Have you seen her? Tell me, have you seen her? Oh, she left her kiss upon my lips But left that breath within my heart Have you seen her? Tell me, have you seen her? Oh, I see her and reaching out to me Only she can set me free Have you seen her? Tell me, have you seen her? Why, oh, why did she have to leave and go away? Oh, yeah Oh, I've been used to having someone to lean on And I'm lost, baby, I'm lost As another day comes to an end I'm looking for a letter or something Anything that she would send With all the people I know I'm still a lonely man You know, it's funny I thought I had her in the palm of my hand Tell me, have you seen her? Oh, yeah Have you seen her? Have you seen her? Happy Cedar Tell me Happy Cedar Happy Cedar Tell me Happy Cedar Happy Cedar Tell me Happy Cedar Happy Cedar Happy Cedar One, two, three One, two, three. I need somebody to help me say it one time. We'll be right back. Come on, y'all, let's say it one more time. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Ah! I'm dancing in the valley. With long, tall Sally. Stripping with Lucy. Doing the watch and say. Throw the over on your back. I like it like that. You that jerk. Watch me work, y'all I'll do it I'll do it You have me do it I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it You ask me if there'll come a time When I grow tired of you Never my love Never my love You wonder if this heart of mine will lose its desire for you. Never mind, love. Never mind, love. What makes you think love will end when you know that my whole life depends? Thank you. So we're going to go ahead and call to order the Lexington Fad urban county council work session today is may the second 2023 and the first item is public comment for issues on the agenda and i do not see anyone signed in so we'll move on there's no docket today i'll entertain a motion for approval of the council work session motions from april 25th Thank you. Council Member Gray moved. Council Member Ellinger seconded. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. We do have pages three and four budget amendments, which were postponed from April 25th. If I could have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Council Member Plowman moved and Council Member Baxter seconded. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. There are no budget adjustments today, so that moves us right into new business. I'll entertain a motion. Council Member Baxter, did you move? Okay. And Council Member Legree seconded. And if you have questions, please log in. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. I had a question about Item A. Welcome, Commissioner. Hey, I was just curious if we have gotten to the point where we are breaking even or perhaps making any profit off of recycling glass. I wouldn't say off recycling glass specifically. It is cheaper than landfilling it per ton. So I guess you could say we're coming out a little ahead. Okay. All right. That's all I have. Okay. All right. Council Member Fred Brown. Thank you, Mayor. B, as in boy, the first one on chief as you're coming up. Chief Wells. And also I've got a question on G, which would be Commissioner Albright, I believe, would be my next question. On those, the emergency care units, are those what I refer to as buggies? Yes, sir. Okay. So these are replacements only? Yes, sir. They currently are replacements. So the way that that will work is they'll replace a front line unit, and then the front line units will filter down to replace some of the really old broken down units. What are we doing with the three that we're taking out of service? Parts or what? My guess is we'll probably surplus those. To the extent that we can, we're going to surplus those. Didn't we ask for one or two in the new budget? Additional buggies? Yes. Yes. So you're going to take three out of service with these three, and this is the 23's budget, and then 24 budget, my understanding is there's two more? Yes, sir. Coming on board? Yes, sir. So what's the life of those units? They've traveled a lot of miles. Chief Harris, can you maybe help me out? My guess is going to be sometimes 300,000 miles, but that's just probably three, four years in front lines? That's correct. Those, like Chief said, those are about half a million miles. We get about 400,000 miles, so that's about a four-year lifespan. So, and I know with our population and us being pretty much the only ambulance service in town, then two more buggies added on will make us, what, 14 or what? Those will also be replacement ambulances. So to keep the 12 that we have. Oh, you're just going to keep 12? For now, yes, sir. oh we don't have the staffing to to add additional what about the need uh the the run volume continues to go up and that's definitely something that we're assessing and and looking at i know i know the personnel or the firefighters are pretty much if you're looking at any area this is the area they're overworked i mean they're just constantly going at it yes sir they are i would hope we i would hope we expand that 12 and i was budget-wise i thought we were going to 14. We did not add the personnel for that. Those are simply replacing some of those. So it would be a personnel problem then going forward if you wanted to do more buggies? I believe we could utilize, if we added personnel, I believe we could probably utilize the reserve ambulances that we have to staff those. Okay, okay. Thank you, Chief. Gee, is that renewal of the state landfill permit, are we using that landfill out there at all now or can we use it on an emergency basis if we have this permit? We do not use it for landfill purposes and we would have to permit it as an open landfill to do that. So that's about a two year process if we wanted to receive solid waste there. Is there any reason that we wouldn't go ahead and just think about getting it re-permitted in case we do need it down the line? In other words, kind of the plan B type of thing? It is perceived as our backup plan for the most part, but it would take a lot of community engagement to go through the, that's a very detailed process to establish the permit as an open landfill instead of a closed one. So there'd have to be a lot of will and intent to want to do that. I thought we had met sometimes on this, even when we went to Tennessee and looked at that digester system. And we run into some problems with our waste going to Georgetown. Yes. That we were going to look into a long range plan maybe for the Haley Pike. It's just out there as an option. are a lot of hurdles that we would have to cross before it would be available so all righty thank you thank you mayor thank you council member reynolds thank you mayor um commissioner albright thank you actually i was going to ask some of those same questions on g but i think they were answered so that's just kind of we have to get it permitted that way as a backup plan yes keep it we have to keep a permit as a closed landfill now if we were to move it to an open landfill that's a different process okay got it thank you um on item r um over there off of southland drive i know we were talking about um acquiring this area weren't there businesses there there there was this is the the entire reason that greg lubeck is here today is to answer questions on the dry cleaner so i'm gonna let them do that welcome yes as you're aware that was a dry cleaning business for a long, long, long, long time, and it's been closed for close to 10 years. So the plan is to purchase the property, take the building down, and it'll be used for some other things in the future, like the wool front trunk sewer and maybe some stormwater management. But there wasn't an active business there any time recently. Okay, that's what I just want to clear up. I think I was getting confused with another place back there. So thank you very much. Okay. That's all. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple of questions on items X and Y. I think Ms. Baker. So, and I got, I feel like I got a figure maybe from the fire department when I was doing CFA, but what does Narcan cost us these days? It's down to $47.50 for a two-pack, And that's the lowest price by far that we found when we were looking at cost. They went as high as $185. And then there was another one for $85. So that was significantly less, but still a whole lot of money. And we hear that over-the-counter is even going to be around $50. Wow. Do we have any expectation or hope that this is going to come down anytime soon? I think it will come down. It's come down from $75 up to $47.50. half of fires back there. A trailer may have an opinion, but I think it will continue to go down. There's a five milligram coming out. Okay. And then can you tell me a little bit about how they're used in both these programs? Sure. So with X, it's the SAMHSA four-year grant where we work with the health department to supply naloxone during the needle exchange program or the syringe service program. And then we also do trainings out in the community This is the grant that we just finished where we provided about 14,000 kids over the last four years. And our goal is to do the same over the next four years. And then the grant number Y, the Be Free grant, that is to provide naloxone for the first responders. No, sorry. Community paramedicine program, sorry. To provide naloxone for that program. So $47.50 is the best price we could get for both of them. No, I appreciate that. Thank you for that explanation. I think it's a very, both these are very important programs, and I would encourage anybody listening, if you haven't gotten Narcan training, it takes about two minutes, and it's pretty important. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Mayor. My question is regarding item B, B as in big blue, regarding the VOCA grant application. Thank you. And my question is for the funding we hope to get through the vocal grant application, is that for to add an additional member to your team or for existing members on the team? Well, I will say that last year our funding was cut as it was across the state and we had to move our one employee to part time. So we have asked for it to be reinstated as full time, but we don't know what to expect. So it's kind of an expansion from what we have now, but not what we had originally. Gotcha. All right, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. Are there any other questions about new business? All right, all those in favor of approval, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, those all pass. I'll entertain a motion to approve neighborhood development funds. So moved. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and seconded by Council Member Plumman. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And I'll entertain a motion to approve capital projects, Council capital projects. Council Member Gray moves. Second. Vice Mayor Wu seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. And now I'll call on Council Member Reynolds for the Social Services and Public Safety Committee. The meeting was called to order at 1.01 p.m. The first item on our agenda was approval of the January 24, 2023 committee summary. There were no additions or corrections and the summary was approved without dissent. Next, we had an update on our community paramedicine program, which was presented by Captain Lockhart and Chief Wells with the Lexington Fire Department. Lockhart spoke about the process for referrals and how they are responded to depending on what type of response team is necessary. Chief Wells spoke about why this program works and the importance of paramedicine teaming up with law enforcement and social workers. Lockhart spoke about the current program hours and said typically they work 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. They don't typically see people on Friday because connections get lost that are close to the weekend. When asked about peer support or other support for mental and emotional health, Wells said there is a robust peer support team and resources are available to them as needed. No action was taken on this item. Our next item was the Substance Use Disorder Intervention Program update presented by Amy Baker with the Department of Social Services. She spoke about what it means to be in recovery, harm reduction strategies, and Narcan administration. She mentioned some of the highlights of the program, and she spoke about the Mayor's Substance Use Disorder Advisory Council. Commissioner Speckert spoke about the national opioid litigation. Regarding settlement payments, Beckert said every defendant has a different settlement term. When asked about comparative data for Lexington slash Kentucky or national trends for overdoses, and if non-fatal overdoses are tracked, Baker said they track some. She noted that people of color percentage was 4%, and now it is 14, so we have to pay attention to these numbers. No action was taken on this item. Finally, we had an update on the Division of Community Corrections, which was presented by Scott Colvin, Director of Community Corrections. He mentioned consultants for National Institute of Corrections, NIC, assess the condition of the facility and the operations of the division. The consultants addressed six administrative and operational elements, and he pointed out the assessment shows that current conditions of the confinement are inadequate. Speaking about the top heaviness and how this will be addressed moving forward, Colvin said staffing is reviewed regularly and he mentioned the need to reestablish relationships since COVID. No action was taken on this item and the meeting adjourned at 2.57 p.m. and that concludes my report out. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Are there any questions for Council Member Reynolds for her report? All right, thank you very much. At this time, we will recognize some of our members of the Division of Fire and Emergency Services. I'm being joined by Chief Jason Wells and some of his members of the Division of Fire and Emergency Services. At this time, we want to recognize the men and women that have dedicated their lives to protection of life and property, our firefighters. This Thursday is International Firefighter Day, a time to recognize and honor the sacrifices that our firefighters make each and every day to ensure that our residents and our community are as safe as possible. Our firefighters are a vital part of our public safety team. Each day they put themselves on the front lines to keep our city safe. So it is my pleasure to present this proclamation to all of you, representing the hundreds of others that work with you. Whereas International Firefighters Day was established in 1999 to remember firefighters lost in the line of duty. And, excuse me, whereas today we recognize firefighters who serve our communities. And whereas our firefighters protect our residents with courage, compassion, and loyalty. and whereas they are the first to help in times of natural disaster, in recent years protecting Lexington residents after the windstorm, eastern Kentucky during the flood, and western Kentucky after the tornado. And whereas thanks to our firefighters for their bravery and their many contributions to the community, Now, therefore, I Linda Gorton, Mayor of Lexington, do hereby declare May 4, 2023 International Firefighters Day. With many thanks. Thank you. Congratulations. Do you want to say a few words? Chief Wells. Thank you very much. I think you all generally hear enough from me, so I'll be very brief. I just want to say on behalf of the 600 women and men of the Lexington Fire Department, it's an honor to serve this administration. It's an honor to serve this council. And most of all, it's an honor to serve our community. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Will you be in the photo? Let's do a photo with the council. How are you? How are you? Good. Oh, Madam Mayor, how are you? I'm well, how are you? Thank you. Thank you all so much. Now it's time for council reports, council members. If you'll log in, please. Council member Gray. I was hoping someone would go first. You. But it's me. So thank you, Mayor. Haley? Thank you. So I would like to, the chief has left the building, but on this Saturday, Bryan Station High School Alumni Association had its induction into the Hall of Fame. And one of those honorees, amazing honorees with an amazing background, was our own Chief Lawrence Weathers. Greatness comes, and you hear me say this about my north side of town, and the great Bryan Station. Greatness comes from Bryan Station. And, of course, Chief was emotional. I mean, I would be, too, if I was on the Bryan Station Hall of Distinction. but I'm not. But think about that, Bryan Station alumni. But when greatness does come from Bryan Station, all of these men and women, he did an amazing thing. He was from the original Bryan Station High School, 1939 graduate. He was a member of the Armed Forces. He wrote numerous documents that were celebrated around the nation. And he had a very unfortunate death in that he died at the age of 45 years of age in action. And his body was never found. And his daughter was there to accept his award. So it was an honor to see her there, to celebrate her dad, who made such a wonderful impact all around the world, actually, all around the nation and in the military. And there's our own, once again, Chief Weathers, who is, we made this joke about how, you know, I should be on the wall first. Talking about me. And that's why he invited me to the dinner, just to rub it in my face. And just hearing all of his accomplishments throughout the year, our chief is bar none above the standard. He is acclaimed. He's where he should be doing. He's doing exactly what he's called to do for our community. And it is an honor to have him being a family member, meaning a Bryan Station High School graduate, because greatness, like I said, does come from Bryan Station. But that's my council moment for today. But congratulations to all the inductees and Bryan Station Alumni Association, Denise Gray, class of 1997. Remember me. Well said. And congratulations to our own Chief Lawrence Weathers. That's exciting. Councilmember Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. This is very timely because this time of the year everybody wants to get out in the outdoors. And I've had the privilege and honor to serve on the Raven Run Advisory Board since I came into office seven years ago. And I just want to remind everybody what a great destination that is. Obviously, it's located in the 12th. However, it is our county. It's our region's premier sanctuary, if you will. It's 734 acres, and I'm sure all of you have been there, but it overlooks the Kentucky River, and it's gorgeous. There are great hikes. There's animals, flowers, so I encourage you all to check it out, if not this weekend, sometime soon. But it's just some upcoming events that I wanted to mention, and I thought these were cool. Stargazing with the Bluegrass Amateur Astronomy Club is May the 20th at 930. Can you imagine the stars out there? It's just so totally dark. A full moon hike on May 5th, well that's coming up, at 8.30 and again on June 3rd. And there's going to be a tree, oh we've got pictures, I forgot about the pictures. See how pretty that is? The tree ID event is going to be on May 14th at 10 a.m. And you can register for all of these on Lex Parks and Rec. And obviously, if you have children, this is a great venue to take them and to explore and to really celebrate and recognize a very special part of our city and county. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Sheehan. Thank you, Mayor. Related to the presentation on the after-action review that we had in the Social Service and Public Safety Committee today, I wanted to make everyone aware that I have been working with Brittany Scordo, the Director of Victim Services in the Fayette Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, Director Duggar from Emergency Management, and Commissioner Armstrong on a coordinated response plan. And how this relates is it kind of pulls together standard operating procedures from different departments. when an emergency arises and has one plan that coordinates across all of those or combines all of those plans. And other cities and municipalities do have this, and we just didn't have one in place yet, although we have all of those operations going on. It can include things like a communication plan, reunification for families, mental health services in the immediate and resources for the long-term, MOUs with community partners. So a lot of things can go into this plan. But we've been working on this over the last year and to make kind of an official movement I want to place the coordinated victim response plan in our social services and public safety committee. Second. All right and council member who seconded it? Council member Baxter seconded. Are there any questions all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed all right that motion passes thank you that's all okay council member lagree thank you mayor um i'm going to take us back to last week actually um mayor you were there at the downtown lexington partnership annual meeting and awards of excellence event and it's always a very positive event where we celebrate downtown and i know there are a lot of moving pieces with this year's we have a new executive director with the dlp and some changes in leadership but i did want to congratulate all the award winners and also call out some award winners in this room. So last year council we helped to fund a dynamic lighting package in Tandy Park and council member and that was something I've been working on and and but it had been a long time in the making and council member Ellinger also brought up some huge improvements for Breeders which council also funded and on behalf of that work I accepted this award but there were many many people who were involved so we can pass around the piece of crystal. But I wanted to call them out today because even though it might have seemed like a straightforward and simple project, And it took a lot of different voices and a lot of different organizations to make those upgrades happen. So thank you, Council Member Ellinger, and to Beverly Fortune with Lex Lights, and to Lord X Sargent, and then to the Breeders' Cup, and to Fifth Third Bank, and to Lexington Parks and Recreation, and to the Lexington Police Department for all of the ways in which everyone collaborated to really make Tandy Park shine, figuratively and literally. So I just wanted to note that and share my appreciation for all of the people who were honored and all the people who were in that room and even those who weren't able to attend because of the efforts they make to make sure that our downtown is vibrant. So, Mayor, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Fogle. Thank you, Mayor. And so along with the Tandy Park, I hope that I will see movement on the request of having the African American colors and flag painted on short upper main in the crosswalks where the placard says slaves were sold here. Hopefully we'll see some movement on that. But I wanted to say to Council Member Legree, I'm going to have my photo on the challenge of being on the bicycle. It's stationary, but I did it. So I just wanted you to know that. And moving right along, I've got some sad news, but I really want to focus on Commissioner Lantern and I went on a field trip. So can you put those pictures up? Alcove, it is on Russell Cave Road in the north end of town. Now, last time I made an announcement about our new health center in the first district. Now, look at these photos. This area is absolutely phenomenal. And it is affordability, affordable housing. And we were on to, look at that. We were on tour and folks who have not had a chance to live in a beautiful home, being stressed out about evictions and other things that has occurred, we actually went on tour in this beautiful, beautiful area that is connected to Ward Drive out in the Windburn area. and so I wanted to lift them up and I just screamed. I know they've never seen a council member like me. I danced, I screamed and hugged Commissioner Lantern. I didn't even ask him for permission. I just grabbed him. Did she get that on film? And so I'm so excited about this. Did you get that on film? I think we got that on film. I'm glad Tyler didn't put it on here, But he received it and hugged me back. So that's the good thing. And so I wanted to just lift that up. And then just on the bit of this, I think I'll hold the sad news because I'm so excited about this residential area in the north inner town. When people can dream, this is where you can lay your head down and have dreams and there's possibilities. And so I just wanted to say thank you for everybody that was involved in making this happen. You my cat today. I don't know what's going to happen between me and you tomorrow, Commissioner Lantern, but you my cat today, right? So just thanks for everything. Thank you for bringing that into fruition. I love it. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Sevigny. Thank you, Mayor. My news is not as exciting as that. We've been doing a series of District 10 park walks. We've got a whole bunch of different parks. So we've been doing those, and I just wanted to announce that we're doing Harrods Hills park walk tomorrow night at 6 o'clock. We should have a good crowd. Yesterday I did one out in Cardinal Run South. It was pouring rain, and I had someone from Councilmember Reynolds, one of her constituents, come join me, and I walked around with him and I told him all about you, Jennifer, how great you are. So anyway, come on out tomorrow night, 6 o'clock. Be there. It's going to be a beautiful night. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu? Thank you, Mayor. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and I'm pretty stoked about it. And I guess this is the first time I've had really a platform to speak about how important that is to me personally and to the other 13,000 Asian Americans that reside in Fayette County. So I want to talk about a fun event that's coming up on Friday. I think we have a slide. There we go. Those of you who know me know that that movie is my favorite movie of all time. And if I didn't have this job, I would have more time to go and tell people to go see this movie. But beyond just the showing of this movie at the Kentucky Theater Friday night, we actually have three really great performances coming up from local organizations. The Bluegrass Filipino American Association is going to do a couple of dance numbers. Dr. Kim's World Taekwondo Academy is going to do a martial arts demo. And then the FAM Foundation is a very young Asian American led hip hop dance troupe. They're going to do a performance as well, and there's going to be some tabling from the couple of UK associations, including the Asian American Association on campus and Delta Phi Lambda, an Asian American sorority. So super excited to celebrate this month with you all, and there'll be more events to come. Thank you very much. Thank you. Very good. There's no mayor's report today. There are price contract bids. If I could have a motion to approve those. I heard a motion from Vice Mayor, and I heard a second, a bunch of them, but I think I heard Council Member Fogle, correct? Are there questions? All right. All those in favor, say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Now it's time for public comment for issues not on the agenda. We have one person signed up, and you will know when you come to the podium if you'll state your name and your council district, and you'll have three minutes. Dottie Bean. Welcome. Council members, once again, we see this government, and especially the administration, getting the horse before the cart. As citizens, we are not nearly as excited about these flock cameras as you or the police are. To address that, we'd like to see and hear in public the community at large asked to share its experiences with these cameras already so far. This process has often been overshadowed, sorely overshadowed, by the police and the administration point of view. We would really like to hear the community-wide discussion that was promised when we adopted this as a pilot program. The police said it was not needed. Sorry, but we think this was a very bad idea, and it is very much needed. In short, we have heard the police side, but not the public side. We'd also like to hear from an informed person in another city that has tried this program longer than we have. I don't believe we've done that. In the past, that has always been an ingredient in any sort of consideration of a new program. In light of Lexington's history and its reputation for disparity between races and also low- and high-income neighborhoods, We want to hear any problems that this community, that the citizens in this community who have to live with these cameras already have seen on this issue. We are less interested in the speed of the police solving crimes and more interested in truth and justice and protecting the innocent. When police were equipped with body cameras, we heard their concerns. We want to hear now from those whose private lives will be recorded on flock cameras. They are not public officials, and there is no reason to spy on it. I could speak to this from a personal experience, but I think it is important to hear from those who will be the most impacted by this surveillance. They see the pros and cons better than we do. Thank you very much. That brings us to adjournment. Do I have a motion? Council Member Fogle, move. Do I have a second? Council Member Sevigny. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Thank you. We are adjourned.