# Council Work Session - September 22, 2015 > Auto-transcribed civic record · September 22, 2015 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/3774 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/3774?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2015-09-22 - **Last revised**: September 22, 2015 - **Length**: 9,794 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 Government held a meeting on September 22, 2015, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chamber located at 200 E. Main St, Lexington, KY 40507. The meeting focused entirely on informational presentations, with three agenda items covering recent government activities and financial matters. The session included a review of motions from the September 15, 2015 work session, an update on neighborhood development funds, and a summary of the Budget, Finance & Economic Development Committee meeting from August 25, 2015. No formal votes were taken during this meeting, and no public comments were heard, indicating this was primarily an informational briefing session for council members and attendees. ## Budget and Financial Actions The council approved several financial items totaling over $360,000 in grants, contracts, and economic incentives during the September 22, 2015 meeting. **Grant Acceptances:** • Resolution L1119-15 authorized acceptance of a $6,750 grant from the University of Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center for a pedestrian safety enforcement and education project • Resolution L1151-15 approved a $30,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Division of Highway Safety Programs for Distracted Driving Enforcement Services **Contract Awards:** • Resolution L1152-15 awarded a $27,100 contract to Bell Engineering for a program audit of the Capacity Assurance Program (CAP) and collected fees • Resolution L1153-15 approved a $14,183.76 contract with Grants Excavating, Inc. for the Walhampton Stormwater Improvements project • Resolution L1167-15 authorized a $158,084.04 contract with Gresham Smith and Partners for Traffic Video Distribution and Management services • Resolution L1179-15 awarded a $24,991 contract to GRW Engineers, Inc. for the Polo Club Boulevard Public Improvements Project **Economic Development Incentive:** • Resolution L1181-15 approved a $100,000 economic incentive package for Maketime, Inc. in connection with the creation of five new jobs at an average wage of $35.20 per hour The largest single expenditure was the $158,084.04 contract for traffic video services, while the economic development incentive represented the city's investment in job creation and wage growth. The safety-related grants totaling $36,750 demonstrate the city's commitment to traffic enforcement and pedestrian safety initiatives. ## Table of Motions, September 15, 2015 Work Session The council reviewed agenda item 1189-15, which presented the summary of motions from the September 15, 2015 work session for approval. This item served as an informational discussion to formally acknowledge and approve the record of actions taken during the previous work session. The table of motions provides an official record of all formal motions made, seconded, and voted upon during the September 15th meeting, ensuring transparency and maintaining accurate documentation of council proceedings. This standard procedural item allows council members to review and confirm the accuracy of the recorded motions before they become part of the permanent meeting record. No specific speakers were identified for this agenda item, and no transcript timestamp was available. The item was processed as a routine informational matter, with the outcome being the formal acknowledgment of the motion summary from the previous work session. This type of agenda item is typical of municipal government operations, where maintaining detailed records of all official actions is required for legal and administrative purposes. The approval of motion tables ensures continuity between meetings and provides a clear audit trail of council decisions and actions. ## Neighborhood Development Funds, September 22, 2015 The council received an informational presentation on agenda item 1190-15 regarding the allocation and use of neighborhood development funds. This presentation provided an overview of how these funds are distributed and utilized within the community. The discussion focused on the current status and management of neighborhood development funds, which are typically used to support local community improvement projects and initiatives. The presentation covered the allocation process and guidelines for how these funds can be accessed and deployed for neighborhood enhancement projects. As an informational item, no formal action was required or taken by the council. The presentation served to update council members and the public on the current state of the neighborhood development fund program and its ongoing operations. The meeting materials indicate this was a routine informational presentation designed to keep stakeholders informed about the fund's status and usage protocols. No specific concerns or debates were noted in the available documentation, suggesting this was primarily an administrative update on the program's operations. *Note: Specific transcript timestamps are not available for this agenda item.* ## Summary: Budget, Finance & Economic Development Committee, August 25, 2015 Agenda item 1191-15 provided a summary of the discussions and decisions made by the Budget, Finance & Economic Development Committee during their August 25, 2015 meeting. This item was presented as an informational update to the full council. The presentation served to inform council members about the committee's recent deliberations and actions. As a summary item, it allowed the committee to report back on their work and keep the broader council informed of budget and economic development matters under consideration. The item was classified as informational in nature, meaning no formal action was required from the council. This type of summary presentation is a standard practice that ensures transparency and communication between the committee and the full council body. No specific transcript timing was available for this agenda item, and no key speakers were identified in the available documentation. The outcome was purely informational, serving the administrative function of keeping all council members apprised of the committee's activities and decisions from their previous meeting. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place ordinance #4 on the docket without a public hearing - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place ordinance #5 on the docket without a public hearing - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place ordinance #6 on the docket without a public hearing - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place ordinance #7 on the docket with a public hearing on October 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve the docket for the September 25, 2015 council meeting - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve the September 15, 2015 summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve budget amendments - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve new business - **Motion** — passed (0-0): remove item B under new business - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve neighborhood development funds - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place into the Environmental Quality & Public Works Committee, a presentation on the recycling facility - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place a presentation on body cameras into the Planning & Public Safety Committee - **Motion** — passed (0-0): refer a leaf collection presentation to the Environmental Quality & Public Works Committee - **Motion** — passed (0-0): enter closed session pursuant to KRS 61.810(1)(c) for the purpose of discussions regarding potential litigation - **Motion** — passed (0-0): return from closed session - **Motion** — passed (0-0): adjourn at 4:33pm --- ## Full transcript Who do you know? Thank you. Thank you. ¶¶ Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ¶¶ Hello and welcome to the meeting of the work session. We'll begin with public comment for issues on the agenda, and I believe Mr. Murphy has signed up for issues on the agenda. He's right here. Dick Murphy, welcome to the podium, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. On item number four, ordinances first reading, it's the zone change at 3455 Saybrook Road. I represent the developer on that, and I've just given a letter of withdrawal to the council clerk's office. so we are withdrawing that zone change request as number four and I do want to emphasize that you all have a hearing tonight for a zone change in which I'm involved in this is a different one the hearing is still on for tonight I want to emphasize I did not ask for the hearing tonight just so everybody makes it clear but we still do have the hearing tonight this is a different zone change which I'm withdrawing here today All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. I'll ask Councilmember Massadi for a motion. Thank you, Mayor. In reference to number four under ordinances for first reading, I would move not to put on the zone change in reference to 3455 Saybrook Road, Lexington Properties, LLC. So moved. so motion and a second to withdraw withdraw it from the docket right remove it from the docket all right what's that it'll have to be done on thursday night no i was going to put it on without a zone change put it on without a public hearing i'm sorry i messed up i'm sorry mayor it should have been put out Put on without a public hearing. So moved. Put on without a public hearing. And we've got a motion by Council Member Sadi, second by Council Member Lamb. Is there any discussion? Mayor? Vice Mayor. Thank you. I guess I'm not clear. I thought that this was being taken off the docket. It'll be done. Mr. Murphy, what is it that you want? What action are you seeking from counsel? We are simply withdrawing this own change. we are asking it to not be on the docket, not be acted upon. We're withdrawing it. So removing it from the docket would be appropriate, wouldn't it? On Thursday night. On Thursday night? Or without a public hearing. Well, we are asking there to be no vote on it. So however that we did, that it be taken off and there'd be no vote. Mayor, may I clarify this? The only action that we take at work session regarding the work docket is to schedule or not schedule public hearings for zone changes, or we can add something. But the proper time to remove this ordinance would be on Thursday night before it gets first reading. All right. So her motion to have the ordinance on here without a public hearing is fine for today's. All right. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. Parliamentarian. Appreciate that. All right, so is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If there's not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Council Member Evans. I think since we're on this subject, I also have a motion, but just for some clarification, because these items are already on the docket, presumably with a hearing. So shouldn't or would the more proper motion be to, I guess maybe at the time of the actual meeting to not have the hearing? Okay, Councilor Lamb, you can help us with that. I can respond. It is not on the docket, presumably with a hearing. It is strictly on the docket from the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission hands it over to the council as a body, and then we have to make a motion whether we have or don't have a public hearing. So it's not presumably with a hearing ever. So then should we even be doing these here? should we be doing them at the actual meeting when we approve the docket? I'm just asking. In our council rules and procedures, it outlines this process. In the council rules and procedures, it outlines this process today. I'll go back and read it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Evans and Council Member Lamb. All right. Next on our agenda is the docket approval. And any rezonings do we have? All right. Council Member Akers, is that what you... All right. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the October 22nd Council docket without a public hearing an ordinance changing the zone from a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone to a neighborhood business B1 zone. For 2.865 net acres of property located at 1447 Antique Drive, a dimensional variance is also requested. So moved. Motion by Council Member Akers. Second by Council Member Henson. Is there any debate on the motion? Jeez. Thank you. All right, hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Is there any further rezoning requests? Council Member Evans. That's why I was asking because I had one, so I just wanted to make sure. I would move to place item number six on the docket without a public hearing. Is that proper? So moved. Motion by Council Member Evans, seconded by Council Member Farmer. 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. All right. Any further? All right. Number seven. Yeah, I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it. I know there are objectives. Council Member Farmer. I haven't been contacted directly by anyone about this. this does it this just did pass 7-0 and there was an objector there but for now I think we'll put it on without a hearing so moved motion by councilmember farmers second by councilmember Scotchfield is there any discussion councilor Gibbs yeah I have heard some rumblings about this over in that neighborhood especially the people throw over my district you know Richmond road splits, so there's been some complaints on the first block. We should probably give them the opportunity. Let me amend the motion to place this on with a hearing. So I move. Motion by Councilmember Farmers, there's a second. You want to say a date? You want to have a date? Second by Councilmember Scotchville, and we're looking for a date. Well, it says by November the 15th. I guess we would do the My nap was going so well. So on. I think that might be 1125 instead of 1115. I think it might be supposed to be November 25th. Just to give you 10 more days to choose from. I'm just looking at there's a council meeting on the 22nd. Would we do it after the council meeting on the 22nd? How does that work for folks? It's at 10-22 at October 22nd. October 22nd. We have a meeting. Anyway, we just take it up after the meeting. What time do we want to say? Is an hour enough for our meeting that night? Set this for 7 o'clock? Set it for now for 7. Mr. Sally or Mr. Director King? Director King, you might want to talk all you can. Oh, really? Okay. Mr. Look at that. Working papers. About how long do this do you think? It has been the council's past practice to schedule them an hour after your typical meeting. It is also not uncommon if your meeting goes long. Everybody's assembled and you take a short break and then you begin the zoning hearing. So that's fine with planning staff. To me, 8 is awfully late to start something like this. I want to say 7 o'clock. All right, so that would be a motion to take this issue up on 1022 at 7 p.m. So moved. All right. Motion by Council Member Farmer. This is a motion to amend the original motion. Yes, sir, but with specificity. Right, right. All right, we had this original second by Council Member Scutchfield. That's okay with you to thank you, Council Member Scutchfield. All right, discussion. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I do have a little concern. I don't think we've ended a council meeting at 7 o'clock in quite a while. I don't know what will be on the agenda. The likelihood that we'll get started much before 7, 38 o'clock is probably slim to none. Typically, we'll get a couple of hours of presentations, et cetera. It's going to be late. So the last few we've done, we've done on a Monday starting earlier or after work session on a Tuesday, which I think leaves us with some brain power before the hearing is over. So that's my concern about that. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Any further discussion on the motion? All right. Council Member Gibbs. I'm not sure anybody's going to show up for it, but I just, you know, I'm afraid to not have it in case, you know, the Bentel Park Neighborhood Association has been concerned about this. But, you know, if we schedule it at 7, we finish up, they're here, we can just knock it off right away. Or not knock it off if there's no interest in it. I haven't heard anything about it lately. When this was first proposed a couple of months ago, I got several emails about it, but nothing since then. All right, Council Member Gibbs. Back to you. Who else wishes to speak? Who else wishes to speak on the motion? Council Member Lamb. Just for clarification, if you set up a public hearing at 7 and the council meeting doesn't end at 7, you can still start the meeting any time after that. You just can't start it before that. So just for clarification, just in case that were to happen. Thank you. All right. Council Vice Mayor Kaye. Yeah, so I think I understood we didn't have to start at 7. I think the likelihood that we would start at 7 just is not a high probability. So it's going to start later than that. If there are objectors, then it's going to be into 10, 11 o'clock at night, which I find difficult myself, and I think it's hard on members of council in general. But, Council Member Givis, since you raised the question, And it seems to me that in terms of the way in which we approach these, we're going to be getting more and more of these requests. We're doing more and more infill and redevelopment. They often entail some impact on a neighborhood. I think about this one in particular, but more generally, I would like to see Council deliberate a little more about whether, in fact, we need to have a hearing or not. and if there are a few people who have minor objections and we get a recommendation from the Planning Commission that's been approved by staff and it's a unanimous decision by the Planning Committee, I think there's a question of whether we ought to schedule a hearing and take people's time and so on and so on. So I don't know if it's possible to discuss with the people who may have objections how serious they are, but... So that's what I was going to suggest. I try to contact that neighborhood association in the next couple days and possibly make a change. Maybe remove this from the docket on Thursday and put it on in a later meeting. And when I have an idea, because I don't want to waste our time either. And I see that the vote was 9 to nothing. But then again, I represent the area, so I have to be careful about it. I'm not following exactly. So we've got a motion, and we've got a second. and we're in discussion now on the motion to hold it on the 22nd at seven o'clock are you suggesting an amendment uh to the amendment no i think i i think i'd go along with that and then maybe change it on thursday night if uh if if i don't get any significant feedback from the neighborhood then you'll make that adjustment yes later all right all right so does anyone else wish to speak Councilmember Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I know in the past, I think when we scheduled public hearings, it's because someone specifically asked for it. So I don't think I'll support the motion for any time. But I do think after a council meeting is awful late, and I agree with the vice mayor that, you know, these things are serious issues and we should be in our right frame of mind when making those decisions thank you all righty all right nobody else has signed on to speak in discussion so we can vote all in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye opposed no no all right let's show hands then we do have a voting machine i hope it works just vote electronically I have it on 10-22 at 7 p.m. Yeah, the motion is to have it on 10-22 at 7 p.m. Right. All right. The motion passes. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Are there any other rezoning or zoning? All right. If not, then we can move on to the docket. Approval, is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is the summary. Is there a motion to approve the summary? Second. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield, seconded by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is budget amendments. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Council Member Scushfield, seconded by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? If you'll please sign up. No discussion. All right. If none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is new business. Is there a motion to approve? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Motion by Council Member Scutchfield, second by Council Member Henson. All right. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a question but also a comment in regards to items B and L. In regards to the pedestrian safety, I was startled and concerned when reading that Lexington has the second highest number of pedestrian fatalities in Kentucky. I definitely support these two pedestrian safety programs, and I'm hoping there's some component of bicyclist traffic law awareness for part of this. And I'm wondering, I don't know if I should ask this of Commissioner Bastin or Commissioner Paulson, but I didn't know if there was something that council members could disseminate to their constituents and try to have more awareness in our community about safety. You know, I don't know if we have anything within public safety already together in a format that would lend itself to handing to you to do that, but we'd certainly be willing to work with you to give you something. The more we get the word out, the better, you know, the results are going to be. Well, I figured that, you know, if all of my colleagues would be willing to join in, I mean, I know most of us have newsletters and Facebook pages to try to get that information out there. And I actually just did a neighborhood meeting a couple of weeks ago. Someone was asking me about this very subject. So I appreciate these initiatives, and I'm just hoping that we can have a safer pedestrian and bicycle-friendly community. Thank you. And I'll just echo Commissioner Bastin. I'll check with the NPO staff. I don't know the exact specifics of this pedestrian safety education program, but generally with marketing there is a lot that goes out in terms of what can be done to provide smart things in terms of pedestrian safety. but I'm fairly certain that the MPO does have some information that can be put out in some sort of a packet that we can get, and I will get it to you guys. We have traffic engineering has $40,000 dedicated to education campaign for pedestrian safety, which we haven't gotten started with yet, but we've supplemented the Move at People campaign that the MPO currently has. So educational messages are forthcoming, but none have been created yet. All right. Thank you all. Thanks. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Land. Council Member Scotchfield. On that note, I have actually been asked by the administration to move to remove B because I've been told there's not enough time for them to get the application in. So I have a motion to remove B. B. B as in boy. B as in boy. All right. So there's a motion to remove B. Is there a second? Second by Council Member Brown, Fred Brown. We're in discussion now. Council Member Maloney. I was going to ask the same similar question on A and L, but it says here we've been accepted the award. now does that mean we didn't get the award or it says here we got this we were accepted the award and on L you always send it in the application to request an application I want to know why are we taking it off when we've been accepted L oh okay so Derek Council Member Paulson back to the podium thank you Yes, sir. L, we are submitting an application. In terms of B, that is a public safety issue. I think someone else can address it, but I believe it is Chief Bastin. Chief, not Bastin. Irene. Irene seems to be. But as of L, we are submitting an application. Bounding to the post. And B, if I look like you've been accepted. That's one I can't speak to. Right. On B, all of the work will still be done. It will just be done by the University of Kentucky. It just means we won't be participating in it. They had planned to sub-grant, what, $6,700 to us to do some work, but they're no longer going to do that because they don't have enough time. But the public education campaign will still be done. It will just be done by them. So how did we end up getting this grant if we didn't put it together? and we accepted it. You're talking about B? Yeah. They chose us to participate in the project, and we were willing to participate, but they didn't get us the information they needed to get us in time. So they need to complete it so they don't have time to do the sub-grant. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Irene. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Is Dowell in the audience? I see you back there. Dowell? Yes. Would you mind? This is on J, and you and I have had this... Oh, I'm sorry. Wait a minute, wait a minute. That's right. Sorry about that. We have a motion. Hold it. Just a second, Dowell. Just a second. We've got a motion and a second on B, and so we finish with discussion now, unless somebody else wants to speak. Motion to remove. Is there all in favor of the motion? Somebody else has? On this Siobhan? No. All right, all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Now, Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Dowell. Well, Jay, you and I have had this discussion before. When do you think this is going to start? Because this is something that I've been looking forward to, and a lot of my constituents have asked about this. Do you have any idea? Yeah, if the schedule stays on course, it'll get second reading on October 8th, and we've already let the consultant know that we would issue notice to proceed as soon as we can on the 9th if possible, which is a Friday. And it's a six-month timeline. So who's this going to be pushed out to so the public will know where to access it? It's going to be on a website. Just our website? Yes. And that's what we've been working with IT, and they'll continue to be involved in the process to make sure that whether it's, you know, which webpage it's on, I can't say that for certain at this point. But it will be accessible from our website. Very good. I think you said six months? Six months. Thank you. All right. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor Dowell. Sorry. About Bea and the messages that you mentioned about pedestrian education and safety, will council receive any kind of update about that or information about what that looks like exactly? Sure. So we have just now recently, and Irene may be able to speak to the timing, we've supplemented an existing contract that the NPO had for their Move It People campaign, which was focused predominantly on bike safety. And so we've supplemented that for pedestrian safety. but we haven't had any meetings with Group CJ to develop the messaging. But if you would like to be involved, you know, I'd certainly welcome any council involvement, and we could also send the messaging out for a review if you guys would like that. Well, I just, I mean, once it's completed, I guess that's what, you know, I just want. So Group CJ will help us roll the messages out, whether it's print media, whether it's television spots, radio ads, they'll help us make a strategy for getting the message out to the public. Right, and that's what I was wondering, too, like how we were going to get it out. because I think it is a big problem, and we talked about it last week in committee, reducing speeds and addressing the traffic side of it. But I really think that as somebody who drives downtown often, or anywhere really in and around downtown, that pedestrians need some education, that they don't use crosswalks and they're just darting out. Right. So I really want to focus on that. Right. Thank you. You do too. Thanks. So perhaps a presentation to council or to the committee. Yeah, and I think like Council Member Lamb said, we all do have newsletters that we can promote it as well. Use crosswalks, everybody. So maybe, Dal, I think what I'm hearing is maybe at a point when you can have sufficient the project put together, the plan put together, then share it. Okay, will do. Yeah. And I have a question on letter C. It says Commissioner Reed. Is Jeff here? Hopefully it's not very difficult. I just wanted to know which park. It doesn't say, or maybe it does say back in the supporting documents. Any time sheet? If it does. Oh, yeah. My apologies. I'm sorry? Which park is this that KU is setting up a substation in? Cardinal Run North. Cardinal Run North. Okay. It's about a quarter acre, and their property abuts it currently. They're extending. It's more economical for us to sell rather than give an easement, so they will maintain it. Once they're in there, put the poles and extend their transmission capabilities, the land will be unusable for Cardinal Run anyway. And that is the undeveloped land across from the developed park? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And one last one, item K. Commissioner Bastin? I know we've done this before, and I just want to make sure, will council members get a list of streets and addresses in their districts that might be changing? there's one that's attached alright thank you that's all thanks man alright that's all the council members have signed up for discussion so we can vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries alright now that allows us to move to continuing business and presentations is there a motion to approve NDF motion to approve. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield, second by Council Member Akers. Getting used to that. Is there any discussion? Alright. If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next are Council Reports. The floor is available for Council Reports. If you'll just sign on, please. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What did I miss? Oh, missed that one. Summary of the Budget and Finance by Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. It is a pleasure to tender to the Council the August 25th summary of the Budget and Finance Committee meeting. First item of business was approval of committee summary. That passed without dissent. Second item of business was our July monthly financials. And just to hit some of the highlights in our big four categories, employee withholdings was up $132,842. The net profit was down $46,178. Insurance revenue was down $8,802, and then franchise fees were down $276,238 for a negative number of $198,369 in the big four revenue categories. A lot of that is due to timing. Council members, this was just one month of financials. On the opposite side of expenses, total expenses were $23,395,717. as compared to budget of $23,368,893. So we were down 26,824 expenses. So total year-to-date revenue and expenses, we are down 69,289 through the first month of the fiscal year in July. The third item on our agenda was the Fayette County Workforce Review. We had a new executive director of the Business and Education Network introduced to Council Betsy Dexter that works with Commerce Lexington. She gave a brief presentation of the Fed County Workforce Overview as also compared to the region. We plan to have Ms. Dexter back to council every quarter to give us an update of the workforce analysis, and they are currently in the process of completing the workforce study that the city and Commerce Lexington each paid $50,000 to complete, and that should be to council by the end of the year. The next item on the agenda was the report of the other funds, the Urban Service Fund, Sanitary Sewer Fund, Water Quality Fund, as well as the Landfill Fund. That was for information only. And then we adjourned the meeting so Council Member Brown could have lunch at 3-0-1. Council Member Brown. You. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Stannett. All right. That allows us to move on now to the Council Reports. If Council Members will please sign on, and I'll call on you. Council Reports. Council reports. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just kind of want to rehash last weekend, starting last Friday night, I attended the Latino Festival with Council Member Peggy Henson. And I just want to compliment Park and Rec for working with that organization and kicking off a nice festival. So it was the first time I've been that close to fireworks. I don't know if they were supposed to be that low, but they were right overhead. But it was a pretty exciting show. It was a good time. And then the first district was just full of activity last weekend. I know they launched the community radio station, Radio Now 95.7 FM. I know some other council members were interviewed on air as well. I know Councilmember Steve, Vice Mayor Steve Kaye, and some others. I don't, I was trying to remember who all was there. They had a big, long list. That was pretty exciting. There was a kids' art project in Castlewood Park. It was a partnership between the Castlewood Neighborhood Association, North Lyme, and MLK, where the kids went out and painted slow-down signs. And it was pretty good participation and activity there as well. and it was covered in the Herald this past weekend. Then I went from there to out Wimber, and it was Wimber day, and it was a pretty good crowd out there as well. It was kids playing, it was adults and neighborhood association folks out there having a good time. And then I was whisked over to Coolum and Park where they had a big bike polo tournament where it was, from what I understand, people from all over the country were out there, And it was my first time watching bike polo, which is pretty interesting. It was kind of rough like hockey, but it was a good time. And then they also had a Zion festival at the Plannery. So it was a pretty busy weekend. And then Sunday, I also went down and rode my bike on the Town Branch Water Walk Trail, which started at Charles Young and ended at the back parking lot. So it was a pretty busy weekend in the first district and then throughout the city. And then I also wanted to congratulate the Green Acres Neighborhood Association for having their first this coming Saturday, September the 26th, from 11 to 6 p.m. It's going to be the first annual Green Acres Day in a Green Acres shelter at Green Acres Park. They're going to have free food and beverages. Bring your own lawn chair. It's going to be R&B and jazz bands, gospel singers, cornhole, face painting, and the old famous egg and spoon race. So it sounds like they've got a good time planned. So if you can make it, attend that event. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. And I'll echo what Council Member Brown said. They were very excited to have James Brown on stage. I was so impressed with the opening ceremony and that they had flags that represented all of the countries in Central and South America. And they marched in carrying the flags one by one. The last one was the United States flag, and the lady that was carrying the flag was wearing a dress that represented all of the flags from those other countries, and I thought that was really, really nice. And I enjoyed the fireworks. I have one announcement, and then I have a motion, but Picadone Neighborhood Association, I think we're on fall break next week. But they are having a meeting at Lafayette High School at 7 o'clock on the 29th, which is Tuesday. And I'd like to invite the at-large members to attend if they would like. And then I have a motion. I move to place into the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee a presentation on the financial performance of the materials recycling facility. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Henson. Second by Council Member, where was it? Council Member Scotchfield. 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. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, ma'am. All right. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to thank my colleagues for their support in providing the foul ball protection at Veterans Park. I don't know if you noticed, but it was one of our work session agenda items where Southeast Baseball contributed over $14,000 toward this. And those foul ball canopies are going to be, I think they're going to be installed pretty soon. but that was pretty nice to have the safety at that park. And then also, since we don't have a work session next week, I wanted to take this opportunity, because I'm going to be out of town next week on Tuesday, is to thank Chris King and Brad Frazier for all of their commitment and work to this community and to the urban county government. They both have brought a lot to this city and to the government, and I appreciate everything they've always done. And they're just great to work with, and we're going to be dearly missing them. And that's – thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple of questions. I know Commissioner Poulsen is here and Chief Bernard, but we received, there's a lot of changes that went on with Short Street. And we received a lot of complaints here recently about one lane of traffic on the new Short Street being blocked. What are our plans to enforce so that construction trucks are not parking in that through lane that's now been designed with the changes? Are we going to start enforcing that? Are we going to continue to let construction trucks from wherever continue to park there? because a lot of these businesses are going through these changes. We feel for them, but if we're not going to have two lanes open, we need to let them know that. And then the other question, I guess, Commissioner Poulsen, you can answer, when is Upper Street going to be opened back up? We've been asked that a lot as well. And it all goes to this same situation. We'll be open in time for Breeders' Cup with all the festivities going on downtown. We will look at that on a case-by-case basis, and we'll make that an emphasis to get those lanes open, and we'll talk to the businesses and the trucks that are blocking those lanes. If they have a blockage permit, we'll work with DAL and with traffic engineering to make sure that we're opening those up. We just had another case that we talked about today, so we're trying to expedite traffic through there, but we'll start monitoring that, and we'll look at it and talk to those entities that are doing the construction to make sure that that's a thoroughfare that we want to keep open. Well, the business is specifically between Upper and Limestone. Yes. And they're just, I went through there today, just before I came down, and they're parked. I mean, they're not there for five minutes. These construction trucks are parked. So it's a through train of traffic, and everyone can't make that. Okay. Yeah, we'll certainly look at it starting tomorrow. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I can also speak about that a little bit. We have talked, there is some utilities work going on associated with 21C that's in Upper Street, and I know we've talked with the construction companies as well. 21C has actually contacted us. because of some of the complaints coming to them, and they are utilities. It is utilities work, not necessarily 21C work. We are trying to work with them to make sure everything is coordinated as best as it can be. In terms of Upper Street, the best that I can tell you is it will open back up when construction is complete. As of this time, they go through traffic engineering in terms of closing the street. They do it, I believe, on every few months renewal. The latest I have heard, they are hoping to open the hotel mid-February. So it'll still be a few more months. So it won't be open in time for Breeders' Cup or anything? Oh, it was never planned to be open for Breeders' Cup, no. They realized early enough they did not want to try to hit that. When we have talked with them before, their business model is as such that they want to make sure everything is perfect when they open. They felt they were going to be too rushed, so they were never anticipating opening by Breeders' Cup. And are all the improvements to Short Street or the changes completed from Broadway to Limestone? That is a question I can't answer, but we can probably find out from Traffic Engineering. Okay, just trying to get an update for those business owners so we can let them know. All right, thank you. And then on another note, I want to thank Albert Miller and all the streets and roads crews, everyone in the CAO office. Councilman Evans has been heavily working on Fortune Drive, and not a lot of council members have to go through a total road rebuild in your district while the road's still open. And it was a long undertaking, but the business owners are very happy now that road's back open, as well as the school system because that's a major school bus route. But they rebuilt an entire road from surface to bottom while it was still open and did an incredible job keeping all the council members informed. So thank you to Albert, CIO, if you can let them know, to all the streets and roads folks for getting that done, and engineering who worked on that as well. It was a good job, Mayor. They did a really good job. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Stennett. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner Holmes, do you mind coming up to the podium, please? We had our discussion last week about street paving. You were going to let us know about the crews, ATS, how many crews that were going to be available, because I think that's going to let us know who's going to get paved in the fall, who's going to get paved in the spring. Have you had that conversation yet? Yes, we had that discussion with them on Monday. they are while we are waiting for council people to make their selections they are starting work on some short street work and they're going to be also working on stone road and as soon as we start having council people's selections in they will start working on those they will ramp up based on the number of selection council district selections they have and they will try to continue to get as many teams as they can get together to do that. There were discussions of four or five different teams they could get together so that they can pave as much as they can, weather permitting, this fall. How much that, we can't guess on how much that will do until we know what the weather's going to be like. But they will continue to pave until the asphalt plant closes and they will get as many dedicated teams as they can pull together to do that. Okay, so I understand then we all will have our paving beginning this fall. Every district, we're not going to have some that will start in the fall and some of them will wait until the spring. Everybody's going to get a start in the fall? They've committed that they will try to do as much paving as they can possibly do this fall. So we need to get these lists to you by when? As soon as you possibly can so that they can get started. The weather is nice for bathing right now. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner. And one last thing. I'd like to make a motion to put in planning and public safety a presentation from Commissioner Bastin in reference to body cameras. That would be in the November meeting. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Siding. Second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Council Member Brown. I had a key come up. We have time to do this. So this is your request? Commissioner, do you? This is your request? I think you meant the commissioner or the commissioner Bastard? Well, Mr. Ruffin requested it. Was it, I think, the question? I was writing down what you were asking me to do. I'm sorry. Well, the question was, I didn't know that she had already, you had requested Council Member Masati to put it on there. So you all are okay with it then? Yeah, we're, I think we're at the stage where we want to keep you all updated where we've moved to and been. So we're doing our last testing and we want you all to be informed of where we are. So I think we're comfortable with it if you're ready for it. Okay, great. Thanks. Yes, sir. All right. So do we get a, we had a motion and a second and then we're in discussion. Is there any further discussion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Hensley. Thank you, Mayor. Just to report out last week, I had a great event at Red Mile that was reopening, which some of you all were there, Councilman Maloney and the Mayor. If you're not aware of what they've done at the Red Mile, it's a complete renovation of a historical racing venue and complex. It's very impressive. I encourage everybody to go out there and take a look at it. It's completely different from what you might think the Red Mile looks like. I also spent three days at the Broadband Communities Conference here in Lexington last week, studying gigabit cities and their efforts in other states, and I think we're on track with the initiatives that the administration is taking. And it's going to be a great economic development engine investment that we can add to our great city. And the last thing, and I don't know who to ask this to, but with the impact of Short Street and the changes there, I'd like to have somebody from Parks and Recreation address the timing of setting up some of these events, like the festival. Being a business owner downtown for 17 years, it's been a terrible inconvenience to see Friday afternoon blown with the road shut down. And now that there's one lane, it's even worse. So I didn't know what the proper action would be to take this to committee to see if we can move these setups into a third shift operation where it doesn't operate during business hours and impact business traffic downtown, the off hours. I mean, literally, I circled four blocks around downtown last week to get to my office. So maybe someone can help me with who I need to ask that question to. Thank you, Council Member Hensley. council member acres i think he i think he was maybe waiting on somebody i didn't hear that sorry i was in a sidebar conversation i need some i need a phone friend parks parks maybe oh okay okay Hello. Obviously, the setup of these events are a joint effort between parks, people in the mayor's office. We're happy to participate in any kind of discussion in a committee or whatever, that we can do these better at another time and at more convenience. I think, Jamie, I think Lori Houlihan in the mayor's office is the initial point person, and we would need to be involved, the mayor's office, probably folks in downtown development, and all of us come and chat with you all at the committee. Okay. Jamie, do you have anything to add to that? Not really. I'd just say that it's pretty challenging. All these downtown events can be in terms of, you know, we've had Fourth of July parades and closing down streets for races, and it becomes challenging. So it's worth the conversation. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Ms. Thanks, Councilman Hensley. Councilman Rakers. Thank you, Mayor. I guess I'll ask another question in a minute. Tomorrow night, I wanted to announce that the Townley Neighborhood Association HOA meeting will be held tomorrow night at 630 at the Townley Clubhouse. That is Wednesday, September 23rd in Townley Center. And then I wanted to also talk about yesterday was a big day in the West End. We cut the ribbon on the Citation Boulevard extension. I want to thank everybody who was there. The mayor, of course, was there, folks from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. It's an awesome road. I've already driven it many miles on it in just the past two days. It will definitely bring connectivity from Newtown Pike, the interstate, Georgetown, Leastown, all the way over to Alexandria Drive, and really move traffic much better, relieving some of the smaller arterials like Mercer Road and Sandersville Road and Greendale. So we are all excited about that, as well as the commercial development that we hope to see along Leastown and Citation in coming years. I also want to ask residents for your patience. I know that it is a new road. I know that there may have been an accident two hours after it opened yesterday, but that does not necessarily mean that it is a complete failure and disaster and that the world is going to end. So I just ask for your patience and to give the road and the traffic a couple of weeks or months before we all panic. And then that brings me to Dowell, though. There was a question among many concerns and questions I received yesterday when the street opened about streetlights and when we might get streetlights installed along the street. If Dow's not here, maybe someone else can answer. I will find that information out for you and pass that on to the Cole Council. Okay. Thank you very much. And that's all I have. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Akers. Councilor Evans. Commissioner Holmes, don't sit down. Yeah, thank you. I was trying to catch you. This goes back to what Councilmember Masati was asking. about the whole paving system. I'm new and I can go along with how things are being done, but it seems to be now that we have all of this information about the condition of our roads, and I hope that we're going to have a bigger conversation about what that really means and what we might need to reconsider how we make these decisions. And I guess my biggest concern right now is how you said as soon as we start getting lists from us, I'd like to add to the conversation that I think we will probably have in committee later on that it just seems very inefficient to just see whoever gets there first. I mean, that seems very Wild Wild West to me, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason on which streets get paved first, just whichever council member turns it in first. Now, I'd like to think there would be more logic behind how we go about paving our streets in the city, because I think they're all equally important. So I have a concern when it's just whatever list gets to me first. And I know that's how we've operated. And you all might have some, I guess what I'm asking is maybe if you all have some suggestions on how we might want to consider doing things differently when we have the bigger conversation about how we need to operate, because everybody's road is important. I think that's a topic that should be in a broader conversation. Right now we have a very limited paving period of time, and we need to, if we are going to get any paving done this fall, start with that. In the past, what we have done is the contractor has been the primary person, when we have all the lists in, who has picked what sections to go to because of mobilization issues and trying to be as efficient as possible. So you might start in one council district and go to the next council district instead of starting in one council district and then trying to mobilize your crew all the way over on town. Where they're committing multiple crews, we want to be able to get started as quickly as we can and get the multiple crews out into the different council districts. So because of the compactness of this season, we're stuck with as soon as we start getting council people's selections in, we're going to get them out because they're ready to pay for us now. Sure, and I appreciate that. And I guess I'm thinking forward when we have the bigger conversation about if there's some other options or ideas that you all might have to help with that. That's certainly something that we will attempt to talk about when we get back into the committee on this. I do want to say and I think I have sent emails out to you that any of you all have issues or Want to discuss your paving plan with us ahead of time or need some assistance And that we're available to do that and Chester and I are and Albert are available Just let us know and we'll set some time up and try to get with you all and try to help you work through all that We know you we throw a lot of data at you I've taken you up on that. So so thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you All right. Thank you, Councilman Evans. Councilman Maloney. Thank you. I wanted to ask Donald a question, but Commissioner Holmes, you're here. The story that came out Saturday about the streets being 25-mile speed limit and all that, it kind of confused a lot of people out a little bit farther out than downtown. I thought the whole intent was to keep it downtown like Market Street, those side streets downtown. But now the way we read it, people were concerned you're going all the way out to Waller Avenue, Cooper, places like Mason Healy, all the way out there. They're talking about moving those down to 25 miles an hour speed limit. I just think we need to clarify that. That's not the intent that I thought we were doing to talk about speed limit. I thought it was mostly for downtown and not go any farther out. Now, if I'm wrong on that, that's something new. I've been wrong before many times, but I don't think I'm wrong on this one. I'll get some clarification to you on that, and if that becomes an issue, then you can bring it up again. I thought it was the downtown area also. Yeah, because I think it got missed, it's going to confuse a lot of people out there. And the last thing I want to do is muddy this. And to me, you all let a lot of people work hard on this, and we don't want to muddy the conversation. I think it's going to protect people's lives. And if we end up getting it confused, we'll have a hard time passing something like this. I'll get some clarification for you. The other question I have is, and it's the same as Pavin. As you know, I'm upset that we're starting late on this. Now, my question I have is, if we start late on this and the weather ends up being a bad winter, which we've already been predicted we're supposed to have another bad winter, which I hope it isn't true, being real close to putting this blacktop down and start getting bad weather, could it cause a lot of potholes? The last thing I want to do is put this road down and then have a bunch of potholes because we didn't have it down long enough. Is there a certain time limit on how long this road has to be down that's settled in? And if we send it in there too late and it starts to get cold and causes, has anybody looked into that? I don't know that if it causes potholes. I do know that ATS in the meeting that we had with them on Monday talked about a temperature level below which they did not like to pave. And I can provide that information to you. I just don't like playing. The best weather we had was the last two months when it was 80, 90. When you start getting out there and start playing with October, November, and then December, and we start blacktopping, and it hadn't had two, three months to settle in with hot weather, and then we're sitting out there with cold weather, and then we end up spending all the taxpayer dollars and we end up having potholes, which I hope I'm wrong on that. That's why I want to make sure that somebody has looked into that, that we don't, because the last thing we want to do is the mayor will probably get a bunch of calls along with us that we're having potholes like crazy around February and March, and after they say we just blacktop these roads, I don't want to have to run into that. I'll discuss that with Albert and ATS and get back with you on that. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to report on my very strenuous Sunday going to picnics. First, I went to the Wabash, Goodrich, Pensacola, Lackawanna Neighborhood Association picnic, better known as Where Good People Live, and they had an excellent turnout. It was a lot of fun. Then I went to Woodward Heights picnic, which was, again, well attended, but what I especially wanted to note is before they had their picnic, They had a short official meeting where they voted to donate $1,000 to help move the People's Bank to become the People's Portal. And I just wanted to thank Woodward Heights for that. And I think that brought them up to the goal that they needed to meet to move that. So, again, thank you, Woodward Heights. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Gibbs. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I was just going to double back to Council Member Maloney's comment. I've had ongoing emails with Director Hoskin Squire asking that for our committee meeting next month, we're going to take up again the issue of potentially lowering speed limits downtown, that our packet will be better and our information will be better. We will have an accurate map and a listing of the streets and street segments that they are recommending potentially to lower to 25. So that was one of the things we couldn't discuss accurately last time because we didn't have a good map or a good list. And then we really got into a good district policy discussion about what district folks have to do to get stop signs or things done versus this blanket approach on this particular issue, which it may all work out just fine and it probably will, but we just need to take some time with it. And I would be in the same column with Council Member Gibbs. On Sunday, I got to go to the Louisiana Avenue picnic, and then I went over to the one on Clinton Road, which is always a good one, and then the one at the end of East Cooper. And they're all nice people, and it's all good food, and they always want me to have a drink, and I just can't. But it's a lot of fun, and it's a pleasure to serve. Thank you, Mayor. Restraint is a great thing. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a question for the parks. I understand there's a master park plan out there. Where is it at as far as the time frame, and when will we know something about it? Yes, Council Member Brown, we are working on putting together the RFP for the parks master plan. We're actually meeting with objective results. We have a meeting scheduled with them this week, so we'll be working with them to develop the RFP, and we'll keep council updated as we proceed. Do you have a time frame at all? No, we should by the end of the week, and I'll be glad to report back to you on that. So we hope to have that developed very soon. So it's months away, obviously, because they do that. It is. The aquatics master plan is representing to the committee in October on that, but the parks master plan is moving along. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. That's all council members who've signed up for council report, and that allows us to move to the mayor's report. There's no mayor's report today. That allows us to move to public comment for issues not on the agenda. I don't have anyone signed up. No, Mr. Mundy. All right. All right. Then I'll ask the vice mayor for a motion. Thank you, mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.810 1C for the purpose of discussions regarding potential litigation. Is the motion or is there a second? Second by Council Member Scotchfield. Unless there's objection, we will enter closed session. ¶¶ Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Oh, you're welcome. I said thank you last week. I know you did. Thank you. You are here. Oh, yeah. We got, where did everybody run off to? Do you think they just left? One, two, three. We've got to adjourn. We don't, do we? I've got six. Oh, here we go. We've got one more coming. Is there a motion to return to open session? So moved. Motion by Vice Mayor Kay, second by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, then unless there's objection, we return to open session. Councilmember Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I missed the opportunity earlier to refer an issue to the Environmental Quality Committee, which is an update or a fall update on the leaf collection presentation to environmental quality. So moved. Second. Motion by Councilmember Farmer. Second by Councilmember Fred Brown. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Unless there's something further to come before the council, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Henson. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. you