# Council Work Session - June 24, 2025 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Council · June 24, 2025 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6469 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6469?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2025-06-24 - **Body**: Council - **Last revised**: March 1, 2026 - **Length**: 8,500 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council met on June 24, 2025, at 3:00 PM in the Council Chamber on the second floor of the Government Center, with Mayor Linda Gorton presiding. The meeting featured three agenda items, all of which were informational in nature, including a presentation from the American Jail Manager Certification Association, a Community Paramedicine Recognition, and a Moosnick Service Award Recognition. The Council heard one public comment during the session and took a total of three votes. No legislative or policy actions were recorded among the agenda items, as the meeting was primarily dedicated to recognitions and informational presentations. ## Attendance The following members were present at the June 24, 2025 Council meeting: - Wu - Ellinger II - Morton - Lynch - LeGris - Curtis - Sheehan - Gray - Hale - Beasley - Baxter - Sevigny - Reynolds - Boone **Absent:** Brown No members were recorded as late. ## Votes and Decisions Three votes were taken during the June 24, 2025 Council meeting, all of which passed by voice vote. No roll call votes were recorded, so individual member tallies are not available. - **Agenda Reordering** [timestamp: 0:02]: Moved by Wu and seconded by Ellinger, the Council voted to move presentations to the top of the agenda. The motion passed by voice vote. - **Docket Approval** [timestamp: 18:11]: Moved by Reynolds and seconded by Gray, the Council voted to approve the docket. The motion passed by voice vote. - **New Business Approval** [timestamp: 21:43]: Moved by Ellinger and seconded by Baxter, the Council voted to approve new business. The motion passed by voice vote. ## Budget and Financial Actions The Council approved three financial actions at the June 24, 2025 meeting, covering law enforcement technology purchases and a workforce development contract. **Forensic Technology Purchases** - **Resolution L0567-25** authorized the purchase of an iVe Forensic Vehicle System from **Berla Corporation** for **$3,791**. This system is used for forensic examination of vehicle data. - **Resolution L0580-25** authorized the purchase of DVR Examiner and AXIOM Essentials software from **Magnet Forensics, LLC** for **$19,110**. These tools support digital forensic investigations. **Workforce Development Contract** - **Resolution L0582-25** authorized an agreement with **Jubilee Jobs** in the amount of **$62,718.42** to support the WORK-Lexington program. Jubilee Jobs will serve as a partner in delivering workforce services under this initiative. Combined, the three approved financial actions total approximately **$85,619.42**. ## Public Comment One member of the public addressed the Council during the public comment period. - **Rick Day** spoke regarding concerns about the 2022 compensation study, questioning its fairness and transparency. Day cited specific examples of pay grade changes and promotions as part of his remarks. [timestamp: 58:38] ## American Jail Manager Certification Association Presentation [timestamp: 04:16] Mayor Linda Gorton and Major Jacob Crawford were the key speakers during this presentation, which recognized Major Jacob Crawford for his achievements and contributions to the American Jail Association. The item was informational in nature, with Major Crawford being formally recognized before the Council. No debate or concerns were raised during this portion of the meeting. ## Community Paramedicine Recognition [timestamp: 10:05] The Council received a recognition presentation honoring the Community Paramedicine team for receiving the Champion of Adult Maltreatment Prevention Award. **Key Speakers:** - Mayor Linda Gorton - Chief Jason Wells Mayor Linda Gorton and Chief Jason Wells participated in presenting the recognition to the Community Paramedicine team. The item was informational in nature, celebrating the team's achievement in receiving the Champion of Adult Maltreatment Prevention Award. No debate or concerns were raised during this agenda item, as it served as a commendation of the team's work in the area of adult maltreatment prevention. The outcome was informational, with no votes or further action required by the Council. ## Moosnick Service Award Recognition [timestamp: 14:50] Mayor Linda Gorton and Chief Jason Wells presented during this recognition segment, which honored the Lexington Fire Department for their work in increasing bystander CPR response rates in the community. The item was informational in nature, with no vote or formal action taken by the Council. No concerns were raised during the presentation. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve the June 26, 2025 Council Meeting Docket, as amended - **Motion** — passed (0-0): place on the June 26, 2025 Council Meeting Docket, PLN-MAR-24-00017 Rose Holdings Lexington, LLC, a petition for a zone map amendment, changing the zone from a Single-Family Residential (R-1A) zone to a Planned Neighborhood Residential (R-3) zone, for 11.587 net (11.924 gross) acres for property located at 1899 Parkers Mill Rd without a public hearing - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve the June 10, 2025, Work Session Summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve New Business - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve Communications from the Mayor – Appointments - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve Communications from the Mayor – Procurements - **Motion** — passed (0-0): approve Council Capital Projects - **Motion** — passed (0-0): adjourn at 4:04 p.m --- ## Full transcript ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ It's 3 o'clock and I'd like to go ahead and call to order the Lexington Fayette-Irvine County Council Work Session. It's July 24th, 2025 and June. I'm way ahead of myself. We missed 4th of July. It's June 24th, 2025 and Vice Mayor Wu has a motion. Thank you Mayor. At the request of administration I'm making a motion to move our three presentations. American Jail Manager Certification Association, Community Paramedicine Recognition and the Moosnick Service Award recognition to the top of our agenda. So moved. Second. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger seconded. Are there any questions? All right. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes and with that we'll go ahead and do C, D and E. All right. Thank you very much. I would like to invite Chief Scott Colvin and Major Jacob Crawford to join me at the podium. They are joined by several of our corrections employees and we'll ask all of them to be in the picture with the council. You want to come up now? I told them Mayor. You already told them? They wouldn't do it. Oh. Will you all come up? Thank you. So I want to welcome Major Crawford and Chief Colvin especially for being here. Major Crawford has been with our city's Division of Corrections since 2004 and currently serves as a Bureau Commander. Major Crawford was recently named Commissioner of the American Jail Association Jail Managers Certification Commission. This is a big deal. Major Crawford congratulations on your achievement and we are so happy to have you representing us at the national level. And at this time I'd like to present you with a proclamation and then I'll ask you as well as Chief Colvin if you have any comments and here's how it goes. Whereas Major Jacob Crawford has been employed by Lexington's Division of Community Corrections since 2004, 21 years. And whereas today Major Crawford serves as the Bureau Commander for Professional Standards which encompasses recruiting, training, staff development and internal affairs. And whereas Major Crawford earned his American Jail Association Certified Jail Manager designation in 2023 highlighting his knowledge in detention center operations. And whereas Major Crawford was recently appointed to the American Jail Association's Jail Manager Certification Commission, a group that oversees the certification of corrections officers and supervisors across the United States. And whereas thanks to the efforts of Major Crawford the Lexington Fayette County Detention Center now has 96 corrections officers who have been certified by the American Jail Association Certified Jail Officer Program making Lexington the top ranked agency in the nation with the most certified jail officers. And whereas we congratulate Major Crawford on these achievements and thank you for your dedicated service to our community. Now therefore I Linda Gorton Mayor of Lexington do hereby declare June 24th 2025 Jacob Crawford Day in Lexington. Congratulations. Thank you Mayor and Councilmembers. Your continued support and resources made this milestone and professional development possible for the Division of Community Corrections. Thank you Chief Colvin for entrusting me with your vision for our division. The task was both challenging and demanding but I stand before you today and proudly say that Lexington Division of Community Corrections is number one in the nation for certified jail officers with 96 certified jail officers and we will soon be the first in the nation with 100 certified jail officers. Thank you to the members of the executive command team for your continuous support and I'm honored to receive this proclamation today and thank you very much. Thank you so much. Don't go away okay. Chief Colvin. Well congratulations Major Crawford. Well deserved. 30 months ago we put this team together with a mission and our primary or foundational driver was going to be professional development. It was part of my strategic plan but we know how plans go. They're just words on a piece of paper unless you get someone with the skill set and the energy to drive the results and that was you. So fortunate to have you on the staff as well as everyone else. Congratulations. Well deserved. His mother Teresa Crawford is with us this afternoon. She is a legend at the at the division as far as booking for operations and courts go. So we're happy to have Teresa with us. Jacob's father who we lost last year was a career police officer of Lexington. So he comes from the family business and we're just proud to claim him as ours. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get a photo. All right. At this time I'd like to invite Chief Jason Wells police assistant chief Jacqueline Newman and the community paramedicine team to join me at the podium. The whole team is here. They're a shy bunch. All right. So Lexington community paramedicine was recently selected to receive the champion of adult maltreatment prevention award also known as the champ award. Our community paramedicine program pairs teams of firefighters paramedics police officers and social workers to respond to calls in a time of crisis. June is elder abuse and exploitation awareness month. Members of our community paramedicine team were honored for their work for preventing abuse. Community paramedicine is a team effort and it is not an easy job. I want to thank each and every one of you for your dedication and service to our community. And I'd like first to ask Chief Wells to say a few words and then Assistant Chief Newman. Welcome. Thank you mayor and thank you all. I think the mayor said it better than than I probably could. It is a team effort and I think this this team is a model of what collaboration in a community should look like. They've been up here before you a time or two before and we are so so very proud of the incredible work that they continue to do. So thank you all. Thank you. Thank you mayor and thank you council. We're grateful for the opportunity to work with our partners at the Lexington Fire Department and to provide a valuable resource for our community and those in need. Both of our departments police and fire have the opportunity to see firsthand the work that this team does every day and the impact it has right here in Lexington. The Champ Award is a testament and recognition of the paramedicine efforts here in the community. We're grateful to be here today for this honor. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get a group photo shall we. All right. OK. Chief Wells stayed close at hand because I wanted to invite him and members of our EMS education staff to join me at the podium. All right. All right. Our Lexington Fire Department was recently recognized with the moose Nick service award by the American Heart Association. Lexington Fayette County has seen a significant increase in by standard CPR response rates since 2023 when we began working with the American Heart Association on the Lex save lives initiative increasing the bystander CPR rate means increasing the number of people who survive heart attacks. It's very simple. Chief Wells I know this has been a community effort and I'm very thankful for the leadership of the American Heart Association and for the dedication of our firefighters as we work together to encourage more residents to learn and practice CPR. And I thank you for leading the charge and wondered if you would like to say a few words and then we're going to show you the award and get a picture. So welcome. Thank you. Very briefly. So this initiative started when I received an email from Captain Kenny who is now our lead EMS educator with a suggestion that we put CPR mannequins in every firehouse and teach everyone who comes through hands only CPR. And he said what a simple and cost effective way to teach people and learn how to save lives. And I just could not be more proud. And I think that you all should be very proud too because so many of you participated in that Lex save lives initiative as well as the mayor and you know even me. And so if any of you feel left out and you want to do a video to show your constituents how to do hands only CPR we'd love to film that with you. But thank you all very much and congratulations to you as well. Do you want to show the award and then we'll put you with the picture. Just show it. Well the cameras there. You can show it wherever you want to show us. It's really cool. Thank you so much. Yes. Let's get a photo. All right. Thank you so much. The next item on our agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda and there is no one signed up for issues on the agenda. We do have a docket approval. If I could have a motion to approve. Council member Reynolds. Thank you. Council member Gray seconds. And if you have an item for the docket please log in. Vice mayor Wu. Thank you mayor. I move to place P.L. and M.A.R. twenty four zero zero zero seventeen Rose Holdings Lexington LLC a petition for a zone map amendment changing the zone from a single family residential R1A zone to a planned neighborhood residential R3 zone for eleven point five eight seven net eleven point nine two four gross acres for property located at eighteen ninety nine Parker's Mill Road on the docket without a public hearing. So moved. Council member Baxter seconds. This is number seven first reading of ordinances. Is there any discussion. Council member Savigny. Thank you mayor. I'll be recusing from item number seven as I've been very involved as a parishioner at St. Raphael's next door at eighteen ninety one Parker's Mill since ninety six. Thank you. OK. Thank you. Is there anything any other comment. Council member Ellinger. Thank you mayor. I will also be recusing my mom was right down the street from that and I grew up on this and someday I might own this house so I'm going to recuse myself. OK. Anybody else. All right. All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye. Is there anyone opposed. All right. That passes with two recusals. Council member Ellinger did you have anything else for the docket. OK. Is there anything else for the docket. All right. All those in favor of the docket please say aye. Aye. Is there anyone opposed. All right. That motion passes. Next up is a summary of June 10th twenty twenty five work session. Could I have a motion to approve. Council member Savigny moves. Council member Gray seconds. Are there any questions. Corrections additions. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed. All right. That motion passes. There are no budget amendments and there are no budget adjustments for your information only. And that brings us to new business. If I could have a motion to approve. Council member Ellinger moves. Council member Baxter seconds. If you have a question about new business please log in. Council member Baxter. I will follow up on that as a concerned neighbor myself in this situation and make sure that we're getting something out to all the residents out there. You're welcome. All right. Thank you. Council member Lugari. Thank you mayor. I have a question about I think two related items item T and item X the Loudoun Avenue streetscape project. Hi director director Burton. Would you be willing to tell us a little bit more about that project. I'm just curious about what's involved what's happening etc. So it's effectively a streetscapes project from South Broadway to North Lyme and it will involve adding sidewalks where there aren't adding back bike lanes. There are no bike lanes through there. Adding a median curb improving sidewalks on the other side. Effectively right now it's a wide Broadway that encourages high speeds. There are heavy pedestrian use there but not all the facilities. So our goal will be to both add the bike ped facilities that aren't there improve the ones that are and then again add that median just to help slow people down. Great. I'm so happy to hear that. I'm very familiar with that area. I used to live right there on Loudoun so I'm I'm bet the neighbors will be thrilled to hear about the sidewalks and the upcoming changes. I imagine it's a pretty involved project. Is there any kind of timeline to share. So our next phase is the right away phase which normally is extraordinarily challenging because right away is always challenging. But these are just construction easements which is the other item that's on the list. And all that does is gives the contractor a little bit more room to work. So they're not working in the roadway etc. So we're not doing any heavy lifting with fee simple purchases. So that should go fairly quickly. Once that gets done in probably nine months from now if that then we'll move on to get the constructing construction funding and hopefully start construction next summer is our goal. Pending funding. OK. Thank you so much. Mayor I also have a question about I looking through the documents it looks like this is a water management project director. Welcome back. Council member Reynolds I'm sure is very familiar with it. But I used to represent that area and I'm I'm just curious about this project and what's going on especially if people are asking us questions. Right. So we're there now working on the speed tables and the other roadway improvements that will help with park traffic in and out. And while we're there there's some there's some historic drainage issues that we're hoping to try to resolve not all of them but some of them while we're there because we'll be going back to make some adjustments to the speed tables soon. So when we do that it's a good opportunity since we have a lane shut down that we can make some of those drainage improvements while we're there. Again it won't fix all the drainage problems because that's a much bigger project than what we have time for. Park opens in a couple of months. But if we can do something while we're there and have traffic lanes closed down it'll be beneficial. Great. Thank you. I really appreciate that update. Mayor those are my only questions. Thanks. OK. Thank you. Council member Reynolds. Thank you mayor and director Burton. If you could please come back up on the same item. I I know we've been working on this and I really appreciate you all responding to my constituents concerns out there about the flooding. You mentioned work on it while the road was shut down for the finishing the speed table. So for a timeline do we think that it's going to be the same timeline as the speed tables. This isn't going to be an additional. That's always the goal but coordinating that with the contractor because we do have to have some stormwater structures that will have to be ordered and made and then delivered. We're hoping to do that. But timing that is always a challenge because if if they're ready to go on the speed tables we don't want to hold them up until they can get the drainage materials in because that just runs a risk of weather or something else happening. So ideally we'll do those both at the same time. But there's a chance we may not be able to. Is it reasonable to think that we would be able to do both of them before the opening of. Oh yeah absolutely. Well absolutely. This project will be done before the park opens. Wonderful. Thank you. I know folks are really excited about all of these improvements. Thank you. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Morton. Thank you. I'll start off with item A. We'll hit item A, B and I at the same time within it. And just while you're coming to start off with item A, can you just speak about what does the vehicle system forensic tool do? How does it work and how is this information used? And then lastly what privacy concerns are there and how are they being addressed? And this is just for public transparency. Sure. No problem. Kevin Metcalf, Commander Bureau of Investigations. Yes that's a forensic tool that we use to examine the infotainment center on vehicles. That would be in line with an ongoing investigation and that would only be with the owner's consent or with a search warrant. Thank you. So no privacy concerns because it would be through warrant or consent right? No sir. Okay cool. And then item B, where's the digital evidence being recovered from? What privacy concerns are there and how are they being addressed? Absolutely. This would be digital evidence that's recovered from cell phones, computers, any type of digital format. And again that would be in conjunction with an active investigation and with either consent from the owner or a signed search warrant from a judge. Thank you. And then lastly what is item I, what is this project and how will this grant be used? Excuse me. Yes this is one we've had for a long time now. It helps add overtime funds to our narcotics unit. This also helps with some additional training for them that they may receive throughout the year to supplement some of the department resources. Thank you. And then lastly just miss item D and item F. Ms. Gleskow. And just briefly, can you talk about just like possible indicators of success for both the program and the funds for item D and item F? So these are the economic development grants. This is year two of the three year grants. These are what we have done for several years in order to increase the economic development across the city. So we partner with community ventures, Jubilee Jobs and Commerce Lexington. And with these they work with different businesses to help increase business and help existing businesses to expand or to bring more businesses to Lexington. So they will go like for example Commerce Lexington will go to different businesses. We have the Lexington Economic Partnership and we work with them to find out what their needs are to help them expand if they need expansion or if they just have different needs. We also they will work with new businesses coming in to find out what their needs are as well. They have different trade shows and different things like that as well. I have the reports available that I can send you after this that will tell what their exact successes are. All right. Anything else about new business? All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. Thank you. We do have communications from the mayor appointments. I'll entertain a motion. Vice Mayor Wu. Council Member Curtis seconds. Are there any questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is there anyone opposed? All right. That passes. There are no communications regarding donations. We do have communications from mayor on procurements. Could I have a motion? Thank you. Council Member Curtis second by Council Member Savigny. Are there questions? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That motion passes. We'll go to A and B on our continuing business. First is capital council capital projects. Motion approved. Thank you. Council Member Ellinger second by Council Member Gray. Are there any questions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right. That passes. And at this time we'll have budget finance and economic development and I'll turn it over to Council Member Brown. Thank you mayor. This is a report out summary of motions from the Budget Finance and Economic Development Committee meeting on March 18th 2025 summary and motions. The meeting began at 1 0 2 p.m. The first item on the agenda was the approval of the February 18th 2025 committee summary which was unanimously approved. The second item was the monthly financial update for February 2025 and Revenue Director Holbrook began the financial update. Revenue collections are slightly exceeding budget through the first eight month of eight months of the fiscal year with a positive variance of 1.8 percent. Revenues have trended closer to budget over the past five months showing a tightening of the revenue variance. Budgeting Director Luker presented the expenses. Commissioner Hensley presented an update on the urban services sanitary sewer water quality and landfill funds. No action was taken on this item. The third item on the agenda was the park sustainable the sustainable funding parks and recreation director Monica Conrad presented on the park sustainable funding policy. This parks fund program policy reflects Lexington's commitment to create parks and recreational spaces that are accessible well designed and responsive to the diverse needs of our community. The primary principle of this policy the primary principles of this policy are accessibility engagement and accountability. The final project prioritization and selection will focus on capital construction repair and replacement projects. In addition life safety code compliance stewardship. The parks master plan and the emergent opportunities will be used to prioritize projects. A contingency of up to 10 percent of the total annual parks fund revenue will be set aside for unassigned repairs unexpected capital failures and cost overruns on previously approved projects. No action was taken on this item. The next item on the agenda was the facility and fleet maintenance planning. General Services Commissioner Chris Ford presented on facilities and fleet management planning. The primary goals of capital improvement planning CIP are to preserve assets sustainability and continuation of services and planning for future needs for the expansion of services and infrastructure as the community grows. Facilities maintenance is responsible for a small to medium sized projects primarily involving repair and maintenance activity as well as major repairs and system upgrades. Site inventories include 44 structures and buildings totaling one point two million square feet with an estimated value of five hundred million dollars. Police services provides CIP services for the entire LF you see G operation and planning recommendation and implementation of fleet replacement activities for more than 2000 vehicles and 800 pieces of equipment. The replacement value of the replacement value of the vehicles is estimated at one hundred and sixty four million. The capital project management CP CPM team is responsible for all facets of LF you see G capital projects from inception to completion. Currently the CPM team is managing a portfolio of 11 projects totaling forty three point three million dollars. No action was taken on this item. The next item was United for Alice. The National Director of Alice presented on United for Alice asset limited income restraint employed. Alice highlights the workers power in our economy who can't afford basic needs. Nearly one third of U.S. households earn above the federal poverty level making them ineligible for most assistance. Alice is an alternative measure of economic well-being and our individuals who have income above the federal poverty level below the cost of basics in this country where they live often working in essential jobs and with little to no savings for emergencies for future investment. United for Alice provides comprehensive measures for financial hardship data for all three thousand plus counties in the U.S. and accessible data for all. The Alice data reflects county level costs of a household survival budget. This budget includes basic needs like housing food child care health care a smartphone and transportation. No item was no action was taken on this item and this committee adjourned at two fifty two p.m. that concludes my report. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions about the report. All right. Thank you. Next up are council reports if you'll log in please. Council member Baxter. Thank you mayor. I wanted to extend my congratulations to Mayor Crawford with corrections and to our paramedicine team and our fire team for a job well done. I also wanted to thank Columbia Gas for completing the Wellington Park pollinator garden. They have planted wildflower seeds in the natural gas easement and we should start to see sprouts in the next few weeks which will be great. Now I have a road closure that I need to share and there should be an image. So this is Shilito Park and this relates to the new senior therapeutic recreation center that's opening. We will have to close Shilito Park Road this week some to do sewer work. And so I wanted to make everybody aware that from 9 o'clock tonight 6 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. So that be tonight and tomorrow night. Shilito Park Road will be closed from Reynolds Road to the pool. There is signage out and it has been since the weekend. Leagues have been notified. But just so you know if you go in the park through the Reynolds Road entrance before nine you won't be able to get out that way. OK. And then from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June the 26th and 27th there'll be intermittent closures for the paving. So just be aware of that. And I think that's it. Thank you. Thank you council member Reynolds. Thank you mayor. I want to echo my congratulations to our public safety teams and all of their hard work as well for the words that they won today or before and before today. We're really lucky to have a great team here in Lexington. I wanted to just make everyone aware about the pride festival this weekend. It is going to be taking place between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. and this year pride is going to be outside again but it's going to be in a different location. It's going to be this time instead of inside I'll be outside in the 11th district but between all of on Oliver Lewis between high and Broadway South Broadway. So that is going to be unique. There are going to be all kinds of vendors. There's going to be a parade at eleven thirty a.m. starting at the high street side of the of the road. The city is going to have several tables out. So come say hi to everyone. Count on me. We'll have a table as well. So I hope that folks turn out. Hopefully it won't be too hot. Hopefully it won't be rainy and it'll be a great festival. If you want more information please go to Lex pride fest dot org. There will be free parking at the cornerstone garage offered by UK at 574 South Upper Street and then there will also be shuttles around town and from parking areas to Oliver Lewis. So I just wanted to make everyone aware and that'll be a little different this year. So I hope everyone will come out. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Sheehan Thank you mayor. These are repeat announcements but I want to keep them in everyone's mind. First a caring place is holding community feedback sessions across the city until August 26 to discuss the village model. This is a housing model that promotes independent living for seniors or folks with a disability in their own homes while receiving support and services from their neighborhood networks. To learn more about these meetings and which ones are being hosted in your neighborhood please visit support a caring place dot org slash villages. And then I want to announce our veterans banners another time in honor of Veterans Day. Lexington is once again honoring local veterans through this November through the downtown veterans banner program. Applications are now open for residents to nominate veterans from our community. The deadline for submissions has been extended to August 1st. For more information about this go to Lexington k y dot gov slash veterans affairs. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Next is council member Lynch. Thank you mayor. Just a reminder to my neighbors in Madison station that hangry hump day will be tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. at the clubhouse. Please come out for a good time right at the clubhouse and I will be tabling my Shayla in the second table will be there and I'll have lots of goodies for everyone. So please stop by my table. I also want to extend a big special thank you to our police department and our fire department. Yesterday they came out to the community inspired Lexington summer camp that is taking place in Whitney Young Park. We had tons and tons of kids and they thought everything was cool. That's what they said. Everything is just so cool. So thank you to the police department and fire department for coming out and engaging with my my neighbors. They had the kids had a really really good time and a great experience yesterday. Also like to remind my neighbors that on Thursday there will be nature in your neighborhood at Douglas Park starting at 10 a.m. and this is open to kids and adults alike. A really cool activity that brought to you by our parks recreation staff like to remind the community that the Human Rights Commission is having their open house on Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. So please stop by and say hello to your local Human Rights Commission staff. Also the mobile mission will be having their community baby shower on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Fayette County Extension office. So please come out and participate in that event. And then last and certainly not least I would like to give a big welcome to my intern for a day. Ezra Anglin is a stand up letter by see you and give us a wave. He is the first person in my district that has taken me up on being an intern for a day. And he has been phenomenal all day asking all of the right questions and engaging all the staff. So thank you Ezra for and he just sent me an email wanting to shout on by. Of course you can. So thank you Ezra for coming and so glad to have you. And thank you to your parents as well. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Hale. Thank you mayor. Lexington truly had an eventful past week and it was a pleasure to be a part of the city's Juneteenth celebrations. Top of my list of highlights was the Juneteenth celebration hosted by a sense of place in Cadentown. It was powerful to commemorate and celebrate Fayette County's Black Hamlets and the ribbon cutting for the newly restored Cadentown Rosenwald School was especially significant. As the 7th district council member I was honored to participate as the Cadentown historical site is right for our district. I also thoroughly enjoyed so sold the soul team fest at Moondance at the theater on Saturday. So team a free Juneteenth celebration at the heart of the soul feast week. Beautifully honored culture through entrepreneurship culinary artistry and community. Even with the heat. It was truly wonderful and inspiring and an inspiring experience. It fills me with immense pride to see my hometown of Lexington embrace and celebrate Juneteenth in such meaningful ways, offering a wide variety of opportunities for everyone to participate. My sincere thanks go out to the many organizations that provided programming and to the diverse residents who came out to celebrate Emancipation Day as a community. Finally, I want to extend a special shout out and thank you to Mayor Gordon, 250 Lex and Parks and Recreation for organizing Lexington's first drone show at Jacobson Park last Friday evening. It was an exciting and well attended event and entertainment for many Lexingtonians. I myself like playing with my drone and I'm still trying to keep it out of going into trees. So I can't understand how they were able to do all that with drones. They had looked like a person jumping off a diving board and dive into water and everything with a drone. So kudos to those people. They are experts. And I hope to see Lexington see more of these type of shows in the future. And the 7th District is honored to host. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. There were 220 drones. Council Member Savigny. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a few things and I think a few picks. Yeah, Hillandale Park in District 10 has two new playgrounds and it's open for visitors. Parks and Rec did a great job on this project and I really do appreciate it. They've got some scavenger hunt signs to try to get people being more interactive in the park and weather permitting. All the renovations should be done by the end of this month. Next one is a moon dance one. Of course, we know what District 10 is. We're the music capital of Lexington and there are events in June and July. This tonight is Big Band and Jazz hosted in Martin McClay Sextet. And then we've got Southland Jamboree hosting Meta Green Trio. And then we've got Summer Nights in Suburbia hosting Radio 80 on Friday. So join us. Bring a chair and enjoy some music. And then the Street Safety Task Force. Our next meeting is this Thursday. We'll meet at the Pam Miller Arts Center at 3 to 4.30. Meetings are open to the public and each month we focus on a different way to address street safety through either engineering, education or enforcement. And this month we have the delight of Council Member Baxter and myself will be leading this month's meeting talking about enforcement and discussion about potential enforcement related pilot projects. This will be our last meeting before summer recess and will resume in August. And lastly the Lexington Bride Festival. I know it's already been discussed but this organization resides in District 10. So I want to give them an extra plug because I'm happy. I love having I love having all sorts of nonprofits in my district. So I'm going to be out there on Saturday afternoon in our booth. So come join us. And I also wanted to welcome. We have Ishmael Khan. He is a rising ninth grader. Wave Ishmael. He's a rising ninth grader and he's the he was the president of the student body at Lexington School and he beat he beat a young man named Ezra from District 2 for that for the presidency. So it was kind of fun listening to them going back and forth about politics in the Lexington School today at lunch. So I do really appreciate you being here. He's got a lot of energy and it was kind of fun to have him for a day. And I welcome any other kids or or young adults or whatever that want to have a little fun and learn what council members do to come join us. Thank you Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Morton. Thank you. Thank you. I've got several photos line up. So over the course of the Juneteenth weekend I had the privilege of participating in multiple events that honored our history uplifted our community and celebrated our culture across Lexington. I'm starting off with the Lyric Theater the Freedom Day and Still We Dance. This celebration kicked off with a vibrant event at the Lyric Theater Cultural Arts Center. Evening was filled with a powerful performance music and storytelling. Still We Dance reminded us that through joy and movement we preserve our culture and legacy. And it was a great great turn out there. And Council Member Lynch was there with me. So thank her for being being in the heart of the first district. Moving on to the seventh district the Cadentown Rosenwald Schoolhouse a sense of place ribbon cutting. I was honored to attend the unveiling of the restored Cadentown Rosenwald Schoolhouse. The sense the a sense of place project beautifully showed case the stories and memorabilia of Lexington historic black Hamlets. This initiative is a powerful example of place based preservation and community storytelling. And this work is specifically special to me because I'm actually rooted out of New Zion which is a Hamlet borderline of Scott County and Fayette County. And as many know that I emphasize we must continue to take steps to preserve our historic African-American communities both rural and urban. Moving on to the next event the North Limestone Towards Freedom sculpture unveiling. This was a heartfelt congratulations a special heartfelt congratulations to the Lexington Freedom Train Committee for unveiling Towards Freedom a sculpture by Basil Watson commemorating abolitionist Lewis and Harriet Hayden. Their stories echoed into our city's fabric. And this new landmark serves as a lasting reminder of Lexington's role in the fight for freedom. Keep going. This Saturday the Juneteenth Jubilee I was honored to attend the 20th annual Juneteenth Jubilee. And this past Saturday at the African-American Cemetery number two which is in the heart of the first district as well. For over 20 years that they have hosted this powerful event honoring the legacy of those who fought for freedom and uplifted the voices of our community. It was meaningful to see the reflection to see the remembrance and resolve. And then lastly we ended the Juneteenth in Douglas Park at Jazz Night in Douglas Park with Honey Chow. And we closed out celebrations at Douglas Park with Jazz in the Park a community centered event full of music food and connection. This was also a special milestone for for my office and for me as we hosted our first district one information table which we'll be doing all throughout the summer. I'm pretty much all the events we can. So it was a joy to speak with residents share updates and deepen our relationship across the district. So that was a beautiful weekend and I look forward to continue serving. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Brown. Thank you mayor. And I just want to send my congratulations to our partners in public safety for all the recognition that they received. They. I just want to acknowledge a couple of events as well. One of them was the I was here initiative. They unveiled I know they were here maybe a month ago and they brought those young ladies here and they unveiled the the art piece on the proof garage right across the street from Fifth Third Pavilion. And it's it's pretty powerful. And they also recited some of the testimonies or words that they they shared with us that day. So that was a real real nice event. And then Councilmember Hale and Councilmember Morton touched on the Juneteenth event at the sense of place. I just want to acknowledge that team and all the work that they put into executing that event at the Caden Town Schoolhouse and that's Sierra and the mayor's office. Sharon Murphy in my office and Olivia and Councilmember Boone's office and then as well as Tiffany Brown and Miss Giles for all the work that they put into that project and that event as well. And then I just want to acknowledge all our partners that we help fund and support their events at the city. I think the mayor's office and her team made a real wise decision when we made Juneteenth. Well when Juneteenth became a national holiday and we started to recognize it at the city we could have spent money and created a brand new event. But I think supporting those community organizations that have been hosting events for years really rooted in the community and the meaning of the holiday I think was a wise decision on the administration's part. The other thing I'd like to point out too is Martina and Marcellus Barksdale and their soul fest event and so so feast and so feast event and black restaurant week that's kicking off this week. They do an excellent job of hosting events for a weekend that are inclusive of everybody. I went to the farm to table dinner that they had at Jim Coleman's farm but then also at Moondance. It was it was it was it was hot but it was a great event and I think it was I think they do a good job of representing our city and in black restaurant culture here in Lexington. So if you haven't had a chance yet to get out to a restaurant a black owned restaurant this week please do that. The other thing I'll say too and I'll there was a lot of things that I acknowledged here but didn't give acknowledgement. I just want to recognize Lexarts for the role they played in and several events that took place but specifically our parks department. I think our parks department have been supportive of of almost every event that I named on this list. I think they do do an excellent job of being supportive and being Johnny on the spot or Jill on the spot whenever we need them. And then Mayor I'm going to give you a little bit of credit. I was thinking that I'd say a little bit of credit. I was looking at the 250th calendar and I was thinking to myself by the time we get to April I'm going to be burnt out. I tell you what it's almost like a good record producer. Y'all just keep producing hits. And I'll tell you what over the last few weeks I've been impressed and I think folks in the community are impressed with what they've been seeing and how varied the opportunities are across our community. And then you've been in the 250 commission that has been supportive of a lot of these events that we're all been in name. And so I think they've done a good job of spreading spreading spreading the funding around and support around. And I think your team your your team's doing a good job of doing it as well. That drone show. Yeah it kind of I don't get impressed easily but I was I was really impressed. Thank you mayor and the 250 Lex team. Thank you. There's six months left. More more activities. Councilmember Curtis. Thank you mayor. And I have a few photos. So first off I wanted to follow up and invite all of the LGBTQ teens in Lexington to be gay do prom which is our pride prom event that we are having this Friday as part of the pride festival. It's going to be happening from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lyric Theater over in the first district. We're going to be having food dancing music the whole whole shebang. And so I'm really excited that we're able to offer this as a resource to those youth. And I really want to make sure that all of those youth know that right now when there's a lot of hateful rhetoric coming from the federal and the state government and from other leaders in this country right now that their city sees them and that we have their back. And on a more somber note I want to take a moment to acknowledge Peter Taylor who passed away over the weekend. He was a major figure in Lexington's LGBTQ community for several decades going back to even serving as the second ever president of the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Kentucky back in the 1970s. And as we're going into the pride festival this weekend I want to acknowledge the history there. And I believe we have a photo next from the first ever pride float in Lexington. This was 50 years ago in 1974 and our Fourth of July parade and you can see Peter there on there waving the flag. And so he continued his advocacy after graduating from the UK for several decades and make made significant contributions in particular to the Faulkner Morgan Archive which those contributions that he made had a significant impact on me in understanding my sense of self here in Lexington as part of a greater tapestry of LGBTQ Lexingtonians. So without people like Peter I wouldn't be sitting here today as a council member much less just as a person who's proud of who I am and proud of where I'm from. So the theme of this year's pride festival is out in loud as we've discussed. It's outside again and we're very excited about that. We're going to be having our first parade ever in Lexington and so I can think of no better way to honor Peter's memory than for all of us to show up and show out and live out and proud this weekend at the pride festival. So thank you so much. Thank you. Councilmember Gray. Thank you mayor. I just could not let this meeting end without saying happy birthday to the youngest one of my youngest colleagues up here. I mean he's a little feathered but he says he's 26. Dave Savignee happily just turned the ripe age of I'm not going to say your age. We can Google it. Well he's not admitting he's the oldest council member currently but it's currently on this council not ever. But I just want to say thank you for the short years that you've had. Evidently he's. Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for your humor. It is a joy to sit next to you and and legislate with you. So that's all. Happy birthday young and. All right. Thank you. Happy birthday. Next we have public comment for issues not on the agenda. And I think Jeannie Robinson's here. You're going to give your three minutes to Rick Day. Correct. And so Rick Day will be our only speaker and you'll have six minutes. Welcome. My name is Rick Day and I live in the third district. We have been told that the management advisory group uses a quantitative point factor job analysis a statistical modeling technique and a grading matrix. Dr. Russell Campbell claims he is so good he could do the mag study in his sleep. And Sally Hamilton says the study was ensure the study ensured fairness opened us in transparency. So I'm sure you're thinking how can Rick Day possibly question the results. I'm not questioning the results. I just want to know how they arrived at the others. The results what you have served me heard me say and what I will continue to say is how do you explain that. Let's take a look at the time of the mag study. One employee was an administrative officer senior. They had worked for the city for less than two years and were already well above midpoint. The mag study created a position a new position for this person and an eight pay grade jump and a nine thousand dollar salary increase. You don't give someone an eight pay grade jump in a compensation study. First of all that admits that your policies that you're using are wrong. But there's problems with them. You create a new position let them compete for it just like everyone else. That's the way it should be. And think about this. If that person had gotten their promotion outside of the mag study they would have gotten over a twenty thousand dollar salary increase. How do you explain that. Well let me help you. As I've said before our compensation system is a mess. The 2014 mag study made a program administrator 2014 not 22 made a program administrator the new director of aging. Their market rate went up by 32 percent their salary by six thousand dollars. The 2022 mag study their market their market rate went up by an additional twenty seven percent and their salary went up by twenty seven thousand dollars. Factoring in across the board increase increases and their totals from 2014 to 2022. The market rate went up 98 percent and their salary 80 percent. No other employee even comes close. I was told they were benchmarked against their boss the commissioner of social services. That's not what the mag study said. That's not what Dr. Russell Campbell said and that's not what Tammy Walter said. At the time of the mag study law had a four grade pay grade 523 attorneys. One was selected to become an attorney senior a 22 percent increase in market rate and a twenty three thousand dollar salary increase. Now I'm not saying that was wrong. I would just like to know why that person was selected ahead of the other three attorneys. In other words how do you explain that. Now I did. I did find that these on this on that person J.A.Q. their supervisor said they are operating outside of their job class and their work is that of an attorney senior. It turns out that their supervisor was a managing attorney who had worked with the management and management advisory group to implement the 2014 study and was a future director of H.R. I'm not saying it's wrong but I'm just wondering if that's fair. Did that person get extra points added to their point factor analysis. Finally and it is well documented that well documented that changes were made to the J.A.Q. of the director of water quality. How do you explain that. When will you explain that. To be fair to the management advisory group I'm sure they had no idea. They did what they were asked to do with the information they were given. Why else would Dr. Russell Campbell have been so confident when while defending the study said when you start making concessions for a few group few groups or a few individuals the credibility of the whole thing is subject to fall apart. I hope Durham County Council is beginning to see what I had suspected from the start. The credibility of the 2022 compensation study of over 1500 employees is beginning to fall apart. How do you explain that. Thank you. Council members that ends our business. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all for coming.