# Urban County Council - 2nd Reading of the Budget - June 12, 2018 > Auto-transcribed civic record · June 12, 2018 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4534 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4534?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2018-06-12 - **Last revised**: June 12, 2018 - **Length**: 858 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 Urban County Council convened on June 12, 2018, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chambers of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, with Mayor Gray presiding. The meeting addressed two primary agenda items: an informational presentation on the Coal Severance Fund and the second reading of the Budget Ordinance, which was approved by the council. During the session, one formal vote was taken, with no public comments recorded. The meeting focused primarily on budgetary matters, culminating in the approval of the Budget Ordinance on its second reading. ## Attendance The meeting on June 12, 2018 had twelve members present and three absent. **Present:** • Lamb • Moloney • Mossotti • Plomin • Smith • Stinnett • Worley • F. Brown • J. Brown • Farmer • Gibbs • Kay **Absent:** • Bledsoe • Evans • Henson No members arrived late to the meeting. ## Votes and Decisions The council conducted one formal vote during the June 12, 2018 meeting. **Ordinance 0644-18** [timestamp: 03:00] Council Member Farmer motioned to approve "An Ordinance appropriating the revenues, expenditures/expenses and interfund transfers for various funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019." The motion was seconded by Council Member Plomin. The ordinance passed unanimously by roll call vote with 12 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. **Voting in favor:** Lamb, Moloney, Mossotti, Plomin, Smith, Stinnett, Worley, F. Brown, J. Brown, Farmer, Gibbs, and Kay. **Voting against:** None. This ordinance represents the city's annual budget appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, covering revenue allocations, expenditures, expenses, and transfers between various municipal funds. ## Coal Severance Fund [timestamp: 03:00] The city held a public hearing on agenda item 0664-18 regarding the Coal Severance Fund. Mayor Gray presided over this portion of the meeting, which was designated as an opportunity for public input on the fund. The hearing was opened to allow community members to provide comments or feedback regarding the Coal Severance Fund. However, no members of the public came forward to speak during the designated comment period. With no public testimony offered, the hearing concluded without any discussion or debate on the matter. The agenda item was informational in nature, serving as a required public hearing rather than an action item requiring a vote or decision by the council. The Coal Severance Fund hearing represents part of the city's regular process for providing public transparency and input opportunities on municipal financial matters, even when no public participation occurs. ## Second Reading of the Budget Ordinance [timestamp: 03:00] The council conducted the second reading of Ordinance 0644-18, which appropriates revenues, expenditures, and interfund transfers for various municipal funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. Key speakers during this agenda item included Farmer and Plomin, who addressed the council regarding the budget ordinance. The ordinance represents the city's comprehensive financial plan for the upcoming fiscal year, establishing spending authority and revenue projections across multiple municipal funds. Following the second reading, the council approved the budget ordinance. This approval finalizes the city's fiscal year 2019 budget, providing the legal framework for municipal operations and expenditures through June 30, 2019. The passage of this ordinance completes the required legislative process for budget adoption, ensuring the city has the necessary appropriations in place for continued operations and services in the new fiscal year. --- ## Decisions - **0644-18** — passed (12-0): An Ordinance appropriating the revenues, expenditures/expenses and interfund transfers for various funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. --- ## Full transcript I'm going to work on Monday. Check it out. Got yourself and family. Check it out. All utility and bills have been paid. Can't tell your best buddy that you love him. So check it out. Where does our time go? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Test, test. Yes, it is. Sorry. Didn't have it actuated. All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to today's meetings. I'm saying that plural. First, we're going to have a council meeting, and at the council meeting we will have a public hearing for the coal severance fund, and then we will have the second reading of the budget, an ordinance with the second reading of the budget. and after that then we will go into the work session so I'll now call the meeting of the council to order and ask for the clerk to please call the roll Ms. Lamb here Mr. Maloney Ms. Massadi Ms. Plowman Mr. Smith yes Mr. Mr. Sinnott? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Worley? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? Here. Ms. Henson? And Vice Mayor Kay? Here. Thank you, sir. All right, thank you, Madam Clerk. Next is our public hearing on the coal severance fund. And Commissioner O'Meara is available if anyone needs to, if there are questions or comments. Today we are holding a public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2019 coal severance budget. I will call the hearing to order. It is now in session. Are there any comments from the public regarding the coal severance fund? All right. If not, then the public hearing is now closed. And that allows us to move on to a second reading of the ordinance for the budget. Madam Clerk, whenever you're ready, please give us a second reading. Ordnance number one in ordinance appropriating the revenues, expenditures, expenses, and interfund transfers for the general services district fund, the family care center, health services fund, the tenant relocation fund, the full urban services district fund, the police confiscated federal fund, the police confiscated state fund, the public safety fund, the municipal aid program fund, the county road aid program fund, the mineral severance fund, the coal severance fund, the miscellaneous special revenue fund, the police confiscated treasury fund, the Lexington jobs fund, the affordable housing and homelessness fund, The fiscal year 2019 bond projects fund, the Sanitary Sewer Revenue and Operating Fund, the Sanitary Sewer Construction Fund, the Lexington Fayette Army County Government Public Facilities Corporation General Fund, the Lexington Fayette Army County Government Public Facilities Corporation Park Projects Fund, the Lexington Fayette Army County Government Public Parking Corporation Fund, the Water Quality Management Fund, the Water Quality Management Construction Fund, the Landfill Fund, the Right-of-Way Program Fund, the Extended School Program Fund, the Prisoner Account Fund, the Enhanced 911 Fund, the Central Kentucky 911 Fund, the Lexington Fayette Army County Government Public Library Corporation Fund, the City Employees Pension Fund, the police and fire retirement fund, the Lexington Fayette-Arbham County Government, medical insurance fund, the property and casualty claims fund, and the reallocation of bond projects funds on a divisional level by four control levels for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019 for the Lexington Fayette-Arbham County Government. And its agencies and instrumentalities approving and adopting the capital improvement program for fiscal year 2019 through fiscal year 2024 as a portion of the fiscal year 2019 annual capital improvements budget approving funding for Lexington-Faderman County Tourist and Convention Commission from the transient room tax set funding to equal 99 and one-half percent of the revenue from the tax and suspending the application operation of ordinance number 50-2016 contingency designation fund and policy as to any funding requirements in fiscal year 2019 thank you sir all right thank you madam clerk is there a motion to approve the second reading motion by councilmember Farmer second by councilmember Coleman is there any discussion on the motion All right, if not then Madam Clerk please call the roll. Ms. Lamb. Yes. Mr. Maloney. Yes. Ms. Massadi. Yes. Ms. Plowman. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Stenet. Yes ma'am. Mr. Worley. Yes ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown. Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Gibbs? Yes. And Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Thank you, sir. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The vote reflects passage of the motion, and that allows us to move on to public comments. I'll open the floor for public comment. I don't have anybody signed up for public comment, though. All right. If we don't have anybody for public comment, then I'll ask for a motion to adjourn the council meeting. Motion by Council Member Stenet, second by Vice Mayor Kaye. Is there any discussion? Is there any objection to adjournment? All right, then the council meeting is adjourned and allows us to move into the work session. I'll ask first for public comment for issues on the agenda. Has anybody signed up, Melissa, for issues on the agenda? All right. Then we can move to the docket approval. We don't have any.