When you... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ¶¶ Thank you. Thank you. Hello, everybody. I'll call the meeting to order. And I ask for public comment for first for issues on the agenda. Mr. Mundy, anybody showed up for issues on the agenda? All right. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda, then, is any rezoning requests and the docket approval. Is there a motion to approve the docket? Second. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion on item number 14 to place this on the docket with a public hearing. To be held Tuesday, May 24th at 6 p.m., an ordinance changing the zone from agricultural urban to planned neighborhood residential R3 for property located at 2731. and 2751, Leestown Road, Anderson Village at Great Acres LLC, Council District 2. And just for the council's information, you all have at your seats a corrected version of the final staff report that originally had listed it as Council District 7, I think, and it's actually Council District 2. So for your information, and I make that motion. May 24th at 6 o'clock Most of you have been made aware of that and have agreed to attend Yes, thank you So who is the second? Was there a second? All right, second by Council Member Lamb There's a motion and a second 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. All right. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you. I have the same. On number 13, ordinances for first reading for Thursday night's meeting, I'd like to place this on the docket without a hearing. Second. All right. Motion by Council Member Scotchfield. Seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I have a walk-on. I move to place on the docket for the April 21, 2016 Council meeting a resolution. authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number 13 to the contract with Churchill McGee LLC for the public safety operations center renovation project phase 1B. This will increase the contract price by the sum of $29,099.31 from $6,620,561.93 to $6,649,661.24. So moved. So motion by Council Member Henson and seconded by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you, Mayor. All right, Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Mine, too, is a motion to walk on. I move to placing the docket for the April 21, 2016 Council meeting, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number two to the contract with Bluegrass Contracting Corporation for the Eidlauer Park Improvements Project, increasing the contract by the sum of $60,000 from $638,727.35 to $698,727.35. So move. Second. Thank you. Motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I have a walk-on as well from the administration. I move to place on the docket for the April 21, 2016 council meeting a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with New Day Incorporated for the Arts Place HVAC project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $10,485.36 from $152,978 to $163,463.36. So move. Second. Motion by Council Member Lamb, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Akers. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the April 21, 2016 Council meeting a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a location release for 1631 Old Frankfurt Pike, granting Young Properties LLC permission to use the property to take photographs and record scenes for a film project. So moved. Motion by Council Member Akers and second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. Looks like that's all we've signed on for. motions and that allows us to vote on the original motion to approve the docket. Is it all in favor of the motion? Please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. That allows us to move on to the approving the summary. Is there a motion to approve? I'll move. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer. Second by Council Member Scutchfield. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing none, then we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next for budget amendments, is there a motion to approve? Motion by Council Member Scutchfield, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, if not, then we can vote. All in favor, please say. Oh, I didn't see that. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I had a question on journal number 94556-5215. 94555. It's facilities and fleet management. It's not police and fire. I'm sorry. I read the wrong number. It's for John Sheet. John Sheet's coming up to the podium. I was curious as decreasing the funds for custodial services, is that services that aren't needed? Is that in regard to transferring the funds? That's correct. We're shuffling some funds around because the custodial service has been reduced. That's the one that we use contractors to do the work, and shifting that funding to utilize temporary labors, we've had much better luck in getting some of the work done. So we're reduced in the custodial services because we have too many? No, just the way the contract's set up with specific contractors, it's making it more feasible if we handle a lot of those work inside. So that's the main reason. We're just making some adjustments toward the end of the current fiscal year to make sure we've got all the bases covered. Okay. Thank you. All right, thank you. And then I also had a question on 94551, and it was just for curiosity purposes, what the vapor weight K-9 is. Looks like Commissioner Bastions. Yes, I am. And then the chief is coming also. He knows more about it than I do. It's a newer technology with canines that actually walk through and actually sniff through the air instead of the objects on the ground. They started at University of Auburn. large institutions, Homeland Security, have moved towards those animals, and they're approachable, so it looks like a nice, fluffy dog that walks through that everybody's attracted to, and then it smells for the explosives. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. That's all I have. Thank you, Council Member Henson. Next on our agenda is new business. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Council Member Stennett, second by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a question on, I'll find it here. Well, I've got five minutes. I've got five minutes. I love that. Government work, maybe. Government work. G. Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you. No G today. Thank you. Yeah, that's what I want. Authorization. Fred, while you're doing that, can you hold me just a second? Don't want to take any of that five minutes now. But we forgot I failed to get a vote on the budget amendments motion. Can we go back to that and get a vote? All in favor of the motion to approve the budget amendments, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right, Council Member Brown. Okay, thank you. Yes, sir. G, on the performance of the Gainesway Trail project, why is that increased? I mean, what's the timetable there? Well, it's actually the, and I'll let Keith give all the details if you have more specifics, but we have awarded the contract for construction, and it should start May. Yeah. So if you're wanting to know a little bit more about why it took the length of time, there was some extensions related to archaeological assessments that had to be done. Well, I realize it's been two or three years since all the process has gone, but why are we asking for extension all the way through December 31-17? I believe that's just a standard length of time. It shouldn't take anywhere near that long. Okay. And also on F and H, I think those are similar items there that we've asked for extended time limits on that, But that doesn't hurt us on our actually getting it done, does it? It does not. No, this just allows us a little more time to make sure that, and really we ask for a longer extension than we feel that we will need just to make sure we have time to get it done. Does it take a longer time? I know the G is under a grant provision there, but I've been watching. I've been in office almost a year and a half now, and it was supposed to have been done last August. And that's when we got the notice from the state that we had to do an archaeological assessment. It's actually moving quicker than we thought, because at first we thought we were going to have to go a little bit longer before we even would get the notice to move on at that time. But all of our projects are not part of the Department of Transportation of the state. Funding sometimes comes from there, and that's where some of the matches comes from. So if we do anything out of the general fund? It's the CMAT grant. These are not straight funds. These are matching and grants. Right, okay. And in the case of Town Branch, one of the problems with that, I will say problems, one of the reasons we're a little bit longer is that involved dealing with the railroads as well and moving a stream bed? A stream bed. So we're moving them as fast as we can on our end. We're trying. Okay, thank you. It's not always as easy with grant matches. All right. Council Member Lamb. Thank you. The first item is C. It's about the telecommunications franchise agreement. I read through the memo, but I'm just wondering if you would give me an example of how this new, non-exclusive telecommunications franchise agreement could be used or would be used. You mean for any company that is wanting to have a franchise with the government? It's going to be similar to the short term, but it's going to be a 10-year plus an additional option for 10. But it's going to be similar to when they come to us for the current short term, but it's going to be a long-term agreement. It was also updated with a lot of the information that we gave you in the bullet points, so that it's a much better agreement for the government and I believe also for companies wishing to have a telecom franchise. Okay, so if TWC and Windstream currently have a, because their agreements aren't up, are they? No, those are cable franchises. This is a telecom franchise. So, well, Windstream has a cable franchise but also has telecom. Telecommunications. The cable actually would be, it's an even more extensive franchise than the telecom. Okay. So, I mean, I'm just, is this going to draw more companies to Lexington? Or do you not? It certainly could. Would it possibly do that, I guess? It certainly could, because now it's going to be a franchise that they can come in, know that they have an extended length franchise to operate within Fayette County. so it certainly could draw companies into Fayette County. Okay. When is the, you said the telecable is different than the telecommunications? Yeah, the cable franchise is more extensive just because federal law, and I can get law up here if you want more of the details, the differences between the two. Telecom is not quite as extensive of a franchise as far as what it requires. but they are both franchises with Fayette County. Okay. All righty. I'm still a little confused, but I won't hold everybody up while I try to get unconfused. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Item I, you know, we set this up last year about the downtown Lexington Management District, and I see that this is where they're starting to become more active and everything, But I'm just wondering if we might be able to get, like, some kind of an update on what's going on, just so that in case the public asks, our constituents ask us, then we're able to answer. Good afternoon. Mr. Frazier, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Glad to be here, Mayor. I'm James Frazier, chairman of the Lexington Downtown Management District. Yes, sir. I had a lot of spare time, so I decided to take this on. No doubt. Pay was good. Valid questions. We've had two meetings, inaugural meetings. We have had a 15-person board. We've elected all of our officers. And we've approved a preliminary budget that you will see later on this month or the first of next month. I will come back and present to you. We have adopted bylaws. We've contracted with the sheriff to collect our taxes, which will roll out in October, our first wave. We anticipate a little over $400,000 a year for our first year in revenue. We have begun the process of formulating an RFP that we're going to send out at the appropriate time for vendors, possibly an executive director to help us assist us in our project. What we're asking for today, the $25,000, and I was looking for a grant, but I understand it's not going to happen, so I'm here for the loan, but we need some seed money to get started. We did a mini RFP to the banks to establish a depository relationship. We are currently bidding out a website designers. Things like that infrastructure we need to get in place before our money hits in October. Our hope is to have some early successes, some show some things happening this fall when Keeneland's going on, the fall meet when a lot of people are downtown. Not wait until it gets cold and nobody wants to be here so we can maybe see the benefit of what we're trying to accomplish. So the thought is if we could kind of get infrastructure in place now and maybe a little seed money from you all that we could pay back over these next two years. It would help us to go ahead and get our website folks in line, open our bank account, and then have everybody in place and probably go ahead and pick our vendors because the monies won't be due until after we get our first wave of funding in October. So we're just trying to get a jump start on what we're doing. I appreciate this update because we've seen the appointments go through, but we haven't heard anything else about what's going on. I appreciate that. And I realize that my five minutes has expired, but I wasn't speaking during that whole time. So, okay, well, just trying to follow the rules. So what type of notification are the downtown resident or the owners, property owners, going to get before they get this tax bill? Are they going to get any kind of notification? Absolutely. I think one of the things we want, we're not visible right now. No one knows where to find us. We're actually using my law firm as the home office, which is not a long-term answer, believe me, but we have to have a place to go. So the idea is to get us some visibility through a website. We're going to reach out through a communication network there as well as in writing to all the people in the district. You know it's a defined boundary to let people know what we're doing and what is going to be coming in November or October, rather. And at the same time, we're soliciting from people ideas. What would they like to see? It's their money. It's their district. The pledge we've all made is to spend it in a way that they deem fit because they're the users. They know best. So we're trying to do our best, but we're launching this thing from ground up, so it's a little slower. But I think we've accomplished a lot in two meetings, truthfully. All right. Well, thank you very much for the update. I appreciate it. Glad to do it. Thank you. And my last question, real quick, is on item Q, how many tasers or how many body cameras does this actually purchase? And that's it, I promise. We are preparing to come into the Public Safety Committee meeting to discuss with the council the whole contract that we had and update you on that. I'm not exactly sure. I think it's over 400 cameras that will be purchased at that time, but I'm not exactly sure on that number. Well, I appreciate it, and thank you. Thank you for your allowance. All right. Council Member Scutchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I have a first question. It's about Dee Charlie. You and I have probably already spoken about this new water storage. the new East Hexman Sanitary Pump Station. Trying to get that out in one. But I wanted to go ahead and have you tell everybody what's the size, how much is it going to take up, is it going to be, you know, like some of them underground, partially underground, all above ground. Just if you could give us some details. Right now the current plan is that it would be all above ground. It would approximately be about 4 million gallons of storage. So not as big as the one at Town Branch, it's like that would be one-fifth the size of what's at Town Branch right now. The reason why we're trying to buy more property is we're trying to shove it farther back into the tree line as much as we possibly can because that lowers the elevation, lowers the footprint, which will be visual for folks, and try to take advantage of all the screening that we possibly can. Well, and I guess when we talk, this is in the middle of a neighborhood. Are we talking about any beautification efforts around this? I mean, Newtown wasn't right by neighborhood. So what are we going to do around there to conceal it? I know we're trying to put it back, but. Be happy to engage you in whatever discussion you'd like to have about that. We haven't even selected an engineer yet. Okay, I think. This was really about trying to get as much of a common footprint as we could. There was another parcel that we bought back there a couple of years ago that we bought from a developer. So like I said, we're just trying to basically bring the property footprint in together, because then once we've got the maximum amount we have, then we can have that discussion about how it fits on there. Okay, I hope we do have that discussion going forward, because obviously we were concerned about the other one and how it would impact people coming in from out of town. I'm worried about the taxpayers that are paying for this facility to go in. They don't want this eyesore, obviously, near them, so I hope we do have a discussion going forward. Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you, Charlie. Next on I, I do have a couple of comments. On this, you know, you state that we're not visible right now, but this organization went around and got signatures, asked people for their signatures and their support. Right now you're coming to us asking us to give you taxpayer money for an organization that's going to be paid for through taxpayer money. To me, if people that are in support of this, and you have a lot of businesses, large businesses, corporations, if this is something they believe so strongly in that is going to impact downtown, because we already have taxpayer money that's being spent for some of these services, I think you need to go to those businesses and ask them for loans to get it started. I'm not in favor of spending taxpayer money on this. I understand your point. You make a great analogy, and I totally get where you're coming from. I think the point is this, that the monies will be paid back to you all, so you're not giving them to us. We will return them to you. And secondarily, for us to ask these people to loan money that they're going to then pay us again in October, November, seems to almost be duplicitous. I will point out to you something I'm sure you already know. 30% of the ownership of property in this district is either government-owned or non-profits. These entities, of which I chair one, the parking authority, will receive the benefit of what we're going to try to do here. Understand, it's in the infant stage, and I do think that a small loan that would be paid back over two years for $25,000, given the benefit that that 30% will receive of which part of that is this group here, I don't think it's a lot to ask. But I totally understand where you're coming from. And I get that, but we already have a lot of the services that you're providing are duplicitous of things that the city's already providing in the area. You're enhancing them. Well, they're going to be, it's our belief and it's our mantra and it's our job to make sure they're over and above. We're not trying to supplement or just maintain what's been. And we're trying to take it to another level. Safety, security, cleanliness, beautification, public art projects. These are things that go beyond above what I think are the basic services being provided now. And I'm not saying what's being provided now is not good or adequate. I think it is. We're trying to take it to another level. And I think that's why you saw these people vote to tax themselves to do that. One last question. We all know I guess I have seven seconds left. I have a quick question. I think we'll, Sally, on letter L regarding the cost for Sweet 16, is this higher or lower than the past year? I know that the newspapers had several articles recently about the Sweet 16 being lower attended. I just wanted to see what our costs compare to for the last year or so. It is higher because it was a total catering setup done by the Hyatt, and by the rules of LCC, we must use that location. But we are in the plans with LCC and the Kentucky High School Athletic Association to do it a different way next year and lowering the cost. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about item A. My question is, in what stage of the recruitment process is this online training platform being used? It's used during the Recruit Academy. So it's once they've already been involved in a class? They're in the class attending that. This gives them the opportunity to access resources and class materials at home. I think they're being issued iPads, and this gives them more flexibility in being able to get to the information. Okay. Is this a new platform, or is this something that you're currently using? It's my understanding it's new, yes. Okay. Is there going to be any additional cost in training instructors on this platform? I'm not aware of any. Okay. All right, I also have a, I appreciate the update on item I with the downtown management district. What council, who's the council representatives on that? We have two, Councilman Gibbs and Councilman Kay. Okay. There are 15 of us total. Okay. They're watching us, I'll show you. Okay. And then I have a question on item F. Now, what's the reason for asking for additional time for this project? Are there any delays? I'm going to let Keith speak on this one. Yes, there's been a couple of delays. The most recent delay is we are working with traffic engineering to improve the intersection at Russell Cave. They installed new signals, and so we're adding ramps and doing bulb outs and adding a median. So we had to incorporate that design into this project. Other delays have been, BCTC built part of the trail, and so we wanted to extend that trail over to the Legacy Trail. So we had to redo the design to incorporate those changes. we've been changing the characteristics of this project almost since we got it so some of the sidewalks have already been built we've changed the alignment of the legacy trail as it comes across the hope center property and that's impacted this project so plans have been submitted to office of local programs for them to approve as soon as they approve them we'll be able to go to bid on this project. Now is it funded for design as well as installation? Yes. Yes. It's fully funded. Okay. Now I missed committee meeting today and I've seen on the list that there was a West Loudon project that was actually recommended to be taken off the water quality. Is this the same project or do you think that's something different? We've got a second West Loudon project it's a tap funded project i don't know if that's one you're talking about that got anything to do with water quality i think it's a different project we may have to talk afterwards because there wasn't any projects taken off the list yeah that was the discussion it was about prioritizing projects but if you were concerned with one i'd I'd be happy to talk to you about it. Yeah, we can. I don't think it was taken off the list. I know it was recommended to be removed from the list, and I think the reason was is because it's part of a state transportation project. So I was wondering if that was the same project. But we can talk after the meeting. All right. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Brown. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. And a question on I as well for Mr. Frazier. When will we receive payments? There will be two installments. Yes, ma'am. There will be two installments, and I believe the memorandum of agreement that the board has authorized me to execute, I believe that the first one is a year from October and then the following year from October. Does that sound right, Jeff? Yeah, because our funding comes in October and then runs through roughly January, February. So the idea was once we get, give us a year to, you know, have some success. But, you know, that's what the current draft says. Yes, ma'am. Okay. I don't think we received a copy of the MOU, but I was just curious. And it does not carry any interest, to be totally transparent. So it's a $12,500 a year payback over two years. I was going to suggest that it will be repaid within 12 months or 24 months. What do you think? Well, the longer the better for me, of course. So whatever, I mean, $25,000, I won't die in the ditch over it. So whatever you all want to do, we'll do. I mean, I do think that what this money is for, and just to make sure you all understand, I want to try to get our infrastructure in place, our website design. We've already put out an RFP. We have three people coming in our next meeting. We're down to three. We're going to pick somebody to try to get some visibility that we desperately need. We don't have stationery. We have nothing. So I'm just trying to get a few things going so we can get some monies coming in. So that's the purpose. I understand completely. I was just curious. It didn't mention when we would receive the installment payments. It was two payments of $12,500 each, with the first one, I believe, to be due in October of 2017, and then the second one October of 2018. That's as it's been proposed. But, I mean, if you all feel strong otherwise, I'm sure we could work something out. Okay. I hope that's in the agreement so we would know when to expect it or the interest will double. Got it. Understood completely. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Hensley. All right. Council Member Hensley. Thank you, Mayor. Going back to item C on this franchise. So I know Council Member Lamb was asking some questions about what the nature of that was. And so this is for data and voice, not cable television. Correct, yes. What's the area of the intent of the franchise? Is it just the urban services area or is it the whole county? It's for Fayette County. Okay, thank you. That's all the question I have. And then on item M, Commissioner Bastin's floating around. Item M? As in Mike. M as in Mike, I believe that. M, yeah. Commissioner Bastin. Okay. Director. Mr. Director. Good morning, good afternoon, it seems like. It's all running together today. On the installation of this, one of the concerns I have is that we have a non-public service entity connecting to an emergency power system which could sustain damage from lightning strikes or anything else based on my past telecom experience from two-way radio systems. Have you all addressed that in this MOU? We have. They've released us from a liability. They understand that this connection is entirely up to them to install professionally into our specifications and that we're not responsible for anything it does to their system. Or if it fails to operate, we're not responsible for that either. But what if they cause damage to our system? That would be a backwards lightning. You're talking about the backflow of electricity to the generator? Through their antenna system. I'm sorry? Through their antenna system. Their antenna system is the same as our antenna system. We're sharing the same antennas, the same tower. Okay, all right. We're all on the same tower together and in the same shelter together. But the feed lines would be separate, and so, I mean, their antenna can't be the same antenna as yours. No, you're correct about that. The tower antenna is the same, but the antenna on the tower is not. You're correct about that. I could go back and ask questions about what the likelihood of that is. We would expect them to follow grounding protocols to make sure that they're properly grounded just as we are. I mean, to me, I like the idea of helping them with emergency power, but when you're talking about a lightning strike or something, taking a public safety communication system, that kind of sends a shiver at my spine just a little bit. I understand. So if we could address that, maybe. I'll ask the question and find out, and I'll get back with you. Okay, thank you. All right, thank you, Council Member Hensley. All right, is there any further discussion on the motion for new business? All right. If not, then we can vote. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I need to recuse on aye. All right. So if you'll note that Council Member Hensley recused on aye. All right. I'm going to ask Vice Mayor Kaye to take over the remainder of the meeting. Vice Mayor, go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. The next item on the agenda is continuing business presentations. First, the neighborhood development funds. Is there a motion to approve? Motion and a second. Any discussion? Any none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Next item is the environmental quality and public works report from February 16th. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Vice Mayor. These are notes from February, as this group did not meet in March. So on our February 16th meeting, we approved our minutes. We had a beginning discussion about the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, which during the course of this meeting did not achieve any outcomes. We did have an outcome today that will be reported out next month. Our next item was the Richmond Road speed limit discussion that culminated in a motion being made by Council Member Gibbs to request that the state reduce the speed limit on Richmond Road from Antawar Boulevard to a point east of Hayes Boulevard. It was seconded by Council Member James Brown. And the motion passed without dissent, and it is on the last page of our packet, page 46. And I would so move approval on behalf of the committee. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you very much. Next, we took up the financial performance of the materials recycling facility, which on this day led to an excellent discussion. And I would just have to say having an extra month to report out gave them the chance to bring us back a very good report today that we've taken some action on that will be reported out next month. However, at this particular time, for these minutes, there was no action. And our last item was the keep, like a beautiful annual report that yielded no motions. And then we did not take a look at our referral items. We adjourned at 2-56. That concludes my report, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is council reports. Council members, if you'll log in, starting with Council Member Stinnett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Over the last Thursday and today, we had two very good budget meetings in preparation for our LINCS process. I want to thank Commissioner O'Meara and all of his directors, as well as our CIO, Sally Hamilton, and all the other commissioners for their contributions to our meetings. Having said that, we have a budget cow scheduled next Tuesday, the 26th, at 1 p.m. Seeing that there is no business to come before council at a budget cow meeting, because we're just now starting our link process, I'll make a motion now to cancel that meeting officially. So moved. I have a motion and a second to cancel the Tuesday meeting of the Committee of the Whole for the budget. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. And then on that note, we also have a 3 o'clock work session. There is no council meeting for next week or the week after that. And there is also very little new business to come before us next Tuesday. I've talked to some of you but not all of you but I'll make a motion now to cancel next Tuesday's work session seeing that's the only thing on our agenda for that day so moved motion I have a motion and an enthusiastic second is there any discussion on the motion there's no time requirement for work session but Stacey our council Minister will send out a notice ASAP. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I've set a resolution in front of everybody, and I'm actually doing this on behalf of myself and Council Member Maloney. We both attended the Bluegrass Ad meeting last Wednesday night, and, you know, it was a very interesting meeting, having not been there before, and I did listen intently with what the executive committee was saying. And so as a result of that, I would like to walk on a place this resolution on the docket for Thursday night, and it's a resolution of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council requesting that the United States Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General, audit the Bluegrass Area Development District's management and use of workforce funds. And I so move, and I hope that my colleagues will support this. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Council Member Massadi. Thank you. I guess, Council Member Lamb, I know we've already had an audit by, I guess it was Adam Edelman. What is the purpose of having this when we've already had the initial audit? Did you feel that there was something that was a concern? I'm going to address this as best I can, but then I'll look at Kevin's Senate to fill in the gaps. But I think it is actually to find out, you know, the – do what? What did I say? Oh, well, okay. Oh, sure, yeah. Just to play on words. I was just seeing if you all were paying attention. See, good job. No, I believe that it would be to see if the actual workforce funds are being utilized per the federal level as opposed to through the state. And I'm not sure I'm going to look at Mr. Atkins and say help me because I'm not as versed in this as others are. I was waiting for Council Member Stenet to answer. So in this case, the OIG would come in and make sure money has been spent according to federal law and regulation. So about a month ago, you probably, I think it's been Commissioner Anderson in Health and Aging, notified the ad that the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services, was looking into how the ad had spent those dollars. This would be essentially the same thing. You have the federal, for lack of a better term, regulators come in and make sure money has been spent according to the agreements in place. What the auditor did was audit essentially the business practices of the Area Development District. But keep in mind, they had the expertise in those models, but not in the specifics of federal law on how exact dollars under, in this case, the workforce program could be spent. So this would be, I think you could say it's almost transparency, and in some ways the topic's been out there for a couple of years now, and you could suggest that this would help bring some finality to it sooner than later. And I can understand that. It makes sense. Are all the players in agreement, I mean, their executive director and all the other members of this board, that this is the way to proceed? it wasn't discussed last wednesday we i mean at the way i looked at it is and i don't know i can't speak for richard councilman maloney but we didn't have the opportunity to have the floor so it was an executive board meeting so um but no this hasn't to my knowledge it hadn't been brought to their attention but we certainly blind sign someone you know i'm saying well and and i I think that we can certainly do that before Thursday night if they would like to come and address it. I think that would be, you know, I guess getting your all's approval first to know that we would move forward and then let them know that they can come and address it after that. Right. I guess if I was the ED of a group, I certainly would like to know that this was happening. I had a time where someone talked to me about it before I read about it in the paper that, guess what, you're going to be audited by the feds. So that's my concern. That's all. I mean, it's probably appropriate. Sure. Again, I just feel like giving somebody a heads up, this is pretty serious. Oh, it is. And I understand the issue is serious. Yes, it is. But again, I would prefer a heads up if I was in that position, and that was my concern. Well, I'll look at it this way. If this body approves it, then I'll work with Mr. Atkins as soon as work session's over, and we will contact them, and we will let them know before anything hits the paper. I would just add, if you all add it to the docket, we'll notify the executive director, we'll notify the mayor's co-cleo, Judge McKinney, as well as Ken Minke, who is the chair of the workforce board. I just think that's the right thing to do. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. What's your name? Stunet. Council Member. I had sent several emails to Kevin Atkins just voicing my frustration with this issue, so I thank you for bringing this forward. And what I remind him often is that there is a lot of controversy that surrounds this. workforce dollars are very very important to our community and we have got to get this straightened out because i think that the dollars can be spent when you look and i've brought this up before for instance where our one stop is located it has one of the highest unemployment rates in our city and there's no excuse for that. So I commend you and thank you. I'll support that. And on the other issue of notifying them, I think they're very well aware of the issues. So thank you. Thank you. Anybody else wish to speak to this motion? Seeing none, we'll take a vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you. Council Member Evans. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just a few things. First, I would like to make the announcement on behalf of my sorority, which you all were introduced to a couple of weeks ago, that we are having a blood drive in honor of one of our deceased sorors, who was also a teacher at Tate's Creek, so calling all of you Creekers out there. for our annual Janet Tandy blood drive that will take place this Saturday, the 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 2 o'clock at the blood center over in Beaumont Center. So I'd encourage people to stop in and give a pint of blood. It certainly saves lives. And also, I don't think I'll steal Councilmember James Brown's thunder, but I had the opportunity or the chance to attend the YMCA Black Achievers Banquet, and I'll probably let him talk a little bit more about that since he was on the agenda. But speaking as a prior achiever that went through the program 20-some years ago, it has certainly grown, and it's much more elaborate than it was when I was there. So kudos to all of those involved and a special acknowledgement to our very own police and fire departments for receiving the Community Volunteer Award of the Year. That was a pleasant surprise. So congratulations to you all and well done. And if anyone is looking for opportunities to serve, we have a great program that is in need of mentors for teenage minority students who are ready and willing to learn about careers and all the diverse careers out there. So I will make that plug for them as well. And then last, thank all of you who came out to the Eastland's annual Great American Cleanup. It was another successful year. A lot of the churches in the area certainly stepped up and made that yet another wonderful event. So it was, if you're in the area, please drive by. There are rose gardens and rose bushes and all kinds of cleanup and landscaping that was done. So, again, thank you to all of those involved who made that happen. So thank you. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I want to take a moment to thank the governor and the House and the Senate for taking time during their budget deliberations to help the city of Lexington. Many folks worked hard on the funding package and mechanism for expanding our convention center, something that is long overdue and has been long needed. More than once, this council, as well as the Lexington Center Board, the DDA Board, Visit Lex, and the Downtown Lexington Corporation Board all voted unanimously to ask the legislature for this help. We are gratified to have received this help. I think it's important always to give credit where credit is due. Specifically, LCC board member Craig Turner acted in leadership capacity, in my opinion, that none of us could have. He single-handedly befriended the governor, came up with the opportunity for this financing, and then, like the orchestra director, knew when to call who for a text message or for a phone call or when to call someone else when more appropriate or direct communications needed to happen between members of our delegation, especially those in the Senate. We need to step back for a moment and understand Lexington is in a transformative mode, and taking our convention center from 66,000 square feet to over 100,000 square feet is important to all of our livelihoods and to the remaking of downtown and the viability of our economy. But in this instance, many people helped, but I need again to single out Craig Turner for the work that he did here and over there on his own time and at his own expense, serving as a member of the Lexington Center Board. We all know great people. We all work with them. Many times we don't take the opportunity to compliment them. Today I wanted to do that to all those involved, but especially to Mr. Turner, and to celebrate Lexington's future success. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And I guess I'll just pick up with the Lexington Center. I was on a panel today for the Emerge Conference, and there was a lot of young professionals there, and we were filled with a lot of good questions about infill and redevelopment. So that just goes to show that that expansion is much needed at that center and then building capacity at that location would just benefit our city as a whole. So moving towards Douglas Park, Douglas Park Centennial, they had a cleanup this past weekend. I'd just like to give a shout-out to the Habitat for Humanity for coordinating at Centerpoint Church who brought out over 150 volunteers in the Georgetown Street Neighborhood Association for coming together and doing a lot of improvements to the park. they did more than just pick up trash and weed eat. I mean, they put out some tree plantings, cut down a lot of bushes, and did a whole lot to improve the look of the park. In Leadership Lexington, they're also a partner in the Centennial Commission. They had a sign donated from one of the companies that's in that Douglas Park Centennial sign that's on the front of the shelter. So, you know, a thank you to them as well as being part of that effort. I guess I'll touch on the Black Achievers Banquet. I've attended several over the years, and this was one of the better banquets that I had the pleasure of attending. I know I was there with Vice Mayor Kay, Council Member Evans, and Council Member Lamb, and the first responders. I think they represented our city well this weekend and were very well received and very deserving of the recognition that they received at the banquet. and there was also a shout out to I guess the recruiting efforts in public safety. I mean it was pointed out that those are great careers that a lot of our young people don't look at but are very much needed in our community with fire and police and 9-1-1. I guess I'll move to the Living Arts and Science Center. I had the pleasure of being there yesterday for the ribbon cutting with the mayor and the vice mayor and council member Bledsoe and several other people in the community. I think that was a very nice example of reinvesting in the community. You know, they had a capital campaign to raise $5 million and to renovate that facility when they could have moved anywhere in the city that they wanted to. They decided to stay in the neighborhood that they serve and invest that money there and provide opportunities for, you know, the young people in the schools near them. So I give them a big kudos for everything that they're doing and the decision to stay in that neighborhood and do what they're doing. Tomorrow at the Lyric, there's a summer job training program. It's the business partners orientation. I'm supposed to be there tomorrow with Commissioner Ford and Councilmember Bledsoe to welcome the business partners that are going to be a part of that program. And just as important as the youth that's going to be providing an opportunity to get more job training, I think it's just as important to recognize the businesses that are going to participate in that program and the opportunity they provide to our young people. So if anybody has some spare time, feel free to join us. I think it's at like 8 o'clock, 8.30 in the morning, so I'll do my best to be there on time. So invite anybody else out. But, yeah, that's all I have. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you. Council Member Brown, I love to do those things, but I am not a morning person. I try that. But I have a couple announcements pertaining to the 7th District. We have tonight the Childsburg Neighborhood Association is having their neighborhood meeting, and it will be held at Crossroads Christian Church at 6 o'clock. Also, on Monday, April 25th, from 6.30 to 7.30 at the new Eastside Library, myself and Commander Sherrard are going to have a 7th District Town Hall meeting. Invite anyone and everyone to come out with questions and concerns. It's also a great opportunity for you to come out and see the new Eastside Library. If you have not seen it, it's phenomenal and has great resources. So hopefully I'll see you at one or the other. Thank you. Thank you. I see no other council members signed up. That allows a – oh, I'm sorry. Council Member Hensley. Well, I thought I'd signed in and that's all I wasn't. Thank you. Just a couple of things. One, this weekend we lost a great cardiovascular surgeon in Lexington, conductor David Cassidy from a bicycle and motorcycle or a bicycle accident. And I just wanted to remind everybody that during this really nice weather, we have bicycles and motorcycles out on the road in the rural areas where you don't expect them. But they have the right of way just as much as we do, so be careful. We've lost two bicyclists in the last year that I know of that were good friends of friends of mine. And so just have that in our conscious. And then this weekend I was able to participate in the Dream Factories Gala, which is a fundraising charity organization for children with chronic diseases from 3 to 18. And the president of that organization is our Brian Maynard's wife, Letitia Maynard. And I wanted to give them a shout-out for the great program that they do during the year. and that's a great program and if you've not checked it out, I would encourage you to do so. And thank you. Thank you. Now I see nobody else signed up. That allows us to move to the mayor's report. Motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Public comment. There is nobody signed up for public comment. I have a motion and a second to adjourn. Without objection, we stand adjourned.