# Urban County Council - Police Hearing - October 16, 2019 > Auto-transcribed civic record · October 16, 2019 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4867 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4867?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2019-10-16 - **Last revised**: October 16, 2019 - **Length**: 583 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Council convened on October 16, 2019, at 10:00 AM in the Council Chambers of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, with Mayor Gorton presiding. The meeting focused on a single agenda item regarding a police disciplinary hearing, which was handled as an informational matter. During the session, the council conducted 2 votes on various motions, though no public comments were received from citizens. The meeting appears to have been primarily administrative in nature, centered around the disciplinary proceedings that required council attention. ## Attendance The following members were present at the October 16, 2019 meeting: • Mayor Gorton • F. Brown • J. Brown • Ellinger • Farmer • Gibbs • Kay • Lamb • McCurn • Moloney • Plomin • Reynolds • Worley • Bledsoe **Absent:** Evans, Mossotti No members arrived late to the meeting. ## Votes and Decisions The meeting concluded with two unanimous votes on procedural matters. **Release of Witnesses from Subpoenas** [timestamp: 11:53] Vice Mayor Kay made a motion to release witnesses from subpoenas, which was seconded by Ellinger. The motion passed unanimously with no opposition or abstentions recorded. **Adjournment of the Meeting** [timestamp: 11:57] Farmer moved to adjourn the meeting, with Plomin providing the second. This motion also passed unanimously, bringing the meeting to a close. Both votes were conducted without roll call, and no individual vote tallies were recorded for either motion. ## Police Disciplinary Hearing [timestamp: 11:53] Scott Crosbie provided an update on the police disciplinary hearing involving Sgt. Jervis Middleton. Crosbie reported that a negotiated resolution had been reached regarding the disciplinary charges against the sergeant. The parties involved in the case agreed to waive the statutory time frame requirements that would normally govern the disciplinary process. This waiver allows for additional time to finalize the resolution without being constrained by standard procedural deadlines. As part of the agreed-upon resolution, a letter of conformity will be submitted at a later date. Crosbie indicated this letter would be provided to complete the disciplinary process, though he did not specify the exact timeline for its submission during the meeting. The negotiated settlement appears to have resolved the disciplinary matter without proceeding to a full hearing, suggesting both sides found the terms acceptable. No details were provided about the specific nature of the original disciplinary charges or the terms of the negotiated resolution. The agenda item was presented for informational purposes, with no action required from the meeting participants at this time. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Release of witnesses from subpoenas - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Adjournment of the meeting --- ## Full transcript The ORCHESTRA PLAYS The End Oh, they're talking. I want to thank everyone for your patience and go ahead and call this meeting to order. And I'd like the clerk to call the roll, please. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Evans? Mr. Farmer? Here. Mr. Gibbs? Vice Mayor Kay? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. McCurran? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Here. Ms. Massadi? Ms. Plowman? Here. Ms. Reynolds? Here. Mr. Worley? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Thank you very much. I understand that Council for Chief Weathers and Council for Sergeant Middleton desire to address the council, so I would ask you please to proceed. Yes, Madam Mayor, members of the council. After a period of time this morning, we've had an opportunity to sit down and discuss the circumstances, and we have reached a negotiated resolution of the disciplinary charges. Certainly appreciate the council being here this morning. I know it's an ordinary event. In fact, in the years that I was on the city council, I never had to appear for one of these. but all parties are in agreement and we further we have agreed to waive the statutory time frames that are in krs 15 520 with terms with with respect to uh hearing a date i think 60 days or 75 days for purposes of allowing uh council to uh prepare the necessary letter of conformity and the details of the agreement in writing which i understand will be brought back to the council and since this is coming back to you you should not discuss anything amongst yourselves or outside i said that poorly but you get the meaning i i think everybody understands not to discuss anything uh did thank you very much thank you members council yes did you need to say anything else mr Mr. Horn? I don't think so. So I will just simply ask for myself and the council, how will this come back to the council? It will come back as a conformity like you would normally see with fire and police discipline. Okay, so at the podium, a motion. And that's why you should continue not to discuss this matter. Mayor, as a formality, I think probably legally we need to release all those individuals who are sitting outside or waiting. from subpoenas, so I would suggest maybe if you, I'm requesting that the witnesses be released from their subpoenas. Thank you, and I agree with you. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Do we need a motion? Adjourned. Adjourned. Vice Mayor K. Yes, I move that we release all of the people who are waiting to testify. All right. We have a motion by Vice Mayor Kay, a second by Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And if we have a runner, somebody can go tell them to go to work. Thank you, Jason. Now, is there anything else to be discussed? No. Mr. Crosby? No. No, Mayor. Thank you very much. I appreciate both sides being willing to talk and to work through this very much. So thank you very much. At this point, I'd like to ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Council Member Farmer moved. Council Member Plowman seconded. All those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you to all.