martin. I thank you. All right. Council members, committee members, we'll go ahead and get started. So I'll call this meeting to order for the budget finance and economic development committee for September 16th, 2025 at 101 p.m. And we'll go straight to our agenda. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the August 19th committee summary. I'll entertain a motion. I'll second. All right, a motion has been made and seconded to approve the minutes from our previous meeting. Are there any questions or corrections? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Are there any that oppose? Hearing none, that motion passes. The next item on our agenda is the monthly financial update. Commissioner Hensley, Director Holbrook, and Director Luca are here, and I'll turn the microphone over to them. Commissioner? So Director Luca is not with us today. Her father-in-law passed away, so our condolences are with her family as they are gathering together right now to remember her father-in-law. So Director Holbrook and I are holding down the fort today. So we are going to go over the monthly financials for the month of July and August. Apologize for the late information again this month. The packets were due again before we were able to close the month. So we have provided those to you all in email, and they are also available, should be hopefully out with this packet update and questions that are available via your residents or constituents. We're happy to answer those as well as any detailed questions that you all may have as we go through this, excuse me, go through this information. So for the two months ended August, we are showing an expense that exceeds our revenue by $17.1 million. This is where we expect to be, actually we're a little bit ahead of where we expect to be for this period of the year. As you all will recall, our first quarter of the year we don't have any big revenue collections, and so we typically see expenditures exceed revenue for this time of the year. We do have our revenue projections and our expenses. Typically we look at those on a quarterly basis, and we did talk a lot last year when we were looking at presentation of financials. Whether or not we would look at these monthly and quarterly, a lot of our information really does shore up on a quarterly basis. And so we do see some of that fluctuation month to month about when things come in and the closing. Especially at the beginning of a new fiscal year, we do see some of that end of year, beginning of year fluctuation. And we are still seeing some of that, particularly in our vehicles and fuel repairs and maintenance accounts, as well as some of our contracts as we close one and enter another. You all just saw the yes care agreement for our Department of Corrections, Community Corrections come through. That is one of our larger contracts that we have, and we are closing one year and opening the next one. And so that is a big lagging item that's represented in this month's financials as we're moving across the fiscal year. And so those things are being reflected in our monthly financials as we present on a monthly basis. So quickly, I'm going to turn it over to Director Holbrook, and he's going to go over the revenues. Thank you. All right, good afternoon, council members. First, we're going to look at actuals to budget for August, for the year to date, to August of 25. Payroll withholdings just a little bit down below what we projected to be at during this point in the year, as well as net profits. One thing I want to point out is that as we get into the first quarter of the year, we're doing a lot of accounting adjustments and accruals as we go through and try and get everything closed out for FY 25. And so that can create a little bit of variation in our revenue that you really don't see in the rest of the year. And so we really need a couple more months just to really see if this is a trend that we're going to see, where our revenues are maybe going to dip below what we budgeted, or if we're going to be in a situation where those are just the accounting adjustments shaking themselves out. Even so, being within a million dollars on payroll is still pretty close. We've seen jumps that can happen pretty quickly and make up that ground as well. Net profits, we're getting ready to come up on a tax deadline for our extensions here in October, and then also the extended deadline from April that the IRS granted to all businesses and all Kentuckians. So once we get into that season, we'll see if that starts to close a little bit. Insurance is pretty on the money, so is franchise fees. Franchise fees is a little below. I know as we are in some very hot weather and people are using their ACs a lot and maybe having to use a little bit extra water for their plants, probably wondering how we could be below that budget. We see a lot of seasonality with that, and we have had a pretty warm September, and that's something that's continued. We have a lower budget for the month of September, and so we should see some of that shake out since we've continued to have summer stretch into this part of the year as well. The only other thing I want to highlight on this slide, unless council has any questions, is on the services. That's one of the accruals that we see. We see our EMS fees, which is the biggest portion of that. A lot of those, they're billed in the prior fiscal year, especially when we get in this time period, and so they're accrued back, and so that can create a lot of variation. Our other lines in that category are performing pretty well and making up a lot of ground for the EMS accrual. Overall, we're a little less than 3% below budget, within about $2 million. But with some of our larger revenue sources, like we've mentioned, you can see that ground made up pretty quickly. We'll continue to monitor this and see if there's any sort of change or any sort of trend we can identify, or if these might just be accounting adjustments. One thing, as we're thinking about our performance to budget, that I think gives us some confidence, is looking at what we're doing compared with the prior fiscal year. In general, we are seeing growth across the board, and then also in two of our four major categories. Payroll withholding is still growing above what we collected through this point last year. Cash profits is about the same to prior year to budget as what we saw. Insurance, you can see, that's continued to grow pretty well as we've gotten into the second month of the year. And with some of our other items, services, you saw be a large variance to budget in the negative way. We are seeing growth there compared with what we collected prior year. So, all those are pretty good signs that lead us to not have, flip any sort of panic button as we see our actual performing below budget, since we're seeing growth over what we experienced in the prior year. I'm happy to kick it over to Commissioner Hensley for the expenses, unless council has any questions. Committee members, do you have any questions for Director Holbrook? I don't see any. We'll move on to the next portion of the presentation. All right, as far as the expenses go, our personnel is showing a small variance, about 3%. Again, that will grow just a little bit for the first couple of months, and then we pick up into the extra overtime that we see during football season, and some of the fall activities that we run into, where we do hit those overtime budgets a little bit harder. So we do draw that down just a little bit. We also have some pending payments with our health insurance that are going to also be coming into that account. As far as our operating goes, over half of our operating variance is due to our repairs and maintenance, as well as our professional services. The majority of which are within our public safety divisions. Also, we're seeing those kind of lagging as well. We did just talk about the professional services contract over in the Department of Community Corrections. That is a very large contract, a $10 million contract. So you can see where that would make a large difference in that category as well. Other than that, our insurance and our debt service are right on track. Our partner agencies often are really just a matter of timing, depending on when we paid versus when we expected to pay as far as the budget goes. We do have a couple of outliers this year, particularly our payment to the Lexington Children's Museum and CASA that are new in that area, that we went ahead and got those out the door really early. We thought that might take a little bit longer, so those were budgeted a little bit later, so those kind of came out front. So those were ahead of schedule, and you'll actually see those on the next page as well. Year over year, you'll see those showing a little bit of a variance. Capital, we're running a little bit behind where we budgeted, but those really just are in the time that the capital project takes place. So we really do our best to try and budget for those, but it really takes as long as it takes. Transfers were pretty well on track as far as what the other funds are needing. And so overall, we're actually showing that we are, as I mentioned, a little bit ahead of budget. We expected to be about $24 million, but we're about $17 million at this point, so year over year. Our personnel is running about $3.5 million more than it was the same time last year. So seeing that growth in our personnel, a good portion of that is related to our EC13 that came on. We're seeing the full breadth of those folks on board with us, as well as the 3% raises that went into effect at the beginning of the year, and some of our other payroll items that we brought on with the new budget. Our operating expenses were performing about a million dollars over where we were last year, and then several of the other items. I mentioned the partner agencies, a couple of those that came out ahead of last year. But a lot of the others are pretty well on track to where we were last year. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. All right, thank you, Commissioner. I appreciate the point that you made at the top of the presentation about some of these numbers shake out better if we were getting the report out or getting the update quarterly. But I think with newer council members and kind of getting familiar with the budget, we made the decision to go back to looking at the financials every month. And when we see the ebbs and flows of it, it's not always pretty. But I think it just helps council members get more familiar with the budget, seeing it on a more regular basis. So we appreciate that. Sure thing. Committee members, any questions for the director? I'm not seeing any ma'am, so you did a good job of explaining everything. All right, we also do have the ARPA slides that are on there for yours and the public's information, if you have any questions. Thank you. That was on my script. I was going to say. I'm sorry. No, thank you, Commissioner. All right, committee members, we'll go back to our agenda. In the next couple of presentations, our annual updates, the Lexington Jobs Fund. Annual update will be given by Administrative Specialist Troy Black. Mr. Black, we'll welcome you to the podium. And the floor is yours. All right, I'm Troy Black, Administrative Specialist with the Mayor's Office, and I'll be giving the Jobs Fund update. So I'll start with the background. Ordinance 153-2013 created Lexington Jobs Fund in December 2013. Purpose was to increase competitiveness in attracting businesses and growing existing businesses. Creating and retaining jobs in Lexington. Low interest and forgivable loans administered by Economic Development Investment Board, established by Ordinance 153-2013 in December of 2013. The Jobs Fund guidelines provides incentive funding for businesses willing to commit to creating and retaining a minimum number of jobs for a specific duration in Lexington, Fayette County. Emphasis on early stage startup companies, advanced manufacturing, technology, professional shared service operations and healthcare, loans and forgivable loans with funding limits up to $100,000 for a forgivable loan. Up to $250,000 for a regular loan, repairable or forgivable within ten years. And there'll be quarterly payments and annual reporting required under the incentive agreement. Eligibility. Companies must be located in or moving to Lexington. Be current with all federal, state, and local taxes. Create jobs with average wages greater than or equal to 125% of the county median. This number is adjusted annually by the board and is currently $28 per hour. Establish and meet job creation requirements. Produce a tradable good or provide tradable service. And agrees to a predetermined compliance reporting period, typically in ten years. Jobs Fund Summary. The current report of the Job Fund, 31 awards, 22 active, 321 jobs committed, 295 jobs created. The expected average wage is $33.60, and the actual average wage is $35.99. Current incentives awarded total $4,067,538. New payroll committed, $17.8 million. Repaid principal is $1,077,656.26, plus interest of $169,282.53. A 4-3-1 return on investment based on payroll created to incentive dollar. And $1,641,957.34 currently available for the reward. All right. And the total allocations and revenues, $5,709,495.34. The program has been allocated and generated over the course of time. A good portion of this revenue is from the loans issued that have been repaid, and the funds are now available to use again. The total funds allocated, $4,067,538. Here's how it's been provided to businesses through loans, grants, and forgivable loans. Of all these grants, loans, and forgivable loans, $3,097,538 is the amount that's active and still continuing. $640,000 is the amount that's closed, and $330,000 is the amount approved but has yet to be drawn. Here's a list of all the companies that have received loans and the grants within the Job Funds Award Incentive. Payment and compliance, 11 Job Fund recipients currently making payments. Fuji, Avel, Childhood Neurology, Hydra, Water Warriors, Wellware, Silver Fern, Space Tango, Simply Works, Think Health, and Fusion. Space Tango, Helios, and Legit Apps have each completed full repayment of their loans. Compliance efforts, active jobs recipients have made payments on time and up to date with their compliance reports. And that concludes my presentation. I will take questions. All right, Troy, we appreciate your presentation. I will preference the committee members that Kevin Atkins isn't here with us today. I think Troy will answer questions best as his ability, but if there's some questions he can't answer, we can always follow back up when Kevin's back. Committee members, are there any questions for the presentation? Council Member Morton. Thank you, Chair, and thank you for recognizing me, being that I'm not on this committee. And I don't have any questions. First, I just want to thank Troy for the great presentation, the good presentation. I just have a comment, a couple of statements, a comment. So thanks for the presentation. And when diving into this issue, excuse me, this presentation, several positive things stood out to me. We are close to reaching our program job creation goal. We've seen a good return on investment tied to numbers, and the average wage is a little bit higher, well, is higher than required. But all of those things are truly good, and they're great on paper. However, as we think about recruiting jobs, creating high-paying opportunities, and pursuing regionalism, we must remain intentional in prioritizing our constituents, our people. Especially those who have historically lacked access, opportunity, or a platform to secure these kind of jobs. More specifically, we need to ask, what are we doing to address the missing piece? That piece of providing access to resources tied to education, trainings, and other avenues so that people are equipped to step into these higher paying jobs, and Lexingtonians can benefit directly. That's going to require prioritizing this gap and investing more in the programs that are already doing this work. Many who currently receive pennies compared to dimes allocated to larger programs as this one. So as we move forward, I just would encourage all to be intentional, thank them intentionally, and push for not just thinking of economic development in the lens of revenue, but then also in the lens of constituent impact. So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Are there any other questions? I'm not seeing any, Troy. Looks like you've done a good job of presenting this information. I will say it looks like there's a variety of sectors represented from the companies that have access to this fund. From manufacturing to tech to aerospace. So it seems like we do a good job of catching a pretty wide swath of employers to take advantage of this service. And then I do just have one other question. So compliance, how are we doing on compliance? Is mostly everybody compliant with fulfilling their obligations to the contracts? And getting these jobs and repaying the funds or reporting on a regular basis? Yes, all the companies are up to date, so I've sent out the compliance form for them. And on the compliance report, they show the employees that they have hired as well as the mean hourly wage. And showing that the employees are in Lexington, which will make them in compliance and making the payments on time as well. Okay, okay. Thank you for that. Next we have Councilmember Ellinger. Thank you, Chair. I just want to make a quick comment. I think I was the only one on the council when this was actually created. And looking back now, when we created it and how it's actually performed, and I think you've done a very good job. And I think when we look at how our tax base is set up and bringing jobs and the payroll net profit, and we got that information earlier, we understand how important this is. So I think you're all doing a good job, and I think it's done what we hoped it would do. So thank you, and look forward to many more success stories. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Troy, that's the last question that I think we have for you, so we appreciate the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Continuing with our annual updates, next up we have Amy Glasscock. She's the Director of Business Engagement, and she will present on the Economic and Workforce Development Annual Updates. Amy? Hi there, how are you all? All right, well good afternoon. I'm here to present on Economic Development Partners today. So thank you for having me here today on behalf of the Economic Development to highlight the incredible work being done through our contracted partners. As you all know, it's important to have economic growth and community successes require strong partnerships. That's why we collaborate with three organizations, Commerce Lexington, Community Ventures, and Jubilee Jobs of Lexington, which all bring unique strengths and expertise. Together, these partners help us advance our shared goals of growing businesses, creating opportunities, and building a stronger economy for Lexington. Over the course of today's presentation, we'll take a closer look at the work of each of these organizations is doing, the impact they're making, and how our community continues to benefit from their efforts. So we're going to start with Commerce Lexington. They focus on new business development and job creation. So they review, refine, and execute new business recruitment plan for Lexington. They market Lexington under the brand of Lexington Economic Partnership and carry out business recruitment efforts. They specifically focus on recruitment outreach efforts. They identify goals and challenges related to economic development. They have a website, social media, they have a marketing program, and they provide annual reports. They also focus on existing business and retention and expansion program. They implement the Lexington Economic Partnership, business retention and expansion program, serving Lexington Fayette County. They assist businesses in their efforts to grow operations, business employment, and payroll for Lexington. They schedule on-site and virtual meetings, if necessary, that include our Lexington Economic Partnership partners. And these partners are everybody from BCTC, UK, Me Through Work Lexington, and multiple other partners here throughout our local area. And then they develop a business support network based on the sector for businesses and employers with Lexington. Keep in mind, this is just a summary of their scope of work. I'm happy to provide a larger scope of their work after the meeting today. So this represents the Lexington project interest. This is all the referrals that they've received from July 1 of 24 to June 30th of 2025. This is the report of the business, the Lexington Economic Partnership businesses. We met with 56 businesses last year. We actually emailed and or contacted one form or another over 100 businesses to meet with. And we were able to meet with 56 of those businesses. And then they had four sector group meetings focusing on manufacturing, biotech, tube and tech. And then we met with Blue Grass Station. In addition to the first two that I mentioned under Commerce Lexington, we also focus on community and minority business development. Through that, they promote economic growth and support to minority-owned businesses to ensure that they have resources and opportunities to thrive. Through the community and minority business development participants, they have access to the minority business accelerator program, the access loan program, financial literacy sessions, and the opportunity exchange events. And you can see here the number of folks that they have been able to help in businesses, as well as the amount of funding that they have been able to help either get them to get contracts, and the amount of funding that they were able to help with the access loan program. The next partner is Community Ventures. And through Community Ventures, they provide assistance with small business owner connections. They focus on businesses that make less than 500,000 a year. Entrepreneurial development, startup assistance, minority-owned business development, and women-owned business development. They provide educational assistance, training programs. They have an individual that works with them one-on-one. They identify barriers and try to help them reduce barriers, as well as host multiple events throughout the years to help, throughout the year to help businesses grow and network and meet other businesses and partners. This is the number of businesses and attendance and things that they have done over this past year and that they've been able to help. And this is in addition. The last partner that I'm going to mention is Jubilee Jobs of Lexington. They are the direct service partner for the Work Lexington program. So they assist me as the Director of Business Engagement and Coordination to help enhance the Work Lexington program. They coordinate with our Lexington partners. They provide assistance as far as connecting to employers throughout Lexington. They promote workforce events. They do marketing. They have two Work Lexington orientations a month. And then they provide additional assistance to our Work Lexington job seekers. And then this is the report for those individuals that they've been able to assist and the things that they have done over this past year. Do you all have any questions? All right, Amy, thank you for that report. Committee members, are there any questions? First, we have Council Member Lynch. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Ms. Glasscock, for the presentation. I have a few questions about some of our agency partners. Going back to the numbers for Commerce Lexington, I was just wondering for comparison's sake, does the July 1 to June 30th numbers, how do they compare to prior, the preceding years, prior, preceding years? Are they up, are they down, are they just neutral? I'll have to get you that information. I don't have it off the top of my head. Okay. I can email it to you. And then for the Commerce Lexington Community and Minority Business Development, those numbers, there wasn't a date for that data? Is that- That started in January. Their agreement didn't start until January of this year. So it's January through June. So it's January to June? Mm-hm. Yeah, June 30th, okay. Mm-hm. And then, do you have the numbers? I just wanted for comparison's sake, if these numbers are up or down. From last year, no, I don't. I can get it to you, though. Okay, awesome. Regarding community ventures numbers, for their number of Lexington minority-owned businesses assisted with identification of financing options or investment capital, so they work with ten people, I just wonder how many people actually got the money? How many of those businesses actually succeeded in getting money? Is that the number ten, or is there another number? That's the number ten that they worked with. As far as if they actually got it, I'm not sure. I'll have to look at the report and get that to you. Okay, I would love to know of those ten, who actually got the funds. Got the funds, yeah. How many, how many? Not necessarily who. And then, for community ventures as well, for the total amount of funding Lexington's clients secured, the 300 to 3,900. Mm-hm. I would love to know how many, broken that down, how many people is in that pool of money? Individually? Okay. Yeah. And I think that is all my questions, so whenever you get a chance, just send me that data. Sure. It's not urgent, but I'm just curious. So, yeah. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Next, we have Councilmember LaGre. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Ms. Glasscock, for the presentation. You know, and this might be kind of a broader question, but recently in some of our conversations with downtown retail merchants and downtown business owners, a big theme has come forward where they've been talking about wanting to incubate more downtown retail and work with each other and with new business owners to help them be successful in their ventures downtown. And when I'm looking at the slide about Commerce Lexington, the community and minority business development, and then also with Community Ventures and their women-owned business development, I guess what I'm curious about is whether or not you think there might be a little bit of space for some of our downtown business owners to work together to help with some of their goals and to help them get financial support and community support for what they're trying to do with each other to bring more business into downtown and the like. I'd really love to get them connected. I can definitely have a conversation with Commerce Lexington about that. Okay, so could I lead them to you and then? Sure. All right, great. Absolutely. Yeah, I think there's a lot of creativity there, and they'd be really excited to work on potential next steps. So, thank you. Sure, thank you. Thank you, council member. Next, we have council member Morton. Thank you. I just had two quick ones. Can we track whether contracts and funding are reaching, I guess, new startup minority businesses or I guess like smaller scale, well, smaller, small businesses rather than, so pretty much making sure that those that most need it have it rather than frequent folks. So like new startup businesses or more smaller scale businesses. Are we tracking who's getting those dollars? Are we tracking if they're small scale or new businesses? So like out of the $5.1 million in contracts and the $363,000 in funding towards those minority businesses, are we kind of tracking like if they're newer, like if they just started the business? If it's like just a, like maybe a staff of two or three, like something of that nature. Yes, all that information is being tracked. Okay, cool. And then for the, how are we, how are our job seekers with the steepest barriers like transportation, housing insecurity, child care being supported beyond job placement? Do we have any support or resources available tied into that? How is? So yeah, so how are job seekers with the steepest barriers like transportation, housing insecurity, or child care being supported beyond just the job placement? Do they have other resources that they're assisting with that? Well, I'm going to address that in workforce development presentation, but under economic development presentation, I didn't address that. It'll be addressed in the workforce development presentation. But Jubilee Jobs has access to those resources. Yes, Jubilee Jobs does address that, yes. Cool, thank you. You're welcome. All right, thank you, council member. Are there any other questions for Ms. Glasscock? All right, I just have a couple of, just a couple of comments. So, during this process, this is a competitive bid process every two years. They respond to an RFP for the city, what we define as our city needs in regards to economic development initiative. And then also, the economic development investment board, which I sit on, and council member Savigny were part of an annual review, the work that they have done in the previous year. And we vote on whether or not to extend that agreement into the second year. So, just to kind of put that out there. Yes, that's correct. In regards to the $5 million that council member Morton mentioned, the source of that funding aren't necessarily government funding. These are businesses that have accessed contracts from other RP opportunities and other business opportunities, correct? That's correct, yes. Okay, okay. All right, thank you for that. If there's no other questions on this presentation, we'll move to your next presentation. Okay, thank you. Ms. Glasscock. All right. So, in order to have economic development, it is important that we also have workforce development. And so, our mission is to create pathways for employment, aligning our job seekers with employers' needs. And we are doing that through innovative partnerships, career readiness services, and direct engagement with our community. Work Lexington is contributing to overall economic vitality of Lexington. Today, I'm going to share the progress and the highlights that impact our partners through Work Lexington. So, I'm going to first start with our Workforce Economic Development Grant. So, over the past eight years, we have offered a grant that follows a two year grant cycle. And this year, we offered that grant to eight different partners. We had a total of $400,000. The grant went from, or it started July 1, 2024, and I apologize for the error. It should be June 30th of 2026. I was excited about these partners. There's four partners on here that had never received a grant before. And those four partners are Stable Recovery, the Cable Academy, IEC of the Bluegrass, and the Child Care Council of Kentucky. As you can see here, in the first year of this grant, we were able to serve 1,618 partners with an average salary of $16.07. Keep in mind that when you're thinking about, I know you look at the salaries and you think maybe that's not a whole lot. However, these are very entry level jobs, and these are folks that have lots of barriers. Sometimes only one barrier, they may have three or four barriers. People that are coming out of recovery, re-entry. So we're working to get them into employment, and then we're working through these training opportunities to get them into a career pathway. As you know, we opened the Davis Park Workforce Center in January of this year. Through the Davis Park Center, we offer resume interview assistance. People come in just on site, and we'll help them any time we're open with employment needs. From January until June 30th, we helped 182 individuals with workforce services. We have every Wednesday a Work Ready Wednesday at 1 PM, where our partners come into the center on the first and third Wednesday, and they learn about all the services that they provide. On the second and fourth Wednesday, we offer employability skills, and typically, we'll have someone from the outside, such as a bank, come in and teach a financial literacy workshop. And then Tara Estes, my co-worker, provides employability skills workshop. From February to June, we have 65 people attend the Work Ready Wednesdays. We also provide a community and training room free to the community. These are rooms that individuals can come in, have meetings, have trainings for their organizations. So far, it's been reserved 56 times, with 23 different groups through June 30th. It's important to us that not only are we at Davis Park, but we're also recognized throughout the city of Lexington. And so we have done some things to get the outreach to the folks here in Lexington. So we have a newsletter that we put out monthly to let everybody know about different activities in Lexington. We have a social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. Some of you follow me. I would love for all of you all to follow me on Work Lexington. And then on the fourth Wednesday of every month, we go to the Waypoint Center at the Old Palmer Pharmacy on Fifth Street. And then those are all the other places that we have attended through June 30th. But we continue to attend lots of events and host events at the Davis Park Workforce Center to ensure that we are assisting as many folks as possible throughout Lexington. A couple years ago when I started this position, I recognized that Lexington had lots of workforce resources. However, we weren't all collaborating well together. And so me along with an employment counselor from the VA hospital started the Lexington Workforce Collaborative. Through that, we have brought together as many workforce partners as possible to connect on a quarterly basis to discuss events, resources, challenges, anything workforce specific related. And how that we can tackle those together as opposed to each individually, each agency trying to tackle those issues. So, and I've listed there some of the different partners that are partnering in this workforce collaborative. In June, we held a job fair together at BCTC. So what's next for Work Lexington? Well, the first thing we did this year in July, we partnered with our economic partners, Commerce Lexington, Community Ventures, and Jubilee Jobs. And we had a joint meeting over at the Davis Park Workforce Center. We felt it was very successful as we all came together. because like I said at the beginning, you can't have workforce and economic development without the other. And then in July, we also hosted our first ever middle school career exploration camp called Future Hillers. And we had 25 middle school students, and you can see all their there. They spent half the day at the Davis Park Center and the other half the day I partnered with three local hospitals. And so next summer we're already planning to have another health care camp as long as well as two other camps in two other sectors and for these middle school students. It was a free camp. They received free lunches and multiple other things. Central Baptist or sorry Baptist Health ended up giving them free stethoscope and a certificate at the end and the kids really had a great week. Also on October 30th we'll be holding our expungement clinic this year at Davis Park Center Workforce Center and then on November 13th we will be at the Charles Young Center holding our job fair. With that do you all have any questions regarding workforce? And then I'm sorry I'm councilmember Morton you had talked about transportation. We do we are with all our partners in one form or another are working towards child care transportation. We have different as you saw our different partners each offer those services and then through the through the center itself we have what's called the restart program. Tara Estes used to do the be free program and so if anybody has been in recovery or reentry she does offer some assistance with bus passes and identification and things like that to help us get back into work. Thank you for that update committee members any questions? First we have councilmember Baxter. Thank you chair and thank you Amy for the presentation. I know that we do a really great job of connecting dots and helping people get into placement but some feedback that I've heard from employers is that sometimes the employee doesn't work out for one reason or another. So I'm curious if we provide any ongoing support to those clients that we've helped place just to kind of encouraging them to stay the course and we try our best. A lot of times once we place of an employment sometimes they don't follow up with us. We just recently got us purchase a system to help us track them and try to follow up with them more that we try to follow up with them and keep track of them and we also were we partner with Jubilee jobs and they try to follow up with them as well and stay in contact with them through the program. We try to offer the employability skills classes because we recognize that that's a large big barrier to to employment. A lot of these folks just don't have those employability skills whether it be you know they don't understand showing up on time or whatever it may be so so we're trying to work with that. Okay just wanted to I guess provide a little bit of feedback just in case it's there's something that we could do to and it sounds like if the employer will reach out to us and let us know as soon as there's issues and then if they're still there then we can reach out to them while they're still there before the issue gets worse. Okay great thank you so much. Thank you chair. Thank You councilmember. Next we have councilmember Morton. Thank you and then notice one quick one as well and it's kind of similar but beyond initial placement do we have resources to help participants advance into higher paying and or longer term careers outside of the first this first step? So with the training providers for example like the cable Academy they provide training in IT so it's cybersecurity and AI training and so as you saw those jobs started like $21 an hour so we try to get them into those resources and then there's other partners that we partner with throughout Lexington that we try to connect them with that will provide training opportunities to get them into a higher paying job once they get that initial job just to get a paycheck rolling. Thank you. Next we have councilmember LaGrie. Thank you chair and I just want to say it's really great to see the overview of everything you all are doing especially with the Workforce Development Center and the ways that you all are getting people connected to that space and I will say something that I really love that you all shared in your final slide has to do with young people. I think the more that we can do to get young people exposed to the different possibilities that are out there and then the pathways to realize those possibilities we really build a stronger and more resilient community and we build meaningful mentorship relationships that help people when they're young and throughout the rest of their career and I just think that can be simple but incredibly powerful so thank you all for everything you're doing to get people connected to resources to each other to job training skills and to potential employers it's it's very much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? All right Ms. Glasscock I just have a couple questions so that future health care career camp was that a one-day event or was that a multi-day event? It was three days it was from 8 to 4 or 9 to 4 every day and so then they came in and then we had some of the health care providers came into the facility the kids we had activities for them for the first half of the day they were CPR trained CPR certified when they left for the end of the week or by the end of the week and then at noon they would go over to the hospital and spend the rest of the day doing activities there at one of the hospitals. Whose idea was that? Did they come to you with that or was that something that you pieced together or what? So it was a partnership with the Kentucky Chamber and so I happened to be in a meeting with the Kentucky Chamber and they actually had it at the Davis Park Workforce Center and so I happened to be sitting in the meeting and they were talking about middle school students and they wanted to try to catch them before they got to high school and made the decision on what they wanted their career path or Academy to be and that there's not many middle school opportunities and middle school camps available to kids in Lexington and so I volunteered and I said hey I'll help and so me and Sarah with the Kentucky Chamber planned this camp together. She's fortunately now at the Hill and so me and her have already been talking about camps for next summer that being one of them and then two other camps. Okay now that just seems like a good initiative with health care being one of our main employment sectors here and growing that just seems like a perfect opportunity. And I can't say enough good things about the hospitals like they really knocked it out of the park all three of them did. Yeah well they need those they need those folks they need the bodies. The other question I have is the expungement clinic. Tiffany Brown did a lot of that kind of coordinating that out of the mayor's office and it seemed like she was hosting those maybe every six months twice a year. Have you now taken on that responsibility with the expungement clinic and if so what how how often do you plan on having those opportunities? So we are gonna do it a little bit differently. Sierra Coleman has taken Tiffany's that duty that Tiffany was doing that we're partnering together and so we're gonna try it a little bit different this time maybe try to have them more frequently. So we're trying it this first time just to do it at the Davis Park Workforce Center on October 30th without all the the other job fair and everything and then I'm gonna have a separate job fair on another day and hopefully this way we'll be able to actually serve more individuals by doing it more frequently as opposed to just doing it twice a year. That was my that's what my question was gonna be is if you're gonna do it you know try to look to serve more people because it's you know they were having that at Central Bank Center and the thing about moving it to Davis Park doesn't seem like you'd be able to accommodate but if you're having it more frequently. Yeah and we get calls a whole lot about when's the next expungement clinic and so and we're hoping that instead of having it just twice a year people won't have to wait so long in between expungement clinics say if we have it like quarterly they'll have more opportunities to come in and offer those that service to them. Yeah that's it I'm interested in that and be I'd be looking forward to an update on how that how that turned out and how that's working. The other thing I'll say too is the Davis Park Center Workforce Center it seems like it's been open longer than just January and I think you've done a good job Lisa accommodating the request that I've had I know you we've hosted several digital accessibility work group meetings there and with what we think will help folks level up or train up for other employment opportunities that seems like the perfect space to be able to do it so thank you for opening those doors for opportunities and everything that you're doing in workforce. Absolutely thank you. Yeah and thank you for both of those annual updates it doesn't look like there's any other questions from council members so thank you. Thank you. All right committee members going back to our agenda we'll go to the next item on the agenda and y'all remember maybe a month ago I put this item in this committee local impacts due to federal policy with the change in landscape you know across the country and what we're seeing happen and we think thought it be a good opportunity to have a conversation and keep us up to speed on what's going and the way those group so we put together stakeholder group that consists of myself councilmember LaGre and other stakeholders one of them being K&N that's going to present today we thought it'd be best to have a series of presentations starting first with our nonprofit community then maybe looking at our business community and then coming back around and talking about the impacts here at local government. So today is going to be our first presentation we have Daniel Clore the executive director and CEO of the Kentucky nonprofit network and Miss Clore I'll turn it over to you for the presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much Mr. Chairman for allowing me to present and members of the committee I think everyone has been given this impact report which is wonderful this presentation does not review that so you can save that for later but I'm really appreciate the opportunity to be with you all today and share what's happening to many of our nonprofit organizations. Really important to know that what I'm sharing today is what I know as of this morning frankly things are happening very rapidly and so keep that in mind. Also K&N and our Lexington nonprofit coalition we advocate for issues that impact the sector as a whole there are a lot of subsectors such as child care health care environmental organizations the arts we look to them for their expertise and leadership in their subsector issues. I'm going to cover as much as I can today in the amount of time that we have we have more slides than I will cover but we wanted you to have this comprehensive resource. The other thing you'll notice is some of the things that I share today we have attributed some things are anonymous there is significant fear among some nonprofits to share things publicly. So so who is K&N? Kentucky nonprofit network is the state association of charitable nonprofits we have over 18 or I'm sorry 1,100 members statewide and over 300 of those are serving Lexington that sounds impressive but in just a minute you'll see that there are many thousands more in Kentucky but we're delighted to have those folks. We are the trusted resource in several areas statewide one a unified public policy voice at the federal state and now local level professional development resources to help folks accomplish their mission and then help them save time and money so that ultimately they're able to spend their time on programs and services. We're also a resource for you and for other elected officials at the state and federal level so when you have questions we absolutely urge you to connect with us. I also know that many of you all serve on nonprofit boards and committees and we thank you for that service. Just to give you a glimpse these are statewide figures about the kinds of nonprofits that are out there but know that this isn't unique in Kentucky it will carry over to Lexington as well as federal statistics but we know that human service organizations are the largest subsector of nonprofits almost 26% of Kentucky's total and then you move into public and societal benefit and religion related. Note that not all religious organizations are incorporated as charities so that gets a little interesting and then followed by education and then the rest of the organizations kind of round that out. So economic impact there are over 20,000 nonprofits in Kentucky those are all types of nonprofits so we're focusing at K&N on C3 charitable nonprofits so in the Bluegrass local workforce area we have over 3,000 of those charitable nonprofits almost 900 of those have paid employees and yet that's over 26,000 jobs almost 1.5 billion in annual wages and over 5 billion dollars in annual expenditures being pumped right back in to Kentucky's economy. So appreciate the presentations about workforce and economic development because certainly nonprofits are more than charity. As many of you all know we have a Lexington nonprofit coalition that is a local alliance of K&N members there are again about over 300 nonprofits in Lexington so this is 45 of those so this is not all of Lexington nonprofits are part of this coalition but certainly they are a mighty group of folks who are interested in collaborating and partnering for a more unified voice for the sector so you'll see some of the folks we just heard of in presentations Community Ventures, Jubilee Jobs, Goodwill, etc. So just to give you a glimpse of the economic impact of the coalition alone so again you're talking 45 of Lexington's 300 nonprofits members collectively serve over a million constituents you might say well that's more residents than we have in Fayette County that's because every resident of Fayette County is served in touched in some way or another by more than one nonprofit so certainly want to highlight that on the slide and then also want to highlight down there where it talks about annual revenue and where that money comes from you'll see the largest portion almost 75% of nonprofit program revenue from the members of our coalitions but frankly this is consistent statewide comes from fee-for-service income and that includes government grants and contracts so that's why this presentation is so important because we are talking about such a significant part of nonprofit revenue. So on our radar at K&N today and again I can't stress that enough that this is what we know today our executive orders and the funding environment at the federal level the passage of the one big beautiful bill, rescission packages, federal budget proposal and potential government shutdown, threats and disruptions to the work and rights of charitable nonprofits and then what does this mean for state and local funding but to be clear funding policies and certainty all of those things are threatening nonprofits either directly or indirectly some right away some we anticipate we will see over time. So we'll start we'll try to touch on each of these the first being executive orders and federal grant issues and lawsuits kind of the day that shocked the nonprofit world was in January of 2025 when funds were essentially we had a federal grant pause and so a lot of those funds were released after an injunction was granted we have a National Council of Nonprofits and others who have filed a variety of different lawsuits related to executive orders there are 53 that now impact the work of charitable nonprofits as part of that we also saw doge cuts that primarily impacted organizations and their services under the umbrella of diversity equity and inclusion immigrant and refugee services AmeriCorps and more some lawsuits have been successful at restoring those funds others have not so a lot of this including the cuts tariffs the stock market inflation are all creating challenging environments for nonprofits with regard to this issue in particular so when you look at kind of where we've seen some impact so for example in arts and humanities funding we know that the many of the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts that were appropriated so these are funds that folks thought they were getting they hired staff they developed programming those were frozen some has been restored some has not both of those entities are currently zeroed out in the federal government's 2026 budget so you can see your quote there from the Kentucky Humanities Council and their executive director Bill Goodman another this one is an anonymous quote so you can see they have currently lost 95,000 in their funding and suspect another 50 to $100,000 more they've had layoffs they've reduced pay for staff program reductions fewer hours and they expect more to come certainly immigration and refugee services have taken a significant hit you can see that the information there in pink that ultimately what they see happening is a dismantling of the robust refugee resettlement program that has welcomed vulnerable people to the United States for 45 years and this is from Kentucky Refugee Ministries and their quote in a local pub or in a publication and then we heard from Lexington Leadership Foundation that certainly they have seen requests for proposals for their work not be released so again if you're renewing some of those things you've got folks that are already on payroll it's caused a reduction in staff for them as well as threatened non-renewal of some of their grant funding next is a federal order that or I'm sorry an executive order specifically on federal grant making this is fairly recent it happened in August and it's really changing the landscape of how these grants and programs are reviewed so there will now be a political appointee at each agency that is reviewing the process to ensure that they are consistent with the national interest prohibiting federal grants for any purpose that is inconsistent with the administration's priorities and then the discretion to terminate a grant for any reason it's my understanding from our members that that has always been language in their agreements however the basically if the administration disagrees is a new tweak to that language so very concerned there also included is a disincentive for folks to cover their core administrative costs as well as their core infrastructure costs keeping the lights on etc in those programs so that is a recent executive order then we have the one big beautiful bill you may remember this was signed into law on July 4th it takes effect for this 2025 tax year there were some good news for nonprofits in this bill and we've been working for many years to try to work on a universal deduction that impacts about 90% of taxpayers so now regardless of whether or not someone itemizes their tax their taxes are not their deductions they would have $1,000 above the line deduction for donations to charity for individuals in 2004 married couples so that's a victory there were other damaging provisions that were removed a tax on private foundations tax on employee transportation benefits and the ability of non to revoke nonprofit tax-exempt status which I'll touch more on there's also some bad news there certainly there are new caps and floors on charitable giving so while we're going to give more folks the ability to give we're going to take away the deduction for higher income donors and that impacts many larger nonprofits some changes to the way that corporations can now access deductions for charitable giving and certainly the largest cut to the safety net in this country with cuts to Medicaid and snap and then rescission package packages so ultimately rescissions allow Congress at the discretion of the president to rescind already congressionally approved funding so these are funds Congress has approved their grants and contracts that we in businesses and cities and states think are coming their way and so we have already seen that happen to the tune of 9 billion in July there was another memo proposing 4.9 billion in August and we understand additional ones are coming but ultimately in addition to the funding concerns one it threatens and undermines the federal budget negotiations because it's difficult to negotiate with a target that's always moving once you think you've gotten an agreement on the budget and then it can be rescinded is a concern it is certainly creating uncertainty and destabilization for nonprofits and frankly it creates competition among nonprofits so for folks who don't rely on any part of these funds they're now out scrambling to try to raise funds to cover the uncertainty in the gap so probably you read about Katie's 22% staff reduction in this space and then we have the administration's budget proposal 163 billion dollars in budget cuts to FEMA mental health with SAMHSA the Environmental Protection Agency fair housing AmeriCorps and more Congress has until October 1st to pass a budget the clock is certainly ticking and certainly rescissions have undermined this process but I know Darlene Thomas at Greenhouse 17 is no stranger to many on the council but federal funding makes up 45% of their budget so they are extremely concerned we have folks who say layoffs are coming but ultimately they know they're sacrificing their best practices at their organization for fear of lost revenue and then for many organizations sometimes they would float payments with lines of credit etc and they simply cannot do that at this point this talks about energy Amy Soner with bluegrass green source here in Lexington are one of the the first folks we actually heard from that was seeing a pause in their state funding because their grant is passed through through state government so state government said we don't know if we're gonna get paid so we've had to put a pause on those funds for you I'm gonna go over is that how does that work keep going all right thank you all right so then certainly diversity equity and inclusion policies and practices through the Department of Justice guidance in July deemed these things unlawful discrimination so even though this guidance document is non-binding it implies that violations could result in investigation litigation and criminal prosecution what's not clear necessarily is this is only is this only things that are delivered with federal funds or this things that the organization is using generally but certainly there is a lot of caution among nonprofits in this space and certainly partnerships with colleges and universities that nonprofits have are being directly impacted then there is an issue couple of existential threats to the nonprofit sector generally but there are three tenants of being a charitable 501c3 nonprofit and the third one of those is that nonprofits must remain nonpartisan it means KNN can't endorse or not or campaign against any of you offer counsel or anyone for state legislator for president for mayor for governor etc that's what's called the Johnson amendment it's been in place since 1954 so while we can engage in election activity we do not engage in electioneering and endorsement of candidates there is an effort again we had this in 2017 to again repeal this law that would essentially be a free-for-all we believe it would be having Republican charities Democratic charities and really unravel what I believe is one of the few nonpartisan things we have left in this country so we are on high alert and watching this in a couple of court cases that are playing out but certainly we anticipate the issue is going to reach the Supreme Court so it has the ability to potentially unravel nonprofits as we know it next is stripping nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process so as I mentioned this was in the one big beautiful bill originally we were successful and there are other reasons that came out we anticipate that this could come back as a standalone bill but ultimately this allows any Secretary of the Treasury to unilaterally revoke nonprofit status from terrorist supporting organizations without due process so there's some wiggle room in what terrorist supporting means and there is are some holes around due process and so that folks may say nope you have the right to due process but that's after the fact so after your organization is on the front page of the paper for being a terrorist supporting organization you have the opportunity to kind of unravel that we think that's incredibly damaging to the nonprofit sector and in our integrity so to be clear there is already kind of a cushion between the IRS and the administration of any party for good reason so that we don't weaponize the IRS against us as individuals as well as businesses or nonprofits so to make that clear no administration has the legal authority to do this so this would change that so those are all the issues and input that we know of today and ultimately the other thing we're very concerned about is what this means for state and local funding for every $1 Kentuckians pay in federal taxes the state receives $3.35 in federal funds we are the second overall behind Alaska in receiving these dollars so it's incredibly important whether you like it or not that we receive them this is a fact so potential impacts that we might see here in Lexington constituent services not being met and increased demand for services which we already saw as a result of the pandemic fewer arts and cultural activities decreasing tourism resident well-being nonprofits certainly looking to you for more funding from the city nonprofit layoffs impacting the economy nonprofits are telling us we're handling the threats or the pauses only to find out their handling of that meant over 200 layoffs so we're you're seeing this happen in certainly less spending they've got less money to spend so that impacts the economy and then payroll tax I know we call it something else here but certainly these are folks who pay their tax into the city so you all have the impact report we did this to really help folks understand the impact on employment and the economy the impact on service delivery the facts that nonprofits are accountable and transparent organizations and that Kentuckians trust nonprofits so to highlight we expect 66% of Kentucky nonprofits are experiencing some type of potential loss of government funding there's this myth that private philanthropy is going to pick up the slack that would require a 282% increase I would love to think that's possible but it's simply not and we also know that in the last election 81% of all but voters regardless of party agreed that nonprofits are important nonpartisan entities in public policy engagement and in filling in the gaps where government cannot and should not provide services so we believe that is important so what do we want council to do we hope you will share resources when you hear from your nonprofit constituents make sure they know about K&N with your federal delegation and state legislators please advocate for the needs of nonprofits I hope you'll visit with them to understand how they're providing services take advantage of their expertise and be sure they have a seat at the table as you are coming up with solutions remember they provide impactful and efficient services their front lines they're able to leverage other funds and their trusted and then if you want to sign up for our newsletter you will get all the issues facing nonprofits and more we have tons of resources that are available to members and even more that are available to all nonprofits in Kentucky whether they're a K&N member or not thank you Mr. Chairman all right Miss Clore you did you did pretty good way to give you a little extra time but you had a lot of information to share and we appreciate it committee members before I open it up for questions I just want to see if councilmember agree got anything that she wants to add to to this topic before we go into questions oh well thank you chair I just want to say thank you Danielle and and I'm really appreciative chair that you're putting together this series of presentations because I think something that we want to do is put accurate information out there hear from people who are experts in this area and and whose constituent members are affected and then figure out how we can do our work of local government to best support everyone who may be feeling these impacts so thank you for the opportunity to weigh in and we appreciate it thank you thank you all right questions first up we have vice mayor Wu Thank You chair Thank You Miss Clore for your presentation and your work I wish it was sunnier but this is the reality we live in right now my first question is have you all done this sort of presentation to our General Assembly in Frankfurt we have not we have certainly shared the impact report with a number of legislators and so we have offered the opportunity to share that but have not been able to do that yet okay that certainly I understand outside of your control but I feel like that's a really really important venue very possibly more important than this venue to kind of help mitigate some of those negative impacts one of your last slides talked about the idea that private philanthropy was not gonna make up the the gap there can you speak a little bit about maybe even just the ecosystem or the attitude or the thinking right now of our local sort of philanthropic network are you seeing people step up what are people thinking about how are they looking at you know possibly filling that hole yeah I think there are examples particularly nationally of philanthropic organizations stepping up I will say Kentucky is not blessed with a ton of private foundations that's simply a fact I think I spoke this summer to the grantmakers of Kentucky conference and asked a couple of questions I gave this presentation asked a couple questions before we got started you know what are you hearing from your grantees and the top answer was we're not hearing anything because we aren't asking so I think we've got a lot of work to do I don't think just like nonprofits are facing uncertainty I think funders are facing uncertainty about where to prioritize and I expect that's going to happen at government levels as well where do we prioritize and with limited funds where do we put those so we are hoping that grantmakers will return to a time during kovat when we had less burdensome applications and reporting that they will up their what we call their annual payout which is only required to be 5% but I would say it is hit or miss with regard to how those funds some are doing really well and trying to meet the moment and others are still trying to figure things out do you all as cannon and as the Lexington Network have any specific strategies that you know to me the point of having like a like a Kentucky nonprofit network is to be able to kind of organize and look at the 10,000 foot view right so when it comes to the idea of like how do we activate the private philanthropy and the funders and how do we connect them maybe cut some of the red tape on the applications and things like that do you all have any specific strategies that you're trying to kind of talk to your network about with funders specifically yeah I think and that was the goal of my presentation was similar here to really just raise the alarm bell and the awareness that this is going to it's not just those organizations it will ultimately impact every nonprofit in the nation frankly to the extent of even do we have a nonprofit sector at some point because we've dismantled it so I think that's important I think you know what we're really encouraging folks to do but it's challenging as you saw with these slides is to use their voice to tell their story and so many organizations are very fearful of doing that so our work has been information sharing education trying to help nonprofits understand how they can survive to some extent and for survival some of that may actually mean the opposite it may be sunsetting and dissolution it could be merger it could mean partnerships we're trying to support them through that full continuum and helping funders understand how they have a role and sometimes don't have a role because it's not their decision necessarily who makes it and who doesn't and providing the kinds of support that folks need to how to get creative with their services how to engage in partnerships and how to be sure that our elected officials know what's happening to their constituents on the ground yeah and I really appreciate all that work that that you all do is very disheartening to see the disconnect between the level of support from the general public with nonprofits and kind of the role of nonprofits in people's lives and that stark disconnect between that and the people at the federal level who are making these decisions to make these cuts they're obviously not aligned but I appreciate what your organization does and we'll get through this one way or the other thank you thank you chair thank you vice mayor next we have a council member Baxter thank you chair thank you for being here for your presentation you kind of already answered my question in a roundabout way but I just wanted to say thank you because you're not you're being very honest with your partners and you know everything's not all rainbows and sunshine but knowing that funders are experiencing some difficulty as well I think you're setting a really a very realistic expectation for your partners and I think that's really beneficial to them and just supporting them like you said throughout whatever it looks like whatever the future looks like for each individual organization I think is really important because I guess as a government I want to set realistic expectations as well that we're not going to be able to swoop in and save the day for everybody you know because we're in the same boat so I do really appreciate your comments there and the work that you guys are doing to support however you can thank you thank you thank you chair thank you council member next we have council member Reynolds thank you chair and thank you so much for your presentation I just want to say I know that you have really built this organization out and you have a wonderful team and I think you've been a huge support to your community and to these nonprofits over the past few years and especially now and I'm sure that they would feel much less supported if they did not have your organization getting people together and putting out this information and organizing in the way that you're doing it so I'm really thankful for that I I think that this topic is is so challenging I wish that we could come in with all the extra money and save the day I don't think it's going to be an answer that is just unilateral I think it's going to be a group effort to try to come in and make sure that in the midst of what we're going through that these organizations continue and succeed so I know we're all anxious to try to help anyway that we can and support you all anyway that we are able and moving forward I think we're just going to need to continue this communication so that we understand what's happening because I know it's changing every day so I just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you thanks Thank You councilmember then yeah you got some members of your team here you want to introduce absolutely yes so Ashley Dunsmore who shouldn't necessarily be a stranger because she spent some time here at City Hall is our director of regional advocacy and engagement and she facilitates our Lexington nonprofit coalition which was our very first alliance of KNN members so and she also facilitates our brand-new regional coalition in southeastern Kentucky which we're really excited about and we also have one in Louisville and are moving toward establishing one in northern Kentucky so we're delighted to have Ashley on our team she serves Lexington and East and then also with us is our lobbyist Bart Baldwin and Bart has been with KNN since we ever for those of you who don't know we originally were housed at the University of Kentucky and spun off to start our own nonprofit and Bart has been our advocacy partner guiding the way ever since so this is two paid members of our six member mighty team at KNN okay no that's that's good I know they were here and I know you all do a lot of work and Ashley's email is there so either she or I if you ever have questions we have a lot of data you're welcome that I didn't share all of that today but we're continuing to try to collect what we can around impact so please do reach out to either of us if we can help all right so with that council members not I just say nonprofits they provide a lot of the service in our community that the government doesn't have the capacity to do so we rely a lot on you over recent years I remember when kovat hit you are with some of the loudest voices to say that you can't not fund these nonprofits because they need you more than ever the community needs them more than ever so I just hope that you all and your members feel supported from myself and my colleagues you know the last couple of years we started the new capital nonprofit the nonprofit capital grant and then we changed our policy so we could give council capital funds to nonprofits as well so I think we're trying to do everything that we can to be supportive of our nonprofit partners so in regards to this work you you all this is the first presentation there's going to be two more K&N is a part of our part of our team so they you know they actually approached us early about getting this information out and I think to the vice mayor's point if you can get in front of our representatives at the state level as soon as possible I think having this information will be beneficial to them so thank you for that if there's no more questions we'll go back to our agenda thank you all so much thank you are there any any edits that we need to make to the committee referral list are there any motions all right I'm not hearing any seeing any the next item on our agenda is a German and if there is no objections we consider this meeting adjourned Thank You councilmembers