Keep this party polite Never get out of my sight Stick with me baby I'm the fella you came in with Fuck be lady tonight Luck, let a gentleman see Just how nice, how nice a dame you can be I know the way you've treated other guys you've been with Hey, look, be a lady with me A lady doesn't leave her escort It isn't fair and it's not nice A lady doesn't wander all over the room And blow on some other guy's dice So let's keep the party polite Never get out of my sight Stick with me, baby I'm the guy that you came in with Luck be a lady Luck be a lady Let me a lady Tonight When loving turns to parting I'm always first to leave Cause when it comes to heartaches I'd rather give than to receive I've never cried myself asleep Just praying I'll get through I've never lost it love Not counting you Not counting you, I've never had a heartache Not counting you, I never have been blue There's no exceptions to the rule I've never been nobody's fool I've never lost in love, not counting you I've never got down on my knees And asked the Lord above If he would only bring me The one I'm dreaming Thank you. Good afternoon or good evening. Thanks everybody for being here tonight. We will, we've got such a good crowd, and let me explain what we'll do first. We will first have a roll call, and then we will have an invocation. And then we will ask for, I will ask for a couple of motions which will allow public comment, especially for the Cooper Drive question, at the beginning of the council meeting. All right? And we're going to do that. Oh. Well, all right, I'm going to acknowledge that. Let's do that. We'll have the veterans, we'll have the presentation of the Veterans Hall of Fame first, and then we'll have public comment. All right. Okay. But you all want, what we're trying to do is those who are coming here, those who've come tonight, especially for the Cooper Drive, there's so many of you, we want to give you all a chance to speak at the beginning of the council meeting instead of waiting until the end of the council meeting. All right. So, Madam Clerk, if you'll please call the roll. Vice Mayor K. Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Plowman? Here. Ms. Gutfield? Mr. Smith? Mr. Stinnett? Ms. Pledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? And Ms. Henson? Here. Thank you. All right, thank you, Madam Clerk. And now I want to welcome Police Chaplain Donovan Stewart for our invocation tonight. Officer Stewart, thank you so much. Let's pray together. Our Father God, we are grateful unto you this evening. Father, before we get about the business of making important decisions, we take just a moment to thank you and to praise you for your grace and for your mercy. God, your word tells us that when we lack wisdom, if we ask you, you'll give it to us generously. And so, Father God, we do pray that you will give us that wisdom. Father, in your divine plan, you allow us to partner with you in important things such as managing our community and being stewards of the resources that you've given us. So, God, I pray that you will find us faithful. Thank you, God, for our elected officials. Thank you, God, for our mayor. Thank you for all those who make our community what it is. Give them wisdom and discernment and insight. Pray that we as a community, God, will continue, Father, to be active in the local decision-making process, a gift that we have as citizens of this community, of our country, and of your kingdom. God, together as a community, we praise you. We thank you. We ask for your mercy. and we pray that you would help us God to be faithful in every decision that we make of course in your most beautiful and wonderful name we pray amen Thank You chaplain all right now we're I'm I'm gonna recognize councilmember James Brown who will introduce mr. Detheridge regarding the Hall of Fame presentation Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame Councilmember Brown. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. And I guess you just did it. I'd like to introduce Mr. HB. But you can amplify on it. Yes, sir. I think it's no secret that we have been working as a city to do more to recognize and celebrate our veterans. And through that process, a connection has been made with Mr. Dethridge and his organization, which is the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame. they're going to bring that event, which used to be a three-day event, here to Lexington in 2018. So I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Detheridge. Thank you, Councilman Brown and Mayor Gray. Before we get into that, I'd like to introduce to you Mr. Gary Greiser. Gary is our emcee and our singer with our program, and he will be singing the national anthem for you this evening. Would you stand, please? Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thank you, Gary. Now, as we get on the program, we'll get through this as quickly as we can because you've got a lot of stuff on your agenda tonight. I want to show you a quick slide presentation which tells about our event. We've been in Frankfurt for the last four years. We're coming out of Frankfurt, and we're coming to Lexington. We'll be at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort this year in September, 6th, 7th, and 8th. For three days, first day will be golf. But that's down the road, and you'll find out more about that as we go along. But I want to introduce you to our organization, Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame. We are a nonprofit, all-volunteer group, and we have inducted about 122 veterans thus far into our organization. But if you'll start that slideshow. If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd work for all my life. And I had to start again with just my children and my wife. I thank my lucky stars to be living here today Cause the flag still stands for freedom And they can't take that away And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you And defend her still today Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea, from Detroit down to Houston and New York to L.A. Well, there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say That I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the man who died, who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the man who died, who gave that right to me. And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. Once your ranch song is up there, you may stand up. We'll be right back. ¶¶ The End We're always ready for the holy place I trust in thee. Through certain storm and howling there I shall our purpose be. Send them up to Caesar, guide our favor for me too. To fight, to save, or fight, and die, I must have every heart for you. We thank you very much for this opportunity to present this program to you. We've been in existence for four years. Our purpose is to acknowledge those people who have been served, served with honor and distinction, and have separated themselves from the military and have gone on to do something wonderful in their community, in their state, in their nation. And so for four years now, we have inducted 25 to 30 veterans into this hall. And we have joined the ranks of a few other states that have a similar hall, and we're proud that Kentucky now has this hall established. We're looking forward to moving this to Lexington in September of 2018. We're pleased to have a relationship in place with the Griffin Gate Marriott, and we look forward to your help in getting people nominated. We are seeking nominations for the class of 2018. So if you know of someone who has been honorably discharged from the military and has gone on to do something wonderful in this community, or any community in the state, and they're a resident of Kentucky, we would welcome that application, and we would welcome their involvement in our plans to induct the fifth class into the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame on September 6, 7, and 8 of 2018. We thank you for your time tonight. We also have with us members of our committee who are mostly from northern Kentucky, and we also are pleased to have representatives from the Secretary of State's office who have been very helpful to us from the beginning in getting this chartered and established, and they're here with us as well tonight. I think you have a packet that has been given to you already. H.B. has a presentation he would like to make, and then we'll get out of your way and let you take care of the business in Lexington. Thank you, Gary. In the packet, you'll see in there, one is a fact sheet on us on the left-hand side. It's a fact sheet on the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame. On the other side, you'll see our most current brochure. The brochure has the inductees from 2017 photographs in there. And also in that packet, there's two nomination forms. If you know someone you would like to nominate or someone you'd like to get that form to, to nominate, that'd be fantastic. Now, with that said, in September, we'll be up straight here at the Marriott. Hope to see you all there, and we hope you're all's help between now and then also. I can't thank Councilman James Brown enough for everything he's done for us to get us established in this town. We hope to get a little more established, and we hope to open the satellite headquarters in Lexington also, which we need members and people to be a part of that as we start that process within the next month. Okay, now, we do have a presentation for the mayor and the city of Lexington. Gary? Gary? ...each inductee and a lapel pin that is given to each inductee. And so we would like to present this to you to display here in this building as kind of the new home of the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor. I gave you my card. I got this card. Just a meeting veteran. I'm going to stay up here all the time. All right. Council Member Round, thank you again for that presentation. We are honored to have our guests here tonight. Well, earlier I mentioned that I was going to recognize Councilmember Gibbs for a couple of motions related to the road exchange. I know that there are a number of guests here tonight, citizens, Montclair, Montclair Neighborhood Association, and we thought that it would be appropriate that you all speak before the meeting earlier in the meeting rather than have to wait I know a number of you all are here and you've signed on to speak so I'm going to ask councilmember Gibbs for a motion before I do that I want to thank Tip Richmond, Clyde, is Clyde here tonight? Clyde was and Monica Monica McFarland, Monica, visited with us on Tuesday and shared the thoughts of course of the neighborhood, the neighbors, and I loved what Clyde when you walked out your thoughts that you shared with me about you said now Jim there's nothing closer to the heart than the home and that was a beautiful representation we all know what a unique and historic neighborhood that you have so we are welcoming your thoughts tonight I know that councilmember Gibbs of course and all of our council members share that same sentiment so I will now ask councilmember Gibbs for he's gonna have two motions and so I'll ask the councilmember Gibbs for his motions now I thank you Mary so I have two motions I'm gonna make one first hopefully you guys will approve of it if you do I'll go ahead and make the second one immediately I just want to say briefly that I have studied this road swap very carefully I've not taken it lightly I'm still convinced the swap is an excellent deal for the third district and the city as a whole so I know a lot of you felt like you've had to haven't had enough time to consider it you'd like some more time to convince UK to allow the state to take alumni drive and so I'm making this motion so you so you folks can have adequate time so the first motion is that I move that item number 28 under first reading resolutions be taken out of order to be considered before other presentations and to permit public comment on the item so moved motion by council member Gibbs and second by councilor Massadi is there any discussion on the motion all right if not then we can vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries and secondly I move to postpone the first reading of item number 28 until the November 16th council meeting so moved motioned by council member Gibbs seconded by councilmember Farmer is there any discussion on the motion councilmember Maloney thank you mayor it's helpful hold on one second I have a little problem with just giving these people a week and I think there was a compromise earlier that they need a little bit more time and I really think a week is rushing this because I do have problems with the whole setup I think it's getting messy as we go along that's just my opinion and I know y'all think it isn't but I mean we started out with Ashland Avenue and you took it off and put it on Cooper Drive and Cooper Drive is all residential area I just don't think we should be putting state roads in front of houses that's just I personally am against it and I think these people should have a lot more time I would recommend that we go longer than just a week and so I would I would be voting against this I would recommend that we go a month just to police vote but this is this is an ongoing issue it gets messier and messier every time so I would not support the week all right is there any further discussion on the motion all right hearing none then we can vote all in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. Motion does carry. All right. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you, Council Member Gibbs. All right. So what we'll do now is I have a list of everyone who signed on to speak, and I will call your name, and then I'll actually call a couple of names at a time, and that way you all could come over to the podium and then be ready to speak. And we do have a couple of rules. In my job, I have the unpopular role of being the rule enforcer. And part of that is to give the heads up that it's a three-minute time limit on comments unless someone yields their time to you, and then it could be longer. And the other unpopular, the sort of unpopular rule is sometimes when you want to clap, I know there's that inclination or to even whistle sometimes because you really appreciate what somebody's saying But that is not allowed so if you all will please help me that would be really appreciated All right, so let's start with we start with Mary Diane Wait, now Mary Diane you're not here for the Mary Diane Hannah here oh all right but is it on the Cooper Drive issue okay all right Elizabeth Jensen not on Cooper Drive right Jan Stallings on Cooper Drive Dan and then Mr. Mr. Ohmler right yep mr. ohm yeah just if you'll just come on up and Dan And then Clyde, you're up. Yes, sir. And then Monica, you're next. All right. Jan, please go ahead. And one other thing. If you'll please, just for the record, state your name and your address. Thank you. My name is Jan Stallins. I live at 709 beautiful Cooper Drive. And thank you for hearing me tonight. I'm a transplant to Lexington from Texas and then from California and now I live in this beautiful lovely city I'd like to make three comments tonight about what I what I've observed about the issues surrounding their road swaps and Cooper Drive The first one is that I see a real need for a transparent cooperative and inclusive process when approaching complex issues of planning and land swapping and road changes like this. I think this sort of process removes any opportunity for suspicion or rumor or confusion and I think that a transparent cooperative inclusive process also affords the opportunity to utilize the gifts and the insights of neighbors who live closest to many of the situations that will be changing and who come from many walks of life and varied experiences. This can be very valuable. The second observation is that I think we have to be careful not to underestimate the impact of unforeseen circumstances, especially when you're talking about transportation in a growing city. Lexington has a lot of potential. I've lived in two areas, one that was no growth and one that was kind of go-go growth. The no-growth city of Austin, Texas made transportation decisions in the 80s that landlocked it by the end of the 90s, and they were not thinking of unforeseen circumstances. I lived in the go-go city of Los Angeles, and they made quick decisions about transportation, and I don't even think I need to tell you that the city of Los Angeles is landlocked. I just got back from there last night visiting my children. Lexington is a real jewel of a city. That's why we picked it. We love living here. I live in a beautiful neighborhood that I chose deliberately, and I live on a beautiful street, and it is my home. I share it with all of you. I share it with commuters already, obviously, but I feel very strongly that the loss of local control could be an issue, especially in the instance of transportation. We are a community, and I believe that we need the time, as this gentleman just mentioned, to plan, to talk, and to work together openly to make sure that everyone's needs are considered and everyone's needs are met. I think we can work to keep the charm and the character of the city and the neighborhood. I think the city, the state, the university, and the neighbors can sit down and work on issues in a very cooperative way. And I think that we need to discuss whether or not studies and more time would help us to make a great plan for Montclair, for Cooper Drive, and for Lexington. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jan. And Dan, you're next. And let me say, after Clyde, I would like to ask Commissioner Dal Hoskins-Squire to speak. I failed to ask her to speak earlier. I had intended to, only for this purpose, just to provide the council members and the neighbors who are here with a perspective or a point of view on where the city, by the city, has encouraged this arrangement. Okay? after Clyde if it's all right I'll ask Commissioner Dal Huskins Squire to speak for just a few minutes and then we'll go right back to the list. So Dan please sir. Thank you. I've been here a while like many of the other people in this room. I watched when South Limestone looked very much like Cooper Drive looks today. I watched them cut all those trees down, remove the front yards, four-lane south limestone. Today, it's not even a residential neighborhood. All those houses have been taken over by attorney's offices, Islamic centers, UK buildings, and other purposes. It's not a residential neighborhood anymore. I watched when Euclid Avenue looked much like Cooper Drive looks today. I watched them cut the trees down, take the lawns away, four lane it, and the residential neighborhood was lost. Those buildings along there now are not residences anymore. You've got commercial buildings in there. You've got veterinarians' offices, gas stations, restaurants, and so forth. Now, the state says if we allow this to go through, they right now today have no intention of four-laning Cooper Drive. I don't think anybody in this room trusts anything anybody in Frankfurt says from one day to the next on any issue. We certainly don't trust what they say about Cooper Drive. It already has too much traffic. You already cannot get out of your driveway between 3 o'clock and 5 o'clock. If they make this a state highway, that traffic is going to become even heavier, giving them all the reason they need to four lane it, to cut those trees down, take those lawns away, and pretty soon Cooper Drive is going to be a neighborhood of small offices, gas stations, and other commercial purposes. Consider Cooper Drive and this Montclair neighborhood is the last viable residential neighborhood abutting UK. It has not been overrun with student housing. It has not been overrun with commercial development. You pass this resolution, you will lose that. UK will then be stranded. it will have no viable residential neighborhood touching it on any side. Please consider this as you debate this further. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. You were right on the nose at three minutes. Thank you, sir. Clyde, you're up. Mayor Gray and other members of the council, My name is Clyde Kirtley, and I'm here on behalf of our Neighborhood Association, the Neighbors of Montclair, Inc. Our president, Mr. David Hadley, is out of town on business and could not be here. I wish to place into the record his letter, a copy of which I think each of you now have. Dear Council Members, My name is David W. Halfley and I am writing on behalf of the neighbors of Montclair Inc., the neighborhood association in Lexington for the area identified as Montclair. I am president of the organization and live in Montclair. Montclair is a unique, old, established, single-family residential neighborhood generally bounded by Cooper Drive, Tate's Creek Road, and the University of Kentucky. It is home to many large maturities and generally quiet streets other than Cooper Drive and Tate's Creek Road, a Commonwealth of Kentucky highway. There is complete diversity of ages in Montclair, from young families with many young children to senior citizen retirees. Some houses are occupied by the third generation of their families to live there. The proximity of the neighborhood to a major university and many of Lexington's hospitals and other medical facilities are additional reasons why Montclair is so cherished by its residents. As I am sure that each of you appreciates, maintaining the character of Montclair is not without challenge. In the past, we have come to you for support of our common goal of protecting the unique character of Montclair, and in each instance the Council has responded in a helpful and constructive way. We appreciate very much your past support and do not take lightly the fact that we come here tonight to ask for your support again. It has only very recently come to our attention that there is a proposal to turn Cooper Drive, a local street, into a Commonwealth of Kentucky highway. On Sunday, November 5th, on very short notice to the neighborhood, Councilman Gibbs, as requested, and with approximately 50 Montclair residents, to discuss the proposal, none of whom expressed support for it. Nearly all All of those present expressed their shock that what would appear to create, over time, a very detrimental effect on the neighborhood was being rushed through with extremely limited notice and the complete absence of public input. To a person, no one thought that the rush to enact without study and consideration of other possibilities either is or should be the Lexington Way. Accordingly, the neighbors of Montclair Inc. speaking on behalf of Montclair residents. Excuse me just one second. Let me ask for a motion to extend your time if that's all right. Motion by Councilmember Farmer, seconded by Councilmember Plowman, unless there's objection. Another three minutes. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Yes sir. Accordingly, the neighbors of Montclair Inc. speaking on behalf of Montclair residents is here tonight requesting you to delay taking a reading or voting on the same until further study can be made and council members can gauge community sentiment and evaluate alternate routing. In addition to Montclair as a whole, there are 49 residences on Cooper Drive that will be affected directly. Already, at certain times of the day, it is both difficult and dangerous to enter onto Cooper Drive on which there is not a single crosswalk in a stretch of more than five blocks. One can only imagine what turning this street into a commonwealth highway will do for pedestrian safety. To the best of our knowledge and belief, there has not been any study or studies performed to evaluate the effects of adoption of the proposal would have on neighborhood property values, which on a square footage basis presently are among the highest in Lexington. Residents are fearful that making Cooper Drive a Commonwealth highway effectively will constitute an economic taking without compensation and will be severely injurious to both Montclair and Lexington as a whole. Furthermore, as far as we can ascertain, there has not been any evaluation on the likely effects of the proposal to pedestrians, particularly to neighborhood children. Consequently, we think you would be proceeding blindly and without due consideration for traditional Lexington values and the rights of our citizenry if the proposal were adopted without opportunity for all relevant facts to be ascertained and evaluated. Although the University of Kentucky has expressed opposition, it is our opinion that making Alumni Drive between Tates Creek and Nicholasville roads and Commonwealth Highway is far preferable than using Cooper Drive, a neighborhood street. Alumni Drive does not traverse an old residential neighborhood. In fact, there are not any houses on it. Consequently, there are not any families who would be disrupted by making Alumni Drive into a Commonwealth Highway. And regarding future roadway needs, there is ample land alongside Alumni Drive that could be used for creating additional traffic lanes without affecting any residences. In contrast, there is not any room for Cooper Drive to be widened in Montclair without the the removal of the magnificent trees and the economic destruction of the adjoining residences. Moreover, because there is much less local access to Alumni Drive than Cooper Drive, we think any reputable study will conclude that both pedestrian and vehicular safety would be enhanced by routing the Commonwealth Highway onto Alumni Drive, even if it means taking from one part of our collective government, the University of Kentucky, to another, the Kentucky Department of Highways. For these reasons, we respectfully request that you delay any vote on the possible conversion of Cooper Drive from a neighborhood street into a Commonwealth highway until impact studies can be made, the resulting data analyzed, community sentiment ascertained, and alternative routing explored, respectively submitted, Neighbors of Montclair, Inc., by a David W. Halfley president who's read and approved but not signed this document being out of town. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Clyde. Thank you, sir. So I'm going to ask if Commissioner Dowell Hoskins-Squire will come to the podium now. And let me say as a preface to what Dowell is going to offer, she's just, she's not advocating tonight, certainly not wanting to be adversarial. She's simply going to illustrate for the benefit of those who are here and may not have had the city's presentation and to update for the council members the point of view of the city today. All right, Dowell, go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, council members. I understand the concerns of the residents on Cooper Drive. I really do. You know, Jake and I were at the meeting on Sunday, and we heard, as many people said, there were many people there, and we heard all of the concerns, and so I don't want to seem insensitive to those concerns, because I truly do understand their concern. But I would like to provide some context for why the road swap makes sense for the city and why we think it's not a bad thing for the neighborhoods. first of all it will reduce our long-term maintenance responsibility so in short we will be we will be relinquishing ownership of approximately 20 lane miles to the state and taking 15 in return so we'll have a net gain and long-term maintenance responsibility and what that means really is just paving so who who maintains the pavement within those right-of-way areas and it just means who will pave the roads in addition and I think this is a big thing in terms of long-term maintenance in addition we will be transferring five bridges to the state four on citation and one on Virginia the city has no dedicated bridge repair funding and the state does so from that perspective that makes a lot of sense in the long term the state will also become responsible for snow removal on citation which is is a big load for us to bear in addition to all the roads other roads we have to deal with also as you're all aware the city will assume ownership of the jefferson street viaduct which is imminently important for the lcc expansion we think that it'll take many months to procure a contractor and and demolish the bridge and so so that is of imminent importance to the city we will also assume ownership of euclid avenue of champions where we have significant infrastructure projects a sanitary sewer project as well as a streetscape project planned the city will also assume ownership of parkers mill road which makes sense because the segment that we will be acquiring we are the primary property owner along that segment the city will also assume ownership of south forbes which is needed for the town branch trail phase six project some people may wonder why does the state want to do this why does it make why does it make sense for the state to trade us these roads they in turn are are have the ability to clean up their state route network eliminating some of the kind of the weird turns that you have to make around the UK campus area it's something they've wanted to do for many many years I would also like to alleviate some of the concerns of the Montclair Neighborhood Association I know that there have been several rumors that have been circulated around the neighborhood and I just want to reiterate that the majority of what has been circulated is truly rumors and we do not believe that the information is accurate as the mayor said we met with members of the Montclair Neighborhood Association most recently also with the transportation cabinet and the University of Kentucky in an effort to relieve some concerns they had specifically related to widening of Cooper Drive and cutting down trees Cooper Drive will not be widened there are no plans to widen Cooper Drive there are no plans to cut down any trees and of course unless they're dead then the trees can be cut down but there are no plans to cut down live trees on Cooper Drive designating Cooper Drive as a state route does not change the roadway network basically all of the connections of the roadway network stay the same so the traffic patterns will stay the same no more traffic will be funneled onto Cooper for any reason because it's designated as a state route also there have been some concerns that Google Maps and other wayfinding tools will route you onto Cooper Drive if it's designated as a state route this is not how those wayfinding tools work they work to find the quickest way it doesn't matter whether it's a state route or a city street also state route 1974 currently is not designated as a truck route and it will not become a truck route in the future and then furthermore I just wanted to say so in addition to not having plans to remove any trees along Cooper, the state doesn't maintain any trees within New Circle Road. The city does. So we maintain all the trees on the corridors. We do corridor mowing. And we also repair potholes and do snow removal operations within New Circle Road. So we will continue to remove snow on Cooper. The city will. We will continue to address tree-related concerns that neighbors have on Cooper. We will continue to repair potholes on Cooper. So none of those services will change with the transfer and ownership of Cooper to the state so in summary I think as as a whole the road swap makes sense for the city it relieves us of some significant long-term maintenance responsibility and it also will provide us some flexibility in the short term for infrastructure project all right now thank you all right now let's get back to the neighbors Monica you're up next Monica McFarland thank you Hello, Council and Mayor Gray and Vice Mayor Kay. My name is Monica McFarland. I live at 751 Cooper Drive in the Montclair neighborhood. And as you probably remember, I was here on Tuesday night just to address briefly the core issues that were affecting our neighbors. Mr. Kirtley has taken the time to comprehensively address these issues, and I'm not going to go through them again. I do want to make two points. is i want to thank the mayor for gathering all the parties for us yesterday morning so that so that the three designated montclair residents could ask some questions of uk of the uk the state and the city uh the only other issue that i'd like to raise tonight is the one that i have heard most frequently from the neighbors as i am taking all the emails and notices on my cell phone this week and that is one of the notice issue I would say that the majority of the reason why there was so much fear and misinformation disseminated on this issue is because we felt like we were blindsided as far as getting notice on the issue I want to commend Amy Clark who is one of our neighbors who spotted I don't know if Amy is here tonight Amy thank you Amy is the neighbor that spotted this issue on the LFUCG website I must say that in the future I intend to be more diligent in monitoring these issues myself so that we don't run into this issue again but in closing I just want to say a thank you to Mr. Gibbs for making that motion tonight we do request additional time to address these issues thank you counsel thank you thank you Monica and next is Jerry price and then Then Pat Price and then Jeremy Young. Now is everybody in… Could we change the order just a little bit and have Pat Price speak first? Sure. My name is Patricia Price, Pat Price. I live at 1262 Castle Road. I'm a lifelong resident of Lexington and as the speakers before me have said, I've seen lots of changes. Some good, some not so good. I can remember, actually I grew up in the Montclair neighborhood and lived in the house that I live in now. Went away for a while, married, went away and came back when my father died. I live in the house that I grew up in. I played out on the street as a child. You can't do that anymore. Many things have changed and I realize change is inevitable, but I ask you to please consider this thoughtfully because our neighborhood has had a lot of challenges and this is not one that we're real happy about. We do need more time. Please consider that and please consider that if this were your neighborhood where you lived, would you want this? Thank you. Thank you Pat. Jerry. My name is Jerry Price and I too live at 1262 Castle Road. And I applaud Councilman Maloney's statement that we need more time. This was put on us at a time when we knew nothing about the swap, the deal. and we had no idea that the deal was going to come to our front yards and our front door. And I'm nowhere near as eloquent as a lot of the people that have spoken so far, but I kind of wonder about the no advocacy from the commissioner. I listened very intentively, and I did not hear anything that would address the concerns of, our neighborhood association you know there are homes in that neighborhood that have never been on the market ever and I think that if you just took some time to think about the alternatives there's a lot of other ways to connect US 60 with Tates Creek Road and US 27 to Tates Creek Road and how we 68 to Tates Creek Road and I think that that meandering the way that I saw the map was for Tates Creek Road you take a left onto Cooper go to limestone take a right go to Virginia Avenue take a left and then you're going to start connecting to the other roads and you're still not connecting to the road that is the the new town extension now some somebody's got to think some every once in a while you got to act like you got some sense and this is a bad bad bad idea for the city we're rushing into this and it's a definitely a bad idea for the Montclair Neighborhood Association and I won't use it up all my time but I've got 40 seconds I'll yield to someone else all right Jerry thank you and next Jeremy is Jeremy young all right okay Jim Bernard Crutcher yeah you're okay all right thanks man and mr. Ming Thomas Ming Thomas you're here for the yep of course Tom Mr. Mayor, I really did not come tonight with the intention of getting up and speaking. I was not prepared for that. I did sign in to the sign-in sheet. You're here now. You're here. You're doing a good job. Well, I own the property at the corner of Cooper and Summit Drive, and I've been there years. And the neighborhood there is a very, very important neighborhood. And some of the things that have been said here, and in particular, the lady who spoke two or three times ago saying that there are no plans to widen Cooper Drive. Well, I'm not getting up here calling her a liar, okay? But two years from now, three years from now, the state can say, we're going to widen Cooper Drive. And something needs to be done to not allow that to happen. And affirmative steps need to be taken to not allow that to happen. And one of those steps is not to trade this over to a state highway. And the second thing is, on one of the emails I saw earlier, some lady from the state said, well, there are no plans to widen Cooper Drive. But again, you know, that doesn't stop them from doing it two years and three years from now. And consequently, I am opposed to transferring Cooper Drive to the state. With that, I'll sit down. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. Aaron Jute, am I pronouncing correctly? Aaron? And then after Aaron is Mr. C.S. Am I pronouncing blue? Okay. Yep. Right. Sometimes I have... Y'all all write well, I promise you, but sometimes I have trouble reading it. All right, go ahead, Aaron. Thank you. My name is Aaron Judy. I live at 714 Cooper Drive, directly heart in the middle of Limestone and Dates Creek. My family and I are residents of Cooper Drive. We live there. We've been in Lexington for 15 years. I'm a U.K. grad, so just right down the street. Love living in Lexington. Love everything about it. but the lack of transparency over this land swap on Cooper Drive in the state is absolutely disrespectful to everyone in the community not only that people that live in this community but live in the neighborhood but also that are being affected by other areas as well not to mention ours and for everyone that's just been trying to sweep this underneath the rug with the other land swap opportunities that are going on is disrespectful to everybody in the community that has voted you in office including myself and I'm ashamed of the council person that said that he felt like we wouldn't care about this issue and that he would feel a little bit different if he lived in that area so maybe that person and I should swap each other's houses and he can take the hit on his 50% value of his house and I'll take his house over. I'm surprised that the council members and Mayor Graves let this go by side while they take direct effect on the Newtown Pike extension and that whole area where the Baptist Church is downtown. They seem to put more emphasis on that than a small neighborhood right next door to UK. For this, I'll yield my minute and 16 seconds. I think Aaron that council member Gibbs when there's a when there's a direct comment like that then the council member has the opportunity to respond I'm sorry I think we must have misunderstood each other I've stated several times to people that if I lived on Cooper Drive I would vote for this I'm absolutely serious I've looked at the evidence from all angles I really don't think it's gonna make that big a deal I did make a miscalculation in the sense or a mistake by not keeping new folks better informed but it wasn't a secret you know we've discussed this stuff openly in committee meetings these are these are open meetings they're on TV and so on I know everybody doesn't watch but it was a Herald-Leader article that mentioned specifically Cooper Drive on September 19th there was another one on September 28th and again I know when everybody reads the paper but this was not done in secret it was not done underneath I never said I don't care about this that's not what I said I said I said I didn't think was that big a deal and I stay with that because if you look at the evidence there is no evidence that the they're thinking about widening that road and Dahl can explain that to you in more depth we have an organization called the Metropolitan Planning Organization it has their goal set through 2040 and they just don't cook this stuff up after a year or two and we don't have time to get into that right now this was on TV I heard a story about it on WKU and again everybody can't be informed all the time but this was not done on the slide I did make a mistake by not informing people more but there was no intent to deceive and I absolutely did not say that I didn't care I absolutely did not say I felt differently because I lived on the other side of the neighborhood and I would I promise you and I think most people around here will tell you they've never caught me in a lie that if I lived on Cooper Drive I would vote for this I'm not worried about I would not be worried about it and so I'll just end there and I'm sorry I'm sorry we misunderstood thank you mayor all right now all right so Aaron you're finished is that right I didn't realize that yeah well where there was a direct assertion and the council member has an opportunity the chair has the authority recognize anyone in the Assembly I did that only because there was a direct assertion regarding his comments all right now let's go ahead and continue with CS mr. mr. blue thank you first of all my name is Scott brew and my address is 1249 Castle Road in addition to the statements previously made of which I mostly agree with I I would like to begin by restating that Cooper is already a busy road. By defining this road as a highway, two overarching effects will take place as remarked on scholarly articles and books such as Bonadvick's study done in Michigan and Waldemannual's international study, respectively. The first effect is that pollution will increase, and the second effect is that well-being will decrease. Regarding pollution, three types will increase—air, noise and materials such as trash throughout the windows. The reason why, without even widening Cooper, is the cars and trucks navigation systems will eventually, however may not immediately, reroute travelers down this road. To name a few types of travelers that will increase traffic and therefore these pollution types, there are visitors to local events, those endeavoring in personal businesses and semi-trucks from both small and big businesses. To the The effects on individuals' well-being, physical activity such as walking, running, and biking is set to decrease as well. Moreover, where traffic and pollution increases and these types of healthy lifestyle choices are maintained in surrounding neighborhoods, correlations between pollution and individuals' well-being are linked to increases in physiological diseases such as cancer and lower birth rate and emotional hardship such as depression. I would like to restate that without widening the street, but by simply deeming this road a highway, surrounding neighborhoods and the families, that is, both children and adults living in them will be subject to the ill effects of these variables over time due to the rerouting of travelers and increased pollution. Thus, the aesthetics of our streets, the quality of air breathed, the quality of sleep, and both the economic and emotional impacts of health problems, all of which impact our sense of well-being, will decrease over time. Additionally, the ability to effectively perform in our jobs as adults and learners children may decrease. Therefore, such a change needs to be reconsidered, as this change is most likely going to precipitate future expansion, that is, widening Cooper. In concert with the aforementioned points, widening this road would greatly increase the loss of personal properties, lowering the desirability of this neighborhood, and increasing the risk of schoolchildren attending Cassidy and Morden. The proverbial give an inch, take a mile seems to be looming, as the only promise or guarantee we all have is that a change is coming. However, for the physical and mental well-being of individuals and families in Lexington neighborhoods, I ask that you reconsider such plans, because this change does not need to be this road, nor at this time or in the future. Thank you, CES. Okay, next is Katie Yonker, and then Charles Yeomans, and then Ashwin, and I'm having struggle I'm struggling with the last name Ashwin the Katie my name is Katie Yonker I am a resident at 809 Cooper Drive and have been for 31 years I have three points to make many of which you've already heard today the first is the is the lack of consultation to this neighborhood in in making this change please understand that when this happens it is only natural to think that there is something else going on and that our interests are being sacrificed to serve some other overarching goal and we'll get back to that there are also there seem to be a lot of questions that haven't been answered for the council for the city itself so we're told that well first of all anyone who looked at a map who knew anything about that part of Lexington would say that if you had to have an alternative to Euclid to get between Hates Creek and Nicholasville Road what would be the best route obviously it's alumni drive you get a nice two-lane turn lane into it it's wide it has or it's a wide amount of space it has room to grow there are not garbage trucks that are or sanitation trucks that are visiting the road picking up things and stopping there aren't houses along it it's perfect so but for some reason the unit State University is unwilling to cede its whatever control it has which isn't very well defined by the way to us control over Alumni Drive to the state so if But if the state university won't do that, why should residents along an old city street feel any better about having the control over that street turned over to the state? If the state university won't do it, why? Why? If it also, if it makes really no, if Euclid in some sense has had problems enough that can only be fixed by being in city control then what does that tell us if we have problems and we do now then it's just going to be that much harder to fix them and there is the prospect of further problems let me go on though and talk about something that hasn't been discussed so much and that is that this this swap and there it's interesting there are two kind there are two swaps that are going on here but they are interconnected. One is called a land swap, even though it's roads around the university. And if those close, then of course traffic has been increased on what's left, which will be Cooper and alumni and poor Sunset Columbia. But it's called a land swap in that, and this one's a lane miles swap. But what's going on here is... Katie, excuse me just a second. Unfortunately, are you about, okay, you want to turn it over to Charles? Actually, if it's acceptable, I'd like to give my time to Katie. All right, that's great. Yep, yep, that'll work. Go for it. Thank you. So, but what seems to be happening here is that the city is apparently without cost and without a direct cost to the city going to acquire these 200 acres out of Coldstream. but it's at the cost of these streets and the land that's underneath them or the controlled by them and the traffic effects and the pollution effects and the congestion effects on the people who are around there and we all know that if you tried to charge people on cooper drive and on hilltop and those who can't use rose street anymore if you try to charge them for the privilege of being able to still travel over those streets unimpeded so that you could buy coal stream that that wouldn't be allowed we don't allow people to buy our city to buy general benefits that are supposed to benefit the entire community by taxing or by burdening only specific people this plan whether you just look at the Euclid swap or if you look at the whole land and road swap thing is maybe benefiting Lexington as a whole, but it is very specifically burdening people around the UK area, people in the Cooper Drive area, basically District 3. And that is not good governance. That is not the way that a democracy should work. Thank you. you Katie I am having this I'm struggling with the last name here Ashwin okay Ashwin yes sir Krishna sir Krishna all right um hi I live on 57th Castle Road and I can't say I'm a lifelong Lexingtonian or I've lived here for a very long time I've lived here about four years and I moved from Nashville Tennessee a city that I moved to in 1994 when it was a unique quaint southern town a lot like Lexington is today and over the 10 15 20 years that I spent there I watched it grow because as a as great of a town as it was it attracted industry attracted enterprise it attracted innovation and we started to notice the the traffic in our neighborhood becoming more and more congested my wife grew up in Lex in Charlotte North Carolina which had a very similar trajectory and we both watched both of these cities outstrip their infrastructure and become congested and difficult to navigate in many parts of the city so when I moved to Lexington four years ago I really thought it was a very nice place to live and I was immediately drawn to the Montclair neighborhood it's a neighborhood that's been around since the 1930s but what I've noticed over the past four years is our traffic and the congestion in our neighborhood is getting worse and I truly feel for the the people who live on Cooper Drive but we also start to see that traffic spill over onto the streets that adjoin Cooper Drive Scoville Castle Eldemere and Summit and Montclair I don't know if Ms. Squire is right whether they will not widen the road I don't know if Mr. Gibbs is right they may not they might it's really not their decision and it's not under their control because they are not employed by the state government and will not be making decisions on behalf of the state government but what I can tell you is that we will see more and more traffic in our neighborhood a neighborhood that is unique in that it immediately abuts the University of Kentucky is still a residential area that is not overwhelmingly populated by students is going to become more and more of a congested area a commercialized area and a problematic area and I don't want to see that happen because I really like living there and I know the citizens of Montclair like living there too so I want to thank Councilman Maloney for having the courage to represent us and I'll yield the rest of my time thank you all right thanks Ashley thank you sir next is Chad Foster Chad all right okay mr. Nichols James all right okay mr. mr. McFadden all right okay all right Kevin Camden ready yes sir good evening thank you for taking the time to listen to us I am originally from California I've been here since 2004 excuse me 2004 and I've lived on Summit Drive since 2009 I also have trouble with the notion that we have UK land swaps going on out at the freeway and at the same time what seems to be an extremely rational choice of alumni is being rejected by UK and I feel like every one of us in here is caving to UK at the expense of a historic neighborhood now today when we went to drive here Montclair had a little block on it because someone was doing some sewer work the whole neighborhood was backed up and that's just from one small street because everybody uses our neighborhood as a cut-through now if we direct more traffic through Cooper which it will it will back up even more severely than it was today it was backed up to Nicholasville Road limestone I don't understand why we would want to route more traffic to a two-lane road When alumni is a two-lane road going into Cates Creek and it's already four lanes I would expect that's what we would be looking for and then I just had a few questions I did write a wonderful speech, but everybody is pretty well gone over it. I was just curious I know government loves to do studies. You guys love studies. I haven't heard any studies There's no traffic study no environmental impact study when will the speed limit be raised when are they going to cut the trees down it seems like I'm broken record here but it it feels like we're being railroaded and nobody cares this will destroy our neighborhood absolutely destroy it and if we're talking about saving a few bucks like the woman who spoke about this on you know switching the road it'll actually cost money when our property value goes in the tank because you won't have enough property taxes to take from I mean anybody who lives on Cooper Drive their house is not going to be worth half of what it was when they're sitting on a highway anymore so I mean you're furrowing your brow but it's true would you like to live on a highway it I mean it's accurate and also if you did live in the neighborhood there would be no way you would be for this I mean no one in the neighborhood is for this I'm I'm pretty appalled actually how flippantly we're talking about destroying our neighborhood like I care about a bridge on citation there's it's not even relevant to destroy a neighborhood to get something that materially is it it's just crazy what you all are planning on doing and um thank you for listening if anyone's listening You weren't called a liar. That I would vote, if I lived on Cooper Drive, I would vote for it. You said I would not do that. I insist that I would. You don't live on Cooper Drive, so I don't think you can put yourself in our shoes. It's not possible. Let's, let's. This is a very emotional subject for us. We understand. And when we hear you speak flippantly about our home, it really irritates us. No one's speaking flippantly about it. Well. Ms. Kent, all right. Amy Clark. I prepared my remarks in writing. While I hand them out, you might want to have the next person. Sorry, wait a minute. Did we forget? I'm sorry. Yeah, forgive me. I'll be very brief, yeah. That's all right. Yeah. Very brief, yeah. That's all right. Yeah. I live at 646 Cooper Drive. Name's Kevin Colton. Kevin. I think the majority of issues have clearly been presented to you all tonight are obvious concerns. Hold on, sir. Sir, hold on for a minute. Sure. We have someone that's interrupting you. Yeah. Amy. No. Okay. I was trying to actually just say. Thank you. I just want to be fair enough. if you can pause my time because i'll yield some of my time to her as well oh you're all right yeah i just want to make a one main brief point i hope you can can all appreciate the number of people who have actually shown up here tonight that that this is a serious issue for us and one that speaking on behalf of myself and my wife in this instance we don't feel that we were properly informed about so I hope that you can at least consider allowing adequate time for some additional in-depth study into the actual implications of this change when there seems to be an obvious alternative I do not understand why you you would potentially burden the people that are on Cooper when alumni seems like such a better layering use for that road than then swap the second brief point i'll make is what i mean what are we really resolving by doing this what is the main question for potentially burdening people on Cooper. I mean, eliminating some turns and cleaning up these routes, is this really kind of a linchpin to this whole swap? I mean, is this truly needed? Or can this actually be pulled out? Thank you. Okay, thank you, Kevin. All right, Amy Clark. Amy Clark and I live at 628 Castle Road and I apologize for distracting you during another person's important message. I'm a nigh on 20 year resident of historic Hollywood Terrace. I may be the only person here not from Montclair and I do have a different perspective on it. I'm really here to ask for more time, as Mr. Gibbs has done, and also especially Mr. Maloney, because he's asking for really more time. And I think I share with Mr. Gibbs a concern for the whole of the 3rd District, with UK in the middle of it, not exclusively the Cooper Drive and the bordering Montclair neighborhood, but all the neighboring streets. I speak as a lifelong cyclist, and I've biked to school since I was eight years old, and I am now afraid to bike in my own neighborhood. I have had accidents. I have seen others have accidents, and the traffic has gotten terrible. I want to ask you, please let's not rush the Euclid element of the whole road exchange. I think it would be a good idea to take it out of this package and address it separately over the longer term. You will see on the handout a number of studies. Someone asked if there are studies going forward. Well, actually, we're in the middle of a study that's a third of a million dollars on how to improve Euclid. And I would like to ask you to give Euclid a second chance. I think Euclid makes a good state route, and we have to beg the state somehow to allow the sort of pedestrian and cyclist accommodations, the necessary adjustments to make Euclid work for us. We really can't have a community where the state cannot be trusted to regulate its major and minor arterials. And I would like to say, since I have offered the interpretation that Cooper is or will become a highway or more of a highway, highway is not a functional classification for roads in this county. Cooper is a minor arterial. There's nothing about an ownership change that would the next day change the name of it. Highway is an interpretation. It's not a word. Three things we need time for. Ask UK to share the road, alumni. We would need a lot of time for that. It would be very hard to get them to do that. We get that. You understand that better than we. Ask the state to rethink its resistance on Euclid to certain cyclist and pedestrian safety measures allow regulated mid-block crossing and I will say at this point that Karen Sheets has volunteered to yield her three minutes to me she's signed up to speak that's fine thank you okay instead of bartering one road for another keep working to collaborate on Euclid there's a lot of good we're trying to develop on Euclid but Euclid is a major road and it's been made a a major road. It's been widened. In a sense, it's been ruined already with the four-laning back in the 60s. It concerns me very much that Euclid in 2007 had an average daily traffic volume of 16,300 cars. And when it was counted in 2016, it had a volume of 11,000 cars. To me, that says neither the city nor the state are regulating this major road well because we need a big road to do a big job. Something's gone wrong there. We need this plan, this study going forward. And what we especially need is the public input, the public engagement phase. It's to be a 17-month study. It's been about 19 or 21 months at this point. And I understand that things get delayed. It's gotten delayed. But we're stuck. I haven't seen phase two of the seven phases, the part that has public engagement. And I regret that there's misinformation, and I surely have tried very hard not to spread misinformation, but when you have amateurs doing the job, sometimes that sort of thing happens. Please share information. Please bring public input into the Euclid multimodal redesign. I think also the neighboring streets could benefit from a neighborhood traffic management program. There's data collection in that. What we're seeing is that when Euclid doesn't do its job, all the neighboring streets have to do it instead. instead and that greatly compromises my safety as a cyclist and as a walker and the safety of all my neighbors. It's not about more cars getting conveniently where they're going. It's actually about keeping the cars where they won't impair the safety and civility of our neighborhoods. I'd like to mention that Jeff Neal and David Filiatro won a national prize for designing safer school crossings throughout the city. And that's the kind of good work we're seeing from our staff in transportation and traffic engineering. There's a lot of good work going on and there's a lot more to be done. I think it's clear to you from and thank you for hearing us I think it's clear that that we have real concerns about traffic issues and safety issues that are there today please take six months take take it out of this package and allow the multimodal study of Euclid to go forward to make the best decision for everyone in the third district thank you and the city Thank you, Amy. All right. Is anyone else here to speak from Bernard? Okay, Bernard. I didn't know if you were here to speak to Cooper or not. The swap that offended the people on Cooper has me upset for a different reason, and that is because you guys only proposed this so you could get your hands on the Jefferson Viaduct and tear it down. But way, way back, the first political squabble I waded into that brought me in front of your predecessors was over a project called Rosemont Extension. That one never got built because about 10 different neighborhoods opposed it and all started their speeches with the phrase, nobody wants this road. Well, having my existence denied merely because I had a different opinion was enough to get me to come back and pester all of you guys to this very day. But I will say, I think tearing out Jefferson and handing side streets, handing various other streets over to the university, which could then tear them out in the future, will cause a ripple effect that's probably going to hurt the people on Cooper more so than state ownership of Cooper would, I believe. But I will say, because in the battle over Rosemont Extension, the people along Cooper and Montclair were the few allies I actually had. And if it wasn't for them, Alumni Drive might not exist today, and if it did exist, it would probably still be the university's private driveway only opened at football games. So I'd say haul off this whole swap thing, keep Jefferson open, Thank you, Bernard. And I believe that the members from Main Street Baptist are here, and they're also, you all are here to speak to the same resolution, number 28. If you all would like to speak now, that's fine. Is Paul Price here? Daryl, you signed on. Paul, Daryl, you going to speak? Okay. All right, sir. Good evening Mayor and Councilmembers this is interesting for me because this is the first time I can be on the opposite side so first of all I want to thank you all for your service to our community and thank you all for just a moment of your time just to hear some of our concerns again my name is Darrell Love and I am a resident of 988 Firethorne Place and I have been a citizen of Lexington for 29 years of which I have been a member of Main Street Baptist Church for 28 of those years years. Earlier the mayor stated there is nothing closer to the heart than the home and I would like to add that there is nothing more closer to the heart than one's place of worship. With both the expansion of the Lexington Convention Center and Town Branch Commons Park over the last couple of months members and leadership of our church Main Street Baptist Church have been before this body to first bring awareness to our need for parking and second develop and agree upon a win-win solution that would provide adjacent and control parking. As you have heard repeatedly from the speakers from our church, it is critical that we have adequate parking in order to function as a church. While working both with Brandy Peacher and others, we have made progress that has resulted an identification of 92 parking spaces, including our existing 26 spaces. However, 92 spaces are not adequate enough to meet our needs. So we look forward to continued discussion with all parties involved to secure a minimum of 100 additional spaces. A Main Street Baptist Church has a rich history, and we are an asset to our community and both the downtown landscape. It is my hope that as we seek to enrich our downtown area, we are careful to build upon and not destroy such a great historical institution such as that of Main Street Baptist Church. Thank you for your time. Darrell, thank you very much. All right. I believe that's all. It's signed on to speak. Did I miss anybody? Yes, sir. Come on. Come on. My name is Tom Randolph. Oh, Tom, I'm sorry. I did get started. You came a little bit late. Sorry. Oh, that's fine. Yes, sir. Thank you for allowing me to speak. In my opinion, it appears Mayor Gray is going to do what he wants to do without concern for you here. In the past, I thought about moving to Lexington or moving my business to Lexington. I have changed my mind after watching Mayor Gray in action on another matter. Excuse me. Point of order. Our rules really require that you not make assertions about individuals who are serving. No attack on individuals is allowed. May I use initials like M.G.? No. Okay, unmentionable person? No. I think if you have a point to make, it's in general. May I just say blank? The point of order I'm making is that we have rules of procedure in this council and they prohibit personal attack. Oh, this isn't a personal attack. I said in my opinion. It's not a personal attack. It's an opinion. Look, Tom, all right. As the chair, I have the responsibility to rule on the point of order. I will accept the point of order. Now, it doesn't matter to me what you say about me. I'm okay with that. But the council rules are what we follow. All right. I'll try to speak without saying your name. Is that okay? All right. You've got three minutes and go right ahead. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. adjust the clock we took some of his time oh that's all right okay so to start over uh thank you for allowing me to speak in my opinion it a mere it appears it's going to do what what there what's going to be done without concern for you here in the past i thought about moving to lexington or moving my business to lexington but after noticing what happened with the recent issue i changed my mind after watching what goes on in here in action. I've been to two meetings and spoke to two meetings. I noticed with the monuments issue that, in my opinion, there was grandstanding for a political career. And I believe that the law was broken when the monuments were moved from Cheapside without permission from the proper authorities, in my opinion. It is my hope that the party or parties responsible will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I believe you good folks here can either move away from Lexington or work to remove a certain individual and perhaps other individuals from office. Thank you very much. All right. Tom, thank you very much. Yes, sir. All right. I think that's all that have signed on to item 28. We do have some council members that wish to comment, and I will call on them first as they have signed on. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. I actually I agree with a lot of the comments that have been made and I've actually made that clear to Councilmember Gibbs and Mayor Gray that I just feel like all along this project's been a little messed up it's like things or the strategic plan of it of the communication was an issue and perhaps that we could have not done it any other way but I just perhaps that if we had really looked at it strategized we could have avoided this but that my comment I I do have some questions for the Commissioner okay Commissioner I can swear Dowell Huston's flyer yeah mr. Dowell running so it's my understanding that we're going to take some time and perhaps look get alumni and see if we could convince UK that that would become a state route I think what was voted on earlier was that we will have some more time but we have talked to UK on multiple occasions and don't believe they are willing to relinquish ownership of alumni to the state do any state routes exist on roads that the state does not control because I see it as putting up a sign directing people through our city route 1974 or whatever it is and they would maintain it I just I guess I don't see why it is so complicated to you know so because it's so complicated it does make me agree with the folks that live along Cooper that you know it's like we all can't play together so are there any other streets in Lexington that are residential areas that are a state route that you can give me as an example. One that comes to mind is US 25 Richmond Road, which as we know there's very nice houses along Richmond Road coming into Lexington. Right. So that comes to mind. North Broadway, there's also a number of residences along North Broadway. I mean, I'm sure that there's a number of state routes that have residential areas. And, you know, and I see Tates Creek, Nicholsville, Harrodsburg, so forth as being major highways, even though they're, you know, for Sales Road has residential properties. So does Broadway, south and north. But this is a residential street. So if you were to say, for instance, if Mason Headley were a state route. So, I don't know, I just can't help but feel we could have done a lot better than what we've done with this. And I just wish we could take the time to back up, sit down, look at all of these streets, communicate with the folks that are going to be affected and you know I just don't think that we should be having to deal with you know I'm sorry I feel that way but that is what has become you mentioned earlier I'm gonna rep Parker's meal not all of Parker's meal Well, Perkins Mill, a lot of it is residential, currently a state road. But I would be willing to guarantee you that the people that live on Perkins Mill are not aware that it's going to become a city road, although I think they would probably be happy. But you had mentioned that we own most of the land on Perkins Mill, and that's really not accurate. I think we own it beyond New Circle to Manowar, but up to Manowar, which is a huge stretch of Parker's Mill, is privately owned residential property. You're correct. But I don't know how to fix this, but thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. All right. Council Member Farmer. Council Member Farmer. Sorry, I did something else. Excuse me. Commissioner I did have one question for you that I would just say in general this is one of the best briar patches we've gotten into in a long time I guess and this may be a distinction without a difference or a question that I haven't asked or understand If we do this the road from Cooper at Tate's Creek to Cooper and I guess Nicklausville Road would become the new 1974 Would that not be correct? That's correct so I guess I in your discussions with the University they don't have they don't have an objection to that part of Cooper becoming a state road different from their objection to not letting alumni become a state road I think it's a matter of ownership they don't currently own that portion of Cooper Drive it's already a city street so they own Alumni Drive they own Alumni Drive from the Arboretum to South Limestone. But they don't own Cooper from KET to the intersection? I got nothing else. Thank you. All right. Let me ask a question. I realize that this comment is unlikely to relieve anxieties tonight, but I'm going to mention it only because it had an impact on me. when I heard this comment from Dowell and from the state engineer the other day when we met with Chip and Clyde and with Monica and it was that the only difference will be who pays for the blacktop. That was what I heard and was that what you heard as well? was from the state and that's what you said as well Dal I think it's worthwhile to at least amplify on that and also well go ahead with that yeah I mean I think and also the MPO role which is a complicated another complicated dimension of the of the way in which the roads are what any road may be widened but that's important sure I think it I think it is truly a matter of maintenance responsibility so we're transferring basically maintenance responsibility where we're taking 15 lane miles of maintenance responsibility and they're taking 20 they have said they would never take Cooper Drive if there were plans to widen Cooper Drive they would bear the burden of that they would never agree to take Cooper Drive as a state is the state I'm sorry the state and I think that it is important on how projects are prioritized and how projects how roadway projects become an actual project and they're funded if Cooper Drive were ever to be widened it would have to come as a result from a request from the city which goes through the Metropolitan Planning Organization the Metropolitan Planning Organization then prioritizes project requests that are then passed along as recommendations to the state to be entered into the highway plan so in order for cooper drive widening to ever become a project it would have to come as a request from the city so from a practical standpoint i don't see that happening um given clearly there's opposition to that happening um and also from a practical standpoint um it would be very expensive because you'd have to purchase right away expensive right away from 47 parcels up to tates creek road which itself is only two lanes so tates creek road would also have to be widened so i mean from a practical standpoint these things um don't make sense so earlier I said that realizing that that whatever is said may is very unlikely to relieve anxiety and distress over this it's still important that this be mentioned that in order for any widening to occur it would go through a process which is enormously unlikely for it ever occur and it would require the same process if the city were to go through it right and we also have a list of priority projects through the year 2040 which are part of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan there has been no request for Cooper Drive to be part of that 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan nor do I foresee anybody requesting Cooper Drive to be widened as part of the next long-range transportation plan all right council member Maloney thank you mayor I just want everybody to go back and listen to what they said a lot of you all have not been here this I've been here this year for 30 years and I've seen a lot of changes in what you all said with truth that the state can get now you know this council here I hope some of you say here you do great but I don't know I don't know how I stayed here 30 years but I've seen tremendous changes and the one thing that I've learned from being on this council you don't give up something you own and when you give up something you own you never get that right back and the problem I have is you may not think Cooper's gonna it may not but still can be having this council controlling that street for you all it's more important than the state and that's why I agree I had problems when why South Ashland which was original plan was supposed to say there and then they believe it over to Cooper now why is South Ashland better than Cooper I don't think any of these streets should be in the state hands right now because it's residential The only street that I think should be in here, and I've said it all along, is Euclid because the state owns University of Kentucky. You've got all those new apartment complex all surround up down Euclid. They own those, the state does. I know UK, but the state is daughter. And to me you should leave UK in there with the state owned by Euclid and I agree Going back to Parker's Mill with council members Henson said we don't we just don't want what area of Parker's Mill we just don't there where we know we're ever going to develop which we won't and But like she said majority of that is owned by that farm all the way up down and that's a Healy farm and then behind it is owned by some other folks so that is statewide that is going all the way to Woodford County and know it has a road number on it so state needs to control that and that's why I've given a week to do this study and I know I was it this example it's what they're talking about in 30 years they're not talking a week and to me I've been here for 30 some of y'all may have, may have, Fred Brown was here, he's seen a lot of changes, but this has changed a lot and I don't, and I agree with what you all say, we should not give up these kind of roads to the state and I hope my colleagues understand what they're saying. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you Mayor. I just want to follow up on one point and I'll preface it the same way that the Mayor did I don't think there's any way to relieve some of the anxiety about this change there is no way to guarantee that if it were to go forward that there would never be any negative consequences but I've sat on the planning on the Metropolitan Planning Organization board along with seven other council members and part of what you need to know is that this is an MPO it's Fayette County and Jessamine County the Fayette County delegates have a significant majority on that board so even if through some happenstance that we cannot imagine somebody were to propose that the likelihood that it that there would be any change to the nature of that street it just does not seem reasonable so I would encourage all of you from the neighborhood to talk to the people of the state, talk to our staff who run the MPO, talk to all of us, get a better idea of what this really means. Because I believe that you would be able to mostly satisfy yourself that the change to a state road designation is not going to significantly impact that street. I'll stop. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I guess I got a question for Dow, and it may have already been asked. I just don't know if I caught the answer completely. But the classification of this street when it transfers over to the state, it doesn't change from what the load of traffic that it's projected to. If you're referring to the functional classification of the street, it will not change. And what about the process to reexamine it in the future? Is it the same process that the city would take to evaluate it? Is it the same process that the state has? That's a great question. I know that the MPO, every so many years, looks at functional classification. I don't know whether they're looking at just city streets or state routes. I don't know the answer to that. Well, I think that's also relevant to the issue. And I would also say, and this may not be appropriate, but Council Member Gibbs has taken a lot of shots tonight on how the situation has been handled. And from my opinion and from what I know from Council Member Gibbs serving with him, I think that he doesn't do anything that he doesn't think is in the best interest of his constituency. Now, he has admitted that he may have handled the situation differently. Looking back on it, I think we all as council members may look at this situation differently as we move forward. But I would just like to say publicly that I think Council Member Gibbs does a good job of representing his constituency. I think his integrity is unquestionable, and it's been a pleasure serving with Council Member Gibbs. So I would just like his constituency that are here tonight to know that, and that I think that have some understanding for this situation because things change on a daily basis there's so many issues coming at us we do our best to represent those that we serve and share information in a timely fashion and I think he's deserving of that kind of understanding so thank you thank you mayor thank you councilmember Brown councilmember Massadi thank you mayor and very well said Council Member Brown. Do you mind coming to the podium? I know all these pieces have to work together. All these different, as far as Jefferson Street, Cooper Drive. What is the timeline? Is there a proposed timeline that this all has to be done by in order for this to be, I guess, completed? I'm just wondering how much of a hurry are we to have this done? Is there something that's saying that, okay, we need to have this project done by this state or else I think the critical path is the demolition of the Jefferson Street viaduct so it's my understanding that the Convention Center construction could start this spring and so that's the that's the most important from a timing because we still haven't I had a full agreement with yet church from what I understand we're still working through that and what do you have any anticipation of how long that may take you know Brandy's been the lead on that it's my understanding that we would draft a more formal agreement once we have ownership of that right away because right now we do not it's the state right away I don't know if you want Brandy to provide more information but I really haven't been involved in those discussions so I can't answer that with a whole lot of detail I'm just trying to get a handle on the timeline that's all and we're you know what precipitates this and obviously this the LCC expansion I understand that but I just wondered if that has we have timeline on that maybe someone from the board here that fits on the board either council member senator Farmer can give me an answer we've got any kind of a timeline as far as that I was just speaking with the mayor about that very same subject you know we had actually a meeting about the phasing and the timing for all of the construction that has to do the new convention center and the exterior for Ruff Arena and all that today and literally in all of that discussion, at least while I was at the meeting, anything about the viaduct did not come up. I think what's going to go on at LCC can go on separately, but I think that further down the line they're going to come together as work on the park meets up with the work for the convention center, which are all kind of the park can't happen until the construction is done in the area where the parks gonna be so you can't really tear down the bridge until you're to that point so I think you're a couple years away at a minimum because it's not a to me it's not a high priority for what we're talking about we're trying to get the project done first the other things would follow second that makes sense you just said two years so I that's what I was just trying to get a timeline okay thank you no smur stennett thank you mayor and i would just add that you know as we work to get the convention center off the ground the project started you know no determination i know you said the word demolition the bridge we haven't made that 100% yet either the main focus here is to get control from the city and that way we all once we have control we can make a decision on what to do with it right now we don't have that luxury until we get control of it serves my question have we asked and officially received an answer from the Secretary of Transportation at the cabinet level it has to be all or none have we asked just for the bridge but the other ones on the back burner for now and so we can proceed with some indication the city would have ownership thus the decision making power on just the Jefferson Street and alleviate some of the other fears have we asked the secretary for an official letter saying no they won't do that we have coordinated with the state highway engineers office in Frank that reports to the secretary, but I have not had a conversation with the secretary of transportation. Do we have something in writing that says it has to be all or nothing? Because I know we tried early on just to proceed with the bridge, and we were told by locally that they didn't want to do that. It wasn't an all or none demand, it was just they prefer not to. And I understand why. Yeah, I think they're speaking on behalf of the office in Frank. Well, can we get an answer the next week while we're on this, just to say, hey, yeah, it needs to be all or none officially and move on. and that way if it can be separated i think getting the ownership of the bridge of the council and everyone else at lcc and the town branch commons can have some clear indication of what direction in the church on who's going to make these calls going forward thank you thank you mayor councilmember fred brown thank you mayor i've just kind of stepped back and tried to take everything in but it seems like to me we've got a lot of controversy and we've got looks like to me about three issues involved here. It's the road swap with the state and then we have the road swap and land with University of Kentucky. So, you know, it looks like to me that, Mayor, you could probably call it, but I guess I want to call it a summit where you have somebody that can make the decision from the State Department of Transportation. You can make it even if you have to go up to the president of the University of Kentucky and then this administration which would be you as the head and probably the council member that be in that area bring those party together and don't let them out of the room until you lay out the maps because we've just started if if I know all council members probably aware of this we're just starting on this problem because we haven't got the neighborhood groups from around UK that have come forward yet so and I think it's councilmember Gibbs area too so he's He's got it all on his shoulder as far as that goes. But I don't know. I'd just like to see some compromise somewhere and say, look, this is the streets. This is the land. All of this is put it on a map. What can we do that will benefit those three parties plus the neighborhoods associated with it? I guess I try to make it too simple. All right. All right, any other council members? All right, I think we've gotten everybody then, and we want to thank everyone who has been with us tonight. Appreciate your being here. Appreciate your comments. We said earlier, certainly here and are listening to the anxieties that you all have expressed. as Clyde you said earlier nothing is closer to the heart than the home where we can make improvements we will certainly always work on that appreciate your being here thank you now we're going to move on into the rest of our into our agenda our regular agenda which We have an update from Dr. Humball from the, what? I'm sorry, I thought I heard something. While everybody's exiting, our health department, our commissioner, Craig. I advance. All right. Thank you. All right. Doctor. All right. Thanks for having me tonight. Again, I'm Dr. Craig Humbaugh. I'm the Commissioner of Health at your Lexington Fayette County Health Department. And I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about our needle exchange program at the two-year mark. So we're talking about the track record of this program for the last two years that has been in existence. I think it's especially timely to talk about this issue tonight because first of all in light of the president's declaration recently of opioid crisis is a public health emergency and also Mayor Gray's press conference today I think it was really heartening to see how many of us in the community are concerned about the rising human and financial costs of the substance abuse issue and that we acknowledge that injection drug use as is a public health but also a social and even a business problem for us here in the community so let me start to by just reviewing what the goals of the needle exchange program are basically so from a public health standpoint it's to control the spread of diseases that are spread by sharing dirty needles so that we can get our clients to use a clean needle every single time but also to provide a safe disposal place for dirty needles decreasing the risk of needles being risk for other people at the community so decreasing the risk in the community of people being exposed to dirty needles other objectives include building client trust with this particular population serving as a place for other services for this population and decreasing deaths from opioid overdoses so I've included in this presentation a few comments from our our clients our program is open on Fridays from 11 to 4 30 every Friday at our main health department location which is Newtown Pike and Loudoun Avenue it's free and it's anonymous and I want to reiterate that the science shows the programs like these do not encourage needle use but and while they're not a magic bullet they can be used as an important tool in preventing outbreaks and preventing disease spread so just this is in your packet I think this is an important statement here the safer I am the better chance I have of staying alive into getting into recovery it's a poignant statement but a statement of hope from one of our clients so those of you who are more likely to pay attention to the fiscal impact of this program, I want to start right out by saying prevention is certainly more cost effective than treatment. And I want you to pay attention to this argument if you would. This is a program that's costing the health department about $150,000 a year, and yet, if we prevent one one or two cases of either hepatitis C or HIV is paying for the program. So the average cost of treating one case of hepatitis C is about $50,000 to $100,000. Lifetime cost of HIV is over $350,000. Just want to make sure that you realize that preventing blood-borne disease saves society dollars in the long run. This is my money slide, I wouldn't be an epidemiologist if I didn't show you some data from the program Can you believe that over the two years we have already served over 2,000 individual clients in almost 9,000 visits? And this is our client service numbers by month You can see, I'll call your attention to September as the largest month to date on record at our needle exchange program over 850 visits to the program and were only open on Fridays and as you can see in the blue that's actually the percentage of folks who are brand new clients each month and it has remained fairly steady in the last few months at 15 percent so we're still seeing about 15 percent of clients that walk in the door each month brand new never have come to the program before in the past Over 330,000 needles have been distributed during the life of the program and over 280,000 needles have been returned for safe disposal. If we look at the exchange by returning clients only, you'll see that we are approaching a one-to-one exchange for the established clients. We're actually at .94 to one. Who do we serve? About 60% of our clients are male, 40% female. That mirrors the gender split from other exchanges. Almost 70% of our clients are in their mid-20s to mid-40s. These are folks that are considered to be the prime of their working lives. Though many of our clients' work, as evidenced by the uniforms that some wear to the exchange, impacts the labor force in this prime age group and the ability of our businesses to attract a substance free workforce. And finally, I wanted to make sure you understood that almost all of the zip codes in the county are represented by our clients. This is a depiction of that and we even have some clients that are outside This is another comment from one of our clients. The needle exchange has helped me in a way that I'm not digging through my own garbage trying to find an old used needle I had thrown away or stopping my car and walking along the side of the road. This is helpful to me so that I don't contract diseases that thankfully I hadn't caught yet. Let's talk briefly about partnerships because this wouldn't work with partnerships and it's one way for us to measure our success. At the health department we're very fortunate to be partnering with a number of organizations across the community and many of those were represented at this morning's press conference. So first of all, we use our own disease intervention specialists to do rapid HIV and hepatitis to see testing but we're very much indebted to the city's social services abuse violence and prevention program namely Amy Baker who's now supplemented by Karen McLean for Crystal's house we're providing counseling and referral services to substance abuse recovery there have been 114 referrals since since April of 2016 from the program. Many of you may have seen that recently we were fortunate to through a federal grant award secured by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center procure over 1200 naloxone, which is Narcan kits, to be able to restart naloxone training and distribution this high-risk population at the exchange program it's allowing us to restart it previously we had been in collaboration with UK School of Pharmacy but that grant award finished now we're using trained public health nurses to dispense naloxone we're also fortunate the drug-free Lex has also enabled us to purchase additional kits and is also awarding us some supplemental funding of $11,000 as well. We're grateful to both of those groups for their support. Other important partnerships have helped us raise awareness of this problem in the community and also our needle exchange program. We've partnered by participating in forums that Public Safety has held in local churches. Those have been spearheaded by Commissioner Bastin and his team. We're also at other outreach events and we've pursued other mechanisms such as Lexington Community Radio to help us get the word out. One final quote, this has been a life-changing experience because I am not reusing old needles. I wish there was another location and more days in the week that you come in, plus having people there to send you in the right direction for treatment meetings and other things to help you nobody judges so it really helps i hope that some of these quotes are helping to put a human face on the work that we do at the health department in line with this quote i think that we do need to think about how to expand thoughtfully to meet the certain needs of this particular population the program has a solid track record of performance one colleague of mine has called this a sad success if i can borrow his terminology however we've reached a point that we are outgrowing our hours our location and our current staffing model we need to consider how we thoughtfully expand the program we will continue to reach out to the community at large and to leverage resources like we have in the past we're very grateful for those who are helping us to sustain the program and the other services that we're able to provide for the community to continue to make lexington safer and healthier so if you have questions i'd be happy to try to answer those if you haven't visited the exchange I encourage you to contact me or Kevin Hall and make an appointment to potentially visit and see what goes on at the exchange we have also have we'd be glad for you to come and observe one of the Narcan training and distribution classes that happen at the exchange we have some demonstrator kits they're limited supply but if you as council members want one of those please contact me or Kevin Hall and we'll see if we can get one of those for you so you can demonstrate how easy it is to give Narcan in the you know what you're doing all right thank you thank you doctor Vice Mayor Kay has a comment or question thank you mayor and thank you so much both for your presentation and for all this good work very important work I think everyone in the community recognizes that and I'm glad we've gotten to the point where we understand how helpful this can be how important it is for the people who are users and for the general community I have only one question I know your numbers have been going up you believe that the number of users is still on the increase or has Has that begun to plateau and you're simply reaching more of the people who have been users all along? You know, we don't know the answer to that. It's really difficult to say. We have remained in the same location. We think maybe if we have a second location, it could possibly mean that we would attract more people who are already current users. We don't know the user numbers are going up. What we do know is that unfortunately, overdose deaths from opioids have continued to rise through the most recent year we have statistics which is 2016. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I just simply want to say thank you very much. I know you guys do great work. committed to our community and this serves such a this is an important need Narcan is important recovery is important all of this but if you are an addict and you decide to go into recovery and you've used dirty needles you could have a whole different set of issues facing you so I'm glad this is something we did I'm glad that the state of Kentucky allowed it so Fort Lexington to make that decision so thank you for that and everything else the Health Department does yeah thank you Councilmember Henson all right that's all doctor that signed on for comments or questions thank you very much thanks for all your thanks for all the work that you and everyone does it at the Health Department All right that allows us to get to ordinances for a second reading madam clerk whenever you're ready We've got four Just four okay Ordnance number one in order to changing the zone from a highway service business B3 zone to a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone For 0.44 net 0.60 gross acre for property located at 757 Newtown Pike SCW Newtown LLC council district 1 number 2 An ordinance changing the zone from a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone to a light industrial I1 zone for 0.71 net 0.1 excuse me 1.14 gross acres for property located at 300 Alexander Drive FRM Lawson property council district 12. Number three. An ordinance changing the zone from a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone to a neighborhood business B1 zone for 1.36 net 1.80 gross acres for property located at 119, 121, 123, and 131 Virginia Avenue, 665, 685, and 693 South Limestone Street, and 662 Maxwellton Court, Coral Lexington, 685 Limestone LLC, council district 3. and number four and ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating reappropriating funds schedule number 10 motion by councilmember Henson to approve and second by councilmember Scotchfield is there any discussion all right madam clerk please call the roll vice-mirror came yes miss Lam mr. Maloney miss Massadi miss Plowman Ms. Gutchfield? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Stinnett? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Recuse on number three. Did you say three? Thank you. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? And Ms. Henson? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. It allows us to move on to ordinances for a first read. if you'll please proceed ordinance number five in order to mending certain of the budgets of the Lexington vader and kind of government to reflect current requirements for funds the amount of $2,000 in the division of traffic engineering from the council projects funds for improvements to the new pedestrian intersection located at the intersection of South Ashland Avenue and Ashland Avenue and appropriating reappropriating funds schedule number 12 number six and ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington vader and kind of government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $9,000 in the division of traffic engineering from the council project funds for speed tables on Bullock Place and appropriating reappropriating funds Schedule number 13. Number 7, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $26,414.80 from the council project's funds for Kentucky theater renovation and appropriating reappropriating funds. Schedule number 14. Number 8, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating reappropriating funds. Schedule number 11. Number 9, an ordinance amending section 121A of the code of ordinances related to the property maintenance code to delete the 1998 edition and include the 2015 edition of the International property maintenance code amending section 12 1b of the code of ordinances related to the property maintenance code do not incorporate the following sections of the 2015 property maintenance code 111 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 11.2.2 excuse me 11.2.4 11.2.5 11.3 11.4 11.4.1 11.5 11.6 11.6 11.6.1 11.6.1 11.7 11.8 302.4 304.17 308.2 308.2.1 308.2.3 308.3 point three point one three point three point two and three oh nine point five to include p.m. one two three one or two point three application of other codes to allow for delegation of enforcement in p.m. one three point one to renumber p.m. one two three point four two p.m. one two three point four five to allow for designation in p.m. one of four point six to revise the penalty schedule to include violations from thirty to forty one or above and add fines of six hundred six hundred dollars to twenty five hundred dollars in p.m. one of six point four point one point B excuse me B to delete the publication requirement and require posting of the property in p.m. one of 7.1 to include PM 107.6 transfer of ownership to delete PM 108.1 utility removal and replace with PM 108.1 general to raise the administrative cost from $75 to $250 in PM 108.2 to include PM 108.2.1 disconnection of utility services to include PM 108.5 prohibited occupancy to include PM 108.5 point one occupying a condemned structure to include PM 108.5 point two violation of PM 108.5 to delete PM 110.4 to include PM 112.4 failure to comply with an order to include PM 201.3 related to other codes to renumber PM 303.19 to PM 301.4 and revising the reference to KAR to include PM 303.2.1 discharge of stormwater to include PM 304.3.1 unit identification to renumber PM 304.15 to 304.14 creating PM 304.15 doors creating PM 309.3 single occupancy creating PM 309.4 multiple occupancy creating PM 402.2 halls and stairways creating p.m. 503.4 floor surfaces deleting p.m. 504.4 deleting p.m. 602.2.1 deleting p.m. 602.2.2 creating p.m. 602.3 heat supply renumbering p.m. 602.3 to p.m. 602.4 and changing the changing from non-residential structures to occupiable workspaces renumbering p.m. 602.5 to p.m. 602.6 amending p.m. 605.2 to include ground fault interrupters deleting p.m. 701.1 creating p.m. 702.4.1 means of escape creating PM 704.2, smoke alarms creating PM 704.2.1.5, smoke alarms deleting PM 705.5.2, deleting PM 901.1, deleting PM 901.2, deleting PM 901.2.1, deleting PM 902.2, deleting PM 902.3, deleting PM 903.1, deleting PM 904.1, deleting PM 905.1, deleting PM 906.1, amending section 12-2-A of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to include definitions of ashes, debris, garbage, trash, and weed, amending section 12-2-B of the code of ordinances related to nuisances, deleting the requirements of substantial diminution. Amending Section 122C1 of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to include non-licensed, improper licensed, or inoperative vehicles. Amending 122C3 of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to include garbage, debris, trash, excuse me, ashes or trash, or any other kind of waste. Amending Section 122C4A of the Code of Ordinances to add a variety of weeds to this section, including those classified by the United States Department of Agriculture. Amending Section 122C4B of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to replace the 12-inch height requirement with 10 inches that does not apply to crops, trees, bushes, shrubs, flowers, or ornamental plants, creating a new section 122C4D of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to provide for maintenance of bushes, shrubs, plants, and vines and other vegetation, creating section 122C4E of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to renumber former section 122C4D to 122C4E, deleting section 122C5 of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances amending section 122C6 of the Code of Ordinances related to nuisances to renumber to 122C5 to include other inoperable or demolished objects, deleting section 12 to C7 of the code of ordinances related to nuisances and renumbering it as 12 to C6, and to include the accumulation of mud, dirt, and moss, amending the second section 12 to C of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to include carports and decks and renumbering to 12 to D, creating section 12 to E of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to maintain compost piles, amending section 12 to D of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to renumber the section to 12 to F, creating section 12 to G of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to renumber former section 12 to e to 12 to g creating section 12 to h of the code of ordinances related to nuisances to renumber former section 12 to f to 4 to 12 to h amending section 12 5 B of the code of ordinances related to penalties to increase the period from 12 months to 24 months and to increase the maximum fine to $1,500 amending section 12 5 C of the code of ordinances related to penalties to increase the period from 12 months to 24 months and to increase the maximum fine to $1,500 amending section 12 84 B of the code of ordinances related to accumulation of snow as a nuisance to change the reference section of the code from 12 7 to 12 3 Number 10, an ordinance amending Articles 138910, 1215, 1617, 22A and B, 23 and 24 of the Zoning Ordinance to move several uses from the conditional use category to either the principal permitted or the accessory use category planning commission. Number 11, an ordinance amending the unclassified civil service authorized rank by abolishing one position of equipment operator grade 510 and creating one position. I think that was an indicator of something. Yeah. Yeah. Shall I proceed? Go right ahead. Yes, go right ahead. Creating one position of educational program aid, grade 508 and in the Division of Youth Services effective upon passage of Council and number 12, an ordinance pursuant to section 21A of the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Fade-Urban County Government adopting a schedule of meetings for the Council for the calendar year 2018. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any motions? none all right then madam clerk you may proceed resolution number one a resolution accepting the bid of Lexington truck sales incorporated establishing a price contract for cabin chassis truck with rear loading refuse collection body for the division of facilities and fleet management number two a resolution accepted bid of Tim short Ford of Moorhead in the amount of forty eight thousand forty nine dollars for a Ford f-550 truck for the division of facilities and fleet management number three a resolution accepted a bid of man of war Harley-Davidson establishing price contract for motorcycles for law enforcement for the division of facilities and fleet management number four a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointment of Aaron Johnson public service supervisor senior grade 517 and 23.5 oh hourly in the division of water quality effective of November 13th 2017 to one Lewis resource recovery operator grade 513 and 17.374 hourly in the division of waste management William Faust fleet operations manager degree 521 e 2007 66.64 bi-weekly in the division of facilities and fleet management both effective October 30 2017 and Audrey Jones human resources analyst grade 528 1,881.60 bi-weekly in the Division of Human Resources effective November 13th 2017 ratifying the permanent civil service appointment of Corey Walker traffic signal technician senior grade 515 and 25.500 hourly in the division of traffic engineering effective October 3rd 2017 ratifying the probationary sworn appointment of Andrew Myatt police sergeant grade 315 and 31.149 hourly in the division of police effective October 2nd 2017 and ratifying the unclassified civil service appointments of Melissa McCart Smith administrative aid to mayor senior grade 524E 2008 58.96 bi-weekly in the office of the mayor effective November 13th 2017 and John McCarty chief deputy coroner of Grade 517 and 26.864 hourly in the coroner's office effective November 30, 2017. Number five, a resolution authorizing the Division of Fire and Emergency Services on behalf of the Urban County Government to purchase bay doors from overhead doors, sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $100,000. Number six, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to exceed an amendment to the agreement with Sunflower Kids Incorporated extending the period of performance through September 30, 2018 for the provision of supervised visitation and monitored exchange services under the Safe Havens Project. Number seven, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an addendum the price contract bid number 3617 with trinity services group incorporated to clarify and provide additional risk protection at no additional cost through the urban county government number eight a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept excuse me to execute an agreement with the hope center for the continuation of the housing first project at a cost not to exceed 250 000 number nine a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the hope center for renovation of transitional housing for individuals experiencing homelessness at a cost not to exceed 85 990. number 10 a resolution authorizing directing the mayor on behalf of the of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Salvation Army for renovation of the emergency shelter located at 736 West Main Street at a cost and not to exceed $15,530. Number 11 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an engineering services agreement with GRW engineers incorporated for the design of the Rosemont Garden sidewalk project at a cost not to exceed $61,170. Number 12 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an engineering services agreement with Palmer engineering for the design of the Todd Road sidewalk project project at a cost not to exceed ninety nine thousand seven hundred nineteen dollars number 13 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with passive duty LLC for field testing firearm monitoring equipment number 14 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government and pursuant to resolution number 181 74 and ordinance number 475 to execute a four-year meet and confer memorandum of understanding with the American Federation of State County and municipal employees ask me local 4468 to non wage related benefits and working conditions for certain divisions excuse me certain employees in the division of waste management number 15 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with LWT Enterprises Incorporated for filming the mounted unit at no cost to the government number 16 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of Understanding with Transylvania University's Department of Public Safety for mutual aid on universities facilities number 17 and a Resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet Kentucky State Police for the acceptance of federal funds the amount of $40,000 under the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks Grant Program, the acceptance of which obligates the Irving County Government for the expenditure of $10,000 as a local match. Number 18, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement with Canteen for vending services at the Training Academy. Number 19, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a memorandum of understanding with bluegrass.org for training and education for officers at a cost not to exceed $1,000 per training class. Number 20, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to donate to the Brevina Police Department 1 Police Vehicle 2004 Ford Crown Victoria which the Division of Police has taken out of service and number 21 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban kind of government to exceed agreements with Institute 193 740 dollars and sisters roger freedom incorporated eight hundred forty dollars for the office of the urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated motion motion by councilmember Scotchfield and a second by councilmember Henson to approve is there any discussion all right if not then madam clerk please call the roll vice mayor Kaye yes miss lamb yes mr. Maloney miss Masotti miss Plowman miss Gutchfield mr. Smith yes mr. Stinnett Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Ms. Henson? Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Let us move on to resolutions for a first read. Number 22. Number 22, a resolution accepted a bid of the Allen Company incorporated in the amount of $951,165 for the Wilson Downing drainage improvements for the division of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Allen Company Incorporated related to the bid number 23 a resolution accepting a bit of Bobcat Enterprises Incorporated establishing a price contract for equipment rental without operator for the division of streets and roads number 24 a resolution accepting the bids of wrc1 LLC DBA W Rogers company in the amount of five million one hundred ninety thousand seven hundred and sixty six dollars for the expansion area three pump station contract one and of Hubert excavating and contracting LLC in the amount of one million one hundred eighty thousand dollars for the force main improvements contract to for the division of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with WRC 1 LLC DBAW Rogers Company and Hubert excavating and contracting LLC related to the respective bids. Number 25 a resolution accepted bid of vocal fire equipment incorporated in the amount of five hundred and sixty one thousand three hundred thirty dollars for a tanker pumper for the division of fire and emergency services. Number 26 a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of Gary Robertson equipment operator grade 510 and 17.050 hourly and Larry Carrier vehicle and equipment mechanic grade 512 and 18.132 hourly both in the division of streets and roads effective November 20 2017 Dustin Himes maintenance mechanic grade 515 and 18.4 28 hourly in the division of water quality effective November 27 2017 and Grice telecommunicator senior grade 517 and 21.30 hourly in the division of emergency management 9-1-1 effective December 11 2017 Dominique Rawlings 2004 60 1.54 bi-weekly in the division of facilities and fleet management effective November 13 2017 and Christopher Taylor 2003 40.56 bi-weekly in the division of planning effective November 27 2017 both administrative officer all right let's and yeah once again temper it down a little bit so we can hear our clerk he's got such a nice voice keep going Martha thank you mayor grade 523 e and rosemary olive administrative specialist senior grade 516 and 23.2 32 hourly in the division of parks and recreation effect November 13th 2017 ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Joshua design municipal engineer senior grade 525 e 2006 40.88 bi-weekly in the division of engineering effective November 8th 2017 Randall Wilson trades worker senior grade 511 and 15.964 hourly in the division of streets and roads effective November 1 2017 Christopher Holtzclaw environmental inspector grade 516 and 21.053 hourly in the division of water quality effective into September 6 2017 Elizabeth Irwin and Joyce Provost both billing specialists grade 516 and 21.694 hourly both excuse me effective November 1 2017 Michael Miller treatment plan operator grade 515 and 19.3 to 392 hourly effective June 5 2017 Anthony Nesbitt equipment operator great 510 and 15.5 a day to hourly effective September 27 2017 Brent Ross public service worker senior grade 509 and 14.5 30 hourly effective November 22nd 2017 all in the division of water quality Timothy Gentry resource recovery operator grade 513 and 17.04 nine hourly in the division of waste management effective November 15th 2017 and Claire McBride telecommunicator senior grade 517 and 20.724 hourly in the division of emergency management 9-1-1 effective October 17th 2017 I believe we have a motion on the next item I believe we have a motion on the next item sir on 20 what 7 27 who's got it got a motion on 27 who's got a motion I'm not aware of it so maybe I missed it I'd be happy to provide it to a council member one of the one of the employees division was identified incorrectly and they'd like to go ahead and get it changed before you give the first reading okay that's fine Susan said she'd take it Susan Lamb council member Lamb I'd like to move to amend 27 under resolutions first reading regarding offers changing vision of Lawrence for field recovery operator grade 530 hourly from the division of water quality to the division of waste management so move motion Council member Lam second by council member Farmer is there any discussion hearing none we can vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries madam clerk please continue number 27 is amended a resolution authorizing the division of human resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments of Dennis Allen maintenance mechanic grade 515 and 20.102 hourly Augusta Sanford equipment operator grade 510 and 14.753 hourly both effective December 11 2017 Howard Gerton public service worker senior grade 509 and 14.73 hourly effective October 23rd 2017 all in the division of water quality Lawrence Warfield 16.757 hourly and Mikhail Fivanko 17.871 hourly both resource recovery operator grade 513 n in the division of waste management Jeffrey Lewis security officer grade 507 n 13.82 hourly in the Department of Public Safety Richard Strange trades work trade supervisor grade 518 n 26.6 so hourly and Jason Nelson golf course superintendent senior Grade 520E, 2095.60 bi-weekly, both in the Division of Parks and Recreation, all effective upon pass of counsel, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointments. Daniel Lane, Records Management Assistant, part-time, Grade 507N, $13 hourly in the Office of the Clerk of the Urban County Council, effective November 20, 2017, and Amanda Nwampka, Security Officer, part-time, Grade 507N, 13.929 hourly in the Department of Public Safety, effective upon pass of counsel, and authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment to the Office of the urban county council renee buckles aided council part-time grade 518 e 1,000 120 bi-weekly in the office of urban county council effect on November 7 2017 number 29 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract with unique security incorporated for the division of community Corrections for jail security system replacement at a total cost not to exceed 3 million 422 thousand 840 dollars number 30 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with smart growth America for the acceptance of grant funds in the amount of $8,000 in participation in the Safe Streets Academy the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government the expenditure of $8,000 as local match and authorizing the mayor transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget number 31 a resolution authorizing and directly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security which grant funds in the amount of $41,200 federal funds under the 2017 state Homeland Security grant program or for the purchase of equipment kits to improve response to explosive firearm threats by the Division of Police the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government through the expenditure funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget number 32 a resolution authorizing and directing the on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security which grant funds are in the amount of $24,000 federal funds under the 2017 state homeland security grant program or for the purchase of personal protective equipment for the division of fire and emergency services the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban kind of government for the expenditure funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget number 33 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application of the Bluegrass Community Foundation and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application which grant funds are in the amount of $7,240 and for the operation of Crocs and Kicks program for the Division of Parks and Recreation number 34 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the Croker Community Fields program and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application which grant funds in the amount of $25,000 and for the repair of ball fields for the Division of Parks and Recreation number 35 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute certificates of consideration and other necessary documents and to accept deeds for property interests needed for the Wilson Downing Road flood mitigation project at a cost not to exceed $30,000 number 36 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a multi-year true lease schedule with dell financial services llc pursuant to the master lease agreement number 6705564 for the lease of desktop computers for the urban county government at an estimated cost not to exceed 89 901.80 since number 37 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an engineering services agreement awarded pursuant to rfp number 26 2017 with grw engineers incorporated for investigation and design services for the town branch wastewater treatment plant thickening process evaluation equipment upgrades project at a cost estimated not to exceed 261 140 number 38 resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an order form with route wear for gps monthly service fees at a cost estimated not excuse me at a cost not to exceed 30 2026.63 number 39 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute certificates of consideration and all the documents necessary to accept deeds for property interests needed for sections one and two of the for sales road corridor improvement project at a cost not to exceed 51 000 plus usual and appropriate closing in costs number 40 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an engineering services agreement with banks engineering for the design of the citation trail project at a cost not to exceed 117 101 dollars number 41 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from bluegrass community foundation which grant funds in the amount of two thousand dollars under the what's next grant program for the let art rain project 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 number 42 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a service contract with Dunbar Armored Incorporated for the division of community corrections to transport deposits from the division to Chase Bank at a total cost not to exceed $10,000 number 43 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number three to the contract with peace contracting LLC for the Jacobson and Masters in Station Park spray grounds project increasing the contract price by the sum of $21,170.24 from $1,215,134.42 to $1,236,304.66 and adding 20 calendar days to the construction schedule. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the Division of Water Quality on behalf of the Urban County Government to purchase supervisory control and data acquisition, site-tect historian support services for the town branch and West Hickman wastewater treatment plants and pump stations from Advantage Industrial Automation Incorporated, sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $36,795. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a partial lease of easement releasing utility easement on the property located at 4131 Todd's Road. Number 46, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a donation from Friends of Raven Run Incorporated of a Land Pride WC 1504 wood chipper and three still forestry helmets for use at Raven Run Nature Sanctuary at an estimated value of $3,425.15, number 47. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Lexington NAACP $760, Bluegrass Green Source $500, and Griffith Ballard Cowards Residence Council Incorporated $75 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated number 48. a resolution amending resolution 416 2017 to include 467 471 and 473 West Second Street as part of a residential parking permit program for the south side of the 400 block of West Second Street between Bruce Street and Jefferson Street 24 hours per day Monday through Sunday and number 49 a resolution adopting goals and objectives for the 2018 comprehensive plan all right thank you madam clerk are there any motions to suspend the rules for second reads Councilmember Plumman thank you mayor I would like to move to suspend the rules to give a second reading to the item number 45 under resolution for first reading the reason is the church requested that we give a second reading because they want to proceed with their construction project we checked with the division of water quality and it was fine with them motioned by councilmember Plumman second by Mayor Kaye, is there any discussion? If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules, give a second reading to number 27, the conditional offers for employment. Motion by Council Member Henson. Got a second? Got a second. Council Member Plowman. Is there any discussion? All right, if not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. All righty, Council Member Scotchfield. Thank you, Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and give a second reading to number 47. These are the NDFs. Would like to get money out to the recipients. All right, motion by Council Member Scotchfield, second by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion? If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to ask for suspension of resolution number 25 it's accepting the bid of Vogelpole fire equipment the administration has requested this the delivery time is significantly shorter if they are able to order the place the order tomorrow so move all right motion by council member Lam second by council member Henson any discussion not we can vote on all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries believe that's all we know motion no we've got councilmember farmer I want to make motion to have second reading on number 24 we're gonna get work on our station motion by councilmember farmer second by councilmember Henson is there any discussion if not we can vote all in favor please say aye opposed no motion carries all right anybody else all right if not then madam clerk please do the second reads thank you number 24 a resolution accepting the bids of wrc1 lsc dba w rogers company in the amount of five million one hundred ninety thousand seven hundred and sixty six dollars for the expansion area three pump station contract one of Hubert excavating and contracting LLC in the amount of one million one hundred eighty thousand dollars for the force main improvements contract two for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban kind of government to execute agreements with WRC 1 LLC DBA W Rogers Company and Hubert excavating and contracting LLC related to the respective bids number 25 a resolution excepting the bid of Vogelpool fire equipment incorporated in the amount of five hundred and sixty one thousand three hundred thirty dollars for a tanker pumper for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services number 27 a resolution authorizing Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service appointments of Dennis Allen maintenance mechanic grade 515 and 20.102 hourly Augustus Sanford equipment operator grade 510 and 14.753 hourly both effective December 11 2017 Howard Gerton public service worker senior grade 509 and 14.73 hourly effect over 23 2017 all in the division of water quality Lawrence Warfield 16.757 hourly and Mikkel Vivanco 17.871 hourly both resource recovery operator grade 513 and in the division of waste management Jeffrey Lewis security officer grade 507 and 13.882 hourly in the department of public safety range trades worker 518 and 26.660 hourly and Jason Nelson golf force superintendent senior grade 520 e 2095.60 bi-weekly both in division of parks recreation all effective upon passage of council authorizing the division of human resources the conditional offer the following unclassified civil service appointments Daniel Lane records management system part-time grade 507 and 13 dollars hourly in the office of the clerk of the urban County Council effective November 2017 and Amanda Nwanka security officer part-time grade 507 and 13.929 hourly in the department of public safety effective upon pass with Council and authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make conditional offer to the following unclassified civil service appointment in the Office of the Urban County Council. Renee Buckles, Aid to Council Part-Time, Grade 518E-1120, biweekly in the Office of the Urban County Council, effective November 7, 2017. Number 45. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a partial release of easement releasing utility easement on the property located at 4131 Todd's Road. And number 47. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Lexington NAACP $760, Bluegrass Green Source $500, and Griffith Ballard Towers Resident Council Incorporated $75 for the office of the urban county council. It costs not to be some stated. Motion by Council Member Henson to approve, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? All right, if not, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Vice Mayor Kaye? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Ms. Massadi? I'm sorry, man. I didn't hear you. Sorry. Yes and all. No in 24. Thank you. Ms. Plumman? Ms. Gutchfield? Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Stinnett? Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Yes. And Ms. Henson? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion. Allows us to move on to communications from the Mayor. Is there a motion by Council Member Scotchfield? Second by Council Member Farmer. Yeah, Council Member Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I'm asking for discussion, so we've got... Go ahead. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to amend the board name for the Downtown Lexington Partnership to the Downtown Development Authority for the five appointees on the memorandum. On communication from the mayor. Second. Motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there any discussion? All right, hearing none, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Back to the original motion. Is there any further discussion? All right, if not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Next is for information only. communications and next I'll ask for the floors available to council members for announcement anybody have an announcement at this hour councilman Massadi yes mayor and council members we have a committee of the whole meeting next Thursday I believe at 430 I think I'm the only person that has anything on the agenda unless someone else has and I was going to suggest instead of having the council of the whole meeting cancel that because this item has to be discussed in closed session anyways and we would discuss it after work session on Tuesday that's agreeable all right it sounds like so I would make a motion to delete the council of the whole meeting next week and have the item for discussion after work session on Tuesday so moved all right motion by council member Sadi second by council member Scotchfield there any objection All right, then that passes. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to give a shout-out to all the veterans. I thought the presentation early in our meeting was fantastic, but last night at the Lady Veterans, I was just so blown away, And I appreciate my colleagues, Council Member Lamb, Bledsoe, and I believe Massadi for organizing that. I thought it was just fabulous. And the young lady right now, I can't think of her name, that spoke, that was three to her duty of Afghanistan and who became disabled because of that. and it really makes me very thankful for that much more real and already him but I think she was just absolutely amazing and thank you all very much thank you Mayor I was gonna touch on that too just basically I want that first of all I want to shout out to all of the wonderful supporters and the hosts we had type-a catering raising canes the simple Greek Azure TEK systems AARP burdens rental and sales everybody contributed to last night's event we had approximately 93 women veterans that attended and Carolyn Furtick is the lady's name of the veteran and she was truly an amazing speaker she has written a book and I highly recommend you go and look that up and she is pretty amazing young lady so I really appreciated all my colleagues and that includes men and women for contributing to this and I think that the veterans in the room last night they were just so appreciative of the fact that they were being recognized so it was an honor to be able to be a part such a wonderful event and I have to go but and also I need to make sure I recognize and say thanks to Christy Stamball and her staff at the Senior Center that they are so amazing to work with and I so appreciated their their help in setting up for last night and so that made it even more fun and then I just want to do one more shout out because of our big Veterans Day appreciation event everybody's heard it Saturday November 11th at 10 a.m. at Veterans Park we're gonna have an amazing group of people we've got the mayor Jim Grace state senator Alice Forgy Kerr office of Secretary Allison Lundergan Grimes Congressman Andy Barr Commissioner Norman Arflak Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs and the performance of the Veterans Park elementary forest so I hope that everybody can come and join me and it's gonna be cold but we'll we'll be alright and we'll have a good time and we'll be able to celebrate some more and recognize more veterans so thank you so much mayor thank you Councillor Lamb all right that's all and that's all council members who've signed on for announcements that allows us to move to public comments I know Elizabeth Jensen has waited patiently I don't know if anybody else is here I've got several sheets anybody else signed up that has not been able to speak yet all right Elizabeth Jensen Thank You mayor and vice mayor and council members this is well worth waiting for at least to all of us in our community I'm Elizabeth Jensen I live at 1861 Evans Mill Road I'm a Fayette County resident property owner farm owner small business owner and employer I also serve on the Fayette County green space commission I have come before you and my husband as well and his family who has farmed the land on Cleveland Road in Athens and in Fayette County for three generations and I've come to speak on several occasions asking you that you vote to approve the recommendation of the Planning Commission for the goals and objectives in Fayette County tonight I'm here on behalf of the old Richmond Road neighborhood Association they have given me a letter that I will introduce or I will deliver after I read it tonight but this was crafted by our board dear LFUCG council members as you're keenly aware the old Richmond Road neighborhood Association is devoted to protecting the rural area of Fayette County and preserving our agricultural heritage this includes equine cattle swine poultry dairy sheep goats tobacco hemp fruits including vineyards and grapes which are a very important part of our community vegetables and bees all of these products are raised in the old Richmond Road neighborhood Association our association goes from Jacobson Park through Athens-Burnsboro Road to Clark County Jacobson Park at Old Richmond Road to Clay's Ferry all the way to Madison County all roads connecting Athens-Burnsboro to the Old Richmond Road offshoot roads of Athens-Burnsboro and offshoot roads of Old Richmond Road this also includes up to Richmond Road up to Tate's Creek Jack's Creek Walnut Hill and along the Kentucky River Parkway the Spears area the Hickory Hill subdivision and i'm sure our area encompasses more land than any other neighborhood association in fayette county and as many of you have come to our neighborhood association meetings you know we consistently have attendance of 80 to 150 people at all of our meetings at least five of you have attended our meetings over the years and know what a cohesive group we are and how actively we are involved in the neighborhood issues when attending our meetings you have consistent we have consistently asked you to pledge your support to our mission whether you were campaigning or were our actual council representatives or our councils at large we ask you to approve the lfucg planning and commission's 2017 goals and objectives particularly not to expand the urban service boundary or rural activity centers these objectives were the culmination of one to two years of study research and collective input from all of our citizens in Fayette County and our city planners we are particularly concerned that some of you seem to be inclined to want to alter the current proposal in light of the Greer company's desire to develop the eighth and spoonsboro road area which is very important to all of us a road that expressly is in the old rich old richmond road neighborhood association and a road which many of our members reside on and farm on including Excuse me just a second. We need to extend your time or get a motion to do that. Move to extend the time. I actually was signed up twice and Mary Diane deferred her time to me. She's yielding. But I'm close to the end. Obviously our Neighborhood Association cannot endorse candidates, you or any other candidates, but we can certainly make it clear to our members and other citizens of Lexington how you voted with regard to protecting our rural area. Listen to the citizens of Lexington and all the research that has been done. please vote to adopt the 2017 goals and objectives as written and proposed by the city planners and the Planning Commission most sincerely our board of directors which is Mary Diane Hanna the president of the old Richmond Road neighborhood Association Melissa King our secretary half McKenzie McKinstry our treasurer fieldie Simone vice president Alston Kerr is also a vice president Julie Goodman of Athens Boonesboro Road Joan Mair of Athens Boonesboro Road Lisa Gonneau of Old Richmond Road and myself okay thank you thank you Elizabeth we don't have it on the agenda but I'm told there's a police disciplinary item commander Ingram is Brad here yeah okay Thank you, Mayor, Council. On Tuesday, July 11, 2017, an allegation was made that Officer Timothy Moore, badge number 44382, violated General Order 1973-02-I, Disciplinary Procedures, Appendix B, Operational Rule 1.35, violating any rules of the Division and General Order 2011-08C, Emergency and at the conclusion of the investigation the employee met with the mark bar and has accepted the 160 hour suspension without pay this recommendation and discipline has also been approved by the Public Safety Commissioner Ronnie Baston on July 5th 2017 at approximately 13-17 hours officer Timothy Moore engaged in a vehicle pursuit during the course of the vehicle pursuit officer Moore violated several policies outlined in general order 2011-08D emergency and produce traffic. Second. Motion by Council Member Farmer, seconded by Council Member Henson to approve. Is there any discussion? All right, if not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Commander. That allows me to ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion by Council Member Stenet, seconded by Council Member Farmer. Unless there's objection, we're adjourned. Aye. Thank you. We'll be right back. hard times they can fall back on those of us raised up down when I was born I couldn't wait to leave this place but now I want to see my children raised down Down home Folks know If they're falling on hard times They can fall back home Those of us raised up Down home Where they know you by name And treat you like family Down home A man's good word