Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is 3 o'clock, so I'll go ahead and call to order the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council work session of November 29, 2022. And the first item on the agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda. And I have three people signed up. I do not know if you have issues on the agenda, so I'll just have to ask you. Ashley Dunsmore, is yours an issue on the agenda? Okay. Dottie Bean? Yours is not, so you'll be under the next public comment. And Jim McKenzie, is yours an issue on the agenda? Okay, very good. So the council rules are that when I call your name, you'll come to the podium and state your name and your council district, and you'll have three minutes to speak. So Ashley, you're first up. Welcome. Hello, my name is Ashley Dunsmore. I am with Fayette Alliance. We are in the third district. And we just wanted to say that we fully support the Public Infrastructure Program Initiative to provide financial assistance that helps make infill and redevelopment a reality on underutilized vacant and mixed-use properties and prioritizing economic development opportunities that will lead to long-term job creation. The program's goal to provide public infrastructure support would incentivize infill and redevelopment to best utilize the land we have now and is a key component of growing our city in a smart and sustainable way. We applaud the mayor for including this initiative in her budget, and we hope the council will support the program as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is Jim McKenzie. Welcome. This is Jim McKenzie. I'm Fred Browns, under Fred Browns' district over there. Hey, I'm one of the newly elected constables, and we have the constable bill coming up today. And the first thing I was going to say is most people, I was talking to council members before this council, and they were always asking, what does constable, we don't even know what a constable does. And I was always telling them, I said, constable, we just, we just, we do evictions, and we hand out summons or deliver papers for the court. That's all we do. We're like a notary with a badge. And the only reason we have a badge is it gives you some kind of authority that people won't hit you in the face. They take it for serious if they're getting sued for visa, in other words. They don't blow it off. But my question was on the constable bill, on the Section B, it was talking about the compensation for constables. And my question was, it's based on the index, and I've never had clarification on the index. It says you cannot receive a salary, which we don't get salaries from Fayette County. We're just a fee-based office. So we only collect, we only get, my income only comes from what I do that day or that month, which might be something, it might be something, it might be nothing. So my question would be, can we clarify Section B on the Council Bill 22.521? That's my only question. Thank you. Thank you very much. And I don't have anyone else signed up for public comment at this time. So we'll go right on to the docket and rezonings, which we do have. Did you have something before we do the docket? Okay, Council Member Lane. Thank you, Mayor. I want to add, because it was inadvertently left off of today's work session agenda, I want to place under the continuing business presentations the summary of the General Government Social Services Committee for November 15, 2022, partials report out, and I just wanted to go ahead and add that to the agenda for this afternoon. Thank you. Second. We have a second from Council Member Ellinger. Is there any discussion? So we will have that as item C on presentations and business. All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Now, we are to the docket and the rezonings. If I could have a motion to approve. Move to approve. Second. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger, second by Vice Mayor Kay. Council Member McCurran, is yours a docket issue? Yes. Pardon me? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Okay, go right ahead. Thank you. I have three different ones here, so please bear with me. Thank you. I moved to place on the docket $60,000 in council capital project funds to environmental services for media and beautification along the Leastown Road corridor. So move. Council Member Reynolds seconds. Are there any questions? If you have a question, will you raise your hand, please? Council Member Lamb. I don't think I saw an email, so can you just give a little bit more history to this? Is this something that I've just totally missed in the abyss of emails? No, this is my council. The council funds that we received are we allocated out to each council district. This is a project that was just wrapping up, and then I had sponsorship with Council Member Ellinger and Vice Mayor Kay. Oh, thank you so much for that clarification. Thank you. And there may be, is there a sheet that everybody has with your motions on it? Do you know? No, ma'am, there is not. Okay. All right. Go right ahead. My second one is a move to place. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Any other questions? All those in favor say aye. Anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. All right. Thank you. I moved to place in the docket $10,000 in council capital project funds to parks and recreation for trail road green way park improvements to include a human dog slash dog drinking fountain, new water meter and installation. So move. Thank you. Is there a second? Council Member Legree seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. All right. Last one here for me. I moved to place in the docket item number four, an ordinance changing the zone from light industrial I-1 zone to a commercial center B6P zone for 10.113 net acres for property located at 1510 Greendale Road and a portion of 2440 Innovation Drive with a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, January 17th at 5 p.m. And I'd like to speak to this afterwards. So move. All right, we have a second by Council Member Ellinger. Any comments? Yes, thank you, Mayor. I understand that this may be a conflict for some of you all. unfortunately we are not able to hear before the end of the year i had to set a date to get this out there if the council next year decides to hear this or have this on that date or they can change it but it does need to be heard by january 25th okay thank you okay any other questions all right yes thank you mayor i just like to note a recusal on this item i believe the applicant of this particular zone change is represented by my law partner. Thank you. Okay, very good. Thank you. Anything else? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is there anyone opposed? All right, there's one recusal. Thank you, that passes. Anything else? That's it for me. Thank you, Mayor. Okie doke. Thank you. All right, Council Member Legree. Thank you, Mayor. I move to place on the docket without a public hearing. Item number six, under ordinances first reading. This is an ordinance changing the zone from a two family residential R2 zone to a high density apartment. R4 zone for 1.089 net, 1.346 gross acres for property located at 530 East High Street, Winterwood Incorporated Council District 3. To be heard without a docket, so moved. You don't have to read all this. Without a hearing? Without a public hearing. Thank you. So moved. I heard a second over here, Council Member Plumman. Any questions or comments? Council Member Worley? I'd like to also note a recusal on this as well, for the same reasons. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that passes with one recusal. Anything else? That's it. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to place on the docket an ordinance changing the zone from a warehouse and warehouse business B4 zone to a light industrial I1 zone for 2.3827 net acres for property located at 101 and 109 West Loudoun Avenue without a public hearing. So move. All right. I heard a second from Council Member McCurn. Any discussion, comments? All those in favor 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. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next up, we have the summary of the table of motions for November 15th, work session. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger moved. Council Member McCurn seconded. Are there questions or comments or revisions? All those in favor of approval say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Budget amendments, page 4 to 6, could I have a motion? So moved. Thank you. Council Member Plowman moved. Council Member Baxter seconded. If you have questions, please log in. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to add additional budget amendments to the list on pages 4 to 6 of today's work session packet, So they may receive two readings before council goes on break. These BAs will provide additional revenue for street sales fiscal year 2022 grant and increase budget for equipment by recognizing a transfer of $11,121.90 from the police confiscated federal fund. To reallocate funds within the police confiscated federal budget and create a transfer of $11,121.90 to the street sales fiscal year 2022 grant. Reallocate $90,000 within water quality for increased cost of chemicals and services for the town branch wastewater treatment plant, provide funds for economic development fund workforce development funds by accepting a $15,000 repayment, provide funds for Alexa and economic development fund regional development funds by accepting a $142,000 repayment, and provide additional funds for community corrections roof project by reallocating $881,564.35 from completed building repair bond projects. This is so we can do this before we go on break. So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? I think I heard Council Member Baxter. Any questions or comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Okay, thank you. Anything else for the budget amendments? All right. Okay, Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. 1-3-7-8-0-7 I think it's page 6 the 3 million for the emergency rental assistance Commissioner Lanter welcome I'm sure this is it just on CC that we're going to be dealing with with the new is that the same thing or not because one is 3 million the other one is 30 million and I didn't know if there was a typo or because it just no i can understand your confusion so let me explain for a second um this is the two are connected they are connected items what we're doing here is the current allocation of housing stabilization program funding expires on december 31st so we will not only will we run out but we're not even allowed to spend it past that date we have requested from treasury an additional 30 million but we won't find out whether we're getting that or the exact amount because we don't usually get what we asked for until after council is gone from for break so what we're doing is asking you in cc under new business to go ahead and accept up to the amount we requested which is 30 million but we don't want you to go ahead and budget and allow us to spend an entire 30 million because we don't know if that's the full amount we're getting so we're just giving 3 million which will be a plenty of money for us to get until you get back from break and allow us to continue a a seamless operation of the program until council returns from break. Okay. When I saw the 30 and the 3, I just didn't know how the connection was. All right. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Any other questions about budget amendments? All right. All those in favor of approving as amended, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. Thank you. That passes. Now we have four information only budget adjustments, pages 7 and 8. And new business. Could I have a motion to approve? Second. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Plumman, and second by Councilmember Baxter. If you have new business questions, please log in. Councilmember Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I'll start with and just work our way down. I only have five minutes, and I'll probably come back because there's a lot on the docket here. I'll start with number A and try to get the question or answer that Constable McKenzie asked about with the pay to try to clarify that if we could. Commissioner Armstrong. Welcome. Yes, sir. it's outlined in both state statute and our proposed local ordinance. It's the Department of Local Governments in Frankfort. I contacted, I was made aware this information was needed, I tried to contact them, wasn't able to reach them, but I did talk to a representative from the Kentucky League of Cities and they indicated that the maximum salary allocation directly related to fees based activities in the constable's office is roughly $84,000 a year. Okay, does that answer your question? Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for that. Okay, that's the first one. Let's go to Kay, let's go to the flock cameras, because that one's probably going to be a big one, so. Okay. I'll probably use all my time on this one. Is Commander Armstrong here or Chief Weathers, whoever? Or you can tag team. We have our Weathers Great House tag team. Welcome. I didn't know what kind of questions y'all would be asking. Oh, sorry. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. So, Commander Greg House is here, and Assistant Chief Lowe is here to answer any other technical questions. Well, I guess, I know there was a press conference yesterday, and I think since it's on the docket here, if you could just go ahead and give us an update of where we are, because we're going to be making a decision if we're going to, because we're in a pilot project right now. I think that started in March, so we're six months in or thereabouts. And it was supposed to be a year, but it's coming forward a little sooner than the pilot project is complete, but it might be the time it might be right so if you could just give us an update where we stand on it and why you're wanting to do it sooner than the the pilot project is over basically what we've been seeing is we've been seeing market success of the program we got to looking at how things were going according to the national economy and other things. So we already had the funds set aside for it. It didn't make sense if we were seeing this kind of success. And we're not even just seeing success here. We looked at other communities, other cities that have it, and they've expanded it because of the success, the ability to apprehend criminals from our standpoint. There's been a decline in people wanting to talk to the police. So this technology has allowed us to further investigations, even when we don't get the cooperation we need. And I'm not saying that in any means to say that people don't need to talk to us. We still need people to talk to us. But every little bit helps. So presently we have 25 and then we're looking to expand that to 100, the 75. And the money that was put aside in this budget, the 236,000, that will take care of that. Now that will be for this fiscal year 23. And then going forward, will there be, what's the number that will be going forward from that? I'll let Commander Greathouse come and talk to you about that. And one of the other issues, and Chief, one of you might be able to answer this. one of the issues I asked when we first were, was brought this about if they were going to be identified where they were. And initially they weren't, but I think now that 100 are, that might change. So that's another issue I think I'd like to answer. Right. And during the pilot program, we only had 25 and we thought it'd be better not to let people know where they were so we could get an honest assessment of how those 25 cameras would operate uh i think uh we've seen that they've been successful for us and and the 75 uh you know i i don't see it as a problem once we get those installed people know where they are as a matter of fact i think we'll put that on our web page where they are and even if we change it we'll update that every quarter so um i think it's important for people to know that and for for us to be above board. The only reason we wanted to keep it quiet as to where they were so we could just see if they were working or not. And if we let people know where they are, then they could avoid them. Once you get so many out there, the likelihood of avoiding them is probably small. Thank you, Chief. And the other question was about going forward after fiscal year 23 on the costs. This year's budget, there's enough to allocate the 75 additional. It would be $236,000. Going forward, it would be $250,000 for the 100 cameras. This is what we're looking at. Thank you. My time's up, and I'm sure there's going to be other questions, and I'll probably come back for my five minutes because I knew my five would go quick here. Thank you. All right. Thank you. If you all will just stay a minute, I think there will be more questions. I'm first going to ask if anyone on the list has a question about this item. Council Member Fred Brown, no. Council Member Liz Sheehan, do you want to go ahead and ask your questions? Thank you, Mayor. We had a council discussion about this in a presentation in our October planning and public safety meeting. And at that meeting, I had asked for some comparison data. Like, is there, can you show increased effectiveness based on data from the past, on crime solved, vehicles recovered, that kind of information. And at that time, you had said you needed a few more months to have that data. And at that time, we had just installed the 25th camera. So we have told the public that we would pilot this project for a year, and we've been very vocal about that, even with reserving money in our current year budget. So I am a little bit uncomfortable moving forward with this when we have said we would pilot it for a full year, but then also I haven't seen the data on the actual comparison on month to month or year to year. So do you have that available now? So I've got one statistic we can look at. So the quirky thing about numbers are it's really hard to measure a lot of the stuff that you see with this. We can't measure the crime we prevented. We can't measure what somebody was going to do with a gun that we caught somebody in a car with later on down the line. So we can't quantify that. We can't quantify the multiple murder suspects from other jurisdictions that were here. We don't know if they were going to run out of money in this jargon robbery. So we really can't quantify that. So I have nothing really compared to the only real thing I can compare to is looking at our recovered stolen vehicle data. The problem with that also is we're only looking at what happens in Fayette County. We're not looking at all the cars that we have recovered from other jurisdictions. So in that we have seen an increase in recoveries with the fly cameras compared to the last two years of 2020, 2021. 2021, there was overall from month to month, 67.5% this year up to right now, because we're right through this year, we're up to 70.4%. If you look at the data specifically through 2022, you can see there is a large uptick in recoveries in March. That was our first camera was installed. I think we had two or three that were installed in March, and we saw a little bit of a lull, and then in June, we started to get more influx of our cameras being installed through the months of the middle of august we saw an increase a double digit increase from may to june and then held steady and even this month we're up to 82 i'm sorry 81.3 81.3 percent recovered so far just this month so we have seen a marketable increase just from recovered vehicles but that's only one very small aspect of what we're seeing the flock camera system allows us to allows every officer within in this whole agency to use it. It allows the line officer on the street to be able to look at something immediately to get, hey, was this car even involved? So it could exonerate somebody and cut them loose so we're not holding somebody when we shouldn't be holding them. And it also allows them to go to a specific area to find a specific vehicle associated with a crime. Meaning they don't have to drive around all the cities. So the man hours of work hours spent trying to find something specific for a line officer is cut. We look at investigations and we see the same thing. There's a couple instances of a couple cases we've talked about in the presentation and a few we haven't where if it wasn't for the flock system of having a vehicle captured with a license plate on it we wouldn't be able to solve that crime so that crime went from potentially days weeks months of sending information emails calls texts trying to find out who this person is to literally take into about five minutes to me that's a huge marketable increase that's the reason we want to go ahead and implement the other 75 cameras we're seeing such a great return on our well i'll say our investment we haven't invested anything but we see such a huge return so far there's no sense in waiting in my opinion to allow something for the community to better it and also to allow victims some kind of reparations when they get their vehicles back when they're a victim of a crime we can go find that person quicker okay i and i appreciate that thank you for bringing that information um and having some some of the updated statistics for us. I still have some concerns about some of the steps that haven't been taken and that we hear concerns from the community, and we have said we would pilot this for a certain amount of time before we start allocating more resources. So I'm so hesitant to move this forward until we have actually completed the pilot program that we said we would for the time that we said we would, so we have the full data set. And I also, I think in the past it has been asked that we have the Racial Justice and Equality Commission review this policy because there have been some concerns around policing in communities of color. And so I think that is an important issue that we need to address for the community. So I would like to see some of that information come forward. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor, did you want to speak to this specific issue? Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for providing some of that information. I share some of the same concerns. Given the importance that the community places on this and the questions that have been raised about privacy issues. And I know that we've been given a lot of information, but It seems to me, as Council Member Sheen has said, what we told the public was that this would be a one-year pilot project. And at the end of that time, we would review the data and we would make some comparisons with what we got with the flat cameras from what we got maybe in the previous year. And if there is other data that would be useful for us to have, that we ought to have it. But to move it forward without that data, it seems to me, kind of circumvents the process. So I will, if there are other people who wish to speak to this, I'll be happy to hold off. But I will have a motion. I'll come back. Thank you. Thank you. Chief, you stepped forward. Did you want to respond? You know, as far as the pilot program continuing for a year, the way I understood it is that we actually set aside the money in a current fiscal year in case it did show promise. So the pilot project was, for a year, was what the company offered. And we agreed with the company that we would enter into it, if they could give it to us, at least for a year. I don't think we were being duplicitous or lying about anything. We actually figured, just because of some of the returns, that we might have to do it earlier. I don't think there was a promise. I think we entered into it above board, and now we see the fruits of it. And, you know, people are getting victimized. What are we waiting for? I hear all this talk about racial inequality, but nobody said anything or seen anything, and we've had it for six months. Have any of y'all got any complaints about it? even around the country where this has been used. It's been used for several years in several places, and we've been looking for it, and we do our due diligence, and we do our research. This only tracks license plates and colors of cars, not anything else. There's no other information associated with it except the pictures. You don't, the information of who those license plates belong to is not stored in the system. It is information that's only accessible through law enforcement. I appreciate the concerns because I live in this community too. And I have those same concerns. But what I also see is I see people getting victimized, and they're not getting the same help as people on the other side. I want this program to keep criminals at bay. And if it can't keep them at bay, at least it helps us catch them to prosecute them. But I hear all this talk, but I also talk to people in the community. And people are coming up to me going, when are we getting those cameras? Can I buy one? Can I have one? That's what I see. And I don't know who you all are talking to, but I talk to a lot of people everywhere. And I don't see anybody coming up to me saying, Chief Weathers, thank you for getting my car back. and but the method you used to get it back I just don't think that's right. I haven't had anybody say that and you will never hear anybody say that. We pride ourselves on being for the community. That's why we have a policy to regulate it. Nobody else thought of that. Your police department thought of that because it's worried about people's rights. I'm not trying to jump ahead on anything here. I just want to get people a fair chance that at least this council is thinking about their rights too. Thank you, Chief. And we have a few more. Council Member Reynolds is yours about this issue. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Chief, for your comment. So on this issue, I personally see the value in this technology. I have had a lot of people say to me, you know, how can we catch stolen vehicles? I had my car stolen a few years ago, and I understand that it's helpful. And I also know that it might be helpful in the future with ShotSpotter, which I think would be particularly of use when we hear shots fired trying to find out where they come from. So I'm not against personally the technology or us using it. That being said, I feel like I have a pretty good finger on the pulse of my district. And I can tell you that some of my neighborhoods are in favor of this and some are not. And so when I represent my constituents, I have to take that into consideration. and I try to educate and I try to talk about how it's used, et cetera, but even still there are some communities that are very concerned about this. And as Council Member Sheehan said, we were operating, whether it was intention or not, under the assumption that we would take a whole year to evaluate this in our community and see how it works and move forward. So that's why we're kind of a little bit hesitant, I think. And our process was kind of different, right? Because we had this in committee and we were under the pressure and this would come back to either the whole council or the committee with an update to say, hey, look how it's working. Now we're making the suggestion that we move forward with 100 cameras. Instead of it being on our docket and a big to do about it and then being on our docket. So I think I would like to be able to, for us as a group, to really evaluate this and take some time to move forward. Not saying we're not going to move forward or that it's not important, just that maybe the process in which we've done that hasn't gone the way that a lot of us had liked. So I just wanted to express that and that I am put in a tough position, But that doesn't mean that I'm not supportive of the technology, just the process and how we move forward. So I just wanted to make that statement. Thank you. Council Member LaGree, was your question about this item? Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to my colleagues. And thank you for all the information that's been shared thus far. Many of my questions have been covered. I had a question about comparative data. And I would love to see that data presented to our Planning and Public Safety Committee. And I'd love to see quarterly data. I think that's something that had been discussed. I might be mistaken there. I also believe that giving this more time allows for more public education. It allows for more public engagement and it allows for more public input. I have the privilege of speaking to members of law enforcement and officials here in LFUCG about the use of these cameras. I have access to a lot of information. And with more time, I have more opportunities to share that information with my constituency and to hear their questions. And what I want to advocate for is that we get closer to that one year mark. And I do understand the use of this technology and I really appreciate all the ways in which our websites and our public information office, that we've been updated. But based on the assumptions, I think, and I understand, we had these 25 flat cameras and we had them for a one year pilot. And it is my understanding is a free program and that's why it's a one year program. But I think publicly there's the feeling that this was meant to be a one year pilot program for various reasons. And so that's what I want to advocate for. advocate for i know we have this in committee i know we had a recent update and i would like for us to have a little more time we have budgeted these funds and that means that moving forward is is fairly simple and so therefore for the sake of transparency and and information sharing that's that's what i wanted to state so i don't have a question mayor i appreciate your time thank Thank you. Thank you very much. Council Member Worley, was your question about this? Yes, ma'am. Please. So, thank you, Mayor. And so for some of my colleagues, I think there may be some different recollections here, but my recollection is more of what the Chief's recollection is of the process. And that a one-year pilot was offered by the company for free. And not that we accepted that under the provision that one year was going to be required to determine the efficacy of this tool. And the process that's been through, this has seen significant public transparency to this point. This was blue-sheeted to accept the pilot. Questions were asked at that time. Then there was immediately thereafter a presentation made to the Planning and Public Safety Committee in which we were educated as to how these cameras were to work. And then we said we would request additional updates down the road to show us how they worked. And in fact, the first quarter shows that not only do they work, they work unbelievably well. So Chief, Commander, am I right that in the Planning and Public Safety Committee just in October, just this past month, we were given an update on the efficacy of this. So there is, again, just recently we were told, and am I right on these numbers, somewhere around $1.3 to $1.4 million in stolen property was recovered and delivered back to their owners. Dozens of firearms were collected and taken off the street. People actually were found, including abducted children. And this is my recollection of the meeting we just had last month, in which we talked about the efficacy of the flock cameras. Violent criminals from here in Fayette County, as well as other states traveling through Fayette County, were apprehended by the use of the flock cameras. Some of which were wanted for murder in other jurisdictions, some of which were wanted for violent crimes here. Is all of that information that I've said, is that correct, Commander? Yes, sir. It actually has gone up, I think, about 1.5 million as of Monday. I think we're up to 36 or 38 firearms that have been recovered because of that. So, yeah, we see it going up almost weekly. So, I'm concerned when we talk about some of these perceived questions we still have that can always continue to be answered and continue to be studied when we're getting hard numbers of criminal activity that these flock investigative cameras have helped our police officers investigate. So while we have a police shortage in this community, are we going to continue to turn around and say every technology that helps them, we need to wait longer? We need to wait longer. We can't wait longer. If at any point any of these questions we have comes and answers that we're unsatisfied with this, we take the cameras off the street. But in the process, if we don't get them out there now, and if we don't continue to use them as they're intended to be used, there's crimes committed on their streets. And we continue to see violent crime in this community, and our public is asking us to do something. Our officers are telling us this is helping them, and this is working. And we can talk about the process, we can talk about questions we have. for the better part of a year we have talked about in various different stages this tool and we in fact talked about it in the budget process when we approved the $275,000 to purchase the cameras so we've already envisioned that in this fiscal year long before the one-year pilot would roll around that we may buy these cameras so the one-year pilot was about 25 cameras we know they work we know 100 will work better we also know that with 100 we can increase public transparency by telling people where the cameras are. When there's only 25, the chief believes we're at risk at diminishing the value of the policy, or excuse me, of the tool. With 100, he says, I think I can tell everybody where they are and we'll still be just so. By increasing the use of this tool, we increase the transparency. So now is the time. We've got to move forward in this. We have to take advantage of this opportunity right now. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Clover, is your question on this issue? All right. Thank you, Mayor. The first thing that I want to say is just to remind everyone that correlation is not causation. And you normally have to sift through a lot of data in order to figure out how these things work. In a conversation I had with the chief a while back, he said that when we're dealing with crime statistics, we should not look at anything less than five years. It's just a good policy that we should look at a five-year period. We've only had these cameras out there, all of them, for two months or less. If a quarterback throws a touchdown on his first play, you don't immediately say they're going to win the Heisman. You play the whole season. Well, we're not even through the first game yet. We don't have statistics. We don't have data. The information we have is within a margin of error. We're sitting here talking about all the good it's doing. We don't know what the fluctuations in the economy, what the post-pandemic situation is influencing this. We don't have a good snapshot of what this data actually means. That's the reason you do a full-length pilot. That's the reason you're committed to looking at the data. Right now, we can't say this is working aside from just being aspirationally hopeful that it's working. You could say right now things look somewhat promising, but just like that quarterback throwing his first touchdown on his first play, you can't say they're going to be the greatest of all time. Right now, we should continue to do what we committed to do, which is evaluate this program. And you know what? It may come out positive, but it may come out negative. We don't have the information yet, and it's definitely premature in the process for us to push this through right now. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lamb, is yours to this item? Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate what all my colleagues are saying. And, you know, this goes back to the no-knock warrants when we were discussing all of this. And, you know, I tried to wrap my head around this. And I have heard from a sundry of people on both sides of this, for and against. But personally, I know we have heard our police chief and our public safety officers, our police officers, time and time again saying that the community members are not, you know, they're scared. They're scared to bring evidence forward. I'd be scared. If I witnessed a crime and they knew I witnessed it, I'd be scared to bring forward a name of somebody. These cameras do help in that. I'm not going to act like I know what I'm talking about. I've just heard this, and I believe it's factual. We just got through with a very dramatic election year. And the one thing that I kept hearing, and I wasn't running, so I can speak to this. The one thing that I kept hearing resonate in our community was public safety. How can crime in our communities be lessened? How can we be safe to live in our neighborhoods? And I mean, our chief is standing here today telling us that this tool is a very important tool. It has proven so far, even though it might be in a small time frame. And I realize that we're all operating on what we want to make sure that we follow a year of testing it and everything. But I guess my theory is that it took us a number of months to be able to receive the cameras and install them. And so I theoretically am saying that if we do move this forward, it's still going to be a number of months before the cameras will be received and much less installed. So in that time frame, I believe I would expect that that year period would come to fruition and there would be an opportunity to discuss and to look at data. And I think at that time that if there was something that the council going forward saw that there was concerns about, that you could change your mind at that time. But I think that given the opportunity that what I am hearing from our police chief and our public safety officers that it is effective. And at this point in our community and in every community across our country, we're all dealing with extensive crime issues and in our neighborhoods. And it makes us feel not safe in our homes. And I feel like that if we can do something that helps to enable our police officers to be able to address crime in a quicker manner, I can't help but to sit here and support that. So it is my hope that we can move this forward today. I realize, and I want people to know that just because you approve it today doesn't mean that the cameras are going to be installed tomorrow. It'll be months. So give this opportunity to move this forward, and I hope that we will. won't be here next year to vote on this, but it's my hope that we can affect positive changes to the crime in this community. That was a big highlight in our elections this past year. So I'm listening to that, and that's the reason that I would support this to move forward today, and I hope my colleagues will think about that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Baxter is yours to this item. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Just a follow up on Council Member Lamb's comment about the installation period or the lead time to get the cameras. Can you speak a little bit about that? So once we have a signed agreement, it would be, I would expect nothing to start happening after the first of the year. Because we're getting into the holiday season. We still have to have a wet signature. We have to go to the company. They have to accept it. We have to do an appointment plan with them for locations we're looking at. We have to then fine tune those. If I'm looking at what we did in the 25, if we're going to put 75, that's going to take a little bit longer. So I would expect nothing to really start happening. Sorry, nothing to start happening until January. And I would expect the rollout process probably to take roughly about three months. Three months. Okay. Thank you. So it's no secret that I am a huge proponent of the Flock Cameras, and my position has been solid on that. that Commander Greathouse and I have spoken about other technologies that we have invested in that we spent more on that are only division-specific. And he made mention a minute ago that this is one technology that is relatively inexpensive and touches every single person in our police department. Every single individual that works for our police department has access to this program and utilizes it. And so to piggyback off of what, excuse me, what Council Member Orley said, excuse me, we've talked about this several times over the last year. Just recently in committee, we left committee. I went back and I watched the video because I wanted to make sure I had it right. But we came out of committee saying that we didn't need to take any action at that time because we had already allocated the dollars. And we asked that the administration come to us with an implementation and expansion plan when the time was appropriate. So all of my colleagues, the ones that have spoken today, have said the public is out crying for help. We have the chief standing here saying this is technology that boosts our officers morale. It is an extra tool in their tool belt. So it is very hard for me to sit right here and say, no, I think we need to take a little bit more time to think about it. We have, I feel like we've talked about it until we're blue in the face. I feel like it's I feel like it has proven its efficacy and its benefits to our community. So I am strong support of moving this forward and I hope that my colleagues will support it as well. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member McCurron, are you wanting to speak to this issue? Thank you, Mayor. Chief Commander, thank you both for speaking on this and standing in front of us advocating for it. I, like Council Member Baxter, have not wavered on my opinion about this either, and I'm a huge fan of these. And in speaking with the community, I mean, most of the community did have concerns at first, and I appreciate that. I appreciate the things that they said in addressing those. But as Chief, as you mentioned just a little bit ago, the only color that's taken on these photos is of the vehicle. It's not about the image of the person. It doesn't matter who the driver is. It's about the vehicle and the license plate, whether it's stolen or they have a warrant out. So in case, I don't know about the rest of this council, but for myself, if you're doing something wrong, you shouldn't be doing something wrong. This is something that's working. This is a tool that's needed. One of my colleagues made a comment about the time frame that this has been implemented for. We started putting this in March. They started being installed, correct? And every month since that point, we have only seen an increase of assets and recovery and arrests made. Is that correct? And the only thing that moving forward this is going to do is help that. It's only going to help secure our future, our city, everything that everybody's talking about. But the biggest thing that stands out to me is that we've had a child that was missing or an Amber Alert. As a father, I would want my sons back to me as soon as possible. I would not want to wait on that at all. And if this is a tool that's helping all of our officers or the morale or any family, any child, anybody in the city, I think we need to do it now. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Plowman, is yours to this question? Yes, it is, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. And, you know, I really kind of don't get it in terms of why this would not be supported 110%. Here is a tool that's been in use for a very short time, and you've already seen just so many results. and listening to our police chief, your passionate support of a tool that not only helps you all do your work, but has results that impact our whole community. So in my mind, I'm like, the bottom line is public safety. If this is working and it's proved that it's worked, why would we not want to accelerate it and bring in more opportunities to help us with public safety? So I wholeheartedly support this. I can't understand why we wouldn't move along. So I would ask our colleagues to also support this. It's very timely, it's working, and one last thing. When I'm asked about public safety in our community, I use these cameras as an example of things that we are proactively doing to make sure that we're on top of it. So, I'm with you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember James Brown is yours to this item. Ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Chief and Commander, for the presentation. So, Chief, we haven't received any complaints in regards to the concerns in regards to over-policing or inequities in regards to these cameras so far. I mean, have we not received anything to that? I'm not aware of any. And we were very intentional about our placement and very aware that people were concerned about over policing issues. And we're still going to take that tact even when we install the additional 75. So no sir, I'm not aware of any complaints that we received. Okay, and I think that's important to note because that's where I think the hesitation lies. And I think that's where the concerns lie in regards to this technology. If you haven't lived in a neighborhood that you feel is over policed, or if you haven't been in a community that you feel is over policed, then you wouldn't understand what the real concern is. And I have, and I understand the concern. But from your perspective, and I haven't heard anybody complain about, Other than the concerns, they haven't complained about it being actual. The real concern that I heard was not knowing where they're going to be located. And being on council, I had privy to the information where they were located, the 25 pilot cameras. I was fine because they were dispersed across the community. I can see where the fear and the concern that 75 or 100 can be concentrated, a large portion can be concentrated. But what alleviates my concern about that is the disclosure of the locations. And if we know where they are, if it's an issue that arises, then we can address it, I think, going forward. And the other thing about this, and I'll give credit to our police department and the administration. the policy, and we're policy makers, that's what's going to protect our department. That's what's going to protect our community. That's what's going to protect our residents in regards to how this tool is going to be used going forward, the effectiveness of it, and whether or not folks are going to get disproportionately impacted by it. So I think we have to continue to monitor the use of the tool. I think we have to continue to adjust the policy and sure that the policy governs this tool the way that we want it to. When we talked about it in committee a month ago, I think we sent it to the Racial Justice and Equality Commission. I think it's on their schedule to be looked at next week. I think we can leave the item in committee, continue to get feedback about how we may want to adjust that policy and see what their concerns may be going forward. But I think Council Member Lamb is right. it was a contentious election season that we just came out of. North, south, east, and west, everybody was concerned and is concerned about public safety. And I think if we have an opportunity to make our community safer, make the folks in our community feel safer, and give our officers the tools to keep us safer, I think that's what we need to do. So I'm supportive of this program moving forward. I do understand the concerns, truly. But the folks in my neighborhood associations, the folks in my communities are supportive of it as well. And this is the process. If folks have concerns and they want to come down and share them with us, come. We still have two more meetings today. We got a council meeting Thursday. We have a work session on Tuesday and another council meeting on next Tuesday. So come and share those concerns with us if you have them. So with that, that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Council Member Sheehan, did you want to speak again to this issue? Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Chief, I just wanted to correct or say something to clarify my remarks before. I did not want to imply that I thought you were being duplicitous. So I understand what you're saying and the passion that you have for this and the need for the tool. I do think that, though, it's our job to fully vet things and look at policy and really carefully look at data. And so I do have emails from constituents about concerns over this program, and I think it's my job to share it and ask the questions in this forum and have this discussion. But I did not want to imply that there was any kind of sense of a lie being told about this pilot program. I think we have been communicating about it being a year-long program. So I just want to be very clear that I did not think that. And I do think we have a lot to do to educate people about the technology and what it does and doesn't do. But I just wanted to clarify that point. Yes, go ahead. I apologize. I was trying to speak in general terms, and I just want to say, Council Member Sheehan asks a lot of questions, and that's what we need. I mean, as I look up here at the council, you know, y'all have to ask questions of us. You know, that's how we get better. And you do have your fingers on the pulse of your districts. So I have to listen to you, and I will listen to you. I'm passionate about this because I live here. I'm not going anywhere. My family lives here. And I want this to be a safe community. And when I see something like this that has that potential, So, you know, what's been said up here is right. You know, just because we vote on it today doesn't mean that's the end all be all. Because I still have to listen to you all. And I appreciate that. And I did not mean any disrespect or anything. I was just talking in general terms. So, thank you. I didn't think you meant it that way, but I just wanted to clarify that that's not what I was saying. And I think as we have continued discussion with this, and Council Member Brown is right, there will be opportunities for the public to continue to give us feedback as we move forward in this. But I appreciate the continued discussion that we're having, and I'll continue to look at the data. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor to this issue. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. So I want to kind of back up half a step and maybe put this in a larger context. I don't think there's any question that the big issue for this community in this last election was public safety. And I think there's reason for that. Like Councilmember Brown, I've lived and I do live in a part of the community that has both suffered from their perspective from over-policing and from under-policing. And I understand the balance between those two things. I understand how important public safety is to this community. Now, also from the larger context, there are privacy issues. And it's not just about these cameras. It's generally about the way in which people feel that their privacy has been invaded in any number of ways over which they have no control. And maybe that doesn't become a political issue in this community, but I believe people have those concerns. And this set of cameras falls into that category, fairly or not. So when I think about it, what I want to be able to do is to say to people who ask me about it, I've done all my due diligence. I have done due deliberation. I have data about the results of the use. and I have information about who has access to the data. I have information about how often they have access. I have information about the protocol for their gaining access. These are all things that I think we need to have more information about in council before we make this kind of a decision. We're not talking about taking cameras away. what we're talking about is what the timing will be when we consider whether to add cameras or not and with all due respect to all of the comments that have been made i don't feel at this point that we have enough information for me personally or perhaps other people on the council to be able to say to the people who have this legitimate concern we have addressed the issues i've seen the data i've seen the protocols and i feel comfortable saying this is not about your privacy. And Chief, you want to respond before I... No, go ahead. I think that, except for the fact that I would like to make a motion. I think that's your time is now. Thank you. And I move to delete item K from the yeah, from the list of continuing new business. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Kloiber seconds. Is there discussion? Council Member Land? What was the motion again? The motion is to delete item K from new business. Any questions, comments? I'm not finished, actually. Okay. Let me first ask, Council Member Fred Brown, Are you on the list for a future item? Yes? Okay. Council Member, I'm going to use the list then for comments on the motion. Council Member Worley. Thank you, Mayor. And I certainly won't continue to belabor the point and rehash everything that I've just said. But the effectiveness of this program has proven itself. And to delay it any further delays this community a public safety tool that will make it safer. And we've been told that at a minimum it's going to take three months if we agree now to bring these on. I think we started talking about this in March last year. I don't know when we're starting our year mark for the pilot program, but it's about run out. It's time to take advantage of an opportunity. Our chief says that he needs it. Our chief says that it helps. Do we trust our chief? I do. I think our community does. Let's do something that helps our police help us and make us safer. Delay for something that we think we're going to inevitably do anyway. We all generally like it, but we kind of have a question here, we kind of have a question there. Just need a little more time. We know that this works. It's clear that the majority of us support this. There's no just cause for delay. Let's move it forward now. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Kloiber. We don't know that this works. We don't have the data. We don't have the information. That's what this pilot process is about. It's getting the data that allows all of us to say this is actually working. We don't have a comparison between how many vehicles were stolen more this last year versus the year before or the year before that. We don't have that data comparing the trend lines of where these things are working. We don't know that it works. You can't know something's working in just two months. And to move it forward based on that premise, our job is to trust but verify. And yes, we trust our police. We trust our chief. But it's our job to do the diligence. It's our job to vet it with actual data. I will be supporting deleting this item. Thank you. Does anyone else wish to speak to the motion? All right, all those, Council Member Reynolds, did you want to speak to the motion? Yes, I would like to make an amendment to the motion. I do not want to delete it, but I would like to postpone the item. Until when? Until after the first of the year, close to a year of the flat cameras. So after the first of the, there has to be a specific date. I think you have to have a date. Okay, then I move to postpone until February. First? First. I don't have the calendar in front of me, I'm sorry. There's a motion to amend to delay this until February 1st. Thank you. Is there a second? Council Member Legree seconds. Now, if you want to discuss the amendment, please log in. All right, all those in favor of the amendment to delay until February 1st, please log in your vote. We have one, we need one more. There we go. This motion fails. Yay, four. Nay, ten. And one absent. Now, the motion on the floor is to delete item K from the new business. Does anyone wish to speak? All right, all those in favor, please log in. All those opposed, log in. All right, that motion fails with ten nay, four yay, and one absent. Thank you very much. Now, thank you, Chief. Thank you, Commander Greathouse. We will continue with new business, so if you wish to speak about new business, please log in. And we'll start with Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. Just a clarification there. I wanted to pipe in a bunch of times, but most people were eloquent in that. And I think that's a plus for public safety, and that's where I'm at. And I'm glad we've gone that far. I mean, we haven't passed it yet because it's going to be on the docket. I was interested in item A about the constables and what was going on there. And since we had some constables out here, I wondered if we needed to – I mean, that came from the administration, but we didn't put it in committee or anything. Who's in charge of that? Is that under state law? The state law changed and he can... Yes, the state law in the last legislative session passed a bill related to constables that gave local governments a little bit more control over constables and also removed the peace officer powers from some constables. so there's quite a bit of this that for instance the part about the mayor having the ability to to remove deputies appoint deputies that that part of it is something that would take effect regardless of if the ordinance changed that's just more of an informational thing for the public to understand that you know that that the mayor has the authority to remove constables and to to sorry, remove deputy constables, not constables. And, but the parts that are more, and then also there's the part about the monthly report, monthly reports required by state law. So that would be required even if the council didn't act on that. The part that's really the, that wouldn't change because of the state law changed is mostly the bond requirements. This ordinance would increase the bond for constables to $25,000 from $10,000 and would also increase the bonds for deputy constables from nothing to $10,000. And that's because the state law requires bonds for deputy constables now. Well, my question mainly was, was it vetted with the administration? Did the constables have a say? Early. We did meet with the constables. You did? Okay, that's all I had then. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member McCurn. Thank you, Mayor. My question is on item G for our Chief Development Officer, Mr. Atkins. Or Mr. Benz. It's actually not necessarily a question, but more or less this is exciting stuff that's happening on the Coldstream Research Campus. And just wanted an opportunity for you to talk about it. Sure. Just to introduce the item. Yes, please. This is a, you'll recall a few years ago that you had approved the sale of a piece of property in Coldstream. the agreement is for 1.15 million actually which is about 207,000 an acre which is in line with the assessed value. LFUCG will receive half of the proceeds and the proceeds will receive half of the proceeds and the proceeds will receive half of the proceeds will receive half of the proceeds LFUCG will receive half of the proceeds from this sale, which is $577,500. And those proceeds will go directly toward the Legacy Business Park, the 200-acre site in Coldstream, to move forward with the development of that property. So we are asking for your consideration of this item today. If you have any questions, I'm glad to answer. I know that was just kind of generic, and I appreciate you going through that. I'm excited. there's a lot that's happened in this campus in the past several years. I appreciate that I've had an opportunity to serve on the Industrial Revenue Board and working with you here. But this is great to see coming to the area. I know many of my colleagues have been out there, seen the campus, and I'm just looking forward to its future growth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question on Item D for Commissioner Lanter about the community action expanded intensive street outreach services. I read the explanation, but could you expand on what those look like, where that money is going? Yeah, so this contract is actually, the description doesn't capture it, but this is our emergency winter weather plan. So what we've done is add these funds to the existing street outreach contract that we have with community action as sort of a change order to allow them to provide the hotel services that we've discussed previously. Most of the funds here actually pay for hotels. And so they're actually already operating this. We've had several days so far this winter, as you know, that we're below 32 where we've operated it. They've done it using existing funds. This replenishes this, and hopefully, depending on how many cold days we have, gets us through the rest of the winter. Okay, thank you for that explanation. I was thinking in my head more like actual teams on the street. Well, they do have teams on the street as part of this contract. What this does is adds to that service the ability for those teams to coordinate with the shelters and place people who can't go to shelter into the hotels. Okay, great. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question on T and you together. Brandy, Peacher, you are available. This is a very expensive emergency shower that we're installing. So I was just curious if this was some new regulation or something that came up or why all of a sudden we have to install the shower. Yes, that's a great question. And so during construction and through our process of coordinating with our internal folks, it was brought to Division of Parks' attention through risk management that there is an OSHA requirement to have an emergency shower. That is not something that a designer or a contractor would know to do. That is up to us as the employer to provide for our employees. And so that, unfortunately, was something that we do not have in any of our spaces and are retrofitting to do that. And so we have the luxury, even though it is expensive, we have the luxury that we're in construction at the moment to incorporate it into this project. Thank you. I appreciate it. And then my other question is item W, Director Burton. Oh, how we love Clay's Mill Road. I just have a question about what this additional is about and then just an overall update on where we stand with the project. The majority of this has been items that have come up during construction. We typically keep the consultant on board to answer any questions or deal with any field changes that we had. Unfortunately, this project has been a challenge to say the least, and we've had more of those than we anticipated when we originally did in the contract. So as far as an update, the paving from Waco, basically the entire section from Waco to Pasadena should be done this week. We're doing the paving probably as we speak. And then the curbs have been installed just north and south of the culvert that closed down the road in the northern section. So hopefully we'll be able to do the paving in the coming weeks for that as well, at least the base so we can get traffic back on. There will still be a lot of cleanup items over the course of even the next six months. but hopefully we'll get the traveling public fully through there in the coming weeks before the end of the year. Are we still thinking spring-ish? Spring-ish for total completion, substantial completion, and again, drivable road surface, the road back open hopefully by the end of the year before the asphalt plans close. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Any other questions about new business? Council Member Ellinger. Thanks. Doug, while you're up here, can you give us an update on the Brighton Trail and AA while you're at this? Just the design is that would so this is just for a short section behind Liberty School. This is part of our funded project. And there's a there's a disconnect where we have the trail system that runs behind Liberty. Part of that runs into a neighborhood, but there's not a good connection. This will run through a piece of park owned property and connect over to Liberty Road as part. And we'll basically connect to the shared use path. that's going to be part of the KYTC widening project. And that's the project that's coming up? That's going to get us down to the Oliver Lewis then eventually? The Brighton to Oliver? There's three different projects that will get us there eventually. This is a very short segment from Liberty, behind Liberty School over to Liberty Road. The KYTC project will have a shared use path all the way in New Circle. And then engineering has a project that we'll start design on from inside New Circle all the way essentially down to the end of Winchester, which will again make the goal to get that connectivity that we don't have now. That's the key, get the connectivity. Thank you. Any other questions about new business? All right, all those in favor of new business, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Continuing business presentations. And first, if I could have a motion on neighborhood development funds. All right. We have a motion and Council Member Plumman seconds. Are there any questions or amendments? All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. At this time, I'll call on Councilmember Bledsoe for the Special Budget Finance and Economic Development. Thank you, Mayor. And colleagues, I apologize for this lengthy report you're getting ready to get, but if you'll recall, it was a very long meeting. Okay, the meeting starting at 10.03 with a motion by Plowman, seconded by Lamb, to make all Councilmembers voting members of the Special Budget Finance and Economic Development be held on October 25, 2022 for the purposes of motions that day, and it passed unanimously. First, the committee approved the September 20, 2022 committee summary. Next, Betsy Dexter, Executive Director of Commerce Lexington's Business Education Network, presented on the Accelerate Lexington program. The program was created as a talent recruitment initiative to tackle Lexington's workforce shortage in health care. During recruitment, Commerce Lexington focused on demonstrated behaviors and led nurturing, resulting in nearly 400 total leads, 86 matchmaking event attendees, and three additional CNA cohorts slated to begin classes in early 2023. Moving forward, Commerce Lexington will work to provide more virtual event options and wraparound services for those who were interested but had obstacles that prevented them from making the program. Next, Tyrone Tyra, Commerce Lexington Senior Vice President for Community and Minority Business Development, presented on behalf of the Small Business Economy Recovery Program. 430 businesses applied, 345 were funded, 35% were women-owned, and 26% minority-owned for a total of $4,588,140 dispersed to small businesses. Commerce Lexington tracked and held grant recipients responsible for compliance reporting with a 90% success rate. Of the businesses that were funded, 64% maintained or increased their payroll, and 59% maintained or increased their total number of full-time employees. As of June 30, 2022, seven businesses closed, changed ownership, or became inactive with the state. Grant recipients spanned all across Fayette County. Council Member James Brown made a motion seconded by Council Employment to continue funding Commerce Lexington's Minority Business Outreach with the remaining 36,000 allocated funds from that well from the program. The motion passed without dissent. On behalf of the committee I so move. Second. Thank you Council Member James Brown seconded. Any questions or comments? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you. Then Commerce Lexington's Andy Johnson, Chief Policy Officer and Regional Director of Engagement, and Bob Quick, President and CEO, presented in the Regional Competitive Plan. Johnson shared that 45-member steering committee focused on economic conditions, targeted clusters, housing analysis, competitors, cities, regions, strengths, challenges, and action items to form this regional plan. The action plan focused on increasing jobs, wages, and GDP to at least the national average. Economic development goals are to increase investment in regional branding and site selection awareness, execute a product development strategy, and engage local leaders. Workforce development goals are to increase labor force by 1,500 people per year by talent recruitment, attraction marketing campaigns, and intern connections. Policy goals are to attract state and federal funding by coordinating advocacy for infrastructure and product development, funding and improve tax and regulatory policies. Bledsoe noted that the city allocated $300,000 to Commerce Lexington for workforce development. $150,000 was used for Accelerate Lexington. $50,000 was used as Grant mentioned. $100,000 remains. Maloney made a motion seconded by Ellinger to allocate the remaining $100,000 to the Commerce Lexington regional competitive efforts. The motion passed unanimously. On behalf of the committee, I so move. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Legree seconds. Any questions, comments? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Jennifer Warnema, American Rescue Plan Act Manager, presented on behalf of the Paid Parental Leave Item. The Federal Family and Medical Leave Act provides employees with 12 weeks unpaid leave per year. LFHG's current policy requires employees to use their available paid sick, vacation, or other leave for their FMLA absences counted against their FMLA leave entitlement. The employee must exhaust their leave before going unpaid. The new paid parental leave proposal is for four weeks of leave at 100% of the employee's base pay to run concurrently with FMLI for birth or adoption of a child. The proposal also includes two weeks of paid parental leave for foster or kinship care. Employees would use other accrued leave time after their paid family ends for a total of up to 12 weeks. The budgetary impact will be approximately $700,000 to $800,000 per year. Next steps include preparing a paid parental leave ordinance and drafting agreements with the collective bargaining units. Floman made a motion to approve the drafted paid leave policy. Seconded by Lamb, the motion passed unanimously. On behalf of the committee, I still move. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Floman, any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Next, Commissioner Hensley began the fiscal year 23 Q1 financial update. In fiscal year 23, quarter one, expenses have exceeded revenues by approximately $9 million but remain within budget. Revenue director Holbrook emphasized the fluctuation of revenue sources in quarter one. Employee withholdings are up 7.8% from prior year. Net profits are up due to the 50% increase in number of businesses' filings. Insurance and franchise fees are performing well at a budget. Revenue is performing $10 million higher than projected. Expenses are below for operating costs. Budget director Luker highlighted the $100,000 difference in the full-time personnel category and that LFUCG is nearly fully staffed. In almost every category for fiscal year 23, LFUCG is below budget but spending more than fiscal year 22, in part due to cash capital. Hensley shared that LFUCG started with a $105,486,933 fund balance at the end of fiscal year 21 and added $44,774,030 in fiscal year 22 for a total of $150,253,960. Staffing shortages, federal dollars, and revenue have contributed to higher than normal fund balance in recent years. After non-spendables, pre-commitments, economic contingency, insurance reserves, capital projects, and historical obligations are taken out, the remaining fund balance total is $40,708,950. Hensley shared the mayor's proposal for using the remaining fund balance dollars, which includes $17 million to public safety for raises, recruitment, retention for police, fire, and corrections, $9 million for additional public safety measures, and even 911, 1, $1.2 million for one-time fund balance and the unallocated $2.5 million remaining for the compensation study for one-time supplement for non-smart employees, $4 million to the affordable housing fund, $1 million for violence prevention intervention programming, $3.5 million for economic consistency, $2.3 million for ongoing capital costs, $2.25 for capital districts for capital projects for a total of $150,000 per council member, and $100,000 for cybersecurity, and $300,000 for unhoused winter solutions. Council Member Fred Brown gave an update on a memorandum of understanding with the Fraternal Order of Police for Polices and Sergeants. The proposing agreement increased the salaries by $10,000 in return. The FP agreed to support the rehiring of retired police officers. Council Member Brown made a motion to accept the memorandum for these things, but the motion failed on this item. Finally, we had a discussion regarding the reallocation of the remaining fund balance dollars. Those actions have been approved and are now being processed. The meeting adjourned at 514. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions for Council Member Bledsoe? And I have one more. You have one more? I do. Very good. I have a partial report out summary of motions from today's November 29th meeting. At today's Budget and Finance and Economic Development Committee, discussion took place regarding the Tax District Workgroup's recommendations to correct the 1,181 parcels identified by the workgroup. Council Member Plum made a motion to approve the resolutions for Tax Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and scheduled the changes. Seconded by Council Member Lamb. The motion passed without dissent. On behalf of the committee, I so move. Is there a second? I'm sorry, who's? Council Member Lamb. Seconds. Any questions? Comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Director Walters and Commissioner Hensley shared the revised compensation study proposal to the committee, which includes a 3% across the board increase for all employees, a one-time supplement in the administrative process to review employee appeals. Council Member James Brown made a motion to approve the administration's compensation study proposal, was seconded by Council Member Worley. The motion passed with a 7-2 vote. On behalf of the committee, I say I move. Second. Vice Mayor Kay seconds. Any questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? No. We have one no vote. Council Member Lamb. All right, that motion passes. Thank you. The rest of the meeting will be reported out in the next BFED committee. Okay, very good. Thank you very much. Council Member Lamb, did you also have a partial report? Now, mind you, mine's a little bit shorter. Okay. That's okay. Mine is the General Government Social Services Committee from November 15, 2022, partial report out. The item is the redistricting work group follow-up on November 15 at the General Government Social Services Committee meeting. There was a brief follow-up discussion regarding the changes made to the proposed redistricting ordinance. Mr. Evan Thompson from the Law Department revisited a couple of questions from the previous meeting. He also shared that a candidate can still run even if they have been redistricted into a new district but live at the same address. A motion by Council Member Whitney Baxter to move the redistricting ordinance forward and report it out at the November 29, 2022 work session, seconded by Council Member Liz Sheehan. The motion passed without dissent, and I so move. And just so that colleagues know, you have a copy of the redistricting ordinance at your dais for your review. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Council Member Reynolds seconds. Are there any questions, comments? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Okay, thank you very much. Now we're ready for council reports. If you'll log in, please. Council Member Sheehan. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to highlight some of the events that we have coming up this weekend. So on December 3rd, obviously, we have the Downtown Christmas Parade at 11, but also at the Henry Clay Estate, their annual Ashland Illumination Ceremony is happening. so you can go and participate in some of the things that they have going on at the Ashland Estate from 3 to 7. The actual ceremony for the lighting will be at 5.30, so I hope to see everybody there. And I want to congratulate Frederick Douglass Broncos football team for making it to the state finals there. My daughter's in marching band, that's why I'm bringing this up. But they are facing Bowling Green High School on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the U.K. Stadium, So I also hope to see you there, too. And go Broncos. Very good. Thank you. Council Member Bledsoe. Thank you, Mayor. Just real quickly. The Southland Tree Lighting is this Friday at 530 at Station 12 on Southland Drive. The Lafayette High School Choir and Orchestra will all be performing. There's lots of cookies, hot chocolate, Santa may or may not come. You'll have to come and see. And if you could bring a new unwrapped toy for the Firefighter Tour Drive, it was a great time. It's a super community event. And I hope you all will join us. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member McCurron. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make a note that tonight for the special meeting for Plain Public Safety, I have a prior engagement at 6 o'clock, so I'll be leaving a little bit early. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Council Member Plowman. I just wanted to announce that USA beat Iran this afternoon. It's a World Cup soccer, so go USA. Yay. Thank you. Any other council reports? All right. There's no mayor's report today, but there are the price contract bids. If I could have a motion to approve those, please. Council Member Plowman moves. Council Member Baxter seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. We have one person signed up for public comment for issues not on the agenda. Dottie Bean. I don't need to speak. Okay. Okay. All right. Very good. Thank you. So, council members, it's time for a motion to adjourn. There are several. All those in favor, say aye. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. Thank you.