Music Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I'd like to go ahead and call to order the council work session for May 28th, 2024. And the first thing before we start our agenda is, council members, you know that we need to set a date for the fire disciplinary, hearing, and I've consulted with Vice Mayor Wu and also with Carlos in our law department. Where did you go, Carlos? And it seems that August 20th at 5 o'clock works for everyone. Thank you, Mayor. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. The responses I've received have indicated August 20th would be the better date for the proceedings. Okay. Okay, so, council members, is that, can most of you come August 20th at 5 o'clock? August 20th? August 20th? It was in the email that you received. How many of you can be here the 20th at 5 o'clock? Can you show hands? Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. That's very good. This is like a council meeting in terms of a quorum. And so I think that the 20th seems to work for 12 of you. And it works for all the partners, the legal partners, as well as the firefighter. And so we'll set it for August 20th at 5 o'clock here in the chamber. And I just have one question for Carlos. Do you know yet if the firefighter has requested an open hearing or a closed hearing? That discussion has not been had at this moment. Okay, so you'll let us know. I will discuss that with him. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Okay. So with that, the next on our agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda. And we actually have no one signed up for issues on the agenda. So we have no docket today or rezonings. We do have council work session motions from May 14th, and I'll entertain a motion to approve. Council Member Fogle moves and Council Member Gray seconds. Are there any questions, comments? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you very much. And we have no budget amendments today and no budget adjustments. we do have new business if i could have a motion to approve all right vice mayor we moved and council member ploman seconded and i'll entertain questions if you'll log in please for new business any questions all right all those in favor say aye Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. There are no, now this is the first day we're doing our new communications from the mayor, which includes appointments, donations, procurements, and none of those are on the agenda today. So that takes us down to continuing business and presentations. And first I'll entertain a motion to approve neighborhood development. So moved. Second. Council member Ellinger moves, council member Fogel seconds. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. And next are council capital projects. Council member Sheehan moves approval, council member Gray seconds. Are there questions or comments? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Now to some exciting, an exciting part of our presentations. We have a presentation by the BMW Group and Roz Akins, as well as I believe Ashton Hunt are making the presentation. Is that correct? So we want to welcome you all. We're really happy to hear about this trip to Huntsville and I'll turn it over to Ms. Akins to start. Welcome. Thank you, Mayor. And to Mayor Gordon and to Vice Mayor and all those who are part of the Urban County Council, we are indeed honored and humbled to come and share with you something that took place in partnership with our Chamber of Commerce and the BMW Academy. The BMW Academy came into existence in 2005. Next year we'll be celebrating 20 years of educating, motivating, and activating the potential for excellence that lies within every African-American male. Here's what we know. It's in each of them. They just need to be in the right environment and around the right people to pull that potential out of them. And so the well principles of what our young men live by, they're to be well-behaved, well-mannered, well-dressed, well-spoken, well-read, well-traveled, and all of that leads to them being well-prepared. We added to our well-travel agenda this year a partnership with our Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Bob Quick. As you all know, as many of you all have been on the chamber trips where we go to a different city and we take best practices from those cities and we bring them back to Lexington to see what we can do to enhance our city. So after going on the trip last year to Michigan, I came back, met with Bob Quick, and I said, why can't young people do this, to have the opportunity to go to a new city and they learn best practices and what they can bring back to help our city. through a grant and let me go on record today to thank each of you who donated through your neighborhood community funds to help this trip come about. We took 40 young men to Huntsville, Alabama on the first of its kind in the nation, a youth chamber trip that our young men that are here today will represent the BMW Academy. The purpose was to engage, explore, and exposure. So I'm going to ask them to come, Tyrone, at this time, and they will come in order to make the presentation. Thank you so much. Welcome. Good afternoon, counsel. My name is Tyrone Harris. I'm a student at Carter G. Winston Academy. I'm a current junior, and I've been a part of the BMW Academy for about six years now. And what I bring to you today is the three E's. And with this chamber trip being a first within the youth and engaging the youth in this chamber trip, often given to adults. It's important to also give the youth a talk and a say at the table. And so what this trip has brought to us, it has engaged us in meeting community members and given us the chance to be that voice at the table and diversifying our minds, as well as has allowed us to explore different career opportunities and workforce development that will allow us, the future doctors and the future leaders of this city to bring to our community in the future and as well as has exposed us to what we can do in the future to help our communities. And so before we get into that, sorry, not before we get into that, but what we have for you today, engineering, entrepreneurship, and education. But before we get into that, what I have for you is a little compare and contrast of what we have noticed about Huntsville and Lexington. And what we noticed about Huntsville, Huntsville is a very, Huntsville and Lexington are very community driven and community partnership communities. And Huntsville had a great way of engaging their youth from the high school and even after high school with workforce opportunities as they mentioned something that if you don't have a job in Huntsville, then you just don't want it. And so their unemployment rate is very low. And so with them engaging from the high school and up, they gave their opportunities with the engineering to community members in making that low unemployment. And something we have here in Lexington, we do really great at engaging our youth through our career development programs, our CTEs and pathways and tech schools. From elementary all the way to high school, we do really good. So I give props to you all as community leaders in getting those for us and engaging our youth for being the future leaders. And so what we've seen through Huntsville engaging the adults and Lexington engaging the youth, if we bring those together, we can turn our cities into places that aren't just surviving but into places that are thriving as well. So getting that aspect of adults need jobs too, but as well as our youth members and engaging them from an early age as they will be the future and bringing the both to Beth worlds, we will be thriving cities. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Josiah Clay, and I'm a senior and student athlete at Frederick Douglass High School. I will be discussing about the engineering, what we experienced mainly at Mazda Toyota Manufacturing. Engineering, first of all, to start off, engineering was a great sight to see in Huntsville, Alabama. And without a doubt, Lexington engineering has became a staple for the city, community, and educational programs. We experienced NASA and also the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Company, where it's an intertwined company of two companies looking for the same goals. It's very unique because at the end of the day, even though they are two competitors, They're both looking to come together for the same common goal and to both benefit each other. And I believe that we have companies here, but we need to have more intertwined companies here that can come together and build the same common goal to better our city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Hello, my name is Preston Chennault. I am a senior at Carter-Jewelton Academy, and I've been in BMW for around nine years. And I will also be talking about engineering. Also with engineering, we went to a Bo-Neil, and what that informed me about was ways that I can get into the engineering field rather than going through the educational pipeline, going to college. And I wish that was something I knew about before I had already chosen my current path because I know I have a lot of peers that wish they knew that they could get into engineering and other different types of fields with using the military as that outlet. And something that I do admire about the Boneal is that they're always looking into the future and they're always branching out into multiple different companies. They were with NASA and tons of other companies. That way they can have multiple different branches. They can touch almost every different outlet. And they're always looking towards the future. And I think that's something that if we bring into our community, we can greatly prosper from. Thank you very much. Welcome. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ashton Hunt. I am a graduating senior at Carter Jeweltson Academy and Frederick Douglass, and I've been in the BMW program for 12 years now. And in the fall of 2024, I'll be attending Tennessee State University where I will major in agriculture business. And I want to talk about the education aspect of our trip, specifically Alabama A&M. Alabama A&M, otherwise known as Alabama Agriculture and Mechanical University, a land grant institution, 1890s land grant institution, and is an HBCU. 1890s institutions offer ag programs and military programs. As someone who's going to study agriculture at Tennessee State University, which is similar to that college, visiting Alabama A&M was the main thing I was looking forward to on this trip. When we got to Alabama A&M, they gave us a tour, of course, so hopefully some scholars in the future go there, and they also gave us some brochures to learn about the college and debt. I was mainly looking at the ag specifics of that brochure because that's going to be my major in the future. And even though I've already picked a college, I can't go to Alabama A&M now for undergrad, I can still go there to get my masters because they have really good masters programs at Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University is also similar to Kentucky State University, which is a HBCU we have in Frankfort, Kentucky, which is also 1890s. And the president of Kentucky State was actually on that trip with us. After we left Alabama A&M, there was so much to learn from Alabama A&M that I believe Kentucky State can bring back to their school. The president also told me this. Alabama A&M, they have a really good master's program in agriculture and you can even get your Ph.D. in agriculture if you want it that bad. Kentucky State University doesn't have a Ph.D. program in agriculture, so I'm not going to say Alabama A&M's programs are better than Kentucky State's, but Kentucky State can learn from them. Alabama A&M can also learn from Kentucky State. Kentucky State has a good aquaculture program, which is something Alabama A&M University doesn't have. So I believe if Alabama A&M and Kentucky State University come together, they can both incorporate new ag programs into both of their colleges. And this is what I learned off that trip. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Hello, everyone. My name is Jayden Bush-Motsby, and I take hard to listen to the Academy, and I've been in the BMW program now for four years. And I had the honor and the pleasure of being an aspiring educator, being interested in the educational field. As we visited Grimison High School, we got to see the different areas and subjects and just go in groups and see how the school runs, as well as seeing how Fayette County runs. I got to bring back a lot to the table to see just what great potential Grimison has and Fayette County has. As Fayette County is known for STEM as well, Grimison was as well too. They give the students projects of how to be globally mindful, building leaders, and also engaging students in projects around their school. I was very fortunate to see how many educational leaders were from Lexington, from Fayette County, that brought back so much, that went to Grimison High School in Alabama, and brought back so much to us to give us and give us more insight and actually be more civically engaged with the students. So it gave me the opportunity to give the quip to have vibrant learners and in the educational process that everyone is included in the process of going to Alabama with Grimison High School and visiting Grimison High School. Thank you. Thank you very much. As we prepare to close, the young men are going to have a takeaway. Let me thank Councilman James Brown who went on the trip with us. You will see a brochure, a list of all the men in this community that took time from their busy schedules to go with us on this trip and to invest in these young people. And I guess the highlight of the trip, not only taking these young men on something that had never been done before, but a former BMW who is now employed by the urban county government, Troy Black, also went with us on the trip. And what a joy it was that at night these men would pour into these young men. They would be able to ask questions because a lot of them do not have a male mentor in their home. And so thank you, Councilman Brown, for going with us and for the city endorsing this trip and for an opportunity of a lifetime. Thank you very much. I will start off the takeaways. First and foremost, I'd like to thank the opportunity for helping us to go on this trip. It was a great experience and it broadened my knowledge on, first of all, the fact that it's a lot of African-Americans in the South. And it changes the concept of what African-Americans are down South. It's a lot of African Americans that are employed and that are in high positions. So it inspired me to want to move down south and to be inspired to continue a movement and better up north for employment rates and to continue to thrive cities. Thank you. The takeaway that I got from the trip was to bring back so much wisdom to my state and city as a whole and to be more civilly engaged and to bring back more wisdom to students and pour back into the community. Thank you. What I took away from this trip is how important it is to be involved in the community and especially digging into the youth in the community and how much like me personally, like I can help out the people around me, the community around me just as one person. Thank you. What I got from this trip is that it's important for you to be, for you to want to take risks to go out and explore new jobs in other states because we met people who came from, I think One lady said she came from Ohio and now she lives in Alabama and now she has a really interesting job. So what it taught me was that it's important to take risks because you can't be afraid to take one because the opportunity may be better than what you currently have in the local city. Thank you. Thank you. And ultimately what this trip captured was the gift of investing in the youth. And there was a quote given to us on this trip, if changing one mind can change one communities. And with us, the future, being the future leaders of this community, being the future council members, future teachers, changing one mind and changing one community, us giving the opportunity to take this trip and learn what we can do for our city and learn from others and gaining and giving at the same time, we will be the future and be able to give that to the future of our communities. Thank you very much. And when we invest in our youth now, we prosper and get higher yields in the future. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you. So, Ms. Akins, do you think there's time for questions? Yeah. And I, before the council asks questions, I want to thank you in particular, because Ms. Akins has been dedicated to this for so long. And you are making a huge difference in our community with these young men. and I so appreciate it, you and all of those who work with you. Thank you so much. Now, council members, do you have any questions? Council Member Gray. Yes, thank you, Mayor. And for the young scholars, question for you. I know one of you attended some other events, and at least two of you all have been here more than this is your second or more times here to speak on the mic. How beneficial has BMW been in your life? Any one of you all. Tyron, thank you, sir. Oh, well, mine is to get me up early on Saturdays at 10 a.m. I could be doing other things on Saturday mornings. I could be playing the games, doing things that really didn't benefit me. And so being at BMW, getting up while I may not have wanted to get up early in the morning, It was a chance for me to engage with members of my community, learn different things that I might have not learned just staying at home. So while it could be seen as a negative, ultimately, again, it's that investment part and getting something that you might not have gotten out of something else. And so meeting with members of fraternities and leaders of Lexington has been a great opportunity and widening my viewpoints and diversifying my mind. Great. For me personally, BMW has benefited me because it's given me so many opportunities. After I finished 10th grade, I had the opportunity to go to Egypt and go out of the country for the first time. And I got to go out of the country before even my own parents. So I figured that was a huge accomplishment. BMW also allowed me to go on so many trips and visit so many colleges. BMW is the reason why I wanted to go to an HBCU. Thank you. Thank you. member James Brown. Oh, I'm so sorry. Did you want to respond? Go ahead. BMW has BMW has done so much for me. One of the best things about BMW, it's gotten me out of my bubble. I don't think, I think I would have spent my whole life in Lexington, Kentucky, if not for BMW. And there's, and I love Lexington, but there's so much outside of it. I've seen so much of the world. I'd never thought that I would have stepped foot in Africa if it was not for Ms. Akins and what BMW has done for me. I've done so many things. I've seen so many different types of people through BMW. Even when I was in middle school and we went to Atlanta for our first trip, there were so many different types of council members and people that I was able to meet and different job positions that I never knew about. And I was just blessed with that opportunity. And there are many scholarships that I was able to get. I was able to get a scholarship from the Botillion about a couple of months ago because of BMW. It just blessed me with so many different opportunities that I just had no idea about. I just love being able get outside of my bubble that's great council member james brown thank you mayor and i really don't have a question just more of just a few comments i just want to thank this council and uh the chamber for their investment in this in this group and in this trip i also want to thank about my co-conspirators uh glenn brown and chris ford and troy black who also went on the trip representing the city. Glenda George was there and Chief Weathers was always there as well representing the city. And then also like to thank Sister Akins, Dr. Stewart and her team for continuing to invest in these young people, these young men, these young scholars. And other than that, it's not too much to say because they can all speak for themselves. You heard it. They're well spoken. No fear, no hesitancy to step up to the microphone and tell you what they learned so thank you all for being the return on the investment that a lot of people have put into you so thank you thank you mayor thank you vice mayor wu thank you mayor um i just want to add a little bit to what council member brown uh talked about uh i love that this group is i love what you all do but i love that you all are also supported in the community and in government and by our chamber and looking at this list of uh distinguished gentlemen and adults who came along on this trip, I've always said that it's hard to be it when you can't see it, but when you can see it and be surrounded by examples of black manhood and examples of success and achievement in various fields, I think it's a phenomenal thing for young people. So I applaud everything that you all are doing. I applaud the camaraderie and the discipline that you all show to better yourself. So kudos. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Fogle. Thank you, Mayor. My comment is I pray that you all stick around so that you all can be mentors and leaders of more young black men so that Lexington can look like Alabama and work like Alabama. So even if you go off, please come back because we need you. Any other questions or comments, council members? Thank you again so much. And I fully expect one of you to be mayor someday. Right? You mentioned council members. That's important too. but come back and be mayor. Thank you for all you've done, Ms. Akins. And for those of you who are in the program and have really shared with us what it's meant to you, we really appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. Do you want to get a photo? All right. All right. Two of our staff are here, Dr. Vita Stewart and your own Ms. Glenda Joyce. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, that brings us to council reports. If you'll log in, please, Council Member Gray. Thank you, Mayor. First off, I would like to say over the break, did we have a break? It feels like we had a break since I last saw you all. I will say kudos to the Bryan Station Community Neighborhood Association waiting for the pictures. They had their first block party, actually it's the first block party period in the 6th District, maybe since I was a little girl. First time we've ever had anything like this in the 6th District. We had live music, support from our first responders, as well as a caricature that looks just like me for once in my life. If it looks, you can tell it's me. We also had free face painting and vendors, and as well as support from our local businesses in the High Acres Shopping neighborhood. They were happy to actually have people in the area. So hopefully we can keep this going. More pictures just coming on through. I just want to, okay, next. Over the last week, first of all, I would like to say thank you to Council Member James Brown for recommending Deep Springs Elementary to receive the Spectrum. Is it A6TV music scholarship of $10,000 that will go to support these young students in the music program at Deep Springs Elementary when across the United States and even with Fayette County Public Schools where we see the arts are being cut. thankfully we have businesses that say hey not here let's support the arts so thank you to spectrum and to axt tv i believe i'm saying that correct and next and finally um another first for the sixth district actually it's not a first it'd be the second time because it's last year was the first year of our free movie nights in the 6th District. This year we're going to be showing, kicking off things on June 1st, which is this Saturday at Constitution Park. This year we'll be showing all free films in Constitution Park in the 6th District. We are welcoming all people in the 6th District and those in the surrounding areas to come join us and watch the marvels. We will have food trucks as well as other activities going on as well. We hope to see you there. Remember, this is dependent on what the weather is doing. If it rains, it will be canceled. But thank you to Park and Recs for being supportive of the activities that I'm doing in the 6th District that are happening in our public parks, because we need more activities in our 6th District public parks. And I'm thankful for the partnership this year and hopefully going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Fogle. Thank you, Council Member Fogle. Thank you, Mayor. As the school year comes to a close, we hope that all of our Fayette County school students would have a great summer. So I want to start off by that. Last year, I introduced to you all a really wonderful project that will be moving forth called the Dignity Station. And on Thursday, we will take our first run. The Dignity Station will be parked at Goodwill. The first shower that I will take will be at 11 o'clock. This is the Dignity Station that you're looking at. It is to help those who are unhoused to have a decent place to use the restroom, to wash and dry their clothes, and to take showers. The good thing about being at the Dignity Station and having the Dignity Station at Goodwill is because they will be allowed to go in and get clothing to put on. A person feels better and their self-esteem grows stronger when they're clean and then we can do other things. And thanks to the Catholic Action Center and all the partners that made this happen, I am so excited about the first day that the Digny Station will roll out. It will be on wheels so that we can take it around. Of course, the first district, but it can come to everyone's district that has people who have no shelter and no means of taking showers. this will be an opportunity for all of Lexington to enjoy. So this is the Dignity Station, and if you want to take a look at it, please come by Goodwill at 11 o'clock on Thursday. Thank you. That's my announcement. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Mayor. First off, I would like to place an item into the Budget Finance and Economic Development Committee. The item is LexArts Finance and Equity Review. And then second and lastly, we are wrapping up Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And I want to thank everybody who came out. I don't. Just to clarify, the Vice Mayor can put items into committee without a motion. So we're good. Thank you. Thank you all, though. I appreciate it. They're just keeping you on track. I love it. It's all good. So we're wrapping up AAPI Month. I wanted to thank everybody who came out to all of our events and everybody who helped us put them on including some of our partners at Moondance, Lexington Public Library, Carnegie Center and quick shout out to all of our sponsors as well UK Alumni Association, Aramark, Lex Mark, Martin Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. So here's to more cool events not just in May next year but throughout the year to celebrate Asian Americans here in Lexington. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Vice Mayor, for your work with Asian Pacific Islander Month. I attended the movie on Friday night where they provided sliders and fries and watched Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle. It was my first time seeing it. I was shocked, yeah yeah to say the least it was a good movie um but no so the next thing is i just need to call uh dave barbary to the podium i think you have a motion for us yes sir good afternoon we have a couple cleanup motions from today's cal meeting related to the budget the first one would be to ratify the budget as amended during the cal meeting so move is there a second council member Worley seconds is there any discussion all right all those in favor say aye anyone opposed all right the second motion would be to place that on the docket for first reading at the council meeting on june 11th at 5 p.m second vice mayor woof motions and council member Reynolds seconds is there any discussion all those in favor say aye anyone opposed all right that motion passed similarly we need a motion to place the pre-funded items for fiscal year 25 on the as amended on the same docket for the june 11th council meeting at 5 p.m council member plumb and move. Councilmember Sheehan seconded. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to give a shout out to our paramedic class that graduated today. We were in the middle of a cow, so we were not able to attend, but 33 students who completed a rigorous accredited paramedic course graduated and have accumulated 500 hours of classroom time and 232 hours of hospital clinical time. And they will gain field experience this summer by finishing 750 hours of ride time and at least 240 patient contacts before completing the national registry exam in September. So that's a huge feat. So congratulations to them. And then this Saturday is a Friends of Wolf Run Park Day, volunteer day at Pine Meadows Park. And that will start at 830 a.m. So turn out for that. And then I want to extend, you should have gotten an invitation to go to the goat project on Oxford Circle. But if you have a chance to head out there, especially if you have kids, take the kids out there and go check out the goats that are at Vons Branch on Oxford Circle. They will be there until June 9th. Those goats are eating invasive species along the creek and cleaning it up. and they do a quick job of doing that they love eating those invasive plants so go check them out they're friendly goats they are behind a little electron electronic fence so be careful with that but i know that paula singer who got the water quality grant to do that project would be really grateful as well if you would go check it out thank you thank you councilmember savigny thank Thank you, Mayor. Once again, in the music capital of Lexington and District 10, we have the big band and jazz series tonight. We've got the Bluegrass Area Jazz Ambassadors at 7 o'clock, and on Thursday, we've got Southland Jamboree kicking off at Moondance at 7 o'clock with Throwdown Thursday. I wanted to do a few points of personal thanks to one to thank both Hal Bailey and Boyd Siwa and council member Elliot Baxter who attended with me last Monday a session on the master plan for the corner of Manowar and Parker's Mill. We probably had over 200 people in attendance. It was a very heated meeting, but it was very good. And I think that I appreciate the staff being there to support, sharing the plan with the people of the district. And I think at least people at least understand what's going on. And I truly do thank them. I also wanted to thank CAO Hamilton and Commissioner Hensley and all their staff. This is only my second budget experience and I would say that you guys have done a great job at answering all of our questions and it really helps to have really sharp people in all those positions, Melissa Lugar and all those folks. It makes this process so much easier. The questions that I would ask directly to them, either privately or here in public, they just do a great job. And I mean, any private company would love to have these people in their employ. And so I am very thankful that they want to be here at LFUCG. We've got great people and they are just testaments to that. And great people attract great people. So thank you very much. That's it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Next on our agenda is public comment for issues not on the agenda. We have one person signed up and that is Brian Clark. And the way this works is when you come to the podium, if you'll state your name for the record and your council district and you'll have three minutes welcome thank you mayor thank you council members i'm brian clark district 10 i'm the executive director of kentucky petroleum marketers association we represent more than 120 businesses here in fayette lexington and with 2 000 jobs here and provide approximately 171 million dollars in taxes collected. We have continued concerns with the proposed urban growth management SOTO ordinance. The recent amendments made fail to address the substantive issues previously identified for the Council. KPMA continues to believe that certain provisions in the SOTO ordinance amendment are not ready for action by this body in its present form. This proposed ordinance clearly seeks to limit where Lexington residents can fuel throughout the city and county for the future. We remain opposed that Lexington is clearly prohibiting the construction of new retail fueling locations in Zone B1 and the new corridor node zone where similar like businesses exist. Rather, the city should treat our industry and others like us equitably, fairly, and consistently. We understand there are areas where you don't want certain type of businesses, such as within specific developments or neighborhoods. However, the zones are much broader than that, and any such policy must be applied equitably across all types of businesses. We must overcome that these proposed changes as envisioned to work will not have real-world daily impact to your constituents' industry, the movement of goods and services in our industry, because they will. We remain concerned with the distance requirements for fueling facilities constructed in Zone B3. This is an arbitrary requirement that is excessive and without justification. Again, where are the traffic studies that support this requirement? In B3 and B6P, the ordinance would limit the number of fueling spots at retail facilities. We believe this is clearly government overreach. These amendments will result in unintended consequences and negative effects on our community's critical infrastructure. As this proposed ordinance proceeds, making this about traditional fuel versus EV charging is a misapplied argument, and it suggests that a lack of understanding about our industry. In fact, many retail fueling locations already offer or are actively planning to offer both traditional fueling and EV charging. Much of the EV charging build out right now is being done with taxpayer money. However, we are the private industry sector with private investment that's stepping up to install EV chargers at our locations. Policies like this are punitive to the investments you want our industry to make to support and advance adoption of EVs and other emerging technologies. If you harm, restrict, or prohibit these private businesses, it diminishes their ability to make these investments to help move Lexington and Kentucky forward. We don't want nor will your constituents want what is known as fuel or food deserts where a parent can't find bread or milk at late hours or a commuting worker or reliable way to fuel their vehicle. Lexington residents deserve the right to choose how to fuel their vehicles and your local businesses deserve better. We strongly urge the Council to remove these provisions of concern from the UGM ZOTA or further revise to correctly address the issues and properly achieve the desired outcomes you seek. forward to more substantive work with the Council to achieve the desired zoning and for the removal of or mutually agreeable revisions on the various concerns. On behalf of KPMA and our members, we appreciate the Council's consideration. Thank you. Thank you very much. At this time, it's time for a motion to adjourn. We've had several. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you very much to everyone. Thank you.