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And so, as we serve folks and we rehab their homes, we place mortgages on the homes. Sometimes those are repayable, sometimes those are deferred. So, we have loan receipts, and then also when they sell the home, often if the loan has not been paid off completely, or the deferral period has not ended, we receive a lump sum payment back to the program. So, that's program income, that's what this is. So, in the last year, we've actually seen an increase in this number. That's why we're budgeting additional funds that we weren't anticipating. Probably due to a hot housing market, you know, good opportunities for folks to sell their homes prior to the 20 to 30-year payoff period. Great. Thank you so much for that answer. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Thank you. Are there other questions about new business? I see none. All those in favor of approving, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passed. Next up, we have continuing business and presentations. First, we'll need a motion for council capital projects. Council Member Plowman moves approval. Vice Mayor Kaye seconds. Are there any questions? That's page 13 of your packet. All right. Seeing none, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. Neighborhood development funds. Do I hear a motion? Second. Vice Mayor Kaye moves approval. Council Member Plowman seconds. That's on page 14. Are there any questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next up is environmental quality and public works on page 15. And I believe this will be Chairman Farmer. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Mayor. These are the notes from our November 19th meeting. We approved our summary. Then we moved into a snow and ice removal plan presentation that is so effective we've had no snow or ice since. So, well done. Great presentation. Yes. Keep it up. Keep it up. It was noted that Commissioner Albright presented a slideshow highlighting the Truckapalooza event held that past Saturday. She said despite cold weather, there were 800 to 1,000 attendees, and there were a great number of employees, a great amount of employee engagement with the attendees. And judging from the pictures, there was a lot of great interaction, and certainly every bucket truck known to man that we have was there. Next, we had our update on our separate storm sewer system information, which a lot of this tended to be a conversation around the messaging out into the public about things to do with storm water survey and storm water things that are ongoing and will become more focused as we move through the last six years of our time in the consent decree. This was an update report. There were no actions taken on this item. Same thing true for our Division of Water Quality Projects, which, again, highlights the work that is ongoing and the great work. And the mayor highlighted it in her speech about how much money has been saved there in terms of moving us to being compliant with EPA, which we have to be done with by December 31, 2026, just so we all know and can decorate accordingly. There were no actions taken there. We didn't really move anything from the committee, and we adjourned at 2.22. That would be my report. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Councilmember Farmer? Seeing none, thank you very much. Next up, we have our presentation for the Census 2020 update, and Commissioner Ford will be presenting that. And I see we have several folks in the chamber who are here to support you and who are on the committee. So thank you all for being here. Thank you, Mayor, and good afternoon, Councilmembers. As Mayor Gordon mentioned, I'm here with and on behalf of our Census 2020 Complete Count Committee, also known as We Count Lex. We're going to share just a few brief updates and highlights for the benefit of the Council and the audience watching this afternoon. What is the Census? I believe we're all familiar. The Decennial Census is mandated by the Constitution. The federal government has conducted a Census every 10 years since 1790. The Census simply counts every person, one time, and in the correct place, that place of their address. Full participation in the Census provides local communities, such as ours here in Lexington, with accurate information on who our residents are and what services and programs are needed. The Census has many local impacts on communities. It determines our electoral representation, the number of seats in the Congress. It also provides information for our general assembly to set our legislative districts. And the Council also, the 12 Council districts here in Lexington, is dependent upon Census data. Our public safety and first responders, the planning and the infrastructure needed, since the data has an impact on it. In our area of social and human services, a lot of federal funding, dependent on Census data, is provided to our local community to be able to provide resources. It's estimated that roughly, the resident count equates for roughly $2,000 per resident each year during that Decennial period. And last but not least, our business community is also very much interested, as it has an impact on commerce and industry. Our Complete Count Committee, Mayor Gordon issued executive order in early March of 2019. We've been meeting consistently since that time. The committee is comprised of approximately 36 members, which include Council Members Susan Lamb, Jennifer Reynolds, and Council Member James Brown. And we appreciate their representation on the committee. Which includes a diverse group of local government officials, business leaders, community organizations, educators, campus administrators, faith-based groups, and folks all across our community. And those are just the official members of the committee. We've had several folks that have also joined the effort. The committee's primary focus is to encourage all Lexington residents to complete their Census forms. And during our process last year, you may interchangeably find we to refer to ourselves as We Count Lex. But it is, in fact, the Complete Count Committee. In addition to our desire for every Lexingtonian to be counted, we also recognize that there are hard-to-count populations. And that's where a lot of our effort and attention is going. To devise strategies, make recommendations, and lead initiatives in order to increase our response for traditionally undercounted communities. You see those listed there. Children under the age of five, minorities and communities of color, college students. Of course, we have three higher ed campuses here in Lexington. Senior and elderly communities, of which is growing here in Lexington. And refugee and immigrant communities. I also believe, and I believe the committee shares this thought, that the hard-to-count population is also reflective of the many communities which could be better served. If, in fact, we were able to have additional federal resources and local investment based upon Census data. We began our work. We began in 2018 with an organizational and informational meeting to try to solicit and make aware of our partners of our desire to get ready for the Census 2020. We began to meet on a bi-monthly basis in 2019. And now we're scheduled to meet monthly for the first half of this year. We are focused in subcommittees. That's where a lot of our work has occurred. In civic leadership, campus and learning centers, community connectors, key constituencies and residential services that you see listed in your packet. In just a few highlights, under civic leadership, the committee has engaged all elected officials in Fayette County to be aware of the Census and to communicate that with their networks and constituents. We've also been fortunate to assemble resource tables. We have a table that's stationed in the lobby of the government center. And there will be others throughout the community to make folks aware. Our partners at the United Way have indicated through their 211 call center that they're going to take the opportunity as folks call in to inquire about services to make sure that they're aware of the Census. Commerce Lexington has been very supportive. They not only featured a highlight in their business focus magazine that goes out to their membership in January 2020, but just a few days ago they allowed us to come and speak to their full board of directors about the Census. We're also looking forward to participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade. We're going to be inviting folks to join our efforts with a t-shirt as well to come on out and support us. And we're very grateful to the council's time this afternoon to make you aware of what we're doing. Our campus and learning centers have been very engaged. Bluegrass Community and Technical College, as well as Transit, have all been engaged in various activities across their campus, as well as the University of Kentucky. And we're going to highlight one of their major initiatives in support of Census 2020. Fayette County Public Schools has also been engaged, as has our early learning community. One of the major initiatives that we've launched is our website, which is WeCountLex.org. That was developed in partnership with Civic Lex. And I see Richard and his team here, Richard Young. We're very appreciative of his efforts to help us build that website. The Health Department has sponsored funds to go towards the purchase of t-shirts, which we hope to deploy and get out into our community later this spring. LexTran has pledged a sponsorship to make their riders aware with announcements on their mini fleet and our library. I think Rob Parmley is here as well. It's going all out to not only help our residents have the digital access that they may need to apply to respond to the census, but they're just making awareness in general. We also know that language barriers may be a concern. So we've been, through WeCountLex and other areas, letting folks know of all the resources on the census website for those that may need a census and that are not traditional English speakers. And residential services. The census truly is about defining households, counting folks where they live at a point in time early in 2020. And that's why we're focused on every member of each household in Lexington being counted. Based on those subcommittees, you see the leadership that's there and we appreciate their efforts. They've been working independently and bringing information back to the full committee meetings. And we thank each of them. I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity, Councilman and Mayor, to salute the core team here at City Hall, which has truly supported the work of these subcommittees and really has been the engine behind a lot of this effort. So to Jennifer Warmer in the CAO's office, Roger Damon and Mackenzie Holt in general services, Teresa Maynor in our office in social services, and Craig Kamek in the Mayor's office. They're not listed as committee members, but they've been very much a part of this effort. As has our next speaker, which is Mr. Dustin Baker of computer services. Dustin is a GIS developer. And as you can imagine, the census is very intense in regards to data collection and management. So Dustin is going to come and introduce to the Council some of the efforts that our GIS team internally has begun even a few years ago in preparation for the census. So Dustin. Thank you, Commissioner Ford. As Commissioner Ford mentioned, data is one of the driving forces behind, because the key to a successful count is knowing where to actually send the mailers and send their enumerators if nobody mails them back. So we started through the industry of Chris Dorge in GIS and Robert Pogue in Enhance 9-1-1 in summer of 2018 doing the local update of census address or LUCA. Through that, we take what census addresses they sent to us and match it up against our master inventory for E9-1-1. And through that, we made 13,000 corrections. And most of those were additions with around 11,000 new addresses, residential addresses for census to have in their address bank to send the mailer to. So then, as Commissioner Ford mentioned, getting into these hard-to-count areas, after the 2010 census, the Census Bureau needed a better way to track and identify these areas. So they commissioned study, and they found through their statistics that there were three main contributors or factors in each census tract and block group that contributes to somebody not self-reporting or mailing. This is the percentage of somebody not mailing their mailer back when they get it. And those being renter-occupied housing units, young adults 18 to 24, and female head of household, no husband. And that is the actual title of that metric. So to support the core team and the committee as a whole, we've created these web maps and compiled into a web app here for you. The first showing is a low response score, which is a combination of those three indicators. And this is, you should read this as a percentage of people who do not mail their census form back when they first get it. So as the color gets darker, that is indicative of a higher percentage of that area not reporting. Let's see how this works. There we go. Okay. So we can see an area here that around campus, we probably figure that's the young adult area. So we can identify those. As we look at it, as the council and public as a whole, we see the indicators, the low response score, the renter-occupied percentage, young adult percentage, and the female head of household from the 2018 American Community Surveys, or ACS, and the most recent, 2019. And over to the right is finally a difference of those two. So then we can move through, and we can see how for each of these data points, the maps change. And we can identify as we move forward in targeting these areas for what type of messaging, et cetera, we need to do. Thank you, Dustin. We're very appreciative of Dustin's role in support of our work. I'm going to go back a slide to wrap up with Dustin's report. So now there with the work of our staff and GIS, we're certain that there are approximately 145,000 residential addresses in Lexington. And as we all know, Lexington is growing. Lexington's population per the 2010 census was just under 296,000. As of the most recent estimate, July of 2018, our population is just under 324,000. I believe that represents just over a 9% increase. As we round out our report, we're working very closely with the U.S. Census Bureau, which has recently opened an area census office. That celebration was January 24th. Mayor Gordon spoke, and there were several council members and members of the committee that attended. Their job is the hard job, which is the field operation, building a staff to go out and for those that do not respond to the census, to make sure that they are accurately counted. This year, the census is modernizing, if you will. This will be the first census in the history of the census where we as residents have options to respond. It has always been traditionally by mail. We'll continue to be able to respond by mail, but we also have the ability to respond online or by phone. And as such, I think the census team would really appreciate if we were to announce that they are hiring. The Census Bureau is hiring folks, temporary jobs to support this effort over the next few months. I understand that they've increased their pay because of challenges that our local office and Census Bureau offices across the country are having in staffing up. So in the areas of $17 to $19 an hour, folks can go to 2020census.gov backslash jobs to apply. And so, again, that is a Census Bureau hiring and not our committee, but we are very supportive of those opportunities. Privacy and security is a concern. We all enjoy the technical advances of our society, a lot of things being done online, but the census is gone. They're making a great effort to let folks know that they can feel confident in responding to the census. Our committee has accelerated our meeting schedule. Our meetings are open to the public. We're very thankful for our team at the Senior Center to be gracious hosts before they get very busy, as they are most days. We meet at 830 on the following times. And again, you see our website, wecountlex.org, and the census website, 2020census.gov. And we hope, in conclusion, that our work will raise awareness on the importance of an accurate census response by broadening our engagement with traditional undercounted populations. For every member of each household, and if there are members of our committee that took time to join us today, if you would just kindly wave your hand so the council can recognize you. And we do appreciate you all being here. We do know that Lexington is fortunate to be the home of the Commonwealth's flagship institution, that being the University of Kentucky. And with UK support, we are very fortunate that Coach John Calipari has graciously lent his voice to the urgency of Census 2020. We have a very brief video of this at the pleasure of the council to share with you from Coach Calipari. Hello, Kentucky. Coach Cal here. I'm excited to announce that the University of Kentucky has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to support the 2020 census. This task is harder than reaching the final four. Counting all the people residing in the United States is huge, and we need your help. This count affects how public resources for things like roads, hospitals, and our schools are allocated to our community. It determines how we plan for our future and our voice in government. For the first time, the 2020 Census Bureau will accept responses online. The process will be quick and secure. You can respond to the census in less time than it takes to finish your morning coffee. Or you'll still be able to respond by phone or mail. You can learn more about the importance of the 2020 census and how to participate at 2020census.gov. Shape your future. Start here. Very good. And if you could just follow WeCountLex.org, we have other videos that will be put out in the social media platforms. Mayor Gordon has a video, as do some of the council members, to help spread the word. And we thank you for your time, and we'll gladly take any questions you have. Thank you, Commissioner Ford. And that was a wonderful video. I don't know about that comparison of how hard it is to get the final four. We'll see. Okay, there are a few questions. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I've had people ask me, and Coach Cowell was talking about students. How do students go about it? Do they do it from if they're going to school here, or do they do it where they're from? To make sure that they're not demo counted, but make sure they are counted. Our message, a great question, Council Member. Our message is they count here. They spend most of their time, and they reside here. And so, UK, BCTC, and Transy are hard at work at expressing that message, driving that message home, is that you count here. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner, and to everyone on the committee. Every single person has been working really hard at this for months now to make sure that everybody's counted. And I just wanted to encourage each of my colleagues to put information out about the census and to communicate with constituents about the importance of this. It will take all of us to get everyone counted. Commissioner, we're going to have some information being sent out to the council members that they can then distribute, right? Yes, we can. And thank you for reminding me. I'll begin with the information that Dustin shared with GIS. GIS, that is a public-facing document, and we're going to have it available on our website, and we'll gladly, proactively go ahead and send that to the council if you're very much interested. But a lot of the documents that you see at our resource tables, we were very fortunate to have a budget that we're able to produce those documents. But we have those documents electronically, and we will share that with the council following this meeting so you can include that in your newsletters and send that to your neighborhood associations. And if we as council members had a neighborhood meeting and wanted to pick up some of the resources that are in the lobby, we could do that? Yes. Okay, great. And if you need more, feel free to contact our office and social services. Thank you so much for your hard work, and everyone else is into CivicLex for helping with the website. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Commissioner Ford, for this. As the co-chair of the government, the elected officials subcommittee, we do plan on sending out some information to all of my colleagues here, as well as all of the elected officials across the county and trying to reach everybody's constituency. And we've been working with Commissioner Ford and Ms. Maynard and Dustin about this as well, and Danny, too. So I just appreciate it. And I just want to echo and thank everybody that's here today. Thank you for all of your hard work and your commitment to this community to be able to hopefully get a really good, sound count for our community so that we can continue getting this $2,021 per person per year. That's a huge number, and I think that when you say that out loud to your constituency, I think that's really going to be what's going to make a difference. It's a huge deal. So I do appreciate it. I appreciate this presentation. I know that we've really been working hard to get the word out, and I know that with everybody involved in our community partners that we will do a great job with it, and I just want to thank you very much. Thanks. And that amount of money goes for the whole 10 years, so it adds up to a large amount of money. Commissioner, I don't have any other questions. And I see Danny right at the front, Danny Rogers, who's full-time on this, a mover and a shaker, right? She is. And, Mayor, if it's okay with the Council, Danny had just one important message directed to college students, and I'll let her just share that very briefly directly to the Council. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner, for your presentation. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Hi. With the college students, if they're on campus, living on campus in the residence halls, and we have an operations team that will come and work with housing to make sure that they get that count done, so they won't be receiving something individually. But if they live off campus still attending college, they will be receiving something in the mail just like everybody else that's in a household. In a household, it's anybody under the roof. It doesn't matter if they're roommates, cousins, grandparents, neighbors. It doesn't matter. If they're living under the roof, they count. So I just wanted to make that extra. Thanks, Danny. All right. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. And now, Councilmembers, it's time for Council reports. Councilmember Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Last Tuesday at work session, it was a little confusing because I made a motion that was verbal. This has to do with the tenant home definition. And then at your place, you had something that was different. So after talking to Law and a few other of my colleagues, I'm going to go ahead and restate that motion today. I move to refer to the Planning Commission review of the definition of tenant home contained in Article 1-11 of the Zoning Ordinance and any associated regulations as it relates to who can live in a single-family tenant home on a farm. So moved. Councilmember Farmer seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Thank you very much. That passes. I do have one more announcement. I've mentioned Get On Board before. I know it in Council reports. But last night was our first of the next eight-week sessions. There are two sessions. And you can't see all the folks there. We have about 20 that have enrolled. And over the next eight weeks, they will learn. They will be trained in parliamentary procedure, how to read financials, legals. And what's nice about this, at the end of the eight weeks, these folks graduate, and we have kind of an agency fair, and nonprofits that want to have diversity on their boards attend, as well as our graduates, and they're matched up. So I really was excited last night after we went round robin because the profile of these attendees is just really diverse, and everybody's very excited to get at the table. So I wanted to share that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple of things that I'll say. One, I attended the Arboretum's volunteer brunch this past weekend. And one of the numbers that they told at the brunch that there were over 12,000 visitors, and that's 12,000 visitors that came to the visitor center at the Arboretum this past year. And that number doesn't sound like much, but that's just the people that signed in. And, you know, there are a lot of people that go over there and visit, and they recognize the volunteers. And I just want to put a plug out there because the Arboretum is such a unique place. And if you haven't gone over there and walked around the Walk Kentucky area, it's just a fun place to go. And now that the weather seems to be changing and getting warmer, it's an even better place to go. So I appreciate Molly Davis and all of her staff. They do a great job over there. The other thing is, is that if everybody's seeing me walk around the building with a bigger smile on my face as of yesterday, I am thrilled and excited to say that officially yesterday, Kelly Farley, who I'm asking to raise her hand back there, she started yesterday. She's my legislative aide. And we don't have the e-mail set up yet, but as soon as we get that, we'll send out more of a formal notice and invite you all to say hi to Kelly. She's going to be on the trajectory of learning and meeting a lot of people. And I'm just thrilled to have my legislative aide seat filled again. So welcome, Kelly. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to report out a little bit of last night's public safety forum meeting we had at Beaumont Library. We had about 45 people come. And Commander Chad Bacon and Sergeant Jeremiah Davis talked a lot about car loss injury, how to keep your property safe, using cameras on your personal property. It was fascinating. I think everyone in that audience had been a victim. So they were very curious about, I think in particular, the three individuals who took 1,500 different crimes. Many of those hit my areas. And so it was really helpful for the police to talk about what they've done and what you can do to be proactive. One of the things that was most fascinating is how often, if someone's on your property and they're at your car or they're coming up, and instead of calling the police, you text your neighbors, you go on social media, you tell everybody that you think someone's doing something wrong. And by the time you've called police, it's often too late to do something about it. So the one takeaway from many people there was, if someone's on your property in the middle of the night and they're not supposed to be there, before you do anything, call the police. Let them get involved. And two, if you're a victim, don't report those crimes on next door only. You need to report them with the police and to the police for them to be counted to make the strategy and some of the work together. So that was really helpful, and I would really appreciate them taking the time. We had about an hour and a half meeting, and people could have gone longer. So I'm thankful to them to be there, and we're going to put out some best practices, kind of safety tips in my office in the next few weeks. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. A lot of my colleagues know that at the chamber dinner last week, the Task Force on Neighborhoods in Transition was recognized. And I know that I was the one on stage receiving the award, but I just want to say that that award was presented to the whole task force for the work and the conversations that they've been doing and having about neighborhoods in transition. We got an award for something that we're still in the middle of working on. So there's still a lot of work ahead for us. So what that symbolized to me is that the business community, that the chamber, recognized how important the work that we're doing is to our community. And to me, I take it as a commitment that they're willing to be a part of the solution and to help address the issues that we're talking about. So with that, I just want to publicly thank the task force members, the council members that are part of the task force, Vice Mayor Cave for forming the task force, and then also our internal planning team with Tiffany Tatum and Hillary Angelucci that do a lot of work behind the scenes. Tonight, we also have a task force meeting tonight. It's going to be at the LexTran bus station at 530, and we're going to have a presentation tonight on the Affordable Housing Fund as well as the PDR program. So those that are in the public, if they're interested and willing to attend, interested in attending, they can join us tonight at 530. And just to kind of lay out to the council and to the public kind of what the year looks like for the task force, is in the month of March, we're going to look at trying to narrow down and finalize our recommendations that we're going to bring forward. And then, if time permits, we're going to look to have a public input session by the end of March and hopefully have something ready and prepared to bring to council and present as a rough draft of the work and the recommendations that we have going forward. And then we'll look to go back and revise those to create a final report thereafter. So I just wanted to say that, you know, even though I was the one on stage getting the recognition, it's a complete team effort. It's going to take all of us to make the task force and its efforts successful. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you and congratulations for the work you're doing. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to report out about a meeting I had yesterday. I met with the Greater Garden Site Association, which is an association that works to make the Alexandria Drive for Sales Road, Lane Allen areas better with businesses, the neighborhoods, and in terms of safety. And it was really exciting to see how this group of people has been working together for months and how yesterday we packed a room. There was not enough seats for everybody that showed up to the board meeting. And they have a really good vision of how to reach out to the local businesses and help support them to continue with the festival that they had last year, Garden Site at Sunset, and work on improving the safety in the area. And I was just very impressed. We added several new board members to the board, and it was exciting to see more and more people from the area get involved and also to help diversify the board as well. And tonight, I just wanted to remind everybody that there's a stakeholders meeting about the sanitary sewer project that's going on with Wolf Run, and that is going to affect several parks in the district, and that is tonight at 615 at Garden Site Christian Church. Everybody's welcome. Charlie Martin will be there. Somebody from Parks will be there, and hopefully we'll be able to answer any questions that might arise. So thank you. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. First off, we can have a conversation. I want to ask for your help in trying to find a place in the 5th District to put one of the recycling bins. I know you all have tried. I've made personal outreaches to the Romney area, the Ashland area, out around the Senior Citizen Center and the old mall area, and we must be able to find a place a little bit more central because, as I said during our committee meeting today, the darts hit all around the 5th District. We're not in it, and there are lots of folks who really have a lot of paper. We want to get there more conveniently, so I'd ask for a little help with that. And then, you know, there's only so many things you can do. You can go to the meeting about the sewer system, or you can go to the award-winning meeting about neighborhoods in transition. But if you had read the article in the paper about the work we're doing in public art, you can also go to a meeting tonight at 530 at Portofino where we're taking more public input. See, it's working, isn't it? Input about public art and what we're looking forward to here in Lexington. So if you're out between 530 and 630, we'll be at Portofino Restaurant. Look forward to welcoming all. Thank you, Mayor. Well, and then there's the 530 Patterson School Forum, which will talk about international impact on Lexington. So we have lots of good choices. Those are all good choices. Yes, thank you. Yes, ma'am. Agreed. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to let council members know that, like Council Member Lamb, I have a new aide. Nathan has moved up. Working for the commissioner who's smiling broadly in the back. My new aide will be coming on. Has come on. She will only be here part-time for a few months while she completes her MPA at the Patterson School. Name is Jennifer Sutton. So if you see someone new in the hallway, introduce yourself. We're looking forward to having her on. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Evans. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to, I guess, give more of an update. Some of you might know that we did the Lex Count. That's the annual counting of our homeless community every year. And thank goodness it wasn't as cold as it has been in past years. But it was, once again, a really great event. And volunteers, just people from the community, came out and just answered the call. I mean, I think we had more volunteers than we'd had before. And that includes police officers, Commissioner, that I think some of them are just volunteering that time. So it was really, really good to see that. And they were a big help. But I'll let Polly Reddick come and share a little bit more about that and the results. But I do just want to say thank you, great job to you and Jeff, because it was a good event. I actually did go out this year and found a few people, one of them being someone I knew. So that was good and sad. But, you know, we got their information, and hopefully they'll seek out the resources that we have. So I'll let Polly share a little bit more. So just to kind of recap, we had a great event. We had the largest number of volunteers that we've ever had with 153 volunteers. We canvassed 71 different locations. And then that night we actually got about eight different tips of folks that were in some new locations. And we always have floating teams that include myself and community paramedicine and some law enforcement. And we always go out. We were able to find some new locations and new folks that night. You all were e-mailed the results. We are down from last year about 12.5%. We're sitting pretty flat compared to two years ago. But overall since 2014, since the creation of my office, we're down about 50%. I'm doing this from memory. I don't have those stats in front of me. But most importantly, we always look at our unsheltered population, those that won't go into shelter, those that won't come to us for resources that we need to go to them. That population is about down about 66%. And the ones that we found were either already engaged in services or we were able to get the information that night and engage them in services. So we are very proud of that unsheltered number as it continues to decrease. Thank you, Polly. I will add to that. Yes, there are people that are engaged. Because one of the individuals that I went out with, Patrick Branum, who's on our paramedicine team who is fabulous, by the way, he had engaged and had communication with the relatives of that individual, so they already knew. And that person knew that he was the one he was supposed to be getting in contact with. So that program is working, and he couldn't speak high enough about it, the paramedics being able to get out into the community and really making those connections. And I was privileged to be able to see it that night that it really is working. So, again, as we go through our budgeting, this is a program that really is working. It really is helping the community, the paramedics, hospitals, police, everyone. And, again, I got to see it right there that we are making connections with people. So I just wanted to share that. And thank you to everyone in the community that helped, because it was a really good event. Thank you. Thank you. Polly, thank you for the good work you're doing. And let's not forget, as we see our friends from Baptist Health, UK Health Care, and CHI St. Joe's, they are funding the paramedicine program this year. So we always are grateful for their support of this program. Vice Mayor Kaye. Thank you, Mayor. I'll get back in for a minute and perhaps make a point that everybody is already aware of, but we've just heard some really astounding numbers about the way in which our program here is making a difference for people who are homeless, both in prevention and providing services. But the larger context is that cities all over the country are experiencing movement in the wrong direction, that it isn't just that we're doing well. We're doing well in a context where, generally, homelessness is getting worse. So these would be astounding numbers anyway, but given the larger context, I just wanted to make that point. Thank you, Mayor. Excellent point. Any other council reports? All right. There is a mayor's report. If I could have a motion, please. Second. Council Member Farmer moved and Council Member Evans seconded. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. Are there any public comment for issues not on the agenda? Anybody signed up back there? No? All right. Thank you very much. And if I could have a motion to adjourn. Move adjourned. All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.