Music ¶¶ The End Thank you. Thank you all for joining us in the council meeting and I will call the meeting to order and begin with asking the clerk to please call the roll. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Evans? Here. Mr. Farmer? Here. Mr. Gibbs? Here. Ms. Henson? Here. Vice Mayor Kay? Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Maloney? Here. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Plowman? Okay. Ms. Gutchfield? Here. Mr. Smith? Here. Mr. Stimmit? Here. Ms. Bledsoe? Here. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. and Mr. James Brown. Is that it? All right. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. Tonight, we are fortunate to have Griff Ray. Mr. Ray. Thank you for joining us from Crossroads, Andover, special guest of Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. Griff, yes sir. Please come to the podium and we will stand. Thank you sir. That'd be great. Let's pray together. Well God I'd like to just start with Thanksgiving. God I thank you for every person that is here tonight. God I thank you for the lives that they've been given. God I thank you for their skills, their talents, their intellect that they bring tonight. God I want to thank you for this great city. I want to thank you for the beauty of this city. I want to thank you for the spirit of this city. God, what a privilege it is to live in this place. God, I thank you especially for its uniqueness, the beauty of the hills, the horses, and even the people, God, and just the good things that are happening here. And so, God, I just, I thank you for all the people that have had a hand in that, but I also thank you, God, above all, for the good things that happen here. Lord, I also I also want to just pray over the proceedings tonight. And God, I just want to ask that just the human spirit of love would guide everything that happens here tonight. Lord, I pray that there would be a spirit of unity, a bond, that everything that happens here tonight is for the good of this community. and that is the community at large all the way down to our very own families that we think about, that we're concerned with as we talk about this city and the things that should happen here. God, I also want to pray that there would just be a spirit of humility that would guide and direct. Lord, oftentimes we're the ones that get in the way of so many things. And so, God, I just pray that for every person tonight that they would think before they speak, that they would seek to understand before being understood. And Lord, I just pray that your presence would bring a sense of peace, would bring productivity tonight, and that you would be honored by the work that's done here. So God, I just, I ask your guidance, your counsel. Lord, I ask for a spirit of wisdom and discernment would be with everyone here tonight, and that you would be honored. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Griff, thank you. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. When members of the clergy join us, we know that they go out of their way, and we appreciate it. All right, tonight we can begin with ordinances for a second reading. Madam Clerk, if you'll please give us ordinances, read the ordinances. There are just three. Ordinance number one, an ordinance changes the zone from an agricultural urban zone to a single family residential R1D zone for 10.14 net and gross acres from property located at 3455 Sabrick Road, Windale Development, LLC, Camp Holt, District 9. Item two, an ordinance admitting certain in the budgets and the Lexington Bay of County government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds schedule number five. And item three, an ordinance admitting classified civil service authorized by abolishing one position of nuisance control officer, grade 513, and in creating one position of code enforcement officer grade 516 and in the division of code enforcement effective upon passage of council all right thank you madam clerk is there a motion to approve motion by vice mayor k second by councilmember scutchfield is there any discussion on the motion all right then madam clerk if you please call the roll thank you Ms. Evans? Yes, on 2 and 3, I need to recuse on number 1. My employer represents the petitioner. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Ms. Massadi? Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Stinnett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Vledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? And Mr. James Brown? All right thank you madam clerk the vote reflects passage of the motion allows us to move on to ordinances for a first reading Ordinance number four, an ordinance demanding certain of the budgets in the Lexington-Badar County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds, budget number six. Number five, an ordinance demanding Chapter 25 of the Code of Ordinances by clarifying the policy declaration statement incorporating special purpose governmental entities and qualified adults into the Ethics Act, expanding the financial interest and private interest disclosure requirements, clarifying conflicts of interest, incorporating a provision regarding official misconduct and revising the penalty structure under the ethics act all right is there a motion to approve thank you whoa wait wait wait what's what's going on oh okay yeah yeah all right what do we got resolution number one a resolution accepting the bid of chef doug's gourmet foods llc is establishing a price contract for catering services for family services family care center for the department of social services and authorized in there on behalf of the urban county government to execute any necessary agreement with chef doug's gourmet foods llc related to the bed item two a resolution accepting the bid of keisler police supply incorporated exception price contract for ammunition for the division of police item three a resolution accepting the bids of wct services llc arts electric incorporated and and Cheyenne Construction Incorporated, esception price contracts for high voltage electric service for the Division of Water Quality. Item four, a resolution accepting the visit of WCT Services LLC, Arts Electric Incorporated, and Eli Electric LLC, esception price contracts for low and medium voltage electric coal service for the Division of Water Quality. Item five, a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of Brian Craycraft, skilled trades worker, grade 515 and 21.804 hourly in the Division of Hearts and Recreation effective September 18, 2017, ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Troy Woodyard, municipal engineer, senior grade 525 e 2453.65 weekly in the division of engineering effective September 6 2017 Glenn Davis public service worker grade 507 and 14.28 hourly in the division of waste management effective September 27 2017 and Alexander Carpenter telecommunicator grade 514 and 94 401 hourly in the division of emergency management 911 effective October excuse me August 21st 2017 ratifying the permanent sworn appointment of Brian Peterson police lieutenant grade 317 e 3153.84 by a week named the Division of Police, effective July 23, 2017. Item 6, a resolution authorized the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute six easement agreements and any other necessary documents for the transfer of utility easements to the Kentucky American Water Company to permit improvements to the Pleasant Ridge Transmission Main relating to the Pleasant Ridge Park and Brighton Rail Trail Project upon the payment of $11,851 to the Urban County Government. Item 7, a resolution authorized the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the construction of fiber optic conduit as part of the Brandon Road Accenture Project at a cost estimated not to exceed $5,051.75. And I made a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the McKenna government to execute Change Order Number 1 to the contract with Pierce Blackburn Roofing LLC for the Castle Wood Community Center roof replacement project increasing the contract price of $9,874 from $183,420 to $193,294 and adding two calendar days to the construction schedule. Item 9, a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the McKenna government to accept a grant from the United States Department of Justice under the Edward Byrne memorial justice assistance grant program fiscal year 2018 which grant funds are in the amount of 149,540 federal funds are for the purchase of an automated fingerprint identification system package 95,475 dollars and for the purchase of an additional online storage system 54,065 dollars for the division of police 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 10 a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility rental agreement and catering contract with lexington convention center and Hyatt Regency catering for the annual police awards banquet. Item 11, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the county government to execute change number number one to the contract of Middleport Contracting LLC for the Mary Todd Park Pedestrian Bridge Replacement Project, increasing the contract price of $1,857.50 from $71,409 to $73,266.50. Item 12, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Masters and Equestrian Trust Foundation concerning the use and maintenance of public equestrian courses at Masterson Station park at no cost to the urban county government item 13. a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the lexington art league establishing the party's respective rights and duties concerning the production of the 2017 woodland art fair and funds generated thereby item 14. a resolution authorized the division of traffic engineering pursuant to the code of ordinances section 1851 to install traffic calming devices on reed lane between lafayette parkway up to and including southport drive item 15. a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the patiki department of juvenile justice which grant funds are the amount of $20,000 federal funds under the Battle 2 program or the operation of the No Limit to Success program, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $5,040 as a local match and authorize the mayor to transfer undercut funds within the grant budget. Item 16, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a purchase service agreement with the Hope Center Incorporated for the Detention Center Recovery Program at a cost not to exceed $173,000. Item 17, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to sign a facility acknowledgement for NUMMI prepaid MasterCard program for the inmates at the Division of Community Corrections at new cost of the urban county government. Item 18, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the government to exceed a railroad license termination agreement termining a railroad license for sanitary sewer facilities with strong capital X LLC. At no cost, the American government, item 19, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the American government to exceed change order number 4 to the engineering services agreement with Hazeman Sawyer PSC for sanitary sewer assessment reports and sanitary sewer and wastewater treatment plant remedial measures, plans for consent decree implementation, increase in the contract price by some $897,000 from $6,114,145.95 to $7,011,145.95. Item 20, a resolution authorized and directed the mayor of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Division of Emergency Management, which grant funds are in the amount of $496,250 federal funds are for the continuation of the chemical stockpile emergency preparedness program for fiscal year 2017, the acceptance of which does not allocate the urban county government to finish our funds and authorize the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 21, a resolution authorized in the Division of Water Quality to purchase GPS hardware and database maintenance services from Routware Incorporated, a sole source provider, and authorize the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with Routware Incorporated related to the procurement at a cost estimated not to exceed $39,586.80. Item 22, a resolution authorized in the Division of Waste Management on Pantone, to execute a memorandum of understanding with MyCityBikes for event sponsorship of the Life as a Cycle Group Bicycle Ride Event and a cost not to exceed $250. A resolution authorizing the Division of Waste Management on behalf of the urban county government to purchase electronic vehicle inspection reporting software hardware and data services from Zonar Systems LLC, a sole sort of provider, at a cost note to exceed $45,000. Item 24, a resolution authorizing direct to the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to the agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet extending the period of performance through June 30, 2018 for the West Loudoun Avenue streetscape project at no cost to the urban county government. Item 25, a resolution authorizing direct to the mayor on behalf of the urban county government number three to the agreement with the kentucky transportation cabinet accepting additional federal funding in the amount of 75 000 for the right-of-way phase for phase four of the town branch trail project the accepts of which obligates the urban county government free the expenditure of 15 000 as a local match to be provided by the kentucky transportation cabinet through toll credits and authorizing the mayor to transfer under government funds within the grant budget item 26. a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to submit a grant application to the kentucky justice cabinet under the violence against women act program and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this this grant if the application is approved which grant funds in the amount of $38,805 federal funds are for the continuation of the sexual assault nursing examiner program for fiscal year 2018 the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $28,150 as a local match and authorize the mayor to transfer any funds within the grant budget item 27. A resolution authorizes the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute neighborhood action match grant program contract with Brighton Woods Association $10,000 Charlesburg maintenance association $5,000 Eastland Parkway neighborhood $4947 Bay Park homeowners association $8944 Glen's at Glendale homeowners association $4,284 Hamburg homeowners association $5,000 Lakeshore Village homeowners association $5,000 Mary Haven homeowners association $10,000 McConnell's Trace homeowners association $5,000 Palomar reserve council of co-owners $5,000 Parkside at Masterson station homeowners association $10,000 pinnacle homeowners association $5,000 Saddle Club owners Association $10,000 Stewart Hall homeowners Association $3,500 the lofts at Locus Hill Town Home Association $5,000 and Willow Oak homeowners Association $3,325 for the purpose of carrying out various neighborhood activities and improvements for fiscal year 2018 at a cost note to exceed $100,000. Item 28 a resolution authorized and direct the mayor on behalf of the county government to exceed amendment number two to the agreement with the election and Fayette County Health Department amending the language to allow reimbursements for non-Medicaid services from May through June 2017 for the home network projects also notice the Kentucky Health Access nurturing development services at the Family Care Center at no additional cost the urban county government item 29 a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed a contract with total ID solutions incorporated for renewal of the photo ID card system technical service program for the division of emergency management at a cost not to exceed $740 and finally item 30 a resolution approving and adopting a solid Waste Management Plan for Lexington and Fayette County for 2018 through 2022 pursuant to KRS 224.43-340. All right, thank you, Madam Clerk. Motion to approve by, who is it? Council Member Stenet, seconded by Council Member Scotchfield. Is there any discussion? Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a question on item number 12. Director Conrad, could you just come up to the podium, please? How are you? Is this the only MOA we have is with MET? Is there anybody else that we have any kind of an agreement with at Masterson? At Masterson, yes. So we have one with Lysa. We also have one with the Lions Club. So there's several at Masterson. Any other equestrian groups? I was just curious. No. Okay. This is the only equestrian. Is this the first time we've had that with them? It is in my understanding. We just felt like we needed a formalized agreement. You know, leadership changes, and we feel like we needed to have something written that we would go by and then annually renew. Good idea. Okay. Thank you. That's on there. All right. Thank you, Councilman Masada. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All right. If not, then, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Emmons. Yes. Mr. Gibbs. Yes. Vice Mayor Kaye. Yes. Ms. Lamb? Ms. Massadi? Ms. Scotchfield? Mr. Smith? Mr. Stenet? Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. And Mr. James Brown? Yes. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move on to resolutions for a first reading. and I'll ask you to pause after number 45 so we can have a public hearing on item number 46. Item 31, a resolution accepting the bid of Gilpin Masonry Construction Company incorporated in the amount of $43,000 for Morton House improvements for the Department of General Services. Item 32, a resolution accepting the bid of 300 industrial LLC in the amount of $169,000 for the cleaning and painting of the Grimes Mill Road Bridge over Boone Creek for the Division of Engineering and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government texting an agreement with 300 industrial LLC related to the bid. item 33. A resolution accepting the bid of quality vans and specialty vehicles in the amount of $99,950 for personal transport for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Item 34. A resolution accepting the bid of Fuel Ban LLC in the amount of $270,676 for renovation of the Kentucky Theater for the Department of General Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to take into an agreement with Fuel Ban LLC related to the bid. Item 35. A resolution accepting the bid of Gauls LLC establishing a price contract for police ballistic armor for the Division of Police. Item 36. A resolution except the bid of Purdue Environmental Contracting Company Incorporated DBA PECO establishing a price contract for hazardous materials fill cleanup for the division of fire and emergency services item 37. It resolutes and ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointment of Willis Burnett, public service supervisor, grade 514N, $19 hourly in the division of water quality, effective September 4th, 2017, ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Darrell Stewart, public service supervisor, grade 514 and 21.502 hourly in the division of streets and roads effective August 6 2017 Malcolm Ferguson engineering technician senior grade 516 n 24.077 hourly in the division water quality effective September 20 2017 and Abigail Karen staff assistant senior grade 510 and 50.343 hourly in the division of Parks and Recreation effective September 27 2017 ratifying the voluntary demotion of Barry Brown public service worker senior grade 509 and 50.4 hourly in division water quality effective September 4 2017 ratifying the excuse me ratifying the approved council leave of amanda sinclair staff assistant senior grade 510 and in the division of building inspector beginning august 25th 2017 through november 22nd 2017. item 38 a resolution authorized the division human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments clayton atchison 60.124 hourly effective october 16 2017 and andrew williams 15.691 hourly effective october 2nd 2017 both customer service specialist 510 and in the division of water in the division of government communications authorizing the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments johnathan hayes nicholas richmond andrew kim terry kirk daniel hempel stephen rawlings jorge reina stevie wood joshua derringer wesley watkins adam dunn andrew schickler rachel mccord andrew harold leah hunt michael wright colin key michael wade simon rankin christopher kane robert brumfield jacob dixon everard hobson joshua shower morgan le claire Michael Clark Brian Evans Zachary West Timothy Pugh Zachary Francisco Caitlin Weckerling Christopher Young Matthew DeVent Rachel Vaught Christopher Murner Wesley Ballard Corey Lamb Hunter Wilkes Benjamin Evans Eric Wolfspot Clinton Diven Jacob Bertone Thomas Tapp Channing Klein Cole Philip Logan Anderson Tyler Lappin Brian Jennings William Browning Zachary Bryan Jared Nestor and Morgan Kelsey all police officer recruit grade 3199 18.972 hourly in the Division of Police effective October 23rd 2017 and authorized the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment Heather Carrier emergency planning coordinator grade 516 1846.165 weekly in the division of emergency management 9-1-1 effective October 2nd 2017. Item 39 a resolution authorize and direct the mayor on behalf of the U.M. County government to accept a grant from the Ketecke Transportation Cabinet which grant funds in the amount of 68,000 federal funds are for the design phase of the improvements on Mercer Road and Greendale project and the congestion mitigation and air quality program the acceptance of which obligates the Durham County government for the expenditure of $17,000 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer uncovered funds within the grant budget item 40 and a resolution authorized the mayor may have the government text each change order number two to the contract with pace contracting llc for the jacobson and masterson station parks playground projects increasing the contract price for the sum of 21,018.63 from 1,194,115.79 to 1,215,134.42 and adding 32 calendar days to the construction schedule item 41 a resolution authorizing the division of waste management on behalf of the urban county government to purchase preventive to replacement parts and services for the optical sorter from Pellink a sole source provider at a cost to exceed $30,000 item 42 a resolution authorize the division of waste management on behalf of the urban county government to purchase truck weighing software hardware and services from Mettler Toledo LLC Jack Mann scales a sole source provider at a cost not to exceed $110,000 item 43 a resolution authorize the division of waste management on behalf of the County government to purchase parts and services for equipment at the material recovery facility from Machine X, a sole source provider at a cost to exceed $200,000. Item 44, a resolution authorizing to direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky 911 Services Board, formerly known as Kentucky Commercial Radio Service Board, which grant funds are in the amount of $29,921. Commonwealth of Kentucky funds are for the acquisition of hardware, software, and licenses for the automatic location information database management service. For the division of enhanced 911, the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government the use of $5,000 as a local match and authorize the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Item 45, a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the UM County Government to exceed a renewal agreement with Management Registry Incorporated, formerly known as Omnisourcing Integrated Supply LLC, for Web EOC Coordinator Services, at a cost not to exceed $94,000. Item 46, a resolution approving and adopting an amendment to the 2016 consolidated plan, an annual action plan, canceling the VA housing project funding in the amount of $466,500 and providing funding to the Leestown VA Waterline Project, $100,000, the Black and Williams Cultural Center Project, $356,500, and the Cannon House Project, $10,000. Mayor Gray, I read that before you had the hearing, so I apologize. All right. So, just a second. So we're going to have a public hearing now on resolution number 46, which deals with an amendment to the 2016 Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan. And Charlie Lant, Charlie's here. Charlie? Charlie's here to tell us a little bit more about why we're having the public hearing. I will declare the public hearing now in session, and I'll ask Charlie to tell us a little bit about it. charlie this is a proposed amendment to our program income funds that we received from the sale of the senior center we're moving some funds away from the va affordable housing project into the black and williams project and a small canaan house roof replacement we're still going to do the water line setup for the leasetown va project but the timeline for that affordable housing development is such that these funds were not a good viable option anymore we're still working through rick mcquedy's office and my office with a different funding source to support that project so we're simply moving some things around because of the timeline on how the funds had to be expended all right thank you charlie are there any comments from the public are there any comments from council members all right then i will declare the public hearing is closed and ask the clerk to to please continue with the reading of resolutions number 46 or 47 I already read 46 I'll read okay all right a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed a lease agreement with friends of grads park recovery group incorporated for the use of the grads park kitchen located to 253 market street for a period of 20 years in consideration of significant repairs and improvements to the building item 48 a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to donate to the georgetown police department 15 sets of stinger road spikes which the division of police no longer uses item 49 a resolution authorize the mayor on behalf of the government to execute certificates of consideration in all of the necessary documents including a memorandum of easement purchase agreement with anderson ramsey llc and to accept ease for property insurance needed for the expansionary three trunk remedial measures project and a cost not to exceed sixty thousand two hundred twenty nine dollars and sixty five cents plus an additional amount to be determined in accordance with the memorandum of easement purchase agreement item 50 a resolution authorized direct the mayor on behalf of the government to exceed a release of claims agreement with officer chad t carson for care of retired canine luxe item 51 a resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed a professional services agreement with upstream services llc for the planning and implementation of the coach fellowship that cost not to exceed 26 400. item 52 a resolution authorized the division of water quality on behalf of the urban county government to purchase chemical test kits for the town branch of west hickman wastewater treatment plants from hot company a sole social provider and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed any necessary agreement with hot company related to the procurement and a cost net to exceed 21 405.96 item 53 a resolution amending section 6 of the resolution number 500 2017 which ratified the classified civil service voluntary demotion of timothy jackson public service record grade 507 and 35 through three hourly in the division of parks and recreation correcting the effective date from august 21st 2017 to july 22nd 2017 effective retroactive to august 31st 2017. item 54 a resolution authorized and direct the mayor may have been getting a bending services agreement with compass group usa incorporated by and through through its canteen division for vending services at the central sector roll call building item 55 a resolution authorized the mayor may have the urn county government to exceed agreements with pinnacle homeowners association $1,350 pearls of service foundation 400 henry clay girls golf booster 675 the church of the good shepherd incorporated 1050 lexarx 525 frederick douglas high school lacrosse booster club incorporated 550 kidney alliance kidney health alliance of kentucky incorporated 625 palomar hills community association 300 surf lex inc 2000 and And Garrett Morgan Elementary PTA $1000 for the office of the Urban County Council on a constant to exceed the sub-state item 56. A resolution amending resolution 5902012 to include 715 Sunset Drive as part of a residential parking permit program for the 400 block of Hollywood Drive 24 hours per day Monday through Sunday along the east side of the block. And finally item 57, a resolution amending resolutions 16499 to include 602 East High Street as part of a residential permit program for the 300 block of Park Avenue from 6 o'clock p.m. to 6 o'clock a.m. Monday through Sunday. All right thank you madam clerk are there any motions to suspend the rules for second readings? If you'll sign on please. Councilmember Gibbs. Thank you mayor. I have three of them. You want to take them separately or together? Part three of them. Would you like them together or separately? Just go ahead and give them the ones you're going to give. I'll give the rationale for each as I go. Okay. Number 34 is funds for renovation for the Kentucky theater and if the crest of John sheet one of the second reading on that one since we need to get going the theater is going to close for a while in October so this needs to be all lined up so it's number 34 the second one is number 38 which is conditional offers of employment and the third one is number 56 and that's for a single address on Sunset Avenue included in the residential parking permit program and it's a constituent of mind who's elderly and needs parking place as soon as possible so I'd like to that one along if possible so so moved all right some motions on numbers 34 38 and 56 motion by councilman gibbs second by vice mayor kay is there any discussion on the motion all right if not we can vote all in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries councilmember james brown thank you mayor i'd ask for i'd ask to suspend the rules and give a second reading to number 31 it's uh improvements, accepting the bid for improvements in the Morton House and Duncan Park. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Brown on number 31 for a second read. Second by Council Member Massati. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right if not we can vote. All in favor please say aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. Council Member Stenner. Thank you Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 55. These are the NDF organizations so we can go ahead and get the checks out. So moved. Motion by Councilmember Stenet on number 55, second by Councilmember James Brown. Is there any discussion on the motion? If not, we can vote. All in favor please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All right. That's all. signed on for motions to suspend so madam clerk if you'll please give us a second reading on 34 38 let's see what 31 34 38 55 and 56 yes sir item 31 a resolution is accepting the bid of Gilpin masonry construction company incorporating the amount of 43,000 for Morton house improvements for the for the Department of General Services. Item 34, resolution accepting the bid of fuel ban LLC in the amount of $217,676 for renovation of the Kentucky Theater for the Department of General Services. And authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government tax union agreement with fuel ban LLC related to the bid. Item 38, a resolution authorized the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments. Clayton Atchison, 16.124 hourly effective October 16, 2017. Ann Andrell Williams, 15.691 hourly effective October 2nd, 2017, both customer service specialists grade 510 and in the Division of Government Communications authorized the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments. Jonathan Haynes, Nicholas Richmond, Andrew Kim, Terry Kirk, Daniel Hempel, Stephen Rawlings, Jorge Reina, Stevie Wood, Joshua Derringer, Wesley Watkins, Adam Dunn, Andrew Schickler, Rachel McCord, Andrew Harold, Leah Hunt, Michael Wright, Colin Key, Michael Wade, Simon Rankin, Christopher Kane, Robert Brunfield, Jacob Dixon, Edward Hobson, Joshua Schauer, Morgan LeClaire, Michael Korn, Clark, Brian Evans, Zachary West, Timothy Pugh, Zachary Francisco, Caitlin Weckerling, Christopher Young, Matthew DeMette, Rachel Vought, Christopher Merner, Wesley Ballard, Corey Lamb, Hunter Wilkes, Benjamin Evans, Eric Wilsbach, Clinton Diven, Jacob Bertone, Thomas Tapp, Channing Klein, Cole Phillip, Logan Anderson, Tyler Lappin, Brian Jennings, William Browning, Zachary Bryan, Jared Nestor, and Morgan Kelsey, all police officers recruit grade 311N, 18.972 hourly in the Division of Police, effective October 23, 2017, and authorized in the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment, Heather Carrier, Emergency Planning Coordinator, Grade 516E, $1,846.16, biweekly in the Division of Emergency Management 911, effective October 2nd, 2017. Item 55. A resolution authorizes the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to exceed agreements with Pinnacle Homeowners Association, $1,350. Pearls of Service Foundation, 400. Henry Clay Girls Golf Booster 675, The Church of the Good Shepherd Incorporated 1050, Lex Arts 525, Frederick Douglas High School Lacrosse Booster Club Incorporated 550, Kidney Health Alliance of Kentucky Incorporated 625, Palomar Hills Community Association $300, Servlex Inc $2,000, and Garrett Morgan Elementary PTA $1,000 for the office of the Urban County Council and a class not to exceed the sum stated. And finally, item 56. A resolution amending resolution 590-2012 to include 715 Sunset Drive as part of a residential parking permit program for the 400 block of Hollywood Drive, 24 hours per day Monday through Sunday along the east side of the block. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? No. Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes. Ms. Massani? Yes. Ms. Sketchfield? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Stennett? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. And Mr. James Brown? Thank you. That vote reflects passage of the motion. Allow us to go to communications from the mayor. Is there a motion to approve? Communications from the mayor. A motion. A motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Next is communications from the mayor for information only. And next would be announcements. Council members, if you have announcements, please sign in. Council member Lamb. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just wanted to do another friendly reminder. On Sunday, we're having the Korean War Memorial dedication at Veterans Park, and it's Sunday, September the 17th at 2 p.m., and I hope that everybody will come out and support this. It's really exciting and we're looking forward to it. So I hope to see you Sunday. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This is just an announcement. The Chinese Lexington Association is having their Moon Dance Festival at Moon Dance on Saturday from 4 to 8, and it should be a lot of fun, very family-friendly. And they're going to be doing that again from 4 to 8 on Saturday. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just wanted to announce, I don't know if someone did it on Tuesday, but the Latino Festival is going to take place this weekend down at Courthouse Square, starting Friday night and going all the way through Sunday. And then I'd also like to recognize some board members from the Black and Williams Advisory Board. I know they're in the audience tonight, so I just wanted to thank them for joining us tonight for our meeting. So that's all I had. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. I see no other council members signed in. That would allow us to move on to public comments. I have a number of people signed up. I will call them in the order in which they signed up. First, Mr. Robert Brown. I'm sorry, are you yielding your time to someone else? In this case, we're a pastor and I will speak. They're yielding their time to us. Okay. So, pastor first, or are you? I'm first. Thank you. come to the podium if you would um one two three four five six so so you would have uh nine minutes huh nine nine okay thank you i was worried about a time okay my name is virgil covington i came to you several weeks before when we just happened to be here and y'all happened to be talking about the exchange of the streets and I thought the Lord worked that because we were here because you know we didn't know you were going to discuss it I don't think some of you knew you were going to discuss it but we discussed it as we've gone through this process I thought it would be important and others behind me thought it would be important for us to just explain how we got where we are I told you we're a church that's It's been in existence for 155 years. I'm 64 years old, and I've been there all of those years. And there's been some changes, not just with the church, but in terms of the city of Lexington. Back in the day, there used to be parking meters in front of the church. So guess where we parked? Parked in front of the church, just like you have parking meters. We call First Baptist white because it used to be First Baptist color at Dewey's and Short Street. But First Baptist down the street from us has parking meters in front of the church. We don't have those anymore because Main Street was widened. So that took away an option. We didn't take that option away. I'm going to say the city took that option away. then we we we had we had railroad tracks behind the church because the viaduct was made as a place for the railroad tracks to to go underneath and so you had railroad tracks back there and we would park on the railroad tracks okay and in fact the railroad tracks would be back there and they get to a certain part right at Tucker Street, and there was a guardrail there, and the trains couldn't go past that, and we would go over to Patterson Street, which was before the expansion of the Rupp Arena. There was Patterson Street, and we would come in behind Van Duren Hardware and park on those tracks. I can remember as a kid somebody saying, you gotta move your car because a train's coming. And so when those tracks were taken away, we thought we can get that property for parking. Well, the city took that parking. Okay? That went away. Now, you understand Van Buren Building was, if you know where Mary Todd Lincoln's house is and where that parking lot is, there was a door to Van Buren Warehouse there. and I told you that you had the guardrail, and then behind the guardrail was another warehouse. Well, we were having a service with Porter Memorial Baptist Church. Their kids were going on tour, they had a singing group, and it was one night and we invited them to come worship with us and to present their program, and all of a sudden a woman comes in and says, a building's on fire. And so we all exited out of the church, We were moving cars. Nobody got hurt. I mean, this was the early 1980s. Nobody got hurt. All that was moved, and that building burned down. So then the thought would be we could get that building, that property for parking, because it's adjacent to where we are. Well, the city decided at that time to expand the Civic Center, because the Civic Center didn't go past Patterson Street at that time, and so they decided to expand it, and so when they decided to expand it, they took that area. We were trying to buy the Van Duren property. This got to be kind of crazy. We decided that we wanted to buy the Van Duren property because it was right there, you know, where the parking lot is for Mary Todd Lincoln, and so we were trying to negotiate, and since we really wanted it, We even said to Mr. Van Duren, we would offer him $2 million. And you know, but he was still negotiating. But the city came in and said, we want it for the expansion. And so you had a way to take it down in price, I want to say around $800,000. And I can still remember what was told to us that he said, but wait a minute, Main Street was going to give me $2 million. He said, well, you should have taken the $2 million from Main Street. So that took away that as an option. Now, the blessing in this was John Townsend was the leader of our deacon body, and he was the administrative assistant to Mayor Basler. And so we felt like we had somebody in a high place on our side, kind of like a Joseph, okay, if you know what that story is about. But we thought we had somebody there. And so John was working with us, and I remember him. I talk with my hands. I remember John coming to the church, and in fact I got in on a clip, and he said the city has decided that they're going to put a parking lot behind Mary Todd Lincoln, okay, for the use of Mary Todd Lincoln and Main Street Baptist Church. We felt really honored, really blessed. And then Bill Owen has always been a blessing and a friend to us. Because when they put in the Cox Street lot, he has worked with us and said, even if there's an event at Rupp Arena, if we're having service, all our members had to do was pull up to the attendant and say, I'm going to Main Street Baptist Church. No charge, go in and park. Always. And in fact, let me just say this, when we met with the LCC board and they had a separate committee to deal with the expansion, Bill said as long as he is there as CEO, he would always work with Main Street in terms of parking. Now, so we felt really blessed by Bill's presence and what he says. Now, it's changed over time because all of a sudden we started, not we, there started to be selling of reserve spots right behind the church. Okay? For parking for basketball games. I'm sorry. For basketball games. And so in terms of that, our people, even though we had the agreement, we had to park all the way on the other side down near the Salvation Army to come to our church. because we couldn't park. And so we made this determination that when they had games on Sunday, which we prayed against, and I think the Lord kind of answered that prayer because we haven't had them lately, but there was all the, I mean, about five or six weeks of games on Sunday. We would have church, which usually start at 11 o'clock, at 8 o'clock in the morning in order for us to have worship service. On Tuesday night when there's a game, even though we have Bible study forever on a Tuesday night, We'll have to move it based on when the games are in order to accommodate parking. Now we really got excited because in the 1990s, we bought the property on the other side of the viaduct, and that became the Braxton building. We had Sunday school classes in there. We built the chapel and thought it was really good that we had property on both sides of the viaduct because when we heard that all of a sudden they're going to take out the viaduct, well, what would we think? We've got property on both sides. The viaduct is no longer going to be used as a street, so then it would probably go to the property owners on both sides of Main Street. I mean, on both sides of the viaduct. Well, we're hearing that that's not the case, but that's what we're asking you for. We're asking you for that property. so that we can do ministry. The state came in and said, we want continuity of streets. We want continuity in terms of our property. So that's what we're asking for. There was one other point I wanted to make, and I'm watching this time. That's it. Thank you. Pastor, welcome. You would also have nine minutes. Yes, okay. I may not be as long. I'm Pastor Victor Scholar from Main Street Baptist Church, and I just want to say it's an honor to address you this evening. And as Brother Virgil may mention, I just speak from a pastoral perspective, knowing the history of our church being there for 155 years, and knowing that we are an older congregation as well, and we have particular needs. We support what the discussions are concerning the Town Branch Park. However, as Brother Virgil may mention about the viaduct, needing that piece of property would be crucial for us to have some level of connection with the main building and the chapel. To have some parking spaces for us as well. We, with having two buildings, oftentimes on Sunday we have children that go from the main building to the chapel for a little sort of a children's church. And having to go through parking spaces, parking lots where there's all kinds of activities doesn't present a safe environment for our kids. I know that, to be honest with you, even if the viaduct was to be considered given to Main Street, that will not resolve all of our parking needs. we're a church congregation of 350 people and we're also asking that consideration for additional parking behind our chapel as well. I know that this may appear to be a lot but I believe that our church has been faithful and being able to be a part of helping the community of Lexington and we love being downtown we love the presence of being downtown we have opportunities to be able to serve in the community as much as possible. And I think that my prayer is you all would really consider our needs. We want to remain downtown, and we want to be a part of this community and all the expansion and all the opportunities that you all are considering concerning the park. We're just asking for consideration as we want to diversify downtown. African American church has been there since 1862 should be considered a part of that diversity and that uniqueness to our city. Particularly of course in such a time that we are in today as I'm thankful for the mayor and the whole issue with the confederate statues and things of that sort. Let's take a step further and consider a church that began with a former slave and all way up until this point, we go from slavery to freedom. That's what Main Street Baptist Church represents, and I pray that you will all consider that in your discussions. Thank you very much. Thank you. I believe no one else. Yes, sir. Thank you, Steve. Let me just say this, because Les is back there saying, once Once the expansion comes in, the expanded Civic Center comes all the way up to our property. In between our property and the expansion, the back of Main Street Baptist Church, there will be a walkway that goes through the gorge is what they're talking about with the Civic Center. And then there's the Lincoln Passage. allows people to walk through there to go to the town branch park there will be no driving back there the only street entrance on our side of the building would be Tucker Street Tucker Street cannot handle really two cars going down it okay so there's no other way to drive back to there other than there and And there's no, according to the plans, there's no parking on the other side because that's going to be the town branch. Our building, our chapel, backs up to the parking lot. Because of Bill, we've been able to put a ramp there and a walkway that comes up to our building through our front parking lot so people, like last night, could go to the Sori because you've told them to park at the Cox Street lot. The only way to get across there is to come up our property. But our property is not all the way to the parking lot. It ends up at the top. They've already put flags there to put up a fence to block us from actually going back there. So we really ask for your support. Thank you. Councilmember Lamb. Thank you, Vice Mayor, for recognizing me. I mean, this is not the first time these gentlemen have come and spoke to us about this, and I'm listening each and every time, and we're not hearing any answers or any information from the other side, and I don't want to put anybody on the spot, but I would like someone either from the administration or perhaps from the council. Oh, okay, Jamie. You know, I'd like to just know, are we trying to help this church? Because I would think that we would want to be good neighbors and help them. So I'll hush and let you talk. Okay, absolutely is the answer to the question. We've been developing plans, and there's actually been a meeting set up with these folks at, I think it's the 25th of September, to talk through what we've come up with. and it's going to be uh brandy peacher from our office who's running the town branch project as well as bill owen from the lexington center allison lankford from the bluegrass community foundation and maybe a couple others but it's i think it's going to be an acceptable proposal and hopefully we'll have a good conversation that's really good news to hear and i'm thrilled because you know We need to work with our community, and they've been so astute about coming here and talking to us, and I appreciate you guys doing that and letting us know what's going on. And thank you, Mr. Immons, for your information. So I'm hoping for a good outcome of this. So thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Fred Brown. Yeah, I want to piggyback on Council Member Lamb. I was a little bit confused on whether we were going to get a vote on anything related to this, and I'm not sure that we will be in. Right now we'll be voting one way or the other unless the administration brings it to us. And, you know, this is the time we're planning all this. This is the time to do something. And certainly I would like for it to, if need be, we'll put it in committee. but I think we've got to find a resource here and this is a historical part of our community and as they stated they've been over backwards working with the city and the Civic Center and everybody involved so if we do have a chance there or if we need to vote on it then I think we need to recognize that, and I'm not sure we're at that place now. But please keep us informed, Jamie, as part of the administration there. And you've got the September 25th meeting, and I'm under the impression if Main Street Baptist accepts what you're dealing with, then the issue will be resolved. Is that where we're at? Yeah, that's where we're at. I think it's just taking a little time because of some ownership issues. We talked about the street swap. That is obviously state property right now. And the park itself, or what will become the park, is LCC property. That's where they parked today. So we've got some issues to work through, but we'll get there. Thank you. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Lamb, I just wanted to point out that I represent the third, which includes the church. and Joe in the second covers the chapel and James has been working with us so the three of us have met with these folks around the phone with the lot and emails and we've been advocating for him but the fact is right now that we don't own that street and so once we finish that swap the plan is to put Jefferson Street specifically into committee to discuss it that's what that's what we've been talking about now but right now as Jamie said Jefferson Street belongs to the state but I'm really glad these folks from Main Street Baptist have been making their case it's good to you know let us know that they're very very interested but there's not anything we can do about it specifically right now but as Jamie said there you know they've got a plan they're going to propose and the three of us have been advocating for them all along but thank you thank you Vice Mayor thank you Councilmember Evans thank you Vice Mayor well in the last couple of months i think we've seen what grass fruit efforts can do so i'm glad to see you all here and we have some some representatives from take back cheap side who um are proof of what community involvement can be but i'm not quite sure i i there was an answer to council member fred brown's question about is this something we are going to be presented with to vote on at some point in time i don't know who's going to answer that Okay, and what is the timeframe on that if we are going to vote? But I think the public needs to know, members of the church that are watching at home or something, I think they need to be clear about what our role as council members are and when it's going to be presented to us. Did you want to respond? I'll let him speak first. Councilmember Stinnett. To Councilman Brown's question, first of all, we have to vote on ownership. Do we want to take ownership of Jefferson? That's the first step, and hopefully Tuesday we'll have that presented once again to committee. It'll leave committee. Then once it comes to the council, we vote to own that property. Then we'll have to make the decision based on what the administration presents to us. Do we accept their proposal, or do we want something different? And then we would vote on that, because it'll be our property at that point. Right, and just to add to that, if there were any parking in the area where they parked today which is the cock street lot that would be an lcc decision not our decision well now i think you've added to the yet to the confusion about it so yes i guess so maybe when we get to that point again i want to know what what we actually have authority over because Because it doesn't seem like it's the majority of the space that Main Street is going to be asking for. So I think we all need to be clear on what we have actual authority over and whether, just be clear about that and what space we can even make available to them and vote on. Because I think we might be going down a confusing role, because I'm slightly confused on the property. And are those property owners willing to negotiate additional space? I mean, those are all, I think we need to be fully briefed on this, I guess, is my point. And as soon as possible in what the roles are. Because the last I heard about it when it was presented, everyone seemed to be okay. And then the church came back and had some concerns based on the presentation that was given. So I just want us to all be clear about what's going on and not having expectations that we can't satisfy or don't have authority over and figuring out exactly who does have authority over what and what space. Well, I'd say that we have been working with LCC to solve this problem. Formal authority or not, we've been trying to be good neighbors. We've asked them to do the same thing, and I think you've heard that tonight. Bill Owen has treated them well in the past and well in the future, so we're getting there. I think the proposal is going to be favorable. It'll be clear when we can present it exactly what the details are and the ownership issues. Thank you. Now I see nobody else signed up to speak. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Without objection, we stand adjourned. you I don't want to miss a thing. Thank you. you