Urban County Council meeting of Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. When you're ready, clerk, let's do roll call. Councilmember Plowman? Yes. Councilmember Reynolds? Yes. Councilmember Sevigny? Yes. Councilmember Sheehan? Here. Councilmember Worley? Vice Mayor Wu? Here. Councilmember Fred Brown? Here. Councilmember James Brown? Here. Councilmember Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Councilmember Elliott Baxter? Yes, ma'am. Councilmember Fogle? Here. Councilmember Gray? Present. Councilmember Legree? Here. Councilmember Lynch? Present. And Councilmember Minaris? Here. Thank you. Thank you. Now it's time for our invocation. I'd like to welcome Pastor Ron Edmondson from Emmanuel Baptist Church. Thank you, and I'd like to thank Councilmember Xi'an for the invitation. She's my council person. And on behalf of Emanuel Baptist Church, I want to thank each of you for your service. Let's pray. God, thank you for you ordained government, and we are blessed to live in a city that is governed well. And so I pray that you would give direction and clarity and wisdom to the meeting tonight, and that you would be honored with all that takes place here. In the tradition in which I pray, I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. All right, next on our agenda is approval of the minutes of the July 2nd, 2024 Council. Second. We have a motion from Council Member Fogel, second from Council Member Sevigny. Any questions on this motion? Aye. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Before we start second reading of ordinances, I'd like to call on Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to separate ordinance number four from the other ordinances for second reading, so move. Second. We have a second from Council Member Ellinger. Any questions on this motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes, so we will have second reading of ordinances except for number four when you're ready. item one in orange spending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fair urban county government to provide funds for purchases purchase orders and prepaid expenses rolling from FY 2024 into FY 2025 and appropriating reprobating funds schedule number two item two in order to make certain the budget to the Lexington Fair urban county government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating reprobating friends FY 2025 schedule number three item three in order to amending the authorized strength by creating one classified position of program manager senior grade 525 e in the Department of Planning preservation creating four classified positions of safety officer grade 515 and in the division of police and creating one classified position of grants administrative aid grade 518 in the division of grants and special programs effective July 1 2024 item 5 and orance and restating ordinance number 141 22 relating to the public infrastructure program in its entirety and providing for its purpose program funded protections parties or limitations criteria and application process administration by the chief by the mayor's chief development officer with oversight by the economic development investment board and a program fund and the adoption of a new program policies and guidelines all effective upon passage of counsel item 6 an orange creating section 2137.4 of the code of ordinances a license for urban county government to authorize up to 56 hours of paid leave and up to 240 hours of unpaid leave per calendar year for classified civil service employees who are victims of domestic violence or a crime for needs related to or resulting from domestic violence or the crime effect of a pop passage of council in item 7 an ordinance granting a waiver to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for certain requirements of ordinance 85 2008 otherwise known as the Newtown Pike Landscape Ordinance as recommended by the corridors Commission pursuant to section 2 472 the code of ordinances on properties located at 414 45 1433 1425 and 1419 Newtown Center Way and 789 Newtown Spring Drive as follows granting an exemption from 20-foot buffer area allowing walkway bike path connections to to the legacy trail allowing the maintenance of existing three plank fence on developed property and construction maintenance of three-plank fence on undeveloped property and allowing a replacement of trees and other plantings currently located in in the 75-foot landscaping buffered with an in-kind replacement on the properties thank you thank you when you thank you I have a motion to approve second from Councilmember Reynolds all right when you're ready let's do a roll call vote please councilmember Plumman councilmember Reynolds yes councilmember Savigny yes on item number one I need to recuse from the items that list volta it's a former business of mine and my daughter works there and the rest of them yay Councilmember Sheehan yes Vice Mayor Wu yes councilmember Fred Brown yes councilmember James Brown yes councilmember Ellinger councilmember Elliott Baxter councilmember Fogle yes councilmember Gray yes councilmember Legree yes councilmember Lynch yes and councilmember Minaris thank you thank you and before we begin first reading of ordinances I'd I'd like to call on Council Member James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. On behalf of the administration, I'd like to move to amend item number four under ordinances for second reading relating to the reorganization of the Division of Water Quality and amendments to the authorized strength relating thereto to abolish two additional positions of public service workers seniors and create two additional positions of sewer line maintenance field technicians transferring the incumbents. This is a material change and requires a new first reading. So move. Second. We have a second from Council Member Gray. Any discussion on this motion? Council Member Baxter. Can you just repeat that again and tell me what you changed? All right. So the motion is to amend item number four under ordinance second reading relating to the reorganization of the Division of Water Quality and amendments to the authorized strength relating thereto to abolish two additional positions of public service workers, seniors, and create two additional positions of sewer line maintenance field technicians, transferring the incumbents. Thank you. Any other discussion on this motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. So when you're ready, we'll do first reading of Ordinances 4, 8, 9, and 10. Item 4. An ordinance pursuant to Section 612 of the Charter of the Lexington-Fatts-Urban County Government to reorganize the Division of Water Quality at the request of the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works as follows. Amending classified civil service authorized strength by abolishing one position of public service worker senior, grade 510, and in creating one position of sewer line maintenance field technician, senior grade 516 and reclassifying the incumbent abolishing six position to the public service worker senior grade 510 and creating six positions of sewer line maintenance field technician grade 515 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing four positions of equipment operator grip 512 and creating four positions of sewer line maintenance field technician grade 515 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing seven positions of equipment operators senior group 515 and including seven positions of sewer line maintenance field technician grade 515 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing two positions of equipment operator senior group 15 and in creating two positions of sewer line maintenance field technician senior grade 516 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing three positions of heavy equipment operator group 516 and creating three positions of sewer line maintenance field technician senior group 516 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing six positions of public service supervisor grade 517 and in creating six positions of sewer line maintenance supervisor grade 518 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing three positions of public service supervisors senior grade 518 integrating three positions of sewer line maintenance supervisor senior grade 519 and reclassifying the incumbents reallocating one position of sewer line maintenance superintendent and the incumbent in that position from grade 522e to grade 524e and reallocating one position of CMOM program manager and the incumbent in that position from grade 523e to grade 525e and amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength as follows abolishing two unclassified civil service positions of public service apprentice grade 504n and creating two unclassified civil service positions of sewer line maintenance signature and apprentice grade 509n all on the individual water quality with all changes effective retroactive to July 1 2024 item 8 an ordinance pending articles 12 8 G 16 3 B and 21 6 B and creating new articles 30 of the zoning ordinance to address outdoor lighting regulations urban County Council item 9 an ordinance repealing article 25 of the charter to chapter 2 of the code of ordinance related to the Lexington urban County special events Commission providing that all duties of the special events Commission shall be assumed by the office of the mayor and substituting the office of the mayor for the special Commission in section 15 1.2 1 17 22 to 29.4 and 17 29.6 of the code and substituting festival or special events coordinator in section 15 1.2 2 and 17 29.8 of the code and allowing street performers to connect to the urban county power sources with written permission from the urban county government in section 17 29.8 in substituting the urban county government or its departments for the special events commission in section 13 6 of the code effective upon passage of council. And item 10, an ordinance amending certain of the budget of the Lexington Fair Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating repriving funds FY 2025, schedule number 4. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any walk-ons? All right, suspensions for second reading. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Due to our summer break starting tomorrow, and we won't be back here for a few weeks, I would like to make a motion to suspend the rules and give second readings to number four, eight, and nine. Number ten has a schedule so we won't be able to do that one. So moved. Second. Okay and we have a second from Councilmember Reynolds. Any questions on that? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right that motion passes so when you're ready let's do second reading. Oh I'm sorry. Uh sorry. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have a couple of questions for number eight, Director Duncan. So this is the ordinance amending, so it's the lighting ordinance. I think when we talked about this ordinance last, the council has sent this to the planning commission for review and then it came back to the full council. Can you speak to some of the changes that the planning commission had made and maybe justification for it council member Brown some of the the main thing that we were looking at on this lighting ordinance of course was to establish a lighting ordinance but also to identify some problems with existing lighting standards that were in other ordinances one of them being the height of parking lot lights and we see that we're running into an issue with current developments on the way the current ordinance is written with the height of parking lot lights so this ordinance does seek to to make that better for development and makes that change in addition the Division of Environmental Services is seeking a designation for the city the lead for cities designation and that will be submitted later this month and this lighting ordinance will help ensure that the that that designation can be achieved and so that that's in part why this is moving forward as well. Okay, so it is, there are some timing issues and it's probably important for us to keep this moving forward just to meet some of those deadlines. We would recommend, so Council Member Brown, particularly for the new developments that we're seeing that are in conflict with the existing lighting height standards. Okay, so just to answer some questions to folks that may be in the neighborhoods and seeing these changes, there's still an opportunity to apply for variances with development plans in regards to the lightings, if it's needed based off of the need of the development in regards to this ordinance, this change to the ordinance? Yes, Councilman Brown, as always, if there is a conflict with what's in the regulations and challenges on the particular site that warrant a variance, that can be requested either through the Board of Adjustment or at the time of the development plan. Okay, okay. All right, thank you. I just wanted some clarification on that. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Sheehan. Thank you, Director, for being here to help answer questions. Just for the public, these lighting ordinances changes apply to new development going forward. It's not retroactive, correct? That's correct. Redevelopment, of course, would apply as well, but that would require a new development plan or a new landscape plan. We expect this will mostly be seen for the foreseeable future in new development. and then could you talk a little bit about I know the Planning Commission when they reviewed this they made us a slight change to the wording could you talk a little bit about why that change was made or what the effect is if you don't mind I'll ask mr. Taylor to help us with that thank you there was one change that was requested by the Planning Commission to extend the requirement for a land a lighting plan when it's so the requirement states that when a landscape plan is required on a development plan that a lighting or the lighting plan is also required that provision was extended to conditional uses in the agricultural zone so in the event that into conditional use is sought for in the AG zone if there's a light if there's a site plan involves a landscape plan the same provision would then apply and so that was the only change okay thank you for that clarification and for giving us more information about the timing as well thank you thank you thank you council Reynolds thank you vice mayor excuse me can you talk how this does or does not address residential lighting this lighting ordinance is comprehensive it doesn't go into individual zones it doesn't break down categorization that way it's sort of across the board so the goal here is to address this fully shielded lighting so it would apply in new residential development as well so goal here is that you know in the future somebody puts up a floodlight on their property you know just like would happen now a resident would be able to call 3-1-1 file a complaint and say i've got a non-compliant lighting that's shining like a spotlight onto our property so we through the course of our normal dealings on development we hear from both commercial and private property owners about light spilling and bleeding over across property lines and so it does apply to residential lighting because the standard for fully shielded lighting is sort of across the board But it doesn't go back and take care of previous developments that might have light pollution in some way or someone that's complaining about that. This is for new developments moving forward, correct? That's correct. Okay. So if we wanted to address that, that would be kind of separate that we would do? Yes. Okay. Thank you. That's helpful. Thank you very much. That's all. Thank you. Apologies, colleague, for rushing through. I didn't see your names on there. I believe we have taken a vote to approve second reads. so when you're ready we'll do second read of ordinances four eight and nine please item four and orange pursuing pursuant to section 612 of the charter the license fair urban county government to reorganize the video water quality at the request of the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works as follows amending classified civil service authorized strength by abolishing one position of public service worker senior grade 510 and creating one position of sewer line maintenance field technician senior grade 516 and reclassifying the income and abolishing six positions of public efforts worker senior group have 10 and creating six positions of sewer line maintenance field technician great 55 15 and reclassifying incumbents abolishing four positions of equipment operator great 512 and creating four positions of sewer line maintenance field technician great 515 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing seven positions of equipment operator senior group at 15 and recruiting seven positions of sewer line maintenance field technician good 515 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing two positions of equipment operator senior group at 15 and creating two positions of sewer line maintenance field technician see your group 516 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing three positions of heavy equipment operator great 516 and creating three positions of sewer line maintenance field technician senior group 516 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing six positions of public service supervisor groups 517 in and creating six positions of sewer sewer line maintenance supervisor grade 518 and reclassifying the incumbents abolishing three positions positions of public service supervisor senior grade 518 and recruiting three positions of sewer line maintenance supervisor senior group 519 and reclassifying the incumbents reallocating one position of sewer line maintenance superintendent and the incumbent in that position from grade five two two eight to grade five two four e and reallocating one position of cmon program manager and the incumbent in that position from grade 523 e to grade 525 e and amending the unclassified civil service authorized strength as follows abolishing two unclassified civil service positions of public service or apprentice grade 504 and creating two unclassified civil service positions of sewer line maintenance technician and apprentice grade 509 and all in the division water quality with all changes effective retroactive to july 1 2024 item 8. an ordinance submitting article 12 8g 16 3b and 21 6b including a new article 30 of the zoning ordinance to address outdoor lighting regulations urban county council item 9 an ordinance repealing article 25 of the charter to two of the code of ordinance related to the license for urban county special events commission providing that all duties of the special events commission shall be assumed by the office of the mayor and substituting the office of the mayor for the special events commission in section 15 1 2 1 17 29 4 and 17 29 6 of the code and substituting the festival or special events coordinator in section 15122 and section 17298 of the code allowing the street performers to connect to the urban county power sources with written permission from the urban county government in section 17298 and substituting the urban county government and its departments for the special events commission in section 1360 the code effective upon pass it of council thank you thank you when you're ready let's do a roll call vote please motion to approve no yeah that we have a motion and a second from councilmember civigne now we can do a recall councilmember plowman councilmember reynolds yes councilmember civigne yes Councilmember Sheehan? Yes. Vice Mayor Wu? Yes. Councilmember Fred Brown? Yes. Councilmember James Brown? Yes. Councilmember Ellinger? Yes, ma'am. Councilmember Eliott Baxter? Councilmember Fogle? Yes. Councilmember Gray? Yes. Councilmember Legree? Yes. Councilmember Lynch? Yes. And Councilmember Minares? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And when you're ready, we'll do second reading of resolutions, please. item one a declaration of official intent with respect to reimbursement of temporary advances made for capital expenditures to be made from subsequent borrowings with respect to various capital improvement projects of the Lexington Fair urban county government item two a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the county government to execute a multi-year agreement to procure software and related services under the same terms and conditions as ma 758-180000017 a contract between SHI incorporated and the Commonwealth of Kentucky including proposal 24914828 at a cost not to exceed $1,306,579.09 in FY 2025 with future renewals subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds and authorizing the chief information officer or her designee on behalf of the urban county government to execute and the necessary documents related to the procurement. Item 3. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute an agreement with the FIT fiscal court accepting and establishing funding for fiscal year 2025 county road aid projects in the rural service area. Item 4. A resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of urban county government executed forgivable loan agreement and related documents with red draw liberty llc pursuant to the public infrastructure program for sanitary sewer infrastructure improvements as well as the creation of jobs that cost to receive 489 613 item five a resolution authorizing directly on behalf of lexian for urban county government to execute contract modification number three with ea partners in order to increase the contract price by 22 762.50 for design service related to the town branch trail crossing raising the total contract price from 130 thousand eight hundred ninety five dollars to one hundred fifty three thousand six hundred fifty seven dollars and fifty cents item six it was a resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the mechanic government as and as a result of the prior authorization authorization of acceptance of federal funds from the surface transportation block grant in resolution 124 2024 to execute an agreement with the kentucky transportation cabinet cabinet to update the lexington area travel demand forecasting model tdfm and further stipulating the role responsibility and cost share between the government and the cabinet as part of the lexington area metropolitan planning organizations in PO FY 2025 unified plan planning working program at a cost not to see $10,000 item 7 a resolution authorizing directly on behalf of the urban county government accept an award of $19,077.50 in federal funds awarded to the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management under the federal emergency management performance grant EMA 2022 additional funding award in order to purchase and install one outdoor warning siren system the acceptance of which obligates urban county government to the expenditure of $19,077.50 as a local match and authorize the mayor to execute any necessary given related to these federal funds and authorizing major transfer adequate funds with the grant budget item 8 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of our beginning government execute a lease agreement with the residential park caretaker properties for the following individuals and on the listed properties in consideration of the sum stated in the monthly rent Samuel Garcia for 3990 Raven runway $590 for Fred Williamson for 50 40 51 Richmond Road $185 Teresa Jill Farmer for 3401 Shamrock Lane 700 and Brian Heddle for 3561 Shamrock Lane $550 item 9 a resolution authorizing directly man behalf of our making a government execute and submit a grant application seeking 150 fifty three thousand two hundred twenty seven dollars in federal funds from the use Department of Justice under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistant Grant Jag program in fiscal year 2025 for equipment for the Lexington Police Department and to provide any additional information request in connection with this grant application item 10 a resolution authorizing a direct the mayor on behalf of Lexington urban county government execute an agreement with the Lexington urban county Human Rights Commission HRC to support the operating cost of the HRC for fiscal year 2025 and a cost not to exceed $412,990. And item 11, a resolution authorizing and approving the transfer of council capital project funds to the Division of Parks and Recreation in the amount of $12,000 for the Sense of Place Hamlet initiative project and $80,000 for improvements at Brewstown Park. Thank you. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve? Second. Well first I need it, yes there you go. Motion from Council Councilmember Sevigny second from Councilmember Gray and when you're ready let's have a roll call vote please. Councilmember Plumman? Yes. Councilmember Reynolds? Yes. Councilmember Sevigny? Yes. Councilmember Sheehan? Yes. Vice Mayor Womb? Yes. Councilmember Fred Brown? Yes. Councilmember James Brown? Yes. Councilmember Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Elliott Baxter? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Fogle? Yes. Councilmember Gray? Yes. Councilmember Legree? Yes. Councilmember Lynch? Yes. And Councilmember Menares? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. When you're ready, let's do first reading of resolutions, please. Item 12, a resolution accepting the bid of Herrick Company Incorporating the amount of $1,041,800 for the West Hitman Wastewater Treatment Plant Oto Control Improvements the division water quality and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the government to execute an agreement with the hair company incorporated related to the bid item 13 a resolution accepting a bit of in envisions incorporated the amount of 25,950 for the electrical substation painting for town branch wastewater treatment plant for the division water quality item 14 a resolution ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of shannon godfrey special support special specialist supervisor grade 519 and 29.327 hourly in individual computer services effective june 18 2024 brandon walkens public service worker senior grade 510 and 16.167 hourly individual water quality effective june 4 2024 james baker industrial mechanic grade 517 and 23.711 hourly and the individual water quality effective june 42024 jeremy bailey safety specialist great 518 and 23.786 hourly individual water quality effective june 4 2024 matthew patrick security officer officer grade 511 and 16.974 hourly individual public safety safety effective June 24 20 24 Judith Cox police analyst grade 5 15 and 23.7 a hourly division of police effective June 18 2024 Tammy Jones administrative specialist senior grade 518 and 31.0 99 hourly in the individual police effective June 18 20 24 Dennis Taylor building inspection manager grade 524 e 3052.24 bi-weekly in the division of planning inspection effective June 18 2024 crystal Brown administrative specialist principal grade 520 and $30 hourly in the Department of Social Services effective June 18th 2024 Yaneth Garcia Medina early child care assistant teacher group 510 and 16.985 hourly in the division of family services effective June 18 2024 item 15 it was a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of our mechanic government execute agreements the final form of which shall be approved by the division of grants and special programs in the Department of Law with Qureshi development group to provide 1 million four hundred thirty thousand five hundred fourteen dollars in federal funds home and home ARP under the home investment partnership program for the MLK apartment project pending approval approvals of all necessary budget amendments item 16 a resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of the beginning government to execute an agreement with Tania Walker to serve as director of the it takes the village summer youth program for one Lexington it across not received $8,000 item 17 a resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of Lexington urban county government to execute an agreement with Andrews counseling and consulting PLLC to provide counseling support to support to participants of the it takes the village summer youth program for one Lexington and across not to see $28,000 item 18 a resolution authorizing and directly man behalf are beginning to execute a release of claims agreement with sergeant Robert Fraser for the care of retired canine ace item 19 a resolution authorizing authorizing the mayor on behalf of our beginning government to execute a lease agreement with the Board of Education of Fiat County Kentucky to lease 25 acres portion of southern middle school for meadow meadowbrook golf course from the date execution through June 30 2025 at a cost not to exceed $1 item 20 a resolution authorizing the American behalf of beginning government to accept an award for the fire training incentive grant from the Commission Commission on fire protection personnel students in education which great funds are in the amount of four million fifty nine thousand two hundred fifty four dollars in common with the Kentucky funds for fire training and issued is for firefighters for FY 2025 the exception of which does not obligate the urban kind of government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing major transfer and a couple of friends in the great budget and 21 a resolution authorizing of the man they have a beginning except an award for the police training incentive grant from the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet under the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund which grant funds are in the amount of four million one hundred seventy thousand one hundred ninety eight dollars in Commonwealth of Kentucky funds for police training incentives for FY2025 the extent of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing the way to transfer any preference in the grant budget item 22 it was an authorizing direct the mayor on behalf of the Lexington urban county government execute an agreement with the Bluegrass Area Development District incorporated for the acceptance of federal and state grant funds in the amount of 183,455 dollars for operation the Lexington senior center for FY 2025 the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government for the expenditure of 234,580 dollars as a local matching authorizing marriage transfer adequate funds with the grant budget item 23 a resolution of the Lexington Fair urban county government accepting the grant of 1 million 281,696 dollars in federal funds from the Kentucky cleaner water round 2 grant ARPA for the replacement of chemical disinfectant equipment at both the town branch and West Hitman wastewater treatment plants with ultra violet disinfectant disinfection equipment the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure of funds and approving grant assistance agreement authorizing the amendment of the license for urban county government's annual budget and authorizing a representative to sign all related documents item 24. A resolution authorizing and directing mayor on behalf of the urban county government to execute a second renewal of the agreement with Mackey group LLC DBA was their strategy award pursuant to RP number 28 2022 for creative design services for public outreach and media campaigns related to water quality and leaf collection for the division of environmental services at a cost to exceed $60,000 item 25 if religion authorizing the division of police to purchase software from magnet forensic LLC a source source provider and authorizing mayor on behalf of our mechanic execute and a necessary group with magnet forensic LLC related to the procurement and it costs not to see $18,150 item 26 a position authorizing and directly on behalf of our beginning of next you get a second amendment to the agreement with Mackey group LLC DBA wiser strategy increasing the contract price by the amount amount not to exceed $20,000 for an increase in advertising related to safe streets messaging and authorizing renewal of the agreement for another one year for the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works raising the total contract price from three hundred eighty thousand to four hundred four hundred thousand dollars in FY 2025 item 27 a resolution authorizing and directly on behalf of our mechanic of next execute an agreement would resume to RFP number 372024 with Kentucky Associates Association for environmental education to provide environmental education services for FY 2025 with the option of four of four one-year extensions at a cost of receive five hundred seventy thousand six hundred thirty six dollars and twenty seven cents in FY 2025 item 28 a resolution authorizing and direct the mayor on behalf of every kind of government to execute a memorandum and understanding with the administrative office of the courts for citation data transfer item 29 a resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of every kind of next year an agreement related to neighborhood development funds for the Friends of the Parks and Fayette County incorporated $500 when burn neighborhood association incorporated 250 casa the Lexington incorporated 5,000 and african-american forum incorporated 1,175 dollars for the office of the urban county council at a cost to see the sum stated item 30 it resolution approving the assignment of various agreements with waste services of the bluegrass LLC to republic services of Kentucky LLC relating to the waste management with disposable and transfer station operation and authorizing and directing mayor on behalf of urban county government and the urban county government public facilities corporation to execute any necessary documents related here to at no additional cost to the urban county government all subject to and condition upon the approval of the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works and the Department of Law and all other approvals necessary to give force and effect to this assignment item 31 at resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of every kind of government execute change rule number four to the agreement with the Latko Incorporated for the Main Street Baptist Church parking lot renovation Jefferson Street Viaduct increasing the contract price by the sum of forty six thousand five hundred $128, raising the total price to $1,569,005.35. And item 32, a resolution authorizing under the Division of Traffic Engineering to install two sets of speed tables on end and drive as traffic calming devices pursuant to Section 1851 of the Code of Ordinances and further authorizing and approving the transfer of Council capital project funds to the Division of Traffic Engineering in the amount of $12,000 representing the cost of such installation. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any walk-ons? Suspensions, Councilmember Ellinger. Thank you Vice Mayor. Once again, since we're going on break and we'll be gone for a few months, on behalf of the administration, I make a motion to suspend the rules and get second reading for resolutions 12 through 32. So moved. Second. We have a second from Councilmember Gray. Any discussion on this motion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes, so when you're ready, let's do a second reading of resolutions, please. item 12 a resolution a resolution accepted a bit of hair at company incorporated in the amount of 1 million 41,800 for the West Hickman wastewater treatment odor control improvements for the divisional water quality authorizing there on behalf of our beginning of next you get an agreement with her company incorporated related to the bid and 13 a resolution something a bit of in visions incorporated the amount of 29,950 dollars for the electrical substation painting for the town branch wastewater treatment plant for the division of water quality item 14 a resolution ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of shane and goffrey support special supervisor grade 519 and 29.327 hourly in the video computer services effective June 18 2024 Brandon Watkins public service worker grade senior grade 510 and 16.1 167 hourly individual water quality effective June 4, 2024 James Baker industrial mechanic great 517 and 23.7 on one hourly individual water quality effective June 4, 2024 Jeremy Bailey safety specialist great 518 and 23.7 86 hourly in the water quality effective June 4, 2024 Matthew Patrick security officer great 511 and 16.97 for hourly individual water of public safety effective June 4, 2024 Judith Cox police analyst great 515 and 23.798 hourly individual police effective June 18, 2024 Tammy Jones administrative Specialist Senior we have 518 and 31.099 hourly in the division of police effective June 18 2024 Jenis Taylor building inspection manager great 524 e 3052.24 bi-weekly in the building inspection effective June 18 20 24 crystal brown administration of specialist principle we 520 and $30 hourly in the department of social services effective in 18 2024 Yaneth Garcia Mandina early childcare assistant teacher great 510 and 16.9 85 hourly in the division of family services effective June 18 2024 item 15 a religion authorizing authorizing directly mayor on behalf of every kind of government execute agreements and the final form of which shall be approved by the divisional grants and special programs in the department of law with koreshi development group to provide 1 million four hundred thirteen thousand five hundred fourteen dollars in federal funds home home arp under the home investment partnership program for the mlk apartment project pending approval of all necessary budget amendments item 16. a resolution authorizing with man behalf of be lexan for urban county government to execute an agreement with tania walker to serve as director of the it takes the village summer youth program of one likes intended to cost not to see the eight thousand dollars item 17. a resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of lexan fairer beginning to execute an agreement with andrews counseling and consulting plc to provide counseling support to participants to it takes the village summer youth program for one likes intent at the cost of receipt twenty eight thousand dollars item 18. a resolution authorizing the director mayor on behalf of beginning government to execute a release of claims agreement with sergeant robert fraser for the care of retired case canine ace item 19. a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of beginning government to execute a lease agreement with the board of education fiat county kentucky to lease 25 acres 25 acre portion of southern middle school for metal meadow brick golf course from the date of execution through june 30 20 25 at a cost not to see one dollar item 20. a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of lakes and for urban county government accept an award of the fire training incentive grant for the commission of fire protection personnel standards and education which grant funds are the amount of four million fifty nine thousand two hundred fifty four dollars in commonwealth of kentucky funds for fire training initiatives for firefighters for fy 2025 the acceptance does does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer adequate funds within the grant budget. And 21, a resolution authorizing and direct the mayor on behalf of urban county government accept an award for the police training incentive grant from the Kentucky Justice of Public Safety Cabinet under the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund, which grant funds on the amount of $4,170,198 in commonwealth of Kentucky funds for police training incentive for FY 2025, the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure funds and authorizing to transfer any funds within the grant budget item 22 a resolution authorizing on behalf of the lakes and fat urban county government execute an agreement with a bluegrass area development district incorporated for the acceptance of federal and state grant funds in the amount of 183,455 dollars for the operation links in senior center for FY 2025 the acceptance of which obligates the urban county government to the expenditure of two hundred thirty four thousand five hundred eighty dollars as a local match and authorizing magic transfer out of funds in the grant budget item 23 a resolution of the Lexington Fair urban county government accepting a grant of 1 million 281 thousand six hundred ninety six dollars in federal funds from the Kentucky Cleaner Water Round 2 grant ARPA for the replacement of chemical disinfectant equipment at both the town branch and West Hickman and wastewater treatment plant the with ultraviolet disinfection equipment the acceptance of which does not obligate the urban county government to the expenditure funds approving the grant assistance agreement authorizing the amendment of the Lexington Fair urban government's annual budget and authorizing representative to sign all related documents item 24 a resolution authorizing a dr. mayor behalf of beginning up next to a second renewal of the agreement with Mackey group LLC DBA was all strategies awarded pursuant to RP number 2820 22 for creative design services for public outreach and media campaigns related to water quality and leaf collection for the division of environmental services at a customer exceeds $60,000 and 25 a resolution authorizing the division please to purchase software for magnet forensic LLC a social provider and authorizing mayor on behalf of every kind of government to execute an unnecessary agreement with magnet forensics LLC related to procurement I cost not received $18,150 item 26 a resolution authorizing and directly mayor on behalf of our beginning of next you get a second amendment to the agreement with Mackey group LLC to be a wiser strategies increasing the contract price by an amount not to exceed $20,000 when an increase in advertising related to safe streets messaging and authorizing renewal of the agreement for another one-year term for the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works raising the total contract price from three hundred eighty thousand to four hundred eighty dollars in FY 2025 I have a 27 a resolution authorizing with the mayor on behalf of our beginning up next you get an agreement were pursuant to our P number 37 20 24 with Kentucky Association for environmental education to provide educational environmental education services for FY 2025 the option with the option of for one-year extensions that it costs over see five hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred thirty six dollars and 25 27 in FY 2025 item 28 the resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of our beginning of an executive member of understanding with the administrative office of the courts for citation data transfer item 29 a resolution authorizing director mayor on behalf of our beginning of an executive agreement related to neighborhood development funds with friends of the Parks and Fayette County incorporated 500 Winburn neighborhood association 250 cost of Lexington incorporated 5,000 and African American forum incorporated 1,175 dollars for the office of urban county Council to cost not to see the sum stated item 30 a resolution of a resolution approving the assignment of various agreements with waste services of the Bluegrass LLC to Republic services of Kentucky LLC relating to waste management disposal and transfer station operations and authorizing and directly on behalf of every gonna come next and the urban County government public facilities corporation to execute any necessary documents related here to there to and at no additional cost to the urban County government all subject to and condition upon the approval of Department of environmental quality and public works the Department of Law and any other approvals necessary to give force in effect to the assignment item 31 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of our beginning of the execute change order number four to the agreement with LACO incorporated for the Main Street Baptist Street parking lot renovation Jefferson Street Viaduct increasing the contract price by the sum of forty six thousand five hundred twenty eight dollars and raising the total price to one million five hundred and seventy nine thousand sixty nine thousand five dollars and thirty five cents and item 32 a resolution authorizing and directing the division of traffic engineering to install two sets of speed tables on end and drive as traffic calming devices pursuant to section 1851 of the code of ordinances and further authorizing and improving the transfer of council capital project funds to the division of traffic engineering in the amount of $12,000 representing the cost of such installation thank you thank you can I get a motion for approval Council member Ellinger, council member Plowman, when you're ready, let's do a roll call vote please. Council member Plowman? Yes. Council member Reynolds? Yes. Council member Savigny? Yes. Council member Sheehan? Yes. Vice Mayor Wu? Yes. Council member Fred Brown? Yes. Council member James Brown? Yes. Council member Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Council member Elliott Baxter? Yes ma'am. Council member Fogle? Yes. Council member Gray? Yes. Council member Legree? Yes. Council member Lynch? Yes. And council member Minaris? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is communications from the mayor appointments. I'll need a motion to approve. Second. Let's see, council member Baxter, council member Sheehan, any questions or discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Next up is communications from the mayor procurements. I'll take a motion as well. So moved. Second. Councilmember Gray and Councilmember Menares, any discussion on this item? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes. Next is communications from the mayor for your information only. We don't have fire or police discipline, so we're on to councilmember announcements. Colleagues, please log in. Councilmember James Brown. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to add on to what council members had said earlier about our parks department and the good job that they do delivering services across our community. I think it's just a reflection of the leaders that we have in that department, from the commissioner to the director and then the whole team. So just kudos to them for all they do. And then also sticking with that same theme, our finance department, for the 32nd year in a row has been awarded the prestigious Government Finance Officers Association Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for their annual comprehensive financial report. I think that, you want me to say it again real slow? But no, I think that also is a reflection of the leadership in that department and that division and the confidence that we have in them, and it just shows in this professional rating that they receive. for 32nd consecutive years so kudos to you commissioner and your team and the finance department and all the other departments and the divisions that are involved with that audit that's all i have thank you vice mayor thank you councilmember sheehan thank you vice mayor i just want to say a quick thank you to my colleagues for um voting unanimously to pass ordinance number six on our docket tonight this is the crime victim paid leave i think it sends a great message that we care about the well-being of all of our employees at lfucg but also to the employers in our community we have set an example for them on the policies that we can put in place that are consistent with the things that we would like to see in the community but also the it's time campaign that we have been highlighting throughout the community. So thank you all for your vote tonight. I'd also like to thank quickly Stephanie Theakston in social services, Glenda George and Nicole Rodriguez in HR. This policy is effective upon passage so they are ready to implement it immediately. And I would like to also thank Michael Cravens in law for his help on this and Brittany Scordo at The Nest for bringing this idea to me and talking with me about it. So thank you all. Thank you. We're on to public comment. When I call your name, please come to the podium, give your name and council district for the record, and you will have three minutes unless you've been yielded to. First off is Stephen Rue here. Did I say your name correctly? Okay. And you are yielding your time to Elizabeth Rue. Okay. and then is Musa Saman here okay did I say your name right great and you are also yielding to Elizabeth Rue is that correct okay so Elizabeth Rue you're up and you will have nine minutes hi my name is Liz Rue and I'm a Lexington resident from district 10 on On June 27th, your council unanimously passed a resolution that bans sharing media during public comment. Please know that we recognize this is in response to Lexington residents speaking out about human beings being killed with our tax dollars. A reminder that Kentucky contributes millions to the Israeli military every year, and we have three weapon manufacturers in this state in contracts with the IDF. There is no denying that our tax dollars are going towards murdering humans. your resolution you stated that public comment is a privilege you all clearly need to be reminded of what your elected role is in the city the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government Ethics Act section 25 to states the proper operation of democratic government requires that public officials and employees be responsible to the people that government decisions and policy be made in the best interest of the people in the community the public should have confidence in the integrity of its government this is obviously not happening given that Lexington residents have been coming to these council meetings for months asking you to call for a ceasefire not only are you violating your own ethics act in failing to represent us you are going a step further to restrict our voices vice mayor will you're self-proclaimed activists serving on the Human Rights Commission board I voted for you and supported you does this not seem like a human rights issue to you 15,000 children killed with our tax dollars you have stated that your government works for you and that it's important to be accountable to the people you serve and truly connecting with your local communities well here we are holding you accountable yet you voted to restrict our voices councilmember Fogle you shared on your issues page imagine a district where the people are excited I'm sorry I'm sorry I don't want to cut you off for your time but our council rules state no personal attacks. Oh okay I will move on from that. Okay does your all's activism not extend to liberation for all which includes Palestinian and Jewish people both in our Lexington community and abroad. Violence begets violence, extremism begets extremism. There is no safety when we allow violence like this to continue and be funded by us. There is no safety when we become conditioned to seeing dead children as just war. No, we refuse this. We don't want this. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. profoundly stated that the ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. And we are here asking, holding you accountable, can we please stop multiplying this violence. We do not want our tax dollars being sent to harm other human beings, people just like you and me. We are here asking you to stop perpetuating this violence. Myself and my community will remember this, and we will not vote for you again. You are playing a role in restricting our freedom of speech, contributing to the fascist nosedive our country is taking. It is extremely disheartening to see members I have supported with my time and money vote unanimously to restrict free speech I feel very disappointed in how you are handling the situation how you voted unanimously to suppress our voices you're supposed to represent and advocate for us those are the talking points you run on yet your actions speak otherwise we'll remember we ask that you please move your constituents are here asking for the council to call for a ceasefire there are no excuses we have weapon manufacturing companies in this state. Each of you has power, however small that power may seem to some, to enact change. Instead, you've chosen to further restrict your people's voice. I want to spend the rest of this time sharing from the book and speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr titled Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence. A reminder that King was not liked by white Americans in his time, with a favorable rating of only 27 percent in 1966. Now almost every American adult 95 percent believes he was an important figure in U.S. history. I hope this prompts some self-reflection. The speech was delivered in 1967 during the height of the Vietnam War. Writer Viet Nam Nguyen shares this in the foreword. King's audience was first and foremost his fellow Americans. He wanted to address address the political and moral culpability of his country, the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Even more radically, King argues that the war was an expression of capitalistic greed, with the United States making peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. But King's vision of peace and justice exceeded American boundaries, and saw how the American war was not only slaughtering Vietnamese innocence but was destroying whatever American innocence remained after centuries of settler colonialism slavery and wars of expansion. King fell victim to the American violence that he had protested against and to which he had borne stubborn courageous witness. The violence was and is endemic to the United States arising from its origins in genocide, warfare, and enslavement. That violence succeeded in killing him, but it failed to silence him. We still have a choice today, King said, nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. His day is still our day. His past continues in our present, and his challenge remains. The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, I definitely do, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history. King chose and spoke out. Shall we? please join the 50 other US City Councils that have passed resolutions for ceasefire and I apologize for individually calling you out thank you all so much for your time thank you next up is Mallory sailors hello my name is mallory sailors and i'm from district 11. um like elizabeth said i understand some recent changes have been made here to alter public comments so i will abide by these rules um however like was previously stated i would like to say for the record that i take issue with the statement that was made that direct communication between citizens and their local government is a privilege it is not a privilege it is a right i'm disappointed and ashamed that this is the stance our local government has decided to take against its community. So since I cannot show it to you, since it's something that you cannot bear to see, I will describe what I woke up to on the morning of July 4th. As many Americans were enjoying a paid day off from work, firing up their grills and making firework watching plans, I scrolled through social media and saw the following images broadcasted from Gaza. I saw ponds of children's blood pooled under the rubble of their school, courtesy of an American built and funded Israeli-fired missile. I saw a grandmother carrying blood-soaked sacks filled with as many pieces of her family as she could gather before running from the next bomb. I saw the face of a child completely detached from the rest of their body or head. A ghoulish sight that will stay with me for the rest of my life. i saw these in dozens more like i do on any day that i have the heart to look and all of these horrific sites are something that i am complicit in every day that i live in a country and serve a community who benefits from this humanity this inhumanity i am complicit and so are all of you i'm here doing the absolute bare minimum to voice my opposition against this abhorrent, systematic destruction of human life. And we are continuing to ask you to do the bare minimum. Our leaders, those who represent us, speak up and let the world know that these aren't Lexington's values and our city doesn't stand for genocide. Thank you for your time. Thank you. is Arsh Ansari here and you're giving your time to Alaa Hassan okay Alaa Hassan you'll have six minutes hi my name is Alaa Hassan and I'm a constituent of district 12. I came up here to talk about the same things that both of my previous colleagues talked about, which is the censorship that you all have put into city council by taking away media and sound and amongst other things to help tell our story, help tell the story of residents, of Palestinians. So I'm not going to go through it again. I will say, however, or give my personal opinions on it. However, I will read the Lex for Palestine statement that was released after the June 27th council meeting. And I have it here. So, earlier this week, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council passed by a unanimous vote, 13 to 0, a resolution that amends the rules regarding public comment, banning the making of presentations, multimedia or otherwise. Essentially, the council has banned the playing of videos and the audio, as well as displaying images from public comment. Lex for Palestine is vehemently opposed to these changes, believing that constituents should be able to make their voices heard by their representatives in the manner they find most effective. In the resolution, the Council refers to the public comment as a privilege given to the citizens of Lexington. We believe this is a twisted perversion of what the public comment represents. The ability to make our voices heard is fundamental to the American democracy. By describing the public comment as a privilege given to the citizens of Lexington, the Council shows a disgusting disregard for basic democratic principles under the guise of civility and decorum. The truth is, we firmly believe this rule change comes as a direct result of our actions over the last few months in support of a ceasefire in Gaza. The truth is that Lex for Palestine has used public comment to plead, challenge, and educate our elected representatives on how the death and destruction in Gaza inflicted by Israel affects us in Lexington. The harsh truth is that this issue was never raised until we began to make our representatives listen to the pain and misery that they enable through their indifference and inaction. Despite yesterday's disappointing vote, Lex for Palestine remains more committed than ever to advocating for a free and flourishing Palestine. These new rules will not stop us from making our voices heard at council meetings. For as long as our council refused to call for a ceasefire, and for as long as Palestine remains under Israeli occupation, we will continue to make our representatives listen to our accounts of how their apathy enables the genocide of Palestinian people. We continue to stand in solidarity with Gaza, with Palestine, and with those seeking complete liberation from their oppressors. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. As you can see, I'm not the only one that feels this way. A lot of people in Lexington feel the same as we do. This privilege that we have is not a privilege, it's a right, and we use it to show humanity. We use it to plead our case. We use it to show that Palestinians are also humans and that they deserve to be listened to, to be heard in their voices. is. Whenever we play the sound of drones, it's to show you that they don't have quiet, and that we have the privilege of quiet when we want it. When Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire and said, free Palestine, free Palestine, that's something you all need to hear so that you can feel more than just words you hear it from his voice and it should prompt you to change it should move something stir something inside of you but i can see now that what it did was i assume threaten you in some way to make you feel as if you had to censor us and the way that we deliver our message to you. I don't know if you guys saw the recent numbers, but we've been talking here at 30,000, 40,000 martyrs in Palestine, and there was an article released not long ago from The Lancet, which is a peer-reviewed medical journal that said, conservatively, the estimate of Palestinians murdered is 186,000 Palestinians. 186,000 martyrs on the conservative end. Lexington has a population of about 320,000 people. 186,000 is over half of that amount. Imagine if over half of Lexington constituents were just gone in nine months' time, and you couldn't do anything about it. you can do something about this. Call for a ceasefire. That is the least we can do here in Lexington. Thank you. Thank you. And before we adjourn, I just want to wish my colleagues a safe and relaxing recess, and we'll be back to work in August. Thank you all. We are adjourned. I'm going to go to the next video.