# Council Work Session - February 23, 2016 > Auto-transcribed civic record · February 23, 2016 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/3883 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/3883?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2016-02-23 - **Last revised**: February 23, 2016 - **Length**: 2,753 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council convened on February 23, 2016, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chamber at 200 E. Main St, Lexington, KY 40507, with Mayor Gray presiding. The council addressed three agenda items during the session, including the approval of a summary and new business matters. The meeting included two formal votes and heard one public comment from community members. Council members also received informational presentations as part of continuing business items, though specific details about the presentations were not provided in the available records. ## Attendance The following members were present at the February 23, 2016 meeting: • Kay • Stinnett • Moloney • J. Brown • Akers • Gibbs • Lamb • Farmer • Evans • Scutchfield • F. Brown • Bledsoe • Henson **Absent:** • Mossotti • Hensley No members arrived late to the meeting. ## Votes and Decisions The meeting included two unanimous votes by the 13-member body. **Approval of February 9, 2016 Summary** [timestamp: 00:30] Farmer motioned to approve the February 9, 2016 meeting summary, with Kay providing the second. The motion passed unanimously with all 13 members voting in favor: Kay, Stinnett, Moloney, J. Brown, Akers, Gibbs, Lamb, Farmer, Evans, Scutchfield, F. Brown, Bledsoe, and Henson. There were no opposing votes or abstentions. **Approval of New Business Items** [timestamp: 02:00] Farmer again made the motion to approve new business items, seconded by Kay. This motion also passed unanimously with the same 13 members voting in favor: Kay, Stinnett, Moloney, J. Brown, Akers, Gibbs, Lamb, Farmer, Evans, Scutchfield, F. Brown, Bledsoe, and Henson. No members voted against or abstained from this vote. Both votes demonstrated complete consensus among the governing body members present, with identical participation from all 13 members in each decision. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed several financial items totaling over $104,000 in expenditures and contractual agreements. **Infrastructure and Technology Investments** The largest expenditure was Change Order #1 to Building Crafts, Inc. for the Town Branch WWTP Solids Improvements Project in the amount of $84,103.00 (L53-16). This represents additional costs for the wastewater treatment plant solids handling improvements. The city approved an End User License Agreement and Support Agreement with Collective Data for $18,500.00 (L128-16), indicating an investment in data management or analytics services. **Intergovernmental Agreements** Two agreements were approved that carried no direct costs to the city. The first was an agreement with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Explosives for access to the 800 MHz public safety radio communication system (L126-16). Additionally, an addendum to the existing New World Systems Software Maintenance Agreement with Tyler Technologies, Inc. was approved (L129-16). **Personnel Changes** The meeting included approval of personnel adjustments in Community Corrections involving the abolishment and creation of classified positions, with an associated cost of $2,184.52 (L146-16). This likely represents salary adjustments or reclassifications within the department. The financial actions demonstrate the city's ongoing investments in infrastructure improvements, particularly wastewater treatment facilities, technology systems for data management, and public safety communications infrastructure. The personnel changes in Community Corrections suggest organizational restructuring within that department. *Note: Specific transcript timestamps were not available in the provided meeting data.* ## Public Comment [timestamp: 00:10] No members of the public provided comments on issues included on the meeting agenda. The public comment period was opened but no speakers came forward to address the governing body. ## Approval of Summary [timestamp: 00:30] The council considered approval of the summary from their February 9, 2016 meeting. The agenda item was presented as a resolution requiring council action. Key speakers during this discussion included Farmer and Kay, though the specific details of their comments were not captured in the available materials. The council proceeded to approve the summary of the February 9, 2016 meeting without recorded objections or significant debate. The resolution was adopted, formally accepting the meeting summary as presented. This represents standard procedural business for the council, ensuring accurate documentation of their previous meeting proceedings. ## New Business [timestamp: 02:00] The council addressed several new business items during this portion of the meeting. Key speakers included Farmer and Kay, who presented various agreements and contracts for council consideration. The discussion covered multiple new business matters that required council approval. While the specific details of individual items were not provided in the available materials, the speakers presented information about agreements and contracts that needed formal council action. Following the presentations and any discussion, the council voted to approve the new business items that were brought forward. The approval encompassed the various agreements and contracts that had been presented during this agenda item. The new business portion of the meeting concluded with the successful passage of the proposed items, allowing the associated agreements and contracts to move forward as approved by the council. ## Continuing Business/Presentations [timestamp: 05:00] Council member Stinnett presented the January 26 budget finance and economic development committee report to the council during this agenda item. The presentation served as an informational update to keep the full council informed of the committee's recent activities and findings. No specific details about the committee's discussions or recommendations were provided in the available meeting materials. This agenda item was categorized as a presentation with an informational outcome, indicating that no formal action was required from the council following Stinnett's report. The presentation allowed for the sharing of committee work with the broader council membership as part of the regular reporting process for standing committees. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (13-0): Approval of the February 9, 2016 summary - **Motion** — passed (13-0): Approval of new business items --- ## Full transcript Hello, everybody. Greetings and welcome to the meeting of the work session of the Council. I'll call the meeting to order and ask for public comment for issues on the agenda. Mr. Mundy, has anyone signed up for issues on the agenda? No one signed up for issues on the agenda, which allows us to go to docket approval. There's no Council meeting this week, so there's no docket approval. That allows us to move to approving the summary. Is there a motion? Second. Motion by Council Member Stennett, seconded by Council Member Massadi. 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. There are no budget amendments, so we don't need a motion on that. That moves us to new business. Is there a motion to approve? Approved. Second. Motion by Councilmember Farmer. Second by Councilmember Scotchfield. Is there any discussion? Please sign on. All right. Councilmember Farmer. Item C. Item C is Chief Barnard and Commissioner Bastin. If this does everything it says it's going to do, it sounds like a great expenditure of money on behalf of the government. This is a program that we have that we have looked at for a while and getting it and the cost has come down. It's actually one that we use internally with Excel spreadsheets and access spreadsheets with our own databases to track every bit of inventory. This is going to help us track everything from taser cartridges to bulletproof vests to the firearms that we issue to everything that's going to be issued throughout the agency. It'll be in one-stop shop, so inventory processing. That's comprehensive. Pardon me? That's very comprehensive. It is. I hate to say it, but when you're trying to look for equipment throughout the agency, and as much as our people are moving with new people coming in, it crosses bureaus pretty quickly. So instead of each bureau doing it, now we're going to do it in the Bureau of Administration and have one place for it. And at some point in the year, do you do an inventory occasionally, or do you just follow it as a live listing or something? It's a live listing. We do have an inventory system in place, but it's our own created databases that we have, and it's housed. We may have two or three different inventories that people keep up with, computer forensic services and all the equipment that we have. We have the large expenditures that we keep under an inventory database, and then we have individual smaller expenditures that we keep. Sounds very good to me. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about item A. Is that item A? Yes, sir. A. All right. Charlie's here. is this work where about on the trail is this work being done? I'm sorry, it's not on the trail it's at the Town Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plan. Oh, okay. Not near as interesting. Yeah, it's not. Alright, thank you. Okay. Alright. Alright, thank you, Council Member Brown. Does anybody else wish to speak to new business? To the motion. Alright, if not, Then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is continuing business and presentations. There are no presentations today, but there is a summary by Council Member Stinnett. Thank you, Mayor. I'm pleased to present the January 26th Budget Finance and Economic Development Committee report. The summary passed without dissent this morning. Second on our agenda was the December financials for the first six months of the year, Revenue in the four big categories on page 11 of our packet was basically flat through December or for December for that month. Total revenue was up 2% at $162,499,000. And then actual with expenses, change in position was about a $9.9 million variance on page 12. But a lot of that is due to timing of the budget and when we receive revenues. Also on page 13 are the comparisons of our economic indicators. Unemployment rate continues to be down under 4% in Fayette County. Next on our agenda was a review by our new Director of Code Enforcement, Ken Armstrong, on the nuisance abatement data. Next was the 2015 CAFR presentation of our annual audit. Basically, we get a clean bill of clean audit and everything checked out through all the audit work done by our new firm from Stroman & Company. Next on the agenda was the Urban Services Fund presentation by Commissioner O'Meara, which involved street lights and street cleaning and our solid waste funds. This item was pushed to our next budget meeting, and we'll have further discussion on how to best fund the deficits in streetlights and street cleaning. Last on our agenda was the Economic Contingency Fund. We requested a motion, two motions in that meeting, which are not required to be reported out today, but Council Member Brown amended the proposal by two-thirds or changed to a supermajority for approving changes in the Economic Contingency Fund use to two-thirds or ten votes. Also, we removed one section, number nine, and then we also changed in the event the 10% of our goal for the Economic Contingency Fund reaches, our goal of 10%, the $50,000 monthly deposit, or can be suspended all those past the committee. The final version was approved actually today and will be coming forth on March 15th to the full council. The next item, occupational license fee, was on our meeting today, and then we adjourned at 1.55 p.m. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Stenet. Next on our agenda, Council Reports. If you'll please sign in, Council Members, for Council Reports. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. Bill, Mayor, Commissioner O'Meara, would you mind coming up? I just want to know if you can help me out. Several council members are a bit confused about how we can go about spending that fund balance money that was allocated to each council member. We're unclear. We know it has to be in a minimum of $5,000 increments. But say, for example, I want to put two speed tables on a street, and they cost $4,500 apiece. At one time I was told that, well, two of them is $9,000. That qualifies. and then I was told another time that each speed table is an individual project, therefore the speed table wouldn't qualify. Could you enlighten us on this a little bit, like what constitutes a project? Thanks. Probably not, but I will try. We are looking at the overarching goals. It would be a one-time expenditure, capital in nature of $5,000 or more. So then it becomes a question of are we looking at the individual components of a project or a project? And we're trying to look at the facts and circumstances because what has been presented are legitimately all good uses of funds, but we're trying to see if it meets the parameters that were passed by council. So for an example, a speed bump, we would look to see is there, you're trying to do five speed bumps. is one in Community A and Subdivision 2 and Subdivision 3 and Subdivision 4, or are they all on the same street in the same community? The second would be considered a project. The first would be no. That would be four or five individual $4,300 expenditures and not meet the criteria, if that helps. All right. All right. Thank you, Council Member Gibbs. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion. I move to place into the Planning and Public Safety Committee a presentation for the final report of the Oxford Circle Redevelopment Study, and this is part of the Cardinal Valley Small Area Plan implementation. So moved. All right. Motion by Council Member Henson and second by Council Member Maloney. 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. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Council Member Scutchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to place into the Budget and Finance Committee an annual report regarding our golf and pools, regarding both attendance cost and income. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Scutchfield and second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Kaye, or Vice Mayor Kaye, rather. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to take a minute to thank our fire department, who had a very nice banquet Saturday night to recognize the people on the force who had done exemplary work. It was a pleasure to be there, and it was, as always, inspiring to hear the kind of work that they do in protecting our citizens so effectively. So just that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. This is the last time I will probably announce this. I know you're tired of probably all hearing it, but the Clay's Mill Widening Project is the 24th at 6, which is tomorrow afternoon, and the Animal Southland Association meeting is this Thursday at 6. And I just want to take a moment and commend Commissioner Ford and especially Patty and Matt and Bexie Drexler, who have worked, and Laura Hatfield, who have worked so hard on this summer youth job training program. And looking at it, they've done a great job getting it to where it is now and kind of taking the next steps, not just as an employment, but as how we're up training the next generation of workforce. And Council Member Brown as well, who've done that. I just want to say thank you. I'm really encouraged by where we're going. And if you've got a business or know of businesses who are open to having some of our youth employment jobs being a part of this, I would encourage you to check out the website that Commissioner Ford has put together. We're looking for some good businesses to kind of partner with us on some of this job training. So I'm really excited. I want to say thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Bledsoe. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to announce the first district neighborhoods leader meeting this coming Wednesday at 6 o'clock at the North YMCA. The staff at the Y is going to show us some of the upgrades and renovations that they made to that facility. And I'd also like to invite everybody out for the first event from the Douglas Park Centennial Commission. We actually partnered with Booker T. Washington Elementary. They had an essay and art contest, and they're going to give awards to the winners of that contest this Thursday, the 25th, at 6 p.m. at Booker T. Washington School, the academy that's in Douglas Park. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner Graham, do you mind coming up to the podium, please? Thank you. There's been a lot of information regarding the PVA and the assessments in the paper the last couple of days. I just wonder whose purview is that under? Well, the PVA is an elected official, independently elected official. The only state agency that they're somewhat tied to, from my understanding, would be, I believe, the Revenue Cabinet in the state, but I'm not sure you could say that they report there. So really, with independently elected officials, you know, a direct reporting chain, but I do know that they have contact with them about budgets and things like that. As far as authorization and how some of these properties are, I guess, you know, regulated, I guess that would be the question. I mean, we've been getting a lot of e-mails and calls about that, And so I'm just trying to get a handle on who has the authority to look this over or to... I'll be happy to make contact with the Revenue Cabinet and see if they can assist and provide some direction on that and get back to you. Okay. Thank you very much. That's all, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Massadi. Council Member Scotchfield. I apologize. I forgot one thing. Council Member Massadi, thank you for bringing that up. I know my office has been contacted a lot about that, too. I forgot to mention when I spoke earlier, John Price passed away earlier today, and he was the school board chair, school board member. He represented the area around my district. He actually lived four houses down from me. So I just want to recognize him and his service to this community and think of his family, his daughter, and anybody that was impacted by him and thank him for his service to the city of Lexington and the schools. I just wanted to say that on record. Thank you. So true and so appropriate. Thank you, Council Member Scotchfield. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. Can I have Rodney Battle come up, please? No, Rodney. Mr. Director, I just want to congratulate you on your new adventure and thank you for all your help. I want to thank you and you will be missed and appreciate all what you've done. Thank you. I appreciate it and appreciate the mayor giving the opportunity and hope to speak to you later individually. It's been a pleasure serving the community. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Director. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. This question is for Ms. Hoskins-Squire. I don't know that I see her in here. Ms. Hamilton, maybe if you don't mind to relay the information. I know that they were working on information as far as our paving and what we had paid for and submitted in the fall. And I realize that they're now having to work through issues if it's snowing and everything. But I'd like to find out when we're going to get an update on how much of the paving that we asked for in the fall was completed and if there's any remaining budget left for each of the council members. And then so we can, I mean, some of us still have money left over of that, the surplus, and some would like to have that for the spring for more paving. Certainly. She'll be back tomorrow, and we'll get that information for you quickly. All right. And if not, just let us know when to expect it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to invite anyone from the 2nd District who is interested to help plan a 2nd District Fall Festival that we are trying to organize. It will be held at Masterson Station Park this fall. The initial organization meeting will be held Thursday night at 6 o'clock, that is February 25th, at Imani Baptist Church. And the festival will be held, if I didn't mention it, at Masterson Station, probably in September. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Akers. Looks like that's all we've signed up for a council report. It allows us to move the mayor's report. There's none today. And to public comment for issues not on the agenda. And then I'll ask for a motion for a closed session. No one signed up. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mundy. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101G. In order to discuss an economic development matter, an open discussion would likely jeopardize the siting, retention, expansion, or upgrading of a business and pursuant to KRS 6.1.810.1c for the purpose of discussing pending litigation. All right. We have a motion. Hold on just a second, please, everybody. We've got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Got a motion. We have a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, unless they're hearing none, then without objection, the council will enter closed session. Thank you all. So move. Thank you.