# Rural Land Management Board - April 22, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Board · April 22, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6751 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6751?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-04-22 - **Body**: Board - **Last revised**: April 22, 2026 - **Length**: 17,714 words - **Speakers**: Chair > ⚠️ **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 3:01 PM on April 22, 2026, with Beth presiding as the meeting's chair. The board worked through three agenda items during the session, each addressed on an informational basis: a review of the Solar Energy Systems Zoning Ordinance, an update on New PDR and Small Farm Easements, and a discussion of NRCS Match Funding. Across these three topics, the board took a total of 2 votes and heard no public comments. No formal action items or approvals were recorded for the agenda items presented, as all three were handled as informational presentations. ## Attendance The following members were present at the April 22, 2026 Board meeting: - Margaret Graves - Stephen Howard - Phil Hager - Jim Coleman - Hannah Emig - Robert James - Will Mayer - Phil Meyer - Joanna - Beth **Absent:** Jonathan Disney, Mary Quinn No members were recorded as late. ## Votes and Decisions Two motions were brought before the Board during the April 22, 2026 meeting, both of which passed unanimously. - **Approval of the March 25th Minutes** [timestamp: 0:06:34]: Stephen Howard moved to approve the minutes from the March 25th meeting, with Jim Coleman providing the second. The motion passed unanimously. No individual roll call votes were recorded. - **Enter Closed Session** [timestamp: 1:02:22]: Phil moved to enter closed session pursuant to KRS-61810-1B, with Joanna providing the second. The motion passed unanimously. No individual roll call votes were recorded. ## Budget and Financial Actions The Board reviewed and acted on several contracts at the April 22, 2026 meeting, covering appraisal and farm inspection services. **Appraisal Contracts – Kenimer Appraisal Services** - A contract of **$4,000** was approved with Kenimer Appraisal Services for an appraisal related to a farm Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) originating from 2025. - A separate contract of **$2,500** was approved with Kenimer Appraisal Services for an appraisal related to a smaller PDR, also originating from 2025. **Farm Inspection Contracts – Charlie Farmer** - A contract of **$6,300** was approved with Charlie Farmer for the inspection of **63 farms** conducted in March. - A contract of **$2,100** was approved with Charlie Farmer for the inspection of **21 farms** conducted in April. The combined total of all financial actions approved at this meeting amounts to **$14,900**. No resolution numbers were recorded in the available meeting data for these items. ## Contested Items - **Solar Energy Systems Zoning Ordinance** — A heated discussion arose regarding the proposed zoning ordinance governing solar energy systems, centered on the use of prime farmland for solar installations and the potential impact on agricultural resources. Concerns were raised about whether allowing solar development on prime farmland could diminish the county's agricultural land base. The extracted data does not specify which individual board members or public participants were involved in the debate, nor does it record a final outcome or vote on the matter. ## Solar Energy Systems Zoning Ordinance [timestamp: 12:05] The Board held a discussion on a proposed solar energy systems zoning ordinance, with the conversation centering on large-scale solar installations in agricultural zones and their potential impact on prime farmland. Key speakers during this item included **Council Member Sheehan** and **Margaret Graves**. The discussion was informational in nature, with no formal action taken or vote recorded at this meeting. The item appears to have been brought forward to allow the Board and the public to examine the implications of the proposed ordinance before any further steps are taken. **Key themes raised during the discussion included:** - The scope and regulation of large-scale solar energy systems as they relate to existing agricultural zoning designations - Concerns about the potential impact on prime farmland, suggesting that some participants may have questions about balancing renewable energy development with the preservation of productive agricultural land This item concluded as an informational discussion, indicating that further deliberation, public input, or additional review may be anticipated before the ordinance moves toward a formal vote or adoption. ## New PDR and Small Farm Easements [timestamp: 56:36] Beth presented an update on recent progress with the Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) program and small farm easements. Beth announced that the program had reached a notable milestone with the closure of its first small farm easements, along with the closure of a PDR farm. She indicated that additional closings are anticipated before the end of the fiscal year. The item was informational in nature, with no action taken or vote required by the Board. ## NRCS Match Funding [timestamp: 57:40] Matt Hutchison presented an update on NRCS match funding, announcing that all Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) applications submitted for 2026 have been tentatively selected for funding. Hutchison noted that the selection remains pending review by national headquarters before it can be considered final. This item was informational in nature, with no action required from the Board at this time. --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the March 25th minutes - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Enter closed session pursuant to KRS-61810-1B --- ## Full transcript I have nine. So we can go. Okay, let me. I'm doing one thing for Lex TV. Let me fix this Okay. Chairman torch was ready for it to be a backup. So hello, who is that torch torch? Border College. She was ready to be a member just in case if we needed a quorum and extra. She helps me out in the field. Oh, look, and Stephen's got his to see torch torch can meet who is torch meeting. Who is that? Who is that? Stephen? Stephen, who is this is shooter. He's a vicious guard dog. He lays around all the time. He looks pretty dangerous. Yeah, he is. He's vicious. Okay, Beth, it's 301 and I'll call the meeting to order. Okay, let me check TV. Did you all are you able to record? They were on earlier. Both of them. I had Lex TV one and two. Yeah, I had to give give them permission to record and I want to make sure they've got it. See if they're while we're, I want to make sure that this is on the minutes and and that is for you all who are here and to make sure it's in the minutes Beth. So people can read this in the future to always let you know ahead to make sure we have a quorum. It's a huge board, a very large huge board, a very large board. And as you all know, we're carrying on some very important business. It is a very large company that we're dealing with here. And a lot of the people are asking have requests of things that are very important for us to be taking care of for them. And especially when we have closed sessions. After our closed sessions and we have these motions, there are a lot of things we have to move on with. And so do please if you all and make sure this is in the minutes Beth to make sure that everybody lets you know whether they are or are not coming. So, I really do appreciate the attendance. Let me just go around. Beth, go ahead and turn on your recorder just in case. It says on that it's being transcribed. It says the meeting is being transcribed. Okay. So, I will go around to let everybody just for your minutes to let you know that Margaret Graves is here and Stephen Howard and Phil Hager and Jim Coleman, Hannah Emig, Robert James, Will Mayer, Phil Meyer, and Joanna. And I'm here and you're here Beth. And we have a lot of staff and other folks. We're getting ready to have a presentation here shortly from Council Member Sheehan. She's here and I see on the screen that Council Member Morton is here as well. And we had, I saw earlier Council Member, there's Olivia, Council Member Boone's Legislative Aid is also here. Have I missed any one of our board members? Matt Hutchison is here for NRCS in place of Brian Jones. Okay. I don't see him on the screen. I don't see a face. And I know that Matt's supposed to be here today. Just for the record, we do have two excused absences. One is Jonathan Disney is excused because there's been a death in his office. And Mary Quinn had something so she would not be here today. So, I think everybody else is taken care of. I hope you all got all the packet and the information that Beth sent out last week to give you lots of time to digest it all. We had letters we have written on behalf of the Cell Tower and the Mint Lane. Council Member Sheehan sent us a lot of information and we had 17 pages worth of minutes otherwise. So, it was a very large packet. Beth, let me thank you again and Lena for all the work you all do putting those packets and all that information and getting the letters out. So, thank you. You all do a very good job. Did everybody get all of that? Did you get your minutes and all the packets from Council Member Sheehan and the letters we sent, I hope? Let me just see some shaking heads. Okay. Having said that, I need an approval for the March 25th minutes. A motion to approve. Before we do that, were there any changes, additions? No? Then I'll entertain a motion to have as sent to you. I'll move to approve the minutes as submitted. And I noticed Stephen Howard did too, but his mic's turned off and I couldn't hear him. So, that motion has been made. Is there a second from someone? I'll second. Okay, that's Stephen and Jim. All in favor, if it's yes, show of hands. All right. Okay. As far as old business, I'll start with the cell tower first, the application that was on Royster Road. And I did forward the staff report to the neighbors and to those who had texted me and asked about it. I hope, Jim, did you get yours that I sent? Yes. So, I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that it had been postponed so that they didn't go downtown and sit waiting until the end of that hearing to realize that it had been postponed. Madam Chair, we were very pleased that it was postponed. Well, the letter was sent on behalf of the board that you all recommended and voted on last time. That letter was in your packets. It did go. And Beth has a bit of a report, a backup, to update you on that. Beth? Yes. So, the good news is I also reached out to LGEKU staff. And even though their easement predated ours and we technically could not prohibit them from putting the utilities on the PDR easement, they wanted to avoid the PDR easement. And so, they are working to obtain permission to do so on other properties. And so, they were optimistic about their chances of getting other easements and being able to avoid the PDR easement. So, the owners asked for a postponement. I'm not sure exactly why or if they were required to give a reason. They asked at the board meeting. Tracy may have more information about that, but it has been rescheduled for May 14th. So, as we get that information, Jim, we will get it out to you and the other people in your area that had asked questions and had sent me texts about it. I'll try to send that report to you as soon as we get it. Thank you very much for your support. And also, Beth, thank you so much. Oh, you're welcome. Next on our agenda, and I'm moving along quickly because we do have a large closed session that we need to attend to. So, I'm trying to hurry through this with our time. The next was the Mint Lane Pump Station. We have gotten numerous texts and questions about this. I did do a little extra research after our meeting last time. I did forward the photos and the PVA from the pictures to show some of the issues and the questions that I had gotten, showing the PVA and the pictometry about where the urban service boundary is and the school and exactly where this was located. And we did send the letter on behalf of the board, as you all directed. And Beth, you want to add anything? I know Charlie Martin made his presentation, and I know Margaret and Phil and Robert all attended that when I was out of town. Phil, Robert, Margaret, Beth, can you all? Yes, they are. So, that is scheduled. And Councilmember Sheehan or Morton may chime in, but it's my understanding there was a report that Charlie Martin had not completely been able to go through yet. And he is supposed to do that by this work session, Tuesday the 28th, and report back on the full report to the Council so that they have the full information. They had a good overview from Charlie, but wanted a little more information. And so, that issue was continued until the April 28th work session. We received the full report on Monday at about 10 30 a.m. So, Council now has the full detailed report. Okay. Maybe you can send that, Councilmember, if you all can send that to Beth, and she can send it on to the forward, maybe to the board members. Okay. I'll double check with Charlie that we're allowed to distribute it, but it is in our email, so it's open records requestable anyway. So, I feel like it's a public document at this point. Okay. I do know that one of the things I was asked to do, and I did, that the LFUCG bought that acre of property in 1984. That's back when Scotty Basler was mayor, and they did think when they built it that it was on the one acre. They did think that the pump station was built entirely on what they purchased. So, that's part of what Charlie was showing last time that had some confusion. And on our large-scale solar facilities, we have gotten some comments. Margaret, I will turn that over to you and Liz, because Councilmember Sheehan did provide the two maps that we had asked about, and I had gotten the electric company to give us one. And you did get in your packet that Fayette Alliance had made their presentation, and that link was sent to the board so they could look at it as well. And Councilmember Sheehan, your aide, also provided in our March packets and the draft amendments to the ordinance, and I know that'll be April the 28th as well, correct? It's multiple days, but that's the next date that we'll be discussing it. Well, I'll turn it over to you and Margaret. Okay. Margaret, do you want me to do, I have like a brief presentation, but do you want to talk before that? No, no, you go ahead. Okay. Beth, is it okay for me to share my screen? Yes. Okay. Let me see. Will most of this be what we got in the packet, or do you know? Some of it is. It's based on the presentation that was given to GGP, but it has a little bit of change in it. Okay. Okay. Can you see that? Yes. Okay. Perfect. So, thank you all for letting me have time today to speak with you. I don't want to belabor all of the details because I know I want you to have time to ask questions, but I do want to give a brief overview, so we're starting kind of all on the same page. So, this is regarding the Solar Energy Systems Zoning Ordinance. Currently in the ordinance, this is the one that was already passed, we have provisions to allow for rooftop and integrated solar energy systems in all zones. So, think about integrated energy systems as, like, in the parks, some of our lights have solar right on top of them. So, that would be something that's kind of like an integrated system. Small-scale ground-mounted solar is up to 2,500 square feet. That is allowed in residential zones with a conditional use permit, and then business and industrial and in ag zones as a principal or accessory use. So, you don't need extra permission in the ag zones, and I'm going to kind of focus on there since that's this group. For intermediate scale, that is from 2,500 square feet up to five acres. It's permitted in business and industrial again, but it requires a conditional use permit in the ag zones. But then what we're going to talk mostly about today is the large scale. So, the current ordinance allows large-scale solar systems that's over five acres in our B4, I1, I2, and ED zones. And then we gave in that original ordinance provisions to show local preference when the Public Services Commission is reviewing any utility-scale solar or utility projects in the ag zones. You know, we already have one of those. The Eastern Kentucky Power Company has one that was approved by the Public Services Commission. But the PSC has indicated that if we have local provisions that they will consider those. So, we put in a 1% provision, and that totals 827 acres of Fayette County. That would be 1% of our acreage. We said at that time that it should include 85% vegetative cover to preserve green space and not to see the gravel or sand solar installations where the entire lot is covered with things that are not good for our stormwater. And then there was a provision in there that they would need to submit a land management plan to LFUCG. And that is very detailed of what goes into that in the current ordinance. Now, I do want to say a little bit about why we're talking about this. And so, if you think about a megawatt of energy, that powers about 118 homes in Kentucky. And this is new information for you all. It wasn't in the previous slides. But I wanted to give you this kind of comparison. To do one megawatt of energy, you need either about 10 acres of large-scale solar, or that equates to 138 rooftop solar installations. So, when we're talking about meeting our net zero goals for by 2050, and we're talking about increasing solar and wanting clean energy for not only our county, but for Kentucky, this is what we're thinking about. So, when you're thinking about large-scale projects, they're about 300 acres to make them work and be feasible. Some of them are bigger than that. But if you take 300 acres of large-scale solar, that's equal to about 4,151 homes. So, that's a lot of rooftop. So, I think we all prefer rooftop. And I think we all prefer industrial areas or brownfields. But we can't get to the same scale of energy if we're not also considering some of the large-scale projects as well. And we have tried to incentivize rooftop solar installations and residential installations. We had the Solarize Lexington program going for two years. And in that time where we were heavily promoting it and we were actually able to offer discounts and grants, we only had 128 installations over two years for that program. So, getting to the same amount of rooftop solar installations is very, very difficult. And when you're thinking about that scale, we're just not seeing that adoption here in Lexington. So, when you're looking at... So, once we finished with the original ordinance, there was a sense that we still had questions about large-scale solar, particularly in our ag areas. So, several council members said, we want more information. We need more information before we can talk further about this. So, we were asked to form a work group. So, you can see here, and I'm sure you all know, we had a small work group with council member, well, myself and council member Savigne as co-chairs, council member Morton, council member Boone, and then two folks from planning who work on zoning ordinances. And then we have several staff members, most of which are here with us today in this group as well. And then I asked our council members, what do you want this work group to focus on? Like, what do you want us to research so that we can bring back draft language to you? And this list here is what they said. So, I collected data from... Collected, like, tell me what your top things are from everyone, and that resulted in this list. So, this is what the work group focused on. And we worked on those things over six months. So, this is the timeline that was in your packet. We had meetings over the six months, and each month had different focus areas for us to kind of hear from experts and research. Some of the folks that we heard from are listed on this slide. So, ones that I want to point out to you that have relevance, particularly for the ag areas, are the Kentucky Resources Council, who does land conservation, and they have a model solar ordinance, which a lot of this language is based on. The Kentucky Sheep and Wool Producers Association, because there were questions about, you know, if most of the solar installations that are large scale have sheep as a dual use, can that work in Lexington and Fayette County and Kentucky? So, we wanted more information about that. And then from the land conservation and dual use perspectives, we also heard from the American Farmland Trust. They are our group that I'm sure you are all familiar with and have been involved with, but they have a solar division where they talk about these dual use installations and research those very heavily. So, I was happy they could join us for this work group and to give us more information. We went to the experts on solar in ag areas. People who could give us data on how does this impact the soil, what's going on with stormwater, what crops can happen here, what does dual use look like, and what are we seeing across the country? So, those are the folks that we had help educate us so then we could come up with language. And then we proposed language. And I would say that each person in the work group had a little bit of a different priority and perspective. And so, we all looked at the language together and fine-tuned it, but we each kind of took on different parts of this. So, for this proposal, the co-located battery storage is a new thing that has been coming up and the Kentucky Resources Council highlighted this for us. They said we're seeing more battery storage in solar installations. And when you think about batteries, it's not small ones. It looks like a shipping container size. And those batteries can be hazardous materials. So, we put in provisions according to what Kentucky Resources Council recommended, and Council Member Savigny worked on this, for how battery storage is calculated in a solar project and then also what hazardous assessments need to be included in any inclusion of battery storage. So, that is part of the red line language that you have before you. Then Council Member Boone's office wanted to add back in some of the definitions that the Kentucky Resource Council proposed. So, two of those are farmlands of statewide importance and prime farmland, which are also identified on the map that we got you from the GIS group. I know you are all familiar with those maps as well. And then we added also, and Council Member Boone's office came up with this language, a definition for what brownfield property, how we define that. Because that's going to come back in a second when we talk about a brownfield exception. I was interested in dual use. So, I did work for language on dual use. We also put in stormwater control language. We met with Director Martin. So, he gave us some guidelines for what stormwater controls would be in our stormwater manual around this. And he's done research through his office, but has also been going through this with the Hailey Pike proposal. And then I leaned on the precedent that has been set by our PDR program, and particularly now with our small farm PDR program, where you have to have continuous ag production on site. And I would like to see continuous ag production with our solar installations if we are doing large scale solar, so that we aren't losing ag industry on ag land. So, that information is in there, and I outlined in the red line document, you can see where I point to what the PDR program already does. One of the things I want to point out to you for that language too, though, is that is reviewed by rural land staff, as the PDR language says, or their designee. So, I have given basically you all the authority to review what ag production is, to set that standard for what is enough, and to provide a report to our Board of Adjustment on ag production in these proposals. Then we have a community benefits plan. This is something that Councilmember Morton worked on. We are now seeing more precedent for community benefits plans. In fact, we got a sample or a draft data center ordinance yesterday from Mercer County. And they have a provision for community benefits plans in there. One of the reasons we're looking at this is because if you have solar in one section of a county, some of the question is, well, how does that benefit the rest of the community when we're doing energy production over here? How does that work for the rest of us? And so, the community benefits plan is a way to address that. Then the last two points, decommissioning language, we basically shortened the timeline for when decommissioning happens, according to some changes that the Kentucky Resources Council also made in their model language. And then we said, the state says for decommissioning, you have to remove down to 36 inches, three feet, into the soil. We wanted to say, we don't like that. We want it to be more than that. So, this decommissioning language requires removal of all structures, equipment, and foundations that have been placed underneath the soil. So, it's a higher threshold. And then finally, the brownfield exception. We all agree that brownfields should be prioritized. And so, we put in a brownfield exception that applies to any zone, that you wouldn't have to go through the conditional use permit, but you would have to have your property you would have to have your project entirely on brownfield property. We have a starting place for that, because I'm going to show you this. The EPA has a list that is included in our race to net zero plan for the city, and I know this is kind of small, but I can give you a link to it later, that identifies what brownfields are here in Fayette County already. So, one of the things that, so this can help us in guiding what actually qualifies for that exemption. Our next steps right now, we asked the general government and planning committee to allow us to put all of this draft language out for public review, including our boards and commissions like you. So, we have sent the language to you all for your review. We have also sent it to the environmental commission and they're doing a similar review like you all. We have asked to send it to the planning commission, so that they can do a public hearing and that's what happens on the 28th is we take a vote on whether we'll send it to the planning commission for their review. But then everything comes back to us. Once things go to planning commission, they have to come back to council for a final discussion and approval. So, nothing is final on April 28th. That's just the vote to give it to the planning commission to let them review it and give us feedback as well, like you all are doing. And then we've posted it on Engage Lexington for general community feedback. We also made an additional recommendation for the group, for another group to be formed to examine the brownfields that are listed on that list that I just showed you from the EPA, so that we can have an accurate list. Because if you look at this list, some of these addresses have already been developed or we know that they're not going to be developed for solar. One of the properties on here is a UK property. I know in the community, there's been mention of, well, why can't we do this across the whole stadium parking lot at UK? Well, now we know they're developing that for an entertainment district. Haley Pike is on here, and we're working on the Haley Pike proposal now that is kind of working its way through our system. But we need a better assessment of this particular list to know, would the airport actually consider that? We're hearing no, but we need to actually have that specific conversation with their board so we can assess how to prioritize these brownfields. Okay, I'm going to stop here, but I'll open up for questions and stop sharing my screen. But if you have questions about where any of the particular language came from, or if you want to meet with me later to talk it over, I'm happy to do either of those things. So, Liz, this is Margaret. The 1% is 1% of all of Fayette County, which is 1,827 acres. Haley Pike, if that happens, would be 782. The East Kentucky Power site is, what, 400? The Haley Pike is 357 acres for the solar projects. Okay. And Eastern Kentucky Power is 387 is the estimate that I've seen for theirs. So that totals 744 acres, which is about 40% of that 1%. Okay, I think if you go back to your slide on the Haley Road, and maybe I just misread the number, it says 782 acres. Is that just? That is on, hold on a second, I'll tell, on that CPA, yes, the Haley Road is the Bluegrass Army Depot. That's 782. I believe that's the Avon property. Okay, so that is not the Haley Pike. Haley Pike, the brownfield area is actually 150 acres that have been identified. That's the capped landfill. The project is actually 357 because it actually goes outside of the capped landfill area. Okay, okay. So you're talking about, in addition to the 744 acres for Haley and East Kentucky Power, you're talking about basically 1,100, or less than 1,100 acres of additional solar that could be built under the proposed ordinance, right? Yes. So I know that there's a definition of prime farmland and farmland of statewide importance, but there's no provision in this that says that solar can't be built on those soils. So, and I think that's where this board in the past has said, you know, our concern about this is you're putting a solar facility on prime farmland where we want that prime farmland and that farmland of statewide importance to be used exclusively for ag purposes. And so the definitions, you know, I don't have any trouble with the definitions, but the definitions don't, aren't really applied to. They are applied in two places. So if you look at the conditional use application, they're referenced in there so that the person who is applying for a conditional use permit will have to have those assessments done to show how much of this is prime farmland for the Board of Adjustment to consider. And then also, if we have the dual use provision, then that report that comes from, like the PDR reports that happen, that also has an opportunity to talk about the soil quality in that report coming from the rural land staff. So it is in two places. But it's not, I guess it's not a, I mean, it's potentially a criteria that the Board of Adjustment will consider, but it's not a criteria that says we, that says we don't want it on these locations because these are a finite resource. And because we prioritize the active agricultural use in our rural area, these areas are areas that we seek to avoid. I mean, I think, I don't think anybody has any objections to brownfields or doing it on large scale parking lots, whether that's at UK or at the Central Baptist, new Central Baptist Hospital. But I think as a land conservation board, or as a board that is interested in conserving farmland, the definitions alone don't prevent or direct solar away from that resource. Right. And I think that's an issue of concern. I also personally have some concerns with the role that you're asking the Rural Land Management Board to take on in this, because I feel like it's, it's not really in the scope of responsibilities and mission that this board was asked to pursue. It's sort of, it would, it's secondary. It's not focused on land conservation. It's more, you know, is this an active agricultural operation under a solar field or not? And it seems like it would, we, I mean, given our limited staff, basically one person and one person that we contract with to do monitoring, it just seems like more responsibility than we have the resources to do. And we'll be a diversion. I mean, we'll divert our resources away from what our central mission is. But you'll, you'll have to, that this, these are all conversations that you should have as a board. The Rural Land staff is, is under LFUCG, so it doesn't name the board specifically. It names the Rural Land staff. And, but they, the Rural Land staff or their designee means they could talk with, the designee can be you all, it could be Charlie Farmer or whoever is doing the inspections for PDR at that time. But I think there isn't a better expert in my mind for who could actually assess ag production within government than this, than the Rural Land staff designee or their designee. But I understand the concern. And I think this is part of the review that you all should do. And then you'll be able to, just like you're writing letters about these other things, you can give feedback in a formal way from the board to council and to the planning commission as well. Right, right. I mean, those are just some initial concerns that I have because I feel like the board and staff are, you know, we're very focused on, on accomplishing the goal and getting 50,000 acres under easement. And if we're asked to take on a different responsibility, we may be the most qualified within LFUCG to take, to assess whether a farm is actively in agriculture or not. But with our current staff, we don't have the resources to do that. And so that, that I think is something that has to be considered. Maybe it's, you know, there's a commitment to, you know, staff another position or something to allow us to, to do that. If this passes, that allows us to do that without hampering our efforts to conserve farmland. Well, and this is what I did talk to Beth about this. So if you look at the 1% calculation and the size of large scale installations, if you're talking about the remainder of this being about 1,000 acres, that is two, maybe three projects. And I would be committed to, Beth talked to me about how much it is to have an inspection done to have that contracted out. And we would have to provide the resources to do that if we're asking you to do the work. Right. Okay. I do think that the fundamental issue is, is the use of prime farmland and statewide importance. And I think, I mean, speaking for myself from the land conservation position, this is not a use I want to see on prime farmland or farmland of statewide importance. I think the dual use is better than no dual use, but it's still using what is a finite resource that is critical to our ag industries for a purpose that is not directly tied to agriculture. And so I think it just, it's, I don't think that this is the way to get us to where we want to get. And I think, I mean, I'm definitely pro-solar. I realized that it hasn't been adopted in residences to the degree that we want. I do think that there are opportunities throughout the community where we could incentivize it so that it's built on the top of rooftops of office buildings or in parking lots or other locations. I just hate to see us use prime farmland to accomplish that goal. I totally understand. I want to, I see Phil has had his hand raised, so I want to call on Phil too. Hi, Phil. Hi, thanks. Yeah, I agree with what everything Margaret said. Just want to, one point that's in the first paragraph of the existing solar energy articles of ordinance. It says you want to make, it wants to avoid to the extent possible and mitigate any adverse impacts to wildlife, productive and nationally important agriculture land. So, it's like, it says in your first premise of this whole ordinance that we want to protect those important lands from important soils. So, I think we'll definitely be pushing for having something, putting in the ordinance to stay off the prime soils and hopefully the statewide important soils. But the second thing I want, okay, second question I have, on the brownfields, I haven't, I don't really have any knowledge. Is there any reason why they would not be subject to a conditional use permit? I mean, I'm just thinking somebody needs to be overlooking a project on a brownfield just like they would overlook a large project anywhere else with screening and setbacks and all that stuff. So, any, they would still, they would not have a conditional use permit. And so, the way that it is currently written, you could say, no, these should have them. That could be one of the things, one of the suggestions that comes from your board. But for the brownfields, we wanted to say, no, we think these should be prioritized. So, they shouldn't have to basically jump through the hoops that the other properties would have to jump through to do this. So, that's where we landed on our language proposal. But if you have a different suggestion, that can come from the board, certainly. Well, will the setback rules and screening rules still apply to them? All of the other property rules would apply. It's just they wouldn't have to go through the conditional use permit. The last question I had, and I saw in the Fayette Alliance presentation, or the overhead views of the hallway feeds are wonderful. Everything's covered up. I was reading the ordinance, and I got the impression that if you were a commercial building, you could only cover, your roof extent could be only half percent, 50% of what your building area was, which made me think if it was a one-story building, you could only cover up half the roof as opposed to the whole roof. And if that's, if I'm interpreting that right, I would like to see that changed because it's like, if somebody's commercial venture is going to cover the roof, we want them to cover all of it that they can. I'm not, could you point me to where you see that? I'm not seeing the percentage. I think it was in the table, kind of the grid. No, it's not in that. Well, I don't have it right in hand. I'll try and get to that. But something in there was, there was appeared to be a 50% limitation. I don't see that in our rooftop. There's height restrictions and lighting restrictions. So the height is that it can't extend, it can't extend beyond the edge of the roof, and it can't go more than 10 feet above the highest point of the roof line. And then for lighting, you can't luminate your panels on top of your roof. Okay, it's on the permitted use 31-4 permitted uses accessory. So it's an accessory use. So maybe that doesn't apply to what's on the roof. It says ground mounted. That's only for the ground mounted one. So that doesn't apply to the roof. Okay, so, so again, all right. I mean, I see, I mean, when I went to the new Baptist Health facility a couple of years ago and saw all that big parking lot area and said, why doesn't this have solar over it? I mean, if they wanted to cover up their parking lot, would they be restricted to 50% of the floor area of the building? I don't know about their, what their zoning is. So that would be whatever zoning may fall in here. If it is, if they're doing a full parking lot and they fell under accessory use here, which is anything in this table, that's an A, then they would, it has to be less than 50% of the total principal structures. But if there is, if it's the principal, then it doesn't have that same. I'm thinking a parking lot, solar over a parking lot would be an accessory use. And so why are we going to restrict it to 50% of the building size? I mean, that you, we went on some of the language that was from the Kentucky Resources Council, but if you want to look at that and make suggested changes, please do. All right. Are there any other questions? Yes. Yes, Liz, are there restrictions for distribution and warehouses on their roofs? I guess that would be more of a commercial application. Rooftop solar, if it's on a rooftop, it is allowed. Okay. And I just, for the record, I agree with what Margaret was saying. We're very concerned about our precious farmland here in Fayette County and everything that we can do to preserve it and to have solar where it would be more applicable on commercial sites, rooftops, where you have warehouses, parking lots would be more preferred. I have 1 last question. What would be the time frame for public review? I think you said in your presentation that there will be a time frame for a public hearing on this. Could you give us some feedback? Yeah. This draft language is up on the Engage Lexington website for the public to give feedback on now. And it has been up since we had this presentation back in March to the committee. So that is up for public review and it will stay up until this comes back to council. I think we would set a deadline of that, probably end of July to close that out so we have time to compile all the information to distribute it to the council members. If we send it to the Planning Commission next week, what I am hearing is that they would have their public hearing in June and towards the end of June. I'm hearing June 25th as a date, but I don't have that confirmed yet because we haven't actually sent it to them so they can't hear it. Yes, as we have dates updated, we would post all the information on that Engage Lexington website. Okay. Councilman Sheehan, I have a question. Have you all considered including any kind of provision that would require that the public review the draft language for the public to give feedback on now? Have you all considered including any kind of provision that would require that the energy that is generated be actually used within Lexington-Fayette County? I mean, is it going to benefit utility payers in Fayette County or is the energy going to be transmitted elsewhere? I think that's been a big discussion and that's also why we have this community benefits discussion is because what happens with the energy, exactly where does it go? It goes to the grid. And so we can't say it's going to go to these five houses or these 10 houses or this part of the county because electrons flow like water. So it goes into the grid and then it goes to where the power is needed at the time. So there isn't a way for us to write it in. And we've talked to several people about that that have expertise in this area, but it's just not something that we can control. So the community benefit that would potentially be generated would be that we would strive to hit net zero by 2030. And that would be the overall community benefit rather than any kind of reduction in rate or any guarantee of energy supply for Fayette County or anything. No, the community benefits plans differ across different places. So some of them will have other community benefits like some proposed and there's in the proposed language, if you look on page under 31-6I, there's a whole section about the community benefits plan and suggestions about what can go in there. So we have seen like workforce requirements. So you must use local workforce. So that helps our local workers and the economy. It has you can ask for money to come back to the county to help offset utility rates, not rates because it's going to be the same rate, but utility costs for like low income households. You could look at funding coming back again to the county to do education around energy consumption. There's lots of different ways that you can form a community benefits agreements and some of those are financial and some of those are workforce based or education based, but it then benefits the entire community as a whole. So that community benefits agreement would be proposed by the entity that wants to build the solar and then the council would have to approve that agreement or who would review that agreement to be sure that the community benefits are adequate or substantial. It depends on who that community benefits plan goes to. So like right now, council is negotiating the community benefits plan with Edlin Renewables for the Haley Pike project. And so that is going to be a contract that comes to us. We have seen in other counties community benefits plans actually going to a community foundation. And so for solar projects specifically like the Ohio River Valley Institute that we talked with in the work group, they gave us an example of one in another county and there is a foundation that that funding is going to that then help support efforts like the ones that we're talking about. So it just depends on who the agreement is with. Okay, but it's not mandatory that it be with council, but it has to be agreed to prior the terms have to be agreed to prior to getting the authorization to build it. It would have to be that if you're going for a conditional use permit, then you would present that you have a community benefits agreement to the Board of Adjustment and what that looks like. However, I do want to say we cannot legally require a community benefits plan in a planning decision. So we can say you can present it, but we cannot say you can't do the, our law department at this point is saying you cannot say for a conditional use permit or something like a zone change that a conditional use permit is required because that looks like, they use the phrase a lot, pay to play. It looks like an additional fee. that someone would have to pay to get an approval. And so they're hesitant to say that we can require them. So you'll see in the language that it has a lot of may do this, not shall do this language in the ordinance because of our law department and being somewhat concerned about legal challenges later. I am interested to follow this, and we're having broader discussions around community benefit plans. So you'll see that in the language there, I actually had proposed language that I added that said, a community benefits plan must be in compliance with local, state, and federal code statutes and regulations. Because we're seeing these change, because we're seeing these involved in other projects and other places, there might come a point where we can say, no, this is required. And so I want to, if we can require it, I do want to require it because I think those are an important piece of how this impacts our community. If you can't require it on the advice of council, then there's no guarantee that they will actually provide a community benefits agreement or comply with one. And they could submit one and say, well, this is what we would offer. But if there's no mechanism to enforce it or require it, there's no guarantee that any of that would happen, right? Well, those would be formal contracts. So then there could be lawsuits over them if they're not done in the end. Right, but if they're not required to do that, they could present a proposal and not have a community benefits agreement in place, right? Correct. And the Board of Adjustment could consider that. Right, OK. Let me add on to what council member Sheehan just said and what board member Phil Meyer brought up. And that is what you just said about adding that language in, which is good. You should do that. I would add the exact same language that Phil Meyer brought up about brownfields. Because if it is ground mounted, there are KRS requirements when it comes to fencing and signage. So that should be included, the same language on brownfields. Because the brownfield may not have to go for a permit, but there are state laws that they absolutely have to comply. So I would add that same language in for what he just asked, what he just mentioned. Yeah. And then I know you have other things to get to, so I'll just say this in closing. My door is open if you have questions or want to talk with me later or any of the other groups. And then I also want to tell you that I agree with you. Like, I do want us to have responsible solar. That's why we've put in the 1% from the beginning. That's why we say vegetative cover and we're looking at this dual use language. Because we do have people in our community, even property owners in our ag zones, that want to do solar for various reasons. And so I'm trying to, this language on the dual use piece of this is trying to find the middle ground, but to really restrict it pretty heavily to make it so that it isn't like, honestly, what I call the bad solar proposals that we see where things are grappled over. There is no respect for the land. I don't want to see that. Council Member Shand, I just have one last question. Have we done any benchmarking in the state to find a community where solar has worked very well, where it's preserved farmland, as well as a worst case scenario where it got out of control? I'll give you an example. A beautiful community on the west side, west end of Kentucky, a beautiful community, Henderson, Kentucky, beautiful farmland, beautiful community. Today, it is swamped. You're talking about pristine acres. Thousands of acres have panels everywhere. And I don't think that community really, a lot of farmers and certainly a lot of members of the community didn't expect that to happen. But it seemed to me when I've been out there and I've seen it personally, it seems to be where it got out of control. Do we have any benchmarking that we've done in the state where it's the preferred way versus the worst way? I think that's where we're leaning into the research that has been done across not only Kentucky, but the nation, with that the American Farmland Trust has done, where they have specific best practices that we have really worked to include here. But yeah, but I agree with you. There are proposals that we have seen that we don't want to see. And there are ones that do this in a more ecologically responsible way. So we have put together, there are maps of solar projects across Kentucky. We've been kind of pulling those lists in my office to just kind of look and compare. But yeah, you're right. There are places where I don't think this is done well. And I don't want to be one of those. Right, exactly. Oh, I will tell you that it is almost four and we do need to hurry along. But Margaret is working on this. And we do have Matt Hutchison here with us today. And he can tell us all about the NRCS and has given us, we have some information from them last time as well. We will still keep reviewing this. And we will be giving you some things in writing. Thank you for working on it. Thank you for coming. Thank you for the presentation. And this group does care a lot about this. I also do want to make it clear that we do have solar on our PDR farms. We have approved that. And it is always on buildings or so that they're using it on their own properties. So this group does support solar when it comes to farms. It's just that we're very picky about saving our limited resources. I totally understand. But thank you all for your time and for your review. And I look forward to your feedback. Thank you. Thank you. And we agree with what Tyler Morton, Council Member Morton, brought up about community. I've read carefully what he did. In fact, I recommended to you it should be its own section in order to promote it more, rather than just making it I at the end of something. So anyway, thank you. OK. I think we should probably, you think we can quickly get through our other new business so we can get on to our closed session. That should work. These will both be long. Yes, these will both be quick. So our new PDR and small farm easements. We closed our first small farm easements ever. So that's exciting. On March 30, we closed three small farm for 2025. That's 11 acres. 2025, it's 10. And 21, 2025, it's 10, as well as one PDR farm that's 30 acres. And I was going to do a presentation to show you all those today, but I knew we would be limited on time. So I will likely just do that in June because we expect to close several more PDR and small farms by the end of our fiscal year. So we'll just do a PowerPoint on all of those. But yes, we've closed our first small farm. So that is exciting news. We did some great. We did three. Yes, yes, three small farms and one PDR last month. And then our new NRCS, the next item, our new NRCS match funding. Actually, Matt Hutchinson is going to deliver the good news for us. He is here in place of Brian Jones today. And he's the NRCS staff person I work with the most. Thanks, Beth. Would you like for me to go ahead and give that information? Sure. OK, thank you all for having me this afternoon. I'm sorry Brian couldn't be here. He was under the weather. All right, there are a couple of things I want to tell you. First, I want to say congratulations to the board because we have selected for funding tentatively all of the PDR applications for 2026. I know that you can hear me because I see Gloria clapping. That's awesome. And yes, now they're going to go up to national headquarters for review within the next week or two. That review process normally takes about a month to month and a half. And then at that point, we would give those to you all for signatures, assuming that there were no unforeseen issues or anything. So that's the first point. And then Eric asked me, our state conservationist, Eric asked me to quickly mention to you that Senate Bill 45, SB 45, I'm sure you're familiar with that bill. That was the one that said that local governments or local entities couldn't enforce things that were legal by the state law. That's a very unprofessional and brief summary of it. That did not pass in general session in 2026. So unless there's a special session called by the governor or something to that effect, the next time it could be heard would be in 2027's regular session. So in any event, that's, I think, important for you all. It doesn't affect federally held easements. So those would all be good anyway. But I just wanted to bring that up to you. It may have had some effect on a locally held easement, for example, with respect to the Airbnb type of thing that we had talked about that we're having a conversation with. So good news, that did, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have said good news. I mean, it did not pass in this session. But yeah, but I think that you might find that important. And if you have any comments or concerns about that or anything to say about it, you could provide feedback or anything there if you wanted to. But that's all really we have for an update. And again, thanks so much for having us. Well, thank you. You get those papers to me. My pen is sitting here ready. I'll sign those in a hurry. I'll make a special trip wherever. So that is actually very good news. Thank you. Beth, one thing, backing up just a little bit on your PDR and the small farm easements, Charlie Farmer and I talked about this this week. When we do the new applications for the small farms, or actually any of our farms, if we'll put a phone number and some addresses, people can do their own water quality plans online. And there are people who can help them do that. There's a phone number and a way that they can do that. If we will put those things on our applications and the checklist, it would save you and me and other staff members and Charlie some time. Because a couple of the people said they kept calling NRCS, waiting for Matt or somebody to help them do water quality plans. And right now, Matt and those offices are short-staffed too. So they can do anything that, Matt, you see we need to put on any of these applications that will speed them along or help any of us. Please just forward that to Beth so we can make sure that that happens. 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All right, Jim Coleman made the motion and I see Phil Myers. And I'll second. Second. All in favor signify with a show of hands. I didn't see Stevens. Oh, Stephen and Phil hey okay. Everybody. Okay. And I'm going to do the next ones individually. I need a motion to authorize. Let's see, I can go ahead and authorize the appraisals on those even. And in the meantime, when the federal comes for me to sign, then we can move after that. Correct. Yeah, all right. I need a motion to authorize an appraisal of farm to 2025. All right, that's Margaret and Phil who 1 of you could be the 2nd. 2nd, and all in favor signify with a show of hands. Okay, that was unanimous bet. And then I need a motion to authorize an appraisal for farm 3 2025. So, Madam Chair. Okay, second. Second was Stephen all in favor show of hands please. Okay, that's also. A motion to authorize an appraisal of farm for 2025. Move Margaret made the motion. Is there a 2nd? Stephen all in favor show of hands. All right, I need a motion to authorize an appraisal for farm 5 2025. I'll move. Okay. Phil Myers there a 2nd. 2nd, Jim Coleman. All in favor show of hands. All right, and 1 last. Last, I need a motion to authorize an appraisal for farm 6 2025. So, move Margaret and Stephen is a 2nd. All in favor show of hands. And you can make a note in the minutes method as soon as I receive the federal match paperwork, I will be signing it and we will move right on with those appraisals. We can move on with the 1 appraisal. But then these last ones that we did. The 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 will move after I sign the paperwork. Okay. Sounds great. All right. Now, treasurer's report Phil, I know you have 1 this time. I do madam chair. We have an invoice from Kenimer appraisal services. Or the appraisal done on farm PDR from 1, 2025. For $4,000 that's been paid. Another invoice from Kenimer. Or the appraisal done on small PDR from. 1, 2025 or $2,500, which has been paid. We have 2 invoices from Charlie farmer. 1 was for. 63 farms that were done inspected in the month of March 63 arms for $6,300. And his 2nd invoice. Was for 21 farms that have been done in April per his sheet that he sent us. His invoice says March states that was an error. This is for April inspection. So, 21 farms for $2,100. Those are also been paid. Okay, so those are the. For invoices that I have. That that's all I've got. Any questions you have, you have copies of the invoices and the farms that Charlie inspected in your, in your packets that sent out. And if you will drive down the roads, try to look for those farms and the new signs have been going up and we've gotten lots of compliments. So, please look for them. You might want to add Phil or Beth that the council budget link is supposed to be on April. The 30th. Vice mayor who is in our is head of our link and council member. Boone and we have another who's the 3rd person. Olivia just rejoined she may be able to tell us. Maybe not. Okay. Our council link is April 30th and Phil Meyer and Robert and I definitely will be there and Beth and anyone else may attend if they would like. We don't know yet if it's going to be in person or zoom. They will let us know closer to time. Do you have any idea of the time yet? Gloria? I think 1, 1, 30 or 2. It's tentatively. Yeah. And, you know, we, we do need to make note that the mayor fully funded our operational cost. In the budget, so hopefully they're going to. Council's going to pass everything and we're going to be. I hope in good shape. I'll buzz right through my chair's report of things we've done since the last meeting. We have had a lot of requests and comments about the mint lane and the solar issue and the cell tower. Thank you Beth for helping get all that together and get those sent out in a timely manner. We have had 4 closings and we've talked about those and that was very exciting and the people were really very appreciative. It was actually. Those closings are fun because they're all really excited about it. On April 1st, I gave an update about our to the Brian station chapter. We have several members in that chapter. People who have both easements with Margaret and with us and Sandy Schaefer is part of that chapter and she was on the council when we passed that 20 years ago. And 1 of the mothers of 1 of our 1st attorneys who helped us with that. It's in that chapter. There were 50 something people there. They were all very supportive and it's exciting. And they said, when we start doing more, they're going to be happy to go out and help us find new applications, both for small farm and regular. So, it's good to have helpers and I did attend Margaret's. At basic tipton for the bluegrass land conservancy, and I'll let her tell you about it. I know I was there and Margaret was there and. Somebody else will was there. Yes, and it was a great event. You did a really good job and I hope you made lots of. Lots of lots of money, and we are getting already small farm requests and I just sent a text today to. Our commissioner telling him to move along the changes we wanted to make because part of those people are. Who requested from the last time are in the area and hopefully we'll be able to move along with those and then send out our new requests for small farm applications. So, be asking, looking for folks. Especially on the small farm who are interested so we can move on quickly with those now that we are certified local government certified entity. It has moved much faster. Matt has said that and Beth has certainly said that. So, I hope I hope everybody is pleased. Beth. Okay, I would mostly just say ditto to your report that meant lane solar clothing and all of that has kept us busy. Just a lot of things I feel like as the program ages and grows and new owners take over there are a lot of. I don't know if we call it growing pains or what but kind of like whack a mole sometimes but also a lot of questions from new owners as they take over and housing and NRC is helping us with some threatened road expansions and say it and helping investigate those different things. So, keeping busy, but it's all going well. So, that's it. Let me just go around the staff, Margaret. I see you at the top of the screen. 1st, tell us about your event. So, the conservancy had its annual fundraiser last week last Thursday went very well and we had great attendance and a great auction. I haven't seen the final numbers. I don't know how much money we made, but I think it's pretty significant amount, which is always good. I did have 1 question for you, Gloria or for Beth. What is our deadline for submitting comments on the solar proposal? We need to turn some of that in by the 28th, right? Well, no, so that's what I thought originally and what they suggest, but I actually saw Liz at a meeting last night and she said, no, she would cover that today, but I don't think she did give us a specific. They, if they send it to the planning commission and that it would our public feedback would come during that whole process, the 60 days or at the end of that. So, it is not for Tuesday right now. No, that's good. The light on that for you. Okay. They, they had this in committee and they were hoping to move it out faster to the full plan to the full council, but they obviously had a lengthy discussion about it. So, they just put it back. So that what they're doing is actually reporting out of the general government and planning committee on the normal timeframe instead of making it faster. And so what I suspect is going to happen next Tuesday is they're going to make the report out from committee. And at the same time, they're going to. Ask for a resolution to initiate that text amendment, which would require it could go to the planning commission because it's a text amendment to the zoning ordinance. Once they do that, they'll have to vote on it in a council meeting. So, it probably technically won't get to, you know, they have a, I don't, I can't even remember what their meeting schedule is, but they. Until they actually pass that resolution, initiating the text amendment, it will not officially go to the planning commission. So, you're probably looking at least a week or 2 period after Tuesday next week. Once it gets to the planning commission officially, or that resolution from the council, then the planning commission has to process it and report back with a recommendation to the full council in 60 days. And during that time, the planning commission will be reviewing it in their committees and they will also have a hold a public hearing. So, yeah, I think you do have some time. Okay. I mean, you certainly aren't precluded from sending something next Tuesday. I just don't know how much it would really get weighed in on since they've already weighed in on it in committee. You know, they didn't seem like they were in 100% agreement at the end of that committee, but, you know, so somebody could bring it up for more discussion on Tuesday. So, I don't want to tell you that's not going to happen, but they are definitely going to send it. I think they have the votes to send it to the planning commission. So, then you'll at least have a 60 day period with at least a public hearing. Okay. Once the planning commission sends it back to the council, they have no deadline. Well, we do have some experts in Wilmer on this committee. He's worked on this for literally years. So, any of the things you all have brought up today, please contact Margaret, either in email or text or call or in writing and get that to her to make sure that all of our issues are addressed. I made a list and I will, I have sent some of that already to Liz when she sent it out, and I'll get the rest of that to Margaret. Any other thing, Margaret, you want to ask? No, I just wanted to understand what our time frame was. Okay. Phil Hager. Nothing really to report. Getting ready for breeders cup already. Yeah, just got back from Ocala this weekend. So, what's that? They had a big sale. And yeah, 10 and a half million dollar cold. So, Steven Howard. Nothing to report. Jim Coleman. Madam chair, I am pleased to let you all know that I have been elected to be the president of the Briar Hill neighborhood association and following a really great leader in Jimmy Shropshire, who was the 1st president back in 1974. And he and his wife, Jane have done an outstanding job. It's going to be tough to follow in their footsteps, but we're going to do everything possible to preserve our land and to keep everyone informed. Everyone greatly appreciates chairman and to Elizabeth, everybody appreciates your letter of what we wanted to have sent over to the planning commission concerning the cell tower. And I'm going to be able to get some feedback out to my community now about the solar program, and we'll be providing feedback, both to our board here as well as to the planning commission when it gets there. I also want to let you all know that on April 30th will be Paul Paul day at Coleman crest farm. Any of you are invited. It's a strategic partnership with Kentucky State University, a research project, and we're going to plant 30 Paul Paul trees. They're all going to have a name after my ancestors. And so we're very excited about that. And then the last thing, Madam chair, I wanted to let you all know that my dear sister, Ruth is going to be in the college of engineering at the University of Kentucky. They're having an induction into the hall of fame tomorrow, and she was the 1st woman and 1st African American to receive a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky. And you're all just it's just a very exciting time. Send her our congrats. I certainly will. Great. Thank you. Hannah, I have no report and if I did, I couldn't even follow Jim's great report. So, I can't compete with that. Um, I only thing I know, they, they had the, they had the scholarship interviews last weekend for the farm Bureau scholarships. Outstanding group of individuals, and. Those announcements will be shortcoming. I don't have them yet, but things went well and the auction was great and Robert may have more to add, but he's out there busy planting corn. It looks like. So, I'm trying to figure out where he is. I haven't figured out yet. I've been waiting for him to make the wrong turn there. That's all I've got. Oh, I know there's no 1 thing if you're looking for something free to do Saturday afternoon, the Ollie course of which my wife and our members will be performing their spring concert at this year. It's at election and Christian Academy at 2 o'clock. About an hour and 15 minute program, a bunch of senior citizens singing and there's a lots of folks that are professionals or used to be professionals in there. I'm just an amateur, but it's a lot of fun and it's good music. So, 2 o'clock and it's free. And I did tell Margaret last week that the reason part of the board members and you all can come was it was the same exact night as the farm Bureau monthly meeting, which is where a lot of people were in attendance. Okay, we'll mayor. Sorry, just quickly, I wanted to commend Margaret on her comments on the solar issue. I think she covered. A number of really important points, and this is clearly a very important and complex issue. I'm happy to share comments in the drafting letter, but I think that I have a lot of concerns about how that work group council work group unfolded. And I think there's a need for strong response from this board. We agree. Robert, can you quit staring long enough to give us a report there? Yes, make sure you don't go over the wrong thing. I will say I've made a mistake or 2 while I've been on the phone with someone and had to pay the price for that afterwards, but I love it when it drives itself. As Phil mentioned, the Farm Bureau scholarship interviews were last Sunday. I know that the committee in charge of that, the Education Foundation, has awarded $130,000 in scholarships to Fayette County students and those announcements have been mailed out to them. Congratulations to them. They'll be getting good news in the mail. If anyone who is on the board or watching on WEX TV has any interest in the scholarship or has a student attending a Fayette County high school that's public or private, please reach out to either myself or Phil Meyer. Contact the Farm Bureau Federation office and we can get you details for next year's scholarship. Other than that, as you all can tell, I've been busy planting. We'll be doing that for the next two months, probably, on and off. It sure is not raining currently, so I've been able to get a lot done. Other than that, I just attend meetings when they come up, either at City Hall or the Farm Bureau office. It's just a busy time overall. I hope everyone has a good spring and I hope we get maybe a little more rain sometime soon. Soon. I need it. Joanna. Hello. Hey, babe. Today we finished our Kentucky Wine Association conference. They have not met since COVID, so this was our first meeting. I say we because I just joined them. It was a very good conference. We were at Wise Bird Cider. We did a lot of testing, a lot of testings. And then today we were at the Farmer UK. So I'm getting more knowledge about the wine business. And then I will be one of those undergraduate students at Jim Coleman's April 30th pawpaw planting. And I have some that I'm going to dig up and bring you. It's time now. Okay. Matt Hutchison, you have anything you want to add today? Thank you, Gloria. The only thing I would say is I would like to, given the comment Beth made, we are working closely with Kentucky Transportation Cabinet on the various issues and projects that are going through Fayette County that affect our shared easements, and we'll continue to report on those as progress is made. Good. Again, thank you for having us. And thank you. I think that's everybody. Did I miss anybody? Tracy, you need to add anything before we go? I really do appreciate everybody going to the effort, especially on a beautiful day, to do this. And I really appreciate their letting us do it by Zoom. It does make it lots easier. Beth, you can pass that on. I'm glad we can do it by Zoom because when you have a board this large and what it's so important that we carry on our business that it's good to be able to do this. If there's not anything else. Madam Chair. Yes. Real quick question for Margaret. Were there any awards given at the banquet last Thursday? Turn your mic on, Margaret. No, last Thursday was just a fundraiser and a live and silent auction. We are having an awards dinner May the 7th at Udell. And Robert Clay is receiving the Lifetime Conservation Award and Billy Van Pelt is receiving the Louise Allen Memorial Award for his efforts in farmland conservation. So, but no, no awards last week. Okay. I was just curious. I knew Billy, who was the first director of the PDR program, was receiving an award and I just wanted to make sure we recognized him on the meeting. Yeah, he's actually the second, Maynard Ferguson. Yes. Sorry, that was my mistake. That's okay. That's okay. You both did a great job. If there's nothing else, I'll call for a motion for an adjournment. Our next meeting will be May 27th. Same time, hopefully, same place, Zoom, May 27th, 3 o'clock. Put that on your calendars now. And please remember to let Beth know, yay or nay, regardless. And I do want to remind everybody and we need to make sure that's in the minutes, Beth, that this is 1 of those boards that requires a percentage of attendance and I want to keep all of you all here. So, please let her know ahead because it counts against you if you do not have an excused attendance and that's not our doing, that's the ordinance. So, do please always let her know so we know we'll have a quorum. I will call for a motion and it is, we made it earlier than I thought, it's 445. We always try to be out of here by 5, because we do have another group that follows us with LexTV. Do I hear the motion to adjourn? So moved, Juana. All right, and Stephen seconded. All in favor, show of hands. Thank you all very much. Happy spring. Have a nice day. Thank you. Thank you. See you all. And may we have good rain. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. You show a little love for my life. You show a little love for my life in the DC. Remember tonight we're gonna run some long. Remember tonight we're gonna say yeah. We'll never stop, we got a good thing going on. I know you heard it all before. And I really need you, girl. Every day I need you more. You show a little love for my life. You show a little love for my life. You show a little love for my life in the DC. Can you understand? Yes, I understand. Can you feel it's right? I know it is. Will you be the same? I'll do it all again. It's been a year now and it's getting so much better. I came home without a word. Though everybody said you're so forgetter. They couldn't see and they just didn't understand. And looking in the mirror, there were fools that either had. 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Oh, you, you, you. The wind beneath my wings. Oh, you, you, you. The wind beneath my wings. Fly, fly so high in the sky. So high I almost touch the sky. Thank you, thank you. Thank God for you. The wind beneath my wings. This ain't no temporary, typical, tearful goodbye. This ain't no breakin' up, then wakin' up, and makin' up one more time. This is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. This is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. Gone like a freight train. Gone like yesterday. Gone like a soldier in the Civil War. Bang, bang. Gone like a 59 Cadillac. Like all the good things that ain't ever comin' back. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. She's gone. This ain't no givin' time out hurtin', but maybe we can work it out. This is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. This is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. This is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. Gone like a freight train. Gone like yesterday. Gone like a soldier in the Civil War. Like all the good things that ain't ever comin' back. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. Gone like a freight train. Gone like a soldier in the Civil War. Like all the good things that ain't ever comin' back. Gone like a freight train. Gone like a soldier in the Civil War. Gone like a freight train. Gone like a soldier in the Civil War. 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 gotta 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 is 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 gotta 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. 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 of the opposite directions. 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. Good. And we'll let that rest. Take up a little bit of space. Sweep up the arms. Big stretch out. And as you reach overhead, just reach really high as if you were getting taller. We'll bring one arm down and reach straight up with the other and then find a big side stretch. Maybe lift up and look towards the ceiling if you want a little extra, a little extra stretch there. Inhale to come back to your center 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, bringing one arm down. Big side stretch. Maybe you're holding onto the chair for security here. Anything that keeps us safe and stable. Maybe a little twist upwards. And then inhale all the way back to your center. Next, we're going to do our first little twist of the day, and that's going to really focus in on our core. So our pelvic floor, our abdomen, our sides and our back. So for a moment, as you inhale, get up a little taller, as if someone was pulling you from the crown of your head. As you exhale, draw the belly in. And 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 in 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 hangs. Two more. One more. Good. Press back up to a good, tall posture. And we'll use that same thought, but just kind of change it. So let's bring the hands to the back of the neck. And we're going to find that same curvature, but just side to side. So nice, tall posture to begin. Even exhale to draw the belly in. That's going to keep our core nice and strong and stable. And perhaps as we exhale, we just bring one elbow down. Inhale, center. Exhale, go the other way. Inhale, center. Exhale, drop an elbow. Inhale, center. Exhale, drop the other elbow. One more in each direction. Come all the way back up to that good, tall posture. Hands can come down to our sides once again. We'll get the hips a little warmed up. First fold of the day. So we'll just reach forward and then just bend from the hips. Do your best to keep a nice, flat back when you do this. So just walking the hands down towards the feet. Maybe it touches the floor. Maybe not. Not important here. Lovely way to stretch out the back. It's also calming to the nervous system. As we breathe, our bellies press into our legs, and our legs kind of press back, tricking the nervous system into being a bit more calm. Feel free to let your head hang here. You don't have to look up the way I am. Maybe we just add a bit more here. Take one arm and just reach towards the opposite side of the body, just across the body here, maybe towards that foot. And then back to the center. Other arm, reaching across the body towards that opposite foot. It's 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. 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 are a big, strong weightlifter, let's just act as if we were holding weights in our hands and squeeze the arms up to the top. Stretching them out long and even taking them behind us a little. Squeezing the muscles in. You can really create a lot of strength here without any weight at all. If you want more work out of it, just squeeze the muscles more up here. And then relax the arms, even stretch back a little. Good. We'll do three more of those. Squeezing at the top. Stretching at the bottom. Two more. Good. Relax the arms. And we're going to take one arm across the body and literally just give ourselves a little massage. So maybe start by just kind of poking around, see if the muscles feel kind of tight today. Maybe we can clamp down on that meaty part right by the neck. 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. Taking almost like a stop if you're trying to stop someone. Stop hands. And we're going to try the wrist one more time here by just dropping the hands down. Coming back up to stop hands. Taking the hands down. And back up just a couple times there. And then we'll leave them back up to palms facing out. Inhale lift high. 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. A really good way to get the arches of the feet going. Maybe side to side. I'll stretch out the sides of the ankles. Maybe just taking a moment to open and close the toes. Kind of crunch them closed. Stretch them out. Crunch them close. Stretch them out. All these are great ways for getting into all the joints that are located in the feet there. So just take a moment to do any of the things I just said. Or if you've got another move that feels good. We're just getting the feet going here. Just taking a moment. To get the feet working. Waking them up. And then once you feel nice and supple in your feet. Just kind of let them sink right back into the floor here. Or into your shoes if you're wearing shoes. And we're going to stretch out our ankles. So we're just going to stretch out our foot. It doesn't have to be too high off the ground. But if you really want a little extra challenge, sit up nice and tall and keep that foot high. But you don't have to. You can keep it low if you want. And just start by maybe pointing and flexing the foot. Pointing and flexing. Pointing like a ballerina. Flexing like you're wearing a boot. Maybe from there we can draw some circles. One direction. Then the other. Also really good for blood flow. Go ahead and set that foot down. We'll do the exact same thing on the other side. So we're pointing the foot and flexing the foot. You decide how high that foot is off the ground. Point and flex. Point and flex. Just a couple more. Maybe move into those circles we did on the other side. Go both directions. Set that foot down. From here, go ahead and grab for your yoga strap or your dish towel or your belt. Whatever we're using. And it doesn't have to be too specific. But this can just help us reach our 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. Okay. 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. 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 of big, deep breaths. Inhale all the way up. Same thing other side. You decide if the prop was helpful or not. Sometimes they can get in the way if we're overusing them. But it is nice to have them around often. So maybe looping that foot, maybe just reaching towards that foot. But 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 were just clipping along. Maybe you're going twice the pace I am. And that's awesome if you want to do that. Or maybe we're moving right at this nice, steady pace. One side, then the other. One side, then the other. Two more each way. Good. Bring both feet back in. And this time we're going to keep that movement going. This time it's like we're taking a walk, but we're sitting right here. So pick up one leg, then the other. Maybe get the arms going. Maybe we can do 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. That's going to be helpful for memory. And just having a bit more clarity. Good. Maybe pick up the pace with me for just a short little bit as we finish 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 find that you're slouching, that's okay. Just mindfully come back. You know how to sit up tall. Exhale, draw the belly in. It's going to make it a little easier to sit up tall. So kicking out. Alternating legs. 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. Hmm. I'm going to find some big twists. So let's reach the arms up nice and high. And as we exhale, let's twist towards one direction, bringing one arm in front, one arm in back. Inhale, reach high. Exhale, twist the other way, leading with the opposite arm. Inhale, reach up. Exhale to twist. Inhale, reach up. Exhale, twist. Inhale, high. Exhale, twist. Inhale, high. Exhale, twist. One more each way. Move with your breath. Hmm. Come back to the center. And the hands come down. So we're going to find...