# Urban County Council - 1st Reading of FY21 Budget - June 9, 2020 > Auto-transcribed civic record · June 9, 2020 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5147 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5147?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2020-06-09 - **Last revised**: July 15, 2026 - **Length**: 965 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council held a virtual meeting on Zoom on June 9, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., presided over by Mayor Gorton. The meeting included five agenda items: Roll Call, Invocation, Ordinances – First Reading, Announcements, and Public Comments. One motion was voted on during the session. No public comments were received during the meeting. ## Attendance **Present:** Lamb, McCurn, Moloney, Mossotti, Plomin, Reynolds, Swanson, F. Brown, J. Brown, Ellinger, Evans, Farmer, and Kay **Absent:** Worley and Bledsoe **Late:** Worley and Bledsoe ## Votes and Decisions **Ordinance 0550-20** [timestamp: 0:11:32] The body voted on the first reading of Ordinance 0550-20, which appropriates revenues, expenditures, and interfund transfers for multiple funds and approves the Capital Improvement Program for FY 2021–2026. Motion by Farmer, seconded by Lamb. **Outcome:** Passed unanimously. The ordinance included contingencies placing conditions on the use of Extended Social Resource Program funds and Local Small Business Economic Stimulus Package (Fund 1144) Funds. All 13 members voted in favor: Lamb, McCurn, Moloney, Mossotti, Plomin, Reynolds, Swanson, F. Brown, J. Brown, Ellinger, Evans, Farmer, and Kay. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed two significant financial actions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. **General Fund Expense Budget** The body approved a General Fund Expense Budget appropriation (identifier 0550-20) in the amount of $378,863,565 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. **Economic Contingency Fund Transfer** An amendment (identifier 0550-20) was approved to transfer $20,000,000 from the Economic Contingency Fund to the General Fund. ## Roll Call Mayor Gorton conducted the roll call to confirm attendance of council members [timestamp: 00:06:01]. During this process, Councilmembers Worley and Bledsoe joined the meeting at 3:06 p.m. ## Invocation Councilmember Bill Farmer delivered the invocation at the beginning of the meeting [timestamp: 00:07:07]. During this opening remarks, Farmer offered thanks for grace, community, and the opportunity to serve. ## Ordinances – First Reading [timestamp: 00:08:09] Ordinance 0550-20 received its first reading during this meeting. The ordinance addresses appropriations for multiple funds, adoption of the Capital Improvement Program for fiscal years 2021–2026, and funding for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Tourist and Convention Commission from the Transient Room Tax. Mayor Gorton and Melissa Lueker presented the ordinance. Councilmember F. Brown raised questions during the discussion, requesting clarification on two specific matters: the General Fund budget and the use of the Economic Contingency Fund. The ordinance advanced to first reading status, with further consideration scheduled for subsequent meetings. ## Announcements During the announcements portion of the meeting, Councilmember F. Brown sought clarification regarding the General Fund budget and the amount drawn from the Economic Contingency Fund [timestamp: 0:10:19]. Director Melissa Lueker provided the requested information, confirming that the total General Fund expense budget was $378,863,565, with $20 million drawn from the Economic Contingency Fund. The discussion was informational in nature, with no formal action taken. ## Public Comments No members of the public spoke during the public comment period. The queue was empty. [timestamp: 00:11:32] --- ## Decisions - **0550-20** — passed: First reading of Ordinance 0550-20 appropriating revenues, expenditures, and interfund transfers for multiple funds and approving the Capital Improvement Program for FY 2021–2026 --- ## Full transcript Thank you. Go ahead, Mayor, you're live. All right. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone, to the Urban County Council meeting of June the 9th. And the first thing I will do is read our statement, which says, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local state of emergency and Governor Beshear's executive orders regarding social distancing, this meeting of the Urban County Council is being held via video teleconference. pursuant to Senate Bill 150 as signed by the governor on March 30th, 2020, and Attorney General Opinion 20-05, and in accordance with KRS 61.826, because it is not feasible to offer a primary physical location for this meeting. All right, welcome, and I'll ask our clerk to go ahead and call the roll. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. McCurney? Yes ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Bloman? Here. Ms. Reynolds? Here. Mr. Swanson? here Mr. Worley yes ma'am Ms. Bledsoe Mr. Fred Brown here Mr. James Brown here Mr. Ellinger yes ma'am Ms. Evans here Mr. Farmer yes ma'am Thank you very much. And Councilmember Farmer has graciously agreed to offer our invocation. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate that. Lord prayer then. Loving God, thank you for pouring out your grace upon each one of us. thank you for the abundance we have the beautiful community that we share let our ears hear more than before and our actions show the deeds that need to be done we ask that you place a calming hand on all those but give patience and yes father god more grace to each one of us the work ahead is not clear but the opportunity to serve remains for each one of us And each one of us gives thanks for that opportunity here today. In your son's sweet name, I pray. Amen. Thank you very much, Councilmember Farmer. Now I'll ask the clerk to please give first reading to the ordinance. Ordinance number one, an ordinance appropriating the revenues, expenditures, expenses, and interfund transfers to the general services district fund, the tenant relocation fund, and the full urban services district fund, the police compensated federal fund, the police compensated state fund, the public safety fund, the industrial revenue bond fund, municipal aid program fund, the county road aid program fund, the mineral severance fund, the coal severance fund, the miscellaneous special revenue fund, the police compensated treasury fund, the licensed economic development fund, the affordable housing and homelessness fund, the fiscal year 2021 bond project fund, the sanitary sewer revenue and operating fund, the sanitary sewer construction fund, the licensed urban county government public facilities, Corporation General Fund, the LXXIBA FAYA Urban County Government Public Facilities Corporation Project Fund, the Water Quality Management Fund, the Water Quality Management Construction Fund, the Laneful Fund, the Right-of-Way Program Fund, the Extended School Program Fund, the Enhanced 911 Fund, the Central Kentucky 911 Fund, the LXXIBA Urban County Government Public Library Corporation Fund, the City Employees Pension Fund, the Police Environment Retirement Fund, the LXXIBA Urban County Government, the Medical Insurance Fund, the Property and Taxi Claims Fund, and any other funds is provided and attached in Exhibit A and the reallocation of the bond project fund on a divisional level by four control levels for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2021. The License Fair Urban County Government and its agencies and instrumentalities, approving and adopting the capital improvement program for fiscal year 2021 through 2026, and a portion of the fiscal year 2021 annual capital improvement budget and approving funding for the License Fair Urban County Tourist and Convention Commission from a transient room tax to spread funding to equal 99.5% of the revenue from the tax, the spending at operation in full or in part of certain ordinances and resolutions related to funding, placing certain contingencies on the use of the extended social resources program fund, and placing certain contingencies on the use of the local small business economic stimulus package fund 1144 funds. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, are there any announcements? if you have an announcement will you put your blue hand up please councilmember fred brown just want a clarification you just did the first reading and it's kind of unorthodox on what we've got and this has been an amended budget of your version could somebody from budget give me the exact general fund budgeted dollar amount that we just gave first reading on? Anybody here? Welcome, Melissa. Okay. What is the exact number there that we're dealing with for the general fund? Just one moment to get it pulled up here. Okay. Okay. Generally, we have all this information, but we've amended the budget, and the only thing we have out there, I think, is the line is proposed, I guess. Yes. So, the total general fund expense budget is $378,863,565. Okay. And of that amount, I would like to know how much was taken out of the Economic Stabilization Fund. Out of the economic contingency fund. Contingency, I'm sorry. $20 million. Even? Even. $20 million, okay. Okay, that's all I needed, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, any other announcements or questions? All right, I don't see any. Let's see if there's anybody from the public. to speak, which I don't believe there is. Nope. No one in the queue. So with that, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn and then we'll have a brief pause. Moved adjourn. Second. Council Member Farmer moved to adjourn. I think I heard, did I hear Council Member Lamb? I'm not sure who I, I heard several. Council Member Lamb. All right. All those in favor, raise your hand. All right. That passes unanimously. Thank you very much. We are adjourned, but don't go away. Okay. We stay on.