♪ Like a hard candy Christmas ♪ I'm barely getting through tomorrow ♪ But still I won't let sorrow bring me way down ♪ Cause I'll be fine ♪ I'll be fine Council members, we need to establish a quorum, please. It's 3 o'clock, and we're going to, I'd like to go ahead and call the meeting to order. This is the council's work session for September 17th, 2019. And we'll go ahead and have the first item on the agenda, which is public comment for issues on the agenda. Is there anyone signed up? No? All right. We'll move right on. There is no docket approval or rezonings. So the first item, the next item, is approval of the summary from September 10th. If I could please have a motion. So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion by Council Member Misati, second by Council Member Gabbard, Council Member Misati, second by Council Member Ellinger. Are there any questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next, we have no budget amendments. So we'll move right to new business, which starts on page three. And could I hear a motion to approve, please? Second. Now, it's Vice Mayor Kaye moved and Council Member Plowman seconded. All right. Council Members, if you have any questions about new business, I would urge you to sign in, please. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. This has to do with item number J, as in John. And I guess Mr. Maxwell, or? No? Sally, maybe? Mr. O'Mara. Oh, okay. I'm sorry, wrong one. It may take several of us. Welcome. My question, obviously, this is an additional position to help with the town branch. Had this been planned all along to add this person? I know it's Grant, and I was also curious as to who's gonna fund it. It's a non-classified position because it will not be permanent. And it will be funded through these various grants that we have for town branch. And it's to follow the construction and to monitor the construction. Because you know, on these big, we did it at the senior center, and we also did it at the courthouse. Because there needs to be somebody internally that also represents the government on these projects. So this person will come and be a funder. Yes, it will report to Brandy, and it will not be general fund. It'll come out of the grants that you've already approved. Okay, great. Thanks for the clarification. Thank you, Mayor. Oh, hang on. Thank you, Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I was gonna follow on, actually, on that exact item. Are the grants that are coming, we've already had those grants, so is it gonna be enough funding every year to continue that without new grant funding coming around? Yes, and let me speak to that a little bit more specifically also addressing Council Member Plowman's comment, which is we originally had thought the consultants would do this work. But when we started looking at the fee that was associated with that, I saw there was a significant cost savings if we were to hire someone internally to do this effort. So the grants were already planned to be used for these professional services. So ultimately, I see there being a cost savings by taking this approach. That makes more sense. I was wondering how we're gonna get more grants to continue on every year, but that was already allocated. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Evans. It's Mike. I have a question on item H. That would be Commissioner Ford. Just a second. I was just curious about who would be doing the evaluation, I guess the research. Would it be students or would it be professionals at the university? And have you talked to them about how the evaluations would be done and what they're specifically going to be looking for? Yes, Council Member. It would be a team of professionals at UK under their research foundation. We engaged the same team in our opioid need assessment that we completed last fall. What's on the docket this afternoon for you guys' approval is year two. The $2 million grant requires that we have a third party evaluator to evaluate all the different programs and aspects of the grant delivery. And they've already begun that work. So it's a team of professionals at UK that we've engaged and worked with very closely year before. Do you know how they'll be factoring, I guess, whether or not it is effective? Have you all had that conversation with them? Yes, Council Member. They're looking in regards to our needle exchange program. They're looking at our Narcan training and distribution process. All the aspects of the grant, they are working with our training of first responders. So just as they've done the work with our needs assessment, they follow up with all the participants and stakeholders that we have to make sure that the delivery of the grant resources are effective. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to ask Mr. O'Mara if he could give us a clarification on the general obligation bonds. Thank you. Thank you. This is item G for Council Members. Well, right, that is true. Item G and I. I. Are relevant. Yes, ma'am. Yes, Mr. O'Mara. Thank you, Council Member. This is our general obligation bonds for FY 2020. And if you remember, we started in the budget with a total of $16.2 million. But two years ago in 2018, we approved the extension of Windburn to Citation. However, we didn't bond all of that. We gave it a reimbursement resolution so the project could go forward. But we withheld bonding all of it because we knew that it would take years and years before it would be ready to spend. It's now projected to start spending in the spring. So the remaining amount of Windburn is $3.5 million. And then this is the first year where we have the 1% public art on our issues. And that's $189,000. So that brings us to $19,951,000. So that's where the $20 million comes from. I appreciate for that clarification. Just so we understand. And will you be sending out a memo or email that can outline all of the projects? I know that we talked about it during the budget time. But if there is a document that you could send back out to us just outlining all the projects, that'd be really helpful too. We'd be glad to. Thank you so much. Thanks, I appreciate it. And I'll ask, this would be a good time for me also to speak to this. Sure. And I'll ask Commissioner O'Mara to sit right there because council may have questions. You will remember that we had the workshop on the $5.1 million of needs for improvements to the envelope of this building. And I have asked Commissioner O'Mara to add to this bond $250,000 to fix the safety issues on the front facade and vestibule and that balcony that's hanging there. And this is within his 10%. He can work this in without any amendments, without any increases. And this is all those safety issues where you know the blocks of limestone are sitting with no mortar. The canopy needs taken down, the small one. And it will also fix, take out and fix the metal that's left over from the old canopy that's separating out those stones. So I've asked him to add to this that 250,000 to do those safety issues. And that covers the staging and everything for that front part of the building. So I don't know if you have questions for him about this but this is a good time to tell you this. I'm ready to put out the press release on this. I think it's critical that we get the safety fixed now. Thank you, Mayor. Does anybody have a question about that part of it? Are you on for that? I'm not finished yet. The safety issues are responding. Okay, so you both have questions about that. All right, Council Member Fred Brown. Okay, Mayor. Oh, I'm sorry, you weren't finished. With all due respect. I'm so sorry. That's okay, I did have one more comment. Yes, please go ahead. I mean, it won't take me two minutes, so. The other item I wanted to say, and thank you all for your clarification on that information. The other item is item K. Mr. Martin, I know that you had sent us an email and basically there's no comment necessary. I just want to applaud you for thinking forwardly and working to make sure that you have the proper positions lined up for the future of your operation as it goes with the EPA consent decree. And I applaud your office and your staff and yourself for looking forward to do that. So, and I appreciated the email that you sent out. So, thank you. Thank you so much, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Fred Brown. I think the first part of my question was to Commissioner Merritt. This, what's this increase by 10%? I'm not sure, I'm not, I don't know that I knew that. Actually, most all of our, well, all of our bond documents have that plus or minus 10%. It depends on the premium or discount that when we get to the issue, we may issue a $20 million bond and actually sell 18 million, or we could issue a $20 million bond and have to sell 21 million in order to net the 20. Well, I guess to answer my question is, could we add something else to the 20 million by council action? And I am stating in reference to, this is a little premature because I don't have the presentation yet, of another $2 million for paving. Is that possible to do it through this system or would that need to be a budget amendment? It would be both. But as far as speaking for the bond, as long as it's within the 10%, this ordinance and authorization for advertisement would be good. If it goes over the 10%, we would just need to have a vote for a larger amount and then adjust our documents accordingly. What's our deadline on that, the date? Well, we're hoping for first reading next Thursday so that we can get to market. The whole reason we're pushing this all forward is there are historically low rates and the market has an appetite for bonds right now and the interest rates are just really, really low. Okay, well, I'm not quite ready because we've got to get a presentation and I really wanted to see what our fund balance was before I injected any additional funds for paving because I think we have some emergency, some critical areas. And then the other thing about the 250,000, that wouldn't be spent in this fiscal year. Is it possible to spend it in this fiscal year? I think it's, yes, it's our understanding we can get going with the improvements right away as soon as council spends this. It'll be very short. You remember that the whole envelope was going to be an eight month project. This will be short. We can get it fixed. People can feel comfortable that the safety issues are taken care of. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Mazzotti. Thank you, Mayor. And my question is much like Council Member Brown's. If, as a council, we determine that the five million plus is necessary for the envelope renovation for City Hall, how does that roll into this particular item? Was it I or G? Much like Council Member Fred Brown's question. So what have we determined that we're going to go forward with that? Well, it would be the same process. That would be over the 10%. The amounts would need to be amended. We were hoping to have everything ready to go for council meeting a week from Thursday in order to get to mark the first of October. But I think the Committee of the Whole meeting is beyond that. Is that not correct? You have a Committee of the Whole about the building envelope? Well, we have a discussion in reference to the building itself. So let me put it in context. We have an opportunity right now to save a whole bunch of money on our bonding. And that's my question as well. If we were going to do something the bigger scope, would it be more prudent to say go forward or I'm just trying to get the process? Yeah. I think our sense of urgency is that we want to, and Commissioner can weigh in, we want to be sure we take advantage of these low interest rates. And they're really low. And so the process takes a little while to keep us moving forward on our bonding. I don't know when council intends to discuss the envelope again. This is why I brought forward the safety issues so that we can get them done. And if that context helps you in any. And it does. And I understand completely what you're doing. And I understand the issue about safety. I'm just asking about the timing. If we as a council were to decide this proposal that was brought forward before, where are we on the timing to take advantage of these rates? And it looks like we've got a two week window or a month window. Is that what you're saying? We have until next Thursday. Yeah, we have one week. But let me, if I could interject one thing in the evaluation. The interest rates are low. The principal still has to be paid back at whatever level we decide. So you can get a really great rate on a $50 million bond, but you still have to pay back $50 million. So we're at the $20 million mark. If we want to go to $25 or $24 or something, we have to take into consideration that additional debt payment of the principal, even though the interest rate may be low. But again, with the lower interest rates, you can borrow a little bit more and not have your bottom line skewed as much. Total payment will be lower. Correct. But the higher principal payment will still be there. OK. May I make a suggestion? Of course, Mayor. If the council is interested in trying to do the whole envelope improvements for stabilization, could you, Commissioner, help us by figuring out what that would do to our bonding? It's a $5.1 million price tag total, which includes this $250, so that you can understand what it does to our bond, what it does to our debt service, where it puts us on our desire to stay around 10%. I know we'll be higher than that. Is it possible for you to do that before the first reading, so that we could, if council's interested in it, you could make an amendment? We can get that done this week and distribute it to you. Yes. I think maybe that would be helpful. That would be helpful. Thank you, Mayor. Because, yes. I mean, this is something that won't get better. And if you have the information you need, you can make a decision on it. Yeah. OK, good. All right. Thank you very much. Council Member Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. I was reading on page 11, and my question is, when you read about streetscapes, sidewalks, improvements, pedestrian safety, and renovation repairs, upgrades to related public buildings, what money is out of that $20 million? Is it the $250,000 that you want to put into the answer, the one where it says the public building? Is that this building? Commissioner, do you know which spot? I just saw that language. I was just trying to figure out, where is the money, the $20 million? Now, the $250,000 that you're coming up came out of this meeting two weeks ago, last week. The bonds that we put voted together was back in the budget. Did we have some money to put in the building back then when we put this thing together? I'm reading this. Or just put the $250,000, and that's where the language came from today. This would add the $250,000 repair project for the front entrance. What it says here, the building, public buildings, is that the $250,000 is going to where you say for public buildings, right before you get to the new voting machine. There's only one $20 million bond. What? And I know that. There are two items on new business that apply to it. But this $250,000 fits within the 10% possibility of increase is the reason it's so small it can fit in there. I understand where the 10% is coming from. I just thought when you put your budget, the bonds this year together, seemed like you would already had this language written before you had this 10% came in. And when you did, you put the language public buildings, upgrading public buildings. Out of that before, let's drop the $250,000. Was there any money in the bond to upgrade any public buildings? No. OK, that's what I'm trying. That's why I was confused there. And I appreciate that. And as the mayor, I support what you're doing. I think the interest rate is low. And we need to do it. And if it's an opportunity to get, I don't think we're going to see it miss low again for a while, especially when I've been, I hope my colleagues, the recession is supposed to be coming next year. And I think we need to be up ahead of the curve before it happens. And if we're going to say, now, if we come up with something in October the 10th, I'll be amazed. But to me, I think we're going to be here for a while. And I assume to make sure we make this building safe and do it as the interest rate is as low as it is right now. And because if you remember, in 2007, it was $2.6 million to do the same thing. Now, it's $5 point something. So I commend you for what you're doing. And I hope we go that track. I appreciate that. When the commissioner told me that the interest rates had dropped dramatically, we felt it was really important for the fiscal health of our government to go ahead with the bonds and to do the right thing in terms of our finances. So Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I'm on the same issue. First, I don't think there's any question that we need to do the $350,000 or to allocate that money. $250,000. It went up just like that. Yeah. Anyway, $250,000 to do the repairs that need to be done. That's a safety issue. The larger question of whether the council is going to support either short term or medium term long term spending $5 million on the envelope is a question I think that will take a little more time to sort out. We have a Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled now for October 10, I believe, which is about the new city hall and the discussions we've been having. I think as a part of that, I think we will have to consider how this new set of information fits in our thinking about what we need to do and how we need to do it. But in my mind, the question of the larger expenditure is on the table, and the council really has not had an opportunity to discuss that. And we need to do that before making any decision. I understand and I appreciate that the cost of bonding is low, but it may go up and down and we don't know. I wouldn't want that to be the precipitating factor that causes us to make a decision that we haven't fully vetted. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. This kind of piggybacks on the other discussion about the bonding. I mean, I'm in total favor of making our building safe, the $250,000. I think it's a very smart thing. We did have a pretty robust discussion about the 5.1 and about the envelope of this building. And one of the questions I have going forward, and I would really like to understand this if there is an opportunity to, in the same mode of Mr. Romero finding out the information about adding the 5.1 possibly to the bond, is there was discussion during our committee of the whole that we talked about. Some thought that, well, we shouldn't put 5.1 million into this building. But yet, and then some thought, well, if we didn't put it in there, that if you put 5.1 million in this building that you wouldn't get it back if we sold it, or vice versa. And what I would like to know, and I do not know the proper people or person or area of government to ask this question, but I would like to know this information from a professional in this arena, that if we talked about the worth of our building, and I would love to know if you put 5.1 million into the envelope of this building, what does that do for this building if we ever did sell it? Or if we chose not to, what does that look like? And I don't know if that's something that we have someone on staff that can do, or if this is a professional question. But I also, before we have a committee of the whole, I would like to have that information from them as well. I think it would be, I think it's a very important part of making all of these decisions. So, Mayor, I don't know if you have an idea of how to get that, or if Mr. Mara does, or Ms. Hamilton, but I just put that out there because I really would like to have that information, so thank you. Well, and one of the reasons that we, I mean, I was very concerned that we, as soon as possible, fix the safety issues. Because what we need is a building that people can feel safe entering and exiting. You heard the presentation, was that just last week? OK, about the issues with water. A lot of the envelope issues are with not having a tight building, and so it lets water in, which just continues to damage things. But it wasn't safety related now. So I think we'll still go ahead so you can see exactly what it will do. I mean, bonding the $5.1 million will pretty much stay a similar number, whether we do it now or later. In terms of debt service, there will be a little higher cost to issue a second bond, if I understand correctly. That's correct. There's duplicate expenses on issuance cost. And so it's all a matter of rate risk. Will the interest rates go down? Will they go up? And CAO Hamilton, I don't know if there's anything else you want right now, but if we were to decide to stay in this building, we would absolutely have to do the envelope now to get the water to stay outside rather than come inside. And I mean, that's my perspective. And that has nothing much to do with any renovations that happen inside. That's a separate issue. And so I do think that from conversations I've had with the CAO, who has some knowledge here that by fixing the outside, we make our building more attractive to buyers. If they know that it's not leaking water and taking on those kind of issues, it makes it more appealing for a buyer. So I don't know what else you want. What else do you need right now? I mean, that was it. Again, I just would like to take this opportunity. I didn't have any idea this conversation was going to happen today. I just didn't get to say it the other night at our workshop. And I just wanted to say it because I would like to know. And maybe there's somebody out in the public that can provide me this information and will contact me or something. But I would really like to know. And so I think it's very important for us to understand that. So thank you very much. Does anyone else have new business item questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. Now, all right. Next up is continuing business and presentations. Do I hear a motion on neighborhood development funds? So moved. All right. Council Member Misati moved. Council Member Plowman seconded. Are there any questions? That's page 16. Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed? I think that passed. Next up is Council Member Fred Brown, who will present the environmental quality and public works. I would rather defer that to our next meeting when Mr. Farmer, Council Member Farmer, comes back in case he has anything he wants to add to that. So I don't think there's any problem with us delaying it until in a couple of weeks, I guess. OK. Do you want to go ahead, just since it's on the agenda, to move to delay it till next? Yeah. Move to delay. Thank you. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. All right. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. And so that will delay until Council Member Farmer returns. All right. And next up, I will go to the podium. And we have a special award today. I'd like to ask Charlie Martin to join me at the podium. Welcome. Charlie is going to talk a little bit about the Spoke Award. And then we have a very special employee that we want to honor today. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. OK. So why? This is an award that's for outstanding performance and contributions to their job. Just to remind you, I had to remind myself what SPOKE stood for. It stands for skilled, professional, outstanding, knowledgeable, and exceptional. All the past winners have exemplified these characteristics over and over again. And I'm really proud to be standing here today and getting a chance to announce this year's winner, because that person is an employee of the Division of Water Quality. The 2019 SPOKE Award winner is Frank Mappson, a program specialist at the Division of Water Quality. Did he not know? He did not know. Oh. He didn't know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He didn't know. No. Come on up here. Come on up here. Oh, my goodness. I've got to finish saying what I want to say. Good things to say about you, and then we'll let you talk for a second, OK? Frank, he's been with us since 2008. You actually started in the front. I mean, he started out answering telephones for us. He was a front face, and a great one at that. Because if you know Frank, he's got a great attitude. Since that time, he's moved into the plant. He did administrative work with the plant as far as inventory, purchasing, all of these different things. Since 2013, you've been a program specialist with the stormwater program. And Jennifer Carey and Greg Lubeck are here supporting Frank today, because they do provide a lot of support to him. But he gets stuff done. Those of you who've been on the committee with environmental quality, you've seen where I've mentioned Frank before. The water quality management fee is where he has really stepped up the past 18 months. Chris Dent left us for other opportunities 18 months ago. A team effort, largely led by Frank, have kept a very important program that means a lot to our customers and to your constituents as far as that grant program going forward. The thing that I love the most about Frank is that all the years I've known him, and I've asked him to do a lot of different things, he has that smile on his face. And he just says, I can get it done. Something I think that we all can learn, I remind myself, is that I need to have his attitude sometimes when the going gets tough. So Frank, on behalf of Mayor Gorton, and the Urban County Council, and your co-workers here, congratulations on earning this year's Spoke Award. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take that from here. Tell them what you told them. I want to say thank you to everyone. Charlie told me that they may have some questions about the grant program and what have you. And so I was like, sure, absolutely. I'm more than excited to give my input on that. But here I am. And certainly, I'm humbled. And I appreciate every last one of you. My thoughts on it is, if the team needs it, that's what I'm here for. Last time I checked, we're all here for the same purpose, and that's to serve our citizens. And so I'm happy to be a part of it. I'll thank you all. And God bless. That's great. That's a great job. Thank you. This is a big week for Frank, because he's getting married this week as well. He's getting married on Saturday as well. I'm about to hate you. Can you give me a hug? Thank you. She has a cash bonus here. Will you give me a kiss? Thank you very much. It's been my pleasure. Did you get a picture? Yeah, I did. Oh, here she comes. I thought she was going to be happy. Did you have the exact? Did you check? I never did check. I didn't see. You know, whenever, you can't just be happy with one. You have to try and pair it with something. I don't know who's going to be excited. All right, look at his face. It's fantastic. I'm surprised. Oh, did it? Yeah. He's going to come back. Yeah, that's his mom. Tony's mom. Yay! That's it. They're getting married. Wait, is that it? They're getting married? Yeah. All right. Everybody, right this way. Thank you. Thank you all. Congratulations. Thank you all very much. Congratulations. Good job, Breck. Good to see you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you all. Congratulations! Congratulations! Thank you. I don't know what they do. I don't think that they don't. Don't you love surprises? I think it's awesome. All right. Now, Councilmembers, if you'll log in for Council reports, we'll move right along. Councilmember Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a motion to make. It's been a couple years since we've heard a report on street trees, and there's a lot going on with street trees, or we're losing a lot of them, and I think there's some confusion over the regulations. So I'd like to get a report on street trees. So I'll make the motion to put that into the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee. So moved. Second. All right. Councilmember Gibbs moved. Councilmember McKern seconded. Is there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to know Frank and his family left, but I just wanted to say congratulations to Frank Matson. You know, when I think back on my childhood, Frank is one of my oldest friends. I remember when his family moved into the neighborhood, and when I seen him out there today and I seen the Spoke Award on the agenda, I knew it was for him because he's always been good at what he does, and since I've been in city government, he's been an excellent representative of the Division of Water Quality. So that's no surprise. So congratulations to him on that recognition and also his upcoming wedding. So thank you for that. And then I'd also like to comment a little bit on the conversation that we had earlier about the envelope of the building. I do appreciate the pushing the ball forward as far as addressing the safety needs of that report that was presented to us last week. I think that's something that definitely needs to happen, and I appreciate the creativity in finding the funding for that to get the safety issues addressed. But I do think that, you know, we still have to make a decision as a council on how we're going to move forward with City Hall, whether we stay in this building or whether we explore the options. But, you know, I think having that information, if we decide to move forward with the envelope process, is going to be something that we need. But I still think that that conversation about how we pay for that or anything else is a budget conversation for next budget year. So thanks for moving the ball forward with the safety issues, and I'm interested in how that conversation progresses. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a few announcements. First, I want to thank my friends at CivicLEX. They came to the Beaumont Library last night, and we had a robust conversation about the budget and the budget process. And they did a great job. So if they've come to you and asked to come do a workshop in your district, I would highly encourage you to have that conversation. It was really eye-opening for a lot of my constituents. This morning, we had a coffee with a council member at MetDonut, so I appreciate them letting me use their space again. We had another lively conversation about ADUs and traffic, which are the only things apparently on people's minds right now, it seems, everywhere we go. I'm excited to volunteer tomorrow at Shillito for the community bill of the playground. So I'll be there tomorrow. I know you're going to be there. I hope if you can come join us, it'll be a lot of fun. It might be hot, but it'll be a lot of fun. And then lastly, this weekend is the Tallstown Music Festival. It's on Southland Drive at the Olika Temple. The green space behind the Olika Temple, it's a really nice festival. It's Saturday from 12 noon to 10 p.m., and then on Sunday again from 12 noon to 8 p.m. And that is a ticketed event, but 12 and under kids eat free. There's 20 bands that'll be there over the weekend, so it should be a lot of fun. And it's been a good addition to the music scene on Southland Drive. And then lastly, this weekend was quite a busy one. I felt like everywhere we went, between all the games and all the events, it was hard to go everywhere. But I will say the Red Mile on Sunday was a lot of fun. I took my daughter and two of her friends, who I've never seen racing up close. And so they're 8-year-olds, and they had a ball riding the horses, watching them race. And so I thank Fate Alliance and those for letting us come see that firsthand. It was a lot of fun. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member McKern. Thank you, Mayor. It has recently come to my attention that the quadricycle companies that are operating here in Lexington are regulated only by the state statute that's currently in place. And after meeting with them and members from public safety, I feel that this is something that should be further vetted in committee. So I'd like to – quadricycles, for those of you who don't know, those are those peddler bikes that are seen around town. You can see about 10. They do tours. They do different groups. But there's a process with their business that they're not being allowed to operate on right now, and I'd like to vet that a little further in Planning and Public Safety Committee. So, therefore, I move to place into Planning and Public Safety Committee the item of quadricycles. So moved. Okay. Council Member Lamb seconded. All right. Is there any discussion of the motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you. And last item is a few weeks ago a station, Fire Station 24, opened up in Masterton Station off Magnolia Springs. I know a majority of my colleagues, thank you guys for all joining. But it was at 10 in the morning, so a lot of the members from the neighborhood couldn't bring their kids out to see the fire station and experience it the right way. So to change that, we are going to be hosting a breakfast, not just for the community, but for the firefighters at the station on October 5th. So I'd like to invite all the council members out with their families, all the neighbors from around that area to come out, enjoy some of my famous pancakes. Oh. No pressure or anything, right? It's a great chance just to come tour the beautiful station that's there, meet with the firefighters, and maybe get a photograph and a helmet. Excuse me, it will be on October 5th at 8 a.m., and it will go until about 10 a.m. Maybe a little later. So thank you, everyone. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I know that several of us attended a parliamentarian training session last week, which I thought was well attended and it was a good learning experience. But basically what it did is it brought back some of the information about our council rules and procedures that I think that we still need to revise and look into. So based on the conversations and everything, I would like to put that issue, our council rules and procedures, back into the General Government Social Services Committee so that we can review those and look about correcting some of them or making them better, I suppose. So I so move. All right. Council Member Lamb moved. Thank you. And Council Member Evans seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. Thank you. And I will also add that I got to go to the Latino Festival on Friday night, the opening ceremony, and it's always so amazing, the colors and the music, and to see everybody coming out and enjoying it. It was really hot. But I always appreciate the diversity that this community allows in our community, in our downtowns, and the fact that our police and our public safety is out making sure everybody is safe. And it's just really an awesome opportunity to see what our community is really what we're made of. And so I really appreciate that. Thanks. You're welcome. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. A few things here. The Regional Land Use Summit, which was scheduled for this upcoming Thursday, had to be postponed. Blue Grass Tomorrow's director, Rob Rumke's father, passed away. So we'll announce another date within the next week. But what hasn't been canceled on Thursday is a really cool event at LexArts having to do with breaking the bronze ceiling. And this will be a sneak preview to see the four final artists that have been selected to actually show the mock-up of their artwork or the monument that's going to happen. So that's from 6 to 8. You can come meet the artist and have kind of a social opportunity. And you should have received ‑‑ Council, I know you received invitations in your mailboxes. If you are going to attend, please let Eve Wallingford in my office know. And then last but not least, there was a really fun thing that the Stockyard was doing. They're putting together a 2020 calendar, and they would like to have pictures of kids from the Blue Grass area. So if you have pictures of your children or grandchildren or friends, neighbors, forward them to the Stockyard. And there's an e‑mail. You can probably go online, but it's amccallatbluegrassstockyards.com. So thank you so much. Thanks, Mayor. Bye-bye. Why did I say bye? Thank you. I'm leaving. I'm walking out right now. Council Member Massotti. Thank you, Mayor. Tomorrow is the big day at Shiloh Toe Park. And I'd like to have Director Monica Conrad come up here because she and her group in Parks and Recreation have been working tirelessly to make this happen. And, Monica, if you can give a rundown of what's happening, who the sponsors are, and let the public know that they're still invited to come help out and council members, I'd appreciate it. Absolutely. Thank you, Council Member Massotti. So our build starts tomorrow, Wednesday, 8 a.m., at Shiloh Toe Playground. It will continue through Sunday. We've still got shifts available for anyone who wants to come out and participate, whether that's using a rake or helping with food or registration or perhaps using a drill. We encourage you to come join us. If you are bringing power tools, we ask that you bring the charger and any extra batteries you have. We have a whole system set up for maintaining all those tools and checking them in and out and that type of thing. Also, just kind of good things to know, sunscreen, hat, closed-toed shoes are a necessity when we're working in the playground structure itself. Leathers is actually on site currently, meeting with our team. But we could not have done this not only without the help of council for funding this and Council Member Massotti really for leading the effort and administration, but also without United Way of the Bluegrass. They've been an amazing partner with us, getting all of our volunteers signed up, which has been huge. Also, Kentucky Utilities and Lowe's both sent employees out and have done a lot of work to really help us make this a community playground. So on Sunday, we'll have a fun day, a cookout, ice cream, park-and-play van. We'll have misters out for the heat that we used at the Bluegrass 10K. So it's going to be a fun event. So I encourage everyone out in the community to come join us. Thank you, Director. And also, Mayor Gorton and I got to ride the first in the state, I believe, wheelchair merry-go-round. And so that's something that's really, here we go. We were playing with the director of United Way last Thursday. So accessibility is a huge thing in this playground. And we were able to try it out and had a spin, didn't we, Mayor? We sure did with the new United Way director. That's right. So if you can join us, we'd love to see you and help us build this playground. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I, too, wanted to mention Festival Latino. First, I wanted to congratulate Flaca, who worked really, really hard to put that on and to coordinate a lot of different moving pieces. And I wanted to say thank you to our police. There were no incidents, which was really wonderful. There were some threats of incidents, and nothing happened. So I just want to say thank you to everyone for keeping people safe. And then I wanted to thank my colleagues who attended the opening ceremony on Friday. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to do that. I know it means a lot to that community and to Flaca and those in attendance. There was a huge crowd Saturday. You could hardly move. It was like an hour wait for food. It's neat to see how that festival has grown over the years. I also want to thank you all for coming out to Fayette Fest at Red Mile on Sunday into the 11th District. It meant a lot to me that you all came out. So many of you were there to have lunch. I know you just went because it was my birthday, but the food was amazing. And Fayette Fest was a lot larger than last year, so Red Mile did a great job with that. And I want to just thank Fayette Alliance for inviting us to the luncheon. And I wanted to just mention briefly that next Tuesday is the Picadome Neighborhood Association at SCAPA, and that will be at 7 p.m. It will be important for those that live in that area to attend because there's going to be a lot of things being discussed that night. So thank you very much. Thank you. Are there any other council reports? All right. There's no mayor's report, and so is there any public comment for issues not on the agenda? No one signed up. All right. That takes us to the end of our meeting. Do I hear a motion to adjourn? All those in favor say aye. All right. We are adjourned. Thank you.