I want you in my arms Oh, let me know the wonder I want of you I want you baby I want you now Now, oh now Oh now and hold on fast Oh, could this be the magic At last Could it be magic? Oh, come on, come on Come, oh, come into the mountains Oh, let me know the wonders of all of you Baby, I want you now, now, oh, now Oh, now, hold on fast Could this be magic at last? Could it be magic? Come, come on, come, oh, come to my home Oh, let me know in wonder Of all of you, of all of you Baby, I want you now, now Oh, now, now, oh, now You're holding on fast Oh, come to me, baby Thank you. Wouldn't be magic. I'm in a hurry to get things done. Oh, I rush and rush into life. It says I'm running behind. I better pick up my face. It's a race and there ain't no room for someone in second place. I better hurry to get things done. I rush and rush until life's no fun. All I really gotta do is live and die, but I'm in a hurry and don't know why. I'm in a hurry to get things done, oh I'm rushing, rushing till life's no fun. All I really gotta do is live and die, but I'm in a hurry and don't know why. I'm in a hurry to get things done. I rush and rush until life's no fun. All I really got to do is live and die. But I'm in a hurry and don't know why. I'm in a hurry to get things done. I rush and rush until life's no fun. All I really got to do is live and die. But I'm in a hurry and don't know why. Southern Night Have you ever felt a Southern Night? Free Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The End Thank you. Thank you. And it looks like we have a quorum. So I'd like to go ahead and call to order the council work session of May 31st, 2022. And the first item on the agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda. And no one signed up? Okay, thank you. And there is no docket. And so the first item for a motion is Council Work Session, Table of Motions for May 24th. Thank you. Council Member Baxter moves approval. Council Member Sheehan seconds. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Hmm. We might do that again. I'm not sure there were enough to vote to pass that. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Thank you very much. That passes. There are no budget amendments and so a motion to approve new businesses in order. Second. Council Member Plowman moves approval. Council Member Ellinger seconds. Please log in if you have questions about new business. I see none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. First on continuing business presentations is neighborhood development funds. Could I have a motion? Second. Thank you. And Vice Mayor Kay seconds. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. and next is the presentation for the Lex Tran operating budget and Jill Barnett welcome welcome see you all right well good afternoon Mayor Gorton and members of the Urban County Council I will wait for my presentation to get pulled up here it is my privilege today as Lex Tran's general manager to share with you our fiscal year 2023 operating budget for lextran this budget was approved by lextran's board of directors on april 20th 2022 thank you from my board i would like to recognize our chairman mr harding dowell as well as our finance committee chairman mr george ward who is here with us today george has served on our board since 2015 and has served as chairman of our finance committee since 2016. So I thank him very much for his expertise and service on our board of directors. So, George, thank you. From my staff, I also have Miss Nikki Falkenberry here today. She's our director of finance and HR. Many of you will recognize her from presenting with us over the years. And I have Stephanie Hoke, who is our director of finance and procurement. She's our finance and procurement manager. I'm Sorry, I misspoke. As you may recall, each year, LexTran produces a one-year operating budget and a five-year rolling capital plan. We anticipate finishing fiscal year 2022 very strong, nearly $1 million under budget on our expenses, leading into fiscal year 2023 in a very strong position. A strong position to help us carry out our mission statement to serve people in our community with mobility solutions. I'm sorry, I'm not sure what's going on with the slides. They're a little bit off center. Thank you. There we go. So a quick at-a-glance view of Lex Tran. We serve Lexington with 25 fixed routes, as well as our paratransit service, which is operated by wheels. We finished fiscal year 2021 with about 2.52 million passenger trips, which is down compared to where we normally are. that number represents a decline that LexTran is seen as a result of the pandemic and unfortunately that is not unique to Lexington however our ridership is bouncing back and we're very pleased with that yes I'm sorry for that all right a quick look at our fleet we have 75 vehicles in our fixed route fleet. We have a pretty diverse makeup with diesel, compressed natural gas, battery electric, and hybrid electric, which is hybrid diesel electric. But beyond the vehicles that you see listed here, we also have seven vehicles that are currently on order, four of which are CNG and three of which are fully battery electric. And they will replace older diesel buses in our fleet that are beyond their useful life. Thank you. A major highlight from the current fiscal year includes the passage of the infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or the IIJA. As you know, this was signed into law by President Biden last November and reauthorizes existing federal transportation programs and commits to a 29% overall increase in federal funding over the next five years. Paul Scatelis, the president of the American Public Transit Association, or APTA, called the IIJA the largest investment at the federal level in the history of public transportation. So we are very pleased with that and we anticipate more than a million dollars per year in additional formula funds, thanks to the passage of that law. The IIJA also authorized several competitive funding programs, and Lectron will compete for those grants when appropriate. We have two grant applications that we are polishing up right now and will submit later today. Both of those were authorized through this federal bill. Another important highlight is we successfully completed our labor negotiations and ratified a new contract with our collective bargaining unit, which is ATU Local 639, that was ratified last October. We also won a $4.1 million federal bus and bus facilities competitive grant for fleet replacement. We received $2.4 million from the Commonwealth of Kentucky in state match to support capital projects. We made progress on our fleet replacement program, as I mentioned earlier. awarded a five-year management contract to TransDev, established a cash reserve policy through our board, and we made substantial progress on our comprehensive operations analysis. That was started during the pandemic in 2020 and has been a bit of a long road, but we are nearing completion with that. As we look ahead to fiscal year 2023, we expect a very positive impact from the passage of the IIJA with the increased federal investment. We also anticipate a transition to a new paratransit services provider, a procurement that is currently in progress. Because this is what we consider an open procurement at this time, the paratransit line item that you'll see in just a moment is budgeted flat compared to this fiscal year. This particular item is subject to a budget amendment once the RFP process wraps up, And we do anticipate an impact here on this expense as LexTrans Paratransit Service has been operated by a nonprofit entity for the last 40 years. This coming year, we also plan to continue with our expansion of on-route facilities like shelters, benches, and boarding pads. In the photo shown here, you see one of our recently completed shelter projects at the Lexington Clinic on South Broadway. We have an additional shelter that's opening next week on Nicholasville Road in front of Regency Center, and planned construction at six locations that will start tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. Management of fuel costs will be another critical piece of our FY23 budget, and one we are watching closely, as I'm sure LFUCG is as well. We have budgeted our fuel at $425 per gallon for fiscal year 2023, a significant increase compared to our current fiscal year 22 budget. We do have a contract in place for fuel purchases to buy slightly under the opus rack rate for Lexington. However, we continue to explore other options to purchase fuel in an effort to save money. We also anticipate beginning construction at our downtown transit center as part of the town branch project that's been going on for a while, kicking off construction for our canopy project at our Loudoun Avenue facility, and planned implementations of some recommendations from the comprehensive operations analysis. However, those particular recommendations are undetermined at this time. We received a lot of feedback through our public involvement process, more than 200 pieces of feedback, actually, from stakeholders, and we want to be thoughtful about that feedback and the impacts it will have on people before we implement those changes. And before those go into effect, of course, we will do another round of public engagement to make sure we get the word out. Let people know what is potentially going to happen and also reach out to you as council members so you can share that with your constituents. Moving into our operating budget for the coming fiscal year, you will see that federal revenues are quite high compared to most fiscal years. This number includes a combination of federal 5307 funds, which is our normal formula funds that we get every year, as well as apportionments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Also known as ARPA we anticipate a drawdown of approximately 11.8 million dollars in ARPA funds for fiscal year 2023 and that will exhaust that particular grant Our property tax revenue is budgeted at a three and a half percent increase based on our historical collections We are incredibly fortunate to have a dedicated property tax here in Fayette County One that allows us to better plan for services improvements and fleet replacements employee wages and fringe benefits also represent an increase compared to FY22 which includes an increase of about three and a half percent in the total number of full-time equivalents including both union and non-union positions market adjustments for non-collectively bargained positions similar to what LFUCG did last fall we are adding Juneteenth as a paid holiday for all employees for fiscal year 2023 and this budget also includes a three and a half percent wage increase for all collectively bargained employees we've also made a few assumptions about employee health insurance which we are currently wrapping up that negotiation at this time this budget assumed a six percent increase i'm fairly confident that we're going to come in under budget on that increase as I said before our pair transit is an open procurement at this time so we are expecting proposals back from potential bidders and we do have some additional positions in this budget partially based on recommendations from the comprehensive operations analysis so I also have our budget shown in pie chart form if any of you are interested in looking in that way but I would be happy to take any questions that the council might have thank you very much council members now's the time for questions any questions councilmember Reynolds Thank You mayor I just wanted to say that I really appreciate all the community outreach that you all have been doing over the past few months to try to get input on your future and I know that my constituents really appreciated that and you've been super accessible to council and to everyone else and I just really appreciate your transparency and willingness to work with everyone so thank you for that thank you councilmember James Brown thank you Mary and thank you Jill for the presentation and all the information I said I said this a couple years ago when the pandemic first hit one of the things that seem to make things normal in a world of chaos was seeing the buses continue to operate. And I still think about that every day. I see buses going. It just kept a sense of normality, I guess, to me and the folks in the community. So thank you for that. I know you took the helm right in the middle of that, and I think you've been doing a great job. And I ran into one of your collective bargaining employees recently, and they spoke highly of you and the job that you're doing and kind of the morale at Lex Tran. So I think that speaks volumes in regards to everything that y'all are doing. Thank you for sharing that. And then I also went to a community input session when you were doing your surveys. And, you know, anytime you ask folks what they think, they'll come and tell you. It's not always good, but I think it's how you receive the information and commit to addressing the issues that they bring forward. So I was real impressed with how y'all did those sessions and looked forward to some of the implementation down the line. It might have been in the presentation, but I didn't see it. How many total employees do you have, and how many are collective bargaining and how many are not? About 150, give or take, are collective bargaining unit employees. I might let Nikki give you the final answer. Our total number of employees hovers around 205. Not all are active at any given time, given that we have people off on various leaves. But the vast majority are bargaining unit members, and that is members of our operations department who are the bus drivers, and then members of the maintenance department who make up our maintenance technicians, our service and utility workers. Okay. Is that number close? Thank you. All right. Thank you for that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Jill, welcome. Thank you. One of the big issues that has happened here this year, we've seen a lot of the PVA and the reassessments on property. Where did you all come up with your increase? Because it looked like you increased property tax revenues by 3.5%. percent and and I know we've had some big reassessments so I would think that revenue would be going up pretty well for you all. We based it on our historical collections and what we've seen through some of the reassessments and we had some conversations with David O'Neill this past year we budgeted a three percent increase and that we've came in a little bit higher than that budget number and so we bumped that a little bit for this coming fiscal year. I would think that would be beneficial to you all that you get some more revenues coming in. Absolutely and that is that is one thing that really helped Lex Tran through throughout the pandemic. Many other agencies like Lex Tran that have a local property or local tax or revenue source sometimes depend on occupational tax or sales tax. Obviously those agencies were impacted much more through the pandemic with with you know sales tax down and occupational taxes down. We were able to weather that storm a little better here in Lexington so very fortunate for that and another thing that we i hear a lot about is shelters and what's your all's plans going forward you mentioned a couple but what's your goal to have shelters well we have we have money programmed in the capital budget for each of the next five years there's about 150 000 per year um programmed as a line item and that is interesting as some of you know i have been at lextran for a while and back when i when i started early in my tenure you know we would kind of do shelters here and there they pop up here and there in the last four to five years that's been an ongoing project we've really not stopped as long as we've been able to have a construction contractor working for us so as i said we have six starting tomorrow we have a contractor lined up for at least i believe at least 13 more beyond that and then i believe 11 more shelters beyond that number that have been delivered either for placement out in the community or replacements of existing shelters that that maybe have have met their useful life or have been worse for the wear but that is that is something that we are planning to continue doing in an effort to to get shelters in as many places as possible well thank you keep up the good work thank you thank you vice mayor kay thank you mayor and thank you jill um i'm gonna echo some of what's already been said about all the good work that you do um i was on the board when you got hired i believe yes yes you were it's been a few years just a few it's great to see you and some of the other folks that i knew back then but i want to thank you and staff and board for your service i think it's hard for the public to understand what the challenges are and to appreciate how well you do with the resources that you have and on a on behalf of the I guess council administration I want to thank you for making your space available to us of course we've used it for a number of different meetings it's a great meeting space it's well equipped and it helps us get our job done so again thank you so much thank you mayor thank you councilmember Maloney thank you mayor Jill you know I'll go way back commission disability I'm still on there we still have the same complaints about wheels that you know and and and one of the issues that keep coming up is is you all have some environment wheels but the hiring process if you all have a problem to hiring people CDL license like we are everywhere or it just it's really become an issue on and and the wheels you might want to explain I think what what part of wheels you have that but they don't understand some of my colleagues understand how they work because that is the biggest issue sure I deal with on the Commission okay I'll speak to the first part of your question first and that's the hiring process for the last year and a half to two years the hiring process has been something that has been basically non-stop we are constantly recruiting the CDL is a bit of an issue however election will train you to get your CDL and drive a bus you don't have to have a CDL when you come in so we we have a very thorough training program to help people do that in order to get hired you also have to have a clean background check and be able to pass a Department of Transportation, Federal Department of Transportation drug and alcohol exam. So all of those things, in addition to competitive wage rates in the market and in the community, have contributed to a little bit of our hiring challenges. Through the collective bargaining process, we were able to increase our wage rate and increase the starting rate for an operator. So someone coming in, starting off as a bus driver i believe they start out at least through july 1st they'll start out at 18 11 per hour and that number will go up slightly on july 1st that is to work directly for lextran driving a fixed route bus the wage rate is a little bit lower for paratransit so this gets into a little bit a little bit of the paratransit issue that you that you brought up and so paratransit service which here in lexington is operated by the american red cross and known as the wheels program is contracted so paratransit is a federally mandated complementary service that lextran is required to offer to members of the community who have a disability or some something that would preclude them from from riding the regular fixed route bus lexington has traditionally contracted that service out and as i said for more than 40 years it's been operated by red cross wheels we are nearing the completion of our contract period with wheels and they are going to focus on their core business of blood services and disaster relief so they will not be renewing another five-year contract which is why we have the rfp process underway right now to acquire someone new to come in and operate that service lectrian will still maintain all the oversight over that and in fact we are working to refine some internal processes that get at some of that oversight in terms of you know performance metrics a customer comment intake that they will come directly to us we want those to come directly to us and just general general keeping an eye keeping an eye on how they are doing as I said you know we've we've had the same provider for a long time and and sometimes sometimes both both parties get a little bit complacent and so certainly with a new provider and the performance metrics that we have in place, we will be watching them closely. Thank you. Council members, are there any other questions? I'd like to ask the vice mayor if he would take the chair. I have just a couple. Yes, ma'am. I recognize the mayor. Thank you very much. Thank you for this report. I wanted to ask you, there are several of us here, council member maloney fred brown ellender several of us remember when there was nothing but diesel and i was really happy to see that you're down to 51 percent of your buses as diesel so i wondered if you would speak to your uh what is your vision i know you're replacing them a few each year can you talk about the long-term plan? Sure. Will they be gone? Well, typically we have used federal capital dollars to get at our fleet replacement program. Obviously, sometimes we do use local money for that. It is, I won't necessarily use the word unusual, but not super common that a fleet of our size, which is relatively small, has four different types of propulsion. Typically it might be two. You might see diesel and CNG or diesel and electric. There are some agencies who are into hydrogen fuel cell. That's not something I'm planning to surprise you with in the coming months. But as you said, we're down to 51% diesel. And as we replace those older diesel buses, I do expect that number to get smaller and smaller. The money that's been part of the federal low or no emissions program has historically been specifically for no emissions, even though low is in the title, it's been no emissions, a battery electric. With the bipartisan infrastructure law, there was a set aside for low emissions vehicles, and one of the grants that I mentioned that we are applying for today gets at the low emission aspect of that, and we are applying for more compressed natural gas vehicles. I don't have a timeline on when you will see no diesel vehicles on the street, but we have seen in the last seven to eight years that the cost of compressed natural gas is much more stable and less subject to fluctuations than diesel. And we do still have a lot of useful life remaining for the CNG vehicles. As federal opportunities come about though for the battery electric program we will continue to expand that as well and that is what the canopy project that i spoke to earlier that will be taking place at our loudon headquarters the canopy is intended to provide a covered area for the battery electric vehicles their their battery charging infrastructure is on top and that needs to be covered in in winter weather and snow and ice events you know fortunately we don't have a ton of those but when When we do, it does have an impact on service. So I expect that the diesel number will get smaller and smaller, as you see me, each year, and that CNG and battery electric number will grow. Okay. Well, that's good news, I think. Actually, I was going to ask about the canopy. So do you have a charging station already, and it needs the canopy, right, for charging or not? So we have had electric vehicles in the fleet since 2016, and we have not had a covered area. When there's pretty significant weather, we're able to pull some of those vehicles indoors. But as the size of the fleet grows, obviously we won't have the room to do that because when we are pulling them indoors, we're pulling them inside a maintenance bay. So that means that maintenance bay can't be used overnight. So we're going to build the canopy to cover more of that electric fleet. Five of the battery electric vehicles charge on route. And so they charge at the end of every trip at the downtown transit center up on High Street. The rest of the vehicles that we have are extended range, and they charge overnight. It's a slower charge, more like a trickle charge, as it's known in the industry. So it has to stay plugged in for quite some time. Therefore, it needs to be covered so that you're not trying to swap the vehicles in and out of their location for the charger. Okay, that's great. Thank you very much for that. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. And we appreciate your presentation. It looks like there are no further questions. And so I think we need a motion to approve the Lex Tran budget as presented. So moved. Second. Council Member Ellinger moved. Council Member Reynolds seconded. Are there any questions about the motion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thanks again for all your good work. Thank you very much. Great to see all of you. Thank you. Now we're ready for council reports. Councilmember Maloney. Thank you Mayor. It's been a sad day. I lost one of my former roommates for many years, Dick the Camp. A lot of y'all might have known him. He started here as a historical for the city, worked many years there and he will be missed and Mary and my council I served with him too so Dick was a fun guy and he's very smart and he always had a good sense of humor and my heart goes out to the family and so thank you mayor thank you council member baxter thank you mayor um after our long day i thought we could all use a bit of good news so i've got a video clip i want to share um a couple months ago i i told you guys about a little girl who wrote me a letter regarding some sidewalk ramps in her neighborhood. So the news came out and did a story over the weekend. I'm going to share with you all. Through her neighborhood to the local park. This was a very bad sidewalk and I was going fast on my bike. But the route she traveled was treacherous. We are very close to Chilloteau Park in this community right here where we are. And if you can see the ramp behind me here, there was actually no ramp at all to cross the street. The wheel caught and I fell over and the handlebars banged my wrist. Cora's accident made her realize that changes needed to be made. It wasn't a big accident, but I said, you know, there are laws that say that sidewalks have to be accessible for everybody. So Cora and her mom, Michelle, did some research. We found that the yellow bumps are important for people who are blind. and wrote a letter. Dear Mrs. Vaxter, could you please work on getting these ramps in my neighborhood fixed so that it is easier and safer for residents to get across the road? We told her you might get a form letter back saying thanks for writing. But the result far exceeded their expectations. We call them Cora's Corners now. Safe, accessible ramps spurred on by Cora's writing. Cora's letter also prompted changes to the park. These new pathways ensure that people with strollers, bikes, or wheelchairs don't have to compete with cars on the road. It really made me proud to represent this community because she saw a problem and she wrote me a letter to address it. And that is the foundation of public engagement. Chorus Corners make for safer bike rides this summer and prove the importance of taking action in your community. Find the people who can help you to solve that problem. and be the change. No matter what age you are. Never too young to make a change. In Lexington, Jeremy Toms, WKYT. Yeah, it had to make an appearance, the aunt did. Yeah. But, you know, like I said in the report, I'm so proud for her to be a constituent. She's the sweetest little girl, and it took us so long to do the news report because she's super shy. And finally one day they texted me and said, we're ready, let's do it. So a big thank you to Cora Jackson and her family for, really her family for teaching her the importance of public engagement. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Plumman. Thank you, Mayor. Each year Bluegrass Tomorrow holds an event called the Vision Awards, and they had that event last Tuesday at the Marriott. And I just wanted to bring to your attention that one of the Division Awards, it was for historic preservation, was awarded to Betty Kerr. So congratulations to Betty. And, gosh, I can't remember how many years she's been doing it, but it's a lot. It's a lot. So that recognition was made last week. So I wanted you all to know. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member McCurron. Thank you, Mayor. I have a little presentation pull up here. colleagues i've spoken to each one of you guys about this i'm doing a little art project in my district and uh calling it artful equine which which is going to be 12 horses spread out throughout the district this is not in tandem with uh with the lexart horses but it's a very unique process to it all right hold on before we get started with this and as you see all these these are These are computer put on there. That's not an actual image. It does look like a little Lego horse right now. So these horses, about two years ago, we had some capital funds, and I partnered with LexArts to see what we could do, because the second district is kind of an art desert, per se, and what we could do to see more art spread out through our community. so we partner with an artist and she's going to do 12 concrete horses and paint them one each horse is going to be uniquely painted after a derby winner that was either raised in lexington bred in lexington lived here retired here etc but something that is unique to lexington it'll have a little educational plate it'll have the horse's name on it and then we'll have a qr code so So somebody can pick up their phone, scan the QR code, and find out a little bit more information about that horse. What I'm doing today is I'm coming to the council and asking for your approval in these 12 locations. I went through the process, we spoke with all the different divisions, all the divisions signed off. There are ten of them that are going to be through general services, one through social services, and then one that's through public safety at a fire department. as you can see in some of these slides here. Fun activity, everything is designed to be walkable, educational. The look of these horses, they're about four feet tall, about three feet, four feet wide. They're designed for kids. They're not designed for adults necessarily. If an adult wants to ride one, you guys do it yourself. That's okay. But this is designed for kids to be able to get on them, take a picture with them, but also learn about some of Lexington's history and some of our Derby winners as well. So with that being said, in all of these locations, they're marked on the bottom of the slides that we're scrolling through here. But I would be happy to take any questions from council members if you guys have any. But I would ask that I have your support and I have a motion to make. So I move to place on the docket for the June 9, 2022 council meeting a resolution, authorizing and directing the departments of general services to place public art described in the artful equine art projects application allocations determined by the department in accordance with the artful equine art projects application so move is there all right councilmember Sheehan seconds are there questions or discussion I have a question councilmember Maloney councilman Karen I appreciate this I've had a few people ask me who are in the horse industry can you hear me yeah I had a few people have asked me in the horse industry but have you gotten the permit okay from those horse farms that you can put those kind of horses on the because if you remember Mary we had a little problem with the blue logo many years ago I want to be ship and I getting in trouble because somebody asked me that similar question about the how and And the other question is, we're the capital horse of the country, and those horses don't quite fit the hemorrhage, and I just want to be sure that if we're doing this, that we're following all the guidelines and rules, because we've had this many years ago when we had the blue horse conversation. We got in a little trouble there. So some of these horse people have asked me just to follow up. If you've gotten permission from the horse farm to use these horses and their colors and their names and and also the logo you're trying to get as close as you can to what the logo is for the state i mean for capital or horses of the of kentucky that's the question that's that council member mccurran thank you um and hopefully i'm gonna answer your your second question i'm gonna ask for clarification on that here in just a second but on the first part chris if you can pull those pictures back up for me as you can see the the these aren't actual horse looks um you know it's it's painted as a silk but it's not an actual silk so there's no permission that's needed upon that because this is not a jockey that the full silk is being painted like that it's just the colors being implemented out there if you got permission from the farms if you're going to use those horses the derby horses winners and all those things and also as you look at when you went back and saw the blue horse sitting up there they don't look compatible like this is totally different I just trying to see did you try to get as close as you could to that did for the capital horse of the world and we use that one logo I'm just trying to make sure we're compatible so these again as I kind of teed up on was these are designed for for kids so they're gonna be smaller size, kind of like a foal or a colt, but they're not a full thoroughbred size, not yet at least. I'm just answering their question. Thanks. I had somebody ask just a second ago in a comment, will they grow? I hope not. If they do, that's kind of creepy. I would say those at the dog park will get plenty of liquid. They may grow. All right, other questions? Councilmember Fred Brown. Yeah, I think this is, you know, certainly worthy of looking at. I'm a little hesitant on it going straight to a resolution. I would like to see it go into committee so we could get some feedback, if there is any feedback, but it may be all positive. But I'm just a little reluctant on pushing out something without a little bit more information and a little bit more community support. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions about the motion? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? No. All right. One no vote. Thank you. Anything else? No, ma'am. Thank you. All right. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I just had two announcements. Tomorrow is the kickoff of the Lexington Farmer's Market in Gardenside Plaza, and that will be from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday throughout the summer. So anybody can come out and get fresh produce. There's going to be some activities. Tomorrow there's going to be some different booths to kick off the start of the Farmer's Market in Gardenside. So that's exciting. And then Sunday at 6 p.m., the Calvary Church of the Nazarene is having a garden party to kick off their community garden. And so that church has been a really good community partner, and they want to throw a party and share about their community garden. So that'll be Sunday at 6 once again. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to give a shout out. At Gainesway Park in the 8th District, which is right next to the Tates Creek School System, we have a pond there, and we stock it a little bit with fish. But every year, we might have missed last year or the year before, we have what we call a cops and bobbers. But it's the Gainesway Fishing Pond this Saturday, June the 4th, at 11 to 2 o'clock. Fishing, free food, face painting. So we'll have plenty of police officers there, and we'll have equipment, and I always try to get up there, and it's really nice for the neighborhood and the area there, so we want to promote it. And the kids really enjoy it coming over and fishing there because we've got ramps all around. I don't know how many of our council members have been to the Gainesway Park, but it's a real nice area for this type of activity. So cops and bobbers, June the 4th. Thank you. All right. Be there. Any other council members have reports? All right. I see no more. So there is no mayor's report, and now is the time for public comment for issues not on the agenda. Is anyone signed up back there? No? All right. Thank you very much. And this would be the time for a motion to adjourn. There were several over there. And second, Councilmember Sheehan. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you.