# Council Work Session - February 6, 2024 > Auto-transcribed civic record · February 6, 2024 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6037 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6037?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2024-02-06 - **Last revised**: February 6, 2024 - **Length**: 5,034 words - **Speakers**: Mayor > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed with OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model, run locally by The Lexington Times. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude. Verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council convened on February 6, 2024, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chamber at 200 E. Main St, Lexington, KY 40507, with Mayor Gorton presiding. The meeting addressed four agenda items, including public comment opportunities, approval of meeting summaries, new business, and continuing business with presentations. Council members conducted three votes during the session, approving both the meeting summary and new business items, while also receiving informational presentations. One member of the public provided comments on agenda issues during the designated public comment period. ## Attendance The following members were present at the February 6, 2024 meeting: **Present:** • Mayor Gorton • Vice Mayor Wu • J. Brown • Ellinger II • Lynch • LeGris • Monarrez • Sheehan • Gray • Worley • F. Brown • Baxter • Sevigny • Reynolds • Plomin **Absent:** • Tayna Fogle No members arrived late to the meeting. A total of 15 members were present with 1 member absent. ## Votes and Decisions The meeting included three motions, all of which passed by voice vote. **Approval of January 30, 2024 Work Session Summary** [timestamp: 00:30] Wu made a motion to approve the January 30, 2024 Work Session Summary, which was seconded by LeGris. The motion passed by voice vote with no opposition recorded. **Approval of New Business** [timestamp: 02:00] Wu moved to approve new business items, with Ellinger II providing the second. This motion also passed by voice vote without recorded opposition. **Adjournment** [timestamp: 03:55] Plomin made the motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Gray. The adjournment motion passed by voice vote. All three votes were conducted as voice votes rather than roll call votes, so individual member positions were not recorded. No conditions or amendments were attached to any of the motions. ## Budget and Financial Actions The meeting addressed multiple financial items totaling over $2.5 million in contracts, grants, and project amendments. **Major Contracts and Services:** • Resolution L0132-24 approved a $550,000 contract with Webster Environmental Associates for design and construction management of targeted equipment for odor control • Resolution L0117-24 authorized the first renewal of a $900,000 contract with Hazen and Sawyer for Sanitary Sewer Remedial Measures Plan Program Management Consulting Services • Resolution L0131-24 approved a $172,187 agreement with Palmer Engineering for Wilson Downing Intersection Improvements **Stormwater Quality Grants:** The council approved three Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants: • Resolution L0106-24: $99,860.38 grant to Ashwood Townhouses of Laredo, Inc. • Resolution L0108-24: $127,050.00 grant to Beaver Creek Hydrology, LLC • Resolution L0109-24: $212,932.00 grant to Lakeshore Village, Inc. **Project Amendments:** Two amendments were approved for the Black & Williams Neighborhood Community Center Gymnasium Improvements Project: • Resolution L0113-24: $20,000 amendment to consultant services agreement with Johnson Early Architects • Resolution L0115-24: Change Order #02 for $153,232.49 with Omni Commercial, LLC **Additional Items:** • Resolution L0116-24 addressed the merger of Summit Biosciences with Kindeva Drug Delivery L.P., though no monetary amount was specified • Resolution L0130-24 approved Supplemental Agreement No. 1 for $356,000 with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the Liberty Road Improvements Project The financial actions encompassed infrastructure improvements, environmental projects, and facility upgrades across multiple city departments and initiatives. ## Public Comment During the public comment period, one resident addressed the council regarding proposed zoning changes. **Katharine Perkins** spoke about the Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments under consideration [timestamp: 03:00]. Perkins raised concerns about the complexity of the proposed zoning ordinance text amendments, questioning whether the language would be easily interpretable for both residents and city officials. She emphasized the critical importance of maintaining the council's authority and decision-making power in zoning matters, suggesting that the proposed amendments should not diminish the council's role in overseeing zoning decisions that affect the community. ## Public Comment - Issues on Agenda [timestamp: 00:10] During the public comment period for issues on the agenda, no members of the public came forward to address the board or council. The meeting proceeded without any public input on the agenda items scheduled for discussion. This portion of the meeting was reserved for community members to speak on specific items that were listed on the meeting agenda, providing an opportunity for public participation in the governmental process before official deliberations began on those matters. ## Approval of Summary [timestamp: 00:30] The council considered approval of the summary from their January 30, 2024 work session. Council members Wu and LeGris participated in the discussion of this agenda item. The council voted to approve the summary of the January 30, 2024 work session without any recorded objections or concerns raised during the discussion. **Outcome:** Approved ## New Business [timestamp: 02:00] The council addressed several new business items during this portion of the meeting, with key participation from council members Wu and Ellinger II. The discussion centered on various financial and contractual agreements that required council approval. While the specific details of individual items were not provided in the available materials, the agenda item encompassed multiple proposals related to municipal operations and agreements. Council members Wu and Ellinger II served as the primary speakers during the deliberations on these new business matters. The discussion appeared to focus on the financial and contractual implications of the proposed items before the council. Following the presentation and discussion of the new business items, the council moved to approve the measures. The outcome was positive, with the council voting to approve the new business items as presented. The approval of these new business items represents the council's ongoing work to address various municipal needs through financial commitments and contractual arrangements necessary for city operations. ## Continuing Business/Presentations [timestamp: 02:30] Council member Sheehan delivered a report on the Environmental Quality & Public Works Committee meeting that took place on December 5, 2023. The presentation served as an informational update to bring the full council up to date on the committee's recent activities and discussions. The report was presented as continuing business, indicating this was a follow-up item from previous council proceedings. Sheehan's presentation provided council members with details from the Environmental Quality & Public Works Committee's December meeting, though the specific topics covered in that committee meeting were not detailed in the available materials. This agenda item was classified as informational in nature, meaning no formal action or voting was required from the council. The presentation allowed for the sharing of committee work with the broader council body, maintaining transparency and coordination between the committee structure and full council operations. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve the January 30, 2024 Work Session Summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve New Business - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place on the docket for the February 15, 2024 council meeting an ordinance amending section 2-96 of the Lexington Fayette Urban County code of ordinances to rename the “Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Commission of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government” to the “Environmental Commission of Lexington Fayette County,” consistent with current practice; amending section 2-97 of the code of ordinances to reduce the number of members to twenty-five (25) and adding a councilmember as a non-voting ex-officio member; and amending section 2-99 of the code of ordinances to add an information officer as an officer of the commission and setting officers’ terms at two (2) years; effective upon passage of council - **Motion** — passed (0-0): adjourn at 3:33 p.m --- ## Full transcript Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. We'll go ahead. It's 3 o'clock, and it looks like we have a quorum. And so I'll go ahead and call to order the February 6, 2024 Council Work Session. And the first item on the agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda, and we have no one signed up. Oh, wait. No, we don't have anyone signed up. Mayor. Computers for all the council members. We have one not working. Okay. So I just, if someone kind of- That's fine. Yeah, that's fine. We have no docket. We have January 30th, 2024 work session motions. If I can have a motion to approve. Motion approved. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger, second by Council Member Gray. Are there any questions? All those in favor of approving, say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. Thank you. That passes. we have no budget amendments and we have no budget adjustments so we'll move right on to new business and i'll entertain a motion please vice mayor wu moves and council member plowman seconds and i realize that uh our does everybody have a working computer okay so if you log in with your questions for new business council member ellinger thank you mayor number k please and i know charlie in the environmental quality was talking about this but i think you said there might be some changes or something what was what were you bringing up and could you go over what this is going to entail and it looks like there's options for years to go in the future then too for some reason the synopsis got rolled up incorrectly if you look at the memo that I wrote on page 36 basically it talks about $550,000 that would be is the estimated fee for the design and construction management of targeted equipment for both treatment plants what there's additional costs that are going to be incurred as part of the chemical optimization the modeling all of the other work that needs to go to be able to really truly put together an odor control strategy for the government which would include a CIP for the next five years but we're all that that work is going to be based on the hourly rates that are quoted in the proposal we do this with Hazen and Sawyer we do this with Tetra Tech we do it with Stantec basically is that they're basically the staff that we don't have and we utilize them for under task orders to accomplish certain tasks based on an agreed upon number of hours that it would take to accomplish that task and the hourly rates at which they have quoted in their proposal so what is the number then is it 550 up to or no the the budget amendment that you guys approved a couple of weeks ago was for a million dollars. I don't think it will be a million dollars in the first year. I don't expect that it will be. But I didn't want our inability to fund the necessary work to be able to start solving this problem that has been off the charts for the last four months. Do we need to correct this? Pardon? Do we need to correct this when we put it in on the docket? The law tells me that they can correct it when we get to the council meetings. That's the law. Stand up now. Michael. Good afternoon. Technically, this hasn't even shown up on the docket yet. That's what you'll be doing at the work session today. So we will draft the legislation to reflect the intent as reflected in the memo and the RFP. So we don't believe it's necessary to correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. My question has to do with B, C, and D. Is that Mr. Martin back? I should have gone faster. I said, you wouldn't get back to your seat. I just wanted a clarification. These are the grants that are not going to happen now, the stormwater quality project incentive grants. Does that money, I think it's around 400,000 total. Do those monies stay with the grant program for next time or where did they revert to? That's been the arrangement that we've had in the past is that they go back in and get reseated into the grant program. I think that's a conversation we're probably going to have to have with finance about the suitability of that or not. But it stays in the stormwater fund. They do not leave fund 4051. So fiscal year 25. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Monares. Thank you, Mayor. Mine is with regard to Jay. That's Director Burton. Welcome. Hello. Good afternoon, Director Burton. Hello. Could you just elaborate a little bit about what this means? So this is for the design for the intersection improvements at Bella Woods, as well as adding a turn lane at Tates Creek on Wilson Downing. Right now we're looking at a roundabout or a mini roundabout at that intersection because that's the clog point at Bella Woods. So we'll be modifying that existing intersection to accommodate that movement. And then again give relief for that movement further down the road where it connects to Takes Creek by adding a turn lane. We're very excited about this, my constituents and I. And I just had additional questions from them since we're in the process of putting down the new sidewalk there on Wilson Downing. Yep. And so they just wanted to know what this means for that sidewalk. It won't change that sidewalk project we're about to start. Because that construction will start this spring. And then since we're just starting design, as you know, we've got right away utility and construction phases to go through, plus all the funding agreements we have to go through. Unfortunately, that means we're five years minimum construction of the roundabout and the turn lane. It does mean we'll probably have to rip up a couple panels of sidewalk down the road. But we don't want to not do the sidewalk now and wait five more years to do that sidewalk. It's more important just to go ahead and get that facility that we need down now and then make the changes to it in five to eight years when we construct the roundabout. And the Bellawoods Neighborhood Association is actually in the process of removing their current sign and building a new sign. So when this came up, I had conversations with them about what that would mean. And so they're asking for your best recommendation to them when building this back. They're already taking into account the sidewalk, but we don't know the specifics of the roundabout. We'll reach out directly to them along with our designers. Right now, we just have a rough idea of what the roundabout is going to look like. We haven't done a survey. We haven't done utility locates, et cetera. So we're a little ways away from having a specific recommendation for them, but we can kind of give them an idea of don't be here because we're definitely going to impact that and then work with them as to where they can move that sign to. Okay. Thank you so much. Yep. No problem. All right, thank you. Council Member Sheehan. Director Burton. I would like the item I is the Liberty Road Improvements Project, and this is for the SLX funds. Could you just give a quick description for the public of that project, the scope of that project? Right, so we've had our last large corridor project was Clay's Mill, and that's wrapping up. Now we're moving on to our next big corridor project, then it's Liberty Road. The state owns Liberty Road from New Circle out. We own Liberty Road from New Circle in. They have a project that's already, I guess they're starting the right-of-way phase for their project, so they're a little ahead of us. But we're going to work with them on what would, I think theirs is a five-lane section outside New Circle. I can't envision ours being more than a three-lane section, two throughs with a turn lane similar to Clay's Mill. And then we're going to do some intersection improvements both at Winchester Road and Henry Clay to again create some safer and better movements in those areas than what we have out there today. And this is the additional funding we needed for design. We just recently got the design contract back from the consultant. So I think on the 13th work session you'll see the award for that design contract. And this includes like sidewalk areas as well? This is all modes. You guys passed the complete streets policy. And this is federal money, so we were already doing complete streets effectively anyway, but we're really going to do it now because that's the edict. So we're looking at probably a sidewalk on one side of the road and probably a shared use path on the other. We haven't determined that exactly which side, et cetera. That's what the design details are there to work out. But that's our goal is to make sure that we're safe moving for all modes through that corridor. Thank you. Yep. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. And there's no one else signed up. So all those in favor of approving new business, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next up, we have continuing business and I'll call on Council Member Liz Sheehan to give her report. Thank you, Mayor. I have the report for the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee from December 5th, 2023. The meeting was called to order at 1.04 p.m. The first item on our agenda was approval of the October 24, 2023 committee summary. There were no additions or corrections, and the summary was approved without dissent. Next, Charlie Martin, director of Division of Water Quality, explained the overall status of the consent decree. Stormwater and supplemental obligations are complete. He reviewed the schedule modification status broken down by what LFUCG requested and what the EPA and Kentucky have agreed to. He shared a summary of the consent decree obligations and where we currently stand. Martin confirmed the sanitary sewer user fees are used to pay for the sanitary sewer obligations. No action was taken on this item. We also heard from Rob Allen, Director of Streets and Roads, on environmental best practices in our paving process. He spoke about reclaimed or recycled asphalt pavement. The acronym is R.A.P., which is the milling portions of paving. The RIP asphalt is slightly less expensive than comparative asphalt, and there are grants available to fund these innovative, sustainable, and environmental-friendly practices. Through the paving formula, 10% of the paving budget goes towards preventative maintenance. No action was taken on this item. And finally, Grace Downey, chairperson of the Environmental Commission, spoke about proposed changes to the commission's ordinance. The commission serves to improve the natural environment in our city and county by promoting sustainability and environmental resilience practices. Downey requested changes to their bylaws and the current ordinance related to these bylaws. She reviewed the sections in the ordinance where changes would make the commission more efficient. Pursuant to the actions of the committee at its December 5th committee meeting, I move to place on the docket for the February 15, 2024 Council meeting an ordinance amending section 2-96 of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Code of Ordinances to rename the Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Commission of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to the Environmental Commission of Lexington-Fayette County, consistent with current practice, and amending section 2-97 of the Code of Ordinances to reduce the number of members to 25 and adding a council member as a non-voting ex-officio member and amending section 2-99 of the Code of Ordinances to add an information officer as an officer of the commission and setting officer's terms at two years. This would be effective upon passage of council. So moved. Thank you. Who seconded? Council Member Gray seconded. Are there any questions, comments? All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. The meeting adjourned at 2.14 p.m., and that concludes my report out. Thank you, Mayor. All right, thank you very much. Does anyone have any questions for Council Member Sheehan? All right. Next up are Council reports. Anyone have one? Councilmember Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I think there's some photos that I actually remembered to send. Chris, are there some photos there? This past Saturday, we had a community breakfast with the Greater Garden Site Association, and we were at James Lane Allen, and I want to thank Councilmember Savigny for all his help on that association. We had public safety come out. We had police and fire and Chief Weathers stopped by, and I want to thank Councilmember James Brown as well for stopping by. We had a wonderful time. We had some Mexican brunch, and then we split up into groups, and we talked about public safety. We talked about community inclusion and we talked about local businesses and how we could work together to continue to make the Alexandria Drive corridor a better place for everybody. So it was a really wonderful time. I think we had over 40 people there. And it was good to get together and then talk about how we can work with each other to have some more momentum going forward to improve that area. So I wanted to thank everyone that came out for that. And then I just wanted to remind my constituents that this Thursday at 6 p.m. at Gardenside Christian Church, we are having a meeting with KYTC and the city and Fayette County Public Schools to discuss the Fayette County Public School development at the old Webb property on the corner of Mason-Handley-Inversales Road. I know that's affecting a lot of neighborhoods and people have many concerns, especially traffic related for that corner. So I hope that as many people as possible will come out and we'll try to get as many questions as possible answered during that time. And if you have any further questions about it, you can always email me. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Mayor. I have a few health related announcements that I'd like to share with my district two neighbors and with the greater Lexington community. On February the 10th, my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, the Lexington Kentucky Alumni Chapter, will be hosting a virtual heart health summit, specifically around stroke awareness. It is free and open to the public. Two of our speakers are local medical doctors here in the community and my sorority sisters. And so I just want to encourage the public to, on February 10th, to log into this informational Zoom. You'll get a lot of good information. You can visit our link tree, which is there on the slide, scan the QR code, or visit our sorority Facebook page or Instagram page to again look at the flyer and get the information. But I just want to share that with the community and invite everyone to come out on February the 10th. Coming up on February 24th, I will have the next Shayla in the second. It will be from 11 AM to 1 PM at the McConnell's Trace Clubhouse. So I'm going to invite all my district two neighbors to come out and chat with me and bring any questions, concerns you may have so that we can discuss them and find resolution and just have a good time. So I invite all of my district two neighbors to meet me on February 24th at the McConnell's Trace Clubhouse. And then a heart healthy tip is coming up next I think. I am the local resident council member personal trainer. So all month long I'm going to be sharing health related fitness tips for the community. This being Heart Health Month, I would be remiss if I didn't. So one important thing you can do to have a strong heart is to introduce interval training into your fitness regimen. Interval training is very time efficient, it doesn't take very long. You can work out your entire body in just 30 minutes or less. Interval training is where you do a segment that is, for example, 30 seconds of good hard work, and then you take a 15-second rest break after that and do 30 seconds of hard work again, 15 seconds of rest. It will get your heart pumping, and you can change your endurance by doing interval training. You can use equipment such as battle ropes or weights or a jump rope, Or you can do it equipment free and maybe do some body weight squats or some lunges. So I just want to encourage all my neighbors and everyone in Lexington to get heart healthy and to exercise and think about including some interval training into your weekly and daily workouts. Hopefully daily workouts. And then lastly, I would like to announce tomorrow, February 7th, is National Black HIV Awareness Day. Tomorrow from 1230 to 3 p.m. at the Black and Williams Community Center, there will be free HIV and AIDS testing. The United Way is partnering with AVOL to offer free testing for anyone that wants to come to the Black and Williams Center tomorrow from 1230 to 3 p.m. So please come out and get tested, get some important information, and please share this information publicly. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Gray? Thank you, Mayor. And I love, Council Member, that one of my six district residents is part of the health. She's a member of your sorority, Dr. Rochelle Brown. And also, back to regarding my colleague, she is also the best trainer in Lexington. She is my trainer. So thank you for your healthy tips. So first up, I would like to say thank you to pictures. Thank you. This, to the United Way for offering their VITA, which is their volunteer income tax assistance program over the weekend. That was for individuals who make less than $62,000. And as council members, we make less than $62,000. So I showed up to get my taxes done for free. So thank you to the United Way for all that you do to ensure that residents have access to getting their taxes done for free. And also, it was nice to see one of the legislative aides there who was preparing the taxes. That is an old picture, so we will skip that one. And there it is. That's a picture from this Saturday there with the United Way at the senior. There we go. And that is also not my picture. And so over the weekend, it was my picture from two weeks ago. I had the honor to give the awards at the Kentucky American Water Science Fair. And we will be seeing, colleagues, we will be seeing the winners of the Science Fair here at our next council meeting. It was a delight to see such a diverse array of students from around the city, public students as well as our private and homebound students as well. So kudos to everyone that was there and kudos to all of the winners. More pictures. See how it was a packed house. It was great to see myself and the superintendent. And yesterday, I don't know if you all recall, last week I was at Mary Todd Elementary speaking with the young ladies, the Lincoln ladies where we prepared some valentines for residents at the Willow at Hamburg. Yesterday I went to Mary Todd to pick up those valentines and those are it. You have 110 hearts that were put together with love from fourth and fifth grade students. And that is the principal Mike Jones of Mary Todd Elementary School. And next keep going. And yesterday, I had the honor of meeting with the 6th District Advisory Council, where I'm honored to have such volunteers in our district who care enough to advise me on what's going on around our districts. Residents of the 6th District, if you would like to join and give your input about how you would like to see our district and our city look, please reach out to me i need you just as much as you need me and on friday of last week i and as well as other i believe council member lynch was there at the veterans park elementary for part of their black history black history month program i once again was in the same classroom miss nally's classroom of first graders. And there's a little boy in this picture who I was able to have a conversation with. He was in awe that I knew that he had locks and we had the same kind of hair. And he was locked in from that very moment from having that conversation. It's very important for our young people to see not only lawmakers, political leaders, but it's also important for them to see role models who look like them. Or in this case, who don't look like them as well, who they get a chance to meet and also know what's possible for them. Any others? And that is all from the 6th District. Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you. Council Member Plowman. Thank you, Mayor. I have just a few announcements. A Sense of Place, that's our Hamlet initiative, is holding an all-Hamlets meeting on February the 27th at the Piccadam Golf outing room from 6 to 8. And we've been doing this like every other month, but this is for the whole community, not just a specific handling. And just FYI, we should be up to our goal pretty soon, and we'll update you on the whole project this fall. But I wanted you to know about that. Colleagues, if you could share that communication out in your districts, that would be great. And also, come yourself. They're very, very interesting. You might have seen this, but I just wanted to remind you, Raven Run will be closed for the next two weeks. There's some work that's being done by Kentucky Utilities and the decision was made for the safety of the visitors of the park. So it's down for the next two weeks. And then last week, I just wanted to share and I think I have a picture, I do. I spent some time at the UK Martin School Policy and Administration. I was speaking with a class about local government and these students are from South Korea. And a lot of students come from outside the country and go to the school and We learned about policy and administration, had a lot of great questions and we're very, very interested. And if you're not familiar with the Martin School, many times we get employees from the Martin School. I know one of my legislative aides, I think that we've got folks in research, but it's a great school. It's a feather in our cap here in Lexington. I've served on their board for a while and I believe Mayor Gordon, you're on that board currently. So just wanted you to know a little bit about it and what a nice group it was to speak with. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Fogle. Thank you, Mayor. I'll hold the big one up for Thursday, but today I would like to, I have some questions, but I'm having prayed my way through it. So I'll just make some announcements. February the 10th, Soul Food Fest in Green Acres. It's open to the public, excited about that as we continue to welcome in black history. That challenge is still out there for any council member that would like to lift up and honor or just share some history for someone in their districts for black history. Tomorrow, the Street Voice Council, if you don't know them, please. Councilmember Savicki and I and Councilmember Lynch, we attend their meetings, it's unhoused people who have a council, just like the city council. They have been asked to come to Frankfort, they will be talking about House Bill 5, that section of criminality for people who are unhoused. So they are presenting to leadership in the Senate tomorrow and it's the see me, hear me, know me. Most council members attended that when we had it at the Lyric. They will be in Frankfurt tomorrow and excited about that and that Lexington is doing such a good job with exposing and then the work that we're doing to make sure people are housed, the Hope Village. And with saying that, I would like to give a shout out to Shallows Women Auxiliary, who came out yesterday and handed out so many toiletries and undergarments and sweaters for the residents at the Hope Village. So thank you, Shallow. Want to give you a shout out for that. The next thing is Bryan Station, LTL Mass, will be traveling to Frankfurt on the 13th. They're going down to meet their legislators. going to get school credit for that for civic engagement and that that's exciting news. Over at Douglas Park they're going to have their senior Valentine's Day and I'm just thinking about golden years and how people who have been married for 40, 50 years are going to be slow dancing and kissing and just the whole little Valentine's. So I'm thinking about that, that's going to be exciting. And so thank you Douglas Park Neighborhood Association for doing that. Now the last commercial will be, I'm going to go toward Fayette County Detention Center. I was down there yesterday and was talking to the commander. He showed me a sneak preview recruiting videos that they're using. He also told me that they were like over 100 vacancies and now they're down to like 54 with their recruiting. So that is exciting news to hear that they're going to have coverage. So keep up the good work, Fayette County Detention Center. And so that's it for the first district for right now. And for people who's in the audience, just smile because God saved you today. I had some things for you, but I'm going to be nice. Thank you. Okay, Councilmember Sevigny. Thank you, Mayor. I just have one quick announcement. The Open Gates Neighborhood Association is having a meeting on Monday, February 12th at 6 PM. That we're hosting, and we're hosting it at Community Montessori School, which is at 725 Stone Road. I would encourage any of our council members at large and vice mayor to join us and meet the lovely people of Open Gates. Thank you so much. Thank you, Councilmember Legree. Thank you, Mayor. Here in the third district, we've gotten some questions about the Phoenix Park dog park. There have been some issues with the fence and with the gate, and people are curious about what's happening and when it'll be fixed. So for all of you listening, it is temporarily closed, but our Parks and Recreation Department are hoping to have the repairs made and the park back open tomorrow evening. And then, as you all are all aware, we will be breaking ground in the spring for the renovation of Phoenix Park. So we're just keeping things rolling until all of our big changes occur. That's it, Mayor. Thank you. All right. Thank you. there's no mayor's report or price contract bids and so that does bring us to public comment for issues not on the agenda and the way this works is when i call your name you'll come to the podium and restate your name and say your council district for the record and so we have one One person signed up, Katherine Perkins. And you'll have three minutes. I think you know how this goes. Welcome. Katherine Perkins, 12th district. You need my birthday? We don't need your birthday. And may I come and get shot with a heart? I'm going to need it. Oh, thank you. Okay. I came just to make sure that I followed protocol properly in asking for speaking time at the public hearing. And that was the main reason I came. But also, I notice that you take comments after these sessions on anything at all. And I don't have any specific Zota draft that I would like to comment on. I'd just like to comment on all of them and how convoluted they are and difficult for citizens to understand. And I remember the first time I ever got involved with LFUCG, and I came down and got the whole comp plan and the comp plan draft, and I read it all. But let me tell you what. Imagine Lexington has a lot of ideological stuff. I mean, it's just going to be interpreted in so many different ways. So I hope that when you pass these ZOTAs, you pass some good concrete ones, and I pray every day that you never approve a ZOTA that takes your power away on passing final decision on zone changes. I'm grateful that that is in place for citizens, and albeit it's a little difficult to fathom and deal with, at least we have that opportunity, and I appreciate that. I find that you are less, what is it, dehumanizing than planning commission. I often feel very humiliated in front of them and speaking to them. I appreciate having this as the next phase. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. we have no other one signed up so i'll entertain a motion to adjourn thank you all those in favor say aye we are adjourned thank you to everyone Thank you.