# Water Quality Fees Board (Virtual meeting) - April 8, 2021 > Auto-transcribed civic record · April 8, 2021 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5335 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5335?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2021-04-08 - **Last revised**: April 8, 2021 - **Length**: 8,477 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 Water Quality Fees Board met on April 8, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. via Zoom web conferencing, with George Woolwine presiding. The board approved the minutes from the January 14, 2021 meeting and heard two informational presentations and updates. The meeting included one vote and no public comments. Four agenda items were addressed, covering routine business and program updates. ## Attendance **Present:** - George Woolwine - Harry Clarke - David Lowe - George Ely **Absent:** - Donna Fogle **Late:** - George Ely ## Votes and Decisions **Approval of January 14, 2021 Meeting Minutes** The body voted to approve the meeting minutes from January 14, 2021. David Lowe moved for approval, and Harry Clarke seconded the motion. [timestamp: 00:30] The motion passed unanimously with 3 ayes and 0 nays. All three members present voted in favor: - George Woolwine - Harry Clarke - David Lowe ## Approval of 1/14/21 Minutes [timestamp: 00:30] The board reviewed and approved the minutes from the January 14, 2021 meeting. Key speakers during this agenda item included George Woolwine, David Lowe, and Harry Clarke. The minutes were approved by the board. ## Living Arts & Science Center Presentation The Living Arts & Science Center presented information about their programs and the impact of the Incentive Grant Program on their educational initiatives [timestamp: 00:01:03]. **Key Speakers** The presentation was delivered by Lori Halligan, Jessica Byassee, and Amanda Wheeler. **Presentation Content** The Living Arts & Science Center discussed their educational programs and provided details on how the Incentive Grant Program has supported and influenced their initiatives. **Outcome** This agenda item was presented for informational purposes. ## Incentive Grant Status Update Frank Mabson and Jennifer Carey provided updates on the status of various Incentive Grants spanning fiscal years 2016 through 2021 [timestamp: 0:32:33]. The discussion covered ongoing projects and the challenges associated with administering these grants across multiple fiscal years. While specific grant details and individual project statuses were not detailed in the available information, the presentation addressed the broader portfolio of incentive grant activities currently in progress. The outcome of this agenda item was informational, with no formal decisions or action items recorded. The update served to keep the meeting participants apprised of grant program status and implementation progress. ## Other Matters Frank Mabson led a discussion on FY 2022 Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grant Applications and application deadlines [timestamp: 0:55:07]. This agenda item was presented for informational purposes. The discussion focused on the upcoming grant cycle for stormwater quality projects, with emphasis on the relevant application deadlines that applicants would need to meet. No specific concerns or debates were documented for this agenda item. The outcome was informational, indicating that the discussion served to provide updates and information to meeting attendees regarding the grant application process and timeline. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (3-0): Approval of the January 14, 2021, meeting minutes --- ## Full transcript Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and state of emergency, this meeting is being held via a 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 the meeting. So with that, call the meeting to order. has everyone had a chance to review the uh january 14th 2021 meeting minutes any comments quick questions or corrections hearing none do i hear a motion that we accept the minutes as written i'll move to approve group recommended by david second i'll second second by harry all in favor the motion signify by saying aye raising your right hand aye opposed like son most degrees all right next is our Living Arts and Science Center presentation so you're up all right so Jessica are you gonna share your screen yes okay all right And this is in reference to, I think the board had mentioned they would wanted to just see, you know, kind of a presentation of the, you know, what Living Arts and Science Center had been working on, you know, over the past. As a kind of a comment, you've had several grants approved. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. We've had several since 2012 and 2013 it started. Okay. So we have a lot to show, a lot of information. And some of that dealt with education type of issues, correct? Yes. Okay. And one year, I believe it was 2014, if I'm not mistaken, they received a B Infrastructure grant to install pavers. Yeah. I don't remember that. Don't steal our thunder just yet. We've got it all. I think does it usually come down from the top to share? It does. On my screen, there's a menu bar toward the bottom that sort of pops up if you hover toward the bottom of your monitor. It would be green in color. Oh, I see that. And then you'll, that'll open a window that will show all of your windows that you have open and then just, yep, you're doing it. You've got it. And then, yeah, just launch your presentation. all right so we want to thank you for inviting us to speak with you today and we've already done a little bit of our introductions but i am laurie halligan and i'm the executive director here we've also spoken now to jessica biasee who is our grant program manager and then we also have joining us today, Amanda Wheeler, who is the planetarium and STEM discovery educator. So next slide, please. So I want to share with you our mission statement. The Living Arts and Science Center inspires participation in art and science by engaging the community through education, discovery, exploration, and creativity. And our facility, if you've not been here, we hope you'll be able to join us after COVID and we can open our doors once again to the public. But we are in a unique position where we combine the arts and sciences. And some of those science activities include Lexington's only planetarium, our outdoor rain gardens, and the community cistern project that we're going to talk about a little bit, our community vegetable garden, and then of course a lot of classrooms for both art and science education. And we're also really excited. We are planning to install an educational solar panel this spring, and then we'll be able to use that as an education tool to talk about the powerful solar energy available in the state of Kentucky. And this shows a map of our neighborhood. We are off of Martin Luther King and 4th Street. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, our neighborhood has a population of 27,000, of which 52.9% are African American and approximately 12% are of minority races and ethnicities. The population is also nearly 49% under the poverty level, which is about double of Kentucky statewide. Roughly 13% under the age of 18 are 52% impoverished. So as you can see, the area, the neighborhood surrounding our facility is what you would consider a food desert. So our gardens area is very important to us. Um, we are growing a community vegetable garden as well as the native flowers and the spring, um, to be able to hopefully allow people from our neighborhood to feel comfortable in, um, picking vegetables as needed. you know, just to be able to come up at any time on their own and pick vegetables. You can also see with our location, we are in the prime location for partnerships with all three universities, UK, Trinity, and BCTC. We get a lot of volunteers and interns from all three of those universities. so I briefly mentioned about COVID so our doors have been locked to the general public since COVID began we have started since January being open on a limited basis by appointment and but some of the pre-program pre-COVID annual programming included camps and classes and we want to be known as a center for lifelong learning. So we have programming for pre-k two-year olds up through adults. And as Jessica just mentioned, we are in an area of impoverishment. And so we do offer scholarships for anyone basically who qualifies for free and reduced lunch, and they're able to take classes and camps with us at no charge. We also have field trips where In general, we host almost 20,000 students in the building where they can have science planetarium shows and art experiences. And we also have outreach programs that go into schools and libraries in approximately 40 counties, mostly in central and eastern Kentucky. When you are able to come here, you can see certainly science exhibits on art shows year round. And we also align our teachings with Kentucky's core content, national science education standards and Kentucky art and science standards. Again, pre-COVID, we offered community education, continuing education for teachers and students, particularly in the area of science. And then we're also known for our community events, such as Day of the Dead, Gallery Hop, and other types of things. we really do want to be a community resource for everyone in the community. Slide. So this is just an overview of some of the programs that Stormwater does help to provide. And we're going to go into some more detail about these programs here in a few slides. But we do want to mention that our programs really do focus on providing equal access and equal opportunities, educational opportunities for the students and populations that we serve. And so some of the programs that we're going to dive a little deeper into are listed here, like Science Explorers and Urban Ecology. And I wanted to show this slide real quick, just to show the huge impact that you all have provided over several years. As we've mentioned, we received infrastructure grants that helped with the pavers for the parking lot and the walking paths through our garden. And that does help with our own water system for our garden. The rain collects off of our ceiling or rooftop and drains from there and the pavers in the parking lot into our cistern, which is in the garden and feeds the springer that runs through the garden. So it's been a very important thing that has impacted pretty much everybody that comes to the center, whether they're just even walking by and enjoying the look of the garden and enjoying the flowers. Also, we, since 2015, have been receiving the stormwater education grants. And as you can see, the blue shows the LASC match funds and the green is the grants. So you all have really made our money reach even farther and be able to serve more children in our community and in the whole region. As you can see, this is a picture of the outside of our facility. The brick is our original structure, 1800s mansion and the addition here is the modern intake that has classrooms and the teaching kitchen and just a whole lot of fun space and the permeable pavers totaled to more than 7,000 installed on the facility grounds. Also within the garden are informational plaques and panels with information about stormwater conservation and the rain gardens function, which is accessible 24-7. As you know said, people walk by and sit and enjoy the benches in our garden and sit, especially if you're in the area right now, it's beautiful as springtime and everything's blooming. So we want you to know just what a tremendous impact that the Lexington Bay Urban County Government stormwater education grants have had on our students and as well as on the center. So almost 25,000 students, children and adults have been directly served. You have funded almost 6,000 hours of instruction. There have been almost 500 stormwater and urban ecology events and classes held. As Amanda's going to speak in a little bit, we are so proud of the Science Explorers Program. You have funded 95 weeks of science education, serving almost 1,700 underserved students in Title I schools. And then also we've had our outreach programs where when the students can't come to us, we go to them, visit them in their schools and communities, libraries. And that's been 344 programs in that, in those arenas with almost 22,000 students. So you can see that you have really made a difference in education around these topics for so many people and students. And we are so appreciative of your support of that of that educational effort. So why do we even need these science enrichment programs? Well, the data, the data backs us up because all the schools that we are concentrating on are Title I schools. And we know when we look at these numbers, we can see that Kentucky students are scoring really low in science and the classroom teachers don't have enough time or resources to address that deficit. And so that is where we come in with your help, especially these science explorer programs and these Title I schools, these kids who really need this science education are able to get it. And it's a huge, huge thing for these kids, their teachers and the schools. So the Science Explorers program, which we've mentioned a few times, is an amazing, amazing program. So it is an eight week program at the different elementary schools, Title One schools, like I mentioned. And it really helps to engage them, teach them about science and really hands on. Even now we're doing it virtually, but every kid got a kit. And so every week we are working with those students. They're super engaged, working with these kits that we provided to them with your help. And they love it. They love this program. The teachers love it. they can't say enough good things about it. And we're so, so happy that we're able to offer it. Normally, we have a celebration week where we invite their families and things. This year, we're going to invite their families virtually. And we're going to partner with the Newport Aquarium. They're going to do some programming for us for celebration week to celebrate science, explore, celebrate science. And I'm really excited because they're also going to focus on water conservation and how you can help animals by what you do every single day. So I'm really excited about that. And if I could just add, it's eight weeks in the fall and eight weeks in the spring. So it's a total of 16 weeks throughout the school year. Yes. And as you can imagine, with being an education center, it's very important for us to be able to do evaluations and tests to be able to show that our programming and curriculum is being beneficial. We do evaluation forms with the parents, which they have reported back to their children being able to make better grades and learn, retain information better. and we also do pre and post test during in-person programming of science explorers and we've seen as high as 63 percent of improvement and we are even able to observe that you know as we're maybe stepping into class at different times and being able to hear the students be able to recite back and implement ideas and processes that they're learning from our educators. And also, as Lori mentioned earlier, you know, all of our curriculum is following the next generation and Kentucky science standards. We're really proud of our curriculum because it is created mostly by our educators, but it is important that we are following the guidelines as well for education standards. Absolutely. And so urban ecology, we teach it in multiple formats with outreaches to schools and libraries. We do no school camps, summer camp classes, which Jessica is going to tell you a little bit more here in a few slides about some of the really exciting summer camp classes and future programs that we have. But we really focus on, you know, water quality, conservation, and we focus on, you know, wildlife habitats, habitats here in our backyard. We actually have two urban ecology virtual programs that we're going to be doing with schools here in Lexington in the next few months. And I think they really like it because they get to dissect an owl pellet. I really like it because we get to dissect an owl pellet. So it will be virtual, but we will be dropping those kids off at the schools so they can really have a hands-on experience. So our LASC ambassador animals, which I know some of the funds goes to help take care of those. And those animals are so important because it really helps engage the students. It really helps them even virtually. So with our science explorers program, we show them a different animal every day or every week. So this week, the animal that we're showing them is the Madagascar hissing cockroach. And actually yesterday, one of the kids because they can do science explorers in third grade and fourth grade. So they've done science explorers before. And they said, well, where's Billy the bass? They want to see the fish. And so they remember those animals. It really makes an impact on those students. And so even virtually, they are remembering those animals, and it really helps connect them to nature and connect them to the curriculum that we're teaching. So I'm really excited that we are able to show all these different animals. And we can talk about water quality with our axolotl and our frogs. And it's really amazing that we're able to have this collection to share with the community. and I'll mention my I've had friends with children be able to say that the kids miss coming in and getting those trading cards that we've been able to fund through storm water grants on the backs of each one has water quality and water conservation tips and on the other side has a picture of each of the animals we have the different cards sitting beside each station throughout the building and kids are able to kind of do it as a scavenger hunt and find and collect all those trading cards of the animals. So I want to talk to you about our discovery programming which we have not been able to have during COVID but we are planning to start that back up in July and what discovery programming is when the center is open and it will be on a Saturday. Some of them in the past have been on Thursday nights, but we found that we have better attendance on Saturdays, so we're going to go to an all-Saturday programming. This is where families can come in and just learn about the wonders of art and science together, and those are done free of charge. We do ask for it if people are able to make a nominal donation. But one of the ones that we do every year is Water is Life. And we're planning to do that one in, I believe it's August this year, August or September. We'll make sure to let you know which. But we've also had things focused on chemistry of water. We have a planetarium show about habitat earth, which is very popular. We've had presentations by marine biologists, the Kentucky Reptile Museum, the Newport Aquarium, and certainly raptors, farm animals. When we are dealing with such an urban population, you know, they really do enjoy learning about their Kentucky native species and families and children just naturally connect with animals and habitats. And then we can, you know, introduce educational ideas about that too. Next, please. So as I mentioned, we have had to move to virtual programming. I tried to banish the word pivot from my vocabulary. But when we weren't able to have students come to us, we figure out how to reach the students and the families where they are. So we do have virtual outreaches where we teach live to a classroom for approximately 45 minutes. And those topics there are listed of the ones that we provide. Again, we're able to use our teaching animals, ambassador animals. We talk about animals and habitats in Kentucky wildlife and urban ecology. and we also went to developing some of our own content in what we call the Living Think and this was in and we did ask for permission out of time but because we weren't able to do Water is Life and others you all help sponsor these programs. What is science? What is structure and function? Where we were able to use the land, the box turtle and then the musk turtle, the water-based musk turtle, and talk about how their body shapes were different and how they had adaptations to their environments. We have what is the water cycle, which is fun, what do plants need, and what are habitats. And so we'd be very happy to send you links to these so you can see what the Living Think is all about. And we are appreciative that you were able to work with us. And we always wanted to say two things. There is no playbook for a pandemic. And the second thing is let's focus on what we can do instead of what we can't do. All right. So we've looked at a lot of the things that we have been able to do. And now we're going to talk about some of the things that are coming up in 2021. We're really excited. We're going to be planting some more native species. Our plan is to become a certified monarch way station from Monarch Watch. And we will have, like Lori was saying, Water of Life Day this year. Our summer camps are going to be some in person, some virtual. We will be following all CDC guidelines to keep everyone safe. And so the stormwater funds actually provide one week free for our science explorers. So the teachers, we reach out to the teachers and they recommend the students who are in the most need for those spots. So we're really excited to be able to do that again. And then this is kind of a list of some of the different camp classes that we do offer. Some great classes in there about urban gardening and solar energy. Lots of great camps coming up this summer. So we just want you to know that we're so appreciative of your continued support and know that you make a difference in the, not just in, for the organization, but you make a difference here in the city, in our local communities, certainly in our schools. But I think probably most important is you make a difference in the life of children. And when they're exposed to quality science education, it sparks a creative interest and, and curiosity in those children. And we just want to think that we're launching the next generation of future scientists. And that's obviously available because of your support. So we would love to answer any questions you may have. But we just want to thank you for the opportunity to talk about our science programming and stormwater and how you've made that possible. Good. Well, thank you so much for the information. It's given us new insight on how we're spending some of our money to do what we're supposed to be doing. So thank you for your presentation. Are there any comments or questions from our guests from Living Arts and Science Center? Jessica, if you don't mind, stop sharing your screen and then that way might be easier for people to chime in with their questions. Thanks. Great. Any questions? Thank you so much for your time this morning. The presentation was very insightful. The passion and impact of your organization is quite clear, so thank you. Any others? Well, Lori, Jessica, Amanda, thank you so much for your time. It has been extremely beneficial and informative. I've always admired the beautiful home, the old mansion, and I was not aware that you had added an extension to that or addition to it. So let me ask you this. Can people from the outside come and go through the gardens and go through the different activities you have there? So the gardens are open all the time, and you know, we certainly welcome anyone to stop by. There are picnic tables there that, you know, people stop. We've had, especially during virtual education, we've had children and parents out teaching, you know, when the weather is beautiful. So please feel free to stop by outdoors anytime. But we would love for you to call us just and make an appointment. And we would love to take you on a tour of the whole building. It's just that we're not open just with the doors unlocked right now due to COVID protocols. So, but please call us and make an appointment. We'd love to show you everything. Your target is to open up in July. Do I understand that correctly? So we will be opening for summer camp in starting June 1st. And, but our doors will in generally be, general be locked at that time, except again, by appointment. It's just, we're trying to keep our germ pool, so to speak, as limited as possible. We do anticipate being open for regular hours towards the end of the summer, obviously, depending on where vaccination standards are and what the governor and the CDC are recommending. Great. Okay. Well, again, well, thank you again so much. Very good presentation, and we appreciate all the work that you're doing. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you today. It looks like Charlie's got a question or comment. Yeah, Mr. Chair, if you don't mind, I wanted to ask Lori, is there something that we or that you're thinking about already as far as how you might change your marketing strategy towards trying to attract, continue to attract students and all that, especially coming into the post-COVID world? I mean, obviously, the work you guys are doing is tremendous, and I would hate to see us lose some of our audience or be able to not attract our future audience. And I just wondered if you'd given any thoughts about that, or you're even not even worried about it, maybe. So we do realize that, you know, post COVID, we more than likely will have to rebuild our audience, just remind people that we're here and that we have quality programming available. I will say that, you know, our budgets are extremely tight. We have, you know, without being open, without having the opportunity to have camps and classes, so we don't have a lot of money in our marketing budget. So we are, we do rely a lot on social media, but we also, you know, communicate through the schools. So when we do have those students on our Zooms, we can, you know, we can invite them to to programming um we have great relationships with those teachers who are you know very willing to help spread the word we do have do email marketing um for our discovery day um discovery series coming up we're pretty hopeful we haven't received it yet but we're pretty hopeful that we'll have a major sponsor for that that will help do promotions so um but we're certainly open in in ideas that you all might have. But we certainly are aware that we're going to need to rebuild an audience. Yeah, I thought that would be the case. And yeah, I guess I was throwing that out for the benefit of the team as well, is that whatever Irby County government can do to try to help, you know, get that information out is, hey, we have returned to normal. Hey, there are great opportunities and really, really interesting subject matter that we're helping to fund. And that's obviously in our benefit as well, too, because it's all about reaching the audience. So I appreciate your presentation. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you. Thank you. I have one question as well, Mr. Chairman, if you don't mind. I was going to ask, since for the past grant cycles, two grant cycles, we had focused on equal I was wondering if you you know added any additional materials to help focus that particular to address that issue to your curriculum Jessica did you want to answer yeah um I do know this um coming cycle we are doing a lot with um our summer camps, which you saw, we have a lot of more offerings this year with that. Um, and we're getting into, um, planning for fiscal year 23. Um, so, you know, just kind of starting thinking what we're going to want to do. Um, when I'm going to be meeting with Amanda is new to, LASC too and think about what her ideas are and put in hopefully like some new refreshed ideas and things to be able to serve the kids. And we're also open to any thoughts that you all, if you have ideas on things that you would like to see us doing with the funds, you know, we're open to ideas. We want to make sure this is a beneficial partnership for both of us. Yeah, I just, you know, I think, you know, for us with that E. coli issue, I think, you know, just adding that to your curriculum, I think it'll be a huge help for us, you know, especially since it'll help you score better. So thank you. Appreciate it. So I'll just tag on that a little bit. We are planning to start a pre-K, what we call pre-K STEM. That's going to be a pilot program starting in the fall. And, you know, we certainly will. We're excited to actually introduce science to, you know, that two to four and a half year old population. Our pre-K art day is really popular. So that's a way that we can, you know, introduce these topics to the very youngest population. And then we did mention about the solar panels, which again, certainly ties into climate awareness and ecology and things like that. And then we are going to have some, you know, certainly some programming and some data collection about that, that we're really excited about. Thank you. Great. Any other questions? Well, again, ladies, thank you so much for your presentation. We really appreciate it. And good luck in your post-COVID days. Thank you. Hopefully the end is near. Moving on, incentive grant status update. Frank, is that you? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So for that portion, I didn't know if the later. Can we do a timeout? Timeout. we are having trouble getting George Ely into the meeting. Could we take just like 30 seconds to try to get him in? Frank, can you call him and see if you can? Yeah, he's on the phone. He's on speaker. He's still, you know. He's listening in. Mr. George. And then did you want us to leave or to stay for the meeting? You're welcome to stay, but you can also, you know, carry on with your day if you'd like. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Mr. George. Thank you. So, yes, sir. I was just checking on your status. We were pausing. We wanted to give you an opportunity to get in. So is it still coming up, meeting invalid? Oh, no problem. I was wondering, is it still saying that the meeting code is invalid? yeah so even when you tap the hyperlink that from the email Jennifer sent yeah so if yeah like Okay, okay, okay. Well, I'm going to sit it down so you can hear at least, okay? Okay. No problem. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay, hold on. Mr. Ely says that he can hear from my phone here, and unfortunately, he's just having technical difficulties so he has advised us to resume and so sorry about the technical difficulties yes but we appreciate you I think going forward we'll what we'll do is tag in a little early just to make sure everybody gets you know to try to address these issues okay yes so Frank why don't you go ahead and get started yes and so what I want to do for this part here is share the screen and I'm going to share a PDF of the status update. I'm going to begin. Hold on. Give me a second here. Can everyone see that? Yes. We can't read it, but we can see it. Well, yeah, I realize it's, you know, it's kind of small and I'll try to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Here is the fiscal year 2016. And what we're showing here, you see the gray, which means those projects are completed or in one particular case canceled. and the only one remaining on the FY16 is Peppermill. And as the project manager, who just so happens to be Ms. Carey, indicates that this grant should be completed by the summer. So of course they've asked for an extension, they were granted an extension. And so they're looking to complete that by this summer. Jennifer, did you have any further comments for that one? Yes, I mean, they're actually hopeful to have it wrapped up within the next two weeks, But I'm hoping by our July meeting, we'll be able to have that one fully completed. Is this the pepper project over on Old Frankfort? On Manchester. Manchester. Yes. Yes. So there's two projects. One's called Pepper Distillery. And then there's this pepper mill. Pepper Mill I think is more back toward Goodfellas and that part whereas Pepper Distillery is the large parking lot near the four-story building. Gotcha. Thank you. Okay so I'll move on to the FY17. Oh let's see the screen here you see FY17 grants and again all but one of those are completed In this case, Dalton Court and Ahmad, who is the grant manager here, has indicated that he had not heard from the grantee in a while. So he is reaching out to him. And for this one, you know, we could I think we could possibly if he doesn't respond in a timely fashion, we're going to send him a couple of notices. You know, we may be looking to terminate and maybe seek reimbursement for this. the construction of the lot is complete i think there are a couple of issues with it he still hadn't installed the bioretention and so we're trying to get him to address those issues and we'll update you further in the next meeting for the outcome okay thank you yes here is our 2018 and we have about half of these completed beginning at the top here, Beaumont. The grant manager has communicated with the engineer to discuss beginning the construction activities. They did submit a reimbursement request early in March. And I believe we're waiting on a revised budget because this is one that you all had approved for them to add an additional area to complete what they had additionally proposed, what they initially proposed, but then added another area to basically duplicate what they were going to do in the initially proposed area. So they're set to begin construction on both areas in the Beaumont community there. The next one is Cardinal Valley. Cardinal Valley is set to have a planting day in May with the rain makeup. Well, May 15th is the planting day for the pollinator garden and May 22nd is the makeup day if they are rained out. They also have to install the educational signage and the plan is to post the signage to the existing neighborhood sign that sits out front on Oxford Circle. Unfortunately, we visited the site and Jennifer and I and Denise, I mean, and Hunter, the grant manager, and the sign had been destroyed, well, partly destroyed and so they have to rebuild the neighborhood sign in order to get the stormwater educational sign attached to it but that seems to be the plan Scott did you want to add any anything else to that one? No the last time I drove by the site the sign was under or the marquee signage was under repair so they are in the process of I believe a vehicle might have hit that is the damage, but that's under repair. And yeah, we're set for May 15th for the installation. So we're moving forward. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. Appreciate you. Yep. Moving down to Lansdowne Merrick. They're set to do a final inspection, the project manager who's a mod on that one and get that project wrapped up. And Stonewall Equestrian, which is the next one, they were just introduced to their new grant manager because their former grant manager has moved on to Florida, to sunny Florida. Lee Hudson was the grant manager and Jennifer has blessed us to take that one over and she's reached out to him. I believe she's working on their closeout documents. Jennifer, you want to add anything to that one? Yes, we were having some issues with them getting things finished up and closed out. So the former grant manager and Frank and I met with the neighborhood association. I think it was in early February one evening, had a Zoom meeting with them and walked them through the steps that they're going to need to take to get this completed. So there was, I think there were some communication issues early on with the portion of their project that was going to go toward design versus construction and some requests to move budget. But what we approved, they took in a different way. The communication just kind of got a little jumbled up. So we've got that sorted out. Um, they've got, and they, they need to, um, replant some of the plantings that they did. I guess, gosh, was that last summer or the summer before? And, and it was like, they planted them and then it was a drought and they didn't water them. So they weren't able to get established and they, they realized that they're going to have to, um, and they waited so long to request reimbursement that, um, it was hard to approve reimbursing them for dead plants. So they understood that and they're going to get some new plants and get those installed and get us out there to inspect as soon as they get them planted so that they can request reimbursement. Right. And I want to note they're installing those, reinstalling those plants on their own dime. Yes. So we won't have to repay for that twice. Tates Creek High School, we're communicating. This is the one where they had asked, can the grant be moved from the high school to the elementary because they are renovating or building a new school for the high school. So I believe the Department of Environmental Services, the grant manager for that one, so they've been reaching out to them. we're going to get a we tried to reach out to Demetra for an update for this meeting and she hadn't gotten back to a ship so we'll have an update for that one at the next meeting as well I apologize for that bluegrass green source this is the b infrastructure grant for the environmental education center off of a seltzer Scott did you want to speak to that Just to say that they are continuing, I believe that we have previously mentioned that this is in a situation where not directed or related to the project, but related to the site. there's some ongoing um litigation thank you um with the project and that is proceeding um unfortunately it's not proceeding as quickly as we all like it to to proceed because the the plans are basically um the design is basically ready um but we've got to get this resolved before we can move forward with it. I believe you've all, have you already purchased the pavers? We did purchase the pavers. That was a part of another grant that they had received that they were able to kind of piggyback onto with this one. And as a result, they've got the pavers purchased and they're sitting in stockpile waiting to go. I appreciate it. So yeah, Mr. Woolwin, there's an outfall illegally installed on their property near the project area. And so they want to make sure to get that resolved before they move forward and install the permeables or begin construction on the center to make sure that the drainage won't be an issue. Thank you. Okay, so moving on to Lexmark International. This is the one where they did the pilot for the now Kentucky American water that is about to for the trash collector. And basically here we're just waiting on the closeout documents from, I believe, from Stantec. So this one is pretty much finished. They've done all the pilot, they've collected all the data, and they're preparing the final report. And we're set to receive that any minute now. Pepper Distillery. They just received their stream construction permit. And we just approved the request number two. Jennifer, is that about all that suffices for that update? Yeah, that one's moving through the planning process with their development plan and getting sign-offs. So I think it was kind of slow to start off, but they're making good progress on keeping it moving forward at this point. Okay. Next is our UKRF FY18 grant. This is the buffer, riparian buffer restoration out off of alumni. The construction is done. They just installed the educational signage. I don't know if you've been in that area. There's two of them actually going in both directions. and we're just waiting on those project closeout documents and that one will be in the books. Moving on to FY19, we still have Friends of Wolf Run. They just submitted a request and we just processed the payment for that request but that project's moving along just fine. The Village of Rabbit Run, we're waiting on the landscaper to replace three of the dead trees out there which is what the grant manager indicated that he needed them to do. Somehow, three of the trees died, and he wasn't satisfied with that, so we had to get them to replace those. Ashwood, townhouse of Laredo, the grant manager, Mike, is waiting on a reply from them. We've reached out to him, and so we'll have an update at our next meeting for that one. Community Montessori, this one is one that we've also reached out to the grantee, I think they had some issues due to COVID, but we haven't heard from them in quite a while. And so Jennifer and I are kind of tackling that one. That was another one that Lee Hudson was the grant manager over. And so Jennifer and I are kind of double teaming that one and getting in contact with the grantee to see whether or not they want to resume or go forward with the grant. And that's one, if you'll recall, they came in probably about a year ago and requested a change in the location of where they were going to build this new parking lot. So originally it had been between a couple of the buildings they owned, but now they wanted to move it closer to that bend in the road on Stone Road. And we talked with the board about potential conflicts with their previously completed grant project, but ultimately decided to approve that new location. So we're trying to get in touch with them and see if they plan to continue or if it's something they want to cancel and maybe repackage as a new grant application at some point. Well, you know, and the last time I had spoken to them, I know they had considered canceling the grant, but they had mentioned that they wanted to cancel it and come back to do the entire lot. And so I told them it would be better to just, you know, go forward with the funds that they've already been awarded and do it just in phases. So, and they seem to agree with that. So we're going to poke them a little bit more to see if that's still the plan. So we're hoping to have an update this summer for you on that. Northyard LLC, which is where we plan to tour today, you'll be able to see an eyeball update on that one in terms of the construction. And hopefully the grant manager, he's not going to be able to join us. But we do have, I believe, Eric DeWalt is going to come out and kind of give us a tour around the facilities and what have you. So that project is also set to wrap up. So as we'll see today, opportunity for learning. Scott, did you want to speak to that one? yes um so we have uh well the the the owner um has over the past year gone through a number of iterations of what their future was going to look like and in the uh end of their analysis they have come back to working on the project on the same site. So we are moving post haste now with getting construction documents put together for that. And that was just kind of green lighted about two weeks ago. So we are moving forward now with the original scope of work in the project site. Thank you. And for FY20, there's so many here. These are all moving forward. And what I'll do is I'll just, if you see anything here that pokes out, if you have any questions about any one of them, we did have two cancellations. I'll note that, and both are essentially due to COVID, Fed Cooperating Preschool and Sayer School, both educational, um, um, education facilities, um, decided to not move forward until this whole COVID thing. They may return to revisit and, uh, you know, put in another application in the future, but they decided not to move forward with that one. So again, if anybody has any questions about any other grant, um, these are all moving forward as we speak. Okay. With no questions, I'll move on to our next sheet. FY20, these are our recent, most recent. All of these are, yes, sir. Yes, sir. One question. Okay. On number nine, the UK using stream water. Yes. That was an innovative project. Could you kind of fill us in on what that is? Yeah, I believe with this one here, I believe we were going to tour this one for this meeting. but Jennifer did you I think they postponed their construction so UK has two on this page number nine is their education project about using steam for weeding is that the one you wanted to know about or about the the cooling the cooling yeah yeah so they're they were hoping to have started construction by this time, which is why we have contemplated touring there today, but they're still in the design phase. So hopefully, you know, at some point soon, they'll be further along and we'll have more to share. Yeah, that would be one I think that would be really interesting for us to check out at the appropriate time. Yeah, I would like to tour that one. That's very interesting and I think would be good to tour. We will make sure that happens. Good. Thank you. Yeah, we've actually met with them via Zoom a couple of different times just to make sure we were all on the same page. So we do know it's moving forward. And this recent setback, I mean, it was literally like recently when we got notified. They had hoped to have it ready, but we'll definitely make that happen. Thank you. And again, let me move to FY21. These are all, let's see, we have all but three grant award agreements out. We have several going through Urban County Council full approval as we speak, set to receive the second reading probably in the coming week. So we have three notice to proceeds out so far, three of them ongoing actually grants. And so these are all moving forward. We're happy about it. We seem to be right on schedule. The last three are just feasibility grants. So we hope to get those back pretty fast and get them on to council for approval. And that is it. And next, the next sheet is our FY22, which we're hoping to fill in soon. If anybody has any questions, please feel free to let us know. hey frank yes sir i want to go on record i got connected on at 9 45. okay yes sir thank you it's good to hear from you sir well yeah sorry to cause all the problems that's all right what we'll do is i mean you know if if you're interested in that presentation we'll try to provide you with a copy to recap you, you know. Okay. We're fine. But that was the most that you missed and of course approving the minutes. So hopefully if you, we've already approved the minutes, you missed the vote, but if you All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Are there any other matters to come or any comments from the board member? I wanted to, well, maybe Jennifer wanted to speak to her, but I was going to say We're approaching our FY22 grant cycle, as I talked about earlier. Jennifer, Denise, and I held, along with environmental services, held a question and answer, two question and answer sessions for the upcoming grant cycle to answer any application questions about the process and any items in there that they may have had an issue with. And those went, we think, well. And those were held on April the 2nd and April the 6th. So just Tuesday was our last one, and those went well. We had, you know, a larger audience on the second, smaller audience on the sixth, but nevertheless, we felt like it was very helpful and very useful, and I think we plan to do that going forward. What are the dates that applications are due, again, for the Class A and Class B? For the Class A and B education, the applications are due on May the 7th by 4 p.m., I believe, Jennifer? And so they have to be postmarked. So we can receive some in the mail, but they would have had to have a postmarked date of May the 7th to be accepted. Okay. And what about B? For the B infrastructure, those will be, I believe, July 31st? Yes. So we're hoping to have lots and lots. We've been hearing from several potential applicants, so we're pretty excited. Good. All right. Any other comments that we, anybody has a burning desire to bring before the group? Hearing none, I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. I will mention that we are set to tour immediately following the adjournment. And so at Gray Line Station at 101 West Loudon. So. Well, I have another commitment and I'm sorry that I cannot go, but I would definitely like to go at some point in the future. I've been kind of following the development of that project. I think that's awesome. And I would like to do that at some point. Yeah, perhaps you can go through on a Saturday and do some shopping. I might do that. Yeah, good idea. So, Frank, who is our host out there? Oh, Eric DeWall. Okay. From EcoGrow. And I believe Chad Needham may be on site as well. So I think Eric, who took over as the project manager, will be the one actually serving as our tour guide. Okay, good. And they said that we should park in the North Limestone parking lot. well i know there's a parking lot off of loudon and then one on north lime yeah it's behind it's behind the facility yes yeah please let them know that i'm sorry that i can't be there because i would really like to uh to find out more about it and see what they've done yes sir how soon are we meeting um we said 10 15 but you know just take don't be in a rush to get there. We'll wait. We won't start the tour until you get there. All right. Great. We are hoping to beat the rain. Yes. Frank, I will not be able to attend. I have other commitments also. Mr. York. No problem, George. Hope to see you soon. All right. Any other comments? Do I hear a motion that we adjourn? So moved. Been moved by Harry. Is there a second? I'll second it. Seconded by George. All in favor, signify by saying aye and raising your right hand. Aye. Good morning, everyone. We stand adjourned. Hey, Chris. Hey, Chris. Good to see you, buddy. And any of our guests, you're welcome to join us. Good to see you all. Great line. All right. Thanks again, folks. Blessed to see you all. Thank you. Thank you.