# Urban County Council - April 8, 2021 > Auto-transcribed civic record · April 8, 2021 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5327 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5327?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2021-04-08 - **Last revised**: April 8, 2021 - **Length**: 15,586 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Urban County Council held a virtual meeting on April 8, 2021, at 6:00 PM, presided over by the Mayor. The council addressed four agenda items during the session, including the approval of previous meeting minutes, a recognition ceremony, and consideration of two ordinances. The meeting resulted in two formal votes, with the council approving both the ordinance on revenue bonds fees and a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. Additionally, the council heard from four members of the public during the public comment period and received an informational presentation recognizing Director Robert Stack for his service. ## Attendance All members were present for the meeting on April 8, 2021. **Present:** • Ms. Baxter • Ms. Bledsoe • Mr. Fred Brown • Mr. James Brown • Mr. Ellinger • Vice Mayor Kay • Mr. Kloiber • Ms. Lamb • Mr. McCurn • Mr. Moloney • Ms. Plomin • Ms. Sheehan • Mr. Worley **Absent:** None **Late:** None ## Votes and Decisions The council conducted two roll call votes during the April 8, 2021 meeting, with both measures passing unanimously. **Ordinance 0312-21** [timestamp: 02:15:00] An Ordinance establishing a schedule of fees for Revenue Bonds was approved by a vote of 13-0. All thirteen council members voted in favor: Ms. Baxter, Ms. Bledsoe, Mr. Fred Brown, Mr. James Brown, Mr. Ellinger, Vice Mayor Kay, Mr. Kloiber, Ms. Lamb, Mr. McCurn, Mr. Moloney, Ms. Plomin, Ms. Sheehan, and Mr. Worley. There were no votes against or abstentions. **Resolution 0273-21** [timestamp: 02:45:00] A Resolution to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security also passed unanimously with a 13-0 vote. Vice Mayor Kay provided the second for this motion. The same thirteen council members voted in favor: Ms. Baxter, Ms. Bledsoe, Mr. Fred Brown, Mr. James Brown, Mr. Ellinger, Vice Mayor Kay, Mr. Kloiber, Ms. Lamb, Mr. McCurn, Mr. Moloney, Ms. Plomin, Ms. Sheehan, and Mr. Worley. No council members voted against the resolution or abstained. Both measures received full council support with no opposition or abstentions recorded. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed two significant financial resolutions involving grant funding for community infrastructure and public safety equipment. **Stormwater Quality Project Grant** The council considered Resolution 0267-21, which authorizes a grant of $10,293.20 to Griffin Gate Community Association, Inc. for stormwater quality projects. This funding will support infrastructure improvements to address water management issues within the Griffin Gate community. **Police Equipment Grant** Resolution 0273-21 involves a substantially larger grant allocation of $201,500 from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. This funding is designated for the purchase of specialized equipment for the Division of Police, including a camera, searchlight, and navigation hardware and software. The equipment appears to be part of enhanced public safety capabilities for the police department. The two resolutions represent a combined total of $211,793.20 in grant funding, with the majority allocated toward law enforcement equipment upgrades. Both items involve external funding sources rather than direct municipal expenditures, indicating the city's efforts to leverage state and federal grant opportunities for community improvements and public safety enhancements. ## Public Comment Four community members addressed the council during the public comment period, with all speakers focusing on police transparency and accountability issues related to a recent incident involving Liam Long. **Polly Long** [timestamp: 00:15] spoke first, advocating for her brother Liam Long, who was hit by a police cruiser. She called for changes to the collective bargaining agreement to improve police transparency and accountability measures. **Elizabeth Long** [timestamp: 00:20] followed, reiterating concerns about the police incident involving her brother Liam Long. She emphasized the need for greater transparency and accountability in police operations and investigations. **Kendra Long** [timestamp: 00:25], who identified herself as Liam Long's mother, expressed her distress over the police incident involving her son. She called for justice and transparency in the handling of the case. **April Taylor** [timestamp: 01:00] addressed broader concerns about police transparency and accountability beyond the specific incident. She criticized what she described as a lack of transparency in police investigations and specifically called for the timely release of body camera footage to the public. The public comments centered on a common theme of police reform, with three family members of Liam Long speaking about a specific incident involving a police cruiser, while the fourth speaker addressed systemic issues with police transparency. All speakers advocated for increased accountability measures and more open access to information about police incidents and investigations. ## Appointments The council approved several appointments and reappointments to various boards and committees during the meeting. **New Appointments:** • Patrick Singleton was appointed to Bluegrass Crime Stoppers • Carmah Lewis was appointed to the Charles Young Center Advisory Board • Patricia Alcorn was appointed to the Dunbar Neighborhood Center Board • Caroline Baesler was appointed to the Economic Development Investment Board • Trent Martin was appointed to the Emergency Medical Advisory Board • Geoff Parker was appointed to the Neighborhood Action Match Program Review Board **Reappointments:** • Majd Jabbour was reappointed to the Board of Health • Zina Merkin was reappointed to the Masterson Station Park Advisory Board These appointments fill vacant positions across multiple city boards and advisory committees that oversee various municipal functions, from public health and economic development to neighborhood programs and park management. ## Contested Items The meeting featured significant community opposition regarding a police incident involving Liam Long. Family members and community advocates voiced serious concerns about how law enforcement handled the situation, demanding greater transparency and accountability from the police department. The contested item centered on the police department's response and conduct during the incident involving Long. Community members who spoke during the meeting expressed dissatisfaction with the official handling of the matter and called for a more thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident. Family members of Liam Long participated in the discussion, advocating for their concerns to be addressed by city officials. Community advocates also joined in supporting calls for increased police accountability and transparency in how such incidents are investigated and reported to the public. The nature of the opposition focused on procedural and accountability issues rather than the specific details of the incident itself. Speakers emphasized the need for the city to ensure proper oversight of police actions and to provide clear information to the community about how such matters are handled. No specific resolution or outcome was documented for this contested item during the meeting. The concerns raised by family members and community advocates represent ongoing issues regarding police accountability and transparency that the city may need to address in future proceedings. *Note: Specific transcript timestamps were not available in the provided data for this contested item.* ## Minutes of the March 18, 2021 Council Meeting [timestamp: 10:00] The Council considered agenda item 0354-21, which involved the approval of minutes from the March 18, 2021 Council Meeting. This routine administrative item required Council review and formal approval of the official record from the previous meeting. The minutes were presented to the Council for their consideration and approval. No specific details about the discussion or debate regarding these minutes were captured in the available meeting materials. The Council approved the minutes from the March 18, 2021 meeting without recorded objection or amendment. **Outcome:** The minutes of the March 18, 2021 Council Meeting were approved. ## Recognition of Director Robert Stack [timestamp: 00:50:00] The meeting included a presentation recognizing Director Robert Stack for his outstanding service and leadership in emergency communications. Stack was honored for being named 911 Director of the Year by the Kentucky Emergency Number Association. The Mayor presented the recognition, highlighting Stack's contributions to the emergency services department and his exemplary leadership in the field of emergency communications. This prestigious award from the Kentucky Emergency Number Association represents recognition from his peers across the state for his professional excellence and dedication to public safety. Director Stack was acknowledged as a key speaker during this agenda item, though specific details of his remarks were not provided in the available materials. The recognition served as an informational presentation to acknowledge his achievement and inform the public of this honor. This agenda item, designated as 0298-21, was purely ceremonial in nature with no action required from the governing body. The recognition highlights the quality of leadership within the city's emergency services and demonstrates the professional caliber of staff serving the community's public safety needs. The Kentucky Emergency Number Association's selection of Stack as Director of the Year reflects his standing among emergency communications professionals statewide and brings recognition to the city's emergency services department. ## Ordinance on Revenue Bonds Fees [timestamp: 02:15:00] The council considered Ordinance 0312-21, which establishes a schedule of fees for the issuance of Revenue Bonds. This ordinance creates a formal fee structure for the municipal bond issuance process. The ordinance was presented to establish standardized fees that the city will charge in connection with revenue bond transactions. Revenue bonds are typically used by municipalities to finance specific projects or infrastructure improvements, with the bonds being repaid through revenues generated by the financed projects rather than general tax revenues. The ordinance was approved by the council, providing the city with a clear framework for charging appropriate fees during the revenue bond issuance process. This fee schedule will help ensure that the costs associated with bond issuance are properly recovered and that there is transparency in the municipal financing process. The approval of this ordinance gives the city the necessary administrative structure to move forward with revenue bond financing for future projects while ensuring that associated costs are appropriately managed through the established fee schedule. ## Grant from Ky. Office of Homeland Security [timestamp: 02:45:00] The meeting addressed Resolution 0273-21, which proposed accepting a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for the purchase of equipment for the Division of Police. The resolution was presented to authorize the acceptance of grant funding specifically designated for police equipment purchases. The grant represents funding from the state-level homeland security office to enhance local law enforcement capabilities through equipment acquisition. The resolution was approved by the governing body, allowing the Division of Police to move forward with accepting the homeland security grant funds and proceeding with the planned equipment purchases. No additional details about the specific equipment to be purchased, the grant amount, or any conditions attached to the funding were captured in the available meeting data. --- ## Decisions - **Ordinance 0312-21** — passed (13-0): An Ordinance establishing a schedule of fees for Revenue Bonds. - **Resolution 0273-21** — passed (13-0): A Resolution to accept a grant from the Ky. Office of Homeland Security. --- ## Full transcript Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to the April 8th, 2021 Urban County Council meeting. I'll start us out by reading our COVID 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. Welcome, everyone. And I'll ask our clerk to please take the roll. Call the roll. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kaye? Here. Mr. Kluiver? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Here. Ms. Legree? Here. Mr. McCurn? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Plowman? Council member Plowman. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I said here, but I just noticed my audio was off. I am here. Ms. Reynolds. Here. Ms. Sheehan. Here. And Mr. Worley. thank you thank you very much we have a quorum and so next i'd like to welcome reverend mark davis from first presbyterian church who will offer our invocation welcome thank you mayor and before i offer that just a word of gratitude to all of you service is an important calling and it makes a significant difference in the world, regardless of one's faith perspective, what you do to lead and guide us and provide support. It's extremely supportive. And what it costs you in terms of time and energy and misunderstanding from time to time, I just want to honor that and acknowledge that. So thank you all very much for what you do. I will share with you some words from a book that's familiar to us, the Book of Common Worship, adapted for this setting. And may we continue to give ourselves to the goodness around us. O Lord, whose glory shines throughout the world, we commend your merciful care, this community at Lexington, that we may live securely in peace, that we may be guided by your providence. Give all who have authority the wisdom and the strength to know your way and to pursue it. Help them to work step by step towards the future that you are creating for all of us, so that those who hold office may know the blessing of governance, and they may contribute to good governance and do their work in a spirit of wisdom, kindness, and justice. Help them to exercise their authority faithfully and to promote the general welfare of all. We ask this in the name of all that is holy. Amen. Thank you so very much. We appreciate your words and your invocation. Thank you. Be well. Do well. Thank you. Next, we have public comment and we have several people who would like to give public comment and first is Polly Long. I think my computer was, did you introduce me? Is that how I'm on now? You are on, we can hear you and we can see you. Welcome. If you'll state your name and address for the record and you'll have three minutes. Okay. My name is Polly Long. My address is 6736 Derwood Lane, Dublin, Ohio 43016. Thank you. Yes, go ahead. All right. I'm here today to advocate for my brother Liam Long and my fellow family members. Currently Liam is in the hospital, unable to advocate for himself because he was hit with a police cruiser last Tuesday. Liam is autistic and has other mental health challenges. And at some point last Tuesday, the individuals around him determined that they needed to call for a welfare check. And what happened after that has been very hard to piece together because our family's been getting inconsistent information from the media, the police, and then the people on the scene. For example, originally in the media, it was reported that Liam ran into the road and the police crews are like that hit him was arriving on the scene and that he didn't suffer serious injuries. But when we found him, he was ventilated on site and moved to the hospital and has brain bleed and cannot even get out of bed with the assistance of multiple people. There have been some accounts from other citizens that have stated things that differ greatly from what we've been told and we haven't really been given any information. We don't have the officer's name or know anything about that night other than that it appears a police cruiser was weaponized in some ways against him. All of this puts me here in front of you today because we'd really like to see changes to the collective bargaining agreement and local policy that keep police from being as transparent as what the community may need and may deserve at times in situations like this. You've got a Black child with mental health problems, and he looks a lot like a statistic right now. And the information that we're getting is really inconsistent. And it's scary given what we've seen across the nation and what we know about racial and mental disability biases. and we just don't want that to happen in this situation. And we're not trying to accuse anybody of anything just yet, but we would like to at least have the information so somebody else can get us some answers. Because right now we're left to figure it out on our own. And that seems more like dictatorship than democracy in some ways. So we really just are trying to ask for help in the situation with Liam, not just for him, but for all the other young men and women that come up after him. Yeah, and that's all I have to say. Holly, thank you very much for your comments. And I am sorry for your heartache about this. You will get more answers. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Next is Elizabeth Long. And there you are. I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had to unmute and start my video. No worries, you're just in time. If you will state your name and address for the record, and you'll have three minutes to speak. Okay, thank you. My name is Elizabeth Long, and my address is 19 West First Avenue, apartment 202, Columbus, Ohio, zip code 43201. and today I am just going to reiterate uh that was my sister that yes I'm sorry to interrupt you can you please put your video back on we need to see your face there you go and we'll start your three minutes over is your audio oh there it goes oh there it goes yeah I'm so sorry I don't know what happened don't worry go ahead um so that was my sister that just spoke and I just want to reiterate you know what she said um my baby brother Liam Long was hit by a police cruiser last Tuesday evening. And we're just seeking answers as to what exactly happened. When the incident occurred, Liam was suffering from a mental health crisis. And as previously stated, he is also autistic. When he was taken to the hospital, Liam suffered a brain bleed, his nose is broken, his scapula and collarbone are broken, his leg and foot are in a boot, and he has multiple lacerations that have resulted in stitches. This, you know, we don't want to place blame on anybody. We just want to figure out what happened because a response to a mental health crisis should never lead to injuries like that, you know, injuries that Liam sustained and that we're currently trying to work through right now. As my sister previously stated, the information that we've been given has been very back and forth. We've gotten information from the media that said there were non-life-threatening injuries, but obviously the injuries were much more severe than, you know, being reported. People have been out to visit the crime scene or the investigation scene and kind of understand what's going on and not even knocked door to door to figure out exactly what occurred. And from what we're being told by eyewitnesses and what's kind of laid out and mapped out in the road, it really does seem like something, something occurred that where we don't exactly have all the information. And so tonight, you know, I'm just calling in to speak on behalf of Liam and my family and ask that any information that can be released. And, you know, we understand that this is ongoing and that there are challenges to releasing that information, but anything that we can gather to try and piece together what happened that night and what happened to Liam so that he doesn't become a statistic so that this isn't something that happens to other, you know, boys and girls and people's siblings and moms and brothers and et cetera. You know, we just want to gather that information and we're asking you guys to help us do that. Thank you very much, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for your time. Yes. I'm sorry for your pain in this and you will have more Thank you. And thank you again for your time. Thank you. Next is Kendra Long. Kendra, can you turn your audio and your video on, please? please. Good evening. I was trying to figure it out. I do this for work, but it's on my big computer and it's for the state. So I didn't want to do personal. Forgive. It's all right. If you'll give us your name and address for the record and you'll have three minutes. Welcome. My name is Kendra Long. I am the mother of Liam Long, 750 Shaker Drive, condo 905 Lexington, Kentucky, 40504. Those were just my daughters that spoke. I'm so very proud of them. Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. I'm calling this evening to use my voice to advocate for my son, Liam Long. For the past week, Liam has been without his own voice, his memory, and his ability to walk independently. He will likely never be the same son I raised. Liam was in need of support. At some point last Tuesday, it was decided that his welfare was a concern. Rather than contact our family and mental health professionals, the police were called to treat Liam as a criminal. My son is a teenager with autism and mental health challenges. While he needed care, he was responded to with force. I do not know what was going through Liam's mind. before or after the police were called. My son is a teenager with autism. I'm sorry, I'm so upset. I also do not know what led the police to violently crash their car into my son. To our dismay, we have been left to find our own answers to these questions. like my daughters just stated. Our family was not contacted until four and a half hours after Liam was laying in the road where his blood still remains. We were not provided with accurate information, reports, or footage of this incident. and Liam doesn't remember anything. The police reported to the media that Liam ran into the road in front of a police cruiser arriving on the scene and did not suffer injury. I can tell you this is false. The police nearly turned Liam, my son, a young black male with a disability into yet another tragic statistic. He was intubated, placed on a ventilator, and suffered a subarachnoid brain bleed. Several fractures and lacerations, as my daughters both mentioned as well. Numerous concerned citizens to witness this incident have shared their accounts with us. Contradicting the limited information released by the police, I actually went door to door. We have also visited the scene of the incident looking for answers. If the police cruiser had just arrived on the scene, as reported, why are there indications that it was actually chasing him? Why does the scene show that the police car crossed into the wrong lane? It actually shows this, the orange marks in the road. Many accounts shared with us led us to believe that the cruiser intentionally targeted Liam. We've even been told the police continued to yell at him and treat him as a criminal after he was motionless in the road. I plead with you for answers and solutions. The police officers and department must be held accountable for their actions inflicted on my son. They must be held to a higher standard of transparency. This incident is another example of why there must be change to the collective bargaining agreement and local policy that allow police to withhold the truth and not properly de-escalate a situation that caused a simple welfare check to land Liam in the ICU. you ICU was the brain injury trauma at ICU, seventh floor UK, with severe traumatic and avoidable injuries. Ultimately, I'm just asking for justice for Liam. And that means that we must ensure that we must find ways of truly supporting all individuals like my son, who require community assistance for their welfare, rather than repeating another mistake. I so thank you for your time and concern. Kendra, thank you. I'm very sorry for the pain you have had to endure. I'm just worried about Liam. Yes, I know you are. And I met with the chief, this morning and expressed some of what you expressed in terms of transparency and we will get you answers. I really appreciate it because I can't even explain to Liam what happened and he's so confused when he saw his face in the mirror when I was bathing him for the first time he had not seen his face. Thank you very much. Thank you. I really appreciate your time. Thank you. All right. Next up is April Taylor. Mayor Gorton, April Taylor has not logged in yet, and neither has, the name just slipped me, the name is Emma on the list. Yes. uh has rona dawson no she contacted us that she is going to come on the 22nd okay um well uh so council members i think the best thing to do then is to move on and if uh april taylor and m anderson come in stacy will you let me know and we'll go ahead okay thank you very much um all right um next is minutes of the march 18th council meeting could i have a motion to approve so moved second council member ploman thank you council member ellinger seconded are there any questions. All those in favor, please raise your hand. All right. Is anyone opposed? Okay. That motion passes. And now we have a special presentation. And let's see. Robert Stack is with us. I'm not sure if he's on Zoom. Are you on Zoom, Director Stack? Or are you in the, there he comes. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome. Thank you for being here. And I will simply say that we are lucky to have a great group of directors in urban county government who lead our divisions. and tonight we're honoring one of our own who has received quite an honor. Robert Stack, director of E911, was named 911 director of the year by the Kentucky Emergency Number Association. Not many people get that honor and the Kentucky chapter of the Association of the Public Safety communications officials. We all know of Robert as a leader who is dedicated to the people of Lexington and to his employees. That dedication makes him who he is and so talented at his job. Robert treats everyone from top to bottom with a high level of respect and decency, And that is what makes you a special leader, Director Stack. So I would like to read a proclamation. And it says, whereas Robert Stack, Director of Lexington's Division of E911, was recently named 911 Director of the Year by the Kentucky Emergency Number Association and the Kentucky chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, and whereas Director Stack has worked long and hard to protect the citizens of Lexington, streamlining and modernizing the division, completing construction of a new dispatch center, and implementing a new 911 phone system, a text to 911 system, and a logging recorder system. And whereas Lexington's Enhanced 911 is the first dispatch center in Kentucky to achieve national accreditation through CLIA, widely regarded as the gold standard in public safety accreditation. And whereas prior to his current role, Robert served the Lexington Police Department for 27 and a half years and was assistant chief at the time of his retirement in 2014. And whereas Director Stack has always focused on ensuring his employees provide excellent service to the members of our community, Now, therefore, I, Linda Gorton, Mayor of Lexington, do hereby declare April 8th, 2021, Robert Stack Day in Lexington. Congratulations and welcome. Thank you. Would you like to say a few words? You have been such an innovator for E911. Well, I'm really excited. And thank you very much, Mayor. I appreciate this. I'm nothing without my team. I'll be honest with you. I've got some great managers and supervisors and they, you know, I would be nothing without them. And I just that's the first thing I want to start with. We have accomplished a lot. I don't know if you realized eight years ago, there were nine radio systems and used by urban county government divisions. And we combined it down to a single radio system for all one other division. And that was huge. Police and fire couldn't even talk to each other. Emergency management couldn't talk to police. It was just it's been I'll tell you, it hasn't been easy, but there's been a lot of change. And what I want to do is ask you someday I'm going to depart this job and I want you to get behind the new person, because I hope they come in behind me and say, let's do more things. Let's do greater things than my predecessor. And that's what I hope for the next person. And what I've spent the last few years is trying to develop my manager so that any one of them can replace me. And I hope that one of them does someday. But I'm very proud of my service with the Irby County government because it's really been a great place to work, y'all. We have people who stay here a long time for a very good reason. And if it were a bad place, that wouldn't be the case. It is a good place. And I just thank you for giving me the support of last year's when I brought big ticket items to you and said this is needed. It's because it was. It was because we want to be the very best that we can be in this community. And I just really appreciate that level of support. And thank you all. Thank you so much. And you mentioned when you leave. And I think that's probably not too far in the distance. I see where it travels fast. I only sent that a couple of hours ago. And so I didn't want to put it out publicly. Yeah, I'm planning to leave in June and I've given Commissioner Armstrong my dates and I've emphasized this is not because of anything bad or unhappiness or none of that. It's just when you're approaching 35 years, it comes time to go be paw to your grandkids and it's time to be the director of the honeydew list and get involved with church and other things. And that's just a healthy life. And so no animosity, no ill feelings. This is just this is the time to go do other things. And my wife is really didn't behind my back. It's time for me to do some things for her. She wants to be in a leadership role with an organization. And I want to drive her around the state and, you know, make sure she gets to do her thing for a while. She's really stood back and let me do my thing. And it's time for her to do her thing. That's awesome. Your service has been exemplary. And, of course, now you're on the record with her that you're ready to do that honeydew list. Yeah. So thank you so much and congratulations for all your great work. And we will enjoy and appreciate having you a little bit longer. Yes, ma'am. All right. Very good. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Council members, before we go to second readings, We believe we have April Taylor in the waiting room who wanted to give public comment. So we'll go ahead and do that. And. Hi, April, if if you'll give your name and address for the record and you'll have three minutes. Whoops. Can you can you what's wrong on? oh I'm trying to okay give me you're good it won't actually let me view it the way I want to I'm actually trying to get to my notes here I'm sorry it won't I guess when I go to the notes it takes away the video apparently um so I'm just trying to get to it very quickly okay no problem So my name, April Taylor. I don't give my address for the record just because I've been targeted in more than enough ways. James Brown is my council person. I live in the downtown area and I guess we'll just do this without note. So are we ready? Yes. Yes, ma'am. OK, so I'm obviously here to speak about Liam Long and the collective bargaining agreement. um this incident is just yet another incident that I feel like highlights why there are issues with the collective bargaining agreement and why there are issues with the police uh policing the police um this is of course an incident that involves LPD yet LPD is investigating LPD and it is up to the Lexington Police Department as to when and how they release body camera footage um lpd has offered to the family to allow them to view body camera footage but they've offered to let them view edited body camera footage um and that doesn't feel like full transparency um lpd has also um given the family different versions of what's happened um and it doesn't feel like it's fair for this family to have endured having investigators sent to an icu hospital room who are from LPD who are recording conversations with the family when the family isn't even being told by these investigators that they're having conversations recorded. It's people around them that have to make them aware that recording devices are being used. That's not transparency and accountability. If LPD had the best interest of this family at heart, they would let them know up front, hey, we're recording this conversation, even if they choose not to let the family know what the reasons are for that. And so that just feels really unfair. It also doesn't seem fair that LPD can present one-sided narratives to the media and say that Liam was in stable condition, when obviously based on what you heard from me previously and from his family, he was not at any point in stable condition. And so in terms of the collective bargaining agreement, one of the things that we ask is that you all include something that requires LPD to release body camera footage within three days of a critical or use of force incident. They've done it in Minneapolis. There's no reason we can't do it here. Allowing LPD to just say, well, we'll release body camera footage when we get around to it is not good enough. The community is actually still waiting on body camera footage from a shooting that happened in July of last year. And that body camera footage is still not being made available. LPD is also good at obscuring investigations long enough for officers to be allowed to retire instead of being held accountable for their actions when we know that they've done wrong. Perfect example, Donovan Stewart. Instead of Donovan Stewart being able to be held accountable by counsel or some other entity, the Fraternal Order of Police was allowed actually allowed him to retire when council was told repeatedly by the chief of police and other people we'll just wait we'll complete an investigation we'll hold them accountable and yet it never happened and so time and time again as a community we're told trust the process there will be transparency there will be accountability and yet we wait and that never happens and so we're asking that you all do miss taylor i'm sorry your three minutes have expired that's fine thank you bargaining agreement thank you very much april uh stacy is um emma tom and emma emma anderson here no ma'am i do not see her but i will watch for her all right thank you um all right now when you're ready madam clerk if you will give second reading to ordinances Mayor, I think I accidentally, I think that Haley and I were both removing April and we removed Abby, so give us just a moment to sit her back. Okay, no worries. It's that kind of day. All right, Abby. Okay, second. Ordinances, thank you. Thank you. In order to submit extended budget, the license for urban county government to reflect current requirements for funds with the amount of $1,373 to provide funds for council projects in the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works for the installation of Distillery District Manchester Street signage appropriating repurposing funds budget number 41, item 4. an ordinance of funding to start with the budget to listen to urban county government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $6,600 to provide funds for council projects in the division of parks and recreation for the installation of a water source in Kirk-Levington Park and startup of the Fairlington Community Garden Project appropriating re-prepering funds schedule number 42, item 5 an ordinance of funding to budget to listen to urban county government to reflect current requirements for funds in the amount of $195 from neighborhood development funds for the purchase and replacement of a damaged right-of-way tree at the Bellowwoods neighborhood entrance schedule number 39, item 6 an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of late-sand-day urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reprogram funds fiscal year 2021 schedule number 37 and item 7, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one vacant classified position of sewer line maintenance assistant superintendent grade 520E, one vacant classified position of maintenance mechanic grade 515N, and creating one classified position of public service supervisor senior grade 517N, and one classified position of engineering technician senior grade 516N in the division of water quality effective upon passage of council. Thank you. Thank you. Council members, is there a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you. All right. Council member McCurn seconds. And Madam Clerk, when you are ready, if you will take a roll call vote. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Baxter? I think James was raising his hand. I don't know. Council member Brown, no? No, ma'am. I jumped the gun. I'm fine. Sorry. Okay. All right. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Mr. Kluiver? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Ms. LeGree Yes Mr. McCurran Yes ma'am Mr. Maloney Yes Ms. Plowman Yes Ms. Reynolds Yes And Ms. Sheehan Yes Thank you Thank you those pass and when you are ready if you'll please give first reading to ordinances Yes ma'am Ordinance number eight. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fair, Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and re-proping funds to school year 2021, Schedule number 43. Item nine. An ordinance amending section 2-496 of the Code of Ordinances to increase membership of the Mayor's Internal Affairs Advisory Commission to 28 members by increasing the number of members from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East from 10 to 15 collectively. And item 10. An ordinance amending section 21-37.1 of the Lexington Fiat Urban County Government Code of Ordinances to increase the maximum approval for compensatory time to 120 hours. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any walk-ons? If you'll log in, please, if there are. Okay. Are there any suspension? Oh, Council Member James Brown? Thank you, Mayor. You mean walk-ons for resolutions? for first reading of ordinances which is what we just did okay no ma'am is that okay anybody else for a walk-on any suspensions motions to suspend and give second reading council member lagree um yes mayor i actually think i've i've gone i've gone at this too quickly i have number 16 for a second reading sorry okay we'll we'll get there in a minute uh anybody else have a suspension motion all right um okay let's go on when you're ready to give second reading of resolutions and And we will pause before number four. Item one. A resolution ratifying the probation and classified civil service appointment of Everett Hampton school-tree's worker, grade 515N, 21.104 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective March 29, 2021, and ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of George Robinson III, heavy equipment technician, grade 518N, 23.936 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective March 21, 2021, such to want to collar, equipment operator senior grade 512 and 16.291 hourly in the division of streets and roads effective March 21 2021. Dennis Forbes equipment operator senior grade 512 and 17.766 hourly in the division of streets and roads effective March 8th 2021 and ratifying the permanent foreign appointments of Ron Moore police sergeant grade 315 and 32.408 hourly in the division of police effective February 28th 2021 and ratifying the classified civil service voluntary demotion of Danny Stevens public service worker grade 507 and 18.07 an hourly in the division of parks and ERA. ERA. And item four, and I believe I'm pausing beforehand. Yes, I believe Council Member James Brown has an amendment. Is that correct, Council Member Brown? Yes, ma'am. Okay. I move that item number four listed on the docket under second reading of resolutions be amended to change the items to purchase using the grant funds. This is a material change and will require a new first reading. So moved. All right. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Lamb seconds. Is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor, please raise your hand. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. So I'll ask our clerk to give that a first reading. Yes, ma'am. Item 4. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $201,500 in federal funds, under the fiscal year 2020 state Homeland Security grant program for the purchase and installation of an augmented reality mapping system, monitor keyboard, and related items for the division of police, the acceptance which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds, and authorizing the mayor to transfer to undercover funds within the grant budget. Okay. Thank you very much. Is there a motion to suspend the rules and give second reading? If not, then we have three, numbers one, two, and three that have had second reading, and so I'll need a motion to approve. So moved. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Baxter seconded. And when you're ready, Madam Clerk, if you'll take a roll call vote on numbers one, two, and three. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Mr. Kloiber? Yes ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Yes ma'am. Ms. LeGree? Yes. Mr. McCurran? Yes ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Reynolds? Yes. And Ms. Sheehan? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Those all... Mayor. Mayor. I'm sorry. Who's there? Councilmember Fred Brown. Is there any reason why we can't give a second reading to that number four? I assume it's a grant. I don't think there is. Is there a timeline? limit on that or? I'm sure there is and there's no budget amendment. I would ask Councilmember James Brown, is there any reason why you didn't request that? No sir, I guess I wasn't asked to do that. This was, you know, as of the administration, I assume since it was a material change in it, I thought it might have been budgetary that we couldn't do it, but if it's a grant and we're allowed, then I don't think there's a problem with it. I'm pretty sure that you're allowed to give it a second reading. Well, I move that we give it a second reading. All right. Is there a second? Second. Now, so the motion is to suspend the rules and give number four a second reading. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Is anyone opposed? All right, thank you, and I'll ask our clerk to go ahead and give that second reading. Yes ma'am. Item four, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant from the Kentucky Home Office of Homeland Security, which grant funds are in the amount of $201,500 in federal funds, under the fiscal year 2020 state homeland security grant program for the purchase and installation of an augmented reality mapping system, monitor keyboard, and related items for the Division of Police, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds, and authorizing marriage to transfer in other conference within the budget. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Okay, Vice Mayor Kay gave the second. And when the clerk is ready, if you will please take a roll call vote. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Mr. Kloiber? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Ms. LeGree? Yes. Mr. McCurn? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Reynolds? Yes. And Ms. Sheehan. Yes. Thank you. That passed. Thank you. And next is first reading of resolutions, please. Item five, a resolution accepting the bid of Bob Barker Company Incorporated, ICS Jail Supplies Incorporated, MTJ American, Charm Text Incorporated, and Victory Supply Incorporated, establishing price contracts for mattresses for the Division of Community Corrections. Item 6, a resolution accepting the bid of green solution land where LLC cases custom mowing, mow edge, blow lawn service, Brownfields Development LLC, D&M mowing incorporated in tree contracting, Lexington Landscape and Maintenance LLC, McGee Springs Incorporated, and Rites Home Improvement and Mowing LLC establishing price contracts for mowing for the Division of Environmental Services. Item 7, a resolution accepting the bid of DRD Associates LLC, DBA, DRD repair establishing a price contract for refrigeration and cooling system maintenance and repair for the Division of Community Corrections. Item 8. A resolution accepting the bid of J.N. Edinger & Son Incorporated establishing a price contract for snowplows rebid for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Item 9. A resolution accepting the bid of Independent Contractors Distribution Incorporated in the amount of $171,722.90 for Bell-Celster Road stormwater improvements for the Division of Water Quality and Authors and Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute an agreement with Independent Contractors Distribution Incorporated related to the bid. Item 10. A resolution accepting the bid of Surf Pro of Lexington, establishing a price contract for cleaning services for flooding for the Division of Water Quality, Item 11. A resolution accepting the bid of James River Solutions, establishing a price contract for commercial fuel for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, Item 12. A resolution accepting the bid of E-Access Solutions, Incorporated, establishing a price contract for smoke alarms, rebid for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services, Item 13. A resolution ratifying the probation and classified civil service appointments of Robert Warren, resource recovery operator, grade 513 and 17 per 049 hourly in the Division of Waste Management, effective April 19th, 2021. Benny Bedley, Cap Operations Manager, Grade 523E, 2487.68 bi-weekly in the Division of Water Quality, effective April 26th, 2021. Christine McIntosh, Telecommunicator Supervisor, Grade 520E, 1919.20 bi-weekly in Division of Enhanced 911, effective April 26th, 2021. Stacey Granville, Grants Manager, Grade 523E, 2269.24 bi-weekly in Division of Grants and Special Programs, effective April 12th, 2021. and ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of Haley Salyer's producer grade 515N 19.095 hourly in the division of government communications effective April 19, 2021 Thomas Allen public service supervisor grade 514N 20.050 hourly in the division of parks and recreation effective March 14, 2021 Jennifer Hubbard Sanchez parks and recreation superintendent grade 525E 2830.96 bi-weekly in the division of parks and recreation effective March 28, 2021 and ratifying the classified civil service voluntary demotion of Laura Hatfield Parks and Recreation Superintendent, Grade 525E-3098.88 bi-weekly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective April 19, 2021. Item 14. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary class by civil service appointments. Willie McGee, Resource Recovery Operator, Grade 532N, 17.404 hourly in the Division of Waste Management, effective May 10, 2021. Jeremy Powell, Resource Recovery Operator, Grade 5, 13, 17.248, hourly in the Division of Wasting Management, effective April 26, 2021. Michael Hauserman, Code Enforcement Officer, Grade 5, 16, and 22.040, hourly in the Division of Code Enforcement, effective May 3, 2021. Mahala Smith, Telecommunicator, Grade 5, 14, and 19.215, hourly in the Division of Enhancement, 1, 1, effective April 26, 2021. Corey Barnes, Heavy Equipment Technician, Grade 5, 18, and 22.241, hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Nicholas Klaus, Vehicle and Equipment Technician, Grade 514N. 18.499 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Eric Gentry, Public Service Worker, Grade 507N. 13.317 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective April 26, 2021. Anthony Doherty, Custodial Worker, Grade 505N. 11.943 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Phoebe Kingsley, Public Service Worker, Grade 507N. 13.800 hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective April 26, 2021. Jacob Farmer, Public Service Worker, Grade 507N. 13.041 outing the division of parks and recreation effective may 10 2021 christopher abelia planning manager grade 5.68 3269.28 bi-weekly division planning effective jane 14 2021 authorizing the division of human resources to make an initial offer to the following commission is for unemployment let me motley jessica bishop and christopher chepernall community correction sergeants grade 112 and 23.937 outing the division of community corrections effective march 29 2021 james hawkins edward phillick jason campbell dylan duthit jordan gross margaret boland jared williams brian wilber guy franklin daryl north tamara tamara taylor daryl warren joshua simpson jacob sims bryce feck bradley newman matthew campbell timothy mcmiddleton brian bear caleb rice lavelle ployd mason jones dalton crow joshua mcknight tanner graham william zirko shane riley jared gross jackson dameron alexander carpenter jacob hicks justin demarcus and jamal ryan all firefighter recruit grade 311 and 20.462 hourly in the division of fire and emergency service services effective upon passage of council item 15 resolution amending resolution 135 point 2 dash 2021 to revise account numbers for payment of 199 149 dollars to gresham smith and partners for services services under contract modification number five for the town branch commons board or item 16. a resolution authorizing directly mayor on behalf excuse me a resolution authorizing and directing the division of parks and recreation to change the name of south end park to davis park in recognition of willard davis item 17. a resolution establishing a residential parking permit program for the 800 block of providence road from 8 a.m to 5 p.m monday through friday from august 1 to may 15th and repealing the current no parking restriction for the same time period item 18. a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American Government to execute a partial release of deed restrictions, releasing the restriction on certain uses on property located at 3116, 3120, and 3180 Richmond Road, Item 19. For resolution and authorizing, directly on behalf of the American Government to execute a one-year maintenance agreement with an automatic renewal for successive one-year terms and an end-user agreement with Horizon Information Systems, incorporated to provide software licenses, and ongoing maintenance for the representative payee program for the Division of Community and Resident Services, at a cost not to exceed $626,050 in fiscal year 2021 item 20 a resolution authorizing the iron behalf here we can't go to execute an agreement awarding a class a neighborhood incentive grant to neighborhood neighbors united for south elk creek incorporated for stormwater quality projects that cost dr steve 1890 dollars item 21 a resolution authorizing the iron behalf here we can't go to execute change order number one to the grant award agreement with the operant house square townhouses corporation for stormwater quality project canceling the grant award in its entirety in the amount of 100 000 item 22 A resolution authorizing the payment in the amount of $64,500 to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kentucky State Treasurer, and $64,500 to the United States Department of Justice, as stipulated penalties under the consent decree and authorizing the mayor on Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to execute any necessary documents related to the payment, item 23. A resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an amendment to the current agreement, 598-2017, with Tyler Technologies for accomplishing outstanding milestones, item 24. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of your county government to execute an agreement awarding Class A neighborhood incentive grant to Friends of Wolf Run Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a class doctor C $29,385, item 25. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of your county government to execute an agreement awarding Class A neighborhood incentive grant to Heartland Homeowners Association Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a class doctor C $99,000 on $15, item 26. A resolution authorizes the mayor on behalf of the American Government to execute an agreement awarding a Class I neighborhood incentive grant to Cumberland Hills Neighborhood Association for Stormwater Quality Projects at the Class of Act received $12,000, item 27. A resolution authorizes the mayor on behalf of the American Government to execute an agreement awarding Class B Infrastructure's incentive grant to Andover Neighborhood Association for Stormwater Quality Projects at the Class of Act received $158,701.13, item 28. A resolution ratifying the mayor's previous execution of an agreement with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Department of Community-Based Services for the acceptance of a grant for the Family Care Center, which grant funds are in the amount of $324,000 in federal funds to sustain child care providers for essential employees, the acceptance which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure funds, and authorizing the mayor to transfer to underground funds within the grant budget. Item 29. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement renewal with Otis Elevator Company, a sole source provider, to perform maintenance services for the Division of Community Corrections at a cost knocked out $2,210.04 in fiscal year 2022. Item 30. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a renewal agreement with Energetz Kentucky LLC for continuing services as administrator of the Energy Project Assessment District Program for an additional three years at no cost to the urban county government. Item 31. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute an agreement awarding Class A neighborhood incentive grant to Hittman Creek Conservancy Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a cost of electricity $36,350.50. Item 32. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute an agreement awarding Class B education incentive grant to the Living Arts and Science Center Incorporated for stormwater quality projects at a cost of electricity $30,500. Item 33, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American Government to execute an agreement awarding Class A Neighborhood Incentive Grant to Lakes Edge Condominium Association Incorporated for Surround Water Quality Projects at the cost of $12,000. Item 34. A resolution authorizing directly on behalf of your mechanic government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application with grant funds on the amount of $884,579.93 in federal funds under the State Homeland Security Grant Program for fiscal year 2022 for the Division of Police in order to upgrade a remote firing device and expose a response robot and purchase a thermal or color camera and search light equipment and also purchase any associated equipment installation and maintenance. item 35. A resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute an agenda to the agreement with WISER strategy for media planning and placement services for the Division of Environmental Services, expanding the scope of the agreement to provide for additional services for public outreach related to the Metropolitan Planning Organization, MPO, and the Safe Street Campaign, an increase in contract price by the sum of $50,000 from $225,000 to $275,000 item 36. A resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of your mechanic government to execute an Addendum to the agreement with a Wiser strategy for creative design services for public outreach and media campaigns for the Division of Environmental Services, explaining the scope of the agreement to provide additional services for public outreach related to the vacuum leaf collection program, increasing the contract price by the sum of $10,000 from $50,000 to $60,000, item 37. A resolution authorizing their on behalf of your becending government to accept deeds and execute any documents necessary for the acquisition of property interest at 1437 Edgeland Avenue and 300301 Bluegrass Avenue for the Meadows-Northland Arlington Project Sections 6A1, 6B1, and 6B2 at a cost not to exceed $7,500 and item 38. A resolution authorizing and directly on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute agreements with Food Chain $300, 16th District PTA $150, Rosemail Neighborhood Association incorporated $1,000, and the Lexington History Museum incorporated $500 for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to see the sum stated. Thank you. Thank you very much. And council members, I think there are several walk-ons and several suspensions. So first up is council member, we'll do walk-ons first. Council member Fred Brown, do you have a walk-on? No. Council member Bledsoe, walk-on? No. Council member James Brown, do you have a walk-on? Yes, ma'am. Very good. All right. I moved to place on the docket for the April 8th, 2021 Council meeting, a resolution expressing support for the repair and rehabilitation of the Palmer Pharmacy Building to create a waypoint center and authorizing and directing the mayor or her desictee to submit an FY 2022 Appropriations Community Project funding interest form and other supporting documents related to the project to the office of U.S. Representative Andy Barr. So move. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Councilmember Lamb, thank you. Are there questions? We do have people in the meeting who can answer questions. these are these are proposals that have a tight deadline on them okay anybody have a question all right all those in favor please raise your hand anyone opposed same sign all right thank you that passes All right, Mayor, I also have another one. I moved to place on the docket for the April 8, 2021 Council Meeting, a resolution expressing support for the Community Action Council's proposal to acquire land and construct a facility for early childhood education and family support services for three-year-old children in the William Wells Brown School District, and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designee to submit an FY 2021 appropriations community project funding interest form and other supporting documents related to the project to the Office of U.S. Representative Andy Barr. So move. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Lamb, are there questions? All right. All those in favor, please raise your hand. Is anyone opposed? I need to recuse myself from this one because of my connection to Community Action Council. Okay, very good. Thank you. That motion passes. Anything else, Council Member Brown, right now? No, not right now. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Lamb, do you have a walk-on? Yes, ma'am, I do. Yes, ma'am. Yes, and this is on behalf of the administration, following up with Councilmember Brown's motions. I moved to place on the docket for the April 8, 2021 Council Meeting a resolution expressing the support for the proposed barrier-free reentry and recovery initiative and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designee to submit an FY 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form and other supporting documentation related to the project to the office of U.S. Representative Andy Barr. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Council Member James Brown seconds. Are there questions? Okay. Council Member Fred Brown, and we have Amy Baker and Andrea James on here who can answer questions about this. did you have a question council member fred well i i just wanted to get a clarification that these there's all three are related evidently to monies that we're trying to get from the federal government and uh it what was the what was the deadline why was why was it so quick does anybody know what the you know there's three of them there that go to the congressman I know Amy's on and Andrea's on. We, you know, we did just get a call last week that he had opportunity for grants and had very little time. So. Mayor, I can speak. This is Amy Baker. I can speak to the substance abuse related grant. We were asked to pull together an opportunity relatively quickly. As you mentioned, I was actually out on spring break when it happened. And what this proposal will do for us is just strengthen existing programs. It would strengthen our community paramedicine program. It would address a gap, a major gap of transportation that exists with this population and also provide some financial assistance to recovery residences for folks who are leaving initial treatment, initial substance abuse treatment, and are moving into long-term recovery supported housing, which greatly increases a person's opportunity at long-term recovery. Thank you. Thank you for that. Andrea, did you want to add anything to that? Yeah, I was going to respond to Councilmember Fred Brown's question about the timing. It was a very quick turnaround council member brown our office was notified on the 31st of march um and by their own account from council congressman barr's office it was intended to be a quick turnaround um so the deadline is april 9th so that was just the way it's prescribed well i just you know i thought that we need a little clarification that's none of that's out of the american relief fund projection at all. This is something completely separate. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. Thank you, Andrea. Okay. Anything else on that before we take the vote? All right. All those in favor, please raise your hand. anyone opposed thank you very much that passes i am learning that these grant opportunities come up very quickly and we're expected to do a turnaround and you heard her say tomorrow's the deadline on the opioid one so we'll get it sent right in tomorrow um now are there any other walk-ons all right um madam clerk if you will give those four or those three walk-ons first reading please yes ma'am i am 39 a resolution expressing the support of the urban county council for the repair and rehabilitation of the vacant palmer pharmacy building on the corner of fifth and chestnut streets to create the waypoint center a facility designed to offer education-based initiative and programs to combat the high rate of poverty in Lexington's East End and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designee to submit a fiscal year 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form and any supporting documentation related to this project to the office of the of United States Representative Andy Barr. Item 40. A resolution expressing the support of the Urban County Council for the Community Action Council's proposal to acquire land and construct a facility for early childhood education and family support services for three-year-old children in the William Welds Brown School District and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designee to submit a fiscal year 2020 appropriations community project funding interest form and any supporting documentation related to this project to the Office of United States Representative Andy Farr. And item 41, a resolution expressing the support of the Urban County Council for the proposed barrier-free reentry and recovery initiative, Be Free, which would provide support services for those with substance use and opioid use disorder and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designee to submit a fiscal year 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form and any supporting documentation related to the project to the Office of United States Representative Andy Barr. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, Council Members, are there motions to suspend the rules and give second reading? If you'll log in, please. Council Member Legree. Thank you, Mayor. I request that we suspend the rules and give second reading to item 16, a resolution renaming South End Park to Davis Park. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Baxter seconded. Are there questions? all right all those in favor of giving second reading please raise your hand anyone opposed same sign all right that motion passes thank you council member fred brown uh mayor i have three you want me to read all three of them and then vote on them is that uh why don't you take them one at a time if you don't mind I have by request of administration number 11, request that we have a second reading. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Council Member Plumman. Any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Yes. And item 22, I'd like to suspend the rules, give a second reading on behalf of the administration. Second. Vice Mayor Kay seconded. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. All right. Anyone opposed? That motion passes. and also uh item 30 i'd like to spin the rules and have a second reading for on behalf of the administration for item 30. all right thank you uh second you vice mayor k any questions all right all those in favor please raise your hand is anyone opposed okay that motion passes all right thank you very much um council member bledsoe thank you mayor i moved to spend the rules on item number 34 and give second reading so we can move forward the grant more quickly so moved thank you are there is there a second council member lagree all right any questions all those in favor please raise your hand all right anyone opposed okay that motion passes anything else council member bledsoe okay uh council member baxter thank you mayor on behalf of the administration i move to give second reading to item number 10 accepting the bid of surf pro for cleaning services so moved is there a second second council member james brown seconds are there any questions all right all those in favor please raise your hand anyone opposed okay that motion passes i have one more please okay On behalf of the administration, I move to give second reading to item number 15. Right. Is there a second? Second. Council Member James Brown, are there questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Anybody opposed? That motion passes. All right. Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to ask to suspend the rules and give second reading to item number 14. These are conditional offers of employment. So move. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Plowman seconds. Are there questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Is anyone opposed? All right, that passes. Mayor, I want to go on record. I voted no on 15, so I want you to be sure to let everybody know that I voted no on 15. All right. Council Member Maloney voted no on giving second reading to number 15. Council Member James Brown, did you have more? Yes, ma'am. I'd also like to suspend the rules and give second reading to all those walk-ons that we just did. Do you want to do them one at a time or 39, 40, and 41? 39, 40, and 41, the walk-ons? Yes, ma'am. Second. All right. Council Member Lamb seconded. 39, 40, and 41. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. All right. Is anyone opposed? Okay. That motion passes. is there anyone else um looks like it's got it okay um madam clerk just so we're on the same page we have 10 11 14 15 16 22 30 34 39 40 and 41 is that it okay if you will please give those second reading yes ma'am item 10 a resolution accepting the bid of serve pro of lexington establishing a price contract for cleaning services for flooding in the division of water quality Item 11, a resolution accepting the bid of James River Solutions establishing a price contract for commercial fuel for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management. Item 14. A resolution authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make an initial offer to the following probation and classified civil service appointments. Willie McGee, Resource Recovery Operator, Grade 513 and 17.404, Aroly Individual Waste Management, effective May 10, 2021. Jeremy Powell, Resource Rehebrow Reoperative, Grade 513N, 17.248 Hourly, in the Division of Waste Management, effective April 26th, 2021. Michael Hauserman, Code Enforcement Officer, Grade 516N, 22.040 Hourly, in the Division of Code Enforcement, effective May 3, 2021. Mahalo Smith, Telecommunicator, Grade 514N, 19.215 Hourly, in the Division of Enhance 911, effective April 26th, 2021. Corey Barnes, Heavy Equipment Technician, Grade 518N, 22.241 Hourly, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Nicholas Klaus, Vehicle and Equipment Technician, Grade 514N18.499 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Eric Gentry, Public Service Worker, Grade 507N13.317 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective April 26, 2021. Anthony Donnerty, Custard Dual Worker, Grade 505N11.943 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective May 10, 2021. Phoebe Kingsley, Public Service Worker, Grade 507N13.800 hourly in the Division of Parks and Recreation, effective April 26, 2021. Jacob Farmer, public service worker, grade 507 in 13.041 hours in the Division of Parks and Recreation. Effective May 10, 2021, Christopher Avilia, Planning Manager, grade 526E, 3,269.28 per week, the Division of Planning, effective June 14, 2021, authorizing the Division of Human Resources to make a conditional offer to the following probationary sworn appointments. Lenny Motley, Jessica Bishop, and Christopher Turpin, all community corrections sergeants, grade 112 and 23.937 hourly in the Division of Community Corrections, effective March 29, 2021, James Hawkins, Edward Fulick, Jason Campbell, Dylan Duthit, Jordan Gross, Margaret Bowling, Jared Williams, Brian Wilbert, Guy Franklin, Daryl North, Tamara Taylor, Daryl Warren, Joshua Simpson, Jacob Sims, Brian Fick, Bradley Newman, Matthew Campbell, Timothy Middleton, Brian Bayer, Caleb Rice, Lavelle, Floyd, Mason Jones, Dalton Crowe, Joshua McKnight, Tanner Graham, William Jurko, Shane Riley, Jared Gross, Jackson Dameron, Alexander Carpenter, Jacob Hicks, Justin DeMarcus and Jamal Ryan, all firefighters, firefighter recruit grade 311 and 20.462 hourly in the division facilities and fire and emergency services effective upon passage of council. Item 15. A resolution amending resolution 135-2021 to revise account numbers for payments of $199,949 to Gresham Smith and Partners for Services under contract modification number five for town branch commons corridor. Item 16. A resolution authorizing directing the Division of Parks and Recreation to change the name of South End Park to Davis Park in recognition of Mr. Willard Davis. Item 22. A resolution authorizing payment in the amount of $64,500 to the Commonwealth of Kentucky Kentucky State Treasurer and $64,500 to the United States Department of Justice as stipulated penalties under the consent decree. and authorizing the marriage on behalf of the license of the urban county government to execute any necessary documents related to the payment. Item 30. The resolution authorizing directly mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a renewal agreement with Energize Kentucky LLC for continuing services as administrator of the energy project assessment district program for additional three years at no cost to the urban county government. Item 34. A resolution authorizing directly to the mayor on behalf of your beginning to execute and submit a grant application to Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to provide any additional information requests in connection with its grant application, which grant funds are in the amount of $884,579 in federal funds under the State Homeland Security Grant Program for fiscal year 2022 for the Division of Police in order to upgrade a remote firing device, an explosive response robot, and purchase a thermal or color camera and searchlight equipment, and also purchase any associated equipment installation and maintenance. End of item 39. A resolution expressing the support of the Urban County Council for the repair and rehabilitation of the vacant Palmer Pharmacy building on the corner of 5th and Chestnut Streets to create the Waypoint Center, a facility designed to offer education-based initiative and programs to combat the high rate of poverty in Lexington's East End. and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designate to submit a fiscal year 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form and any supporting documentation related to this project to the office of United States Representative Andy Barr. Item 40. A resolution expressing the support of the Urban County Council for the Community Action Council's proposal to acquire land and construct a facility for early childhood education and family support services for three-year-old children in the William Wells Brown School District and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designate to submit a fiscal year 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form in any supporting documentation related to this project to the office of united states representative andy bar and item 41 a resolution expressed is expressing the support of the urban county council for the proposed barrier free re-entry and recovery initiative be free which would provide support services for those with substance use and opioid use disorder and authorizing and directing the mayor or her designate to submit a fiscal year 2022 appropriations community project funding interest form and any supporting documentation related to the project to the office of United States Representative Andy Barr. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Council Member Plowman and thank you Council Member Ellinger. And when you're ready, Madam Clerk, if you'll take a roll call vote. Yes ma'am. Ms. Baxter? yes ma'am Ms. Bledsoe yes ma'am Mr. Fred Brown yes Mr. James Brown yes Mr. Ellinger yes ma'am Vice Mayor Kay yes Mr. Kuiber yes ma'am Ms. Lamb yes ma'am Ms. LeGree yes Mr. McCurn? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? No, on 15. Yes, on the rest. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Reynolds? Yes on all. Recuse on 40. Thank you. And Ms. Sheehan? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Those all pass. Council members, thank you for supporting those last minute grant applications. Next is communications from the mayor and we'll need a motion, please. second thank you councilmember baxter thank you was that councilmember james brown yes all right are there any questions all those in favor please raise your hand is anyone opposed same sign all right that passed and the next is communications from the mayor for information only Council Member Reynolds, did you have a question? No? Okay. There are no fire or police disciplines tonight, and so now we are at announcements, and I might just quickly ask Stacey if Emma Anderson came to speak. No, ma'am. I have not seen her in the list yet. All right. Thank you very much. Okie doke. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight, I just really wanted to say a few words about the incident that happened in my district last Tuesday. It was tragic. It was horrific. and it shook the neighborhood in which it happened, as well as the families that were all affected by it. And it was very unfortunate. And I've had a lot of constituents reach out to me about the event. And I told all of them that I would look into it and that I would research it. And I've been doing that. And I want to say sorry to the family that we heard from tonight and to all those involved. And the mayor has said that there will be more information going out to the family. And I hope that that is true and that that happens quickly. That being said, I thought that I would ask several questions that I've heard publicly to have public answers to those questions. And so I would like to ask if Chief Weathers is available to speak with me for a few minutes. Should be in the council chamber. Or are you on Zoom, Chief? There you are. Welcome. Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Thank you so much for being here. I've heard a lot of different things being said. And I just thought I would ask you some questions in reference to this situation. The first first off there there's there's been, you know, a lot of pressure about these videos being released. And I know you said on Tuesday that they would be released as soon as possible, as soon as this investigation was further along. And I'm correct to say that this is not a criminal investigation. This is an investigation of the accident by the police department. Is that correct? Yes, ma'am. And let me just echo what you said. It truly is a very horrific and heartbreaking incident. and it's not something any officer wants to see, let alone any police chief wants to see. Policing is a very dangerous business. We can't control everything and unfortunate incidents do happen. Apologize to the family for it. Apologize to Mr. long, who's injured, but the officer involved, he's dealing with some things too, not anywhere on the scale that the family's dealing with. When we look at these, we look at them with the seriousness and we understand that we need to be accountable for everything that we do. Not everything is a criminal matter. This is one of those things that we have to look at and what the investigation will have to ferret out. As far as how things are going with the investigation, On the day that it happened, I pushed, Assistant Chief's pushed for the investigation to go as quickly as possible, especially for it to be at a point where we can release at least information to the family. And we have reached out to the family and we want to provide them with information because I understand that the information they get from the media or from other sources doesn't necessarily come to us or come from us. Sometimes people play on certain words, you know, particularly if we say an incident is not life threatening. That is not the same thing to say that the injuries are not serious. And that's what people have to understand. we ask right then and there and we get preliminary information. If it's medical information, we're not privy to it. So when we go back and we ask again, we may or may not get information. When we first ask, hey, how does it look? We go with that. And then if it changes, we put something else out. But if we don't get anything official on what the information is, we can't put that out and we're just stuck with the preliminary information. Okay. Thank you for that response. In terms of what you're allowed to say, are you allowed to say anything about the details of that incident that would help the public feel like they knew what was going on to be a little more transparent? um again i think the investigation is progressing or has progressed at a good pace and till i'm certain that we have the information that we need i don't want to make any comments about it. After saying that, I feel pretty confident by tomorrow or at least by mid next week, we will be at that point. And once we are at that point, again, we're still going to try to reach out to the family and talk to them. Irrespective of that, once we're at that point, the video is going to be released. And we do we are in some legal obligation to redact some of it. So yes, some of it is going to be redacted on what we released publicly. If we talk to the family and show them the videos, that's not a public release. And I think we'll be very forthcoming with whatever information the family wants. Okay, and there's some concerns about transparency in terms of self-policing. Do you intend to have an outside agency look over this? Yeah, we talked to the state police today, and we're going to send them the information we have, and they're going to do a review of our information. We think that's a fair way to do it. it's like I said, it's not criminal and they've agreed to look at it. Okay. Thank you. And then, you know, today we heard, and I think we heard the other day as well, that the family wasn't notified about what happened to Mr. Long until four and a half hours later. Do you know anything about that, that you can comment on? I don't know anything about that. and typically that's not our role. That would probably be the hospital's role. Just to discuss the initial incident, what happened? Once they notify the family, we do reach out to them, and I don't know how long that took, but once we can contact them and set up a meeting with them, that's when we go out and talk to them. Okay. Well, I appreciate your willingness to answer all my questions. I think that everybody's anxious to have more information, and I hope that that will come out soon and that we can get more information to the family and also to the public. This is really unfortunate, and I think it is going to have some ripple effects in some of the questions that we ask about just surrounding the event, what if it could have been prevented. So thank you very much. And that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Council Member Lamb. Thank you, Mayor. Actually, my question has to do with public comment. Tonight, before the meeting, Council Administrator Maynard, she sent us a couple of statements, And one of them had to do with the number 18 that has to do with the release of, it's to do with the Miss Lake property. And can I ask a question of Miss Maynard? Does the public comment that was written, does it go into our council meeting minutes? I don't know. I guess I should ask that of Miss Allen. Yes, ma'am. The council clerk will keep that as part of the official record for the minutes. And I did share that with Council Member Worley earlier. And I have also been in contact with the citizen to let them know that there would not be a second reading tonight. OK, I just wanted to make sure because he did express some concerns. And I just you know, this is this has been this is such a strange situation, one that we've not had to deal with like before. and I know that I've just received a second email now about it and so I just I wanted to make sure that that Mr. Wilshire's comments were put into the record tonight so thank you so much thank you thank you Ms. Maynard and Ms. Allen. Thank you Council Member McCurron. Thank you Mayor. I know Council Member Brown's going to speak to the same thing that I am here but I wanted to give a shout out for this being National Public Health Week and wanted to recognize Consolidated Baptist Church and Reverend Pastor Gaines for their recent award that they received, the Dr. Rice and Leach Public Health Hero Award for their work with the vaccination clinic and over over at Consolidated Baptist. Excuse me there. So I'm very appreciative of all their work that they've done, working with our health department, working with our city and trying to be a good steward for our community, continuing to not only do this every year with their flu shots, but to be on top of it this year and be such a leader for the COVID vaccination, I think is crucial in our time. So I want to thank them for what they've done and huge support of them. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member James Brown. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate Council Member McCurn recognizing Reverend Gaines and the Consolidated Church for all they've done in regards to efforts surrounding the COVID-tested and vaccination efforts. They have truly been a shining star when it comes to partnerships in regards to this effort, along with the University of Kentucky. And that kind of reminds me of to mention the COVID clinic that's going to be set up again this weekend, this coming Saturday, and Charles Young for the folks that got the first vaccination to come and get their second shot. So we look forward to that clinic and those folks that were out the first time coming back to get their second shot. But also in that park this Saturday at 2 p.m., they're going to have a Daffodil Drift presentation. America in Bloom partnered with the Neighborhood Association, and they're recognizing the community champion, who we all know, Miss Yvonne Giles, this coming Saturday. So, Mayor, I think you're going to be out there as well, along with the Neighborhood Association and other neighbors, to help celebrate this occasion. Um, the sticking with the theme surrounding the COVID vaccination, I've had several conversations with Kevin Hall and council member Reynolds. And I think we've been real intentional about reaching out to the black community and have had some success, but I think we still have opportunity to reach out to the Latino and Hispanic communities. And, and we both see the value in having these neighborhood clinics in neighborhoods where we know a lot of these folks live, Cardinal Valley and Winburn area. I think if we, the health department or UK partners with these neighborhood associations and some of these other agencies that have trusted relationships, we could have some real success in reaching some folks that we're having a hard time reaching in regards to the vaccination efforts. So Mayor, you know, if you can do anything to help us with these efforts and to move these conversations forward, we see some true value in having these mobile mobile clinics in these areas of our of our city um may i may i just quickly i won't take your time we'll stop your time and go you're fine yesterday at the uh health care stakeholders meeting i specifically asked that question because bluegrass uh bluegrass health first is getting ready to go out into communities and Dr. Debbie Stanley assured me that they are going to do a clinic in Cardinal Valley. I specifically asked about that community and she said yes that will be happening. So I'm not exactly sure when you know they get smaller I think they get a hundred vaccines at a time and so that is definitely on her radar and will be happening. Okay that's good news. I guess I got to continue to advocate for Winburn. Of course. We'll get there. Yeah. And then also, Director Stack, I think tonight's recognition was well-deserved. I heard that he was looking to retire soon. And, you know, he's been a constant advocate for his employees out there in regards to their staffing, the job that they do. At one point in time, I was a 411 operator that provided information. And I know how tough that was. So I can only imagine how tough it is to serve as a 911 and E911 operator. So we appreciate the work that they do out there and his leadership at that facility, because we know that it's a challenge. And then I'll also speak to some of the comments that were shared in public comments in regards to the incident, the long incident, which happened last week. I appreciate Councilmember Reynolds for asking some of those questions. I know, you know, sometimes we get the answers to them, and it's hard to communicate that to the general public, but, you know, as transparent as we can be, I think it'll be beneficial, and I appreciate the chief saying that, you know, they reached out to the family and can be more forthcoming with information and revealing some of those videos and information with them and not necessarily all of it that needs to be released to the public. But, you know, I've been a constant advocate for making those body camera videos available to the public. And not every time that we make those requests and it doesn't happen, sometimes that's not completely on us all the time. Sometimes it's attorneys, you know, the public defender or whatnot has a say in whether or not those videos get released. And I think it's important to communicate that to the public because I think sometimes they think that it's the police department and the city council or the city not making those available. And that's not always the case. But I think there's opportunity here. And it sounds like it could be as soon as tomorrow or the middle of next week, and we can get something out to the public to get some answers for this family and for the community that's asking these questions. And then the other thing is, you know, I appreciate the state police looking at it. But, you know, when he first said it, when the chief first said it, I had concerns because I know when we released that information to them, we're kind of at their mercy when we get it back and can make it available. so we can make it available before they get a chance to review it but then also have a chance to review and make sure that the investigation is completed to a set at a satisfactory level i think that's important as well so thank you council member reynolds and thank you mayor for looking into this issue and and working to get it resolved thank you i appreciate that i did meet with chief and several from police this morning to talk about these very things. And if I understand the chief correctly, chief, if you're still in the council chamber, this is very different from the incident last summer where the Kentucky State Police actually did the investigation. This is a review which, Chief, if you're still there, can you confirm this will probably be a quicker process because they're technically not investigating. They're reviewing your investigation. Is that correct? Since they're reviewing it, the video, releasing video is not of concern. Yes. Good. Thank you. We can release the video when we're satisfied with our side of it. Okay, very good. Thank you again, Chief. Thank you, Councilmember Brown. Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, Mayor and Chief. If I can, I should have said before you go, I've got it. Yeah. And I just want to follow up on some of the comments and questions that are made about this particular incident. And I'm interested in your saying, if you would, a little more about the question of redaction. I think some people have the impression that redaction can be used as a tool to prevent some useful information from getting to the public. And if you could speak a little bit about what the bases are for redacting information and if there's an explanation about that when a video or other information is released? I don't know if there'll be any information about specific redactions, but typically we can't. For instance, on our in-car computers, we're not allowed to show that information, so that's blurred out. When somebody's given their date of birth or specific information, we have to remove that from it as well. And if it's going to be somebody's treated for some kind of medical emergency, some of that has to be blurred out just because of HIPAA rules and regulations. And juveniles, we really can't show anything about juveniles if they're there, so that has to be taken out. you'll see the blurred images on the screen. It's really not a lot of them, but in some of the incidents that we have, people are partially naked and things like that. Those things have to be blared out. So those are the types of things we're talking about. Okay. And is it fair to say that for anything that's redacted, it's redacted there is an explanation similar to what you've just given so that it's not about choosing sections that you don't want to be revealed but there's a there's always a reason and it's about regulations and and confidential information and things like that is that correct we only redact what we're legally supposed to great thank you very much i think that's helpful for everybody to hear. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. And I just wanted to reiterate some of what's already been said, which is I share the same grief and sorrow for the family and for Mr. Long that the officers were all involved in a tragic situation. And I think Council Member Brown brought up a really good point, which is sometimes it's not the LPD or our offices preventing camera footage being released. It is a county attorney. It is a public defender. It is somebody else involved that has asked for that for whatever reason. And I think sometimes that gets overlooked in this. So I'm thankful he brought that up and hope it can be released as soon as possible. I wanted to just a few things. One, I wanted to give my best to Laura Hatfield and just recognize that she's moving not out of City Hall, but to a different place and recognize her years of service in the mayor's offices and different administrations and her work. It's just a new season of service and I appreciate her and excited for what she's going to do. Also, we look forward to your budget address next week on Tuesday at three o'clock to see what you have prepared for the city. And then lastly, I don't expect you to respond to this at all, but I'm getting a number of conversations and questions about redistricting and when the city is going to take on that conversation. I know we won't get the census numbers are probably September at best. So I know the state is talking about that somewhat openly, and I'm getting asked about it quite a bit, about what our plans are. And just sometime, I think it would be helpful that we have a consistent answer or a plan that just so we're all saying the same thing moving forward about how that might look in the future. That's all. Thank you, Mayor. If I could quickly tell you, I put together the last one when I was Vice Mayor. It's up to the vice mayor to put the plan together. And we can't do anything until we get the final census numbers. And I did leave a whole folder because I had to recreate the process. I don't know whether that folder is still with the council administrator or not. But it is a process that has to be has to follow certain rules. And until we get those final numbers, we really can't get it going. So, vice mayor, when you're ready, I'm happy to talk to you. and we'll ask Stacey to see if she still has that folder because it has some of the actual regulations that we must follow and that sort of thing. So it is a council process. And so if I may, certainly as soon as we have data, we know that it's coming. We'll begin to set the process up. And I took a quick look at it. I'm not going to tell you that I'm totally familiar with it yet, but my understanding is that essentially it's a citizen's process and that we have asked one representative from each district to serve on a body that then with staffing looks at the data and does its best to balance out the numbers so that there's as much as equal representation as possible. but I think it's important to say at this point that council members don't make that decision. May doesn't make that decision. It's a citizens group that we trust with that important work. So we'll have more to say about it. But as the mayor said right now, I don't think we even know when we're going to get the numbers. No, we do not. I only heard that from the state keeps saying September-ish, but it's helpful to me to be able to say, no earlier than the fall before that process just so that people aren't thinking we're waiting for some information so thank you and vice mayor thank you for uh saying it's a citizen process in the past council members are have not been permitted to speak at the meetings they are not permitted to participate in the process because it is a citizen process and your main role will be to ask someone from your district, someone who represents your district to participate. And it's a great process. And then the vice mayor normally appoints the chair. And so it's fascinating to see how the GIS folks do their magic and, you know, shifting numbers around. And I know that the last time when I set it up, the council agreed to certain rules, such as no gerrymandering and that sort of thing. So there are some things that are not in law or regulation that are important to agree to ahead of time. So the process goes smoothly. So I think you'll find it fascinating. um anything else council member bledsoe okay council member maloney uh mayor i want to i've stepped through a bunch of these my question that i have that it brought to my attention is that the legislators may be way ahead of us on this and and they may come out of it quicker than the council because this is going to take a long time for the council to do something like It usually takes eight months, sometimes six to eight months to do that. My question to you or whoever is, when the legislature does this that year and we don't have time, how much time do we have? So in other words, we will keep the same district for the next year's election. And I would assume it would go into effect the following election. But the legislators could go ahead with next year's election with their redistricting because they'll probably be more far advanced than we will. So I just want to be sure if that's correct, because I don't remember of all the years that I've been here that somebody went ahead of somebody. I always thought we were consistent, but I got a feeling this year that the legislators may go a little bit more aggressive than we are. And if that happens, I just want to hear, are we going to try to rush it through or are we going to do it professionally and then hopefully it goes into the following two years after that for the election? That's the question I would ask. I can speak to the last one. And the council's committee, which the citizens served, was much quicker than the state. The state took at least a year more. I don't know what the state will do. I'm not going to guess. I suspect that once we get the census numbers and the vice mayor organizes this, it will go very quickly. It's a really good process with the GIS folks helping. And there's no reason it has to drag on and on and on. But there is good reason to be very thoughtful about the numbers and to be sure. you know there's a lot of a lot of considerations that go into it such as where is growth happening and so what we know from that is that some council members end up with a district by the end of the 10 years that's many times bigger than others because of growth so you you know you factor all those in but I don't I mean I would not expect this to be a slow process at all okay well I'm not saying it would be a slow process. I just wonder if it does happen, that they get way ahead of us, does our election affect the new district would be the following two years after the legislature? Or if we can do it at the same time, that'd be wonderful. But I just never, I'm just thinking it may happen this time. It wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen this time. Well, I suspect that Vice Mayor Kay is very interested in getting it going as soon as we have the numbers and, you know, making it work as quick as you can. So thank you. That would be my expectation. And I think Vice Mayor Kay, probably yours, too. Yes, ma'am. No. So I do not know what the state's going to be doing, you know. So what else on that? Anything else on that? All right. Does anybody else have an announcement or comment? I just wanted to say a couple things. I wanted to echo some of the comments about Pastor Gaines. A few weeks back when I was out at Consolidated, I thanked him for all of his service with first the testing at Consolidated and then the vaccines. And he said to me, we are in a pandemic. We have a gymnasium sitting empty. And we thought this was a great way to help the community. And I think that is just an example of the kind of person he is. and his view on it. And then as for Laura Hatfield, you know, we're going to miss her in the mayor's office. However, she has worked for several years now in a very intense, difficult area of street violence. And I'm very excited for her new job that she's excited about, And she will be actually working to program, help program these community centers, which kind of works hand in hand with our youth and youth activities and those sorts of things. So we're really happy for her, even though we'll miss her. But we thank her for her years in this really intense work that she's done with One Lexington and Safety Net. so with that we are we have come to adjournment so if there's a motion please we will go ahead thank you thank you councilmember plowman and all those in favor please show your hand all right that's unanimous we are adjourned thank you have a great weekend everybody Thank you.