Let's go ahead and I'll call the meeting to order. This is November 12th and this is the council work session and the first item of business is a public hearing on the urban services changes. And so I'd like to go ahead and declare the meeting open and ask if there is anyone who would like to speak about the urban service changes. If you'd like to speak, just please come to the podium. I see no one. So I will declare the public hearing closed. Next is public comment for other issues on the agenda. Is anyone signed up back there? No? Thank you very much. There are, there's a docket approval. Thank you. Councilmember Farmer moved approval, Vice Mayor Kaye seconded. And so discussion. Councilmember Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I've got to walk on. I moved a place on the docket for the October 24th, 2019 council meeting for the first reading of resolutions, a resolution prohibiting through-truck travel on Aurora Avenue between Walton Avenue and North Ashland Avenue. So moved. Councilmember Plowman seconded. Is there discussion about the motion? I had a question. Okay. Councilmember Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. What were the two streets, Aurora between North Ashland and? Walton. Walton. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Are there other questions about the motion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Is there other discussion or motions about the docket? I see none. Did you have one, Councilmember Worley? This is an item where I think it can relate to new business synopsis of an item. Oh, okay. I think we're okay. Okay. Very good. All right. The motion is to approve the docket as amended. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next up, we have approval of the summary for October 29th work session. Vice Mayor Kaye moved approval. Councilmember Massotti seconded. Is there any discussion about the summary? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next is budget amendments. This is pages three through six. Second. Councilmember Farmer moved approval. Councilmember Ellinger seconded. Are there any questions or comments? Please log in. I see none. All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Now we're on to new business. Do I hear a motion? Councilmember Farmer moved approval. Councilmember Ellinger seconded. Please log in. If you have questions, Councilmember Massotti. Thank you, Mayor. Item G, maybe either Mr. Duncan or Mr. Atkins, if you could just give me a little bit more information on that one, please. How are you? Yes, ma'am. Is this the lane for mass transit? Is that what you're looking at? Well, it's a study that will look at the needs in order to create future bus rapid transit options for this. So we'll be looking at transportation and land use options for this. But this is the study that we hope would lead to that, yes. We don't have any land available, obviously. So you're just going to designate a lane? Is that what you're thinking? This is not really about that. It's looking at the existing conditions and see what opportunities are there in order to create the bus rapid transit for the future. Well, that's what I'm saying. We have to use an existing lane because obviously there's no right-of-way or any more additional land. We'll look at all of that, yes. Okay. Oh, thank you very much. All right. And item number O, Mr. Martin. So what did we need to do? Make a deal with the Maddox family in order to get this worked out? Is that how I read this? We have a master agreement to serve properties in Jesmond County, in northern Jesmond County that's been in place since 2002. And so in that master agreement, each time that they want to have service there, they have to do a separate site-specific agreement that outlines not only how much flow that they can have, but the conditions at which that that may be executed. We don't necessarily work out the agreement. Jesmond South Elkhorn Water District, which is the sewer purveyor in Jesmond County, works that out, and then they come to us to have an agreement, but basically it's a three-party agreement. Well, give me some more specifics because I know what you're saying, but it says capacity of the Drake's Landing Unit 1 development. Where is that? There should be a map in the packet. It is on Clay's Mill Road Extended. You can see the top. I see. Oh, yeah. Right. I remember looking at this. What are we providing them in this agreement? We are providing sewage treatment capacity at the West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plant. We are not providing any collection and conveyance services whatsoever. That would be the Jesmond South Elkhorn Water District, but they become a paying customer to urban county government sanitary sewer rates as collected by the Division of Revenue. Do we have any idea how big that development is? Unfortunately, I think about things in terms of flow. It's 31,600 gallons a minute, so in terms of that, it's not very big. Okay. Yeah, I've seen them working on this, and I assumed it was a new development, but wasn't sure how big. All right. You've answered my question. Thank you. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Worley. Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion to amend the synopsis of item A here under new business, and to the extent that that will change any respective docket down the road to read as follows, the Division of Enhanced 9-1-1 is requesting a resolution authorizing the Mayor to change street names and or individual numbers of addresses within the 1st and 4th Council District of 205-207 Wickliffe Street to 208 East 2nd Street and 2280 Nicholasville Road to 125 East Lowery Lane, on behalf of the administration, so moved. All right. We have a motion and a second to amend item A. Do I hear any comment about this or questions? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. On behalf of the administration, they have asked me to remove item B as envoy from today's agenda. The staff in Aging Services has determined that the proposed grant activity related to Dementia-Friendly Lexington Initiative is not competitively viable at this time, and however, they will proactively continue to explore other grant funding opportunities in the future. So moved. Do I hear a second? Council Member Evans seconds. Is there any question? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. Charlie, I have another question on O. I was just curious because that is a Maddox Trust, is that of Nashville? That's a trust, correct? I believe so, yes. Yeah, I just didn't know how a trust would fund something out of Nashville here. I can't really profess to know what the mechanism of this is. Basically they're not paying us anything. They're basically doing a development plan in Jesmond County. They have to build all the infrastructure in accordance with urban county government standards, but we don't maintain any of it. But what this allows is that when those houses go into that development, that their sewage will be treated at West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plant, and they will get a monthly bill from urban county government for that service. So funding is not coming to us from the Maddox Trust? No. No. They have to, like I said, they're basically funding a development, and so they're going to have to build the roads. They're going to have to build everything that goes along with this, but because it's in Jesmond County, it's under Jesmond County jurisdiction as far as planning is concerned. All we're doing, and this is what the master agreement always allowed for, was some place for them to have their sewage treated. That's how Brandon Crossing really came to be. Okay, so funding might be going to Jesmond County. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Charlie. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. I forgot something. Mr. Duncan, and you don't have to come to the podium, I want to tell you and Mr. Adkins, as it relates to item G, I want to be kept in the loop about the study and the results and moving forward so that, obviously, my district abuts all of Nicholasville Road pretty much down to the Baptist Health, and so I really want to be aware of what the results in the study, and so I would really appreciate just making sure that you keep me in the loop on this. Thank you so much. Does anyone else have questions about new business? All right. The motion is to approve as amended. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Next up is continuing business and presentations. Next is neighborhood development funds. Do I hear a motion? Move approval. Second. Vice Mayor Kaye moved approval. Council Member Plumman seconded. Is there any question? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next is planning and public safety, October 8th summary. Council Member Massotti. Thank you, Mayor. Items on the agenda included sidewalk assistance program and five-year public safety plan and also short-term rentals. In reference to the sidewalk assistance program, Alex Olchevy, Director of Code Enforcement, presented an update on the sidewalk assistance program's draft ordinance. He provided a history of the program, reviewed the historical data, and explained how the grants have increased slightly over the years. He pointed out in the last couple of years more money has been requested to finish projects for which there was not enough budgeted. He explained that the grant money is for 50 percent of the reasonable cost of repair replacement of sidewalks for owner-occupied residential property. As a result of that, a motion came out of the committee to approve the changes to the sidewalk assistance ordinance on pages 12 through 15 in the packet, sections 17-147, 17-148, 17-162, 17-163, 17-164, and 17-165 in the Code of Ordinances to the full Council. And that motion was passed without dissent on behalf of the committee. I so move. Second. We have a second from Council Member James Brown. Is there any discussion? All right, seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. The next item on the agenda was the five-year public safety E911 plan that was supplied by Director Robert Stack. He presented the division's five-year public safety plan. He gave a presentation with a review of the key responsibilities and statistics. He said the city has increased police and fire, but not 911. He described the requirements necessary for a 911 operator and said it is a four- to six-month hiring process. He reviewed the attrition charts and the staff challenges for call takers and dispatchers. He explained the mandatory staff needed to cover dispatch channels, and he spoke about the radio system and staffing necessary for that. He continued the presentation with a review of the capital forecast for the next five years. He said the biggest challenge was the personnel hindrance and getting qualified applicants and getting through the six-month hiring process. No motions came out of that report. And the last was short-term rentals. Evan Thompson, attorney-in-law, provided an overview of the draft ordinance. He explained how the short-term rentals should be regulated with appropriate licensing, the host's registration fees and advertising requirements. He explained the transient room tax to be submitted by the host to LFUCG and safety requirements that must be in place, including smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers, emergency exits, and evacuation plans, and the LFUCG may require a signed affidavit to administer these requirements. He explained that short-term rentals are subject to only one contract reservation at a time and that the host must provide a monthly report stating the number of reservations and number of nights per reservation. No motions came out of that committee item, and that will remain in committee, and I believe there will be another discussion about it in February. And basically that's all, Mayor. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Council Member Lamb, did you have a question about the report? I did. Yes, ma'am. The motion, Council Member Mazzotti, the motion that was read out, and I'm doing this just for the public's knowledge. The motion that you read out about the sidewalk assistance ordinance, it actually encompassed several sections, but the actual ordinance that just came to us today, the draft, is only section 17-164 and 17-165. And so because the way that the motion was read out, I just wanted to make sure, give an opportunity to clarify that the draft ordinance is only encompassing two of these sections. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. And maybe someone can give me some, an update on that. Are you expecting the other pieces to come forward later? Well, that's what I'm, we've got the Director here. I can help you with that. We sent this back to law after you did the committee work, and we economized the language, and we didn't have to change all these other sections to accomplish our goals. So we were able to put all the language to accomplish what we wanted to do in those two sections. Thank you. So you're saying we just have section 17-164 and 17-165 to move forward? Correct. I didn't need 163 anymore. We incorporated it into 164, so we didn't need it to be redundant. Law helped us just economize the language. And we don't need 147, 148, or 162 either? No. No, they did not end up ultimately being affected. Thank you. I just, I wanted to make that clarification, and I want to allow you the opportunity to say that, because when a motion was phrased in the way that it was, that it could lead to someone being confused, and so therefore the clarification was very important. So thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you, Mayor. Do I need to reintroduce that motion, or no? I don't think so. Okay. You have a question about this same item. Councilmember Maloney. Thank you. I want to get clarification here now. When we went over this last month, we had two types of sidewalk funding. One was for low income, got 100 percent, and the other one's got 50 percent. Now you're all moving those 50 percent up to 100 percent. Are you all still leaving the income still the same, that they save 50 percent, and those who are low income still get the 100 percent? Because I do have some good news on the 100 percent. Thanks to the CEO Brown, we were able to go to CDBG and put it in the CDBG for next year that $10,000 set aside for anybody with 100 percent. We can take the funds out of that instead of taking the funds out of the general fund to pay the 100 percent low income. I just need to know what the --. I'm fine whatever you do. I just want to make a clarification. Is it still income, or are you still? That criteria is still established through adult and tenant services. The grant that you wanted to have earmarked for the 100 percenters that will go through Director Laner's program, the language allows us going through law that says that 20 percent reserve of grant funds available is that CDBG grant would be available because it would be in our budget, and it would be earmarked for the 100 percenters. That way I wouldn't have to hold the 20 percent reserve. It would actually be either part of the 20 percent reserve or even exceed it potentially. But it doesn't change the criteria to establish 100 percenters. The ordinance didn't change any of that. It just separated the 100 percent criteria the way we administer it versus the 50 percent criteria. So let me ask you this question. Now, if you have 100 percent, somebody very low gets 100 percent of their money back, and we get close to running out of money, and I have a sidewalk, and I fix it, and it costs me $400, and I come to the city. Would the city match it at 100 percent, $400 if I'm not that 100 percent low income area, or do you all match it, and then the 100 percent, $400, and I get all my money back? You'll get all your money back if you're qualified. We get all the money back. You get all the money back, or with the new language, I can pay the contractor directly. That's what I wanted to clarify. Thank you. Are there any other questions? All right. Thank you. All right. Now, next is the Purchase of Development Rights Program presentation and Rural Land Management Board, and we have PDR Manager Beth Overman here as well as the Rural Land Management Board Chair Gloria Martin. And I think we'll have you set for 15 minutes. Does that work? That should work. All right. Thank you all. We are here to give our annual report, and we will use the PowerPoint, but when we get to talking about the farms that we were able to acquire the easements this year, then I will direct you all to the maps and show you where they are. Yes, and that is coming around to you. All right. The PDR program was created in the year 2000 to preserve land in the rural service area in order to protect the cultural landscape, the general agriculture, equine and tourism industries, and the numerous businesses that support the farms. The program was created in conjunction with the 1999 change of the minimum lot size in the rural service area from 10 acres to 40 acres. This change was supported by the farming and development communities since the 10-acre tracts were benefiting neither. The tracts were mostly too small to farm but were not profitable to developers. A group of 26 community members representing multiple facets of business and government came together to develop the program and were known as the Implementation Committee. The established goal is to conserve 50,000 acres of land in the rural service area which encompasses approximately 127,000 acres. The 16-member Rural Land Management Board was created to govern the program and is comprised of representatives from the organizations who served on the Implementation Committee as well as three newly added council seats in 2019. So on our Rural Land Management Board, we have Gloria Martin as our chair, who as you all know, most of you know, was a long-term council member for about 10 years representing the 12th District and served with some of you. We also have, you will see, I won't go through the names, but rather the organizations. So LBAR has a representative, the Fayette County Farm Bureau has two, Commerce Lexington has one, the Department of Agriculture has one, Commerce Lexington has one, there are now two council-appointed seats, the Historic Preservation Groups have one, the Home Builders, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association has two, a Land Conservation Group has one, the Lexington Visitors and Convention Bureau has one, and we now have our non-voting council member with Council Member Massotti, and then the Fayette County Extension Agent is always a seat, and the USDA NRCS Conservationist is a seat. So which parcels qualify for PDR and how are they ranked? Any parcel in the AR zone that is 20 acres and above qualifies for easement purchase. Parcels are ranked using a land evaluation and site assessment, known as a LISA system provided in Section 2610 of the Code of Ordinances that includes the size, the quality of the soils, length of public road frontage, proximity to other PDR farms or applicants, farm activity, ag improvements, environmentally sensitive areas, rural greenways, designated focus areas, natural protection areas, links to parks, nature preserves, nature sanctuaries, etc., historic and cultural resources, stone fences, scenic resources, elimination of undeveloped non-conforming tracks, and in addition, negative points are awarded for parcels in the durability categories 1 through 4 and close proximity to the urban service area. And also, any farm that is 1 to 19 acres in the AR zone may apply for donation to the PDR program. So even though you do not qualify, you do not hit that 20 acre criteria for purchase, you can donate your farm to PDR. How is the program funded? $15.5 million matched by the state during the first 10 years of the program. This was a one-time gift from the tobacco settlement funds that was spread out over a number of years. We've received approximately $26 million from the federal government in matching dollars. And approximately $38.4 million has been provided by the LFUCG. The total provided by our conservation partners is $41.5 million, thereby surpassing the LFUCG investment by $3 million. With a local investment of $38 million to acquire 30,362 acres of easements, the citizens of Fayette County have conserved this farmland at a rate of only $1,266 per acre. How does farmland preservation benefit Fayette County? A 2017 U.K. College of Ag study showed the ag cluster in Fayette County has an annual impact of $2.3 billion and provides 1 in 12 jobs, thereby contributing $8.5 million to the local tax base and an additional $1.3 billion in income profits and dividends. In addition, the University of Kentucky also stated that the Kentucky equine industry has an annual $3 billion impact to our state. Lexington is the horse capital of the world and home to the Kentucky Horse Park, Keeneland, and Fasig-Tipton, in addition to numerous working farms. We are also home to the Bluegrass Stockyards, which is the largest stockyard east of the Mississippi River and the state of Kentucky is the largest beef producer east of the Mississippi and home to over 1.1 million beef cows. In addition, the Bluegrass Stockyards is a tourist destination with its beautiful new facility that houses a restaurant, shops, and historical data about animal husbandry. Alright. How many easements have been purchased thus far in 2019? So we have five new farm easements totaling approximately 711 acres and located in various parts of the county. Of those farms, two are used for cattle, two are general ag, and one is equine. Every farm is adjacent to another conserved farm, thereby increasing our areas of contiguous conserved land and thereby building critical mass. The total cost of these easements was approximately $1.5 million. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service share was $750,000 and our share was equal to that, thereby making the Rural Land Management Board's cost for 711 acres approximately $1,056 per acre. So now we are going to show you all the farms that we did, the easements we acquired this year, and our first one is down on Evans Mill Road, and if you will look at your map down on the bottom left, it says Thompson Barn Hill. That is the first farm, or our largest, we've taken these from largest to smallest. So this is a 266 acre farm in the southern end of the county owned by Billy and Dorothy Thompson and Mary Barnhill and Lindsay Barnhill Rodericks. It is a general ag farm with approximately 63 acres of cropland, 46 acres of hayland, 95 acres of wildlife, and 53 acres of forest land. The soil score was approximately 54%. It has environmentally sensitive areas in the designated bushed as well as archaeological areas verified by the University of Kentucky. And over 4,000 feet of frontage on a scenic roadway. Raven Run Creek runs through the farm, and there is also a large pond on the farm. It's PDR adjacent, and you will see, and that's one of the farms we will also talk about in a minute, to a 91 acre farm we conserved this year, and together they total over 355 acres of contiguous conserved land. And next we have a picture there of the farm and the large pond that is there. Our next farm is over on Sulphur Well Road. If you'll go to your right, it hasn't been colored in yet on the map, but I drew a line to it. It's owned by Raymond Hayes. They actually put two tracks together into PDR. It's a 240 acre cattle farm comprised of a 168 acre and 72 acre track that is owned by Raymond Hayes. Raymond and his now deceased wife Ann bought the track back in 1962. He currently has a 40 head of cow-calf operation as well as actively baling hay. The soil score was nearly 81% on this farm, and there's over 1,000 feet of frontage on a historic turnpike. It's in the Boone Creek Focus Area and the Boone Creek National Register Historic District. There are environmentally sensitive areas and rural greenways as well as natural protection areas, and being in this designated scenic viewshed and also stone fences. This farm, as you will see in looking at that, is PDR adjacent to nearly, with the addition of this one, conserved nearly 700 acres. And then we have a picture there looking out onto Evans Mill or Sulphur Well. Our next farm is back down near the one we talked about first. It's owned by Elizabeth Jensen and Mark Guilfoyle down here at the bottom of your maps. They bought this farm four years ago and immediately applied to PDR and currently have approximately 20 head of cattle on the farm as well as one bull and Kangal dogs, which are livestock guardian dogs. And you can see that one there in the picture. The soil score is approximately 59%. It has environmentally sensitive areas and designated scenic viewshed and over 2,000 feet of frontage on a scenic roadway. And together with the farm we discussed earlier, there's over 355 acres of contiguous conserved land. And there's another picture of the cattle. And that pond that you see, it sits between the two farms. So the one that I showed you in the beginning. So they're on one side and the other farm in the other. Okay. Our next farm, we are going to move over to the left of your maps where you see Wofford written. This is Bill and Beth Wofford. And this is a 79 acre horse farm. They have been in the horse business for over 30 years and currently have approximately 25 thoroughbred horses on their farm. Their soil score is nearly 100%. And that varies as you'll see from locations in the county. The closer you get to the Kentucky River, usually the lower the soil goes. But they also have environmentally sensitive areas and they are in the designated scenic viewshed and I-64 viewshed. They're PDR adjacent. As you can see there, looking at that, to a large block that now totals almost 600 acres. It's 557. And there is another picture of Bill and Beth's farm with a few of the horses. Our last farm, if you'll go to the bottom right of your maps, this one is owned by George Gilpin. It's approximately 32 acres of the farm. It's classified as forest land and nearly 6 acres is for wildlife. The soil score is around 57%. It is in the Kentucky River focus area and on the designated historic turnpike as well as having environmentally sensitive areas. And this is our largest new block. As you can see down here, we have nearly 820 acres of PDR conserved land now with the addition of this farm. And there is another photo of that farm. So for how many farms are conserved and what is their acreage? There are 277 farms permanently conserved by the Rural Land Management Board totaling 30,362 acres. Of those farms, 37 have been donated and their acreage totals 1166. So for our pending easements, we currently have, for our federally matched farms, we currently have four that are under contract and assigned to our closing attorney. Those total 234 acres. We also have five farms that have pending offers due back in December. Those total 523 acres. So together we have 757 acres currently in the pipeline that we expect to be able to close in the next year. How many applications remain in the queue? The farms currently not funded or matched due to life estates, foreign ownership, landowner income, soils in the Kentucky River focus area, etc. We have eight farms totaling 1,279 acres. And then by ordinance we are also required to tell you all if any farms withdrew this year or voided. We had two. One that is a 31 acre ended their contract because they hoped to have a winery and non-ag related commercial event space, which is not something that you can do with a PDR easement. And then we have another 40 acre that ended their contract because they actually were able to buy the neighboring property which is 41 acres and they may put both into PDR together. So they wanted to stop, regroup, and decide what to do. And they kept their application active with PDR. So looking forward, under the leadership of our Board Chair Gloria Martin, the Rural Land Management Board has committees working in the following four areas. Education and Outreach, Ordinance Review and Long Range Planning, Budget and Finance, and Applications and Donations. These committees are comprised of board and community members and are charting the path to acquire the next 20,000 acres. We will hold our annual application period in the coming months and look forward to welcoming new farm owners into the fold. Perfect. You've got one second left. Okay. Good timing. We did. All right. I think Council Members will open it up for any questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. And Council Members, if you have a question, please log in. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the update. Thank you, Colleague Gloria Martin, for being here today. We appreciate your leadership then and now. Just a couple of things. On page 53, we talk about, and I'm just interested in this over the period of time, because this started in 2000. Is that what the date was? So that's 19 years ago. I guess here's my thing. At the very beginning, we were putting in $2 million a year, but we haven't done that lately. So how is it $38 million on our end? How does that yield work? Or what things besides the appropriation? Am I not reading this correctly? We have a year with $3 million. First year. What was the question? So we've gotten $38 million provided by the LFUCG. I'm just trying to get a T-account of how we got there. Because there's some years we didn't put in any. Other years we put in 1 or 2 or 3 million. I'm just, how do we get to 38 over 20 years, or 19 years? Yes, we can actually provide you a breakdown. But in the beginning, when the state provided the $15.5 million, the city and the state each put in $9 million that first year, and then it gradually. I understand now. I understand. That was tobacco settlement money. It was sort of a one-time deal that we could get. Those of you who were there remember that we bonded it that year so we could get as much as they would possibly give us. Just stuck in the, we did two at first, then we did one, and now we haven't done any kind of in a while. I was wondering how we got there. And then, I know this will be an interesting Q&A. So, how does it work when you're on the commission and you do business with the commission? Because it looks like that's what's going on here with one of the purchases. And I just want to know how that works. You mean current? One of the purchases is in here. It looks like it was related to one of the people. One of the purchases was before that person came on the board. I knew it would be interesting. And, let me say that there are numerous people on the board, or previously on the board, who either donated easements to the program or once they were off the board, donated their easement or at least somehow got their land in the program. I just wanted a close reading of the packet that would lead you to a certain Q&A. You've taken care of it. Thank you very much, and for your work. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to make a comment. This program came into being, I believe, in 1999. 2000. 2000, close there, 20 years. We started the ordinance in 1999. And it's really something that's unique across the country. I don't know that there's any others. Is there any other PDR programs happening across the nation now? There are. There is some. Did they pattern after us? Some sort of have used us, but actually when we started, we patterned after some of those early folks in California and the wine country, Virginia and Maryland as well. But, you know, Lexington is so unique in Fayette County, and this is one of our uniquenesses. And so many people that travel in here, of course, look at this and look at our farmland and the properties that we have set aside by this program. And it's just a testament to the fact that we've got a program that's outstanding, and a lot of people in the country acknowledge it. And we need good people, and I appreciate Gloria taking on the job of director. She knows this backwards and forward because she was on the council at that time. And she's a farm owner. And I think you've contributed. And I donated. You donated. So she puts her money where her mouth is. And that's great because we need that kind of involvement in this community. And I'm really one of the programs that I felt like that would put us on the map across the nation. It's come to fruition. 30,000. You know, when we looked at that 50,000, I thought, there ain't no way we'll ever get that. But we've got 30,000 plus and working our way. And so I commend the program. And I think we made, back in 1999, 2000, I think we made a wise decision for this community. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. When I look at this, I'm like, this is my district. The entire PDR farms are out in the 12th District. So I'm very, very proud of those. And proud of the work that you two are doing. I mentioned this in the planning meeting earlier today. And just the organization that is put together now with the four standing committees and looking at a lot of different entities that this program is just going to keep going up and up. And we should be proud, as Council Member Brown said, because this is unique. This is our calling card. This is our signature of Lexington, Kentucky. So thank you. Keep growing. And I'm proud of you. And I'm proud it's in the 12th District. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I think this is, of course, I got to hear this presentation or part of it at 1 o'clock. But I think this is wonderful where we are and how we've gotten here. I thought I would offer an opportunity for Mrs. Martin to talk about the four areas that she has added since she has become chair for the education and outreach and the ordinance review and long-range planning and the budget and finance and applications and donations. Especially about the education and outreach, which is going to hopefully positively impact going forward to get these next 20,000 acres or almost 50,000 acres. So I wanted to ask Mrs. Martin if she would like to just talk about that process of the four committees that you set up. Well, we've made a lot of changes since I came on board in January. The ordinance does allow for the education and PR, but the bylaws and the ordinance also allow for other committees, both from membership on the board and without. I drew people in who had been on the board before in those other three areas. And they've been meeting monthly, in some cases more than that. We had facing us the internal audit, which we discussed in the previous meeting. And my goal was this year to make sure that we answered immediately, as soon as possible, every single item that had been brought up in the internal audit, make sure that it was addressed and taken care of and move on as quickly as possible. And we have done that. We have checked all the boxes on that. As far as the committees go and being really active, they have done a great job. I cannot pat them on the back enough for all of their efforts. And they have taken on the budget, the finances, not only the PR that you alluded to, which is a standing committee, but the new committees looking at all of these things, trying to update the applications, making them easier for people to apply, and to look at donations, which we hope we can get more of. So it's been a busy process. And those of you who know me know I'm a bit of a detail person. And I have wanted a lot of those things taken care of in the committee, and they have done it. So in one year, they have made big strides, and Beth has been great to help all of those committees and to do the minutes and has done a great job of the minutes. They're all available online. So if you all want to see what each and every one of those committees, in addition to the board, has done and what they are doing, it's right there. Does that answer your questions? It does. I just wanted to allow you time to expand on that. And then you also mentioned during our planning and public safety committee about a very important upcoming meeting next month, I believe. And I thought maybe. Well, I'm meeting next week with our federal partners. Because the new farm bill, we will be changing the wording that's in our easements from now on because every new farm bill has some new requirements. And we'll be working that. And our ordinance and update committee is already into that, working on that. And I'm meeting with those partners next week to get all the details, make sure that we're doing everything we can here, and to get as much money as we possibly can. Little things like the matching funds. For instance, the queue had gotten quite long, and we had a lot of farms there that needed to be closed on, and we have done that. We are to the end of our line almost now. And when you have the federal government required that they be reappraised. So when you reappraise those, you know, if they hadn't been appraised for three or four years, property values have gone up. So when they came back, it was another 70-something thousand dollars that it looked like was going to be in our pot to match. And I'm meeting with them to see if there's any way we can work that out so we don't have to pay the whole 72,000. Anything that comes up with their part of the funding, I'm discussing going on in the future what they can do to help us. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. And thank you very much, Mayor. Thank you. Are there any other comments or questions? Council Member Massotti. I just want to say a big thank you to both of you. Really turned the program around. Thank you so much. That's all, Mayor. Anyone else? Thank you very much to both of you. You're doing a terrific job. And I just wanted to say one thing is I've had a couple opportunities in the last four to six weeks to be with other mayors across the country. And they are always interested in this particular program and want to know how they can do it. And, of course, it's heavily dependent on our boundary. And some of them are kind of beyond that. You know, it's too late for a boundary for them. But there's a lot of interest wherever I go and talk with other mayors. So congratulations. Thank you. Okay. We are down to council reports. Are there any? Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a committee referral. I move to put wrong motion. I move to place into the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee the issue of vacuum leaf collection to look at the cost of the program and the consideration of modifications to the program. So moved. Second. Council Member Lamb seconded. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed? That motion. There's one. Did you vote no, Mr. Farmer? Okay. We have one no. We have two no votes. Council Member Fred Brown and Council Member Farmer. All right. It looks like it passed. Thank you. Did you have anything else, Council Member Gibbs? Okay. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I also have a committee referral. People I think are aware that the recent Kentucky Supreme Court ruling on the case that's commonly referred to as the hands-on case essentially got remanded back because the applicant did not have standing. So it was on a procedural issue rather than on the substance of the case. And a part of that rested on some language that's in our ordinance that's different from the state ordinance. The short story is that the state ordinance refers to persons who can bring suit. And a person in the state statute includes individuals, labor organizations, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, a fair number, a fair range. In our ordinance, we have one word that says an individual claiming to be aggrieved may file suit. And I'm putting this in committee so that we can, I will propose in committee that we change the one word in our ordinance from individual to person so that it's consistent with state statute and that would allow for organizations, et cetera, to file suit on human rights issues. So I'm placing it in the general government committee. So moved. Second. Council Member Lamb seconded. Is there discussion? Any discussion? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I have four things that I wanted to report out. We had a wonderful event at Veterans Day yesterday at Veterans Park and Mayor Gorton and Congressman Andy Barr, representatives from the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, were there along with a lot of my colleagues, several of them, and I really appreciated everybody that could be there. But the stars of the day were the hundred or so children from the Veterans Park Elementary School Choir who sang and they were just amazing. And then we also had two Cub Scouts from PAC 226 who held the flag and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. And of course the day was about honoring our veterans who we appreciate so much and I just appreciate the support and of course I want to also say thanks to my legislative aide, Kenny Bishop, who put this together and it was an outstanding day, another outstanding fifth anniversary, fifth annual event. Also this week ago, Friday, I was able to attend the Breath of Hope Kentucky Lung Cancer event over at the Kroger Field and it was a wonderful event and so many of you may know already that November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and Breath of Hope Kentucky has issued a challenge for all of us and I have set your desk, on the dais everybody has this small piece of paper that it has challenges on here for the month of November and there are some unique challenges on here that I hope that you all will share not only with your family members but also with your constituents because a lot of people are affected with lung cancer on a daily basis that never have smoked once in their life. We've distributed this to everybody and I'm hoping that you'll take time to look at it. You can also learn more at the bohky.org. Lindy Campbell came and spoke to us last year about this and she is just a fierce moving forward and making awareness in the community. I also attended the Mayor's Neighborhood Summit at our Senior Center this past Saturday, two Saturdays ago I guess it was and it was so good to see so many community and neighborhoods involved in participating. We all shared ideas and we talked a lot about neighborhood associations and dealing with getting information to and fro each other and I just wanted to thank you Mayor Gorton and your team for this great event and lastly at that event Lexington's newly formed Public Art Commission is developing a public art master plan that will help develop a vision for public art survey that will help develop a vision for the integrating and supporting works of art in public places across the city and the council members should have received a survey from this commission recently in the last week and a half I believe and I'd like to encourage you all to complete the survey that will be used to inform the commission as it develops the master plan but also to share that survey with your constituency so that we can get more information from our constituents and I believe that's everything so thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member McKern. Thank you Mayor. Council Members I had sent you all an email yesterday regarding the scooter ordinance and a map to go along with it just outlining the current bike ordinance and what we have in place so thank you. As you can see up here on the screen this is what we have in our current bike ordinance and before I propose anything I have Mr. Scott Thompson here I'd like if he can come up and I can ask a few questions just to discuss this a little more openly and I do appreciate you coming over here and partaking in this meeting with us. Thank you sir. Before we get started or while we get started if you can just tell us this is the current bike ordinance here. Do we have anything in place for the scooter ordinance showing where we can ride scooters on sidewalks at all or is there a map or anything like that or is it just for the bike ordinance? It currently is written just bikes are prohibited on sidewalks in the area that you're showing on the map. And is there a big difference besides this between the current bike ordinance and the e-scooter ordinance? The only difference is that the scooters are prohibited from sidewalks in the entire urban service boundary and the limits of the legacy trail that we show going out to the current boundary for their usage. But the other bike paths are allowed on correct? Like the town branch trail. Yeah they're allowed on all the trails. I guess what I meant by that was the urban service boundary is kind of the area where the scooter ordinance covers their usage. We also included the area of the legacy trail out to the horse park in that usage area so people could use them to go on the legacy trail. Thank you. With that being said, do you have an opinion based on allowing scooters to be allowed onto sidewalks outside of the business district here? We discussed this at length in our advisory committee meetings. Our current standing as it relates to bicycles is that they are allowed on sidewalks. But our current message that we send is that riding on sidewalks is dangerous and not recommended for adults. We say that motorists are not looking for you. Especially when you're riding against traffic. So there is a safety concern if you're going to ride a bike on a sidewalk. Then we follow that up with if you must ride on a sidewalk for a short stretch to get out of traffic or for whatever reason to be sure to ride at a walking pace, watch for pedestrians and yield to them at all times and use extra caution at every driveway and intersection and assume that drivers aren't looking for you. That's a very common theme across communities across the U.S. as it relates to bicycle safety. We don't have very many years of data on scooters. They've been around for about two years and that's a guess. So we don't have information that tells us one way or the other whether or not riding on sidewalks follows that same suit. I didn't mean to put you on the spot there with that question. I know we discussed it before coming in here today. Obviously one thing that I brought up to you is my concern and I bring up to the public and I bring up to my fellow council members is that we don't have infrastructure here in the city to keep our scooters in the roadway safe. We do for certain areas that they're allowed on bike lanes but in other areas the bike lanes disappear for 100 yards and they come back for 100 yards and then they disappear again. That's one of my biggest concerns is that we don't have protective bike lanes for these scooters but we allow a large bicycle to be allowed on sidewalks outside of our business district but we won't allow them to be on the sidewalks for scooters that are smaller. Yes, they can go 15 miles an hour but I think we have some council members who ride bikes here that can attest that bikes go faster than 15 miles an hour also. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I appreciate your input on that too. I might have another question. I'm sure some of my colleagues will have some questions here for you in a minute since you might not want to go too far. The safety of this is one of my biggest concerns too is that we had two accidents that have happened here in Lexington and I'm not trying to sit here and look like we're being reactive to something but I did propose this amendment initially in the summertime and I do think this is the best move moving forward and I think that even if we had eventually put this into a committee that coming out, finding that putting these scooters into the roadway is not the best choice for us to move forward. I don't think it's the final fix. I think that this is a small step moving us forward but I would like to see more continued conversations on this to tweak this current ordinance and move us forward. Can I at least go ahead and make my motion here first? I think that's fine. With that being said, I move to place on the docket for the November 14, 2019 Council meeting an ordinance amending section 18-25, 17D-3 and 18-155 of the Code of Ordinance to allow electric motor assisted scooters and electric bicycles on sidewalks except those sidewalks within the business district. Amending section 18-148 of the Code to include electric bicycles, electric motor assisted scooters and all subsequent subsections therein. And creating section 18-136 of the Code to provide for definitions of electric motor assisted scooters and electric bicycles for the purpose of chapter 18 of the Code. So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. Council Member Evans seconded. Is there any discussion? And we'll, yes, we'll use the hands. Council Member Gibbs. Thank you, Mayor. I'd really prefer to see this go in Council. I mean, we've brought this up. We've already gone over the five minutes allotted to the Council Member for Council reports. I think it's a very complicated issue and I just think it's too much to move it right now. I'm a little bit surprised that Council Member McGurn didn't put it in committee back last summer when he first brought it up rather than bring it up as a walk-on. I think walk-ons are for other purposes. I think for complicated issues like this, I think they should go into committee. Every constituent I've heard from, and I've heard from many, are opposed to allowing them on the sidewalks right now. I have a lot of questions about the history of the bicycle ordinance and sidewalks. I have legal questions about this and it's just too much for this body right here. So I will be opposing it and I recommend putting it in committee. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you Council Member McGurn for your thoughtfulness and your effort with addressing this issue. I think we're all concerned about the safety aspect of the scooters. I agree with Council Member Gibbs. I think this is an issue that needs to go into committee. I don't think this is a be-all, save-all to address what's going on. I think there's some other things that we can look at and potentially do to make the whole scooter experience in Lexington safer for both. I think just right now, allowing them to be on sidewalks might create another situation that we would have to address going forward. I know Council Member McGurn apologized about putting Scott on the spot. But I'm interested in knowing, are we currently enforcing the no sidewalk policy? Because I see scooters on sidewalks all the time. And if we're not addressing it now, which I think would be hard for our officers to do, then maybe we put it in committee and that gives us time to address some of the other concerns that are going forward with it. So I'm not in favor of supporting this, but I would support it going into committee and further discussion. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. I also concur. I think this needs to go into committee. This past weekend I spent a lot of hours looking at what other cities are doing. And there are some other options. But we can't use this format here, I think, to get into and to really dive into it. You know where I stand on it, I just think it's accidents waiting to happen and eight deaths in the United States and the ninth one is in Lexington. So I agree it needs to go into committee and we need to dissect this and see what the best thing is for our community. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. Well, just given what's already been said by my colleagues, I'm going to make a motion to amend the motion and that is to move it into the proposed ordinance into the Planning and Public Safety Committee. So moved. Council Member Farmer seconded that motion. Now, is there discussion of the amendment? The amendment only. Okay. Council Member Moore. I appreciate you putting it in there. I think we need to look at, I hope you're looking at a lot of things too. For instance, there are other cities that are taking recommendations off the sidewalks, period, and they're also taking it out of their cities. So I think we need to look at all the options. And I mean, what happened two or three weeks ago, it is a tragedy and I have yet to have, I mean, I know this young generation, I guess, but everywhere I go I don't hear anybody positive about these scooters. Council Member Maloney, excuse me, the motion is whether to put it in committee. I just hope we look at the reasons why other cities are giving it up too. I'd like to hear their arguments. Okay. Then I have Council Member Farmer and then we'll go back to Council Member This is about the amendment. You're okay with the amendment? Is this about the amendment? Okay. Council Member McKern. Thank you again, Mayor. If that's the wish of my colleagues is to put it in the committee and to vet this a little further, my only concern with that, again, is that we're going to be looking two to four months down the road and we're not going to be doing anything on this. So putting it in the committee, I'll support that, but I think that an effort moving us forward now would be better. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Farmer. Did we dispense with the, did we vote on? We have an amendment on the floor to put it in committee. Okay. The big deal. Does anyone else wish to speak about the amendment? Yes, Council Member Worley. Thank you, Mayor. Quite frankly, I think both should be done. I think we're mirroring what's already been done with our bicycle ordinance with what Council Member Kern's trying to do here. And to his credit, while he may not have put it in committee at that time, Council Members, he did make a motion at that time to do this very thing. So this is not some new thing that he's come up with. This has been an issue for him and he made that motion then and it failed. So at this point, I think matching what we're doing with the bicycle ordinance is appropriate and I think we should go ahead and do it. Speaking to both, I'm happy for it to go into committee for further review of the ordinance and both its enforcement because I see we worked really hard on that ordinance and I see it not being followed and not being enforced all up and down. So I think it does need to go back into committee for full review. But to the amendment as stated, I will vote no because I actually support what Council Member Kern's trying to do here and he did try to do it before. So I want to defend him there. Okay. Thank you. Is anyone else wishing to speak to the amendment to put it in committee? This is about committee. Council Member Lamb. I want to support the motion and I also do appreciate Council Member McKern bringing this forward because I think this is important. I would like to ask if in lieu of time, and I know people frown on me when I say this, but there could be an opportunity to have a special planning and public safety. There is not one scheduled for December. I know that our meetings are tight. However, if this is important as we're sitting here today and talking about it being important, then we should do that. So I will say that if it's that important, which I think it is pretty important, that maybe we should have a special planning and public safety committee in December. I'll just put that there. Thank you. I think Vice Mayor Kaye wanted to speak to the amendment. I just want to add that I appreciate what Council Member McKern is trying to do and I appreciate the interest in timeliness and this is a public safety issue. But this is a complex issue and asking the Council to act on this quickly without further input, especially from the public on both sides of this question, I just think is inappropriate. I'm hoping that we can put it in committee and have a full discussion. Thank you. Does anyone else want to speak to putting it in committee? Not when the committee meets. The motion is putting it in committee. Anybody else? Council Member Evans. I wasn't going to speak, but I don't think it is that complex. And I will echo Council Member Worley's position that we're either going to keep it the same if it goes into committee, we're going to keep it as it is, we're going to add sidewalks, or you're going to vote to get rid of them completely. Those are the three options that we have. So it's not that complicated. We have people that have very differing opinions, but it's not a complicated question. And to Council Member Gibbs' point of not bringing it up early, if you recall, this was a very time-sensitive issue because we knew these scooters were coming. And I don't recall Council Member McCurran bringing it up, but I do remember us having a lot of conversation. But it was a very time-sensitive so we didn't have a lot of time to make it perfect. So putting it back into committee, everyone's going to have their own set agenda. This is an issue that I do remember talking to Council Member McCurran about. I can tell you there are only three options that we have. So I don't see the point of putting it into committee. If Council Member McCurran supports it, I will support it, but I simply don't see the purpose of doing it. I'll vote however you want me to vote. Okay. The issue on the floor is do we put this in committee or not? Council Member Gibbs. I just want to say I do not have any set agenda. I have supported scooters, but I've got a lot of questions about them. It's not a simple issue. The issue is are scooters, bicycles on sidewalks directly analogous to bicycles on scooters? Scooters on sidewalks. I'm sorry. Too many S's. But the point is I'm not convinced they're directly analogous, and that's why we need to have it in committee so we can hash this stuff out. And yes, Council Member McCurran made mention of this back in, I don't know when it was, June, but again, if he put that into committee and not just mentioned it, we could have hashed this out several months ago. But it is a complicated issue. And I have questions about it that I can't get settled here. Thank you. Others for putting it in committee or not? Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make a point. So when I drive Harrisburg Road downtown, I don't see a lot of scooters in my district around the suburban areas. I just don't see them out as much. But when I'm driving down, I see a lot of people from U.K. riding them, crossing to go on Virginia or to go down to U.K.'s campus. And on U.K.'s campus, you can ride your scooter on the sidewalk. And so I think there is some discrepancy when you see people out riding them on sidewalks. People are doing it. Whether they're allowed to or not, whether we're enforcing it or not, they're doing it. And I think to Council Member Kern's point, consistency would be nice. I didn't know that they were allowed to do that. I just noticed it and thought, gosh, you know, is that a good thing or not? There's a reason why I have my kids. So on committee, I think there is committee. If it would let's go to committee, that's fine. But I also concur with your concern about doing it. Okay. We're about ready to vote on the amendment except we have two more committee comments. Nothing else. Please. Yes, Council Member Reynolds. I do think that this is an urgent thing and I think that it will take a long time for us to look at it. So I'm inclined to say, why don't we vote on it and move it forward, allow scooters on sidewalks and put it in committee to say, okay, this is a really complicated issue. Is there a way we can make it better? Is there a way we can make it safer? So I'm inclined to say, why don't we do both? That's my opinion. Thank you very much. Did you want to speak one more time, Council Member McKernan? Thank you again, Mayor. And Council Member Gibbs, I understand what you're saying, but in the summertime I brought this forward as a motion, a walk-on motion. And I understand that was probably my first motion I brought to this Council as a new Council Member at the time. So I do apologize if it was done incorrectly. And with this one here, I tried to get it out there to everybody to see it enough time for that so we didn't have to start having that discussion with me. And I thought that you and I discussed this last week and you seemed to support it a little bit better. So I apologize if it's changed. But I will support Council moving this to committee if that's the wishes of Council. I'm going to vote against that. Sorry if I was not clear on that vote voice earlier on. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and take the vote. This is for the amendment to put this issue into committee. All those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? Okay. Let's do a...if you'll just log your vote in, we'll see what the count is. Are we missing a vote here? There we go. Looks like the yeas have it. Nine to six. So that motion passes. So the original motion on the floor now is the amendment to put this in committee. And now I think Council Member Farmer wanted to speak to this. Thank you, Mayor. And I am supportive of placing this in committee for further consideration. I think part of the... if you're in district council work, right now is a time of a lot of neighborhood meetings and neighborhood association meetings. And other than the myriad of questions that come up about every part of recycling, the only other issue that gets a lot of traction is things to do with scooters. And I think there is a lot of concern in the public. I don't think there's a rush in the public. There's concern in the public about how these scooters are going to integrate into our transportation group of things that we use. I don't think there's a tremendous rush over the winter in terms of usage. I think that so much of the work that UK has done to make themselves a campus with a lot of sidewalks and a lot of places that don't front out on streets gives them a different perspective on using scooters on campus, as it were. For me, if you decide to ride a scooter, you've decided to place yourself at a different kind of risk than really any other conveyance we have. If you're in a car or you decide to be on a bicycle or to walk, you're placing yourself on a motorized conveyance, most times without a helmet, and in sometimes a very busy roadway. So I think there's still a lot of education to go on. There's still a lot of people who just need to understand there are scooters here now. But I think that if we decide to place scooters on sidewalks, that in my mind, you then place every pedestrian at risk, rather than just the person riding the scooter. And I think we need to consider all those things. Placing a committee and taking time with it is the right thing to do. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Maloney. I, too, am glad you put it in the committee because there's a couple. I'm on the Commission on Disability. We push for the widening of sidewalks. They weren't wide enough. Now with the new, a couple months ago, we passed that. We're going to widen the sidewalks. They have concerns about it because if they're in a wheelchair and they see one of these things coming, the committee would not very assume to have it out in the bike trail. They worked hard to get these sidewalks widened. I'm surprised we didn't have a public hearing. I am, too. But the other thing is I think we need to put it in the committee. I brought it up a couple weeks ago because there's a problem with kids out in the middle street using them on the sales roads, slowing them on the 45-mile speed limit, and other cities are starting to pull them out. And I'm not trying to be saying this is a bad thing, but I just don't think this city was made for these things. Now, we're trying to build sidewalks wider, thank God, but it may be a little bit too far behind the 8-ball in certain areas where these scooters are being used the most. But I am glad we're going to look at all the options because there's a lot of people that are against this. And I think we need to hear that public input, too, and their concerns about putting it on sidewalks. I mean, they're not against, and I have concerns being out on the road, but there's a lot. I don't know how you fix it, but I'm glad we're putting it in the committee. Thank you. Are there other comments about the motion? Council Member Worley, we'll work our way down. Thank you, Mayor. Again, I think that we do need to put this in committee, obviously. I think what we're seeing, and hopefully these are things that our community will work through with education and as we get used to new things, like Council Member Farmer says, and we want to be a progressive city. We want to invite new things, things that people want to enjoy, things that are attractive to different people in the city. But we worked really, really, really hard to avoid some of the problems that other cities saw. We worked very hard on an ordinance that was supposed to avoid some of these issues, and I don't know that there's been a city that has had a tragedy as quickly as what Lexington has had. I don't know that, but it seems awful quick. As this goes to committee, Mr. Thompson, your folks, the NPO, our police, all the folks that are here to look at this, we've got to take a really, really hard look, because we worked too hard on that ordinance for it to fail us. And I think this is something that can be good for the city, but we're already seeing something fall apart, and far too quickly. So, thank you. Thank you. Council Member Massotti. Thank you. I appreciate your interest on the safety concern. Council Member McKern, and because of that, because it's coming into the Planning and Public Safety Committee, I will get with Kendra and see how we can expedite this. I know that January, we've got the jail. If I know that we've got time for that, I'll be glad to put it in the January committee so we can get moving on this. I'll do my best, and I'll just get back with you. You're welcome. Are there other comments or questions about the motion? All right. Oh, Council Member McKern. Thank you. One last time, I just want to be clear here what we're going to vote on now. This is going to be a last vote on the amendment for it. The amendment is finished. This is to put your issue in committee. Right. Excuse me, that's what I was referring to. As I recommended. Yes. Thank you. All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Now, I believe we are still in Council Report, and we'll get our list back up here. Council Member Blohman. Thank you, Mayor. I think I forgot what I was going to say. Last Friday, I had the honor to represent the Mayor and deliver a proclamation at the National Philanthropy Annual Luncheon. And if you haven't gone to this, it's kind of heartwarming because about 30 nonprofits nominate folks, individuals, or organizations that have really helped them out, either financially or from a volunteer standpoint. So it's really humbling, and I was glad to be there and see that in action. Also, I mentioned a couple months ago that the Regional Land Use Summit was going to be rescheduled, and it is. And I don't think I brought that date here. It's December the 5th. It's at the Boone Center. It's from 9 to 3, and our own Gloria Martin will be one of the speakers that day, as well as Chris Woodall. So I'll send out a link if you want to sign up. Again, a lot of regional folks getting together, talking about consensus of our county lines. And then last but not least, Susan Lamb did a great job yesterday on the Veterans Day. Was that yesterday? I think it was. But a great day. Thanks for organizing. And of course, my district is all around the park, but I still would have been there even if it wasn't. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say a great job by your office. Yesterday we were providing breakfast for the employees, the veteran employees, and then also Council Member Lamb did a great job at Veterans Park as well. I think I attended four events yesterday. The Lyric with the Charles Young Advisory Board putting a veterans program together at the Lyric yesterday. So I think we're doing a great job of recognizing and celebrating our veterans locally. Last Wednesday I got the opportunity, I got invited by Firehouse 10 to come and eat dinner with those guys. It's one thing to sit and talk to them, but then it's another thing to eat dinner with them. You see a truck come in, and before they can fix their place, they get another call and have to take back off. So just a big thank you to them for the invitation and for all the hard work and the service and sacrifice that they give to our community day in and day out. I'd also like to refer to committee from an earlier meeting that we had today, a presentation from the DLP on a new initiative that they're starting, and then also an update on the economic development efforts that they're currently going through. I'd like to recommend that or refer it to the Budget Committee, Budget and Finance Committee. So moved. Council Member Farmer seconded. Is there discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Council Member Massadi. Thank you, Mayor. About a year and a half ago this council sent a unanimous resolution stating that we would support gender equality and that we would name not only streets but buildings, different, I guess just different amenities in the city and recognize women. Well, tomorrow at 11 o'clock we will have a press conference at the Black Box Theater revealing the artist and the sculpture that has been chosen to represent our city and women's historical contributions, and that will be, as I said, 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Downtown Arts Center in the Black Box Theater, and this will be in commemoration for the 19th Amendment, which is the woman's right to vote. So it's a big deal, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. It is a big deal, and thank you for your work on that, and Council Member Plumman, your work on that. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. A couple things. First, going back to yesterday, thank you for organizing and having the wonderful breakfast downstairs here from 730 to 930, catered by Waffle House, which was a great under-the-radar thing right there that brought folks out. It was a pleasure to help serve that, and I can't imagine going to Waffle House without grits, but they did not bring grits down here, so just an update for next year, I think. I'll pass that along. I want to stand behind the grits and just ladle them out as they go by. Something special for Lexington next Tuesday, the 19th. It'll be the 1,000th broadcast of the Wood Songs Old Time Radio Hour from the Lyric Theater. So the doors will open at 620, the performance will begin at 645, and goodie bags are going to be provided by VisitLex. You've just got to understand, Michael Jonathan and his all-volunteer force have done this 1,000 times and brought so many people to downtown Lexington on nights when nobody else would be out. They did it at the Kentucky and it went fine. It's gone even better at the Lyric and has been a great thing for the Lyric. And what goes under-heralded is that this is rebroadcast on American Forces Radio Network, which is twice every week in 177 nations and reaches every military base and U.S. naval ship in the world and talks about Lexington and the Lyric Theater. And I can't think of a better thing to do other than to go and be part of that, and we may be here doing something else that night, but we'll have the chance to go over afterwards, I suspect. Just in passing, I did get email and comments from my wife about, and maybe it was the atmospherics or maybe it was the wind, but it just seemed like the music at the UK game was kind of the football game was kind of loud to be inside and be able to hear it so well. So I'm going to send a nice letter over. I love to hear the announcer. I love to hear the crowd. It's the beat of the music, perhaps, or even some of the selections, but it's the volume. I well work in the era of Good Neighbors, and knowing that that venue is going to be used in the future as a concert venue, I just think it's important for us to renew our friendship with UK in terms of how loud that broadcast can be. Earlier, Vice Mayor, I'd ask you about the path for the accessory dwelling units ordinance, which I see is reported to us, or at least the recommendation of the Planning Commission has been forwarded to us. So I guess at some point you'll be asking or making a motion for us to place that potentially in committee, or you don't know if it's up to any one of us to do something with it? Pardon me, I've had questions about the critical path for this because the public is very interested in it, and since I found the notes in here, I thought I'd just ask the question in public. So I'm going to have to defer to the administration about exactly how this comes to us formally. Yes, sir. I just saw the notes in the packet today. It's the only reason I figure it's kind of ours now, but I could be wrong. Jim Duncan may have the answer. Welcome. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Farmer, this will be our next week's work session docket for you, just like an ordinary text amendment would be. At that time, the Council can decide to advance it as you would an ordinary text amendment with first and second reading, or move it into committee for further consideration. Thank you, that's perfect. I think there's a lot of public interest on this, and I'm not sure we're ready to take that up in its full entirety before the holiday, personally. So if I can just add a comment. I think the conversations I've had informally with Council members lead me to suggest that there will be an interest in putting this in committee rather than putting it right on the docket. We'll find out next week, but I'm prepared to make that motion next Tuesday. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it very much. And then lastly, kind of a little crossover item. I don't usually talk about certain things like this, but beginning in January, our family business will be celebrating 70 years of being part of the Lexington community. And up until earlier this morning, that was going to be a huge kickoff with lots of billboards. But it's not going to happen now. We're just not going to use billboards. They're just so expensive. We're going to be celebrating. We're going to try some different outreach there, but we'll be celebrating nonetheless. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to mention that I went to the CHI St. Joseph Health Stars Gala to raise money for St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation for their new ED at St. Joe, Maine. It was a wonderful time. I was glad that Council Member Bledsoe and Council Member James Brown were also there. It was great to recognize Dr. Kevin Donohue and Dr. Jessica Crowley for winning the Physician of the Year award. And I'm just really proud to have CHI St. Joe Health in my district and that they also just announced their relationship with Cleveland Clinic. And that will really help the Oncology Department. People can get second opinions at the Cleveland Clinic and be able to be eligible for medical tests and trials there. It was a fun night and I'm glad that I was able to attend again this year. Now I am going to make a few comments about the scooters that I didn't make earlier. I would like to encourage all of my colleagues to think of scooters not as a horrible thing, but rather a new technology that has both good and bad. Just like our smartphones. I remember the days without smartphones and there's some really amazing things about that time. But there's some really great things about having smartphones. In the same way, I would just like to encourage everyone to not see the scooters as this necessarily evil thing. Yes, they can be dangerous. So can bicycles. So can walking. There's quite a few people that have lost their lives in my district on their bike or crossing the street. And so when I looked at the stats, and I know there's way more bikes out there than scooters, but hundreds, almost a thousand people die a year in the states when riding their bike. And last year, from the numbers that I found, so don't quote me hard on this, only 11 people died on scooters. So if we're saying bikes can ride, and sometimes like Council Member Evans mentioned, at really fast paces on sidewalks, I don't understand why we're not also saying scooters can do that. At least in the meantime while we're trying to work on other things. The person that unfortunately lost their life on a scooter the other day was in a bike lane. And so the bigger issue that we have here is really infrastructure. And it concerns me that we do not have proper infrastructure for bicyclists and even sometimes pedestrians. And therefore, now that we have this new technology that is really great for some people because they're able to get to school, they're able to get to work, they might not have a car, and it is affordable, and we don't have infrastructure for it either. And so I think this has really been something that has been important for me and that has just encouraged me to say, how can I work on improving our infrastructure in this city? I know it's expensive, I know it's a lot of work, but that's something that I'm going to work on in the future. And I just want to encourage you all to look at this as, yes, it's a puzzle, yes, there's some negative things, but there's also good things. So, thank you. Thank you. Any other Council reports? All right. I wanted to, before we look at the Mayor's report, thank you for your comments about the breakfast for our veterans. We learned that we have about 120 veterans who work for Urban County Government, and many of them came yesterday for breakfast. And so I'd like to publicly thank Craig Kamak, who's my veteran liaison, because he organized that. So it was a really great success for a first-time event. And now we'll move right to the Mayor's report, if I could please have a motion. Second. All right. Council Member Farmer moved, and I think Council Member Plowman seconded. Are there any questions? Comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. And next is public comment for issues that are not on the agenda. Do we have anyone who wishes to speak to the Council? Seeing no one, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. Do you have someone? I'm sorry. I thought you had it on your docket. Yes. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101C for discussion of proposed litigation. Second. All right. And Council Member Massotti seconded. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Session is adjourned. Motion to come back into open session. Council Member Ellinger moved and Council Member Farmer seconded to come back into open session. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. We are in open session. I move that we approve the budget for a November 14th Council meeting, a resolution authorizing the Department of Law to institute condemnation proceedings in Fayette Circuit Court to obtain permanent and temporary easements upon portions of the property located at 2285 Versailles Road for the Wolf Run Trunks B and C Wastewater Systems Improvements Project. So moved. Council Member Farmer seconded. Are there any questions? Seeing none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Could I please have a motion to adjourn? All those in favor? Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you.