I'm out. Thank you. His cows get loose and run right through the fast food parking lots And daddy gets calls from the many malls when they're downwind from his halls When his tractor backs up traffic, the reception ain't too warm The city's growing around him But daddy won't sell the farm You can't roll a rock Up a hill that steep You can't pull roots when they run that deep He's gonna live and die In the eye of an urban storm Daddy won't sell the farm He worked and slaved in 68 He bought these fields and trees He raised his corn in a big red barn And a healthy family He learned to love the woodlands He can't stand the film on There's concrete all around him But daddy won't sell the farm He can't roll a rock Up a hill that steep You can't pull roots when they run that deep He's gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm. Daddy won't sell the farm. One day he's gonna leave it all to me. And I'll start my own branch of the family tree. They'll get the message written on the roof of the farm. Daddy won't sell the farm You can't roll a rock Up a hill that's deep You can't throw roots When they run that deep He's gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm. Daddy won't sell the farm. We're gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm. Daddy won't sell the farm. Oh, you know a country boy can't lie. Thank you. Thank you. What good is sitting alone in the room? Come hear the music play. Life is a cabaret, old chum. Come to the cabaret. Put down that knitting The book in the broom Time for a holiday Life is a cabaret, oh chum So come to the cabaret Come taste the wine Come hear that band Yes, it's time For celebrating Right this way Your table's waiting No use permitting From profit of doom Wipe every smile away Life is a cabaret Oh, chum, so come to the cabaret guitar solo Only a cabaret Thank you. Tim or Brad or Chris, are we? This is Brad. We're on the air and ready to go. Very good, Brad. Thank you so much. As usual, y'all do a great job. All right, council members. I'd like to go ahead and call to order the Urban County Council meeting for August 27th, 2020. And I'll read our statement. due to the COVID-19 pandemic and state of emergency this meeting is being held via live video teleconference pursuant to 2020 senate bill 150 and in accordance with KRS 61.826 because it is not feasible to offer a primary physical location for this meeting. So I'd like to ask our clerk to go ahead and call the roll. Mr. Swanson? Here. Mr. Worley? Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Higgins-Hord? Here. Vice Mayor Kaye? Here. Ms. Lamb? Here. Mr. McCurran? Yes ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Here. Ms. Plowman? Here. And Ms. Reynolds? Here. you're good thank you very much now it is my distinct pleasure to welcome Danny Murphy I think is he Stacy is he in the he is coming in right now okay Danny Murphy hey Danny is going to give our invocation. Danny is with the University of Kentucky College of Law, and many of us, of course, know you're also with Judge Melissa Moore Murphy. Yes, ma'am. So thank you so much. Welcome, and we appreciate the invocation. All right. Let us pray. Dear Lord, we thank you for blessing us with another glorious day. This is the day that you have made. This is a day that you allowed us to rise this morning to be a part of. And therefore, Lord, we know that you have provided us with the privilege and the opportunity to be of good purpose. We thank you for allowing this community to be one that is showing by its words and actions that we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Lord, we ask a special prayer this evening for our mayor and council. we ask that your spirit provide them with the guidance and wisdom for each decision they have to make we ask that they continue to do things that are pleasing in your sight help them lord to avoid making decisions that are motivated by profit and power for a few and still lord lead them to make decisions that lift up all of the great citizens of our community we ask a blessing for their families, for the sacrifice that each of these elected representatives makes to serve our community. Bless us, keep us. Lord, we ask all of these things in your son's name we pray. Amen. Thank you so very much, Danny. It's very nice to see you. Thanks. All right, council members, next is approval of the minutes of August 13th council meeting. do i hear a motion mayor moved approval council member plowman seconded are there any questions all right all those in favor please show your hand and that is approved unanimously thank you and now i'll ask our clerk to give second reading of ordinances and we will be pausing before number six uh the vice mayor will have a motion about the presentation all right ordinance number one an order changing the zone from a single family residential r1d zone to neighborhood business p1 zone for 0.061 net 0.95 close acres for property located at 706 aurora avenue chillings property council district three item two an ordinance is changing the zone for a neighborhood business B1 zone for a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone for 0.6 net, 0.69 grossed acre from a light industrial I1, excuse me, I1 zone to a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone for 0.466 net, 0.482 grossed acre from a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone to a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone, ROW for 0.038 grossed acre for property level P2 at 132 and 148 to replace Centennial American Properties Council District 2 item 3 an order change zone from a highway service business b3 zone to a wholesale and warehouse business b4 zone for 1.744 net 2.745 gross acres for properties located at 1540 east land parkway and pushing up centennial american properties council district 6 item 4 an order change the zone from a highway service business b3 zone to a high density apartment r4 zone for 8.163 net 8.727 gross acres from a professional office p1 zone to a high density apartment r4 for .027 at 1.3 to a gross acres for probably located at 2679 East Town Road a portion of MVO acquisition LLC to item five and ordinance amending article 20 what 23 C 7 C claiming an application of credits of the zoning ordinance to clarify the application and reallocation of exaction credits in the expansion area of urban county thank you vice mayor Kay Thank you Mayor. I move to suspend the rules and allow for a presentation related to item number six, the plan Zota. And I will have a second motion when the presentation is over and if it's a related discussion. So thank you Mayor. So moved. I'm sorry who seconded? Councilmember Reynolds. All right is there any discussion? All those in favor please raise your hand. All right that's unanimously passed and so now I'd like to welcome Director Jim Duncan of our Division of Planning. Welcome. Thank you Mayor and thank you Council for this opportunity to talk to you about this particular zoning ordinance text amendment. I do have a brief presentation, Mayor, if I may share the screen. Yes, please. Okay, thank you. I wanted to just give you all an update on, first of all, starting with a quick primer and reminder on what floor area ratio is. This is a bit of a technical term that applies to some of the zones in our zoning ordinance, and it really has to do with how much building can be built on a site. And if you think of the building and the site in square footage terms, it can help you to do the math on what floor area ratio is. So looking at this example, we have a floor area ratios of 0.25 and 0.5 and so forth. A quarter of the lot could be built with building. A half the lot could be built with building. And once you get to a whole number and above, then you're looking at either full lot coverage or a second story. So for example, a 10,000 square foot lot, which is about a quarter of an acre. If you had an FAR of 0.5, then you could build a 5,000 square foot building on that 10,000 square foot lot. If the FAR was 1.5 for that same 10,000 square foot lot, a 15,000 square foot building could be built. And obviously that would have to be built as multi-story. And then along with FAR, when you're thinking about lot coverage, then there's also how much ground you actually cover. So that is certainly part and parcel of an FAR discussion. And when we're thinking about lot coverage, that's usually derived as a percentage of the lot that can be built upon. So in this simple example, we have a square divided into nine quadrants. And therefore, that would give us an FAR, a very low FAR in the first example of 0.11. And if the lot coverage was 11%, which is the size of one of those squares, you can put a building right in the middle in one of those squares. Well, the very same lot with the very same lot coverage of 11 percent, but an FAR of one, you could build a nine story building. You're not taking up any more land, but you're getting a lot more building on the site and so forth. So that's just a quick background on what FAR is and how it works and how it's measured. It doesn't apply to every zone in the zoning ordinance, but it does apply to some. And the ones that we have seen that we are having trouble with is when it's applying to our high density residential zones, our R3, R4, and R5. Now, these standards were developed in the early 1970s, and they have not been updated since. And so you can see the existing standard there for each of those zones. What the Planning Commission has proposed is to increase for the R3 zone to increase the floor area ratio from 0.5 to 0.75. The lot coverage remains the same at 25% and a very modest increase in height from 35 feet to 40 feet. We believe this will actually allow you to have a proper third floor in an R3 zone for a multifamily building. and provide more architectural interest and detail on the outside and perhaps more ceiling height on the inside, which is more of a desired product now. In the R4 and R5 zones, the increases are primarily to FAR and to lot coverage. So for the R4 zone, a very low currently existing 0.7 FAR. We're proposing to push that up to 1.6. This is a high-density apartment zone, so therefore more residential development is what we should expect from this zone. A modest increase in lot coverage from 30 to 40 percent, still meaning that 60 percent of the lot would not have building on it. And in the R5, high-rise apartment zone, going from 1.3 existing FAR to 2.25. Again, the definition of high-rise apartment, we would expect there to be multi-stories, more development on an R5 lot. However, we still believe that there should be sufficient control on lot coverage. So a modest increase from 35 to 45 percent. Still, more than half the lot will remain without building. So those are the changes that this zoning text amendment proposes. three changes or three zones R3, R4, and R5 increasing the FAR for all of them, modestly increasing the height for the R3, and modestly increasing the lot coverage for R4 and R5. So these changes we believe they're important for a variety of reasons. First as we said they are very old. They were developed at a time when we had completely different land development policies than we do now. Certainly the cost of land and the availability of land was different at that time as well. So much has changed with that and yet our policies are getting tighter and tighter on how we want to use our land. So it's all the more important if we are to preserve the urban service boundary that we make the most we can of the existing land. And then the other thing that this will do, particularly looking at that this will very likely affect more multi-family housing, is it will help us to create that missing middle housing that we've really not been seeing developed for the past 60 or 70 years. As you drive around town, you'll notice the buildings built in the first 40 years of the 20th century are a much greater mix of housing types, four-plexes, duplexes, threeplexes, the kinds of housing density that still mimics and looks like a single family house. We're not seeing that anymore. And we believe it's in part because of our regulations. This is something that our developers tell us that they just cannot do this same type of housing that was so popular in the first part of the 20th century. And then again, these changes will help even out the heights, the stories rather of the R3, R4 and R5 zone. So earlier today, we provided you all with some notes that were from questions that we believe you all have been receiving over the past few days about this. And so we provided some of that background information to you and our responses to that. and I will review those. In fact, I'm going to stop sharing the video or stop sharing the screen now and I'll just review some of these questions that we sent out to you but certainly would be available to discuss any or all of them. I think one of the pertinent questions is why should we do this at this time? Why would we want to make these changes now? Well, there are really two important reasons, one of them policy and one of them academic. The 2018 Comprehensive Plan is what guides us to make these updates to the zoning ordinance. And the 2018 comprehensive plan, like the 2013 plan, like the 07 plan, like the 03 plan, all made strong statements supporting the urban service boundary and directing growth to inside the urban service boundary. Well, if we're going to do that, we have to be creative. We have to grow differently than we were growing 50 years ago. So our regulations are outdated. If we're going to respond to the main policy statements of the comprehensive plan, then we need to be able to provide more housing in this way. The other, as I said, is an academic response, is the 2017 housing demand study. That study said that we need to be adding at least 2,300 additional housing units each year in order to meet our growth demands. Now, this ZODA will not add 2,300 housing units in a year, but it will add more housing, and it's part of the solution that will get us to the housing that we need. And then the other reason why now, the Planning Commission recommended unanimously that you pursue this. We had public input opportunities on this, public presentations of this, and it is directly from the comprehensive plan following a public hearing the planning commission recommended unanimous approval of this and so we believe it's time to move this on another couple of questions related to public notification and who was included we provided a timeline for you to show how this has been actually vetted through the public process we had two work sessions in jan one in january and one in february of this year the planning commission work sessions are open to the public where we presented the FAR discussion. We talked about what FAR is and what the FAR proposed changes will be. We followed that with the statutory and the council approved process to change the zoning ordinance, which includes notifying all of the neighborhood associations, all 260 some of them, that this text amendment was going to be proposed. And then we advertised and held a public hearing for this on June 25th, following presentation to the council committees earlier that month. So this proposal has been in the public realm one way or the other since the beginning of this year, and we believe that it has had plenty of opportunity to be vetted publicly. And again, it is in response to what the comprehensive plan said is the primary goal of this community to uphold the urban service boundary line while still providing opportunities for housing and economic development growth. We believe these changes will do both of those. The primary benefit, as we said, is going to be the missing middle housing. That very often is the workforce housing that we're talking about, that employers want to see qualified workers available nearby. This is something that can help ensure that we have the housing that our employers need. And then one more point I'd like to make, and again, I'd be happy to come back to any of these or any other question you all have, but that this is a stealth zone change. Well, quite frankly, nothing could be further from the truth. We update the zoning ordinance, we should update it more than we do. It's a very laborious process to do so because as you can see, even something like this, where we're updating a very much outdated standard, it takes an effort. And it should. It should take the effort to do it. We want everybody to understand what we're doing and to have a part in this. But the bottom line is this does not change the land uses in any of these zones. These zones were established to be residential zones. They were established to be multi-family residential zones. And this doesn't change that. This simply makes multi-family housing more available in the existing zones where multi-family housing was meant to be in the first place. And just to punctuate that, you all recently asked us to look at the tenant house provisions in the rural area. And we'll be bringing to the Planning Commission later in September at a public hearing a recommendation to update that 40-year-old definition of tenant homes. That doesn't wholesale change the agricultural zone or the PDR process. It simply aligns it with what is contemporary, how we're living our lives now. It's showing that the zoning ordinance is a living, organic document that can meet the needs of our growing community. The bottom line, this ZODA will provide more housing. We make no bones about that. We will be very disappointed if developers and builders do not take advantage of this. We are looking for this to help provide the missing middle housing, the workforce housing, the variety of housing that our comprehensive plan and our housing demand study says that we need. And with that, Mayor, I will be glad to answer any questions or clarify anything that we said. All right. Thank you very much, Councilmembers. If you have a question, please raise your blue hand. Councilmember Maloney. Thank you for that, Director, for that presentation. I really appreciate it. I've been getting a lot of information the last few days from your staff and folks explaining to me. And when you go back to the Planning Commission, was everybody there at the Planning Commission when they voted on this or were there some people after that? We had eight members of the Planning Commission who were present. At that time, we had eight out of 11 were present. And all eight that were present voted for this. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Farmer. Thank you, Mayor. I love the mood lighting around you, Mayor. You're kind of... Should I put more light on? I can see you. Director Duncan, thank you for the great presentation and the timeline that was included there. So what you're documenting is that this is the work of the comprehensive plan in action. It's what I got out of that, in that we have a comprehensive plan. We're working to find ways for more people to live here inside the urban service boundary and to make it a good place for them to live, too. And these are, in essence, moderate changes to what are the current definitions that you kind of allude to may have been overdue and being updated in terms of the numbers used in those different ratios. Council Member Farmer, that's exactly how I would characterize this. We would have liked to have updated these earlier, but it's become more apparent following the housing demand study and certainly what developers are telling us that these regulations are outdated and the time is now to bring them up to date. I'm not sure what the vice mayor's motion is going to be, but I think there's a way to take public input on this and not put it in committee and keep it moving forward. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Director, for your presentation. I think it explains a lot of the misconceptions that have been out there about what this does. I noticed that the increases that you made to the FAR doesn't seem proportionate to the height increases. It seems like the height increases were a little more moderate. Can you explain what the reason for that is? Yes, Council Member Brown. First of all, height is only a specified number within these three zones in the R3 zone. So height is specifically called out as a 35 foot height limit in the R3. So we're asking or recommending that that be changed to 40. In the R4 and R5 zones, height is not specified as a specific number, but rather a ratio to the lot size. So when you start talking about height in the R4 and the R5 zones, you have other geometry to consider, including the shape and size of the lot, other setback requirements, and so forth. So you can still achieve those heights in the R4 and the R5. That's not really the problem, but you do have to have certain setbacks as well because these R4 and R5 zones may very well be adjacent to lower density residential zones. So therefore, that's why it's important to still have that yard and that appropriate setback so that a big building such as one downtown wouldn't be immediately adjacent to a lesser building in a similar zone. So the R4 and the R5 doesn't have a specific height. That has to be calculated based on the lot size and other factors. Yeah, and I think that's important because what I've been hearing, our folks are concerned that there's going to be skyscrapers coming into their neighborhoods. But I think if the percentage of the height is relevant to the lot size in the floor to area ratio, I think that's relevant. And I think it's kind of protected or kind of outlined in this in the ZODA about about the height in regards to percentage of the lot size. The other component that plays into this is the parking piece. I know it's not on the table now, but it's going to come soon to follow. Can you explain what that component is and how it plays into Florida area ratio and the decision we're going to have to make going forward? Yes, Council Member Brown. We have actually two parking ZOTAs that will be coming your way. One that we've already sent and it is on your, in fact, it's on the agenda tonight and we provided some information. And that ZOTA specifically addresses parking for affordable housing units. we found repeatedly and particularly over the past few years that the requirements for parking for affordable housing are way overstated and yet there is no good provision to reduce those parking requirements short of this process. So that was why we hit that first because several of our affordable housing developments, in fact one of them that's in your district had actually told us that it had what was it were it not for these parking requirements they could have actually put another building on their complex site so we're losing out on affordable housing because they're over parked so the Zota that that's on for first reading tonight and that we provided information about earlier today will help set that right it will put the parking ratio for affordable housing units the same as it is for a single family house, one per unit. The other part of parking is a more complex parking zone, and that will affect more than just residential. We'll be looking at commercial and other parking requirements as well. But generally, we believe that in many cases we are over parked in all of our zones, and so we'll be looking to come back and make some modifications to that so that we're not putting so much of our land into parking and therefore the environmental concerns, but then also the loss of other development opportunities. And as you said, Councilmember Brown, parking, just like setback, just like open space, all of those are dimensional items that have to be calculated when a development comes in. So somebody calls us and says, how many units can I get on a site in this zone? And we say, well, it depends. And we have to look at the size and we have to look at the zone that they're seeking. and then all of the other limiting factors. So there are a lot of controls that ultimately say what a building can look like, where it can be on a site and how big it can be. Okay. And Mayor, I know I'm out of time. I have some more comments. I may come back later. Okay. All right. Very good. Let's see. Next was some hands are going up and then coming down. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Director Duncan, for this presentation today. Can you expand a little bit on this text amendment and how it will work with properties that there are overlays or like ND1 or infill? Could you expand on that, please? Yes, Council Member Lamb. There are a number of other regulations and special provisions in the zoning ordinance and overlays that would still remain in place. This doesn't change that. So, for instance, if you're in the H1 overlay or you have an ND1, those standards would still apply. And any building built in an H1 would have to be reviewed by the BOAR just as it is now. And it would be up to the BOAR to decide whether the building was in context and was appropriate for the site. With the ND1, it's even really more strict than that. Those are precise standards, and either you meet them or you don't. So that would remain in place. In the IR, the regulatory IR, which is maybe about 30% or so of the area inside New Circle Road, including all of downtown and sort of extending out, there are other special provisions related to setback and parking that would still have to be met within these zones. and then any development and particularly those outside of the circle that are subject to a development plan in an R3, R4, or R5 would very likely have to have that development plan reviewed by the staff and possibly the planning commission if they were to make any changes from that development plan. All right, thank you for those clarifications. Oh, sorry, that's my dog. Sorry. Thank you for that clarification. I didn't put his bark collar on. I do appreciate it, especially in my district because of the infill redevelopment area that is on the edge of in the Southern Heights neighborhood. So I do appreciate that. And I appreciate all of your clarification on this presentation tonight. And I'm hoping that this is going to help a lot of people better understand the good that it can bring. So thank you so much. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you so much, Director Duncan, for helping to clarify quite a few things for us tonight. I had a question in regards to the parking. uh the zota that we're talking about right now um let's say the the parking zota didn't go through would it still be okay or is is the parking necessary uh for this piece i i'm concerned because my district has a ton of um apartment buildings and um and single family housing and We have a parking issue. We have a parking issue with apartment buildings and we have a parking issue with the houses. And there are there are cars everywhere, all of both sides of the street. Most places, only one car can get through on streets because there's so there's cars parked everywhere. So I guess I'm a little concerned about reducing the amount of parking and if that's necessary for for this this soda. uh and i think it's a very good question councilman rose and in in larger part i think part of your question was do some of the the things that are coming beyond beyond this depend on on floor area ratio and i would say that that that this is perhaps the significant and and and first change that should be made to update the ordinance to affect more housing production If the parking reductions, parking changes do not follow, that does not affect this. This is something that can take place independent of the changes to the parking. And I will tell you, and you may note in the affordable housing parking ZODA that's before you, and again, that's a separate piece of legislation. So this one is only talking about the dimensional aspects associated with four age ratio. but for the parking zota although the the recommendation is to reduce the parking required there is no uh maximum parking requirement so if the developer or the builder feels that they need more parking than is required by the zoning ordinance then they can certainly provide that so we haven't gotten to the point of maximum parking requirements uh the zota that you'll be considering for first reading tonight will only address reducing the parking requirements or affordable housing complexes where the developer feels that those parking requirements are not necessary. Okay, thank you. But this one, the other Zoda that's talking about the area, like you said, is separate in that if the parking didn't go through that, it wouldn't affect it too much. Yes, ma'am. We still believe that floor area ratio is a bigger component of holding back this missing middle housing. So we believe it's important to get that through so that we can address that housing type that is not being built in this community. Okay, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, ma'am. And thank you, Director Duncan, for that presentation and for clarifying some of the questions that people have had. I think a part of what I want to be clear about is I'm going to make a motion that is not about the merits of this ZODA. It's not about whether it's worth supporting or not. It's not about whether you can support all or any of it. It's simply about giving people more of an opportunity to think about it and to consider it. And I appreciate that there's been a, according to all of our procedures, they've been followed. People have had an opportunity, but sometimes people don't understand what's coming forward until the very end of the process. And there've been a significant number of people who've sent us emails. I presume people have received many. I certainly have on both sides of this issue. So I, you know, on the merits, I think that it has a lot to recommend it. My concern is that it's the first major piece that we're really moving forward in implementation of our updated five-year plan. And if the community feels like they have not had an opportunity to weigh in, whether they should have had or not, I think it makes it more difficult. So I'm interested in simply opening up some time for all of us and all of the community to look at all this information, make the case up or down, however you want to make it, and then come back and take a vote on it. So my motion is that we, I move to postpone item number six on this, on tonight's agenda until the October 22nd council meeting. So move. Is there a second? Second. Was that council member? Okay. McCurran. Thank you. All right. Is there discussion of the motion? Council member Masotti. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Duncan, one quick question. Yes, ma'am. Will the delay, what will the delay to the October 22nd, what effect will that have? Well, thank you, Council Member Sati. Of course, I can't say for sure, but that does put us, delays this for two months. And I believe that there are, you know, this time of year, builders and developers are making decisions about what they want to do next building season. And so if these regulations were in place now, I think it would be more informative of what people are planning on doing, particularly expecting better times next season. So I think delaying this may keep some of those kinds of developments from advancing in a timely manner. Thank you, Director. That's my concern. And certainly, Vice Mayor, I understand where you're coming from as far as input from the public. I know this pandemic has really put a kibosh on things. But, you know, I just worry about people who have plans in place or they're going forward trying to make some kind of basically economic decisions on their business. Thank you. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you. I guess my question would be to Vice Mayor Kaye. What is the intention for the two-month delay? What is the intention for that length of time? What's going to happen in between now and October 22nd, please? Well, I would hope that all of us would have an opportunity to talk to all of the constituents who have weighed in with concerns about this. And that's the main thing. You know, I got I've been getting emails today. Well, I'm not in a position to respond to those very adequately. I think I understand what the ZODA entails, but it is complex. And people have raised questions about what the impact might be. And, you know, I'll just for I'll give you one example. The present zoning, R3, R4, R5, a lot of that was instituted in the 1950s when there was disinvestment in the downtown area. So there's going to be an impact there. And I don't know how much there's going to be an impact. I'm not saying that's determinative. I'm not saying that I, you know, but I'd like to have a better idea about that. So there may be some questions I have that I'd like to get answered. And there certainly are questions that other people have raised about what the impact will be and whether it will be disparate or not. So I would like the opportunity to talk to those people, to talk more with the planning staff and anybody else on either side of this and get a better idea of what the thinking is. I appreciate your answer response to that. And I, I too, I mean, I've gotten just about as many emails, you know, as everybody else. And what I did on each one of mine, I had my legislative aide send out an email back to them and make sure that they knew tonight that this presentation was going to take place because what better way to, to examine the information than to hear it directly from our director of planning. So but I I know there are other people that are signed up to to speak, but I will be and I will wait until they speak. But I would like to make an amendment to shorten that time frame. But I don't want to short staff anybody else that wants to speak right now. So I'll hold my comment, my amendment. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Bledsoe. I thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Vice Mayor, for your original motion. I, too, believe the intent behind that is to make sure we have adequate time to talk to the people who have actually talked to us. And I think while we have talked to planning staff and others, it's letting sure them have that conversation. But I'm concerned about the length of time. I was actually going to make the motion to shorten it to September 24th, just because I think there is a sensitivity there between planning for next year and giving adequate time for us to have a conversation. I won't make that motion quite yet because out of respect for Councilman Lamb as well, others comments. But that would be my preference is maybe a compromise between giving time to talk for public, but also recognizing time is money in terms of planning. So thank you. Thank you. Council Member McCurron. Thank you, Mayor. First, I want to say, Director, thank you for the presentation. Quick notice for us. You know, obviously, I know you guys did your due diligence here and had your public input. But my concern is just that we've had so many people reach out to us asking us to delay this so they can't have public input. and with our public input turned off, that is my concern, that we're not allowing everyone to be heard. So I'd like it to be, I think a shorter time frame would be nice to at least be able to let the public know, hey, there's more time to ask questions and discuss it, let us know where you're at, rather than it just being a little bit shorter than what they were expecting. I would be in support of this motion or even a shorter time frame. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Farmer. Did we come through? Okay. You know, the Vice Mayor did a great job of laying out the verbiage of the reasons to wait and framed it very well. I just think that it's two months too long. And with deference to the council ladies who have made a couple of comments about shortening, I would be supportive of that. because I think that whether we're in council or council chambers or COVID or COVID Zoom or whatever, we deal with a rather known constituency of people who follow us, are involved with the issues that we're involved in, and make up those who we hear from among the most. And I don't think that's going to change dramatically over two months' time. I think, however, a healthy discussion could develop over a couple of weeks' time or input could be had to see if there's any reason to rework or look at some of this again. But, you know, this is one of those times where we made the plan. Now it's time to follow the plan. And not everybody's going to like it, but not everybody likes the plan either. So I'm in favor of moving right along with a couple more weeks' conversation. and if we want to write it out a little bit that's fine or change it up a little bit that's fine but i think that in this instance i don't say a whole lot of things like this you know the planning staff's done a great job of bringing this to the planning commission the planning commission's done a great job of bringing it to us the advent of covid the advent of the inability for us to have the in-person conversations or the constituent conversations that we might usually has been dampened, but it has not been taken totally away. It just makes it, in some degree, harder for us to do our job. And one of the outcomes for that is, yes, we should take more time, and we will. I just don't think we need to take two months more time. I can see rolling down at the next meeting because if there's going to be something, here's my thing. If there's going to be something we need to change or we want to change about this, let's get on with changing it. Let's not get two months down the road and then say, oh, well, now we want to change it because now you're four months down the road. This is the best one I've learned on council. It's ready, fire, aim. That's what we should do. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Farmer hit a lot of nails on the head, and I appreciate the Vice Mayor's intent. I think allowing for opportunity to have more conversation and to be more transparent, I think is always something that we need to strive to do. But I see, you know, I don't think this is one of the first initiatives that has come out of the comprehensive plan that we try to move forward. I think it's been others, but we either put them back in committee or they get sidetracked. So we have a plan, we have a growth plan that we have all agreed to and voted to support and are trying to move it forward, but it comes with components. And if we don't put those components in play, then the people that are most vulnerable are the people that have the less opportunity are the ones that are stuck in the middle of struggling. When we were talking about neighborhoods in transition and gentrification, one of the biggest complaints is the level of affordable housing and how affordable it is to create those units. So a lot of the affordable housing is at the upper end of the spectrum, 80 percent AMI. And if we can give developers the opportunity to build affordable housing that can be more affordable towards the lower end of the spectrum by changing the Florida area ratio, I think we need to look at that opportunity. And then I also see the affordable housing parking ZOTA as an incentive for developers to create affordable housing units. If they can build those units and have less parking requirements because those developments are in line with public transportation, then that's an incentive for them to do that and to create that opportunity. So, you know, I just think that we have to start moving some of these components of this plan forward. or the people that are struggling with our growth plan continue to struggle while some of this stuff gets politicized. So I'm in support of postponing this conversation for September if that's what council decides, but that's it. I'm in support of postponing if that's how we need to move forward. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Maloney. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. Vice Mayor, I understand your motion. But I had some people ask me the last couple of days, and I was able to get their answers to them. And some of them were satisfied with the answers. Some were not satisfied. Not that they didn't understand it. They just didn't want more density in this. And that's what it's coming down to. on the line. My idea is we got two more weeks before we have a second reading on this. I was able to answer all, got my questions all answered. Now there may be getting more. If I get more, I will be glad to send them over to planning and let them answer it before the second, before we have a second reading. But I just, to me, I think they've done a tremendous job. We've got people ready to go and it goes back to affordable housing. It all comes back to this word affordable housing we can and we just had a commissioner i mean for a plan and we just approved somebody for planning and the first thing came they are concerned about affordable housing and we've got to be creative and think out of the box and this is what we've done it thought out of the box because as you know a lot of these people don't want to span the boundaries but everybody doesn't want to span the boundaries say oh we got to do infield redevelopment as long as it's not in my backyard. Well, those were some of the answers that I got when I answered those questions to these folks. Well, I'm all right with it as long as they don't put it in my backyard. Well, I'm wanting affordable housing and you heard what he said, we got 2,300 homes or something we got to do every year. This isn't going to fix it. It's going to help it. And I'm willing, whatever you all or my colleagues think, but to me, two weeks is plenty. But if you all want to over one last week or whatever. I'm willing to listen to see those dates. But I think we've got a planning staff ready to answer anybody's questions. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I'm not going to support the motion there because we're just dragging this thing out on the comp plan. uh there's been much much information presented to planning the process was adhered to and i assume that you know all the information got out to people that would be involved and um we've discussed the need for infield versus expansion well we're not expanding any any properties or getting any more land so what's our alternative if we want to continue to grow in this city. And I think the planning commission, planning committee and planning department, I think they've done an excellent job of bringing forth everything. I think that was a good presentation from the director and answered some questions that I had because I haven't looked at it comprehensively as much, but all the answers are there. And I think it went through, it's been a while, even, you know, it just wasn't done last month. I think the director, you said it was started in February or March? January. January. So there's been plenty of information there. And where do we go from here? Do you just say, oh, okay, let's not let anybody build anything. Let's just completely stop housing, development, infield, the whole gamut there. And I just can't go along with that. I think there has been enough presentation out there. You are not going to please everybody in the growth plan. And how do we allow for more public input with this COVID-19 problem we have? You know, where do you get more input other than what's been put in maybe the newspaper or what's on the Zoom meeting that we're having tonight? So I can't support that. And I think council member Maloney I believe this is second reading you you mentioned that it's first reading this is second reading right that we're going to vote on if if the amendments don't pass okay that's all I have thank you thank you council member Ellinger thank you mayor actually that was a clarification I want to make I think this is on for second reading so I just wanted to make sure everybody was aware that we don't have two weeks if we vote on it tonight thank you mayor Thank you. Councilmember Ploman. Thank you, Mayor. And I think just the discussion now, we can all tell that we need more time. Tonight we're just making a decision whether to push it back. It sounds like two months or two weeks or one month. But I will tell you, perception is reality. And our constituents for the majority, I'd say 90% of the ones that I got, is that this was not shared, even though it could have been, it was put out there, but that they didn't know anything about it. And it was last minute. So with that said, we need to listen to them and give it a little bit of time and flush it out that I would support a less amount of time than two months. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. And I do appreciate all the comments here. And I think that this has followed the proper process. Well, that was hard. But I do know that, of course, you know, I'm one that really likes to follow transparency and everything, too. So I do appreciate the motion. But I will make a motion to amend it, to have it move, have it postponed to the council meeting on September 24th. And then also what I would say in that same context, I know that Mr. Gaffield had emailed us right before this meeting tonight that he did not have questions yet, but I would like to see what his questions or I probably will hear more from Ms. Amy Clark than we will Mr. Gaffield because she seems to be the one that's composing this information. So, but I'd like to hear from him pretty quickly after he gets to see this, hear this presentation tonight so that we can understand if he has any concerns. And then I'll follow back up with all the people that I have had conversations with, too, to see if this presentation tonight took care of any of their concerns. So I make a motion to amend Vice Mayor Kaye's motion to postpone it to September. Council meeting. Thank you. I second the motion. There we go. Everybody seconded it. I'd like to speak to it if I can. Okay. Vice Mayor Kaye to the amendment. I'm perfectly comfortable with a month. So unless there's further objection, I'll call the question. all right um there was no one on to speak so um the question yeah i guess we have to vote on that don't we calling the question is there a second to that okay okay all those in favor of calling the question all right that motion passes were there any opposition i can't i'm missing hands Okay, all those in favor, put your hand up, please, and hold it up of calling the question. Thank you. Anyone opposed? All right, one opposition to calling the question. So the motion on the floor is to amend the motion and postpone the second reading of number six until September 24th. All those in favor, please raise your hand and hold it up just for a minute. Okay, all those opposed. We have two no votes. And so that motion passes. So then the main motion becomes postponing second reading of number six on the docket to September 24th. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please raise your hand and hold it up just for a minute. Okay, all those opposed? All right, there's one no vote. Thank you very much. That motion passes. So, Director Duncan, thank you very much for that great presentation and for helping answer all the questions. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, thank you. All right, so I'll ask the clerk then to go on to number seven. Yes, ma'am. Item number seven. for the development of a dog park at Veterans Park and appropriating and reappropriating front schedule number 9. Item 10, an ordinance of the council of the Lexington Fair Urban County Government authorizing the execution of a 2020 amendment to the six-supplement lease agreement between the Lexington Fair Urban County, excuse me, County Airport Board as LSE or in the Lexington Fair Urban County Government as LSE in connection with the 2020 Amendment to the 2018 amended credit facility by and between the Lexington Fair Urban County airport board and trust bank formerly branch banking and trust company which will be entered into to one expand the scope of purpose but of purposes for which credit facility advances they're under may be made to include current expenses of the board and two to add certain provisions regarding the determination of the interest rate applicable to the credit facility advances they are under item 11 an ordinance of lakes and fair urban county government authorizing the issuance of its various purpose general obligation bond series 2020 and one or more sub-series and aggregate principal amount of $8 million, which may be increased by an amount of up to 10% or just decreased by an unlimited amount of proven inform of series 2020 bonds, authorizing designated officers to execute and deliver the series 2020 bonds, authorizing and directing the filing of notice with the state local debt officer provided for the payment and security of the series 2020 bonds, creating and seeking fund, creating a bond payment fund for the series 2020 bonds, authorizing and acceptance of the bids of the bond purchaser of the series 2020 bonds and repealing inconsistent ordinances in item 12. An ordinance creating section 2134.2 relates to the urban county code of ordinances to create a lead category related to organ or bone marrow donation and define benefits provided under such lead category effective upon passage of council. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I believe Council Member Farmer moved and who seconded? Council Member McCurron. All right. I'll ask the clerk to take a roll call vote, please. Mayor, I'm sorry. I didn't get the mover of that motion. Council Member Farmer. Thank you. Mr. Watson? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Mr. Farmer? Yes ma'am. Ms. Higgins-Hord? Yes ma'am. Ricimer-K? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes ma'am. Mr. McCurran? Yes ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Reynolds? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Those all pass. Now, if you'll go ahead and start the first reading of ordinances. Yes, ma'am. District number seven. Council Member Lamb, did you want to speak before number 15? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I just wanted to go on the record for saying that I think this zone change, obviously, it will go forward and everything will be fine, but just wanted to make a comment about when the Planning Commission discusses the development plan. This is a pretty significant new development that's going up and going to be neighboring industrial property, so I hope that the Planning Commission takes an opportunity to have significant land use buffers in place and I just wanted that to be on the record and thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Item 15, an ordnance changing zone from an agricultural AU zone to a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone for 138.20 net 143.01 gross acres for property located at 2300 Sandersville Road, Ball Homes, LLC, Townsend District 2, Item 16. An ordinance amending Article 815-0, 1816-0, and 16-10 of the zoning ordinances to revise parking requirements for mixed income housing developments. Item 17. An ordinance changing the zone from a warehouse, a wholesale and warehouse business B4 zone to a neighborhood business B1 zone for 2.24 net, 2.53 acres, or probably located at 1016 through 1024 South Broadway, Gateway, Lofts, Lexington, Townsend District 3, Item item 18. An ordinance amend the budget's election fair or McKinney government to flicker requirements for municipal expenditures in appropriating and reprooping funds fiscal year 2021 to schedule number 8. Item 19. An ordinance amend the budget's election fair or McKinney government to amend budget-related purchase orders rolled from fiscal year 2021 in expense to fiscal year 2020 in appropriating and reprooping funds fiscal year 10. Item 20. An ordinance amending and restating ordinance number 42 2020 is amended and restated by ordinance number 54 2020 which pertains to the suspension of certain ordinances to allow for extended restaurant, bar, and retail business uses to extend to the deadline through November 8, 2020, and to include additional definitions and clarifications effective upon passage of council and item 21, an ordinance amending certain other budgets of the Ritz and Fair Urbany County government to collect current requirements for the Division of Environmental Services for funds in the amount of $243 for neighborhood development funds, court-free replacement, and paid court median schedule number 12. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any walk-ons? I see none. All right. Are there any motions to suspend the rules and give second reading? Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to suspend the rules and give second reading to item number 20. This is the ordinance asking to suspend certain ordinances as retains to the restaurant and retail businesses, so they are assured that that will continue until November 8th. So moved. Second. Second. And Councilmember Reynolds seconded. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. And that is a unanimous yes vote. Are there any other suspensions? All right. I'll ask our clerk to give second reading to number 20. item number 20 an ordinance amending and restating ordinance number 42-2020 is amended and restated by ordinance number 54-2020 which pertains to the suspension of certain ordinances to allow for expanded restaurant bar and retail business uses to extend the deadline through November 8th 2020 and to include additional definitions and clarifications effective upon passage of counsel thank you our motion to approve approval second second i believe council member McKern moved approval. Councilmember Plumman seconded. If you will please take a roll call vote. Mr. Swanson? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Higgins-Horrey? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. McCurran? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Masati? Yes. Ms. Plumman? Yes. and Ms. Reynolds yes thank you that passes unanimously all right next up is second reading of resolutions when you're ready item number one a resolution accepting the bid of bluegrass international trucks versus arvies and ideal lease establishing a price contract for installation repair and removal of vehicle or electronic equipment for division of waste management item two a resolution second a bit of heat oil company establishing a price contract for modal 15W40 with the division of facilities and fleet management. Item 3. A resolution accepting the bids of Advanced Turf Solutions Incorporated, Heralds, LLC, and the Hill Company, establishing price contracts for vertical turf for Gulf Forces for the Division of Hard Correctional Creation. Item 4. A resolution accepting the bid of Mugent Sand Company, establishing a price contract for sand for the Gulf Forces for the Division of Hard Correctional Creation. Item 5. A resolution accepting the bid of incinerate limited in the amount of $34,152 for an incinerator for the Division of Police. Item 6. A resolution accepting the bid of Manowar Harley-Davidson establishing a price contract for motorcycles for police enforcement for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, Item 7. A resolution accepting the bid of Premier Power Maintenance establishing a price contract for electrical switchgear maintenance for testing for the Division of Water Quality, Item 8. A resolution accepting the bid of Paul Miller Ford Incorporated establishing a price contract for Ford Transit Prisoner Transport for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, Item 9. A resolution accepting the bid of hair construction, establishing a price contract for ADA, Cyrock, installation, and reconstruction for the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works. Item 10. A resolution ratifying the permanent civil service appointments of Kelsey Perry, public service worker senior, grade 509N, 14.775 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective August 10, 2020. Aaron Dixon, source clerk, grade 508N, $14 hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective August 18th, 2020. Cecil Renfro, heavy equipment technician, grade 5, 18N, $25 hourly in the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, effective August 3rd, 2020. Ryan Thomas, code enforcement officer, grade 5, 16N, 20.8, or 6Hourly Division of Credit Enforcement, effective July 27th, 2020. Matthew Woodson, fleet operations supervisor, grade 5, 19N, $26 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective August 3rd, 2020. Johnny Davis, heavy equipment technician, grade 518 and 22.558 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective August 18, 2020. Hannah Brosnan, Child Care Program, 85, grade 508 and 14.272 hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective May 4, 2020. Julie White, Child Care Program, 8, grade 508 and 13.537 hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective April 21, 2020. Donna Lewis, Administrative Specialist, grade 513 and 23.468 hourly in the Division of Planning, effective April 25, 2020. Anna Weicker-Pecinski. The Pertus Naturalist, Grade 516N, 20.272 Hourling, Division of Parks and Recuritation, effective August 18, 2020. Ratifying the permanent sworn reportments of Andre Greider, Police Sergeant, Grade 315N, 32.408 Hourling, in the Division of Parks and Recuritation, effective August 18, 2020. 3,346.89, bilingual, individual, police, effective July 2020. Samantha Moore, Police Lieutenant, grade 317E, 3,346.89, bilingual, individual, police, effective July 2020. Dady Page, Police Sergeant, Grade 315 and 32.408 hourly in the Division of Police Effect of July 20, 2020. Ilya Sharparov, Police Sergeant, Grade 315 and 32.408 hourly in the Division of Police Effect of July 20, 2020. Tyler Smith, Police Sergeant, Grade 315 and 32.408 hourly in the Division of Police Effect of July 20, 2020. Kyle Williams, Police Officer, Grade 311 and 21.695 hourly in the Division of Police Effect of June 21, 2020. Approving Classified Civil Service Counseling for Julie Fite Child Care Program 8, Grade 5 of 8 N, 13.537 Hourly in the Division of Family Services, effective July 6, 2020 through July 14, 2020. Approving Classified Civil Service Volunteer Demotion of Joyce Reifon Barrett Telecommunicator, Grade 514 N, 19.393 Hourly in the Division of the Hands-On-1, effective July 20, 2020, effective upon passage of counsel. item 11 a resolution of right from the mirror on behalf of the urban county government to execute a consent of assumption agreement with granicus llc authorizing grading granicus to assume the rights to these benefits and obligations of vision technology solutions llc in a contract with the urban county government for internet services that the cost not to receive 8,599.50 in fiscal year 2020 and increasing 5% annually thereafter item 12 a resolution authorizing on behalf of the urban county government to accept $30,720 in federal funds under the CARES Act from Kentucky State Board of Elections for the purpose of reimbursing expenses for the Fayette County Clerk's Office for hiring additional staff during the 2020 primary election as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds and authorizing the energy to transfer an unaccommoded funds within the grant budget, item 13. A resolution authorizes in the area on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B infrastructure incentive branch of Ashwood townhouses of Blue Radio Association, incorporated for stormwater quality projects, at a cost margin to exceed $99,860.38. Item 14, a resolution authorizes on direct command on behalf of the American Government to execute a second amendment to the Mental Health Services Agreement with NUVISTA, allowing the NUVISTA to change the staffing complement required in the contract at Newcroft to the Urban County Government. Item 15, a resolution authorizes on direct command on behalf of the American Government to execute a fourth amendment to the agreement with Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, for the price per meal charge increase mandated in the agreement for the Division of Community Corrections. Edith Crossmark will receive $1,930,485 for this deal of 2021, item 16. A resolution of the operating year on behalf of the United Government to execute change order number 5 is a contract with unique security for the jail security solution, adding new cameras and relocating one camera for the Division of Community Corrections, increasing contract price by the sum of $62,463.49 from $3,515,835.23 to $3,578,298.72. Item 17, the resolution of resident army have here beginning to execute change with the agreement of Hazen's Oil, PSC, for sanitary sewer and legal measures program management consulting services, increasing the contract price by the sum of $900,000 from $900,000 to $1,800,000 and extending the contract through August 29, 2021. Item 18, the resolution authorizing the division of streets and roads to purchase GPS services from a Routware Incorporated and a social provider and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with Routware Incorporated related to the procurement at a cost on $32,970.46. Item 19, a resolution changed in the name of Cheapside Park located at 251 West Main Street to Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park. Item 20, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class B infrastructure incentive grant to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation for stormwater quality projects at a cost not to exceed $216,800. Item 21, a resolution establishing Everbridge Incorporated as solar tools provider for the alert notification system for the Division of Emergency Management and authorizing and directing mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute any necessary agreements with Everbridge Incorporated related to the procurement of the solar notification system at a cost not to exceed $104,918.04. Item 21, or 22, excuse me. A resolution authorizing and directing mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Justice Cabinet under the Violence Against Women Act program to provide any additional information or question in connection with this grant application and to accept the grant if the application is approved, which grant funds are in the amount of $54,708 in federal funds and $10,000 in commonwealth of Kentucky funds and are for the continuation of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program through 5th of 2021, the acceptance of which obligates to like 10th of the urban county government for the expenditure of $23,070 as a local match and authorizing there to transfer in unacombed funds within the grant budget, item 23. A resolution approving the county sheriff's element 2019 taxes for taxes collected as of May 15, 2020 and granting the sheriff a quietus. 24. A resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a First Amendment to the agreement with the Access Wellness Group, Incorporated, extending an agreement to provide employee assistance program, EAP, services through December 31, 2021, with five subsequent one-year extensions and a cost not exceed $56,700 in Fiscal Year 21 with funding for future fiscal year contingent upon appropriation of sufficient funds, Item 25. A resolution of elections by Urban County Government authorizing advertisement for bids and the distribution of a preliminary official statement for the purpose of the principal amount of various purpose general obligation bonds series 2020, an aggregate principal amount of $8 million, which amount may be increased by an amount up to 10% or decreased by an unlimited amount, item 26. A resolution authorizing the Division of Police on behalf of your American government to accept an aircraft storage agreement with TAC Air, a sole source provider, and a cost to receive $22,248.80, item 28. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to approve and adopt substantial amendments to the 2019 Annual Action Plan and to accept $3,236,490 in federal emergency solution grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Coronavirus Aid and Economic Security Act, the CARES Act, for response to COVID-19, which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds, and authorizing the mayor to transfer any government funds within the grant budget, item 29. A resolution authorizes the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a plan renewal agreement with Comana and the Medicare Advantage Plan for a period beginning January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, and item 30. A resolution changing the property street names of 2248 through 2256 Innsmore Drive to 2256 Innsmore Drive 1196 Liggett Street to 1180 Liggett Street, 1198 Liggett Street to 1184 Liggett Street, 1200 Liggett Street to 1188 Liggett Street, 1200 Liggett Street 1-Half to 1192 Liggett Street, and changing the street names and property addresses, address numbers of 3495 at the end of the way to 3460 Campus Way, 4731 Georgia Town Road to 4801 Last Chance Trail, all affected 30 days from passage. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? Tegan. Second. Council member Plowman moved approval. Council member Higgins-Hord seconded. All right. If you will take a roll call vote when you're ready. Mr. Sponson? Yes. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Mr. Farmer? Yes ma'am. Ms. Higgins-Hord? Yes ma'am. Vice Markay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes ma'am. Mr. McCurran? Yes ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes ma'am. Ms. Massadi? Yes. Ms. Bloman? Yes. And Ms. Reynolds? Yes on all abstain from 24. Thank you very much. Those all pass. Now next up is first reading of resolutions. I am 31, a resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Lexington, for the continued operation of the Fayette County Mental Health Court at a cost not received $107,000. I am 32, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute change number one final to the agreement with Churchill McGee, LLC, for the Doubtmouth Drive Colbert Replacement Project, increasing the contact price by the sum of $3,916. dollars and 29 cents from 507,900 to 511,816 dollars and 29 cents and extending the date of completion to May 22nd, 2020, item 33. A resolution authorized me on behalf of the Republic of the Government to educate a memorandum of agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the use and benefit of the University of Kentucky for the replacement of sanitary sewer infrastructure in connection with a parking structure expansion project at a cost estimated not to exceed $110,828.50, item 34. A resolution authorizing directly on your behalf of your beginning government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to continue the community care medicine program, item 35. A resolution authorizing on your behalf of your beginning government to execute agreements with Brown Station High School Alumni Association Incorporated 100, William Wells Brown Neighborhood Association Incorporated 300, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church Incorporated $50, and the Salvation Army 1000 and Canberra Association of Neighbors 600 for the Office of the Urban Clinic Council at a cost not proceed to sunset at item 36. A resolution accepting the bid of Detroit Salt Company establishing a price contract for treated rock salt bid issued by KACO 2020 road salt auction for the Division of Streets and Roads item 37. A resolution accepting the bid of mobile network supply LLC establishing a price contract for tactical headsets for the Division of Police, Item 38. A resolution ratifying the probationary cross-fired civil service appointments of Darren Weiser, heavy equipment technician, grade 518N, 23.186 hours in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective August 31, 2020. Daniel Stevens, Equipment Operator, grade 510N, 20.544, hourly in the Division of Personal Recreation, effective September 14th, 2020. Thomas Allard, Public Service Supervisor, grade 514N, 20.050, hourly in the Division of Personal Recreation, effective September 14th, 2020, and ratifying the permanent cross-fired civil service appointments of Robert Purchase Vehicle and Equipment Technician, Grade 514 and 19.9 and one hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management effective August 24-2020 and ratifying the probationary sworn appointments of Christopher Cooper Police Lieutenant Grade 317E 3,346.88 bi-weekly and Ron Moore Police Sergeant Grade 315M 32.408 hourly all in the Division of Police Effect of August 1, 2020 improving the Classified Civil Service Council leave for Mark Grimes, Public Service Worker, Senior, Grade 509N, 18.069, hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective August 18, 2020 through October 26, 2020, effective upon passage of council. Item 39, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary classified civil service equipment set to Juan and Taller, Equipment Operator, Senior, Grade 512N, 16.291, hourly in the Division of Streets and Roads, effective September 21, 2020, Haysden Robinson, Heavy Equipment Technician, Grade 511 and 23.936, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, and Julio Otega, Public Service Worker, Grade 507 and 12.755, hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective upon passage of counsel. Item 40, a resolution authorizing and direct on your behalf of your government to execute a purchase of service agreement with Hope Center Incorporated for the operation of an emergency homeless shelter at a cost of $650,000. item 41 a resolution authorizing the mayor behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the from the united states department of health and human services which grant funds are in the amount of 508 928 dollars in federal funds under the first responders compliance of addiction and recovery act program a year three continuation grant and are to be used to help reduce opioid overdose fatalities the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer edicom reference within the grant budget Item 42. A resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the American government to execute a ride services agreement with IT and Bluegrass Incorporated for transportation services for senior center participants at a cost that received $12,000. Item 43. A resolution formally requesting a product development initiative grant and the amount of $500,000 on behalf of the University of Kentucky for the University of Kentucky's Coldstream Research Campus to fit up laboratory space in the proposed laboratory high-tech building and authorizing directly on behalf of the American government to execute local portion of the University of Kentucky's application related to the grant and the product development initiative grant agreement with the Kentucky Cabinet of Economic Development to accept the grant and distribute the grant funds to the University of Kentucky if the relevant application is approved and to take any further action necessary related to the grant. Item 44, a resolution authorizing the air behind the term again. We do execute change number number six to the agreement with Banks Engineering Incorporated, the Southland Area Still Motor Improvement Project, increasing contract price by the sum of $20,000 from $654,815 to $674,815. Item 45, a resolution authorizing direct command to execute an amendment to the grant agreement with the Bluegrass Area Development District, Inc., to include the amended budget and the breakdown of eligible reimbursable expenses for the operation of the Senior Citizen Center in fiscal year 2021. Item 46, a resolution authorizing direct command to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Veterans Affairs for patrolling and policing properties assigned to the Burr Initiative EUL item 47. A resolution authorizes me on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreement with Wellesley Heights Neighborhoods Association 300, Stacing District PTA, Care of Hayes Middle School 350, and Old Paris Neighborhood Association for the Office of the Urban County Government, for other cross-country to the sun stated in item 48. A resolution authorizes me on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute and submit a coronavirus relief fund application for reimbursement of certain eligible expenses to the Department of Local Government in the amount of $15,628,924, consistent with Resolution No. 260-2020, to provide any additional information or documentation required and to take any other necessary related actions, including the acceptance of the funds. Thank you. Thank you so much. First, are there any walk-ons? Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, Mayor. it's my pleasure to report from our confirmation hearing this afternoon we have good news I moved to place on the docket under first reading resolutions a resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Aaron Hensley commissioner of finance grade 536 e 5076 and 92 cents bi-weekly effective October 12th 2020, so move. Second. Councilmember Farmer seconded that. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please raise your hand. All right. That is approved unanimously. Are there any? And thank you so much. I did watch the confirmation hearings. Appreciate it. Are there any other walk-ons? I see none. So I'll ask our clerk to go ahead and give that first reading. Item 49, a resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Erin Hensley, Commissioner of Finance, Grade 536E 5076.92, bi-weekly, effective October 12, 2020. Thank you. very good thank you very much now uh council members do you have suspensions for second reading if you'll put your blue hand up council member bledsoe i thank you mary yes i have two the first is i moved to suspend their roles to give second reading to item number 43 this is to submit the grant with uk and the kentucky cabinet of economic development at the cold stream so we can move more quickly so moved second council member farmer seconds are there any questions all those in favor please raise your hand all right that's unanimous yes thank you the second one is i move to suspend the rules and give second reading item number 48 this is to submit the coronavirus relief fund application reimbursement sooner than later so moved council member farmer seconds thank you very much for that are there any questions all right all those in favor please raise your hand okay that's a unanimous vote next is council member james brown thank you mayor i'd like to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 39 these are conditional offers so move second council member farmer seconds All right. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Okay. That is a unanimous yes vote. And Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, Mayor. If it's procedurally appropriate, I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 49. Is there a second? Second. All right. Let him do it. Okay, was that you, Council Member Ellinger? Thank you. Are there any questions? Okay, all those in favor, please raise your hand. Okay, that's a unanimous yes vote. Are there any other motions to suspend the rules? Seeing none, that is 39, 43, 48, and 49. And I'll ask the clerk to go ahead with the second reading, please. Yes, ma'am. Item 39, a resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make additional offers to the following probation and classified civil service equipment. SACA Tawana-Taller Equipment Operator Senior, Grade 512N, 16.291 Allerling, the Division of Streets and Roads, effective September 21, 2020. Haston Robinson, Heavy Equipment Technician, Grade 5, 8, 10, and 23.936 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, and Julio Orcaga, Public Service Worker, Grade 507, and 12.755 hourly in the Division of Parks and Recuritation, effective upon passage of council. Item 43. A resolution formally requesting a product development initiative grant grant and amount of $500,000 on behalf of the University of Kentucky for University of Kentucky's Coldstream Research Campus to fit up laboratory space in the proposed laboratory high-tech building and authorizing working there or her design be on behalf of your county government to execute a local portion of the University of Kentucky's application related to the grant and the product development initiative grant agreement with the Kentucky Cabinet of Economic Development to accept the grant and distribute the grant funds to the University of Kentucky if the relevant application is approved and to take any further action necessary related to the grant. Item 48. A resolution authorizing Dr. Mayor on behalf of the Irma McGonagher to execute and submit a Coronavirus Relief Fund application for reimbursement of certain eligible expenses to the Department for local government in the amount of $15,628,924, consistent with the Resolution 2060-2020, to provide any additional information or documentation required and to take any other necessary related action, including the acceptance of these funds. And item 49. A resolution ratifying the unclassified civil service appointment of Aaron Hensley Commissioner Finance Grade 556E 5076.92 biweekly effective August or October 12, 2020. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Council Member Ellinger moved to approve. I heard Council Member Plowman, I think, in a chorus of seconds. So I'll ask the clerk when you're ready to take a roll call vote. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Swanson? Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Farmer? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Higgins-Hord? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Mr. McCurran? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Saadi? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. And Ms. Reynolds. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Those all are unanimously approved. And next is communications from the mayor. Could I have a motion, please? Vice mayor. Is it appropriate? I have an amendment. Should I move approval first and then amend? I think that might work best. Okay. And then I move approval. Is there a second? Second. Council member McCurn seconds. All right. Did you want to make a motion to amend? I do. Thank you. I move to amend the mayor's report to add the appointment of Ivy Barksdale to the planning commission with a term of expiration date of 7-1-2024. So move. Second. Council member McCurn, I think you seconded. okay is there any discussion about the amendment all right all those in favor of the amendment please show me your hand that is unanimous yes vote now the motion on the floor is to approve the communications from the mayor as amended are there any questions all those in favor please raise your hand All right, that's unanimously approved. And next on our agenda, we do have a police discipline, and I believe Commander Holland will join us to bring that discipline. Is Commander Holland here? Stacy, I don't see him in the way. Oh, there he's in. Okay. I didn't see him either. He's in. Welcome, Commander Holland. Thank you. It kicked me off and rejoined me here, so I'm going to read for you the discipline recommendation. Thank you. Okay, on May 21st of 2020, an internal formal complaint was made that Officer Joseph Lusardi, employee number 53680, violated General Order 1973-02J, Disciplinary Procedures, Appendix B, Operational Rules 1.02, Misconduct. At the conclusion of the investigation, the employee met with Chief Lawrence Weathers and has accepted a 40-hour suspension without pay. Do I hear a motion? Move approval. And is there a second? Second. All right. Council Member Farmer moved approval. Council Member Plowman seconded. And there are some questions. Council Member Lamb. One thing I was just going to ask if if Commander Holland could put his video on, I just think it would. I mean, just for professional, not that you're not professional or anything, Commander Holland at all. But if you wouldn't mind, thank you so much. I just think having you read, having a visual is very important. And thank you for doing that. I do have a quick question, though. Was this the first incident with Officer Lusardi? Yes, so Lusardi is a five-year employee, and this is his first formal complaint. Okay. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Commander Holland, was there any use of force in this discipline? So, I'm sorry, go ahead. That's my question. Was there any use of force during this incident? So what I can provide with you without going into all the specificity of it, like I mentioned before, Lusardi is a five-year officer. This is his first complaint, and this took place on May 15th of this year. And the subsequent information that I've been provided by Public Integrity is that Lusardi failed to maintain control of his emotions, became belligerent with an arrested subject. And that involved other officers on scene restraining him. That incident involved him being out with his family, subject passing in a vehicle and pointing a firearm at him and his family that was later determined to be a BB gun. Okay. Yeah. So I guess from my understanding that there was no use of force in this incident. It was just what you read. correct sir that's my understanding okay thank you thank you commander thank you mayor thank you are there any other questions for commander holland all right council members all those in favor of approving this please raise your hand all right uh is anyone opposed mayor i'm abstaining please okay there's one abstention all right that motion passes Thank you, Commander Holland. Thank you all. Next up, Council Members, are announcements. Will you log in, please? Council Member Farmer. Oops. Am I there? Okay. Mayor, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the press conference you had today and the folks you had assembled there to talk about the ever so important issue of our youth and their safety in this city at this time and the great that you gave and the great words that the chief gave and you know um if you're in trouble you just go to the police if you want to stay out of trouble you ask the police for help i mean it's just it's such a topsy-turvy time and you both gave great reasons to be part of the responsible thing to move forward but we live in a beautiful place and we have so many great things to enjoy we have to instill that in other generations which we haven't done the best job of of late evidently or maybe ever i can't tell given the current climate but i know that we have a lot of loving families and we have a lot of nurturing neighborhoods we have to put those together to help these folks understand that I didn't grow up around guns. I don't know a lot of people who did. I think a lot of people kind of who weren't in residential areas, maybe had guns because they hunted or lived out or whatever. I just never been around a lot of guns. And I don't understand the gun culture that is pervasive in certain parts of society and here in Lexington. But I thought that your emotional call to action meant a lot. And I thought that the chief's words meant a lot. I just hope that we can sustain that as individuals and as a group, because these are important lives to save. Thank you, Mayor. Well, I appreciate those comments. And I will tell you that both the chief and I have had multiple conversations about what's going on with our teenagers and the shootings and the hot lights. And, you know, the police and the government cannot fix this by themselves. and that is why we are determined to involve our entire community and you were at the press conference and heard the phone numbers given and we have already started receiving phone calls and we're this is we have to do this for the future of our kids in so many ways yes thank So thank you. Council Member Maloney. Thank you. Mayor, I also echo Council Member Farmer. You did a great job on your press conference today. Also, as you all most know, I like to find ways to save money and make sure we have money for our budget next year. and I appreciate the Kentucky Housing is going to come up with some money to help low-income people for six months. And we have an application process that we're going to try to fill out real quick. And that's going to be, we have to compete with other states other than Louisville. We have to compete, but I hope we get a fast track on that. And thinking about saving money and bringing up Ms. Hensley, was appreciate you hiring her. She brought back a good memory when I pointed out the door where Jack Burks lived across the street from me. And when I was on the council back in the 90s, we had some bad winters and bad cold weather. And Jack was big on utilities, how we had to find ways to pay the utilities. Well, one example I gave Jack was to go see the department of local government. And I said, I think some of the, community block grants can fit into that. Well, Jack came back and said that's true, it did. And we also, the city had some community block grants. And Mary, when I look at your proposal that you wanted to help make sure we fight that this winter, I would make a bet. And since we have Ms. Hensley here, that she may want to go back to community action to contact department of local government. And I would bet you anything that there will be money that we can get to pay those utilities for those people this year. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's a pretty good amount of money. And also, if we have to say, if we have, instead of us choosing all our $400,000 to do requests, maybe we can get it all from department local government, which I think we will, could qualify. And I would recommend you call as ASAP. and then also if we have some projects that we did not fill this year for CDBG, we have done this before. There are some projects that we didn't quite get done. We had to wait until next year to finish up, and we got another money from CDBG. We might want to look at taking some of that money, the CDBG money, to help pay. And I would put, I mean, though the derby's coming up, I would put my money on this one that we can get a lot of money from department local government that we may not have to use any of our care money and put it back into the budget for next year. So I beg you to have someone called community action. Make sure it called department local government to see if there is going to be money available. And I would bet there will be. And then also look at Charlie Martin. if we do come up a little short and they do have money to see if we can use our own CDBG money. We got to start thinking out of the box. And I mean, and the state is coming through and I'm proud that they're bringing money and I think we can get more money for the utilities. So I'm glad we got Ms. Hensley, she brought memories up. And I think this is, we got to start thinking like that. What a lot of good things happened a few years ago, we can still use it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Maloney. Council Member Swanson. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to take a couple minutes to explain my abstention on the police discipline vote. This is the first police discipline case I've had on council, and I was interested in this because we're told repeatedly in this discussion we're having about race and policing that we are the Citizen Review Council. I was horrified by the lack of information that we had. We spent, what, five to ten minutes reviewing a case of, which sounded quite severe, somebody pointing a gun at an officer, an officer having to be dragged back by his colleagues. This, to me, emphasizes the importance of some other kind of review system. And I'm very anxious to hear what the Mayor's Commission Law Enforcement Subcommittee recommends in that area, because this is clearly not anything that resembles what most people think of when they think of citizen review. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to give a quick shout out. Tomorrow night is the DV8 night of dining. it's from five to nine that's an organization that we have supported in the past as does second chance employees and rehires and they usually do a deviate 8k run i've participated in that the last several years they're not doing that this year but they are having a limited menu of five items combined with it's all good and you can bring your own chair eat outside um the goal is to keep it very socially distanced obviously but to raise money for the vocational training and to do their second location downtown at the Met. So just if you can be there, that'd be great. I'd appreciate it. I know they would too. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to, I've been watching one of the few, several subcommittees, and I just, I wanted to give a shout out. I know, I think that the last subcommittee met today, I believe, and I know that just the one committee that I was watching, which was the law enforcement, and it's real long, and I don't know the whole name of it, but they worked really hard, and those vice chairs and the committee members and the staff, the mayor, your staff, I don't want to try to name any names because I don't want to leave anybody off, but the amount of time and effort and all the council members that served on those. I mean, I just, it was amazing. And I just appreciate that so many in our community came together and were put the time into having very, very difficult conversations. And I just, I just have to give a shout out because I'm anxious to see the outcomes, the recommendations. I'm very anxious, nervous and anxious, but I just, and I applaud you, Mayor, for having set this commission up, and I applaud the vice chairs, because this took a lot of people, and they did it in a short period of time, which it was like a, it was a really fast whirlwind, so I'm anxious to see, but I just want to thank every person that took the time to be involved with those all those subcommittees and and I am grateful and hopeful that we will have some good thing good recommendations that will come out of it so thank you I really appreciate those comments I've uh haven't quite watched all the meetings yet but for those of you who have served thank you and um the all 70 of those people are volunteers from our community and And I meet regularly with the co-chairs, Roz, Akins, and Gerald Smith. And we did have a meeting today. Because the meetings were pushed to the end of August for them to get all their work in, we think that the report will come out closer to the beginning of October rather than the end of September. I told them that's fine. They want to put a lot of time into writing this report to reflect what went on. And it has been a mammoth effort. So I really appreciate those comments. And I'm very interested also to see what the recommendations from each subcommittee are. So thank you. Are there any other announcements, council members? I have one thing that I wanted to speak to just very briefly. And you already know about this. It was in the news this morning. Last night at a fairly late in the evening time, the um there's been a contractor working on the safety issues of the envelope of our building and uh the work platform on which three people were working on the martin luther king side collapsed and thank goodness they were in harnesses protective harnesses and one of those three managed to the ground on his own. The other two were hanging in the air. And so I want to really extend my gratitude to our division of fire and emergency services, particularly ladder number one, who actually took the ladder up and rescued these gentlemen who were hanging in the air and they answered the call you know when this kind of work goes on and they've been working there as you know for quite a long time we tend not to think about the safety issue but our fire and emergency services came to their rescue and so I just wanted publicly to thank them these days. So with that, I think the only thing left is a motion to adjourn. So moved, Mayor. Thank you. Second. Second. All those in favor, let me see your hand. We are adjourned. Have a great rest of the evening. Thank you. Thank you.