And I still can see blue velvet through my tears She wore blue velvet But in my heart there'll always be ¶¶ Thank you. Hello and welcome. Welcome. Welcome, everyone, to the council meeting. I'll call the meeting to order. I'll call the meeting to order and begin with the roll call. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Here. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? Is there somewhere? Mr. Hensley? Here. Ms. Henson? Mr. Kay? Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Gutchfield? Here. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? And Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And next on our agenda is the invocation, and I'd like to welcome Minister Greg Horn from the Vineyard Community Church Eastland Campus. who will provide our invocation tonight. Greg, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Yesterday, one of our most wonderful servant leaders, Reverend Wayne Smith, the founding pastor of Southland Christian, was put to rest, and he mentored me a lot. He has passed the baton to people such as myself now to carry the way forward and to encourage you as our leaders. I've been praying a lot today and thinking about what he might want me to say to you all. I just want to share two quick scriptures. Romans 13.1 says, Everyone must submit to governing authorities, for all authority comes from God. And those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. And then Philippians 2.4 says, Each of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the interest of others. So on one hand, what a thrill it is that you've been placed here by God. And secondly, you've got to look out for your own areas, but also for all of our community. So let me pray for God to give you wisdom and bless you tonight as you do that. Father, thank you so much for the men and women that serve on this council, God. And they serve so tirelessly. And Father, it's a thankless job. And here tonight, I just want to lift them up to you and help them to know that they are loved. And Lord, that you want to bless them. I want to pray for health. I want to pray for their finances. I want to pray for marriages, relationships, children, grandchildren. them, Father, and that you would just bless them in every area of their life, because there's a lot more areas than just what they do here. Yet tonight, God, they need all the abilities that you've given them to focus on leading our government and our wonderful community that you have blessed us with. So, Father, I just want to simply pray tonight for them that you would give them wisdom and that you would give them unity and bless every decision that they make. And may it glorify you. In the powerful name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Thanks, Greg. Thanks for joining us tonight. All right. Next on our agenda, we have two presentations tonight, and I'll ask Council Member Susan Lamb to join me at the podium. All right. So I also want to ask Lexington historian Foster Ackerman, Jr. to join us here at the podium as we welcome Mayor Jim Newberry back to the Urban County Council. Thank you. Tonight, we are honoring Mayor Newberry by unveiling his official portrait. And we also want to thank Councilmember Lamb and Foster for getting these three portraits done. Great job. Great job to them. Mayor Newberry spent many long and challenging hours in this building and in this chamber. leading the city through one of the most difficult economic times that our city and our nation has experienced. Despite that challenge, Mayor Newberry moved us forward. He focused on stimulating the economy, balancing the budget, making government more efficient, and on improving culture and the environment. Mayor Newberry, we want to thank you. We all want to thank you for your service. Thank you. And Susan, we want to thank you for making this happen. Can you tell us more about it? Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate that. First, I want to express many thanks to Foster Ackerman, who worked hard with the Board of the Lexington History Museum collecting private donations to complete this portrait, as well as the other two portraits. I also want to acknowledge our artist, Steve Sawyer, for doing the work to make sure that the portraits are complete and framed, providing a historical visual aid for our records of our city. Finally, I want to thank Mayor Newberry and those who came from the reception today and are in the chambers tonight to help celebrate the great portrait. Earlier this year, when I met with Foster, we talked about the need for the complete record in our Mayo Portrait series, and he immediately took the information and worked with the Board of Lexington History Museum who shortly after had secured funding from private donors to complete the gaps we had in our series. This is the third portrait we have revealed and received, and we are now officially caught up on the series. The good news is, from here on out, the History Museum, the Lexington History Museum, has committed to continue this process for future mayoral portraits donated to the city. As I noted earlier, Mayor Newberry served during a major financial crisis in our country, but worked hard to keep our budget in line, all the while helping revitalize the downtown and the Lyric Theater. I'm happy to be here today recognizing Mayor Newberry and helping present this portrait to our city, and I want to thank you, Mayor Newberry, for everything you've done for our city. Mayor Newberry, would you like to say a few words? Thanks so much, Susan. I know several of you were downstairs a few moments ago when we unveiled the portrait, so I'm not going to give you the whole load tonight. But since this is the on-the-record portion of the presentation, there are a few things that I think may merit repetition for those of you who were there and some things that some of you who were not there may find to be of interest. I am very, very grateful for Susan's leadership in making this happen. I know without her concern about the history of our community, this would not have occurred. And Susan, thank you very, very much for all of your work. Steve Sawyer, the artist, did a magnificent job, as I told the folks downstairs. I think he did a remarkable job given what he had to work with. and I am very grateful for his artistic talent. And then, of course, to Foster Ackerman, a longtime friend, and all the folks at the History Museum, I appreciate the fashion in which they have stepped up to make this happen for our community. I told the folks downstairs not too long ago that despite the fact that it's my image on the portrait, it's really not about me. It's more about Lexington and the story of this remarkable city. It's also about a remarkable period of time in our history when we worked together, I think, exceptionally well. About a time when we brought local government together with the business community to help bring jobs to our community. About a time when UK and downtown worked together to help address issues that confronted our intellectual capital and our financial capital. And it was about a time when we all pulled together to host a major international sporting event that enabled us to make changes throughout our community that we continue to enjoy to this day. In many respects, it was a period of time when Lexington went from being a big town to being a major city. And like any sort of metamorphosis, those times are sometimes awkward and sometimes painful. As Charles Dickens might say, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times when I served as mayor. The Great Recession created an environment economically that was painful and unquestionably the worst in the history of urban county government. But nevertheless, we had some remarkable memories from that period of time as well. The creation of the Higher Ed Triangle, the opening of the Legacy Trail, the focusing of effort to improve our city's water quality and to enhance our environmental efforts across the board, the Newtown Pike Extension that had been on the drawing board since the 30s finally opened, The World Equestrian Games and Spotlight Lexington were a major source of pride for our community. We redid the downtown streetscapes, we constructed the Fifth Third Pavilion, and we redeveloped the South Limestone Street Corridor. Those accomplishments, though, were certainly not mine alone, not by any stretch of the imagination. You know, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the citizens of Lexington for allowing me to serve, as all of you do. I have many, many friends who supported me throughout this whole period of time, and I suspect each one of you understands how important that is as you serve in local government. And, yes, there's one image on this particular canvas, but I assure you there should have been thousands of images on that canvas. And I want to express my appreciation to the thousands of LFUCG career employees with whom you work on a day-to-day basis. They make great things happen for this community, and that contribution should never, ever be overlooked by the citizens of Lexington, and it certainly shouldn't be overlooked by the elected officials in our community. I had great commissioners. Joe Kelly led them well, and they provided great leadership for the departments. And Shea Rabel led the mayor's office staff, who served me remarkably well every day of my term in office. So to all of those people, I say thanks. But as I said downstairs, my biggest and deepest word of thanks goes to my family, Sherylann, Drew, and Will, who supported me through the long days and the nights and weekends that I was doing the city's business and not being at home. So Sherylann and Will and Drew, thank you all very, very much. In many ways, we really had the best of times, despite the fact that we were in the middle of the worst of times. And I hope, as folks have the opportunity to take a look at this portrait in years to come, that they will sit there in those seats, as I did at one time, and look at these portraits on the wall and think about the people who made the city work day in and day out and who contributed to the success of our community during the tenure of Mayor Isaac, Mayor Miller, Mayor Basler, Mayor Amato, and Mayor Pettit. So thank you all very, very much for this very high honor. I deeply appreciate Foster and Susan for all of the work that you've done, and I hope you have a blessedly short meeting. Thank you. who have joined us tonight for this event and the earlier event for the unveiling. We have a second presentation tonight, and I want to invite our America in Bloom representatives to join me at the podium. Anne, hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? I am honored, we are all honored, to recognize our local America in Bloom representatives and to welcome to town judges Meg Whitmer and my old friend Kate Moss Warner. For three years, local Lexington volunteers, including Ann Garrity, Vice Mayor Linda Gorton, and many other volunteers have been working to make Lexington summers even more beautiful through the America in Bloom program. The program is a serious evaluation of environmental efforts, heritage, landscaped areas, urban forestry, floral displays, and community involvement that offers detailed feedback on how Lexington can improve. Recently around town, we have seen many of our local Lexington in Bloom winters, including trees in front of the downtown YMCA, the landscaping at the Woodland Triangle Median, and the entrance to Metathorpe neighborhood. In fact, I hear that our very own Jeff Reed won an award for his butterfly garden. Yes, this is the truth. Although I understand that the real credit belongs to Jeff's wife, Vicki. Okay. On behalf of the Urban County Council, I present this proclamation, and I will read it. America in Bloom Day. I, Jim Gray, as Mayor of Lexington, in recognition of America in Bloom, and the outstanding Lexington volunteers who work year after year to beautify our city, do hereby declare July 7, 2016, as America in Bloom Day in Lexington. There we go. All right. Thank you. So, Anne, you will fortunately share a few thoughts with us. Very few. I want to thank Mayor Gray, and I want to thank the council for your support over the past three years. We started out as just a local group of citizens, and we have, with the support of Linda Gorton and Isabel Yates, who said we need to get our act together and get organized, We've become a nonprofit organization over the winter. We have a 15-member board, three of whom are ex-officio representatives of Parks and Division of Environmental Services. We have our own website now, and we have a flyer that we're using that we've given to you, and it's got that website on it. It's got our profiles online. It's got the judges' evaluations online. And we're hoping that we can grow it as a place where any organization that is supporting public beauty, as broadly defined as American Bloom does, that we can post their information there. One thing we are trying to do is keep track of all the volunteer hours, not only from Reforest the Bluegrass and our own efforts and garden clubs, but anything that has to do with any of these six areas. So that's underway. We are very pleased to tell you that our bid for a national symposium, which is an annual event for the National American Bloom Organization, has been awarded to Lexington for 2018. So we will have approximately 300 people from across the United States coming for a symposium here. We have our local organizing committee in place. We're very fortunate that Katie Moss Warner is also the symposium program planner, so we're talking this two days a lot about what that's going to look like. So we're very proud to have received that. I wanted to mention, just for clarification, that one of the members of our board is from the Lexington Council Garden Clubs, and that's Liz Pattengill, and that council is the sponsor of Lexington in Bloom. It is a longstanding curb appeal contest for which this community can be very proud, and we're very happy that she is on our board. And one of the ways that we're encouraging collaboration and uniting our community around beauty is that about five of us served as judges for that contest. So we're looking for many ways to collaborate. It's my pleasure to introduce Meg Whitmer and Katie Moss Warner. I think I've said enough about them. I think you know a little of the history. This is not Katie's first time in Lexington, and she's thrilled to be back. And we welcome Meg. We just had a wonderful time. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Gray and members of the Urban County Council. Well, Katie and I are very honored to be here on behalf of the National American Bloom Program. I have to say, Lexington really has a lot to be very proud of. This is my first visit, and you clearly understand and are reaping the benefits of your involvement in AIB. You've engaged your citizens in identifying and enhancing the best qualities of your community through your volunteerism. I'm so impressed, and it started before I even got off the plane. Just seeing the amount of green space surrounding your city, the fact that you have made a concerted effort to preserve your agricultural lands through the preservation and development rights, that is amazing. That's very much a leadership position nationally. The mural right outside the airport really sets the tone. You know you're in Lexington when you see that mural. Your civic spaces, your environmental efforts, all really set the tone and clearly identify your city as a different place. So you clearly understand and value the unique qualities of Lexington, and I really look forward to coming back in 2018, if not sooner. Thank you. It's wonderful to be back, to be back here in your hometown. I feel like I'm home again. It is more beautiful and impressive than I even remember. We spent the day touring. The Court Project. The Legacy Trail. McConnell Spring Park. Your heritage trees. Your farms and flowers. Your passionate leaders. Past and present. I'm so honored to be here as you honor one of your past mayors. Your vision is quite extraordinary. As we have toured many cities, I've now been a judge for over eight years, so I've toured over 30 cities throughout the country. I have to say that vision is one of the things that truly has to be established up front, and you are a city that not only thinks this far out, you think way far out, and it's just really remarkable. The fact that you make it all happen is even more impressive, and that is what I was experiencing today. Right now, America in Bloom has 26 professional volunteer judges, landscape architects, horticulturists, environmentalists. These folks, community leaders, these folks are visiting towns and cities across the country. We hope, as judges, to encourage, to inspire, and to celebrate the many excellent initiatives in each of these communities. That is our challenge. We believe in community, we believe in optimism, we believe in success, and we are hopeful that we can play a part in the success of communities across the country. I dare say Meg and I are destined to leave your amazing city, confident we have experienced the very best. We thank you for your hospitality, and we are so grateful that you have provided the kind of leadership for city governance that you have provided to cities and communities across the country. So thank you very much. Well, thank you, Katie. Thank you, Meg. Thank you all for being with us. And I failed to recognize, I didn't see Vice Mayor Linda Gordon here. She has been a longtime advocate for this initiative, so let's give her a hand as well. And Ann, thank you. All right. Now we can get back to, we will go back to our agenda. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't run off. And, and, and, and. Oh, gosh. See you all. All right, Madam Clerk, we are ready for the second reading of ordinances whenever you are ready. Mayor. Oh, we've got to get the minutes. Yeah, thanks. We need to approve the minutes. Is there a motion? No, I need to walk them on. Go ahead, Susan, because I don't have the minutes on my agenda. I'm sorry. That's okay. That's why I'll take it. Yeah, the minutes that we were talking about. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Thank you, sir. Go right ahead. All right. Thank you, Mayor. As you all, my colleagues, received an email today as a reason because they have to submit an excerpt of minutes for one of the grants, I make a motion to walk on for approval of the July 5, 2016 minutes of the council meeting. I so move. Second. Motion by Council Member Lamb. Second by Council Member Gibbs. 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. Now we can move on to the ordinances. For a second reading, Madam Clerk. Ordinance number one, an ordinance changing the zone from an agricultural urban AU zone to a light industrial I-1 zone for 1.47 net 2.03 gross acres for property located at 2201 Georgetown Road, Wayne Supply Company, Council District 2. Number two, an ordinance amending Article 7, 23, and 26 of the zoning ordinance to strengthen oversight by the Urban County Board of Adjustment for the Protection of Environmentally Sensitive Areas within the Community. Number three, an ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized strength by creating two positions of ERP analyst, Grade 522E, in the Division of Enterprise Solutions, creating one position of language access specialist, Grade 523E, in the Office of the Commissioner of Social Services, creating one position of custodial worker, Grade 505N, in the Division of Youth Services, and creating one position of Administrative Officer, Grade 523E, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength, by creating one position of Storrs Clerk Part-Time, Grade 508N, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, and creating one position of Program Administrator, Grade 524N, in the Division of Community Corrections, effective July 1, 2016. Number 4. And ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Vanderring County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule 2. Number 5. an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette-Irban County Government to provide funds for purchase orders and prepaid expenses rolling from fiscal year 2016 into fiscal year 2017 and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 3 and No. 6, an ordinance amending Articles 1, 8, 11, and 23A of the zoning ordinance to address recreational and tourism land uses in all zones. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve second reading? Second. Motion by Council Member Lamb, second by Vice Mayor Kay. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes on all. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Mr. Hensley? Yay. 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. And Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move to resolutions for a second read. Whenever you're ready, please. Resolution number one. A resolution accepting the bid of Tribute Contracting and Consultants, LLC, in the amount of $2,767,032 for the UK Truncate Sewer Improvements Project for the Division of Water Quality. And number two, declaration of official intent with respect to reimbursement of temporary advances made for capital expenditures to be made from subsequent borrowings with respect to various capital improvements projects for the Lexington-Fade Urban County government. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motion? We have a motion. We have a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, madam. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Mr. Hensley? Yay. 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. And Ms. Pledsoe? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move on to next on our agenda, which is announcements. The floor is available to the Council for any announcements. Mayor, I have a walk-on. All right. Councilmember Lamb. Thank you. I move to place on the docket a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette-Irvin County Government to accept a donation of the official mayoral portrait of former Mayor Jim Newberry, valued at $5,000 from the Lexington History Museum. I so move. All right, we have a motion by Council Member Lamb. We have a second by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion? All right, hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. I'd like to move to suspend the rules of resolution number three, please. So move. It's a motion to suspend on number three. May I give it first reading? We've got to give it first reading, then. I'll go fast. All right. Number three, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to accept a donation of the official mayoral portrait of former mayor Jim Newberry, valued at $5,000 from the Lexington History Museum. All right. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Council Member Lamb. I'd like to move to suspend the rules on resolution number three. Thanks. We have a motion by Council Member Lamb, seconded by Vice Mayor Kay, to suspend on number three. Is there any discussion on that motion? All right. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk. Number three again, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation of the official mayoral portrait of former Mayor Jim Newberry valued at $5,000 from the Lexington History Museum. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a motion to approve all three? We approve, but we didn't vote on one and two. All right. There's a motion to approve number three. Is there a second? Second. Second by Vice Mayor Kaye. All right. Is there any discussion? All right. So now we can call the roll. Mr. Fred Brown. Yes. Mr. James Brown. Yes. Ms. Evans. Yes. Yes. Mr. Farmer. Mr. Gibbs. Yes. Mr. Hensley. Yay. Mr. Kaye. Yes. Ms. Lamb. Yes. Mr. Maloney. Yes. Ms. Massadi. Yes. Ms. Gutchfield. Yes. Mr. Stinnett. Yes. Ms. Akers? Yes. And Ms. Blitzo? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move on now to announcements. The floor is available to Council Members for any announcements. Please sign on. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Many attended the funeral for Wayne Smith. and the death angel has been busy around Lexington this week. Our thin blue line is thinner, and one set of boots at the firehouse are empty for good. I always prefer to take a step back before I take a step forward, and I return to this night last year, which was the last meeting I got to attend with Council Member Ed Lane. I miss his presence. I appreciated his countenance. And Mayor, you did a fine job in replacing him on the council. However, I want to extend just a personal blessing to all of these families and to that of Mr. Lane at the same time. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Council Member Scutchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to add to that. I didn't know Firefighter Logsdon, but we lost another of our blue line yesterday in Detective Harrison, who had retired. I did know him pretty well, knew his wife, Jana. My children swam with his daughter, Maggie, and I know they're hurting right now. And I know that we as a council reach out to all of them and the Firefighter Logsdon's family. I can't imagine what it would be to go through that and have that loss. so thank you thank you council member scutchfield vice mayor k thank you mayor i just want to remind council that there will be a motion to go into closed session i'm going to not make that until after we've had public comment so that the people who are here for public comment can speak and then we can go into closed session thank you mayor all right thank you vice mayor council Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. I also want to offer my condolences to the families of our first responders. I, too, lost a dear, dear friend last night, and I feel the hurt, as I'm sure those families are as well. But I also want to say on a good note that the Bluegrass Fair is coming up, and I invite you all. I think you all got some tickets at your places. It's a good time to enjoy what we have every day, and it's a good life. And two, I think that's what we have to look at every day is one day at a time. And if we can enjoy life to the fullest and have fun and smile and laugh and eat fried Twinkies, why not? So please come out and get on the Ferris wheel, have some fun, and enjoy every day because it may be your last. Thank you all. Thank you, Council Member Sight. Any other Council members wish to offer an announcement? I would just, I will in closing just affirm the comments that have been made, especially regarding our firefighters and firefighter Lawson and Detective Harrison. I think what we realize in these moments is just what a close-knit family we have in our public safety, our public safety community. And I see Commissioner Bastin shaking his head and nodding in assent and agreement. And we thank you for your leadership, Commissioner, and for all that you're doing today to provide sympathy for the families who are struggling and suffering. All right. Next on our agenda is public comment. And I have two signed on for public comment, Lily Miller-Johnson and Bernard McCarthy. So Ms. Miller-Johnson, Ms. Miller-Johnson, and then Mr. McCarthy. Good evening, Mayor Gray and Council. I just want to thank you for inviting me to speak this evening. And first of all, I want to say that as a person who respects other people and tries to give them respect and address the issues the best way I can, I want to say that sometimes when we get involved in situations, we try to talk to other people the way we want to be talked to and address the issues the way we see them. Not all the time do we all agree, and we're never all going to agree. We are going to see things in a different light. So, with that in mind, I want you to know that when I went out and paid my $20 and got on as a supervisor, I was thinking of nothing else than the fact that I needed to show myself that I could stand up and deal with all the problems that I was dealing with coming in and living here. I have lived here in Fayette County since I was five years old. And I have addressed the issues that came to me and how I was treated. And I have addressed the legal issues and the leadership in the manner that I thought was fair. Sometimes we say things, and everybody has done it. I'm not saying that I'm perfect, but I tried to address the issues as I saw those issues. Now, as a supervisor of the Fayette County Conservation District, I brought each one of y'all our budget for next year, the Kentucky Association of Conservation District 7, our convention program, which I'm inviting each and every one of you to the convention, which is July the 10th, 11th, and 12th, and it's in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It's at the University Plaza Holiday Inn. And also, we had a long-range plan. We did have this in color, but we got a copy in black and white. So I just wanted to address those issues. Thank you for each and every one that is trying to help our Enviathan group get to Ontario, Canada. And I hope that each month I will, since I have been placed as the secretary in charge of our supervisor group, that you will get an update each month after our meeting so that you'll know what's going on with the conservation district. Thank you, and have a nice evening. Thank you, Lily. All right. Mr. McCarthy. For the record, my name is Bernard McCarthy. My address is 515 Harry Street. Your Honor and Council Members, since you lowered speed limits on quite a wide stretch of roadways earlier in the spring, I've noticed there's still some inconsistencies in the signs. really at the exact point on the street where the speed limit changes, where it decreases coming inbound and increases going outbound, there should be a sign facing in each direction announcing the new speed limit, and that speed limit sign should have an additional sign on top of it containing the word begin. For traffic inbound, a few hundred feet before they reach the drop in the speed limit, and there should be an additional sign warning reduced speed ahead. Now, I'll admit even my bosses in state government aren't necessarily living up to these principles consistently, but having driven around much of the country over my lifetime and seen what is elsewhere, I think that's really the best way to go. And like I say, right now, from the signs that are up in both directions, I can't tell the exact point on, say, Russell Cave Pike, where the speed limit changes from 35 to 25. Last sign I see, well, outbound doesn't necessarily coincide with the first sign I see inbound in Nance-A-Newton. All right. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Before I ask the Vice Mayor for a motion to enter closed session, let me thank Council Member Lamb for alerting me that we should recognize a scout who's here tonight, and that is Aaron Helm, who is with Boy Scout Troop No. 41. Aaron, stand up. Thanks, buddy. Thank you, Aaron. Thanks for being with us tonight. Thank you. You bet. All right. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101C for the purpose of discussions regarding pending litigation. So move. Motion by Vice Mayor Kaye, second by Council Member Massadi. Unless there's objection, the council will now enter closed session. Thank you. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Back in open. I have a motion to adjourn and a second. Without objection, we're adjourned. We're going to go! I'm out. The brother knows the meeting over Hey, here's the highway You said