# Urban County Council - December 1, 2016 > Auto-transcribed civic record · December 1, 2016 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4126 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4126?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2016-12-01 - **Last revised**: December 1, 2016 - **Length**: 16,662 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Council convened on December 1, 2016, at 6:01 PM in Lexington, Kentucky, with Mayor Gray presiding over the session. The meeting included two agenda items, both informational in nature: an invocation to open the proceedings and a recognition ceremony for Cub Scout Pack 110. During the course of the meeting, the council conducted two motions and votes, while also hearing from two members of the public who provided comments. The session focused primarily on ceremonial matters and community recognition rather than legislative business. ## Attendance All council members were present for the December 1, 2016 meeting. **Present:** • Mossotti • Plomin • Scutchfield • Stinnett • Akers • Bledsoe • F. Brown • J. Brown • Evans • Farmer • Gibbs • Henson • Kay • Lamb • Moloney **Absent:** None **Late:** None ## Votes and Decisions The council conducted two roll call votes during the December 1, 2016 meeting, both resulting in unanimous approval. **Approval of Ordinances After Second Reading** [timestamp: 00:00] Mr. Stinnett made a motion to approve ordinances after second reading, which was seconded by Ms. Henson. The motion passed unanimously with a roll call vote of 15 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. All council members voted in favor: Mossotti, Plomin, Scutchfield, Stinnett, Akers, Bledsoe, F. Brown, J. Brown, Evans, Farmer, Gibbs, Henson, Kay, Lamb, and Moloney. **Approval of Resolutions After Second Reading** [timestamp: 00:00] Vice Mayor Kay made a motion to approve resolutions after second reading, which was seconded by Ms. Plomin. This motion also passed unanimously with a roll call vote of 15 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. The same fifteen council members voted in favor: Mossotti, Plomin, Scutchfield, Stinnett, Akers, Bledsoe, F. Brown, J. Brown, Evans, Farmer, Gibbs, Henson, Kay, Lamb, and Moloney. Both votes demonstrated complete council unity, with all present members supporting the approval of both the ordinances and resolutions that had completed their second reading process. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed two significant contract awards for municipal improvement projects totaling over $700,000. **Infrastructure Improvement Contract** The council approved a contract with Lagco, Inc. for $552,333 to complete the Meadows-Northland-Arlington Neighborhood Improvement Project, specifically Phases 5E and 5F. This represents the largest financial commitment discussed during the meeting and continues the ongoing neighborhood infrastructure enhancement initiative. **Parks and Recreation Development** A second contract was awarded to Adams Contracting, LLC for $155,500 for the construction of a baseball field at Cardinal Run Park. This project expands the city's recreational facilities and demonstrates continued investment in community amenities. The combined value of these two contracts totals $707,833, representing significant capital expenditures for infrastructure and recreational improvements within the municipality. ## Public Comment Two community members addressed the council during the public comment period. **Timothy Walker** [timestamp: 00:00] spoke about homelessness and expressed concerns regarding a video that was released by Vice Mayor Kay. Walker stated that he felt the video misrepresented his situation as a homeless person, though he did not provide specific details about the content of the video or the nature of the misrepresentation during his remarks. **Joy Barry** [timestamp: 00:00] addressed the council about detention center policies, specifically criticizing visitation rules that limit detainees to only five visitors every 90 days. Barry argued that these restrictive visitation policies are harmful to maintaining family connections for those who are incarcerated. She did not elaborate on specific cases or provide additional details about how the policy has affected families in the community. Both speakers used their allotted time to raise concerns about local policies and their impacts on vulnerable populations in the community. ## Appointments The meeting included one appointment action during the proceedings. Jeffrey Carter was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of Community Corrections. The appointment was processed as part of the meeting's official business. No additional details regarding the appointment process, qualifications, or term length were provided in the available meeting materials. ## Contested Items The meeting featured one significant procedural dispute regarding the handling of a zoning text amendment [timestamp: 00:00]. **Referral of Zoning Text Amendment to Committee** A debate arose over the proper process for handling a zoning text amendment, with disagreement between council members on whether the item should be referred to a committee for further review or proceed directly to a public hearing. The dispute centered on concerns about transparency and ensuring proper vetting of the proposed changes. Some members advocated for committee referral, arguing this would allow for more thorough examination of the amendment's implications before public consideration. Others pushed for moving directly to a public hearing, emphasizing the importance of immediate public input and transparency in the zoning process. The disagreement highlighted tensions between different approaches to municipal governance - those favoring detailed committee review versus those prioritizing direct public engagement. Members expressed concerns that either path could potentially compromise the thoroughness of the review process or limit public participation in zoning decisions. The outcome of this procedural dispute was not clearly specified in the available materials, though the discussion appears to have consumed significant meeting time as members debated the merits of each approach and the implications for both the specific amendment and future zoning matters. ## Invocation [timestamp: 00:00] Pastor Kory Wilcoxson from Crestwood Christian Church delivered the invocation to open the December 1, 2016 meeting. The invocation served as the ceremonial opening of the proceedings, providing a moment of reflection before the commencement of official business. This agenda item was informational in nature, with no discussion or debate following the prayer. The invocation represents a traditional element of the meeting format, establishing a formal beginning to the session. ## Recognition of Cub Scout Pack 110 [timestamp: 00:00] Mayor Gray recognized members of Cub Scout Pack 110 from South Elkhorn Christian Church during the meeting. This was a ceremonial presentation to acknowledge the local scouting group. The recognition served as an informational item on the agenda, with Mayor Gray serving as the primary speaker for this portion of the meeting. The acknowledgment highlighted the community involvement and activities of the Cub Scout pack, which is affiliated with South Elkhorn Christian Church. No formal action was taken during this agenda item, as it was purely ceremonial in nature. The recognition provided an opportunity for the local government to show support for youth organizations and community groups operating within their jurisdiction. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (15-0): Approval of ordinances after second reading - **Motion** — passed (15-0): Approval of resolutions after second reading --- ## Full transcript Hey yo, collect that music Thank you. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'll call the meeting to order. And first thing on our docket is the roll call. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Plowman? Here. Ms. Gutchfield? Here. Mr. Sinnott? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Here. Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Ms. Henson? Here. Vice Mayor Kay? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next on our agenda tonight, the docket is invocation. And tonight, Councilmember Susan Lamb has invited Pastor Corey Wilcoxson of Crestwood Christian Church to deliver our invocation. Pastor Wilcoxson, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here. Thanks to you, Mayor Gray. I know a former Disciples of Christ member from Glasgow. Thanks for having me. Thanks for Susan, a current Disciples of Christ member, for inviting me to be here. And thank you all for your hospitality. Let us pray. Gracious and loving God, we thank you for the gift of this day. We pray that we have used it in a way that honors you and in a way that honors the image of you we see in each other. God, we thank you for the gifts represented in this room today, especially the gift of leadership. Give us wisdom and courage, God, to make decisions that are in harmony with your will. Guide us to think calmly and carefully, to talk honestly and openly, to decide wisely and well. Lord, may the respect we have for each other and the love that you have for us be reflected in all we say and do here this evening. May we treat every person, those in this room, and those affected by the decisions made in this room as your child. And Lord, at the end of the day, may we find peace and rest, knowing we have done our best to serve you. We ask these things as your children, confident of your love and your abiding presence with us now and always. Amen. Amen. Corey, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. As I said earlier, you are welcome to stay with us, but don't feel obligated. Thank you. I have homework to get to. I understand. You said that to us. Thanks so much. Thank you. All right. I want to start out tonight by welcoming a Cub Scout pack that is here with us. Pack 110 from South Elkhorn Christian Church. Caden Mahoney, Thomas Ashley, Wyatt Norris, Jaden Prater, James Eakin, and sister Samantha Eakin. Will you all please join us? Please stand so we can recognize you. Thank you, guys. They are here tonight to learn more about our democratic institutions, so thank you all for joining us. All right. Next, so what's on our agenda next, Scouts, is what's called the reading of the ordinances, and we get a second reading now by our council clerk. So, Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready. Item 1, in order to submitting certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette-Irban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 21. Item 2, in order to submitting certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Fayette-Irban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $217 in the Division of Police from the council project's fund for additional travel expenses associated with training the vapor ray canine and handler and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 23. Item 3, in order to cementing certain of the budget so that the Lexington and Fayette-Rubon County government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $119,866 in the Division of Streets and Roads from the Council Projects Fund for paving three sections of Old Parrish Pike and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 24. Item 4, in order to cementing certain of the budget so that the Lexington and Fayette-Rubon County government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $12,800 in the Division of Streets and Roads from the Council Projects Fund for paving local streets and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule No. 25. Item 5, an ordinance demanding the budget of the Lexington Fader and County Government to reflect current requirements for funding the amount of $45,000 in the Division of Parks and Recreation from the Council Projects Fund to complete the construction of a new concession stand and restrooms in Martin Luther King Park and appropriating and reappropriating fund schedule number 26. Item 6, an ordinance demanding the classified civil service authorized strength by abolishing one position of Recreation Manager Senior, Grade 520E, including one position of Parks and Recreation Superintendent, Grade 525E, reclassifying the incumbent in the Division of Parks and Recreation effective upon passage of Council. Item 7, in ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized rank by creating one position of administrative officer, grade 523E, in the Division of Code Enforcement, effective upon passage of council. Item 8, in ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized rank by extending the term of one position of administrative specialist principal, grade 518E, and three positions of administrative specialist, grade 513N, for a term of four years beginning November 4, 2016 and expiring November 4, 2020, in the Division of Water Quality, effective upon passage of council. Item 9, an ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized drink by abolishing one position of public service worker senior, grade 599N, and one position of equipment operator senior, grade 512N, and in creating one position of arborist, grade 517N, and in the Division of Environmental Services effective upon passage of council. Item 10, an ordinance amending section 1 of the ordinance number 183-2016, which established the scheduled meetings for the election of Fayette-Urban County Council for the calendar year 2017 to add a general government and social services committee meeting on January 17th at 10 o'clock a.m. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Council Member Senate, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Okay. What was it? Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Scutchfield? Yes. Mr. Sennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. The others? Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Angela Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. And Mr. Maloney? Yes. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. allows us to move on to ordinances for a first reading. Item 11, an ordinance changing the zone from a neighborhood business B1 zone to an agricultural rural AR zone for 3.24 net, 3.76 gross acres for property located at 589 and Old Richmond Road. Irfrin M. Alami amended Council District 12. Item 12, an ordinance changing the zone from a neighborhood business B1 zone to a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone for .75 net and gross acres of property located at 1315-1353 West Main Streets, portion of 1321 West Main, LLC, Council District 2. Item 13, an ordinance changing the zone from a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone to a high density apartment R4 zone for .48 net, .58 gross acre for property located at 366 and 370 Glen Arvin Avenue, Lexington Homeownership Commission 2, Inc. Amended Council District 2. Item 14, an ordinance changing the zone from a neighborhood business B1 zone to a high density apartment R4 zone for 2.56 net with 3.0 gross acres and from a professional office P1 zone to a high-density apartment R4 zone for 2.22 net, 2.42 gross acres for property located at 4268 Sarin Drive, Lexington Senior Housing 2, LLC, Council District 8, Item 15, an ordinance demanding Articles 19-2, 19-5, 19-7, 19-8, 19-10, 19-12, 19-13, and 19-16 of the Zoning Ordinance under Articles 114, 6-7, and 6-11 of the land subdivision regulations to reflect revisions to the Stormwater Manual adopted by the Irvin County Government approval of the staff alternative text. Item 16, an ordinance changing the zone from Agricultural Urban AU zone to a neighborhood Business V1 zone for 5.79 net, 7.88 gross acres, Agricultural Urban AU zone to Townhouse Residential R1T zone for 2.38 net and gross acres, Agricultural Urban AU zone to a single-family residential R1D zone for 6.72 net and gross acres, Townhouse Residential R1T zone to a single-family residential R1D zone for 1.49 net, 1.88 gross acres, Townhouse Residential R1T zone with conditional zoning restriction to a Townhouse residential R1T zone without conditional zoning restrictions for 1.49 net, 1.93 gross acres in single family residential R1T zone to a townhouse residential R1T zone for .26 net and gross acres for property located at 4145 and 4235 Harrisburg Road, TaylorMade Real Estate LLC amended Council District 10. Item 17, an ordinance changing the zone from an agricultural rural AR zone to an agricultural natural areas and for 41.74 net, 43.44 gross acres for property located at 8291 and 8385 Old Richon Road, Boon Creek Properties LLC, Council District 12. Item 18, an ordinance expanding and extending the full urban services district number one for the urban county government for the provision of street lighting, street cleaning, and garbage and refuse collection to include the area defined as certain properties on the following streets. Hottenbridge Drive, Bay Springs Park, Blackwell Place, Cornelius Trace, Hanborough Park, Henderson Drive, Horseman Trail, Jacob Court, Cavanaugh Lane, Lauderdale Drive, Lawson Lane, Magnolia Springs Drive, Marco Lane, Millstone Way, Pageant Lake Lane, Polo Club Boulevard, Pompano Lane, Remington Way, Sir Barton Way, Sweet Clover Lane, Sweet Clover Park, Tabor Lake Circle, Tabor Lake Court, Tabor Lake Cove, Tabor Lake Drive, Tabor Lake Place, Sabre Lake Ridge, Sabre Lake Walk, Trailwood Lane, Tranquility Point, and Windham Hills Drive. Item 19, an ordinance of expanding and sending partial urban services district number 5 for the urban county government for the provision of street lighting and garbage and refuse collection to include the area defined to certain properties on the following streets, Hillendale Road and Fredericksburg Road. Item 20, an ordinance of amending to the budget of the Lexington and Fayetteville County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds. Schedule number 27, item 21, an ordinance of amending the authorized rank by creating one classified civil service position of Municipal Engineer Senior Grade 525E in the Division of Engineering, effective upon passage of Council, Item 22, an ordinance amending Chapter 16 of the Code of Ordinance to reflect adoption of the revised Stormwater Manual by creating Subsection 161F70 of the Code to define engineering manuals for purposes of Chapter 16, Article 10 of the Code, amending Section 1685 of the Code to adopt and incorporate the Stormwater Manual into the Code by reference, amending Subsection 16101C, 16101G, and 16102G of the Code to provide that erosion and sediment control plants shall be prepared in In accordance with the Stormwater Manual and Engineering Standard Drawings as revised, modified, or amended from time to time, amending subsections 16108, 16102i, and 16103b to provide that a 50-foot vegetative buffer shall be maintained between land disturbance activities in the edge of any perennial or interim stream, wetland sinkhole, or municipal storm sewer inlet consistent with the revised Stormwater Manual and amending subsection 16104d2 of the Code to provide that the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan shall be consistent with the Stormwater Manual and Engineering Standard Drawings as revised, modified, or amended from time to time. Item 23, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified civil service position of program administrator, grade 524, and in creating one unclassified civil service position of clinical services supervisor, grade 524E, and changing the position title and transferring the incumbent from a non-exempt to an exempt position in the Division of Community Corrections, effective on November 28, 2016. Item 24, an ordinance amending the classified civil service authorized strength by transferring one position of deputy CIO, grade 533E, and one position of administrative officer senior, grade 526E, from the Division of Enterprise Solutions to the Department of Information Technology, transferring the incumbents effective upon passage of Council Item 25. An ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances of the License and Fayette-Iver County Government to comply with the provisions of KRS 65.8801 to KRS 65.8839 and more specifically amending subsection 12.1A of the Code to provide that the Property Maintenance Code is adopted pursuant to state law and is to be interpreted in accordance with Chapter 2B of the Code amending subsections 12.1B, PM 106.4.1B, PM 107.1, PM 111.2, and PM 302.8 to provide for references to the appropriate sections of Chapter 2B of the Code Civil Fines based upon citations ranging from $100,000 to $10,000. Notices of violation and assigned hearing officers repealing Subsection 121B, PM 107.2 of the Code repealing Sections 122, 124, 125, 126, 128, 128.3, 1214, 1215, 1216, 1268, 1269, 1270 of the Code creating a new Section 122 of the Code defining nuisances and including chunked vehicles, rubbish, excessive weed or grass growth, ashes, debris, garbage, abandoned equipment, or appliances, indoor furniture, outdoors, and ice on sidewalks. Renumbering Section 12.7 of the Code to Section 12.3 of the Code, and amending to provide enforcement by the Commissioner of Planning, Preservation, and Development, notices of violation of citations, abatement hearings, appeals, and liens, renumbering Section 12.8 of the Code to Section 12.4 of the Code, and amending to authorize the Commissioner of Planning, Preservation, and Development to enforce Chapter 12 of the Code of Ordinances, renumbering Section 12.82 of the Code to 12.5 of the Code, and amending to provide for civil fine based upon the number of citations ranging from $100 to $1,000, renumbering Section 12.13 of the Code to 12.6 of the Code, in amending to provide that the Code Enforcement Board is created pursuant to KRS 65.8801 to KRS 65.8839 and operates pursuant to Chapter 2B of the Code, amending Sections 1260 and 1262 of the Code to reference the correct section numbers, amending Sections 1263 and 1264 of the Code pertaining to public nuisances to provide for notices, abatements, citations, closures, hearings, appeals, and liens pursuant to Chapter 2B of the Code and Civil Fines ranging from $500 to $5,000 and amending Subsection 1410F4 of the Code to reference to the correct section numbers, all affected January 1, 2017. Item 26, an ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Fayden-Arma County Government to comply with the provisions of KRS 65.8810-8801-EDSEC, and more specifically, renumbering and amending the sections of Chapter 2B of the Code to provide for the application of Chapter 2 all administrative hearings related to the issuance of civil fines, definitions, limitations on board members, special emergency meetings, administrative appeals to take place before hearing officers and establishing their early experience in training, administrative enforcement proceedings, citations, waivers of appeals and final orders, notification of hearings and notice of final orders, oath, subpoena, findings, that notification, appeals, and the designation of a secretary of the board affidavit for liens, charges, fees, and abasement costs, the rights of the property owner as to the other secured parties of the institution of legal proceedings, and the creation and implementation of a notification system amending subsections 1373.21, 267, and 8 of the code to provide for the application of Chapter 2B of the code citations, maximum fines ranging from $25 to $300 based upon the number of violations within any calendar year, and the ability to take an alarm user awareness class in order to avoid paying fine, amending section 1373.3 of the code to provide an appeal time for warning, notices, orders of suspension or revocation or citations, amending subsection 1373.42 and 3 of the code to provide for assigned hearing officers, amending subsection 1634.1c of the code to provide for abiding pursuant to chapter 2b of the code, amending subsection 1650a and g of the code to provide for the application of chapter 2b of the code and the issuance of maximum civil fines ranging from $401,000 based upon the number of citations within any 12-month period, amending subsection 1676.1C of the code to provide for the application of Chapter 2B of the code and repealing subsection 1676.1D, E, and F, amending Section 1677 of the code to provide for assigned hearing officers, and the application of Chapter 2B of the code amending subsection 16202B and D of the code to provide for the application of Chapter 2B of the code amending subsection 16205A, B, and D of the code to provide for the application of Chapter 2B of the code and repealing subsection 16205E, amending subsection 16206C, F, and G of the Code, to reference section 22B9 of the Code, and repealing subsection 16206H and I, amending subsection 174D of the Code, to provide for the application of chapter 2B of the Code, amending section 174.1 of the Code, to reference citations in subsection 68K of the land subdivision regulations of the zoning ordinance, and to provide for maximum civil fines ranging from $100 to $500, based upon the number of citations within a 12-month period, and allowing for recovery of related costs and fees, amending sections 17.2 and 17.4.3 of the code to add to signed hearing officers, amending section 4.8 of the code to reference section 2B9 of the code pertaining to liens, amending section 17B13C of the code to provide for maximum civil fines, ranging from $200 to $500 based upon the number of citations within any 12-month period, all effective on January 1, 2017. Item 27, an ordinance amending ordinance number 194-2016, which changed the classification of certain employees from exempt to non-exempt status by returning affected employees to their prior status and amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength by abolishing one position of social worker, grade 513, and in creating one position of social worker, grade 513E, in the Division of Aging and Disability Services, abolishing one position of recreation specialist, senior, grade 516, and in creating one position of recreation specialist, senior, grade 516E, abolishing three positions of extended school program coordinator, grade 516E, and in creating three positions of extended school program coordinator, grade 516E, in the Division of Parks and Recreation, amending the classified civil service authorized by abolishing one position of Information Officer, Grade 518N, creating one position of Information Officer, Grade 518E, in the Division of Government Communications, abolishing one position of Support Specialist Senior, Grade 519N, creating one position of Support Specialist Senior, Grade 519E, in the Division of Computer Services, abolishing two positions of Buyer, Grade 517N, creating two positions of Buyer, Grade 517E, in the Division of Purchasing, abolishing one position of Program Specialist, Grade 513N, creating one position of Program Specialist, grade 513E in the Division of Engineering, abolishing one position of Operations Supervisor, grade 518N, and creating one position of Operations Supervisor, grade 518E in the Division of Streets and Roads, abolishing one position of Program Specialist, grade 513N, and creating one position of Program Specialist, grade 513N, and the Division of Water Quality, abolishing two positions of Social Worker, senior grade 516N, creating two positions of Social Worker, senior grade 516E in the Division of Aging and Disability Services, abolishing two positions of Social Worker, grade 513N, and creating two positions of Social Worker, grade 513E in the Division of Adult and Tenant Services, abolishing two positions of social worker, grade 513N, in creating two positions of social worker, grade 513E, abolishing nine positions of early child care teacher, grade 512N, in creating nine positions of early child care teacher, grade 512E, in the Division of Family Services, abolishing one position of social worker, grade 513N, in creating one position of social worker, grade 513E, abolishing two positions of social worker senior, grade 516N, in creating two positions of social worker senior, grade 516E, in the Division of Youth Services, abolishing one position of administrative specialist principal, So Principal, Grade 518-N, in creating one position of Administrative Specialist, Principal, Grade 518-E, in the Division of Facility of Fleet Management, abolishing four positions of Recreation Supervisor, Grade 514-N, in creating four positions of Recreation Supervisor, Grade 514-E, abolishing four positions of Recreation Manager, Grade 518-N, in creating four positions of Recreation Manager, Grade 518-E, abolishing one position of Recreation Specialist Senior, Grade 516-N, in creating one position of Recreation Specialist Senior, Grade 516-N, in the Division of Parks and Recreation, transferring the incumbents from non-exempt to exempt positions and converting their hourly rates of pay to bi-weekly. effective on November 28, 2016. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for suspensions? Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 27 in order to come into compliance with the recent court ruling on overtime pay. So moved. Motion by Vice Mayor Kaye, second by Council Member Akers. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right, if not, then we can vote. All in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk, if you'll please give us a second read on number 27. Thank you. In ordinance, amending ordinance number 194-2016, which changed classification of certain employees from exempt to non-exempt status by returning affected employees to their prior status and amending the unclassified civil service authorized rank by abolishing one position of social worker, grade 513N, and creating one position of social worker, grade 513E, in the Division of Aging and Disability Services, abolishing one position of recreation specialist senior, grade 516N, and creating one position of recreation specialist senior, grade 516E, abolishing three positions of extended school program coordinator, grade 516N, and creating three positions of extended school program coordinator, grade 516E, in the Division of Parks and Recreation, amending the classified civil service authorized rank by abolishing one position of information option, grade 518N, and creating one position of Information Officer, grade 518E, and the Division of Government Communications, abolishing one position of Support Specialist Senior, grade 519E, and creating one position of Support Specialist Senior, grade 519E, and the Division of Computer Services, abolishing two positions of Buyer, grade 517E, and creating two positions of Buyer, grade 517E, and the Division of Purchasing, abolishing one position of Program Specialist, grade 513E, and creating one position of Program Specialist, grade 513E, and the Division of Engineering, abolishing one position of Operations Supervisor, grade 518E, and creating one position of Operations Supervisor, grade 518E, in the Division of Streets and Roads, abolishing one position of Program Specialist, Grade 513N, in creating one position of Program Specialist, Grade 513E, in the Division of Water Quality, abolishing two positions of Social Worker Senior, Grade 516N, and in creating two positions of Social Worker Senior, Grade 516N, in the Division of Aging and Disability Services, abolishing two positions of Social Worker, Grade 513N, in creating two positions of Social Worker, Grade 513E, in the Division of Adult and Tenant Services, abolishing two positions of Social Worker, Grade 513N, and in creating two positions of Social Worker, Grade 513N, abolishing nine positions of Early Child Care Teacher, Grade 512N, in creating nine positions of early child care teacher, grade 512E, in the Division of Family Services, abolishing one position of social worker, grade 513E, in creating one position of social worker, grade 513E, abolishing two positions of social worker senior, grade 516E, in creating two positions of social worker senior, grade 516E, in the Division of Youth Services, abolishing one position of administrative specialist principal, grade 518E, in creating one position of administrative specialist principal, grade 518E, in the Division of Facilities of Fleet Management, abolishing four positions of recreation supervisor, grade 514E, in creating four positions of recreation supervisor, grade 514E, in abolishing four positions of Recreation Manager Grade 518N and creating four positions of Recreation Manager Grade 518E and abolishing one position of Recreation Specialist Senior Grade 516N and creating one position of Recreation Specialist Senior Grade 516E in the Division of Parks and Recreation, transferring the incomes for non-exempt to exempt positions and converting their hourly rates of pay to bi-weekly salaries effective on November 28, 2016. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Motion by Council Member Massadi. Seconded by Councilmember Henson. Is there any discussion? All right. If not, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Mossadi? Yes. Ms. Plumman? Yes. Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Mr. Stenner? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes, on all except 17. Sorry. Sorry about that. Yes. Ms. Blitzen? Not paying any attention. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Ms. Henson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Malone? Is that it? Okay. Motion. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to resolutions for a second reading. Madam Clerk, please give us the second reading of resolutions. Yes, sir. Item 1, a resolution accepted in the bid of LAGCO, incorporated in the amount of $552,333 in the Meadows, Northland, Arlington, Neighborhood Improvement Project, phases 5E and 5F for the Division of Engineering, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Durham County Government to exceed an agreement with LAGCO, incorporated in the amount of $552,333 in the Meadows, Northland, Arlington, Neighborhood Improvement Project, phases 5E and 5F for the Division of Engineering, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Durham County Government to exceed an agreement with LAGCO, incorporated in the amount of $552,333 in the amount of $555,500 for construction of a baseball field at Cardinal Run Park for the Division of Parks and Recreation, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Durham County Government to exceed any necessary agreement with Adams Contracting LLC related to the bid. Item 3, a resolution accepting the bids of J. Edinger & Sons, Inc., Refuse Parts Depot, Municipal Equipment, Inc., and Central Indian Truck Equipment Corporation establishing price contracts for refuse body repairs for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Item 4, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary civil service appointment. Jeffrey Carter, Deputy Director of Community Corrections, Grade 526E, 3782.32 biweekly, the Division of Community Corrections, effective November 14, 2016. Item 5, a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of J.C. Curtis, Finance and Investment Analyst, Grade 521 and 26.622, hourly in the Department of Finance. Effect November 28, 2016, John McElroy, treatment plan operator, Grade 515 and 21.619, hourly in Bradley Gregory, treatment plan operator, Grade 515 and 18.514, hourly, voicing the Division of Water Quality, Richard Fowler, Traffic Signal Technician, Master, Grade 518N, 26.67, hourly. In the Division of Traffic Engineering, all affected November 21, 2016. And Janet Bolton, Zoning Enforcement Officer, Grade 516N, 24.980, hourly. In the Division of Planning, affected November 28, 2016, ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments. Deborah Woods, Administrative Specialist, Grade 513N, 18.939, hourly. In the Division of Planning, affected November 2, 2016. William Pugh, Facility Superintendent, Grade 518E, 2153.44, biweekly. Department of General Services, and Kina Suarez, Human Resources Analyst, Grade 520E, 1909.28, bi-weekly in the Division of Human Resources, both effective November 16, 2016, ratifying the permanent sworn appointments of Zachary Bowman, Jeffrey Burden, Timothy Carpenter, Quinn Chandler, Matthew Collins, Joshua Crowe, Scott Evely, Justin Gilliam, Markel Hayward, Joshua Horn, Catherine Ishmael, Eric Lomax, Joseph Wasardi, Provect McCullough, Jeremiah Morrison, Anthony Murph, Nicholas Music, Evan Northcutt, Megan Padgett, John Ring, Rebecca Saylor, Catherine Skow, Nicholas Stanton, Jeremiah Terry, Derek Walton, Christopher Ward, Michael Watts, Wayne White, and Joshua Whitmer, all police officers, grade 311N, 19.567, hourly in the Division of Police, effective November 7, 2016. Ratifying the probationary sworn appointment of Nathan Williams, police sergeant, grade 315N, 30.538, hourly in the Division of Police, effective November 14, 2016. Ratifying the voluntary demotion of Dustin Hines, public service worker, senior, grade 509N, 14.420, hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective October 31, 2016. Item 6, a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of understanding with Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government for CPR training and certification. It caused not to exceed $5,184.50. Item 7, a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved. which grant funds are in the amount of $148,000 Commonwealth of Kentucky Funds under the construction of the Little Abatement Grant Funding Program for fiscal year 2017, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 8, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application which grant funds are in the amount of $446,409 federal funds under the 2016 Assistance of Firefighters Grant Program and for the Community Paramedic Pilot Program. Item 9, a resolution authorized and directed the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an amended agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration Program funded state and local task force for assignment of two detectives. Item 10, a resolution authorized the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a renewal agreement with Baptist Health Plan Incorporated for prescription-benefit administrative services for the period beginning January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. Item 11, a resolution authorized the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to exceed a partial release of easement, releasing a portion of a forced main sewer easement on the property located at 940 Higby Mill Road. Item 12, a resolution authorizing directly to the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to exceed an amended agreement with the Department of Justice, the Department of Treasury, for requested changes by the Department of Justice. Item 13, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to exceed a volunteer income tax assistance, tax counseling for the elderly, partner sponsor agreement, and an internal revenue service, civil rights assurance for the VITA CTE program at the Black and Williams Neighborhood Center, at no cost to the Urban County Government. Item 14, a resolution authorizing directly to the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to to the agreement with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department of Aging and Independent Living, to accept additional federal funds in the amount of $3,186 for operation of the Lexington Senior Center. Item 15. Resolution authorizing direct the Mayor on behalf of the Irm County Government to execute a sole source agreement with Routeware Incorporated, sole source provider, for continuation of the Routeware Support Program. Item 16. And resolution authorizing direct the Mayor on behalf of the Irm County Government to execute a service agreement with Acre Service Company Incorporated for the currency and coin counters utilized for the Division of Community Corrections process funds received for deposit for incarcerated defenders that cost not to exceed $500 fiscal year 2016. Item 17, a resolution authorizing directly from the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an amendment to the agreement with Bluegrass Organization Incorporated, formerly Bluegrass Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation Board Incorporated for the provision of mental health services for the offender population at the Fayette County Detention Center to provide for a part-time position of addiction assessor, increasing the cost of the agreement by $26,834.16 for total costs not to exceed $976,905 for fiscal year 2017. Item 18, a resolution change of the property address numbers of 3589 Calder Road to 3596 Calder Road, 445 Dover Road to 431 Dover Road, 149 Dover Road to 455 Dover Road, 3771 Briar Hill Road to 3775 Briar Hill Road, 748 Raintree Road to 659 Raintree Road, 128 West Timberland Way to 130 West Timberland Way, 666 Tateswood Drive to 668 Tateswood Drive, 1021 to 1023 Cillion Line to 1023 Cillion Line, 419 Georgetown Street to 417 Georgetown Street, 1044 to 1048 Manchester Street to 1040 Manchester Street, 4078 Fox Basin Road to 4074 Fox Basin Road, 801 Oak Hill Drive to 803 Oak Hill Drive, 776 Winchester Road, 2784 Winchester Road, 205 Clay Avenue to 207 Clay Avenue. and changing the street names and property address numbers of 140 Pearl Street to 625 South Limestone, 840 Patch Trail to 3101 Comanche Trail, 4090 Military Pike to 5426 James Lane, 1598 Calvary Lane to 1566 Pricetown Road, 1538 Calvary Lane to 4757 Todd's Road, 3580 Lion Drive to 1096 Wellington Way, 1512 Versailles Road to 1575 Hillview Place, all effective 30 days from passage. Item 19, a resolution not tires and direct from the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, which grant funds in the amount of $50,823 in commonwealth of Kentucky funds under the Victim Assistance Formula Granted for the creation of a new bilingual victim advocate position for the Division of Police, the acceptance of which obligates the Irving County Government to fee the expenditure of $12,706 as a local match, and authorize the Mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 20, a resolution authorizes the Director of the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to permit use of fire apparatus by the Fayette Technical Center's east side campus for fulfillment of the Community Services Bureau of Mission. Item 21, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a three-year agreement with Canteen Vending Services for installation of vending machines at the Public Safety Operations Center at no cost to the Irving County Government. Item 22, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an amendment to the agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, correcting dollar amounts for the future phases of the Squires Road Sidewalk Project and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program. Item 23, a resolution authorizing the establishment of TAC Air as sole source provider for the purchase of jet aviation fuel, and a discounted price for the police helicopter funds are budgeted. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve? Motion by Vice Mayor Kaye. Second by Council Member Henson. No, who was it? Cloman. Cloman. Oh, I didn't know which of you all. There was two competing seconds. All right. We've got a motion. We've got a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please call the roll. Ms. Mossadi? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Scutchfield? Yes. Mr. Sinnott? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. And I'm going to turn over to Vice Mayor Kay for resolutions for a first reading. Thank you, Mayor. Second, huh? Madam Clerk, when you're ready. That's true. Item 24, resolution accepting the bid of E.C. Matthews Company incorporating the amount of $320,030 for retention while repair at Kearney Hill Golf Links for the Division of Parks and Recreation and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with E.C. Matthews Company incorporating the bid. Item 25, resolution accepting the bid of Roberts Heavy Duty Towing Incorporated, establishing a price contract for towing of LFU-CGO and vehicles for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, Item 26. Resolution accepting a bid of Eco-Gro DBA Advanced Mulching Technologies Incorporated in the amount of $957,009.62 for the Coldstream Supplemental Environmental Project for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Eco-Gro DBA Advanced Mulching Technologies Incorporated. Item 27, resolution accepting a bid of Cumberland Pipeline LLC in the amount of $552,780.16 for the Paradise Lane Pump Station and Forest Main for the Division of Water Quality, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette-Irban County Government to exceed an agreement with Cumberland Pipeline, LLC, Item 28. Resolution accepting the bid of Clark Power Services Incorporated, establishing a price contract for synthetic transmission fluid for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, Item 29. Resolution accepting the bids of Bob Barker Company Incorporated, ICS Jail Supplies Incorporated, and Victory Supply Incorporated, establishing price contracts for inmate uniforms for the Division of Community Corrections, Item 30. A resolution accepting the bid of free contracting incorporated in the amount of $1,061,237.68 for the lower Griffin Gate trunk sewer for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fayette Urban County government to execute an agreement with free contracting incorporated related to the bid. Item 31, a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of Rodney Guy, Equipment Operator, Grade 510N, 60.673 hourly, effective December 12, 2016, and James Nagle, Maintenance Supervisor, Grade 519E, 2097.60 biweekly, both in the Division of Water Quality and Jennifer Lynch, Security Officer, Grade 507N, 30.732 hourly in the Department of Public Safety, both effective December 5, 2016, ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Sam Schulte, accountant, Grade 516N, 19.741 hourly in the Division of Accounting, and Jeffrey Neal, Director of Traffic Engineering, Grade 533E, 4060.40 biweekly in the Division of Traffic Engineering, both effective November 16, 2016, ratifying the unclassified civil service appointments of Jonathan Hollinger. Project Management Director, Grade 534E, 3903.08 biweekly in the Office of the Mayor, effective December 5, 2016, and Michael Turner, Treatment Plan Operator, Appearance 2, Grade 512 and 60.742 hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 12, 2016, item 32. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments. Cameron Kennedy, Equipment Operator, Grade 510N, 14.909 Hourly, effective December 12, 2016. Larry Hamilton, Treatment Plan Operator, Grade 15N, 20.578 Hourly, effective January 2, 2017, both in the Division of Water Quality. And James Hicks, Code Enforcement Officer, Grade 516A, 1548.0, biweekly in the Division of Grants and Special Programs. effective December 12, 2016, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary community corrections officer appointments. Donna Abshire, Jessica Bishop, Kodish Cheek, Vanessa Coleman, LaVon Combs, Joy Floyd, Darren Good, Chadwick Graves, Ron Rick Jackson, David Johnson, Corey Kilby, Corey Miller, Joshua Penny, Kenneth Randolph, Ashley Spicer, and Michael Rydahl, Community Corrections Officer, recruit rate 109 and 15.380 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections. Effective upon passive counsel, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment. Don R. Dwyer Treatment Plan Operator at Prentice, Grade 5099, 32.799, Ireland, Division of Water Quality, effective December 12, 2016, item 33. In resolution, authorize and direct the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to execute an agreement with the licensed housing authority providing for deposit and application fee assistance for veterans experiencing homelessness at a cost not to exceed $8,000, item 34. In resolution, authorize and direct the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to accept a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation which grant funds are in the amount of $14,095,887 federal funds under the 2016 Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Competitive Grant Program for the construction of Sections Zones 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the Town Branch Commons Project, the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County Government for the expenditure of $3,523,970 as a local match, and authorizing the Mayor to transfer undercover funds within the grant budget. Item 35, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government Texas Quinta Lease Agreement with Eastland Legacy Center LLC for space within the Eastland Shopping Center located at 1301 Winchester Road. First, central sector roll call and special operations for the Division of Police. That cost not to exceed $18,153.29. In fiscal year 2017, item 36, resolution authorizes to direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county and government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Division of Emergency Management, which grant funds are in the amount of $98,671.20 federal funds. Under the fiscal year 2017, Emergency Management Assistance Program are for the support of emergency preparedness. in Fayette County, the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County Government for the expenditure of $98,671.20 as a local match, and authorizing the Mayor to transfer undercover funds within the grant budget, item 37, a resolution authorized and directed the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute supplemental agreement number 5 with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the acceptance of additional federal funds for the Newtown Pike Extension Project in the amount of $1,054,450 and to approve the Fourth Amendment to agree with the City Community Land Trust Incorporated for additional federal funds in the amount of $988,200 for operating mitigation and housing construction costs. Item 38. A resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed the professional services agreement awarded for student RFP No. 29-2016 with Stantec Architecture Incorporated for the development and implementation of a comprehensive facilities usage plan for buildings and equipment primarily used by the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works at a cost now to exceed $218,000.08. Item 39. A resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order No. 1 to the contract with the Allen Company for the Gaines Way Trail Project, decreasing the contract price by the sum of $40,025.73 from $370,432.80 to $330,417.07. Item 40, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to exceed an amended memorandum of agreement with various affiliates for a $15 increase for processing recycled materials. Item 41, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irvin County Government to exceed a certificate of consideration and any other documents necessary and to accept a deed for the property located at 300 Quinton Court for construction of a wet weather storage facility and authorizing payment in the amount of $1,750,000 plus the usual and appropriate closing costs. Item 42, declaration of official intent with respect to reimbursement of temporary advances made for capital expenditures to be made from subsequent borrowings with respect to the town branch waterway. Item 43, resolution accepting the response of design marks to RFP No. 36-2016, Lexington Corridor's beautification design services and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to exceed an agreement with Design Works to provide landscape and architectural services related to the design of landscaping improvements for the North Broadway and Parris Park corridor and Richmond Road medians at a cost estimated not to exceed $44,750. Item 44, resolution accepting response of MSK2 LLC DBA MKSK to RFP No. 36-2016, Lexington Coroner's Beautification Design Services, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to exceed an agreement with MSK2 LLC DBA MKSK to provide landscape architectural services related to the design of landscaping improvements for the Winchester Road and New Circle Road interchange, and a cost estimated not to exceed $23,670. Item 45, resolution authorizes and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract with ASAP Systems for the purchase of Bar Cloud Suite and Inventory Management and Tracking System at a cost not to exceed $28.99. Item 46, resolution authorizes and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a professional services agreement awarded pursuant to RFP No. 33-2016 with Bullhorn LLC, DBA Bullhorn Creative for the development of Safe Streets marketing materials and the promotion of motorists, cyclists, and pedestrian safety in Lexington County. It costs not to exceed $40,000. Item 47, a resolution that offers the mayor on behalf of the Oregon County Government to exceed a partial release of easement, releasing utility easements on the property located at 2585 Pasquale Place. Item 48, a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the Oregon County Government to exceed an agreement with ALTA Planning and Design for the purpose of developing the Lexington Area Bike and Pedestrian Master Plan update. It costs not to exceed $220,000. Item 49, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order No. 16 to the contract with Churchill McGee LLC for the public safety operations center renovation Phase 1B, increasing the contract price by the sum of $26,970.44 from $6,665,322.45 to $6,692,294.89. item 50 resolution amend section 1 of resolution number 575-2016 which made conditional offers of employment correcting the rate of pay for John's spots from 14.265 hourly to 14.625 hourly in the division of facilities and fleet management effective retroactive to September 15, 2016 item 51 a resolution authorized by the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a professional services agreement with Brown Center Carroll Incorporated for architectural and engineering services for the Shilto Park Pool expansion project and a cost not to exceed $46,000 item 52 a resolution authorized by the mayor on behalf of the urban county government. It's an amendment number two to the agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the extension of the performance period through December 31, 2019 for design of phases four, five, and six of the town branch trail project under the congestion mitigation and air quality program at no cost of the urban county government to accept additional federal funds from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which funds are in the amount of $616,000 under the Transportation Alternatives Program and are for the final design of phase six of the town branch trail project, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $154,000 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 53, a resolution authorizing directly to the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which grant funds are in the amount of $36,000 federal funds for the design phase of the Brighton Trail pedestrian bridge under the congestion mitigation and air quality program, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $9,000 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 54, a resolution authorizing directly to the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which grant funds during the amount of $72,000. Federal funds are for the design phase of the turn lines at Manchester and Forbes Road under the Congestion, Mitigation, and Air Quality Program, the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County Government for the expenditure of $18,000 as a local match, and authorizing the Mayor to transfer undercover funds within the grant budget. Item 55, a resolution authorizes the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Hunter Memorial, Presbyterian Church, $1,000, and Kidney Health Alliance of Kentucky, $700, for the office of the Urban County Council. It will cost not to exceed the sum stated. Item 56, a resolution authorized by the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with Tri-City Painting and Contracting for the Morton House Exterior Repairs Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $19,600 from $96,400 to $116,000 and adding 90 calendar days to the construction schedule. Item 57, a resolution authorized by the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government and contingent upon the issuance of a notice to proceed from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to execute a multi-year professional services agreement awarded pursuant to RFQ No. 25-2016 with Gresham Smith & Partners for the Town Branch of Commons Quarter and Design Services that cost estimated not to exceed $929,283 in fiscal year 2017. Item 58, a resolution directing that the payments to Bluegrass Community Foundation under the Memorandum of Agreement authorized by Resolution No. 657-2016 are to be made on a quarterly basis and that the foundation must provide satisfactory reporting and updates to the Lexington Fayette-Urban County Government on at least a quarterly basis regarding how the funds have been spent and the progress of the fundraising for the Town Branch Commons project. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions for walk-ons? Council Member Plowman. I move to place on the docket under first reading resolutions, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute three agreements with the Fayette Fiscal Court, Fayette County Judge slash Executive, relating to the expenditure of county road aid fund program monies for the years 15, for the year 16, and through the year 17. So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Madam Clerk, if you'd give us first reading. Yes, sir. a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed three agreements with the Fayette Fiscal Court, Fayette County Judge Executive, relating to the expenditure of county road and fund program monies for Fayette County in fiscal year 2015, fiscal year 2016, and fiscal year 2017, and establishing a budget for county road projects in the amount of $2,587,934.53. Thank you. Are there any requests for suspensions of the rules? Second reading? Yes, sir. Council Member Hanson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 32, the conditional offers of employment. Second. We have a motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 56, this repairs pertaining to the Morton House. So move. Motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion carries. Council Member Maloney. Thank you. I'd like to have second reading on number 55. I've been requested. There's some checks. that people are waiting on, so I'll so move with the NDF money. Second. Motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Mine is a motion to give a second rating. Number 35, this is at the request of the administration, and I concur. This lets the work begin on retrofitting the area for the Central Sector roll call in the Special Operations Center. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you. I believe that's all signed up. Madam Clerk, please conduct second reading of these items. She's on it. Yeah. Is Jenny? Yes. So there will still be the battle of the safety chair again. Gary Johnson. Item 32, a resolution authorized in Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments. Cameron Kennedy, Equipment Operator, Grade 510N, 14.909, hourly, effective December 12, 2016. Larry Hamilton, Treatment Plan Operator, Grade 515N, 20.578, hourly, effective January 2, 2017, both in the Division of Water Quality. In James Hicks, Code Enforcement Officer, Grade 516E, 1548.0, biweekly, in the Division of Grants and Special Programs, effective December 12, 2016, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary community corrections officer appointments. Donna Absher, Jessica Bishop, Curtis Cheek, Vanessa Fulman, LaVon Combs, Joy Floyd, Darren Good, Chadwick Graves, Runner Jackson, David Johnson, Corey Kilby, Corey Miller, Joshua Penny, Kenneth Randolph, Ashley Spicer, and Michael Rydahl, Community Corrections Officer of Pre-Created 109N 15.380 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective upon passage of counsel. Authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment, Donard Dwyer, treatment plant operator, apprentice, grade 59930.799 hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 12, 2016. Item 35, resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to asking the lease agreement with Eastland Legacy Center, LLC, for space within the Eastland Shopping Center, located at 1301 Winchester Road, for central sector roll call and special operations at the Division of Police had a cost now to exceed $18,153.29 in fiscal year 2017. Siobhan is like John and I don't know. Sean and Siobhan. Make sense to me. Item 55, a resolution authorized by the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute agreements with Hunter Memorial Presbyterian Church, $1,000, and Kidney Health Alliance of Kentucky incorporated $700 for the office of the Irving County Council, and it costs not to exceed the sum stated. Item 56, a resolution authorized by the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with Tri-City Painting and Contracting for the Morton House Exterior Repairs Project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $19,600 from $96,400 to $116,000 and adding 90 calendar days to the construction schedule. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? I have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk, when you're ready, please call the roll. Ms. Massadi. Yes. Ms. Plowman. Yes. Ms. Scutchfield. Yes. Mr. Stinnett. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Akers. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown. Yes. Mr. James Brown. Yes. Ms. Evans. Yes. Mr. Farmer. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs. Yes. Ms. Henson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kay. Yes. Ms. Lamb. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney. Thank you. That vote reflects passage of the motion. That would allow us to go to communications from the mayor's next item. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion and a second to approve communications. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Announcements? Councilmember Massotti. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This past month, I was a guest at the 2016 National Foundation for Women Legislators, known as the NFWL Conference in Orlando. NFWL is a nonpartisan educational foundation for elected women on the state, county, and municipal levels. NFLW is the oldest organization for elected women in America. It was an opportunity to network with women legislators from the federal, state, and local levels from all 50 states. From Washington, D.C. to local city councils, women are making a big difference in politics and how our country is run. However, let's look at Kentucky. The percentage of women serving in Kentucky state legislator is down. It's 15.9% down from 16.7% in 2015 and 18.1% in 2014 and 18.8% in 2012, which is when it was the highest percentage historically. Kentucky also ranks number 42 in state legislatures in the country for a proportion of women in office. Kentucky has four women serving in the state Senate out of 38 seats. Kentucky has 18 women serving in the State House out of 100 seats. In the conference, the programming included discussion on human trafficking, energy health care, veterans affairs, budgets, and more. Topics for the conference were wide-ranging and enlightening. Two of the topics that I attended I thought were pretty interesting were human trafficking and veterans affair. I found the session on human trafficking to be particularly eye-opening. Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery, and it is happening right here in Kentucky. Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, men, and women. And what I found most interesting is, as many of the legislators I spoke with about this said, when they have big Super Bowls and events like that, that's when they have the biggest problems with human trafficking. And I would like to introduce tonight Joellen Morrison, who I think many of you have met. She has the organization called Unshackled by Love Ministries right here in Lexington. She's going to speak a little bit to the council as part of my council comment about human trafficking. Thank you, Councilman Scotty. Good evening, everyone. My name is Jelan Morrison, and I am the executive director of Unshackled by Love Ministries and the founder. We actually established Unshackled by Love Ministries at the beginning of 2016, which was this year. We are already currently open. I'm going to give you some information. As Mascati said, human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It's the second organized crime in the United States, drug being the first. So human trafficking is on the rise. Thanks so much for allowing me to speak to you tonight, and I'm going to inform you about Unshackled by Love. We are a long-term program that we help women have a safe place to reside in right here in Lexington, Kentucky, in our community. And we also serve women of substance abuse as well. Our mission is to love back to life, to set free, restore, and equip women coming out of human trafficking, modern-day slavery, substance abuse, to live healthy, hopeful, Christ-centered lives. We want to change a culture that allows all human beings to be sold. We believe that in the end that love is the greatest force to be able to change any human being. Human trafficking, as I said, is the second largest organized crime in the United States. It not only affects across the United States, but unfortunately it is right here in our community. We are currently serving six women right here from our Lexington, one from Tennessee, the other five are right here from our community currently. While these residents are in our long-term program, we are a two-stage program. They receive deep trauma counseling, life skills, recovery counseling, substance abuse counseling. While they're in our stage two, the residents begin to work. They get their GEDs, they go to college, and they receive more recovery counseling. Please check us out on our website. Go to www.unshackledbylove.org and find more out about us. Thank you once again to Council Muscati, and thank each of you for listening to me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's all, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Today, the Council had a presentation from the Planning Commission in regard to the proposed ED Zoda. And at this time, I'd like to make a motion to move that proposed ED Zoda to the Planning and Public Safety Committee. So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Yes. Council Member Stennett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I know we had a workshop earlier today, and out of respect that some of you claim to want to have for other council members, we had a CAL meeting. So everyone could participate and offer changes. That's what the public hearing that was already scheduled did. It allowed every council member, but not just us, it allowed the public who's not here tonight, the people who are affected by this. So by doing this now, when earlier we said that our committee and our parliamentarian said it should be done in a work session. It's not being done in a work session. They left, so we had one organization lobby council during the break, and now we're going to try to circumvent it. What respect is that for the council and for other people? We have young men and women in our community that are here tonight watching this, and it's wrong. It's wrong. So this should have been done Tuesday. One, it should be a committee of the whole, and it should be the whole council who hears a public hearing. We do it all the time, and we just had this discussion on zone changes. That's what it's all about. And furthermore, if it does go to a committee, that's the wrong committee. This is economic development. ED land stands for economic development. It's about jobs, and we all had that conversation. So it belongs in budget, finance, and economic development because that's what it's all about. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else wish to speak to the motion? Councilman Maloney. I just want to bring it up. I was quiet through the whole meeting. which is rare to believe I was actually quiet. But a couple things concerned me was, and what Vice Mayor Kay was talking about, we could probably pick things out. And if it goes into a committee and they pick out to be certain of you, we'll be able to pick out certain things. I think the whole body as a whole should be able to pick out things. And I think it should be a hearing or something, because I really think it should be as a whole here. But, I mean, I agree with what he said, but I just don't feel like it should go into one committee. And if it does, economic development, because that's what this is. And when you start picking things out, the economic development is one that shows what jobs are created, what brings money in the air. It's not a zoning issue anymore. It becomes an issue of what brings jobs. The zoning's already been done. So it becomes more of who brings the revenue into the city. So I'm not ready to put it in planning committee yet. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thanks. I will speak to the actual part about the parliamentarian. And I did say that during the workshop. And the law department and I were talking about it after the workshop. And we did agree that as long as it was at a council meeting or a work session, because technically it had transitioned between the two meetings. So just for clarification, parliamentary procedures, it can be done at either one. Thank you. Council Member Feimer. So what is the reason to refer this to committee? I didn't get that from the introduction. Council Member Plowman, are you willing to respond? I think we were wanting to take it to more of a forum where we could spend time looking at all of the details and examining it closer. if that was kind of the game plan is to go back to planning. And I do believe it's a planning issue. I don't think it's an economic – I mean, it does obviously have implications, but, I mean, in terms of committee referral, I would think it would go there. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just don't see that that's the actual outcome. I see this being sent there for other reasons, to stop it, delay it, or not let it happen at all. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else wish to speak to the motion? If you're wanting to speak to the motion, I first need to ask you to take the chair so that I can speak to the motion first, if that's okay. Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you. So what we're, I think, intending to do with this motion is to put this into committee so that we can hear from all of the parties in a setting where we don't have to make an immediate judgment up or down about what exactly we want to do. There's a lot of detail in this proposal, and it is a zoning proposal. This is a zone text amendment. I would say planning is the obvious place to put it. If we put it in committee, that gives council members, any council members can attend and speak. It also gives people from the public. It gives the owners of the property. It gives whoever wants to weigh in an opportunity to do so. and it gives us an opportunity to craft, to refine, I believe, some of the things in there which were not given adequate airing when they went through the first committee that was assigned to it and when it went through the planning commission. So there's details that I think we can work out to everybody's satisfaction. We can do it in committee and then bring it forward, either if we're satisfied with the outcome, we can put it on the agenda for a second reading. people still not happy, we can have a public hearing. No problem. Thank you. Thank you. And Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just wanted to echo the conversation we had between this, which was, at first, it does feel very much like a planning conversation. But at the end of the day, it really defines what we define as economic development and what we think that is. That conversation needs to happen in terms of how we use our land and what kind of economic development we want. And that seems more appropriate in the budget, which I had not really thought about until we had this discussion. That feels more appropriate before we can decide how we're going to do the land. Just my two cents. Thank you. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I think, Council Member Butzo, you said the correct word, determine how we use our land. So I would say that would definitely mean that it would go in the planning committee. So I would be supportive of putting it in that committee. Thank you, Mayor. Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Stinnett. Council Member Evans. Thank you. I'm sorry, I don't have a... Council Member Evans. Well, I do agree that it probably belongs in planning because it is the use of land. But that being said, I think this is a conversation we all need to have, and I'm not so sure what good it does sending it to a smaller group. I think if it's something that will be on a time frame, and that's fine with me. I think based on the workshop that we had and previous conversations and readings, homework that we've all put in, I know I have an idea of what I would like to see done with it. I think we all probably do. if there are tweaks to be made i think we could do that with scheduling and going ahead and scheduling a hearing i just personally don't think it it needs to go back into committee i think we all have an idea of what we where we want to go with it one way or the other and if we're going to have a discussion let's just discuss it out in the open with the hearing and make whatever tweaks people suggest uh to be made and have that that full discussion here thank you I'm getting confusing signals. I think Councilman. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. And I agree. Given it some thought, I think a public hearing would work best. If we put it in committee, we would have discussion there. It would still need to come to the full council. In order to really make a firm decision from all of us, I think it needs to come from the full council. Both sides opposed, and four could be there to speak, but I don't know. And I said in the workshop I actually am in favor of going ahead and moving this forward since that property's sat there for 20 years. But if we dive into it deeper and look at all the intended uses, perhaps there would be some that we wouldn't think would be appropriate. But I think we can't do anything in the community as a whole, but a public hearing would be more appropriate. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Stinnett. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to go back to the parliamentarian. I brought that up because there were folks in the audience who were here and wanted to speak earlier, and they left based on the comments and the decision by the parliamentarian. So I don't think that's fair that one group got to come up and talk to council and stay around while everybody else went home because they thought we were going to address this Tuesday. So I would just say that. And, again, I would go back. This belongs in front of the whole council. There's only 10 council members on the planning committee, and it's a new committee. And the only council member that was on the work group is not on the planning committee now. So that doesn't make a lot of sense to this whole topic. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Feinberg? Mine was just to the chronically packed agenda for the committee, which has a whole lot of issues in it. And this just adds to that and, again, makes it seem like something that will remain in committee rather than get action. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. I guess, I mean, I am kind of perplexed about it. I see the pros and cons on both sides of it. I mean, at the end of the day, it's going to come before the full council. We need a proper place to vet it, clearly, I believe, after the discussions we had today. And whether it is in a committee of the whole or if it's in the planning committee, you know the the committee structures have there's a lot in the committee structure so perhaps maybe we should bring it back out into a committee of the whole as far as the parliamentary stuff goes you know if they're not here they're not going to be speaking to this motion anyway because that's not part of the process and we'll make sure that they get the information. So I'm not worried about that. I'm perplexed about this decision as it is because I know it's very important and it's important that it gets properly vetted. So a committee of the whole, nothing's going to be set up until January anyway, even at the beginning. I mean, nothing's going to be set up for December. So we're looking at January, or February at the very earliest. So when we take all that into consideration, then you have to look at what's possible from that point. I mean, when could it even be heard in planning committee? We don't know that. So I don't know. I'm just throwing my thoughts out there. At the end of the day, I want it to be properly vetted before it comes back for second reading, and I think that's the important part of this text amendment. as it is before us today. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you. We brought it to Committee of the Whole today because we wanted to all hear about it. We can't take any action out of Committee of the Whole, obviously. Why didn't we put it in committee to start out with if we wanted to do something? Number two, if we don't go ahead and have a hearing where all parties can be heard, where we can get all the information out there and we can debate back and forth if there's changes or how we do things, we're going to have heard it once on the docket. We're going to have heard it committee of the whole. We will hear it at least once in whatever committee you put it in. You're going to hear it in a council meeting, and then it's going to get scheduled for a hearing. That is a waste of our time. These people want to be heard. They want to have information come to this. They want to get it to us. I think we need to set a hearing. Thank you. Council Member Maloney. Thank you. I want everybody to remember we've got a comprehensive plan coming up next year. I think we need to get this out of the way. And I'm not saying it could be for it or against it, but we don't need to muddy the water and leave this out there when we've got a comprehensive plan coming up. So I ask that we go on and put it in a hearing as a whole, and then we go from there. Thank you. Thank you. I see nobody else signed up. I will ask the clerk to put an electronic screen up. We'll vote electronically. All those in favor signify by saying aye and voting yes. All those opposed say no. That vote reflects failure of the motion. Thank you. Anybody else signed up for a council comment? Seeing none, that would allow us to move to the next item on the agenda, which is public comment, and I'm going to ask Council Member Stinnett to take over the chair so I can, I need to leave. Coming at you. Okay, those who have signed up for public hearing, the first name I have on our list is Carla Ringwalker. Okay, next we have Tim. Is that Waller? Tim Walker, sir. Okay, if you can give us your name and address. You have three minutes on the clock. Timothy Walker, 1470 Edoa Drive. That's a new address for me. I've been homeless for over the past three and a half years. You all give a lot of praise to a guy that I don't think deserves it. I want to start off, I was videotaped by Vice Mayor Steve Kay and Charlie Lantern. While I was out there for three and a half years, I flew a sign. I'm sure this come up and hear a lot about you. I've seen pamphlets out. I flew that. I'm not a drug addict. I've been sober 14 years since I got out of the penitentiary. I've lived a hard life. I was on the streets. This man put this video out October 14th. It was shot way back in July because it was dead at homeless. I looked like crap. I was sweaty. I was hot. My wife was sweaty. Not all homeless people drink or drug. Some of us fly signs because I'm mentally ill. I'm on my meds now, right? I'm housed now. thank you guys. I don't know where that money comes from. Thanks to the Lexington Police Department, because if it wasn't for them people, I'm a two-time loser, but I'm doing the right things now. Those guys kept me safe. Those guys were able to keep me out there to be able to walk the streets and not fight no more, because I didn't want them putting those bracelets on me, and they didn't want to put them on me. They're the ones that helped me. The Hope Center's the ones that helped me. But then those two men put that video out there. I'm going to tell you what my signs got me. It's got me housed. It's put a word out there. It spayed and neutered my animal that I found on the streets. It fed me because guys like me with mental illnesses can't go to soup kitchens. Sometimes I don't play well with others on respect and I hear it a lot here, respect. But what those two did to me, I got a little wife on that corner where they flew us flying a sign. She got a job with that sign. So the two people y'all give, or the one guys you give praise for, why would he air that video after I was housed? That's what I'm here to say. I want to speak for all the homeless out here. Now you do got your homeless that drink and drug. You do got your homeless that fly that sign to drink and drug. But that sign gets a bad rap. What about the 5 or 10% of us that do it to survive? If it wasn't for the living those of Lexington, I wouldn't have made it these three years. But for them to put that video on, all I'm asking is maybe it could get took down. Or maybe my face can get blurred. I don't care about me. Look at me. I got scars. My tattoos are covered up. But my wife is a good person. She just chose to fall in love with the wrong guy. What I'm asking is if you can maybe talk to those two people and learn something about homelessness. It's hard. Some of us are mentally ill. but thanks to most of all the Lexington Police Department, my social worker Ben Wilds, I still sent Charlie Leonard a thank you letter because I'm not a big jerk. I just want you all to know something. That was wrong what they did. I subscribed to Vice Mayor Kay's YouTube thing because I've got a smartphone now. But I just wanted you all to know, thank you, and the Lexington Police Department deserves the biggest praise in the world because if it wasn't for them, a lot of us would not survive out there because they don't want to arrest you. Thank you. Mr. Walker, thank you, sir. Next, we have Joy Berry. Ms. Berry, if you'll give us your name and address, welcome. Hi, my name is Joy Berry. I live at 3050 Helmstow Place here in Lexington, 40509. I am here to talk about the rules, some of the rules that have been made at the detention center. So if I'm in the wrong place, if I'm talking to the wrong people, you all let me know afterwards. So I wanted you all to just kind of imagine that you would have to put a list on your door of five people that could only visit you within 90 days and the turmoil that you would have to go through to choose which five people from your family that you had to come and visit you. And also, if you could imagine the people that would come to visit you whose names were not on that list, how would they feel? I have a son at the Fayette County Detention Center. The rule has been changed where there's only five people that can be put on the list. My son came in town who lives in Cleveland, could not visit his brother because we had to make a decision of who was going to be able to visit my son regularly. The data shows, if you go and look at it, that family contact reduces recidivism. It encourages individuals to have a better behavior. It helps them not to reoffend. So I would hope that we have a facility that encourages family contact and not take away from that. immediate families should not have to fight amongst one another of who gets to visit who my son's brother could not visit my son could not have a visit with his brother because we chose to have the grandparents that are in town and myself to visit him so again if I'm in the wrong place let me know but I think we need to take a hard look at some of the rules that are at our detention centers that are not helping. And if we are talking about money and saving money, that if we are going to help individuals reenter into society, then we should have some things in place that are going to encourage that and not put individuals back on the path of getting back into our jails. People incarcerated need family support. And again, if you could just envision yourself having to tell someone that, you know, no, I only need these five visitors at my home for 90 days only. You can imagine the pain and the turmoil it is. So that's my spiel. And again, if someone has the right persons that I need to talk to or whatever, I would love to figure out who I need to talk to to get some of those rules looked at and changed. Thank you, Ms. Berry. I know our commissioner of public safety is here, as well as our director of the jail. And obviously the council, we saw this issue about a month ago, but if it's something we need to readdress, we can start with those folks and then bring it back to council. Thank you. Next I have Mark Day. Mr. Day, thank you for joining us. If you could give us your name and address. My name is Mark Day. I'm a former Fayette County resident. I currently live at 1111 Bakers Lane, Nicholasville, Kentucky. Welcome. Thank you. By day, I masquerade as your director of engineering at the Bluegrass Airport, and I'm thankful for what this council does for our community, not just in Fayette County, but for the central Kentucky region. And that's what I do. But who I am is I'm a dad and a learning coach of a small sport called Ultimate Frisbee that is growing in your community. And so you're going to hear from a handful of our coaches and students who are going to follow me and talk about this character-building sport and of the interest that it brings here in your backyard. And so with that, I'm going to turn it over to smarter and more educated people than myself. But thank you for your time this evening. Thank you, sir. Next on our list we have, is it Caden Mallett? Mallett. I knew I was going to mispronounce it. Welcome, sir. Thank you. Chris, can you help me with that podium? There we go. Welcome. Hello. All right. My name is Caden Mallott, and I'm 12 years old. I play both the middle and high school Ultimate Frisbee team. I started playing baseball when I was 5 years old. For the past 7 years, I have played many baseball teams and learned a lot about being an athlete. This spring, I started playing Ultimate, and I have learned more about teamwork, trusting my teammates, communicating, honesty, integrity in that short amount of time than I did in all 7 years of playing baseball. Playing Ultimate allows me to be challenged and to test my skills. I'm not limited to playing with kids that are in the same age division as me. I have the opportunity to play against older kids and even adults, and that helps me to develop as a player. I also like that we can play on co-ed teams. Each player is capable of different things, and it doesn't matter if they're a boy or girl. We can still learn a lot from each other and contribute to the team. My favorite part of the game is when we do a spirit circle at the end of every game. We get in a circle, and we talk to each other. We tell the other team and ourselves that we played a great game and we all help each other improve. It's not just about winning or losing this game. It's also about improving physically and mentally as a player and a person. Every day I can't wait until the next tournament or practice. I play every chance that I get. It's brought me a lot of happiness into my life, but a lot better, or even better, a lot of friends. Thank you for your time and the opportunity to share the spirit of Ultimate Fisbee. kate and sir thank you so much we don't often get the speakers your age in here under 18 but you did a fine job representing your age group thank you so much next we have a jared mckay jared welcome my name is jared mckay i live at 1003 christopher court richmond kentucky i'm a senior in high school and i have played for lexington homeschool team pie since i was in eighth grade. I've played several sports throughout my life, and I've watched several more on TV, but none have ever come even as close to having the same impact on my life that Ultimate Frisbee has. No other sport has evoked in me as much passion or excitement. Other sports are enjoyable, but only Ultimate has inspired me to engage in a healthier lifestyle. I actually wanted to go to Ultimate practice, and I wanted to get more healthy and exercise that I could get better at the sport I love. My favorite aspect about Ultimate Frisbee, though, is what we call spirit of the game. The Ultimate community heavily emphasizes good sportsmanship and fair play. Fairness and respect are the fundamentals of Ultimate. The game is structured so that individual players can resolve any conflict in a respectful way. I've always thought that it's incredible that such an athletic, fast-paced, and competitive sport can function without a need for referees just because of the respect players have for each other and the integrity that is on the field at all times. Ultimate has taught me over the years that seeking the best solution for everyone is always better than seeking the best solution for yourself, and that you should always treat everyone with respect, especially your opponents. The Ultimate Frisbee community is very welcoming, and I think everyone could benefit by the spreading of Ultimate's message of healthy living and respect for each other. Thank you. Very good. Thank you, sir. Next we have David Wu. Thank you for this opportunity. The day before yesterday at practice, one of our kids was like, hey, we should give the mayor a disc, but how about we hand the mayor to Ms. Siobhan Akers, my council person to give to the mayor. Thank you. So what are we doing here? We love this sport that is little known and wow, we have video of Ultimate Frisbee up here. It is fast paced. It's like lacrosse. It's like soccer. It's self-officiated as you've heard. You'll hear a little bit more from another speaker. I've played for over 30 years. Love it. I'm 49. I don't know when the wheels are going to fall off but they're still on right now and my first group was at Bryan Station. We don't spike the disc though but whatever the case I had a great group at Bryan Station and you know it's not a KHSAA sanctioned sport and since I coached the home school team now I'm not really advocating that because then we wouldn't be able to play the public schools which we do right now but I remember going to coach Nocta who was a great principal at the time and saying hey could we sign up for the fields, the practice fields to play. And he really wrestled with it and basically came down to, well, since you're not sanctioned by the KHSAA, technically I can't allow you to play. But we played anyway. And that was the greatest group of kids. And there were some kids from Sayre that came over and played. And you know, those Bryan Station kids didn't like those Sayre kids with their pagers in 1999 and their BMWs, but they became friends and we really broke down some walls. Long story short, we need field space. And Parks and Rec has been wonderful working with us as kind of the smaller brother sport, finding places for us at Chileto Park over the years and the other general use fields. But general use fields are shrinking. There used to be general use fields at the front of Masterson. I was shocked this summer when we went to play and there were signs saying that you had to reserve the fields and we got kicked off the fields. And it was a really bad feeling that the largest park in Lexington, which happens to be a half a mile from my house, I couldn't bring a group of homeschool kids, this group right here, when there were six open fields that we weren't going to do damage to. I realize that FUSA and Lysa have invested in those fields, but isn't it our park too? Yes, we could play on the hill, but we'd probably break some ankles. But there have been wonderful opportunities. We appreciate the new lacrosse fields. We've been able to rent those and use those on occasion. But there is a need for a field space, and it just occurred to me on Thanksgiving last week that we could have our own field. Maybe we could have several fields. We have three teams just in our little club. This is one club represented here. This is not Bluegrass Ultimate. This isn't the adult club team. This is just the homeschool community here. And I think we could bring something to the community that maybe not every other traditional sport has. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wu. Next on our list, we have Christy Cochran. Welcome, Christy. Hello. My name is Christy Cochran, and I live on 508 Amberley Drive, L.A., Kentucky, and I am team captain of the Pi Girls Ultimate Frisbee Team. As an athletic homeschooling family, my brothers and I have participated in many sports over the years, including basketball, soccer, football, baseball, gymnastics, figure skating, and more. But never have I, nor my siblings, loved sports so much as Ultimate Frisbee. Players, the game develops every part of a person, mind, body, and spirit. Players grow mentally as they learn the in-depth strategies of the game and develop mental toughness in difficult situations. Players are challenged physically as they increase in speed, strength, agility, and accuracy. But what I think sets Ultimate apart from other sports is the spirit of the game. Essential to the heart of the game are the values of integrity, community, and equality. There are no referees during games. Every player is expected to know the rules and to call their own fouls. I will never forget my first tournament when one of my opponents stopped in the middle of the game to explain to me how she had fouled me and how I was to appropriately call the foul. I had never seen such integrity in a sport. Little did I know that this was a common occurrence in Frisbee games. As a girl who loves sports, I want to relate to you how Ultimate Frisbee supports equality on the field. Ultimate is a non-contact sport, and therefore it is very conducive to co-ed play. Ultimate creates an environment where both girls and younger kids have the chance to play equally with the older guys. Players are not limited by gender or age, but are measured by their skill and ability. So I know I will reap the benefits of hard work. This opportunity has attracted many girls to the sport. When I joined Team Pi, there were only two other girls on the team. Now we have nearly equal numbers of girls and boys attending practices. This co-ed nature of the sport teaches valuable team-building skills that players will carry on to the workplace and to their family lives. The spirit of Ultimate promotes many values that we should be fostering in our young people. I know that I am a better person because of Ultimate, and I have seen how it has positively impacted several of my other teammates, boosting their self-confidence and developing their character. So on behalf of all current and future Ultimate Frisbee players, I appeal to you as leaders of Lexington to invest in a sport which will affect a positive change in our community. Thank you. Thank you, Christy. Next, we have Gabriel Knowles. Welcome, sir. Good evening. My name is Gabriel Knowles. I'm at 657 Longview in Ms. Henson's District 11. Appreciate you taking a few minutes and love these kids. And just why are they here? It is a great opportunity for them to speak and to make their statement here and get familiar with this. And I'm proud of them for standing up here. They're less nervous than I am. So that's great. I've been playing Ultimate longer than most of them have been alive. And it's grown. And Mr. Wu has been playing longer than me. It's a great thing as a community. But why are we here? First of all, we're not here to ask for money. I know a lot of people come here ask for that. We just ask for consideration and future decisions that we have limited places to play in Lexington. We're growing. We fill up what Shiltoe has to offer. And Director Conrad and her staff at Parks and Recs have bent over backwards to accommodate us. They're a fabulous group. Their resources are stretched thin, just like every other government agency. so just when we're doing budgets the next year think about where are we going to spend these these finances i've brought up with my council members the the sports complex i should know that we're great friends with the bluegrass sports commission they've helped us bring the college national ultimate tournament to lexington in may so we're bringing heads in beds and helping out this community as well we have to do that the horse park because lexington doesn't have a facility to accommodate us. Our sport's not big enough to pay for what we think the cost of the sports complex will be. That's above what our members pay. We just play in grass fields. We don't have grandstands. We don't have lights. We don't have concession stands. We go out there and have fun. It's a real grassroots effort. But when the budget comes up and you're going to spend, you're going to give away $7 million piece of land, you're going to give $7 million or whatever the proposed budget is, and I know this isn't happening now, but in the future, just think about what can that money do to serve every citizen of the city of Lexington. So think about our parks group, and I will leave it at that. Thanks for your time. Thank you, sir. I don't have anyone else signed up to speak. Is there anyone else here that wishes to address the council that didn't get a chance to sign up tonight? Come on up. Welcome, sir. If you'll give us your name and address. You've got three minutes. My name is August Duteal, and I am at 3232 Beaumont Center Circle. I wasn't specifically planning on speaking tonight, but I saw my friends come up here and speak, and I felt I needed to say something. I'm not going to give plans or how to do it because I'm not exactly sure how that's going to happen. I'm more going to tell my story. When I was young, my parents sent me to a private Christian school thinking it would keep me out of trouble. And as per my usual, that didn't happen. By third grade, I was reading on a high school level, finishing my work early. And as a third grade boy will do, I had lots of energy. So I was rummaging through my desk, and teachers were not amused with this. So teachers proposed ADHD medication, and my parents, luckily enough for me, decided they didn't want that to happen. So they took me back home, and over the next few years, they helped me work out energy and tics and things like that. And a big part of this for me was athletics. I played every sport under the sun, boxing, tennis, soccer, basketball, baseball. If there was a sport, I played it. but as I hit my high school years, I quickly came to realize that unlike some other states, Kentucky didn't allow homeschoolers to participate in public school athletics, so I couldn't participate in soccer, which was my main sport at the time. So over my first two years of high school, I started to feel the effects of this. My grades started to drop. I was feeling too much energy. I wasn't getting out enough and being athletic. Luckily enough for me, I stumbled upon Team Pi, my junior year of high school. Not only did the team welcome me, but the players welcomed me. They quickly became more than a team. They became my family. And just as with any family, I hate to see them hurt. As you saw in the video earlier, there's big plays. You're laying out. You're on the ground a lot. And it's a non-contact sport, but things like that happen when you're going for the disc. I myself have only been playing for a year and I've already cracked one rib on each side due to uneven fields. My friend Taco back here has bad knees from landing on rock-hard ground. My friend Caleb, he's developed lower back problems due to the same problem. And Amy, one of our players, a young girl, has broken her wrist after tripping on a hole in a field. field. All of these are just due to bad field conditions, and they're entirely preventable. Our sport, in proper conditions, is non-contact and injuries don't usually happen, especially in our age group. So I know it's a lot to ask of this city, because I know it's not easy, but we ask for just one field. Thank you. Thank you, sir, and thank you for everybody for coming out tonight. How many people are here on this issue? Raise your hands. Wow. Congratulations. Thank you all for coming. It means a lot. Next on our agenda, we have a fire disciplinary hearing. Chief Chilton, would you come forward, please? Good evening. I bring before you firefighter jared elam employee number three four nine oh six violated the lexington fire department's uniform disciplinary code code 1.05 which is inefficiency and he showed poor decision making which could have resulted in an injury to other firefighters so it's my recommendation and it's been approved by the public safety commissioner for a 48-hour suspension without pay Thank you, Chief. Is there a motion to approve? Motion and second. Is there a discussion? Any questions? Seeing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes. Is that it? That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much. That reaches the end of our agenda. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion and second. All in favor say aye. We're adjourned. Council comments. We've already done that. Thank you. I'm sorry for that night. And I go back to December all the time. It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you. Wishing I'd realize what I had in your mind. I go back to December, turn around and make it all night. I go back to December all the time. These days I haven't been sleeping Sitting up playing back myself leaving