# Social Services and Public Safety Committee - January 17, 2023 > Auto-transcribed civic record · January 17, 2023 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/5731 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/5731?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2023-01-17 - **Last revised**: January 17, 2023 - **Length**: 383 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Social Services and Public Safety Committee convened on January 17, 2023, at 12:45 P.M. The meeting focused on organizational matters, specifically the election of committee leadership for the new term. The committee successfully completed the election of a Committee Chair and selection of a Vice Chair, with this agenda item receiving approval. During the session, one motion was voted on, no presentations were given, and no public comments were heard. ## Attendance All members were present for the January 17, 2023 meeting. **Present:** • J. Brown • C. Ellinger • T. Fogle • B. Monarrez • D. Gray • F. Brown • W. Baxter • D. Sevigny • J. Reynolds • K. Plomin **Absent:** None **Late:** None ## Votes and Decisions The meeting included one formal vote during the session. **Committee Chair Nomination** W. Baxter made a motion to nominate Jennifer Reynolds as chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. The motion was seconded by J. Brown. The nomination passed by voice vote with unanimous support. The final tally was 10 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. The following members voted in favor of the nomination: - J. Brown - C. Ellinger - T. Fogle - B. Monarrez - D. Gray - F. Brown - W. Baxter - D. Sevigny - J. Reynolds - K. Plomin No members voted against the nomination or abstained from voting. With this unanimous approval, Jennifer Reynolds was confirmed as chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. ## Appointments The meeting included appointments to leadership positions within the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. The following appointments were made: • **Jennifer Reynolds** was appointed as Chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee • **W. Baxter** was appointed as Vice Chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee These appointments establish the leadership structure for the Social Services and Public Safety Committee moving forward. ## Election of Committee Chair / Selection of Vice Chair The committee conducted elections for leadership positions during this meeting. The process resulted in the selection of Jennifer Reynolds as committee chair and W. Baxter as vice chair. Key participants in the discussion included W. Baxter, J. Reynolds, and J. Brown. The committee followed standard procedures for electing leadership positions. **Outcome:** - Jennifer Reynolds was elected as committee chair - W. Baxter was appointed as vice chair - Both appointments were approved by the committee The leadership elections were completed successfully, establishing the committee's organizational structure for the upcoming term. *Note: Specific transcript timestamps are not available for this agenda item.* --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (10-0): Nomination of Jennifer Reynolds as chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee --- ## Full transcript Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, everybody. Good afternoon once again. Until they give me a gavel, I'm just going to have to use my voice to get the room to settle. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. So we've been through this one more time. We're going to do it a couple more times. I would like to call to order the January 17, 2023 meeting of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. Just as before, we have one item of business, which is to elect a committee chair. You may nominate yourself or someone else to serve as the chair of the committee. And at this time, I will open the floor to nominations for chair. And I'm not logged in here for some reason. Okay. Got it. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Chair. I move to nominate Jennifer Reynolds as Chair of the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. So moved. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Seconded. We have a motion to nominate Council Member Reynolds as Chair, as nominated by Council Member Baxter, and seconded by Council Member James Brown. Do we have, actually, first of all, Council Member Reynolds, are you willing to serve as committee chair if elected? Yes, I am. Thank you. Are there any other nominations? All right. Seeing none, I will declare nominations closed and call for a vote. All those in favor of Council Member Reynolds being chair, please say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That motion passes without dissent. Congratulations, Councilmember Reynolds. And your first responsibility as chair is to appoint a vice chair. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thank you, everyone. I'm really excited to chair this committee, and I would like to nominate Councilmember Baxter to be my vice chair. All right, we have a vice chair. I'm sorry, I would like to appoint her as my vice chair. Yes, thank you. We have an appointment of Vice Chair Baxter. As there is no other business to be conducted at this time, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Is that moved? I can. Okay. We have a motion and a second from Council Members Plowman and Baxter. Anyone opposed? We stand adjourned. Thank you.