lately about how our committees do or don't work and who's there, who's not there, and we pull some things out and put them before the full council. If you let the committee system work, it is a very efficient system. It gives all a chance to participate, and when things come forward, they are, in my opinion, kind of ready to go. All right. At the end of last week, I was still reeling from the opportunity of having the community in and the Catholic Action Center combine themselves into the 5th District. when I received an early phone call kind of the next morning that Kroger on Romney was going to close. Now, this is the Kroger that I grew up going to. This is the Kroger I take my mom to. This is the place that, you know, there's a lot of pent-up demand for this to not close. And I've spent some time with the mayor, talked with the developer, talked with Kroger a little bit, And I don't believe we can have an impact on an organization the size of Kroger. I think personally, though, I would just say I'm disappointed in at least the timing of this. Because, I mean, the one Friday I was at the ribbon cutting for the newly revamped Kroger in Shinoahe Village. The next Friday I'm getting a call saying, your favorite Kroger's closing, we're sorry. So I think it's all about moving forward. It's about seeing what can next go in there because that's going to be a large area without, in my opinion, a walkable neighborhood market in it. So we're going to work as a group within the community to kind of help direct that or help them get along so that we can find someone new and get something else in there. Because if that remains dark and unused, that's a blight on that neighborhood. and it's going to cause a real problem for some folks who really have been able to, for a couple of generations, walk there and get what they need and walk home. So I'm looking forward to working with several parties on that, but just wanted to speak about it here just for a few moments. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. And Council Member Baloney is up next. Thank you, Mayor. As we all know, this weekend is the first game of football season for the Kentucky Wildcats and the new stadium. And I was hoping that, I guess, Chief, if you can give us a little bit of information. I know we've got a roundabout over there on LOMA that I guess you've been working with the University of Kentucky on how we're going to get the cars in and out. And does the public know? I mean, it's the first time we're ever going to be using these roundabouts. So have we got it pretty marked? Are we working with the paper to show where everybody can come in? because there's going to be less parking than there's ever been there before. Since they've done this reconstruction of the whole football stadium, a lot of parking would have been taken out. And there's going to be more parking in the neighborhoods. There's going to be more parking in places where it's probably not legal. But I am concerned about how we're going to get people in and out. And I assume this is a new wave because of the roundabouts. And we're going to work with the press to get this message out like, I mean, we do before each game that they have children new to where they go in at. Yes. Yes. There is a press conference scheduled later on that will address that with the new roundabout, the parking and getting people in and out in cooperation with Lexington and with the University of Kentucky. And we have that scheduled later on in the week to present all that information and get it out to everybody. So we still have our traffic plan in place. We're expediting traffic in and looking at how to expedite people in and out of the stadium. So we're working with UK on that, and we should have that in a press conference here soon. Well, I didn't mean to jump the gun, but it's just Tuesday. I figured since we're not going to be here Thursday, so I brought it up. But the other thing is, Derek, if you've got your folks ready for code enforcement to go around and meet, well, since there's a lot of new tenants there now, and before you all would have literature going around before each game to show what they have to do with the Herbies and all that, I mean, the games are going to be at night. We've got three games in a row that are going to be played at night, I believe. So have you already sent your folks out there to educate that new area? Yes. God, this is just a great day. We did. We do this with, again, coordinating with solid. They're going to be at a press conference too? Yeah. They're part of it. They're part of it. So this is part of the game day press conference. So they have. They've already put the door hangers out in the U.K. neighborhoods, which we do every year. I believe they went out, if not last week, the week before. for just alerting new students in these neighborhoods about the process, about what you can and cannot do, what is illegal, and what, you know, from a police standpoint, as well as what is a code enforcement violation. So we've hung all the door hangers, and we will be part of that game day conference as well. Okay, I just, I mean, I'm excited about the team this year. There's a lot of optimistic that we may do better than we have. We're always optimistic in August. And when we do well, the fans let us know. So I just want to be sure we're ready prepared. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to acknowledge some neighborhood residents that made it to the council meeting today from William Wells Brown Neighborhood Association. And then I also wanted to thank you, Mr. Mayor and Vice Mayor, for coming out to Duncan Park on Saturday to the Centennial Celebration. Excuse me. The Centennial Celebration was actually a real good example of collaboration. I don't want to go in and start naming all the partners because then I'll leave somebody out and they'll be mad at me. But between the neighborhood associations and the community partners, Park and Rec, the band, it turned out to be a real nice event. It was pretty well attended until that rain came and kind of flushed us out for a minute. but I think we recovered well and still had a pretty nice event. And I'd also like to thank my aide, Tiffany Tatum. She put a lot of work in, and she's seen it coming when we first start planning it, but I didn't think it was going to be such a burden on her, but she was a real trooper and got us through it. But, yeah, I just wanted to publicly thank you for coming out and everybody involved with making that event possible. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. i have a committee referral that i forgot to mention earlier so sorry um i would like to refer the role of the downtown development authority in its projects to the budget finance and economic development committee so moved motion by councilman acres second by councilman scotchfield is there any discussion on the motion all right if not all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries thank you councilman hensley well it's been a quick week that uh i've been here and picking up uh new information i want to report out that uh this morning i met with the board members of fayette alliance to pick up some of these issues on the recreational zota and hearing some constituency points of view on that making some good progress I think and invite everyone to the legislative lunch for Farm Bureau where most of my constituents live in September 28th I think I have a invitation here that was handed to me today see you all there and the other comment that I have I know before I got into council there was a an issue with the drones being taken into one of the committees. And then yesterday in the Herald-Leader, we had the front page in a well-written series of articles discussing the drone that landed on top of the 5th, 3rd building. And to caution some of the members that are in that committee at the unintended consequences of trying to regulate the drones because they are considered aircraft. And so something that we might place restrictions on the ground because we can't regulate the airspace and those committees may impact some of the operations of our law enforcement. So, you know, we just have to be careful. I'm not in that committee, I don't think. So I just wanted to throw it out there while we're all here together to, you know, be cautious with that. And that's all I have. All right, sir. Thank you, Council Member Hensley. Any other council members, that's all who signed on. Nobody else wishes to speak. Then that allows us to move on to the mayor's report. There's no mayor's report this week. And that allows us to move on to public comment for issues not on the agenda. Mr. Mundy's not here. I don't have anyone that's signed up for issues not on the agenda. They crossed out. So that allows us to move to, unless there's any further business, I'll accept a motion to adjourn. Motion by Council Member Soddy, second by Council Member Scotchfield. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. Thank you.