# Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee - January 14, 2025 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Committee · January 14, 2025 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6312 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6312?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2025-01-14 - **Body**: Committee - **Last revised**: March 28, 2026 - **Length**: 315 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Environmental Quality and Public Works (EQPW) Committee met on January 14, 2025, at 12:45 P.M., with the Vice Mayor presiding over the session. The meeting featured a single agenda item focused on the organizational business of electing a Committee Chair and selecting a Vice Chair, which was approved. One vote was taken during the meeting, no presentations were given, and no public comments were heard. The session was brief and procedural in nature, establishing the committee's leadership structure for the coming period. ## Attendance The following 10 members were present at the January 14, 2025 Committee meeting: - J. Brown - T. Morton - H. LeGris - E. Curtis - L. Sheehan - D. Gray - J. Hale - A. Beasley - D. Sevigny - H. Boone No members were recorded as absent or late. ## Votes and Decisions One motion was brought forward and decided during the January 14, 2025 Committee meeting. - **Nomination of Council Member Hannah LeGris as Chair of EQPW** [timestamp: 0:03:38]: A motion was made by D. Sevigny and seconded by A. Beasley to nominate Council Member Hannah LeGris as Chair of the EQPW Committee. The motion was decided by a voice vote and **passed**. As this was a voice vote rather than a roll call vote, individual member votes are not recorded. ## Appointments The committee took action on two leadership appointments during the January 14, 2025 meeting. - **Hannah LeGris** was appointed as **Chair of EQPW**. - **D. Sevigny** was appointed as **Vice Chair of EQPW**. Both appointments were confirmed by the committee, establishing the leadership structure for EQPW with LeGris in the chair role and Sevigny serving in a supporting capacity as vice chair. ## Election of Committee Chair / Selection of Vice Chair [timestamp: 03:38] The committee conducted its election of a Chair and selection of a Vice Chair at the outset of the meeting. Key speakers during this item included D. Sevigny, A. Beasley, and H. LeGris. - **Chair:** H. LeGris was elected to serve as Committee Chair. - **Vice Chair:** D. Sevigny was selected to serve as Vice Chair. Both appointments were approved by the committee. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Nomination of Council Member Hannah LeGris as Chair of EQPW --- ## Full transcript do do do do do do do do do do do all right good afternoon let's go ahead and get settled council members i would like to call to order the january 14th meeting of the environmental quality and public works committee just as the last committee meeting we only have one item of business and that is to select a committee chair as before you may nominate yourself or someone else to sit serve as the chair of this committee at this time i will open the floor up for nominations for chair please sign in to speak council member savigny yes thank you chair i'd like to nominate the district three council person hannah lagree thank you do we have a second second all right we have a second from council member beasley council member lagree are you willing to serve as committee chair if elected yes vice mayor thank you i am thank you are there any additional nominations okay is there any discussion on this motion all right at this time i'll declare nominations closed and call for a vote and just a reminder particularly for the new members of this council only members of the committee may vote all those in favor of nomination for council member lagree as chair of eqpw please say aye any opposed all right that motion passes congratulations uh chair lagree your first responsibility as chair is to appoint a vice chair uh thank you vice mayor and i'd like to support our council member savigny as the vice chair if you'd be interested council member i'd be delighted to thank you okay thank you very much we have our chair and vice chair there is no other business to be conducted at this time so we stand adjourned we will reconvene at 1 p.m for the general government and planning committee thank you you