Thank you. ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Good evening. We'd like to start the meeting if people will find your seats and finish your conversations, thank you very much. This is the October 13th meeting of the Urban County Council. And the first item on our agenda is to have the clerk call the roll. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Here. Mr. Koiber? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Here. Ms. Legree? Here. Mr. McKern? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. It's my turn to play. Ms. Reynolds? Ms. Sheehan? Here. Mr. Worley? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. And Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. And next invocation will be offered by Councilmember Bledsoe. Thank you. If you'll join me in bowing your heads, please. Heavenly Father, as the giver of grace, we need your presence and your assistance, your good favor and your great power. For whatever situation we face today, show us that your strength is sufficient. For all the members of council and those they represent, we implore you to please touch us with your healing grace. Forgive us when we have forgotten you. Lift us up when we have let you down. Deliver help to those who are hurting and provide peace for those who are in pain. We also entreat you to please give us your dealing grace, wisdom for our work, discernment for our decisions, resources for our responsibilities, and joy for our journey. In all these requests, Heavenly Father, we pray that your will be done, that we accept your grace is sufficient, and for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Thank you. And typically we tell the people who offer invocation they don't need to stay around, but you do. You do. Thank you. Next is the minutes of the September 22nd council meeting. Is there a motion to approve? Move to approve. Second. Motion to approve and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. And then Councilmember Sheehan. Thank you, Vice Mayor. So because we have a number of people signed up for public comment today, I would like to suspend the rules and move public comment to just after our presentations today, so moved. Second. Thank you, I have a motion and a second. Spend the rules and move public comment right after the presentations. Any discussion on the motion? Vice Mayor. Yes, sir. Council Member Worley. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Not oppose the motion, though because of this, there will be delayed getting to business. And so I just want to make sure that the public knows that if I have another engagement this evening. So if there's some reason that I leave during the public comment, it's not that I don't want to hear those that are speaking. I certainly want to hear all that, and I'll make a point to go back and watch the meeting, or if I don't get to business and not be able to make a vote because we're moving this forward. It's not that I'm not attentive to the business. It's just when we amend an agenda, then it does change that. And so I don't oppose the motion, but want the public and my colleagues to know that if I have to leave during either a portion of this public comment or during our business, I had a previous engagement. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else wish to speak to the motion? Seeing none, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Next on our agenda, a couple of presentations and I'll be going to the podium to assist with that. Our first presentation is for the junior fire chief. And this is something that the fire department assists with annually. And I'm inviting Chief Wells and the recipient, Reese Tumlinson. And if there are members of Reese's family who'd like to join us at the podium, Happy to have you. And I'm going to turn the mic over to the chief for a few words. Thank you, Vice Mayor and members of the council. Good evening, and it's an honor to stand before you and help recognize our junior fire chief, Reese. Reese has been doing a fantastic job this week, and just now, she actually offered to let me go home, and she's going to stay to answer any questions that you all may have. So with that, no, the Lexington Fire Department Junior Fire Chief Program serves a very important role to help us reach school-aged children and teach them about fire safety. Reese is doing a fantastic job of that, and we're so excited to have her on board. So thank you all again, and congratulations, Reese. Do you have any comments? No? So let me. I'll give Reese a second opportunity, but I do need to read the proclamation first. So this is about Junior Fire Chief Reese Tomlinson Day. Whereas, Reese Tomlinson has been named Lexington's 2022 Junior Fire Chief. And whereas Reese is a fifth grader at Mill Creek Elementary. And whereas Reese is the daughter of Heather Monahan and Tyler Tomlinson. And whereas at school, Reese is part of the gifted talented program, Girls Who Game, the Mill Creek Young Achievers and Girls on the Run. And whereas Reese is involved in basketball, gymnastics, and cheerleading, and she loves art, drawing and baking. Therefore, I, on behalf of Mayor Linda Gordon of Lexington, to hereby declare October 28th, October 13th, 2022, maybe that too, maybe two days. To hereby declare October 13th, 2022, Junior Fire Chief Reese Tomlinson Day in Lexington. So we're going to have an opportunity for a photo with the council. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our next presentation has to do with Residence Rights Month, and we have with us this evening Mary Jane Lovett, Denise Wells, who's the Executive Director of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency. Not so easy for me to say. Sue Landis with the same agency and Junior Day, who's a long term care resident. If you would care to join us all at the podium or just in front of the podium, however you can do. And I think we all know that the pandemic put exceptional pressure on long term care. And hopefully we're coming out of that, but we wanted to make sure that we recognize in this particular month, which is long term care residents rights month, people who are in long term care and the people who are providing that care. So I'm going to read the proclamation and I will invite Denise Wells, who's the Executive Director, to say a few words. So this is National Long-Term Care Residence Rights Month. I thought you were coming. Whereas there are over 1,400 people living in 14 nursing homes and over 1,300 people living in 23 personal care homes and assisted living communities in Lexington. And whereas the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 guarantees residents their individual rights in order to promote and maintain their dignity and autonomy. And whereas all residents should be aware of their rights so they may be empowered to live with dignity and self-determination. And whereas we wish to honor and celebrate these residents to recognize their rich individuality. And to reaffirm their right to vote and participate politically, including the right to have a say in their care. And whereas the nursing home ombudsman agency of the bluegrass, individuals and groups across the country will be celebrating Residence Rights Month with the theme, inspiring unity within our community. emphasizing the importance of fostering a meaningful community within facilities and encouraging residents connection to their local community. Now, therefore, on behalf of Linda Gorton, Mayor of Lexington, I do hereby declare October 2022 National Long Term Care Residence Month in Lexington. Congratulations. Vice Mayor Kaye really hit all the high notes, so I do just want to introduce myself. I'm Denise Wells, I'm the Executive Director of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency. Mouthful, you can call us Noah. But I do want to thank our ombudsman for Fayette County because without the people that have served the residents, we would have not been able to connect with the city council. And I'd like to thank Junior and Mary Jane for coming with us today and their helper from Mayfair Manor. And I'd like to, again, emphasize that COVID really did impact our long-term care residents terribly. And we are grateful that we seem to be moving towards the understanding that isolation can be just as deadly as anything. and that we now seem to be grounded in the idea that residents have the right to visits regardless of what might be going on in the greater community. So thank you to the city council and to Vice Mayor Kay and to Mayor Gordon for signing this proclamation and we'd like to share that with the residents of Mayfair Manor. Thank you. Now we'll take a photo with the council if you want to come forward. Thank you. Thank you. One, two, three. All right, I've got a couple. You're all good. Thank you. Thank you. Or your email. Or your email. Okay. Okay, next item on the agenda with the modified agenda will be the, Okay, next item on the agenda with the modified agenda will be the public comment. And I will take people in the order on this list and you will have three minutes. We ask that you come to the podium and that you give your name and council district. And I will have the happy job of keeping track of time. So, starting at the top of the list, Dottie Bean. I'm Dottie Bean, I'm a citizen of the 8th District, 8th Council District. I am here tonight to comment on the first reading of Resolution number 38. I object to the payment of up to $137,000 to the Community Action Council of Lexington Fayette and three other counties to serve as a fiscal agent for the One Lexington gun violence prevention grant for fiscal year 2023. Neither CAF nor One Lexington are qualified under the law to handle weapons, accept them, buy them, disarm them, and certainly not to decide what to do with them in terms of who should or should not have them. They also are not properly licensed to show anyone how to use them or how to load or care for them. This is an irresponsible way to deal with guns in this community by asking social workers to devise, operate, or fund programs dealing with weapons, regardless of the intention. We have several properly certified and qualified agencies in Fayette County that are already permitted by law to carry, confiscate, destroy, or return guns to legal owners. Why not rely on them to administer these grants and the programs they are intended to pay for? We also need to look at the duties of One Lexington and Partners for Youth to see if those agencies can be combined at a reduced cost to taxpayers. We know Partners is located in the Fayette County Clerk's Building, but would like to know what government officials assigned responsibility for oversight of One Lexington and exactly what One Lexington's responsibilities are for combatting crime in Lexington and other Central Kentucky counties that are part of CAF. Additionally, I'd like to question number nine under first reading, moving eight positions on E911 from exempt to non-exempt status. We merely ask why these jobs are being transferred to a higher supervisory grade. When we really need the people to answer those phones. Thank you. Thank you. Next, I have Rob Wilson and I have a note, excuse me. I have a note that Matthew, I think it's Mottolo, is yielding three minutes. So Rob Wilson, you would have six minutes. Good evening, City Council. Thank you for having me. My name is Rob Wilson. I work for Fleet Services. I'm here to speak on behalf of Fleet Services. Tuesday, you received a presentation by MAG on our compensation study. To say it has been a hot topic would be an understatement. One concern we have is we were moved up a pay grade. For many of us, we started at the bottom of the pay grade very recently. because of this many will be pay jumped when new hires come in according to an ordinance we found when an employee makes a pay grade moves up a pay grade a seven percent increase in salary should follow another concern is many of us have waited patiently for these results and to say it was disappointing would be an understatement from what i've seen this study's objective was to help with recruitment as a whole for employees with lower years of service it has done nothing to help with the issues we are facing this study treats the symptoms but not the illness the true issue that needs to be addressed is how do we keep the employees we have and how do we help them prosper without retention recruiting is fruitless many will say the benefits make up the pay deficit. This couldn't be further from the truth. Many of the younger employees like myself can't afford to do anything with the time off that we are given. The retirement is not what it used to be. In a career where my body is my main tool, this significantly shortens the time that we will be able to stay in that career. For mechanics, the effective working years do not match the retirement that is supplied. Our main problem is there is no clear ladder to climb. We have ordinances in place to help retain and uplift employees, but in the two years I've been here, I have yet to see them utilized. Ordinance 21-29 is a great example. It's within pay grade salary increases. It states the intent of this section is that employee salaries shall have first priority in the budget process except for any debts. If we can get a clear line of progression in regards to pay, the retention issues will be handled and recruiting will be easier. Happy employees will spread the word, spiking more interest and opportunities for possible applicants. A step program would be a fantastic option as well. This program is already in use in other departments, for example, police, fire, and corrections. And without some form of progression in salary, this becomes a dead-end job. Hopefully, these points will guide you in this upcoming vote. Thank you for your service, and thank you for your time. Thank you. Can we, I'm sorry, can we We'd like to avoid applauding if at all possible. Thank you. Next is Brittany Price. Kentucky Nurse Aid Registry. I live at 497 Agliana Avenue, Texas Kentucky 40508, 11th District. Your name has been added to the active Kentucky Nurse Aid Registry. Your state registered nurse aid status is active. To maintain an active status on the nurse aid registry, you must provide proof of minimum of eight hours of employment. for pay in the nursing or nursing related services for a 24 month period. Two months before the date your active status ends, you'll receive a letter from the Kentucky Nurse Aid Registry asking you to send the appropriate proof of employment. notify this office if any changes in your name or address so that you will receive notifications in a timely manner. You may also change your name and address on their website. Now it's time for me to get to work. Thank you very much, Mayor. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor and City Council for allowing me to speak today. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Emma Anderson. Good evening. I would like to cede my time to Joyce Bolton, Ms. Joyce Bolton. Thank you. Okay, Joyce Bolton, you'll have six minutes. Yeah, what was the name? I'm sorry. Tell you the four people we have to be seeing. We have a lot of . If I could have the names, who is? The last four people are. Who is mine? I've got three lists. Can you tell me name? No, it's okay. Who is mine? Yeah. So the four people we have speaking are Asan Gatewood. Yep. Joyce Bolton. Yep. Stephanie Hensley. Okay. And Charles Starks. And I think the people we have sitting time are Cat Smith, Quinn Mulholland, Lucas Lakebollock. They're not in any order, so Cat Smith then who? Lucas? Lucas Lakebollock. Okay. Quinn Mulholland. Yep. Bo Revlet. April Taylor. James Woodhead. Andrea Zang. Haley Powell. And Haley Powell. And Gabe. Robitaille. Robitaille. I'm sorry, I got you, but the last, the other. I don't see Haley. Okay, okay, then if they- So I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Seating time. And they are yielding to Joyce and to Charles and to Stephanie. And to Hassan, Gatewood. Sorry about this, next time we'll just write it on there, we didn't know about that. Okay, 136369. Yeah, I think that means six minutes per speaker. That's what we tried to do, yeah. Thank you all. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nine minutes. Okay, nine minutes per speaker. Thank you. Thank you. Then on the list, I have Joyce Bolton first, or do you have a different order? The order that we're in. Charles? Charles is first. It's the last page, page three. Okay, I get it. I get it. The name was moved, thank you. Okay, in that case, we are starting with Charles Starks. Welcome. Good evening. My name is Charles Starks. I'm here with Kentucky tenants just like everyone else that has these shirts on. Kentucky tenants, tenant led organization fighting for Lexington. where everyone has a safe high quality affordable housing and we are here to talk about attendance bill of rights. I've lived in Lexington since 1984. I didn't realize how much rent was until I got divorced in 2006. I was living in Metathorpe for a while, probably about 35 years. It wasn't too bad. It started getting worse. There was an increase in everything but the pay scale. It got so expensive I had to leave Metathorpe in August of 2021, after 35 years in the neighborhood. I moved over to Arlington Lofts on Limestone. Five months ago I was down with medical issues, couldn't work, fell behind on my rent. I was able to get help with rental assistance, but before I was in eviction court. Getting help saved a lot of mental stress because I was going through some serious medical issues at the time, which put me at serious risk. Now I'm here to help any way I can, giving back is my field to help. There's a lot of people out there that are in the streets with children that are forced out and have no help. That's wrong. The cost of rent is totally out of sight. It keeps rising with no help to stop or slow it down. Landlords treat people like dirt, and renters have no control. For the past year, Kentucky tenants have been speaking with hundreds of tenants all over Lexington about their struggles with housing. Two-thirds of people said that rent is unaffordable for most. This May rent increased in Lexington was higher than any other city in the United States. Many tenants are facing eviction and even more are dealing with landlords who refuse to make even simple repairs. When we asked about the solutions, we need tenants to set legal support, policies to help with high cost of housing, and policies that hold landlords accountable if they don't take good care of their homes. We need a tenants bill of rights. We need stronger anti-discrimination laws, better eviction protections, a landlord registry, and seats for tenants on the board's commissions. We are all about to hear other tenants about their stories and what exactly we need. We are going to fight to make everyone in Lexington have a safe, high-quality, affordable home. We hope you will fight with us. We need a tenant's bill of rights. Thank you, council. Thank you. I ask you please. Thank you. Next is S.S. Atson Gatewood. Hi, my name is Asan Gatewood Parks. I am a member of KY Tenants. What was that? I am a member of KY Tenants and my family rents here in Lexington. I am 15 years old, and I believe we need a Tenants Bill of Rights. I live with my mom, little brother, and sister. I also have three brothers in college. And last December, my mom found out we were losing our home. Our landlord decided he wanted to sell the house, so he was evicting us. I have a lot of good memories in our old home. Maybe my favorite is last Christmas. Right around the time we found out, we had to move. Everyone in our family was there, all four of my brothers, my sister and my dad. We mostly just relaxed and played video games. and had a nerf gun fight and my oldest brother amir always wins even though i have the most nerf guns in the house having everyone together under the same roof just felt safe and it felt good i was also able to be a teenager i was 14 at the time now 15 but i didn't feel like that for the eight next eight months of this situation my mom uses a housing choice voucher or section eight She couldn't find a landlord who would rent to us. I was constantly worried if I was going to have a place to sleep the next month. Also, like art, sometimes I just wanted to draw, but I couldn't, because we had to pack or figure out something with the eviction. I know it stressed out my mom, too, because one time I was in the car with her, and we were going to look at a house she wanted to move us into. She was so excited to show us the house, but we didn't end up getting it. the landlord wouldn't accept our voucher and i could tell how stressful it was for her i knew she was already dealing with so much other things going on just like my little brother who has special needs and a brain shot it wasn't fair for her or to any of us i'm 15 years old again i shouldn't have to worry about these kinds of things i should be thinking about what I want to do after high school and where I want to be. My mom and dad design and print clothing and athletic wear, and I'm thinking about studying business to follow in their footsteps. I also have a good singing voice, and I love music. If I'm angry, I listen to music. If I'm frustrated, I listen to music. I've thought about studying music in college. That's the kind of stuff I should have been thinking about. Instead, the eviction distracted me. I couldn't sleep peacefully that's probably why I'm a little short but seriously I was tired all the time I was tired at school and my grades dropped my teachers noticed but finally we found a new place my mood changed and my grades got better one of my teachers even said you can tell a sign is like a different kid now kids shouldn't have to deal with this we shouldn't have to suffer at school or or anywhere because landlords are mistreating our families. Because there's not enough affordable housing. If I was in charge of the housing system, I would make housing affordable for everyone and make sure our homes are safe and comfortable for the people living there. If I could, I would buy a home for my mom so we would never have to worry about this again. I don't have that power or money right now, but you have the power as city council to make it easier for people like my mom to find housing. You can pass a ban on source of income discrimination so the landlords have to accept our vouchers. Our money is just as good as anyone else's, whether we use a voucher or not. That would be a great start, and we can't stop there. We need more anti-discrimination protections for people with evictions on their records, for people with criminal histories, for people with low credit scores, for immigrants, and you have the power to make that happen. We need you to act. We need a tenant's bill of rights. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next would be Stephanie Hensley. my name is Stephanie Hensley and I'm a leader with Kentucky tenants I moved to Lexington and Corbin Kentucky in 2021 because my friends and family told me that I would be able to find more opportunities for my family. I was hoping for a fresh start here. Last August, I moved into Matador North Apartments in the 1st District. We were excited to move in because before that, we were at Salvation Army. And then my kids got COVID, so we had to stay in a hotel. When we got there, we learned that the House and Authority approved an apartment for us to move in. Section 8 told us that the apartment was safe. but they wouldn't let us come look at it because the kids had covered when we got out to matador they took us to the apartment and the electric wasn't even on even though the office said with that they couldn't move us in without it being on we had to slip we had to sleep in the living room with the balcony door open because that was the only way to stay cool enough to fall asleep Then in October the air went off. I went and told the office because my fridge wasn't even getting cold either and they didn't do nothing. And down the road the tile fell out of my shower and the toilet broke and the dishwasher stopped working. We had to keep milk in the freezer but it still went bad. So much of our food went bad. I had a heart attack from all the stress. Four months the air kept going off and on. All this time I was telling Section 8 how bad it was, and they kept saying they would send out an investigator but never did. I remember my son drenched in his own sweat because they wouldn't fix the AC. I remember him throwing up and having a hard time breathing because he was sick from the mold. I had a lung infection from the mold. Then I started getting sick, so I went to the hospital and they said I was allergic to the mold. The health department came out and tested the mold. They told me that it was black mold. They said that it wasn't safe for me or my unborn or my kids to live in. We ended up living out of a hotel. We had to leave our clothes, toys, furniture, and baby stuff, and the food was bad, so we couldn't take it. So we lost everything because the owners of Matador didn't want to fix nothing in our apartment. The maintenance guy told us every time he asked the office about fixing our place, the office would send him out to fix another apartment instead. I finally moved to a new place. I don't have transportation, so I walked to pay my rent. It's five miles round trip. We get charged $45 extra because we don't make three times the rent. That doesn't make sense. Recently, we were late on rent. On top of what we already owed, they added a $100 late fee. I can't afford that. I need that money for formula for my baby. Now we might get evicted. It just seems like it's one thing after the other. No mom should have the thought in the back of their mind that she might be homeless with her kids soon. I'm not the only person this is happening to, despite housing being unsafe and landlords not taking care of our homes. Rent is rising faster in Lexington than anywhere else in the country. We need more eviction protections. Every tenant in eviction court should have a lawyer right now. Only 1% do. But nearly every landlord has a lawyer. That's not fair. We need the city to pass the right to council so that tenants have a fair chance in eviction court. The current rental assistance program is helping so many people. I'm currently waiting to hear if they can help me. But that money will run out someday. When it does, we need the city to find a way to fund rental assistance permanently. we also need a landlord registry my own land my old landlord shouldn't be able to get away with what they did to my family and right now there's usually no way to find out anything about a landlord before you move in we need a riddle a rental registry to hold landlords accountable and let renters Mothers know more about the people they rent from. Families like mine are counting on you. Mothers like me are counting on you. We are going to fight for our rights. We need a Tenants Bill of Rights. Thank you. Thank you. Last speaker will be for This group will be Joyce Bolton. Hello everyone. My name is Joyce Fulton. I'm a resident at the Connie Griffith Tower and I'm also a member of Kentucky Tenet. Just give me a second here to get it together. I'm a public housing resident at County Griffith Towers and a member of Kentucky Tenet. I moved to County Griffith Towers in August 2021. The last place I live in wasn't the best place. I would have to walk up 15 wooden steps to enter my apartment. One day, I didn't have hot water to take a bath. I had to take my laundry downstairs for laundry service. I fell down those 15 wooden steps. I had brain surgery and two strokes. I had to move, the only place that I could finally open was County Griffith Towers. Living there has been stressful. The first night, the alarm system went off at 5 AM. in the morning it startled me i jumped up out of my bed my bed broke it hadn't been put together properly it hadn't gotten any better at the county griffith towers the same alarm goes off at night two to three times a month and when it goes off it stays off state it goes on for five to ten minutes one day the unit above me had a leak it leaked down into my light fixture in my I was afraid to turn on the electric that I might get shocked. When they finally came to fix it, I asked them could they change the light bulbs and they said $12 per bulb. Instead, for which it should have been the landlord's responsibility, I took light bulbs from my lamp to replace those light bulbs. That's not all. My toilet is broken. It wobbles when I sit on it. When I asked them to fix it, it didn't help much. To this day, any time I go to the toilet, I'm afraid I might fall and hurt myself. I always pay my rent on time. Just a minute, please. I always pay my rent on time, but right after I moved in to the building, they showed me the wrong, I put my rent in the wrong mailbox. They didn't show me the right mailbox to put it in. I got charged $30 late fee. Like I said, I had brain surgery and I needed more support. Someone should have showed me which mailbox instead of assumed that I would figure it out. The biggest problem we have there is roaches and bed bug. I'm on the resident council at the Connie Griffith Towers. This problem has been going on since 2014, guys. 2014, this is 222. So, and still, it has not been fixed. That's not right. They should already have taken care of that. The housing authority recently update rules that our repairs cost more money. We only found out about it when they put the note in our door. We are just like other tenants across Lexington. We are dealing with landlords who won't make repairs, can't afford safe housing. We are losing our homes for one reason or another. We need more protection. The mayor appointed House and Authority Board City Council to approve it. Right now, there are no one at the Public Housing Board that we know that would, that to make happen for the people that are on the board can't tell you about the story that I have told you. People on the board don't have 200 neighbors who's living in public housing. I do. We need tenants on board to make these decisions about housing, like Housing Authority Board, Affordable Housing Board, and more. You have heard our story. You know what we need. Now, you need to act. We need Tennant Bill of Rights to make it happen. I'm the last speaker tonight, but you see, I have many more with me. We will keep showing up until we win the Tennant's Bill of Rights. Every single person in Lexington should have a safe home that they can afford. We are fighting for the future we need. We hope you will join us. We really do. And we are the bees. We swarm, we do everything together. So if you're going to make honey, let's make it together. Will you all please take our Kentucky Bill of Rights in consideration and let us win so we can all live in harmony. Thank you. Thank you. and next will be danny wood good evening my name is danny wood i am a fellow lexingtonian i am a council district 4 resident and i am a devoted lfucg traffic engineering employee i am here tonight to talk about the compensation study that you have all been provided the study does adjust pain ranges based on market compensation rates compared to the competing cities that were listed in your study It generally increases pay range of job codes in a time of a robust market, and this change is very good to see. Unfortunately, for myself and approximately 150 other employees that we currently have here, the change is detrimental. I am going to receive a title change in which I go from an engineering technician position to an engineering technician position of senior. This also provides me with a job code increase going from a 514 to a 517. This would be ordinarily during our year an opportunity for a salary increase for myself as well as the 150 other employees that are receiving a title change and a rate change. In this case for this compensation study, it affected me detrimentally because I would not receive a salary increase. I am one of those people. I'm asking you, I'm imploring you emphatically to please scrutinize the study that you've received and understand that for a majority of the people you are helping, but for some of us you are not. Thank you. Thank you. And next, I have Rock Daniels and I believe that Billy Mallory has yielded three minutes, so you'll have six minutes. Thank you so much, Rock Daniels, 11th District. Glad most everyone's here, not out campaigning. I wasn't going to say anything about landlords, but obviously I am a landlord, and I did want to say something. I do accept Section 8, and I do think that it is good currency and people should take it. There is a problem with Section 8, in my opinion, and the problem is that HUD is not kept up with the market rate, and therefore we should look into, as a city, funding some kind of bridge loan or something to bridge the gap between what HUD provides as Section 8 and what market rate is. And that way more landlords might accept Section 8. Another thing is I'm opening a coffee shop, as many of you might know, and I have to get a business license in Lexington. I have to have the health department come and look at this coffee shop. As landlords, we conduct business in Lexington. So why aren't we required to have business licenses? I mean, we could simply pay $25 a door and the money could go towards inspecting properties to make sure that people aren't living in squalor. You know, there are good landlords out there that do have quality housing, and this would be a way to squeeze out some of those bad landlords by forcing them to pay for every door that they have and make sure that the homes are inspected properly and that people aren't living with mold and with faulty plumbing and faulty electric. Now, on to what I was wanting to talk about. Tuesday, we had the work session. At the work session, the Ezekiel Foundation came and talked about putting the homeless up. And Richard Maloney, sorry to bring you out in person, but Richard Maloney put a motion to pass a hybrid model. We had our commissioner of housing who got up here and said to us that we had 35 homeless people when they did their study. Okay? I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I went to pharmacy school. Not as dumb as I look. And part of pharmacy school, I took a class called drug interactions. And in drug interactions, you learn that when you're giving somebody data, you always ask for verification and verification. How do you verify? You multiply verify things. So this night of the homeless that there were 35, how many of you guys know what date that was, that the study was? Anybody verify that? Just don't know. Okay. Okay, how many of you guys know how many hotel beds? Excuse me, you're welcome to make comments, but the council is not going to respond to- Okay, they don't have to. That's not what- They don't have to, that's fine. Thank you. I'll just assume that they didn't. Okay, so how many beds do we think that we know in hotel rooms were purchased that night of that study? Maybe around 246 beds? That night, utilizing some of the $1.4 million. To me, that seems a little misleading. Misleading to council, misleading to the media, misleading to the public. As to what the situation for homeless is in our city. Because it was said there were 35 people. And we know that there were way more. all right while i'm here let's move on to something else uh talked about my son grace in the other day now we'll talk about bennett you know bennett he came and he told me one day that he took some quarters out of a bowl and i was like well bennett you can't take quarters out of a bowl and i said you know if somebody comes into the house and takes a dollar off the table they might as well go up in daddy's wallet and take five hundred dollars well months ago i did an open records request about the spending of this body right here. All right. I did it from the 1st of January, 2018 until the date of the request. And what did I find? I found that council members are spending public dollars on themselves. So I would ask that anybody that would like to do an open records request, do one from January 1st, 2018. And C, make sure that you get the receipts. And make sure that they give you all the receipts and not just part of the receipts. Also implore the mayor and the vice mayor, the mayor's not here, but to open an internal investigation into the use of taxpayer funds for personal use by members of this city council. And I also ask that state auditors ask for an external audit of funds spent. By this city council, because it was very disappointing to me to see some of the things that some of you were spending money on. Hats off, David Clover, Richard Maloney, putting your money back into the neighborhoods. Hats off to Fred Brown. It's obvious you're a CPA because your numbers were meticulous. So, I think we can do better. I think we can be more transparent. It just wasn't, it doesn't look good. You can't spend money on yourself. This money is supposed to go to neighborhoods. This money is not to be spent on your own person. And you guys know that. All right, thank you. Thank you. I believe we have nobody else signed up at this time to bring us to the next item on our agenda, which is second reading of ordinances. Madam Clerk, when you're ready. Yes, sir. In order to amend the budget to the Lexingtonville Irving County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and re-appropriating funds fiscal year 2023, Schedule number 13. Thank you. Thank you. Second. I have a motion and a second. We would need to have a roll call vote. Sorry, Vice Mayor, who was the motioner on that one? Thank you. Mr. Fred Brown? Yes. Thank you. Mr. James Brown? Yes. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Yes. Mr. Kuiber? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Lamb? Yes, ma'am. Ms. LaGree? Yes. Mr. McCurn? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Sheehan? Yes. Mr. Worley? Yes. Ms. Baxter? Yes. And Ms. Bledsoe? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. That vote reflects passage of the motion. Councilmember Lamb? Yes, thank you, Vice Mayor. Colleagues, as you know, I have sent out an amendment to this ordinance number two that's on the docket tonight. I do apologize for it being sent at 517, but that's as quick as I could get it today in a busy, busy day. So I would like to, and everybody around this dais has a copy of the actual ordinance with the amendment in front of them as well. I move to amend item number two under ordinances first reading related to small farm micro distilleries as follows. That the proposed article 8-1D33 for a conditional use and the proposed definition in article 1-11 of the zoning ordinance for a small farm micro distillery shall include language that small farm micro distilleries will be associated with an existing small farm winery licensed under KRS 243.155 that exists as of the date of the passage of this ordinance and shall include language that at least one agricultural resource grown on the property shall be a component of the product produced by the distillery and that the reference to KRS 243.140 be corrected to KRS 243.120 as the former has now been repealed and replaced by the later. I so move. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there a discussion on the motion? Council Member McCurron. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Lamb, thank you for communicating this ahead of time, too. I just have a copy of it here in front of me, and I have a line through, a small micro distillery shall not produce beer or malt beverages. I just want to make sure that that is extracted from, okay. Yes. Yes, sir, that has. As I learned right before the meeting began, that that was not intended to be a part of this. And so we have stricken that from the ordinance, and that is not part of the motion. So thank you for that. Thank you. And I appreciate your communication with Mr. Carter on this as well. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thanks. Thank you. Council Member. Anybody else wish to speak to the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Council Member Lamb. And having said that the approval of this, I know we had scheduled a presentation on Tuesday at the work session, and I would like to entertain a motion that we do not have to, that we can remove that presentation from work session agenda if my colleagues would like so. I have a motion and a second to delete that from the agenda on Tuesday. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you. And then we can proceed to first reading. Yes, sir. Ordnance number one. in ordinance creating section 8 1 d 33 and amending section 111 of the zoning ordinance to create a new conditional use for small farm micro distilleries in the agricultural ar zone as amended item two i'm i'm sorry to interrupt council member ellinger thank you vice mayor i just wanted to let everybody colleagues know that i put a a copy of what i asked the planning uh staff to to put just a little summary of what number two or number three is about. And I want to thank them for getting this back so judiciously. And I think it helps explain it very well. So thank you all for doing that. And just want to make sure you all are aware that that was at your desk here, please. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Proceed. Item three, in order submitting articles 111, 3, 6, 8, 1, N, 8, 2, N, 8, 3, N, 8, 4, N, 810B6, 810N, 811B4, 811N, 812N, 812O, 813N, 814B4, 814N, 815N, 81502, 816N, 81602, 817N, 818N, 819N, 820N, 821N, 820N, 820N, 820N, 820N, 820N, 820N, 820N, 960N, 960N, 23A5I, 23A6J, 23A7J, 23A8J, 23A9J, 23A10B14S, 23A10I, 23A10J3, 283G and H, 284G and H, 258G and H, and 286 of the zoning ordinance to consolidate all parking regulations to article 16 of the zoning ordinance to incorporating Parking design standards eliminate minimum parking requirements as well as to increase tree canopy and vehicular use screening requirements for parking lots urban county planning commission. Item four, an ordinance amending to the budget to the Lake-Sin-Fayette urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating re-appropriate funds fiscal year 2023, schedule number 15. Item five, an ordinance pursuant to section 21A of the code of ordinances of the Lake-Sin-Fayette urban county government, adopting a schedule of meetings for the council for the calendar year 2023 and six. An ordinance amending ordinance number 153-2013 is amended by ordinance number 187-2016 to remove reference to grants to provide that the urban county council may approve more than one loan per business. And clarifying that all agreements must include provisions requiring the repayment of funds and imposing penalties in the event that the terms of the agreement are not fulfilled all effect of the passage of council. Item seven, an ordinance amending the authorized strength by creating one classified position of the public service worker, grade 507N, and abolishing one unclassified position of stores clerk, part time, grade 508N, and the division of facilities and fleet management effective upon passage of council. Item eight, an ordinance amending section 1729.5 of the Lexington and Fayette Urban County Government Code of Ordinances to expand the definition of outdoor cafe by removing the reference to specific codes amending section 1729.2 and section 29.5 of the code to require approval by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority for on-street parking controlled by the authority, and amending section 1729.5 of the code to clarify that the administrator may deny, revoke, suspend, modify, or condition an outdoor cafe permit for legitimate health, safety, and general welfare purposes effective upon passage of counsel. Item 9. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing eight classified positions of telecommunicator supervisor, supervisor grade 520E in creating eight classified positions of telecommunicator supervisor, grade 520N in the division of enhanced M11, thereby changing the Fair Labor Standard Act status of the position from exempt to non-exempt, transferring all incumbents to the non-exempt position, and converting the biweekly salary of all incumbents to an hourly rate of pay, effective the first payroll Monday following the passage of council. Item 10. In ordinance amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength by creating one unclassified position of project manager, grade 517N, in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management with a term expiration of December 31, 2026, unless extended effective on passage of council. Item 11. In ordinance amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength by abolishing one unclassified position of program specialist NE, grade 513N, and creating one unclassified position of program specialist part-time NE, grade 513N, of the Department of Social Services and transferring the incumbent effective the first payroll Monday following the passage of Council. And item 12, an ordinance adopting the pay grades, job codes, job classifications, job titles, and salary ranges recommended by the management advisory group, Incorporated, MAG, and directing the administration to implement the recommended salary adjustments effective the first payroll Monday following passage of Council for any classified and unclassified civil service employees, if any. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any walk-ons? Any motions to suspend the rules? Council Member Lamb? Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have been asked, based on the administration, to give ordinance number 10. It's an ordinance amending unclassified civil service authorized strength by one unclassified position of project manager for the, I believe it's to do, well, anyway. They've asked me to suspend the rules on it. so i so move second i have a motion and a second any discussion on the motion seeing none all in favor please say aye aye any opposed that motion carries any other suspensions if not we'll move to first reading thank you item 10 in order spending the unclassified civil service authorized strength by creating one and classified position of project manager grade 517 in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management with a term expiration of December 31, 2026 and less extended effective upon passage of council. Thank you. Move to approve. Motion and a second. Sorry, is this a roll call? 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? Yes. Ms. Plowman? Yes. Ms. Sheehan? Yes. Mr. Worley? Yes. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. And Ms. Bledsoe? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. That vote reflects passage of the motion. I believe that allows us to move to resolutions for first reading. Yes. Item one. Resolution accepted a bid of Baldwin and Sowers Incorporated, Lightly Enterprises of Ohio, LLC, Stella Products Incorporated, Vulcan Incorporated, DBA Vulcan, Aluminum, DBA Vulcan Signs, establishing press contracts for traffic signs for the Division of Traffic Engineering. Item two. A resolution accepting the bid of LACO Incorporated in the amount of $525,400 for mechanical system replacement for fire station number one for the Division of General Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with LACO Incorporated related to the bid. Item three. A resolution accepting the bid of Pro-Lift Toyota material handling in the amount of $69,808 for forklift rebid for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Pro-Lift Toyota material handling related to the bid. Item 4. A resolution accepting the bid of FPF Concrete Services Incorporated in the amount of $49,900 for installation of tornado shelter for the Division of Emergency Management and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept an agreement with FPF Concrete Services related to the bid. Item 5. A resolution ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of Carmen Norris, Administrator Splash's Principal, Grade 5, 18E, 1975.52, biweekly in the Division of Revenue, effective September 28, 2022. Connor Steele, Arborist, Technician, Grade 5, 15, N, 21.525, hourly in the Division of Environmental Services, effective October 11, 2022, and ratifying the permanent sworn appointments of Dylan Taylor, Police Lieutenant, Grade 317E, 4001.90, biweekly in the Division of Police, effective September 14, 2022. Brandon Moravchick, Police Sergeant, grade 315 and 36.6 for four-hourly in the Division of Police effective September 14, 2022, item 6. A resolution authorized the mayor on behalf of the American government to execute an agreement with Kathy H. Witt, Sheriff of Fayette County, for the collection of the ad valorem Urban Services District Taxes for 2022 property tax year at a cost not to exceed $350,000 with the payments to be treated as a commission and the urban county government to receive any related payment, $87,500 for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Item 7, a resolution authorizing and directly on behalf of your beginning to execute an agreement with the Lexington County Health Department to supply LFUCG athletic areas and parks with custom signage and receptacles promoting tobacco-free spaces and tobacco risk awareness as directed by the LFCHD tobacco coordinator. Item 8. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute a site-specific agreement with the Jesmond South Elkhorn Water District Trinity Christian Academy LLC to provide sanitary sewer conveyance and treatment capacity to lots 1, 2, and 4 of the Smith & Cox property in Jesmond County. Item 9. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Irving County Government to execute a partial release of easement releasing utility easements on the property located at 240 Canary Drive. Item 10. A resolution authorizing the Division of Police to purchase for a period of one year a safeguard warranty and protection plan from Forensic Technology Incorporated, social service provider for the IBIS Brass Tracks acquisition station used to capture high-resolution images of cartridge casings and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American Government of the District of Education any necessary agreement with Forensic Technology Incorporated related to this procurement. At a cost of not receiving $17,757. Item 11. A resolution authorizing on the Director of the Mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to accept a donation from Home Depot of a Nexgrill 5 burner propane gas grill for the use of the Division of Police at no cost to the Urban County Government. Item 12. A resolution authorizing the Division of Fire and Emergency Services to purchase cardiac monitors from ZOL, a source provider, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with ZOL related to the procurement at a cost not received $185,309.05. Item 13. A resolution authorizing the Director of Mayor on behalf of the Regan of Government to execute change order number three final to the agreement with Mack Construction and Excavating Incorporated with Peachtree Road Wood Hill Drive Stormwater Improvements increasing the contract price by $262,530.63 and raising the total contract price from $2,935,204.34 to $3,197,737.97. item 14 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of urban county government to execute a first amendment to the jobs fund loan agreement with water warriors incorporated reducing the number of jobs to be created while increasing the required hourly wages at no additional cost to the urban county government item 15 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of urban county government pursuant to the jobs fund program to execute a 10-year loan agreement and related documents with space tango llc in the amount not to exceed 250,000 dollars for the creation and retention of at least 16 new jobs with an average hourly wage of at least $49.50 exclusive of benefits. Item 16, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of urban county government to execute master state and local government lease agreement number 1172902 and authorizing the chief information officer to execute further lease schedules with Renovo financial services pursuant to master lease agreement number 1172902 for the lease of desktop computers for the urban county government at an estimated cost not to exceed $88,582.63. Item 17, a Resolution authorizing on the director of the mayor on behalf of your government to execute a purchase of service agreement with the Bluegrass Area Development District for fiscal year 2023 local dues payment to support workforce development, aging services, and regional planning at a cost of noctuary seat $61,288.30. Item 18. A resolution authorizing on the director of the mayor on behalf of your government to execute a purchase of service agreement with the Bluegrass Area Development District for the operation of a home care program for homebound seniors at a cost not to exceed $48,610. Item 19. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the governor to execute consultant services agreement awarded pursuant to RFP number 46-2022 with Nomi Incorporated for Professional Design Services of the Donbark Community Center Roof and Restroom Replacement Project for the Department of General Services at a cost that received $95,000. Item 20. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the governor to execute a partial release of easements releasing a portion of utility and water easements on property located at 1145 Appian Crossing Way. Item 21. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American government to execute a partial release of easements releasing portions of sanitary sewer and drainage easements on properties located at 420, 422, 424, 426, 428, and 430, Koa Park, item 22. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American government to execute a sixth amendment agreement with Aramach Correctional Services LLC for the price per meal charge increase mandated in the agreement at an additional cost not to exceed $160,000 in fiscal year 2023. Item 23, a resolution authorizing the use of $500,000 of MAP funds as a local match in support of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's reconnecting community grants application for the North Broadway Railroad overpass project pending completion of an audit and approval of any necessary budget amendments. Item 24, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American Government to execute a memorandum of agreement with Rodney Ballard for Mr. Ballard to serve as interim director of the Division of Community Corrections at a cost to exceed $12,500 per month. Item 25. A resolution authorizing on behalf of the Executive Agreement with the Institute of Police Technology and Management for attendance at IPTM courses at a cost to exceed $72,000. Item 26. A resolution authorizing on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the acceptance of $144,000 in federal funds in the Corona Response and Relief Supplement Appropriations Act CRRSAA $120,000 and under the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Service Transportation Program SLX $24,000 for the design phase of the Wilson-Downning intersection improvement project, the assumption which obligates the urban county government to the expenditure of $6,000 as a local match and authorizing the man to transfer adequate funds within the grant budget for these grants. Item 27. A resolution authorizing the director of the man behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for acceptance of $200,000 in federal funds under the Corona Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act, CRRSAA, for the design phase of the Armstrong Mill Shared Use Path Project, the assumption which does not obligate the urban County Government to the expenditure funds and authorizing manager transfer undercumber funds within the grant budget for these grants. Item 28. A resolution authorizing director of the mayor on behalf of the County Government as a collaborative applicant to execute and submit the 2022 Continuum of Care supplemental grant application to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD and to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application which seeks up to two million two hundred twenty eight thousand two hundred ninety three dollars in federal funds for the operation of programs by community nonprofit organizations to reduce unsheltered homelessness in Fayette County. Item 29. A resolution authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to purchase replacement CBRN filters from ARAMSCO, a social provider, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of everybody going to go to execute any necessary agreement with ARAMSCO related to the procurement at a cost not to exceed $50,000. Item 30. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of everybody going to go to execute a modification to an agreement with the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Division of Emergency Management, extending the period of performance through September 30, 2023 under the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness program for fiscal year 2021. Item 31. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of our mechanic to execute a price contract with L3 Harris Technologies Incorporated for radios and accessories and authorizing the mayor to execute any necessary documents related to the price contract. Item 32. A resolution authorizing the payment of $252,500 in federal funds are allocated to the Affordable Housing Fund to Independence Homes, determining that the use of these funds for operating expenses by Independence Homes is an eligible use of the affordable housing fund notwithstanding section 2-483 of the code of ordinances and further authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute any necessary agreement with independence homes related to these funds. Item 33. A resolution authorizing and direct the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation from Citizens Fire Academy Alumni Association for purchase of materials to build five training hubs in the amount of $3,000 for use at the division of fire at no cost to the urban county government. Item 34. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a joiner agreement with the Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority, KDC, to authorize KDC to administer the Kentucky Public Employees 401k plan and Kentucky Public Employees 457 plan on behalf of the urban county government for eligible employees. Item 35. A resolution authorizing on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Transamerica Life Insurance Company for volunteer whole life and term life supplemental insurance plans for eligible employees at Newcross through the Lexington for urban county government. Item 36. A resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the urban county government to execute purchase of service agreements with Lex Arts Incorporated for various services to provide support for the arts community and art community at large at a cost not received $325,000. Item 37. A resolution authorizing and directly mayor on behalf of your professional services agreement along with any other necessary agreements or documents with Keller Partners and Company LLC RFP number 39-2022 for lobbying and legislative representation services at a cost not received $86,500. Item 38. A resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of your We've got a government-execute agreement with Community Action Council for Lexington, Fiat, Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Inc., to serve as a fiscal agent for the One Lexington Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program for FY 2023, the total cost not to exceed $137,000. And item 39, a resolution authorizing the Department of Law to institute condemnation proceedings in Fiat Circuit Court to obtain permanent and temporary easements upon portions of the property located at 1927 Harrodsburg Road for the Wolf Run Main Trunk F Project, a remedial measures project required by the consent decree. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any walk-ons? Seeing none, any motions to suspend the rules? Council Member Lamb, it's your night. I'm on a roll. On behalf of the administration, I would like to ask for resolution number 19. It is the consultant services agreement with NOMI, NOMI Incorporated for Professional Design Services for the Dunbar Community Center for the roof and restroom replacement project. I so move. Second. Motion and a second. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Are there others? Combsmember James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to suspend the rules and give a second reading to number two. Number two. Should I do one at a time or multiple? We'll do it one at a time. I have a motion and a second on number two. Discussion on the motion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Be opposed? That motion carries. Vice Mayor, I'd also like to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 12. This has to do with purchasing fire equipment, so move. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. All right, Vice Mayor, then I'd like to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 38. This is the One Lexington Grant Program, so move. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you. Anybody else? Any further requests? If not, Madam Clerk, when you're ready, second reading. Item two, a resolution accepted a bid of LACO incorporating the amount of $525,400 for mechanical system replacement for fire station number one for the Division of General Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American government to execute an agreement with the LACO Incorporated related to the bid. Item 12. A resolution authorizing the Division of Fire and Emergency Services to purchase a cardiac monitor from ZOL, a source provider and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the American government to execute any necessary agreement with ZOL related to the procurement at a cost of $185,309. dollars and five cents item 19. a resolution authorizing and directing mayor behalf here beginning government executing a consultant services agreement order pursuant to RFP number 46 2022 with Nomi incorporated for professional design services for the Dunbar Community Center roof and restroom replacement project for the division of general services at a cost not to exceed $95,000 and item 38 a resolution authorizing the on behalf to execute an agreement with Community Action Council for Lexington, Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Incorporated to serve as the fiscal agent for the One Lexington Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program, programming for fiscal year 2023 at a total cost not to exceed $137,000. Thank you. Second. I have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk, when you're ready, please call the roll. 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. Legrie? Yes. Mr. McKern? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Maloney? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Plowman? Ms. Sheehan? Yes. Mr. Worley? Yes. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Aye, Ms. Bledsoe. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. That vote reflects passage of the motion. That brings us to communications from the mayor. Is there a motion to approve? I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Next is communications from the mayor on price contracts. I believe this is one motion. Need a motion? Move approval. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Next is communications from the mayor for information only. And then we do have a discipline. Chief Weathers, welcome. I hope everybody's doing well tonight. I have a disciplinary recommendation for council approval. On August 2nd, 2022, an internal formal complaint was made that officer Kevin Preston violated General Order 1973-02K Disciplinary Procedures for Sworn Officers, Appendix B, Operational Rule 1.04 Body Camera Procedures, and Operational Rule 1.08 Accountability and Responsibility. At the conclusion of the investigation, the employee met with me and has accepted a written reprimand. On July 12th and 13th, 2022, Officer Kevin Preston reported to work feeling ill. He stayed parked during his shift in his assigned area. During those two duty days, he was not dispatched to any calls for service, nor was he needed for any calls for service, but he did not adhere to expected standards. Also, during that time frame, Officer Preston failed to power on his body-worn camera. This is Officer Preston's first sustained formal complaint since his employment since March 18, 2013. Thank you. I have a motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor, I'm sorry, Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Chief. I just have a question about the protocol for turning on the camera. I just was wondering if you could just explain that a little bit more. Sure. If you're going to be out in the public, like I am now, your camera is supposed to be in operational mode, which we call buffering mode. So you can just hit it and it comes on. That's in case something unexpected happens. You don't have to go through the step of actually powering it on and then hitting it. So it ensures that you capture what you need to capture. And when it's on like this, it's continuously recording on a loop. So it'll go back 30 seconds and capture. So that's why we require officers to have it on when they're working. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Council member will agree. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Chief, I was just wondering, in a situation like this, was any of this connected to his illness? He said that he was sick, so he was still at work, but under the weather, I just. I meet and I talk to all the officers going through discipline. Again, I'm not allowed to talk about this until it's finalized, so I'll have to walk perfectly. Typically, what I will ask is, what was on your mind, what were you thinking? I have had in the past officers that have been in this situation, and a lot of them may still come to work sick simply because they don't want to leave their fellow officers shorthanded. However, I would require them to notify their supervisor about that. Sometimes when officers come to work sick, they tell their coworkers about it. And their coworkers will say something similar to, hey, why don't you relax? If we need you, we'll call you. I will be as delicate as I can. I think his illness would have probably been agitated had he moved around too much. So. Okay, thank you. I was just trying to understand the process in terms of HR policies and illness and practices. Yeah, we're in different and difficult times. And our officers want to be there for each other, I understand that. But I expect them to be there for the community as well. Thank you, thank you Vice Mayor. Thank you. I see no one else signed up to speak. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you, Chief. Thank you all. Have a good night. Okay, that brings us to announcements. Council members, if you have announcements, please sign in. Council member Lamb. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I wouldn't normally speak tonight and I know that my colleagues have something else probably they've got to go to. but you know there's not too many times when you have someone stand before you and disrespect you and i don't normally answer or respond to someone that speaks at the podium but i feel the need to say something because my integrity is everything to me not only on this council as a body on this council but personally and for someone to stand before me me and everybody else that is watching or that everybody watches in the future and to insight that I have done anything illegal, wrong, or anything else in my 35 years with this city insults my integrity and I will not let it go without saying something. I'm not running for re-election and I can, I mean, you know, even if I was running for re-election, I would say something. It is not fair that someone chooses to stand before this body and insult all of us. And that is not right. And I just say for the record that this body of council does a really good job. And you know what? We might not all be perfect, but I'll tell you what. We hold this city up, and we do a good job, and we try to represent our constituents in this community. And I think we do a really fine job, and I am proud to work with every one of my colleagues. So I just hope that whoever's still listening to this, that you will take into consideration that anybody can get at this podium and say whatever they want to do, and we typically never respond. Tonight, that's not happening, not on my dime. My integrity is everything to me, and I will not stand for that. So you can make what you want of me, but I stand by my word and I stand by my integrity. I'm a moral person and nobody is going to stand and accuse me of anything that I have done wrong in my years of service at this city. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else for council announcements? Council Member Ellinger, if you wouldn't mind taking the chair. Thanks in the morning. I don't see. It would be Maloney, Richard would be next. Councilman, you just were handy. Councilman Maloney, if you wouldn't mind taking the chair. I also normally would not take a moment to respond, but I agree with Councilmember Lamb. To stand at the podium and with a broad brush make a statement about unspecified council members. It's really unfair to us. It's unfair to the public. It puts a suspicion out there that's not, so far as I know, backed by anything substantial. As the chair, I couldn't figure out whether I should basically cite the rules that we have about the kind of comment we could take. I did not do that, but I do want to add my comment to Council Member Lambs. I think that was inappropriate and I hope the public is still watching some of this and they'll understand. So, thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Seeing none, we had one person come in after the sign-up. She had already gone to this desk, so I'm going to take time for public comment, and we have Amy Clark. I appreciate it. Amy Clark at 628 Castle Road. I appreciate the one minute of council time deliberately, specifically focused and devoted on deliberating or at least trying on the parking ordinance. Mr. Ellinger in the council comment at the end of the meeting, council member Ellinger asked that they be furnished with some, the members be furnished with some kind of a report. That's a report that needs to go to the public too and the public need an opportunity to respond to it. Thank you for a copy. I read it as quickly as I could. I would like also to correct the record. Now that the material is posted in Legistar, so I can see it, which was furnished for your review on the parking ordinance. I can see that the report of Planning Commission to Council said there were no objectors. This may be because people were characterized as public comment in the Planning Commission hearing. I can say that I was an objector, and the sole remark reported, my grandmother would be proud of me, was that I thanked the staff for bringing it forward. I thanked the staff for fixing and fixing it, and I said there was more work to be done, much more work to be done. As a body, you are facing passing 30 pages or so of new law, plus another 140 or so of excising the minimum parking standards. And there's quite a lot to read. I would recommend for your consideration the staff in its reporting to Planning Commission, the rather lengthy, made mention of a study in Buffalo, New York. As far as I can tell, that is the only reporting of outcome of removing minimum parking requirements. And what they found is that some developers park more and some choose to park less than the former minimums. In particular, the part that parked 52% fewer cars than formerly required furnished parking was downtown mixed use sort of development. They have an enormously robust transit system. They have some, let's see if I have these numbers, 25 million in transit riders yearly in a year when we had 4.2 million transit riders. So that's where they're seeing their parking reduction with a substantial investment in public infrastructure. They have light rail as well as buses. I think there's a lot more information that you need to weigh and consider on this mammoth new law. Please put it into committee. Thank you. Thank you. I believe that would bring us to a motion to adjourn. Second. Second. Without objection, I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you.