At this time I will go ahead and call to order the Lexington-Fayette-Urban County Council meeting of November 18th, 2025 and the first item is roll call. Councilmember Lynch? Present. Councilmember Morton? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Reynolds? Here. Councilmember Savigny? Here. Councilmember Sheehan? Here. Vice Mayor Wu? Here. Councilmember Beasley? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Boone? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Brown? Here. Councilmember Curtis? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Ellinger? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Elliott Baxter? Yes ma'am. Councilmember Hale? Councilmember Higgins-Horde? Yes ma'am. Councilmember LaGre? Yes. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. We have a quorum. At this time I believe I am calling on Councilmember Dave Savigny to offer our invocation. Welcome. Good evening Councilmembers. I think Jesus did a great job when he was on the Sermon on the Mount so and he gave us the Beatitudes so we're gonna review those because I do think that's the way public sector should work. After seeing the multitudes he went up on the mountain and when he was seated disciples came to him. Then he opened his mouth and taught them saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for the kingdoms of heaven for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed when you when you you win they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. Be great and for great is your reward in heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Amen. Thank you so much. All right now we have our minutes of the October 23rd 2025 council meeting. Could I have a motion? Council member Reynolds second by council member Lagree. Any questions, corrections, additions? All right all those in favor please say aye. Is anyone opposed? All right that motion passes. Thank you very much. At this time we have two presentations. All right this first one I'd like to invite Hunter Lyle and council member Jennifer Reynolds to join me at the podium. Hunter opened Lexington's Arthur Murray Studio 25 years ago. You were 12 years old, right? Thank you so much for being here this evening. As many of you know the Arthur Murray Studio is a wonderful dance studio right here in town and they give over 15,000 private lessons a year with talented professional instructors. The Arthur Murray Studio has been focused on giving back to our community since it opened, raising millions of dollars for community organizations and important causes. I want to first thank you Hunter very much for what you've done in your business but also in the community. It's very important and at this time I'd like to read a proclamation to present you declaring it Arthur Murray Studio Day and here's how it goes. Whereas Lexington's Arthur Murray Studio officially opened in 2001 on Alexandria Drive where after 25 years it's still in the same location and whereas the mission of the Arthur Murray Studio has always been to change lives one step at a time through dancing, reaching people and bringing joy and fun to everyone and whereas over the years Lexington's Arthur Murray Studio has been recognized as the fastest growing studio and one of the top studios in the world for teaching and whereas in 2011 Arthur Murray Studio co-founded Dancing with the Lexington Stars with the Lexington Rotary Club providing benefits to surgery on Sunday and other charities raising over two million dollars and whereas we congratulate the Arthur Murray Studio team on these many achievements and wish them continued success. Now therefore I Linda Gorton Mayor of Lexington do hereby declare November 18th, 2025 Arthur Murray Studio Day in Lexington. Congratulations. Thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you guys. Are you going to say a few words? Alright, alright. Hunter's going to say a few words. I really just wanted to say thank you to you all and thank you to both of you for getting involved and helping us do this. If you had asked me 25 years ago would I be up here today I probably would have been, there's no way and we've been very blessed to teach a lot of people. I'm from Kentucky, we've taught a lot of UK, taught two of the coaches, working on the third one now and how to dance and it's amazing to see, to bring you back home to where I'm from. So again we've been very blessed, we've done a lot of things, taught a lot of presidents, governors, taught a lot of people, a lot of celebrities, been a part of Dancing with the Stars since the beginning and it's a joy to be here today. So thank you so much to everyone. That's great, thank you. Thank you. At this time I'd like to ask Councilmember Reynolds if she would say a few words. Thank you, Mayor. Well I'm so excited that the Arthur Murray Studio has been a staple not only as a business in Lexington but in the 11th District for so long. You all started with a really small staff and have grown immensely and I first took lessons in Arthur Murray back in 2007 and have at different times and I'm always impressed with the quality of work and instructors. Our own Councilmember Ellinger also took lessons at Arthur Murray and for those of you who aren't part of the dance community in Lexington, Arthur Murray is really the base and such an important role in the dance community for the art of ballroom dance and even beyond. They've hosted so many different championships and famous people but really I am just so fortunate to have been able to participate in Dancing with the Lexington Stars and see how you all have raised so much money for charity. So I just want to thank Mr. Lyle for your founding of not only the studio but other entities as well and it has been an honor to work with you and as a member of the dance community I want to say thank you to you and your staff and your students for their investment in Lexington over the past 25 years. You have kept Lexington moving and they couldn't be here tonight because they're too busy teaching because they teach in the evenings so Friday night I will be stopping by the studio to present the proclamation. They all wanted to be here, believe me. Thank you so much. Let's get a photo with the Council. We'll put you right in the middle. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thanks. All right now I would like to welcome Laura Hagg with the International City County Management Association and Jada Griggs, Lexington's program manager, senior for sustainability to join me at the podium. Welcome. Council, as you know the government has been taking purposeful steps to improve Lexington's environmental footprint and to improve energy efficiency and this has been a multi-multi-year effort and it probably won't ever end and a key part of that effort has been our investment in solar energy. Through Solarize Lexington, a program Jada oversees, we have helped residents by making solar panel installation more accessible. This decreases the energy costs and reduces our carbon footprint as you know. We're also making meaningful progress in expanding solar use across government facilities including our fire stations, our community centers and our maintenance facilities and when we build new facilities we are building in sustainability. We've developed the Empower Lexington plan to guide our sustainable future and we recently earned LEED silver status and are actively pursuing the development of a solar farm at our old closed Haley Pike landfill. Tonight we add another achievement to that list. Lexington has earned the SolSmart gold designation and this designation recognizes the proactive steps we've taken to make solar energy more accessible and widely used in our own community. So here to share more about SolSmart and this recognition is Laura Haag, Director of Capacity Development and Governance for the International City-County Management Association and Laura I want to thank you for being with us today. Would you like to say a few words? Yes please. Thank you and good evening. As Mayor Gordon said I'm Laura Haag. I work at the ICMA and for some that you may not know ICMA has been working for more than 110 years on excellence and professionalism and local government management. We have around 13,000 members all around the world, city managers, city administrators, parks directors, all the folks who keep the cities running every day. I work on the innovations and research team and one of the important areas that our team works on is energy and for the last 10 years ICMA has been leading the SolSmart program which is a national program funded by the US Department of Energy that recognizes local governments that are taking actions to make solar energy more accessible and affordable. So it's my pleasure here today celebrating that Lexington, Kentucky has earned SolSmart gold designation. Lexington is just one of 550 communities across the US and only two in the state of Kentucky who have earned SolSmart gold and as a fellow Kentuckian that makes me very proud. I want to extend our deep respect and congratulations to Mayor Gordon, to all of you all, and particularly to Jada who I know did a lot of work coordinating many initiatives, department efforts to make sure that this happens. Mayor Gordon already mentioned many of the great things that Lexington has already done. I also just want to recognize that institutionalized work that you've done changing zoning codes, drafting new amendments, adopting some best practices from SolSmart designations and SolSmart practice. The Solarize campaign, the utility-led community solar program, you're really making solar more accessible and affordable to your community. You know one of the joys of the SolSmart program is seeing the incredible energy, no pun intended, if we're talking about dancing and steps I thought I had to put that one in there too. A dedication of communities across the country making progress toward cleaner air, a healthier environment, and a more prosperous future. Lexington is one of those communities and congratulations again on your designation. Thank you so much. Now Jada has the the award, right? Yes we're gonna get a photo with council if it's okay with you. Thank you again Mayor Gordon. All right thank you very much. So next on our agenda is public comment for issues on the agenda and we have one person signed up to speak about issues on the agenda and and the way this works is I'll call your name and if you'll come to the podium please and for the record you need to restate your name and state your council district and you'll have three minutes. So our person who's signed up for an item on the agenda is Terry Mullins. Welcome. Thank you my name is Terry Mullins. I'm here. You can put your mic up. Very good. Got it. I'm here to in support of the raising of the ESR grant to support feeding programs here in Lexington. I'm with Movable Feast. If you don't know Movable Feast prepares and delivers a hot meal to people here in Fayette County with AIDS or on hospice care for any reason. We also deliver to the caregiver and dependent children. I've been with Movable Feast for almost 30 years. We started in 1998 and I was there at the beginning. I was executive director of Movable Feast from 2003 till earlier this year and I'm stepping back and we have another executive director now and I'm director of client services. So I'm dealing with these clients every day and know that they need the food and I know Dan has proposed that we up the amount of food for organizations such as ours. In this 30 years that I've been doing this, there's only been one other time when we have been as stressed as we are now and that was during the pandemic. During the pandemic our numbers jumped up 10% overnight basically. Now our numbers are up a little, not that much, but our food costs have gone up over 15%. So the money that you're proposing would be greatly needed for the people of this of this community because we're serving some of the poorest and most needy people in the community of Lexington. In this time in 30 years we served over 850,000 meals to people and that always chokes me up a little. And they are very needy, trust me. But in that time also client number one that we entered in our books is still client in 28 years. And basically that's all I wanted to say is we needed the money. I hope you pass the ordinance what Dan is proposing and I thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next I'll ask our clerk to go ahead and give second reading to ordinances. Oh before that though I believe councilmember Lynch has a motion. Yeah. Thank You mayor. On the advice of our law department because I'm planning to make an amendment to item number four under ordinance second reading I move to separate out item number four ordinances second reading so that we can deal with that item separately. Okay. Councilmember Higgins-Hord seconded. Is there any discussion? All those in favor of separating it out say aye. Is anybody opposed? All right thank you very much that passed. All right now if you'll read items 1 through 3 please. Item 1 an ordinance submitting the following section of chapter 12 of the Lexington Fair Urban County Code of Ordinances pertaining to section 12 5 related to penalties to reduce time period in which to assess citations and civil fines in providing for an administrative cost of $250 effective upon passage of council. Item 2 an ordinance amending the Lexington Fayette County zoning ordinance as follows amending article 1 to add a definition of for manufactured home and to update the definition for mobile home and dwelling and further amending article 10 related to the mobile home park in 1p zone in order to be compliant with state regulations regarding manufactured housing Urban County Planning Commission. And item 3 an ordinance amending some of the budgets of the Lexington Fair Urban County government reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriating repurposing funds FY 2026 schedule number 14. Thank you. All right thank you very much. Is there a motion to approve? Thank you councilmember Curtis second by councilmember Sheehan and when you're ready if you'll take a roll call vote on those three items please. Councilmember Lynch. Yes. Councilmember Morton. Yes. Councilmember Reynolds. Yes. Councilmember Savigny. Yes. Councilmember Sheehan. Yes. Vice Mayor Wu. Yes. Councilmember Beasley. Yes. Councilmember Boone. Yes. Councilmember Brown. Yes. Councilmember Curtis. Yes ma'am. Councilmember Ellinger. Yes ma'am. Councilmember Elliot Baxter. Yes. Councilmember Hale. Yes. Councilmember Higgins Hoard. Yes. And councilmember Legree. Yes. Thank you. All right thank you those all pass. Now councilmember Lynch did you have a motion about item 4? I do. I move that item number 4 under ordinances second reading relating to recovery residences be amended to section be amended as to section 13-9 6 B 5 to provide that an applicant for a license shall provide the maximum occupancy of each recovery residences each recovery residence which may include such occupancy occupancy approved by the Board of Adjustment as a reasonable accommodation to the applicant under the Fair Housing Act. This is a material change and will require a new first reading. All right is there a second? Councilmember Hale seconds. Are there questions? All right all yes. Councilmember Reynolds. May I call on Michael Cravens I have a question. We had we had discussed that this was not necessary to the ordinance to add this in because it's already law is that correct? The Fair Housing Act does not require that you recognize in your ordinances the reasonable accommodation process. As long as you're mindful that under the Fair Housing Act a failure to modify your rules procedures laws ordinances to grant a reasonable accommodation is still required. In other words the federal law requires what the federal law requires. You don't have to under the Fair Housing Act expressly recognize that in this ordinance as long as we all know that that is what we're going to have to abide by. Thank you. Thank you. All right Councilmember Sheehan. Thank You Mayor. Councilmember Lynch thank you for bringing this amendment forward. I am going to support it because while it doesn't change the federal law or change our ordinance or our ability to abide by the federal law I think we will have to we will have to follow the federal law because that takes precedent but I think putting this language into our ordinance points to that federal law for clarity for the public because they're not going to look they're not going to be they're not going to go beyond this ordinance if they are looking for what we are doing here locally. So I think us pointing to the actual document for fair housing actually will add clarity not only for for like our community members who are residents but also the operators who are wanting to have a license for a recovery resident so that the procedures are clear. So I'm going to support this for public transparency. Thank you. Councilmember Lynch. Thank You Mayor. I agree with Councilmember Sheehan. I wanted to add in this amendment for a couple of reasons. One being so that makes clear for operators should they want to request a reasonable accommodation they know that they have to do that through the Board of Adjustment. They will know where to submit their requests to and then also it puts our neighbors on notice that if they desire to give comments regarding this reasonable accommodation request they can go to the Board of Adjustment meeting and participate in public comments regarding their feelings about the proposed requests made by the operator. So I want everything to be clear so I thought that adding this in even though it's we're already covered under the Federal Fair Housing Act just being clear so that the neighbors know and the operators know where to go what the process is and how they can engage in that process regarding recovery residents residences in their neighborhood is clear easy to understand. Thank you. All right thank you. Anyone else wish to speak to the motion? All right all those in favor of the amendment to the motion say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? No. All right two no's Councilmember Reynolds and Councilmember Morton are no votes. All right that motion passed so this will require a new first reading so if you will when you're ready go ahead and do the first new first reading with the new language please. In order to make section 1313 be to the Code of Ordinances of Lexington Urban County Government to create a recovery residence license and establish these relating there to creating a new article of chapter 13 of the Code of Ordinances of Lexington Urban County Government article 7 recovery residences adopting state law requirements for certification of recovery residences exercising concurrent local authority regarding recovery residences by requiring individuals and entities operating recovery residence to obtain a recovery residence license for each recovery residence and to provide the information required for a recovery residence license including proof of certification adopting enforcement procedures by authorizing civil citations and civil penalty penalties for violations establishing a peer procedures abatement requirements and how rehousing requirements designating the administrative hearing board as the code enforcement board with the jurisdiction to hear here appeals authorizing liens and such other relief as may be appropriate to enforce compliance with the requirements for recovery residences and authorizing the Division of Revenue to adopt any amended policy or procedures to effectuate the purposes of this ordinance all effective upon passage of counsel as amended. Thank you very much are there any motions to suspend the rules and give second reading? No? All righty we will move on now we're ready for first reading of ordinances. Item 5 an ordinance modifying the conditional zoning restriction in a commercial center B6P zone relating to the maximum gross building area limitation for 56.27 net 71.45 gross acres for property located at 2300 to 2350 Gray Lagway 2320 and 2344 Elkhorn Road and 2200 to 2277 War Emerald Way War Emerald Place LLC council district 6 item 6. An ordinance amending the Lexington County zoning ordinance as follows amending section 3 13 B and appendix section 22 a 3d including appendix section 22 a 3 c 5 22 b 5 b 11 22 b 5 c 11 and 22 c 4 a 23 all in order to allow short-term rentals and in the planned unit development PUD 1 PUD 2 and PUD 3 zones Urban County Council item 7. An ordinance amending certain of the budgets of the Lexington Fair Urban County government to reflect current requirements for municipal expenditures and appropriate repurposing funds FY 2026 schedule number 15 item 8. An ordinance amending some of the budgets of the Lexington Fair Urban County government and committee of the whole appropriations as as approved during FY 2025 fund balance discussions and appropriate repurposing funds schedule number 16 item 9. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one classified position of systems analyst grade 523 E and creating one classified position of technical architect grade 528 E on the division of computer services effective upon passage of council item 10. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by creating one classified position of security officer grade 511 and in the Department of Public Safety and creating two positions of recreation specialist senior grade 516 and and creating one public one public service worker grade 508 and both in the division of aging and disability services all effective retroactive to July 1 2025 item 11. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by creating one classified position of accountant senior grade 524 E in the division of accounting effective upon passage of council item 12. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by adopting revised pay grades, job codes, job classifications, job titles, salary ranges for positions in the division of engineering, streets and roads, water quality, waste management, environmental services, community corrections, police, fire and emergency services, aging and disability services, family services, youth services, facilities and fleet management and parks recreation based on the market study performed by the division of human resources and directing the administration to transfer incumbents as appropriate and to implement any recommended salary adjustments for classified and unclassified civil service employees in these positions effective the first payroll Monday following the passage of council item 14 or 13. An ordinance amending the authorized strength by abolishing one classified position of code enforcement officer grade 517 in and creating one classified position of code enforcement officer senior grade 518 in all individual code enforcement effective upon passage of council and item 14. An ordinance of the Council of the Lexington Fair Urban County government authorizing and approving the execution of a 10 supplement supplemental lease agreement between the Lexington Fair Urban County Airport Board as a lessor Lexington Fair Urban County government as a lessee in connection with the issuance of the line of credit agreement dated as big as of government as of December 10 2025 by in between Lexington Fair Urban County Airport Board and Pinnacle Bank with respect to one Lexington Fair Urban County Airport Board general airport revenue obligation 2025 series a credit note Lexington Fair Urban County government government general obligation pursuant to 2025 a credit note in a maximum aggregate principal amount not to exceed 25 million dollars for the purpose of providing interim financing for support for certain airport facilities at the Bluegrass Airport in Fayette County Kentucky and to Lexington Urban County Airport Board general airport revenue obligation 2025 a series B credit note federally federally taxable Lexington Fair Urban County government general obligation pursuant to to a 2025 B credit note in a maximum aggregate principal amount not to exceed 40 million dollars for the purpose of providing interim financing for certain airport airport facilities at the Bluegrass Airport in Kentucky. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any walk-ons councilmembers? All right. Are there any motions to suspend the rules and give second reading? All right. We are ready for first reading of resolutions then. Item one a resolution something a bit of C3 mechanical on the matter $25,000 for the amount of police ventilation repairs for the division facilities and fleet management and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County government to execute an agreement with C3 mechanical related to the bid. Item two a resolution except that a bit of Kentucky stream restoration in the amount of $222,000 for the Southland Park water quality improvement for the division of environmental services. Item three a resolution except that a bit of Meijer fence incorporated in the amount of $110,000 for Veteran Park netback stop replacement for the division of parks and recreation and authorizing mayor on behalf of the Urban County government to execute an agreement with Meijer's fence incorporated related to the bid. Item four a resolution modifying the permanent classified civil so for its appointments of Michael the master project manager grade 520 and 32.391 hourly in the division of environmental services effective September 30 2025 Sharon Bogner administrative specialist principal grade 520 and 31.3 to 3 to 0 hourly in the division of environmental services effective October 7 2025 Brandon Eads vehicle and equipment technician grade 517 and 25.696 hourly in the division of facilities and fleet management effective November 5 2025 Lauren Scherer heavy equipment technician grade 519 and 30 point 30 point seven five five hourly in the division of facilities and fleet management effective November 19 2025 Desiree Willis grants administrative aid grade 518 and 26.422 hourly in the division of grants and special programs effective October 14 25 and ratifying the permit sworn appointment of by showery police sergeant grade 315 and 42.96 a hourly individual police effective September 30 2025 item 5 a resolution authorizing mayor or or the chief information officer as the mayor's designee on behalf of Urban County government execute amendment number two to the risk master accelerator AWS software as a service SAAS access agreement with computer science Sciences Corporation CSC extending the term of work order number eight for 36 months from October 1 2025 to September 30 2028 at a cost estimated not to exceed sixty thousand thirty nine dollars and thirty cents annually and further authorizing the mayor or the chief information officer as in the air says you need to execute any other documents including future future annuals necessary for the operation support and maintenance of the same all subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds in future fiscal years item 6 a resolution authorizing directing me on behalf of Urban County government executing agreement Atlantic emergency solutions for a custom pierce enforcer custom pumper at a cost not to exceed 1 million 150 thousand dollars item 7 a resolution authorizing direct the mayor be on then directly married to execute a memorandum of understanding with CASA of Lexington incorporated fit Fayette County Family Courts and the Fayette County Attorney's Office of Office for the provision of statutorily required services for children who enter the Fayette County court system as a result of dependency neglect and or abuse item 8 a resolution authorizing and directing me on behalf of Urban County government executing a grant agreement with Blue Grass Ag Tech Development Corporation for challenge grant to check for challenge grants to improve agriculture technology at a cost not to exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars item 9 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government executing agreement with the Lexington Christian Academy to host the annual Kitty Capo's holiday show at an estimated cost not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars item 10 a resolution authorizing and directing me on behalf of Urban County government accept an additional award of twelve million twelve thousand five hundred seventy seven dollars and ninety six cents from the Kentucky Department of Education Division of School and Community Nutrition and federal funds for participation in United States Department of Agriculture child care food program for provision for breakfast lunch and supplements at a free and reduced rates to infants and toddlers attending the family care centers child care and preschool programs in FY 2025 the acceptance of which does not obligate the Urban County government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing mayor to transfer out of number funds within the grant budget item 11 a resolution authorizing me on behalf of Urban County government to execute an amendment to the agreement with a carrying place incorporated to revise the audit requirements and further authorizing the mayor to execute any other necessary amendments with a carrying place incorporated related to the agreement item 12 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute the 2026 general term orders for the Fayette County clerk establishing the number of deputies and assistants allowed to the county clerk and their respective compensation subject to the limits for each category as specified in the general term orders and the requirements established by law item 13 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute and submit a grant application to the Kentucky State Police Vehicle Enforcement Division to provide any additional information requested in connection with this grant application and to accept this grant if the application is approved which grant funds are in the amount of $64,864.10 in federal funds for the continued operation for the motor carrier safety assistance program for FY 2025 the acceptance of which obligates the Urban County government to the expenditure of $3,413.90 as a local match and authorizing the mayor to transfer out of number funds from the grant budget item 14 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to accept an award of $200,000 in federal funds from the US Department of Justice Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services COPS under the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act grant program for FY 2026 through FY 2028 with the expansion of the wellness unit in the division police the acceptance of which does not obligate the Urban County government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer out of number funds within the grant budget item 15 a resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to accept a grant award of $33,500 from the Bluegrass Community Foundation to support programming along town branch commons and accept the acceptance of which doesn't obligate the Urban County government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing mayor to transfer out of number funds within the grant budget item 16 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute changer number one to the agreement with a tribute contracting and consultants LLC for the Blenheim Way sewer replacement project decrease in contract price by the sum of $140,308.57 from $999,451 to $859,070.43 to delete bid items that were not necessary to complete the project item 17 a resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute an agreement awarding class B infrastructure incentive grant to 1,000 Delaware LLC for a stormwater quality project at a cost not to exceed $231,984.38 item 18 a resolution authorizing the mayor or her designee on behalf of the Urban County government to execute a non-binding letter of intent with social impact solar LLC setting forth the party's mutual intent and process for negotiating and drafting definitive agreements for the development construction and operation for a solar photovoltaic project located on a portion of the Haley Pike landfill at no cost to the Urban County government item 19. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute an agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway Company for the preliminary engineering services regarding the quiet zones for the division of traffic engineering at a cost not to exceed $30,000 item 20. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to execute an amendment to the federal equitable sharing agreement with the Department of Justice to reflect changes in the equitable sharing funds spent. Item 21. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the county government to execute a sub-recipient agreement with the Lexington Habitat for Humanity Incorporated Habitat. And LHH, Transformation Housing Affordability, LCC LHH, Habitat's wholly owned subsidiary to pass through $10 million in Commonwealth of Kentucky funds to LHH for payment of costs related to a housing project proposed in Lexington's Transformational Housing Affordability Partnership and authorizing the mayor to execute any other needed agreements or amendments with Habitat and or LHH related to these funds, item 22. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor on behalf of Urban County government to accept a grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services which grant funds on the amount of $461,997 in federal funds. Under the First Responders Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Support Services Act grant to support the year four continuation of the expanded First Responders and Community Partners Overdose Prevention Project. The acceptance of which does obligate the Urban County Government to the expenditure of funds and authorizing the mayor to transfer adequate funds within the grant budget, item 23. A resolution authorizing the Division of Water Quality on behalf of the Urban County Government to purchase a supervisory control and data acquisition CSCADA SciTech Historian Support Services for the Town Branch and West Hickman Wastewater Treatment Plants and Pump Stations from ATR Distributing Company Incorporated. It's also providing and authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with ATR Distributing Company Incorporated related to the procurement. It costs not to exceed $61,171.90, item 24. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, KYTC, for acquisition of former state right of way located near the intersection of KY 922, Oliver Lewis Way, and Manchester Street. And further authorizing the mayor to accept a deed and to execute any other documents related to the transfer, item 25. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Cathy H. Sheriff of Fayette County for the collection of the ad valorem urban service district taxes for the 2025 and 2026 property tax year at a cost not to exceed 1% of the amount of fiscal year 2026 ad valorem urban service district taxes collected. 2% of the amount in fiscal year 2027 ad valorem urban service district taxes collected. And four and one quarter percent, 4.25% of the amount of ad valorem tax taxes collected with the payments to be treated as a commission in the Urban County Government to receive any related payment from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, item 26. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute contract modification number one to the agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Department of Highways to increase the reimbursement to the Urban County Government by $60,000 from up to $426,000 to up to $486,000 for operation and maintenance of traffic signals and electrical traffic control devices on the state primary road system, item 27. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute a volunteer site information sheet and any related documents for the provision of the 2026 volunteer income tax assistance program at the Charles Young Center at no cost to the Urban County Government, item 28. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute modification number one to the agreement with the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Division of Emergency Management to extend the performance period, item 29. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute amendment number one to an agreement with New Beginnings Blue Grass Incorporated related to the Housing Navigation Permanent Supportive Housing Program to extend the period of performance to April 30th, 2026 and further authorizing the mayor to execute any other necessary amendments related to the use of these funds, item 30. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute the 2026 general term orders for the Fayette County Sheriff establishing the number of deputies and assistants allowed to the county sheriff and their respective compensations subject to the limits of each category as specified in the general term order and the requirements established by law, item 31. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding class B infrastructure incentive grant to BBPH Properties LLC as a stormwater quality project at a cost not to exceed $113,800, item 32. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement awarding class B infrastructure incentive grant to Andover Neighborhood Association incorporated for a stormwater quality project at a cost not to exceed $36,900, item 33. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute a change order number eight to the agreement with Morelia Design and Construction Incorporated for a town branch park access improvement project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $341,948.32, from $5,483,002 to $5,824,950, item 34. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute change order number five to the agreement with LM Asphalt Partners, a CDDBA ATS construction for the Clay's Mill Road Section 1 project, increasing the contract price by the sum of $1,085,012.44, from $12,056,925.97 to $13,141,938.41, item 35. A resolution authorizing the division of police to purchase FARO 3D crime scene scanner from FARO Technologies Incorporated, a sole source provider and authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with FARO Technologies. Related to the procurement, at a cost of $5,973.73, item 36. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Arumkey of Kentucky Incorporated for trust collection services at Raven Road Nature Sanctuary at a cost estimated not to exceed $5,000 for FY 26 and $8,000 for future fiscal years, item 37. A resolution authorizing the division of water quality on behalf of the Urban County Government to purchase field service repairs and parts for the rebuild of the fine screens and wash presses from Huber Technology Incorporated, a sole source provider at a cost estimated not to exceed $123,628.57, item 38. A resolution authorizing the division of emergency management to purchase an outdoor warning siren from Federal Signal, a sole source provider and authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute any necessary agreement with Federal Signal related to the procurement at a cost not to exceed $40,692, item 39. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute change order number 60, the agreement with LM Asphalt Partners, LTD DBA ATS Construction for repairs to the mainline road at Cardinal Run North Park at a cost of $175,885 raising the contract total to $7,773,960, item 40. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement with the Lexington County Health Department for the expanded first responders and community partners overdose prevention project funded under the US Department of Health and Human Services First Responders Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act Grant at a cost not to exceed $165,000, item 41. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of the Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Morehead University, offering a 35% tuition waiver for any online course for full time Lexington Urban County Government employees at no cost to the Urban County Government, item 42. A resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute addendum number three to the agreement with the University of Kentucky Research Foundation for the provision of evaluation services for a year four of the expanded first responders and community partners overdose prevention project at a cost not to exceed $99,998, item 43. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement with Standard and Associates Incorporated for the police officer selection test for LFUCG police recruit candidates at a cost not to exceed $5,000, item 44. A resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute a memorandum of understanding with Baptist Healthcare System Incorporated for the use of their helipad, item 45. A resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute an agreement related to the council capital project expenditure funds with LFUCG Division of Traffic Engineering, $30,000. LFUCG Division of Environmental Services, 15,000. LFUCG Division of Environmental Services, 362. Garden Meadows Homeowners Association Incorporated, 1,500. Voices of Hope Lexington Incorporated, $1,381.96. Voices of Hope Center Incorporated, 850. LFUCG Division of Traffic Engineering, 9,000. LFUCG Division of Parks and Recreation, 30,000. And LFUCG Division of Environmental Services, $2,574 for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated, item 46. A resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute agreements related to the neighborhood development funds with Center for Women, Children, and Families Incorporated, $7,000. The Friends of the Park in Fayette County Incorporated, 1,392. And 16 District PTA Incorporated, Care of Britain PTSA, $800 for the Office of the Urban County Council at a cost not to exceed the sum stated, item 47. A resolution authorizing the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute a first amendment to the purchase of service agreement with the following extended social resources, resource ESR program grantee agencies authorizing additional funding for the service provided to the public pursuant to RFP number 2024, food insecurity and nutritional access. Food Chain Incorporated, 24,184, Glean, Kentucky, 4,000, God's Pantry Food Bank Incorporated, 108,480. Greenhouse, 17, 10,000, Lexington Gay Services Organization, DBA, Lexington Pride Center, 15,561. Moveable Feast, Lexington Incorporated, 23,000. And the Nathaniel Mission, $22,800 at an additional cost not to exceed $208,025 in fiscal year 2026. And item 48, a resolution authorizing the director of the mayor on behalf of Urban County Government to execute a purchase of service agreement with Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society Incorporated, DBA Legal Aid of the Bluegrass to extend the provision of housing stability services through August 31, 2026 at a cost not to exceed $150,000 contingent upon approval of necessary budget amendments. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. Are there any walk-ons, council members? Okay, any motions to suspend the rules and give second reading? All right. Next are communications from the mayor appointments. I'll entertain a motion to approve. Thank you, Council Member Curtis, seconded by Council Member Baxter. Any questions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. Next are communications from the mayor procurements. Could I have a motion? Move to approve. Thank you, Council Member Baxter, seconded by Council Member Curtis. Any questions about procurements? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? All right, that motion passes. We have quite a few for your information only. And there are no police or fire disciplines, so it's time for council announcements. Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. When we met last, the Lafayette Band was on their way to state marching band competition. And I'm happy to report that they brought home the 25th state title, which is amazing. We now have the record for the most amount of state titles in the state, so that's awesome. And then this past weekend, we attended the Bands of America Grand Nationals competition in Indianapolis. The kids got to perform in Lucas Oil Stadium, which is awesome. And they competed against 108 other bands and placed 20th. So we are super proud of our kids and all of their hard work. And just couldn't say any more about it. So I just wanted to report that back to everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will be honoring them at one of our meetings before you go on your last break. Vice Mayor Wu. Thank you, Mayor. I guess it's not a council meeting unless we have Lafayette Band in here, at least once a year, hopefully. So earlier today, we announced our first wave of medical debt relief here in Lexington Fayette County. We're relieving $12.6 million in unpaid medical debt for nearly 6,500 residents. And so I wanted to have an opportunity to thank everybody who helped make this happen, particularly our non-profit partner Undo Medical Debt, and you all, my council colleagues who have unanimously supported this effort. Thank you for showing that our local government can still deliver positive outcomes for our residents. To our residents listening to this, some of you may be receiving these letters in the mail in the coming weeks. It looks like this. It is indeed real. We will say Undo Medical Debt and Lexington Fayette Urban County Government on it. Keep it for your records, and you don't need to do anything else. I'm very grateful for the outpouring of support from folks all along this journey and how important this relief is for their pocketbooks, their mental health, and their physical health. And hopefully there will be more waves of relief to come, so stay tuned. To learn more, you can go to lexingtonky.gov slash medical debt relief. And also wanted to give a quick thank you to my colleagues for your support for the additional funding for our community partners working to fight food insecurity. These partners are our boots on the ground doing this amazing work every single day, and the least we can do is to give them the resources to do that vital work, so thank you. Council Member Beasley. Thank you, Mayor. I have two quick-ish announcements. One is this past Saturday we held Stuff the Bus in District 5 at the Kroger on Shinaway. I'd like to thank the AFT 120, Kroger, Council Member Brown, Council Member Morton, all our community partners who showed up and showed out. We were able to stock seven FRCs, pantries in Fayette County with the food that we collected when we stuffed that bus. And Employment Solutions gave us the bus to stuff, so we want to thank them as well. Council Member Morton put in the work. Look, there's Council Member Brown. It was a ton of food, y'all, it was amazing, the amount of stuff that we got. My second announcement is that there was two shootings last week in District 8. I want to thank Parks and Rec, my community center staff, Director Rod Givens for the quick attention that they took on Tuesday to keep the kids safe in our community center building there. I'd like to thank our park staff, the community partners, Grace United, Council Member Ellinger, Kamari Corey, the One Lex team for the outreach they did this past week and for their safe passage efforts they did this week. I'd also like to take a minute to thank our Lexington Police Department and mainly my East Sector Commander Peterson for all the extra officers that he put in the district to help the kids feel safe walking home from school. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member, are you on? Okay, Council Member Baxter. Thank you, Mayor. I apologize, I forgot something else. I think we're becoming the, well, Lafayette's not in my district, but the sports capital of Lexington. I failed to mention that our Jesse Clark Middle School football team, the eighth grade team, won the city championship. So, super pumped about that. The seventh grade team came in runners up, and both of them had an amazing season. And our eighth grade team went undefeated as well. So, wanted to give them some credit where credit was due as well. Thank you. All right, thank you. Anyone else? All right. We have one person signed up for public comment for issues not on the agenda. And if, when I call your name, if you'll come to the podium please and restate your name and your council district. And I welcome Laura Keller. Excuse me, Laura Kelly. Welcome. My name is Laura Kelly. I am a resident of district one. I am a LexTran bus operator and a past long time rider. And I'm speaking to you today as a president and business agent of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 639, which has been protecting workers and providing transit services in Lexington since 1913. Over 112 years. LexTran has only existed since 1973, that's a 60 year difference. Your handout, the Van Operator Side Agreement, is an addendum to our collective bargaining agreement. Which was negotiated decades ago to protect public service jobs and fixed route bus service in Lexington. In our 2024 contract negotiations, one of the first things Transdev management wanted to delete, wanted was to delete that entire side agreement. Because in the words of Transdev's director of labor relations, we don't have those. I remember thinking, wow, this guy thinks we are really stupid. Also that we don't read the news, which is the only way we hear of LexTran's microtransit plans. By attempting to delete that side agreement, Transdev and LexTran revealed their wish in the language of that agreement. To have van operators, thus activating it and again making it part of our CBA. But once Transdev and LexTran could not get what they wanted, which was total control over those jobs in violation of our hard fought rights over 112 years. They proceeded to just write our workers union out of the picture and pursue a subcontracting arrangement with, for example, VIA. That work around bypassing our union contract might be legal, even as it clearly violates the spirit of our negotiated agreement. But the fact that Transdev and LexTran just wrote labor out of the picture demonstrates bad faith. It's not that we couldn't come to an agreement to have those jobs in house and do it all in house. It's that they didn't even come to the table and speak to us. So we were just forgotten about as soon as we wouldn't just roll over and give them everything. So that's Transdev and LexTran in a nutshell. They pretend organized labor does not exist, deny our hard fought rights, and then get upset and play the victim when we push back. And they blame the steady decline in morale that has occurred during the Transdev management contract on the workers. Just a few weeks ago, a Transdev manager said to me, the problem here is the people who work here. He obviously was not talking about management. But back to subcontracted microtransit. VIA, the self-proclaimed pioneer of this niche, is endlessly involved in misclassification lawsuits with some former drivers saying they made as little as $5.49 per hour after all of VIA's fees and the fine print. This- I'm so sorry to interrupt you. I'm almost done. Unfortunately, I have to manage the three minute times. Thank you for coming. Thank you. All right. We do not have any other business, so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Assembly. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All right. Thank you. We are adjourned.