# Rural Land Management Board - January 28, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Board · January 28, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6676 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6676?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-01-28 - **Body**: Board - **Last revised**: February 2, 2026 - **Length**: 17,152 words - **Speakers**: Chair, Clerk > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1, with speaker labels folded in from Granicus closed-captioning. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Meeting Overview The Board Meeting was held on January 28, 2026, and was presided over by Gloria Martin. The meeting covered three agenda items, all of which were approved: the approval of minutes, a matter concerning Impervious Surface Limits in Easements, and the Election of Officers. A total of 3 motions were brought to a vote during the session, each resulting in approval. No public comments were heard during the meeting, and no presentations were recorded in the meeting record. ## Attendance The following members were recorded for the January 28, 2026 Board meeting. **Present (14):** Gloria Martin, Beth, Lena, Tracy Jones, Olivia, Jayden Norris, Margaret Graves, Jonathan Disney, Mary Quinn Raymer, Phil Hager, Robert James, Jim Coleman, Joanna, and John Watts. - **Arrived late:** Robert James, Jim Coleman, and Joanna. **Absent (4):** Hannah, Stephen Howard, Will Mayer, and Phil Meyer. ## Votes and Decisions Three motions were brought before the Board at the January 28, 2026 meeting, all of which passed. - **Approval of Minutes** [timestamp: 16:47]: Robert James moved to approve the minutes, seconded by Jim Coleman. The motion passed unanimously with 8 ayes and 0 nays. Voting in favor: Robert James, Jim Coleman, Margaret Graves, Jonathan Disney, Mary Quinn Raymer, Phil Hager, and Joanna. - **Approval of Changes to Impervious Surface Limits in Easements** [timestamp: 31:45]: Jim Coleman moved to approve the changes to impervious surface limits in easements, seconded by Mary Quinn Raymer. The motion passed with 8 ayes, 0 nays, and 1 abstention. Voting in favor: Jim Coleman, Mary Quinn Raymer, Margaret Graves, Jonathan Disney, Phil Hager, Robert James, and Joanna. - **Election of Officers** [timestamp: 38:49]: Margaret Graves moved to approve the election of officers, seconded by Jim Coleman. The motion passed unanimously with 8 ayes and 0 nays. Voting in favor: Margaret Graves, Jim Coleman, Robert James, Mary Quinn Raymer, Phil Hager, Jonathan Disney, and Joanna. ## Budget and Financial Actions The Board addressed one financial item during the January 28, 2026 meeting. - **Payment to Charlie Farmer – $200:** The Board approved a payment of $200 to Charlie Farmer for preliminary review and baseline documentation services. No resolution numbers or additional financial details were associated with this item in the meeting record. ## Appointments The Board took action on several appointments during the January 28, 2026 meeting. The following individuals were appointed or reappointed to leadership roles: - **Gloria Martin** was reappointed as **Chair**. - **Phil Meyer** was reappointed as **Treasurer**. - **Robert James** was appointed as **Vice Chair**. Gloria Martin and Phil Meyer retained their existing positions through reappointment, while Robert James was newly appointed to the Vice Chair role. ## Approval of Minutes [timestamp: 16:17] The board took up the approval of minutes from the previous meeting. Gloria Martin spoke during this item, praising Beth and Lena for their detailed work in preparing the minutes. No concerns or objections were raised during the discussion. The minutes were approved. ## Impervious Surface Limits in Easements [timestamp: 17:19] The board held a discussion on proposed changes to impervious surface limits within easements for small farms, focusing on providing greater flexibility for agricultural infrastructure. Key speakers in this discussion included **John Watts**, **Margaret Graves**, and **Jim Coleman**. The item centered on adjusting existing limits to better accommodate the practical needs of small farm operations, though the specific numerical thresholds, proposed changes, and individual arguments raised by each speaker are not detailed in the available record. The board ultimately **approved** the changes to the impervious surface limits in easements. *Note: Additional detail on the specific provisions debated, concerns raised, and individual speaker positions was not available in the source materials for this item.* ## Election of Officers [timestamp: 38:18] The board conducted its election of officers during the January 28, 2026 meeting. Key speakers on this item included Margaret Graves and Jim Coleman. The board elected the following officers: - **Chair:** Gloria Martin - **Vice Chair:** Robert James - **Treasurer:** Phil Meyer The board approved the slate of officers. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (8-0): Approval of minutes - **Motion** — passed (8-0): Approval of changes to impervious surface limits in easements - **Motion** — passed (8-0): Election of officers --- ## Full transcript origin Светлана Рубинский Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Леди Гамильтон Ledi Gamilton And let me remind you to turn on your recorders, you and Lena, so you'll, for the minutes in the future. Okay. And I will, while we're waiting for a couple more people, we do have excused absences. Hannah is in a mess with her animals at the farm and the ice and the problem, and Stephen Howard and Will Mayer and Phil Meyer. And some of you all are, I know, zooming in from parts unknown. So thank you. Hopefully we have that many people who are excused. I was just, we were saying before we made the meeting official that I wanted to comment about the minutes. Lena has been a really big help to help Beth getting minutes done and helping getting that part of, which is extensive because we do these in detail, as you all know from getting the minutes. I wanted to thank her. I thanked her personally that I wanted to do it in front of the whole board for doing that and Beth for the two of you coordinating this and always making sure that they are very thorough. And both of you go over them and work on them before you ever send them to me. And I'm very appreciative. And I think the board will agree you all do a great job. So thank you to both of you for really good minutes. I don't know that we can approve them yet, can we? Tracy, we need two more people. Right now I will, just for your screen, Beth and Lena for later. Beth, of course, is here and Lena is here and our attorney, Tracy Jones, is here and Olivia is here for Hill Boone. And I saw that somebody was here for Councilmember Morton, but I don't see that on the screen. Yes, she's here, Jayden Norris. Okay, it's not on my screen. And of the members, we have Margaret Graves and we have Jonathan Disney and Mary Quinn Raymer and Phil Hager. So those are the five who are here now. We also have with us our outside attorney, John Watts, who's going to go through a few things with us in a minute just as soon as we have some folks to make sure we have enough to vote on this. I guess we could do just part of the things we don't have to vote on. We can move ahead with some of the things, Beth, and wait before we do the approval of minutes. Okay. Is that okay with the board? Do I see any objections to that? No? Beth has gotten in our 2026 application to ASAP and we had PDR Farms. And Beth, why don't you give them a little update about that because you did submit six new applications. Yes, and Robert James and Jim Coleman have just joined, so we have seven. So I'll do that and then we can jump back to the minutes. I don't know why I don't have full screen because I did not see them. Sorry, Madam Chair, I'm here. Okay, welcome. Let's see. There's Robert. Do you see them now? Do you have everybody now, Gloria? I do not. I still do not. Okay. And I've signed off and I've gone to my settings to try to get it full screen. I believe if you go up to the... Can it torch both? Does she count? Yes. If you go up, move your cursor to the right-hand side, Views will pop up and there should be a little, like, set of dots and you may be able to change the view to have everybody. Well, I have part of you, but only when you speak. Oh, yes. If you go to that view and choose Gallery. Mine, the view doesn't show up until I move my cursor up into the right-hand corner and then it pops up and then if you click on View, you can choose Gallery. Huh. That's worse instead of better. Oh, no. Okay. Tell me that again, Beth. So, if you take your cursor up into the right-hand side or the right-top corner. You're talking about under Zoom, right? Yes. Okay. Mine says Zoom on the left and on the right, there's an X and then a little, it'll pop up and say View and give you the options. Uh-uh. Okay. You may have to just carry on for a minute. I don't … Okay. As long as we know everyone's here, we can vote. Well, you have to see everybody, though. We can see. Right. As long as staff can see. Yes. Okay. We'll go ahead. Uh-oh. She logged out. But I'll go ahead and give this report, and then we'll circle back. I'll watch for her to join. So, under Old Business, Item A, our NRCS 2026 ASEP application, we submitted six applicants. So, that was great. And we, NRCS, said they have $4 million for the entire state this year. So, we are hopeful. Our request was for less than a million, but more than 500,000. So, we are hopeful that we will get that, along with Bluegrass Land Conservancy, and there's a group in Fort Campbell that also applies for this money. And so, the NRCS state staff feels like they were well-funded and could possibly even ask for more if they need it. So, we are hopeful. I looked back, and last year we received the grant money in June. So, we likely will not hear for several months, but we will keep you all posted on that. And then, as far as easement acquisitions go, we have signed one new PDR farm under contract and four new small farms under contract. And we have several pending offers still to small farms and then several small farm appraisers you all authorized in December that will be back the first week of February. And so, we will have all of those at our February meeting, and I can go through those in closed session and tell you which ones of these have signed contracts. And we have Gloria back, so that's great. I still can't see you. It may be my own computer. I don't know what's wrong with it. Okay. It's been done. Okay. So, do you see me when I'm speaking? Do you just see us? I see you. Okay. So, you're having a limited view. I see you and me. Okay. If somebody speaks, then I see them. Okay. All right. So, Gloria, I was just telling them, and I think Gloria wanted to echo this. So, Abulina, who helps us, who Gloria just was thanking about the minutes, has become a notary, and that has come in extremely handy. We are grateful for that because the contracts themselves, in addition to the easement, the contracts have to be notarized. And so, we've had all of these small farm owners coming in and signing that, and she's able to take care of that. And then Gloria's been coming down to our office and signing as well. And so, Abulina's been able to facilitate that. So, that's been very helpful. So, we're excited. These small farms are moving along. And next month, when we go over appraisals, I'll also go over some of these and show you all some maps in closed session. So, Gloria, that is it. We can jump back and do approval of the minutes. Okay. There was one thing I wanted to add to the report about the easement acquisitions. As these things happen, Beth, I wanted to coordinate that with our council member, Hill and Morton, so they can put in their newsletters the progress that we've made so people in the 12th District will know that we've applied, how many people have applied, or kind of our progress. Okay. I know in the 12th District newsletter that she does, they're very good about putting all kinds of notes in there about what's going on in the 12th. So, that would be a good thing to do. If you will just coordinate with her, if you two will touch base when you're working on minutes or after a meeting, just so they can put a little blurb in there about where we are, kind of keep them updated. Okay. That's a great idea. Okay. Yes, we can do that. Now, we'll go back to the minutes. I hope everybody, I've already bragged on Beth and Lee for their work on the minutes. And will you all, I hope, have had a chance to look at all the minutes and read through them because we do have some extra things. Are there any changes? Do you have any questions, additions, anybody? All right. The Chair will entertain a motion, please, to approve the minutes as sent to you all. Motion to approve. All right. Robert's made the motion. Is there a second? I second. Madam Chair, Jim Coleman. Welcome. Now, Jim is here. I haven't been able to see everybody. When you speak, I can see you for some reason. Okay. But you're showing up. So, welcome. The motion's been made and seconded. All in favor, please signify by a show of hands. Aye. Beth, you can see the screen and I can't see everyone to tell you if we have unanimous. Yes, we do. It's unanimous. All right. Thank you. Now, we have some important new business that we brought up last time, our board had in our last meeting about the small farms. And we are getting ready, by the way, to close on some of these small farms. So, pat yourselves on the back and clap your hands. And that we needed to look at our easements for the impervious surface limits. I've looked at that. Beth has looked at that. And we have John Watts, our attorney with us today, who's going to walk us through the few suggestions and additions that we have made to that. In the packet that Beth sent you, on the easement, it was on pages 4, 5, and 8. But in your packets, I think that was pages, if you have your packets handy, it's 16, 17, and 20. But on the docket, on the little packet itself of the easement, it's on pages 4, 5, and 8. So, I don't see John, but Beth. Well, you'll see me now. There he is. Okay. Can you see me now? I hear you, so I know you're there. Let me see if I can. There's the, I see what you, I see it's pulled up. Okay. So, my instructions were to, there was a concern in the small farms and the new easement form, that the impervious surface limitation of 5% would be accurate on almost all farms, except for maybe a couple, I was told, that might have a greater existing impervious surface area than 5%. So, the goal was to provide some language that would afford the board the ability to approve an increase in impervious surface percentage for agricultural infrastructure purposes. So, that's what I drafted. You'll see in this section B that is on the screen, and this is part of a section that is entitled grantor's affirmative obligation. So, this is one of them. So, the landowner's affirmative obligation, and I changed this to say impervious surfaces on the property will not be increased to exceed 5%. So, almost all of them are going to be 5%, but those few that might be 8% right now, we're just saying, we're not saying that they're in violation, but you just can't increase it to exceed 5%, unless you do what's in that further highlighted section below, which is the ability of the landowner to ask for an increase for additional agricultural infrastructure that might be built and to ask for written approval from the grantee, us, or the board, and then that would not violate the easement. So, that's that section, and there's a conforming section later on that basically is on page 8 of the easement, and this is under a section called prohibited uses. So, this is O, where it says basically impervious surfaces are defined to include permitted residential buildings, et cetera, et cetera, and they cannot exceed 5% of the total conservation easement, unless otherwise permitted as referenced in what we just looked at, section 3B. So, that should afford. Go ahead. So, if there's a farm that applies that has, say, 7% impervious surface, would we have to change the easement in their case to say, you know, the existing farm has, or this farm has 7% impervious surface, they may not exceed this amount without coming to the board to request permission? Well, the purpose of the other section was to say that the impervious surface, it doesn't say it has to be 5%. It says it can't be increased to exceed 5%. So, in other words, they can't change what's in existence right now if that increase would exceed 5%, but if they're 8% right now, they're not asking for a change, right? Okay, okay. So, it's not that they have to have 5% or less. It's more that they can't exceed 5%. They can't increase it beyond 5%, right, from the time of the easement. So, if they already have 7%, they're not in violation. They just can't increase it anymore without coming to us for permission. Right. Right? Correct. Correct, Margaret. That's what I think. Okay, I just want to be sure I understand. That's what I think the intention was, that if it's 2% right now, they would have the right to increase it up to 5%, right? Up to 5%. Without permission. Right, and if they already exceed 5%, that's just the existing condition, and they couldn't exceed that amount. So, if we'd have to note that amount somewhere in the baseline, and if they wanted to exceed it, they'd have to come to us for permission. Right. Right? That's correct. That's the way I'd react. That's the import of this change. Okay, okay. So, on the old easements, we would actually find out what the impervious surface was on each one, and we'd plug in an amount. You know, the impervious surface limit might be 4% on some, and they couldn't change. This just fixes it at 5%. Okay. And if you approve something that has more, my understanding was the goals of the program was not that we wouldn't take a farm with its existing impervious surfaces. We just don't want there to be additional development to increase over the existing. But if they've applied and their existing is 8%, we want them in the program, right? Right. Right. I guess, Gloria, in some cases the feds will limit it to 2%, right? Right. They have on the existing. And so the reason this came up was we, I think Stephen Howard and Phil Meyer in particular, were concerned that some of these acres, some of these farms, small farms, that have acres of more than 10, because as you know we've had some that have applied that are actually 19, that they already have a barn. They may already have pavement to the barn and the house. And they were concerned that limiting it at that 2% or that small amount would hinder them coming into the program. So the idea was to make sure that we had some leeway to be able to cover those. I agree, Madam Chair, because with, for instance, on my little farm, 13 acres, it can go up 5%. You can eat that up quick. I've got two sheds, well, three sheds, a house, and I just put in asphalt. So that 5% can get eaten up pretty fast. Right. On a small farm. We just want to take that into account. And that was one reason they increased it from what the feds do. Yes. That was a reason to, that was why they brought this up. Yep. And this gives the board the discretion to increase it beyond 5% for ag infrastructure. So not necessarily for a house. Yeah. Or a pool. Correct. Yes, and it says that. But for ag infrastructure. So for barns or sheds or things that are tied to ag related, because we want to be sure that these are, in fact, ag properties. And that's what we're. Or properties that are used. So like a barn wouldn't, a barn would not be included or asphalt, a working pathway that's a workable path to helping your farm to be efficient. Those things wouldn't count or not? Well, they just, everything. I think they would arguably be ag infrastructure. But for example, if somebody wanted to build a pool with a huge deck, that doesn't count as ag infrastructure. I mean, I think that's a discussion we'd have to have in the future, but that's, that's the way I would. I think that's what we're intending, what you're intending here. And Jim, on page 5 of that, that you've got in your packet, it is that the grantor may request an increase for additional agricultural infrastructure. And the board does it. So that leaves the door for the board's discretion on that, what Margaret just said. I saw that. A pool deck may not be your ag infrastructure. Right. Right. Or storage facility or something like that's commercial. And that's what we're trying to get to is to prevent commercial use outside of agriculture. So there's, that was the. Right. Now, let me say this. If the, if a landowner wanted to increase the impervious surface area beyond the 5% or what they're. And it was not for an agricultural infrastructure purpose. They could go under section 17.5. You should go back to that. That's the general amendment section. They could ask for a amendment. Now, it doesn't mean they would get one. Both parties would have to agree. But 17.5 allows you to amend it. And then you have to record an amendment of it to this. The way it's drafted right now for a change in impervious surface area for agricultural infrastructure. It would be a written letter that both parties have agreed to and the nature of the improvement that created the impervious area. But it wouldn't be, we wouldn't have to file an amendment. Right. Does that make sense? Yeah, did that explain the question that Margaret and Jim had? So your hands aren't tied. It just is a. Right. Bigger step to amend it and then put the world on notice through a recorded document of the type of amendments that might come back to the board for approval. Which I suspect the board doesn't want to have every meeting comprised of amendments to their easements. Well, and these small farms would be a lot easier to handle because we're doing that at the local level so we don't. Correct. Have to deal with the feds on. The ones with federal money you're going to have to get their approval too. And that's why we are working on this and just make sure that this is for the small farms. That's all, that's the only one that's changed, the small farm easement form. So does everybody get this? Do we have, I can see Jim and when Margaret talks I can see her. Does anybody else have any questions? Robert, you're here. Do you have a comment? No, no, I was just going to say earlier that as far as obtaining a written agreement, any easement, any person with an easement would come to the board to get a written letter that we decided, okay, this barn is an agricultural use agricultural infrastructure and we can approve it then. So, you know, that determination will ultimately be made with the board at that time. Was my understanding. Yes, I think that's correct. Are there any other comments or questions? I want to make sure, do we still have seven folks on the screen Beth to vote on this? Yes, and Joanna has joined. So let's see. Great, great. One, two, three, four, five, six. Yes, you have eight now. Okay, perfect. So note for the minutes that Joanna is here and Jim has joined. And now that Joanna is here. Joanna, we were talking about in your packet of information, it's about the impervious surface limit. Before I call for a final motion on that, did you have any questions or comments that you wanted to make about that? No, ma'am. Okay. And welcome. I can only see some of you all when you talk because for whatever reason, my inability to operate this correctly, I don't know. It's been fine until the first time this has happened. When you talk, I see you, but otherwise I don't have you all on the screen at the same time. So I just wanted to make sure if you had anything before I moved on. So welcome. Are there no more questions? I will need a motion to approve the additions that John has drafted for us. So moved, Madam Chair. So moved. All right. That motion is made by Jim and Margaret at the same time. I recognize they're, I think. No, Mary Quinn. Oh, Mary Quinn. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay. All in favor, please signify by show of hands. And Beth, you'll have to count the hands on the screen for me. Okay. I see Jim's and mine, and I see John Watt's face, and now I see you. And Mary Quinn wants to comment. I think she was going to say, oh, no, you're just raising your hand to vote. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. And Joanna, are you abstaining since you weren't here for the discussion? Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. So can I ask a question about the, we have several small farms applications that are in the process of moving toward a closing. Yes. Is this change going to be incorporated into those, or have those people relied upon a prior form? I'm just asking a question. We would incorporate this in. I think this easement, the one they have received, the draft, has had the impervious blank. And so this one is actually more favorable to them than having a flat 5% that you can never change. So I can send it back out to them and tell what's been approved and make sure they, I believe you have two or three so far that have been assigned. That's what I think it is. Okay. We have a couple more that you assigned this week. Okay. Okay. I'll work with you on that. Okay. And John, before you leave, it was important to me, it's one reason, even with the bad weather and we knew we were going to have some absentees today, it's one reason I wanted to go ahead, hold a meeting, and vote on this is because these are some of our first small farms, and I want to make sure that we have covered this and that it would be fair across the board for the first ones and thereafter. So, yes, and thank you for doing this for us and moving it on because I do want to make sure that we have consistent numbers across the board for the future board. Okay. So, thank you. Okay. Well, I'm going to bow out so you can carry on with the rest of your business unless you need me to stay on. We need you all the time, but you may bow out. Okay. Thanks. Thank you, John. Thanks. Go ahead, John. The next thing on our agenda was the election of officers, and I'd like to say something first about this, Beth, and that was that Phil Meyer has said he would stay on as treasurer, and I think that's great. He has done a wonderful job, and I wanted to tell you all, and I'm very serious about this, that this is a great board, and we have a very knowledgeable and, I think, hardworking board, as is evidenced in our reports at the end when the board members tell us what they've been doing. Some of you all have really consistently been out in the community and around the state and elsewhere promoting this program and standing up for this. This has been, and I will pat Beth on the back again, it has been a challenge to get the program back up and running. Some years back, we did not have previous administrations who were as supportive as we had in the very beginning of the program and as this mayor has been. And with Beth's help and with this administration, we have managed to become a certified local government. Lena has started helping. We now have a commissioner of planning and part of his staff. They've been good to help. So it's a little different than it was when you all asked me to do this some time ago. It absolutely, under no circumstances would it ever hurt my feelings. In fact, it would be fine. If any one of you would be willing to do this. And we have some people who are very capable and I would encourage you to consider being the chair. But it has been, I think we finally have the program back where, and Mary Quinn's recent awards, which I patted her on the back for just before we signed in, was the kudos that Fayette County and Lexington has gotten recently, the national recognition for all the tourism and how the whole area hangs on a lot of our tourism and nationwide and international support. And we have that now. And it is really important that this board understands what a good job they have done. And it really is a team effort. So as to say, I would not, anybody who would like to be the chair, that would be fine. And I would be happy with it. And it certainly would never hurt my feelings at all. So having said that, I'll turn this over to you, Beth, for the rest of the comments because some of the people have been reappointed. And you've just gotten that okayed, correct? Yes. So, and I will say that. So the mayor has just reappointed Gloria and the council confirmed her to another four-year term. So she is eligible to continue serving as chair. Joana also, thank you, agreed to do another four-year term and was just reappointed. And Phil Meyer, he couldn't be here today, but he was reappointed to another four-year term last year. So he's eligible. And Robert is eligible, or Robert is confirmed through April 2027. And so that's the status of our current board. So we can open it up if you all have nominations. You can do a full slate or individual, whatever you would like to do. So, Beth, this is Margaret. I would like to nominate Gloria Martin as the chair, Phil Meyer as the treasurer, and Robert James as the vice chair. Okay. Is there a second? Jim Coleman, okay. I second that. Okay. All right. And then so we'll have a vote on that. All in favor? Okay. And I will not vote. Okay. So all except, so unanimous. Okay. Well, it's not unanimous. Thank you all for being willing to serve. Congratulations, Madam Chair. You all deserve it. Thank you. Thank you, Gloria, for serving as chair again. I probably shouldn't have voted for myself either, but I'm in such fine company and the officers with you and Phil here that I felt comfortable voting for us all. Well, I say it is not just those of us who are considered executing board. It has been a great effort because any time I have called on any one of you, texted you or called you about doing something or making sure you could attend these board meetings, you did show up and you did make the comments that needed to be done. So it has been truly, and I have passed this on both to the commissioner of planning and the mayor, that this is a great board. And while I have encouraged them to consider updating that 2017 rural land management plan, that now's the time to do it while we have such a diverse, knowledgeable board, that was the time to do it. And I hope that when Beth passes that information on in the meeting she's about to have, that they will understand that this board is very capable of overseeing some of that. And I know when I call on you all individually to help with some of this, that you will do it. So thank you all. This is not to any one or two or three people. We've got 15 people and we have good help. We have council members. Olivia is wonderful. Lena is wonderful. Sean is usually here. We've had some really good, caring folks, knowledgeable folks to help out with this. So I'm pleased. And it's a great group to work with. I have nothing but compliments for anybody. So, Beth, I can only see Robert and Olivia right now. I know Phil could not come. Do you want to give him the Treasurer's Report, his part, because we've just had that one invoice? That's correct. So, yes. So just the invoice in your packet, we paid to Charlie Farmer for $200, and that is for the preliminary review and baseline documentation that are required. The baseline documentation has always been required, but NRCS now makes a sign of preliminary review certificate from an on-site visit, and Charlie is conducting those for us. And so that $200 was for a visit for a farm we'll be closing soon. And that is it. That was Phil's only report today. And Chair's report's next, and I've done most of that. You all know that I have been going in and meeting with her to sign the contracts. And Beth already told you she is now a notary, which is a big help to be able to have an in-house person who can help notarize these things. And I've also told you that I do, I have contacted our Commissioner and the Mayor about updating the 2017 plan, and I'm going to be pushing that even more. I can't think of anything else much we've done except try to survive the weather. Anything else that I need to add, Beth? I don't think so. Add to the staff report, if you can think of it. Yes. So with the staff report, the only additional thing I have besides our new board appointments is that last week I spoke to the councilors' solar work group. And Olivia was there, and Councilmember Morton is a member, as well as Councilmember Boone, and then it is Councilmember Sheehan. And they are reviewing everything for any possible amendments to the solar policy and looking at that. So they wanted to know about how we quantified ag for our small farms. And so we talked about the Kentucky Ag Water Quality Plans, and I actually invited Heather Silvanick from the Fayette Conservation District, that is the director, to come along as well. And so she talked some about what constitutes farming in Kentucky by legally the definitions, and so we gave a small presentation on that. But other than that, I would say that our chair, Ms. Morton, had a birthday this month, so we'll wish her a happy birthday. And thank you for everything she does. You all know how hard she works, and she's had to run down in this snowy weather and sign contracts. And she just is always in field calls from people interested in applying to the program or with all kinds of questions all the time, especially with the small farm program. And just, you all know how hard she works. So thank you, Gloria, for that and for continuing to serve. You're most welcome. I mean, my heart, like all of you all, my heart is in it, and I'm just pleased with how well we've done. So thank you again, Beth. We have board members, and I don't know, let's see who I can see. So we have Margaret Mary Quinn. Let's see. The first that popped up on my screen is Joanna. Joanna, tell us what you've been doing, if you'd like. I have not really been doing a whole lot. I'm now a potential caregiver for my mother in Louisville, so I spent a lot of time trying to get to understand dementia. And so that's where I'm at right now. Bless your heart. Thank you. You will need all the blessings you can get. Robert James, you popped up. Thank you, Gloria. Personally, I finished harvest December 31st, so that was a blessing. And otherwise, at the Farm Bureau, we are getting ready for our machinery auction to benefit our scholarship fund for Fayette County students. It will happen on March 14th this year. We will be accepting equipment from the Monday before to the Thursday before. So Thursday the 12th will be the deadline for equipment. Lawnmowers, yard equipment, tractors, implements, some vehicles as well. Just a wide array of equipment will be available for inspection that Friday before, and the sale will start at 830 on Saturday. And we go until we're finished. So we have four trucks selling items in the lot simultaneously. So it's quite an event, and everyone is welcome to come out, and it's all for a worthy cause. Robert, you had a great thing online that I suspect went to all the Farm Bureau meetings members about sort of encouraging and passing out that information. Would you please make sure that Beth, you forward that to Beth so she can get that to all of our board members so they can pass it? I sent it to a dozen others, forwarded it to people in my neighborhood. If you will send that to Beth, maybe she can send that on to our board members, forward that, and then they can encourage their neighbors and friends to participate. I think the more we can pass that around, the better. Okay. Will do. Okay. Thank you. And I see Jim Coleman. Hello, Madam Chair. I'm pleased to, well, first of all, happy birthday to you. Thank you. And congratulations on your reelection, and you have my total support, and I thoroughly enjoy under your leadership. I'm pleased to let you all know I'm going to be a guest speaker at the Organization of Organic Association of Kentucky's annual conference, which is going to be this Thursday, I'm sorry, this Friday and Saturday. So I'll be there on Friday to talk about workforce development on the farm. And so I'll be letting all of my fellow organic farmers know all about our Fayette County Summer Youth Jobs Training Program, the need to have veterans like I had this past summer, a veteran to be my assistant manager, as well as our second chance citizens. So I'll be talking about that and the resources that our farmers can get to being able to enhance their, you know, workforce development opportunities. I also am pleased to let you know that I had a great meeting with Dr. Capo, President of Kentucky State University, and also Dean Marcus Bernard. And I shared with them the planner that we use at Coleman Crest Farm that helps farmers to come up with a seed budget, the annual calendar for what you need to do from planting seeds all the way to the end of harvest and cover crop, as well as coming up with projections both for tonnage as well as sales. And so we're looking to expand that. And so I'm very excited about the potential of working with Kentucky State, of being able to build that out so that we can share that with other farmers throughout the state. Thank you. That's great. Great. Let's see. I don't see that. Margaret and Mary Quinn and Phil still. Okay. Oh, and Jonathan. No report, Gloria. Mary Quinn. Good afternoon, everybody. First of all, thank you to the officers for your willingness to serve and do such a good job on our behalf. We appreciate you. And to Beth, amazing to have your leadership and your expertise guiding us. So thank you all. If you are not sure what Gloria is referencing, I'm very excited to say that Lexington received three tremendous honors from Condé Nast Traveler at the beginning of the month. One was the number one. Important distinction, all three of these awards were voted on by their readers. So this is not something that we can necessarily, you know, pay our way into or you have the right political connection or whatever. This is truly like reader driven awards. And so to me, that just makes them all the more meaningful. But one was Lexington voted the most visitor friendly city in the country, which is a direct testament to the people of this city who welcome our visitors every single day and take such great care of them. Second was top six or number six on the list of top ten for food scenes. And sometimes people push back on me and they say, oh, my goodness, you know, Lexington isn't that interesting of a food scene. And I've said, well, you owe it to yourself to get out into some of these neighborhoods and some of these shopping centers and discover some of the amazing ethnic and immigrant prepared food that is on these tables. It really is fantastic. So if you're up for a little bit of a challenge, we have a great resource on our Web site. Visit Lex dot com and you can find all kinds of places that will give you amazing food alongside the sort of southern staples and more traditional southern fair. And then third was number eight on the list for small cities. And I think that is sort of speaking to this larger effort that we've been working on for the last decade with some level of intentionality on really trying to put Lexington on the map and earn ourselves respect to sit at the table and to show that people, even though we're not a major gateway city, we've got a lot of great things to offer. And so all three great ways to be acknowledged and to start the new year. The only other thing I would mention is that February 9th through the 13th, Lexington is going to be the host city for the Religious Conference Managers Association's annual meeting. And this is a really tremendous opportunity for us to have three hundred and fifteen meeting planners of all various faiths in our city. We're going to be doing sort of three days of hardcore Lexington pitching and selling and touring them around the horse park and downtown and lots of various spots in between. And we're really excited about this opportunity to have so many meeting planners in town for those who are maybe not in the convention space much. The religious market is one that performs very well for Lexington. So it's really exciting to have more than three hundred of these planners coming into the city. So it's going to be a big lift for our team. It's the first time we've ever done something at this scale, but we're super pumped about it. Mary Quinn, thank you for all you do. Talk about the hardest working woman anywhere you're at. It is. What you do is just unbelievable. And also, for those of you, anybody who gets Garden and Gun magazine, I've already sent her a little text because she was also had her photograph in Garden and Gun with our tourism. So, thank you. I don't, I think that it is so important that, and that's one reason we need to update this 2017 plan, is to have more in there about tourism and the importance economically, what it means. And that is evidenced, you mentioned the horse park. Excuse me. So many of the new, the small farms that we have, it's just amazing to me how many of those have turned over into the sport horse industry. Oh yeah. And how many people have come from everywhere for buying these small farms because of our equine industries. And the horse park has been such a big part of that. So, it is, I know that it's really important, especially in these small farms that we're doing now to promote that. And talking about the restaurants, this is a wonderful town for good food at all price levels and at all kinds of foods, all types. And it's, that's another thing that we need to show a little more in our plan because we do have a lot of farms here growing products. I mean, it's pretty obvious now that with the import taxes that we're not going to be growing a lot of citrus or avocados here, but that we certainly are doing a lot of squash and tomatoes and furnishing them to our local groceries and restaurants. And so many of our restaurants are using produce from our local folks. And it's, that I think just really adds to the food part that you've talked about. And you've made note of that in some of the articles and things you've written. So, thank you for promoting that and promoting all of our ag industries. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we couldn't, we couldn't do any of what we do with horses or bourbon or food without agriculture at the core. So, it's, it is central to our story here in Lexington and the region. So, thank you. Let's see. Bill Hager, do you have anything? Bill? Nothing to report. Happy birthday. And then Jonathan Disney. Okay, Jonathan. Nothing to report. Thank you. Thank you all so much. And I hope all of you all are semi-warm. I think Fayette County is lucky enough to have electricity. I mean, what's coming across, I still have friends in Nashville, and they have not had electricity since Saturday. And all of the trees in their yard are just destroyed. It's so sad. So, Mother Nature was a lot nicer to us here in Fayette County this time than it has been in the past or elsewhere in the country. So, I hope all of you all are faring pretty well. I know it is hard for people, Robert and all of us out with farms, and that was why Hannah could not be here today. We will not meet again until after Valentine's Day. So, I'm sending lots of love to all of you all. Thank you. Happy Valentine's Day. Our next meeting won't be until February the 25th. Same time, same place. Are there any comments before I call for a motion to adjourn? Other than thank you all. And we did manage to get the 5% done. So, thank you all very much for showing up today. That will let us go ahead and put that in the closings that we have lined up on these small farms. So, that's a good thing to have accomplished today. So, we're moving along. And thank you all. If there are no other comments, I'll call for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Robert, is there a second? Second. Joanna? All in favor, show of hands, please. Edbeth, you'll have to. Unanimous, yes. Okay. Thank you all again for coming and making the special effort to do this. I know that Zooming has made it certainly a lot easier for us to meet today and for those of us who are out of town being able to Zoom in. So, thank you all and hopefully I'll see you next week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey! 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Hey, it's Byjana Coe with Your Lex PD and we are here for another episode. And, you know, this brings back memories. Yes. In the very first season of Your Lex PD we were in this room, the Real-Time Intelligence Center, talking about the Real-Time Intelligence Center and all the technology. So we're back now in season two and we're talking about different types of technology here at the Lexington Police Department, which is? Drones. Drones, yeah. And it's something that is obviously changing public safety, both fire and police, all across the United States, keeping people on the ground safe, keeping officers safe. So who do we have with us? Commander Grayhouse. Again, which was the one we talked to in the Real-Time Intelligence Center. All right, so let's go talk to Commander Grayhouse about the drone program here at the Lexington Police Department. Hey, and we are back with Commander Matt Grayhouse. Thank you for joining us again. Thank you for having me. You were here for season one, now you're back for season two. So tell us a little bit about yourself again. Again. So I started my career back in the 1900s, 1999. I came on the police department and started my career here. I kind of went about everywhere in the agency that I could be in. I was lucky enough to get promoted to commander and oversee the special investigation section and really taken a large push with the team to get this technology, newer technology for our city, to help us protect the community. Well, when we talk about technology, your name always comes up. And actually, it was either the second or third episode we ever did of the show was talking with you about where we are today, the Real-Time Intelligence Center, and all about technology. So now we're talking about another area of technology that's being utilized in public safety, both police and fire, all across the United States, and that is drones. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that today and all the different ways we use it. So how did this whole program start here in Lexington? So right around 2018, the police department, well, I guess drones as an entity to be used for public safety started to really come into public safety for policing. The Hazardous Devices Unit, which I'm the commander of, also started looking at that as, how could we implement a drone to help us on a scene, make sure that all the scene is completely safe? We can put people in certain places, which is fine, but I can only see one plane of sight. And if we're doing any kind of countermeasures or anything like that, it needs to have a third view, and it's much quicker for us to be able to look at an overall safety picture for whatever that scene is. We started looking at that in 2018. Like I mentioned, in 2019, we did some exploration to get a grant to fund that, and then COVID happened in 2020. It kind of slowed us down. We purchased our first drone at the end of 2020 and implemented it in early 2021 for the Bomb Squad. And what that did is allowed us to support not only what our operations were, but we also support our Emergency Response Unit, which also has the crisis negotiators with them also. So any kind of call we go out, we provide that third perspective, an overall view of the overall scene for the commanders there to make the decisions to help protect our folks that are on the ground, but also the people we're responding to help. So you had mentioned some of the areas in the police department where the drone is used. I'm still on patrol. So we also have some drone operators on patrol. Do you know how many we have across the board? So when we filed it, we saw how it worked so well with us using it at the Hazardous Devices Unit and also with our ERU response that we knew that we probably wanted to start migrating and allowing it to get out to patrol because that's where people needed the help. You're responding to calls for service where things are happening in seconds and they need that backup. If our airship is up, our Air One unit is phenomenal. We don't ever want to get rid of that one. They have much more capabilities than we do. They can fly farther and longer and fly higher and do different things. The drone is there to provide that immediate response. So what we did see is the need for that, and we implemented a patrol drone program in 2024. So when the drones were put into patrol, we put one in each sector, and we've trained two pilots each shift for each sector. Those folks train quarterly according to policy, so they come in and do their quarterly training. We do a night training to make sure they're proficient in their skills, and those drones have proven to be very beneficial for finding not only missing folks but also suspects that are wanted in crimes. Yes. So do we have some success stories? We have a lot of success stories. Fortunately, we've been able to find some missing people, missing children that have been either run away or gotten away from home that they can't find their way back. We've been able to use that, but more importantly, we've been able to protect our officers on scene when they're responding to calls. One specifically happened within the last year where a person had assaulted their significant other, fled in a vehicle, and then the police got behind that vehicle. The person wrecked and then fled into a wooded area. What you have there is a wooded area where somebody can take up an advantage against the police. We were able to use the drone and find a heat signature. What that did is allow the officers to form a perimeter and call that person out to them rather than potentially harming not only our officers but the suspect that was in there. It makes an overall safe environment because, once again, you have that third perspective and you're able to say, we know we see you in there. You need to come out to us. That person actually did give up. That's just one of many success stories where we've been able to find folks that have fled from traffic stops or domestic violence or any kind of crimes in our community. They've been able to dispatch those drones from the patrol officers that have those with them, put those up immediately after, and find these folks. You mentioned safety. When people ask me about the air support unit and utilization of the helicopter, that's really what it's all about is making sure the people on the ground are safe, the public safe, and the officers are safe, and that's really what you all are doing as well. What are some other than patrol and hazardous device unit and crisis negotiation, what are some other areas that we're using them in? I know I have heard, and we talked with traffic in our last episode, and we talked with, they mentioned a little bit about our reconstruction unit, our collision reconstruction unit. I think they utilize drones as well, don't they? They have. They came on very early along with the hazardous devices unit. What that does for the community is if you ever had a major scene where there's been a death and a collision reconstruction, you need to come out and investigate that. Back in the old days when you and I were here, we had to get the film cameras as you had to find our partners at the fire department to bring an aerial truck out, and we had somebody that had an airplane to take an overall view of the top part of the scene. That could take hours to get those assets out there, and you wanted to make sure you had different angles, so that meant you had to move apparatus and all kinds of things. Well, now the drone can go up and take all the pictures they need within five minutes, and all the aerial stuff is done, and that makes the investigation go much quicker and allows us to open that roadway quicker. I guess one of the other areas too, some of the training that I've been to when we look at large-scale events around the United States, we're doing so many different things now than what we used to do, whether it's hard shutdowns on roads, making sure people are safe at different events around the community, and we probably utilize drones as well for that just to see if there's anything that is concerning. Sure. What we've seen just recently in our history in the United States is that there's been long-range gun attacks on folks, and what we have is an asset that can help us prevent that. At least to maybe identify the targets where we don't have the availability. We have officers that are on the ground during mass gatherings, whether it be a 4th of July event, whether it be a parade downtown or a protest, and we need to make sure all of our public is safe. Officers on the ground can't see up on a roof. We don't have the personnel to put somebody on every single roof that's in and around our community. We have a very easy way to do that, and that's with our drones. What I love about our agency is we move and shift to the needs of not only our community, but what we see as threats. We now put a drone up when we have large mass gatherings of people downtown just to do random patrols of the area, and that's the only time we ever do a random patrol with a drone. We only respond to calls for service where it's needed. It never comes out of the case other than that, except for this, because we have a need to protect that community downtown, and our air support unit can do a great job of that, but they're limited by fuel. They're also limited by other aircraft because they fly much higher, so we need to have something that's available, and this is great. We can put it up, change the batteries out, and have it right back up. Well, we've had situations where I know the helicopter has actually located something, either on camera or FLIR, but we weren't able to get a good angle at it, and we've been able to utilize a drone at a lower altitude to be able to get in if it's under tree cover or something like that and help us out, so it really works well together. It's been a great team environment. I've worked with you specifically on several of those calls while you've been much further up in the air, and we've been much lower, but yes, we can take that down to a much lower altitude and be able to get into those spots where the aircraft obviously cannot get just because of the restrictions. So if the community has any questions or concerns about the policy or just questions about the program, who do they need to contact? Well, first of all, our policy is placed on our transparency page, so anybody can go look at that and see where it is. It's not used for any active surveillance. I talked about the monitoring for the large events. That's the only thing we do. Anything really over 5,000 people, we want to make sure we're there to provide as much protection as we can. It's not up all the time. It's put up random because we don't want the bad guys to know that we do certain patrols at certain times, and we'll put it up randomly. We'll use it for a specific event if we see an agitator because we want to make sure the people that are doing whatever they are doing are protected. So the rest of our policy also mandates that we only respond to calls for service, so it's not something we're going to go out and just randomly look for things. We can't fly it over somebody's house to look for evidence. If we ever were going to use something for the drone for something like that, it has to be in a search warrant. That search warrant approval has to go all the way from the very bottom of our police department all the way up to the chief of police for his approval before that even proceeds. And then after that, it has to go to a judge. That's only happened one time in one case that we've had, so we don't use it to gather evidence. We can't use it to find things. The way I equate it is, much like we're trained, that if the police department has the right to be there, then all of our assets, our dogs or our helicopter or our drones have the right to be there also, and we're not going to look in somebody else's backyard or the neighborhood over to look for something. We're just not doing it. And I think that's really important because that question has come up with the helicopter as well. We're not out looking for stuff. We're responding to calls and making sure the people on the ground are safe and the officers are safe too. And the fire department utilizes drones as well, don't they? They do. They also use those in conjunction with us for missing persons, but they also use them for any kind of fire that they go to because these drones are equipped with thermal capabilities, so they're able to pick out hot spots in areas where, in a home or a structure or even out on a field, a large brush fire, they can put the water where it needs to go because a lot of smoke hides a lot of where the actual true source of the fire is. They can put those drones up and be able to see, oh, that's exactly where we need to go, so quit putting it over here, put it over there. So whether it's police or fire, it's really about saving people's lives. It's all about public safety. It's all 100 percent about public safety. We also would assist DEEM in any kind of natural disaster, whether it be a tornado, flooding, earthquake, whatever that happens to be, we can respond to anything that's needed in our community. So what does the future look like? The future looks like right now, currently our patrol drone program that you're familiar with that takes one person that's on patrol to be able to operate that drone and one person to be a visual observer. So that takes two people off of that call, potential call, that could be in doing some work, whatever that call may be. The future is looking at a way we can provide a drone support for all of public safety, and that's a drone as a first responder. We see that as a very valuable tool where it could be actually flown from right here in the Real-Time Intelligence Center, and so that frees up those other officers that are on scene to be able to go out and actually get into that call and help out and not be taken away from. That's two personnel that we can put right back in to whatever is needed on the ground. That drone would then be flown from remote locations, so they would be spread out around where we can cover our entire community, and we would respond only to calls for service. So essentially if somebody calls in and asks for help of whatever that is, and we believe that the drone could fly, whether weather-dependent, we would send that there to be able to get there first to provide that real-time intelligence, which we spoke about in our first season in here, is the whole key is to provide as much up-to-date intelligence to those that are on the street responding so they can make that accurate response and not all be going to one place that has nothing to do with it or going to one specific vehicle or any vehicle that matches the description. We want to find that exact thing. We're seeing that as a trend all across the United States, and even here in Kentucky. I know I was in some training in Louisville a few weeks ago, and they were talking about their program that they use, the drone as a first responder. University of Kentucky, there's a lot of different agencies around the country that are using that and having a lot of success in keeping people safe. I think going forward, I think we're going to be calling ours the Aerial Public Safety Support Program, but it's, again, police and fire. We're all working together, and emergency services as well, because if we have a major scene of some type, whether it's a collision, a hazardous material spill, talking about having these capabilities is talking about saving people's lives. It all goes back to what we talked about just a few minutes ago is keeping not only our officers safe, but our public safe. What that does is that name allows us to say that it's not just for the police department, it's not just for the fire department, but it's for community corrections, it's for DEEM, it's for E911, it's for everything within the whole umbrella of public safety. The way I see it is if somebody calls to ask for help, whatever that may be, is this public safety drone will be able to respond to help that person, whether we find a suspect, whether we find a missing person. That's what we're going to be using it for, to help get our roadways open quicker, make sure there's not a cloud of chemicals that's spreading. You can look at the airplane crash they had in Louisville a few weeks ago. They had a five-mile area where they were looking for, like, to evacuate. That is a very large undertaking, and you can't accomplish that without using some kind of aerial support, whether it be a helicopter, whether it be drones, because you've got to get people out of a certain area and you've got to identify victims. And so this asset is going to be able to bring that new technology, or just updated technology, really, because we're already using this in patrol. This just allows us to get those folks that are on the street back into the game and be able to respond to those things. I'm excited for it. Yeah, this is very exciting stuff, and we always love talking to you because it's always technology. And really, so many episodes we've talked about the trends of technology and how law enforcement has changed, how public safety has changed, and this is just another area of that. And the way that Lexington is always on the cutting edge to make sure we do everything we can possibly do to help keep this community safe. So, Commander, thank you very much for joining us for this episode. Thank you for having me. And, hey, we may have you again next season too, right? Let's go. Okay. All right. Thank you. It was really good talking to Commander Greathouse again about where Lexington Police Department is going with all this drone technology and just technology in general. Technology in general. And it's something that's changing public safety, both police and fire, all across the United States. And something that Lexington is always on the cutting edge, making sure that we're trying to keep the folks here in Lexington as safe as we possibly can. So, yeah, always great talking to Commander Greathouse. So we're coming to the end of our second season. It's hard to believe. I know. I'm excited. So what are we going to talk about next? So let's go. We're getting ready to have a season three. Yes. We haven't got rid of us yet. So we've got all kinds of plans for season three. So our last episode of season two, let's go back and kind of visit some of our memories from the first two seasons, all the fun we had and maybe even some bloopers along the way, right? And maybe we can go to a special location and have your favorite and my favorite. Popcorn with butter. All right. So make sure you join us next month for another episode of Your Lex PD. We'll see you then. Oh, baby. Tell me what you got on your mind. I guess those college boys all went home for the summertime. Right. Looking good. Looking like a woman. Just a while. It's so hard to find a place to lay your pretty little head down. Once in a while. Don't you sweat it. 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I am Danica here with the Lexington Senior Center, and I'm going to teach a chair yoga class with a little bit of standing, but we've got options all the way throughout. So before we get started, go ahead and find a sturdy chair. So not a recliner, not a rocking chair, find a nice sturdy chair, maybe something, maybe your dining room chair. And beyond that, you may find it useful today if you have a yoga strap, that's cool, but we could also use a belt, a dish towel, hand towel. And beyond that, if you're perhaps a bit shorter, maybe you grab some yoga blocks or a couple of dictionaries that are about the same height and put them just underneath your feet to bring your knees up a little higher if you feel like you've got to reach, to reach the floor. So a couple items that may be of help for your practice today. Take the time to grab that and then meet me in a seat. Whenever I get started, I like to just kind of root around. Notice how I'm feeling, how my shoulders feeling, how I'm feeling, how my hips feeling. Ask your neck and your back, how's it feeling? Did we sleep okay? And if not, that's okay. Just know to be ginger with those areas of the body as we proceed. So to arrive right here, let's take three big breaths. Big inhale. Open the chest. Fill up the belly. Big exhale. Sigh of relief. All you got to do is follow along. You can almost turn your brain off, kind of. Two more breaths just like that. Big breath in. Big breath out. Relax the shoulders. Relax the jaw. One more lovely breath just like that. And we'll go right into a nice, easy warm-up. Starting right here in the neck, let's just slowly shake our head now. Side to side. Not necessarily pushing too much. Just working with the range of motion that we currently have. And keeping in mind that if I suggest any movement, that you don't like or your body doesn't like, you can say no. You can take a little break, just take a sip of water and catch me on the next movement. Bring your head to the center. And slowly shake your head, yes. So I'm going to tuck my chin down, but I'm really not going to lift my chin too high. I might put too much stress on the back of the neck. Dropping the chin. Lifting gently. Lifting gently. Saying yes to this yoga class, because you already have. Saying yes to any movements that feel good today. Good. One more little neck stretch. Drop the chin. We're just going to let the head rock side to side, so look something like this. Left to right while keeping the chin low. And when you're satisfied, bring the head right back up to where we started. Moving into the shoulders. If we're really tight today, start off with just some easy shrugs. But if we have a little flexibility, maybe it feels nice to go ahead and move backwards here. Drawing big circles behind us. Maybe we can move with the breath. Inhale to lift the shoulders. Exhale, pull them behind you and drop. Inhale to lift. Exhale to pull back. Inhale to lift. Exhale to pull. So just kind of working out all of the tightness. Maybe your shoulders are a little noisy. Mine usually are. As long as it's not hurting, that's all right. And of course, if we have, say, one good side and one less good side, work with one at a time. Nothing wrong with that. Good. Once you're satisfied, we'll take a few of the opposite directions. Little shoulder circles. We're just going forward. I'll even send my elbows wide, and that's going to take the stretch into the middle of the back there. Maybe still moving with our breath if we can. Good. And we'll let that rest. Take up a little bit of space. Sweep up the arms. Big stretch out. And as you reach overhead, just reach really high as if you were getting taller. We'll bring one arm down and reach straight up with the other. And then find a big side stretch. Maybe lift up and look towards the ceiling if you want a little extra, a little extra stretch there. Inhale to come back to your center all the way down. Right into the other side. Sweep up both arms again, reaching up nice and tall. This time, leaving the opposite arm up, bringing one arm down. Big side stretch. Maybe you're holding onto the chair for security here. Anything that keeps us safe and stable. Maybe a little twist upwards. And then inhale all the way back to your center. Next, we're going to do our first little twist of the day, and that's going to really focus in on our core. So our pelvic floor, our abdomen, our sides, and our back. So for a moment, as you inhale, get up a little taller as if someone was pulling you from the crown of your head. As you exhale, draw the belly in. Setting up all these muscles in a really stable way. Do that once more. Inhale nice and tall. Exhale, draw in. Now we're going to twist, maybe taking the hands to the heart, twisting to one direction. Inhale, come back to your center. Exhale, twist the other direction. Still using these strong muscles. One more each way. Inhale, center. Exhale, twist. Inhale, center. Exhale, twist. Come on back. Let the arms rest and place them down on your lap. Next, we're going to find a sitting cat-cow. It's a big move in yoga that's just so good for the spine. If it's new to you, that's all good. We'll walk through it. So we'll start with just a nice, tall, neutral posture. And as we inhale, we're going to lift our chest towards the ceilings. Inhaling to lift our chest. Lift the chin a little. And as you exhale, I want you to start in the belly. Draw the belly back. Pull the belly button back to the spine. Round in the shoulders and let the back of the neck stretch out. Use an inhale to come up to that first position. So this is the cow portion of cat-cow. And as you exhale, rounding in the back. Continue with that. I'm going to turn so you can see what I'm doing perhaps a bit better. Inhaling to open. So we find the arch in the back there. Exhale. Pull the belly back. Round in the back. Round in the upper back. Head hanks. Two more. One more. Good. Press back up to a good, tall posture. And we'll use that same thought but just kind of change it. So let's bring the hands to the back of the neck. And we're going to find that same curvature but just side to side. So nice, tall posture to begin. Even exhale to draw the belly in. That's going to keep our core nice and strong and stable. And perhaps as we exhale, we just bring one elbow down. Inhale, center. Exhale. Go the other way. Inhale, center. Exhale. Drop an elbow. Inhale, center. Exhale. Drop the other elbow. One more in each direction. Come all the way back up to that good, tall posture. Hands can come down to our sides once again. We'll get the hips a little warmed up. First fold of the day. So we'll just reach forward and then just bend from the hips. Do your best to keep a nice, flat back when you do this. So just walking the hands down towards the feet. Maybe it touches the floor. Maybe not. Not important here. Lovely way to stretch out the back. It's also calming to the nervous system. As we breathe, our bellies press into our legs and our legs kind of press back. Tricking the nervous system into being a bit more calm. Feel free to let your head hang here. You don't have to look up the way I am. Maybe we just add a bit more here. Take one arm and just reach towards the opposite side of the body, just across the body here, maybe towards that foot. And then back to the center. Other arm, reaching across the body towards that opposite foot. Just a little extra stretch for the different sides of the back. One more each way. Bring the hands to the thighs. Use your strong arms to press yourself up. And back to a nice, tall posture. Let's get the blood flowing a little bit with some bigger movements. Inhale, reach up towards the sky. Exhale, fold all the way down again. We're just not going to hang out too long there. Inhale, all the way up. Exhale, fold all the way down. Inhale, up. Exhale to come down. Let's just do one more. Inhale, all the way up. Exhale, come on down. And then sweep up to return to our tall posture. Feel free to take a moment. If you have something to drink, take a little sip of water. Catch your breath. If you lost it, that's okay. We always can find it again. And then from there, we're going to give a little focus to our hands. So just for a moment, no matter how stiff or flexible the hands are feeling right now, just start by opening and closing the hands. You don't have to hold them high. They can stay right here in the lap. Just sensing how the hands are feeling today. Maybe we can create a little bit of independent movement by wiggling the thumb, wiggling the index finger, the middle, the ring finger, and the pinky finger. Might not be perfect circles all the way through, but really just trying to make that mind-to-muscle connection. It's a little challenge for the brain. Maybe move the hands about as if you were playing a piano. And then we'll work into the wrists here. So you can make a light fist and just move the wrist up and down. Side to side. Maybe we can do some circles in here. Great way to get the blood flowing. Also a good way to wake yourself up. I'll do this in the afternoons as opposed to having a little caffeine instead. And it'll just get my blood flowing, get my brain going. Good. Relax that. And we'll focus in on the next joint in the body, the elbow. Perhaps as if we are a big, strong weightlifter, let's just act as if we were holding weights in our hands and squeeze the arms up to the top, stretching them out long and even taking them behind us a little. Squeezing the muscles in. You can really create a lot of strength here without any weight at all. If you want more work out of it, just squeeze the muscles more up here. And then relax the arms, even stretch back a little. We'll do three more of those. Squeezing at the top, stretching at the bottom. Two more. Good. Relax the arms. And we're going to take one arm across the body and literally just give ourselves a little massage. So maybe start by just kind of poking around, see if the muscles feel kind of tight today. Maybe we can clamp down on that meaty part right by the neck. Kind of squeeze around a little bit. Noticing if you can find any tight, tender spots. And when you're ready, switching to the other side. Taking the arm across the body, just kind of poking around. Maybe clamping down on that strong muscle next to the neck. Squeezing about. Just create a little warmth. Any and all of that is good. Relax the arms just for a moment. Catch your breath. The arms are getting a little tired. We don't have too much more before we move on to another portion of the body. Let's bring the hands to the shoulders here. And just kind of let your fingertips touch. And our focus here is we're going to move our elbows in and out. So maybe starting with the elbows as close to the face as we can do. Inhale to open. Exhale to close. Inhale to open. Exhale to close. Inhale to open the arms. Exhale, close. Inhale, open. And close. I'm going to change directions, lifting the elbows up and down. So maybe inhale to lift. Exhale to lower. Inhale to lift the elbows, stretching these muscles right here. Even feeling it in our belly a little. Exhale, lower. Inhale to lift. Exhale to lower. These are a little tougher than the other ones. One more. Inhale, high. Exhale, lower those elbows all the way down. Maybe shake it out if you felt the need. And sometimes that's just kind of fun to create a little free movement. We're going to find some similar shapes. Stretch the arms out. This time making almost like a stop if you're trying to stop someone. Stop hands. And we're going to try the wrist one more time here by just dropping the hands down. Coming back up to stop hands. Taking the hands down. And back up just a couple times there. And then we'll leave them back up to palms facing out. Inhale, lift high. Bring the arms down in front of your face. Inhale, lift high. Exhale, arms down. Inhale. Exhale to bring them down. Inhale to lift. Exhale to bring them down. And now out and in. Inhale to open. Squeezing the shoulder blades behind you. Exhale to close. Inhale to open. Exhale to close. Inhale to open the arms nice and wide, as wide as you can go. Exhale, just bring them back in front of you. Let's do two more. Inhale, open. Exhale, close. Let the arms come down. Shake it out. And then we'll move on to another part of the body. Take a moment to look down at our awesome feet. They've gotten this everywhere thus far. I imagine they will continue to do so, so let's get a little gratitude and just kind of look down at our feet and create some movement. Maybe just rocking back and forth on the feet, really good way to get the arches of the feet going. Maybe side to side. I'll stretch out the sides of the ankles. Maybe just taking a moment to open and close the toes, kind of crunch them closed, stretch them out, crunch them close, stretch them out. All of these are great ways for getting into all the joints that are located in the feet there. So just take a moment to do any of the things I just said, or if you've got another move that feels good, we're just getting the feet going here. Just taking a moment to get the feet working, waking them up. And then once you feel nice and supple in your feet, just kind of let them sink right back into the floor here, or into your shoes if you're wearing shoes. And we're going to stretch out our ankles. So we're just going to stretch out our foot. It doesn't have to be too high off the ground, but if you really want a little extra challenge, sit up nice and tall and keep that foot high, but you don't have to. You can keep it low if you want. And just start by maybe pointing and flexing the foot, pointing and flexing, pointing like a ballerina, or flexing like you're wearing a boot. Maybe from there we can draw some circles one direction, then the other. Also really good for blood flow. Go ahead and set that foot down. We'll do the exact same thing on the other side. So we're pointing the foot and flexing the foot. You decide how high that foot is off the ground. Point and flex, point and flex. Just a couple more. Maybe move into those circles we did on the other side. Go both directions. Set that foot down. From here, go ahead and grab for your yoga strap or your dish towel or your belt, whatever we're using. And it doesn't have to be too specific, but this can just help us reach our part of our body. So from here, you may find you don't need it, and we can just hold the leg up. But if for whatever reason the arms don't feel long enough, we'll go for this strap. Bring it underneath one leg. Come up to that good posture. Exhale, draw the belly in. We're going to lift this foot off the ground. So with or without the strap, you may find, as I said, you may not need it. But it's nice to have and not need as opposed to the other way around. So we've got this knee in the air just a little bit, and we're just going to find some nice knee swings here, just getting the knees warmed up, getting the muscles around the knees warmed up, just gently kicking the leg out, drawing back in, kicking the leg out, drawing back in. We'll set that side down. Go right to the other side with or without our prop here, lifting that knee high, remembering to find our nice tall posture and stretch that leg out. Bring it back. Stretch that leg out. Bring it back. Stretch and draw in. Stretch and draw in. Do one more. And we'll set that side down. Keeping the prop nearby, let's just stretch out one foot here. It doesn't matter which foot, and we want pretty much to go straight out. And from here, if we're using the strap, we're going to try and get that around the bottom of the foot to some degree. You may find that your dish towel is not quite long enough for this, but, of course, if we inhale nice and tall and reach forward, maybe it could work. But from here, just stretching, pulling that foot towards you, maybe stretching that leg out all the way. Maybe there's a slight bend in the knee. Either way, whatever feels best in your body. And another option altogether is to set that aside and just reach towards your foot. So you can decide how you want to go about that. Remembering to take a couple of big, deep breaths. Inhale all the way up. Same thing, other side. You decide if the prop was helpful or not. Sometimes they can get in the way if we're overusing them, but it is nice to have them around often. So maybe looping that foot and maybe just reaching towards that foot. But we've got the legs stretched out, reaching our arms, and then folding from the hips. Big stretch behind the leg. Good. Release the prop. Set it off to the side. Sit up all the way. And let's come back to a little more quicker movement. Let's get our blood flowing again a little faster. So from here, come back to that good, tall posture all the way up. And we're going to step each foot out and get the brain going by doing opposites. So following along, one step out to the side. Other side. Big step out. Step out. You decide how big these steps are. Your hips will decide that. If the hips are feeling tight, they're not going to want to go very wide, but that's all right. So maybe they're just little steps. But we're getting our hips warmed up, using them from a side to side motion, making them stronger. And maybe you've got a bit more energy and you were just clipping along. Maybe you're going twice the pace I am. And that's awesome if you want to do that. Or maybe we're moving right at this nice, steady pace. One side, then the other. One side, then the other. Two more each way. Good. Bring both feet back in. And this time we're going to keep that movement going. This time it's like we're taking a walk, but we're sitting right here. So pick up one leg, then the other. Maybe get the arms going. Maybe we can do opposite. So opposite arm, opposite leg. Sometimes my brain wants to do the same, though. So maybe you pretty quickly started doing this. And that's okay, too. Either are good. Either are helpful for the body. This one might be a little more challenging for the brain. And by doing these opposite sides of the body, we are connecting the two sides of the brain and getting a little bit stronger in our coordination, creating a sharper mind. It's helpful for memory. And just having a bit more clarity. Good. Maybe pick up the pace with me for just a short little bit as we finish up. One and two and one and two and one and two and one and two. Relax. Set the feet back down. Catch your breath if you lost it. Take a sip of water. Take a moment if you need. When you're ready, just sit a little bit back in your chair. It's going to give us a bit more stability for our next move. And from here, we're going to come back to the idea of kicking, but we're going to alternate. So kick one leg out and then the other. Keeping our good posture. If you find that you're slouching, that's okay. Just mindfully come back. You know how to sit up tall. Exhale, draw the belly in. It's going to make it a little easier to sit up tall. So kicking out. Alternating legs. Maybe if we can kick a little higher, we can reach below and do a little clap. Maybe clapping underneath the knee or just touching fingertips. Another good coordination move. Kick as high as you can and reach. Kick as high as you can and reach on each side. One more each way. You're doing great. Good. Let that relax just for a moment. Letting the legs take a little mini break. Coming back up to our good posture and maybe scooting away from the backs of our chair just a little. You're going to find some big twists.