# Council Work Session - January 26, 2016 > Auto-transcribed civic record · January 26, 2016 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/3864 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/3864?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2016-01-26 - **Last revised**: January 26, 2016 - **Length**: 5,413 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 January 26, 2016, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chamber at 200 E. Main St, Lexington, KY 40507, with Mayor Gray presiding. The meeting addressed four agenda items, including public comment opportunities, approval of meeting summaries, new business items, and continuing business with presentations. During the session, the council took three votes and approved both the meeting summary and new business items, while also receiving informational presentations as part of continuing business. No public comments were made during the designated public comment period for issues on the agenda. ## Attendance The following members were present at the January 26, 2016 meeting: **Present:** • Kay • Stinnett • Moloney • J. Brown • Akers • Gibbs • Lamb • Farmer • Evans • Scutchfield • F. Brown • Mossotti • Bledsoe • Hensley **Absent:** • Henson No members arrived late to the meeting. A total of 14 members were present and 1 member was absent. ## Votes and Decisions The council conducted three unanimous votes during the January 26, 2016 meeting, with all 14 members present participating in each decision. **Approval of January 12, 2016 Work Session Summary** [timestamp: 00:30] Councilmember Scutchfield motioned to approve the January 12, 2016 work session summary, with Councilmember Akers providing the second. The motion passed unanimously with 14 ayes and 0 nays. All council members voted in favor: Kay, Stinnett, Moloney, J. Brown, Akers, Gibbs, Lamb, Farmer, Evans, Scutchfield, F. Brown, Mossotti, Bledsoe, and Hensley. **Approval of New Business** [timestamp: 02:00] Councilmember Scutchfield made a motion to approve new business items, seconded by Councilmember Farmer. The motion carried unanimously with a 14-0 vote. The same 14 council members voted in favor of the measure. **Approval of Neighborhood Development Funds** [timestamp: 03:00] The final vote concerned the approval of neighborhood development funds. Councilmember Scutchfield again made the motion, with Councilmember Akers seconding. This motion also passed unanimously with 14 ayes and 0 nays, with all present council members supporting the measure. All three votes demonstrated complete consensus among the council members, with no opposition or abstentions recorded for any of the items considered. The consistent participation of all 14 council members across the three votes indicates full attendance and engagement throughout the voting portion of the meeting. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed one financial appropriation during the session. The council considered an $800.00 appropriation to support the Chinese New Year Celebration and Market, with the KY Chinese American Association as the recipient organization. This funding request was presented as part of the meeting's financial business. *Note: Specific resolution numbers and transcript timestamps were not available in the provided meeting materials for this financial item.* ## Public Comment - Issues on Agenda [timestamp: 00:10] During the public comment period for issues on the agenda, no members of the public came forward to address the board or council. The meeting proceeded without any public input on the agenda items scheduled for discussion. This portion of the meeting was reserved for community members to speak on specific items that were listed on the meeting agenda, providing an opportunity for public participation in the governmental process before official deliberations began on those matters. ## Approval of Summary [timestamp: 00:30] The council considered approval of the summary from their January 12, 2016 work session. The agenda item was presented as a resolution requiring council action. Key speakers during this discussion included Scutchfield and Akers, though the specific details of their remarks were not detailed in the available materials. The council proceeded to approve the summary of the January 12, 2016 work session without recorded objections or significant debate. This represents standard procedural business for the council, ensuring accurate documentation of their previous meeting proceedings. The resolution was approved, formally adopting the summary of the work session held two weeks prior. ## New Business [timestamp: 02:00] The council addressed new business items during this portion of the meeting. Council members Scutchfield and Farmer were the key speakers who participated in the discussion of these matters. The new business items were presented as resolutions for council consideration. Based on the meeting records, the council proceeded to vote on the new business without any recorded opposition or dissenting voices from council members. All new business items brought before the council were approved unanimously, with no council members voting against the proposed resolutions. The approval process proceeded smoothly without extended debate or concerns raised by council members regarding the matters at hand. The specific details of the individual new business items and their content were not detailed in the available meeting summary, but the council's action resulted in the approval of all new business presented during this agenda item. ## Continuing Business/Presentations [timestamp: 03:00] The council addressed ongoing business matters and presentations during this portion of the meeting. The discussion centered on neighborhood development funds and other continuing projects within the city. Key speakers during this segment included Scutchfield and Akers, who provided updates and information to the council regarding various ongoing initiatives. The conversation focused on the status and progress of neighborhood development funding programs and other municipal projects that required council attention. This agenda item served an informational purpose, allowing council members to receive updates on continuing business matters without requiring formal action or votes. The discussion provided an opportunity for staff and council members to share information about ongoing projects and ensure all members were informed about the current status of various city initiatives. The outcome of this presentation was informational in nature, with no specific decisions or formal actions taken during this portion of the meeting. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (14-0): Approval of the January 12, 2016 work session summary - **Motion** — passed (14-0): Approval of new business - **Motion** — passed (14-0): Approval of neighborhood development funds --- ## Full transcript The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Everybody, greetings. Hello, Lord Farmer. I'll call the meeting to order. And first on our agenda today is a public comment for issues on the agenda. Mr. Mundy, anybody sign? No one signed up for issues on the agenda. No one signed up for issues on the agenda, which allows us to move on to rezoning requests and docket approval. There's no council meeting this week, so no docket approval is needed. I'm not aware of any rezoning requests. That allows us to move on to approving the summary. Is there a motion to approve? Motion approval. Motion by Council Member Stennett, second by Council Member Henson to approve the summary. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is budget amendments. I'm showing no budget amendments this week, which allows us to move on to new business. I'll ask for a motion to approve and then discussion. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion to approve by Council Member Farmer, second by Vice Mayor Kay. Is there any discussion? If you'll please sign in for discussion. All right. I'm seeing no indication of discussion, which is unusual. Are we sure? I'm doing this. All right. Gift of the day. There we go. Oh, thank you, Council Member Farmer. All right. Then if there's no discussion, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. Next is continuing business and presentations. Is there a motion for the NDF? Second. Motion by Council Member Stennett, second by Council Member Massadi. 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. Next is the summary of the Budget, Finance, and Economic Development Committee from December by Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. We met on December 1st. The meeting was called to order at 1.02 p.m. First item, the October summary for committee was approved. Second, the October financials were presented by Commissioner O'Mara. Month to date through October 2015, the total variance on revenue, we were up 22.3%. And the big four funds year to date through October and the big four funds for revenue, we were up 6.4%. The expenses year-to-date through October, we were down, which is a good thing, Mayor. I'm sorry. Apologize. We were down $814,254, and year-to-date net change in position for 2016 fiscal year through October was $7,094,617. Second item on our agenda was the Urban Service Fund review. First, we started off and discussed the refuge collection and the charges for service for that. Second, we addressed the streetlight issue and the deficits in there, and we discussed LED lighting and changing the way we structure the collection of fees to pay for streetlights and asked Commissioner O'Meara to come back to our January meeting with options that would eliminate current deficiencies in streetlights. In addition, the last item under that discussion was on street cleaning, and we also asked for additional suggestions at our January meeting on how to curb the deficit in the street cleaning as well. The last item on our agenda was the Economic Contingency Fund update, which has been on our agenda for a couple months now. This motion was made to bring back to the January meeting a codified ordinance that would change the Economic Contingency Fund from where it is now. The meeting was adjourned at 2.30. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Stenet. It allows us to move on to council reports. If council members will please sign in electronically and I'll call on you. Council Member Maloney. Mayor, I want to, I mean, Senator, I'm sorry, Mayor. Anyway, I want to first thank Dow and for your staff. They did a tremendous job. Everywhere I go, people just compliment. They said it's the best they've ever seen. and I want to congratulate your staff. Thank you for the calls you answered for me and your staff for what they did. I really appreciate the hard work. I also want to thank Chief Bernard for helping your staff being very professional. I thank you very much for helping me out this weekend. I appreciate your great work. I just have a few questions. If I could have the CAO come up for me, please. I just need a couple questions I want to get answered, if that's okay with you. Thank you. I mean, last week we had Mason Miller come up and speak, and I'm just trying to figure out how much we're paying him per hour. If you could find that out for me. And the other is I want to know is how much we've already paid for his work with American Water. And the most important one is on CenterPoint. And the other one I have is how much longer do we expect to work on each of these projects with Mason Miller? I mean, if you could be able to answer those, that would be wonderful because I like to see what the pay is. And let me go a little bit further than that. I'm not trying to pick on him. I think maybe when we get the report from law and talk about cases and all that, and we have our south council, maybe they could give us a little bit of a figure of what we're charging outside counselors or how much we charge each one of those cases. And it's not that I'm trying. I just want to see what the budget is and how we do that. Nothing to get law, I promise you that. I'm just curious what we're paying and how much we're paying, especially the center point. I've been concerned about that for a while. Those are good questions. And I think that, and we certainly will address the questions you had mentioned, the comment you had about the report. We'll address that when we do the report. I think that Janet Graham, the commissioner of law, probably is prepared to answer your questions right now. And then we also can, of course, respond in writing so that you have that later. But I think she can maybe address that right now and then sort of explain what he is involved with. And if there's something she can't answer, then we'll find that out. We'll handle it that way if that's all right with the council. Okay, thank you. I'm happy to address the questions, and I think I have them all, but if I miss something, let me know. So he is handling right now Centerpoint and the water franchise and another case that involves the parking authority where they got sued and we got sued with them. But just to give you the background of the way this works, we put out a request for qualifications every so often to get a list of qualified legal counsel to handle the LFUCG's work that the law department, for whatever reason, can't do. The last one we put out was this last fall, and we got 26 law firms that submitted and were qualified. Everybody that submitted basically was qualified to do the work. So Mason is with Miller and Wells, and they were one of the firms that got on that list. So he's on that list. For CenterPoint, the billable rate they're charging is $210 for partners and $175 an hour for associates. And we have paid to date, and this goes back to May of 2014, and we've paid to date, and this is my own addition, $79,305.85. And that's paid to date. You know, there may be a bill that hadn't gotten to it or whatever. Then on the water franchise, you all approved us hiring Mason for that negotiation, and I think that went through Council back in December of 2000, this last December, or December 4th of last. We came on. And that was capped at $45,000. That was a total cap, and to date, we've paid $36,269.95. And I think we'll probably get one more bill on that, but that's basically finished because the franchise got approved the last council meeting. So the water is done probably. Right. And that's the one he was approved for. But Senate Point, will we continue on using him on this issue? There's no plans to change horses in midstream on that. And, you know, on some of these issues, like a water franchise, you know that it's got a set beginning and end date probably on negotiations. You know, with other legal cases, sometimes it's hard to tell. And so I'd say continuing on until we figure out what's going on. So the $79,000, how far back did that go back to again? That goes back to, I think the first bill was May of 2014. 2014? 2014. Now, time on that bill may have been a little previous to that, because sometimes we don't get the bills right after the time's input. I mean, he's real active right now because of what we're doing. I assume because he's been reporting us. So these next couple weeks are going to be very active for him to continue on paying for the study that we're doing now. He seems to be involved with that consultant study. And then after that, I assume after the council gets the report, hopefully we'll have an idea of what direction we're going to go. And that we'll be able to give it the timeline if we decide to go one direction or if we decide to go another direction. Is that right? I would hope that the Jones-Lang report would give us some thoughts on that. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to make a similar comment. The snow plan was carried out excellently over this past weekend. And between last snow event year and this, the council and before that, the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee took up this plan. And with the help of then-commissioner perfected it, Commissioner David Holmes. At this time, Commissioner Dowell Hoskins-Squire did a great job. But we need to thank everybody at Streets and Roads, especially Albert and Rob and Angie. And I would just say that your communication efforts to us, Commissioner, were excellent and well-placed. And let us be in contact with our constituents, some of which were in greater need than others. And we appreciate the dynamic value of the plan and of the response. And I just think it's just, I got stopped twice at church on Sunday with people who stopped to say, the Irving County government did a great job on snow. And that's not the kind of accolade you usually get or look for, but it sure is wonderful. And when it's a church, blessed to get. And then, not to be too far from Council Member Maloney, Mayor, I've never been to Fancy Farm. But I can only imagine you with bingo cards in every pocket and barbecue sauce on every garment, and I will look forward to being there this year. There you go. That's my report. Thank you, Mayor. And you can promise it will be humid conditions. Yes, sir. Everybody's wet. Humid and humorous. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I would also like to thank Streets and Roads to Albert, Rob. They just did a fantastic job. I got so many compliments. I'd also like to commend Susan Pluger of Environmental Quality, Monica Conrad of Parks and Recreation, and their staffs for clearing the sidewalks owned by our city. They're implementing a brand-new sidewalk plan. They faced equipment failures, but they managed to get the job done. It looks like they'll need more equipment in the future, and I hope the administration and my council peers will help me support that in that. I'd also like to thank all the residential business owners and churches who cleared their sidewalks. But then I'd like to point out that there are many people who did not do their civic duty. This is especially a problem on major roads like Main Street, Euclid Avenue, and others where pedestrians have nowhere to go but out on the road. There are businesses, churches, large apartment houses that neglect to shovel. I received as many calls about this as I did about street clearance. There are two letters in today's Herald-Leader addressing this topic, and I'd like to quote from briefly. Is that okay? um robert stouffer stouffer i think as i pronounce it uh commended uh us for getting the streets cleared but talked about sidewalks and they said among other things tates creek road was deplorable about 10 of the sidewalks on both sides of cooper drive from both sides from cooper drive to dover on road uh had been cleared by sunday among the six churches that lined this stretch of load road only two made an effort to clear their stretch of sidewalk also negligent were two of the four banks is a city we can do better than this, and I definitely agree. Another one came from Wayne Wilson, who is apparently a constituent of mine, and he says, quote, Why is it that businesses and properties surrounding the University of Kentucky do not clear their sidewalks after a snow or ice event? Do they not realize that the majority of people living in the area are going to be pedestrians? And then he calls me out, and he says, quote, Where is Jake Gibbs, the third district council person, when we need him? Well, hell, I was shoveling my sidewalk. Mine's clear, damn it. But I'm not done. I do appreciate Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Wilson, I'm on your side. I'm a pedestrian, too, as I expect my colleagues here have gotten tired of hearing. This is a complicated topic. The problem is in Lexington, we have a great many people who appear not to be aware of their civic duty or are unable to execute. And I think we've had a change in weather patterns in recent years, and I think people who haven't been aware need to become made aware. There is an ordinance on the books to fine offenders. It's been on the books since the 1970s, and it has got serious flaws that I won't go into here. And another problem is it's left to the police to enforce it, and the police have a lot of better things to do. So it's not been enforced in recent memory, if ever. I'm working on a new ordinance that will be enforceable. But before that's put in place, I think we need to have an awareness campaign rather than start by coercing people. And Mr. Wilson, I thank you for participating in that PR campaign. I know this, it seems, doesn't do much good for right now, but I think by next year we'll have this all in place and do a much better job. That's enough about snow. Just one other thing. I'd like to congratulate Jeff Reed on his appointment to interim chief of staff. Thank you for serving, Jeff. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Gibbs. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Dowell, would you mind coming up? Oh, God. Thank you. Thank you so much for your efforts. It was, as Council Member Maloney said, for letting us know about pretty much on time what was happening. For the most part, we got in a lot of acolytes, but I did have some concerns brought up from some neighborhoods that maybe you can help me so I can respond to them. One concern was the bus routes that weren't plowed. When the kids had to go back to school today, there were some streets that still hadn't been plowed. How do we coordinate with the Fayette County Public School System on that? Because that seemed to be the biggest complaint. We had a meeting in the mayor's office immediately prior to this storm to better coordinate with Fayette County Public Schools. So while it's not perfect, we will continue to coordinate with them. And I know that there are some issues on bus routes with snow removal. So, you know, it's a work in progress. That's all I can say. But we have made the effort to better coordinate with them, better communicate with them, to help them even determine whether they need to call off school. So we're working on it, and that's all I can say at this point. Do they make the call, or do we make the call, as far as whether or not they feel like the streets are ready for transportation, for bus transportation? They make the call. They are now going to be calling streets and roads at 2.30. They make the call typically 2.30 in the morning prior to the day they're going to call off school. They're going to be calling streets and roads at that time to get their input as well. That seemed to be the biggest concern that was told to me, that the street hadn't been plowed and they're sending the kids to school on the school bus, and there was a safety concern about that. I guess the only other couple questions I'd have would be, my concern was that LexCall was shut down. I was at 3 o'clock on Sunday. I had a lot of complaints from people who said they felt like that should have been left open because they just didn't want to leave a voicemail. What's your thought on that? You know, I mean, we kept LexCol open 24 hours for several days with minimal calls on those evening shifts. To have two people sitting there on a night shift for 35 calls, we didn't think that that was necessary, and especially on that third night. I didn't know your volume. I just got the calls at home saying that they've left a message. we were told that we were going to have full-time response, and we got a recorder. So I didn't know how you all determined when to shut it down in your volume of calls. That was something I couldn't answer. So it was based on the volume of calls. Yes, and I could be mistaken, but I think I communicated that twice on Sunday, that they would be closing at 3. Oh, you did, you did. But, I mean, again, the general public didn't realize that. So that was just a concern that I was just voicing. And I guess the last thing is just kind of an overall thing. How many plows do we currently have? And I know our population has grown. Have we pretty much kept up with the amount of plows we should have for the amount of population we have? I don't know plows per population, what's typical. But I do know that we did have contractor assistance this snow removal, which was tremendously helpful. We had three different contracting companies plus Red River Ranch, which is the contractor that's on staff to mobilize every time that we need them. The three additional contractors were a one-time snowstorm event that we issued purchase orders for that. I don't know the answer. I mean, you know, we've got 46 plows. At any given time, some are going to be in fleet services. I think fleet services worked around the clock 24 hours a day. At any given time, we may have had one or two plows in fleet services. I can't speak to that. But the answer is 46 plus contractor support. Okay. I just want to make sure that we have the amount, the necessary amount. And obviously this time we were lucky because we didn't have the double snow whammy like we did last time, last year. But, you know, this was a small event. But still, you know, folks don't have a lot of patience. And they want to get out of their streets and they're concerned about safety, their kids going to school. So I know we all understand that. It's just something that needs to be discussed. That's all. But I appreciate your help, and hopefully we won't have any more snow this year. I hope so. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Sada. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I want to echo what a lot of my colleagues have said up here and say kudos to all the government employees who have participated in this efforts of snow removal and taking calls and getting people to emergency personnel to the hospitals to work. And I just think that this, I have heard more positive, like Councilmember Farmer said, I have heard more positive communication than I have ever heard. And so I applaud everybody for their efforts, and that starts from all the way to the top, all the way to whoever was having to take care of the bare essentials. So I also want to echo what Council Member Gibbs was talking about, about the sidewalks. I think that just the clear fact that we had a process in place this year for snow removal on our sidewalks, I think that's a big plus, and I do want to continue working toward making that better. you know it's with everything you have to try to try out and see how it goes and then you make improvements so i look forward to lots more communication on that and discussion and thank you all so much thanks thank you councilmember lamb councilmember stennett thank you mayor and two congratulations on your announcement today mayor i'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of each other over the next nine months or and i know we're in good hands with our cao and commissioners so we'll be we'll keep government going for you okay a couple things i'll still be here oh yeah just making sure no i too want to thank uh commissioner squire dal thank you so much for your first baptism by fire i've been through 12 snow 12 years of snow events and they don't get any easier but this one was very good um you know you always measure a city and how good it is, but based on events like these. And I think starting with our CAO, thank you for always answering the calls. I know you had a tough time too over the weekend. Thank you, commissioner. And then on down to streets and roads to everyone in public safety from our police department, you know, the sheriff department, corrections, fire, I can go down the list. Dean for their updates and emergency updates, you know, the school system, I think, you know, your coordination with them on the school bus routes. I think one thing if I can add to that, we need to coordinate the actual school bus stops and have someone shovel from the sidewalk to the bus or a path, either carried on the school bus or have the school system go out and shovel that. Because in my neighborhood, for instance, when the snow plows came through, they have to four-foot high berm where the kids were climbing over the berm to get to a school bus. So I think I know where they know where the stops are. So I think if they can be proactive and have someone help shovel some of those, that would be a big, big help. And also, you know, on the plan itself, it was a great improvement over the past. I still think we have some tweaks with the hills, of course. But, you know, there seems to be a disparity. And maybe it's just based on perception, but between downtown, inside New Circle, and outside. You know, in years past, it's the same people have done both. But I'm not sure how that works now. But I know the people on the outside feel differently than people who live downtown about the level of service. And if we can look at that, was there a difference? Did we only use contractors outside the circle versus inside? And just kind of put some of those fears to rest, because that was the biggest issue I heard throughout the whole snow event. But I think that the biggest other part is education. I think council members and the public and a lot of people need to understand, we don't start to plan until the snow stops. Not during the snow. During the snow, we keep our emergency routes going and open. But once the snow stops, then we start plowing. But a lot of people, especially Wednesday, the first snow, they thought we should have been done by the time they got home from work, and the snow didn't stop until 1.15. So there's an education process. But it was very much improved. And I know I can keep going down the list and thanking people, every employee here at the government center and every other employee out at Sanitary Sewers and Streets and Roads for all their hard work. But this was a good team effort, and I'm pleased with the modifications and changes, and hopefully we can continue to improve it going forward. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Stennett. Vice Mayor K. Thank you, Mayor. First, let me echo so many of the comments that have already been made about what a good job everybody did in this very challenging set of circumstances. And I won't repeat all of that, but I do want to read one email that I got from a former constituent. He writes, We now spend a significant amount of time in Indianapolis since leaving UK. However, we were in town over this past weekend and noted that the clearing of the streets was better than we have seen in many years. Hopefully the city workers received lots of praise for their effort. We think they did a fantastic job. City Council should publicly note the good work of all involved. Thanks. That was just an indication of one of the things that I've heard from so many people. So thanks to everybody for a great job. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to echo a little bit of what's been said. Compared to last year, I have to say that the tables were turned. I had more people sending emails, making posts, and even phone calls just raving about the work that was done and how well. And I know that we can plan all day long, but I also know that each event is different. I think temperatures play a big role. Last year was different because it was very cold. This year, we had not the extreme cold temperatures except for the one night. So all in all, I have to say that I was very, very pleased, and I do agree with the sidewalk issue. that my daughter's like, I can't get to my, she couldn't get to my granddaughter because of the big piles of snow. And my granddaughter was on a sidewalk that wasn't cleared. And it was, but I'm like, just deal with it. It'll be 50 degrees tomorrow. But all in all, I just couldn't say enough about what a much better job it was this year compared to last. And I hope Albert and the rest of the crew know how much I appreciate it. And the people in the 11th district. The only announcement I have is tomorrow evening is the point in time count for folks that we have living on our streets. I'll be participating for the first time. This should be interesting, but very important to our community. And it gives us a real good idea. And each year that we have this count, it gives us a much better idea of where we are and what improvements. So as we move forward with housing first ideas and putting investment into homeless, it will tell how much we are improving in that way. So wish me luck. I'm going to be in hiking boots and big flashlights, I guess. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I, too, want to echo the thoughts that everyone has said so far. And, Dow, you've done a great job. I just want to say thank you for all the texts that you gave back to us so quickly, your responsiveness with Albert to addressing our concerns and giving reasons, not just yes or no, but here's why, X, Y, and Z. And I had a couple ideas. One of which, you know, the bus stop is one that my son rides the bus as well. And so someone had an idea that they threw out to me that I'm going to throw out just in general. Maybe having snow bus route, meaning we don't go through some of those side streets on buses, that we have the same amount of bus stop stops. Maybe that they're on those higher priority roads, not going through side roads, which would be a little bit of pre-planning and obviously a change, but might be a way to stop some of those side roads that are kind of narrow when cars park there and the buses do kind of fishtail a little bit. So that's just an idea I'm passing along as a consideration. And then I think we did such a good job. I had people who normally call me with maybe some unmet expectations who are riding and saying, you exceeded them. And my only concern is we did so well. We've raised the bar a little too high for the next one. So that's a great thing, and I really appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, Albert's thought about that same issue. Council Member Bledsoe, and I think Dow has as well. Okay, Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I'd just like to echo the same sentiments that were shared by the other council members, that Commissioner Dow and Albert Miller and Streets and Roads did a great job and were very responsive to the calls. And I would also like to thank Ms. Tatum and her staff at 311. I know they worked two to three 24-hour days, and they were committed to doing a good job as well. I think what was important and what came out of this snow plan and that the public appreciated was the communication. I think the communication from the mayor's office with the press conferences, coordinated with Fayette County Public Schools and Lex Tran, and then also the emails that were sent to council members from Dow. I think the communication and the public having the opportunity to call 311 and give their requests and concerns to someone, I think was appreciated, and I know I appreciate the communication from the commissioner's office. So thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Looks like that's all the council reports. I don't have a mayor's report tonight, but I do want to, I'll just punctuate and put ditto marks on what everybody else has said about the performance in the last few days with this snow event. I, too, got lots of comments that I shared with Sally and with Dow and with Albert and others. And to the updates that you all got, I could see how, if I'd been on the council still, how much value that would have been. And so, Dal, thanks a lot. That really was a nice process that you initiated. Unless I'm missing something, that takes us to public comment for issues not on the agenda. Nobody? Mr. Mundy? All right, then. Move adjourned. I ask for a move to adjourn. Moved to adjourn by Council Member Stenet, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned.