the agenda and I do not have anyone signed up so that brings us to the docket is there a motion councilmember Ellinger second by councilmember Reynolds and we'll give our clerk a moment can you add me to your non-voting list please all right thank you now we have a motion and a second for the docket and if you'll sign in please if you have questions or motions for the docket I see none all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed all right that motion passes thank you next is the council work session of June 3rd 2025 can I have a motion vice mayor Wu moves councilmember Baxter seconds are there any corrections additions questions all right all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed that motion passes we do have budget amendments councilmember Baxter moves councilmember Curtis seconds please log in if you have questions all right all those in favor say aye is anyone opposed all right that motion passes thank you we have some budget adjustments councilmembers for your information only and then that brings us to new business do I have a motion councilmember Baxter councilmember Gray seconds are there questions if you want to log in with your questions councilmember Ellinger thank you mayor on number oh please that is our director of HR Glenda George well director could you tell us what's happening at start in July 1 with our I guess will be our new employees that are coming forward that are hired on yes so any employees who start after January 1st of this year's I mean excuse me July 1st yes all right will not be eligible to be paid out for their sick time once they accumulate more than 600 hours so how does it work right now with and it looks like it doesn't really have any impact until what 2031 or something yes because it takes you if you don't use any sick time it will take you five years to accumulate 600 hours and then in that sixth year and you would accumulate another 120 hours if you didn't use anything and then in that seventh year in January of that seventh year is when we would pay out so it's a little bit of time before we realized any savings with this and does it happen when because it looked like we paid out 2.2 million or thereabouts it was a big that's for we did that in January for all employees all civil service employees who had an excess of 600 hours that was the dollar amount that we paid out in January of this year yes okay thank you thank you mayor thank you councilmember Morton thank you my first item is item D looks like while you're while you're coming can you just talk about what exactly the students will be doing within the pair of the community medicine welcome chief trailer well item D is a an agreement with the University College of Nursing this is kind of the formal and official pathway for them to come do ride-alongs here at the fire department with our medical units it allows them to ride along on our ambulances and with community paramedicine when those students are on these ride-alongs their duties generally involve just observation and questioning to try to get a better understanding of the pre-hospital environment thank you and moving on to item R and that's and my questions would be how would this person be utilized what would be their date act daily activities and then what would be the daily hours one moment please okay so the encampment coordinator position is requested to do several duties that is currently performed by the staff of the Office of Homelessness Prevention Intervention that includes receiving and responding to reports of encampments visiting locations of reported encampments to understand activity and level of risk associated to facilitate service connection with our contracted street outreach vendors and follow up on development and progress towards service plans also to coordinate the removal of encampments when the time comes for that but then additionally to work to produce reports and maintain documentation related things like encampment removal costs and service outcomes and finally to work with the staff and the OHPI to continually review best practices for addressing unsheltered homelessness and make any changes with our models moving forward as needed and just what I guess what would be their hours I'm just regular nine-to-five so initially we would start by looking at eight o'clock to five o'clock as LFUCG's official hours depending on the candidate for that position what we find that the work actually requires that could be shifted to something like seven to four sometimes there is benefit to us being able to have somebody that's able to go out to encampments at an earlier hour so that's something that we would still be looking at. Thank you. Thank you Councilmember Lynch. Thank You Mayor I have a question about item in the partnership with Bluegrass Care Navigators and the funding for the technology. My questions are really regarding the program. Is this a program that we will be running, Bluegrass Care Navigators will be running, or will it be housed? It's both. Okay. It's required by head for the program. It's mostly client info, programmatic info, assessments of the client's house and that type of stuff. It's to do the program. And then where, what division will this be run out of? Grants. Out of grants? Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Uh-huh. And then my last question is item O as well. And my question is, is this being, is this changed purely for cost savings? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you Mayor. My question is on item I. I don't know if that's Commissioner or somebody from police. Good afternoon. So regarding the federal grant for VOCA, can you tell me what that pays for? It says contract forensic nursing advocates. Do you know how many hours that's paying for? A week or a month? That I do not. I apologize. So what that does fund is our SANE nurses, our sexual assault nurse examiners. I will have to follow up on how many hours a week they work. I'm not prepared to answer that. Okay. So my question pertains to sort of the uncertainty with federal funding in general, but for categories of federal funding like this that I think has the strong potential of being cut or being denied from the federal level. So I wanted to get a sense of what that impact would look like. So if you can get back to me on kind of what we're paying for and what we potentially would be losing if we didn't get that grant. Yes sir. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you Mayor. You're welcome. Next is Councilmember Gray. Thank you Mayor. My first question is regarding letter L regarding the ATS and Bryan Station Road. I guess that is a question for yes. There we go. So I'm just curious if you could just elaborate a little bit on this project. Yes. So Richard Dugas with the Environmental Public Works Commission for Commissioner Albright who is enjoying her vacation in Italy. This is just simply an agreement where ATS is doing some work. They're doing the state roadway work on the highway on I-75, 64 right there. And this is just allowing them to get access in and out of their work site. They won't be storing anything there. They'll just be accessing it. It's safer for them to go through that up into their construction site. And I just want to make sure for the residents that do reside in that area, will there be any issue of increased traffic for that area? They'll be, they'll probably, yeah I mean obviously they're gonna be a little bit of traffic, increased traffic going in there, but it should be going up and down Bryan Station, which is a larger road anyways. And what it's trying to do is... Right there it isn't. Right there we have the bridge, the overpass, so it's extremely, it's extremely small area. So that's what, sorry, distracted. So that's my concern for the residents that do reside there because we do have one, two, we have at least three neighborhoods that all right there and plus we have the traffic that uses to go to the rural parts. Bryan Station route to Hume, we also have that area where they are assuming to go the opposite way. So I'm just making sure for my residents that they're safe. Thank you, I suppose. And my next question is for its letter O. So prior we had, what is our current recommendation on or the limiting on the the sick leave? What's the table now? What's the limit? Because I recall prior there was also a time when we had employees who were rushing to take their their vacation time or they were going to lose it. So is this different from, how much different is this from what we have now? So currently employees are paid out for anything over 600 hours. Okay, so that's what we do now for sick leave. For vacation it's different. And so if you have, say for example, when you started this year, if you started this year with 600 hours and you don't take any sick time this year, you would accumulate another 120 hours. And then in January we would reduce your balance down to 600 and we would pay you out for the 120 hours at your current hourly rate. And so with this change, employees who have 600 hours, over 600 hours, would no longer be paid out. Their balance would be reduced but they wouldn't be paid out. Okay, although you know my research did find that that's a very extreme, that's a lot of time compared to other cities similar to ours, but I did notice that there were many cities that don't have such a program where there's a cap. I'm just trying to make sure we're doing the best for our residents as well, not our residents, but our employees, as well as our city government. So thank you. I was just asking for clarification. But don't go anywhere. Okay. I do have a question regarding letter P as well. Do you foresee with the overall, let's see, how much the city will, what do you think the projected five-year impact may be on the increase of the 3%? The increase of the 3%? Yes, by 3% to amend unified pay. You're talking about the across the board? P. P. Yes, that's the across-the-board increase for all employees. Correct. To do 3%. I'm gonna have to defer to Erin about the five-year impact. And, well, thank you. And lastly, I have a question regarding letter U regarding the Children's Theater Museum. Thank you, Director Cody, or Executive Director of the Children's Museum, excuse me. No, I did not. So my question for you is, do you know, do you have a projected open date? We do not. That'll be a fluid timeline based on other milestones that we're currently working on and are in the process of. So we do not have a current timeline for a date. Okay, that was my only question. I'm excited about a new facility for our youth, our children to have a place to go and learn. So, job well done. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Savigny. Thank you, Mayor. Director Baldwin, item F. I worked on this with Commissioner Albright, I think, last year and I'm really glad to see that it got re-upped. Could you explain this program to the public? So what this is is a sole source agreement in regard to latex paint. Latex paint is one of those substances that we do not want in the landfill. So what Habitat, excuse me, does is this paint is recycled. And since this paint is recycled, it is then used for beneficial use versus this being discarded to a landfill or down a sewer drain where Mr. Martin is going to be very upset. I appreciate it. And it is, if you've not ever been out there, they do it at the Southland store and it really is kind of a cool paint store. It's every color beige that you can ever want. But it is kind of, it's discounted and it's in the 10th district and it's in nice new cans. Yeah, I haven't been to that store, but I have been to one of them before, but yeah, it is a very neat program to have. I'm glad we were able to do this. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's all, Mayor. Thank you. All right, I see no more questions. So all those in favor of new business, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Communications from the Mayor. Appointments? I'd like a motion, please. Vice Mayor Wu moves. Council Member Curtis seconds. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next are communications from the Mayor. Donations? I'll entertain a motion. Council Member Baxter and Council Member Gray seconded. Any questions about that? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. And our final communications is procurements. Vice Mayor Wu moves. Vice Mayor Baxter, excuse me, Council Member Baxter seconds. Any questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Now we have several items of continuing business or presentations, the first of which is Council Capital Projects. Vice Mayor Wu moves. Council Member Reynolds seconds. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next is Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee. I will turn that over to Council Member LaGrie. Thank you, Mayor. I have two report outs, one full, one partial. This is the report out summary for the May 13, 2025 committee. The meeting of the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee on May 13, 2025 was called to order at 1 p.m. The April 22, 2025 committee summary was approved unanimously with no additions or corrections. First, Charlie Martin, Director of the Division of Water Quality, explained that in April 2009, a task force recommended a fee that became required by ordinance as part of our Water Quality Management Fee Incentive Grant Program overview. He discussed that the task force suggested creating an incentive grant program funded with 1.2 million dollars annually for education programs, water quality projects, and flood mitigation projects. Residential properties received $200,000 in incentive grants, whereas non-residential properties receive $1 million. When asked how district council members can better be partners in the community to communicate the availability of grants, Martin said the information about this program is posted on the website. He shared that the problem is getting people to look at that website. Martin mentioned that technical assistance is also available to assist with grant writing and that their team provides help throughout the process. Ultimately, no action was taken on this item. Second, we had an update about the Waste Contamination Reduction Plan. Antonio Baldone, Director of the Division of Waste Management, provided an update on the progress of the Contamination Reduction Workgroup. He provided an overview of the project, which originated from the Waste Digester Task Force Workgroup and aims to examine and reduce contamination rates in Lexington's waste streams. Currently, these rates are at 35% for recycling and 60% for yard waste, both of which are significantly higher than the national average of 17%. The workgroup identified different types of contamination, with the worst offenders being car parts, medical waste, and food waste. Changes to the cards include adopting national standards for color, implementing RFID or radio frequency identification tags to track cards, and imprinting on lids to indicate acceptable materials. The director shared that they will utilize the public information engagement team to educate residents on private streets or, as needed, throughout the 12 districts as well. Currently, there are no cart removal processes in place, and he shared that the city will implement this process after providing the necessary education if infractions were found over time. Baldwin said that they are starting with recycling, education, and enforcement. They will also examine other waste streams, such as yard waste, which will be addressed in the third phase of this initiative. Ultimately, no action was taken on this item. The meeting adjourned at 225 p.m. Mayor, as I shared, I am going to do a partial report out from today's meeting as well. The regular report out for this committee will be August 12, 2025. However, in the interest of moving forward on one action item, I'm sharing a partial report out. During today's committee meeting, Director of Engineering, Doug Burton, Deputy Director of Waste Management, John Howard, presented on House Bill 443 as it relates to the engineering manual and dumpster service standards. Pursuant to the actions of the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee at its committee meeting today, June 10, 2025, I move to place on the docket for first reading of the June 12, 2025, Council Meeting and Ordinance, effective July 1, 2025, amending certain sections of Chapter 16 of the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Code of Ordinances related to dumpster service standards as presented at today's Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee meeting and is set forth in the committee packet. On behalf of the committee, I so move. All right, Council Member Morton seconds. Are there any questions? All right, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Mayor, I further move to approve the updates to the engineering manuals as presented at today's Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee meeting and is set forth in the committee packet in order to comply with House Bill 443, which requires that objective standards be applied ministerially, all effective July 1, 2025. Therefore, on behalf of the committee, I so move. Vice Mayor Wu seconds. Are there questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. This concludes my partial report out. Thank you, Mayor. All right, thank you very much. Does anyone have questions for Chair Lugari? All right, thank you. Next up is the presentation of the Downtown Lexington Management District, their fiscal year 26 budget, and Jim Frazier is going to present that. Welcome. Good afternoon, Mayor, Council. I am James Frazier, Chair of the Downtown Lexington Management District. I'm joined here today with our Treasurer, Juan Castro. So if you have very technical questions, Juan will be coming up to this podium to answer them. Let me give you a little background about us. I think you probably have already seen – you've got the clicker to move this. I don't see it. Y'all stole my clarity. Never mind, I've got it. We were here a month or so ago to get our reauthorization. If you recall, in 2015, we were approved for a five-year term. We successfully completed that and got another five-year term. We were here last month and got a 10-year term. So we are now tenured to the year 2035. My, wow. Anyway, we've done, we think, good work. The district unanimously – overwhelmingly, I won't say unanimously – overwhelmingly supported the reauthorization petition with numbers as well as with values. So we're glad to be here for ten more years. And as you probably know by now that we have three mandates – beautification, safety, and marketing. The beautification is enhanced through cleaning services. You see the purple shirt folks on the street? Day and night, that's who we are. That's the largest part of our budget. It's block by block. And they do a great job. Safety, we do also have enhanced safety through ambassador program as well as partnering up with the sheriff's office as well as the city on an ad-needed basis for potential extra security at Tandy Park in the summertime as needed. We're hoping that will not be necessary this year. Marketing is also one of our three mandates, which is supporting public art initiatives and economic development and business programs. We help people open up from COVID. We had grants for that. We have grants for all kinds of initiatives for downtown merchants, whether it be issues with discounts, those kind of things. We try to support our community with regard to our local businesses. And so they seem to be very receptive. This is a high-level view of our district. It's basically Oliver Lewis Way to Midland, the north side of High Street. We jut up to 2nd Street to pick up the Sire area and down through Bar. And it's an odd-looking shape. But we drew it that way to pick up enough taxpaying members to fund our district. If you recall, the district is funded by $0.10 of every dollar assessment within the district itself. It's only applicable, though, to taxpaying entities, not to governments, not to churches or other nonprofits. So there's a lot of those entities within those core districts. So it looks a little odd, but we had to go up there to get enough folks to pay taxes to try to make an impact with our dollars. This next slide, if I can find it. Okay. Well, anyway, the next slide was just nothing more than kind of a same-district look. It's just a little more granular. These are the three council people that are with us in our district. Council Member Morton, Council Member LaGruye, who sits on our board, and Council Member Reynolds. Those three districts touch the core of our management district. So from time to time, we call upon them for questions and answers. And they reach out to us with regard to citizens' issues and things they might want to communicate to the district. These are our representatives. We have 15 people on the board. We have two people from council, Council Member LaGruye and Council Member James Brown. And then we have Kevin Atkins from the mayor's office. The rest of us are private citizens, and we donate our time. It's a good representative of our community. We represent owners. We represent hospitality groups. We have banks. It's kind of a cross-section of a lot of folks. And there's a lot of opinions at that table, I assure you. And so it's been well-received, I think, by this board as well as the community. These are the folks I always brag about. This is what makes the engine go. This is David Warren in the middle, and that's his team. We just moved David and his team over to 131 Church Street, which is a gray building on the corner or almost on the corner of Church and Upper. It's actually owned by the parking authority. And so I was able to convince the chair to possibly rent some of that property from the management district. So they now have a home. And all the folks around them, I'm very glad to have them there. So they have been working out of the transit center bus station for as long as I've been around. And it's free, but it's been tough quarters. So they're excited to have a place to be, and so we're glad that we finally provided that to them long since needed. There's some examples of some of the things we do here. You all have seen them pick up the graffiti, the leaves, and everything associated with it. I won't belabor all that, but they do a phenomenal job, and they truly are our ambassadors. Our economic improvement aspect. Really, our goal is to continue on the cleaning, landscaping, security, marketing, business recruitment, administration of the management of our organization, which currently has been through the Downtown Lexington Partnership. I will tell you that we are submitting an RFP in the near future to request vendors to solicit to reply. I'm assuming the DLP will respond to that solicitation. But we thought to be good stewards of the money, quite frankly. We pay $29,000 a year in change for that stewardship. And so we thought we would bid it out and see what we have out there. But currently, that's who handles our administration with regard to our management district and the improvement program. These are our numbers, and as I said before, Juan can run through if you have any granular questions. Basically, you're looking at a budget net of $524,584.40, which is a 5% increase from last year. It's a conservative top line, but we like to be conservative with estimations. Below that, you can see our revenue expenses. We have a $10,000 special projects, art, and opportunities. And as I said, the largest portion of our budget, 85%, $445,350, goes to block by block. That's the cleaning. That's the safety. That's the hospitality. And as well as we match the rent at 131 Church Street, the management district pays $9,000. Block by block pays $9,000, which is not charged back to us. And they also pay the utilities. We think it's a fair deal. We put it out to market with Block and Lot. Clay Angelucci brokered the deal, and it was an arm's length transaction. It was good for the parking authority, quite frankly, and it was also good for the management district and block by block. The other items there, the marketing and communication, $1,200, very modest, quite frankly. Our improvement grants, we have $27,000 this year earmarked for downtown improvement grants. They can be lighting grants. They can be safety grants. They can be awnings. Anything you want to do to enhance your façade, you'll see a lot of it downtown. If you walk, you'll see some of the things that the management districts help fund. And how that works is that we will put skin in the game with the owner of the building or with the major tenant of the building up to $9,000. So if you want to enhance your façade, your door, your lighting system, you do an application to the grant committee of the DLMD, and they will consider it. The requirements are obviously within the district. It must be visible, and it's not need-based. It's truly just enhancement for the viewshed. So we've had good success with it. Lighting grants we consider separate and apart. That's Miss Fortune's idea. Beverly was leading that charge, and she was right. So we offer a $5,000 incentive grant to upgrade your lighting. Lighting makes people feel comfortable. It makes them feel welcomed. It makes them feel safe. So that's why we hit heavy with regard to lighting. And the State of the Downtown is the annual event that Allen puts on with the DLP, and we participate in that. So we donate $4,000 toward that. The management services, which I just referenced, are $29,900 a year, which is roughly 6% of our budget. A small amount, but having said that, we're still putting the RFP out to see if there's something else out there that might save the taxpayer money. We want to put it back on the street. That's the goal of the management district, not to house it, but to put it out. Folks who get billed here and we spend it here should get the benefit of it here. So that's what we do. Accounting and software, pretty much incidental things. One thing I will tell you, that we have security. We've earmarked up top on line $62,000, $27,000 for security. I'm hoping we don't use that. That's an earmark that if we need it this summer, we'll come and maybe talk to you all about doing a match perhaps. I don't know where it is in your all's budget, but I've talked to Mr. Atkins about it. Hopefully we don't need it. If we don't, we'll put it back on the street via art grants or property improvement grants. It will be spent on the street if we don't use it. But we held that back just in case we need it. We did a couple of years ago and hopefully it will not be the case this year. It will knock on wood. So at the end of the day, we have a whopping net income of $134.40. That's as close as we can cut it. That's where we are. If you have more in-depth questions, Mr. Castro is much better than I am with regard to all this. But that's kind of our budget in a nutshell. Thank you so much for that presentation. Councilmembers, if you have a question, will you log in please? Did you have a question, Councilmember Baxter? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Frazier, for your presentation. Way to make a profit. I just have a question about the grant that you all have. Can you tell us a little bit more about how entities would go about applying for that grant when the grant window opens? We have an online application system. If you go to our website, you'll see you can click on an icon for grant applications, and we have a grant committee. I am on the grant committee, but I do not chair it. And it can be anything from, like I said, lighting. We do a lot of facade enhancements. A lot of folks have been doing the awnings. We see a lot of that. We did one for Rachel Sauvignon on Broadway, for example. A beautiful awning lit up. It looks great. So those are the major components. Some people work on their doors, their windows. Anything from the streetscape that you can see driving or walking by is eligible for a grant as long as it's within our district. Okay, and is that a rolling grant window, or is there a specific time frame when the grant is open? You know, it's a rolling. We're on a fiscal year like you all are, and so having said that, if you apply for it this year and we don't get to it until next year, which would be really negligent on our part, but if we don't, or if we get there like we did last year and don't have any money, we'll ask you to come back again. So it does have a calendar cycle to it. Yes. That's a really great program. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Lugari? Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Frazier, for your presentation and for providing an overview. I'm really glad Councilmember Baxter asked about those property improvement and lighting grants, because I often encourage downtown property owners to apply for them, to learn about them, and to spread the word. They can make a really big difference along the streetscape in downtown. And I also know that DLMD makes a really big difference when it comes to furthering the mission of clean, safe, beautiful, and with our downtown ambassadors, people are really grateful for the engagement they get, not only with making this street more attractive, but also in providing wayfinding and being welcoming in the community. I have a question about one item, and I was curious if you could provide any more detail on this downtown art project for $10,000. Well, that is an art project. It's kind of like a lot. We know it when we see it, right? We have to have an application. Our major one to date has been assisting the relocation of John Henry from Ashland down to downtown. We played a part in doing that. We spent $10,000 toward that relocation ourselves, which was a big part of our budget. But public art, we help also support the suffragette statues. So really, we have an art committee, separate and apart from the grant committee. So if you have an art project, you can go online and submit it to us. Again, the only qualifications are it must be within the district, and it must be visible from the outside. So if you do something inside that you really can't see, we don't consider that. We went through a very strict criteria trying to make folks appreciate what we're doing down there. And that committee is made up of not just board members, but non-board members, as you probably know. But, yeah, there's a lot of people that put input with regard to this one. So it sounds like it could either be one large project or potentially multiple. And that's what I was curious about. Yeah, and that's one of the reasons, actually, Council Member Legree, that we pushed so hard for the 10 years. Because Woodford Webb and I have talked about doing some big project forever, some big art project statement for the city, right? But to do that, you almost have to go out and borrow the money, like a bond for us, which we could do. But a 10 year term makes us bank worthy. And so if we have a project or an artist brings us something, we certainly can entertain that now. But that is kind of an ad hoc, you step up and see, it could be one project or it could be 10 smaller projects, correct? Okay, thank you for clarifying that. And again, I appreciate your work. And Mayor, whenever our colleagues and you're ready, I do. motion. Okay does anyone else have a question before councilmember Legree's motion? All right go right ahead. Thank You mayor. I moved a place on the docket for the June 12 2025 council meeting under resolutions first reading a resolution ratifying and approving the fiscal year 2026 budget of the downtown Lexington Management District. Councilmember Reynolds seconds. Are there any questions about the motion? All those in favor say aye. Anyone opposed? All right that passes. Thank you very much. Thank you mayor. Thank you council. Appreciate all the good work. Now next on our presentations is the LFUC well Lexington Fayette Urban County Industrial Authority fiscal year 26 budget and Craig Benz is going to give that presentation. Welcome. Good afternoon. You can adjust however you want it. So this is your your annual update on the work and the budget of the Industrial Authority. The authority was created by ordinance by this council back in 2018 and that ordinance requires that the authority board submit its proposed budget to the council for review and approval annually. That that budget is in the mayor's proposed budget as well so you've seen it before but this is just a more in-depth proposal or a presentation of that. The authority has an eight member board appointed by the mayor. I staff that board and Councilmember Baxter is the is the council representative on that board and Mary Alicia Weldon with Fifth Third Bank is the chair of that board. Much of the the work of the authority comes from resolution 462 2018 which executed an MOU a memorandum of understanding back in 2018 that transferred approximately 250 acres of land in the Coldstream Research Park area. At the time it was owned by UK it transferred it to the LFUCG and in return the city transferred certain area streets campus area streets and alleys that were owned by the city at the time to the University of Kentucky. In addition to that at the time the city also had in the agreement in the MOU that there would be a provision for $100,000 annually for 10 years so a total of a million dollars to fund improvements related to pedestrian bicycle and vehicular safety in and around campus. So the the 250 acres that was transferred to the city is broke up into two different sites there's a 50 acre site that we just generically call Coldstream and there's a 200 acre site which you all know is Legacy Business Park. This is this slide shows that 50 acre Coldstream site that the it's a little tough to see on the slide but the lots that you see in red have been sold and the lots that you see in blue have not been sold. Again it's a little over 50 acres total and there's about 33 and a half acres that remain available. It's a p2 zoning consistent with the rest of Coldstream around it and the four lots that have been sold are for uses such as a credit union a corporate office a medical office and a veterinarian office use. This is a location map of Legacy Business Park. The 200 acre site is just on the east side of Georgetown Road with 64 75 just north of the site. This this shows the current plan for Legacy Business Park. This is the master plan that was adopted and we moved further and and actually have an improved infrastructure plan for this as well. There's about a hundred and fifty acres of lots on this site. There's 19 lots that are dashed in on the site and in addition to that there's about 40 acres of greenway on the site which is a little unusual. So there's some amenities this is intended to be a business park with office and industrial uses but we're still we still have legacy trail connections that run through this park and some green space as well. The the actual lot configuration that you see on the screen the 19 lots is intended to be flexible so when we finally get to the point where we're marketing and selling some of these lots those lines are intended those lot lines are intended to be able to move a bit to accommodate specific users. This shows the funding for Legacy. The project cost is 22.6 million. It is fully funded at this point. 10 million of the funding stack came from a HUD community project funding grant. About seven and a half million came from our general fund construction dollars but it was part of an original 9.5 million dollar ARPA allocation that you all may may remember. 2.5 million of the funding for the project remains from ARPA funds. 2 million are KPDI dollars as our state dollars that we match on a two-for-one basis. 200,000 is coming from LG&E KU and the balance of the funding for this project is coming from land sale proceeds from that 50 acre site. The groundbreaking is scheduled for June 18th next Wednesday at 10 a.m. and you all should have received a invitation. If you didn't you'll be receiving that very shortly. I hope to see you there. Last but not least this is the operating budget on the right side and the actual Legacy Business Park budget on the left side. The operating budget that you saw on the right again is this mirrors the mayor's proposed budget. So there's 146,000 dollars of mostly professional services for things like mowing the site and just keeping it maintained while we're preparing for construction and throughout that construction process. And then again on the left side the more blue color is the cold stream budget itself. Our total revenue is about 23.7 million that we have allocated towards that project. We anticipate that the total expenses including 1.7 million in contingency will be about 22.6 million. Happy to report that we have a little bit left over at the end of the day about a million left over. Any project this big will probably have a use for that before it's all over. So with that I'd be glad to answer any questions that you have. All right thank you so much. Are there questions? Any questions? Looks like everybody's happy. Thank you so much Greg. All right that brings us to a presentation. All right I would like to invite our Director of Waste Management Antonio Baldwin to join me at the podium. Again. Welcome. And are any of your employees here with us? They were but then they escaped. Okay they've escaped. All right very good. Next week is Waste and Recycling Workers Week and today we want to recognize the hard work of Lexington's waste and recycling employees. Our Division of Waste Management employees truly are rock stars. They get their jobs done and they are not easy. Antonio first I want to thank you for your leadership. You're doing a wonderful job. You're fairly new still and we really appreciate you very much. At this time I'd like to read and present a proclamation to you on behalf of all of your employees for Waste Recycling Workers Day in Lexington. And here's how it goes. Whereas we recognize the difficult jobs performed by Lexington's waste and recycling workers and whereas the individuals employed by Lexington's Division of Waste Management make significant contributions to the safety health and welfare of our residents and whereas these workers often place themselves in harm's way to perform their duties and whereas Lexington depends on the collection of waste and recyclables to keep our community safe and clean and whereas we thank our city's waste management employees for their dedicated service to our residents our businesses and our organizations. Now therefore I Linda Gorton Mayor of Lexington do hereby declare June 16th through the 24th 2025 Waste and Recycling Workers Week in Lexington. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well thank you Mayor and Council as well as our CAO office. It is a pleasure to be here and it's also an honor to serve in the capacity as the Director of Waste Management. The men and women that actually work in this division hats off to them and one of the things that I always tell them is the best is yet to come. So I firmly believe that we will have the best Municipal Waste Division Department within a five-state region in the next few years. So we thank you on behalf of all waste management leadership and on behalf of myself I thank you all for your support dedication and the best is yet to come Mayor. Very good. Thank you so much. All right that brings us to council reports if you'll sign in please. Council Member Legree. Excuse me. Mayor thank you this never happened before. Colleagues I know you've heard me speak about this a couple of times but I do want to share an update that the construction work for the East High Street safety pilot initiative is complete. You all will see that between Woodland Avenue and Rose Street on high we've introduced a protected bike lane new parking spaces and reduced the number of travel lanes for that small section and this is a simple solution all designed to calm traffic and make the street safer for everybody so pedestrians cyclists and drivers. This pilot project as I've shared really reflects what we hear from residents we hear concerns about speeding difficulty crossing the street we hear about a desire for safer more accessible routes through our neighborhoods and we want a space along the street that's safe for everyone no matter how they get along in our city and how they how they choose to navigate and we're using a quick build approach so we're able to test real solutions in real time and adjust based on what works. So I just want to say a huge huge huge thank you to our neighborhood champions who've been really instrumental in shaping and supporting this work and thank you to our teams who have been just phenomenal to work with in traffic engineering in streets and roads and with our complete streets division and with our public information engagement team for all of their collective work on this project. If you get questions about it or if you're interested in learning more you can visit lexingtonky.gov forward slash road pilot and of course you can always direct people my way. So thank you mayor that's it. Thank you councilmember Sheehan. Thank you mayor. First I want to announce that that we are taking applications for the street banners that recognize veterans in our community. Last year we were able to unveil a new program where we hung banners in November along Vine Street to recognize local veterans and if you go to lexingtonky.gov veterans affairs there is a form there available to you if you want to apply to recognize a veteran for from our community. And then I have two neighborhood meetings to announce so one is tonight at 6 p.m. at Christ the King at Hayman Hall and this neighborhood meeting is all about the Romney Road Publix development so if you want to find out more about that project you can come tonight at 6. And then we have scheduled a couple more meetings about the sanitary sewer project around the Lake Fontaine and reservoir area. There was one earlier today but there's an additional one on Thursday June 12th at the Senior Center on Life Lane at in Community Room A and that meeting is at 5 45 p.m. so if you want to find out about that project attend that meeting. Thank you mayor. Thank you councilmember Reynolds. Thank You mayor. First off I want to do something that we like to do which is brag on our community paramedicine program. The fire department is proud to announce that the community paramedicine team won a or has been selected to receive the champion of adult maltreatment prevention award also known as the champ award. And this is something that recognizes organizations in Kentucky that are making a real impact in abuse neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults. So I just want to say a big congratulations to our paramedicine team and we're thrilled that you got this award. And then I have a few announcements. The first one is that on Saturday we that's the wrong picture but that's okay I can do I can do that I can do that one well go back let's see we'll get there eventually or not that's okay all right so I'm gonna start with this one. On Saturday the Gulfview Estates Neighborhood Association put on their second annual play in the park. There you can see it says we love Addison Park and they have just done a phenomenal job. There were a ton of people there, there were a lot of kids, there was food, there was homemade ice cream, there was the park and play and it was just so much fun and I just want to give a big shout out to the president of the neighborhood association who might be in the audience right now and the whole association because they are new within the last two years and what they have done in that neighborhood and brought people together of all ages and it has just honestly been amazing and they're very positive and they're doing a lot of great work in the community so I'm thrilled to have them in Gulfview Estates and then I think so tomorrow we're going to have a district-wide meeting at Marksbury Family Branch Library starting at 5 30 p.m. ending at 7 p.m. and we're gonna mainly talk about infrastructure projects traffic issues and there's going to be staff from the city from traffic engineering engineering there's going to be staff from the state KYTC office to just talk about all the things that are happening in the district and where people can hear an update and also ask questions so I hope that people will join us tomorrow for that and then I just wanted to mention so there might not be a photo of this that on Saturday the Lexington Rescue Mission officially did a ribbon-cutting for their community center they have a building on Second Street is very large building and they are having all kinds of wraparound services there including feeding people and then they're working with Isaiah house and Jubilee jobs so that the whole building can be a real one-stop shop for folks in need they can help get a job they can have health care they can have the clothing they can have just all the wraparound services dealing with spiritual issues physical issues emotional issues and so that was a really great event and councilmember Brown join me and director here on that as well so I just wanted to mention that thank you thank you councilmember Lynch thank you mayor I just want to remind my neighbors that coming up on June 17th from 1 o'clock at 1 o'clock at the Black and Williams Neighborhood Center that there will be at a community engagement session regarding the villages movement that is happening in Lexington it's coming it's here this is the item I have in committee that I think is going to be a game-changer for all of our seniors that want to age in place in their homes in addition to individuals with disabilities and so a caring place is the nonprofit that we're partnering with that's going to be doing these several community engagement sessions not just in the second district but in every council district in the city so colleagues check your email inbox you should have flyer a flyer and information about these community engagement sessions that I hope you share with your neighbors but I want to invite my neighbors in district 2 to come out to the Black Williams Center on June 17th for our community engagement sessions we can learn about the villagers movement and how it'd be a true benefit to our community and also I just like to comment last weekend there were so many community events going on throughout the city positive events and it was just so good to see so many neighbors out having fun having a good time in community it's too many for me to talk about just so many good ones but I was just a great weekend for the city of Lexington last weekend thank you mayor thank you councilmember Beasley thank you mayor I just have two quick announcements I would like to thank parks and rec for the wonderful clinic carnival that they put on for the kids Thursday at the Tate's Creek Community Center I bet there were 100 kids there there was face painting and cotton candy and some of our officials were out there dancing and then on Saturday we had cops and bobbers at the Gainesway Park and I would like to thank the Citizens Police Academy Association Walmart partners for youth fish and wildlife the 6th District Federation League of Kentucky sportsmen backwater outfitters the police recruits the police explorers the fire department the police cook team the cop sickle team operate parks and rec Spalding's inflatable safe kids Lexington's mom demand action the health department Kroger British swim safety and Grace United Methodist Church or sorry Grace United Church for helping make all that possible I bet there was over 200 kids there and everybody got a fishing pole to take home and there was food and there were cop sickles which is the most important part and somebody caught a turtle so thanks for everybody who helped make that possible for all those kids on Saturday thanks mayor thank you Vice Mayor Wu thank you mayor councilmember Lynch mentioned the embarrassment of riches of cultural events that we have in Lexington and I just want to speak on one that I went to over the weekend I saw councilmember Lynch and councilmember Reynolds there as well it was the fourth annual Swahili Day put on by the Marafiki Center and Swahili is the most commonly spoken language in Africa over 200 million people there speak it and a big chunk of our African and Congolese community here in Lexington speak Swahili and it was just a really terrific celebration kind of a pan-african celebration with cultural performances music and dance from all different countries if you'll advance the slide we had a lot of great youth participation we have had artists like Kipto Tarus there as well I got to catch a really great performance from a Burundian drum group from Dayton Ohio and I think we have a video if you can put the sound on or you can imagine the sound but either way the as you can see it was a very energetic performance so I just a lot of props to Marafiki Center for pulling off this event four years in a row there were at least a few hundred people in attendance also sort of a market there with different goods and lots of really good food my second and last announcement is about the survey the public input survey we have for Lexington's preservation and growth management program it will be up for about two more weeks so I'm going to remind everyone who hasn't already gone to engage Lexington site to take that survey to please do it's engaged Lexington ky.gov got two more weeks on that survey this is a really really important program and potentially transformative on how we look at land use here in Lexington that's all thank you mayor thank you councilmember Morton thank you so I guess I'll just go on to speak about all those great events so this past Sunday was filled with events that reflected the energy culture and strength of our community and I had the privilege of attending several meaningful gatherings across the city actually almost seven in one day starting off with the common good walk for for good fundraiser I started the morning supporting common goods walk for good right in our Castlewood neighborhood in the heart of the first district this annual fundraiser brings together people to champion the importance of youth development but also work to make sure that they're getting the resources to to to fund their year-round programming it was hard to see so many community members walking for a great purpose and that was just a mark through the first district and through Castlewood moving on to the truck-a-palooza at Frederick Dougall high school in the sixth district I visit truck-a-palooza a family-friendly event featuring city public works and safety vehicles it was a huge hit with the kids and for parents alike and a great way to showcase the services that are keeping our city running and as a couple of familiar faces there moving on the ribbon cutting at Black Soil pharmacy grocery store in the second district but right down the street from the first district I had the honor of attending the ribbon cutting for Black Soil's new pharmacy grocery store this space is a win for food justice local agriculture and community wellness and it's right in the West End at the footstep of those who need it most so there was a great great time we had at Black Soil and that's actually fun fact as a store when I was a kid I'm an elementary school I used to go to that store every day they called it Sam's convenience store and I'll go get me a what we call a 50 cent cake but now it's gonna be turned into a great resource for that community so I'm glad that store is being used in a great way on to the 29th anniversary for pastor and First Lady Gaines of Consolidated Baptist Church I'm at the privilege of joining on the congregation of Consolidated Baptist Church to celebrate the 29th pastoral anniversary of Reverend Richard Gaines and First Lady Sarah Gaines. Reverend Gaines has been a steadfast leader in Lexington not only guiding his congregation with spiritual wisdom but also serving as a powerful voice for justice education and community empowerment his impact extends far beyond the church walls and it was a moving experience to honor his legacy a highlight of the highlight of the day was actually good to see our own Deputy CAO Mr. Glenn Brown singing with the Men Unity Choir and y'all have to go out and hear that choir it's a great choir a joyful tribute to a remarkable leader keep going see I think I got time West End Day at Douglas Park West End Day felt like a giant family reunion Douglas Park was alive with music food games and familiar faces it was heartwarming to see so many residents come together in celebration of a community this is exactly what community looks like a safe fun event in the West End with a lot of great folk so we had a great time there Swahili Day celebration I was honored to attend the Swahili Day and connect with our Swahili speaking community this event was rich with culture conversation and celebration and it was a great it was great to run into several colleagues into the crowd in the crowd when I was there and then yeah lastly the Kentucky Indiana inauguration ceremony for Mr. Timothy Mitchell and Sherry Thornton so Mr. Timothy Mitchell is actually a great constituent of mine and I was invited to attend this great ceremony in his honors also attended the joint Kentucky Indiana inauguration ceremony honoring Mr. Timothy Mitchell and Miss Sherry Thornton it was a proud moment to celebrating regional leadership and community empowered and like I said a special shout out to Colonel Mitchell as he assumes his leadership position and that was a great and long Saturday so thank you thank you councilmember Baxter Thank You mayor I don't have any photos but I did want to thank you and councilmember Savigny for joining me on a really early day last Wednesday at 645 to open the new Publix in the Palomar fountains and this is it's not just another Publix it's actually a different format store from the one that first opened sorry councilmember Lynch is kind of jealous of my Publix I think but this one includes something called a poor's cafe which is a different model than most of their stores and you can get a cup of coffee or smoothies acai bowls of course you can get their pub subs and but they have a pizza oven and all kinds of stuff so I would invite anybody to come and grab a bite with me at the Publix I also wanted to take a moment to introduce my summer intern who you might see walking around the building and I have I have royally embarrassed her her name is Audrey Baxter and she happens to be my daughter and she looks a lot like me so there's two of us beware so I'm glad she's with us and so if y'all need help let me know. Thank you mayor. Thank you councilmember Savigny. Thank you mayor and it was fun to be at Publix with you and it was early but I did also want to introduce my I do have a a high school senior graduate who is going to transit next year and he is an intern Jake Barnott and he is the son of one of our firefighters and I'm glad to have him in our office thank you Jake Barnott. Thank you. Thank you. All right that brings us to public comment and you know the way this works is when I call your name you'll come to the podium and restate your name and your council district for the record and you'll have three minutes and first is Rick Day. My name is Rick Day and I live in the third district. I appreciate your recent motion to review the 2022 mag study. It's a good thought but it's not necessary. I have already done that for you. If you have questions go back and watch the over 20 times I have been here in the last few years or pay attention to what I will be telling you in the future in new months or upcoming months. First I think you need to decide if you are going to respond to what you already know and if so when and how. Just recently I told you how dates were changed and numbers manipulated to give one employee an unjustified and unexplained $9,000 salary increase. At the same time another employee was denied a similar increase that would have been justified and easily explained. I think HR, the administration, and the mag group were caught red-handed. So far not one question has been asked and not one explanation given. So if you want to do a study that might be a good place to start. Next week I will give you examples of other results that do not appear to come from the management advisory groups quantitative point-based analysis or their statistical modeling technique. The results look like they may have been dictated by HR and the administration. Maybe you want you want to take a look at those. After break I am going to look at the gender race part of the mag study. You definitely will want to take a look at that. So before you do a study you need to decide if you are willing to deal with what you might find. You need to decide if you are going to act or continue to ignore the obvious. So far the Urban County Council has chosen to ignore. Thank you. Next up is Sally Hamilton and I'd like to confirm that Glenn Brown has given your three minutes to Sally. All right. Welcome. Thank you. My name is Sally Hamilton and I have moved several times. I had been in Councilmember LaGrie and now I'm in the fourth district with Emma Curtis. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I'm here today to respond to the comments made by Rick Day. I have sat here week after week and listened to him make comments, most of which are inaccurate, about Charlie Martin, the Division of Human Resources, the administration, and the council. I would like first to speak about Charlie Martin. Charlie is a wonderful person and a great division director. He has served as our director of water quality for more than 23 years, providing consistent leadership in an area that directly affects public health, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance. His summary was adjusted as part of a comprehensive study, the MAG study, that covered all civil service positions. The goal of that study was to ensure equity, consistency, and market competitiveness across positions. It evaluated the scope and the responsibilities of each person rather than individual performance. That said, Charlie Martin's performance and leadership deserve to be acknowledged. He oversees both wastewater and stormwater operations and plays a lead role in implementing the EPA consent decree. Charlie has been central to managing this complex multi-year process, coordinating regulatory compliance, technical strategy, and operations improvements that serve this entire community. This government is so lucky to have someone of Charlie's caliber, and we have certainly benefited from his expertise. It is disappointing that an employee would come here week after week and make inaccurate statements simply because he thinks that someone makes too much money, and that happens to be his boss. As to the management advisory group study, NHR, Rick Day has submitted numerous open records requests and questions to the Division of Human Resources about the MAG study. They have produced numerous documents and responded to his questions. It is not their fault that he doesn't like the answers. For him to stand here week after week and make false statements about manipulating the system and withholding information from employees is not fair to the employees of HR. The COMP study was conducted by an external consulting firm who adhered to HR's professional standards and best practices to ensure fairness, openness, and transparency. The findings of the study were presented to both the administration and the council. After careful review, we moved forward with that. The study's recommendations were applied consistently and fairly to all employees. There was no manipulation of data, and no individual received preferential treatment. We certainly know that compensation studies, and this one included, are not flawless and can draw blood. We certainly have the bloodstains to prove that. Just ask the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and Kentucky state government if their COMP studies didn't, if their COMP study attempts went off without controversy. But at the end of the day, we stand by the integrity of the study's methodology and the objectivity of all the findings. All salary adjustments were based on the consultant's analysis and applied uniformly. I stand behind our Department of Human Resources, who took a daily beating over these studies, and still some days still do. They, like all of our employees in this government, are just trying to do their job. And the good news is, I won't be back 20 more times. Thank you. Thank you very much. That ends our public comment, so I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. All those in favor, say aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.