# General Government & Social Services Committee - September 10, 2019 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Committee · September 10, 2019 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4835 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4835?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2019-09-10 - **Body**: Committee - **Last revised**: July 16, 2026 - **Length**: 12,798 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The government social services committee met on September 10, 2019. During this meeting, the committee addressed three agenda items and took two votes. The committee approved the August 13th committee summary and heard two informational presentations: one from Explorium of Lexington and an annual update from Global X. No public comments were received during the meeting. ## Attendance The following members were present at the Committee meeting on September 10, 2019: * Farmer * Ellinger * Maloney * Plowman * Evans * Reynolds * Brown * Kaye No members were absent or late. ## Votes and Decisions The committee took two votes during the September 10, 2019 meeting. **Approval of the August 13th Committee Summary** [timestamp: 00:30] A motion to approve the August 13th committee summary was made by Farmer and seconded by Ellinger. The motion passed by voice vote. **Motion to Reinstate $41,250 Funding for the Explorium** [timestamp: 180:00] A motion to reinstate $41,250 in funding for the Explorium was made by Evans and seconded by Farmer. This motion was decided by roll call vote and failed. ## Contested Items **Funding for the Explorium** The committee was divided on the question of whether to reinstate $41,250 in funding for the Explorium. The disagreement resulted in a tie vote, with committee members unable to reach consensus on this allocation. No additional details regarding the specific arguments made by supporters or opponents of the funding, or the identities of voting members, were provided in the available meeting materials. ## Approval of the August 13th committee summary The committee reviewed and approved the summary from the August 13th meeting [timestamp: 00:30]. Key speakers during this discussion included Farmer and Ellinger. The committee discussed the August 13th meeting summary and voted to approve it. The motion passed without objection. ## Explorium of Lexington Presentation Miss Martin presented to the committee on the Explorium of Lexington, covering the organization's financials, attendance figures, and future plans. [timestamp: 01:00] The presentation included a comprehensive overview of the Explorium's operational status and performance metrics. Committee members Maloney, Plowman, Evans, and Reynolds participated in the discussion that followed the presentation. A key focus of the committee's discussion centered on potential funding restoration for the organization. The committee engaged with Miss Martin regarding the financial needs and sustainability of the Explorium of Lexington. The agenda item was informational in nature, with no formal action taken. The discussion provided the committee with an update on the Explorium's current operations and financial situation, while exploring possibilities for future support. ## Global X Annual Update Ms. Yates presented an update on Global X to the Committee [timestamp: 360:00]. The presentation was informational in nature and covered three primary areas of focus: **Topics Covered** - Language access initiatives - Community programs - International partnerships **Outcome** The agenda item concluded as an informational presentation with no formal action items or decisions required from the Committee at this time. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the August 13th committee summary - **Motion** — failed (0-0): Motion to reinstate $41,250 funding for the Explorium --- ## Full transcript playing jazz playing jazz playing jazz playing jazz playing jazz playing jazz playing jazz there's no sound there it goes all right we welcome everybody to the government social services committee on September 10th looks like we have a quorum and so we've established that so the first item on our agenda is the approval of the August 13th committee summary and I would entertain a motion or a second all right motion and second by council member Farmer and seconded by council member Ellinger is there any discussion on that motion? there being none all in favor please say aye aye any opposed? thank you very much and we're lucky today that we have Miss Martin here to present on our next item the Explorium of Lexington in which we look forward to we appreciate all the wonderful information that you have provided us and we look forward to hearing your presentation so I'll turn it over to you all right well thank you very much there we go it's my pleasure to be here with you all today the last time we were together was at the council of the whole and voting on the budget went to 150 from the mayor's recommended 191,250 and with the promise that we could come back during fund balance depending on how things went this summer so here's how things have gone this summer it's been really busy do you want me to tell you when to oh I have the slides I'm sorry there it's been a busy summer they're not great pictures because they're off of Facebook where our visitors have said what a great time we're having but you can see some fun that they're having financially we've got 2019 versus 2018 and you can see an increase in all line items the other line item that seems crazy but it's a small amount of money is we have actually two rentals in September and one of those has prepaid and then you will also see oh our camps our camps had a good summer and our camps have had a great summer and there's been a lot of increase in that here's what we're attributing them to with our admissions we've got more exhibits newer exhibits, enhanced offerings plus we did raise the rates camp registrations grow and we are one of the few camps during the summer that will let kids come just for a single day so if you're a stay-at-home mom or you work from home and you just need one day we will allow kids to do that with other camps you have to come for the week our education income that includes our group visits our traveling trunks and our field trip to go income so not only are we busy with exploring with camps but we are going to other people's camps and providing cool educational activities for them in the summer we restructured our birthday parties in July and sales have rebounded drastically as a matter of fact I was just looking at some numbers yesterday for September and we have to book three more parties this month which is not unheard of for us to book a party on Tuesday for Saturday and we will triple our income just for September which is awesome and our store income ties very closely with our patron income so if it goes up the store goes up they mirror each other and that other as I said it includes a prepaid rental as far as contributions they are up as well so what this list shows is what's already committed and what they committed last year so you can see we got a pretty big increase from the Kentucky Arts Council PNC went up a few new ones and everything is either up or even so that's good and obviously there's a whole lot more out there that we got last year but we're just in the first two months of this fiscal year so that's what is committed for this fiscal year and here are some grants I'm not going to talk through all these grants right now because in the back of the presentation I've got some new projects and a lot of these are related to a new partnership that we're exploring that we're doing I should say but three of them are these free group visits that we do for kids with a focused educational experience we've for years had the partnership with Fayette County Dental Association for dental education and free visits and Orphan Society of Lexington does literacy and those group visits and so we're adding one we've added a grant for STEM focused group visits to enhance the others that we do the contributed income to be renewed is at $30,500 we are next year is our 30th anniversary so we are going to ramp up our event take it off site as opposed to at the museum and have a little bit bigger of a gala still with some of the fun stuff that we do but do that we have at least $50,000 in new grant applications identified and submitted and new prospects totaling $20,000 to date and that's just in the two months of this fiscal year questions about our board of directors we did amend our bylaws to be 15 instead of 25 people 25 was just unwieldy so 15 is much more manageable so where we stand right now is you all have already voted on two new you get one this week I am meeting with we have two more I am meeting with one of them tomorrow so that should come through and one of them is very interested has the right age children a lot of good contacts but has been traveling all summer so we've had a hard time because I definitely want to talk to them before so they know what we're expecting and what we're required so by this time in a couple of weeks we'll be at 14 or 15 with one really good prospect that we're working on we provided you a full list of all of our board members the board roles and responsibilities attend the meetings it's the fourth Wednesday of the month make a financial gift we do have 100% board giving and they all help us bring in money we ask them to raise at least $1,000 most do more than that through donations or school groups whether it's earned or contributed just more income they all serve on at least one committee they participate in our strategic planning they come to our events volunteer at events as able we have a lot of off-site events and we get a lot of participation from our board to help us out since we're such a small staff obviously they work hard on future board members and suggesting who the next board member should be and they're also a great ambassador for the Explorium the executive committee additional duties they supervise and evaluate the executive director and the chair and I meet monthly to discuss any issues going on any policies but also what's going to happen at the board meeting and frankly we talk much more than once a month but we have a standing meeting our financial audit you all have been sent the most current one I did want to clarify that our audit cycle it begins in January so when I turn in the materials it's not done yet we don't get the final audit until March so that's always a late entry when we're doing the budget link so that's just our cycle questions about the attendance our visitors to the museum were 36 to 47 last year off-site events were 13,593 average daily attendance is 153 importantly we have visitors from 97 of the Kentucky counties last year and 47 of the 50 states and some of the people that are out of town definitely are coming because of the Explorium right around spring break time we see people coming from Michigan and Ohio and they get off the highway and come to the museum specifically that's why they're coming to Lexington to let their kids stretch their legs get a bite to eat downtown before they get back on the road and travel again our visitors from Hawaii and Alaska are usually here during the holidays to visit their families so it's kind of a combination of those things or we have a lot of visitors that come from hotels because somebody is at a conference or interviewing for a job asked about the pricing of our tickets these are all the different prices it's $9 a visitor $8 discounts we participate in Association of Children's Museum reciprocal admission and so that's half price admission and then we always have Groupon deals and then our traveling trunks are $100 and field trips to go are $120 and $90 and I see I left off our group visit rate is $6 a person and that's 10 kids or more to that end here's what group visit attendance looked like 110 groups 27 counties you all got a listing of all the counties you can see some of them travel a good distance to come see us and you know again while they're here sometimes they bring their lunch sometimes they go out to eat so they're doing more in Lexington frequently than just visiting us when they're traveling that long 54 is an average group size and that would typically be two classrooms is about 54 people field trips to go we have 1500 kids served 52 presentations we limit the presentations to up to 30 kids because it is hands on and that's what is a good ratio for our staff we had 9 counties served I can tell you this will go up next year already Perry and Knott counties have already contacted us from their Promise Academies Promise Academies are some of the lowest performing schools and they have required enrichment and they have already contacted us to provide that and another it's an early learning center in Winchester called This Week and they have two classes of children and one class of developmentally delayed adults and we're presenting to them this month and if they love it and they will they're going to book for every month so we're getting more and more partnerships like that where we're coming once a month to schools and providing that kind of enrichment because we have the cool stuff we only have to have a few a little bit of it and we can take it to lots of places as opposed to everybody having to pay for their own cool microscopes and what we have at TPU can build and all sorts of things traveling trunks 24-58 kids served and this is each child this is 3 weeks of lessons for each of those 2400 kids it was 10 schools most of them with multiple usages as a matter of fact we're bringing in more schools and we're going to have to get more supplies for more trunks we are physically they're out all the time so that's a really good thing 8 counties served and again growing off-site fairs, festivals, booths and science nights 9600 people 48 events 200 people on average 4 counties served this is definitely centered around mostly Fayette County it's a lot of the things that we do we did 4 garden side things we've done wet and wild Wednesdays pool-a-palooza a lot of things with Parks and Rec we come do and then we do get a grant to go to virtually to really any of the Fayette County schools that want us to come for a science or art night the grass pays for us to go to these schools for free which then frankly we see that ramp up into field trips to go and traveling trunks and so that's good strategic plan in September of 2018 we did our new strategic plan we have short term and long term goals I won't read through all of these but you can see we've got renovation of different galleries item B is done so for all of us all of us children of the 70's who loved our light bright you can come do a 4 foot by 8 foot light bright it's a lot of fun and the zoom tubes are just giggles all day long and right now we're working on finding the funding to do the rest of these these are all very large projects so it takes a little bit of a conglomeration of people update our community image and market our brand we do this a lot at our off site activities we have slated to find an intern to help us do this we are a small staff so certainly someone who could put all their time and attention to that would be great and then review and update our marketing materials and we're in the process of that expand into non traditional venues I'm not going to speak a whole lot on this one because that again is I've got an update on this long term goals we need to establish a larger capital campaign we are in the process of determining what that's going to look like because it's all going to come down to facility and where's the right place for us to be and so we've got a committee working on that we've established the facilities committee and then once we sort of figure out where we're going to be then we'll figure out what needs to be there and then execute the plan questions about the evaluation about my evaluation the executive committee meets to discuss my performance they get input from the board they talk in the areas of operations finance, programs, facilities, fundraising and board staff relations the board chair then meets with me gives me the results and some goals if there's any concerns with any staff members or anything they obviously talk to me and I will talk to the staff person about that evaluation of the staff I meet with each staff person we review their job description make sure that it is accurate we talk about the goals from last year and the upcoming goals for next year and highlighting for success areas where they would like to grow and we do that annually it was suggested that we go through the principles and practices from that Kentucky Nonprofit Network has this and I will tell you as a co-author of this document and I'm a routine reviewer of all the updates this is the first thing I did when we got there and we don't do it annually it is a large undertaking we've done it twice, we're slated to do it again this year so that will be about every four years and then we take it helps with policies and procedures we look at what we're doing well we look at where we need to maybe shore up some things or do some growth are there any policies we're missing and then we move from there and then keep going some community partnerships so we are now partnering with the Child Care Council of Kentucky we're doing trainings for them, for their daycare workers we will obviously promote our services, but also we're writing grants with them totaling $20,000 for free off-site services to daycares and these will be low-income daycares we are doing this through a PNC grant in Clay, Laurel, Pulaski one other county and I can tell you it is a highlight it's like Christmas has come when we come to these daycares because they don't have anything like this they don't have the ability to come to the Explorium and so that's actually true whether we're in Fayette County or elsewhere so we're excited to get this launched other new partnerships we're working on we have a couple things in our air and space gallery that need replacing we're talking to some partners in the air and space industry to do that this is who we're talking to but nothing is in stone yet, but they assure me that it is not that difficult to get a live feed with the space station for the kids to talk to so how cool would that be and so we are working on that it will probably be a year or so I think as much as anything it's making sure your technology is right and getting on the agenda with the space station to do that I'll let you know if you want to come talk to the astronauts as a matter of fact with Morehead State University's Space Science Center they've come to visit us, we're actually going there in a couple weeks to see how we can partner with them, there are students doing things with us Space Tango has been and actually the CEO of Space Tango grew up coming to the Explorium so he came back and he was like can we take the credit? but anyway, and we've had a great meeting with Velcan so we're excited where this is going to take us we are always working with Fayette County Public Schools but we're making a more targeted effort we've talked to some principals we are talking to some administrators and again especially trying to see if we can work with the Promise Academies to do some of the enrichment because we have the cool stuff it's turnkey for us to come do it and I guarantee you it's more cost effective for us to do it than for them to have to recreate the wheel so we're working on that I spoke to this a little bit but we are in the midst of determining if our current facility is where we need to be or if we need a new facility we'd like to have that decision by the end of the year or beginning of the new year there are a lot of questions about that and trying to make the best decision we need some we're working on some data working with some people from UK to get that we have this non-traditional revenue stream idea so a few of the things we're doing we've already partnered with Broadway Live and during one show we're providing parents night out so kids can be dropped off at our place and they're selling it through they're selling it through Ticketmaster so I'm anxious to see how that does we do a lot of birthday parties in-house but we also are going to start you can basically rent a party from us so if you want to have it at your house you can come to the museum it will be somewhere between $100 and $150 you get three activities basically you just open up do it, bring it back with our success of camps in-house conventions and things like that where there are kids and families are coming we can spread out into that market we're determining how best to do that and then providing programs at retirement homes where grandparents great-grandparents can do with their kids we could do camps there, how much fun would it be to go spend the day with grandma and do an Explorium camp around your school day out I was asked to include what the impact of not restoring the $41,250 would be it would slow everything down repairs will be slower which means visitors are upset because things don't work the way they should it could mean laying off part-time staff which then I either have to just let things go during the day, go out there routinely or our full-time staff is going to have to stop designing exhibits and presenting programs all site so that we can make sure that the floor is up to date we knew when the budget cut was coming from the Mayor's budget we've been planning for that since January this is the part that's really tough I mean the other's tough too but we're ready to be in it with everybody else so kind of why the Explorium if you recall in 1990 there was an ordinance that started us, we were determined to be an outside agency, one of the reasons was to incorporate as a 501c3 so that we could get grants and outside fundraising but straight from our articles of incorporation it says to enhance Lexington's quality of life and its reputation as a cultural center by providing a facility that will contribute to the city's cultural involvement reasons and appeal across racial and class lines and that is why we rely on you all so much because we can't, if we're charging what it really costs people to come then we're not going to appeal to the entire city it's only going to be for those that can afford it and that's not what we want to be and I hope that's not what you want us to be either I think that's the end Alright, we appreciate this I know that we went a little past the 15 I'm sorry I wanted to make sure that I didn't interrupt and you could get through the presentation so that we could ask questions I appreciate the amount of information and so now I will open up the discussion with my colleagues Council Member Maloney Thank you for the presentation. I followed you all since 1990 when I was on the council and I think this is very important to this community As you know, money gets tough. You're not the only non-profit we're dealing with right now in programs because I just told a couple of my colleagues, I had three non-profits send me something today and this is the earliest I've ever seen people start asking for money from the city this early in the season My question goes to, and I think as I look up in Indianapolis with their Exploratorium up there for the children and how big that thing is amazing it is and all that and I look at the location in Lexington I just my dream is that you all would be better than the Indianapolis to move somewhere by yourself where you have parking and all that My vision that this is really an education part and I don't know why the Fayette County Schools will not help you more than what they are right now As you know, they're getting ready to move some of their buildings around and they've got a lot of space, a lot of parking spaces and a lot of I just see so much potential there and their budget is a lot bigger than ours We only have about a $300 million budget. They've got a $600 million budget. We represent 300,000 people in the city. They represent about 40,000 students So that's a little bit different there. So they have a little bit more money I just vision that there's an opportunity, the partnership with the schools and you guys and the city help in any way we can to take this to the next level. Now the example I gave is the Senior Citizens Center. We had it over there on Nicholasville Road for many years and it wasn't a good location. It outgrew itself and now we put it over here. I went there yesterday and it's just a revolving door. People coming in from everywhere to go to the Senior Citizens and I see the same potential for that. But we had to make it work working with the University of Kentucky. We had to make it work with a bunch of other people but I would like to see how we can get the schools and this to me is so much potential for the kids and it's our future. And Lessington needs this but I just hate the location. I'm going to be honest with you. It shouldn't be down there. There's nowhere to park. It's hard for kids to get around down there but when you look at your five year plan, ten year plan whatever, I just see so much potential with the school and with what's going on there. I just hope you can go that direction. I'm just making a comment here and as you know the budget as the mayor made a comment a couple weeks ago on the paper, we're going to be $23 million short fall. And everybody keeps thinking we may have a surplus this year. If we do have a surplus, it's going to be scary how we spend that money. So I just see an opportunity to make this thing one of the best in the country. And with our school system and I hope that you partnership and if we can help out in any way to make that happen I just envision that it could go that direction. Thank you. And thank you for what you do. It is important looking at those numbers. But if the school gets involved, I think we can go a lot more than that. We are definitely working on building those relationships. That is high on our priority list. Thank you. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Chair. And thank you, LeEllen, for coming back and sharing this. It's very aggressive and obviously a lot of thought's been put into this. I had an observation and maybe a question on this is that you've listed grants and pursuing 67,550 new grants. And I noticed that 53% of those are from new. You've not been funded. Which, having come from a lot of grant experience, how do you feel about that? I mean, what do you think your odds are of bringing in that kind of money? Well, on one of them in particular that's large, it's Toyota. I feel like we finally have the right project. I've held off until I feel like we have the right project. You know, it's a lot of competition. Can you share what that project is? That's the one where we would like to do all the low-income daycare traveling trips and field trips to go. It's the same with E.O. Robinson. They only fund in certain counties in eastern Kentucky. I've talked to them on the phone. We are targeting populations that they want to. We are getting into kids that don't get a lot of outside opportunities when they're young. We show kids how to extract DNA from strawberries, and then they can look at it through microscopes. Really hands-on, cool stuff. I feel encouraged. When I talk to them on the phone, she's, of course, committed to nothing, but said, please apply. At least it wasn't don't apply. That's kind of where we are. Like I said, apply the aggressiveness to go after those, and good luck. You also mentioned on the mission statement the racial class. Do you track that on the numbers that we saw today? There's no way to track that because all our tracking is done through just as customers come in. We don't ask that question. We get zip codes, but that still isn't even really great. There's just no... Do some of your grants require that information? They do, and typically what we do is just overlay the demographics of the city because there's just no... If you've ever been at our front door trying to check in with a four-year-old and a six-year-old, the fewer questions, the better because they are just way too excited to come inside. I was looking at your summer financial summary and good increases. How did the revenue... How did the expenses come out on that? Stable. They're pretty flat what they were last year. Matter of fact, we have certainly held our expenses flat. Summer is our most expensive time because we're busy, but they're flat. In the other months of that year, because you told us in our link that the summer months were the best, so we can look in the full audit and see those other months and how they ended the year? You'll see. It's the whole year. It's not month by month, but it's the whole year. We're busy in the last two weeks of December. In January, it depends on the weather. If it snows a lot, we have snow day camps. If it's pretty, we have visitors. Then it just goes up starting about spring break because then we get a lot of group visits. We have six really heavy months and six that are up and down. Well, just yesterday, in Mondays, we're not open to the public, people called and bought three memberships, booked five field trips to go, one group visit, and two or three birthday parties. Just yesterday. Obviously, we're doing something. Memberships are way up, so that's kind of a vote of I want to come back. Just one more quick question. There was a study that I heard, and I can't remember if it was in Link or when you were here, maybe it was Doug, that the monies that the city gives to the Explorium do not pay for that part-time position. Is that correct? What part-time position? I think at the last slide you said something about the part-time position would have to go away. Typically, we said that pretty much the money from here helps us with our lease expenses. It wasn't funding the part-time position. Chair, that's all my questions. Leon, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Chair, for the recognition and for the invitation as I will sit on this committee. As Ms. Martin pointed out, and I think most of you all know, some of this discussion started coming out of the budget process. I chaired the Link that the Explorium reported to. I appreciate being invited to be part of the discussion. For my part, I did want to say, before we get into the comments here, just as a recap, if you all remember, the decision to further cut funding for the Explorium, at least for my part, I believe the Link was not punitive in any way. It was more we looked at the investments that we needed to make and the short resources and where was the better investment. I'm glad that Ms. Martin and the Explorium team have taken the opportunity to listen to our comments and make themselves more competitive in the future for when we make that evaluation of where is the better investment. It certainly was never meant to be punitive or to call anybody out in front, but it was more let's give them an opportunity to improve. From what I'm hearing, I see, first off, a recognition of the need for certain changes that may have not been there in the past and maybe it just required that communication, and then certain action items that we've asked for. Raising rates, trying to work on new exhibits. I'm really glad to see starting to fill the board vacancies. That was always a big concern of mine. You might try to squeeze those board members a little bit more for $1,000 a piece is nice, but maybe two. But I think as you continue to fill that board, you'll get more vibrancy and I like to see that. The grant opportunities, I know some of those may be far-reaching, but I'm glad to see you're really getting out there. The bubble room renovation in the short term, I hope you're able to get that. I'm a little concerned about the paying for it. I know it's around $50,000 or something like that. That was almost everything on that list is around $50,000. But also recognition of maybe needing to talk about the facility and where you are. That's a high rent. Even though your landlord is generous to give you a below-market rent, that's still a very high rent for the area. I know that there are others with a lot of thoughts. I don't know if we're quite there on people wanting to restore the money, but I will say for my part, I appreciate that the Explorium has listened to what this council said and has gone and made those efforts. I think there's still a lot of room left, but you're headed absolutely in the right direction. I know you have one of your board members here. Please tell your board that it's always nice when a third-party agency comes, partner agency comes and listens to us and then takes that to heart and tries to continue working through a problem. Because as Council Member Maloney said, we may have even less money as time moves forward and how we work through that. Because we want to support you and make you a good investment for this city. For my part, I see improvements. Thank you, Mayor. Chair, excuse me. Council Member Ehlinger. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Martin, for coming down here and giving us an update. Could you go through the lease with me and try to refresh me on that and how long it is? A few times in here you mentioned a new facility. What are your plans on that? We're just delving into that right now. We're trying to Well, first of all, we have a confidentiality clause in our lease, and so I'm not I don't know how much I can say and not say. I can tell you this. We have four more years. It's triple net, which means that we pay for all the improvements inside the facility. So we're, you know, is this the right place for us in five years or do we need to be in a different location in five years? I think there's a lot of factors that go into that, and so we are, we've had some discussions. We're making we need to talk with some people. I think at UK is one place we're reaching out to. Help us with data to know if we did move, where would we move? You know, what is the what would be the downside of not being in downtown? What's the upside? Those are, there's some big questions that we've got with that, and so that's what we're doing that kind of research right now because obviously if we're going to undertake this we want to make sure we get it right. And you know, we could say although if someone wanted to donate a building to us of about 25,000, 30,000 square feet, that's where we'll be. But trying to do this the right way, and again you know, which part of our town if we moved out of downtown, there's a lot of spokes. So I know that doesn't answer your question, but That did, that answered. I appreciate it. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you. Thank you, Chair, and thank you Ms. Martin for coming and doing this very thorough presentation. I really appreciate it. I felt like it answered a lot of questions that I had. I would have as well liked to see kind of a expense verse income sort of layout, like a budget of you know, where you stood that way. That's something I'd still be interested in seeing. And I appreciate you writing out your donors and everything like that. I had a question. When you say prospects that have been identified for new projects totaling 20,000, does that mean prospects to help you fund new projects? And what type of prospects, like sponsors or sponsors, corporate money? They don't know their prospects yet, so I don't want to say who they are. But yes, it would be corporate donations. Okay. I think I am echoing the concern of my colleagues about the location. I do remember the amount and I think that because we're a partnering agency, we're allowed to know how much you spend on rent, which I may say is about $22,000 a month. Is that right? Yes. That's rent and utilities. Right. $22,000 is an exorbitant amount of money, and when we're looking at how should the city spend their money and our money is going towards rent, that seems like, just it's still very concerning to me. And so I appreciate that you all formed it's like a subcommittee, right, to look at the facility and work with UK. And I think that's I think that's vital because it's a non-profit and with rent like that, like you said, yourself, the admission's never going to cover that. I have traveled and I have seen some other really great children's museums this year in cities that are not even as large as Lexington, and they have all said their success is due to their support base and how they have a non-profit group of people helping them raise funds. So I just encourage you to grow that as much as you can. And I think as a city, it's great that we can support you some way, but I think long term, in my opinion, the city's not able to give a huge support to this, but I think that it will be successful in the changes that you've made, and as you gain a bigger team. So I'm not sure exactly where I stand on the money, but I know that I do want to support you some way and help you get on your feet as best as you can. And once again, I appreciate for your thorough presentation to us today. Thank you. Council Member Evans. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Morton, for coming down. I do appreciate your presentation, and I guess I think I feel a little differently than perhaps Council Member Reynolds, because I do think this is very drastic, but I mean, it's a great deal of improvement. It's what we ask everyone to come down and do. I mean, it's improvement from money-wise to even just the structure of the organization. I mean, the fact that you just kind of slashed your board, which was a big issue. I remember looking at it, and that's been an issue that Council has talked about, just all of our boards, that we saw how many vacancies there were, and the board taking action and just saying, look, we just need to eliminate a lot of these positions because you weren't ever going to get them filled. So taking an active step in just doing that, I think, shows a lot. On the board's part. And then being innovative. I mean, I personally really like the idea of going to working with family members. You know, I kind of starred that one. I do think that that's a creative idea on the part of the board. And I give all of you all kudos for that, because that is something that helps our entire community. So again, I think that's just showing you all thinking out of the box. And financially, I think you all are improving. I mean, I'm sensing that perhaps everyone's not ready to do this, but I'm prepared to, at the very minimum, make a motion to reconsider, which I feel like we had already decided that we were going to consider it when we had the time for fund balance. But appreciating Council Member Maloney's comments about where we might be on a fund balance, but I think you have made real improvements, and you've come down here and expressed what they are, which is, quite frankly, more than what I think we see a lot of. So I would move that we formally add Explorium to our list for the fund balance to reinstate the $41,250 during our fund balance conversations. So moved. All right. There's a motion and a second on the floor. Is there any discussion on this motion? All right. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Chair. I thought this was already on that list. Is it not? And I see a head shaking. It was referred Was it referred? It was referred from the link for fund balance consideration. Okay. Okay, so it did stay on there. Okay, so then I, well, okay, well, then I would withdraw the motion. Well, then, I would amend my motion that we go ahead and approve $41,250 and reinstate the money that we removed from the Mayor's proposed budget. Make that our recommendation. Second. Okay, and I believe that we would need to have a place of where we're going to be pulling this $41,250 from. I think that I appreciate the energy of the motion, but I do believe we need to have an account of where it would be brought from. And I'm not sure that we're I don't know that we're prepared to say that today, but I mean, if you want to ask the administration that's in the room. I'm sorry. No, I'm not prepared to say that today. But can that just not be a recommendation that I can then from the committee, I can come back and amend later? Well, I would think that in the spirit of the motion, we could say that we're going to pursue it and look into possible options of where it could be funded from. But until we actually I would that's what I would think. Well, it's already from fund balance, so it would still be then it would be from the fund balance at this point. That's the only way if you're so I will come back and make a motion later then if you're going to require a specific location at this point in time. I will come back and find that later. I thought that was just required during So where are you on your motion? Do you still have it on the floor or are you redrawing it again? If you're going to require I'd like to leave it as is, but if you're going to require me identifying a specific fund right now then I would have to withdraw it. So I would just I'm going to defer to you because I think I can just make the motion that we leave it. I think there are some others that want to speak on the motion. Thank you, Chair. Mr. O'Mara, do we not have O'Mara? Don't we have money in the fund balance? Don't we set aside 750 million in the fund balance? We're in the process of closing the year-end books and it's too early to say what fund balance would be, so I don't have a number for you today. When we build the fiscal year 2020, don't we put in a little fund balance at the end of that? We do, and it's equal to the one before so that we can say that our budget is structurally balanced, that the total outflows are not greater than the total inflows. So we've already used it. Okay. Thank you. Are there further conversations? Councilman Maloney. I appreciate what you're doing here. My problem is I don't think we should do anything until we see how much money we have because we've got a lot of things on the list, and the one thing we did, we took $700,000 out of the pension that we promised that we put that back in there. So that's a bulk of money that we have to put back in there immediately as we told we were going to do. So I don't because I'm afraid we're going to get in an argument here. I wonder if there's any money coming out that we ought to wait to see what the budget is before we start automizing. And I support it. I think you've done a tremendous job. But you've also got to remember we got the DPL down there. We did a lot of other people we took money out of, and we're going to have them come down here, and every council member is going to make a motion to do that. I think we've already put on the list that we would look and review these things when the budget comes in. I like to leave it the way it is because I don't think we're going to get into a some people may not think that I think it's a very important project. Some people may think they have another project more important than that. So I don't want to take the risk of hurting anybody until we see what the total amount is. And I can't support anything because it's already in there. So I don't want to repeat. Are there further discussions on this motion? Seeing none. So the motion as I recall it is to pull the funding from budget request to the administration for the $41,250 and it was seconded by Council Member Farmer. Is there a discussion up here that we need to Council Member Farmer. Thank you. The only thing left unsaid there I think in the restatement of the motion would be kind of the proper ending to it to pull it from fund balance which is something this group may not be interested in but I think that grammatically ends the motion correctly. Thank you. I agree with that totally. Having said that is there any further discussion on this motion that's on the floor? Seeing none. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Can we do it electronically please? Let's see. Okay. That was interesting. All right. So that's everybody and so it's a tie vote so it fails to pass. However, having said that the issue is on the fund balance discussion so I haven't spoken yet because I have some questions and comments but I just don't want you to take this as a negative. I'm not. Please don't. All right. So now Councilmember Brown, James Brown had signed up to speak first and so Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Chair. And I actually voted nay on that and because I agree with Councilmember Maloney I think today at this meeting and doing that when we have other organizations even Councilmember budget ask in queue for the fund balance discussion I think would be in bad taste as of right now. But from what I heard today, from what part of the presentation and from what I heard from other Councilmembers and from your report, it sounds like the Explorium has been real responsive to the issues that Council has communicated during the budget discussions and have made some progress and some steps forward. So pending the conversation when we have the fund balance discussion I would probably be in support of restoring that funding at that time. I appreciate the attentionality that the Explorium has had with being inclusive and providing opportunity for a lot of our young people throughout our community that may not have the opportunity to experience what is at the Explorium I think I know, I think y'all had a presence at the Roots and Heritage Festival this past weekend. Y'all have had a presence in Winburn at events out there and then even at Moondance. I was at an event out at the Moondance Theater and you were there. So I think y'all do an excellent job of providing opportunities and being in places and reaching out to some of the population and young people that may not get the opportunity to come down to the theater or come down to the museum. I do appreciate and see that you're making some headway in looking at your facility expenses and costs. I think there's some opportunity that lie there but I think Council Member Worley said it best. I think y'all have taken great steps to move the organization forward with filling your board and addressing some of the issues that have been brought up for that reason. Like I said, I will probably be in support of restoring your funding during the fund balance discussion. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Chair. And thank you for the presentation. I just want to add that this is a slightly unusual circumstance where we have asked an agency to come forward and provide evidence that they're making changes to give us information about what we want to consider in terms of restoring funding. This is not a request for additional funds from a certain perspective. This is money that was in the Mayor's budget, was cut out for reasonable reasons. We asked them to come back to us. They've come back and I think they've shown us that they've made a lot of progress. I voted yes on the motion mainly because I thought it was important to recognize that progress and that what we had asked for had been delivered to us. Thank you, Chair. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Madam Chair. The Vice Mayor said it all, I think, very well. I think that there's very few specific cuts that any of us can look back at it and remember specifically that we made in this budget because we made them all the way across, but this is one I remember. And you've done considerable work over the last few months. We appreciate that enthusiasm, that attention to detail, and certainly the amount of time that must have been taken just to produce this document, these documents. That's part of what you do, too, and we appreciate it. I don't believe there's anyone who doesn't want a future in Lexington without the Explorium. We're already incenting you, in my opinion, in public and in private, and certainly you see the potential will of the Council here to help you going forward. Please keep us involved, informed, and invited. I mean, we go places. We don't all go together, and we don't all stay very long, but we go. So we're glad to have you here, and we appreciate the work that you're doing. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Vice Chair, if you wouldn't mind to take the gavel, I would like to ask a few questions. Chair? All right. I, too, am very pleased with the presentation today and the information that you have brought forward. I think there is a lot of progress and good information here. I have three questions. On the summer financials, the 2020 funding pledged page that you had provided, you listed the 2019 pledges, which I assume that those are the complete numbers. And the 2020, there were some numbers in this page, this column, that were more than the 2019. So does that mean that they have already submitted their entire pledge, or is there still more to come? We wouldn't mind if there's more to come, but no, this is the entirety that we know. So 2019 is for the entire fiscal year. So where you see an increase is for this fiscal year over last, there is an increase. And we have 10 months to go. I think these are pretty well solid numbers. A good portion of them are increases. I was very pleased to see the increase. And then on the attendance, one of the attendance pages where we're talking about the pricing for the tickets and the special exhibits, and you talked about the Association of Children's Museum, I actually looked up their website and I found it to be very interesting that they actually have memberships. So I'm assuming since you accept their membership rate discount, are you a member of the Association of Children's Museum? Which membership are you all? It's the reciprocal. It's the one that includes reciprocal memberships. So I don't know exactly what it's called, but I don't want to not be included on that list. So I think it's important that we provide this. And not only to the people, you know, hopefully encouraging people to come to us, but we sell a number of memberships. It's a higher membership rate that comes to us so that people from Lexington, when they travel, can get the half price. So it kind of has a dual purpose. It's a service to our members, and it also brings people to us. I also noticed that they had one of the things that they offer is a reimagining children's museums, and I thought probably that you partook in that, you know, just the knowledge and the information and the resources that are available on their website. Yes, we do, and we rely on them. They've got lots of good information about why children's museums, and yes, when I'm making my case, that's one of the first places I go and look is have they already done the research about that, yes. They look like they had a lot of valuable resources, so I'm glad that you utilize that. The last question I have is you talked about the field trips to go and the traveling trunk and then the off-site fairs, which that's a lot of moving parts, and so you often talk about that you have a small staff, so I'm really curious as to who staffs the field trips, the traveling trunk, I mean, do you have... Callie Turner. Our Director of Education staffs all of this, pretty much. And she knows in this growth period right now, we've had the conversation that we're going to get to a tipping point where we can hire more staff because we've got that, but in getting there, it's maybe going to be a little painful, so we've talked about that as a staff, as where we pick up, you know, what can we do while she's out doing all this great work that she's doing internally? I have board members who will actually come in and restock our trunks and get them ready to go, or other volunteers, utilizing that kind of, because that's not really something she has to do, and she's done it in the past, so just cutting that out from her. We still have the capability to grow, and like I said, we're going to get to a point where the growth is going to hurt a little bit. We're going to have some growing pains, but we'll keep growing, and then we'll be at the tipping point. Okay. That's good. I mean, that was the other question, is do you engage your board members to, or ask them to get involved in some of the events and some of the, I mean, you have volunteer opportunities. They had a two-page sign-up list that I just sent out to them, and it's just about full. That's great. That's great. Well, I really appreciate this information. I appreciate, especially about the space and science. Knowing that we have Space Tango here in town, and Morehead is very involved in NASA. I mean, those are some wonderful opportunities. I'm glad that you're tapping into those. I think that's really, really good, because those are really great for our youth to know. And I give them credit. I just sent them an email and asked if we could meet, and they said yes. That's great. So I think they want to be involved in the community. Good, good, good. Well, I appreciate that. So, all right. Thank you, Vice Chair. Okay. You wish. So, all right. So, thank you for this presentation, and I think it is completely fair from the discussion today that we will be talking about this as soon as we find out about the fund balance. And we look forward to future conversation with you, and we're hoping that we can give you a positive information. I appreciate your time, and thanks for letting me come back and let you know what we've done the last two months. Well, and I'll reiterate what Councilmember Farmer says. Don't be shy in inviting us to be involved. I won't be. Keep us posted about things, because I know we, a number of us, have either children or grandchildren, and it's important for us, too. Thank you. Thank you so much, Ms. Martin. I appreciate it. All right. Members, the next item on the agenda is the Global X annual update in which we always appreciate Ms. Yates coming forward and bringing us an update on our international and diversity. And welcome, Ms. Yates. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmembers. Good afternoon. Vice Mayor and Chair. So, Global X update. We updated, or I updated, the Global X mission slightly, because I've been working a lot on Title VI, which is language access. So, I included to support the city and its residents to thrive in today's global environment by facilitating access to services for our international residents and by promoting mutual understanding, civic engagement, and strong economic and artistic diversity. Our staff has changed slightly. Dr. Rania Belmodani for the new Councilmembers. She is our language access specialist. Multilingual staff. She is fluent in about four or five languages. Budha Adhikari is through a VOCA grant through the Commissioner of Social Services Department. He is responsible for domestic violence prevention specialist. He speaks Nepali. We have a part-time front office assistant, Yolanda Penilla, who is a Spanish speaker. We are minus a full-time employee. This was our program specialist. And our AmeriCorps VISTA. And I'm speaking currently with HR to see if we can maybe combine. We need a lot of administrative and financial assistance. And I think that we need a senior, very experienced LFUCG experienced. I'm not looking to fill a language per se. I am looking to fill more of the administrative assistance that I need. And that became very clear when we lost our program specialist. That if we're going to be looking for the grants that we can be looking for, we're going to have to have that kind of support. We're working on that. We always rely on our UK Eastern Kentucky University students who are interning with us. I want to do a shout-out to Valentin Coubel, our Sister Cities French Summer Intern. There she is. I want to thank Sister Cities very, very much because we always get excellent, excellent Sister Cities interns during the summer. This time, Valentin has just been exceptional, and she's working both for us at Global X as well as the Division of Finance. Finance is her background, so she's been a great, great addition. In fact, she was with me when I was minus three people at Global X this summer, and she just dove into the deep end and helped us a lot. We also have today, we had a new intern who is a high school student. She has a Japanese background, and she will be helping us with a Japanese program that I'll describe a little later on. For you all, just reminding you that I use the 10% rule to do estimates on our population. The 10% rule is from Census and from the Pew Center, and it looks at school-age children learning English to give us they are 10% of the total immigrant population. I usually get Fayette County Public Schools English learning student numbers. In 2010, we had 3,195. I rounded that out to 3,200. The 10% rule gave us 32,000 people, which was about 11.1% in my estimates. Foreign language speakers self-described, foreign language speakers reported at 33,425 in 2010. I was slightly under using our school children estimates. In 2019, I'm using the March 2019 report from Fayette County Public Schools to me. It was 7,020 students. I'm estimating now that we have 70,200 total foreign language speakers. Giving about a 325,000 total population, I'm estimating that our population is about 3,200. I may be slightly under. With those estimates, we're looking at 175 to 185 languages plus two sign languages, Nepali and Ukrainian. We are trending and we have been trending since about 2009 towards Asian immigration and foreign language growth. I look at the top 10 languages. Spanish is still the predominant one. We have about three African, three European, and three or four Asian languages. The top 10 are followed by Ukrainian, Russian, and Vietnamese. These all talk you back and forth. What I worry about is that the majority of the language groups, all of these groups have established large communities that are Christian, Muslim, or other faiths that bring them into the fold and give them a lot of assistance in acclimating to a new culture. The majority of the languages that we see here are very, very tiny groups, maybe family groups. They don't have that support and they are more isolated without community groups. You can see that the LFUCG's service providers, we are tracking here E911 calls and it almost, Spanish, Swahili, Korean, French, Kinyarwanda, Ukrainian, Nepali, Arabic, Vietnamese. You can see that the school records are going to be a good predictor of the languages that we as service providers will be having to deal with. Programs and projects are very, very excited to let you know that the driver's education program that we had for English learners, it was our number one most requested class, but it was very expensive to have a teacher giving the curriculum and training people in learning English to pass their driver's exams. So, through the help of some funding from Catholic Charities of Louisville, we now have three languages, a series of eight lessons each on YouTube, and we wanted to show you what the French looks like. Lesson one, rules of the road. Le code de la route. Vocabulary for rules of the road. Intersection. An intersection is any place where two roads meet. Une intersection est tout endroit ou deux routes se rencontrent. Feu de signalisation. Red, stop. Rouge, arrêt complet. Yellow, warning, slow down. Jaune, avertissement. Avancez avec précaution dans la direction de la flèche. Go straight ahead. Avancez tous trois. No turning in the direction of the arrow. There's The inspiration for doing this training came when we had a family here, a very large family from abroad who was in a traffic accident and the police felt that they had not yielded to traffic and it dawned on me maybe they didn't understand the yield sign and people, they're experienced drivers in other parts of the world will come here and not really understand all the markings on the road, all the markings on the street and even our courtesy rules. So that was the inspiration for this and so we start very simply with the signage. We don't take anything for granted and then we progress through the eight lessons. It gets a little more complicated towards the end. We are explaining how to drive in ice, how to drive in a storm, what your fog lights are like, etc. The main defensive driving technique of being able to see far away and having people be able to see you. It's not only an ESL program, English as a second language, but it's also a defensive driving thing. So we're very excited about it and when I was going to announce it on our newsletter, Valentin wouldn't let me put stars and all kinds of things on it. She thought that was a bit much, but I did want you to know that we really, really are happy about it. Another thing that Valentin is helping us with is the new Lexingtonian page and we're not ready to go live with this yet, but this is to give you an idea of where we want to go with it. The new Lexingtonian page is going to have your representatives there, it's going to have your council member, the registration, voting registration offices, emergency preparedness information. All of these things are things that we get asked over and over and over again. So if we put them up there, I think that the word will be out faster and more conveniently. We're going to work somehow on getting at least the titles to these in different languages. We can't really go into everyone's web pages and translate everything, but I think that we can at least translate what the topic is. Working with IT, I want to say thank you very much to Nick Brock, who has been helping us a lot, and others. The programs continue. These are on as-asked basis, requested winterizing workshops, financial literacy, cross-cultural communication, just gave a three-hour class, and that was mostly for LFUCG personnel. We do it sometimes for universities, for businesses, and for foreign-born people. It's for both local people and for foreign-born. Domestic violence and other violence prevention, what Buddha Adhikari is doing at Global X is leading to some really interesting drug awareness programming, and then the parents that are there are asking for parenting classes, and he just finished a wonderful series, and that was through partnering with the Division of Youth with Maddie Morton's group, so thank you very much to them for all of their collaboration and help. That was done with a Nepali group. They were so very grateful. I cannot even express how grateful the Nepali community members were. Multilingual walk-in and phone referrals continue, and I say transition assistance because it's just not a matter of giving them a number or an address. We have to ensure that the places that we refer people to are prepared with language and with the tools that they need to receive the people that we will be sending to them. So networking and outreach assistance, we still have the Lexington Human Trafficking Task Force, Migrant Network Coalition, and so forth. And I want to mention our International Art Gallery. I'm very, very grateful for the space that we're provided because it allows us to showcase our international population in a way that shows the beauty that they are bringing to our community. And here, for instance, and I also want to thank the people and the artists and the organizations that are providing these works of art. They are on loan. This exhibit has been up. It's Plamen and he is a Bulgarian. He was inspired by his trips to China, and the UK Confucius Institute very generously has allowed us to have this up for most of the year. Our current exhibit is Helene Steen. She is an immigrant from Sweden, and she has things all over Lexington, beautiful, beautiful work. So we don't get her for Gallery Hop, but we do have her in a date to be determined to come and tell us what her journey was here to Lexington. How did she get here, and how did she start on her very beautiful art? 2019-2020 initiatives, we are focusing primarily on a workforce international business and workforce development committee work that is focusing on compiling economic data aiming to retain and support our immigrant and foreign investment entrepreneurs. The Gateways for Growth grant dovetails that, providing demographic and economic data research on our county's immigrant contributions. I've seen a little bit of the data. They're not letting us put it out yet. They want someone from their organization to come when we announce it, but just what immigrants contribute to our GDP, it's amazing, and I think it's going to be very, very good. What the Mayor's International Commission has wanted to do was to change a conversation about immigrants are here to take, but they're here to give. So that's what we're working on. Census 2020, I'm chairing the key constituencies group that includes our international population. We'll be working with that very, very hard for the rest of the year, and in through April. Most of my time right now is being taken up with Title VI, LFECG's Title VI support. So it's LFECG-wide, department, division, and other agencies funded by LFECG, and compliance assistance. Tracking our foreign language speaking residents, providing an annual update to division liaisons that happened in June, directors and commissioners. Training division staff on Title VI compliance. I have barely gotten out of the, I still haven't gotten out of the Department of Public Safety, so it's a slow process. Partly it's because of my shortage of staff, but partly it's also because of their schedules. It's very, very difficult to get a lot of employees in at the same time, so I really appreciate it when the divisions work with me on getting as many of their employees together as we can do. It's usually a one-hour, two-hour max training. Investigating, recording, and helping resolve complaints. The complaint protocol is required by the Title VI plan, but also by the Department of Justice. What we're trying to do here is to make it not be a punitive complaint process so that people feel free to report. This really tells us where are the gaps in services, where are the tools missing for our staff to be able to do their work. It's a really good avenue for us to investigate, to help, to deal with this population, and it is so multilingual. And then providing Title VI annual reports to grant funders and to comply with LFUCG questions. That is it for me. Thank you very much for this presentation, and now I will open it up for my colleagues if you would like to have any questions or make any comments. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you very much. Thank you, Isabel, for all your hard work. I know you do the work of many, many people, and I appreciate what you're doing for the community and want you to know that I'm here to support you in any way that I can. Something that I care a lot about is Title VI compliance and how we can provide interpreters for our residents. And I know I've mentioned to you my concerns, so are there ways that you feel like there's certain sort of resources that you would need in order to just help there be more compliance across the board in our local government with Title VI? I think it's a gradual process that needs to happen division by division. The divisions are the best at knowing what they need, where, and when. So it's really the process, I think, now that they have the plan, each division can make its own assessments because it's all about providing service to all of our taxpayers. And so we're using certain tools like 311 is accessible to everyone with LanguageLine. Almost all of the divisions of LFQCG. Other divisions have chosen to have their own codes and to have ready access. We at GlobalX do have ready access to LanguageLine. So that telephone interpreting is very helpful, but it's not cost effective for very long sessions or doing evaluations, intakes, etc. That's where I recommend that our division directors keep looking at multilingual and I don't mean bilingual, I mean multilingual hiring and also using interns that are trained. It's not good to use just a bilingual person because you don't know their level of competence and we are required to have trained assistants, trained interpreters. By the way, we are having a translation workshop on the 21st at GlobalX and in November we have an interpreter series that the Kentucky Interpreters and Translations Association is providing. And I'm inviting any of the directors that would like to have that training for their multilingual staff to do the translation training or the interpreter training. It's very, very good. That's great. And then maybe looking into how each division could have a budget for if they needed interpreters and they didn't have someone on staff and things like that would be helpful. I think that most people get it out of their professional services, but I always encourage people to include a line item from grants because the federal government, the state government, they always will allow interpreting because it's required by the law. So we're doing it through our professional services, but I do encourage that. Thank you very much. Council Member Maloney. Ms. DeBelto, thank you for everything you've done. I mean, I followed you through how hard we worked to get you where you are today. And the one thing I remember, the first year when we did this, you would come around and tell me we had 140 different countries. And how many years we've been at it now, we've been three or four years. I used to brag about when I'd tell them how many countries. Maybe you did say it and I didn't hear it. Countries, it's hard to say how many countries, but I know that the international students at UK, they count 110 countries just in graduate students alone. That's amazing. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you for everything and keep up the good work. Thanks. Council Member Evans. I just have one question. Going back to oh, I don't it's page 60. I don't know what slide it is. The one that had the list of the foreign language speakers. I just wanted to know what country language number 8 came from. Kinyarwanda? Yes. Kinyarwanda is when you have a K-I and it's Kiswahili or Kinyarwanda or Kirundi, it means speaker of, but they use it as the name of the language. So Kinyarwanda is from Rwanda. But a lot of people that have come from Congo speak Kinyarwandan. Also in Burundi. Okay. Thank you. Council Member Floman. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Isabel. I'm always so impressed and also educated every time you speak because who knew? Who knows that's all out there? I was really curious here on your program and projects, winterizing. And that was the first one listed. I guess we've got folks that come here that have no idea about the winter. When people started coming into our office with $600 electricity bills that they couldn't pay and they were wondering why and we had to realize that they don't know that they need to dress warmly in the winter and I would now with the help of Kentucky State University, we've done some programs every winter that we provide they provide kits so that people can winterize their home. They can caulk their windows. They can caulk anywhere that cold air is getting in. But also we just teach them how to not keep it above a very high temperature and I always tell them at my home we have about a 65 degree and they're in shock. And they go, but Isabel we have babies. We'll dress them in little things that have hoodies and things. And they don't realize that there is that kind of very soft, loose clothing. They don't even know how to layer clothing so that they're comfortable. They can take it off or they can put it back on. And we always tell them use a blanket at home. We have them all over the place. Everybody has their own favorite blanket on the living room couch. It's a matter of just talking them through what locals do. We even talk about how to walk on ice. That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing. Thank you, Chair. Looks like there's nobody else signed up to speak. But I always appreciate the updates and we have so much opportunity to learn from our community here and I appreciate everything on all the different spectrums. And continue to do a good work and we appreciate what you're doing. Thank you, Chair. Thank you so much. And I'll make sure I say Miss Taylor this time. There's two Isabel's I know in this world and one is Isabel Taylor and one is Isabel Yates and I always get you two mixed up. It's an honor. That's what I always say too and I apologize for that. But thank you, Miss Taylor. All right, folks. It looks like that unless anybody has any items that need to be taken off of the referral list or any other concerns with the referral list there would be a motion to adjourn. All right. Motion seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. None opposed.