Thank you. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Thank you. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. It's 3 o'clock, so I'll go ahead and call to order the council work session of November 1st, 2022. And the first item on the agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda. Do we have anyone? I'm sorry, Mayor. Signed up. I have a motion for close. Before public comment. Your choice. All right. We have a slight change. The vice mayor has a motion. Thank you, mayor. I move that we go into closed session pursuant to KRS 61.8101C for the purpose of discussing proposed litigation. Do I hear a second? I have second from Councilmember Lamb. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? And I understand this will be short. I've told it would be short, so we're in closed session. I'm going to go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The End Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do I have a motion to come back into open session? So moved. Thank you. Councilmember Plowman, second by Councilmember Legree. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. We are in open session. Now we have public comment for issues on the agenda. Do we have anyone signed up back there? We have one. When you break up the... Thank you. We have one person signed up. Is this an issue on the agenda? Okay, so we'll catch you later for issues not on the agenda. Thank you. Now, we have a public hearing for the urban service changes. Where's our legal team? Where'd you go? Okay, well, I'll just declare the public hearing for the urban service changes open and ask if there's anyone here who would like to speak to the changes in the urban services. No? Okay. I'll declare the public hearing closed then. Thank you. And next is docket approval and rezonings. Could I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger and then Council Member Plowman seconded. And if you will you log in, please, if you have questions or additions for the docket. Vice Mayor Kay. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket for the November 3, 2022 Council meeting, a resolution authorizing the Department of Law to institute condemnation proceedings in Fayette Circuit Court to obtain fee simple and temporary easements upon portions of the property located at 1376 Silver Springs Drive for the Citation Boulevard Phase 3A project. So move. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Lambs seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Is there anything else for the docket? All right. All those in favor of approving the docket as amended, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next up is approval of the November 1st. Hmm, that's today. Okay, is there a... I'll look to our council staff. Is there a table of motions? Okay, so on the agenda, although it says November 1st, it's really October 25th. Could I hear a motion? to approve the table of motions for October 25th work session. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Lamb. Now, are there any questions about the motion? They're included in the packet. All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Okay, that motion passes. Could I please have a motion to approve budget amendments? Motion to present. Second. Council Member McCurn moves. Council Member Reynolds seconded. If you have questions, please log in. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Item on 137343, Division of Police. Has to do with the East Roll Call Center. Commissioner Hensley. Yes, sir. I don't know who I commend, but I commend somebody for finding the funds and being able to use those out of the asset forfeiture. And I guess I needed a question maybe from the chief. It looks like from what you say here, the roll call center is coming along pretty good. Do we have an estimated completion time on that while we're on the topic? I think Commander Schnelli is here. Command. Oh, okay. Making his way. Welcome. I just want an update more than anything. Sure. We're being told by the construction crew right now that completion should be done in June of 23. Okay. That was our original target date, I think, or hopeful date. Correct. So we're still on? Still on target for that, yes, sir. Okay. All right. Fine. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Any other questions about budget amendments? All those in favor of approving, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Now, budget adjustments are for information only. There are none. Could I have a motion, please, to approve new business? Motion to approve. Second. Thank you, Council Member Ellinger, and then second by Council Member Reynolds. and please log in if you have questions. Council Member Sheehan. Thank you, Mayor. I actually have a motion to make about Item B, so would you like me to do that now? Okay. I move to schedule a public hearing related to the approval of a resolution of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government approving the execution and delivery by Clark County Fiscal Court of its health care revenue bonds for Kentucky Easter Seal Society Incorporated Project in an amount not to exceed $10 million and to take related actions at the regularly scheduled council meeting on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 6 p.m. This hearing is required because the property is at 1900 Richmond Road, located in Fayette County. So moved. Thank you. Council Member Lamb seconds. Now, are there questions, Council Members? All right. All those in favor of adding this to new business, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you very much. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. I had a quick question. It was on letter J, and it refers to the amount per month per retiree on the Medicare Advantage plan. Is that with Swelters? And this is, like I said, I was just curious. How many individuals, what does that universe look like on a monthly basis? Do you know? I do not know that off the top of my head, but I can check. Okay, I was curious. Okay, I'll let you know. Thank you. Thank you. And then just on letter G, and this talks about the fire department receiving a neon 2005 Ford Explorer, and I just wanted to say what a nice and thoughtful token that was, And I know our fire department has spent a lot of time working with that part of our state. So it didn't go unnoticed and just wanted to let you know that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Any other questions about new business? All right. All those in favor of approving new business as amended, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Next, we have continuing business and presentations, and we have two presentations, and then we'll follow that with three summaries. At this moment, I would like to call Chief Jason Wells to the podium. So, thank you. Chief Wells is here to present a very special award, the SPOKE Award, which recognizes government employees who are outstanding performers, people who make important contributions to their job. SPOKE stands for skilled, professional, outstanding, knowledgeable, exceptional. Divisions nominate employees for this award and a committee of employees make the selection. So this year, the fire department nominated this year's award winner. And so Chief Wells is here to unveil this and tell us why they nominated the winner and make the announcement. Chief. Thank you very much, Mayor. So as many of you know, we here in the fire department, we have a lot of buildings. and we're always seems like in a state of trying to assess how we best utilize those properties and how we can be most efficient we rely a tremendous amount on general services and Josh Ives has been an incredible asset for us so Randy Patterson who is our battalion chief nominated Josh and Josh do you want to come up and join us so Josh has managed several of our department's major capital projects over the last few years including fire station 24 he has done above and beyond his role he has provided full in-house architectural design and construction management services on numerous projects and saved our division and this government tens of thousands of dollars in design consultant fees including the station to flooring replacement project heavy-duty concrete replacement projects master planning and long-range facility projects and last year some of you actually saw this last year Josh put together an extensive facility utilization report for the LFD that provided an overview of administrative space needs facility construction condition assessment and personnel and programming inventory that helped us to review our long-range capital construction goals with the administration so we are extremely grateful for Josh let's get a photo with council Thank you. Thank you. Now, I would like to invite Commissioner Erin Hensley and all the staff who are here with her from finance, This is very exciting, speaking of employees and honoring employees. These are all folks who work behind the scenes all the time, keeping our finances in order. So this is a wonderful, exciting presentation. And the first thing I want to do is read the proclamation. And then I'll say a couple words and ask the commissioner to say a few words. so Commissioner can you come here and some of you all just scoot up here there you go ground the field whereas the City of Lexington's Department of Finance has been recognized for outstanding excellence in financial statement presentation again this year by the Government Finance Officers Association and whereas the Department, its Division of Accounting and Audit team have been awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting the 30th time Lexington has won this award, and whereas to qualify for the award, the City must publish an easily readable and efficiently organized comprehensive annual financial report whose contents conform to program standards, and whereas the City's report must also satisfy generally accepted accounting principles and applicable legal requirements, and whereas the last few years have been challenging for the Department, there were a few giggles back there, given the budget challenges of the pandemic and of the American Rescue Plan funding, and whereas congratulations and thank you to the members of the Department of Finance for maintaining the highest professional standards. Now, therefore, I, Linda Gorton, Mayor of Lexington, do hereby declare November 1, 2022, Department of Finance Day. Congratulations, all of you. Thank you. Thank you. So, to Commissioner Hensley, I want to say it's been a tough few years. The minute you set your foot in the door, right? And I want to personally thank you and your team for your professionalism, your excellent leadership through Rocky Road, and you have maintained the highest standards. And so I'm going to ask Commissioner Hensley to say a few words, please. Sure. So I have the privilege of working with what I'm going to say is the most amazing team here at LFUCG. I've only been here a couple of years, but we have a number of staff who have been here for a very large, I won't put any of them on the spot, A very large portion, there's a few of them here, of that 30 years. And I just want to appreciate them for their service over this long period of time. We are the beneficiaries of some great structure that has been built by those that have come before us. and we're doing our best to continue to work and move finance and government forward as we get to have challenges such as ARPA and new crazy adventures. So thank you all so much for your help in this process. We absolutely couldn't do it without each and every one of you, but a special huge thanks to our finance team. They are amazing, and I just want to thank them so much today. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We'll go right up here. Did it happen if there's no photo? No, right? Surprise! Come on. You almost snuck out of it. All right, good everyone? All right, ready to play? Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Good job. No problem. Uh-oh. No problem. Uh-oh. Thank you very much. Now, first, for our summaries and report outs, we'll hear from Council Member Fred Brown, Environmental Quality and Public Works. Thank you, Mayor. The Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee met October 11, 2022. The meeting was called to order at 1.02 p.m. The first item on our agenda was the approval of the September 13, 2022 committee summary. There were no additions or corrections, and the summary was approved without dissent. Next, we had the annual snow and ice removal plan presented by Director Rob Allen with Streets and Roads. He spoke about the salt supply and said both barns are full and they have a contract in place to purchase additional salt if necessary. Let's hope we don't need any of it. That's a mad living. He spoke about the COVID-19 assistance plan, which involves several divisions across government working together to provide assistance during peak times. There was some discussion about the snow removal on trails, and both Allen and Director Kerry explained that environmental services would handle town branch commons, but Parks and Recreation takes care of snow removal on other trails. No action was taken on this item. Our last item was the Urban Tree Canopy Change Analysis and Planting Plan, presented by Rachel Comte. an arborist with Urban Canopy Works LLC. The purpose of this study was to look at the urban tree canopy over time in different scenarios. She mentioned ways to identify areas for potential new canopy by defining areas of the highest priority by community needs. There was some discussion on prioritizing efforts. Comte described the online viewer would allow you to compare the tree canopy from 2012 to 2020. She also stated that when you allow neighborhoods to choose for themselves what their priorities are, they can run these reports for their council district or neighborhood. No action was taken on this item. Meeting adjourned at 152. That concludes my report. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions about the report for Council Member Brown? all right all right thank you next is the general gov and social services councilmember lamb thank you mayor the first report out is the september 16 2022 general government and social services committee meeting began at 1 p.m first item was approval of the august 16 2022 committee summary A motion by Councilmember Sheehan to approve the August 16, 2022 committee summary. Seconded by Councilmember Baxter. The motion passed without dissent. The second item was the Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention annual update. First, Mr. Jeff Herron, LFUCG's new Homelessness Prevention Manager, gave an annual update on the Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention. LFUCG has invested roughly $37.5 million in the homelessness response system since the office was created in 2014. This number only counts funds that were administered, monitored, and led by that office. About one-third of the funding has gone towards managing homelessness. LFUCG received the designation of Effectively Ending Veteran Homelessness in 2019. They have also built a coordinated entry system and has been designated a Homeless Management Information System Lead. The OPI, Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention, additionally has about 50 new programs and office increased its continuum of care partners from 16 to 75 organizations. Mr. Herron explained the point-in-time count data, and though there was a slight increase in the 2022 point-in-time count, they have seen a 54 percent decrease in the number of homeless persons in their system since 2014. In January 2021, the Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention released its five-year strategic plan to reduce and effectively end homelessness and enhance affordable housing in Fayette County. There are 55 recommendations slash actions in this plan. There was no action taken on this item. The next item was a percent for art resolution. The next item was a review of the percent for art resolution. Ms. Heather Lyons, LFUCG's Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs, gave background information on the percent for art resolution. In 2018, the percent for art resolution was passed by the Urban County Council, which required 1% of all bonds for capital improvement projects be set aside for the purchase, commissioning, installation, and maintenance of public art. In 2019, a commission convened to create a public art master plan for Lexington. In February of 2022, the master plan was complete and presented to Council. The Finance Department interprets the resolution to mean that the total amount of bonded projects is included in the calculation. The total amount of all capital funds is used to calculate the 1% for art. The Public Art Master Plan identifies specific processes that ensure public engagement and transparency. Ms. Lyons reviewed the language for the percent for art resolution. she proposed a change to the resolution in order to address the specific concerns regarding bonds associated with specific sites. After discussion, the committee decided to keep this in committee to address and or clean up ambiguous language in the resolution, and no action was taken on that item. The items referred to committee was the next item, and the following items were removed from committee, the substance abuse intervention update and the update from the Division of Code Enforcement. The meeting adjourned at 2.49. And for a partial report out summary for the October 27, 2022 General Government Social Services Committee, the one item is the ADA Improvement Plan. On October 27, 2022, at the Special General Government and Social Services Committee meeting, Ms. Christina Espinoza and Mr. Jason Jones presented on behalf of the ADA Improvement Plan. Both serve on the Mayor's Commission for People with Disabilities and work for the University of Kentucky's Human Development Institute. Ms. Espinoza and Mr. Jones explained that self-evaluation has been required of all recipients of federal aid since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Lexington last updated its ADA plan in 2011. The plan is required to be updated periodically until all barriers are removed. The self-evaluation is the first step of updating the plan. The end result of the self-evaluation is to have an inventory of where and what needs modification. The next step is the transition plan, which is required by the ADA and provides for the removal of access barriers identified in the self-evaluation inventory. It includes the identification and location of physical barriers, the method used to make a facility accessible, a schedule of completion, the name of the official responsible for making the modifications, and an estimated cost. The transition plan is a living document that can evolve and has a monitoring tool. The recommendation is for LFUCG to hire a consultant to guide the self-evaluation process and develop a transition plan. Council Member Liz Sheehan made a motion, seconded by Council Member Richard Baloney, to allocate $200,000 from ARPA to hire a consultant to guide the self-evaluation process and develop a transition plan. The motion passed unanimously, and so I so move. Is there a second? Second. Who did I hear over there? Council Member Sheehan. Any discussion? No? Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And then just towards then, Council Member Liz Sheehan made a motion, seconded by Council Member Richard Maloney, to report out this item on the Tuesday, November 1, 2022 work session. The motion passed unanimously, and that's my report. All right. Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Councilmember Lamb for both summaries? All right. Very good. Thank you. Now it's time for Council reports. Please log in. Councilmember McCurn. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the press conference this morning announcing the Week of Valor beginning this Saturday, November 5th. We'll go through November 12th. On the screen, Mr. Edwards, if you'll display, there's a flyer. Oh, if you'll go to the other flyer first, please. This is all of the events that will be happening with the Week of Valor. You can also go on to vrock.org to see where the locations will be, the times that the events will be happening, and what's going on. But at bare minimum, if anybody's interested in participating, if you can go to the next flyer, I would ask that you come out to the Lexington Veterans Festival at Masters in Station Park on November 12th. This will be from 11 to 4 p.m. We are trying to, for several months now, we've been working to make this event the biggest and the best event that we've had yet. We'll have bands, static displays, inflatables, resources for our veterans, and lots of stories being told. We hope to see all the families out there. There will be inflatables for the kids to be in and then also food trucks to eat, too. And then next, if we can go to some of the pictures, I'd like to thank everybody who came out this past weekend for our annual pancake breakfast at Station 24. In particular, I'd like to thank our Chief Fire, Chief Wells, and Chief of Police, Chief Weathers. Mayor, thank you for coming out. Council Member Cloiber. And thanks to all of the community members who came out, too. We had probably roughly a little over 300 people that came out to this event. Quite a bit of pancakes. We went through about 10 boxes of pancake mix, dozens and dozens of eggs and sausage and bacon. It was a great turnout, lots of costumes. Just really love hosting that event every year and look forward to growing it every single year from here on out. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. It was a great event. Thank you. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to give a shout-out to the divisions and government that helped with the Breeders' Cup kickoff this past Sunday at IMAG, the walk from Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden to Oliver Lewis Way. I've seen employees out there from the Division of Waste Management, Parks and Recreation. Our police department was out there as well, along with the mounted unit. It wasn't the best weather, but it was, I think, a good start to Breeders' Cup. And then I also wanted to give a shout-out to this council for their help with the events of yesterday. We had the groundbreaking at Shropshire and Fifth Street, the new Community Action Head Start facility. And it was actually this council's decision to support the funding for the road that actually got that project started. But once we approved to give the money to build that alleyway and that access, it kick-started every other domino that needed to fall for that project to happen. So I just wanted to thank the council members for supporting that project. I know it wasn't an easy ask when we made the request, but I think the fact that y'all supported it, it got that project going. And the benefit that it's going to provide to that community with a child care facility and the affordable housing that's going to follow, I think it's going to be a real asset and a community value project in that neighborhood. So thank you for that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Plumman. Thank you, Mayor. Also on a Breeders' Cup note, our most important point of entry for our many hundreds and probably thousands of guests is our airport. And I was looking at what they're doing this week and I thought it was really cool and I just wanted to share. Obviously Breeders' Cup merchandise and special products offered in retail shops. They've got live performances by bluegrass bands, food tastings, and bourbon-related experiences, what I'm not really sure what that means, but they're bourbon-related experiences. Call to the post at the baggage claim as passengers' bags arrived. Lexart's artistic foals grazing in the baggage claim. and then complimentary bourbon balls upon arrival, courtesy of Maker's Mark. And then all the airport employees are attired in Breeders' Cup-themed attire. And it just is, like I said, a cool entry into our community, and I'm thinking about going out there, and I'm not even going anywhere because it sounds like a lot of fun. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. this Saturday in Shiltoe Park sounded weird is the annual Lexington Glow Ride it's a family friendly event for riders of all ages and experience levels that promotes safety biking and safe streets so I invite you to decorate your bikes and scooters with colorful lights and take them out for a spin at this second ever Lex Glow Ride the festival starts at 6pm with a resource fair the parade lineup is at 6 45 the 1.7 mile ride starts at 7 p.m. and then at 8 o'clock there will be astronomy with the bluegrass amateur astrology club weather permitting so councilmember Ellinger I expect you to be there with your bike lit up thank you mayor that's all thank you councilmember Sheehan Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to announce that the pickleball courts at the Senior Center, they have been resurfaced and that is now complete. So Court 1 is a practice court and Court 2 is a regulation court. Senior Center participants have priority Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. and people wanting to use the courts can check in at the front desk. And then also at our special general government and social services meeting last week there was an item that came forth from our redistricting conversation that we were making a recommendation from our redistricting committee to do a comprehensive review of our charter language so I would like to make the motion to place that into the general government committee so moved is there a second? Council member will agree. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right that motion passes. Thank you. Okay thank you. There's no mayor's report today and there's no bid recommendations and so now we're ready for public comment for issues not on the agenda and we have one person signed up and you don't have a comment okay all right thank you and so that brings us to adjournment that's my replacement and then vice mayor case seconds all those in favor say aye all right we are adjourned thank you very much for being here Thank you.