The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. There we go. Thank you all for joining us tonight. I'll call the meeting to order. And begin with Madam Clerk, if you'll please call the roll. Mr. Farmer. Mr. Gibbs. Here. Mr. Hensley? Ms. Henson? Here. Mr. Kay? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Masotti? Here. Ms. Gutchfield? Here. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. And Ms. Evans? Here. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We are very fortunate tonight to have our invocation by Imam Shahid Rashid, who is the Imam at Masheed Bilal. If you have permission, I would like to recite the opening prayer of the Quran. I would like to encourage you to hear it and then I'll pass it within the English. In the name of Allah, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful. Praise to you to God, cherish and sustain unto the world. Most gracious, most merciful, master of the day of judgment. And will all you worship in your aid be seated. Show us the straight way, the way of those on whom the unrestowed your grace. Those whose portion is not left, and who will not astray. I need you. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. And what we do is we say you're welcome to join us, but don't feel obligated. Yes. Yes, everybody knows that. That's why they're encouraging moving on quickly. So next on our agenda, speaking of moving on quickly, is the minutes of the previous meeting, is there a motion to approve all six sets of minutes? motion by Councilmember Farmer, second by Councilmember Henson. Is there any discussion regarding the motion? All right, if not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is a presentation, and I'll go to the podium and ask Councilmember Bledsoe and Melanie Tremors to please join me at the podium. All right. So thanks to a lot of exceptionally hard work and very long hours, next month Lexington will be well represented as the robotics building team from our very own Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School competes at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics Competition in Peoria. Altogether, the team known as FRC Team 2856 Planetary Drive will have raised over $10,000 to develop and build their robot and make the trip to the competition. So we want to thank all of the business sponsors and others that have made it possible for the team to compete. We're excited about the outcome and very proud of these smart, hardworking students. So, therefore, I have a proclamation. And the proclamation reads, Celebrating Team Planetary Drive Robotics Day, whereas a growing number of local employers use robotics to manufacture their products more efficiently, making robotics an essential component in STEM education, and whereas Team 2856 Planetary Drive, coached by Melanie Tremors and based at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School, is the only Fayette County high school robotics building team in Lexington, and whereas we wish all 50 members of the team good luck as they prepare for national competition and thank the local businesses that support their activities. So now, therefore, I, Jim Gray, as mayor of Lexington, commemorate Team Planetary Drive and declare Thursday, February 18, 2016, as Robotics Day in Lexington. All right. There we go. Thank you. Okay. So we have three, two, yeah, including Melanie. We have two of the students who are here with us tonight, and so they're going to speak first, and then Councilmember Bledsoe. So why don't you introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Nathan Roccovina, sophomore at Paul Ernst Dunbar High School, and I'm vice president of the robotics team. I'm Kelly Kroll, and I am vice president of the electrical team. And I am Elizabeth Brumfield. I'm a senior, and I am head of marketing. Our robotics team brings some of the brightest minds in our public schools together in order to achieve engineering excellence. Open to any public high school student in the county, the team participates in an annual competition where strategizing, designing, testing, redesigning, and fabricating a functional robot takes place entirely during a six-week build season. An engineering project of this type is typical to industry and usually led in staff by engineers. For us, the same occurs, but with public school students doing the heavy lifting, mentored by professionals and educators. It's a unique experience that's typically not available to teenage students. What we do is important because it gives us a very close and real look at how engineering projects are undertaken, as well as hands-on experience with many industrial applications, from electronics to metal fabrication to systems integration. Team members know how engineering projects happen from top to bottom long before they complete high school. Our team follows the national first ethics and goals to gain the workforce knowledge needed in these industries. These ethics are what drive most of our members to make the lifelong decision to join the engineering society. And as we're sure the council is aware, engineers are valuable members of any community's workforce. By growing our engineers at home, we have a better chance of keeping them in the community. While engineering is of primary importance in our efforts, the team also has a marketing department for community outreach, recruiting, and fundraising. While these dedicated team members are not primarily focused on engineering, they nevertheless learn and develop useful skills that can be found all throughout our community. These bring a well-rounded and diverse group together to accomplish our goal. What we do is only possible with the support of volunteer professionals who mentor team members in their efforts. These invaluable mentors model the potential within our team members and literally highlight the engineering profession on a daily basis. In addition to the wonderful support of our professional mentors, our team depends on the generous support of various sponsors in our community. Not only do these businesses see the future impact of their support, but they make our team efforts achievable. Thank you for your time. As you can tell, this is our future workforce, and it's really, really exciting. You know, Fayette County is the second largest county in our state, and we only have 45 students. To put this in perspective, Tennessee has 70 high school robotics teams, and we have around 10. We're already really behind. This summer I went to the Kentucky Institute for Economic Development, and the trainer stressed to me that although robotics is forecasted to cut jobs, for every one job we lose overseas to manufacturing, we lose 10 here to automation. That does mean, though, we can create 25 million new jobs to work with the robotics and automation that we will then have. And I just think if we're going to be forward-thinking in workforce development, we need to be celebrating and encouraging and supporting some of our high school students as they move forward, because they are going to be our future workforce development in this regional way. I know Commerce Lexington and Economic Development can be here tonight, but they're very supportive. In fact, my office looked at 18 different counties around the Bluegrass area, and almost all of them responded, this is a huge demand. We have a huge need for this kind of youth, and the biggest barrier, as you can imagine, is funding. And so I'm here tonight, probably you're asking, how can we help? I am going to do a pass around for NDFs. This is a selfish plea, I suppose, for your support. For $5,000, if our council helped, we could put the Blue Horse on their robotics project, which I think would be kind of cool from a branding perspective. And I think we'd also really encourage our team here to keep in getting new people around it, supporting for it, and I'm just so excited for what they're going to do. They're going to the regional competition in the Smoky Mountains, as I mentioned, March 30th. So I want to do our best to support them physically, financially as much as we can. And I also want to recognize the parents and mentors that are here tonight. If you want to stand, thank you for your investment for us. Anything we can do, I think, to increase our future workforce development is needed and appreciated. So thank you, Mayor, for your recognition and the students for being here. And I think we'll take a picture up on the top. That's okay. Thank you. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Two, three. Two, three. All right. Martha, if you're ready, we can move to ordinances for a second reading. Ordinance number one. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified civil service position of eligibility counselor, grade 513E, and creating one unclassified civil service position of life skills program instructor, grade 512N, and reclassifying the incumbent in the division of youth services effective upon passage of counsel, number 2. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant classified civil service position of deputy director, building inspection, grade 527E, and creating one classified civil service position of permit compliance administrator, grade 522E, in the division of building inspection, effective upon passage of counsel, number 3. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant unclassified civil service position of administrative specialist, grade 513N, and creating one classified civil service position of social worker, grade 513E, in the Division of Family Services, effective upon pass of counsel. Number four. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette-Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, schedule number 24. Number five. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Veodurban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $31,000 in the Division of Parks and Recreation from the Council Capital Funds for additional aeration, benches, and waste receptacles at Cross Keys Park and Pond and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 23. Number six. and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule 26. Number 8, an ordinance amending Section 2457 and 24633 of the Code of Ordinances to change the name of the Commission for Citizens with Disabilities to the Commission for People with Disabilities. Number 9, an ordinance amending Section 1410F of the Code of Ordinances related to citation officers to allow Director of Building Inspection, Building Inspector Manager, Building Inspection Supervisor, Building Inspector Senior, Commercial Building Inspector, and Building Inspector employed in the Division of Building Inspection to issue citations for violation of Section 18.113.4. And number 10, in ordinance amending Section 18.113.4, the Code of Ordinances Related to Handicapped Parking Signage to replace the word handicapped with the word accessible to delete references to outdated building codes to allow blue hash lines, to delete Section 3 and renumber the remaining sections and to establish an appeal process. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion? Move approval. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, second by Council Member Hanson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Mr. Farmer? Yes. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Ms. Lamb? Yes. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Ms. Stinnett? Yes. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move to ordinances for a first reading. Ordinance number 11. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified civil service position of staff assistant senior, grade 510N, and creating one unclassified civil service position of administrative specialist, grade 513N, in the Division of Aging and Disability Services and reclassifying the incumbent effective upon passage of counsel, Number 12. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant classified civil service position of program specialist, grade 513N, and creating one vacant classified civil service position of recreation assistant, grade 510N, and two vacant unclassified civil service positions of van driver part-time, grade 505N, all in the Division of Aging and Disability Services, effective upon passage of counsel. Number 13. An ordinance repealing Chapter 18A of the Code of Ordinances relating to vehicles for hire, number 14. An ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized strength by abolishing two positions of public service supervisor senior, grade 517-E, and creating two positions of public service supervisor senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Water Quality, abolishing 11 positions of public service supervisor senior, grade 517-E, and creating 11 positions of public service supervisor senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Waste Management, abolishing two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-E, and creating two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Waste Management, abolishing two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Waste Management, abolishing two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Waste Management, abolishing two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of Waste Management, abolishing two positions of information systems specialist senior, grade 517-N, in the Division of W I'll stop. counselor, grade 513N, in the Division of Adult Services, amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength by abolishing two positions of eligibility counselor, grade 513E, and creating two positions of eligibility counselor, grade 513N, in the Division of Adult Services, transferring the incumbents from exempt to non-exempt positions, and converting their bi-weekly salaries to hourly rates of pay effective upon passage of counsel. Madam Clerk, hold on just a second. We've got a question. Yes, sir. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. I have some people here that would like to speak on this, and some employees. if you all would please come up and talk about what your concerns are. Thank you. All right. Hello. So you all know the rules, the three minutes? No. Okay. Well, there's a three-minute rule. Okay, I'm just going to be real brief. That's fine, yeah. I'm just going to say my name is Cheryl Galt. I'm with the Division of Planning. We were told about our positions moving from exempt to non-exempt last week. I know this is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act. I understand that. But at the same time, I believe a lot of the divisions, the positions that some of these positions hold, people wind up having to work extended hours longer than what they're 40 hours a week. I work with the planning commission, so sometimes we're here a little later at night. I didn't know if we, the idea of moving us from exempt to non-exempt, that means it costs the city more money. That's my thoughts on it. But, I mean, I'd rather myself, I'd rather stay as exempt and not cost the city that money. But I'm not sure what other divisions thought. I just came to see what was to be said. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Right ahead. My name is Kelly Hunter, and I work in the division of planning. Right, Kelly. My comment on it was we were given three criteria as to why we did not meet the exempt position anymore. We were told we met one of them. We met up a salary base. That's fine. The other two were primary duties that we perform. as written here was performance of office or non-manual work related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer's customers. The reason why we didn't fit that was planning is the basic work of the local government. With that sentence, that should encompass everyone in planning, not just the three of us. The third one we didn't meet was the employee's primary duty includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with manners to respect of significance. The reason we didn't meet that one is because the exercise of discretion and independent judgment must be more than the use of skill in applying well-established techniques, procedures, or specific standards described in manuals or other sources. Every decision we make goes back to the zoning ordinances or the subdivision regulations. That's what we're bound by. Everybody there cannot make a decision that would fall outside of those. So I just wanted to bring that to your all's attention. Thank you. All right. Thanks, John. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Dave Jarman. I work in the Division of Planning. I've been with Urban County Government since 2004. We want to make clear that our concerns here revolve around the ability to manage the people power in our department. If we are going to be non-exempt and overtime eligible, that means at 40 hours or 80 hours, things stop. and someone would eventually have to take off in order to avoid a large payout of overtime on a regular basis. We're concerned with that because of the time that we spend in front of the Planning Commission. Very often the time involved with engineers and analysis of plans, the time does run over. So our concern is not with hours or money. Our concern is with the ability to manage the manpower in our department. The first thing that I noticed in the analysis that came out of human resources was the fact that we were immediately pigeonholed into the administrative exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Well, the FLSA has a number of categories of exemptions for exempt versus non-exempt employees. There's executive exemptions. There's professional exemption. There is state and local government exemptions. There are a number of categories. And it appeared to us that none of this was ever considered. we were plugged into the administrative category and evaluated under our job tasks were evaluated under that category alone. And we feel that our job tasks and the abilities necessary to perform our jobs are more suited to the professional category rather than the administrative. Therefore, we would like to see a re-evaluation of that under those criteria. We felt like that from the get-go, this entire evaluation got started off on the wrong train. They were at the right train station, but they got off on the wrong train. We would like to be evaluated under different category and then take a look at whether or not we fit that exemption. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. CAO Hamilton, would you like someone to speak to this on behalf of the administration? It looks like John is. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Let me just kind of take a minute to explain what is occurring here so that everybody gets a good idea. The Fair Labor Standards Act has some, as the gentleman said, has some criteria. And basically it's two criteria. One is you have to meet a salary test, and that salary test is $455 a week currently or $23,000, some change. If you meet that, in other words, if you make at least $23,000 or $455 a week, then you have to meet, in order to be exempt, the second criteria. The second criteria, and there are four major categories in the second criteria. Executive is one, which is very high level, very self-explanatory. Professional is another. And that generally requires a very high level of education to have that position. An example of that would be a lawyer, would be perhaps an engineer that requires a PE. It requires a high level of education for that position, and that's the professional exemption. There is also specifically carved out in FLSA a computer exemption for technology. And there's other criteria under that. And then finally, as somebody said, there is an administrative exemption. And that is the one that a lot of times has to be looked at very closely. And that one, there's a number of factors we look at, and it's just not really quite as, you know, just a few factors. There is independent judgment. There is responsibility. There is level of responsibility in the organization. There is, if you have supervisory management kind of authority, you're exempt. And there's a number of other criteria under that. We do a detailed, of each position as we're doing these job descriptions, a very detailed analysis of those positions. It was not done on a whim. It was very, very detailed, and it's going to take some time to get through all of this. And I had a meeting with the directors back in December and explained not only that, but also that the President of the United States directed Thomas Perez, who's the Department of Labor Secretary, to look at and possibly make changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act in terms of that criteria. And he has looked at that, there's been a comment period, and it's likely that other changes are also going to be taking place this year. And those changes are going to be in the salary cutoff. It's going to move from the $23,000, what it is now, to about $50,400 or $969 a week. So that in itself is going to affect likely, so this is just kind of a heads up. That's going to affect about 121 employees here that are going to have to move from exempt to non-exempt. And then there's likely going to be other changes to the duties criteria. So this is a changing situation. But what we're doing now is with the current standards, we're making these changes. They haven't been looked at since the 1990s. And the DOL is doing a lot of audits on exempt versus non-exempt. So we're being proactive in making sure that we're in full compliance with FLSA. All right. You might want to hang around, John. Council Member Massadi. Thank you. Mr. Maxwell, I have just a few more questions. Sure. Do these particular employees have the ability to renegotiate if they feel that they should be professional rather than administrative? Do they have the ability to sit down with your office and give you their... They can certainly come in, and we can sit down and talk to them and explain them in detail. I suspect what they received was kind of a general summary, and we would be more than happy to sit down with them and explain to them in detail how the analysis was completed. And is it only the Division of Planning, or are there other divisions in the government that this is effective as well? There are others, and I think on tonight's docket, there's 20 positions and maybe seven job classifications. If I'm not mistaken. Do you feel comfortable if we were to pull this tonight to give you more time and these other employees to discuss this, or do you feel like this is a pretty cut-and-dry deal? I feel it's cut-and-dry. and I do not think it is something that should be delayed because it's a change that number one, it's not an adverse change to employees in terms of salary. They have an opportunity to make more. Now, management is going to try to control that overtime pay. But secondly, I feel very strongly that we need to be in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and this would These kind of changes make sure that we are in compliance. And it's up to each division director to hold the overtime standards? Yes. About how much overtime they can have within each division. Does that factor into it at all? Say, like they're saying, they're at a planning commission meeting, and they're past their 40 hours, and the director says, look, we're over budget this month, you guys, you know, 40 hours and that's it. Does that figure into that? I can't speak to their budgets, but if they do work over 40 hours, they'll have to be paid time and a half for that. Oh, I understand that. I just wonder if they were told that they could only go to 40 in order to keep within a certain budget. No, no, no. They haven't been told that, no. All right. Thank you. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. John, I appreciate you being here. And I just want to, being on this council for a long time and being a formal CAO, what Sally Hamilton's gone through, HR was a big problem. I mean, before you came on, I had to deal with a lot of issues. And I'm glad we have finally decided to hire a consultant. And to me, I don't think nothing to hold against you. I think HR can be a lot better than what it is, and that's why we had a consultant to come in. And to do these kind of positions and all that and hear these kind of issues that came up is a real reason that I was concerned about when I listened to employees when I was CAO. And to me, that was the toughest job when HR was a mess. And that's before you came up. But you have done some improvement, but I still think it needs to be better. The audit is what I'm waiting on. And to me, I don't want to think we should be doing anything. And, I mean, if there's some positions that we've got to bring on and hire, I don't want to hold that up. But to change positions around right now and to cause these kind of issues that we're dealing with, I thought that's why we hired a consultant to look at it. And maybe CEO Hamilton can come up and tell me where we are on this audit. And tell me if I'm wrong. Is this the direction we're going? But I was kind of hoping that this would kind of give us that we need to be better. And I feel that we're not on the right track right now. I think this audit is going to hopefully make it better. It just so happens that this afternoon I reviewed this audit with the consultants. And I sort of did that with trepidation. I said, I'm not having much luck. I hope this is better. So we had a wonderful conversation. I was very, very pleased with the audit. I saw it in draft. It will be presented at the latter part of March. What we asked the consultants to do is we asked the consultants to look at the staffing patterns, the staffing patterns in HR, because that was an issue that was brought up at the budget and during the link, and you asked before we added more positions, you wanted to look at those in HR. So that's what they did. That's the first step they did. The second step that they did is they looked at the organization of HR. Could it be organized in a different way? Will we correct in our organization? And they have some suggestions that can be easily implemented, and I personally thought they would be very productive. The third thing that they looked at was our hiring process. How long? Because all of you have heard many times that it takes a long time to get somebody hired. So they looked at our whole hiring process to see if that could be streamlined and gave us some very good ideas on it. So I think you're going to be very, very pleased with this. To answer your question about the Fair Labor Standards Act, no, that was not part of our audit because that's a federal requirement. I'm listening to these employees think that there is one huge thing about them. they are not just wanting to get paid overtime. They really want to do their jobs, and they're not worried about extra money and for overtime. And I really applaud that. That's the kind of employees we have. We've got a federal issue here, though, and one that I cannot in conscience advise you ever to, I don't want to pay the overtime money. I would rather do the comp time and not have to deal with this overtime. But there are federal rules here, and the Labor Department is really tightening this up. And it's my responsibility to advise you all on what I think you need to do to follow the correct labor laws. And I know you want to do that. Now, what I can do here is with these three individuals, as John said, they've looked at them. We also use another employment lawyer. I can take these three particular positions and have them looked at, as far as the labor law is concerned, if that would make people more comfortable. But this is not part of the study, and I feel this is something that is just very important to the protection of this. Now, one other thing, and then I'm sorry I'll quit, but it will have to be looked at in our budget, because there are people that are going to have to work more than 40 hours, and they can't be managed at the 40-hour basis. And so when we do this, when we get ready to look at this budget, we're going to have to look at some more overtime money. I mean, I would be misleading you if I told you anything else but that. I want to thank you. The one thing that I want to bring up, and I know my time's up, is the example when I worked for the state, we didn't have an HR person because I had a deal with HR and they didn't quite understand the positions I had. I had 300 employees that did different things from license, plumbing and all that. We brought somebody in there. The governor and I allowed me to do that. Then people, the HR person got to understand what those jobs are. And that's what I think we're lacking in this, that we don't have people that understand those jobs as we do. That's the concern that I have. All right. Thank you, Council Member Lundy. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Maxwell, I was wanting to find out who in your division has worked on this project. I mean, is it just solely you, or is it a team of people? There's basically five people who have looked at these changes. Two of them are our analysts. One of them is Amanda Sutton, who is one of our analysts. She worked five years with the Sterling Group in compensation. She's well-versed in all aspects of compensation. Another one is Jessica. and she has quite a bit of compensation experience. Nicole has a lot of compensation experience, and then Tammy and I. I'm very familiar with the standards, and I'm very comfortable with what we're doing here. Okay, and is there any, like, report or anything that you all have to file with the federal government? No, there isn't. So once this is done, then there's no reporting mechanism or anything? No. The only thing that we're subject to is a DOL, wage and hour audit. And should they do an audit and determine that we have folks that are exempt that should be not exempt, then they can assess penalties and whatnot. And you mentioned that the president had handed down through the secretary to, I guess, for people to start looking into this. Is that what really ignited this? No, no. What really ignited it, it kind of goes back to when we did the compensation study. And the compensation consultants, and this kind of goes to Council Member Maloney's point here, the consultants advised us that they thought that we should do the JAQs with our folks and do the job descriptions because we, as the government, have a better knowledge of exactly what those jobs are than any consultant that would come in and try to learn those jobs quickly. So what they did was they helped us create a template for doing job descriptions and then gave us some general outline as to what to follow with respect to the Fair Labor Standards Act and determining exempt and non-exempt status. So this has been something that's in the works. We haven't really had the resources in terms of people to get it done as fast as we'd like to get it done, but we are working on it. And it's going to take some time. But the reason why I brought up the Secretary of Labor and what's going on with that is that is going to happen this year, probably before the November election. and it's going to affect, and this is what I told the directors, it's going to affect another 120 people at least. Okay, so, and you mentioned the 120, is that above and beyond what's on this ordinance? Yes. And that's, so you're expecting, and I don't know how many are on this, affected on this actual ordinance, so it could be upwards of 140 people or so? Yes. Okay. Okay. Well, I do want to say that I hope, I mean, I know that the Division of Planning employees have concerns, and I understand that, and I would appreciate that they could come and sit down and discuss with you. I mean, I kind of understand and see where their concerns are coming from as well, and the fact that this is just now being addressed, and I don't know. I can understand where their concerns are, and I appreciate them bringing their concerns here tonight. Sure. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Absolutely. All right. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Mayor. I guess my question, I appreciate the explanation, Mr. Maxwell, and to our CAO. My question is, how is this being communicated to employees? Because it's reached this level, and there seems to be a disconnect on how the explanations are being given or who they're given the opportunity to meet with. how is this being communicated? Because if this is going to happen again, I think the communication's got to change. Because obviously the explanation they've been given hasn't been sufficient. And I want to figure out how going forward, and you don't have to answer tonight unless you have something. How are we going to change that? Because I think the consultants that we hired, we asked them to look at that too. How are we communicating with employees? Because that's half our battle. I can tell you that we communicated ahead of time with the directors so that they knew and then we did give some criteria as to why we did it. If somebody wants to meet with us, certainly we'll do that and we'll look at the communication aspect and see if we can't do a little more thorough communication. With all due respect, this is something that affects their livelihood, their family's livelihood. I would expect you not just to contact their director, but contact them and talk to them face-to-face. I think that's the least courtesy when you're changing someone's position that we owe to these employees. We certainly will do that. Yes, sir. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I won't ramble on, but I was going to actually say the same thing that Council Member Stinnett spoke about, is that I just think we need to communicate better with our employees, and they do deserve that. I also know that given another scenario, we could have an employee that would report us for violations. they could come in, we could be audited, and we would, if we do not take these actions between exempt and non-exempt, and we were to be audited, then we would owe maybe quite a bit of money, have the potential there. But regardless, I think communication is always the key. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you all. all right if that's all we've signed on to speak so madam clerk you can may continue ordinance number 15. an ordinance of the lexington-faderby county government making certain findings concerning and establishing a development area for economic development purposes within Lexington-Fayette-Urbing County to be known as the Thistle Station Development Area, approving a local participation agreement between Lexington-Fayette-Urbing County Government and the Department of Finance of the Lexington-Fayette-Urbing County Government, establishing an incremental tax special fund for payment of administrative costs, approving public infrastructure costs and redevelopment assistance, designating the Department of Finance of the Lexington-Fayette-Urbing County Government as the agency responsible for oversight administration and implementation of the development area, approving a master development agreement between the Lexington Fayette Irving County Government, the Irving County Government's Department of Finance, and Thistle Holdings, LLC, and authorizing the mayor and other officials to take such other appropriate actions as are necessary or required in connection with the establishment of the development area. Number 16, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing three classified civil service positions of child care program aid, grade 508N, and five unclassified civil service positions of child care program aid part-time, grade 508N, and creating three classified civil service positions of educational program aid, grade 508N, and five unclassified civil service positions of educational program aid part-time, grade 508N, reclassifying the incumbent in the Division of Youth Services effective upon passage of Council No. 17. And ordinance amending Article 3, Chapter 12 of the Code of Ordinances relating to riparian areas, riparian buffer zones, and riparian buffer permits as follows. Amending Section 1271.1 of the Code to include naturalized detention basin bottoms in the definition of riparian area. amending section 1271-3 of the code to authorize a maximum buffer zone of 25 feet from the edge of naturalized detention basin bottoms and amending section 1271, 1272, and 1273 of the code to provide that the Division of Environmental Services or its designee shall have the authority to issue riparian buffer permits, approve riparian vegetation, and inspect riparian areas for compliance with the terms and conditions of riparian buffer permits. And number 18, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds. Schedule number 27. All right, Madam Clerk, thank you very much. Are there any motions? All right, if not, then can we proceed to resolutions for a second reading? Resolution number 1, a resolution accepting the bid of Rexall, Incorporated in the amount of $46,771.57 for LED light fixtures for fleet management for the Department of General Services. Number two, a resolution accepting the bid of sewer system evaluations incorporated in the amount of $92,750 for capacity assurance program temporary flow for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with sewer system evaluations incorporated. Number three, a resolution accepting the bid of jarbo construction incorporated in the amount of $60,933 for construction of a multipurpose training structure for the Division of Police. Number four, a resolution accepting the bid of Van Hook Enterprises Incorporated in the amount of $443,000 for the West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plan Administration Building Expansion Improvements for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Van Hook Enterprises Incorporated related to the bid. Number five, a resolution ratifying the probationary civil service appointments of Lindsay Luker, Senior Budget Analyst, Grade 522E, 2033.76 biweekly in the Division of Budgeting. Effective February 8, 2016, Lori Jackson, Administrative Specialist Senior, Grade 516N, 20.998 hourly in the Division of Accounting. Effective February 2, 2016, Catherine Cobb, Program Specialist, Grade 513E, 1,390.08 biweekly. Rebecca Arledge, Program Specialist, Grade 513E, 1,467.84 biweekly. O'Donnell Lasky, Maintenance Mechanic, Grade 515N, 25.075 hourly, all in the Division of Water Quality, all effective February 8, 2016. Michael Neely, Fleet Operations Supervisor, Grade 519N, 27.432 hourly in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, effective February 22, 2016. Ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Tracy Holman, Customer Service Specialist, Grade 510N, 18.720 hourly in the Division of Government Communications, effective January 13, 2016. Angela Johnson, Administrative Specialist, Grade 513N, 17.941, hourly in the Division of Police, effective October 20, 2015. Jeremy Adkins, Blake Andrews, Joseph Baker, Anthony Beatty Jr., Mary Blankenship, Tyler Schelf, Chad Claggett, David Koval, Ricardo Delgado, Brandon Hazelwood, Stephen Hudak, Matthew Caper, Jody Kizis, Kristen Klingshern, David Lawson, Ty Nguyen, Daniel Raleigh, Justin Ray, Brandon Ritchie, Corey Vinlove, and Brandon Whitus, all police officers, Grade 311N, 19.231, hourly in the Division of Police, effective January 14, 2016. ratifying council leave of Eric Gentry, resource recovery operator in the Division of Waste Management beginning January 22, 2016 through April 22, 2016 and ratifying the following unclassified civil service pay increase in the office of the Urban County Council, Sally Lambert-Wordfield Aid to Council, Grade 518E from 2306.24 biweekly to 2375.43 biweekly, effective January 25, 2016. Number six, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a contract with ESO Solutions for patient care reporting software. Number seven, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents and to accept deeds for property interests needed for the Cane Run Road Stormwater Improvement Project. Number eight, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract amendment with Squire Oak Neighborhood Association to include the replanting of street trees within the scope of work at no additional cost to the urban county government. Number nine, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to agreement with Community Action Council of Lexington, Fayette, Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Inc., for an extension of the performance period to December 31, 2016, for use of home investment partnership program funds for a tenant-based rental assistance program at no additional cost to the urban county government. Number 10, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a catering contract with the Hyatt Regency Lexington for catering services for the senior intern luncheon at a cost not to exceed $5,500. Number 11, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number two to the contract with Element Design PLLC for the Idle Hour Park Improvement Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $6,600 from $34,600 to $41,200. Number 12, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a release of claims with Officer Patrick A. Murray for retirement of the canine ORI. Number 13, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement with Time Warner Cable for relocation of utilities for the Clay's Mill Road Improvement Project Section 2C at a total cost of $41,354, of which an amount not to exceed $22,707 is the responsibility of the Irving County Government. Number 14, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute Change Order No. 10 to the contract with Churchill McGee, LLC for Public Safety Operations Center Phase 1B renovation contract increasing the contract price by the sum of $36,406.28 from $6,428,190.85 to $6,464,597.13. Number 15, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a multi-year agreement with IBM Credit LLC for a wireless system upgrade in the government center and the Swito building at a cost not to exceed $80,000 fiscal year 2016. Number 16, a resolution superseding resolution number 784-2015 and requesting that the Kentucky General Assembly instead adopt legislation allowing the Lexington Fayette urban county government to increase the transient room tax for urban county governments by an additional 2.5% for the purpose of funding convention centers and expressing the willingness of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council to provide $10 million in matching funds toward the renovation or reconstruction of the Lexington Center. And number 17, a resolution authorizing the Division of Parks and Recreation to offer all active service members and veterans of the United States military discounted rates on daily green fees and golf courses owned by the urban county government. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Councilmember Farmer and second by Vice Mayor Kay. Is there any discussion on the motion? Councilmember Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about number 17. All right. Who would be able to help with that? Okay, Monica. Hello. Hello. I had, I guess, a couple questions or thoughts since this passed originally. Are discounts given seven days a week for all of the discounts that we give? I'm going to let Mike's field speak directly to the discounts. Okay. The only discounts that we, weekends, which represents about 36% of our play, is we do not offer discounts unless you have a loyalty card. So we do not offer discounts for seniors or ladies of that type. Okay, students, employees, everything. Well, we do for our current military rate, which is $18, like at Tate's Creek, it is offered on weekends. And if you have a disability. Okay, so military, and would this one then be on weekends also? Yes. So women don't get the discount on the weekends. It is Monday through Friday. Just Monday through Friday. Yes. Students is Monday through Friday? Yes. And seniors is Monday through Friday? Yes. Okay. Let me think about that for a minute. And then do we ask for proof of residency? Does it matter where they come from? No, ma'am, it does not. Okay. I wasn't sure. Someone, I received an email about out-of-county residents getting, you know, subsidies. A few years ago, we used to do an in-county and out-of-county rate that was somewhat detrimental to us, specifically Avon, the golf course which used to sit out at the Bourbon County line, Ernie Hill Golf Links, who gets a lot of out-of-town play. So we discontinued that. And I can see why. I think that we want to welcome our surrounding counties into Lexington. Okay, so I'm a little bit concerned about the discrepancy in the discounts in the days of the week and when they're allowed or applied. So I would like to, and I guess I'll ask for your all's thoughts on this. Do you think that women and seniors should be given discounts on weekends also, or do you think everyone should be limited to Monday through Friday, to be fair? well our feeling is is 30 36 of our play again is on weekends so it is it's you know we need to maximize our revenue and our play opportunities on weekends the ladies rate is based on an old tradition in golf in which ladies were allowed to play country clubs on tuesdays we at one time had only ladies discounts on tuesdays in 2012 for the management plan we extended that Monday through Friday. It's all about filling tee times during availability. So a lot of ladies may not work, a lot do, but Monday through Friday you offer discounts in order to fill those times when the golf courses aren't full when you have availability. Okay. So I'm going to, I guess I can make a motion to amend this resolution. On a second reading? It would go back then to first reading. All right, we'd have to start all over. You can make a motion to amend it. Okay, so I think in consideration of fairness, and since 36%, that's a pretty large chunk of our business is on weekends, that we should limit all discounts to Monday through Friday. And so we would not give discounts on Saturdays and Sundays. Is that what you all consider, weekend, Saturday, and Sunday play? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So I would like to make that motion, please. All right, there's a motion. Motion to amend. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, there's a second. Motion to amend. Motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion to amend? Council Member Maloney? I appreciate what you're saying, but to me, as I go back to what I say about the veterans, they do more for this country than anybody else has. And I just feel like this is an opportunity, not just five days a week, they should have seven days a week of discounts. And this is just one small step for the direction that I'm hoping that the council realize that we are a friendly city to our veterans. And reports come out showing that we have a problem, and I commend Kevin Sennett asking the committee to be put together. We did this four or five years ago, and I have folks back here that have three groups that have over 600 people in each group that have connections to, and they want to be involved with this. And they are excited to have this fee, and they're looking forward to beginning many other opportunities. And as you all know, the wars these folks that we have now, World War II was the last time we had a war that America actually had to be in. Those wars that we've had after that have been very controversial, and I just feel that this is just one small step, not breaking the world, not breaking anybody, but to me it's a thank you for what they did to this country, for going over there for it, which I disapprove on a few of those wars. So being as a council member and having an opportunity to help them, I think this is great, and I want to give them seven days of a chance of a discount. Thank you. All right. Council Member Stendon. Thank you, Mayor. Just a quick clarification, Mike. No other discounts are on the weekends, right, currently? As far as a classification discount, such as seniors or ladies, no. Okay. Mayor, I don't want to say this motion is actually out of order. because it's materially different than what the motion is on the docket and has been made by Council Member Farmer. If she wants to substitute for this, that's fine. But her motion is referencing all discounts, which is materially different from this being just veterans. So if you want to say veterans five days a week, that would be an appropriate motion. All right. So I'll rule then. I think Council Member Stenis made a point. Good point. So, Council Member Akers? Sure. I will amend it. Chance to? Yes. Or rephrase it so that we limit this veterans discount to also be only Monday through Friday. Yeah, that's right. Or to limit this discount Monday through Friday. And if I can, while I've got the mic here, we already gave discounts for veterans. We already had a military raid. So this is, I mean, this is in addition to what we already did. So it's not like we're trying to take anything away. We already had a military discount before. Thank you. All right. Council Member Scotchfield. No, the motion to amend was adjusted. But she didn't get a second. Well, Jennifer, Council Member Masati seconded it. And her motion as adjusted is acceptable to you. All right. All right, is that clear now? Yes, I think so. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make sure what we were discussing now. As Council Member Akers has said, I mean, we already offer a discount to our military veterans. And I don't think anybody up here is sitting there and saying that we don't value our veterans. We obviously do. I have family members serving now overseas. I mean, we all know somebody. We all are related to somebody. This is not something that we do not do. But the percentages that we've put forward in these discounts are inconsistent across the board. 60% of a discount at some of the courses, 16% at some of the other courses. We don't know the full cost of what this is going to cost the government. We already lose, we got the numbers not that long ago, $800,000 a year on golf. And to not know the amount is not fiscally responsible. Again, they already do get a discount. We have other groups that get a discount. Let me tell you, I have two children in school. I think school personnel should be valued and thanked. So I think this is an issue that needs more information other than let's just do this. We need to know the fiscal impact. Thank you. All right. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I guess I need some more clarification because this resolution does not state how much the discounted rate is. So is that set by Parks and Rec? Or did we set that in the motion? The rates were provided to the General Government Committee in which they voted on. We voted to approve it. Yes. But does Parks and Rec have the ability or the authority to adjust those rates at any time? Up to 20%. Up to 20%? Yes. So, you know, I'm really, thank you, Mike. I'm tired of fighting this battle, but I am going to support this resolution. Thank you. All right. Councilman Maloney. Now I brought this to the council for the administration to look at this. And the administration came back with these recommendations. This is not my recommendation. My recommendation was a lot more benefit more. it was going to be giving them a bigger discount and giving free cards. So they didn't think it was a good idea. So to me, the administration came back with this recommendation, and which I support, it's on the right track, and I think everybody needs to know this is not our, this is not, this is the administration's recommendation. So don't be thinking it came from me. If it was for me, it would be a heck of a lot better than what it is now. So I just want everybody to know this is the administration's rule. All right, Council Member Akers again. I'm so sorry to keep going back and forth. Can someone, I don't know, I just realized since someone asked, have the council members who were not in the General Government Committee even seen what the new discounts and the new rates are, or what the drastic discounts are? Thank you. They've all been emailed. She emailed. Okay. I just was making sure that people have seen those. And so would someone from the administration like to speak to your all's request for these discounts and the rush to bring them forward in February? As implied by Mr. Maloney. I can't speak to the rush to bring them forward in February. although we certainly had presented it at committee, it had come out of committee hearing. We were under the impression it was going to be read at that next meeting. So we are certainly here today and presenting a plan that we have worked on extensively, and we're here to do what the council would like. Thank you, Monica. Jeff is behind you to help. Chief of Staff and Commissioner. We support the veterans. We all do. This gets into a larger issue here. When we're talking about golf, fees as a whole, senior golf, rates for disabilities, when we make these adjustments, are we doing it to honor a specific group? are we doing it with the revenues in mind and what's best to lower that $800,000 gap. In this case, this recommendation was with veterans in mind. This was what was brought to us. We got with Council Member Maloney. We tried to devise something that was keeping the revenue overall situation in mind while still giving veterans discounts. Our biggest goal was to protect the cart fees because that's where we get the most revenue. And we also felt that we needed to have it in a one-year time frame so we can actually assess the economic impact. We can't fully assess that for a number of reasons. We don't break these categories out. we don't know that you know if more people are going to come and play that's been argued we have to see the greatest economic impact you're also correct occurs on the weekends that's the greatest detrimental situation that will occur to the revenues i don't know how much it'll be offset by increased play or other things but it really boils down to balancing the revenues against honoring specific groups. And that's where we were. We tried to come up with something with both in mind, and that's what we presented. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I guess what I would say is I think that the way I look at it is I understand the concerns that have been spoken about tonight, But I also understand that we still don't know how this could positively impact our revenue. It could generate more revenue, which would, in fact, provide more assistance to our golf program. And so what I would like to encourage my colleagues to consider is to try this for a year. They're going to measure the fees, and I believe, Ms. Mike, didn't you all say you all were going to measure these? If this passes, we will absolutely be able to tell you how many veterans will play our facilities over the next year. Okay. Even tomorrow, it's going to be 65. Right. So what I would say is, I know Council Member Scutchfield wanted to have it in committee. Maybe we put it back in committee and in a year we come back and we look at it and see how it's affecting the revenue. I would hope that we can continue with this. I do want us to support the veterans, and I realize and respect all the different opinions around the dais. And I would definitely be willing to discuss it in a year so that we can actually look at the real numbers. Thank you. All right. Council Member Scutchfield. I know this is, I'm just going to ask this question because this came up in committee. We don't have a baseline, though, correct? We have not had the amount of, we've never had a tracking card for the veterans. So we have no baseline to determine how it's going to increase. That's correct. We can tell you how many military discounts we gave. However, for example, if a senior came in who was retired military or who was a veteran, he would have been charged the lowest rate applicable rate. So in that case, he would have been charged a senior rate, and we would have tracked it as a senior round, not as a military round. Okay. And I mean, I guess I came from statistical analysis in my last job. And you can't find out how it increases or decreases if you don't have a baseline. Thank you. All right. That's all we've signed on to speak. So we can now vote on the motion to amend. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. Okay. Let's vote electronically. All right. Motion. Everybody voted? Motion fails. All right. All right. Motion for all of them. Is there a motion? Do we have a motion to approve? Yes, ma'am. All right. So we're ready to call the roll. Mr. Farmer? Thank you. Yes on all. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes, on all except 17. Thank you. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. And Ms. Evans? Yes. Thank you. All right. The motion, the vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to resolutions for a first reading. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Resolution number 18, a resolution accepting the bid of M3 Technology Group, Inc., doing business as Multimedia Masters, Inc., in the amount of $403,971.80 for the Department of Public Safety and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with M3 Technology Group, Inc., doing business as Multimedia Masters, Inc., related to the bid. Number 19, a resolution accepting the bid of the Allen Company Incorporated in the amount of $307,432.80 for the Gainesway Trail Project for the Division of Engineering and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Allen Company Incorporated related to the bid. Number 20, a resolution accepting the bid of New Day Incorporated in an amount not to exceed $152,978 for Arts Place HVAC rooftop equipment for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with New Day Incorporated related to the bid. I believe there's a motion on 21. Council Member Hanson? Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend item number 21 under first reading of resolutions relating to the probationary appointments to remove the temporary appointment of Christopher Tuat, Recreation Manager, Grade 518E, at $1,673.20 biweekly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective February 8, 2016. We don't have a quorum. Everybody leave. Wait a minute. We're... Six, seven, eight, nine. He steps out to do it. We're done. What's that? Jake's out there. All right. Jake's still here? Okay. All right. I'm sorry. We're just making sure we've still got a quorum. Go ahead, Council Member Henson. That's... You did it. I need a second, I guess. Is there a second? Second by Council Member Maloney. Motion by Council Member Henson. Second by Council Member Maloney. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Madam Clerk, you may continue. Amended Resolution No. 21, a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of Thomas Dandra, Information Systems Business Analyst, Grade 526E, 2007, 69.20 biweekly in the Division of Enterprise Solutions, effective February 22, 2016. And Annette Lewis, Safety Officer, Grade 510N, 18.441 hourly in the Division of Police, effective March 7, 2016. Number 22, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Jasmine Brown, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 1,981.53 biweekly, and Barnetta Jennings, Administrative Specialist, Grade 513N, 16.387 hourly, both in the Division of Waste Management, effective March 1, 2016. Lori McMiller, Telecommunicator, Grade 514N, 17.752 hourly, Bethel Robinson, 21.049 hourly, Sanford Hamilton, 22.244 hourly, and Kelly Douglas, 22.244 hourly, all telecommunicators, senior, Grade 517N, in the Division of Emergency Management 911, effective March 7, 2016. Ron Mack, Community Program Coordinator, Grade 514N, 19.214 hourly. Kelly Brewer, Staff Assistant, Grade 508N, 14.619 hourly. Sean Osborne, 16.350 hourly. Kenneth Isaac, 16.536 hourly. Andrew Short, 16.598 hourly. Anath Carter, 16.598 hourly. And Deshaun Steele, 16.598 hourly. Anthony Chisholm, 15.731 hourly. Ricky Cowell, 16.598 hourly. Tyler Farrell, 16.462 hourly. Nicholas Blada, 16.598 hourly. And Alfred Harris, 16.598 hourly. All Safety Officer, Grade 510N, in the Division of Police, effective March 7, 2016. Catherine Burke, Staff Assistant Senior, Grade 510N, 15.690 hourly, in the Division of Code Enforcement. And Don Davis, Building Inspector, Grade 517N, 22.244 hourly, in the Division of Building Inspection, both effective March 7, 2016. Number 23. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a statewide emergency management mutual aid and assistance agreement with each local entity in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for mutual aid and assistance. Number 24. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a resolution for continuity of government. Number 25. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a contract with Lamar for the purchase of billboard advertisement for Get Help Lex, a substance abuse services locator for the substance abuse and violence intervention program. at a cost not to exceed $3,625. Number 26, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a grant application to American Water Company and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of, $288,943, and are for improvements to the Raven Run Discovery Trail, $148,076, and the Veterans Park Nature Ground, $140,867. Number 27, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class A neighborhood incentive grant to Friends of Wolf Run Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a cost not to exceed $32,820. Hold on just a second. We've got some exits going on. We're going to lose a quorum here unless everybody that's here remains. All right? Okay. Okay, go ahead. We're all right right now, but if anybody leaves, we've lost a quorum. Okay. Number 28. for the designation of Wesley Holbrook Administrative Officer Sr. as the government's designated agent. Number 31, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a donation from Mrs. Catherine Clay of personal exercise equipment for use at the BCTC Training Academy and or the old Frankfurt Police Gym at no cost to the Urban County Government. Number 32, a resolution accepting the collective bargaining agreement by and between the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government and Lexington Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 526 on behalf of fire majors in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, number 33, a resolution amending Resolution number 563-2015 and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an amendment to the ASO agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky Incorporated, correcting the per-service-per-month fee from $44.45 to $34.29. Number 34, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette Irving County Government to execute change order number two to the purchase agreement with Airbus DS Communications for the purchase and installation of an ice bridge for the radio tower at the Public Safety Operations Center, increasing the agreement price by the sum of $3,485 from $1,559,771 to $1,563,256. Number 35, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Academics and College Training Project, Incorporated, $200, and Woodstock Animal Foundation Incorporated $450 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Board of Education of Fayette County, Kentucky to extend sanitary sewer service to a parcel located at Athens Boonboro Road for use as a proposed elementary school and an athletic complex. Number 37, a resolution authorizing the Division of Community Corrections to procure parts or equipment for York Air Handlers from Johnson Controls Incorporated, a sole source provider at a cost not to exceed $35,100 and authorizing the mayor, if necessary, and on behalf of the Urban County Government to sign any documents related to the procurement. Number 38, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a contract awarded pursuant to RFP number 5615 with Fitzsimmons Office of Architecture Incorporated for Architectural and Engineering Services related to the Castlewood Community Center at a cost not to exceed $18,000. Number 39, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a contract awarded pursuant to RFP No. 5515 with Fitzsimmons Office of Architecture, Incorporated for architectural and engineering services related to the Kenwick Community Center at a cost not to exceed $21,000. No. 40, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Horse Park for the purchase and installation of an ultrasonic flow meter system meter vault and related electrical modifications to the pump station at the Kentucky Horse Park at a cost not to exceed $11,000 cost to be reimbursed by the Kentucky Horse Park. Number 41, a resolution authorizing the Division of Water Quality to purchase a Cuse-incorporated sewer video camera and related adaptive equipment from ITronics, a sole source provider, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute any necessary agreement with ITronics related to the procurement at a cost not to exceed $30,732.60. Number 40, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class A neighborhood incentive grant to residents incorporated doing business as the Colony Neighborhood Association for stormwater quality projects at a cost not to exceed $6,507.50. Number 43, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B education incentive grant to the Living Arts and Science Center incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a cost not to exceed $34,920. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a memorandum of agreement with Bluegrass Sports Commission Incorporated, granting the commission $50,000 to be used for a sports center complex feasibility study, site plan, and fundraising for Cardinal Run Park. Number 45, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a contract with New Life Day Center for the operation of the NLDC Housing Scholarship Program, providing for rental deposit assistance for individuals experiencing homelessness at a cost not to exceed $10,000. Number 46, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an amendment to agreement with the Kentucky American Water Company to perform additional shutoffs for nonpayment of delinquent sewer fees. Number 47, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a purchase of service agreement with the Lexington History Museum, Incorporated for the maintenance of its collection and the provision of educational programs for the benefit of the public at a cost not to exceed $60,000. Number 48, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an environmental assessment license with Speedway LLC, granting Speedway the right to perform soil and water testing at Johnson Heights Park. Number 49, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with Contemporary Galleries of West Virginia Incorporated doing business as CG Concepts for Furniture for the Replacement Senior Citizen Center Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $15,937.88, from $269,632.56 to $285,570.44, number 50. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a professional services agreement with Bluegrass Valuation Group, LLC, for appraisal services for the acquisition of sanitary and storm sewer easements and real property relating to the sanitary and storm sewer capital improvements programs, RFP 53, 2015, with future work awarded and funds budgeted on a project basis, and number 51. A resolution requesting and encouraging the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to designate the speed limit for various sections of streets on the state route system in downtown Lexington, Fayette County, as 25 miles per hour. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for walk-ons? I believe Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion to walk on. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number 11 to the contract with Churchill McGee for the Public Safety Operations Center Phase 1B renovation project, increasing the price by a sum of $134,968.70. from $6,464,597.13 to $6,599,565.83. So moved. Motion by Council Member Gibbs, second by Council Member Masati. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Can someone answer the... Ricks. Did it say how many change orders we've had on this project? This is number 11. 11? Yeah, but these are for added scope, I believe. This is actually for added scope, the one that I'm trying to get walked on. It has to do with the flooring itself. We did not program funding specifically for better flooring. We were just going to put epoxy down, and we actually had federal agents of FEMA came in and looked at it and said, let's look at something different, Terrazzo Tile, which is expensive. And they said if you'll get it, we'll get the money to pay for it. So we're getting the money next week to pay for this change order. It's not costing us a dime. What's the total cost on this project so far? So far we're at just over $6.5 million so far. We're actually 2.4% over the original budget, other than the federal dollars that we've got. And my understanding, that's not too bad for a remodeling project. Yeah. And it's improving the area, too. So thank you. It's actually improving the area. We've gotten so many positive comments. We've had neighborhood meetings. And so many, I mean, everybody's ecstatic that this is going to be a 24-7 operation where there will be people there in what basically was a vacant building for the last 11 years. Also, too, just for council reference, I'm getting with your council administrator tomorrow. It's a suggestion of the CAO's office in conjunction with our office because there was an inquiry from several people about wanting to see what actually has been done to this point. And for the majority of the building, about 80% of it is 90% complete. So it is something that, if you remember when we had the dedication ceremony in February of last year, and you could see from one end to the other, it's an entirely different situation. As the mayor well knows, he's been out several times. So what we're going to do is try to find a date that's good for everyone and extend that invitation to tour, if, in fact, any of you would like to come and see what's been done with not only our money, but everybody else's money as well. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Henson. All right. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak to the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Are there any other walk-ons? All right. so Madam Clerk, you want to read that? Yes, sir. Number 52 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute change order number 11 to the contract with Churchill McGee LLC for the Public Safety Operations Center Phase 1B renovation project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $134,968.70 from $6,464,597.13 to $6,599,565.83. All right. Thank you. Are there any motions to suspend the rules for second readings? Council Member Gibbs? Thank you, Mayor. I have two. Do you want to take them individually? Go ahead and do both of them. I'd like to suspend the rules and ask for a second reading on number 20 and on number 52. These are both at the request of the administration. All right, so motion on numbers 20 and 52. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Henson. 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. Council Member Henson. Oh, Scutchfield. I'm sorry. I thought I had down here Henson. Sorry, Council Member Scutchfield. Not a problem. I have a motion to suspend the rules and give second reading, and I have two. First to number 35. These are the NDF. Motion on number 35. And then my second motion is to give second reading to number 36. This is the issue with the school system and the sewer. All right. Got a second for that one? Got a second. Council Member Sadi seconded both 35 and 36. All right. Is there any discussion on 35 or 36? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Now, Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 22, which is our usual conditional offers for employment. All right. Motion by Council Member Henson on number 22, second by Vice Mayor Kaye. 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. It looks like I believe that's all the motions to suspend. So, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, can you give us a second read? Resolution number 20. A resolution accepting the bid of New Day Incorporated in an amount not to exceed $152,978 for Arts Place HVAC rooftop equipment for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with New Day Incorporated related to the bid. Number 22. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointments. Jasmine Brown, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E-1981.53, Bi-Weekly and Barnetta Jennings. Administrative Specialist, Grade 513N-16.387, hourly, both in the Division of Waste Management, effective March 1, 2016. Lori McMiller, Telecommunicator, Grade 514N-17.752, hourly. Bethel Robinson, 21.049, hourly. Sanford Hamilton, 22.244, hourly. And Kelly Douglas, 22.244, hourly. All Telecommunicator Senior, Grade 517N, in the Division of Emergency Management 911, effective March 7, 2016. Ron Mack, Community Program Coordinator, Grade 514N, 19.214 hourly. Kelly Brewer, Staff Assistant, Grade 508N, 14.619 hourly. Sean Osborne, 16.350 hourly. Kenneth Isaacs, 16.536 hourly. Andrew Short, 16.598 hourly. Anath Carter, 16.598 hourly. Deshaun Steele, 16.598 hourly. Anthony Chisholm, 15.731 hourly. Ricky Cowell, 16.598 hourly. Tyler Farrell, 16.462 hourly. Nicholas Blada, 16.598 hourly. And Alfred Harris, 16.598 hourly. All Safety Officer, Grade 510N, in the Division of Police, effective March 7, 2016. Catherine Burke, Staff Assistant Senior, Grade 510N, 15.690 hourly, in the Division of Code Enforcement. And Don Davis, Building Inspector, Grade 517N, 22.244 hourly, in the Division of Building Inspection, both effective March 7, 2016. Number 35. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with academics and college training project, incorporated $200, and Woodstock Animal Foundation, incorporated $450 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Board of Education of Fayette County, Kentucky, to extend sanitary sewer service to a parcel located on Athens-Boonsboro Road for use as a proposed elementary school at an athletic complex. And number 52, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute Change Order No. 11 to the contract with Churchill McGee, LLC, for the Public Safety Operations Center Phase 1B Renovation Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $134,968.70 from $6,464,597.13 to $6,599,565.83. Second. All right. Motion. Motion by Council Member Henson to approve and second by Council Member Sadi. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then I'm Madam Clerk. Please call the roll. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Mr. Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Masadi? Yes. Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Ms. Akers? Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Mr. James Brown? Yes. And Ms. Evans? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion and allows us to move on to communications from the mayor. Is there a motion to approve? Approval. Motion by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there a second? Second by Council Member Massadi. Is there any discussion on the motion? Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to amend number one and remove the appointment of Ms. Louise Caldwell-Edmonds as the at-large representative. All right. There's a motion to amend number one. Council Member Henson, is there a second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All right. We're back to the original motion to approve. Okay. Then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is communications for information only. And next, the floor is available for announcements by council members. Any announcements by council members? All right. Then that allows us to move on to public comments. Bernard McCarthy is here for public comment. Your Honor and members of the council, traffic seems to be getting steadily worse in spite of everything done to try to fix it. But this evening it took 45 minutes for me to get from the intersection of Manowar and Todd's Road to this building. Also, I want to say that it would be a serious mistake to fill the center point pit back in after all this money has been spent digging it out. instead of trying to make the owners fill it in, it would be more sensible for this government to use its imminent domain powers to force the current owners to sell the pit to this government, and then this government issue bonds and build the underground parking structure plus perhaps a replacement for this building. Hey, owning something outright is much more financially sensible than renting from someone else. And I would also say that in the process of doing this, the ground level deck of any such parking structure needs to be done in such a way that you can scoot the sidewalks onto that and widen the streets all the way around it into the space currently occupied by the sidewalks. We definitely need more street capacity. We especially need to get at least 16 more feet of pavement on both limestone and on upper. And if you don't recognize the significance of that distance, that's 12 feet for one more car lane and four feet for a bike lane. All right. Thank you, Bernard. All right, that's all. We've signed on for public comment tonight. Unless there's any further business, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. Motion by Council Member Lamb, seconded by Council Member Bledsoe. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. Thank you. I'm not alone. 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