8. Ychwanegwch y cyfeiriadau am eich cyfrifiadau. 9. Os ydych chi'n croesawu'r ffynw, gadawch iddoch chi'r gyfrifiadau ar ei bwysau. 10. Os ydych chi'n cyfrifiadau, gadawch iddoch chi'r cyfrifiadau ar ei bwysau. 11. Os ydych chi'n cyfrifiadau, gadawch iddoch chi'r cyfrifiadau ar ei bwysau. Ddiolch am wylio'r ffilm. Ddiolch am wylio'r ffilm. Those are the absences that we know about and hopefully we're going to have enough to carry on the votes we need to. I can be doing is talking about the update on the small farm easement program while we're waiting for people. Because that is, I will have to tell everybody, I think is looking great. Right after our last meeting, Beth and I met with the mayor to talk about this on March 3rd. And as soon as we left the meeting, it was the applications were not online yet. And we already knew that we had some people who have done their PDR easements with us who were interested. So, everybody who had contacted us about being interested, Beth and I copied before we left the building about a dozen copies. And when we left the building, I notified the people that I had those or I'd stick one in their mailbox and they could look at it if they had questions. Actually, that was a great thing to do because we've already gotten some of those back and they told their friends and neighbors. People have been very, very interested. In fact, I had mentioned last time in this meeting to talk to some of your friends or neighbors or somebody you knew who really were using their 10 acre or up to 20 acre tracks for some agricultural use. Stephen is not here, but he did contact his neighbors and they call me in the meantime and have literally already turned in their applications. So, in Stephen Howard's neighborhood, he did it. I'm going to cheerlead and encourage you all to do some as well. And both of those that he's turned in are very actively farming. Both have horses. One has chickens and other things as well. So, those are great applications. I did 3 of the people who we gave applications to who've had larger farms wanted to apply with their 10 acre tracks. 2 of those, I think, were horses. One's growing vegetables. They're all applying. The good thing is, it's right where we said we wanted these. They are either right in the middle of where we already have a good critical mass, or they're right next to those, or they're in areas that we definitely have wanted to save and focus areas that we've mentioned before. So, those people, those 12 that we sent out, they contacted their friends and neighbors, and they've called and they've had a lot of questions about it. We gave you all last time, or they're in your packets this time, right Beth, the page about the small farm conservation easement program sheet. And so we gave that to each of those 12 people and told them to tell their neighbors or friends, which they have done. So, that helped too. So, if you get any calls, please look at that information sheet that Beth has sent out. So, you'll sort of know what you're talking about and you'll look like you have some knowledge of the program. It does say that anyone in the AR, or what could qualify as the A-N zone, can participate in the program. In what I sent you all in your, if you will, if you, I don't know if you've printed those off what I sent today or not, but if you did, hopefully, I sent you everything that our Ordinance 27 that we have done in the Code of Ordinances and Ordinance 26, which is our big PDR. And I also sent you your planning and zoning definitions and also the definitions from the KRS-100 that talks in more detail from the past. There's Mary Quinn. Welcome. So, I wanted to tell you all that right now on those, Beth already has, I think, 4 applications that came to her office. I have 10 that people have turned in or given to me. They range from 10 acres all the way up to 19. One of them, I think, is 19.7. And we have some more people who said they'll be sending them in and bear in mind the deadline. They still have 6 more days because they have till April 1st to get them to us. So, right now, with that many applications, I added up what I think it should be, and that's 246.808 acres. So, we are doing a really good job. And I think that's really exciting. I do want to say, while I have you all here, that the application online, Phil, I talked to Phil about this. He'll be here in a minute. I don't see him yet. So, Phil Meyer, I spoke to him about this. The application is going to need some work to make it easier online. It is very difficult for people to fill it out and still attach the deeds and drag in the photos that they need to have to show the special things that they wanted to show. So, we're going to need a little, they said it was hard to scan the deeds and then get them to work. So, we're going to need a little tweaking of that to make sure that they work well online. As a result of that, a couple of the people I know, 1 of the people that Beth has the application for in her office, after she left, called me so concerned because they mailed it and the mail in the rural area is so slow and unreliable. And Sean checked to make sure it had come and that 2 of the people who had contacted me theirs had come, had been mailed and or emailed. And then we have some that told me today they had emailed it. There is a little bit of difficulty for some people filling them out because they, they're asked to check things, like, if you're in a green way, and they don't know. So they'll call and say, am I in green way? And we'll say, well, the staff can can tell you that they're having a little bit of trouble, which is. This is a concern on the application. If you'll recall, they had to get the to help them with these applications. There's, there's a line in there and on the checklist of the application, they, they need to send that in and have that done when they have been calling. The NRCS is down to 1 person, and the 1 person has told them he will do everything he can to get to them. 1 person, he said it might be up to 3 weeks and they kind of panicked. And I have told all the people who call me about that just to have him send you an email back or letter back and just fasten it to your application or scan it and put in your application where that is. So that we will know they're on the way that may be. We don't have Beth and I talked about this late last night after she got home, we're going to have to figure out maybe how to do that ourselves. We don't have that budgeted really to hire help in our current budget. But we may be able to figure that out ourselves if if he can't do them. I have talked to the appraisers and that's good news. He will give us a discount. On doing the appraisals, because they're nowhere near as much to do, or as big to do on 10 acres as the 2, 3, 4, the bigger 100 acre farms that they have to do. So, they will give us a discount and he can do as we talked about, I think, at the last meeting, or at least Beth and I did he can do 5 at a time. And if we send those to him, he will get them done as soon as possible and get them back. So we can have them at the next board meeting. So we can look at the appraisers and think about making offers. They will do as many as they possibly can with the current funding that we have in the budget. And that's part of the reason they're going to give us a reduced rate and we know already that we have more than 12. So, we could be having 2 dozen by April. The 1st, they don't have to fill out the federal pages anymore because it's not like the and they think it's going to be easier and faster. And I just talked to them again this week to let them know that looks like people are doing it and we are going to have some and we are under a time and budget crunch and they know they're trying to do and we need to do as many as possible. I do want to ask you all. Let's see. I think we have enough. Do we now? Yes. Okay. I'm counting for everybody to be here. Just since since we started, we have enough people. I will tell you Beth, I'll go around the screen just saying, you know, who's here. Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So there are 8 of us. And before I ask say any more about that, now that we have here, have everybody here, I'm going to ask you all about your minutes. I hope everybody got their minutes. If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve as sent to you all. So, move with. All right, Phil, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Jim. And all in favor, just show of hands that. Everybody. Okay, so he he's abstained. Beth, but he'll go with the majority. Okay. Okay. So, back to our small farm. We know that we have. A dozen, and we know by April 1st, we're going to have even more. We're under a bit of a time crunch, trying to get these in and done for our. Budget that runs through to July. And I would like to have you all. I'd like to have a motion for you all to vote to authorize Beth. To rank the applications that we've received and the ones we get by April, the 1st deadline. For her to be able to rank them and send the top 5 on to the appraisers to complete prior to our next board meeting. I'll move. Okay. Are there any comments about that? Is there a 2nd. All 2nd. Okay, that's been seconded by several hands. I see. Jim and Phil, so. So, the motion has been made that I'd like for you all to authorize Beth to rank the applications. We already have in hand. And the rest of the ones we get by April, the 1st deadline for her to be able to send those top 5 on to the appraisers to complete prior to the next board meeting. Okay, all in favor show of hands. Okay, unanimous. I'm excited because the appraisers said they probably could do more than that, but to let them start with the 1st, 5 and let them see. How much time it was going to take and to see where we are. With what it cost to do that many. We know we have the funds that's in our budget. So we're okay from that standpoint. If there are no questions anymore, anything to say about. That, let's move on to the signs any other questions, anything anybody else wants to say about our small farms. Well, who made that motion and 2nd. I think Margaret. Okay, Margaret. And the 2nd is Robert Jim and Phil. Okay. All right. Thank you. I was writing down the motion. So I. I have it written down. Okay. I wrote it down to make sure I had it. So, I can give it to you verbatim. Now, next thing on our agenda, our update on the new signs that we all talked about, we are usually required to get. 3 bids, if we're spending more than 2500 dollars. Beth can tell you that that is not an easy job to do and everything has gone up considerably. Beth, you want to you want to tell us about. Talking to the, she did have bids and I think you've sent those on to me and to fail to our treasurer to look at it. Yes, so are we obtained a bid in 2019 when we were considering updating the signs and it was approximately 4800 dollars for 300 signs. And at the time, I think there were some that were around 10,000, but the company we're using is who the uses when they're ordering a large amount of signs. And so they give a discount for the government and all. So, we reached out to them and the estimate came in this time at 9800. So, it had doubled and since 2019, and so we obviously, we already have 300 farms and PDR. So, I asked them, what would it cost for 400 and that will be 13,000. But some of these, so, who works with us from commissioner horns office has helped obtain these estimates and I think she's gotten as many as 5. So, we're, we've definitely met our requirement for the city purchasing of obtaining 3, but somewhere as high as 32,000 dollars. So, the 1st, 1, we got was from Vulcan Inc. That is who the city uses and it came in at 9800 and I thought that seemed high because I was, it had been half that in 2019 and I sent it to the person, the person who's in charge of science. And they said, I think that's a good estimate. So, then we order, we got the rest and saw and we're in shock and we use some local companies as well as some national. So, we'll definitely go with Vulcan. It is the lowest bid what we would like to ask you all. So, we have 10,000 dollars for this project. That is what the mayor and council appropriated. So, we need 3,000 extra, and we wanted to use some of our American farmland trust grant funds, possibly to cover 3,000 of that. I think we still have 5 or 6,000 in that. And so I asked the officers about that and Bill Meyer said he thought that was a good use of those dollars, but we wanted to ask you all about that and see how you felt about that. Mary Quinn can tell you that, and I will tell you that I think the signage is a wonderful promotional to have those on the farms for people on the driving tour or in Fayette County around the countryside who see these. I think it's great for our program. You all saw the new design last time we voted on that. So, I'm opening the floor for comments about spending an extra 3,000 from the other fund. What are your comments and feelings? Madam chair, I have a question. Did someone review the agreement with American farmland trust to be sure that it's consistent with that agreement? I have not yet, but I will reach out that grants department actually manages that one. The grants department, so I will reach out to them and ask them to review that and make sure. It's consistent with the grant agreement that we had many of the signs I've been driving around. Is that Tracy who said that? That was Margaret that asked the question. I know, but who said that? Who answered the question? Did somebody say it is? Oh, no, I said that we'll have the grants division check that and confirm and 1 option is, if not commissioner horn talked about trying to help us find that. Otherwise, so that we can go ahead and get 400. We already know we're going to need 400. We already have 300 farms. I mean, it's like 32 dollars a sign. I mean, it's a lot of money, but when you break it down by sign, it's like, it's a reasonable price. So, yeah, it's like. Grab a mile if we can. Yeah, I agree with you. Phil. That's that's reasonable. I mean, it's high, but it's good advertisement. Yeah, I had to get off my auto. I had to get off my auto. I had to get off my auto. I had to get off my auto. I had to get off my auto. It's hard for people to. Be engaged with our mission if they don't know and see the tangible. You know, effects of it and so I think the signs are a great way for us to. Are part of 1 of the ways that we can be engaged with our mission. So, yeah, I agree with you. I mean, it's high, but it's good advertisement. Yeah, I had to get off my auto audio off of me. Yes, I do. I think it's reasonable. I mean, I think we're looking for something that obviously presents well and provides us with that awareness. And it's a good way to advertise the program and educate the public in this small farm program. Somebody even called and asked me about doing it. And they had. They didn't even realize that they already are there. So, I do think that it's, it's good for the property owners and for. Madam chair, I think it's also got the kind of brand like BGT when you see a beautiful house, that's historic. And you see BGT, you know that it's very special. And so I think it's just another way, not only to market, but just to identify that this farm is very special here in Fayette County. I agree shall we. Tracy is here. Couldn't we go ahead and say, we'd like to authorize that providing the grant funds allow it. Shall we, I'll ask Tracy, can we go ahead and make that motion? Yes, did you say? Yes. Yes. Okay. Then I'd like to entertain a motion that. And the difference, the 300, the 3000 dollars difference to in order to purchase 400 that considering the grant funds. If can be used for that purpose. So moved Madam chair. All right. Is there a 2nd. Okay, and Phil Meyer seconds Beth. Okay. Are there any other questions or comments about that? No, all in favor show of hands. Okay, Beth unanimous. Now, next Beth, are you ready? Tracy can somebody update us on the short term rentals and what's going on in the agricultural zones? Mary Quinn may be a good. Okay. With what is on the state level. Now, next Beth, are you ready? Tracy can somebody update us on the short term rentals and what's going on in the agricultural zones? Mary Quinn may be a good. Okay. What is on the state level? Y'all I'm sorry my mouse is giving me fits right now. So, there were, there was a bill that it was originally filed in the Senate. That related to local regulation versus a statewide approach to regulation of short term rentals. And that did not end up getting picked up in the Senate or didn't end up getting heard in the committee. It then. Resurfaced in a different format, well, in the same format, but on the house side. And that actually did not get called for a committee. I think there was some questions as to whether or not there were enough votes related to all of that. And so, interestingly, that last week that they were in before they took a 2 week break. It resurfaced the same idea about overriding the state, overriding local control and establishing a statewide protocol for the regulations of short term rentals. And it resurfaced in a bill that was originally about swimming pools. And that is a common, shall we say tactic? I guess that you see, particularly as the legislative session is winding down and things are moving at a very quick pace. It passed the house, the Senate did not actually end up passing it. And so, therefore, it is in legislative speak. It is. It'll be part of concurrence, so, as, you know, the legislature will be coming back tomorrow and Friday to wrap up this legislative session. Everything has to be finished by midnight on Friday night. They'll sign it on Friday, Friday night. And as, you know, those of any of those of you who've been involved in the legislative process in the last 48 hours, a whole lot of things could potentially happen with respect to pending legislation. So, and then, of course, once the Senate takes action, should it be in a situation that it would then go to the governor's desk, all that has to happen, of course, by midnight. So, really, at the crux of this issue, and Tracy certainly can speak to this from more of a lawyer's perspective, but in layman's terms, the idea is just quite simply that of homeowners rights versus a community's desire to manage short term rentals. And the rub, obviously, that is felt between those 2 different perspectives. I think it is fair to say that Louisville and Lexington had in similar timeframes and in similar sort of sentiment had put some regulations up around short term rentals. And so I think it's fair to say that a lot of that legislative action was motivated by what you see in the larger cities. But, certainly, it also impacts the rural area because there's a lot of people already in the rural area who have short term rentals or are interested in opening short term rentals. So, that's it in my non-lawyer summary, synopsis. Mary Quinn, this is Mark. My question is, do you have any sense of the likelihood that it will, in fact, pass the Senate and be forwarded to the governor by Friday evening deadline? To be perfectly honest, no. I mean, there's a lot of people that are very active on this topic and around this bill. And as you might imagine, they're on both sides. And I like to call the last 48 hours where all the horse trading happens. And it's just really hard to know in that sort of horse trading scenario where all this shakes out. Fair enough. Fair enough. Do you have anything to add, Tracy? No, not really. I mean, we've heard the very same thing Mary Quinn just told you. We don't have a good read on which way it might go either. So, we're just kind of waiting to see what happens. Tracy, is the city actively advocating for one position or another? I believe that they are. You know, I don't really, you know, they have a lobbyist up there. It's my understanding that like Lexington, Louisville, and maybe some other jurisdictions that don't necessarily like the idea of the state telling them, you know, how to regulate within their jurisdiction are all sort of actively trying to hit it maybe from that side. But I don't know how many of those there are. Tracy, you reminded me, Northern Kentucky. So, there's a contingency of cities and counties in Northern Kentucky that have also been really active on the fact that they prefer the local jurisdiction over this. And for those of you who pay any attention to politics in Frankfort, the Kentucky League of Cities and the Kentucky Association of Counties don't typically line up on legislative issues and they are both very outspoken against this, which is a rare moment where you've got KCO and KLC both advocating for the same thing. So, I think both those organizations have been pretty vocal. And then, of course, you know, the city of Lexington has its own representation. Okay, on that note of follow through, it's a good time, I think, to bring up the fact that in association with this, the administration talked to me about this a week or so ago. They would like for us to write a letter to our federal partners now that our, of course, since 2017, KRS has allowed farmstays and as of the new SDRs, this board voted about 3 years ago, last October, I think, to include farmstays. And with this having come up, we have had some farmers, Fayette County farmers discussing this with the legislature folks in Frankfort. So, we have been asked to write a letter to our federal partners, requesting that we could on an individual basis and based on our zoning ordinance, not just for the future easements, but for the existing ones to see on an individual basis, if we might allow that and speak to them about that. I think that's a very good idea. We know now that the farmstay is there in the zoning ordinance, that we may do this, and it may be a way to diffuse some of that, Mary Quinn, for the rural area. So, I'm hoping that by our doing that and us authorizing Beth and Tracy to send that letter, we were told ASAP that that might help some for the rural area. Yes, and I would just mention that if you, as an individual, you know, member, voting member of Fayette County have personal opinions and have relationships with the senators, then obviously now is the time for them to hear from you. And I will tell you, this person did that. I did that. My personal opinion, not as the board chair. So, I have done that. Sure. Yeah, but it's not too late. There's still 48 hours to go. So. So, how do you all I hope you all will be supportive. We've been asked to write a letter about farmstays and talking to the feds about allowing that on our easements and Fayette County. This is truly a unique situation with Keeneland and all of the horse breeding we have. I'm sure Phil Hager and Will can speak to that as much or more than anybody. The interest that some of our horse farms would like and some of the farms with easements. Yes, very much, very much in favor of us writing the letter. All right. Are there any other comments? Then the chair will entertain a motion for Beth to do that ASAP. Tracy to help please. So moved. All right. Is there a 2nd? 2nd. That's Margaret. All in favor show of hands. Okay, that's unanimous. Thank you. And the next thing is, well, I hope you and Tracy can kind of give us an update on the state legislation. If there is any about our solar farms. Gloria, I really can't I haven't been a whole lot involved. I mean, the. The general government and planning committee has put that in their committee and I think they want some kind of report. Or update to them in at their meeting in May. That's the committee of the council, but in terms of what's going on, I know that the city appealed that decision from the. But I haven't been directly involved, so I can't really speak to that very well, or what where what its status is, but I do know that the. General government planning committee is expecting some kind of an update and I think they've got it set for May, but their agendas are kind of fluid. So they could change it. But I think that's the plan. And I do know that they've suggested the. Landfill the Haley Pike landfill for use and they accounting as an alternative. So, I do know they have appealed it. Yes. Will. Not much to add, there was a bill actually house bill 790 that passed the house, but was not taken up at the Senate. Had to do with setbacks and I think that part was watered down and eventually it was only to include requirements for notifications of federal and state incentives. So, you know, there's still things knocking around. I think the kind of more interesting thing from my perspective is what's going on in other states. There's a bill that was carried in Indiana. I need to kind of check on the status of it. But that would have kind of severely limited local control. We saw a big push from, you know, solar developers. On that issue, but, you know, I think we were a little bit blessed by having the shorter session this year. But next year with the longer 60 day session. There's a lot more opportunity for those kind of things to happen. And Robert, you were just at the state meeting. Did that come up at all with the farm Bureau? You mean the state convention in December? Yes. Well, the 1, you just were here a month or 2 ago. Oh, the, the national convention and any of that come up at all. You can't you went with all the state. Yes, yes, and the big push there was on the farm bill right now. So there wasn't a lot of talk about the solar, at least in the workshops I went to. Okay, so we're sort of at limbo, I guess is the answer to that. If people are interested in, in following this issue, I know that council member has included an update in his most recent newsletter. So, and the alliance is obviously following this issue as well. I would encourage all of you all to sign on to the newsletters to the, your. Your vice mayor, your at large, the other council members, you really do learn a lot of good stuff from those I have signed up and I do read them. So, especially your 12th district, which is what you all oversee would be good for you to keep up on a regular basis. So, please no motions about solar because we, we don't know enough for anything extra under our easement acquisitions and our closings. The funding is a little bit up in the air as you all probably know that Washington is. A bit in turmoil, our office. The used to be, we worked with Dina. We be in Matt Hutchinson here, they're no longer doing this particular program. Kathy that we work with on a regular basis is in Paducah. She is 1 of the ones a couple of weeks ago who got the letter that said she would need to work in the home office, which would be here in Lexington. She lives in Paducah and her new husband works just over the line in Tennessee. So that's a bit of an inconvenience. We hope we don't. Hope we don't lose her because she's very good and educated in our favor. We're going to have some discussion about that. It's 1 reason. I wanted to make sure you all were here for closed session because we do have some farms still pending on our what we hoped would be matching grants. And we need to talk about some of those in closed session. What else do I need to. We do know when we met with the mayor to discuss the funding and some of the money with that, that they had. Big hopes, Lexington for getting a whole lot of that money. And I know Margaret was there. It's either gone or going to be frozen. So. Yes, so we are, we are lucky in that. The 3 farms we have under contract, we're all funded with the 2018 farm bill. And so those funds are intact so far. And we have 1 that is nearly ready. John wants is finalizing. It's the mortgage subordination. With the lender, and so I expect it to close before April board meeting. And then I think we only have 2 more after that. So, pending the applications that are pending for 2025, they had hoped to fund with IRA funds. They have a little bit of farm bill money left over. But I think if they could have the money, they would be able to fund with that. So, I think that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The farm bill money, they may only be able to fund a few, so they are in hold on those right now and waiting to see if the inflation reduction act money will get released. So our applicants, we have three that are on that. And so those are on hold, but we are proceeding with closing the three that are under contract for the 2018 farm bill. So that's the good news. And we will share a little bit more about some of our applicants that do not qualify for the match and closed session. Any other comments about that? Phil, how about treasurer's report? Yes, we have 1 invoice to discuss this month month. Charlie farmer inspected. 16 farms over half of them are out on military pike in that area and then some on Brian station road and Cleveland road and Russell cave. The bill has been paid. It's totals 16 farm, $1600 building has been paid. And that's all I had to report. I'm going to hold off on my report and staff report and have you members until after we've been in closed session, because I want to make sure if that takes much time that everybody. That we have enough time left to make sure that we get all of our true business. And if that's all right with you all. Maybe we go in. Is it all right to go into closed session next? I think that's what's next. On the agenda anyway. We're, because we do need to discuss the farms that don't qualify and we do have some other financial issues to discuss about purchases. So, I will entertain a motion. Let's see. The time. Is 345 and. I would call for a motion to enter closed section pursuant to K. R. S. 61, 8, 10, 1 B, to discuss the potential acquisition of real property interest that the public discussion of which is likely to affect the value. Margaret made the, and is there a 2nd. And all in favor show of hands. Um. No, we have a motion. I would call for the motion to enter closed section pursuant to K. R. S. 61, 8, 10, 1 B, to discuss the potential acquisition of real property interest that the public discussion of which is likely to affect the value. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Diolch am wylio'r fideo. Okay. All right, go right ahead, ma'am. Thank you. The time is four o'clock, and I'm calling for a motion to return to open session. Is there a motion? So moved. Bill Meyer, is there a second? I second. All in favor, signify by showing of hands. Okay. Unanimous, Beth. I would like to call for a motion to authorize Beth to continue with appraisals for the two farms, 72022 and 120-24, to proceed with appraisals. Are those the correct numbers? I want to make sure. Okay. Margaret said yes, and is there a second? All right, Robert, James. So the motion's been made and seconded. Any discussion? I think everybody understands. All right. All in favor, signify by showing of hands, please. Thank you. Unanimous. We'll go back now. I've pretty much given you my report. I have been night and day working on getting our small farm easements and telling you all that I'm really pleased. Anybody you know, anywhere in the county, anybody you know who can meet those definitions for farming and agricultural uses that I mailed to you all, that I scanned and sent to you, please look at those and contact those people and let them know that they certainly can apply, and we're delighted. Beth has been really active. I guess she and I together visited with, as I've already said, our commissioner and our CAO and our mayor, and Margaret and I have had conferences from the law part of our committee. Other than that, I've had a lot of sit-downs with individual property owners, and the staff, the GIS staff, did print for me some big maps so that I can take them to these people and sit down. And they actually made some copies, and they were putting some of those, marking the maps and putting in with their applications. So it'll be easy for Beth and me and whomever helps do the ranking to know right where they're located. So we have a good start, and I'm delighted that you all have been supportive and that we're moving on. Beth, you're turned off. Yes, the Small Farm Program has taken up most of my time the last month, but we have it up and running, and the online application is working. Several people are utilizing that, and then some are filling them out by hand and dropping them off or sending them in. So we are off to a good start for something that hasn't been widely advertised yet. We've just done that with some of our partners and word of mouth, and so it is off to a booming start. We're excited, so we'll be anxious to tell you all about the applications next month. And I did talk to Councilmember Boone, who's representing the 12th District, his legislative aide, before she left this week for her spring break. And she will be working with Beth and or me and putting some good information in their newsletter that will go out for the 12th District. So, that's also a good thing, a good way to advertise. And I'll speak to you, Robert, about putting a lot in the Farm Bureau. You can list it, put some stuff in your Farm Bureau news to pass on. Okay. And Phil, I don't know, Phil Hager, if you have a good way to do that with KTA or TOBA or any of those groups, but we can do it with whomever you all suggest. We can work with Beth and she can help. We can put together the page that we gave you all last time about the information for the small farm program and anything you want to know. We're happy to do that. Gloria, are we going to discuss at the next meeting whether or not, and with Tracy's input, whether or not we can start moving to a rolling application process for larger farms? Yes, Beth mentioned that. We're thinking about, the mayor suggested that as soon as we get caught up, that we should be able to take them as they come and move on them. That once a year, when we have in the past had the rankings, this year we did not have that many people sign up. It's very difficult. They don't tell us until November, and Beth has almost no, we have almost no time to tell people to sign up, and then it's at the holiday time of year. So we did not get many applications. We still want to use the ranking system, which has served the program so well, but I do think we may want to start receiving applications more frequently and ranking and moving. And that the federal money is likely to be off the table, and we have local money that we'd like to spend to conserve. So anyway, I think we've decided that we probably can do that. Is that correct, Tracy? We've decided that that's probably okay to do. Yeah, I think we generally had that discussion, but we should probably revisit it. Okay. Yes, we can report back to you all next month about that and get that up and running. Okay. And let me just go around, I can see, so that all of you board members, if you have something great you'd like to contribute, Phil Hager, anything you've been doing you want to tell us about or something we should be doing? No, not much here. We've been traveling a lot with two-year-old sales, so we've been kind of back and forth between Florida and here. And are they still going well? Yeah, no, everything's been pretty good. Okay. Margaret, you want to tell us about your group? Well, Bluegrass Conservancy is going gangbusters. We're certainly a setback to not to have the $45 million frozen. We had very ambitious plans to conserve lots of land in Kentucky, 25-county region, so certainly a disappointment. But we're continuing to accept a lot of donated conservation easements within our region. And we will have our annual fundraiser on April 17 at Fasig-Tipton, and we hope all of you will come and enjoy a fun night and support our efforts to conserve farmland within the 25-county region. So, that's it. Great. Will, how about you? I don't really have anything, Gloria. Is the Clark Coalition still okay? We're still kicking. There were a number of bills that we've been following over the past week, month. As I alluded to, I think the short-term session probably saved us on a few, but, yeah, we're continuing to monitor what's going on. Well, thank you, everybody, for your efforts. Jim Coleman? Madam Chair, I will let Black Soil, as well as the Organic Association of Kentucky, know about our small farm program. I'll send them over a link about that. And I'd like everyone to know that tomorrow, March the 27th, will be the 137th birthday of Coleman Crest Farm. My great-grandparents purchased the farm on March 27, 1888. Fantastic. Happy Coleman Crest Day. That's fantastic. And have you already started gardening out there? Getting ready to. I just got my potato seeds yesterday from Lewis Seeds, and we're going to have over 10,000 pounds this year. It's going to be a big year of potatoes. Of course, okra and zucchini, squash, and sweet potatoes as well. Fantastic. So we're gearing up. I see succotash in my future. Yes. Great. Mary Quinn? Listen, your tourism stuff is going top gun in this town. I mean, everywhere you can have somebody, you have them, in every gym and in every hotel. It's fantastic. We're working on it. So I'll just give you a super quick highlight. If you add up men and women's NCAA and you add up KHSAA girls and boys basketball, the total economic impact to the city for those events is north of $12 million, which is fantastic. So it's a big deal when we get the opportunity to host these tournaments. We love it. Obviously, it's a city that embraces basketball, and it's been really fun to have all these fans. If you're coming downtown, though, for the next two days, you will encounter traffic. Or three days, I should say. You will encounter traffic. So you've been warned. But it's been worth it. I will have to say, I drove through town a week or so ago when the Comic-Con was there, and I've never been to a Comic-Con. But it was worth driving through town to see all the costumes and to see all the people dressed in their favorite characters. It was great people watching that weekend. It really was. I was delighted to actually be stopped at every traffic signal. So we had to stop. I enjoyed seeing people crossing the street. There's a group for everybody, though. Next week, we're hosting the Meat Processing Association's annual meeting. Well, we need to do that, because we need one of those to go with our stockyards here. We see it all. Thank you. Oh, and Mary Quinn, I think I did see a Southern Living post that Lexington was just voted a top 10 city by its readers. Yeah, we are a top 10 small southern city. So, awesome. Yes, that's wonderful. Good work, Mary Quinn. Very good work. Thank you. It's a team effort. Phil Meyer, tell us about how your auction went on a very windy, very rainy day. And I know that it had to be inclement weather, because the north part of the county, either the day before or that day or after, had hail. We lost another roof on one of our barns. So I know it was not the best weather for you all. Well, it was glorious weather to prepare for it. We had to be careful that we didn't get too badly sunburned. And the weather on the sale day could have been a lot worse than it was. I think the bad weather kind of dodged us. And the severe thunderstorm that came by Sunday morning, it was so quick that it didn't slow us down too much. I'll leave the details to Robert. I want to add one thing to Mary Quinn. You may not know it, but mid-May, the SCC track championships are coming to UK. And that's like, nothing's better than, that's like the next thing would be the national championships. That's how good a meet it would be. So if you have any track interest, get your tickets early. Yep. Looking forward to it. So Robert, fill us in on the auction. Well, it was a good sale. Of course, it all benefits our scholarship foundation for Fayette County students. The sales figures are preliminary right now, but $2.1 million was the total sales. So we take our commission out of that and use that to fund the scholarships. Bill mentioned the weather, and we were scrambling to put together a severe weather plan for that day. And we came up with one, and I'm glad we didn't have to implement it. We got about three quarters of the way through the sale, and then it started raining, but that was all it was, was just rain. So we were pretty lucky. Well, it's just a wonderful service and all of the scholarships. Sometime you'll need to just give us a report about how many people have gone through there with scholarship. I know some of them now are veterinarians. I mean, you've had all kinds of good things happen as a result of those scholarships. So plan on giving us a report. All right, I'll put those figures together for our next meeting. Okay, great. And I see that Sean, Denny, our commissioners, Sean, I can see you're there. Don't see your pictures, but I can tell you're there. Is there anything you need to add that we need to know today? I don't believe I have anything to report. I do want to thank you for your help, especially when people were concerned that their applications were not getting there, and you went to check on them all. So that was, that gave them a little relief to quit worrying. So thank you for. Well, as Beth knows, we have an excellent administrative specialist in Lena, and she's always keeping us organized. So she's a great resource if you ever need help with anything like that. And I will say that the maps that I got that you all did for me, and I picked up down in the lobby that Friday. I use the entire, I've used them every day since. Trying to, when people had questions where they were and who was close to where they were, it's good to have. So thank you, and Beth and anybody else who helped put them together. And I see that Tiffany Holsky's there as well. I don't know if she needs to add anything. I know, I see she's there, but I don't see her. I don't have anything to add. Okay, thank you for attending anyway. And I think Tyler has left. I don't see him on there anymore, but I appreciate his coming. He is our council representative on the board. Is there anything else, Beth, have we had that we need to discuss? I don't think so. I think we've covered it. Tracy, anything from your standpoint that we need to do? No, I think we've covered it all. Okay. Well, we actually carried on a lot of business by 4.15 in the afternoon. I really want to tell you all that I really appreciate your making the effort to do this. When we're dealing with this kind of money and this kind of properties of people who care so much, it's really important that we always try to have a quorum, so I really appreciate the effort everyone makes to set aside this time to do that. It's very important. And I do want to mention again before we leave that anything we discuss in closed session, for you folks who are new, that we don't ever discuss anything that we discuss in closed session in the public. We don't pass on any of the information, any of the forms we discuss. We never talk about who they are. We go strictly by numbers. So I think we need to continue doing that and make sure that you keep it to us in-house. Anything else? Gloria, I just want to say thank you to you and Beth, because I know how much time you both put in, and it's an enormous amount of effort, and we're all grateful. Well, it's my volunteer time, and Beth is wonderful to work with, and I'm glad to say that Beth is fun to work with, and I appreciate her and her time, because we have some crazy questions, and we have some things that do come up that we try to handle without creating much trouble. And so sometimes we enjoy behind the scenes what we do. That's right. Everybody is welcome, and I appreciate everything you all do. Having said that, it's now almost 420. Anybody want to say anything else before I call for a motion to adjourn? I think the only thing is to remind them that our next meeting is April 23rd, and it falls. There are five Wednesdays next month, so it falls a little earlier. So it's April 23rd instead of the 30th. I think I have it written down today. Wouldn't you just say the 23rd, April the 23rd? Yes. Please mark your calendars, and it'll be important to try to be here, because we're definitely going to have these appraisals back, and we need to move on as quickly as we can, because we do need to try to spend the money we have. Now that these people are all applying, we want to make sure that everybody gets treated fairly. So, okay. April 23rd, we'll see you. Happy Easter. Hope the bunny brings you lots of eggs. I'll call for a motion to adjourn. Mary Quinn, is there a second? Second. And Jim Coleman seconds. All in favor, show of hands. Unanimous beth. Okay. And Tracy, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll see you again next week. Thank you. Thank you. See you next week. Be safe. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. See you next week.  Bye-bye. Bye-bye.  We'll see you next week. We'll see you next week. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. See you next week. We'll fight in the street with our children at our feet and tomorrow's today's worship will be gone. And the men who spurred us on didn't judge us of our wrongs, they decided in the shotgun that we were just the same and history ain't changed because the banners they all flung in the last war. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, make a fire for the new revolution. Violet and green, they change all around. Pick up my guitar and play just like yesterday. Then I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, make a fire for the new revolution. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, make a fire for the new revolution. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, make a fire for the new revolution. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, make a fire for the new revolution.  All right, Nicole. Season two. Season two. I know. Episode number one. I'm excited. Can you believe it? We're starting season two. I'm excited. Well, you know, one of the core values of the Lexington Police Department is community partnership. Of course. So what a better way to start season two than to talk with our NROs, Neighborhood Resource Officers. All right, so let's go inside and talk to a couple of our NROs. All right. Let's go. Hey, it's Bajani Coe with another episode of Your Lex PD. We are here with some Neighborhood Resource Officers, Officer Sherrard and Officer Buchanan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. So you all are Neighborhood Resource Officers. So Lexington Police Department has always been committed to partnerships and working with the community and relate, building relationships in the community, going back to the community services days. And now the Neighborhood Resource Officers are actually housed under patrol. So if you can tell us a little bit about your daily routine, some of the things that you do working with the community out in Lexington. I have the, like I said, off campus area for UK. So part of my day is we deal with kind of complaints in our areas. And so I have a specific area. And one of the complaints when I first started was parking complaints. So I look around for cars that are parked illegally or where they're not supposed to park. So I do at the beginning of every semester a lot of information because students come from all over the country and they don't necessarily know what the laws are, where they can park here, the ins and outs. And so I give out information. I talk to a lot of students. I have pamphlets that I hand out, that kind of thing day to day. I also deal with homeless. And so I work more with the homeless and street outreach in the city to try to do kind of placement and see if they'll accept assistance from the city. So sometimes I'll get information from them. And then you also have things that might come up just from patrol does call to call. So we might have a bigger problem that might take more days or more time. And we have a little more time to deal with specific things that happen in different neighborhoods. So for me, my day starts out just patrolling. There's a lot of area where kids stand outside to beat the bus. So I just make my presence known by driving through those areas. From there, if there's any kind of complaint that I'm working, just any kind of, if patrol get dispatched to a call and I'm in an area or sitting in an area watching the kids, making sure nothing happens, I typically tend to jump those calls to keep them from having to travel all the way over there, especially with me being in an area. After that, I try to transition to around the high schools and middle schools, just the schools in the area to make sure that there's not anything going on during the morning hours or when they're transitioning to get out of school. But other than that, if there's a complaint or anything that I'm working in any area, that's what I devote the majority of my time to. So Lexington is a pretty big city. So how are the neighborhood resource officers divided up throughout the whole county? So for us in East sector, there's three of us and we don't have a specific area, but we do a great job of partnering with each other to make sure that anytime anything needs to be covered, regardless of whatever time, it could be something in the day or could be something in the evening, being able to adjust our schedule to meet whatever needs I'm specifically for. I'm in the West sector. And so we have, I'm in the UK off campus area. We have someone in Cardinal Valley area, and then we have someone in the Windburn area. And we each work in those neighborhoods. And then central sector has three officers that they're in the different areas as well. And they have specific areas that they work. We all work together on Saturdays. So anytime there's a home football game for UK, we work the UK State Street area. And then we just kind of try to prevent things from possibly happening, interact with the students. If there's any time that we need to have kind of intervention or there's a parking complaint or something or a noise complaint, then we can kind of handle it that way. But we all work together. We do things outside of our sectors. So a lot of times in the summertime, we have the copsicles. So I will do things, I have a lot of time in the summertime. And I'll do things in every sector. And so we're not just tied down to our areas, but we do things kind of all over the city if we need to. Well, I know I attend a lot of neighborhood meetings. And I see you folks out there, and it's very, very beneficial for the neighborhoods to have that resource and that person that they can call and talk to about specific issues. You mentioned copsicles, right? So there are some other things, I know, cleanups and copsicles and helping people out some other ways. So what are some other things that the neighborhood resource officers do other than those complaints and calls and assistance? We try to do some good things. So just yesterday, we worked with the fire department and I believe it's Baptist Health. And they have a turkey program for Thanksgiving. And so we got together with the fire department and the paramedicine group, and we made baskets for families. And so some of the NROs have connections in the neighborhoods with families that might be in need for food. And so yesterday, we had 40 baskets that we put together. And then we each took different areas of the city. And so I was able to deliver, I think I did four or five turkeys. And so we took those out to families that need a little help during the holidays. And they get to enjoy Thanksgiving with their families and it provides them food for the day. I think for me, one of the most, I would say, rewarding things for me from being in the unit for my limited time is on Veterans Day, we was able to get a veteran furniture out of storage and help her move into her new home. And we've helped move several people into new homes. I think Sherrod said the best is that us as NROs, neighborhood resource officers do a good job of working together in order to address not just concerns for me in the East sector or him in specific sectors, but pooling together resources and come together with a plan. There's a family that I have currently that I'm working on things. We talked about in our Monday meeting, pooling together resources in order to get them taken care of for Christmas. And so the outreach from different NROs in different sectors is what drives me to being a part of this unit. And you've done some neighborhood cleanups too, is that right? Oh, absolutely. Yes, several. Okay. And what all does that entail? It takes a lot of connections, takes a lot of coordination with the city. So we have good relationships with them, waste management, there's environmental services. So sometimes people have a complaint or they see something and we can go into a neighborhood. And because we have those resources and connections with them, we can get them cleaned up pretty quick. I work a lot with bridges, collect a few things every once in a while. And so I had a bridge cleaned up to this week at two different times. So one was just a garbage truck to help me out. And then another one I had to call a specific truck to come pick up some trash or things that were left behind. So we do a lot of things in different neighborhoods that way. The veteran, I like to say with him, that came about with one of the people in our unit just happened to come across someone doing his job and he was just talking to them. And they said that they couldn't get their items and whatever situation that they were in and they had a house, a place to live, but nothing there, but a storage unit. And that just kind of snowballed with the fire department helping out and us helping out and then kind of communicating with each other that all of a sudden we were able to get their things moved. So some things just happen just because we communicate more just talking with people. So Nicole, it's more than just the Copsicle program. And by the way, tell us a little bit about the Copsicle program because everybody sees that van and wants to know what all's involved with that. Copsicle program started a couple of years ago. A guy at our unit saw somewhere else in the country how they were doing Copsicles and kind of using it to interact with kids. And so he kind of pushed our department a little bit a couple of years ago to and got all the funds. All of them were donated. So everything with the Copsicle program was donated to the van, the Copsicles itself. And we get replenished with Copsicles. We do kind of donations from Copsicles in the community. We reach out to kids and a lot of schools. So it's a lot of school work. So it's just an interaction that we get to have with the children and they see us in our uniform and we're doing something good because a lot of times the police were involved with something bad. I mean, it could even be you lost something or you're in an accident. We're nothing necessarily criminal, but it's not necessarily a good thing. So we get to interact with the kids. I do a lot of special needs groups. The city has three different kinds of special needs camps. So I'll do Copsicles there because we do have calls for special needs kids and it's kind of good to interact with them outside of like the police function and hand out Copsicles. So that's a lot of that we do during the summertime. When it's warm. Yes, when it's warm outside. So what do you both like best about being at NRO? So for me, there are two things I like going to neighborhood means for me, I love going to them because it for one gives me the opportunity to introduce myself as a new neighborhood resource officer. But it also gives me some baseline of what's going on within the community because no one know what's going on in specific areas than the people from that community. So it gives me an idea of anything that I could do to for one assist from a law enforcement standpoint and also from a resource standpoint is that they would know someone that need any kind of resources and I'll be available to provide those. But also I love being making partnership with Fayette County School Police. I love seeing the kids or playing basketball with the kids and stuff like that and having those conversation with them and let them know that, hey, this is a uniform and a job that I do. But I also played basketball and I'm a person inside of this uniform. So letting them see that human aspect of policing and building those partnerships for me. For me, I like helping people and my kids are in college, so they're kind of out of the house basically. And so I kind of, I do a lot with the Copsicle program because I just love interacting with the kids and the special needs groups in the summertime and a lot of people are about hugs and I'm all about hugs and it's just sometimes I know I'm there for them, but sometimes I feel like I'm there for me as well. So I'm like, who's getting the benefit here? Because I have such a good time. But I just like dealing with the community and talking with the kids and interacting with them. That's great. Lexington has all kinds of resources available to help folks and it's really good that your unit is able to kind of connect people with some of those resources and put it all together. So Lexington Police Department has always been committed to building those relationships out in the community and we certainly appreciate you for everything you do. All the officers that are in the NRO program, and we appreciate you joining us this month to talk about the program and let people know, how do they get in touch with the NROs? If there's a neighborhood that wants to talk to you about a specific problem. They can call the non-emergency line for the police department, so 859-258-3600 and they can ask for an NRO, a neighborhood resource officer, or a lot of times if there is a problem it kind of works its way through the system anyway. So if there is a problem that needs to be dealt with, if it's an emergency, obviously 911, but they can also just call the non-emergency line just to report a problem and then a lot of times it will get fed to us through that way. So they don't have to talk to us directly. The Copsicle program, they would actually need to ask somebody for the Copsicle program and we get kind of busy and we're getting busier every year that people ask for it. Well thank you all for joining us today. Thanks for having us. It was so good talking with the NROs today. I learned what my favorite Copsicle flavor was. What's yours? I'm going to go with grape probably. What about you? Red. Fruit punch. Whatever red is. And they do a lot of different things, right, in the community and it was good to talk to them and all the resources that they bring to the table out in the city of Lexington. Speaking of resources, next month we're going to continue with Season 2 and in Episode 2 we're going to be talking with victims advocates and the way that the police department kind of helps victims associate with different outreaches and different resources that are out there in the community because after all, it's one of our core values, right? Community outreach and community partnership. So join us next month with another episode of Your Lex PD, Season 2. 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