# Rural Land Management Board meeting - January 31, 2018 > Auto-transcribed civic record · January 31, 2018 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4440 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4440?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2018-01-31 - **Last revised**: January 31, 2018 - **Length**: 502 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Rural Land Management Board convened on January 31, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber at 101 East Vine Street, Lexington, KY 40507, with Jim Gray presiding as the meeting officer. The board conducted a brief session that included approval of previous meeting minutes from December 11, 2017, and procedural matters before entering into a closed executive session. The meeting involved 5 total votes on various motions, with no public comments received during the designated public comment period. The session concluded with standard administrative business and adjournment after the executive session. ## Votes and Decisions The board took action on five motions during the January 31, 2018 meeting, all of which passed unanimously. **Meeting Minutes Approval** The board approved the December 11, 2017 meeting minutes by unanimous vote. **Executive Session** The board voted unanimously to enter into closed executive session to discuss potential acquisition of real property interest. **Farm Cooperative Agreement Substitutions** The board unanimously authorized submitting farms 2-2018 and 35-2018 as substitute farms on the cooperative agreement. **Federal Farm Application Authorization** A unanimous vote authorized all remaining federally eligible farms to be included on the 2018 federal application. **Farm Appraisal Authorization** The board unanimously authorized appraisals of four specific farms: 31-2006, 14-2009, 5-2013, and 7-2008. All votes were recorded as unanimous, though specific vote counts, individual member votes, and the names of those making and seconding motions were not documented in the available records. No transcript timestamps were provided for these voting actions. ## Attendance Attendance was noted at the beginning of the meeting. No specific details about which members were present or absent were provided in the available meeting materials. The attendance item served as an informational procedural matter to establish the meeting's quorum and record participation for official purposes. ## Motion to approve the December 11, 2017 Minutes A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes from the December 11, 2017 meeting. The motion was approved without recorded discussion or debate. No specific speakers were identified during consideration of this agenda item, and no concerns or amendments to the minutes were raised during the proceedings. The approval followed standard procedural protocol for meeting minutes. **Outcome:** Approved ## Announcements and Public Comment During this portion of the January 31, 2018 meeting, staff provided announcements regarding the final rankings that had been completed from the previous December meeting. The announcements were informational in nature, updating attendees on the status of prior business. No members of the public came forward to provide comments during the designated public comment period. This segment of the meeting concluded without any public input or discussion items requiring board action. The announcements and public comment period served its standard procedural function of allowing for administrative updates and providing an opportunity for community members to address the board, though no public participation occurred at this meeting. ## Motion to enter into Closed Executive Session A motion was made during the January 31, 2018 meeting to enter into a closed executive session for the purpose of discussing the potential acquisition of real property interest. The motion was approved, allowing the governing body to move into executive session to conduct confidential discussions regarding property acquisition matters. Executive sessions are closed to the public and are permitted under state law for specific purposes, including real estate negotiations where public discussion could compromise the government's negotiating position. No additional details about the specific property or acquisition under consideration were disclosed in the public portion of the meeting, as is standard practice when entering executive session for real estate matters. **Outcome:** Approved ## Motion to Adjourn A motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. The motion was approved, bringing the January 31, 2018 meeting to a close. No additional discussion or debate occurred regarding the adjournment motion, and no concerns were raised by meeting participants. The procedural motion followed standard meeting protocol for concluding the session. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approve the December 11, 2017 Minutes - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Enter into Closed Executive Session to discuss potential acquisition of real property interest - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize submitting farms 2-2018, 35-2018, as substitute farms on the cooperative agreement - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize all remaining federally eligible farms on the 2018 federal application - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize appraisals of farms 31-2006, 14-2009, 5-2013, and 7-2008 --- ## Full transcript Go ahead and be seated. We'll get going here today. Call the meeting to order. Wait for you to... I think you're right by Lucy, maybe. If you don't like it, move it. All right, we're in session now, and the first item on the agenda and pretty much the only open item is the minutes. So I'll look at the minutes and give me a motion to approve or amend as suspended. We have a motion already. And we have a second, so we should be able to get a vote going. Well, don't want to let me vote. Okay, it looks to me like everyone has voted. Am I correct? I'm just counting numbers. I think we got it. Okay, the next item on the agenda is announcements. We don't have a public here, but I think Beth has an announcement before we have another motion. Okay, I just wanted to let you all know that we reviewed the initial rankings at the December meeting and you all approved those, and we did not receive any appeals to those rankings, so they will stand as our final rankings. That's all. okay now entertain a motion to enter into closed executive session present to KRS 618101 B to discuss potential acquisition real property interest the public discussion which is likely to affect the value All right, that puts us in closed session. Thank you. Okay. Do you need a motion? I'm working on the different system. Okay. Okay. We're back in open session, and we have three motions. that came out of closed session. The first motion is a motion to authorize submitting farms 2-2018, 5-2018, 4-2018, 6-2018, and 3-2018 as substitute farms on the 2016 cooperative agreement. That should be on your screens. Okay, we had a motion and a second on that, and everyone has voted on that, and the motion carries. The second motion is a motion to authorize submitting all remaining federally eligible farms on the 2018 federal application, as discussed in closed session. Okay, we have a motion and second on that, and that one also passed unanimously. And we have a third and final motion, and that is a motion to authorize appraisals of farms 31-2006, 14-2009, 5-2013, and 7-2008. Okay, we had a motion and a second on that one. It also carried unanimously. I believe that is all the business for today. Does anybody have anything else? Entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Don Robinson made a motion to adjourn. Mary Ann made a motion to second. All right. And everyone in favor is going to leave the building. Aye. Aye. So what's our next meeting? Yes, Chair. I'm sorry. Yes, Chair. When is our next meeting? Yes, Chair. What's the day of our next meeting? you're supposed to vote here i guess i think our next meeting is march the 28th but we may have a special meeting to review the ordinance okay what's the date march 28th Thank you.