# Rural Land Management Board - March 25, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Board · March 25, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6732 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6732?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-03-25 - **Body**: Board - **Last revised**: April 3, 2026 - **Length**: 17,856 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 Rural Land Management Board convened at 3:02 PM on March 25, 2026, with Gloria presiding over the session. The board worked through five agenda items during the meeting, covering a range of topics including the approval of meeting minutes, a closed session for real property interest discussion, housing and infrastructure requests, a cell tower application on Royster Road, and urban service boundary concerns. All five agenda items were approved by the board. Over the course of the meeting, members took a total of 10 votes, and no public comments were heard. ## Attendance The following individuals were recorded for the Board meeting on March 25, 2026. **Present (16):** Brian Jones, Margaret Grays, Phil Myer, Robert James, Sean Denny, Tyler Martin, Phil Hager, Tracy Jones, Jim Coleman, Hannah Emig, Joanna, Mary Quinn, Lena, Liz Sheehan, Olivia, and Steven Howard. **Absent (2):** Christine Stanley and Will Mayer. **Late:** None. ## Votes and Decisions The Board took ten votes during the March 25, 2026 meeting, all of which passed unanimously. - **Approval of February 25th minutes** — Moved by Margaret, seconded by Phil. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:06:39] - **Enter closed session pursuant to KRS 61-801B** — Moved by Robert, seconded by Jim Coleman. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:08:15] - **Authorize an offer for small farm 1, 20, 25** — Moved by Robert. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:29:05] - **Authorize an offer on PDR farm 1, 20, 25** — Moved by Jim Coleman, seconded by Phil Meyer. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:30:07] - **Authorize the PDR initial ranking** — Moved by Margaret. Passed unanimously with one abstention. [timestamp: 0:31:07] - **Approval for farm 36-2002 housing and infrastructure request** — Moved by Jim Coleman. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:51:13] - **Approval for farm 35-2006 housing and infrastructure request** — Seconded by Robert. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 0:56:34] - **Approval for farm 1-2009 housing and infrastructure request** — Moved by Margaret, seconded by Jim Coleman. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 1:03:22] - **Send a letter to the Planning Commission regarding cell tower concerns** — Moved by Margaret, seconded by Jim Coleman. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 1:29:48] - **Send a letter to council members regarding urban service boundary concerns** — Moved by Margaret, seconded by Phil. Passed unanimously. [timestamp: 1:42:08] No roll call votes were recorded; all decisions were made by unanimous voice vote. The PDR initial ranking vote was the only action that included an abstention. ## Contested Items Two items generated notable opposition during the March 25, 2026 Board meeting, drawing concern from both community members and board members. **Cell Tower Application on Royster Road** A proposed cell tower on Royster Road drew significant pushback from community members and board members alike. The central concerns focused on the potential impact to property values and scenic views in the area. No additional details regarding the specific applicant, the outcome of any vote, or the ultimate disposition of the application are reflected in the available meeting record. **Urban Service Boundary and Mill Ridge Farm Pump Station** The board also raised concerns about a potential pump station proposed in connection with Mill Ridge Farm. The core issue was not the pump station itself in isolation, but rather the precedent its approval could set for expanding the urban service boundary. Board members expressed apprehension that moving forward with the pump station could open the door to broader development beyond the established boundary. The available record does not indicate a final vote or resolution on this matter. Both items reflect ongoing tensions between development proposals and community and board priorities around land use, infrastructure, and the preservation of existing boundaries and character. ## Approval of February 25th minutes [timestamp: 06:39] The board took up the approval of the minutes from the February 25th meeting. Gloria led the discussion on this item, moving to approve the minutes as presented. - **Outcome:** The minutes from the February 25th meeting were approved. ## Closed Session for Real Property Interest Discussion [timestamp: 08:15] The board moved to enter a closed session to discuss the acquisition of a real property interest. Gloria presented the motion to convene in closed session for this purpose, and the board approved the motion to proceed. No additional details regarding the specific property, location, or terms of the potential acquisition are available from the public portion of the meeting, as the substance of the discussion took place in closed session. ## Housing and infrastructure requests [timestamp: 51:13] The board reviewed housing and infrastructure requests submitted for several farms, including farm 36-2002, farm 35-2006, and farm 1-2009. Key speakers during this agenda item were Beth and Greg Pageant. The board discussed the requests as presented and ultimately approved them. *Note: The available data for this agenda item is limited. Readers seeking fuller detail on what was presented, any concerns raised, or the specifics of each farm's request are encouraged to consult the meeting video at the timestamp above or the official meeting minutes.* ## Cell tower application on Royster Road [timestamp: 1:14:18] The board discussed a cell tower application on Royster Road, with key speakers including Jim Coleman and Tracy. The discussion centered on the application's potential impact on PDR (Purchase of Development Rights) parcels in the area. Board members raised concerns about how the proposed cell tower could affect these protected parcels, and the board debated how best to communicate those concerns to the appropriate decision-making body. As an outcome of the discussion, the board approved sending a letter to the Planning Commission expressing its concerns about the cell tower application's impact on PDR parcels. ## Urban service boundary concerns [timestamp: 1:42:08] The board held a discussion regarding concerns about the urban service boundary, focusing on a potential pump station on Mill Ridge Farm and its implications for where that boundary is drawn. Key speakers in this discussion were Margaret and Phil. The conversation centered on what the installation of a pump station at Mill Ridge Farm could mean for the urban service boundary — a designation that typically determines which areas are eligible to receive public utilities and infrastructure services. While the structured record does not detail the specific arguments each speaker advanced, the discussion was framed around the broader policy implications of allowing infrastructure such as a pump station in that location, and whether doing so could effectively extend or alter the urban service boundary in ways the board needed to consider. The item was ultimately approved by the board. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of February 25th minutes - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Enter closed session pursuant to KRS 61-801B - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize an offer for small farm 1, 20, 25 - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize an offer on PDR farm 1, 20, 25 - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Authorize the PDR initial ranking - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval for farm 36-2002 housing and infrastructure request - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval for farm 35-2006 housing and infrastructure request - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval for farm 1-2009 housing and infrastructure request - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Send a letter to the Planning Commission regarding cell tower concerns - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Send a letter to council members regarding urban service boundary concerns --- ## Full transcript Os gwnaethoch chi ffwrdd i'r ddangos, mae'n rhaid i chi fynd ymlaen a'i ddangos. Mae'r gwaith o ddangos yn ddiweddarach, ond mae'n bwysig iawn i chi ddangos dyfodol. Mae'n bwysig iawn i chi ddangos'r ddangos. Mae'n bwysig iawn i chi ddangos'r gwaith angen. Mae'n bwysig iawn i chi ddangos'r ddangos. Mae'r ddangos yn ddiweddarach. Mae'n bwysig iawn i chi ddangos'r gwaith angen. Mae'r ddangos yn ddiweddarach. Gadewch i ni weld. Rydyn ni'n cael 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ac unrhyw ffordd y gallwn gael... Oh, dyna Joanna. Iawn, felly gallaf ddweud... Mae'n ddigon iawn yma. Gallaf ddweud y cyfarfodydd i'r cyfarfodydd am hyn. Gallwn ddechrau gyda'r munudau a'r pethau, oherwydd ein bod ni'n cael agenda fwy iawn heddiw. Iawn. Mae'n iawn? Iawn. Rydw i'n cael ei fod yn 302 heddiw, felly byddwn i'n cyflwyno'r amser ar 302, ac byddwn i'n mynd drwy'r cyfarfodydd, Beth, dim ond i'r recordiaid i chi a Lena, dim ond i'ch recordiaid dros y sgrin. Dwi'n gweld, yn gyntaf, Brian Jones. Diolch. Diolch yn fawr. Welcome back, and thank you. He's ourselves new NRCS non-voting representative, if you all see him on the screen. He's our Assistant State Conservationist, oversees our easements, so welcome and next on the screen is our Board Member Margaret Grays, and Phil Myer and Robert James, and Sean Denny is next up from the Commissioner's Office, and welcome Tyler Martin, our Council Member who represents us on the Board, Phil Hager is there, and Tracy Jones, Jim Coleman, and Hannah Emig, and Joanna, and now I see Mary Quinn and Lena, and here is Council Member Liz Sheehan, who's chairing the committee and looking at solar, and I told her that I would look at it, and we would have her on our April meeting to answer questions too. There's Olivia, who's our Legislative Aid for the 12th District, and I see other names, but not any faces, but that's at least the Board Members. For absences, Christine Stanley and Will Mayer both said they would be absent today, but try to attend. One is at an out-of-state conference. The other was supposed to be on a 3 o'clock airline flight, so you know how that goes. They may or may not be doing that, and would try to tune in if they could. I do want to remind everybody again, thank you so much for attending these. It is really important because our ordinance does list a percentage of attendance. We do have to be here for a certain amount of time, so I don't want to lose anybody. It's a great group. I appreciate all your efforts, so do keep that in mind, and Jonathan Disney is one of our members who is traveling by car, just like Christine and Will, and he's going to try to participate if at all possible, but we do have a quorum. Did everybody get their February 25th minutes from our last meeting? I hope. Beth and Lena, thank you again very much for doing such a good job of our minutes. They're important for part of our record because we are dealing with a lot of farms and a lot of properties, so thank you all very much for sending out the packets. I saw a shake of some heads. Are there any questions, any comments about our minutes? If not, we need a motion to approve those. I'll move. Okay, Margaret approved. I saw Phil's hand. I'll second. He's seconding, so the motion's made by Margaret, seconded by Phil. If there are no further discussion, I will ask for a show of hands for those who vote yes. Okay, I think that's unanimous, Beth. If you will notice, today, Beth and I discussed this and moved our agenda around a little bit this time. Instead of having the closed session at the end, we have moved that closer to the front because we have a whole lot to discuss in closed session. We have some of our small farms and our PDR farms, and Beth has worked on our rankings. I see Beth's over there counting. Yes. Yes, we're good. I was making sure we had enough to authorize. We have to have eight for author, seven for business. So I take it our votes for our minutes were good. Yes. 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I need a motion to authorize an offer for small farm. 1, 20, 25. As discussed in closed section. This is Robert. I'll make the motion. Second. And I see a hands for second. Motions made and seconded. All in favor. Signify with a show of hands. And I also see Beth. Steven Howard has joined us. So he's, he's been, he's been here. You're here. Just getting here is good thing. So I think that that was everybody. Okay. And I also need a motion. To authorize an offer on PDR farm. 1, 20, 25. As discussed in closed session. I will entertain a motion. Don't move. Jim Coleman and Phil Meyer, both at the same time. Motions made and seconded. All in favor signify with a show of hands, please. Let's see. Is that everybody? Yes. Okay. I think Steven might be trying to say something, but we couldn't hear it. Sorry. I'm just standing in front of the boat since I wasn't in that part of the meeting. Okay. And I'll need a motion to authorize the PDR initial ranking. As discussed in closed section. Do I have a motion? Don't move. Second. Margaret. All in favor, please signify with a show of hands. Abstain. Okay. That's it. Thank you. Now, Beth, will you let our members. I'll make sure all of our members, because we're going to have to go through a new business for our request. And I want to make sure that the people. Are here that we can see. When we get to, so make sure that. They're back into the meeting. For the public. I have, and you know what, right now, the only. Person for a housing request. That's in so far is Greg Padgett for Dixiana. Okay. Well, they were second, but we'll go ahead and do them. Let's do we can do farm stay because Brian is here. That's right. And we can do we can do that while we're waiting to make sure that they're here on time. Beth and Tracy and I, we did meet on March. 13th with our folks in our CS. And you're here, Brian. We talked about farm stay, which has been very important to us. And we have moved that discuss that with you all. We talked about basically, and you can elaborate if you'd like that. As we looked at those farms, if, and when we get that definition, and you all and Margaret, who's the chair of our legal committee. And her members, Beth and Tracy, and our own law department. We'll look at a good definition for that and the particulars. But even then, we know if, and when we do this, that we will have to do it on a case by case basis, because some of the easements absolutely are prohibitive of doing it. And some are maybe. And so we would have to look at each 1 of those, and you would need to okay it at your level with the NRCS for those individual requests. Is that sort of a summation of farm stay? Yes, that was very accurate, Gloria, for sure. And I was hoping Eric could attend today, but he's actually in Wisconsin. And I guess he didn't have computer service where he's at right now. But, you know, that's 1 of the things we talked about. It would have to be, you know, some of the deeds, it doesn't really specify, but there maybe is a potential to do a farm stay, you know, and it'd have to be reviewed kind of on a case by case basis. And we'd have to consider too, does that, you know, local zoning, the board of adjustments, all that kind of thing with that, you know, fall within those allowances as well. But I think, and we also, we reached out to several other states and, you know, states that have a strong ALE program and nobody, none of the other states have faced this yet. So, and I'm sure that will be coming, but as of now, the states we reached out had not, you know, they've not had these conversations. They figured this will be coming up, but not as of yet. But, you know, and I think, you know, Margaret had mentioned like, you know, thinking about like, okay, what, if we want to do a proposal to, for allowances on farm stays on the deeds that potentially you could, I think we would need to think about, okay, what exactly does that look like? What, you know, what will be, will we even be open to, you know, and, and I think we would, you know, if we kind of analyze that and came up with a, you know, kind of like a concrete proposal of what that might look like, I think it would be a good idea to, to submit that to headquarters and let them weigh in on it because for the vagueness in, you know, in those earlier deeds, there's really no, you know, and I guess at the time those deeds were created, there was never, there never any conversation of thoughts and maybe farm stays or some kind of agritourism. So that's kind of my thoughts on it is, you know, we'd have to really, you all would have to think about like, if we wanted to, you know, consider this or have a proposal, you know, we'd have to, we'd have to have something to submit exactly what this would look like and what kind of projects that we would, that we would consider. Now Eric did mention, you know, the, the 2014, 15 ones where it's actually prohibited, you know, he's saying that or said that, you know, if that was something you are interested in, you know, maybe potentially farm stays on those, on those prohibited deeds, you know, you could send that up and we could, we could request that. There's a lot to consider with that though. And one of the things that Matt and I were talking about was like how we valued those. So the appraisal was based on not having that right. So would you have to go back and do another appraisal, you know, because that, that would have a reflection on the value. It would be a value change. That's something I'm not sure of, but that's something that, you know, would have to be considered as well. But, but yeah, I think Gloria, that was a excellent job of, of, you know, a summation of the conversation we had. So. And Mary Quinn is in attendance now. When this first came up like two years ago, Mary Quinn may have some thoughts to add Brian to you all, because she is head of tourism. She may know of some other areas where this is permitted. And we did discuss it long time ago. So is there anything you want to add Mary Quinn, or can you get with our NRCS partners? I'm certainly happy. I'm not sure off the top of my head, I would be all that articulate, but certainly I've got stuff that we've looked at previously and can refresh my memory on the details and happy to connect with you. So make sure you all get together, please. That's Margaret to touch base on that. So we can work on moving that forward. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Are there any other comments? Board members questions. Okay. I think Beth we're now ready for our housing and infrastructure request. And I don't see any of them on my screen. Yeah, it's here, but my, my camera seems to have broken. Okay. All right, Greg, we'll go ahead. We'll do Dixie Anna first then and see if the other two joined by the time we finished. So I'll go ahead and share my screen. Will Blair was going to attend. Is he not here? I'm here. I've been here for the past. There he is. Okay. He is here. Okay. Board members. Welcome. This is Will Blair who's here to represent our farm 362002. So I'll go ahead and start with yours, Dennis. Sure. No problem. Whatever's easy. Okay. All right. So this is farm number 36, 2002. At 3115 Houston Antioch road. It's 53 acres. It's a general ag farm. The owners are Will and Erica Blair. The date of the easement was July 10th, 2003. It was placed in PDR by the Doris Cravens Marshall revocable trust. It is a federal easement. It does not have an impervious surface limit. There are no protective structures. And no demolition is requested. The new structure renovation will be to convert an existing 60 by 100. Utility shed added in 2010 for the PVA. Into a home. Consisting of 6045 square feet, which matches the existing. Square footage on the PVA. They will also add 3,347 square feet of porches. So the total will be. 9,392 square feet, but only 3,347 square feet. No paving is requested at this time. The owners have provided the attached building plans and sitemap. It is a permitted. Use in section five B reserves, the right to add a primary residence. Other information that owners just purchased the farm in December, 2025 and want to add a primary residence as there are no residences on the farm. They will eventually make the farm their home. Approval of the staff recommendation is approval of the request to convert the existing utility shed into a primary residence contingent on. On necessary permitting. Being issued by the division of building inspection. The approval is based on the following criteria. The easement reserves, the right for the property owner to add a primary residence and there's no impervious. And I sent all three of these requests to Charlie farmer and he approved all three. Can you scale on up best scooted on up? We can see. Yes. What they sent. Yes. So there is that language from that. So here we are. So this is the existing utility. Shed that they plan to convert. Into a home and you can see that it's in an. Area, but they've also got some barns and things. So it's in an area of the farm that is already being used for. Housing and ag infrastructure. And let's see, I'll scroll down. Let's see. There is a larger aerial view of where this all sits. In relation to the entire farm. And then we have their billing plans here. And. Goes through that. So there you see the front and the back of how they're going to convert this. All right. And that is it. So let me. Make this a more gallery view and will, do you have anything else to add or. Sure. I can actually share my screen, Beth, if that's okay. And give you a better picture of where this is on the property. Okay. And I think you may need to, I don't know. I'll need to stop my share. Okay. Perfect. And I appreciate all of your time. We're excited to get started on this. It was quite a. A process with the government shutdown. We were hoping to be farther along at this point. And, you know, we got caught up in the. The delays there toward the tail end of last year. And. Let me see if I can figure out how to share this. Well, while you're looking, let me thank you. For sending all the information, the plan. That's a big help for us when we review. And also, thank you for the detailed plans. Oh, you're very welcome. I'm no stranger to it. I'm a landscape architect. I've got a. A design firm in Texas and we do a commercial. Landscape design and I've just started up a firm here in Kentucky too. We've been here. Four years. Now we bought 92 acres here in southeastern Kentucky, you know, kind of around the red river gorge area. And we've been doing some homestead farming out here and it's just kind of hard land with the, you know, the hills and the hollers. And we have been looking for land near Lexington for that whole time. And we couldn't find it until we did. And. And so we're grateful to be able to close on it. This is the property. And so you'll see the. Can you see my mouse here as well? Yes. Okay. Very good. So this is the driveway. This is the, to give you reference. This is the Lockheed Martin. I don't know what you call it. Is it an army? Yes. That's right. We know it as a ball. Very good. And so it's all nice and lit up for us at nighttime. The only downside, but you know, it's a nice area. Great location. This back barn here is where we're building the house. Now we're, we're taking all the existing metal off. So, yeah, it's a lot bigger than you'd think. Even. We have a big family. We have five boys and one on the way. So we had six boys and they're all farm-ready. Oh, we. I grew up on a farm in Texas. My wife her, her dad does livestock and. So he he's got, he's a cattle broker. So we're going to take the fields and do another round of crops while we're building. We'll be all organic because we actually keep bees as well. So we've got a lot of bees coming out here at the start of this year in two weeks, actually. And so we're we're excited to do that. This is where our house is going to be. I know that's what you all are concerned with. We're going to take all the existing metal off. And we'll reuse it elsewhere for outbuildings and whatnot. But we can it's two floors worth of height, actually. So we're going to just finish out the bottom floor at this point and have a tall attic. But the idea is keep the same shape, add a little extension on the back. That gives a gable and add the porches that Beth mentioned earlier. They just have wraparound porches. Now, we wanted to make sure that we could have septic before we did all this. So we went ahead and had septic. The health department come out and they did the two holes for the perk test. And we got approved for a septic field up in the front. And the reason for that is that this is kind of the watershed that kicks this way toward the road. And it doesn't go back toward any of the the spring area, which I understand is a protected area for the PDR easement. So we just wanted to make sure that we have the water going the right way, the treated water. And so this little section of grass is where we're doing the septic field and all that is permitted. So we're we're all good to go. We actually went ahead and bought the metal preemptively for the roofing for the redoing the barns. We're going to redo the barns and repaint them as well. Keep them the same. We like the historic tobacco barns. We're just going to put new metal on the roofs and repaint it. And the metal price is going up 20 percent here in a week. So we went ahead and bought the metal preemptively and figured we'd do something with it. So that's all I've got, unless you have any questions. Well, I have a comment. And not only thank you for sending the detailed plans and for showing us this, but we're happy to have somebody come from Texas to do this. And somebody who is bringing their boys up in the way we want them to go to farm. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you very much for showing this and for caring so much about the land and continuing what you're doing. So thank you for all of it. Oh, you're very welcome. And thank you for that. We're homeschooling. We had a lot of health issues in Texas and we got to the bottom of it. And we went on the road and we actually, believe it or not, we RV lived until we found the right place to land. And that was a challenge. RV living with such a big crew. So we're happy to be here and we're happy to be farming again. And so we're excited. So we will be homesteading for the first bit. And then we'll be doing a kind of mixed agricultural with some livestock, some organic crops, and then also some of the higher yield things like fruits and berries and honey and some of the more premium products. We keep chickens right now, but we're selling them all because we're moving. We'll be restarting with the flock and all that here in a year once we get the house out there. Well, that's great. Thank you. I have a question, Chair. Yes, let's try to put everybody back so we can see everybody on the screen. Sure, how do I do that? Punch your other button. There you go. I have a question. Now, let's see. Yes, Jim Coleman had a question. Welcome to Lexington. I'm also an organic farmer. So I look forward to seeing you at our Organic Association of Kentucky meetings when we have conferences to network. I'd like to ask you, do you also have a well? Are you going to be using public water or do you have a well system for irrigation on your farm? And if so, where is it located? We don't. I wish we did. It's domestic water. And so it's piped up currently to that first barn on the left that I showed kind of tobacco barn. And then there are two existing livestock waterers. So the piping goes actually out to that spring area where the trees are, those burroks. I see. I see. If you ever could have a geologist to check your field out, having water would really help to keep your operating costs low. I've got one on my farm and it it's a game changer and it helps to grow crops. Wonderful. Thank you. And there are cost share programs available from time to time to where you can resurrect that spring and select the water and pipe it around your farm. Wonderful. I'll introduce you to Phil Meyer and maybe you all can get together sometime. He's been a longtime farmer, multi generation. And on the Farm Bureau board and knows a lot about farming. You'll be a great group to meet. I would love that. Well, when I first came home, I was so busy and so excited that I went on and got a well built, put a shed over it, put the irrigation in. Spent about forty five thousand dollars only to find out later that more than 50 percent of that cost could have been covered. So Phil is right on. So, you know, take your time. I'm on this and work with Phil and others to, you know, take advantage of the really great resources. We have here in Fayette County. I would love that. And we do have a conservation person on our board as well. They'll all be happy to help you. And I'm delighted to also have a landscape architect. Thank you. Thank you. We welcome all kinds of ways. And my wife will be, she'll be the boss on the farm and she'll be, she has great experience too. And I wish that she could join, but we are expecting our next baby boy here on the way. And we're actually moving to Texas for the year. And so while the house is being built, we're going back there because we have family that can help take care of the baby and things like that. And so we're migrating and then coming back once the house is done. So we're excited about that. With 5 boys, you're going to need a little help. Yes. Yes. Maybe a little more than just family help. Are there any other questions for Mr. Blair? If not, I will entertain a motion for farm 36-2002. For our housing and infrastructure requests. So moved chair. All right. Jim Coleman has made the motion. Is there a 2nd? 2nd. All in favor, please signify with a show of hands. Great. All as well. Wonderful. Thank you all and we'll be. We'll be keeping y'all in touch along the way and we love any sort of. Beth, I guess, feel free to send out my email to everyone if that's. Okay, connect up, I'd love to hear more on how to plug in and and just greatly appreciate your time on it. Great, thank you. All right. Thank you. I'll sign out the next Greg pageant was. I saw earlier had I'm still here. There he is for farm 35 to 06. Beth, let's see, you want to do the report 1st and then Greg who used to be on our board by the way, and it's always been a great supporter. Yes, and make comments. Okay, it pulled right up to where I need to be. Okay. So our 2nd, 1 is farm 35, 2006 at 3744 Russell Cape road is 365 acres. So, horse farm on by Dixie and LLC, the date of the easement was May 30th, 2007. It was placed in PDR by Domino stud of Lexington LLC. It is a federal easement. It has a 3% impervious limit. It has multiple historic items, including stone entrance, stone fences, a tunnel under the training. This is training train training barn and stone bridge. They are not requesting any demolition and their request is to construct a. 3 car garage and dog kennel as an accessory structure to the primary residence. There is no paving requested at this time. The owners have provided the attached building designs and aerial maps showing the proposed location. It is a permitted use the section 5B reserves the right to have reasonable appurtenances for the, to the primary residence, including garages. The current owners have lived on site and operated. This is a large active horse farm since 2009 of the staff recommendation is for approval of their quest to construct the garage with the kennel contingent on all necessary permitting the issue by the division of building inspection. The approval is based on the following criteria that he's met reserves the right for the property owner to have reasonable appurtenances to the primary residence staff calculated the existing impervious and it is 2.82%. So, there is room and the 3% limit for this construction. The garage is being added in the homestead area, not an area used for farming and Charlie farmer did give his approval and then we have the full text. There that was in your packets and then. We have this site or these drawings here that you all would have reviewed in your packets and if we have anything, Greg pageant, probably most of you all know, but he is the builder and he can answer anything for us. But here is some of what it will look like and 3 cars and then that is it. So I'll go back to a view here. Greg, is there anything else you wanted to add? No, Beth, you summarized it quite well. It's I do know the purpose is they've got a growing family and their children. The owner's children are coming of driving age. Oh, we'd like to have locations for their kids cars. Is the purpose. Okay. Beth, you want to put us back on everyone on the screen? So if they have questions, we can. See everyone and as I said, Greg has served on this board, so he understands a lot about it. And again, I will thank you Greg and these owners. Like, I did the previous farm, we just look through for sending the plans and the detailed information. It's certainly a big help to us and saves a lot of time for us. And you in the long run. So, thank you very much. And thank you for your time and reviewing it. Now, board members, you're all on the screen. Do you have any comments or questions? To pass on to Greg or ask any questions. It is a large farm, 365 acres. Delighted that these people want to stay there and want to raise their family there. So. That's great. I just hate it that they now are all of driving age that adds extra problems to your farm. And let's think and you can teach them to drive those tractors. Then that's a help. Are there any other questions if not, I will entertain a motion. For farm 35 to 0, 0, 6, Dixiana LLC for approval for the housing and infrastructure requests as we have just seen and heard. I'll move and Robert 2nd, there are no questions all in favor show of hands. Please. We can say, I think that's everybody. Beth. Okay, and we have yet another. All right, Greg, that's all we need. I'll send that building inspection and copy you. Thanks for your time. Everyone good to see. I'd like to say good to see you, but good to hear. And our 3rd, 1, we'll go ahead. I don't think you all have any questions. I don't think their person has. It's here, but we will move ahead. We check to make sure they're not a waiting room somewhere because it said that their architect builder Mark Walker was going to be here. Right? Yes, let's see. I just want to make sure that. They get there. Yeah, I don't see them, but I think we'll be. I don't think you all will have questions, but all right, so let me. This is farm 1 to 9. Yes, okay. All right. So, our final 1 today. So, 1, 2, this is farm 1, 2009 located at 2065 North Cleveland road. It's 195 acres. It's a horse farm and they are going by stone bridge farm right now. The date of the easement is April 2nd, 2010. it was placed in by Robert Courtney. It is a federal easement with a 2% impervious limit. It has a protected stone entrance stone fence and stone bridge. The demolition is request no demolition, but they are going to remove a tenant or a mobile home that is serving as a manager's home and replace it with a permanent home. So, they will get a permit from billing inspection to remove that building mobile home. But so their new request is to construct a new tenant house for the farm manager, consisting of 24 square feet of living space, 489 square feet for the front porch, 406 square feet for a covered porch patio and a 649 square feet garage for a total of 3944 square feet. And they are going to add a small driveway of approximately 400 square feet, the engineer and builders for the project provided attached building plans and site map. And this is allowed section 5B allows them to remove and replace existing tenant houses and the current owners purchased the farm in 2017 and operated as a horse farm. They received approval from the board in 2022 to add a farm office and that was completed in 2023. the staff recommendation is approval of the request to remove the mobile home serving as the manager's house and replace it with a permanent house contingent on the mobile home being removed. The impervious surface limit being within 2%, it is actually GIS and a map packet is one and a half percent right now. So, they are fine on that and all necessary permitting being issued by the division of billing inspection. The approval is based on the following criteria that the easement reserves the right for the property owner to have the two existing tenant houses and to remove and replace existing residences and Charlie Farmer did give his approval. And let's go down here and see. So, here they are, let's see, this is the proposed house here and there's an existing septic tank and let's see, this is the gravel drive, okay, and the entrance here, let's see, office, apartment. All right, and then down, this is what it's going to look like here. And that's it, so I will stop that. So, does anyone have any questions for me, since they're not here, or if not, we can do a motion to approve. If you are comfortable with the plan, I did have 1 comment and I don't know if Tracy is still here. Tracy is still here or not. I said to Beth, and I'm sorry that the representative is not here today. I know that they are going to remove the mobile home and my answer question to Beth was, did they tell us when or how they intend to do that? I know mobile homes are very difficult to dispose of and I thought they might actually need a demolition permit or some kind of a special permit to do that. And to let them be sure and check on that. They do know that a lot of times people have a hard time disposing of them and they drag them out on the public right away or on the interstates and just leave them, abandon them. So we want to make sure that they do remove it and that they do it in a manner to which we would approve and Beth was going to check on that and I just want to make sure since they're not here and I can't make those comments to them that Beth, you can pass that on to them. To make sure that we know when and where their intentions are and how. Okay, yes, I'll do that. And when I send their, this packet to building inspection, I will make that clear to building inspection as well. And Tracy may know more than I do about that, but I did have that question for them. So, all right, are there any other comments? Or questions all right for, I will entertain a motion for farm 1 to 9 for their housing and infrastructure request. So move Margaret's made the motion. Is there a 2nd? Somebody I'll say, Kim Coleman and Mary Quinn at the same time. Wake up everybody all in favor, please signify with a show of hands. Okay, great that was everybody Beth. And our time is just a little after 4 and. We do have a couple of things that we need to talk about as well as our reports before we move on at all. Phil treasurer's report. Is there anything for this month? Madam chairman, I have no treasures report this month. Okay, and I think that we'll have some next time for the appraisals. Is that correct best? So we'll have some. And on our agenda there. Next, we have 2 things, the solar and the cell cell tower application. We need to make sure that we get everything in I had Liz is here. Liz, our council member who is overseeing this. I knew we were going to have a big agenda for today. And I have told her I would go over it line by line, which I did. She came to my house and we had a nice visit and talking about this Sunday before last. And I want to make sure show of hands. We forward this draft copy to all of you all. I want to make sure everybody got theirs. Madam chair, is that for the solar? That is for the solar. That was the sole draft that was going to send everybody. And we're, this is, and I did exactly as I had told her. I would afforded it to you all as soon as we got a copy. It's gone to Margaret, who's the chair of our. Legal committee, and I'm going to be asking you all to please. Look at that next month. Liz will be here council member. She hand, excuse me, this is fine. We'll be here. Next month, so that all of your questions, she's going to give a presentation and any questions that you have or comments. That'll be the time for us to make sure that you get everything covered because they're trying to move this on soon after that for the end of April. Um, and I did, I will tell you all that. I did make some requests, so I will share that. I just thought that after I did look at it. My 1st oversight was I thought the community benefits. It's a good idea. It really ought to be a section of its own for emphasis and not just under 1 of the items. And I would remove thermal because this is. I think that's kind of apples and oranges for trying to do. And to address the fencing and the screening again, because we wanted to make sure if we're going to try to grow ag products that. We can that they're not blocked. And I suggested that KRS requires a certain kind of signage. And I asked her for a map for the transmission lines and showing where the proposed requests were. And she wasn't she had to ask to see if they could do that or not. In the meantime, I did ask for a map for you board members to have to review. With your draft that you'll be getting for all the transmission lines and Beth. Do you have that that you could put up now or on the screen or just send them before? I can send that to them. Sure. Yeah, I've, I've asked to give us a map of the transmission lines. Plus the existing solar projects, like the Haley Pike and the Eastern Kentucky power. Along with the map of the PDR properties kind of all overlaid together. So we're trying to work with GIS to get a map created for you. Thank you. We just, I just want to make sure that that'll speed things along. If they have that ahead to look at with their draft. But just FYI, those were the comments that I texted right back to Liz right after counselor member, excuse me, council member. She had right after we had our meeting. So that she knew there were a few things that I knew that we would want to address. Upfront. So, please, and I just want to offer to Gloria as the for the board members as you're reviewing. If you have particular questions about where language came from. I'm happy to talk with you before that April meeting so that you don't have to get everything answered at that time. You can always talk to me beforehand. I'm happy to walk you through what the work group did as we were researching who we heard from and then also answer any questions you have beforehand. I will make time for that. And do I have your permission and best you did send a separate email about the time that we met to Beth explaining some of those things. Do we have permission to also forward that on to them as well? That you have my permission. Yeah, certainly. Beth, is that. Yeah, I'd be happy to. Okay. I just want to make sure everybody has the information. They need that has come from you. So, madam chair, could you also in your communications about the. The solar project, could you also provide us with Liz's contact information so that we want to share our feedback or get questions answered prior to April? Then that'll help us to do that. And a lot of that is online. If you'll go to the Lexington, and pull up the council member and her legislative aid and everything is on there as well. Phone numbers and email and also. Yes. So, with so we, and I'm not trying to rush everybody through, except we still have several things to touch base on and we try to always in these meetings by 5, because we do have another group that uses the TV time starting at 5. So, I try to always make sure we're. Out of here by then. So, is that okay? Shall we move on? Okay, next best. Can you update us about the cell tower application that was for the Royster road property? Yes, so so a cell tower application has been filed for 2151 Royster rope, which is not a farm that is adjacent to 1 and that is right now, unless there is a postponement by the applicant that is scheduled for April 9th for the planning commission. And the farm 1 of the PR farmers behind that. It's obviously upset about this and has contacted us. We've Tracy Jones and I met with the planning staff and if you all have questions about getting into legalities with planning commission, I'll let Tracy handle that. But it's really hard for the planning commission to decline these due to FCC rules. This, the 1 reason that PR farm owners upset is some of the utilities could be placed on their farm. But we have looked at that. The law department has looked at that. And our CS has, they had, you had 3 easements on the farm prior to our PR easement. So, neither the law department or believe that we can prohibit them from placing the utilities on there. What we are going to do is send a letter jointly within our CS, making them aware of the easement and asking them to please reconsider and route them elsewhere if possible. But if not to disturb the soil and trees as little as possible. So, but, yes, right now that is scheduled for April 9th. Are there any questions or comments? Madam chair, my phone has been ringing off the hook. Of course, I live on road and my neighbors and I agree with them that we do oppose this project and for a couple of reasons. 1 is that we're concerned about the diminished property value. A lot of studies have shown that when you bring a cell tower on to a farm, that the surrounding farms values can go down by up to 20%. We're concerned about the aesthetic impact about it, interrupting the scenic view of our land. We're concerned about the long term land restrictions. Leases can span for decades, restricting the use of even for agriculture purposes in the future. We're concerned about the operational interference, getting to a cell tower. They have to be available 24 7. And so we're concerned about how that could interfere with farm activities and then the health and environmental concerns, both for our human neighbors as well as our livestock. We're concerned about the radiation exposure that can come from a cell tower. We're concerned about the underground infrastructure. The installation of the cables and power lines can hinder soil usage. And then we're concerned about the safety and removal risk. A lot of concerns that if the cell tower company goes bankrupt, hope they don't. But if they do 1 day, we could be stuck with the cost of having to remove that tower and could impact. And if it's not kept up again, it could have a major impact on surrounding values for the land. And I've gotten this feedback from over 5 major farms that are on Royster Road, and they wanted me to share this. And I also agree with this feedback. So we strongly oppose it. Do you have a map that you could show us as to where this is and then where the PDR parcels are in the immediate vicinity? I do not. I could send that out after the meeting. Yes, I can send that to you. I need to make sure Tracy can. There is a map that's allowed to be. Well, I'm trying to think if I have a map pulled up that would show you part of that. There is a map with the application that shows some of the utility easements. But a lot of the application is kept confidential. Correct, Tracy? There are only certain things that can be released. Yeah, their applications are, by federal law, proprietary. So they only have to make certain parts of it public for the hearing. And then they have the authority, if they choose to, to waive that proprietary interest for the purposes of the hearing. But we don't usually necessarily know how much of that they're going to waive until the hearing because it's their call. And they're, you know, like it or not, they're protected by the federal. So would the proposed location of the tower be considered proprietary and therefore confidential? Or at least the location of the farm itself? I don't think the actual location or, you know, like a dot on the map of this is, you know, this is where, this is a farm and this is where we want it is necessarily going to be. So Beth may be able to, and she'll have to, I don't, I don't have a copy. I think it's planning may have one that they can release, you know, when they, when they get the filing, they have what they can release at that time. So we may be able to get you one for that. If you just want to see the location. As I recall, when we met, basically this, there's a PDR farm and it's sort of a, sort of an L shape and this farm is behind that one. Okay. So it's my recollection. Do we know how tall this tower is? It's going to be 199 feet. So I guess my concern is. The FAA 200, you know, if you hit 200 feet or higher, you start getting into some FAA regulations. So it's 199. Well, I just, and I've voiced these, not for this particular one, but for all of them in the past, want to make sure that this is located. So that does not fall, were it to fall full out that it would not be on anyone else's neighboring property or that it would cover a road. Do we know those facts? Mr. Coleman, Jim, do you know? I don't, I don't know those. I don't know that I need to get. I don't know that the location. I don't know that exactly either, but I feel like that's something they typically cover at the hearings because they get questioned about it. Okay. And will, will the neighbors have an opportunity to at least present this information to the Planning Commission? They will. You know, I want to, I want to say this because a lot of people, we don't have, we don't see these all the time. And a lot of people don't understand the process that the Planning Commission is under. You know, the cell towers are handled completely separately under a different chapter. Or a different section of the zoning ordinance because there's a lot of legal requirements that are put on us and put on every jurisdiction about the location of cell towers. And what I mean by that is that the Federal Communications Act requires these cell tower companies who are saying they're providing this telecommunications service. It requires them to meet the need in terms of, you know, if you're going to operate and provide this service, then when you identify a gap or you identify an area where you're not able to provide this service, it's your job to fill it in. And so in doing that, the Act goes on a little bit further to say that, you know, you have to demonstrate that you have identified where the gap is. You've identified the area in which you could locate a cell tower to fill in that gap. You have tried, you've made efforts to reach all in that area. They call it a search ring to look and see where you can locate it. And there's certain things without expert testimony that literally the Planning Commission will be not allowed to weigh in as to whether or not that decision can happen. And what I mean by that is the radioactivity thing, they'll have a report about that and they'll have an expert about that. They'll have an expert about their search ring and the gaps. They'll have an expert that talks about all the locations they've looked at and what the, how they ended up with this one and why it has to be within this certain area or it won't fill their gap. And so what happens is very often the Planning Commission has these hearings and they hear those things from the applicant and they also hear from the neighbors, which is why we have the hearing. But some of the things that the neighbors have concerns about, the Planning Commission isn't legally allowed to really consider them unless there's some kind of expert proof to counter what's being presented that meets with the Federal Communication Act requirements for these cell tower companies. So it can be very frustrating in terms of, I'm not, you know, I don't want to say it's, they have to approve them. They don't. But if the cell tower applicants meet all of the requirements under the Federal Communications Act and it's in an area which this would be where it can be allowed if all those are met, they don't have a lot of latitude to just turn it down. And I will tell you that in every instance, not that there's been very many, but in every instance where we have turned them down when all those requirements are met, they've been appealed to federal court and we've lost. So that's, you know, I just want everybody to know, you know, certainly everyone is concerned when these things start showing up. But it's very difficult for the Planning Commission to hear all the concerns, but also follow these Federal Communication Act guidelines, which trump pretty much everybody because they're federal. So are there any, does the Planning Commission have the discretion to require that the cell tower be of a certain type so that it's more scenically or it's more scenically appealing than your standard cell tower? I mean, there are cell towers now that you see in places that look like trees. Right now, they don't look like a real tree, but they look much, you know, they blend in much better than something that just your standard cell tower is. Does the Planning Commission have the discretion to require that? They have the discretion to recommend that that happen and to say they want to approve it based on that, provided that the applicant doesn't provide them some legal reason in meeting the federal requirements that they can't do it that way. So we have had, I'm trying to think, the most recent one, I think, I can't remember if it's a, it's either, it's either a monopole and it's painted a certain color so it blends with the sky or it's made to look like a tree. And I can't remember which one they picked, but so that has happened in the past. The Planning Commission also has discretion to talk about screening around the base, you know, fencing, plantings, and those types of things. So, and they do, they do usually try to put that in their, in their, any recommendation they make for approval as much as they can. So, Jim, is Royster Road a scenic byway? It is, I guess, are you saying is it a scenic drive? No, no, it's a scenic road, but is it, has it been designated as a scenic byway? A designated state scenic byway. I'll have to check on that. I was going to bring that up, Margaret, because, and Tracy may remember too, when the ordinance was being drafted years ago, I think they could not be located on designated state scenic byways and they could not be located on National Register properties. Does that still hold? I believe so, but they, this didn't meet either one, so here it is. I'll show you all. So, it is, let me enlarge it. This is one of our ranking maps that I pulled up. Because the planning staff did mention that. So, here's Royster. So, it's actually over here, this, we've got Briar Hill and 64 going through there. So, this little tiny triangle here by the big triangle is where the proposed, that's where the application is. And then this small PDR farm that is shaped, that kind of has a big part by it, but then goes out more narrow, that is the farm that has the utility easements on it. This farm is also PDR, but does not have utilities on it. And then back there, that's Heisel Farm Park. So, if we're going to send a letter to the Planning Commission as from the Rural Land Management Board, we could urge the Planning Commission to require screening, to require fencing, to make it as less visible as possible. But it sounds like the Planning Commission doesn't have really that much discretion to prohibit it. So, if we could, for the benefit of the PDR parcels that are in the area, at least improve the appearance of it and make it less detrimental, that might be all that we as a board can do. But at least we would be on the record as saying to the Planning Commission, given the number of easements that we have in this area, we're concerned about the scenic impact. We're concerned about its impact on farms operating in the area. We'd ask that you please review this carefully and consider requiring adequate screening and a cell tower that's either painted blue to look like the sky or is made to look like a tree. I mean, I think that's worth doing just because it puts the Planning Commission on notice that a fellow body in the LFECG is concerned about it, knowing that we can't outright stop it, but we can maybe minimize its impact on those farms. I have one other thing to add to that for you to make that as a motion, Margaret, and that is, I know that one of the cell towers that they did early on is a bell tower for a church, which is right on Tate's Creek Road. Is that Alumni Drive that comes out there? Whatever it is, near the Arboretum on Tate's Creek, they did it for a bell tower. I do know that there are several churches in that area, Jim, that perhaps if you can meet with the cell tower people, you can talk to them about, since this is one that's not 200 feet, that maybe they could consider that as one of their possibilities. I know they pay very well for where they are located. They pay the property owners well. So, perhaps that could be a benefit to the neighborhood, the church, and something else. So, I would like to pitch that in to what you've said, Margaret. Well, I'll make a motion to authorize Beth to work on a letter or send a letter on behalf of the board to the Planning Commission outlining our concerns about the potential impact of the cell tower and urging the Planning Commission to minimize the scenic impacts and also impacts on operating farms in the area. I second that. I'm sure you might. Thank you, Margaret. Sure, sure. And are there any other comments that you all would like to make? I do know that we do have some driving tours out through that area, and we do certainly have active horse farms right there, which we are obviously trying to promote agriculture. Are there any other comments or questions? What is the date, time, and location of that next planning meeting? Tracy, I believe this is scheduled, unless they postpone for April 9th at 130 in the council chamber. Is that correct? April 9th is what I have written down. You know, I'm not sure where it will be. Typically, these get put at the end of their docket, and we could have a fairly large docket on April 9th. I say that without really knowing, because half the time people come in at the last minute and postpone, and we end up having a shorter docket. You know, when that agenda comes out, it would be on there where it's located. I know it's hard for people to try to, you know, I don't want them to not be there and miss something, but I hate for them to sit there for three hours until we get to their item either. But it will be at the April 9th meeting. Right now, I think that's when it's scheduled. They have the opportunity to postpone, but it seems like they're ready to go, so I don't think they will. Okay. Gloria, I guess we need to vote on that. Yes, we will. Are there any other comments or questions before we already have a motion and a second? If not, the chair will entertain motion for that motion. Show of hands if it's a yes. Was that everybody? I think so. Mary Quinn, did you vote? Yes. And Johanna, you did? Yes. Okay. I just said unanimous. Okay. All right. And basically, Beth, the letter that you're going to be working on could be pretty much what Margaret said and what I added. Okay. That as well. All right. I'll summarize what I shared. I'll send that over in an email to Beth as well. Okay. That'd be great, Jim. Thank you. And I just want to make sure everybody has a chance to comment on our board things. I would like to encourage you all. I have been attending the CivicLEX assembly meetings that they've put together for the community-wide looking at changing the charter, and if you want to raise the council salaries or not, I did go to the first meeting, which was March 1st, which was all Sunday afternoon. And again, the one on March 3rd, where they wanted previous council member input. I want to encourage you all, please write this down. The CivicLEX.org, C-I-V-I-C-L-E-X.org, is a group that deals with the local issues. It's a non-profit. And this assembly that they've put together is actually pretty important. And it's free. They'll tell you what's going on at the government building every Monday. And my only complaint is they keep saying what's going on at City Hall. And I keep reminding them that this is not City Hall. It's the LFUCG government building, which I reminded them again on the 1st and the 3rd. So, when they send this out, it is a county government, and we do care. On March the 26th, they're going to have a Zoom meeting for public input. And you can sign up, like I said, for free to get every Monday, they'll tell you what's going on with all the meetings. So, Jim, you will definitely want to do that because it lists all the meetings that are going on, including Planning Commission. And I suggest you do it because it's good information, and I would encourage you to sign up to have your public input about how you feel about the issues they're discussing. So, it's cheap, it's free, and it's good. And I will sign up, and I have been attending. I have done some extra research about the solar. I did come up with a map that I had asked Liz about. She's been working on that since. I want to make sure that you all get that. I did meet with, on the 12th, with our council member, and Olivia was on here earlier. I met with our council member from the 12th District, the Legislative Aid. We discussed a lot of the ongoing issues and asked them for their help and support. I have met and talked to the electric co-ops that operate in Fayette County. Those of you who know the co-ops are a little different from Kentucky utilities. There are about 900 of those in Kentucky, and in Fayette County, you have Clark RACC and the Bluegrass RACC that actually serve part of Fayette County. So, please do read what Council Member Sheehan has put out, the draft. Please look at making your comments for those, and text back or email or however your questions, certainly back to Beth and or Margaret, so that they will have that in hand when we make our formal discussion. I think that's pretty much what I've done. I did meet with the NRCS folks, and definitely, Brian, you need to know, we certainly appreciate having you all on board. That will certainly be a big help for us to be close, physically close to you all. Thank you. I'm glad to participate. Thank you. Beth, I think I've covered some of that. She's been very busy because we have closings lined up for this week. Yes. Yes. We do. So, we have four closings on Monday. Our first three small farms, and then one regular PDR. So, we'll send out the details afterwards, and then we're probably moving right along on some others that have pending offers, and we expect some more contracts, and then NRCS may be awarding some funding soon. So, that's all going very well. Charlie Farmer has resumed easement monitoring since it's spring, and has been out there doing a lot so far, and sending those to us and to NRCS when they are, the reports to us when they're federal. He also has been passing out the signs and has sent me pictures of some people that have them posted. So, and some people have called and asked, have seen them posted, and have asked me, when am I getting mine? So, there does seem to be excitement, and Charlie said he's not receiving any negative feedback whatsoever, that everyone likes them. So, that's very good, but I think that's all I have right now. Thank you, and thank you for all you're doing. Oh, you're welcome. I'm going to ask for board members. Margaret, you're getting ready to have a fundraiser for the Conservancy. Why don't you go first? Your microphone's off. Sorry, the Conservancy has its annual fundraiser on April the 16th at Fasig-Tipton. I hope you all have received your invitation, but if you haven't, let me know, and I will be sure you get one. You can also find out about it on our website. It's a great night. We have lots of really wonderful auction items to offer for people who attend, and it is our only fundraiser, really, of the year. The other thing I wanted to mention was, yesterday, I went to a meeting on Bowman's Mill about a proposed... The council is currently considering improvements to the Met Lane pump station, which is behind Dunbar High School, and then they've also been... They've also asked Charlie... What's Charlie's last name? I've forgotten. Martin. Martin. I was about to say Farmer. I know it's not Farmer. Yeah, Charlie Martin. They've also asked him to consider the cost of a potential pump station on Mill Ridge Farm, which is outside the urban service boundary, and there is a great deal of concern about that because that would be the first time that infrastructure has been put in place outside the urban service boundary. So this is supposed to come before the council on April the 14th, and there is a lot of... There's growing concern about it because we feel like it's kind of a back-end way of expanding the urban service boundary to include Mill Ridge Farm, which Mill Ridge Farm would like to be included in the urban service boundary. They petitioned for that in the last discussion of the urban service boundary. The committee that made the recommendations as to where to expand recommended that it not be included. It was not included, and now they're coming back and sort of through a different way kind of getting to their end result. So I would recommend everybody keep an eye on this one. This is one probably that... Conservancy is certainly going to take a stand against it because of the concern about the precedent that it sets. If you go outside the urban service boundary once for one farm or for one potential development, it can happen again, and it's a really dangerous precedent. And the urban service boundary has been in place since 1958 and has served the community well. So I think... I don't know that this board necessarily... I don't know, Gloria, if you want the board to take a position on it or send a letter of concern to council members about it. I think the more they hear from people, the better. And it hasn't... Because it's not a full-on expansion of the urban service boundary, it hasn't gotten the same level of public input or notice. And so it's not something that is on a lot of people's radar screen. So I just wanted to be sure people were aware of it. Well, I was asked to attend that meeting, and then I already had a previous meeting scheduled that was to last last night from 5 until after 8. So I could not attend. I did have calls and texts of concern from our PDR farms that are in that area. And we did have a couple of small area farms who wanted to apply and have already called and talked to me about it before this issue even came up. So it is a concern, Margaret, for us and board. And I do worry that those PDR farms are certainly concerned about it in their area. The other concern was the fact that they are considering putting one of those giant containers in that area for storm sewage. And it would be even larger, I think, than the one that you see at the corner of New Circle Road and Richmond Road. So, a tower, I mean, a containment bin, I'm not sure what the proper term is for those, is being considered as well. So, both of those would be very detrimental for tourism in that area and for farming in that area. So, yes, it is a concern. If that's the case, Gloria, I would encourage us as a board to submit a letter to the council members about it, because I don't think it's getting, it hasn't, to date, it has not gotten the attention that something like this normally would. And it came up apparently in a budget link where they were asking for approval to make the improvements that have to be made at Mint Lane Pump Station. And those improvements are required by the EPA consent decree. So, those are not optional. So, what was different was that Charlie Martin was planning to make those improvements and requesting approval to spend those funds. And they put out, the council members said, well, we want you to look at a potential pump station on Mill Ridge Farm on three acres of land that they might donate to the city and the potential of putting a pump station at the airport. So, it was sort of thrust on Charlie to look at this. There is a cost difference. It would cost substantially more money in the range of probably $10 million to build a pump station on Mill Ridge versus improving the existing pump station. So, for fiscal reasons as well, this is not a wise move, but really the danger from a land use perspective and for those of us who are trying to conserve farmland for agriculture is that it will, it's a backdoor way to expand the urban service boundary. The other potential site, I have been looking at this and kind of working on this as well, Margaret, and that I didn't add that to my report. But the other site is a three acre track that's at the Dunbar school. That is a potential they would need to talk to the school board about that. So, there are other inside the urban service boundary possibilities. When we made the tour with the planning staff, back when they were discussing the expansion, we did discuss at that time that it was going to need an improvement. But there's a difference between improving and spending multi-million dollars in excess for what was already planned for that. So, yes, it is a concern in numerous ways. And I understand, Phil, you attended that meeting as well. I was, and I can echo everything Margaret says, and she said it much more graciously than I would have said it. So, I'm glad she went first. About the only thing I can have to add is I think we were told the work session on the 14th is at 3 PM. And public input would be allowed if you got yourself there and signed up. So, it's just, I mean, putting one of those big tanks on a beautiful, one of our most beautiful country roads would just be crazy. If you don't object, I'll make a motion that we send a letter to the council members on behalf of the board, raising our concerns about this. And is there a second? I'll second it. All right, I have 2 seconds. Phil and Robert raised his hand. Is there any further discussion? All in favor of sending the letter with those concerns? I think it's unanimous again. The only hand I saw only fingers for was Joanna's fingers there. I got her whole hand that time. Okay, moving on around. I just want to make sure we do this because we only have about 20 minutes left. Phil and Robert, you've just had your Farm Bureau auction. I'll defer to Robert. He's higher up in the hierarchy. I don't know that there's a hierarchy. There's just me and Joanna Weaver working in the office last week to kind of wrap things up. It was a successful sale, and it's really thanks to all the volunteers we have from Farm Bureau and the community at large that come out and do it all for the scholarships. Our overall sales were about 2.29 million this year. That is not a record, but that's a good number. We had just short of 1,700 pieces, which that's pretty well in the sweet spot for about how many items we like to sell on Saturday in order to get done at a reasonable time. It's just a lot of effort from a lot of people on behalf of a good cause, and I'm lucky to be a part of it, really. Thanks to Phil. I can't thank everyone individually because there are just too many people. There are people who are there for the full week, and then there are people who can come by for two hours, and they really help in those two hours. It's just team effort, and I'm grateful for everyone in our Farm Bureau family. Well, that's great, and thank you all for doing it. You did it despite crazy up and down weather over the last month when you were bringing in equipment and trying to sell equipment. So, very good. I'm glad it did that well. Phil Hager, you have anything to report? Nothing to report. Hannah, I see you're next on the screen. Nothing to report. Thank you. Let's see. Stephen. No report. Thank you. Mary Quinn. Can y'all hear me? Sorry. Can't drive my mouse. We all know I always have something to report. So, I'll just mention that in case you missed it yesterday, and we have a new addition at Gatton Park. We dedicated a big blue horse. It is almost 16 feet long and about 12 feet tall, and it's obviously a nod to Big Lex, which has become the endearing mark of Visit Lex. But most importantly, it is a tribute to the fantastic thoroughbred racehorse Lexington, who still holds the record for this day, siring most offspring champions, and clearly had so much to do with Lexington, Kentucky being designated and known worldwide as the horse capital of the world. So, next time you're at Gatton Park, be sure to take a selfie and tag Visit Lex and share with your friends. Great. Good. Thank you. Joanna. I attended the James Beame Institute at UK this week, and I'll continue going to Connecticut State University for the third Thursday, which is teaching new farmers and old farmers how to tie into resources and just learning how to better use your soil on your farm. Good. And I'll be digging you up some pawpaws now that they're diggable. And Jim Coleman. Speaking of pawpaws, Madam Chair, I'm going to have Dr. Pomper. His team is coming over early April. We're going to plant about 30 pawpaw trees at Colvin Crest Farm. We're going to have names for all of them from my ancestors and my late wife, and so it will be very historic. I'm also pleased to let you know this coming Friday will be the 138th anniversary of Colvin Crest Farm, purchased by my great grandfather on March 27, 1888. And so I'm very excited about that. Very good. Now, did I miss anybody? It's hard for me to tell sometimes on the screen here. I don't think unless Brian had anything. I'd just like to say I appreciate the opportunity to serve on the board and appreciate you all. Appreciate you, Beth. I think last year we've really made some really some performance strides. We closed more, you closed more easements than we've probably closed in the last 10 years, in the last 12 months. So, I mean, that's really to be commended for sure and really appreciate your efforts. And as soon as we have those funding decisions, we'll certainly reach out to you all and I'm available every day. So, whatever you need from me or my staff, just let us know. Great. Thank you. Thank you. And I will say Beth and I've discussed this. We're delighted. We think that it's been much easier since we've been made a certified local entity to be able to do this. It's made a big difference. We've been able to speed things up. We have been encouraged by the administration to speed things up. So, we are trying to do that and so thank you for your help and moving that along. Anything you can do is much appreciated on your end as well. Thank you. Thank you. So, did everybody have an opportunity to anything else to pitch in? Because we're, we just have a few minutes. Madam Chair, if anybody knows anybody that's grooming their grapevines right now, can you please get me in contact? Give me their contact information because I need help. Okay, I'll tell you what, I can send you or Beth can send you a contact with Dr. Phil DeSimone, who is 1 of our easement holders and has the Grimes Mill Winery. Now, he agreed to help me, but they're closed every day until Friday. So, I was trying to reach him on Monday. So, yes, if you can give me his name, because he said he would send one of his hands, because they don't really grow anymore for grape production. They just have them out there. But yes, he did mention he would send somebody, but I didn't have his phone number. Okay, and I'm happy to come out to go with you to knock on his door. Just let me know. I need help. Anything else anybody wants to say? Thank you. Before I ask for an adjournment, I do want to say that before we meet in April, it will be Easter. I hope all of your trees and your flowers are in bloom, and we don't get another foot of snow or any more deep freeze. So, I hope you have lots of blooming trees and flowers, and I hope the bunny will come and fill everybody's basket. It's a very special time of year, and I think it's 1 of my favorites, of course. Our next meeting will be April the 22nd. Same time, Zoom. I do always try to move this along quickly, because we do have the next LexTV folks who have to share with another meeting. So, I realize that it went on a little longer than we like today, but we did have a big agenda and a lot of things to cover. So, thank you all again so much for always making sure we have a quorum and that we can do this. Having said that, we need a meeting to adjourn, a motion to adjourn the meeting. So moved. Second. Seconded. So, all in favor. Almost happy Easter and thank you all for coming. Thank you. Good to see everyone. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Cause there's no one else I swear holds a candle anywhere next to you. My heart can't take the beating. Not having you to hold. A small voice keeps repeating deep inside my soul. It says I can't keep pretending. I don't love you anymore. I've got to take a chance or let it pass by. If I expect to get on with my life. My tears no longer waiting. My resistance ain't that strong. But my mind keeps recreating love with you alone. And I'm tired of pretending. I don't love you anymore. Anymore. Anymore. If a picture paints a thousand words. Then why can't I read them all? If a picture paints a thousand words. Then why can't I read them all? If a picture paints a thousand words. Then why can't I hate you? The words will never show. The you I've come to know. If a face could launch a thousand ships. There's no one home but you. You're all that's left me to. And when my love for life is running dry. You come and pour yourself on me. If a man could be two places at one time. I'd be with you tomorrow and today. Beside you all the way. If the world should stop revolving. Spinning slowly down to die. I'd spend the end with you. And when the world was through. Then one by one. The stars would all go out. Then you and I. Would simply fly away. music fades electric guitar plays Well I'm a honky tonk man Ain't a crazy style Love to give the girls the world To the music of an old duke by When my money's all gone I'm on the telephone Singing hey, hey mama Can your daddy come home Well now I'm living wild and dangerously I've got plenty of time The moon comes up and the sun goes down I can't wait to see the light of day Cause I'm a honky tonk music fades Welcome to Yoga 101. 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 are my shoulders feeling? How are 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 no. 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 movements 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. 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 it looks 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 the opposite direction. So still 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. 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 stretch there. Inhale to come back to your center and 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. Bring 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. That's just 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. We 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. One more. 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. Back up 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. And 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. So perhaps as if we were 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. Good. I'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. And just kind of squeeze around a little bit. Good. 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 to 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. We're taking almost like a stop if you're trying to stop someone. Stop hands. And we're going to try the wrists 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. Exhale 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 us everywhere thus far. I imagine they'll continue to do so. So let's give 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. Let me 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 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 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 kind of 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. Flexing like you're wearing a boot. Maybe from there we can draw some circles. One direction. Then the other. It's 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 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. And 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. Let's do one more. And we'll set that side down. Keeping the prop nearby. Let's just stretch out one foot here. 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. 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 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, maybe just reaching towards that foot. We've got the leg 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. And 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 are 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 opposites. 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. Just 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. A sharper 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 out. 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 feel like 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. And maybe if we can kick a little higher, we can reach below and do a little clap. So 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. We're going to find some big twists. So let's reach the arms up.