We're just born out of line while we're dreaming Straight from the heart Oh, give it to me straight from my heart Tell me we can make one more start You know I'll never go as long as I know Coming straight from the heart Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Thank you. ¶¶ Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The End The End The End Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. very close to six o'clock and we might as well go ahead. Okay. So, welcome to the meeting of the council, everyone. And we begin by asking the clerk to call the roll. So, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Here. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Stinnett? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Mr. Gibbs? Ms. Henson? Vice Mayor Kay? Ms. Lamb? And Mr. Maloney? Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Our invocation tonight is being offered by the Reverend Dr. Mark Johnson, Senior Pastor at Central Baptist Church. Welcome, Mark. Thank you, Mayor. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished folks, join me in prayer. O God, whose love is as great as your infinite wisdom, may we pause just for a moment from our busy and sometimes hectic pace to acknowledge those things that fill our hearts with gratitude. Grateful for the gifts of our lives, our family and friends, our community, and the health we enjoy to fulfill a calling to serve a cause greater than ourselves. For as this year comes to an end and winter begins to appear and our days grow shorter, they are no less significant. Tonight we exercise a great freedom, one granted by this wonderful country to all her citizens, one through courage and sacrifice and proud recognition that we are not all alike, that we will uncover differences that can drive us apart. We will not always agree, but we can always be agreeable to endeavor to be fair with one another, to seek to understand one another, and to work together for the common good for all in our Commonwealth. up. Thank you for the city officials, their staffs, and the supportive people around them who undertake this great and responsible task. Together they provide the vital roles to help our city to be a place of peace and harmony and prosperity. Guide them this evening to decisions and policies that are wise, fair, equitable, and mindful of the poor and disenfranchised. For your work teaches us that we will only be as strong as we are kind to the least of these. Help us always to cultivate in the core of our very being a compassionate discipline of the heart, be courageous in thought and gentle in word, to be graciously aware and generous in love. As you have been good to us, help us to be good to one another. Amen. Pastor, thank you for that very thoughtful invocation. Thank you, Mark. Well, tonight we have several presentations, tributes, and I'll go to the podium and we will begin. Tonight is a special night. Tonight we are recognizing our police chief, Mark Barnard, who has announced his retirement. Mark, would you please join me at the podium? Is Liz with you tonight? Is Liz? No, come on up here, Liz. Now, we all know that Chief Barnard has done an outstanding job, and Lexington is one of the safest cities of its size in the country. The council, we put the resources in place to give our police the support they need, but it was up to Mark to make it happen, and he has done just that. His leadership and vision have built a police force that has the faith and confidence of Lexington citizens. Compare that to many other cities where there is much less or little trust between the police and the citizens that they serve. We all know that Lexington has long practiced community policing, but Mark has taken that relationship with the community to a new level, reaching out and building connections with the African American community, for example, businesses, faith-based organizations, the LGBTQ community, and others. I've been with Mark in times of community tragedy and tension. The strength of the trusting relationships he builds with citizens, crime victims, people who are fearful, often those who are having the most trying and difficult and challenging day of their lives, that trust always shines through. Here's how Reverend C.B. Aikens describes Mark. Mark has helped make our community more inclusive by adding chairs to the table and not filling those chairs with more of the same. We actually have a video here tonight, and so let's hear from community members who do a really wonderful job describing Mark Barnard, their relationships with Mark and through him with our police. They've opened my eyes to just the connections that they make with the community, that they're here to be here proactive rather than reactive. That's what that's what they're doing. Seeing that our police officers are willing to invest in our most precious resource, our children, and that they're willing to take time out of their busy schedules and to be a friend, to be a face. educating our children that, you know, police officers are friends. They're also there to mentor. And again, like they can have future aspirations. They're heroes to our community. Having a police department that's community-oriented is huge. And it just doesn't happen in a lot of places in the country. So we have a great advantage of how we can explain our message of why we're a safe community. It's because the police department is very well thought of by the residents. and it's very effective in reaching out to the community. Our mosque is very active in doing these kind of things, which include not only interfaith dialogue, but also to involve the city officials. So we have been in contact with the mayor and then the police chief. And I found them very helpful. Actually, there are multiple occasions when we contacted them and they responded immediately. It's not easy being a police officer. I understand that to wear that blue uniform takes a lot of pride and respect. We have not been a part of any type of the violence act, violent acts that have taken place in this in our country. And I really commend our police department and Mark himself. I commend him for kind of keeping our our borders of Lexington kind of safe from that. What we did was changed it from coffee with a cop to coffee with the chief. We decided to scale it back and have like 10 to 13 people come out so that everybody would have the opportunity to talk with the chief. And out of having coffee with the chief, the chief has been able to get out into the LGBT community. He's been able to talk with the domestic violence programs. He's been able to have his officers become trained in how to deal with autistic children or adults that they may come in contact with. So it's just become a big event, and the chief has been excellent with working with us on this. When Orlando happened to the LGBT community, it was as if someone had walked into this sanctuary, this safe place, and had committed this act. One of the great things that the police department did was to bring together the folks of the involved with the Pride Festival and the other organizations that represent the LGBT community in Lexington and sit us down to say, what do you need from us? What can we do to make sure that folks in this community feel safe and know that the police department is here to make sure that you are safe? For us, the meet and greet was really the key, so we didn't feel like it was appropriate to just come and talk to officers and say, this is what autism is, now go out and be an expert. We really wanted it to be a two-part thing, and so the meet and greet was our twist on training where we have invited officers to come in and just have casual community exchanges with people with autism so that the people with autism can get that practice the same time officers are getting the practice. When Antonio was shot here in this park, believe it or not, my younger son saw it on Facebook. There were times when I had thoughts that might not have been the right way. And that's when the police department came in. You had people like Officer Barry. When I decided I wanted to do a peace walk, We Care came in. They said, we'll collaborate with you. And even though I didn't know what I was doing at that time, they were there for me. We feel safe when we have these kind of responses from our city officials, especially from the police department, especially in these environments which we are living in these days. That openness, flexibility and willingness to ask our advice has been really honoring. So we're just really grateful. Chief, your accessibility to Commerce Lexington, your candor, your interest to want to be a part of our programming, to reach out to those communities that we brought in and help tell the story of Lexington and Central Kentucky has been great. And we appreciate you. We're going to miss you as chief, but we wish you well in your retirement. You know, if you ask me if I had a complaint about the police department, I don't think I could come up with one. And that shows, and that's from the relationship that the police department is really fostering with the community as a whole. Next, I'm going to ask Ron Compton to come up to the podium and offer a few words. Ron, as many of you know, will be serving as our acting chief, and he has worked with Mark for a very long time. 30 years a few years just a couple of minutes i think you married you know a lot of people have said this uh tonight and they've heard the word community a bunch uh and i can't say it any more eloquently than it's already been said but if anybody embodies community that's mark barnard mark and i we go way back and he has been a good friend of mine for a long time and a mentor and and I thank him for that. We will be blessed as a community when he leaves us, there is no doubt. And there has been nobody over the last 30 years that I've known him that has bought into the community like that and preaches that every day. And he's brought my horizons and everybody else's too that works with him on a daily basis. The people that you've seen today, with the exception of maybe the mayor, know excerpts about his community. For the last three years, I've worked with him shoulder to shoulder in this, and I can tell you he preaches it on a daily basis. And nobody loves this place, this government, this police department, and this city like he does. And he's been very easy to follow as he's led us through mostly good times and a few bad times. And I would like to take a second here at the very end of my short talk to thank him personally for all he's done for me because he has done immeasurable acts for me and taught me so much. And I really hate to lose him, but he'll be close. But we just won't have him as a chief anymore. I hope he knows how much I care for him. Absolutely. And I'm sure that some council members may wish to offer some thoughts and comments. And I'll ask Vice Mayor Kay if he will conduct it from the chair. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Just a few words to kind of emphasize what we've already seen. I knew that Chief Barnard really understood the community and its needs, but it turns out that when I first moved onto the north side on Camp C Place, I didn't know this at the time, Chief Barnard was living right down the street. So we know a place very well. And I think that's part of the reason why the Chief has been so effective in relating to the community. He's actually lived in it, he grew up in it, he understands it. And the tone of what we get from our police force starts at the top. The Chief sets the tone and what I hear over and over and over again from people in the community, just coming up to me after an event or something has happened, what they say is, The police conducted themselves so well. They were, if they needed to be visible, they were visible. If they needed to be invisible, they were invisible. But they were there to make sure that we were protected and to set the right tone for the community. So I applaud you and your long years of service. I know you'll be missed. We've been fortunate in this community to have a string of really strong chiefs. You have been the last one. Hopefully we're going to have more. But thank you for your service. And now I'll recognize council members, if you wish to add any words, please sign in. Councilmember Lamb. Chief, there are two situations, and I won't go into detail on either one of them, but you know exactly what I'm talking about personal, that when I personally called you in interesting times and you were there and you acted with the utmost professionalism, and I just really appreciate that. And you have set the bar really high for your officers, and good leaders do that. And I really appreciate that. You have done that, and the video shows it. We all know it. We have an outstanding police department. We have an outstanding public safety, our fire department. and you will be missed, but I guarantee you, you are training and have been training someone to set a new tone of leadership. You don't ever expect anybody to feel your shoes, but I appreciate everything that you've done, both for this community, for us as a government, and for me personally. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Henson. Thank you. Thank you, Chief, for everything. If you remember, I served on the committee that recommended that you be hired as our new police chief. And I think we absolutely chose the right person for this job. And I'm always amazed you have embraced our community, and our community has embraced you. and you do everything with such respect. But I've always been a strong advocate for our police department. I would put our department up against any department in the country, and I think we've had really good leadership, and you just took it a step further and continued on with the department when it was by Chief Bastin, Commissioner Bastin now. But, you know, I just can't thank you enough on behalf of, really, I think people that are less fortunate sometimes don't know the rules or whatever, but you just have this caring nature about you and an understanding. And I saw it right here in this chamber. So we did have an incident with a gentleman that I just, like, my heart melted when you take control. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Don't go far. Thank you. Councilmember Stennett. All right, Chief. it's not the last time I'll call you chief I promise you that you got it for life but I just want to thank you personally and thank you on behalf of my district and at large now the whole city the work you've done I've seen you grow up over 14 years so to speak from an officer to I remember you got your first captain and then assistant chief and and now here we are so thank you for probably serving in some of the most difficult times we've ever had from Las Vegas to Orlando to Charlottesville to a number of other issues that you've had to personally deal with thank you for for being here and dealing with them professionally openly and being available to this council community to vent with you to work with you I think that goes a long way in your legacy and you know one of the greatest things we all can can hope for after we leave somewhere is that we leave it in better shapes than we left it and we leave it in capable hands and I think you've done that here with the men and women who are going to be continuing to serve our city so we'll miss you we'll miss our trips together we'll miss our conversations but there'll be more good times to come thank you sir yeah thank you councilmember Gibbs thank you vice mayor thank you chief I grew up in an era in a in a place where the police weren't much much trusted so it's been very interesting to be in Lexington and you've done a marvelous job I've seen it from the inside I teach a history class sometimes in the police academy and as vice mayor Kay said you know the tone is set at the top and the tone at the police academy is marvelous morale is great you guys put wonderful young people on the streets a couple years ago I went to the annual LGBT banquet the awards dinner and you were given an award for reaching out to that community and that just made my heart my heart warm I was at the peace March when they're probably eight ten thousand people on the streets back on January 21st 2017 and the police were eminently flexible yeah but there was there was no you know there wasn't supposed to be a March I think they reserved the sidewalks and you folks decided no we need to open Main Street and had thousands of people walking down Main Street and you could have screwed you you could have restricted that and made of the mess and all the police were just friendly and kind one of the TV stations interviewed me the day that you made your announcement they asked what I wanted in a new chief and I said a clone and so it's been a pleasure to work with you and hope we stay in touch thank you thank you vice mayor thank you councilmember James Brown Thank You chief I mean thank you vice mayor Chief, I'd just like to say I appreciate your continued focus on community policing, being a great advocate to the victims of violent incidences. And I'd also like to thank you for the support that you gave us, and I'm going to be real specific on the Douglas Park Centennial last year and the reintroduction of the dirt bowl. I know I came into office, I think it wasn't too long after you was appointed chief that that incident happened, and I think from your support and giving us the resources, the Centennial Commission, to help introduce the dirt bowl, I think you've made Douglas Park safe in the community's eyes once again. I think the way your leadership with the introduction of the body cameras, the removal of the Confederate statues, to slightly remove those for our city. I think your leadership in those instances have been remarkable. I think you have also worked to maintain a high level of training for our officers. I think you have set the table and are leaving the department in capable hands until the next chief is appointed. So thank you for your many years of service, and it won't be the last time I'll call you chief as well. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Maloney. Thank you. Chief, you're the fifth chief I've said this to. This should be nice now, Richard. I do want to thank you for your service and I mean we've had some tough times and you were able to help us through that. I remember the Charleston visit we had down there and went to church and you working with that and learning a lot how they were able to fix, face their problems and we were prepared and I thank you for that and and I wish you all the luck and like he said I will be calling you chief like I called all the other chiefs so but you will be missed and thank you for everything you've done and I mean thanks thank you councilmember Fred Brown I've only known you probably three years I came on council about the same time that you were appointed chief right after that so getting to know you has been a great pleasure for me because we work together on several things and you've been very cordial and accessible and I appreciate that and one of the things is is that I like your your staying with the sector program which which has been one of my babies that I really enjoy and I've got a sector in my district and the fact that we and I supported and this council did too in growing our police force and and bringing it up over the 600 mark so that we can you know get out there and take care of the community and we've during budget times you've come up and been able to talk to us about the budget it effectively and I appreciate all that and I appreciate you and good luck whatever your endeavors are you're still a young man say according to me thank you thank you councilmember Massadi sorry councilmember Joe Smith thank you vice mayor chief I want to say consistently when you first the announcement came that you were going to retire I've received several calls some from my district some not in my district and they were very consistent in what they said about your community service and your positive influence and you're willing to help all I can say is you've set the bar pretty high and I wish you the best in the future thank you sir thank you councilman Massardi well I can call you mark I've known you for 20 plus years my daughter's babysat your daughters so we've kind of our families have kind of grown up to each with each other professionally you're top-notch there's no question about it there's everything that everyone has set up up here about you is just absolutely true personally you're a wonderful human being I mean you're a great dad great husband and I know a lot of stories about you from your fishing buddies so I know you've got a good funny side to you too but I just wish you the best It's our loss that you're not going to be here, but I know you leave us in good hands. I know you'll still be involved because that's the kind of guy you are. You're not going to walk away and just say, I'm done, and we can still call you, and I know where you live. So that even makes it better, but I just wish you the best of luck to you and your family, and thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Clowman. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I, too, along with my colleagues, wish you the best. And I've really not been in the trenches watching you. I've only watched in the trenches this past year. But I did the police academy last summer. And I remember thinking to myself, learning week after week what all the police do. And I'm like, man, somebody's leading this group pretty well. And that was you. And I remember when I graduated, you were there and I did my little song. But thank you for all your hard work, good work, and happy trails. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Evans. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'll just add more layers to frosting to the layers, but yet thank you. I mean, it really has been a pleasure working with you. We have had some issues here and there. I've appreciated your honesty because it really has helped, and you know, sometimes it's validated what I've thought, and sometimes it's challenged what I've thought, So I really do appreciate the truthfulness of your profession and encouraging the entire police department to do the coffee with the chiefs and getting out there and being more community-oriented in a time where it truly was a sensitive time. So I appreciate you acknowledging that and taking that on as something that you are going to lead, and not just lead by telling, but lead by doing as well. So I do appreciate that, and I think the entire community and the entire city appreciates that. Yeah, I wish you well. Retirement, I don't think I'll ever know the meaning of that word. So, yeah, it's just the beginning of a new chapter, so i do wish you all the luck in the world and enjoy whatever the next chapter is so much thank you councilmember bledsoe i thank you vice mayor i think there's only one thing to say and that's thank you you've been a phenomenal chief for a lot of people you've put people over politics and over policy every time and when one of us appears had an idea your answer has always been well let's try which appreciated by most of us mostly me the city is better for you having been chief the community is stronger and we're really going to miss you thanks thank you we could go on and on but we're going to stop at that i believe nobody else has signed up so i'll turn it back to the mayor It is time. It is time to hear from the chief himself. Chief, thank you so much. You know, you never know what this day is going to look like, and it's here. So thank you all. This body, this council, this mayor, 12, 13 years we've worked together as a team is a long time. It's a lot of pressure for somebody that says constantly improve, 13 years. So you got to keep moving with it. You all have been phenomenal in supporting our police department and we have a great agency and people don't know it because they don't always interact it or see it. But it is a phenomenal agency because I travel throughout the United States and see other agencies and you look at those and say, what can we do better? And we're always trying to do better. We stayed ahead of the curve when the country was going through some of the processes that it went through with Ferguson. We looked at that as opportunities instead of looking at setbacks to say, how can we get better? Our officers are truly engaged with the community more than I've ever seen. We've gone back into the school systems. We've worked with the DARE programs, the academic teams, the PAL teams. And I'm a firm believer, and it was twofold. It gets us into families that know police officers, so they're not afraid of us. And two, it gives the officers some positive interaction and to smile with someone when the country was so distant or having a discord with law enforcement. And you don't have a great agency without the foundation of that, which are just great people. And we are very selective in our process that we go through, and we have great people from our civilian staff to our sworn staff and support staff. They are just very good people and then really good officers and civilian staff. So I want to thank them. It's been humbling. And lastly, Lexington is such a jewel. It is such a treasure to work for, live in, and protect. And it is amazing, the community that we really have. And you see it for so long. I tell people I'm 53 and I've spent 31 1⁄2 years in a uniform. I came on at 22. 22 years old and I put a uniform on for the next 31 1⁄2 years. So that's most of my adult life. And now I'm trying to figure out how to not wear it. I get up and I'm like, where's my uniform? uniform. I got to go to the grocery. So it is a is phenomenal city to live in. Uh, it's a great community to be part of, and I want to thank all Lexington and is just very humbling to serve this body. Uh, this mayor that has been fantastic to us and with these officers and I say it again, I call them the best noble animals you'll ever see because no matter what, and if I can leave you with anything when people second guess, they question and that's all part of it. But at the moment of need, when you pick up that phone or you yell out, those officers are the ones that are running to a total stranger to help protect or save unconditionally, putting their life on the line every single day. And I'll say it now because I'm leaving. We take advantage of it too much. And often we don't say thank you enough and they deserve it. So I want to say as a chief and I want to say as somebody in our community, thank you because I see them do it every single day, helping people they don't even know in times of crisis and they're well deserved. So thank you for letting me serve, Mayor, for appointing me, Council. Thank you all for supporting our agency. You all been fantastic. And thanks to Lexington for being a great community. Thank you all. If there was ever a picture-taking time for this council, and for me for sure, it is now. So, Chief, you and Liz, come on up and join us for a picture, please. I'm going to take Bernard with us. Yeah. Come on, Bernard. I've been here for a while. Thank you. I don't know if you've ever seen this. I'm going to see you. I'm going to come over again. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you. all right well it's tough it's tough to follow that one but cub scout pack 93 you all got the challenge. I want to invite the leaders and the members of Cub Scout Pack 93 to the front of the chamber and you guys are here at the invitation of Council Member Stinnett. We're fortunate. Come on up everybody. Come on up. We're fortunate. Yeah we all get right up here in the front for the picture. We're fortunate in Lexington to have several great scout packs including Cub Scout Pack 93 from Christ the King. These young scouts are great examples, of course, of scouting values, and today we want to recognize them for their dedication with a proclamation that reads, Cub Scout Pack 93 Day. I, Jim Gray, as mayor of Lexington, in recognition of Cub Scout Pack 93 from Christ the King, outstanding young men who regularly volunteer for community service projects, including caroling at Moberly Manor Nursing Home and working at Christ the King's Oktoberfest to hereby declare December 7, 2017 as Cub Scout Pack 93 Day in Lexington. There we go. Thank you. And next I would like to invite the members of Common Good to the front of the chamber and Councilmember James Brown and Laura Gallagher to join me at the podium. In a little background, Common Good was founded in 2011 by John and Laura Gallagher to work with families in Lexington neighborhoods to encourage strong families, flourishing neighborhoods, and thriving children. The volunteer work they do in our community, including working alongside our Parks and Recreation Department, has added value both to our city and purpose for those who do the work. Today we want to thank them and recognize them for the great work they're doing with this proclamation that reads, Common Good Day, whereas Common Good Community Development Corporation is a faith-based, non-profit organization that offers programming for children, youth, and families in North Lexington. And whereas Common Good focuses on community development through programs in leadership, education, recreation, and spiritual formation. and whereas Common Good and the City have worked together to improve facilities in North Lexington, for example, the Futsal Court in Castlewood Park. Now, therefore, our Jim Gray as Mayor of Lexington, in celebration of the work of Common Good, to hereby declare December 7, 2017, as Common Good Day in Lexington. And I'm going to present this proclamation. Are you going to help me present it? and all right and council member james brown thank you mayor thank you mayor i just wanted to say a few words about laura and her work with common good common good exists to advance the holistic community development in north lexington been through leadership, education, recreation, and spiritual formation. Sorry. Laura had reached out to our office. She invited a representative for No Lie CDC and Park and Recreation, and she actually gave a platform for these young people to advocate for a foot sauce court in their community, in their park. Needless to say, it didn't take much convincing for me or NOLA, or Park and Recreation, to see the validity of this project. So with no further ado, I'll introduce Laura and let her tell a little bit about Common Good, and then she'll let one of the young people talk about the Futsal Court. Good evening. So Common Good does community development work in North Lexington, and we do that through an after-school and summer program. So we have 70 students that we're committed to in our neighborhood, and we come from all different backgrounds. They're different ages. We have kindergarten all the way through college, different racial backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds, even different socioeconomic backgrounds. But what we have in common is that we live in the same place. We come from the Castlewood, North Limestone, or Easton neighborhood. And our actual physical location is kind of situated in the middle there. So most of our students walk to our programming. And Council Member Brown and the mayor mentioned that one of the things we focus on is leadership development. We focus on creating opportunities for kids to have ideas, which they already have, but to really go after those ideas, to dream big, but then also to make those dreams a reality. And so we are so proud of the Futsal Court. I can't take any credit for what the students have done. I just helped set up the initial meeting. And so I have two of our students that are going to share a little bit with you about what Futsal is, because you might be asking, I don't know what Futsal is. What are they doing on a Futsal court? And then also to share with you about what the project has meant to our neighborhood. The amazing thing is this project started about two years ago, and that may not sound like a long time to you, but when you're 13 years old and you've been part of a project for two years and you had an idea and saw it through to completion, that's an incredible feat. And so we're so grateful for Councilmember Brown in particular for listening, for caring about our students, and for being with us all along the way. He was there at our initial celebration and just really got to know students, so we're really appreciative of that opportunity. I want to invite Ivan to share with you about what futsal is. Well, hello. My name is Ivan Kinzo, and I'm one of the leaders that helped set up the futsal court. and for starters, futsal is a modification for soccer that's played on a smaller field or court and has less people. And one of the modifications is that it's a lot more faster play and it's intense and it's just like it's one of the ways that we use to get better at soccer and practice whenever we're not at home or indoors. Good afternoon. My name is Eddie Arunva and I'm just going to talk about what the footsock court has meant to our community and it's been a place that has brought us all together across different ages, genders, and just different areas around the neighborhood. The neighborhood can be pretty big, and it showed us all what, how we can cut our differences and just enjoy the game, because it's really become a bonding agent. It's brought everybody together, so when we come there, everybody plays, everybody's excited, everybody's enjoying it, and it brings a lot of people that wouldn't be outside out to enjoy just our neighborhood and what our neighborhood park is for. So it's just very exciting to watch young kids to 35-year-olds just enjoying this area all together. And it's just become an exciting place for the whole neighborhood that booms and shows everybody that we're Castlewood and we're alive. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. thank you We have one more really special presentation, and I'm inviting Heather Diffenbach and Susan Benton to the podium. We're excited to learn that the Lexington Public Library was recently recognized by the Urban Libraries Council for its contributions to the on-the-table effort. And here to tell us a little about the award is Susan Benton, who is President and CEO of the Urban Libraries Council. Susan. Good evening. Thank you very much for having me. I flew in from Washington, D.C. today, where our offices are. The Urban Libraries Council brings together the leading public libraries, both in the United States and Canada, but we work with public libraries internationally. I probably have more in common with you than I have with the Lexington Public Library executive and staff. I'm actually not a librarian. I've spent my entire career working in the public sector, working with mayors, with city council members, city managers, county executives, and county managers and their staff. I made the change to public libraries about eight years ago. when I recognized that everything that you all were working on was happening in one of the most organic ways I could imagine. That in our public libraries that exist in the neighborhoods in Lexington, in Frankfurt, in Nashville, in Washington, D.C., in San Francisco, in L.A., In those neighborhoods, people come in every day. In fact, people are waiting for the public library to open. They're standing there, sometimes 10, sometimes 50 deep, waiting to come into the library to take care of a bit of business for themselves or for the family. This country is so lucky because we have at our foundation public libraries that hold the values of our democracy. And Lex on the Table is exactly that. I'm going to allow Heather to tell you a little bit more about it. But most importantly, it brought together the citizens of Lexington in a new way. where people came together a couple hundred last year. In the past year, 11,000 residents of Lexington came together. All sorts of different people, all ages, all colors, genders, and backgrounds. To have the voice of all those people involved in this community is a richness that not every community has. I can't tell you what a pleasure has been here, been this evening, to sit here and listen to the comments that you've made about retiring Chief Bernard. You see children who are involved in your Boy Scouts coming up and talking about what they're doing in the community. And then yet another community group called Common Good talking about what young teenagers and aspiring young adults are doing for their community. It says everything about what this community is about, and it's a perfect reflection of what's going on also in your public libraries. While Heather's going to talk with you about the civic engagement project that brought together thousands of Lexingtonians, I also want to say one more thing about the value of your public library. There's a gentleman named Bill Taylor, and he's one of the individuals who started Fast Company, and he's been an adjunct professor and involved at Harvard University. And when I started working with the Urban Libraries Council, I read one of his statements, and the statement was, are you learning as fast as the world is changing? And it's hard. And I think it's more important than ever that we have an institution like a library that gives us an opportunity at every age of our life to come in and to learn, whether it's something about our personal aspirations or our professional aspirations. The library is a keystone of your education equation in Lexington. And because of that, they are also a keystone for your economic foundation and your viability. I don't know one city in the United States that is strong economically without having a really strong public library. It's bringing people in every day to help them level up their computer skills, to helping that emerging entrepreneur get access to resources they would never have anyplace else, and that welcomes, again, every person, no matter whether you have a Ph.D. or whether you're working on your GED or you're just thinking about starting your kindergarten career. So I want to congratulate you all, finally, and just say congratulations on investing in your community, invest in one of the most important agencies in the city. You've got a wonderful public library, it's world-class, its director, Anne Hammond, and the staff are world-class. Thank you. Good evening, my name is Heather Dieffenbach and I'm director of library operations for Lexington Public Library. On behalf of our executive director, Anne Hammond who could not be here tonight we are honored to share Lexington Public Library's first ever top innovator award from the Urban Libraries Council with you our city's leadership leadership is vital to foster innovation and creative problem-solving in cities as well as libraries and leadership vision and constant drive to bring outstanding library services to the bluegrass has to be applauded the award was given in the category of civic and community engagement for our involvement with on the table which as you know connected citizens with the comprehensive planning process through an unprecedented partnership with Bluegrass Community Foundation Imagine Lexington Leadership Lexington Fayette County Public Schools and over 11,000 of our friends and neighbors. I am delighted to share that Lexington Public Library will again partner with Bluegrass Community Foundation and others to host On the Table in 2018. You can expect to hear more information over the next few months. The Innovations Award is indicative of our public library system's excellence and national leadership in our field. The Urban Libraries Council is an association of libraries located in cities throughout North America with a goal to promote and advance best practices among public libraries. At Lexington Public Library, we work to provide free and equal access to all types of information and to inspire great public spaces for our citizens to read, play, create, and learn new skills. To paraphrase a presenter at a recent Urban Libraries Council Annual Conference, the City's Goals Are Our Goals. Thank you, and we were so happy to welcome Susan to Lexington tonight. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Those were special presentations, and now we may move on to our regular business. And, Madam Clerk, I'll ask you to please give us a second reading of ordinances. Ordinance number one, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant classified civil service position of computer systems manager, grade 524E, and creating one classified civil service position of computer analyst, grade 528 in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, effective upon passive counsel number two, excuse me, number two, An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant classified civil service position of Arborist, grade 517N, and creating one classified civil service position of operations supervisor, grade 518E, in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective upon passage of council number three. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified civil service position of affordable housing manager, grade 526E, and creating one unclassified civil service position of affordable housing manager, part-time, grade 526E, and reallocating the incumbent in the Office of the Commissioner of Planning, Preservation, and Development, effective January 8th, 2018. Number four, an ordinance changing the zone from an agricultural urban AU zone to a single family residential R1D zone for 0.53 net, 0.64 gross acre for property located at 4907 Tate Creek Road, Chris and Jenna Walker, Council District 12. Number five, an ordinance changing the zone from an agricultural rural AR zone to an economic development ED zone for 7.70 net, 9.53 gross acres for property located at 2015 Newtown Pike, Anderson Acquisitions LLC, Council District 12. Number six, an ordinance changing the zone from an expansion area residential EAR2 zone to a community center CC zone for 4.92 net, 5.13 gross acres for property located at 6800 Manowar Boulevard, a portion of Jason L. Justice Council District 12. Number seven, an ordinance amending articles four and five of the land subdivision regulations to update the process for major subdivision plans planning commission. Number eight, an ordinance expanding and extending the full urban services district number one for the urban county government for the provision of street lighting, street cleaning, and garbage and refuse collection to include the area defined as a certain properties on the following streets. Brookridge Drive, Covington Drive, Covington Point, Ellen Court, Ellerslie Park Boulevard, Green Valley Drive, Grimble Trace, Hadrill Cove, Hadrill Point, Harrison, Kelly Rose Way, Kings, Glen Park, LaRue, Lawton Flat, Leastown Road, Leastown Road, Leastown Drive, Manowar Boulevard, Nicholasville Road, Old Harrodsburg Road, R-Tips Trail, Piscoli Cove, Piscoli Place, Patrick Wilkes Drive, Polo Club Boulevard, Pritchard Drive, Silver Belt Trace, Summerslie Cove, Spurl Walk, Spur Road, Summit at Fritz Farm, Sunny Slope Trace, Sweet Spire Drive, and Venduro as amended. Number nine, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district number three for the urban county government for the provision of garbage and rest use collection to include the area defined to certain properties on the following street reserve road. Number ten, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district number four for the urban county government for the provision of street lighting to include the area defined to certain properties on the following streets, Cary Circle and Mandeville Way. Number eleven, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds. Schedule number sixteen, number twelve. In ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $1,722.36 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Parks and Recreation for Wellington Park trees and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 17, number 13. In ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $2,400 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Parks and Recreation for installation of fencing at Gainesway Trail and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 18, number 14. In ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $12,700 in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services for the smoke alarm program and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 19. Number 15. In ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $2,700 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Traffic Engineering for the cost share of three speed tables on Longview and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 20. Number 16. In ordinance demanding certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Irving County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $290 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Police for the purchase of textbooks for Winburn Middle School's Police DARE Program and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 21. Number 17. In ordinance demanding certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Irving County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $2,972.80 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Family Services for the purchase of a door card reader at the Family Care Center and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 22. Number 18. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $6,266.80 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Traffic Engineering for improvements to the pedestrian intersection on South Ashland at Ashland Terrace and appropriating reappropriating funds, Schedule number 23, number 19. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $6,079.50 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Environmental Services for tree canopy replacement in Kenwick and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 24, number 20. In order to amend certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $3,535.38 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Parks and Recreation for purchase of equipment at Dixie Park and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 25. Number 21. In order to amend certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $2,558.53 to provide funds for council projects in the Division of Environmental Services for fence repairs at Elm Tree Lane between 3rd and 4th Streets and appropriating and reappropriating funds, Schedule number 26. Number 22. An ordinance amending section 321c2 of the code of ordinances related to business hours to allow for expanded sales hours of retail package distilled spirits and wine when Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on Sunday. Number 23, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fayette-Urban County government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $13,429.37 to provide funds for council projects in the division of public safety for facilities, maintenance, and repairs, and improvements to animal care and control, and appropriating and reappropriating funds, schedule number 27 and number 24. an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington-Payette Urban County government to provide $60,000 for the purchase of MBE DBE compliance monitoring software from the general fund fund balance in appropriating reappropriating funds schedule number 28 All right, thank you madam clerk There's a motion to approve motion by councilmember stannett settled by councilmember Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right hearing none and madam clerk, please call the world miss missotti Ms. Plumman? Mr. Smith? Mr. Stinnett? Eight? Thank you sir. Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes on all no on 24. Thank you. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. Ms. Henson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes on all? Yeah. Like it. Sounded like a yes on all. Was it a yes on all, Richard? It was a yes on all. It was a yes on all. Wonderful. Thank you, sir. Is that it? All right. Motion reflects passage of the vote reflects passage of the motion. In the interest of efficiency tonight, there are a number of folks here for the, I understand, for the public hearing that is now on the docket for last, and that's going to be quite a while. So I'm going to ask for a motion to move it up on the agenda. So move. There's a motion by Fred Brown, second by Council Member Lamb. Is there any objection? All right. Unless there's objection, we'll move it on up. So I will declare the public hearing now in session, and I will ask for any comments from the public. Are there any comments from the public? This is the Coldstream TIF public hearing. Forgive me. All right. Now, are there any comments from council members? All right. Then the public hearing is closed. It really doesn't need, it just, all we do is close it. That's right. It's usually that way. You're right. Usually. Okay. Thank you all for joining us. All right, now we can resume the regular business with resolutions for a second read. Resolution number one, a resolution accepting the bid of Olympic Construction LLC in an amount not to exceed $4,443,100 for construction of fire station number 24 for the Department of General Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Olympic Construction LLC related to the bid number 2. A resolution accepting the bid of Rock Trucking LLC in the amount of $255,839.66 for the MLK and Johnson Heights Park Sports Field Construction for the Division of Grants and Special Programs and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Rock Trucking LLC related to the bid number 3. A resolution accepting the bid of Pace Contracting LLC in the amount of $925,000 for Castlewood and Douglas spray grounds and pool improvements for the Division of Parks and Recreation and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Pace Contracting LLC related to the bid, number four. A resolution accepting the bid of Drellaschack and Drellaschack DBA ProTech Security Sales, establishing a price contract for respiratory protection system, masks, and filters for the Division of Police, number five. A resolution accepting the bid of Glenn Ford Lincoln, establishing a price contract for Ford Interceptor Utility All-Wheel Drive for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, number six. A resolution accepting the bid of Palm Miller Ford Incorporated, establishing a price contract for 2018 Ford F-350 XLT 4x4 with options for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Number seven, a resolution accepting the bid of Pro Landscape Group Incorporated in an amount of $354,719.90 for the Gainesway, Kirk Levington, and Mount Tabor Park improvements for the Division of Grants and Special Programs. An authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Pro Landscape Group Incorporated related to the bid. Number eight, a resolution accepting the bid of CNR Asphalt LLC establishing a price contract for cracked ceiling for the Division of Streets and Roads. Number nine, a resolution accepting the bid of Labor Works Lexington LLC establishing a press price contract for temporary services for material recovery facility for the division of waste management number ten a Resolution accepting the bid of environmental recycling incorporated establishing a price contract for recycling of white goods for the division of waste Waste management Excuse me number 11 a resolution accepting a bit of Olympic construction LLC in an amount not to exceed $271,000 for the Family Care Center courtyard restoration and accessibility project for the Department of General Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Olympic construction LLC related to the bid number 12 a resolution accepting the bid of Smith Contractors Incorporated in the amount of $10,453,000 for the West Hickman 7 Pump Station and wet weather storage tank, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Smith Contractors LLC related to the bid, number 13. A resolution accepting the bid of CM... What? Yep. Well, can't you... Is it going to be an amendment? Because we can wait until we have discussion on it, can't we? No? All right. Go ahead. That's all right. That's all right. Go ahead. Go ahead. I just want to get some clarification of what the article on the paper was and how we're going to fix that problem instead of what happened in Evansville and up in other parts of, I think, Indianapolis and all that. What if you all have a plan or something that you all have and learn from those? All right. Commissioner Paulson is here to discuss that. Well, one thing with 17 see we've got several things that we can do, but one of the important parts again, basic utility work. So it's not something we're unaccustomed to all right away construction has to be permitted. Um, we are going to actually hire a specific one individual that will handle the permitting for Metro net. So it's make sure that doesn't slow down our other utility work that's going on. Um, as with all utility work, all the right away work is inspected is that what we're talking about metronet question you sure concern two questions out there first of all you say we're gonna hire someone to oversee this someone that will help with the permitting process of it yes so as to make sure that we will be able to handle the volume of request this is one thing that's different from this as opposed to and again I know all of you are very used to right away work in your districts and the volume that we normally see this is a build-out so it's a little bit different the volume will be higher than what we normally see with with general maintenance of right-of-way work so what we felt was a good idea is to hire someone to be able to handle that to not slow down our already existing right-of-way work as well. Well because when I was commissioner we had a problem with this when we were doing Clay's Mill Road we had a group went in there and nobody looked at the utility strip and it got off we all somebody had to go back and pay a lot of money to put it back in place. We've had this problem. I just hope that we fix this problem because I remember we were working, and I think you were working with CAO on this. I want to be sure why are we hiring somebody when we should have already had somebody doing that? We have a right-of-way section right now. We have a dedicated right-of-way section. We have a person who's in charge of right-of-way. So within the Division of Engineering, we have a right-of-way section. We have right-of-way inspectors that go out and make sure that the right-of-way is put back the way that it was designed to be put back to. So I think that's probably what most of you all deal with on a regular basis are the cuts. So street cuts, all those sorts of things. That's where our inspectors typically go out right now. With what's going on with Metronet, it seems a little bit different, but still in the same realm of what we're dealing with. We have inspectors currently on staff. What we're going to do is hire yet another because this volume of work that's going to go on is going to be a pretty good increase because it's going to be a buildout, not just the regular maintenance that we see currently with right-of-way work. So we do have inspectors. They will be still inspecting everything. We have two different parts of right-of-way as well. So Clay's Mill is part of the right-of-way concerns we have are the purchase of right-of-way as new construction. But what we're talking about here is right-of-way work that goes on typically right now. And the other problem, I mean, it's not just us. I know we understand the process. It's working with other utility companies. And when I was working there, we were able to bring all the utility companies in to make sure that everybody knew what everybody was doing. And I'm hoping that we can do this with the new group coming in because there will be pretty close to all these easements where these lines already exist. We know where they are. But sometimes we have not supervised over the years of some of these utility lines going in. I just worry about when we start digging or they start digging, there may not be real good maps to show that there may be a line there or another utility company that would be damaged. So I just want to be sure that everybody is on side. I know we're going to be doing it, but we've got to put out all the utility companies because that's one thing we did when we were blacktopping roads. That's one thing that upset me more than anything is we went out there and blocked top of the road and then six months six weeks later They put a big cut through the middle of the road and and that that burned me You know we were able to get back with everybody make sure that nobody it's gonna be utility cutting it But we had to put everybody together Everybody so I'm hoping that you bring everybody on the same way We do we have we have quarterly we have right-of-way coordination meetings with all the different right-of-way groups or all the different utility companies right now and And we do have the utility companies put out generally a yearly plan, what they expect to do. Again, they like to plan in advance because this is a capital improvement process for them. So they work with our group. We then work with them, particularly with paving. That's something we've worked on the last couple years to make sure that they do not go and cut through anything. So we try to time the repaving process to come after major utility work that we know is coming up. There's always emergencies. That's one thing that we can't necessarily deal with. But when it comes to a long-term plan, we do that. and we are working with all of them one other thing is not all of this will be digging but they do have to comply with the call before you dig rolls doesn't mean that we're not going to have an issue here there but we should we are prepared for it i am excited about the group coming in here i think it's good i just be sure that we all got to work together and i'm hoping after what you're telling me it's all of us and they don't let somebody go out there and just throw an easement and nobody don't they are not i think that's what's happening they are not allowed to by 17c they have to they have to do the call before you dig or they can be fined if anyone that goes for any utility they can be fined if they don't do that thank you yes sir do you want to talk on this to mr. Stenet okay thank you mayor commissioner no I don't need Derek necessarily but he could respond okay I think you know I don't have to remind the council and you mayor what we've been through with spectrum and some of the issues we've had with the town hall meeting and the emails phone calls so I guess given yesterday's article I'd just like some reassurance for Metro net publicly that this is not gonna be a problem in Lexington Kentucky I understand what the Commissioner saying but I think it would be good for citizens I understand that we've done our due diligence here and it's not gonna be a problem like we've had in the past with other utilities I think it'd be fair to you to be able to respond publicly to all of us well thank you and I good evening everybody by the way and I appreciate the opportunity to to address this issue. Construction safety. John, you might want to introduce yourself. I don't think everybody knows. John Campbell, EVP and General Counsel of Metronet. First of all, construction is, our safety is one of the most important things to Metronet. It is the most important thing to Metronet. And as you can imagine, as coming in as the third market entrant, we've got to win every customer from one of the incumbent providers. It's really hard to ask for somebody's business if you've disrupted their lives through the construction process. Additionally, you've just got to, as just to be a good corporate steward, you've got to make safety of your employees and the safety of the public always first and foremost. We put together a comprehensive underground safety program and it's actually right here and I could certainly share this with anybody on council that would like to get more detail about it we also and and that was based on best of breed industry practices so we're confident in saying that we think that we can come to Lexington and safely construct in the right-of-way sir thank you I'm a big believer in competition and I appreciate you saying that and especially reassuring the public that you're gonna do the right thing when you come come through Lexington thank you sir I'll just close by saying you know it was a surprise to read that in the paper I would like to have known if if we knew that already I wish council would have been apprised of that before we had this discussion maybe we weren't but it seemed like we're on the right foot forward we have the right right policies in place to make sure this goes smoothly so thank you for being here and addressing it thank you and we're extremely excited about getting started All right, Madam Clerk, please continue. Number 13, a resolution accepting the bid of CMNRUS incorporated in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 169-2017, creating an offering for sale a 10-year franchise for the operation of a not-exclusive cable television system in Fayette County and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a franchise agreement with CMNRUS, incorporating the terms and conditions of Ordinance No. 169-2017. Number 14, a resolution accepting the bid of MCI Metro Access Transmission Services Corporation, DBA, Verizon Transmission Services in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 169-2016, creating and offering for sale a franchise for the operation of a non-exclusive telecommunications or related non-cable system in Fayette County and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a franchise agreement with MCI Metro Access Transmission Services Corporation, DBA, Verizon, Transmission Services, incorporating the terms and conditions of ordinance number 69, 2016. Number 15, a resolution accepting the bids of Bluegrass Contracting Corporation, Clayton Ray Jr. Excavating Incorporated, and Tom Chestnut Excavation and Construction LLC, establishing price contracts for equipment rental with operator for the Division of Streets and Roads. Number 16, a resolution accepting the bid of LM Asphalt Partners Limited, DBA, ATS Construction, and Woodall Construction Company, Incorporated, establishing price contracts for equipment rental with operator supplemental for the Division of Streets and Roads number 17, a resolution ratifying the probationary classified civil service appointments of Stephen Bryant, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 512 and 15.919 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective November 27, 2017. Stephen Gilliam, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 512 and 15.945 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective November 27, 2017. Christopher Bond, Environmental Inspector, Grade 516 and 19.737 hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 18, 2017. Anthony Nesbitt, Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 512 and 17.147 hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 11, 2017. William Gehaffer, public service supervisor, grade 514 and 19.965, hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 11, 2017. Frederick Haar, administrative specialist, grade 513 and 17.554, hourly in the Division of Water Quality, effective December 11, 2017. Sandra Lopez, administrative officer senior, grade 523E, 3025.82, biweekly in the Office of the Commissioner of General Services, effective December 11, 2017, and Eric Hobson, administrative officer, grade 523E, 2307.69, biweekly in the Department of Public Safety, effective December 11th, 2017, ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Adam Tackett, public service supervisor, grade 514 and 19.409, hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads. Effective November 22, 2017, Christopher Jodarski, public service worker senior, grade 509 and 14.834, hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective November 22, 2017. William Caudell, stores clerk, grade 508 and 14.202, hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective December 12, 2017, Dustin Williamson, equipment operator senior, grade 512 and 16.346, hourly in the division of streets and roads effective November 22nd 2017 David Cooper public service worker grade 507 and 12.7 1676 one hourly in the division of waste management effective December 12th 2017 James Wright engineering technician grade 514 and 19.991 hourly in the division of engineering effective November 15 2017 Jordan Holt administrative specialist senior grade 516 and 19.7 37 hourly in the office of the commissioner of general services effective November 22nd 2017 and Norman Sinclair public service worker senior or grid 509 and 16.063 hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective November 29, 2017. Number 18, a resolution accepting the response of MSW consultants to RFP number 24, 2017, organics, recycling, feasibility study, and authorizing indirectly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute any additional necessary agreements with the vendor related to the RFP at a cost not to exceed $50,100. Number 19, a resolution authorizing indirectly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarded pursuant to RFP number 32, 2017, with Stantec Consulting Services, incorporated for the update of the lexington faillade hazard mitigation plan and at a cost not to exceed eighty eight thousand fourteen dollars number twenty a resolution authorizing the division of fire and emergency services on behalf of the urban county government to purchase nasal narcan from adapt pharma a sole source provider at a cost not to exceed eighty thousand dollars number twenty one a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation of fitness equipment from the senior emergency medical program for the lexington senior center number twenty two a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a license agreement with the rj corman railroad company central kentucky lines llc for use of an existing at grade crossing within a portion of the right-of-way owned by rj corman on loudon avenue for the legacy hope center trail system at no cost to the urban county government number 23. a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number two to the contract with lagco incorporated for the construction of the meadows north on our lincoln public improvements project phase 5e and 5f increasing the contract price with the sum of 1 million 200 excuse me $1,028,970.40 from $1,334,582.50 to $2,363,499.90. Number 24. A resolution authorizing and directly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract with bluegrass.org for the offender mental health services at the division of community corrections at a total cost not to exceed $1,137,660 in fiscal year 2018 with future fiscal years subject to appropriation of sufficient funds. Number 25. A resolution authorizing and directly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a vending services agreement with Canteen for vending services at West Sector Roll Call Facility No. 26, a resolution accepting the response of Keller Partners and Company, LLC, to RFP No. 34, 2017, lobbying and representation services be in hereby as accepted and authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a professional services agreement with Keller Partners and Company, LLC, to provide services related to the RFP at a cost estimated not to exceed $79,500, $6,500 per month, plus reasonable expenses. No. 27, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Radio Eye Incorporated, $1,550 and Pearls of Service Foundation incorporated $500 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed some stated number 28. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a volunteer income tax assistant tax counseling for the elderly, partner sponsor agreement, and an internal revenue service civil rights assurance for provision of a volunteer income tax assistance program at the Charles Young Center at no cost to the Urban County Government number 29. A resolution authorizing directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a grant for the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Division of Emergency management which grant funds in the amount of 101 976.69 federal funds under the 20 fiscal year 2018 emergency management assistance project the acceptance of which obligates urban county government for the expenditure of 101 976.69 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget number 30 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract with fayette county public schools for the operation of preschool classrooms for the 2017-2018 academic school year at the fake at the family care center at no cost of the urban county government number 31 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the united states department of transportation for the town branch commons project under the 2016 transportation investment generating economic recovery competitive grant program number 32. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a facility usage contract with lexington center corporation to host kitty capers at the lexington opera house at a cost to exceed 9100 dollars number 33. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with kathy h witt sheriff of fayette county for the collection of the ad valorem urban service district taxes for the 2017 property tax year at a cost not to exceed $350,000 with the payments to be treated as commission and the urban county government receiving and accepting any related payment $87,500 from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Number 34. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a software license agreement with Novotics LLC for a GIS-based asset and work management software solution and related support services at a cost not to exceed $125,000 with costs for ongoing support services subject to the sufficient appropriation of funds in future fiscal years and authorizing the director of traffic engineering to sign any necessary agreements, any necessary documents for the procurement. Number 35, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a release of easement, releasing a sanitary sewer easement on the property located at 3765 Winthrop Drive. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Lexington Fayette County Health Department for fats, oil, and grease training services at a cost that would exceed $1,200. Number 37, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a change order number one to the agreement with Olympic Construction LLC for the West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plant Electrical Shop Project increase in the contract price by the sum of $21,606.82 from $294,800 to $316,406.82 and extending the date of completion by 30 calendar days to January 26, 2018. Number 38, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a student affiliation agreement with Temple University to serve as an internship site for the therapeutic recreation students at no cost to the urban county government. Number 39, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to the agreement with the Hope Center to allow salaries and benefits as reimbursable costs under the Community Development Block Grant Program at no additional cost to the Urban County Government, number 40. A resolution authorizing and direct to the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number one to the contract with LM Asphalt Partners Limited DBA ATS Construction for the Brighton Rail Trail Phase 4 project increase in the contract price for the sum of $8,920.69 from $210,599.94 to $219,520.63, number 41. A resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change order number two to the contract with Hulby and LLC for the Kentucky Theater renovation project, decreasing the contract price by the sum of $1,740.92 from $232,616 to $230,875.08. Number 42, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute the 2018 general term orders for the Fayette County clerk and the Fayette County sheriff, establishing the number of deputies and assistants allowed to each and their respective compensations subject to the limits of each category as specified in the general term orders and the requirements established by law. Number 43, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a contract modification. Number one, to the agreement with CDP Engineers Incorporated for the design of the Town Branch Trail Phase 3 project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $29,000 from $71,450 to $100,450. Number 44, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarded pursuant to RFP number 43-2017 with OpinionWorks LLC for public survey and research services relating to stormwater and water quality education at a cost to exceed $28,030. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a voluntary collection agreement with Airbnb, incorporated for collection and remittance of local transient room taxes on behalf of hosts at no cost to the urban county government. Number 46, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the Catholic Charities of Louisville, Kentucky, Office of Refugees, and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $10,000 federal funds under the Refugee Targeted Assistance Fund for the provision of services to refugees in Fayette County, The acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 47, a resolution authorizing the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works on behalf of the urban county government to procure services for the installation and maintenance of granite and asphalt pavers for the downtown streetscape project from decorative paving company, a sole source provider, at a cost not to exceed $33,021. Number 48, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute change order number one to the contract with Gilpin Masonry Construction Company Incorporated for the Morton House Improvements Project increase in the contract price by the sum of $1,062 from $43,000 to $44,062. Number 49, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a professional services agreement with Kristen Beers, a sexual assault nurse examiner, to provide on-call forensic examinations and services under the sexual assault nurse examiner program at a cost to exceed $40 for each scheduled on-call period, $230 for each completed forensic examination, $50 per case. for professional testimony in court and the reasonable cost of medical liability insurance. Number 50, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a certified local government national register nomination report form to the Kentucky Heritage Council's state historic... Whoa, whoa, whoa, excuse me, madam. I was just going to suggest that we give the clerk the chance to be heard. All right, continue. State Historic Preservation Office nominating Pope Villa 326 Grofner Avenue to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places at no cost to the urban county government. Number 51, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B Education Incentive Grant to the Living Arts and Science Center Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a cost not to exceed $30,795. Number 52, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a rental agreement with the Lexington Center Corporation for the 2018 MLK Day Celebration at a cost not to exceed $9,000. Number 53, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements with Catholic Action Center, $950, Highlands Neighborhood Association, $375, and Kentucky Classical Theater Conservatory Incorporated $200 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated number 54, a resolution of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government relating to the issuance by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority of Revenue Bonds in order to refinance, among other things, costs incurred by Baptist Health Care System Incorporated in constructing and acquiring certain hospital facilities in the urban county. And number 55, a resolution expressing support for and requesting that the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction approve and adopt the suggested amendments to the Kentucky Residential and Building Codes submitted by the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government ADA Task Force and directing the Council Clerk to deliver a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction and to all current elected state representatives and state senators. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to approve yes by councilmember Henson second second by vice mayor Kay is there any discussion on the motion all right madam clerk please call the roll miss Masotti miss Plumman mr. Smith mr. Stenet miss Bledsoe mr. Fred Brown yes Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes ma'am. Ms. Henson? I need to recuse on number 17 and yes on the rest. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes ma'am. And Mr. Maloney? Yes. Thank you. All right thank you madam clerk. The The vote reflects passage of the motion and let's see. There are no resolutions for first reading, but Council Member Evans has a, you do have a first, you want to get a first reading. Oh, walk on. Please go right ahead. I moved to place on the docket for tonight's meeting a resolution accepting the bid of E.C. Matthews Company Incorporated and the amount of $36,750 for building renovations at Old Todd's Road and Dalton Court and authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with E.C. Matthews Company, Incorporated. So moved. All right. Motion by Council Member Evans, seconded by Council Member Henson. Is there any discussion on the motion? If not, we can vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. motion carries councilor evans i would move for a second reading is oh no we got to have the first reading first reading right madam clerk number 56 a resolution accepting the bid of ec matthews company incorporated in the amount of 36 750 for building renovations old todd's road and dalton court for the division of grants and special programs and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with ec matthews company incorporated related to the bid all right uh first second reading uh i don't know what number we just gave it 56 thank you motion by council member evan second by uh actually councilman henson uh is there any discussion on the motion all right hearing none we can vote all in favor please say aye. Oh no we've got to do it we've got to do it. All right that's right you got to read it again voice vote please all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. All right we have one no noted. Madam Clerk please give us a second read. Number 56 a resolution accepting bid of E.C. Matthews Company Incorporated in the amount of $36,750 for building renovations, Old Todd's Road and Dalton Court for the Division of Grants and Special Programs and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with EC Matthews Company Incorporated related to bid. All right thank you madam clerk there's a motion to approve. Second. Motion by Councilman Hines, second by Vice Mayor Kaye. All right madam is there madam clerk please call the roll. There's no discussion I'm assuming is there any discussion on it all right madam clerk please call the roll Ms. Plowen? Mr. Smith? Mr. Stinnett? Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Yes on all but 56 and I recuse myself on 56 It's just 50 cents. That's okay. You're not voting. I think we were just voting on, we were just voting on that one, that second, the one that the walk on that Councilmember Evans, but you voted no on that one. You voted no on that earlier. I just voted no for the second reading. Is that what you're voting on now or are you voting on the. We're voting on, it is the second reading of the resolution. Okay. Okay. Yes. Oh, okay. All right. Got it. Noted. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Ms. Evans? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Henson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. And Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. All right. Vote reflects passage of the motion and allows us to move to announcements. Floor is available to the council for announcements. Does anybody want to make an announcement? All right. Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, Mayor. Since this is the last meeting of the council, I just want to wish everyone a happy holiday. And although the council goes on break, I know that government goes on. People will be working all the way through the holidays, and we appreciate all of the work that gets done while we're officially on break. So thank you for all of that, and happy holidays. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to follow up and wish everyone a happy holiday, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year. And also, the parade was a great turnout for a cold night. I want to commend it. It was really, see Santa kind of brought the Christmas spirit back in, and I do wish everybody a good holiday. Thank you. All right. Council Member Henson. Thank you, Mayor. I want to do the same and just wish everybody a safe and happy holiday, Merry Christmas, and whatever you celebrate, I celebrate Christmas, but happy holidays to the others. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Yes. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas to one and all. I just want to make a request to the administration, maybe through the CAO's office, no reason to get up. I just, while we're on break, I would just like for us to know more about the circumstances and the outcomes of whatever contagion outbreak there was or has been at the Humane Society. because I've had some contact with some folks in a tangent way who kind of were trying to make some adoptions and didn't feel like the information had been shared in a timely or precise manner. And I know that this entity touches all of Fayette County and all of the animals that people are wanting to adopt or need help with. And for them to have a problem at this time of year, I would like for us to know a little bit more about it when we come back off of our break. Thank you very much, Mayor. All right. We'll look into that. Thank you, Councilmember Farmer. Councilmember Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to say happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and safe and happy holidays. I also wanted to say this is the last meeting of 2017. I can't believe another year has passed. I just wanted to thank my colleagues for working with me, and I appreciate working with you, each one of you. It's been another year, a pleasure of working. I think this is a great group, and I just appreciate everybody. I appreciate all the staff, the administration, the government employees. You guys are outstanding, and I know we're going to have the mayors hosting a Christmas party for the employees, but just know that you need to know how much you're appreciated and all the work you do, and so thank you so much. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Lamb, and that's Council and Mayor. We're all together hosting that event, that party. Yep. All righty. Anybody else? All right. Then we can go to Bernard. You do have some. Councilman Farmer. I need to ask the commissioner a question. Is there something in committee or do you want me to refer it to committee? I know I have it on our agenda, but are you saying it's not part of the committee structure right now? And what is the title of the entity again so I will know properly? It would be wonderful if you could refer an item to Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee, January 24th meeting for proposed changes to Section 16 of the Code of Ordinances. I saw move what she said. There's a motion for what she said by Council Member Farmer. Is there a second for what she said? We get a second? Council Member Brown? Did that? Okay, we got a second. Council Member Brown. Is there any discussion on what she said? All right. Okay. Well, if not, then we can vote. If not, we can vote on what she said. Okay. Let's go. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you. Yes, sir. The floor is available for public comment. Bernard, Mr. McCarthy. Your Honor and members of the council, I want to say first, I really wish that you would start charging developers impact fees to go toward building more street capacity to handle the traffic that's caused by new growth. And I say this because we really can't expect the other 119 counties in the state to subsidize the growth. in this one when our legislature meets whatever they may or may not do with fuel taxes and other taxes there's no way that counties that are losing people are going to pay more to accommodate more people arriving in this one and also i want to say I think we have a very excellent police department. I've heard on various radio programs that they have a 90% solution rate on murders, whereas Detroit only solves 10% of the murders committed within its city limits. That means I'm a lot safer here than my cousins in Michigan are, or at least anybody who kills me because he doesn't like my opinion stands a nine times higher chance of being caught than somebody who kills one of my Michigan cousins to steal his or her wallet. Not sure what odds I face on my yearly trip southward, though, never heard the statistic for Miami and its suburbs or how likely I am to one of these days be caught by a stray bullet down there. But it's nice that even though I'm living in a neighborhood that some people thought was the most dangerous part of the city, I'm still safer at my own house than I would be in places I visit regularly. All right. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. That's all who signed on for public comment, which allows us to motion to adjourn by Councilmember Stenet and second by Councilmember Evans. Unless there's objection, we are adjourned. you