# Urban County Council - January 23, 2025 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Council · January 23, 2025 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6321 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6321?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2025-01-23 - **Body**: Council - **Last revised**: March 27, 2026 - **Length**: 19,116 words - **Speakers**: Mayor > ⚠️ **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 Urban County Council met on January 23, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers in Lexington, KY, with Mayor Gorton presiding. The meeting's agenda included two items: a recognition of Lexington East Elite Football Day, which was ultimately removed from consideration, and an informational presentation from the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works. Over the course of the meeting, the Council took 2 votes, heard 1 presentation, and received 2 public comments. ## Attendance All 16 members of the Council were present at the January 23, 2025 meeting. No members were absent or late. **Present:** - Mayor Gorton - Boone - Brown - Curtis - Ellinger - Elliott Baxter - Gray - Hale - LeGris - Lynch - Morton - Reynolds - Sevigny - Sheehan - Wu - Beasley ## Votes and Decisions The Council took roll call votes on two ordinances related to short-term rentals at approximately the five-hour mark of the meeting [timestamp: 5:00:00]. Both measures were moved by Mr. Sevigny and seconded by Ms. Curtis. - **Ordinance 0032-25** — An ordinance amending Articles to regulate Short Term Rentals in Agricultural Zones. The measure **passed 14–0 with 1 abstention**. Voting in favor were: Boone, Brown, Curtis, Elliott Baxter, Gray, Hale, LeGris, Lynch, Morton, Reynolds, Sevigny, Sheehan, Wu, and Beasley. No members voted against. - **Ordinance 1042-24** — An ordinance amending Section 13-77(b)(11) regarding Short-Term Rentals. The measure **passed 14–0 with 1 abstention**. Voting in favor were: Boone, Brown, Curtis, Elliott Baxter, Gray, Hale, LeGris, Lynch, Morton, Reynolds, Sevigny, Sheehan, Wu, and Beasley. No members voted against. Both ordinances passed unanimously among those voting, with one abstention recorded in each case. ## Budget and Financial Actions The Council considered two contract items on behalf of the Division of Water Quality at the January 23, 2025 meeting. - **Resolution 0021-25** authorized a contract with **Tribute Acquisition Co.** in the amount of **$3,602,388** for the **Wolf Run Trunk G** project for the Division of Water Quality. - **Resolution 0022-25** authorized a contract with **Cleary Construction Inc.** in the amount of **$4,288,460** for the **Floyd Drive Trunk** project, also for the Division of Water Quality. Together, the two contracts represent a combined commitment of **$7,890,848** in infrastructure work for the Division of Water Quality. Both items were presented as separate resolutions and involved distinct vendors and project scopes within the division's water quality infrastructure program. ## Public Comment Two residents addressed the Council during the public comment period at the January 23, 2025 meeting. - **Gill Dunn** [timestamp: 1:22:47] spoke in support of allowing short-term rentals in rural areas, specifically within the AG (Agricultural) District. Dunn requested that the Council review the buffer zone requirements associated with short-term rental regulations, suggesting that the current standards warrant reconsideration for properties in rural settings. - **Dave Cooper** [timestamp: 1:26:58] raised concerns about snow and ice removal on sidewalks, describing the difficulties pedestrians face when navigating snow- and ice-covered walkways. Cooper emphasized the need for the Council to give greater consideration to pedestrian safety and accessibility during winter conditions. ## Appointments The Council took action on two appointments to the Access Lexington Commission during the January 23, 2025 meeting. - **Joseph Hale** was appointed to the Access Lexington Commission. - **Anna Higgins** was reappointed to the Access Lexington Commission. ## Contested Items - **Short-Term Rentals in Agricultural Zones:** Community members raised concerns during the January 23, 2025 Council meeting regarding the proposed buffer zones for short-term rentals in agricultural areas. The disagreement centered on the specific buffer zone requirements governing where short-term rentals would be permitted within agricultural zones. No additional details about the specific parties involved beyond general community members, the precise nature of their objections, or the outcome of the discussion are available in the meeting record. ## Lexington East Elite Football Day **Agenda Item 0098-25** [timestamp: 0:05] This agenda item, titled "Lexington East Elite Football Day," was scheduled as a presentation before the Council. Vice Mayor Wu noted that the item had been removed from the docket, and no presentation took place. No discussion, debate, or public comment on the matter was recorded. ## Dept. of Environmental Quality and Public Works Presentation **Agenda Item:** 0100-25 [timestamp: 05:47] Commissioner Nancy Albright delivered a presentation on the department's response to recent winter weather events. The presentation covered the department's snow and ice plans, road ranking procedures, and the various challenges encountered during the weather response efforts. The presentation was informational in nature, providing the Council with an overview of how the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works managed winter weather conditions, including the prioritization framework used to address roads and the operational hurdles faced during the events. No vote or formal action was taken as a result of this agenda item. --- ## Decisions - **0032-25** — passed (14-0): An Ordinance amending Articles to regulate Short Term Rentals in Agricultural Zones. - **1042-24** — passed (14-0): An Ordinance amending Section 13-77(b)(11) regarding Short-Term Rentals. --- ## Full transcript music music music music music music music music So I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. And the first item of business is our roll call. Council Member Boone. Here. Thank you. Council Member Brown. Here. Council Member Curtis. Here. Council Member Ellinger. Yes, ma'am. Council Member Elliot Baxter. Yes, ma'am. Council Member Gray. Present. Council Member Hale. Yes, ma'am. Council Member Legree. Here. Council Member Lynch. Present. Council Member Morton. Here. Council Member Reynolds. Here. Council Member Savigny. Here. Council Member Sheehan. Here. Vice Mayor Wu. Here. And Council Member Beasley. Here. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have a quorum. Tonight, Council Member Dave Savigny is going to offer our invocation. Welcome. I once saw Preston Worley come out here, so I felt like this was the appropriate spot. The U.S. Book of Common Prayer has been used since the Americans' Declaration of Independence. And this prayer is for sound government that comes from that book. O Lord, our governor, bless the leaders of our land that we may be a people of peace amongst people and a blessing to other nations of the earth. Lord, keep this nation under your care. To the presidents and members of the cabinet, to governors of states, to mayors of cities, and to all in administrative authority, grant wisdom and grace in the exercise of their duties. Give grace to these servants, O Lord. To senators and representatives and councils and those who make our laws in states, cities, and towns, give courage, wisdom, and foresight to provide for the needs of all our people and to fulfill our obligations in the community of nations. Give grace to your servants, O Lord. To the judges and officers of our courts, give understanding and integrity that human rights may be safeguarded and justice served. Give grace to your servants, O Lord. And finally, teach our people to rely on your strength and to accept their responsibilities to their fellow citizens that they may elect trustworthy leaders and make wise decisions for the well-being of our society, that we may serve you faithfully in our generation and honor your holy name. For yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head of all. And the people said, Amen. Thank you so much, Councilmember Savigny. Councilmembers, before we start, we want to welcome Lexington Boy Scout Troop 382 who are here, and they are working on their requirements for citizenship in the community. I want to thank you all for being here. I have a son who's a Boy Scout and a grandson who's a Boy Scout. It's a great organization. Thank you very much. Enjoy the meeting. Hope you learn a lot. Now, we have January 16th council meeting minutes. I'll entertain a motion to approve. Motion approved. Second. Thank you. And are there any questions, comments, corrections? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Now, Vice Mayor Wu has a motion. Thank you, Mayor. I move to remove the presentation for Lexington East Elite Football Day. So moved. Second. Let's see. Who's Councilmember Legree seconded? Any questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. And next, we have Commissioner Nancy Albright who's here to give the presentation. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. It is my pleasure to bring back the presentation that was requested about the snowstorms of January 5th through the 11th, our response as a department, and what we've learned. Oh, I forgot. This is... Okay. So you can see there we have a lot to get through. I will move quickly as much as I can to keep pace with the clock. So just a brief review to make sure and remind especially those that are watching, perhaps, our snow and ice control plan. These are some excerpts from it that are specific to the road network, how we respond. I won't read it all word for word in the interest of time, but this is sort of how we plan to respond that is reviewed every year. Going further, diving a little deeper into the ranked road system and how those roads are determined every year, there is a process of both trying to figure out what we can keep on our plate and get through every year or every storm and then how we move kind of progressively across the city as the storm comes through. And then, again, we have these response levels based on the amount of snow we get. Historically, that's kind of how we've addressed these different types of events. So kind of the deeper the snow, the higher the response level. The longer we know it will take to respond, but then the higher response level we're also prepared to provide. And this is just a reminder of the group that kind of helps keep everybody moving on this effort. It is streets and roads primarily, but it is a big team effort, and we acknowledge and appreciate the fact that this whole village kind of keeps us moving towards getting everything back open. And as we dive into the actual storms, just a quick reminder, we had two named storms in one week, so pretty significant. We knew the storm was coming. You can see the date on that is January 3rd. We knew that in central Kentucky, the storm itself would be a combination of ice and snow over a period of several hours, over a day long. So as the storm kind of the prediction got closer, we knew more and more we would be prepared for periods of snow and ice, and that that would be a challenge, ice as a challenge to deal with. And we knew that the winter storm Cora coming on the heels of that other storm, Blair, also carried a significant forecast for a significant amount of snow in central Kentucky again. So we knew what we were facing, and we were prepared. This was what we planned to do. We talked about it for several days. We were not unaware that these storms were coming. We pre-treated for days leading up to it so that we would have a layer of salts on the ground mixed with the beet heat. That's been our primary additive for years. We knew that we would have to try to move into treating the ice, which, like I said, is more challenging than just pushing snow and what that would look like. And we also knew the temperatures were going to become an issue at one point. And our challenge was going to be to do as much as we could while working within the temperatures that we had to deal with. We knew that we had our fleet ready to go. We'd been talking with fleet management to make sure everything was up and ready. So we had our contractors on board. We knew we had everything that we had planned to do in place. We had our staff there before the storm started ready for it to arrive. And as I said, the weather did not unfold. It wasn't a huge surprise. These are the official readings that came from the National Weather Service. The temperatures in some places, as you probably remember, were much colder that week out in the county. And some of the low spots could get much colder. And these are actual temperatures, not wind chill temperatures. But we knew all this was kind of coming, and this is what we got. So like I said, when we knew it was coming, we set up our plan. We started executing our plan. The thing that we knew and we were prepared for, and yet the challenge that came along with the ice was the downed limbs and trees. And I wanted to just make sure and highlight something here that as the ice accumulates, it creates kind of two issues. We have to reset and retreat a lot of those primary roads again, sometimes multiple times. We have to pull crews out of trucks, out of plows, to go pick up trees and tree limbs that are blocking roads so that shifts our workforce around a little bit. And it causes our trucks to have to change how they drive, especially in the dark with the tree limbs coming down. It creates an extra layer of hazard out there. And again, every time we got new snow, we got snow Sunday, we got ice Sunday night into Monday morning. We got more snow on Monday. We got more snow on Friday night into Saturday. And every time we did that, we have to kind of reset our plan and start making sure our primary emergency roads are connected and are open first. And again, just I don't want to beat the drum too much on this, but ice is a lot different than snow. You've got to break the ice up before you can push it out of the way. Plows are heavy, and yet they're not designed to break the ice. They will kind of skip across it. So that creates a different challenge for a snow plow. I mentioned some examples. I talked to our crew about kind of giving us some examples of the challenge that came from and the different ways we tried to approach the challenge that the ice became, which was how did we get through. And sometimes, as you can see up there, whether it was repeated liquid applications, whether it was using a grater, but that can damage the pavement. So just showing kind of some examples of how much the struggle was real with the ice. And then the low temperatures caused us to actually have to suspend treatment overnight. It was more hazardous for our trucks to be out there, and they were not nearly as effective once the chemicals were no longer going to be effective. We may be doing more harm than good at some point. And then the bus route information. I know that's been a hot topic of conversation. We did receive bus route information in the spring. We received additional routes in the fall. That was after we'd already started setting our snow plow in motion. So trying to figure out how to work that new information from the fall into our plan was a challenge on our end that we hope we will be able to address. And then as the storm kind of unfolded, receiving additional information that we were all trying to kind of work on together was just a different piece of information than we'd had to work through before. And again, the trees. One thing I'll just go back over real quickly was the ice. And we all see it, and it looks really pretty. I know out my living room window it looks lovely to see the ice hanging on the trees and the way the trees all kind of bend and get a little sad but also pretty. But I didn't think about it until they told me how much that challenge of all those limbs hanging over the roadway makes it. They have to. One gentleman told me he had to reattach one of his side mirrors three times in one night. So every time you hit one of those, it hurts the tree and it hurts the truck. So they really have to take a lot of caution and give the trees a really wide berth. Again, we know the equipment suffers and the temperatures and just the constant running anyway, creating the ice on the truck created just another layer of all that. The lessons learned. The first one out of the gate was how we sync up with Fayette County schools. We feel like we're on a little better path this year than we were the year before when we had some struggles with the bus routes. We got better this year. We still have ways to go. I feel like they've given us better information. We've talked to them a little more. Continuing to build that relationship, I think, is something we're going to have to continue to work on. Communication during the event is another one. How we communicate with the council and the city leaders and the public about what we're doing and what our limitations and our challenges are maybe would be as good as information as what we are accomplishing. Again, one of the things we've been talking with our communication and public information group has been how do we educate the community about the plan, how we execute the plan, and then sometimes what the plow will and won't do and what cleared roads and treated roads mean. I think we had a lot of expectation that when we say we've been there that the road should be black or gray. It wasn't. That was frustrating for people. I realize that. How we communicate that we were there and we're working and yet your road may still have a little snow on it. Then parking became a challenge for us as well. We had a lot of parked cars, and I'm not telling people they don't have a right to do that. I'm just saying that creates just another layer of challenge for us trying to make sure we don't hit them and that we can help them make sure they can get out once we get the road cleared. What does that look like for us? And then I know some of the conversation has been turn lanes, crosswalks, our overpasses, our driveways, entrances to businesses where the plow came by and left a trail. What can we do and what can't we do or how can we communicate some of that better? Are there things we should do differently? There's not a lot we can do in the interest of efficiency, but are there things that we can talk and listen and see? Are there changes that we could entertain? And then this is what was announced last week. We do have additional trucks from Parks and Recreation already came. They came last weekend. We have additional training prepared for the Parks and Recreation employees. Thank their participation. They have not hesitated any time. We've kind of said, well, what about this? They've actually offered more than we've asked. So we have several of their employees coming for training next week, and we will we've kind of agreed as a two departments that more Parks and Recreation people will work on city streets first. And then our streets and roads crew will go help in the parks once we're to that point. So we're going to try and actually support each other through that. And I think that's awesome. One of the other things we talked about last week and we've kind of made some progress on was getting, like, landscaping contractors lined up to help with the neighborhood roads and the courts and the smaller streets, wherever we may need those. That would be something that they would be better suited for, potentially, than our big trucks. So we do have three of those contractors lined up and ready to go, and we've had interest from six others. And we're kind of getting quotes from anybody. So if they're watching, I'm happy for them to reach out. And we have started the process of purchasing the three additional tanker trucks since last week's conversation. So appreciate your all support on all of that. And I'll move to the next one. And then these are the things that we've kind of talked about. We can't fix this week or next week, but we might look at over the course of between now and the next snow season of what we would want to do as far as relooking at our ranking system and reviewing our routes. Looking at our sidewalk removal program a little more. Working with Fayette County Schools more, hopefully over the summer, so that we have the information ready to go and built in and reviewed. I know the snowplow tracker has been a hot topic this last couple of storms. And I want to just acknowledge that it was kind of built as a test case a few years ago, and it's probably time for that to be overhauled and really reviewed. If we want to bring that forward as that kind of information, what makes sense for us to bring forward? And then work with the IT department on how do we do that effectively, rather than kind of the almost ad hoc system we developed and then deployed four or five years ago now. And then if one of the topics that came up last week was the fact that are we having more significant storms more frequently, and do we need to prepare for that? And that's something that, again, we'd like to kind of take a little time to dive into. And not only just Nathan Dickerson in our office has looked at some preliminary data to say, yes, it does appear on the surface that maybe we do have to think that what we've been doing the last 10 or 15 years, that's maybe not what we do. But we want to look at that in a little more detail before we make a recommendation in the budget. So we're not quite there yet. But we are looking at that. And with that, I will be happy to answer questions. And I have my chief subject matter expert with me. All right. Thank you very much, Commissioner Albright. First up is Councilmember Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Commissioner and Director, for all your hard work in the storm and getting this presentation to us so quickly. We appreciate that. I have, like, a few random questions. So when we train drivers to plow snow and there's not snow on the ground, how do we do that? Well, there's a video course we put them through as basic training. And then they do hands-on. And then they actually go out and drive their routes. And as we move forward, we add the equipment because it's very different, you know, driving a dump truck versus driving a dump truck, which makes your truck eight feet longer. But, you know, you increase risk when you do that. But when there's poor weather preseason, like deluge or rain or things like that, we put everybody out and they do eight hours of training. And our goal is to have up to 40 hours of training per driver. Okay. That's helpful. I had a lot of people ask, like, why don't you put a plow on a garbage truck or whatever. And I wanted the point to be made that there is some significant training that goes into individuals who are helping us clear the roads. When we respond to downed limbs and trees, are those put in priority order as well? Like, or is it kind of like as they come in? Like, if there's a significant, like a whole tree versus a limb, like, how do we prioritize that part? We do triage. Triage. Okay. Well, and that's fine. No, the reason I ask is because if it's just a one-off and we're just running after each one, that doesn't seem the most efficient way to do it. So I was just curious. There's actually a hierarchy. We do address the ranked roads first with a complete blockage being the most important, followed by a lane blockage. And typically we will not pick debris up or address sidewalks until we've got things under control. For example, we had so many trees and limbs down on DeLong Road, it was actually almost three days before we could get out there and salt because we had to work our way around it so much. But we had 185 tree calls from Sunday to Wednesday to put that in context. So when you respond to a call like that, are you actually, like, just moving it and setting it to the side and then coming back? Or are you taking it with you when you go? It depends on the amount and things like that. It could be iffy. It's a lot better to cut and leave it and then come back to it. And we try to, you know, group it by neighborhood, and we just kept pulling drivers out as we, you know, got more calls. Okay. Thank you. I'll move over to schools. So there was a part of the presentation, Commissioner, where you said ranked roads in the one and one TV, whatever. It says school zones during normal hours. What does that just mean when schools are in session? What does that what does that term mean? During normal. I'm going to find it. School zones in the city are also considered rank one during normal opening hours. Yes, I think that would be when the school is in session. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I understood what that meant. And then is there anything specific that you think that we can do collectively as the government and the schools to have better communication? Is there something that I think you and I spoke about GIS being able to either access their routes or being able to overlay their routes on our maps? And I think there's some level of that already being done. But I didn't know if there was anything extra that you thought would be helpful. I do think that making sure our software cooperates better. And then I don't know if there will ever be a way that we could prioritize within the bus routes if there's a path forward for that. And if there's not, then that will always take us a little longer to get to all of them. But we are going to go back. I think one of the points was to see if there are gap. I mean, if there's ranked roads that if they shifted over a block, say, would it also improve our bus route? You know, are there opportunities like that? Okay. Thank you. My time's up, but I'll come back. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council member Curtis. Thank you, Mayor. So I wanted to ask specifically about the 12 vacancies and streets and roads. I was wondering if you could speak to what those roles are, what role they play in our weather emergency response, and how long we've had those vacancies. Typically we run 20% vacancy all the time. It's just the nature of the beast. We've never had full employment in my 23 years. And those are the frontline drivers, the class B CDL dump truck drivers. Fortunately, we have a culture where employees from other divisions, specifically parks and waste management, step forward and help fill those vacancies. We also this year made a concerted effort with the new snow plan that supervisors get in the big trucks and fill the vacancies. We've even had managers working in this past event. So when we're talking about this being sort of the nature of the beast, is there anything that you can see council doing as a legislative body that would help fill those vacancies or help us, even if we're never operating at full capacity, get a little bit closer? Well, this year was actually our best, and council had approved with human resources. We did a significant starting wage for our folks raising the pay post-COVID, and that has actually helped. In the last year, we've seen more applicants, I believe, but certainly keeping abreast of trends. Thank goodness we're not up in Cincinnati where they compete with DHL and UPS and Amazon for drivers. So we still have a lot of competition for them. Thank you. I want to turn my attention now as well to build up a little bit of what Council Member Baxter was talking about with the communication with Fayette County Public Schools. I'm wondering if you could fill perhaps some of us newbies in on what historically, when we have these types of weather emergencies, what those conversations between entities have been like, and how this situation is different from prior experiences. Up until early 2024, the communication was a little more limited. They were invited and off and on participated in our snow plan outreach effort, but there wasn't a lot of, in that space, we're really looking at the plan as a whole, and so it's hard to get down to the very fine level of routing and ranked roads and which roads are where, and so that level of conversation didn't happen very often. And now, after the storms last year, we did work more outreach, more cooperatively to get their roads, and then we still struggled on the software side of things to make it smoother to allow us to compare, and that struggle, I think, is something we can still continue to improve on. And now, really, just this last couple of storms, it was texting back and forth during the events to say, I had the Director of Transportation for the school system reach out and say, our bus driver went in this area this morning, but he would really like for someone to go over there and look at it before they come back this afternoon. So that level of communication has not, that was new. And would you say that that level of communication was helpful in this situation? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Yes. So do we see a path forward for formalizing that structure, some sort of, for lack of a better term, creating a flowchart for how we communicate with Fayette County Public Schools during these sorts of emergencies? Is that something that you all have? Well, I haven't thought about a flowchart, but I do think a path where it's a little more routine and not maybe have to be so formal all the time. It's just a matter of course that between Rob and me, we will make sure we get information. One of the suggestions was Fayette County Schools puts a representative in the PSOC in high-level events, so there's direct communication instead of, you know, where's her phone number or who do we call here? And I think that's something we have entertained. And also, Fayette County School bus routes do change yearly depending on where students are, and we've tried to work with them, you know, in the past. A lot of this is about attendance, and that's a bigger animal. Thank you so much. And again, just thank you for all the work that you've done to make this event go as smoothly as possible. And our response to it, I might have some more questions here in a minute, but I'm done with my time, so I'm going to cede to my colleagues. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you both for all your hard work. I know you haven't gotten much rest in the past few weeks, so we are appreciative of everything you do, even when we ask a million questions. First, I wanted to ask, you mentioned possibly updating the ranking list. When was the last time that was officially done? We do it annually, but it's not been kind of a holistic look, so that's really more what I'm thinking about we would try to do this summer is I don't expect a lot of things to change. The main roads are still the main roads. It would be sort of where some of those neighborhood connections or collectors, you know, have we made sure we've accounted for everything, and that we don't just tend to grow some of these rankings to the point where we can't say grace over them anymore. Some districts are experiencing pretty rapid growth. The second district, we haven't really sat down, and that was one of the things we identified was as we bring new roads into the system, we haven't really brought them into the plan, and we need to look at that. I think that would be great. I know many of us have heard from different neighborhoods where people couldn't really get out of their neighborhood, so maybe reevaluating, making sure that there's at least a connector road that people can get to to get out. I would appreciate that being looked at. And then I know you mentioned sidewalks. I had brought up that there were some sidewalks that were actually on the snow removal plan that were not removed in my district. Is that something that we can amp up? I had people walking all over Versailles Road in the middle because they weren't cleared where they said they were going to be. Yeah, and I want to just raise up that not very much of Versailles Road is our responsibility. A lot of it is the property owner responsibility. So unless we make a significant change, a lot of where I saw people walking on Versailles Road would still be the property owners to address. I would like to go over that because the part that I saw I was following the plan was not cleared, and it said on the plan that it was ranked. So, yeah, I just want to go over that, especially on our main roads, and make sure that we're doing everything we can. I realize we can't clear all the sidewalks. Yeah, we can definitely look at that in more detail. A lot of our sidewalk group also stopped to help with tree calls, so that slowed down our response on sidewalk removal as well, unfortunately. Okay, and then could you explain for the public what your agreement with the state is on clearing state roads like Nicholsville Road, Harrodsburg Road, Versailles Road? Yes, ma'am. Our current arrangement is we clear the state roads inside New Circle. So we take over responsibility for clearing Nicholsville Road, Versailles Road, Harrodsburg Road, Parris Pike, inside New Circle. Okay, and they take care of New Circle. They take care of New Circle and outside of New Circle. And then you mentioned, I know we had some issues with turn lanes on some of the main roads. Is there a way for, and I know that we're shorthanded, I realize that, for there to be some sort of quality control, especially on the high-ranked roads, where someone's making sure that people can get through and they can turn and that they've been cleared? Yes, we can implement quality control. I think that was the question, so I want to make sure I'm answering. Yes. Okay, thank you. I think that's it. I really appreciate, once again, all your work, and I know we'll be in communication moving forward. So thank you. Thank you. Council Member Savigny. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you all for the work you're doing, and I do really appreciate it as well. I've got several different questions. One of them, were we considered level three this time? Like you had that in your slides? That was one of the conversations. It kind of depended. If you added them all together, then I think we would have exceeded into a service level three. But in the moment, I think they ended up not, you know, that was a question there that took a while to figure out. So did that probably explain why some, like basically we had the small neighborhood streets like calling us daily, you know, which then we would call you daily? Right. And I don't know if we could ever get to all of them unless it was 1994 storm per se where we had a lot of snow forever. But although I know it feels like that right now. Yeah. But I do think when we moved into additional routes would have been something we would have reconsidered. Okay. My next question kind of tees off that a little bit. So do we have like a budget plan or some well thought out contingency plan when an emergency, and I believe we declared some sort of emergency this time. Like there's a certain series of events that take place. Like, yes, we're going to do this now. And I know we've been told we don't have the money to plow every street. But in certain situations, you know, that are emergency, that happens. And I don't know if we have an emergency fund that could be tapped into for that or if that needs to be a contingency thing in the budget. I figured I was kind of waiting for my finance person to come up. I was going to let Commissioner Hensley come speak to that. You say contingency three times and she appears. Yeah. No, we don't actually have a reserve for that. We do tend to be somewhat resourceful when it comes to salt. I remember my very first year here and my first winter and the salt dance began, and it was a surprise to me because the things you don't know about government are surprising. But it is one of the things that we do know. And so as far as the budget this year, one of the things that we take into account is how much we have loaded in the salt barn. So we started with full salt. How much we have in reserve for our contractors. And so we did have the full amount in reserve for our contractors. And then how much we think we're going to spend based on our historical spend. And so we had about a half a million dollars in reserve in addition to our full barns that we had. So if all of that is expended, we go ahead and we start looking, when we see the snow start falling, for additional resources. When you guys see that, and you already have, we first look to our utility savings because that's somewhere that we already know we've recognized those savings throughout the course of the year. We have been very blessed in the last number of years that we've been able to pull the amount of funds that we have needed from our operating dollars to be able to provide the amount of response that the city of Lexington has needed. And we're going to be able to do that again this year. As far as something that exceeds that, if we are going to need an emergency response that is for debris removal or additional overtime, if we get to the level of emergency response where a state of emergency is declared for local governments and state, we always have the option to ask for reimbursement through FEMA or that mechanism. That takes a very long time. So we would want to be able to cover that within our operating budget and then eventually get reimbursed for that. But we have traditionally gone to our operating dollars. Thank you. I appreciate that answer. I've got a few more and I'm going to run out of time. The Fayette County's school bus route interface, the school buses, it sounds like the technology doesn't sync well. And the other thing that happens is, to be honest with you, they show their routes. And their routes end at a stop, but they actually don't show where the bus actually has to go to turn around. I would encourage us, we have a very wonderful tracking system, the snow tracker concept. I would think that we could use some sort of GPS ourselves at the beginning of the school year. And we should be able to put them on every bus so that we could actually then lay over that technology right onto our own map. And then we've got their data of everywhere that that bus goes. Just a thought. I'm sure that's possible. And I'm out of time and I'll come back after everyone else. Thank you. Council Member Boehne. Thank you, Mayor. As far as the response levels, I guess it's kind of obviously known that the ice was the majority of the problem on top of the snow. And I guess ice necessarily isn't addressed in the level one, two, and three. Right. And with it kind of being a major problem, it's almost like a level four where it's like the ice is here. We kind of need all hands on deck. Is that, I guess, something we can think about? I agree. Thank you for reminding me of that. That was something that went through my mind as I was preparing it, but I don't think it made it onto the slides that we need to figure out how ice fits into this category. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I guess another question is as far as like our treatment, you have, I guess, the beet heat. Is there, I guess, are there better things out there that we can look into? There are tradeoffs. There are lots of chemicals. They all have tradeoffs. Right, right. That's really all I got. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Gray. Thank you, Mayor and Commissioner. Thank you for your presentation. And Director Allen, thank you as well. You've been under the fire a little bit, but you're stronger than ever. I can sense it. So, in the presentation, it spoke on the different levels. And a lot of questions that I receive from my residents is regarding the pretreat. Do we do any pretreat in the neighborhoods right now? Only the ranked roads. Only the ranked roads. So, say it one more time. Go ahead. Well, in addition, any hills or bridges. For example, the 7th Street and Loudoun bridges get pretreated. Okay. Also, you know, you spoke on right about 98% of my, that might be over. Maybe 90% of my district is not unranked. It's pretty much heavily unranked. And my district happens to have the most Fayette County public schools within it. Just going forward, I would hope that we would consider ranking some of those streets, such as Rookwood Parkway, that schools actually sit on. I just want us to look at where our schools are and perhaps rank those. Because that's right. I would hope that we fix that. We looked at that last year. And we found four schools that were not on a ranked road. So, hopefully we fix that. I was busy taking calls. Okay. For once in three years. So, also, you spoke on contingency plans, or it was asked by one of my colleagues. So, going forward, we do have something called global warming, which is real to me. It's science. Science is real. So, going forward, I'm foreseeing us having many incidences such as this right here. So, going forward, are we adding any other contingency plans to the snow and ice removal? I think that would be something that we would consider, like, now as we move forward. Again, one of the things for the future would be, if we try to look at what a more significant storm response should look like, and what the cost and the impact of that would be, and getting these extra contractors lined up in advance, getting some of these other tools in our toolbox as much as we can, addressing the on-road parking kind of stuff, having a plan where that gets put into motion more quickly rather than kind of on the fly, I think, would be a part of that conversation. And I would agree, of course. And lastly, you spoke on the differing software between Fayette County Public Schools and LFUCG. Have you all begun the conversation of perhaps getting on the same page and having the same software going forward? That's not a question I'm going to really answer well. So, I don't know if anybody else is walking up behind me right now. They do have proprietary software, and it's harder for them to share raw data with us. But they did manage to do it this fall. Okay. I just want us all to be on the same page. But thank you all for all that you do. Thank you. Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to first thank you all, because during the snow and ice storm, you all were extremely responsive to all of our questions that council members sent and our aides sent. So, I really appreciate the swiftness with which you responded to our questions while in the midst of handling everything. So, thank you so much for that. I wanted to ask about the LexTran bus routes, because that's something that we hadn't really talked about. Are the LexTran bus routes already incorporated into our snow plan, and are they cranked, or does it vary? They pretty much travel on priority roads. Okay. And they are also invited to our stakeholder meeting and do participate every year. And we actually, same thing as Fayette County Schools, back and forth cell phones and things like that. As I said, they're on ranked roads, so they have very little issues. I know there was a problem with snow buildup at a lot of the bus stops and the crosswalks, but that's a little different animal. Okay. My next question is because, Director Allen, you are right, the second district is the fastest growing district in the city. And so, we've got a ton of new streets. And so, if I wanted to advocate for more streets being considered to be added to the snow plan, when in the year should I come and make that meeting with you so that I can get on the ball? Over the summer. Over the summer. And we can look at the whole thing, yeah. Typically, we try to have the stakeholder meeting late August or mid-September. That gives us time if there's any adjustments in the route to complete training. And it also gives us time, you know, once we're out of the heat of the moment, and it seems weird to talk snow in July, but that's the best time to do go over that and prepare for the next year. Okay, awesome. And then I will say that one silver lining out of all of this I found is that so many of my neighbors now have read our snow plan. Because when they were sending me emails, I made sure to hyperlink the snow plan, and they read it. And they were coming back to me with questions about the snow plan. So if that's a silver lining, I think several people that maybe didn't know what our snow plan was before now know what it is and are a little bit more educated, which I think is a good silver lining to all this. So thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member LaGre. Thank you, Mayor. I had some questions that some constituents brought up to me about sidewalk clearing and blocked crosswalks and bike lanes and kind of different ways of traversing the roadway network or the sidewalk network like during an event like this. And I think the first thing that came to my mind is that I don't understand why people don't have to clear their sidewalks during a snow emergency. You know, what I saw, and I mean people and businesses, I saw businesses bringing plows in to plow their parking lots, but they weren't required to clear their sidewalks. So can you explain to me why that is? And can we change it? I don't know that I have a good answer in the moment. I think that would be one of the things we would need to review over the summer. I think in the moment it's just been that it can be hazardous as well. But when do you – how do you flip that switch back I guess would be one of the questions to review. I found it ironic that many people that complained about their street did not shovel their sidewalk. Well, and I think that anybody who's spent some time shoveling sidewalks knows that – well, yeah, it's difficult. But more than that, you have to shovel early and often so that the snow or the ice don't become compressed. And when we allow people to not do that, then they're actually left with a more difficult sidewalk shoveling situation than if they had just consistently shoveled. And it limits people's options for traveling out of their neighborhood because they can't even really safely walk around their neighborhood, especially if it's an unranked roadway. Actually, I appreciated the citizen comment Tuesday about not everybody has a car. And it actually spurred conversation, and we have talked about it and included that for the contract work at the different service levels, putting an emphasis on that. So that was very helpful Tuesday. That's good to hear. And, yeah, I appreciated the sentiment that our constituent earlier shared, too. And, you know, something that I noticed when I was walking on the trail system, for example, I love that it was cleared, the town branch trail system. But then when you would get to crosswalks, sometimes the roads have been plowed and, like, mountains of snow had been pushed to the mouth of that trail system. So I think that there's as I'm thinking about the complete streets plan, you know, I'm curious about how maybe how does our snow plan interface with our complete streets plan? Because I know that we talked a lot about during construction projects, you know, making sure that cyclists and pedestrians and multimodal road users had ways to travel that were safe. So I'm wondering if in the snow plan we could think about how can we build that in in terms of plowing. It's a challenge, but I do think it's worth conversation. Okay. And then one thing that a community member brought up that I just wanted to share with everyone that I think is connected, maybe we can brainstorm about this. It's like she asked if there's any way to engage with community groups and neighborhood associations to help with sidewalk clearing and ways that we could kind of tap into our collective resources. I see Boy Scouts here, very service-minded individuals, you know. And so I think sometimes when we're meeting with our neighborhood associations and maybe they're upset about the snow plan or they want to give input, I also want us to encourage, you know, collective civic engagement, how we can help each other when it comes to digging out with sidewalks and whatnot. So just something that's on my mind. So thank you all. I appreciate the update. Next up is Councilmember Morton. Thank you. Well, first I want to thank, you know, Director Allen and Commissioner Albright for their service and for, you know, you've been very responsive to me and my aid, so I thank you for that. My question stems towards the service level. So can you shed light on each of the service levels highlighted in the presentation and why residential streets are not a priority but become a priority or become a focus in Level 2 and 3 but not 1? Generally, a lot of times that's that. I'll let Rob expand on this for sure. Our normal snow events last 24 to 48 hours before they start to melt, and it takes our team 24 to 48 hours to get through all of our ranked roads, depending on the timing of the storm. So a lot of times by the time we would try to dive into those extra 600 miles of road, it may already be starting to resolve itself a little bit. So that is just a huge budgetary expense for a storm that may go away in another 24 hours. It's a monumental task to add all those streets. We actually did 172 extra miles of just school bus routes. So that's one of the things we're looking at bringing back is, you know, how much would it cost to add all these streets, both in personnel and equipment? And there's also significant lead time delays. Like, for example, ordering a plow truck would take a minimum sometimes of two to three years now. Okay. And then my follow-up would be specifically how would you go about prioritizing which streets get plowed that are not ranked? So I know here in Level 3 it says attempt to plow as many streets as possible. What does that look like and how are we going to go about picking those streets, prioritizing those streets? A lot of times it's what we hear back based on the feedback we're getting. So is there a better way we could prioritize those? I don't know. That would be another topic of conversation. We had 875-plus calls for service in the first week alone, and we actually checked all of those to see, you know, if they were hazardous. And then once we got further in, like last week, we were just if you called and we could get a truck down there, we were trying to get there and knock the slush off. Okay. So then lastly, looking towards the future, how do we plan to communicate our plans to the general public, specifically the service-level plans? My first reaction to that, without kind of thinking about it more, would be first would be we present the snow plan to council, so that's a public opportunity for review and questions. And then we're also talking to our public information team within EQPW about trying to spread the message further, and how do we do that? Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Wu, we'll come back to those who've already spoken once. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Commissioner and Director, for your work and your presentation. I know it's not easy to only hear from people when people are unhappy, and we can definitely relate. In one of your slides, you talked about the fact that you generally have three to trucks down at any given point, kind of as a regular thing, right? Is there any way to kind of look forward to, you know, snow season, storm season, winter months, and kind of prioritize getting more of the equipment back up and running ahead of that kind of weather? They do that now. So I will say, and fleet management does a fantastic job every fall making sure our trucks are reviewed and ready to go. And then in the moment, before a storm, they'll check them. And it's just hard to keep these trucks running for seven days straight, 24 hours a day. So things start to go bad. Hydraulics start to go, you know, get cold. So those are the things, as the trucks break down, they had to get them back up and running. Yes. And we've also changed our mindset. In the past, we had to surplus a truck to purchase one. And fleet, through administrative policy, has been allowing us to keep those trucks and hold them for a couple more years. Now, the tradeoff is, is those older trucks have been pretty worn down and require more maintenance. I think it's, you know, it's more important to get somebody out plowing versus, you know, oh, wow, we don't have a truck. So we have really looked at that. And, you know, Wanda and her team have really put us, Streets and Roads is in the top for vehicle procurement, just behind public safety. Okay. Thank you for that. You also mentioned getting more contractors on deck. How many total contractors do we have now in the roles? Just, well, the primary contractor is Red River Ranch. And they've been under contract with us for two or three years now, at least. And they have the big trucks, and they do Man o' War and some of the big roads. The ones we just added, right now we've got three additional landscaping companies under contract to do neighborhood roads. And we've got six more that have expressed interest, and we're waiting to hear back from them. So when the weather hits and you call them up, I mean, is this like the National Guard? They answer and come, or how does that work? Well, it's kind of close, I guess. Red River Ranch, yes, they've been under contract with us for a while, and we're their first response. The landscaping companies have contracts already that they do not want to default on, and we get that. So they're going to go honor their contracts and then come to us 12 to 24 hours after the storm, and they've had a chance to treat those roads, and that works out okay. Okay. And during the presentation by CAO Hamilton, I think one of my colleagues mentioned the idea that there are bus route streets right now that are part of the unranked streets, and would it be possible to add all of our bus route streets into rank four at least? Now, earlier in this presentation you mentioned that the FCPS changes their bus routes every year. So that idea of bringing in all bus routes into at least rank four, how feasible is that? Can I talk about Plan B? I think part of the discussion that we've also heard brought up was the infamous Plan B from the past. And that's what the surrounding counties used a lot of was not necessarily trying to do every bus route but doing the main roads and working with that, and that's not part of the conversation we've had so far. Okay. Thank you for that. In terms of communication, both with the public and with FCPS, have you all ever done either joint press conferences, joint press releases, or any sort of more collaborative communication with the public, not just with each other? Not at our level, but I believe the mayor has. Okay. And lastly, you know, there's a lot of talk about kind of what a normal snow season is and what an abnormal one is, and I think we have to realize, as my colleagues have said, that climate change is real, severe weather is real, not normal is the new normal, and I think it's very hard for us to kind of be able to predict are we going to have a quote-unquote normal, which I would say, you know, a past kind of snowstorm versus what we're coming into, and all we can really do is kind of recognize where we fall short in these and kind of learn as we go and continue to plan for the future and do better, and that's what I'm seeing from your division right now, so I appreciate you all. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you all, and thank all the employees that have been working tirelessly for the last almost two weeks going on now for all what they've done. I think in the presentation you say there's 1,400 lane miles that were responsible for the snow and ice removal. Is that correct? Yes, sir. And does that get in all the three ranks or four ranks, however you want to look at it? Yes, sir. Okay. And what would be our biggest issue? Is it personnel or is it equipment that could help make the process even better? If we had more equipment, would we have the personnel, or do we need more personnel and we have the equipment? I would say to a large extent I heard somebody say both, and that's true. I think in the end it's both. I do think we have this arrangement that's kind of developing with parks could give us at least a short-term solution on some additional staff if the trucks were available. We have more people potentially than trucks right now. And the beat heat is wonderful. you know four times the cost of salt the administration is already we have four tanker trucks that we use for snow removal and they've already committed to buy three more for next year so that's going to be a huge improvement in pre treating and treating things like ice is there other equipment that we can put on a plow on to that that we can retrofit that we have right now or is the able to get the equipment I know you said just to get more it's two or three years out that's always been an issue here when we talked about fire trucks and other things is when you order stuff it's it's not something you could order it's going to go pick up at Home Depot tomorrow no and getting them out but it like even if you bought a plow or a dump truck getting in line to get them all put together is another big deal there are things like loaders and backhoes that you could potentially put but that that creates a different set of challenges so you know the operating speed would be one of them you have to just make sure you're doing it smart and then I don't know about fire generally has other things they have to do during bad weather so I don't know if we're I'm just saying I was just using them as in general when you order equipment it's always a long time a lead time to get them so if we wanted to get more equipment it's not something we can just order and it'll be here tomorrow for the next snow emergency I won't follow up a little what the vice mayor had said about the contractors and could you reiterate what you were saying about that how with the Red River and the others how we have that contract in and we've since have added some more in with the landscaping you say because I that's and once again they might not be able to work just because they already have other contracts and we're going to be secondary to what they have but I anyway that we can have and hopefully these emergency snows are going to be the new norm but they look like they're going to be just ask New Orleans and Florida right now it's it's climate change has changed and in areas that never gotten and are having big issues right now but with that having that as a backup you know when you have these big events it would be very helpful to get the secondary because I think that's the biggest issue that we had specially for neighbors that they haven't seen a plow come through the whole time and we're working on the contractors. Yeah and I think if we do it again which I think we will now that we know this road there's there's been additional contractor that said we've got all we can handle right now but if you were to put it out to bid in the summer and then we could equip for it we would be interested in doing that so I think if we did it on a thoughtful basis again this summer I think we would see even more people and then we could change the terms maybe a little bit more where we weren't 24 hours after a storm for everybody you know we can get a little more help more quickly kind of like Red River Ranch has trucks committed to us they have to come within four hours. So with that kind of contract where we would do it in the summertime we would have to guarantee a certain amount that we couldn't just say well we we want you to come if we need you but in order to not have them take other jobs they're going to have to commit we'd have to commit to them so we're out to make sure that we make an investment to them I'm assuming. That's part of why that initial expense on the Red River Ranch contracts is a little high if you were just look at it kind of takes your breath away that we pay them that whether it snows or not and that's a part of that expense of having them be ready for us. Which we model that after the state contract. Thank you I see my time's up. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Councilmember Sheehan. Thank you Mayor. First I do want to thank you obviously for all of your work but one of the points that I've been talking about is the intensity of the storm so I appreciate you looking into the data about the weather patterns and including that in the discussions that you're having. Two other questions from me. One is I know at least my office is still getting requests like I that got one yesterday for an icy hill at an intersection so are we still taking those requests and treating those and what is that what do you have going on right like now today tomorrow? Yes we check every work order and treat as needed we have gosh I couldn't tell you how many calls I actually talked to our admin this afternoon and and the calls are slowing down but they still are coming in and we have three trucks that we park in a heated garage and we call them slick trucks and typically you know we get out in the morning with those crews and they just respond to requests so if there are constituents and it's important to also note we've got to be able to get a truck in there so there are a lot of cul-de-sacs or alleys and things like that that maybe we can get a pickup in but throwing salt as it's in temperatures going up to so that will help quite a bit yeah and in this instance it wasn't a cul-de-sac or anything it was actually it it was along one of them collector streets or something so it was like heart and Romney Road but that I'm getting into the specifics but I appreciate that you're still taking those calls and continuing to go out and my other question is when vice the vice mayor was asking about the bus routes and the unraked roads you mentioned plan B is that like the snow route for buses that some folks have been talking about that we did that the schools did have in the past or is this something different to me it's a little different when I was going to school in the 80s there was a alternate set of bus routes that if it was snowing there were less bus routes and they were on more of the main roads and you had to get to one of those main bus stops to get there and those to my understanding don't exist anymore so whether or not we ever get back to that I assume it would be fake kind of schools decision and Fayette County schools does not fund any snow treatment or equipment or personnel so before we say we want to do all these that's for you all to discuss well when you mention plan B like that then what were you referring to that was called plan B that was their alternate route for snow days and a lot of it's hooked into you know do you get your attendance yeah and I I do just want to know I think we should definitely be communicating you know often with Fayette County Public Schools as a parent that gets that all the emails from them one of the things that was in that in one of those emails from the superintendent was that they weren't exploring emergency snow routes for buses or snow routes for buses I won't call it emergency but alternate routes because they were concerned about putting children near higher traffic spaces but I do understand that we like our area did used to have those so I'm I think we could and I know parents were contacting us about why isn't this happening so I I think that could be part of the conversation we're having with Fayette County Public Schools and and how to potentially look at that with the safe safe options for the students who are waiting at the bus stops but I do remember seeing that line and in one of the emails that we got in these last two weeks but thank you thank you mayor thank you next is councilmember Hale thank you mayor thank you commissioner and director I want to just ask a question so does every vehicle play like a dual role like for example they plow and salt that's a tough one some of our tanker trucks we we've actually added plows to two of our tanker trucks but everything else should have both even a supervisor pickup okay so I was just thinking so we to get to those unranked roads because a lot of those we understand because of the ice we can't plow everything and I can just see my street alone is just a sheet of ice so I'm not expecting a plow to come through but to just can we outfit vehicles that can just spread salt yes but what the problem we run into with the ice in the sub freezing temperatures salt won't work alone and typically your smaller trucks do not have the liquid capacity to spread the beat heat with it so for example on many of those streets and we've looked at the GPS we had been for example the example Radcliffe Road we had been down it and salted but the temperature was so low that it was working so very slow so but to answer your question yes we can get salt to a lot of places but the temperature has to work the ground temperature has to work hopefully there's some Sun and we could always do a better job yeah because I was just think like we like in the plan if we don't have sub-zero temperatures or if we have temperature that can that will help because a lot of these roads are being being done by traffic the traffic is what's getting up the getting up the ice but I think it'll be a big help if if we just had some salt land across the the cars what what help especially like in a Childsburg area it's very veiny a lot of roads in there and then there's only what maybe four roads that are that are ranked in that area and then all the other areas it's hard just to get out to get to the ranked road so if we just had some just some salt in that area that a kind of help with the with the traction even we had we had a couple of days there weren't sub-zero thank you thank you councilmember Baxter thank you mayor I'm talking a little bit about community education setting expectations director Ellen I know you said when councilmember Boone mentioned like trade-offs you know there yes there are other products that we could use but there are some trade-offs it's my understanding that some of these other chemicals and things like that are maybe more corrosive to our pavement there maybe not as they're they're not good for our waterways so I assume when you look at different products you're taking all these all those things into consideration correct correct the beat heat is actually organic yeah and it's non-toxic it's a it's a sugar okay very good that's just a repetitive question that I've got well there's got to be something else out there and I just wanted the public to know that we do take all of that into consideration the trickles to paving budget and all the other things too so have you all ever thought about you know as we're talking about contractors contracting for tree removal as opposed to taking our our people off of plows and stuff to do tree removal I mean it's kind of probably like we do have price contracts through environmental services for tree services but you know if we're doing that many trees they're doing that many more and that's you know a very lucrative service for them I think that would be cost prohibitive we actually all the employees in streets and roads are trained how to use a chainsaw and we will put 70 employees out plus parks employees plus waste management and you know in a big windstorm for example what we had in the in the fall so it's just the volume is incredible I was trying to figure out if it would be more efficient to keep our employees doing what they were doing vice versa okay the other two questions that I have were the best way for residents to communicate concerns so if they have an issue is it most beneficial for them just to call 3-1-1 and submit that so that that ticket can get initiated is it or is there some other way that is more effective 3-1-1 is to me the top part because it does generate a work order immediately out of that system I appreciate that it feels like people say they've caught and I that they've called 3-1-1 several times and they haven't seen anybody show up and there's the response to the 3-1-1 maybe is a part where we need to explore further you may not see a plow in response to your 3-1-1 ticket but it was received I think I was just I think I wanted to just make sure that we were using the most effective method perfect and then if individual council members have maybe district specific concerns what's the best way for us to communicate those particular comes like and I don't mean like during the event like now if we're going back ourselves and looking at like I had some road ranked roads that were plowed out of order you know like rank 3 was done before rank 2 so just like some quality control there how is it best for me to put it in an email to you guys or to sit down and have a conversation I think it would be just come back to us and and again you know Rob was getting 50 or 60 emails and phone calls a day from everybody while he was also trying to manage the the staff and the equipment so if it's if it's more of a policy or operational not in the in the mail in the moment maybe we can talk about it after the storm I do think that would be a good conversation okay we do find the feedback helpful the you know we may have had a shift change and a street got missed or we treated it and didn't work and we need to go back so it it is important for us to get that communication from you all okay thank you and then as we look forward to I know multiple people have talked about just our overall communication plan during events like this but it may be really helpful for us to know what is the most effective way to communicate with you all during that event as well because as much as we need the information so we can relay it we also don't need to be texting Rob you know so so if there's a way that you all feel is the most effective way I would love for that to be part of our communication plan yeah that would be something to consider yeah thank you appreciate it thank you mayor thank you councilmember Savigny thank you mayor on the the ranking concept it it's an objective system that I think I heard you basically saying you kind of look at periodically and and maybe you make some tweaks to I did get a lot of feedback that was like well why are they two and why are we three like and I'm just curious kind of like our OCI the rankings for paving like is there a way to actually publish the criteria so that someone could see that the reason why this road is ranked differently than yours is something and then are you pulling just like traffic engineering pulled street light data for like volume of traffic are you pulling that data in your process we have not to my knowledge pulled volume data into the ranked road network it's more fun functional class so the higher functional class of the road the more likely it is to be the exceptions may be if there's a school on the route or an emergency service on the route yeah and and the numerical ranking and you know it's going to get done it's just that order it gets done so if it's a ranked road it's part of the plan the problem is is we had repeat events and it took us a while to get back into the neighborhoods yeah okay and then like councilmember LaGree said I've actually had I did have several people who because they couldn't drive they would walk to the Southland area to go to the store and and we actually there are businesses and I and I had multiple situations where commercial lots you know that of businesses commercial lots of residential apartments basically those people that are removing their snow are either removing it to our street or they're removing it and they're piling it up on the sidewalk on their on their own sidewalk and I'm just wondering is that is that like an ordinance in the making to basically to basically require people to dispose I mean they basically have to keep it on their property but they have to keep the other things open so they may have four less parking spots we actually just talked about this in relation with with this last event with the Department of Law about what are our options and that is something that we will probably need to bring forward for you all for a conversation okay yeah I'd be interested in it because like that can get that can be problematic for the people trying to get to their business and then the other thing is is there is there an exemption list like it's like if I'm an old man and I can't and I can't actually get out there to to shovel or if someone is got you know some sort of disability is there an exemption list on our on our ordinance for sidewalk clearing no I mean I guess one of the things we've talked about is like the people who are exempt for garbage collection if that those two should maybe walk together but no for right now there's not one okay but that that may be something also look at just because I do think it's it's problematic to expect certain populations to actually get that done all right that's all I have and I thank you thank you so much and I know this is been a long meeting for these young gentlemen and thank you councilmember Reynolds Thank You mayor I'm gonna circle back to our favorite topic when when we are talking about the ranked roads let's say I know it says okay if it's two then we're gonna go back and we're gonna clear more streets if it's three we're gonna do maybe even more than that so and in this case we had a storm ice and snow we tried to clear the the ranked roads as best as we could I think what I'm hearing is people say this storm went on and then we had another one in a normal scenario we could say everything melts in three days or things start to melt or things improve that did not happen we still have ice you know in places and snow right now piled up so I think people want to know if once all the ranked roads are cleared and we have a storm that keeps going we are gonna go if we are gonna go back and start clearing additional roads to the ones we've already cleared I would say that moving forward that's that decision is something that we will decide to plan with our leaders so that if we're good because there is a budgetary impact to how often we're gonna try to clear a lot more than we planned on so if we're if we want to do that then how do we set that in motion so yes normally a lot of the snow from even the fifth and sixth might have started to fade by the 11th and that didn't have that opportunity this time as you said I've still got a slick spot outside of my house so I do think those still exist today and that's not normal how would we trigger whether or not we're going to increase our response under what conditions yeah I think looking at that and defining that would be helpful because if we have an ongoing storm and we're not we're not clearing additional roads then people might not be able to get to work safely I know I stayed home one day you know they might not be able to get to school they you know there's a lot of factors that if it continues like the ice has for several weeks and we're not doing additional clearing it could cause you know a lot more problems for our residents so I know it's extra budgetary cost and we would want to have parameters and whatever we did but I just looking at that and what that would be I think would be helpful thank you councilmember Morton so my question is just regarding the immediate improvements so we've ordered the new five the new snow packages when would they be here when they plan when should they arrive the new ones for the dump the pickup trucks will be here by the end of January okay so next year no and then so and then when we when will the council get the request for the three additional tanker trucks we we've started the process of purchasing those we brought those last week and we're in the process of starting the purchase of those now we're putting the specs together so that they they hope they'll be here by gosh I've almost forgotten what she said eight months yeah there's a voice from the back and is that something that is just gonna be like what funds will they come out of where we gonna pull that from that whole contingency thing you have to say it two more times now that's it thank you thank you I believe that is all the questions Thank You Commissioner and director appreciate you next up is public comment for issues on the agenda thank you to our Scouts so the way public comment works is that I will call your name and you'll come to the podium and someone's left a drink on the podium so when I call your name you'll come to the podium and then you'll need to restate your name and say your council district for the record first is Charles done followed by Dave Cooper is Charles done here mr. done is Dave Cooper here hey Dave welcome I'm Dave I'm Dave Cooper you want to go yes thank you all right I'm not sure if you heard the if you were out of the room but if you will state your name and your council district for the record and then you'll have three minutes my name is Gil done GIL DUN and I'm a man I live on Mentel Park so I'm in the third district I also have a house in the second in the twelfth district on Berea Road and I'm here to speak about short-term rental regulations short-term rentals in the AG district certainly don't have the impact that a snowstorm has on the population but it's important to me because I have one well I would like to have one and so I'm also speaking to some extent for a constituency who is not here and that is the tourists and visitors to Fayette County and Lexington who don't vote for council members but they vote for Lexington with their waltz by bringing us tourism dollars agri tour agri tourism and what I would ask the council members to consider is that short-term rentals are an opportunity for us as opposed to a problem short-term rentals have been I think categorized almost like a contagious disease that if we have one God we might have more than one that we might have we might be infected with people from Ohio or Michigan or Indiana who simply are coming here to to visit the bluegrass and spend their money here with us and as a potential short-term rental operator I will be collecting hotel taxes for from those people for our Visitors Bureau specifically I would like to address the change in the buffer change in the language that the Planning and Zoning Commission Board offered to the council to change the area between short-term rentals from 500 feet to 5,000 feet from 500 feet to a mile now high school geometry pi area equals pi r-squared that means we have by 10 times the planning folks have an exclusionary zone without any evidence without any rhyme or reason but I was at that meeting a month ago and it just came up at the last minute so I'd asked the the council to please revert back to what council former councilman Plowman offered as a as a reasonable buffer zone between the short-term thank you very much your three minutes is over thank you thank you Dave Cooper welcome I got all choked up I'm Dave Cooper I live at 124 Paris Avenue Paris Avenue is a little side street between North Lyme and North Broadway by the baseball stadium I want to talk about the snow and ice removal I don't want to just come up here and complain I want to try and offer a solution but you know I think I'll just tell a story that will maybe help explain what the last two weeks have been like for me so I adopted this little rescue dog it's a pit bull his name's Rocky he is not house trained so I have to walk him for maybe five times every day because otherwise he'll go in the house he is also not used to being walked on a leash he was an abuse neglected kind of dog so when you put him on a leash he you know he'll bolt he'll cower like that okay I'm walking this dog five times a day and really just started doing that when the big snowstorm hit on January the 5th it's hard enough to walk on this ice just plain walking you can't walk on the sidewalks because where I live we don't have the little strip in between the sidewalk and the street so everybody puts their Herbie's on the sidewalk and they leave them there you can't walk on the sidewalk the street has been a sheet of ice it's still right by my house anyways it's still a sheet of ice so I'm trying to balance with this dog jerking me back and forth constantly over and over like so how many days now 18 days four times a day we're getting close to a hundred walks that I've done with this dog it's super frustrating this and I'm not here to talk about me this is about everybody in the city there's lots of people that have to walk I'm feeling sorry for myself trying to walk my dog around and then the other night I'm driving and I see a guy Tuesday night when it was bitterly bitterly cold there's this guy on New Circle Road there's a lot of poor folks in my neighborhood they live you know there's people live at the Catalina motel on the Bryan station motel and so on they walk and there's this guy he's got some kind of an injury and he's got his walker and he's moving really really really slow the people that are have the most the disabled folks the folks that are using wheelchairs and walkers they've got it a lot worse than me we don't treat we don't think about pedestrians and nearly enough in this city and I will also say that in my last five seconds parks none of the walkways are clear go to Constitution Park go to high school park go to look at the legacy trail look at the legacy trail that thing should be closed it is completely hazardous right now thank you so much we really need to do better this has been a public safety emergency and we give so much money to public safety how much of the budget thank you Dave how much of the budget is public safety your time's up thank you all right our other speakers are for at the end of the meeting so sure sure councilmember Ellinger has motion well mayor I I'm sorry I don't have motion but I'd like to ask a question on number one before we read it if that's okay I think that's okay Commissioner horn could you address mr. Dunn's question about the 500 to 5,000 because we sent it to the Planning Commission they sent it back we really haven't had any discussion on this one I don't think except we just put it on the docket and that was a pretty big difference between the 500 and the 5,000 could you address that in the in the historic what happened capacity yes remember there was a fairly robust review by the Rural Land Management Board of the idea of STRs in the AG zones and they sent a list of recommendations to the council about what they would recommend to be in that ordinance when you all you all there were amendments made one of the original restrictions was that they'd be separated by a mile now they had their reasons for that one of the I would say primary ones being they were treating them like beds and breakfasts under the zoning ordinance those have a one mile separation requirement it came to the council there were a couple of significant amendments or changes made by the council one was to permit unhosted STRs on lots that are 10 acres or less and then the other change was to make the distance separation more akin to what was adopted for the urban area which as I recall may be 600 feet but when the Planning Commission received it they made the recommendation based on probably the Rural Land Management Board recommendations that the separation go back to the one mile limit rather than the 500 foot limit but left intact the unhosted STRs for the 10 acre lots but they still had to be separated I'm sorry what was the last part they still have to have the separation okay thank you Thank You mr. thank you mayor okay thank you so we're ready for a second reading of ordinances item 1 an ordinance amending articles 111 313 B E G and an L 8 1 C and D 8 2 C and D 8 3 C and D to regulate short-term rentals and agricultural zones for urban County Council item 2 an ordinance amending section 13 77 B 11 of the Lexington Urban County Code of Ordinances to require approval from the Health Department for short-term rentals utilizing septic tanks prior to the issuance of a short-term rental special fees license amending section 1379 a 7 of the code to set the maximum occupancy in short-term rentals to the number allowed in the licensees conditional use permit if applicable or otherwise the zoning ordinance and moving the subpoena authority of the administrative hearing board from section 1380 of the code to section 1381 item 3 an ordinance amending the budget to the Lexington Fair Urban County Government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating repurposing funds FY 2025 schedule number 15 item 4 an ordinance creating chapter 27 of the Code of Ordinances the Lexington Fair Urban County Government establishing a small farm conservation easement program for Fayette County Kentucky and setting forth regulations and requirements for the application evaluation and purchase of conservation easements for the program item 5 an ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one classified position of evidence specialist grade 517 and including one class proposition of police intelligence specialist grade 515 and all in the division of police effective upon passage of Council and item 6 an ordinance amending the authorized strength by creating one classified position of behavioral health and wellness coordinator grade 523 e in the division of police effective upon passage of Council thank you thank you is there a motion to approve thank you councilmember Savigny and councilmember Curtis seconded all those well when you're ready if you'll take a roll call vote please councilmember Boone yeah councilmember Brown comes over Curtis councilmember Ellinger abstain on one and two yes on the rest thank you councilmember Elliot Baxter councilmember gray yes councilmember Hale yes councilmember LaGree yes councilmember Lynch yes councilmember Morton councilmember Reynolds yes councilmember civic me councilmember Sheehan yes vice mayor Wu and councilmember Beasley yes thank you thank you those all pass now we're ready for first reading of ordinances item 7 in order to many certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fair Urban County government to play current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating appropriating funds if I 2025 schedule number 16 and item 8 an ordinance author strength by creating one classified position of human resources manager grade 527 in the vision of human resources effective upon passage of Council thank you thank you are there any walk-ons councilmembers all right are there any motions to suspend the rules and give second reading all right and now we'll go on to second reading of resolutions item 1 a resolution a bit of tribute acquisition company in the amount of three million six hundred two thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars for the wolf run trunk G for the division water quality and authorizing there on behalf there beginning to execute an agreement tribute acquisition company related to the bid item to a releasing said accepting the bit of clear construction incorporated in the amount of four million two hundred eighty eight thousand four hundred sixty dollars for the Floyd trunk drive Floyd Floyd drive trunk for the division of water quality and authorizing there on behalf there beginning of next you can agree with clear construction incorporated related to the bid I am 3 it was listening something a bit of Louisville paving company incorporated in the amount of six hundred ninety eight thousand nine hundred eighty dollars for the furlong drive offline channel B BMP project for the visual water quality and authorizing there on behalf there beginning of next you can agree with Louisville paving company incorporated related to the bid item for a releasing submitted a bit of W principles LLC in the amount of one million five hundred seventy four thousand dollars for the town branch wastewater treatment plant odor control improvement for the visual water quality and authorizing there on behalf there beginning of next you can agree with W principles LLC relates to bid item 5 a resolution ratifying the permanent classified civil classified civil service appointments of Terry Connor staff assistant senior grade 511 and 18.5 for three hourly individual revenue effective December 17 2024 William Fairchild for your child engineering bonds officer grade 517 and 26.05 6 hour individual engineering effective December 24 2024 Halston Higgins information officer in a grade 518 in twenty four point two zero zero hourly division of environmental services effective December 3 2024 William razor attorney grade 526 e two thousand nine hundred and seventy point six four biweekly in the Department of Law effective December 24 2024 Andrew Greer telecommunicator senior grade 519 and twenty six point one three two hourly in the bit of a 9-1-1 effective January 15th 2025 Gabriel Gunther telecommunicator senior grade 519 and twenty seven point one six nine hourly in the division e 9-1-1 effective January 8 2025 Brittany Martin Martin telecommunicator senior grade 519 and twenty seven point five four eight hourly in the division of a 9-1-1 effective January 20 20 to 2025 Maggie Oswald an administrative specialist good 516 and twenty three point five oh five hourly individual corrections effective December 3 2024 Terrence Cunningham a green grants compliance officer grade 518 and twenty five point seven six five hourly individual grants and special programs effective December 17 2024 item 6 a resolution authorizing the individual police to purchase maintenance from a ferro 3d crime scene scanner from ferro technologies incorporated a social provider and authorizing mayor on behalf there began again to execute any necessary get with ferro technologies incorporated related to the procurement at a cost up to seed two thousand two hundred four dollars and seven a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf there began a government to execute change or number one to the agreement HDR engineering for citation Boulevard phase 3a project increase in the contract by the sum of eighty five thousand twenty dollars from three hundred sixty six thousand three hundred and sixty two four hundred and fifty one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars item 8 a resolution authorizing and direct me on behalf there began again execute contract with Fayette County Public Schools for preschool education and related services for the 2024 2025 academic school year at the Family Care Center at no cost to the urban county government item 9 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf there began a government execute an agreement with a caring place incorporated to conduct a feasibility study study regarding the most effective hub structure in Lexington at a cost up to seed $150,000 item 10 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf there began a government to execute a purchase a service agreement PSA with conscious consulting LLC pursuant to RFP 52 2024 for a citywide domestic violence prevention campaign at a cost up to seed $80,000 item 11 a resolution authorizing and direct the mayor on behalf there began again to execute a purchase a service agreement with the Lexington Children's Museum incorporated to provide funding associated with campaign assessment and a master plan and assessment at a cost not to exceed $6,500 and 12 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf there be kind of government execute a site-specific agreement with Jesmond South Elkhorn Water District in Asheville farm LLC to provide sanitary sewer conveyance and treatment capacity to a portion of ask Ash Grove farms in Jesmond County item 13 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf every kind of government to execute an agreement awarding class a neighborhood incentive grant to Andover Forest Homeowners Association incorporated for stormwater quality project at the cost of seed $120,000 and 14 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of every kind of government execute an agreement awarding class B education incentive grant to fit County Public Schools for a stormwater quality project at a constant seed $4,976 and 50 cents item 15 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf there be kind of government execute an agreement awarding class a neighborhood incentive grant to Waterford to homeowners Association incorporated for stormwater quality project at a cost not to see $120,000 and 16 a resolution authorizing mayor on behalf of every kind of government to execute an agreement awarding class B education incentive grant to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation for stormwater quality project at the cost not to see $30,698 item 17 it was just an authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute children and one final to the engineering services agreement with GRW engineering engineers incorporated for a town branch think getting process process design for the defender water quality decreasing the contract by the sum of $57,080 from two hundred sixty one thousand one hundred forty to two hundred four thousand and sixty dollars item 18 it was another authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute changer and warned to the green with the University of Kentucky Research Foundation first from water quality project for the division water quality decreasing the contract price but by the sum of four thousand two hundred twelve dollars and sixty nine cents from thirty four thousand nine hundred ninety seven to thirty thousand seven hundred eighty four dollars and thirty one cents item 19 a resolution authorizing a direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute changer number one to the agreement living arts and Science Center incorporated for a stormwater quality project for the divider water quality decreasing the contract by the sum of five thousand six hundred twenty six dollars and seventy six cents from thirty five thousand two hundred ninety six to twenty nine thousand six hundred sixty nine dollars and twenty four cents item 20 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf on behalf they are beginning up and execute grant award agreements related to grants or awarded under the Lex grow trees grant program with Andover Forest homeowners association incorporated 100,000 Beaver Creek hydrology 80,000 Crawford Middle School PTSA nine thousand eight hundred and fifty five dollars and seventy cents Healy Green homeowners association incorporated twenty five thousand fifty two dollars trees Lexington incorporated ninety one thousand nine hundred forty three dollars and fifty cents and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation are bread arboretum eighty six thousand one hundred three four dollars for the division of environmental quality at a cost of the seed the some stated item twenty one a position amending section two of resolution five nine three twenty four to adjust the amounts from the funding sources utilized to fund change order number one to the contract with LM asphalt partners LTD DBA ATS construction for the salt dome and associated improvements at old Frankfort Pike and 22 it was an authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government except grant funds in the amount of one hundred fifty seven thousand three hundred fifty three dollars and fifty cents from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet for the continuation of the litter abatement grant funding program in Fayette County for calendar year 2025 the acceptance which does not obligate the urban kind of government for the expenditure fund look expenditure of a local match and authorizing Mary to transfer adequate funds when the grant budget item 23 a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute an additional award in the 2024 consolidated plan from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency solutions grant in the amount of one thousand ninety dollars and to execute any other agreement amendments with these sub recipients for the use of ESG funds the center which obligates a match in the amount of one thousand ninety dollars which shall be provided by you Arbor Youth Services and authorizing me to transfer adequate reference within the grant budget item 24 a resident authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute and submit a grant application to Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to provide an additional information request in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if awarded which great friends on the amount of $10,000 in state funds item 25 a resolution amending resolution 5 to 4 2024 to increase the easement acquisition budget and other property rights necessary for st. Martin Martin's pump station elimination project by $20,000 from 30,000 to $50,000 on 26 a position authorizing the division of fleet services to purchase license fees and professional services from Chevron's fleet solutions LLC a social provider and authorizing mayor on behalf there beginning of next execute any necessary with Chevron's fleet solutions LLC related to procurement at a cost of exceed $159,000 in item 27 a resolution authorizing direct the mayor on behalf every kind of next year agreements related to the council capital project expenditure funds with Northside Common Market Corporation 3,350 LF you see G division of environmental services 910 LF you see G division of parks recreation 15,000 LF you see G division of engineering 90,000 Lexarch incorporated three thousand six hundred and seventy three dollars and sixty cents LF you see G division of parks recreation $50,000 unit Union Benevolent Society number 28 incorporated 4,000 LF you see G division of parks recreation 50,000 and Lexarch incorporated seventy five hundred dollars for the office of the urban County Council at a cost of receipt the sum stated thank you thank you very much is there a motion to approve councilmember Ellinger and then councilmember Savigny seconded when you're ready if you'll take a roll call vote please councilmember Boone yes councilmember Brown councilmember Curtis yes councilmember Ellinger yes ma'am councilmember Elliot Baxter councilmember gray yes councilmember Hale yes councilmember Ligree recuse on 20 yes on the rest thank you council councilmember Lynch yes councilmember Morton recuse on 27 yes for the rest thank you councilmember Reynolds yes councilmember Savigny councilmember Sheehan recuse on 20 yes to the rest vice mayor boom and councilmember Beasley yes ma'am thank you all right thank you those all pass and when you're ready if you'll give first reading to resolutions item 28 a resolution except that a bit of stonewall bodies and machine incorporated establishing one or more price contracts for the command vehicle uplift for the vision fire and emergency services and authorizing mayor on behalf there we got a government to execute the current and similar price contracts with stonewall bodies and machine incorporated related to the procurement of command vehicle uplifts item 29 a position ratifying the permanent classified civil service appointments of Kaylee Schofield accountant grade 518 and twenty four point four seven five hourly in the division of accounting effective January 15 2025 William Fairchild engineering bonds officer grade 517 and twenty six point zero five six hourly in the division of engineering effective December 24 2024 Robin Brooks HR general is great 524 e 2900 32.96 by weekly in the division of human resources effective December 27 2024 Alma Diaz administrative specialist grade 516 and twenty three point nine five six hourly in the division of human resources effective January 22 2025 Melissa Fleming a staff assistant senior grade five eleven in eighteen point five five nine hourly in the video code enforcement effective January 8 2025 item 30 a religion authorizing mayor on behalf of every kind of government execute an agreement with all track performing rights LLC for the non-exclusive rights to play in whole or in part musical compositions granted by the license as part of the public performance event sponsors promote promoted and conducted by LF you see two programs and or agencies at a cost not to cede three thousand one hundred and seventy nine dollars I'm 31 it was accepted the collective bargaining agreement by in between the Lexington Urban County Government and the American Federation of State County and municipal employees local 2785 on behalf of lieutenants and captains in the division of community corrections expiring June 30 2028 item 32 a resolution authorizing the division police to purchase software for mag magnet forensics LLC a social provider social provider and authorizing air on behalf of every kind of government execute any necessary with magnet forensics LLC alluded to the procurement at a cost not to see fifty seven thousand one hundred nine dollars and fifty fifty cents item 33 a resolution authorizing the expenditure of Kentucky Office of Highway Safety grant funds of sixteen thousand five hundred dollars for the division of police to host a 40-hour training course fundamentals of traffic crash dynamics with the Institute of Police Technology and Management item 34 it was an authorizing mayor on behalf every kind of government execute an agreement awarding class a neighborhood incentive grant to friends of rural front incorporated stormwater for a stormwater quality project at a cost not to see forty six thousand four hundred and thirty five dollars and thirty-five it was an authorizing the mayor on behalf every kind of government execute a First Amendment to the agreement with transit Authority of Lexington Fiat Urban County Government like strand as a partner to a transportation alternatives program grant increasing like strands grant allocation by ninety five thousand four hundred thirty dollars and twenty three cents and reducing Lexington's by an equal amount at new additional cost to the urban county government and item 36 a resolution authorizing the amendment to resolution number three six four twenty twenty four an agreement with DNA Labs International to correct the fiscal year from for the expenditure from FY 20 FY 24 to FY 25 all other terms in resolution number three six four twenty twenty four remain the same thank you thank you are there any walk-ons all right are there motions to suspend the rules and give second reading council member Reynolds Thank You mayor I have a few on behalf of the administration I move to suspend the rules and give second reading on item 32 Magnet forensic forensics LLC vendor and approved purchase of software this is for a digital investigative platform for recovering digital evidence at a cost of fifty seven thousand one hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents for police so councilmember Ellinger seconds are there any questions all those in favor say aye anyone opposed all right that motion passes on behalf of the administration I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to item 33 this is for the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety grant funds for the police department to host a 40-hour training on fundamentals of traffic crash dynamics with 30 officers this is these funds are budgeted is there a second vice mayor Wu seconds any questions all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed that motion passes this is my last one on behalf of the administration I move to suspend the rules and give second reading to item 36 this is to amend resolution number three six four dash 2024 DNA labs international to correct a fiscal year on resolution three six four dash 2024 this allows for approval of DLI master services agreement at the cost of 150 thousand for the division of police councilmember Ellinger seconds are there any questions all those in favor say aye aye anyone opposed all right that motion passes are there any other motions to suspend the rules okay so if you'll give second reading to 32 33 and 36 please item 32 a resolution authorizing the division of police to purchase software from Magnet forensics LLC a social provider and authorizing mayor on behalf of every kind of government execute any necessary here with Magnet forensics LLC related to the procurement at a cost not to see $57,109 and 50 cents item 33 a resolution authorizing the expenditure of Kentucky Office of Highway Safety grant funds of $16,500 for the divisional police to host a 40-hour training course fundamentals of traffic crash dynamics with the Institute of Police Technology and Management and item 36 a resolution authorizing the amendment to resolution number three six four twenty twenty four and agreement with DNA labs international to correct the fiscal year for the expenditure from FY 24 to FY 25 all other terms of the resolution 3 6 4 20 24 remain the same thank you thank you is there a motion to approve councilmember Ellinger moves councilmember Savigny I just barely heard you seconds and when you're ready if you'll take a roll call vote please councilmember Boone yes councilmember Brown councilmember Curtis yes ma'am councilmember Ellinger yes ma'am councilmember Elliott Baxter councilmember gray yes councilmember Hale yes councilmember agree yes councilmember Lynch yes council member Morton councilmember Reynolds yes councilmember Savigny councilmember Sheehan yes vice mayor Wu and councilmember Beasley yes ma'am thank you thank you those all pass I'll entertain a motion for communications from the mayor appointments all right councilmember gray and councilmember Savigny are there any questions all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed all right that motion passes next our communications requiring procurements so thank you vice mayor okay councilmember Curtis seconds are there any questions all those in favor say aye anyone opposed all right that passes next are for your information only and we do not have police or fire disciplines so that brings us to announcements no announcements Oh councilmember Morton thank you so yesterday I had my first advisory board meeting and it was a great success from the beginning I've always emphasized one to listen to our communities and that's exactly what this advisory board would allow me to do but also take advising from them so you know district one is a unique ecosystem of neighborhoods and my over overarching goal is to in this office is to create a sense of community that bridges all of these vibrant areas and unifies them as one this board will be instrumental in guiding my decisions ensuring that voices of our residents are heard and then we work together towards creating a change that they want to see in the community like and moving for and that's just a couple pictures at the advisory board meeting in the spirit of celebrating our district's opportunities and showcasing its rich culture I want to take a moment to highlight one of our treasures I'm the historic lyric theater I'm thrilled to invite you I'm the community and anyone that would love to attend here to the upcoming jazz winter fest series that will run from January 30th to March 13th this event will feature incredible local talent including honey child the Stella V's and the Jesse the Jesse Lee's it's a wonderful opportunity to experience the vibrant art scenes right here in district one I'm right in the heart of the East End and then lastly I like to give a special shout out to one of our own deputy CAO Glenn Brown who is a part of the the men in Christ community choir and they're gonna have event their seventh anniversary this Sunday at at first Baptist Church right off Price Road excuse me first African Baptist Church right off of Price Road so I look forward to attending that and hopefully y'all come out and support mr. Glenn Brown so that's it thank you councilmember Lynch thank you mayor I just would like to remind all of my neighbors that January is National Stalking Awareness Month so if you or a loved one is experienced stalking or you're concerned about a loved one that may be experienced stalking you can call greenhouse 17 24-hour crisis hotline which is 800 544 2 0 2 2 and reach out to them and they can provide resources and assistance and help with all of all of your needs so I just encourage my neighbors if you are experienced a stalking incident or you have a loved one that you fear is please call greenhouse 17 24 hours a day seven days a week and they can provide assistance for you and then lastly I know we've gotten a lot of emails and phone calls and text messages about snow but I would like to share a really great email that I got from one of my neighbors that lives along Remington Way she emailed just to thank our city employees that are driving the snow plows a particular employee she commented it was extremely nice hit their work ethic was outstanding they were kind and had an exhibited very safe driving skills and so I shared this email with director Allen and Commissioner Albright because my neighbor was very complimentary of our staff that cleared the roads on Remington Way so I want to thank you to say thank you to that driver and thank you to all of our drivers that were out clearing our roads and snow Thank You mayor Thank You councilmember Beasley Thank You mayor I would just like to take a moment to let everybody know that tomorrow at 10 at 11 o'clock is the graduation of classes 2501 and 2502 of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government Division of Corrections officer officers sorry and that'll be at the First Baptist Church of Bracktown again that's the graduation starts at 11 o'clock tomorrow thank you thank you next on our agenda is the public comment and we have this is for issues not on the agenda and we have one person signed up and so when I call your name if you'll come to the podium and you'll have three minutes is Allah Hassan still here she left okay thank you very much and I'll entertain a motion to adjourn all those in favor say aye we are adjourned thank you all for coming you