# Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee - February 11, 2025 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Committee · February 11, 2025 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6335 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6335?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2025-02-11 - **Body**: Committee - **Last revised**: March 28, 2026 - **Length**: 11,234 words - **Speakers**: Chair > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government met on February 11, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the Council Chamber. The committee addressed 4 agenda items during the meeting, including one action item and three informational presentations. The committee approved the December 3, 2024 Committee Summary and received updates on the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP), the Odor Control Program, and conducted an Annual Review of Committee Items. A total of 4 motions and votes were taken during the meeting, and no public comments were heard. ## Attendance The following eight councilmembers were present at the February 11, 2025 Committee meeting: - Councilmember Savigny - Councilmember Sheehan - Councilmember Gray - Councilmember Morton - Councilmember Curtis - Councilmember Boone - Councilmember Reynolds - Councilmember Lynch No members were recorded as absent or late. ## Votes and Decisions The committee took four voice votes during the February 11, 2025 meeting, all of which passed. No roll call votes were recorded, and no individual vote counts were available for any of the motions. - **Approval of the December 3, 2024 Committee Summary** [timestamp: 0:06:08]: Councilmember Savigny moved and Councilmember Gray seconded approval of the prior meeting summary. The motion passed by voice vote. - **Move Micro Transit Item to Budget Finance and Economic Development** [timestamp: 1:10:22]: Councilmember Savigny moved and Councilmember Gray seconded a motion to transfer the micro transit agenda item to the Budget Finance and Economic Development Committee. The motion passed by voice vote. - **Remove Recycling General Practices from Committee** [timestamp: 1:12:59]: Councilmember Savigny moved and Councilmember Gray seconded a motion to remove the Recycling General Practices item from the committee's purview. The motion passed by voice vote. - **Remove Division and Program Reviews from Committee** [timestamp: 1:15:09]: Councilmember Savigny moved and Councilmember Gray seconded a motion to remove Division and Program Reviews from the committee. The motion passed by voice vote. All four motions were brought by Councilmember Savigny and seconded by Councilmember Gray. Because all votes were conducted by voice, no individual ayes, nays, or abstentions were recorded. ## Approval of December 3, 2024 Committee Summary **Agenda Item 0150-25** [timestamp: 06:08] The committee took up the approval of the summary from its December 3, 2024 meeting. The item was brief, with Councilmember Savigny and Councilmember Gray identified as the key speakers during the review. No significant concerns or debate were recorded regarding the accuracy or content of the prior meeting's summary. The committee approved the December 3, 2024 summary. ## Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) Update [timestamp: 06:39] Councilmember Sheehan and Roger Mulvaney presented an update on the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) during the February 11, 2025 Committee meeting (Agenda Item 0151-25). The presentation covered traffic safety concerns, a review of the program's current status, and plans for the program going forward. The item was informational in nature, with no vote or formal action taken by the Committee. No additional detail on specific findings, metrics, or proposed changes was available from the structured data for this item. ## Odor Control Program Update *Agenda Item 0140-24 | [timestamp: 45:10]* Director Martin presented an update on the odor control program, covering past issues, current efforts, and future goals related to managing odors from wastewater treatment plants. The presentation was informational in nature, providing the Committee with an overview of where the program has been, the steps currently underway to address odor concerns, and the direction the program is headed going forward. Councilmember Reynolds was also a key participant in the discussion. The item was received as informational, with no votes or formal actions taken. --- *Note: Detailed figures, specific initiatives, and additional discussion points from this agenda item were not available in the source data. Readers seeking the full presentation are encouraged to view the meeting recording beginning at the timestamp noted above.* ## Annual Review of Committee Items [timestamp: 1:09:17] The committee took up agenda item 0156-25, an annual review of committee items, during which members discussed the status of ongoing and completed matters on their agenda. The review focused on determining which items should be retained for continued consideration, moved forward, or removed from the committee's active agenda. Councilmember Savigny and Councilmember Gray were the key participants in this discussion. The item was informational in nature, meaning no formal vote or binding action was taken as a result of the review. This type of annual review serves as a housekeeping function for the committee, allowing members to assess the current state of their workload and ensure that agenda items reflect active and relevant priorities. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of December 3, 2024 Committee Summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Move micro transit item to Budget Finance and Economic Development - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Remove Recycling general practices from committee - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Remove Division and Program Reviews from committee --- ## Full transcript ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"] All right. Good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. I'll now call to order the February 11, 2025, meeting of the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee. And before we get started, I want to say a couple of things. Number one, thank you to Councilmember Savigny for being willing to serve as the vice chair. I know that we'll get a lot done. We'll ask really good questions as a committee, and we'll have a good time in the process. And I also want to say thank you to Councilmember Sheehan for doing an excellent job chairing this committee last term. Thank you for your hard work. And thank you to all of you all for being here. The first item on our agenda is the approval of the December 3, 2024 committee summary. Are there any additions or corrections? All right. All right. Seeing none, I hear a motion to approve from Councilmember Savigny and a second from Councilmember Gray. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All right. Any opposed? That motion passes. The first item on our agenda is the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. Councilmember Sheehan is the sponsor of this item. I'd like to turn it over to you for introductions and any opening remarks. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Colleagues, as you know, traffic safety concerns in our Neighborhood Traffic Management Program are one of the items that residents contact our district representatives about regularly. And with our recent adoption of our complete streets policy and the related action plan, one of the action items is to review this program. I thought this would be a good time for us and the public to have an overview of the program and some of the current best practices and thinking leading into that review. While we don't really have time today to get into district-specific NTMP applications or issues, we can engage in some general feedback about what we might like to see in that upcoming review. So I'm grateful for Mr. Mulvaney from our Traffic Engineering Department. He's our Traffic Engineering Manager. For his work on this program and with our residents, I know a lot of time and communication with our neighbors goes into this program. I'm very grateful for you to be here to get this conversation started with us today, so thanks. Thank you. Good afternoon, council members. I'm Roger Mulvaney, and I'm a section manager in the Division of Traffic Engineering. I'm here today to talk about the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, or NTMP. First, we'll give a little introduction about traffic engineering and who we are and how the NTMP fits into our division. Traffic engineering is divided into three sections. The computerized traffic signal section handles our signal timing, traffic signal phasing, and fiber optic operations. Our new development section works closely with planning, coordinates street lighting efforts with utility companies, and oversees traffic permits such as lane blockage permits. Finally, the Signs and Neighborhood Traffic Management Program manages all the traffic control signs throughout the city. There's about 60,000 traffic signs that we have inventoried. And we work with Streets and Roads to design and maintain traffic control pavement markings. And then finally, we have the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. The signs and NTM team consists of eight total employees. Four of them are in the Phoenix building, two engineers including myself, one associate engineer, and one engineering technician senior. At the sign shop at the Operational Adjustment Center, OAC, on Old Frankfort Pike, we have another four employees, our supervisor and three traffic sign technicians. They are responsible for maintaining our signs, making signs with the sign shop, and working with contractors who also install signs for us. Background on the NTMP, it's managed obviously by the Division of Traffic Engineering. It was enacted in the year 2000. The reason for its creation was due to increases in congestion on major roadways, which have resulted in increased use of local streets and residential neighborhoods. That adversely affects safety and livability of neighborhoods. And that's per the resolution 25 years ago. Minor revisions have been made to the program in 2012 and 2015. And it's been the primary program for traffic calming efforts in Lexington for a generation. Why traffic calming? Traffic engineering is not an exact science. I like to tell people you're designing a system where each moving part has a mind of its own. Guidance for traffic engineering has been developed with limited data or data intended for highway design principles on rural major highways, not necessarily city streets. However, traffic engineering continues to evolve. The US Department of Transportation has adopted the safe system approach to address and mitigate the risk in our ground transportation system. The focus of the safe systems approach is on both human mistakes and human vulnerability and looks to design a system with redundancies to protect everyone. And that's language borrowed from the USDOT. Complete street efforts are part of the safe systems approach to our roadway networks. Ultimately, traffic calming helps achieve safer speeds. Primarily in Lexington, with the program, we've looked at local neighborhood streets, but we also are always concerned about vulnerable roadway users, or VRUs. I want to differentiate the NTMP versus traffic calming. So the NTMP is a program targeted at traffic calming efforts on our local and collector residential streets. It's citizen driven, which means that citizens and their neighbors bring their concerns to the NTMP to initiate a project and keep it moving forward. Petitions are an important part of this process to demonstrate the majority of the neighbors support our efforts. We use traffic data analysis to affirm and prioritize our projects. Funding for the NTMP historically has been part of traffic engineering's budget. Traffic calming, the overarching umbrella that the NTMP falls under, is not limited to local roads though. A lot of capital projects over the years have been built by the division of engineering or other areas of LFUCG. Oftentimes, the planning process through the planning commission or division of planning encourages developers to incorporate traffic calming elements in that system. Funding for those projects are not typically in traffic engineering's budget. Like you said, their capital projects and engineering or funding comes from other areas, not in our normal annual budget. So jumping into the NTMP itself, citizens and their neighbors are crucial to the NTMP process. A petition is needed to kick off an NTMP study as there needs to be a demonstrated community-wide concern for LFUCG, for which LFUCG resources are requested to study. After a petition is received, NTMP staff members will conduct traffic counts and a more detailed review of a street or intersection for the traffic analysis. The traffic analysis will look at data to determine if traffic calming is warranted for a given study area. If so, traffic calming solutions will be recommended. Traffic calming options are divided into three categories. Conventional type one interventions include education, enforcement, traffic signs, and pavement markings. More advanced traffic calming techniques are considered type two or type three. Type two interventions usually include vertical deflections like speed tables or horizontal deflections like curb extensions. Type three interventions include roadway diversions or roadway closures. Type three interventions are rarely recommended. If a study area meets NTMP traffic calming criteria, then the homeowners will be informed of our recommendations and what the cost of construction will be. The cost will be shared between the NTMP program and the affected citizens. The cost share is based on a graduated scale. Neighborhoods with an average lower PVA value will have a smaller cost share than a neighborhood where there's a higher PVA average. The cost share only applies to type two and type three traffic calming interventions. More detailed information is in our NTMP pack, and I'd be happy to share that with you. It's also available online. Jumping into more specifics of what traffic calming measures we have historically used. I mentioned earlier horizontal deflections. They try to narrow the path of traffic to squeeze drivers into slowing down. Horizontal deflections can be achieved through free or inexpensive techniques such as on street parking or edge line pavement markings. Curb extensions or bull bouts are another form of horizontal deflection. In the picture you're seeing, the upper left and lower right represent horizontal deflection interventions. Vertical deflections are most often speed humps or speed tables. Tables are longer than humps, and they're less impactful on city snow plow trucks. An example of a speed table is in the lower left picture. Route restrictions or diversions are a type three countermeasure that we have in the list, but again, is not usually recommended. Intersection controls such as multi-way stops or traffic circles or roundabouts are another traffic calming measure. And then finally, signs. We have speed limit signs, other signs to remind drivers to slow down, and then we have speed feedback signs, which as indicated in the upper right picture is something we can display on a street to remind drivers what speed they're going in to slow down. Traffic calming has pros and cons. Positives include increased safety for all roadway users. Reduced speeds can make neighborhoods more livable. Some traffic calming techniques are self-enforcing, street tables for example. And there's maybe landscaping opportunities. Some negatives, traffic calming devices such as speed humps or tables are not recommended by the fire department or police due to increases in response times. Some traffic calming devices are also problematic for other public service vehicles. As I mentioned, speed humps affect snow plows. So if the street has speed humps installed, they don't get snow plowing because it will damage the trucks. Sometimes I've heard complaints from a waste management that their garbage trucks may be impacted by horizontal deflections as well. Vertical deflections, excuse me. Traffic calming can be costly in retrofit scenarios, and they may have an unknown effect on property values. That's something that's commonly thrown out, but it's not usually something I've seen the results of, but it's worth mentioning. Some sample projects last year, NTMP projects that we finished through the program were the installation of speed tables in Kentucky Avenue and North Broadway Park. Some speed feedback signs were installed in Sandersville Road. We installed edge line pavement markings on Waco Road and Old Rosebud Road. And multi-way stop controls were installed at Hawthorne and Cane Run Road. Those are just a small sample of NTMP projects. Here's another sample set of projects that were installed by traffic engineering, but not through the NTMP. We installed curb extensions on Pepper Hill Drive near Julius Marks Elementary School. We installed median islands on Rogers Road, Parkside Drive, those are near Mary Todd School, and Fort Heritage Drive. Modular median islands were installed on East Tiverton Way, South Point Drive, and Walton Avenue. And speed tables were installed in Fiddler Creek, Don Anna, and West High Street. Here's some more representation of what some of the projects were. Here's Old Rosebud Road over in the Hamburg area. We installed edge lines, those are the white lines on either side of the center line. They're typically spaced about seven feet, eight feet off the face of the curb. It narrows down the travel path, but provides enough area for a parked car to fit between the white line and the curb. Maybe a jogger can go there, or a bike can drive down there. And it's an idea to keep the moving vehicular traffic in the middle of the road. Here's a picture of the median and crosswalks that were installed on Fort Heritage Drive. That was a cross section that was reduced by about 10 to 12-ish feet because of the median islands there. Modular median, so if I go back, oops, if I go back here, you'll note that this is made of concrete in Fort Heritage Drive, but in modular medians were made of sort of a rubber or plastic material. They're a little bit more economical, but they're also something that can be easily removed if for some reason we decided that the project wasn't successful or decided to change directions. But also, it can be a way to test drive maybe a future permanent installation. And here's a location review on Pleasant Ridge Drive. Now, this was not a project installed by traffic engineering, but it's been there for more than 15 years, I believe. But we got some data from our analytic platform that showed how the traffic calming elements near the Brighton Trail crossing. Slow down traffic on that street. In the image on the left, you'll see the vertical bars, if you will, represent speed. And the trail crossing is sort of in that middle area near those green lines, and you can see the speeds have decreased near there. In the picture on the right, the reason for that is there's curb extensions in a median island that drivers have to kind of wiggle around slowly to navigate safely. And also, as they're driving slower, it gives them more opportunity to yield to pedestrians or bicyclists using the trail crossing. So the past and present. So 2024 was a busy calendar year for our section. We handled over 1,400 LEX calls and for various traffic sign, parking, or traffic calming requests, which is more half of the LEX call service request traffic engineering received as a division. In the chart on the right, or my right, hopefully you're right as well. The blue represents LEX call service requests that remained internal to the NTMP section, while the red on the bar chart represents service requests that we shared with Streets and Roads for pavement marking activities. In the past nine years, 2024 had the highest number of LEX calls by over 200 requests compared to the second highest year. The NTMP section had 257 documented traffic calming related requests in 24. Most traffic calming concerns are included in the LEX call total, but about 100 of these requests are in addition to the LEX call figures. We currently have over 100 active NTMP projects in various states of the program. Some are waiting on petitions to be returned, some are in the analysis stage, and some are waiting for spring for installation. We spend a lot of time in the field, and in some cases, directly interacting with the public or elected officials, listening to and trying to understand your concerns. We attend a lot of meetings, make phone calls, and email citizens to move the NTMP process along as needed. In the future, so currently, due to increased commands, we are, for traffic calming projects, the administration, with guidance from the CAO's office and assistance from the CIO's team, encouraged us to look for ways to streamline our NTMP process. Recently, for a typical project, it can take several months, and in some instances, close to two years, to take a project from its inception to completion, depending on the backlog or a project's complexity. A lot of time is needed by NTMP staff to intake and track traffic calming requests, which contributes to the strain on our resources. The Citizen Connect Portal Project is intended to provide a user-friendly interface for the public to share their traffic calming concerns, while automatically tracking traffic calming requests to reduce the project management load. Customer service elements will be maintained through chat features, or if chosen, other traditional means of communications. The portal will be completely supported through GIS and LFUCG software. The portal is intended to be a uniform traffic calming inquiry tool, intended to provide project tracking and progress information. It is intended to show the public where active projects are taking place, and where past projects have occurred via mapping features. We anticipate that this will be online later this year. Mr. Mulvaney, do you just want to finish what you're saying? Is that it? That's it. I got it in. Good work. Wonderful. Thank you so much for that presentation. Colleagues, now's the time to sign in for questions or comments. Council Member Morton. Thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, for your presentation, and thank you for all the hard work that you're doing in your division. First, I would like to start off with, can you please talk a little bit about the criteria for speed tables and speed humps? I know that that is always a big ask for a lot of our neighborhoods, so talk a little bit about that criteria, and then maybe go into the cons and the negative piece of those items. Yeah, so the criteria typically for a type two intervention, with speed tables being the most common requested one, is we look at, there's four criteria. The first criteria is, is there a thousand vehicles per day on that street? That's also going to be tied to what's demonstrated 85th percentile speed on that street. It's usually five or miles an hour or more, then that's where we'll say, okay, if you have the traffic and you have the speed, then we recommend moving forward with speed tables. Secondary, and the second and third options relate to volumes and speeds. I don't have those memorized necessarily, they're in our program, but it also looks more at that data. Usually, higher speeds means the volume threshold can be lowered. And finally, in some streets, especially if they're local streets, if the sidewalks aren't present, NTMP criteria may be eligible as well. So, where do the funds come from for the non-NTMP projects? They may be handled completely outside of engineering, or traffic engineering. That is, they could be engineering to capital improvement projects, like 4th Street, for example, included some traffic calming elements. Other times, we've received funds from the administration or the council for traffic calming projects. So, what distinguishes between an NTMP project and a non-NTMP project? The NTMP project goes through the process, that's the main thing. So, that means the citizen, either through direction from a council member or on their own, has reached out to traffic engineering. They've gone through the petition process, there's demonstrated support for that project. We do our analysis, it goes through the process. A traffic calming project may or may not have some of those elements. We recommend that they do, because they can be controversial, and we want to make sure that the local community is supportive of those projects. But traffic calming, like I said, if it's a design project or something handled through the planning commission, that's really outside of our animal, but nonetheless, it's traffic calming anyway. And then lastly, in many cases, I feel that there are needs to look at traffic calming more proactively rather than reactively. Especially when we're talking about growth in Lexington or talking about connection streets and through streets opening up. Are we doing anything to look at traffic calming proactively rather than just reactively? The way that the NTMP set up is it's sort of a reactive program. However, I believe with the complete streets development that's going on through NPO and planning that there will be some more proactive elements for new development, especially when it comes to traffic calming. I can't really speak to that, but I think that there is, I'm optimistic that that's going to happen. I think that's sort of the best answer I have at the moment, yeah. Thank you, appreciate you. Thank you, Council Member Curtis. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, for that presentation. I definitely appreciate all the work that you do. So a quick couple of questions. One of the things that you were talking about there at the end as the time was running a little bit down was the Citizen Connect portal. I was wondering if you would mind going into a little more detail about what's going to be available on that and if you had a rough timeline for that availability? Yeah, rough timelines later this year, optimistically maybe summer. But essentially it's going to be a, if I go, maybe if it helps if I go back to that slide. Essentially it's going to be a way to funnel all requests, all traffic calming requests into one place. One of the challenges we've had is we get requests via Lex call. We get requests from emails that come in off the street, so to speak. We get requests from elected officials. And trying to chart and just track all that is challenging. So the portal is going to put that in one place. And it's also going to demonstrate, through mapping features, if a citizen goes in there and sees, well, they've already had studied my street. Is it worth studying again, or do I really need to show support? So it's going to be map based, and it's going to be a way to be a little bit more transparent where we've done work in the past. And where we can track where the project progress is going to. Awesome, thank you so much. In the meantime, we were looking at some of these breakdowns of the projects that NTMP has taken on. I was wondering if you may or may not know this, but is there a breakdown somewhere of projects by council district? And if so, is that something that we could have access to? With a little bit of work, we could. Typically, whenever we do a project, particularly if it's through the NTMP process or if it's a study, let's say a multi-way stop study, we do copy the pertinent council member that the district. So if you have a multi-way stop study in your district, we definitely stay in touch with your office. So there's ways we can do that. It's not something that we do across the board, but every project that we have, we do try to stay in touch with the various council offices. So if you need something specific, we can try and provide it for you. Awesome, thank you so much. I'm going to have my legislative aide follow up with you about that, because we have a couple of questions on that front, but I won't take up any more public time on that. And so, yeah, I think that's all I have for now, but thank you so much. Thank you. Councilwoman Gray. Thank you, Chair. Legree. Thank you, Roger Mulvaney, for your presentation today. So until, whenever the portal is set up, what is your plan to keep council members informed of where we are with each project that is going on? because I know I have my residents, when they email you, to make sure that they are asked them to include me in the CC portion, so that I can follow up and make sure that I keep an eye on where we are on the project. However, if I don't do so, what is your method in making sure that we stay informed of where we are with the process of each application? Typically, when we send a petition out or complete a study, we will copy your office. Oftentimes, one of the engineers may give you a call, or your council aide a call, to kind of say, hey, this is coming. That's not something we always do, necessarily, but it's something we can do. Some council members set up meetings with us. Anything that we complete, we do try to stay in touch with your all's office, or let you all know when petitions are going out. Now, when we're going out and doing field work in our day-to-day operations, we may not necessarily call you and say, hey, we're going to your district to go check on signs or traffic calming, necessarily. But we do try to keep you all informed on what important things have been completed and what major steps we've taken. Also, feel free to give my office a call any time, so I can share my number with your council aide. And I just have a quick ask, or an ask, if there can be a way that you can maybe periodically updating the council members of where we are. I know that there are several projects, at least in the sixth district, that are out there still. And I still don't know where they are in the process. And a periodic update, like maybe once monthly or every other month, just something so that we know where we are in the process. That's all. That's my ask for you. But thank you for all that you do, and that is all. Okay, thank you. Council Member Savigny. Thank you, Chair. And thank you, Roger, for the presentation. My office has used this quite a bit, and I wanted to kind of cross-respond to Council Member Morton. That I've used, probably half of my capital money has gone into doing my own projects because there just isn't enough, we haven't funded it to the level that they've got a backlog of things that they're supposed to be doing over the next two years. So I've just been funding a lot of it on my own. And I would agree with Council Member Gray that probably a monthly send out that was of each district. And because the flow chart and the process is kind of, it is fairly long, and I think it's intentionally meant. It is intentionally meant to be a bit of a barrier, because just because one person complains on the street, doesn't mean that naturally every member is excited about some sort of mitigation. And I've found that in a number of times that my things have failed, because the members on that street that are affected basically voted kind of against doing something. So I do think that there's value to the process, which I appreciate. But informing us of the process periodically would be very helpful. And we have set up, this year we've decided because it's our biggest list on our weekly agenda. My aid and I are meeting with you either monthly or bimonthly, I believe. And we set up a scheduled meeting because it's a lot of what we're doing. A quick question for you, and it's on the flow chart, you basically have the citizens express concern as an input. And then it says traffic engineering conducts preliminary study. And then it kicks out and it's either you do a petition to the neighborhood or it says basic intervention. So traffic engineering conducts basic intervention. I don't know that you said exactly what basic intervention is, but I'm kind of curious what that is. Yeah, a basic intervention is a type one conventional type of traffic calming tool. It could be installation of a speed limit sign, something more on the lower end, like installing a sign or referring a request for traffic calming or speeding to the police, things of that nature. So it may not be always a physical thing that's installed, but it could be sending out a request to the police traffic unit to do some enforcement as another example. Okay, and do you inform the person who is the initiator that you've done that? So we'll either inform them that we have done that or we'll say that they can do it themselves and we can provide them the number. So sometimes we feel that, I mean, the police will ask, when we ask them to do something, they will do it. But we also want the citizens to know that that's there for them as well. Okay, thank you very much. Thanks again for the presentation. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. Council Member Boone. Thank you, Chair. Quick question. I guess the graph there shows quite a bit increase of, I guess, requests. Is there something that leads to that, or what's the thought there, I guess? I have theories. You're talking about the request, the NTP, or the Lexical request received by the NTP section. I think a lot of it is, we have more people working from home now than we did before. And again, that's not based on science, but to your point, there has been a pretty strong increase in traffic calming requests in 24 and 23 calendar years. During the depression, it was lower. I can't speak to why. Maybe there's less people driving around. I think there was demonstrated decreases in volume, traffic volumes, during the COVID years. So I think that's our theory. We don't have the best answer, but that's, yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Council Member Sheehan. Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the presentation and for all the work that you do with our residents and our neighborhoods and our offices. Two questions. With regard to the online portal system and the ability to track the petitions or the applications and the process, is that something that we would be able to have access to, or we would be able to look for the records for our own district instead of having to report it back out to us? Now, I'm not sure if I'm able to answer that question. The reason for that is I don't think we've developed it that far. So that may be something we could look into the design as far as how it's sorted. Typically, we do track projects by council district. So that may be sort of an easy filter feature. But certainly, any project anywhere throughout the county would be included in that. So it's all going to be there. Yeah, I think that would be just thinking of the time constraints that your office already has, all the projects that you're working on, and the number of staff members that you have. It might be more beneficial for us to be able to access the reporting features on our side rather than having you. generate those reports and send them out to us on a monthly or quarterly basis, whatever that looks like. I know that's a little bit of time before that system comes online, but I would be interested in seeing if there's time savings there for all of us. And that helps us too, because I think with any application that we have in the system, sometimes we'll get like five emails from a resident, right? And then we have to kind of shoot that to you and get your response, and then it's kind of like this back and forth. Whereas if we're able to look up the information directly, or our aides are, then I think that helps streamline all of this for everyone. Our ability to communicate with our residents and get information quickly, but then also savings in your time as well with having to do the back and forth. So I'd be interested in working with you on that, or looking at how that might look so that we can have an efficient system for all of us there as that progresses. So thank you. And then when it comes to the review and the evolution of this entire system and the application process, I do feel like there are particular places within this process that our neighborhoods sometimes get stuck. Right, particularly around the petitioning. And I would be very open to discussions about how we might be able to help our residents with that or streamline that process for them some. I know that the petition process is important for getting neighborhood buy in. But for example, I had one resident who wanted to do an application, but didn't communicate this necessarily to us. I found out later that once they got the petition, they stopped because they had a mobility challenge. So they couldn't go door to door to collect signatures to get community buy in. But I don't necessarily, I don't think that was communicated from the resident until much later. And so I think that's just one example where an application has gotten hung up. But I think those petitioning pieces are where things kind of get stuck. And I would like to just have some continued conversation about how we might be able to make that easier on our residents. Not necessarily easier to approve and get through, but going through all of the rest of the processes. But those kind of places where it's a little bit onerous on our neighborhoods, I would like to see what we can do. That's all, thank you. Thank you, Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Chair. I think echoing what all of my colleagues have said, this program is really important to me. And I know a lot of my constituents have used it over the years. And I agree with what Council Member Sheehan is saying, that often somewhere people get stuck in the process. Or also what Councilwoman Gray said about, or there's something out there and we don't know where it's at. So I think those are both two things that I can echo have been an issue. Just being really clear about where we are in the process of one of these applications or of doing lines. I know there were a few projects in my district that got delayed a pretty long time with some staff turnover. Just any way that we can have continuity in these things moving forward. That it's clear to us when something's going to be done, when it's being worked on, to be able to communicate with our constituents would be great. Our constituents are super concerned about speeding right now. I think that's why this number has just skyrocketed. It's an issue that's happening in all of our neighborhoods. And I have people call and ask for speed tables literally all the time. And so, I know one place people get stuck is the money issue. One way people get stuck is home ownership versus renting on a road when it comes to the speed tables. But I wonder if there's some language that we can include. I've helped with some of the speed tables out of my cost center to say there might be options for you. There's not just one way to pay for things. Or if you get stuck and you need help, please contact us so that we can help you walk through the process. Anything like that I think would be helpful. But we appreciate what you do. We know hearing you say your staff, you have a very small group of people to work with and a lot of demand on your time. So we realize that as well. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you too. Thank you. I don't see any additional colleagues of mine who've logged in. Thank you so much, Mr. Mulvaney. And it sounds like we've gotten some really good information about the process to share out with the public. Also, some great updates from you about upcoming kind of modernization and tracking technology. And some good feedback about how we could use that technology to stay informed and help inform our residents about where their projects are and what's happening. And before we wrap up, I just have one point of clarification, because this comes up in my district a lot with speed tables. I think that you said something about speed tables and snow plowing and challenges there. Now, is it possible to plow if there are speed tables? Yes, you can plow over a speed table the way they're designed. They're longer so the truck doesn't get caught up on it. Their speed hump is shorter from start to finish as the truck goes over it, and that's where the plow or wheels get stuck, and that's bad on a speed hump. The speed table is longer, and there's no one getting stuck. Okay, excellent. Thank you for that clarification, especially during this time of the year. It's an inquiry we get, and we want people to be interested in pursuing traffic calming no matter what the weather. So, thank you so much. We really appreciate your time and your work on this. Thank you. All right, our next item is sponsored by Councilmember Reynolds. That's our odor control program update, and Councilmember, at this time, I'd love for you to introduce the item and provide any opening remarks you'd like to share. Thank you, Chair. Well, for a little background for my colleagues that are new, back in 2023, there was a increased amount of, or there were an increased amount of complaints about odor. In my district, I had had odor complaints before, but it became apparent that this was different and that there were way more of them. At the same time, over in Council District 4, there were also increased complaints. And in my district, on my side of the town, is the town branch wastewater treatment plant. And the neighborhoods surrounding that area are the ones that started calling in and saying that the odor was extremely foul, that they could not go outside, that they were concerned about their health and a million other things. And so I met with Director Martin, and we had a meeting over by the wastewater treatment plant. And we talked about how it works and what possible issues could be. And then later, I think it was December of 2023, the mayor signed an emergency order to have some folks come in and take a look at it. And so I'm going to let Director Martin go into more depth about where we started and where we are, and just the complexity of this issue. This is not an issue that is easily solved overnight, but it is something that I'm really grateful the administration has been willing to work on, as well as Director Martin and Division of Water Equality. And so he's going to go into a presentation and also mention the hire that we did in order to address this problem. So, thank you. Excuse me. I was hoping you were going to do the presentation for me. You were on a good start there. So, the agenda, what we're going to cover today, we're going to do a little bit of more background for the new folks. Talk about what we accomplished in 2024, and really emphasize what we're going to focus on for 2025, and then finish up with questions. As Council Member Reynolds said, the 2023, the wheels fell off, fall of 2023 in particular. What I learned was, is that people don't call LexCal, they're having the conversation in social media. Because apparently all of that was going on then, when I first heard from Council Member Reynolds, and also some of the other council districts around the plant, I had, basically I looked at LexCal, it said we had five or six complaints, and there was like a thousand times more than that. So, we hired Webster and Associates to be able to come in and help us with our odor control issues. They are a specialty firm, that's what they do, they focus on that. They have Tetra Tech as their sub-consultant that does more of the design and those kind of things for some of the equipment that we have been putting in and will be putting in in the future. But 2023 was really a focus on the treatment plants, because we got such a late start, fall of 2023, the treatment plant seemed like the obvious place to start. So they collected data, late 2023, and it basically, at town branch, it showed that roughly 66% of the odor problem was coming from three areas. Two of the primary clarifier banks, and then the head works. You see that the solids building was a fairly large number as well. We kind of discounted that, because that solids building doesn't run every day, it doesn't run during the weekend. So we tried to focus on the bigger parts of this pie chart. Same thing at West Hickman, we found that 66% of the problem was where this ash tank and scrubber complex is. And so that was our focus, on above where the solids buildings are, because again, they don't run all the time. So basically, all the treatment work that we've worked on in 2024 has really been focused on what EA Webster's findings were in late 2023. But also, we really, really worked a lot, really hard on the chemical issue. And I'm going to talk about that a little bit in the later slides, because it is really important to me. Is that we can control odors at the treatment plants themselves, but if we don't do something to cut down the potential of odors being formed there, you're just chasing your tail. You're going to be building equipment, but you haven't done anything. It's like I described to one person one time, you have a great air conditioner, but if you leave the windows open in the summertime and draw hot air in there, you're never going to cool your house, same concept here. Really about transition from the reactive state to the proactive state. I mean, we've spent a lot of time on this in 2024, and hopefully some people have been able to at least see some results out of that. And what we did in town branch in 2024 is we replaced the activated carbon units that were serving those clarifiers and the head works, the 66% that I talked about before. We've had activated carbon there for a long time, but what Webster's sampling found is that the concentration of odor causing pollutants are so great that that activated carbon won't last very long. And basically it will extinguish its capacity and need to be replacing it over and over again. So we've also awarded a contract to install a bio scrubber that would treat the primary air that comes off of those units. And then polishes it with the activated carbon, kind of a belt and suspenders type of approach. That way that we don't rely on just one piece of equipment and its ability to be able to run. So you see in the pictures there this past summer where they're replacing the activated carbon in the three units that serve that area. And then that's an example of the construction that's scheduled for 2025, which is the bio scrubber. That contract was awarded by council in late 2024, so we're just getting started with it. West Hickman, one of the biggest things I think we've changed more than anything else was a process change. We've got new management down there now and they are approaching how we handle the ash tanks in a much different way we were before. We're adding air before we load stuff into those ash tanks, which that air is providing oxygen and prevents the formation of odors more so than anything we're doing chemically wise. So based on the input that I get from folks on that side of town, they obviously say we haven't handled it all. We haven't solved it 100%, but they're saying it is better than what it was before. And I think it has a lot to do with that. But that alone is not it, is that we've replaced or rehabilitated the chemical scrubber that was serving those ash tanks. Unfortunately, when I got into this, I realized that we've not done a really great job of maintenance on some of the equipment that we have. In particular, that when they had changed the chemical around to a different proprietary chemical, which that scrubber wasn't built for. And so it wasn't performing the way that it did. And I kind of understand what led to that, is that that chemical scrubber uses chlorine and caustic soda, liquid caustic, pH of 11, it's really, really difficult stuff. And so we've got to figure out, moving forward, how we're going to be able to work around that, using chemicals that are somewhat hazardous and are somewhat dangerous, and being able to make sure that our folks are trained and equipped to be able to deal with that. And then the last thing that we did though at West Hickman for this year is we awarded a contract as well for credit to upgrade the chemical or the carbon units that serve that ash tank complex as well. Those are the ones that are on the right, those have been there since the 90s. The sampling that Webster did show that they seem to be performing okay, but it felt like, again, with the scrubber on the left, the one that we rehabilitated, along with the carbon units on the right, belt and suspenders for what is 66% of the problem at West Hickman, based on Webster's analysis. So I mentioned before, we've done a lot of work with the collection system. And I have this under treatment plan accomplishment, because again, it's about trying to control it before it gets there, instead of trying to get it back in the bottle when you get it there. We spent a lot, a lot of time on this. We pump, I think our longest pressurized line is nearly four miles long. We have seven watersheds in Fayette County, but only two treatment plants, which means we have to have pump stations that pump back to those two treatment plants. And those long distances create a lot of problems for us, because the sewage is in those pipes and there's no oxygen, and when they come out, sometimes they smell really, really bad. So what we've been looking at is, chemically, how can we alter that outcome and provide some type of oxygen or something that prevents the formation of odor causing compounds like hydrogen sulfide? A lot of time spent on that. Here's the most technical part of this whole presentation, I have to have a graph here, a couple graphs. The blue bars that you see are chemical dosage on a month by month basis. We adjust the chemical feed up and down. The orange line with the dots is the measure of hydrogen sulfide, which is an indicator of odor causing compounds that we're getting out of the pipe. So you can see that it drops off in the winter months and it spikes up in the summer months, which temperature has a lot to do with it. What's really odd about it is that even though we increase the chemical dosage, the odor increases as well. One time we turned it off and it actually went down instead of up. We spent a year collecting data that left us a lot of times scratching our head about why. Same thing for Town Branch. This is the lower Cane Run pump station. This comes from the Cold Stream area and it gets delivered to Manchester Street. We were sampling at an air release valve, felt like we were getting some really good results at ARV 9, we weren't getting any odor there at all. And I told them to move to a different location. We moved to ARV 8 and you see that the hydrogen sulfide thing started spiking. Again, the orange line. Even when we increased the feed, it helped a little bit, but not that much. And then it dropped back off again in December. What's the point? The point is this. We spent a lot of money, a lot of money for what I would generously call mediocre results. On those graphs you just saw is that, I should have pointed that out when I was there, is on the right side it says H2S PPM, the right side of that graph. That is the measure of hydrogen sulfide at that particular time. You'd see in cases we spike up to this one around about 160, we never really drop down to zero, especially on the previous one, we never get to zero, basically we're averaging 183. The goal is ten, ten. The chemicals we're feeding right now, it's not working for us. And so this is a real, really important emphasis for me in 2025 is try to figure out how to be able to utilize different chemicals in such a way is that we get more bang for our buck. So I'll talk about that here in a second. Finishing up some of our accomplishments and our lessons is that you recall that we created a odor control manager position in last year's budget. I'm pleased to announce that we've hired that person, Rick Bowman. He's back here over my right in the back corner back there. Really excited to have Rick on this team because Rick has been here longer than I've been. He came in 1999, he was the assistant superintendent of sewer line maintenance at that time. He's been with the city off and on probably close to 40 years. Strong customer service background, knows the system, a really great hire for us because I think he can help hit the ground with us. The last, I don't know, five to ten years, he has been in treatment plant engineering. So he knows what's going on in the treatment plant, he knows what's going on in the collection system. A real home run, I feel like, for the division of water quality. Where we're headed for 2025 is obviously we've got to keep going what we're doing right now and keep trying to cut those calls down. Last year, we had Webster come in and redo the sampling of both treatment plants. And there is a fairly detailed report that we'll be posting to the website here soon that folks that are interested in that can be able to dig into it. Basically, it kind of reaffirmed what we found in the pie charts that I started with is that 66% of the problem at West Hickman is there are the ash tanks. And likewise, the primaries and the head works are the biggest problem at Down Branch. But it helped refine that a little bit and also provided some cost estimates for future equipment improvements that we could use for budgeting purposes, but also for planning purposes. Wrapping up 2024, those of you who are watching saw that we did smoke testing in the fall. I can't say it was a complete waste of time, but it didn't yield the results that I thought that it would. Sometimes in science, you all know, is that you have to eliminate something before you can be able to move on. And so the collection system smoke testing revealed a couple people that got smoke in their houses, which is a bad thing. But otherwise, I don't think we'll be continuing that as far as the bulk of what we're doing. So for the 2025 goals is get that bio scrubber installed, the one that we awarded last year, we're expecting that should be done by November of 2025. Council Member Reynolds, I'm going to push them harder on that because that's the latter part of odor control season instead of the beginning. West Hickman, that one's a little bit farther ahead than that, so that one should be done by June of 2025, which would be good because that's when odor season does start. Really importantly is implement remote pilot studies to further evaluate chemical application. We're going to do that for South Elkhorn, which is the one that comes from Bowman's Mill all the way up to Henderson Drive, which is right behind Veterans Park, that's what we've been measuring all along. And then also do the same thing on Lower Cane Run, which comes from Cold Stream all the way past Meadowthorpe and into the Manchester Street area. We've got bids out right now for chemicals to where we're going to try to accept everybody's bid and then be able to set up remote dosing stations so we can test these chemicals. Those two locations were chosen because we've also got a mid-range area that we can be able to add chemical. So like halfway through for South Elkhorn, we can use a pump station that is owned by the Jesmond South Elkhorn Water District to set up a temporary feed location. Likewise for Lower Cane Run, we've got a pump station that's off Sandersville Road that we can ingest chemical, not only at the beginning of the force main, but somewhere closer to the midpoint to see whether it gives us more bang for our buck, both in cost and also results. Developing unit of price contracts to try to be able to shorten time frames. Odor control equipment requires servicing and maintenance, and I met with somebody about that last week at South Elkhorn. Again, our folks are really good, but people come and go and stuff like that. And I'd really like to be able to find a vendor or a provider that can regularly maintain these things in a more proactive way instead of a reactive way. Manhole and air release valve inserts, they have things that you can put in there that are localized, activated carbon that absorbs the odorous air that may come out of some of those air release valves. The air release valves are unavoidable. When you're pumping four miles, there's high points and low points, and every place you have a high point, you have an air release valve. And so having something that is regularly treated there that we can help be able to control odors that maybe migrate out in people's backyard or in front of their house, which you've told me about before. We implement the recommendations of the warm weather modeling results. Again, that's going to be our guidance as far as for future budget requests and future capital construction projects. And then, I've said this the first time I presented on this, I still want to have a long-term monitoring program to be able to more proactively tell us when something's going to happen. I almost did as good as Roger, but not quite as good. You're very good. I'm impressed. You had a lot of ground to cover. So thank you so much for your presentation and colleagues. If you have questions or statements to share, please go ahead and log in. Council Member Curtis. Thank you, Chair, and thank you so much, Director Martin. I really appreciate that presentation today. As you know, over in the fourth, this has been an ongoing issue. I have a very, it might sound simple question, but I just want to get explicit clarification for my constituents on the record that if somebody is experiencing or noticing issues with odor control, foul smell, the best thing for them to do is to call 311 and report it, correct? Yes, absolutely. That's a really good question because it's important. Sometimes I think we fall to assume that it's a treatment plant or pump station. We typically will send somebody out and pop some manholes and make sure there's not something else going on that's causing that problem. So thank you for that question. Yeah, of course. And then one more question as we're looking towards the future when we're talking about implementing this sort of long term proactive maintenance to prevent this type of failure of equipment from happening again in other facilities. What resources do you need to provide that? Where are we in the process? And forgive me, colleagues, if this is a reductive question, but I want to make sure that what has happened here is something that we are learning from those mistakes on. I think we're headed on the right track. It is a difficult thing to try to be able to make sewage not smell bad. But the fact that we've got somebody other than me that's paying attention to this every day, Rick's only job is odor control. And so that's a real help to me. I'm not leaving it either, because I have developed a lot of relationships with some of your constituents and some of Council Member Reynolds, is they contact me directly, either by text or by phone. And I'll show up at their house, because I want to find out for sure. I'd like to solve this. I really would like to solve it. I think most folks realize is that it may not be ever a situation where I never smell it, but I want it to be a minimal thing, an exception, not the rule. Thank you so much. And again, I just want to extend my thanks to you, because I know that this has been a lot of work in your office. And it's been, at times, thoroughly unpleasant. So thank you so much for your dedication to this. And I know that my constituents really appreciate it as well. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Council Member Morton. My question is just in regard to the 2025 goals. Do you have an estimated cost, or is all this already funded? An estimated cost of all of it, or just for this? Just in regard to 2025 goals. I'm sorry? Just in regard to your 2025 goals listed. 2025, we started out with a fairly healthy budget. We had nearly $6 million that was allocated towards this when the mayor signed the emergency. The improvements at Town Branch, I believe the low bid was somewhere in the 1.9 range, 1.9 million. The one at West Hickman, I think, is the 1.3 million, but I can get you those numbers exactly. Right now, I don't feel like funding as much of the issue is, is that supply chain still saddles my organization. We wait a long time, sometimes, for pieces of equipment in order to be able to finish a project. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Chair, for recognition, since I do not serve on this committee. Director Martin, I just want to thank you. You have been really responsive to our questions, via email, to our neighbors. And so, I thank you for working so swiftly to work on this problem. I have, I'll knock on wood, I haven't gotten any older complaints from my neighbors in a while. So, I appreciate your work and your hard efforts. And Mr. Bowman, we are so glad to have you on the job. Thank you so much. Thank you. Council Member Reynolds. Thank you, Chair. Yeah, I too want to echo, I am really grateful for working with you and all that you've done. I know you're super busy with the many different projects that you oversee, and I appreciate you putting so much time and energy into this. And I look forward to working with Rick as well. It's very exciting to have you on board to tackle this issue. For my constituents that are concerned that I have gotten complaints in the past few months. When we say, unfortunately, we've put a lot of money into this and we haven't had a big, huge result. We're still reassuring them that we're doing everything we can to try to make this better. That's what I'm hearing from you, correct? It is, yes. The last comment I had about the proactive monitoring thing is that everything is going right, and then one day it breaks. And the next thing you know, you've got a problem. When I'm driving out of the plant around Christmas time, I kept smelling something over by a complex that we weren't necessarily focused on. So in some further digging, found where a valve had broken and stuff, and it was viewing air. Unfortunately, that kind of stuff happens all the time. And so getting people who work in a treatment plant every day to be worried about how it smells has been a bit of a challenge, but they're getting better. Well, once again, I appreciate all the work that you've done and want to say to our constituents that we're still committed to figuring this out and making the biggest impact that we're able to with the resources that we have. And we have someone who's going to be on top of it every day, so that's going to help, I think. If you'll allow me, and I can maybe emphasize something I had said to Council Member Curtis. Contacting LexCol is still a good plan, and the more information they can give us about what they're smelling, but even more importantly, when they're smelling it and stuff like that, is a big help as well. And you know that, I just wanted to say it publicly. Of course, thank you, and I'll continue to guide them to 311. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, and thank you, Director Martin, for these really important updates and for sharing clear information with us. And welcome, Mr. Bowman, we appreciate you joining the team in this capacity. Thank you so much. All right, committee members, if you want to go ahead and turn to page 37 of your packet, we're going to take a moment to review all of the items currently on our committee referral list. I believe that our list is up to date, and there may be a couple of items that we can remove. So if you would like to remove an item, you'll just need to sign in and make a motion to do so. And just as a reminder, we'll not need to make motions to change sponsors. And a further reminder, if you'd like to add an item to our committee, you can make a motion at work session during council reports or at a council meeting during announcements. So let's go ahead and get started and run down our list. And you'll see one that has a lot more details on it, so I would encourage you to check that one out. So the first item on that list is our odor control program update. Council Member Reynolds, I'm assuming that you want to leave that in committee? Yes, please. Okay, excellent. Our second item is micro transit. Council Member Savigny. Yeah, thank you, Chair. I did talk to Council Member Ellicott and felt that this should be moved and be said. So I move that we move it and be said. Second. Okay, I have a motion from Council Member Savigny and a second from Council Member Gray to move this to budget finance and economic development. Any discussion on that motion? Council Member Brown. Thank you, Chair and Council Member Savigny. What was the rationale for the movement? Just in my mind, I think it may fit better in social services and maybe public safety. The chair is being fed here. Yeah, just, yeah. I think the rationale, I asked him originally, like, do you really think it belongs in the QPW? And he said no. Like, it probably doesn't. And he's not a member of this. So he, I don't want to speak for him, but he is a member of BFED, and he felt like he may be asking for money at some point to do something with this. Okay, okay. All right, that's fine. I was just wondering. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Okay, thank you. Good discussion. Any other comments before we vote? Okay. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay, any opposed? All right, that motion passes. Thank you. Coordination of ongoing maintenance for plans including infrastructure, beautification, and planting projects. That's Council Member Reynolds' item. Hi, Chair, I'm actively working on this, but we checked in this week and think that it might be several months out before we're ready to have a report out. Okay, excellent. We can stay in communication about it. Thank you. Thank you for the update. Neighborhood Traffic Management Program update. Council Member Sheehan, I assume you want to keep this in committee? Yes. Okay, excellent. Traffic calming with public art and quick installations, that will remain in committee? Yes. Excellent. Now we're on to the annual and periodic updates. Recycling general practices. This item can be removed from committee with a motion. Council Member Savigny has signed in. Did you want to? Yes, I was going to make a motion. Thank you, Chair. I was going to make a motion to remove this. The last item on the list is the Waste Digester Task Force remainder, which is basically now a recycling effort as well as composting. So I would move to remove since I think it's covered somewhere else. Second. Okay, we have a motion from Council Member Savigny and a second from Council Member Gray to remove this item due to some redundancy. Any discussion on that motion? Okay. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All right. Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. The Live Green Lexington update, this is my item. It will stay in committee. Urban Forestry and Street Tree Updates, my item, staying in committee. Capacity Assurance Program Audit Update. This is an update that we're going to hear again in spring of 2028, so it will remain in committee. Annual Energy Initiatives Update, this will remain in committee. Annual Snow and Ice Plan Removal Plan, again, will remain in committee. Annual Pavement Management Plan Update. At this juncture, will remain in committee. Annual Stormwater Projects Update. This is also going to remain in committee. Annual Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System MS4 Program Update. This is a required update, so it will remain in committee. Annual Consent Decree Remedial Measures Plan Update, also required, so it will remain in committee. All right. Annual Division and Program Reviews. This item may be removed from committee. Council Member Savigny. Thank you, Chair. I'll make the motion to remove Division and Program Reviews from committee. Second. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second from Council Member Gray. Any discussion on this item? Okay, excellent. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Waste Contamination Reduction and ASP Composting Biannual Update is our final item on our list. And as mentioned previously, it will stay in committee. All right. Thank you, colleagues, for an excellent first meeting. I appreciate your engagement, your questions, and your service. May I have a motion to adjourn? Okay. Council Member Curtis, motions. Council Member Gray, seconds. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you.