Toe. Eyes focused on something that's not moving. Breathing as normal as possible. Tummy is in. Stabilizing knee is soft. Ears, shoulders, hips are stacked. And just hold as still as you can. As still as you can. Almost done. Knee is soft and relax and shake those legs a little bit. Good. Then we're going to take the ankles and put them right underneath the hips, soften the knees, open the chest a little bit. And then I'm going to lift off with my heels in a calf raise. I'm going to lift the heels up almost like you're wearing high heels. So I want to bring the heels way up. Watch that we're not leaning forward or back. want to try to keep the shoulders over the hips and stay right there with those heels up off the floor holding still doing our little checklist head to toe what are the eyes doing we're breathing tummy in knees soft really lifting those heels see if you can hold maybe five more seconds don't hold your breath good relax it and shake out a little bit so those are just some easy exercises that you can do that will help you improve your balance a couple other things that I'd like to suggest that you do during the day or toe taps just tapping the toe up and down calf raises up and down circling the ankle making sure you do that both directions and you can do those three exercises in a seat position You can even do it while you are waiting in the doctor's waiting room. You can hold on to the Carden Kroger and do some calf raises or some toe taps. Sitting and standing several times a day will help to develop more strength in the legs, which is vitally important for good balance. All right? So I hope you'll try these out and maybe work that into your routine three or four times a week, and I'm sure that you'll notice a difference. Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you have a wonderful day. Bye-bye. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. I'll go ahead and call to order the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council meeting of February 9, 2023. And the first item on our agenda is the roll call. Ms. Reynolds? Here. Mr. Savigny? Here. Ms. Sheehan? Here. Mr. Worley? Vice Mayor Wu? Here. Mr. Fred Brown? Here. Mr. James Brown? Here. Mr. Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Ms. Fogle? Present. Ms. Gray? Here. Ms. LeGree? Here. Ms. Lynch? Present. Ms. Menarez? Here. Ms. Plumman? Here. That's it. Thank you. We have a quorum. I'd like to ask, is Jared Underwood here? There you are. He is the Community Life Pastor at Emanuel Baptist Church and is going to offer our invocation tonight. Welcome. Let's pray. Father, we thank you just right now for the breath in our lungs, the life that you're giving to us right now. And we thank you that you sit on the throne, you rule, and you reign each and every moment of every day. And we thank you that we are justified through your son, Jesus, through his life, death, and resurrection forever. We are made right with you. And so I thank you for our city leaders. I thank you for those that are here tonight in this room. I just pray that you would bring a spirit of unity here in this place tonight, that you would protect them all and all involved in the meeting tonight from the schemes of the evil one. May you protect them, bring unity. May there be the fruits of the spirit. And may what takes place here tonight be for the honor and glory of your name and for the good of our city and our communities and our people. And so we pray and ask all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. Thank you. At this time, we'll have our presentations. All right. First tonight, I'd like to invite Councilmember Fogel to join me at the podium, as well as Mr. Bobby Washington. Thank you. I know this is a surprise. Will you come join us? Yes, my goodness. So as we prepare, this is a surprise. As we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the original Dunbar High School, I am so pleased to have the opportunity to recognize Bobby Washington. Bobby was a standout guard at Dunbar who went on to play in college and in the pros. Bobby, I am really proud and honored to be able to present you this proclamation if you'll come stand beside me. Okay. I'm totally off guard. I'm sorry. Okay, it's all right. I am sorry, y'all. I am totally caught off guard. Forgive me. Sorry. We love surprises. Well, you got one here. You got me. I'm sorry. I'm not using it like this. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Whereas Bobby Washington was a standout guard at the original Dunbar High School at Eastern Kentucky University and as a professional who played for the Kentucky Colonels and the Cleveland Cavaliers. And whereas Hall of Fame coach T.S. Roach, who died in 2015, coached Bobby at Dunbar and said Bobby was one of the finest guards in the school's history. Thank you. And whereas Bobby, known as the Dunbar Kingpin, the spark, and as a smooth passing southpaw, could shoot his famous jump shot from either hand. And whereas Bobby led the Dunbar Bearcats to the 1963, 1964, and 1965 state tournaments, averaging 18 points per game. And whereas Bobby received numerous awards, including being named to the Kentucky All-Stars and to the 1965 Prep All-America Squad. And whereas when his basketball career ended, Bobby returned to Lexington, where he coached the Bryan Station High School basketball team for 17 years. Winning more than 300 games and six district titles. And whereas the original Dunbar High School opened in 1923, and this year we are honoring the school and its many outstanding students. Now, therefore, I, Linda Gorton, Mayor of Lexington, to hereby declare February 9th, 2023 Bobby Washington Day. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You have an awesome day. Thank you. All right. Bobby's going to say a few words. Welcome. First of all, you all, thank you very much for having me. And I am totally, totally caught off guard. My wife told me that Tanya wanted us to come down here for something, to support her. And I've been knowing her for years when she played basketball at Lafayette in the UK. And she's always been a good person. She really cares about people. And also, I want to thank my mother and father for the way they brought myself and my brothers up. And I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity to do the things that I had a chance to do. And there's been so many people in my life that helped me throughout the Dunbar community when I was growing up. And my wife for 53 years has put up with me all this time, crying about basketball and coaching and everything. And I want to thank you all. I don't want to take up all the time because I don't know what I'm going to do right now. But thank you. Well, don't go away yet. Okay. And there are quite a few people here to support Bobby. If you're here to support Bobby, will you stand up? We have a few here. Come on, don't be shy. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now I want to ask Councilmember Fogle if she'd like to say a few words. Just quickly, Coach Washington, you represent our community and your strength for young black African males as well as females. You're an awesome coach. You're a wonderful person. And you out swim me and out walk me at the Y. And I just want to say congratulations. What a wonderful kickoff. We had council member Lynch and Brown and for you, our first community leader for black history. Thank you for being the man that you are in our community. Thank you all. Thank you. Can I get a picture with the council? Can you do that for a day? I'll stay in the morning. We'll get a picture with the council. Where is your board? Thank you. I want to welcome Adrian Taqour, Michelle Kseniak, and Laura Hatfield from our division of Parks and Recreation. They're here to recognize a very exciting partnership involving the design of our very own Cardinal Run Park North and Fayette County Public Schools STEM education through Minecraft. Adrienne will be introducing our Fayette County Schools partners to explain more and ask everybody to come up and then toward the end we'll have a picture with the council. All right. Good evening, council members. Parks is excited to highlight one of our high-performing partnerships tonight as we recognize and celebrate their work with us for the new Cardinal Run North Park. On behalf of everyone at Parks and Recreation, thank you for this opportunity to introduce our partners and their exciting work, if you had a chance to look at it in the mezzanine. Here with us tonight are Fayette County Public Schools District STEM Learning Coaches, Ashley Faulkner and Shad Lacefield, who will tell you more about these fine young people. Hi council members, my name is Shad Lacefield and this is Ashley Faulkner. So we are the STEM learning coaches in Fayette County and we want to share with you just this really cool partnership that we had with Parks and Rec as we use Minecraft education to build a future park. hard to run north. So using Minecraft Education, we actually created a replica, Ashley did, of the future site for students to actually go into this world and build the future park. Each grade level or team had different requirements to meet, and students actually used stakeholder information that we got from Parks and Rec, along with different requirements that parks needed to have, a $10 million budget, and, of course, their own creativity to actually build what was eventually turned out. So the video that's playing here, so this is the world that Ashley built, and this is just a quick fly through. So this is the blank canvas that Ashley started us out with, and then the students used all that information that I just read to be able to go and build those awesome things that you guys just saw out there. The cool thing that we wanted to share, so the challenge itself impacted just under 1,000 students, was participated by 50 different teachers and in 28 of our schools. So in addition to those numbers that you just heard, you have students from first grade all the way through 12th here today, as well as three of our Girls Who Game clubs, which is a new initiative that we started in Fayette County Public Schools to increase the number of our underrepresented populations in our STEM careers. So we do have three of our Girls Who Game clubs. You can skip on to the next guy. There you go. We did want to share with you something that we embedded within this world and some of those names hopefully look a little familiar to you. Some of them were here today as well. But we did have this awesome partnership with Parks and Recreation where they submitted different videos for their expertise around the park. And we actually put non-player characters inside the park that had links to those videos so all of our students could actually hear from the experts. So they are to scale, no, not really. But we just had such a great experience working with our parks and recreation team. Okay, so just a very quick, we wanted to highlight some of the really awesome things that our students were building that hopefully are in consideration for the new Cardinal Run Park North. We saw a lot of playgrounds for all ages and abilities. So our girls who came focused on the inclusivity aspect. So making sure that things are accessible for all of our Lexington citizens. Ninja courses and parkour areas. that is becoming more and more popular with our young people. Sensory and quiet areas for our kids who might need an area to play calmly or maybe stimulation is too much. Free Little Library, which was a great idea that we saw across the board, which I think is something that we could totally use. An amphitheater, a community garden that would serve to produce food for our populations who might have some food insecurities. And then also gender-neutral bathrooms and making sure that there are changing tables within all of the gender bathrooms, because I know dads sometimes do not get the luxury that us moms necessarily get. So we would like to take a moment to recognize all of the students that you see in front of you. Shad, go ahead. Yeah. So again, the students that we have here, these are our Minecraft experts. They're our challenge winners from the different grade levels. You'll see we had primary and intermediate, middle and high, and then of course our girls who game. So if you guys could celebrate all these awesome students. Also, if you did not get a chance to see these wonderful builds that are out there, the students after this are going to take it to the Lexington Public Library downtown branch and it's going to be on display in the fourth floor for a month for you guys to be able to see. The posters also have QR codes you can scan with your phone so you can see the students build and their videos as well. Thank you so much. And so now we'd like to get a picture with you all. If you can just take a few steps backward and the council's back there and we'll get your picture. Yeah, you need change. I'm good. Evidently. I'll just sit down. It doesn't even matter if I'm in it. Go up there and give me a hand. Go up there, I'll go up here. I'll make it. I'll make it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it back there. I'll take it back there. I'll take it back there. I'll take it back there. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. One, one. One, one. One, one. Excuse me. Tyler, tell Mr. Washington any time he wants to. Yeah, he might think he has to stay the whole time. Yeah, and he gets up real early to go swimming. He's there at 5.30 every morning. What time do you go? 7. That's what Mayor Gray used to always say. We're extending the invitation. Not the obligation to stay. You may leave now. You may leave. I'm showing pictures of my son. I feel like this. Yesterday we got this from his daycare class. I sent this. Oh, is he starting to crawl? He can walk. He's already, what? Is he still walking? Yeah, he's rolling. They sent this from his daycare class. Look at him with his hands in that. No way. All right, at this time, Vice Mayor Wu will take the chair. Thank you, Mayor. Vice to Washington. As you can see, the mayor got to do all the fun stuff, and then I get to do the rest of it. All right, clerk, Can I please have a second reading of ordinances, please? Number one, an ordinance changing the zone from a high density apartment R4 zone, a neighborhood business B1 zone, and a light industrial I1 zone to an industrial redevelopment plan unit development PUD3 zone for 27.087 net, 27.461 gross acres for property located at 125 Turner Commons Way and 1409 North Forbes Road, Turner Property for LLC Council District 11. Number two, an ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Bay urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating and reappropriating funds fiscal year 2023, schedule number 28. And number three, an ordinance amending article 43 of the chapter two and section 2-457 of the Lexington Bay urban county code of ordinances to change the name of the commission provided therein to the access Lexington commission amending section 2-458 of the code to increase the membership of the commission to 19 members by adding members, a member representing a public transportation agency and the director of building inspection or their designee and otherwise designated certain employees of officers of the urban county government as ex officio members, amending section 2-459 of the code to account for ex officio members in addition to council members and amending section 2-463 to utilize more inclusive language all effective upon passage of council. Thank you. Thank you. Motion to approve. Second. All right, we have a motion by Council Member Ellinger and seconded by Council Member Plomond. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, can we have a roll call vote please? Council member Reynolds? Yes. Council member Savigny? Yes. Council member Sheehan? Yes. Council member Worley? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Kay? Vice Mayor Blue? Sorry, force of habit. It's okay, it's only been six weeks, it's okay, yes. Council member Fred Brown? Yes. Council member James Brown? Yes. Council member Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Council member Baxter? Yes. Council member Fogle? Yes. Council member Gray? Yes. Council member Legree? Yes. Council member Lynch? Yes. Council member Minares? Yes. And council member Plumman? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. May we have first reading of ordinances please. Number four, an ordinance expanding and extending the full urban services district number one for the urban county government for the provision of street cleaning, street lighting, street cleaning, and garbage and refuse collection. To include the area defined as certain properties on the following streets. Armature Court, Ash Rapids, Bay Springs Park, Beaumont Center Circle, Bryant Drive, Cattle Path, Cordell Lane, Cravet Pass, Crocus Court, Danby Woods Drive, Elizabeth Street, Estrella Drive, Greendale Road, Harrington Court, Harrodsburg Road, Hemphill Drive, Industry Road, Innovation Drive, Larchtree Park, Leestown Road, Liberty Road, Loblolly Court, Mabel Lane, Madison Point Drive, Magnolia Springs Drive, Malone Drive, Marbella Drive, Mill Ridge Road, Moon Coin Way, Malundi Way, Newtown Court, Newtown Springs Drive, Nicholasville Road, Old House Road, Old Mount Tabor Road, Old Rosebud Road, Old Schoolhouse Lane, Parker Meadows, Peaks Mill Drive, Real Quiet Lane, Rosette Way, Roundway Down Lane, Russell Cave Road, Rutledge Avenue, Sandersville Road, Silver Charm Lane, Swirl Way, Spur Road, St. Andrew's Walk, Stolen Horse Trace, Strattsburg Park, Sullivan's Trace, Sundollar Cove, Tracery, Oaks Drive, Vincent Way, Waveland Museum Lane, Wilson Downing Road, and Winning Colors Lane. Number five, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district number three for the urban county government for the provisions of garbage and refuse collection to include the areas defined as certain properties on the following streets. Bob White Trail, Branham Park, Browning Trace, Burning Tree Circle, Castle Bridge Lane, Crusaders Way, Duty Park, Court, Flying Ebony Drive, Classford Square, Golden Trophy Trail, Crossland Park, Griffin Gate Drive, Harmony Hall Lane, Kelburn Court, Knightsbridge Lane, Laredo Court, Liberty Road, Lorenzo Place, Patchen Lake Lane, Ryan Circle, Summersley Place, Tatton Park, Walker's Way, and Wentworth Place. Number seven, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district number five for the urban county government for the provisions of street lighting and garbage and refuse collection to include the areas defined as certain properties on the following streets. Audubon Avenue, Blue Bonnet Court, Blue Bonnet Drive, Bracktown Road, Bradley Lane, Dantzler Court, Floral Park, Forest Park Road, Literary Circle, Potomac Drive, State Street, University Avenue, and Waterview Court. Number eight, an ordinance expanding and extending partial urban services district number six for the urban county government to the provisions of street lighting and street cleaning to include the area defined as certain properties on the following streets, Agape Drive and Palomar Trace Drive. And number nine, an ordinance amending certain of the budget says the Lexington Fay Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating reappropriating funds fiscal year 2023, schedule number 29. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any walk-ons? All right, seeing none, do we have any suspension of the rules for second reading? Okay. Seeing none, let's do second reading of resolutions, please. Number one, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Mavron Inc., a sole source provider for the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management for three prisoner transport van inserts at a cost not to exceed $117,309.60. Number two, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to donate three chainsaws and a walk-behind concrete saw to Letcher County Road Department for rehabilitation from flood damage. Number three, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to remit $21,460 to LexArts, Inc. as reimbursement for costs related to the commissioned art panel installation at Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden. Number four, a resolution establishing Henry P. Thompson Company as sole source provider for burger replacement pumps for the Division of Water Quality and authorizing the mayor or her designee on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreements with Henry P. Thompson Company related to the procurement of these goods that it costs not to exceed $46,243.14. Number five, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to accept a grant of $106,597.90 in federal funds from the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Division of Emergency Management under the Fiscal Year 2023 Emergency Management Assistance Project for the Division of Emergency Management in order to support the emergency preparedness activities in Fayette County, the extent of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of $119,195 as a local mention, authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number six, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to an agreement with new vista of the bluegrass to amend the budget and extend the performance period through April 1st, 2023 and further authorizing the mayor to execute any other amendments with new vista of the bluegrass related to this agreement. Number seven, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fay Urban County Government to execute a professional services agreement with Element Design PLLC for design services for the Oliver Lewis Way bus shelter at a cost not to exceed $32,600. Number eight, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in order to accept a grant from the Cabinet and Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, MPO, Which grant funds in the amount of $120,000 in service transportation block grant Lexington STBGSLX. Federal funds for the Virginia Red Mile Forbes Trail connectivity safety study as a part of the MPO's fiscal year 2021 through 2024 transportation improvement program. The acceptance of which obligates the urban county government to the expenditure of $30,000 as a local match. And authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with the University of Kentucky to contribute $15,000 toward this match requirement. And authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number nine, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an amendment to an agreement with Stonewall Terrace LLC. Under the Home Investment Partnership Program to provide that Stonewall Terrace LLC may give a preference to low income households who are living with HIV AIDS. And further authorizing the mayor to execute any other amendments related to this agreement. Number ten, a resolution accepting the bid of Sealer Instrument and Manufacturing Company Incorporated in the amount of $44,307.05 for FSU Trimble X7 Scanner for the vision of police. And authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Sealer Instrument and Manufacturing Company related to the bid. Number 11, a resolution accepting the bid of Todd Johnson Contracting Inc. In the amount of $155,195.24 for the D. Rood Street Manhole Project for the addition of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Todd Johnson Contracting Inc. related to the bid. Number 12, a resolution accepting the bid of Seagrave Fire Apparatus LLC in the amount of $1,642,683 for a ladder truck for the Division of Fire and Emergency Services and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with Seagrave Fire Apparatus LLC related to the bid. Number 13, a resolution ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of Michael Sexton, accounting technician, grade 509N, 16.312, hourly in the division of accounting, effective January 18th, 2023. Charles Sayer, engineering technician, grade 515N, $21, hourly in the division of engineering, effective December 13th, 2022. Eric Howard, deputy director of human resources, grade 531E, $4,332.32 biweekly in the division of human resources, effective February 1st, 2023. Brian Estiv, Administrative Specialist, Grade 516N, 22.211 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective February 1st, 2023. William Wood, Project Manager, Grade 520N, 26.780 hourly in the Division of Facilities and Fleet Management, effective February 1st, 2023. Rachel Lay, Staff Assistant Senior, Grade 511N, 17.073 hourly in the Division of Planning, effective January 18th, 2023. Number 14, a resolution ratifying authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an addendum to the agreement with Industrial Organizational Solutions, Inc. to provide continued services for police sergeants and police lieutenants promotional processes for the Lexington Division of Police at a cost not to exceed $75,953. Number 15, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a settlement funds in the amount of $2,891,826.38. Reflecting total disbursements from Johnson and Johnson, the first disbursement from McKesson, Amerisource, Bergen, and Cardinal Health pursuant to the one Kentucky Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Understanding and Related to Multi-District Opioid Litigation and Further authorizing the mayor to execute any necessary documents related to the acceptance of these funds. Number 16, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute the fourth renewal of the agreement with Advanced Mulching Technologies, Inc. Doing business as EcoGrow for the post construction monitoring reporting and maintenance relating to the Coldstream Park Stream Corridor Restoration and Preservation Project, a supplemental environmental project required by the consent to create a cost not to exceed $59,397. Number 17, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to donate a 2004 Toro Z Master Mower in 2016 and 2017 steel chainsaws to the Eastern Kentucky flood relief. Number 18, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a donation from the Orange Theory Fitness of a free motion treadmill for the use at the Division of Police at no cost to the urban county government. Number 19, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept the professional services agreement awarded pursuant to RFP 68-2022 with Gresham Smith to perform a quarters typology study and strategic design guide for the Division of Environmental Services at a cost not to exceed $150,000. Number 20, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the University of Kentucky in order to provide $500,000 for the expansion of the visitor center at the Arboretum. Number 21, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for the acceptance of a grant in the amount of $447,898 federal funds under the fiscal year 2022 state Homeland Security Grant Program for the Division of Police in order to purchase and install an MX10 thermal imaging camera system, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant. Number 22, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for acceptance of a grant in the amount of $164,422 in federal funds under the fiscal year 2022 state homeland security grant program for the vision of police in order to purchase a utility terrain vehicle and an explosive chemical analyzer, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 23, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for the acceptance of a grant in the amount of $39,840 in the in federal funds under the fiscal year 2022 state homeland security grant program for the division of fire and emergency services in order to purchase a utility train vehicle and trailer the exception of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget number 24 resolution authorizing and directly on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant of 500 000 from the bluegrass community foundation for the installation of permanent educational elements for splash a charles young park the exception of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 25, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a grant of $20,000 from the Friends of the Parks of Fayette County awarded by the American Water Charitable Fund in 2021 for the fabrication and installation of educational science along the town branch commons educational walking trail, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government for the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. And number 26, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with benefit insurance marketing to comply with HIPAA regulations and security rules at no cost to the urban county government. Thank you. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve second reading? Approved. Second. Motion by Councilmember Ellinger, second by Councilmember Fogel. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, let's have a roll call vote, please. Councilmember Reynolds? Yes. Councilmember Sevigny? Yes. Councilmember Sheehan? Recuse on 8 and 20, yes to the rest. Council member Worley? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Wu? There you go, yes. Council member Fred Brown? Yes. Council member James Brown? Yes. Council member Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Council member Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Council member Fogle? Yes, ma'am. Council member Gray? Yes. Council member Legree? I recuse on eight and 20 due to my employment at the University of Kentucky and yes on the rest. Council member Lynch? Yes. Council member Menares? And council member Plumman? Yes. All right, that motion passes with those two recusals noted. May I have first reading of ordinances please? Number 27, a resolution accepting the bid of Herrick Company Inc in the amount of $2,690,200 for the West Hickman WASRAS improvements for the vision of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept an agreement with Herrick Company Inc related to the bid. Number 28, a resolution accepting the bid of ECS Environmental Solutions in the amount of $49,000 for scrubber services and carbon replacement for the vision of water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with ECS Environmental Solutions. environmental solutions related to the bid. Number 29, a resolution amending and restating section one of resolution number 20-2023, relating to the acceptance of a grant award under the Kentucky Clearwater Round 2 Grant with the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, to specifically include mention of the Armstrong Mill Pump Station Replacement DeLong Road PSMFMEH16 project. Number 30, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a purchase of service agreement with the Utility Planning Network for project management services for Enquesta software upgrade for the vision of revenue at a cost not to exceed $110,000. Number 31, a resolution approving guidelines for the hazardous street tree cost share program to provide financial assistance to owners of owner occupied residential property in removing hazardous street trees pursuant to chapter 17B of the code of ordinances. Number 32, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet relating to the acquisition of the right of way for the new circle road improvement project from Leastown Road to near Georgetown Road and further authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a deed and any other documents necessary to transfer a portion of the property located at 1900 Leestown Road to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the New Circle Road Improvement Project. Number 33, amending Resolution 153-2022 to increase the cost of easement acquisition and other property rights necessary for the East Hickman Forest Main Sanitary Sewer Project, a remedial measures project required by the consent decree from $26,000 to $54,920.51. Number 34, a resolution authorizing the division of computer services to purchase ongoing storage of publicly accessible data from Amazon Web Services, a sole source provider, at a cost estimated not to exceed $120,000, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute any necessary agreements with Amazon Web Services related to procurement. Number 35, a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a memorandum of agreement with the Bluegrass Community and Technical College, BCTC, for services relating to water quality monitoring in the Wolf Run watershed at no cost to the urban county government. Number 36, a resolution authorizing the Division of Police to purchase aircraft storage, hangar lease, and office rental fuel from TAC Air, a sole source provider, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute any necessary agreement with TAC Air related to the procurement. Number 37, a resolution authorizing the Division of Police to purchase Jet A Aviation Full from TAC Air, a sole source provider, and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to execute any necessary agreement with TAC Air related to the procurement at a discounted price of $1.10 per gallon. Number 38, a resolution authorizing the Division of Police to purchase Bell Helicopter Service for a Police Helicopter from Thoroughbred Aviation, a sole source provider, and authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to exceed any necessary agreement with Thoroughbred Aviation related to the procurement. Number 39, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Irving County Government to exceed a conditional commitment letter and agreement with the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to accept an award of $2,955,383 in federal funds and the Kentucky Cleaner Water Round 2 Grant, American Rescue Plan Act funds for the acquisition and remediation of the parcel located at 299 Southland Drive, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 40, a resolution authorizing and directly the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to accept a word of $10,000 from the Jessamine County Fiscal Court for the supporting of planning activities and operating costs related to the Office of the Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, MPO, for Jessamine County, located within the division of planning, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure of funds, authorizing the mayor to execute any necessary agreements related to this grant and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. Number 41, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed a promotion agreement with Top Trump's USA Inc. Related to the design of a Lexington edition of Monopoly for the Division of Parks and Recreation at a cost not to exceed $7,497. Number 42, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a consultant services agreement Or to pursue into RFP number 64-2022 with Johnson Early Architects for professional design services of the Valley Park Building Renovation and Expansion ARPA project at a cost not to exceed $69,000. Number 43, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to exceed a group sales agreement with the Hyatt Regency Lexington for catering services for the senior intern alumni lunch at a cost not to exceed $6,000. Number 44, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a grant application to the US Department of Transportation under the raised discretionary grants program. And to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application which seeks grant funds in an amount not to exceed $5,500,000 in federal funds for the West Gateway Corridors Planning and Design Project. Number 45, a resolution authorizing the use of $500,000 of MAP funds as a local match in support of the Kentucky Transportation Cadamets 2023 Raise Capital Grant Program application for the North Broadway Railroad Overpass Project, contingent upon the denial of KYTC's application to the Reconnecting Communities Grant Program and pending approval of any necessary budget amendments. Number 46, a resolution declaring the property located at 400 East 5th Street as surplus and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fay, Urban County Government to execute a deed and any necessary documents for the transfer of the property located at 400 East 5th Street to the United Way of the Bluegrass, Inc. Number 47, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a statement of work in a multi-year services agreement with Metaformers, Inc. for continued support of Oracle PeopleSoft HCM and finance modules in Oracle's cloud platform at a cost not to exceed $440,655. and authorizing the Chief Information Officer or her designee on behalf of the urban county government to execute necessary documents related to the procurement. Number 48, a resolution approving the granting of an inducement to quality logistics, LLC, doing business as longship logistics or its successor or affiliate pursuant to Kentucky Business Investment Act, KRS, subchapter 154.32, whereby the Lexington Bay urban county government agrees to rebate annually 1% of the company's occupational license fees for a term of no longer than 10 years from the activation date, subject to limitations contained in the act in any agreement with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority or the Urban County Government related to the project and taking other related actions. Number 49, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute a professional services agreement with Gresham Smith and Cushman and Wakefield USA, Inc. for the design, infrastructure, installation, and marketing of the 200-acre legacy business park at a cost not to exceed $2,229,000. Gresham Smith and 6% of the land sales Cushum and Wakefield USA Inc. Number 50, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Army County Government to execute an amendment to an agreement with Arbor Youth Services in order to adjust the budget. And further authorizing the mayor to execute any other amendments with Arbor Youth Services Inc. related to that agreement. Number 51, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the Army County Government to execute and submit a Kentucky House Bill HB1 County Clerk's Election Equipment Grant Application for up to $675,675 in HB1 project funds with the Department of Local Government, DLG, for e-poll books for the county clerk to provide additional information and execute any documents which are deemed necessary to DLG to carry out this project and to accept this grant if the application is approved. And authorizing the Mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. And number 52, a resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute execute agreements related to the neighborhood development fund which with Fayette County Farm Bureau Education Foundation Inc. $500, Lex Arts Inc. $1,500, Henry Clay High School Span Boosters Inc. $700 for the office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated. Thank you. Thank you. Quick correction. I said ordinances earlier when I meant resolutions. Are there any walk-ons? Okay. If anybody has a suspension of the rules for second reading, please log in. Council member Reynolds. Thank you vice mayor. I request to suspend the rules and give second reading to item 42 which is time sensitive for Valley Park. Okay we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Councilmember Plogan. I move to suspend the rules and give a second reading to number 51. This has to do with county clerk's election equipment. So moved. Second. Okay, we have a second from Councilmember Gray. Is there any discussion on this item? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Councilmember Sheehan. I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to number 52 to get these funds out to these community organizations faster. We have a second. Second. Councilmember Plowman, any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd make a motion to suspend the rules and give second reading to item number 46. Second. We have a second from Council Member Ellinger. Any discussion on this item? Vice Mayor, I think there's some folks here from the public that want to speak to this item. I'd like to ask the council if they would suspend the rules and allow for up to nine minutes for public comment, not individually in totality. just to speak to this issue and maybe have some questions answered that may be asked. So moved. We have a second. Well, I guess, is that appropriate to make that motion? So. Right now, we're asking for all the motions forward to suspend the rules and give second reading. so that I think we can get through those and then you can separate that question and then make a motion for a to suspend the rules and allow for some sort of public comment. I think first we have to get through all the motions for second reading and then those would be set for second reading and then there would be a separation of the question. I think this is the last item for... I would draw my second on that. We can bring it up after we do these. Okay. So we need to finish the vote for a second reading on that item. Okay. So we have a motion and a second from Council Member James Brown. Is there any discussion on this item? Okay. Vice Mayor, can I ask questions? Are we going to hold off on that one then and do the others and then come back to that one? Is my understanding? Council Member, that would require a motion. So we now have all the items for the clerk to give a second reading to, which the vice mayor would call for that second reading. If we want that to be pulled away from that, we either can allow for the second reading and separate the question before the vote, or we can ask that that be separated from the reading. But if there's some mechanism that they want to be speaking about this particular issue or debating a particular issue, it needs to be separated from the others. Okay. So what we're looking for is a motion to separate the suspension for number 46 away from the other three items. Is that correct? I think the suspension has been made, so it is now set for second reading. So now we need a motion to separate the question to have it read differently from the others. Now, that could be done. It can be read, and then we can have that motion made after the fact before we vote. but it has to be separated either before the reading or before the vote. Okay. If you want to do something with it other than the others, of course. Gotcha. Okay, so we then, I will entertain a motion for item number 46 to be separated from the other three, and we're going to vote on the other three first, and then we will tackle number 46. Move to separate. Okay. We have a second. Any discussion on that? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. So let's see. We're going to go ahead and do the reading of the three resolutions as a group. as a group that's number 42, 51, and 52, and then we will come back to number 46. So clerk, please read second readings of resolutions for 42, 51, and 52, please. Number 42, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a consultant services agreement order pursuant to RFP number 64-22, With Johnson Early Architects for professional design services of the Valley Park building renovation and expansion ARPA project at a cost not to exceed $69,000. Number 51, a resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute and submit a Kentucky House Bill HB1 County Clerks Election Equipment Grant application for up to $675,675 in HB1 project funds with the Department for Local Government DLG for e-poll books for the county clerk to provide additional information and execute any documents which are deemed necessary by DLG to carry out this project and to accept this grant if the application is approved and authorizing the mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the grant budget. And number 52, a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute agreements related to the neighborhood development funds with Fayette County Farm Bureau, Education Foundation, Inc., $500, Lex Arts, Inc., $1,500, and Henry Clay High School Band Boosters, Inc., $700 for the office of the urban county council at a cost not to exceed some stated. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have a motion? Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion on that? All right, so we're going to do a roll call vote and this is for items 42, 51, and 52. Council member Reynolds? Yes. Council member Savigny? Yes. Council member Sheehan? Yes. Council member Worley? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Wu? Yes. Council member Fred Brown? Yes. Council member James Brown? Yes. Council member Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Council member Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Council member Fogle? Council member Gray? Yes. Council member Legree? Yes. Council member Lynch? Yes. Council member Menares? Yes. Council member Plumman? Yes. Thank you. And Councilmember James Brown has a motion, I believe. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Councilmembers, I know we talked about this issue for a long time. It's been a lot of work and effort, and I think time is of the essence to move this forward because I know the potential future owner has raised money and is looking forward to move forward with this building that has been sitting vacant for a while. But I was made aware right before the meeting that there were some folks that had some questions. So I would like to give them an opportunity to speak and maybe ask the commissioner or somebody from the administration to maybe answer some questions if that allowed. I think there's three people that may be here to speak on it. So I would just allow for three minutes apiece for those folks and give them the opportunity if they want to speak. Second. So moved. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion on this motion? Council Member Worley Thank you Vice Mayor Council Member Brown of course you know I don't have any problem with people coming and asking questions or speaking their mind but I think this at the start of this council session we've made a point to try and keep our agendas just as set as we work through council rules and public comment and this I as you all know personally believe that the agenda should be followed as set so I I won't support the motion, not necessarily against hearing what these people have to say, of course, but in moving the council's business forward, public comment and a formal meeting here is for the end of the meeting. And this is particularly an issue that we've dealt with for years that has been part of the public debate. But aside from the merits, not against those that are commenting, but against moving the rules tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Allinger. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I will support this motion. We put this on Tuesday, we have been dealing with this issue for a long time, but I'm glad to see that we're maybe going to have some finality with it. But I know we've been contacted by some people who would like to, and since we are actually talking about suspension of the rules, then I think we need to let them speak, otherwise they won't have an opportunity to speak before we vote for it. So I'd prefer to give them the opportunity to speak, so thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Any other comments or discussion on this item? All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. No. Okay. I want to ask for a roll call vote. Let's do a roll call vote on this one, please. What are we doing? Well, not a roll call, but a screen, sorry. Oh, my bad. Yeah, can we get a screen up, please, for the yays and nays? Thank you. Can we have discussion? Oh, did we already have discussion? She's trying to do it straight. Madam Clerk, my screen won't allow me to vote. Please register that as a no. Try now. Try now. It's because you were absent at the beginning of the meeting, so if you just give a voice. How about you register my vote there? I can do that. And then we'll keep rolling. Okay, so we have 12 yays, two nays, and one absent. So that motion passes. If the speakers who want to speak on this item want to kind of come line up by the podium for me, please. And then when you get up to the mic, please state your name and council district, and you will have three minutes. I don't know if the timer with the buzzer up there works, but I do have a gavel here if I need it. Okay, thank you for the opportunity of speaking. My name is Robert Hodge and I am with the Wim Wells Brown Neighborhood Association. It's just that this kind of blindsided me as far as how this will impact the neighborhood. Do we need to change any planning or zoning to make sure that it does not become a day center again? How long does the project take? A lot of these answers we don't know anything about. I would just like it to be tabled and we sit down and talk to United Way. Because I want something on that corner as well. Something needs to be there. But we just, I think if we could just hold up, we done held up for three years already. I don't think another month to talk to that individual should hurt us at all. Thank you. Thank you. And when you call up, please state your name, Council District. You have three minutes, and it is up on the screen behind us. Jim Burton, First District, Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association President. And just echoing just what Mr. Hodges said is we just found out about it today. That's the only reason why I'm here is, you know, our neighbors are the ones that are affected by when it was a day center five years ago and when the city got involved in all the litigation that understood with the Catholic Action Center. We need to step back for just a brief minute since, you know, other folks are making decisions on our behalf. Well, this is where we live. We need to have an input. We need to have a say so. We need to direct, I don't know if it needs to be the commissioner or what to come to our neighborhood association meeting, present the plans, make sure it's exactly what the neighbors that are actually living in the area truly need and truly want as opposed to a top down directive of this is what you're getting. And like I said, this came out of left field, surprised two different neighborhood associations. We're not made aware of it until today. That's a problem. So we're asking for you to table it. Instead of pushing it through and ramming it down our throats, step back. Let us understand what's going on. Let us be a part of the process and then move it forward. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, guys. Rock Daniels, 11th District. Jennifer's my rep. So, I mean, I've known about this for a long time. I mean, I've heard that the United Way was going to take this building, and of course, we've all talked about it. But I do have some concerns because, obviously, I own the house directly catty-cornered to this building. I've seen, I've had $50,000 worth of damage in the last six months of people breaking into my house. I own houses within a stone's throw of it all around this building. So I'm really worried about this community. And I worry about, like they said, is it going to be a day center again? what what are they going to do i mean we have spoken with the director of the united way not once so where's their funding coming from do they have the funding to complete this project within a timely manner what is their impact going to be during their construction process on the tenants that live at my sober living house that's right catty corner to this building have they gone through planning and zoning and what's their parking going to be in a building that only has two parking spaces. So just, you know, a lot of questions that haven't been answered. I mean, I saw that was on for a first reading today. I don't understand why we would need to push it through so expediently to have a second reading. I don't think they're going to miss out on any funding or anything. I think that, you know, as a community, we need to have a lot more input on this before a final decision is made. And that's all. That's all we ask. Just more input. So thanks so much. And I did actually want to comment on something else so I hope I get my three minutes at the end because this was something different so thanks thank you councilmember Brown so so I think the next appropriate thing would be to suspend ask to suspend the rules and give second reading to 46 and then if council members have so that that motion has already been done vice mayor just needs to ask the clerk to to give second reading council member we have not um we have not passed on number 46 we did the other so there was a mo there was a motion to suspend the rules and give second reading to 46 that passed was my understanding we did and if we if we didn't vote on that then then it that we certainly can but my understanding that we we already moved and and voted to to give second reading we then separated the question from the other items that had been already given second reading so now we need to ask the clerk to in fact give it second reading and then there would be a motion to approve and and so forth but i think the motion to suspend and give a second reading was already was already made and passed okay so so am i correct is the next the the next action will be the clerk to give it second reading and then we'll take a vote on it that's correct council member so i i actually want to at what opportunity would it be appropriate to ask the commissioner to come come forward and maybe answer some of the questions that were asked at the podium i'd put that to the vice mayor's uh preference at this point we've without giving it second reading we've allowed for discussion on the item and so i think we could ask for question on the item too before it's actually read that's where we're proceeding now i don't see any reason to stop at this point so vice mayor if you don't mind i'd like to ask the commissioner general services to come forward and maybe answer best he can some of the questions that were asked about this about this project so commissioner you probably were taking notes the things that i i heard that you might be able to give some clarity to is the use future use as a day center the time frame and the funding for this project. Yes, sir. Councilmember and Council, let's talk about the intended use. We described it briefly on Tuesday. The United Way operates a neighborhood-based social services hub that they call a waypoint center. It's a hub where the proximity neighborhood, particularly those in underserved areas, can come and just have a one-point access to get to services that they need, and they do that by connecting the other services. They have two of those pilots already in existence in partnership with the government. One is at the Black and Williams Center, one is at the Charles Young Center. My understanding is it has sufficient funding from the corporate and civic community, and it's off to a good start. So it is not going to be a day shelter. It is going to be a community-based social services hub that serves those who perhaps need the services most in the East End and nearby. That's the use of the facility. The second is the United Way has demonstrated to us, and I think they are going to be prepared to make announcements very soon hereafter. at the appropriate time if this motion goes through or we give authorization for them to have transfer of the property, is that they have secured grant funds, including funds from this government through the nonprofit capital, in support for grant funds from the Bluegrass Trust, who was very supportive of the United Way and the East End Neighborhood Collective collective in moving this project forward and other major groups that they're going to announce. So we feel very confident that they have and will be a viable partner. This is not just prospective council members and vice mayors. They have the funds to go forward with this project and that will be announced here very soon to get the renovations started. Lastly, council member, I'd be remiss if I didn't state this. while the redevelopment of the property has not gone as fast as we may have liked, it has been very intentional, deliberate, and an open process. It's a process that goes back to the fall of 2017 when we issued the first of three requests for information seeking nonprofit agencies that might be interested in taking on such a project. The United Way responded to that, council members and vice mayors, to allow them to step forward to be our redevelopment partner. We feel that the neighborhood, as Mr. Daniels has mentioned, it has been widely known of their interests, and we're thankful to have them as a partner, and we think that this will be a viable resource to the neighborhood. In today's construction market, time is of the essence, And I think we don't want to do a disadvantage to a partner who is stepping up to bring a much-needed resource at a very timely moment. Hope I answered your question, Vice Mayor. Council Member, forgive my extended response. Yes, sir, you have. Vice Mayor, the Commissioner might want to stay at the podium just in case Council Members may have questions. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Ellinger. Commissioner, since we met on Tuesday, I've been contacted by individuals, and I was hoping to get these answers. So if we had second read without suspension, it was going to be next Thursday, so it's only going to be a week that we'd wait. Do you know the hours that it's going to be open? I believe my understanding is this typically during business hours. I also would envision some evening hours very similar to other social service providers that provide. It will not be an overnight. There is no provision of overnight or shelter or long-term stay. It is a client and participant-based relationship that will be services rendered at the facility. Do you know how many employees will be there working? They have, and I'll be glad, I'm certain that we can get this information. My understanding is that there are two to three employees that operate at their current facilities at the Black & Williams and the Charles Young Center. And one issue was parking. Do you know how that will be addressed? You raise a great question because that has been not a concern but an issue that as we have engaged with this entire process before the United Way. The facility is 3,800 square feet. It's two stories. It's on perhaps one-tenth of an acre. It's right there on a very visible corner in the East End. Very densely populated, and it only has two off-street parking spaces. It has served, in previous years, other social services needs, so we know that parking is very limited. But the Waypoint Center model, if I could perhaps speak as demonstrated by Timothy Johnson and the United Way, is going to be neighborhood-based. They hope to attract the folks in the neighborhood who live closest to the neighborhood, whereas vehicular traffic may not be as needed and parking may not be needed as much. Because they hope to serve first and foremost the folks in the East End neighborhood that will welcome and take advantage of their services. thank you and i want to ask login do we vote because i parliamentarian said that we already voted to to suspend that did do you have that record because i support this project and i think it's been a long time coming and i look forward to it but i don't know if we have to do second reading on this tonight because it was it's only going to be one week until and there's There are still questions I think we have the neighbors that really have liked to be answered. And if I did vote for it, I did not mean to vote for second reading, because I think we need a week to get some of these answered. And I don't think we did. We'll give them a second to sort it out. We believe that you all voted to suspend the rules. I don't, I think you voted to suspend the rules, is the vote you took. Okay, and the vote to suspend the rules was on all four items, including 46, is that correct? We believe that to be the case, yes. Okay. Do we have any other questions for Commissioner Ford from up here? Vice Mayor, if you don't mind, I'd like to add a little bit to it. Council members, this project has been going on for a while. There's people in that neighborhood and the community that are very interested in the future of this building. And I think the United Way has stepped up in a way and can provide the services that this community needs. they have attended several meetings over the last couple years talking to folks about this project i think they will continue to do that and i think they are sincere about really developing partnerships in the community and making that space available for other opportunities but i do think time is a factor and construction costs and everything are going up as we speak we know that from our project so i'd like to move this forward to go ahead and give this this community and its neighborhood some assurance in the future of the space and also let the united way know that we're committed to moving this forward commissioner was there anything else that we needed to know about this project yes sir vice uh yes sir uh council member and council i would just close of course it is the will of the council but we do think time is of the essence as for all the reasons that you've mentioned but i think it's really important two points is to reiterate and reaffirm to the council that this has been a very deliberative process there have been three rfis we have two lease agreements with the united way they applied for the non-profit capital grant and was awarded it has been uh widely known of this plan i would also say is that I'm almost positive I can speak for Timothy in the leadership of the United Way to be ready available and to actually engage even quicker with the neighborhood about what's going to happen with this project once they take the deed of transfer. But I'd be remiss if I did not say a concern that it's been mentioned of activities by no means has ever been mentioned of a day center or any other things, by not moving forward may cast further doubt on a project that's not deserving of that doubt and that's very much deserving of us moving forward and providing a resource that the ECN deserves and deserves now. Thank you, council. Anything else from council members? Thank you, commissioner. I just want to say that I am grateful for an experienced parliamentarian at my side here. So I'm going to double check with you, Council Member Worley. Now is the time to ask Clerk for second readings. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Thank you for your confidence. Thank you. Clerk, may we please have second readings of these four resolutions, 42, 46, 51, 52. We did the other three. Just 46. Fair enough. 46, please. Thank you. Number 46, a resolution declaring the property located at 400 East 5th Street, a surplus and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Lexington Fay, Urban County Government to execute a deed and any necessary documents for the transfer of the property located at 400 East 5th to United Way of the Bluegrass Inc. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have a motion? I move. Okay. Councilmember Plowman and Councilmember Gray, any discussion? Okay, yes, Councilmember Allinger. I'm going to abstain on this vote. I support it, but I do think we should have given them an extra week and I don't think this would need to be suspended. We have been dealing with this for many years. I'm glad it's moving forward, but I still think there are some questions from people who live in that area that it would be nice to have the answers before. One of them was obviously the parking, so I will be abstaining. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments? All right, can we have a roll call vote, please? Council Member Reynolds? Yes. Council Member Savigny? Yes. Council Member Sheehan? Yes. Council Member Worley? Yes, ma'am. Vice Mayor Wu? Yes. Council Member Fred Brown? Yes. Council Member James Brown? Yes. Council Member Ellinger? Stay. Council Member Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Council Member Fogle? Council Member Gray? Yes. Council member Legree? Yes. Council member Lynch? Yes. Council member Menares? Yes. And council member Plumman? Yes. All right, that motion passes. Thank you very much. Next up is communications from the mayor. We have it in writing here. I will entertain a motion to approve the communication. Second. Council members Baxter and Sheehan, any discussion on this item? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Next up is communications from the mayor price contracts. This is also in writing in your packet. I will entertain a motion to approve the price contracts. No move. Second. Okay. Councilmember Sevigny and Plumon, I believe. Any discussion on this? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. That motion passes. We don't have any fire or police discipline. And now it's time for council announcements, if you all will sign in to speak. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I think that Mr. Edwards has some slides to put up on the screen. So I am the co-chair of the Mayor's International Affairs Advisory Commission, And people ask me oftentimes where to give money for different things. And so I thought I would highlight something today. I'm just waiting on the slides. Sorry. So as everybody knows, I'm sure everybody's been watching TV and has seen what's happening. There was a horrible earthquake followed by subsequent ones in Turkey and Syria. And we have some members of our Syrian community that serve on our boards and commissions. And so I talked to them and put together just a short list of verified places that are good to give in time like this. As you know, that part of the world is going through a war. So they're going through a war, a disaster, and it's winter. And so people are suffering. Over 21,000 people as of today are verified dead. And I think that here in our little bubble, we sometimes forget what is happening in the rest of the world. and images like this we see on TV and then they go away and then we go on with our lives. And so I just wanted us to take a moment and really contemplate what is going on over there. These people are suffering for many different reasons. So I worked with some people from our Syrian community, like I said, that are on our boards and commissions to come up with this list, and I will send it out to council, and I'll put it on all my social media as well, as places that are recommended to give for aid. So it's hard in times like these to know that our resources are going to where they need to go, so that is why I tried to work to get ones that will get aid there as quickly as possible. I just encourage you, if you know anyone in our international community that is from Turkey or Syria, to reach out to them. They're already going through so much, and our refugees, the Syrian community, are refugees here in our country. And now they're dealing with loved ones left behind going through this horrible natural disaster. So anyway, I just wanted to highlight that. and if you have questions, feel free to reach out, and I'll send these out so that if you are inclined to give or some of your constituents ask you where to give, you have some reputable places. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Gray. Okay, before leaving, Council Member Fogle gave me her five minutes to do. So I would like for Lobby, Jaden Cobb, and Naida Gerton to all step towards the podium. Apparently a song will be sung. Hello, my name is LaBianca Frazier, and I will be singing the Black National Anthem. Please stand. Lift every voice and sing till earth in heaven rings. rings with the harmonies of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies. Let us resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the hope that the presence has brought us. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Facing the rising sun of our new day begun. Let us march on till victory is won. Thank you. Thank you, Lobby. Also, by the way, Lobby was one of my cheerleaders at Bryan Station High School. I had to think about that. So I would like to recognize Jaden Cobb. Cobb. Jaden is January's Bryan Station JAG, which means JAG Student of the Month. It's the jobs for American high school students. Congratulations. And next, I would like to recognize Nida Gurdon. She received her bachelor's in physical education from Eastern Kentucky University. Her career began as an elementary exceptional education resource educator, and case manager. Ms. Gurdon has served the community through multiple ventures. In fact, growing up Naita taught me how to tumble. So hey, there's a connection to me with everything, right? Currently Ms. Gurdon has worked with Fayette County Public Schools as a community liaison and intervention specialist and is currently teaching at Bryan Station High School located in the 6th District. Thank you. was coyotes. I have Haley Sawyers and Steve Schwartz made this a great experience from start to finish and this topic this topic was dear to many of the residents in my neighborhoods and we've received a lot of complaints about coyotes. Just to summarize, coyotes everywhere in Lexington according to Officer Evans and there's no records of bites or attacks on humans or fur babies. babies. But she agrees that sightings have been more prevalent. Be vigilant during dusk hours. Take an air horn with you on your walks and runs. Keep your dogs on a leash. Should a coyote approach you, do not turn your back. Make yourself big. Make a whole lot of noise and let them know who's boss. Keep your yard clean. Food remnants attract mice. Mice attract bigger animals as coyotes. And And if you see a coyote or any wildlife that appears to be sick or injured, call LFACC. Any other wildlife concerns are addressed by Kentucky Fish and Wildlife. You can watch this entire video on the District 10 website. Thank you, Council Member. Now I have a tough act to follow. I just wanted to let everybody know another great Black History Month event is happening at the Lyric tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 PM. It is a play by our local luminary Frank X Walker, former state poet laureate. The play is called I Dedicate This Ride, the Story of Isaac Murphy, another local luminary. And it will be performed by the Message Theater. So that's at the Lyric tomorrow night, Saturday night at 8 PM. And I believe that is all the council announcements. We're going to open it up for public comment now. We've got, looks like four people signed up. As always, when you come up to the podium, please give your name, your council district, and you will have three minutes. And we're going to start with Dottie Bean, please. I'm sorry, can you? Yeah, yes ma'am. Okay, council members. We're here tonight to comment on the idea that council members are doing their jobs when they quietly gather stakeholders in any given issue or LFUCG proposal and work with them to do a major city project that is funded through public money. And satisfy the needs of those stakeholders, so there will be no public opposition, and then impose the will of a small group of insiders on the rest of us for something that will affect all of us, whether financially, environmentally, practically, or personally. One such issue is the consent decree and the sewer and water quality issues that have been addressed in such an expensive way that many taxpayers are now having to pay high sewer tax bills that have grown from a few dollars a month to hundreds of dollars a month for small businesses in this community. We have wondered for a long time why these bills have gone up so big and why this project continues to be so expensive and not heard much from the administration about it. A recent meeting shed light on the question of why. The sewer tax rightly funds repairs and improvements that have become necessary for public health reasons, even the share that should have been done by developers. But it also, we learned, pays for restoring sidewalks, roadways, curbs, gutters, and even landscaping for those neighborhoods, those neighbors whose land is disturbed by trunk lines. We think other funds for government should pay for that. We have funds for the roads, we have funds for curbing and sidewalks, so why should this sewer tax have to pay for all this? In addition, there is no notification to the public of major consequences that will impede traffic in major areas of the city. and render main roadways almost unusable at rush hour. So we urge you to look at this fund and see if changes aren't needed. We also urge you to look at the last vote and see if someone on your council doesn't have a conflict of interest. Thank you. Next up is Rock Daniels. everybody rock daniels 11th district so honorable members of lexington irby county council and city government stand before you today with a matter of great concern for our city but before we do that i'd like to take just a moment of silence for a second for the 44 homicide victims last year in our city and marquise thompson who was murdered in downtown lexington last week The ongoing shortage of 106 sworn police officers with 70 officers eligible for retirement today and another 70 eligible to buy their retirement and could retire tomorrow is a pressing issue that needs immediate attention. As you know, years ago, our police academy used to receive 1,000 applicants per class. But now with recent events across the United States, That's changed the trend dramatically. You know, cases such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray have brought increased attention into the police violence with people of color, causing nationwide protests and calls for reforms in police practices. I've spoken to many people across the city, and the main reason people are saying they're reluctant to become police officers is not because of the low pay, but because of the environment where it's no longer cool to be a cop. Despite our efforts to increase the number of classes from two to three per year, the January class had only 21 applicants accepted to the class, 16 of which showed up for the first day and only seven remain in training with 85% of the training left to go. I believe that we need to take a more proactive approach to solve this problem. And it starts with establishing a committee of citizens that crosses all socioeconomic classes and all races and focuses on the recruitment of our first responders, including police, fire, emergency 911 and corrections. We have committees for everything in Lexington, but not a single committee dedicated to the recruitment of the people who protect and serve our city. I would like to employ this council, especially our public safety committee chair, our vice mayor and mayor, she was here to put together a committee of business leaders who can provide insight into the best ways to market our police department, and make it more attractive to applicants. This should be a committee that also has members of different, as I said, socioeconomic classes and races to ensure that our recruitment efforts are inclusive and reflect our diversity in our community. It is imperative that we take action to address this issue as soon as possible. Our city needs more protectors and servants and we must work together to have enough personnel to keep our city safe and secure. So thank you guys so much for your time consideration thank you uh up next is logan zachary and are we here and i believe you're yielding your time is that right okay uh then alfred haas uh you will have uh six minutes and please give us your name council district thank you my name is alfred hayes i finally figured out that i'm district nine but i'm managing property for a friend who lost his wife suddenly in district four and i pay taxes in district five and seven so i guess i'm a person of the south side um first i wanted to well i didn't see anybody from the tenant bill of rights up here i wanted to apologize to them because i asked for help last time but didn't hang out to allow them to interact with me to actually provide any help and different things I was looking for. One of the things that they talk about is the tenant's right to legal counsel. And I'm a little bit confused there because they already have that right. It's even listed on the form that they get, the forcible detainer, obtain a lawyer. They're not missing anything. Nobody's denying them the right. No landlord wants to deny them the right to legal counsel. Missing something there. There are people that own property in a company. Again, as I said last time, we must use a lawyer. We don't have a choice. We have to use a lawyer if we own our property in a company. That's forced upon us. That's another expense incurred upon us. We don't get that choice. Again, I ask them for help in that to lessen the amount of landlords that have to use lawyers by revisiting that law. But again, no one's here, so I apologize for that. And the cost versus the city benefit. If someone owes rent, and that's the reason why they're being evicted, and they don't have the money to pay, and they haven't paid anything in the allotted time, and all that's listed under the tenant. Sorry, I can't remember that one thing. It's called the Landlord Bible, is how I'd always have it referred to, which is details out and we've adopted it in Fayette County here but if they will rent and they show up and they haven't paid anything, all a lawyer can do is build a city because I'm assuming that's going to be who's paying for it under what they are proposing and that's it because that's the law so I'm lost a little bit, again I wish they were here because I'd happily have a discussion about what an additional, what a lawyer would do in court on their side if they owe rent. And I want to tell you a story, and I asked this person if I could share all of it but not her name. She's lived in the same apartment for almost 11 years. Her mother lives across the driveway and has lived there for going on 16 years, we think, and I believe I'm her second or third landlord. I'm going to call her Tay. She's done everything right in life. She went and got a college education. she got married she had kids within that marriage and her son and the other her husband on the other hand wasn't so faithful he had kids outside in the pan child support to everybody can't help out the family she had two kids two boys they're both autistic one of them is nonverbal so now she's not able to work because she can't put them in daycare because they're not verbal She does little odd jobs here and there. She bakes. She pays me when she can. She's behind on rent. Legally, I can absolutely kick her out. But I'm trying to get her on Section 8. Section 8 opened up for a half an hour in January, sometime between the 9th and 12th, I believe. Not announced. How does someone who actually wants to help their tenants help their tenants? I've argued with Section 8, literally sent kind of a nasty email that said, section 8 exists for this person what the hell is going on you know I've talked to everybody I'm I don't know who to talk to about this so I appeal to you guys how do I how do I help my tenants and she's not the only one I didn't ask the other person to share his story section 8 exists for certain people she's one of them she can't do anything her kid does not sleep through the night so she can't even sleep at night in order to get a good night's rest to do work while he's in some type of day service. I woke her up this afternoon. I was afraid of calling her because I knew I was going to wake her up. But she said, no, it's no problem. I've got to get my kid off the bus anyway because she's sleeping while they're at school. How do I help these people? You know, we hear all this tenant bill of rights, tenant bill of rights, but where is the help for these kind of people? and yet there's others where the net worth of their shoes and they're on Section 8 is three times what myself and my two neighbors are. That doesn't make any sense to me. There's people who know how to use the system and there's people that deserve to be on the system. And somehow there's a disconnect there. I'm willing to help figure out what the problem is. Something needs to be fixed. It's not everybody who's on Section 8 is bad. It's not everybody who's on Section 8 that's good. We're all people. Not all landlords are horrible individuals. Not all landlords are excellent either. We're all just people. And we've got to start seeing people as individuals and less as groups. I'm not going to lump all the tenant bill of rights people together. I don't know them. I'd love to meet them. No problem with that. I ask to not be lumped into that also as a small landlord. Into a group of people who are out of town landlords, absentee landlords, who only have employees that answer, I don't care about your situation, rents do. See, because the problem is, if you pass the Tenant Bill of Rights in its entirety, you're going to weed out small landlords like me who are willing to work with people. Because the big people are going to come in and swoop in and take over. I get a dozen calls a week for people who want to buy my property. Don't weed out us small landlords who are actually willing to work with people by passing this Tenant Bill of Rights. Thank you. thank you I believe that is all of our business I will request I say again okay did you were you signed up for to speak again on this one Jim Jim Burton right yeah come on up I wear a lot of hats not just a neighborhood association but also I've worked in affordable housing now for well over 12 years just here in Lexington. Matter of fact, if you go to Zillow, you go to realtor.com, you go to any of the online websites for housing and Lexington. I'm it now, guys. I'm the most affordable one bedroom in Lexington. I'll cover East End over in Dalton Court. I've cleaned up out there back in 2013 with the help of the police department tremendously helping because you used to see that on the news every week for shootings. You don't see that anymore for a reason. I am a local landlord, which I'm not really a big fan of that terminology, although folks use it more of a property provider. And unfortunately, it's become more and more of a social services realm as well. And I need your guys' help. We have increased our rents as little as possible to keep things affordable. $5.99 for a one-bedroom. I just saw last week several of you all in the paper, along with the mayor, for groundbreaking for a property over in Hamburg that was touting over $800 a month for a one-bedroom. Go back to the HUD definition of what is considered affordable housing. Folks working minimum wage, $9, even $11 an hour at 30% of that can't afford that $800 bedroom that you all had your photos taken in front of. I'm at $600, and I'm literally, we're scraping by right now to keep folks housed in an affordable manner. I'm asking each and every one of you on council to reach out to me. Come and meet my tenants. Meet the folks that are actually paying their own way in life. If they're struggling, We provide clean, safe, affordable housing. If I get pushed out, which a lot of the proposals today will end up doing, and I'll give you a great example of that from last year. We had someone that got free legal counseling. I'm not going to mention the names, but you can look up the case record. They drug out the case for six months. That person squatted in a property without a lease for six months just because they don't have enough legal counsel over at Legal Aid, so they just stretched it out and kicked the can down the road. That person got free housing. Well, what happened to all the other folks around him? And that was in your district, by the way, Jennifer. What happens to those other folks? You know, that money doesn't grow on trees to pay the mortgage for that property. Everyone else paid a little bit more at lease renewal because of that one person selfish act. And if you're providing that counsel to everyone for any type of purpose, it's only going to snowball to the point where I'm going to have to sell. And it's going to be another conglomerate coming in from New York. Like all these other properties are getting gobbled up left and right. and you're really going to have a huge problem on your hands. Rents are going to skyrocket. So sometimes not everything at the local level can be solved. The living wage that I've fought for for years, there's only so much that you can do at this level. Sometimes you're going to have to come to the community and say, we need the state, we need the federal government to step in, and everyone is going to have to work in their own separate ways to make something work. You can't solve everything at a local level. And I'm afraid if you try to do too much, where you make some mistakes in good efforts to try to help people that you're going to harm the ones that you're actually trying to help. So please just keep all that in mind. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now I think we're finished. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. Any opposition? All right. We are adjourned. Thank you. You