# Council Work Session - November 19, 2019 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Council · November 19, 2019 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/4901 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/4901?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2019-11-19 - **Body**: Council - **Last revised**: February 6, 2026 - **Length**: 9,551 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council convened on November 19, 2019, at 3:00 PM in Lexington, Kentucky, with the Mayor presiding over the session. The Council addressed two primary agenda items during the meeting, both of which were approved through formal votes. The meeting included one public comment period, allowing community members to address the Council on matters of local concern. The Council's business focused on two distinct areas of municipal governance. First, they considered a Zone Map Amendment for the Pensacola Park Neighborhood, which received approval from the Council members. Second, they addressed Police Disciplinary Hearing Scheduling matters, which also gained the Council's approval. Both items required formal motions and votes, resulting in a total of two recorded votes during the session. The meeting provided an opportunity for public participation, with one citizen comment heard by the Council. This public input component reflects the Council's commitment to maintaining open dialogue with Lexington-Fayette residents on municipal matters. Overall, the session demonstrated efficient governance, with both agenda items successfully moving through the approval process, addressing both zoning concerns in a specific neighborhood and administrative matters related to police department procedures. ## Attendance The following Council members were present at the meeting: • Jessica Winters • Keith Horn • Vice Mayor Kaye • Council Member McKern • Council Member Bledsoe • Council Member Evans • Council Member Ellinger • Council Member Farmer • Council Member Gibbs • Council Member Massotti • Council Member Plowman • Council Member Lamb • Council Member Brown • Council Member James Brown • Council Member Reynolds No Council members were reported as absent or late for this meeting. All scheduled participants were in attendance. *Note: The attendance record shows Council Member Bledsoe listed twice in the present members list, which may indicate a data recording issue in the original meeting documentation.* ## Votes and Decisions The Council took two votes during this meeting, both passing by voice vote. **Motion to Schedule Special Council Meeting** [timestamp: 30:00] Council Member McKern made a motion to schedule a special council meeting for a police disciplinary hearing on February 19th, 2020 at 9 a.m. The motion was seconded by Council Member Ellinger and passed by voice vote. **Motion to Approve Docket as Amended** [timestamp: 60:00] Council Member Farmer moved to approve the docket as amended. Council Member Ellinger seconded the motion, which passed by voice vote. Both votes were conducted as voice votes rather than roll call votes, so individual council member positions were not recorded. No opposition or abstentions were noted for either motion. ## Budget and Financial Actions The Council addressed one financial matter during this meeting involving substance abuse program funding. • **Substance Abuse Program Funding Amendment** - The Council considered an amendment related to funding for Shepherd's House substance abuse programs. The specific dollar amount and resolution identifier were not provided in the available meeting materials. *Note: Complete financial details including specific dollar amounts and resolution numbers were not available in the source materials for this meeting summary.* ## Public Comment The public comment period featured one speaker addressing zoning matters in the Pensacola Park area. **Jessica Winters** spoke on behalf of the Pensacola Park Neighborhood Association regarding a Zone Map Amendment proposal to create a historic district overlay for the Pensacola Park Neighborhood [timestamp: 03:00]. Winters represented the neighborhood association's position on this zoning initiative that would establish historic preservation protections for the area. The public comment period focused exclusively on land use and zoning issues, with community representatives advocating for historic preservation measures in their neighborhood. ## Contested Items The Council meeting featured one contested item involving procedural disagreements over scheduling. **Police Disciplinary Hearing Scheduling** Council members engaged in a procedural dispute regarding the timing of a police disciplinary hearing. The disagreement centered on determining the appropriate start time for the hearing, with members debating the most suitable scheduling arrangement. During the discussion, amendments were proposed to modify the original motion's specified start time. The nature of the dispute was procedural rather than substantive, focusing on logistical considerations for when the hearing should commence. The outcome involved amendments being made to adjust the hearing's start time from what was initially proposed in the motion. While the specific individuals involved in proposing or supporting the amendments were not detailed in the available information, the matter was resolved through the amendment process, allowing the Council to reach agreement on the scheduling issue. This procedural dispute demonstrates the Council's attention to ensuring proper scheduling arrangements for important matters such as police disciplinary proceedings, even when it requires debate and modification of original proposals. ## Zone Map Amendment for Pensacola Park Neighborhood [timestamp: 03:00] The Council discussed an ordinance to create a historic district overlay for the Pensacola Park Neighborhood through a zone map amendment. Jessica Winters served as the key speaker presenting this item to the Council. The proposed amendment has already received approval from various planning bodies prior to reaching the Council for final consideration. The historic district overlay designation would provide additional protections and guidelines for the neighborhood's historic character and architectural features. The ordinance was approved by the Council, establishing the historic district overlay for the Pensacola Park Neighborhood area. *Note: Limited transcript details were available for this agenda item. The summary is based on the structured data provided.* ## Police Disciplinary Hearing Scheduling [timestamp: 30:00] The Council discussed scheduling for an upcoming police disciplinary hearing during this agenda item. Keith Horn served as the key speaker for this discussion. The primary focus of the discussion centered on establishing a specific date and time for the disciplinary hearing to proceed. Horn presented a motion to schedule the hearing for February 19th, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. The Council approved the motion to set the police disciplinary hearing for the proposed date and time. This scheduling decision allows the disciplinary process to move forward according to the established timeline. The discussion appeared to be procedural in nature, focusing on the logistics of scheduling rather than the substance of the disciplinary matter itself. The approval of the February 19th date ensures that all parties involved will have adequate notice of when the hearing will take place. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Schedule a special council meeting for a police disciplinary hearing on February 19th, 2020 at 9 a.m. - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approve docket as amended --- ## Full transcript 🐯 Sound Hodori 사운드 호돌이 サウンドゥ ホドリ Instagram & Twitter https://www.instagram.com-hodori 🐯 Sound Hodori 사운드 호돌이 サウンドゥ ホドリ Instagram & Twitter https://www.instagram.com-hodori 🐯 Sound Hodori 사운드 호돌이 サウンドゥ ホドリ Instagram & Twitter https://www.instagram.com-hodori 🐯 Sound Hodori 사운드 호돌이 サウンドゥ ホドリ Instagram & Twitter https://www.instagram.com-hodori 🐯 Sound Hodori 사운드 호돌이 サウンドゥ ホドリ Instagram & Twitter https://www.instagram.com-hodori It is three o'clock so we're going to start our council work session and this is November the 19th already. And the first item is for public comment for issues on the agenda. And I believe we have Jessica Winters. Are you here? Signed up to speak. This is issues on the agenda. And if you'll come to the podium, please, and state your name and your address for the record. And you'll have three minutes. Good afternoon, council members. My name is Jessica Winters. I reside at 421 West 2nd Street here in Lexington. But today I'm here as a representative for Pensacola Park Neighborhood Association. They've retained me to act as their attorney in connection with the Zone Map Amendment to create an historic district overlay for the Pensacola Park Neighborhood. The current proposed boundaries of the overlay area have been unanimously approved by the Planning Commission, the planning staff, the BOAR, and state and local historic preservation offices. If you're not familiar with this area, the Pensacola Park Neighborhood is bounded by Suburban Court on the north, Goodrich Avenue on the south, Nicholasville Road on the east, and the Norfolk Southern Railway on the west. It was one of the first suburbs of Lexington, with Rosemont Garden first platted in 1919. A century later, it contains 400 intact examples of historic homes. The streetscapes and the layout of the neighborhood also remain unchanged. The neighborhood sought H1 zoning in early 2019, and since then they have worked with city officials and engaged in substantial efforts to raise funds for the expert studies supporting the application and to inform the neighborhood about the application and its impact on area property owners. Pensacola Park Historical Society, a 501c3 entity, has been formed to seek grants for neighborhood improvements and offset costs to property owners. These efforts have already yielded funds for planting new trees throughout the neighborhood in an effort to create substantial increase in the tree canopy. Organizers have invested more than 400 hours of volunteer time from PhDs and a professional architect. Each street within the neighborhood has been assigned a street leader to distribute information, and for several months a newsletter has been delivered to each house. There is widespread support for the H1 overlay throughout the neighborhood. Seventy-two percent of those responding to planning staff inquiries indicated support. In addition, a national register nomination has been prepared, which will be reviewed by the Kentucky Heritage Council in the spring. The application meets five criteria necessary for local historic overlay zoning as established in Article 13 of the zoning ordinance. Only one such criteria must be met for the area to qualify. As you know, the 2018 Comprehensive Plan has several goals, objectives, and policies that affirm the need for historic preservation within the community. As planning staff stated in their presentation to the Planning Commission, adding density and increasing housing opportunities in Lexington, while also preserving the history of our community, are not mutually exclusive goals. An H1 overlay would not prevent substantial development or increase of density throughout the neighborhood. However, it would only require those changes to be approved by Lexington's Board of Architectural Review to make sure they fit with the character of the neighborhood. In this way, responsible development that honors our past while looking to the future is facilitated within H1 overlay zones. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Wallace, did you wish to speak? Okay. All right. Did anyone else wish to speak to issues that are on the agenda? All right. Let's move along. Council members, if I could beg your indulgence, Keith Horn needs to request a date for a police disciplinary hearing, if you can get your calendars out. And I've looked at the calendar and considered the attorney on the other side and talked to him. We could schedule this in February after your break. And if you look at February, assuming you want to land on a Wednesday, I'm not saying you do, February 19th, you have a work session on the 18th. You have a council meeting on the 20th. You could consider the 26th. You have a work session on the Tuesday, but you do not have a meeting on that following Thursday. Do we need to schedule for all day? No. Talking to the attorney, we think we can do this in roughly four hours, this hearing. Four hours. All right. Of course, we could get done before four hours. Yes, but we don't think it will be a 10-hour one. Correct. Okay. So, council members, Mr. Horn has suggested we could do it the 19th or the 26th. Okay. So you would prefer the 19th over the 26th. Council is, let's see. All right. The 19th. Mayor, I'd be glad to make a motion. Yes, do you have a motion? I'll be glad to make a motion. Do you want to, and you need to decide what time you want to start for that day as well. Sure. I'll just throw this out there and see what happens. I would like to make a motion to have a special council meeting for a police disciplinary hearing on February 19th, 2020 at 4 p.m. So move. Okay. I have a motion. Second. I have a second from Council Member McKern. Let's have some discussion. Is there any discussion? Will you just weigh in, please, Vice Mayor Kaye? Yes. The only question I have is about the time. Four o'clock for a four-hour, potential four-hour hearing strikes me as problematic. I would move to amend, make it start at 10 o'clock in the morning. All right. I have a motion from Vice Mayor Kaye, second from Council Member Bledsoe. To hold the hearing 19th, 2020 at 10 a.m. All right. Is there discussion about the amendment? Council Member McKern. Thank you, Mayor. Is there any way that we could do even an hour earlier than that? I'd have a business outside of here that I still have to be into. So if we have an opportunity for the day, I'd like to leave my afternoon open for that. Do you want to make an amendment to the amendment? Sure. I don't think I can, though. I didn't know I could make an amendment to the amendment, but if I can. Our parliamentarian is missing. We can. Can I make an amendment on an amendment? If the mayor permits it, I think you can. Okay. Then I'd like to amend that to 9 a.m. All right. Council Member Ellinger amended to 9 a.m. on February the 19th. Is there any more discussion on this amendment? 9 a.m. is the motion for February 19th. Yes, Council Member Evans. I would just say I've got a HPI board committee meeting that day at 1.30. It would be cutting it close. I'm presuming that there would be deliberation after that four hours. So after that deliberation, I don't know about 4 o'clock, but maybe a little bit earlier than 4. That might put me in a pinch. And I actually shared that. I understand that. I'm explaining why 9 is not conducive for me, too. So that puts me in a pinch. Let me ask, Mr. Horne, is your four hours just for the hearing but not for deliberation? Or do you think the whole thing may be? I mean, I know we don't know for sure. Right. I would suggest to you to plan four hours for the hearing without your deliberation. And it may not take that long, but it can't. And I did discuss that with the other side, and he seemed agreeable to that. Okay. Is there other discussion about the 9 a.m. time? All right. Let's. I mean, ideally, we look for a time when everyone can be here. But since I hear nothing else, we'll take a vote on this amendment, which is to hold the hearing at 9 a.m. on February 19th, 2020. And let's go ahead and log in with your votes, please. How many people? Oh. Do we have one person who hasn't voted? Okay. That amendment passes. And so the motion on the floor, let's see, the amendment got amended. So we've already passed. Yes. So then the motion on the floor is to go ahead and approve February 19th, 2020 at 9 a.m. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. I'm sorry. Was there? Yeah. Council Member James Brown. Is this to the original motion amended? And correct me if this question isn't appropriate, but at what stage in the discipline are we at? Is this something that's come to us that we approved, and it got pushed back, or is it before it even got to that point? The way the police process works now is it has come to the Department of Law for the preparation of charges. Under their agreement, we have a certain amount of time to file those charges. And then under the state law, we have a certain amount of time once those charges are filed to have the hearing. So he's gone through the police portion of the process, and now it's up to our office to file the actual charges. And those have not been filed yet. To Council Member Brown's question, I think is your question, has this been brought to the council at all? And it has not, has it? It has not. This is brand new. And is the reason that it hasn't been brought to the council because in the process, the recommended discipline from the chief wasn't accepted by the officer? That's correct. Is there any opportunity for further deliberation between those parties before it gets to us? The only reason I even couched I'm asking that question is we were at this point previously, and there were a lot of man hours and a lot of money spent preparing for a hearing that ultimately did not take place. So if there is an opportunity for a conversation to take place before we get to that point, I'm just wondering if we can push that envelope as opposed to a schedule and a hearing. Well, those discussions will occur, but you need to go ahead and set a hearing date because of the deadlines that are involved with filing charges, etc. And you're going on break December the 5th. And if we manage to reach an agreement, I would certainly let you know, and we would cancel this special meeting. OK, yes. Thank you, Mary. I just want to say, OK, did that answer your question? All your questions? OK, thank you. Were there any other questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes February 19th at 9 a.m. Thank you. Almost at 6 a.m. 9 a.m. OK. Now, next up is rezonings and the docket approval. And we do have a docket. And so I would entertain a motion to approve. All right. We have a motion to approve by Councilmember Farmer, second by Councilmember Ellinger, and Councilmember Gibbs is on to speak. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to place on the docket. It's ordinance number four under ordinances for first reading. That's an ordinance changing the zone to create a historic district for the Pensacola Park neighborhood. And I'd like to put that on the docket for Thursday, November 21st without a public hearing. So moved. All right. Do I hear a second? Is there any discussion? Councilmember Ellinger. Since that is my property that's being designated as H1, I need to recuse. OK. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We have one no, Councilmember Farmer, and one recusal. And that motion passes. All righty. Councilmember Massotti. Thank you, Mayor. Under number three of ordinances first reading, it's an ordinance amending Articles 1, 3, 5, 8, 22, and 23 of the zoning ordinance to include general zoning provisions for the incorporation and regulation of accessory dwellings. I would like to remove that from the docket and place it in the Planning and Public Safety Committee. So moved. And Vice Mayor Kaye seconded that. Is there any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor of placing number three first reading ordinances in Planning and Public Safety, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Councilmember Plowman. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket without public hearing an ordinance changing the zone from an agricultural rural AR zone to an expansion area residential EAR1 zone for 26.34 net 27.19 gross acres and an expansion area residential EAR2 for 11.92 net 13.30 gross acres for property located at 2575 Pullover Club Boulevard. Second. Councilmember Masati seconded. Is there any discussion? I have a quick question. Can we powwow? Sorry, I just needed to ask a question. I see no questions. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Are there any other issues for the docket? Councilmember Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to colleagues. I've laid a resolution in front of you about installing common traffic calming devices on Glendover Road. And I would like to make a motion to place this on the docket for the Thursday, November 21st, 2019 council meeting. A resolution authorizing and directing the Division of Traffic Engineering pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 18-51 to install traffic calming devices on Glendover Road between Jessalon Drive and Belafonte Drive. So moved. Second. Councilmember Gibbs, I believe, was the second. All right. Are there any questions? Councilmember Brown. Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Calming devices, what calming devices are you talking about? They're speed tables. Speed tables? Speed tables. That makes sense. They are going to be six of them. They have gone through the process. Mayor, may I respond? Yes. Thank you. They have gone through all of the process through traffic engineering. Sorry about my voice. They have gone through all the process through traffic engineering. They've had all of the approval. The neighborhood has agreed and has complied with everything that is required to do this in order to install six traffic calming devices between Jessalon and Belafonte. And what's the speed limit on that street there? Probably 25. Not that they follow that, but, you know. Well, it's 25 plus you need additional. That's correct. And that's backed by what's the budgetary amount on that and who's paying for it? The traffic calming devices are going to be shared. It's a shared cost. And it is going to be partly shared. The neighborhood is. And then as a result of us getting the $47,000 for each council district of last week, I'm going to do like others have done. And I'm going to give them $5,000 toward their cost. But they will end up coming with the rest of it. I don't know the number off the top of my head. But they're willing to come up with it completely. They're pleased as pie to get this calming traffic. Are there any other questions about the motion? Council Member Farmer. Six sets. Six sets of speed tables? That's just a lot of speed tables on that road. It's a pretty long path. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, if you look at it, it goes all the way from Belafonte all the way down to Jeslin. Now, I do not know the dynamics of that. And if somebody's from traffic here, maybe you could help me out. They had to poll among themselves, and a majority of the neighbors are in favor of this and are pulling out their wallet to get it done. Yes, they are. Absolutely. I wouldn't bring it before this council if that wasn't completely in agreement. Oh, no, I didn't couch it in that manner. It's just that that's going to change the dynamics of the neighborhood, in my estimation. But if that's what the folks want, we'll let the folks have it. Thank you. The traffic numbers over there in that area are unbelievable, unimaginable. And they drive at speeds that are way beyond the 25 miles per hour, very dangerous. So thank you all for your support today in this. I really appreciate it. Are there other questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. This is a motion that relates to rebonding, refinancing of bonds because of favorable rates. I move to place on the docket for the council meeting on November 21, 2019, a resolution directing the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Public Facilities Corporation as an agency of the Urban County Government to take certain formal actions, and specifically directing the issuance of and authorizing and approving lease revenue refunding bonds, Eastern State Hospital Project, Series 2021, and related actions. So move. And Councilmember Farmer seconds that. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Is there any other docket issue? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the docket as amended, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Next up is approval of the November 12th work session summary. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Farmer moved approval. Councilmember Ellinger seconded. Are there any questions or comments? Yes. Councilmember Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. Under council reports, on page, this is at the bottom of page two. This talks about, in the second to last paragraph, where the motion by Councilmember McKern was made, at the end of that it says the motion passed without dissent, and I disagree with that. I think, yes, we did take action on it in the last paragraph there, but in my opinion, this council did not vote unanimously to support Councilmember McKern's action. They voted to support the amended referral, and I think that stating it that way is incorrect with the cadence of the meeting, in my personal estimation. So I would like to, I guess, strike it and change it in some capacity, because we did not vote on that motion at all, much less unanimously. We did vote on the motion that passed 9-6 to refer it to committee, so I think we should strike the last line, motion passed without dissent as amended and referred to Planning and Public Safety Committee, and that's just a me thing. You all may not support it, but I don't think it accurately reflects the work we did that day. Yes. So I would move to strike the last line of that second to last paragraph, so moved. Do I have a second? Maybe not. Councilmember James Brown seconded. Is there any discussion about the motion? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Is there any other discussion about work session summary? All right, seeing none, all those in favor of the amended summary, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? That motion passes. Now, councilmembers, we are on budget amendments, pages 4 and 5. Do I hear a motion? So moved. All right. We have a motion by Councilmember Plowman, second by Councilmember Farmer. Questions or discussion, please log in. Councilmember Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. This is in reference to journal item 120257, and I'm just curious, maybe Commissioner Ford, maybe we voted on that at one point to use contractors instead of staff on that substance abuse program, and I may have missed it in previous conversations. Welcome, Commissioner Ford. That's page 5, second from the end. Substance abuse. Councilmember Thames. I was just curious, why were we using contractors instead of staff to do that programming? And I didn't know if that was just something we'd already talked about before, and I just may have missed the rationale for it. This is a contract of state funds that the jail receives to provide a substance abuse program. They've had these funds for a number of months and were unable to find a suitable employee through various search opportunities to perform the work in-house, and so they bid it out and awarded it to Shepherd's House. You may recall awarding that contract. That was actually with the new funds, the 2020 funds. This takes the 2019 funds, moves the salary money that had already been budgeted into a contract line, and allows them to pay the contractor with those funds. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Other questions, Councilmembers? Please log in. We're having a dance party, I think. Some music. Was there any other question about budget amendments? All right. All right. We have a motion to approve. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Yes on all, no on journal 120253. 253, all right. We had one no. We got that. Thank you. All right. Now we are to new business, pages 6 through 66. Do I hear a motion? Move approval. Second. Councilmember Farmer moves approval. Vice Mayor Kaye seconds. Are there questions about new business? If so, please log in. Councilmember Massotti. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question, Mr. Martin, if you're here on item P. And Chris, if you could put the screen up on the map. It looks like it's page 60 in our packet. I just want to know what they're doing. It's my backyard, and I don't know what's going on. I think it's the wrong map. Jennifer and I were back there talking, and she thinks it's the wrong map. This is my backyard here, and I know nothing about this. It's the wrong map. Oh, okay. So that's why you're not perceiving anything going on there, because there's not. And I said thank you very much. Thank you very much. Can you tell me where it is? I'll have to send that back to you, because like you said, the whole focus on this was really, as I said earlier today, is that we're closing out these ones that have remaining amounts in them, and the grantees are saying we're done, we're not going to use any more of your money. So that was what the whole focus of these was, to try to close all these POs by having a council action that had a decreasing change order to each contract. But I'll be happy to send you the accurate information. Okay. Thank you. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about Item A. It has to do with the Code of Ordinances changing the requirement of inspection for affordable housing units from the word unit to development. And I guess my concern is, is that if there are individual units that there's a problem with, is there still a component where someone can file a complaint or concern with the affordable housing? That is my understanding with Mr. McQuadey. This ordinance only changes his inspection to be sure that it's complying with who lives in the unit, that the development doesn't, he doesn't have to check each and every one of the units. However, each person that lives in the unit can still have the right to complain or lodge a complaint if there's an issue with their landlord or something to that extent. Is that what you're asking? Yes. Yes. I mean, so. No, that doesn't take that away. Okay. So this is strictly just has to do with the making sure that the persons that are living in the affordable housing units are, that meet the criteria. It is that as well as being sure that the development itself is leasing to those who are 80% or 50% or 60% AMI instead of Mr. McQuadey having to check each and every unit. They still have to file the necessary paperwork, which is an affidavit. So it's just making sure that he doesn't have to check over 800 to 1,000 units each year by himself. Right. Right. Okay. All right. So you're talking about the other opportunities there to make sure that. Yes. If there's something wrong with the unit, the tenant still has the right to make that necessary complaint and can make that to our office or to any office that could take that complaint. All right. Just want to make sure we're not creating any unintended consequences. That's all. So all right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. H through Q, Mr. Martin, I just have a question. You don't normally see that we are decreasing the change orders, and I noticed all those were. And I guess that's probably just for to balance the books or finish out. Each one of these stormwater grants come forward to the council. You approve each one of them individually. So they're essentially a contract. As each one of the grantees finishes their work, what we never really anticipated is that people would finish their work and still have money on the table. So you see some of them are a couple of thousand dollars, but some of them are just $50. And so Jennifer and the team have spent a lot of time trying to clean this up. It's a little awkward to have done them individually. Purchasing wanted to do them individually because they have individual resolutions. I'm sure Law and whoever's going to read this on Thursday night wish we would put this all into one thing instead of having separate ones. And we'll do that in the future to try to clean these up more promptly and also do them kind of in a group. You notice this goes all the way back to 2015. We're closing out 2015, 2016, and 2017. All of these have been signed off on by the folks who were the grant administrators for the grantees. And basically what they're saying is we're done with the work that we intended to do. There's this much money left on the grant. We're returning this to Urban County Government so we can apply them to future grants. Well, that's a good thing. We came in under budget. So I'm glad to hear that. Thank you. That's Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. This has to do with item number B, the 4% base annuity raise for CEPF. Who would that be? That's the City Employee Pension Fund. Is that Bill or? Commissioner O'Mara, did you? Okay. Abigail is still here. Welcome. My question is that it shows a total of 54 individuals in this fund, and I'm just curious as to what areas of government they're from. Oh, goodness. It's pre-merger, so all over, really. And they're retirees. They're all retired, and some of them are beneficiaries. Oh, okay. They're all retirees. Okay, that's all. Just curious. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. They're all from the old City Pension Fund before merger, and there's still several of them. Council Member Lamb serves on that. Council Member Bledsoe, myself. Council Member Brown. Are there other new business questions? All right. We are ready to vote on new business. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Let's do continuing business, neighborhood development funds. Move approval. Second. Vice Mayor Kaye moves approval. Council Member Plowman seconds. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And I believe Council Member Farmer has the environmental quality and public works summary from October 22nd. Yes, Mayor. Thank you. This was a policy wonk's paradise. We spent quite a bit of time talking about the KU LED streetlight collaborative, which is kind of a newer partnership that we have trying to, in my opinion, as quickly and efficiently as possible, transfer us over to LED bulbs where appropriate throughout the city. And this generated one, two, three, four, six or seven paragraphs of excellent conversation about that and some of the details of it. We look forward to as many of those as possible or as correct. There's a different kind of light. It has a different temperature to it. It may be that we use that type of light differently than we do the current set of lights, but it's something that we will phase into over the next few years. Next, we talked about the pavement management plan, which is something that did not exist a couple of years ago, and we've done great work in the past three years in sampling what the streets are, the curbs and the gutters are, and trying to approach paving in a systematic and an orderly fashion, which is something that we never did before. We always would, in my opinion, struggle to come up with about $3 million and realized we needed about $15 million a year, and we've gotten to 10, 11, and 12. We never really covered that rolling total, but we're doing a lot of things to save pavement, to treat it, to keep it better for longer. I know that's one of the things that is a huge competing interest for dollars in the budget, but we all have a stake in it, and certainly the more we do there, the better off likely we are. That went on for several paragraphs. And then we closed out with a little bit about radar speed feedback signs, which you see in about 30 places across the county right now. These are kind of interactive. They will tell you how fast you're going or slow down, or they're programmable in different ways, and I think that they have met with a fair amount of success. Certainly they are new in the roadway, and people notice that. They notice the feedback aspect of it. So, again, it was a very profitable discussion. However, on all three of these really great items, we did not take any action. We deferred our snow removal plan until today and had a great meeting on that, but there were no motions out of this, and so that would end the report. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Mr. Farmer? All right. Thank you, Councilmember Farmer. As you log in for council reports, I noticed we have a former president of the United States in our midst. This is a rarity. Councilmembers, is someone going to be ah, you're going to recognize the president in a few minutes? Very good. Mr. Lincoln, we'll be back with you. All right. Councilmember Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. As you have just mentioned, we do have a very special guest today in our audience, and he's the 16th president of the United States of America and also known as the Great Emancipator, and I would like to ask President Lincoln to come to the podium, please, and you will have the remaining time, my five minutes of council comment. Welcome, Mr. President. You're the first president I've had the honor to welcome. I appreciate that. A very kind welcome from all of you that are here today. You'll have to beg my pardon because my mind was a little bit distracted sitting back there with Mr. Foster Ackerman. Seeing him reminded me of an occasion where one time I was accosted on a train by a man who came up to me saying that he was in possession of something that rightfully belonged to me. Well, certainly I didn't understand, so I asked him how that could be possible, and he told me that years prior to that a man had come to him and extended a pocket knife and said, with this injunction I give you this knife, that you're to carry it with you until you find someone who is uglier than you are. And with that, he pointed to me and said, I think you are in rightful possession of this pocket knife. Well, after my meeting with you all today and with Mr. Ackerman, I believe I found somebody I need to pass the knife on to. But it is my privilege to be able to speak to you today and to give you all both a general and also a very specific welcome. In a general way, I'd like to welcome all of you and to the people that you represent to the fairest city in the fairest state that we have. Now, I know that there may be somebody here who says that that is an overstatement, but I tend to disagree. And in fact, I would tell them what I told a gentleman one time with whom I was having a dispute. And he was saying something that I contested. And I finally had to ask him, sir, how many legs does a dog have if you count its tail as a leg? And immediately he said five. And I said, that proves my point, because the answer is obviously four, because a tail is not a leg, even if you call it one. And if someone says that Lexington is not the fairest city, they have another one. I would say that doesn't make it so, even if you call it that. So I do want to welcome you to Lexington in a general way and to Lincoln Days in a very specific way. Now, generally speaking, I have a little hesitancy in welcoming you to something that bears my name. After all, do you know what it is that kills the skunk? It's the publicity it gives itself. And I want to be careful about doing so. But while Lincoln Days may bear my name, it does not have me as its focus. I'm so pleased to be able to have you be invited, inviting those whom you represent to Lincoln Days 2019 in Lexington, because it represents the influence Lincoln received from Henry Clay. Lexington's own Henry Clay is certainly a national treasure, a hero to so many, a mentor to me. He was a friend, certainly, during my lifetime, and I benefited from his compassion, from his sharp wit, from his political acumen. And I know that you will benefit greatly from studying the life that he had and the influence that he spread in such a large way. I was privileged not only to know him in life, but to speak words over him at his death. And our country is better for having had people like Henry Clay, and I know that I am better. So once again, it is with my great privilege to welcome you to Lincoln Days 2019 with the focus being on Henry Clay. And I know you want to pass it on to as many people as you can. And with that, I know you've got much other things on your mind that you have to get to, and what I'm going to do is try to find Mr. Ockerman's pocketknife. Well, before you leave, Mr. President, it's not every day that this group gets to have their photo made with the president. Would you agree to having your photo with the council? As long as nobody refers to a photo of me as a headshot, yes, I will. You're on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor, I know that my five minutes has expired, but I do want to properly recognize Dr. Greg Waltermeier. He holds four degrees, including a Ph.D. from U.K., and he's been the minister at Heritage Baptist Church in Lexington since 2001, and he is also a Kentucky Chautauqua actor portraying Abraham Lincoln. And so we really want to appreciate. Thank you so much for coming today to thank you. Then I'm going to hand out to each council member the information about the 2019 Lexington Lincoln Days, and thank you all for your indulgence today. Thank you very much. Council Member Gips. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member McKern and myself are both on the board of directors of Trees Lexington, a nonprofit, which pretty obviously is out to increase the tree canopy. And on Saturday, we harvested the first round of about 500 pocket nursery trees, which we planted back in April and then distributed them to 100 households around the city. And now we started to harvest them, and they're much more viable than they would have been otherwise. And there's some people who had them or get to keep them, or they can give them back to Trees Lexington. We have people who have asked for a free tree. And here's one of our star people in the middle there is Mayor Gorton, who you may have recognized with Tom Rickey and Lynn Winter, who went out to harvest her pocket nursery. And the mayor was a model pocket nursery parent. She kept one tree for herself, which has been planted there. She gave another one to Chief of Staff Tyler. Tyler got a chickapin oak. And the other she donated back to Trees Lexington, and we will plant them on homes. And we have a lot of homes on the north end of town, which is very tree deficient, to ask for trees. We're just delighted how that's working out. Next photograph, please. You may recognize that guy. That's the vice mayor with his pocket nursery. And he did a very great job on his, and he decided that he's got a pretty heavily wooded backyard. And so he's donated all six of his back. And, again, they'll end up at various places. Councilmember Preston Worley had his harvested that day, but Preston was out of town, so we don't have a photograph. And then Councilmember James Brown also had one, and we harvested his. And, remarkably, he didn't kill them all. I was a little bit worried about that, because I had to text him every couple days during the drought, tell him to water the trees, and he'd say, wat trees, and things like that. We wanted to get a photograph of him, but he was in sweatpants, and apparently he doesn't do photographs unless he's in a coat and tie and has his hair done properly. So I really wish we had a picture of James Brown, but we don't. So, at any rate, we're delighted with how the pocket nursery program is working out. A lot of people are getting free, very viable native species, and I appreciate all the people in government who have been supportive of this. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. I think it's a wonderful program, and I didn't realize I was in sweatpants when they took my picture. Oh, well. Councilmember Blumen. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to share that next week the city will be celebrating its 100th mile of paved bikeway, and this is part of the West Hickman Trail in Veterans Park, which is in the 12th district, so we're very proud of it, the connectivity, and some more bike lanes. So the ribbon cutting is going to be next Tuesday, the 26th at 10 a.m., if anyone would like to attend. And at this point, I would like to recognize Ann Garrity of Lexington's American in Bloom. Regarding Communities in Bloom evaluation, she will use up some of my council time. Thank you, Councilmember Plowman, and thank you all. We had a good year last year, and so this is somewhat of an annual report. I've got four things I wanted to mention, the evaluation by Communities in Bloom, our daffodil drift, the official flower, and celebrate Lexington. So this past year we had thought long and hard, and after five years of judging by American in Bloom, we've been invited every year by Communities in Bloom, which is international, and it's based out of Canada, and we took a close look at it. We were ready to grow and try a new challenge, and so we did do that. Their judging process is very similar, though they emphasize tidiness, which is a European concept. There's tidy towns in Ireland and other places. The judges came in June. One had been to Lexington with the daughter soccer match. The other had been to judge us in 2015 through American in Bloom. So their comments are congratulations to us for attaining a score of 842 points with the five-bloom bronze rating. Now, 842 on a 1,000-point scale is a B, and we don't like Bs, do we? So we're going to work to get that up, and that will kick us from bronze to silver and hopefully gold. They did give us a great citation for our town branch commons, and that really relates to number four. I really liked this one. Lexington benchmarks against other leading cities such as Minneapolis, cities which also use a rebirth of the Olmstead thinking for city places and spaces. I thought that was a great compliment to the people that are planning the town branch park and commons. And then that gets to point through, particularly by Alex Pearl was the judge that came in 2015, and he felt there was visible evidence that we were having more collaboration, more appreciation that American in Bloom is achieving one of its goals, which is to bring the silos together, the gardeners, the trees, the environmentalists, the heritage folks, the civic life people, all of us. And then number five was their only really major suggestion, which is one we've had before, was that volunteerism is evident and important, yet there's not really a coordinated record of volunteer engagement across community organizations. And we tried to describe how difficult that is, and we know that many organizations do keep track of their hours, and so we may take a stab at trying to do something like that. The second thing I want to point out is our daffodil drift at Wellington Park is coming along. Last Friday we put in 1,000 white daffodil bulbs. They were planted to honor our 2019 community champion, Liz Pattengill, for her leadership of the Lexington in Bloom curb appeal contest since 2020. Excuse me, that was 2010, so the contest will occur again in 2020. She is also a longtime member of the Corridors Commission, and we appreciate her role in that. We have a permanent sign that's been drafted for the drift, and we will be putting that in in early spring to honor not only Liz, but with our previous awardees, Isabel Yates and Marsha Ferris. Our intention is to move to a park in another area of the town for the next three years. I forgot to bring my drift photo. Got to share the beauty, though. So the drift photo shows a bank between the Wellington Dog Park and New Circle Road. So when you're driving along in 2018, you could see there are two colors of flowers, a section for each awardee, We wanted swirls. Well, this kind of looks like the state of Tennessee, and so we worked real hard this time. We've gotten some more swirls in, so we're happy with that. And all of this has been accomplished with the help of Parks and Recreation. The purple coneflower, now Lexington and Fayette County's official flower, and we thank you for your support. On our board, we are making lists of garden centers, growers, landscapers, big box stores, that we will contact before they place their orders to be able to grow and order ample stock. And then we're also looking at public. Are we done? Excuse me for interrupting. Vice Mayor Kaye would like to make a motion to give you a little more time. We're already over five minutes? Okay. I'm almost done. Okay. Thank you. Do you need a motion? Okay. Move for two more minutes. All right. I'll be done. Looking ahead, our fourth annual Celebrate Lexington Breakfast will occur March 20th at the Thomas Hunt Morgan House, and we have some new board members that are on board and are planning some new and different exciting things. And finally, I just want to publicly thank our 2019 AIB board. We like to call ourselves looking at Lexington through the lens of beauty, and you can see there that we have some people with some community credentials that are invested in our organization, and we particularly appreciate the support of Parks and Recreation and Environmental Services, the mayor's office, and this council. Thank you all very, very much. Thank you so much. Does anyone have a question for Ann? Council Member Masati. Who made the decision to move out of Wellington Park? I did. No, we have to have that as a board decision, but it's under discussion. All right. Now I know who to talk to. Okay. All right. And actually you are out of sort of almost out of space at the area. It's outside the park. Oh, I know where it is. She knows. She's put trees nearby. She's just giving you a hard time. Okay. Are there any other questions? All right. Thank you so much for that update. All right. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to give a few announcements. Tomorrow evening I will be hosting a community conversation with your council member at the Village Branch Library between 6 and 7 p.m. I tend to rotate where I have that every month between two sides of the district. So tomorrow it will be at Village Branch. And I will do a little update and then answer questions and talk with constituents. Monday I will be participating in the Neighborhood Youth Council Career Panel with Partners for Youth. That will be from 4.30 to 6.30 at the College for Technical Education. And a lot of the youth that participate in that program come from Cardinal Valley. So I'm excited to be able to meet with them. And then Monday, December 2nd, Civic Lex is having one of their community dinners at Valley Park from 6 to 8 p.m. And it will be inside the shelter if it's cold. So nobody needs to be scared about going because of the weather. And that conversation will be on public safety. And so I hope that a lot of people from the district will sign up for that. If you would like to sign up, you can go to CivicLex.org to make sure you reserve your spot. And there will be food from Taqueria Ramirez. So it will be really good food and an interesting conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. First, I wanted to congratulate Michael Jonathan on the 1,000th Wood Songs Old Time Radio Hour, which is tonight. And as great as that has been for all of Lexington, it's been absolutely awesome for the Lyric Theater to fill up that venue every Monday night with great talent and all volunteers putting on the entirety of the program. And it's just fantastic and a tribute to his spirit and what that medium means to us. Then secondarily, yesterday, you know, a few of us got to go out to the christening ribbon cutting for the new salt barn. And if you had told me how excited at age 60 I would be over a salt barn, I would never have believed it because this represents a whole lot of work by a whole lot of people. This would be the last known picture at the back corner where there's no salt because after this they began filling it up while we were still there. That's George Milligan, principally responsible for getting the job done and doing a great service to us all. And that would be the ceremonial first load. And, you know, they're going to fill it up. And this is the history before us because I guess we start. I asked Leo McMillan in the blue. Evidently, Pam Miller was the one that built the first salt barn. And I didn't. And I said, I just said, you know, you say things. I said, so what do we do? Put it on the ground with tarps? He goes, yeah, before that, which is just amazing. So he was there as kind of the grandfather of the project. And, gosh, who followed him there? Albert. Albert's right there. Albert Mill is right there. He's there next to the director. And then our current director is theirs. Sam was there for a while. I forgot that. I'm sorry. Well, I mean, this is a really great picture to show all the folks that have worked to help bring that to fruition. Any other pictures there? Is that it? Well, that's enough. It was a great event, and there was a lot of excitement about it. And the logistics of making folks' streets safer sooner after it snows will be realized during the next event. Yes? Okay, the yellow line that you see there is the line above which there's lack of reinforcement. So you can stack salt to that height. And I will tell you that I could not reach up and touch that. I might run and jump and get it. But there is a lot of room. Those are six-by-six timbers that go about six feet into the ground. There's 20 of them down each side, and they are each set in their own concrete base. There are no gutters on this. It kind of has a flow-through ventilation, and then, of course, the lighting on top for daylight and dark, and a huge airplane hangar door. I mean, you can get anything in and out of there without hitting it, I would think. And we were really excited about a set of trucks coming. And then I'll have to give George credit. The two newest trucks we have were there dumping the first sets of salt. And it was just an oddly joyous occasion, and I wanted to celebrate it again today. Thank you, Mayor. It was. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. Just a few things. First, I want to thank my colleagues who were able to go to the Salvation Army Christmas celebration on Friday to celebrate and roast a legend in his own time, Bob Babbage, who is also a former council member. So I appreciate those of you who were able to make that. And then this week is the Big Blue Crush Blood Drive with Tennessee. The Kentucky Blood Drive is in my district, and they've been working very hard to try to resupply after the holidays. And so traditionally that's done against Tennessee during the game, since that didn't turn out very well. We're going to try it this week. And if you can join us, we'd like to have the most blood donated. So if you can do that, you can do it this week, anytime, during their hours. You can also do it on UK's campus. They have four or five set up around the campus. If you've not given blood lately, they now have an app on the website. You can go in that morning, fill out all your questions before you go. It saves a lot of time. You can basically walk in, give blood, and walk out. So I did that this week in honor of my dad, who has had a number of blood traditions over the years. So if you can make time to do that, that would be great. And then lastly, the Southland Drive Association is having their Christmas, I'm sorry, their holiday tree lighting ceremony, which is coming up on the 6th. It will be a lot of fun. And we're adding a new addition this year. In addition to Lafayette bands coming to play in the music, the ballet is going to produce some of their Nutcracker pieces on their new facility down the street right afterwards. So it should be a lot of fun, and you can see those details on the Southland Association website. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Councilmember Misali. Thank you, Mayor. On March of 2018, councilmembers will remember that we supported unanimously a resolution supporting women's historical contributions in Lexington. And last week we took our first steps towards this important public reality and goal. And so there's the mayor with the artist that has been chosen to sculpt the monument that will be located on the corner of Vine and Mill. I don't know if we have a picture yet, but this was at the press conference, and we all got to talk a little bit about the history of Lexington, and there's the unveil there. Barbara Grigudis is from Tucson, Arizona, and she's an internationally renowned artist, and she sculpts in metals. And this is going to be an aluminum piece. This piece is going to be 20 feet tall and 32 feet wide, and it's going to be with polished aluminum. So there was a concern initially about the glare with the regular aluminum metal, so this will be polished, and then Barbara kind of went through why she decided to do this. And basically this is, if you can see by the picture, this represents women suffragists, and they all stand in line, and Barbara was very excited to be able to receive this commission. And this is going to be a really neat thing for our city. It's going to be also lit interiorly with soft white lighting, so when you go by it will be lit up and these women will be high and against the Fifth Third Bank building. So it's going to be a pretty neat deal. You'll see a lot of members from LFUCG and from UK that participated. So, you know, I can't think of anything more, in my opinion, than the right to vote, having that right. I mean, if you're in a democracy, having the right to vote is what it's all about and exercising that right to vote. And I think as we've talked about this for a while, you know, it's taken 100 years to get here. You know, Kentucky was at the forefront. At least we voted in school elections, but it took us a long time. It took us until January of 1920 before we got the vote, and then across the nation it was in August, and that is when we intend to have this up and ready to go by August 18th of 2020. So we appreciate the council's support. We're still fundraising. We still could use some money in that way, but it is coming in. And last week Council Member Plowman and I were with President Capilouto and received a nice check. So we've got a lot of support in the community, but we need some more, and this is going to be something to make us, put us on the map, very, very special. And that's all, Mayor. Thank you very much. It was an exciting day. Council Member McKern. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to remind my colleagues about the zone change hearing afterwards tonight, since we're going to probably be getting out a little bit early. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Is there any other council report? Seeing none, there's no mayor's report. Public comment for issues not on the agenda? Is there anyone who wanted to speak? All right. Now, Council Member Plowman has a motion. Thank you, Mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101G for the purpose of discussing the potential siting, retention, expansion, or upgrading of a business entity. So moved. I have a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? We're in closed session. Seven. We've got seven. Where did everybody go? I don't know. Council Member Mazzotti. Mayor, I make a motion to come back into open session. So moved. Second. Council Member Plowman seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. We are back in open session, and we are now to the point of adjournment. So moved. There are a couple of moves and a second. Okay. And before we vote on adjournment, the Vice Mayor has asked that you have a five-minute break until your zone change hearing. Okay. Thank you. All those in favor of adjournment, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you very much.