# Environmental Quality & Public Works (EQPW) Committee on 2026-05-12 1:00 PM - May 12, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Committee · May 12, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6767 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6767?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-05-12 - **Body**: Committee - **Last revised**: May 12, 2026 - **Length**: 12,900 words - **Speakers**: Chair, Council Member > ⚠️ **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 Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee met on May 12, 2026. The meeting covered four agenda items, all of which were informational in nature: the Pavement Management Plan, the Complete Streets Design Manual, Parking Citations During Winter Weather Emergencies, and the Consent Decree Remedial Measures Program Plan. Across these items, the committee heard four presentations and took 2 votes. No public comments were received during the meeting. ## Attendance The following members were present at the Committee meeting on May 12, 2026: - Commissioner Martin - Council Member Brown - Council Member Eblen - Council Member Sheehan - Council Member Lynch - Council Member Curtis - Council Member Beasley - Council Member Savigny - Council Member Morton - Council Member Higgins Ford - Council Member Hales All 11 members were in attendance. No members were recorded as absent or late. ## Votes and Decisions The committee took two votes during the May 12, 2026 meeting, both passing by voice vote. - **Approval of the March 3, 2026 Committee Summary:** The committee voted to approve the summary from its March 3, 2026 meeting. The motion was seconded and passed by voice vote. No roll call was recorded, so individual member votes are not available. [timestamp: 0:03:37] - **Remove Parking During Winter Weather Emergencies from Referral List:** The committee voted to remove the item concerning parking during winter weather emergencies from its referral list. The motion passed by voice vote. No roll call was recorded, and no timestamp is available for this item. Both votes were conducted as voice votes with no recorded ayes, nays, or abstentions, and no individual member voting records are available for either motion. ## Pavement Management Plan [timestamp: 03:07] Commissioner Martin presented an overview of the Pavement Management Plan, covering the history, current status, and future direction of the county's pavement management efforts. The presentation addressed budget allocations and the prioritization of road repairs. The agenda item was informational in nature, with no vote or formal action taken as a result of the presentation. *Note: The available data for this agenda item is limited. A full summary of the specific figures, road segments, prioritization criteria, and any questions or concerns raised during discussion is not available from the provided materials.* ## Complete Streets Design Manual [timestamp: 33:41] Burt Kirkendall delivered a presentation to the Committee on the Complete Streets Design Manual. The presentation provided an overview of the manual's goals, the process behind its development, and how it integrates with existing regulations. According to Kirkendall, the manual is aimed at creating a safer and more connected transportation network. The discussion covered the manual's role in guiding street design decisions and its relationship to current regulatory frameworks. This item was informational in nature, and no formal action or vote was taken by the Committee as a result of the presentation. ## Parking Citations During Winter Weather Emergencies [timestamp: 55:58] Laura Boyson from Lex Park presented on the process and considerations involved in issuing parking citations during winter weather emergencies. The presentation was informational in nature, focusing on how enforcement is handled during these events and what factors are taken into account when making citation decisions. Boyson's remarks centered on two key themes: communication and flexibility in enforcement. Her presentation highlighted the importance of clearly conveying emergency parking rules to the public during winter weather events, as well as the need for enforcement personnel to exercise appropriate discretion given the circumstances residents may face during such emergencies. No votes or formal actions were taken as a result of this presentation. The item was received as an informational update by the Committee. ## Consent Decree Remedial Measures Program Plan [timestamp: 1:13:27] Mark Sanders provided a presentation updating the Committee on the Consent Decree Remedial Measures Program. The update covered the current status of projects under the program, financial details, and plans for meeting the compliance deadline associated with the consent decree. The presentation was informational in nature, and no vote or formal action was taken by the Committee as a result of this agenda item. No additional speakers, debates, or specific concerns are reflected in the available meeting record for this item. *Note: The available data for this agenda item is limited to a high-level summary. For full details on project statuses, financial figures, and compliance timelines presented by Mark Sanders, viewers are encouraged to refer to the meeting video beginning at timestamp 1:13:27 or any accompanying presentation materials distributed to the Committee.* --- ## Decisions - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Approval of the March 3, 2026 Committee Summary - **Motion** — passed (0-0): Remove parking during winter weather emergencies from referral list --- ## Full transcript continued in 1 minute 300 grams of flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 teaspoon of baking soda 1 teaspoon of baking soda 1 teaspoon of baking powder 125 ml of vegetable oil A clock 250 grams of cut horseradish 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of thyme ⅓ teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of garlic powder 1 teaspoon of thyme Welcome to the Environmental Quality and Public Works meeting on Tuesday, May 12. Good afternoon. We've got four presentations today, so we're going to go through some things fairly quickly. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the March 3, 2026 Committee Summary. Are there any additions or corrections? Second. We've got a motion to approve and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes. First up is the Pavement Management Plan, and we appreciate Commissioner Martin being here to present that. I am here with my cast of supporting members as well, too, because, as you can appreciate, I've been a pavement management expert for, what, seven weeks now. So I actually am obviously more involved with that, being on the utility end of it and stuff. I'll talk a little bit about that in the end. Pretty packed agenda for the first presentation here, starting with the history of things and then closing up with the look-forward aspect of it. Hopefully each one of those bullets in between there will provide some information about what's currently going on and how we're being able to handle it. The history part of this was particularly interesting to me, because in my prior service down here as the Acting Commissioner, it was mostly in the pre-2024 thing, where just basically there was no subjective or objective way of determining what was needed to be paved or not. Each one of the council members kind of came up with their own list based on visual surveys that were done by college interns, basically. And when I departed in 2014 is when the subcommittee started working on trying to develop a data-driven approach, which in the end, as you can see, is that there's been a lot of attention given to this, including council resolutions. And from looking at it from before versus looking at it now, I feel like that we've got a stronger, more predictive program that gives us a better result for the money that we're investing. And again, I'm saying that as somebody who looked at it from the prior to 2014 to where we are right now. You can see there, there's the spend. The blue bars are the budget, and the red bars are the expenses. You can see they don't match, and they don't match because paving seasons during the calendar year as opposed to the fiscal year, which is in between there. You see a catch-up that goes on oftentimes. But if you did a linear regression on that, you'd find that basically they match up pretty well. What was interesting to me on this in particular is that it's much like any other production graph that we see for the last 10 years. You see that sag around the pandemic area and stuff where not as much was getting done. But you can see that we've caught up pretty quickly. Looking at FY26, the budget number is higher than the expense number. But at the bottom, the footnote there is that there's $1.6 million that are still being applied to the spring paving that most of you are aware of already. So the pavement management plan that came out between 2014 and 2020 that was led by the efforts of the council subcommittee and former commissioners, Dow Hoskins Squire and Commissioner Albright, led to this pavement management plan where now we have an overall condition index that's rating our paved streets. So the worst are zero, the best are 100, and anything that's less than 60 are considered to be candidates for repaving. The plan divides the paving budget based on a set percentage of funds between different road classes, major and minor arterials, collectors, or local roads. We'll talk a little bit about that in another slide here coming up. And then there's also the math about how local roads, which council districts get to decide what local roads that they feel like are priorities based on that overall condition index and how that funding is proportioned. The plan also talks about other parts of emphasizing service and industrial roads as a category with flexible funding. In my prior history, those were ones that often suffered because there weren't any houses on it. There weren't voters on it and stuff like that. And so it sometimes fell through the cracks. And I think that the subcommittee in 2024 wanted us to revisit that and try to make sure that those roads got the level of attention that other roads that people are using to arrive to and from business or work or either one. The second bullet, the 200% budget, you'll see another slide on that here in a second. But that was set up such as that you've got your list, but as conditions change and all of a sudden a project came about that maybe made that one not necessarily the one that you wanted to do right now. That you had kind of a backup list, so to speak, in order to be able to retreat to without having to kind of reinvent the wheel during the course of a paving season. The color-coded maps, I think, is something that we're still working on and I'll talk about that a little bit in a slide later on. The idea was that worse streets were coded as red with yellow, green and different shades of those to where you could very quickly be able to see within your council district which roads are the ones that need the most attention or which do not. So the prioritization responsibility, you can see that the district council person is in control of what is determined as the local roads. We'll talk about what that allocation is here in a second. I was a little concerned about the second part of it because it says administration with council input. I think it's a shared responsibility on those matters. Obviously, if council members have a strong desire to have a major arterial that is covered, there's going to be that ongoing dialogue that ends up having. It's a collaborative effort in deciding which are the priorities for a given fiscal year. The fiscal court handles the county roads. KYTC handles the state roads. And then the private owners obviously handle private roads. And there are still private roads that are in the urban service boundary and even outside the service boundary as well. One came up today. The person doesn't understand why their road doesn't get paved and they don't realize that according to PVA, they own part of that road. I'm sure that will be a sobering finding for them. Anyway, the road class allocations is that you can see that the pavement management plan allocated in such a way is that the local class, which is the class that the council has the lead decision making on, is 40% of any given year's budget. You'll also see there that 10% of the budget is geared towards preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance would be pavement rejuvenation or crack sealing, all intended to try to extend the life cycle of roads that we've already resurfaced. So looking at this year's budget, you're at $13 million. Some people have asked me, well, is that enough or is that too much? We think it's just right based on what we historically have been able to see from our paving contractor. That's probably the right number. If you threw more money at it, we're not sure that you'd be able to see the return on your investment of it. And so that's the mayor's recommendation and the staff's recommendation. It would be at the $13 million. If you use the math that was in the prior slide and is repeated here, you can see that local roads, council district decision ones is $5.2 million for FY27 as recommended in the mayor's proposed budget. Footnote there is that there's an additional $1 million for ADA ramps and another $200,000 for pothole repairs, which is going to be in the commissioner's office with the whole idea of trying to be more intentional about how we go about handling pothole repairs. Here's the really busy slide. It talks about the 200, or let me step back. It's got two columns here. The third column is the allocation for the FY27 budget per council district. And then the fourth column is the 200%. That's the over and above, the backup list, so to speak. And the math of this thing really is this way. The total number of lane miles in the service area, in the urban service area, is 152.99. So if you take council district one, they've got 18.91 miles of that 52.99. That's roughly about 12%. 12% of the $5.2 million should give you $642,000. So that's the way the math works on all of this, is that if you have a larger percentage of the OCIs that are less than 60, then you get that percentage of it to try to catch up. And with each year, that should normalize itself, is that we're attacking as many of the less than 60 numbers as we possibly can. As I close this up, the next two slides are the ones you probably want to give your aid and make sure that they have them handy because these are the dates that are kind of driving everything. Many of you have been meeting with Nathan in the commissioner's office about what your priorities are for right now. That's the middle bullet there, February to April of 2026. As we wind down the spring season, as far as meetings, the collective arterials that are scheduled and not completed in the fall are the focus of right now. And some of it you're kind of seeing going on right now is that at High Street this morning, they started finally putting down the concrete and prepping that for paving. Unfortunately, it's a little bit of one lane road while we're doing it, but they're working extended hours on do this. The local roads from last fall will be completed in the spring as funding and utility coordination allow. So we're still catching up a little bit from last year and trying to focus on stuff that is part of maybe the pavement management program that happened during the winter time, get caught up for next year. Because we can't obviously start spending FY27 money until FY27 money is approved by the council. So May 31st, 2026, that is the early bird deadline for FY27 stuff. So if you can meet with Nathan and finalize your list by then, it's ready for release in July of this year that coincides with the availability of FY27 budget. The end of this calendar year, right before Christmas, December 16th, 2026, is the final deadline for FY27 money. So it would be for release in April or spring of next year to be able to get it. So there's two really key deadline dates, and that's why they're highlighted here, is that May 31st of this year to get in for the fall of this year, and December 16th of this year to get in for spring of next year. This is the part of the paving program that I knew the most about going into this, because as being the director of the city-owned utility, we're part of this plan, is that over the last couple of years we've developed a pavement sharing program with the idea is that we would, if Kentucky American or Columbia Gas or Division of Water Quality is tearing up a street, that other people would get in there and make their repairs as well and all collectively help pay for the resurfacing of that street, rather than it all being burdened by the funding that would be in the mayor's proposed budget for normal paving. On the surface, that sounds really, really easy, but I think most of you know it's really, really hard. Again, I'm looking at it through the utility's perspective and stuff, but from when they decide which streets are 60 or less, and that invites the utilities in, it's unfortunately too linear of a program right now, because water quality comes in, then sea gas comes in, then Kentucky American comes in, and you probably hear from your constituents that it seems like it lasts forever. And I can promise you that during my tenure here as the interim commissioner, I'm going to be looking at this along with a couple of other things that are on the future slides to try to figure out what can we do in order to try to be able to shorten that timeline. I know that there are things that the Division of Engineering has done that I believe will help smooth out that ride over the course of the last year. They developed a standard drawing for placement of concrete up to the surface with standards to smooth that out. I think we're still trying to see contractors be able to not only do that, but do that correctly to the satisfaction of them. We in water quality have been doing it a long time, because we understand we're part of the city. We need to make that road smooth. And oftentimes, because we're the first ones in, our cut is the oldest one or the one that's been there the longest. And so smoothing that out all the way to the surface, it's not perfect, but it's better than it being a hole over and over again every time that we have that. But anyway, it's a great program. Conceptually and financially, it's provided $1.1 million in addition to the funding that we talked about before for the paving program. So having the other utilities pay their fair share is a solid approach. We need to continue to try to work on ways to make sure that that is workable not only for the city economically, but also for the people who live on those streets or drive those streets every day. I got side barred here because of Council Member Beasley. Green Tree Road, we got to know each other a lot over Green Tree Road, so it's a great example of that. Okay, so looking ahead, in addition to the pavement sharing program, continue to develop the mapping tools, the color-coded maps. The second bullet, I love working with other people to try to find out what they do. Working with the vendor and developing some performance metrics and benchmarking, but also looking to see from their clients what other best practices that we can bring in to support what we do. The right-of-way folks in the Division of Engineering continue to work on improving their program, in particular requiring documentation, other policy type of things. There's a couple of you that I've engaged in about restoration of curbs. Years ago, they used to just pave over top of existing pavement and not mill it, and curbs have disappeared, particularly in some of the older neighborhoods. That never goes away, and so we're going to have to continue to revisit that. Thank you very much for your presentation, Commissioner. Colleagues, I'll open up the floor for questions. Please log in. Council Member Brown. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Commissioner, for the presentation. And I'll just go straight to the pavement sharing program overview. So, I know you said it. I remember when, and I think it was Council Member Savigny, this year policy that you brought forward. So, and I think, like you said, I think on the surface, the concept of it is great and what we need to be doing to make sure that we're maximizing our pavement dollars. What else do you think needs to happen to this policy to make it flow a little better? Is it the terms must, priorities must align and must request, even though the program is voluntary? Is that creating challenges? No, right now my focus has been on the challenges of the duration from the time that you say go to the time that it's done. The actual physical construction part of it seems to be the most challenging part of it because if somebody makes a street cut and it's not properly restored at a level to where it can last for a winter or into springtime for an extended duration, there have been streets where there's these cuts that go across, they're like speed bumps the whole way down the road and stuff like that. And we have them go out there and fill them with coal patch or what have you, and it lasts until you get another rain and another freeze and then it's gone and it's right back to the way it was before. I think that my feeling right now is focusing on a better temporary restoration that then can be milled and paved permanently is the right approach, not necessarily trying to change the rules of the game, so to speak. So it may be a material type of or process change. I think it's a material and a process change. As opposed to the policy. Yes. But also, too, is communicating things up front. You know, here with the utility thing, our budgets are very seldom aligned with Kentucky American or with Seagas. They're private companies and stuff. And so when this program first came out and I see, oh, they're going to do everything in less than 60, I told my people, get me that list because that's driving where I'm going to work now. I'm going to go out and cut that street now because I know that I'm probably going to have partners from these other two things. So in some ways the pavement program is driving what the utilities are doing as opposed to the opposite of that. I think that's got to be part of it as well, is that as we get the information out there and we do a better job of doing the temporary restorations, is that maybe you can get out there and do some of the work and then have a pause with a good restoration and then bring in others later on instead of it just being a continuous thing. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think something's got to happen. Something's got to change. So do you think that you can continue to try to work to figure this out with the policy in place, or do you think we need to suspend this policy so you can make improvements to it? Clarify what paving sharing is versus restoration. Okay. That's what he's talking about is restoration. Okay. What I was just told is that I would need to make sure that I'm clear the difference between restoration and repair. So paving sharing was developed to stretch the paving dollar in the voluntary program. I think what you're asking about, Council Member Brown, is restoration after any utility cut. Paving sharing is for roads that are older than five years old with an OCI of less than 60. Not all utility cuts are eligible for paving sharing, which is to stretch the local dollar. Restoration, all utility cuts are responsible for that in the standard, and that's what engineering has been working on is a better standard and a reduced timeline. Okay, okay. So I didn't get to listen to all that because it's temporary repairs to smooth out all the cuts that prepare it for them to come back and resurface, but they're contributing to the resurfacing part of it. They're responsible for repairing their street cuts. Anybody that cuts the streets is responsible for that. That's not something new. Okay. Does that make sense? It does because I felt like I was looping them all in together, like every project that we see is all part, and maybe some of the time lapse is we're waiting on the partners to get finished, but it sounds like that doesn't apply or this policy doesn't apply to all those projects. No, it doesn't apply to all of the projects. They said particularly in some of the older neighborhoods is that you've got old clay sewer pipes with brick manholes. You've got old cast iron water lines, and I don't know what the gas lines are made of, but it's probably not good material. Because all that infrastructure is 80 years old. Everybody wants to get in there and take advantage of their opportunity to replace it, and each one of us has our own contractor. Contractor A comes in. He temporary repairs the cuts he made. Here comes B. He does the same thing. More drama, more drama. And they said the person looks out their door and is like, is this ever going to end? And that's the part of it I'm trying to figure out a way to try to be able to smooth that out, no pun intended, to make it less dramatic and intrusive for the people who live on those streets. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next up, Council Member Eblen. Yeah. Thank you very much, Commissioner. Like you, I have learned a lot about paving since February. But having lived on a 120-year-old street, I've had a sewer project, a water project, a gas project, and I'm getting ready to have the super effect of also have a storm sewer project. But one thing I've observed in that is, in terms of the quality and everything, is when the new sewer line was replaced, the city contractor did it, it was fast. The restoration was immaculate. It was really well done. Gas, not quite as good. Water company, terrible. And so whatever you can do to kind of work on those timelines and get their quality of paving, I think that will be a really big improvement. And I'm glad you're really focusing on that. Yeah. We've had some conversations with some of those other players, and that will be part of my conversation with the rest of the team about them, about trying to redefine the expectations for them and get them to understand their project is not done when their pipe is in the ground. Their project is done when they have smoothed this out and paid their share for it to have it paved. Yeah. Because just having the pipe in the ground and leaving the hole there is not done. Yeah. Well, I really appreciate that, and I'm glad you're focusing on it. Thank you, Councilmember. Next up is Councilmember Sheehan. Thank you, Chair. I really appreciate the mapping that has been done for us to show the different OCIs. It does help us find ñ it's very easy to then visualize, like, where you might have a cluster of roads, because we know if, you know, the paving happens in kind of, like, adjacent streets, that it's a little bit cheaper to kind of bundle things together. So I do want to say thank you to everyone who works on those maps and who helps us with that data and makes sure those OCI data points are updated regularly. One question I have, though, is related to what happens outside of that number. So, for example, you know, we have winter weather, and all the ice and snow melts, and we're going out and we're paving, patching a lot of potholes, right? And that is somewhat outside of the OCI. You know, you might see that in the next time the street is rated. But is there a way that we could get access to, like, maybe GSI could help us with all the potholes that are reported in our district so we could see if there's clusters of those as we're starting to plan? Because that might not be reflected in the OCI number that we have. That's a very good point. LexCol should be able to help in combination with GIS to map that out to help, but it's usually an indication of a low OCI or a street that does need repairs. Built into our software model is what they call a degradation model, where each year it's trying to account for the weather, but as you said, we can't account for extraordinary weather and things like that. But that would be a useful tool as far as mapping because, you know, I've tried and tried and tried. It's like the second time you come to repair something, we need to do something different other than just throw some more asphalt on it and stomp on it and say it's done. So I really would like to see. And we are doing more and more of this. If you look at the weekly summaries, a lot of these larger repairs are more permanent repairs. But thank you for that. Well, yeah, I would appreciate that because I think that gets the, you know, short-term change that we might not have anticipated in our, you know, algorithm when we're trying to predict the changes. It's interesting, though. A lot of the ones that we keep getting calls on are the temporary utility restorations, you know, as the deputy director calls them, inverse speed bumps. Yeah, and I do want to say that I really appreciate the crews that come out to do the patching of potholes because I know in my district when they get reported, they're taken care of very quickly. So I appreciate that. Thank you for the presentation and thank you, Chair. Thank you. Does anybody else have any other questions? Oh, Council Member Lynch. Thank you. Thank you, Chair, for recognition since I do not serve on this committee. I just wanted to thank you all and the team since I've been here. You all have been a great educator regarding paving and what that looks like in the second district. And since we're growing so rapidly, you all have been super gracious in working with LaShawna and I as far as streets and looking at the GIS map and the color coding helps out tremendously. So a big, big thank you to you all. I'm very excited about my number that's in the chart that most of our roads are, like, stupendous. And so I'm very excited about that. We just have a few more to get, but I'm very excited about the state of the roads in the second district. They look so good. And that number in the graph indicates that. So thank you all. Kudos. And I appreciate you all so much. Well, thank you very much. I can echo that, too. Like I said, my first appearance back here in seven years. It's a great team. It really is a great team. Thank you very much. I just have one quick one. I was just visiting my son in a community, and their community doesn't allow you to make utility cuts within, like, four years of something being paved. And I thought it was interesting, and that seems to be ordinance-driven. And I didn't know if you had heard of things like that before. Because one thing that is always annoying is when we go in and pave, and then afterwards a project comes on literally within a year of something being paved. And then it creates a fault area, right? I may have somebody tug on my arm, because I couldn't quote the ordinance, but I thought that was the requirement. Which is what, like I said, where my utility had drove me to look at streets that are less than 60. Because I know that's some place that I can work, and I can't cut a new street that will just get hung from the highest yard arm. And so I didn't say this earlier, but it's obvious, I think, to everybody now that I mention this. I mean, some streets get put off because there's a pending utility project. Kennesaw Drive was held for a long, long time because we knew we were going to put that force main down in 2024 and stuff. And so it had base failures at the top of the hill. And I know that because I live right off that street. So I got to live that one firsthand. But sometimes streets will get put off because there's a pending utility project. Because we don't want to pave it and then turn around and cut it. Because to everybody, we look like an idiot. Thank you. Did you want to make a comment, Director Burton? We do have a one-year moratorium. That said, there's a gas leak, a water leak, something where they have to cut it to make the repair. We allow that. But yeah, we do have a one-year moratorium that's built into 17C. Thank you very much. Seeing no other questions, I really appreciate it. And same time next year. Okay. Folks, we're going to have a little bit of a schedule change. Where the parking citations during winter weather emergencies were waiting on the speaker. She might be tied up in a parking situation. So we're going to move to the complete streets design manual, if that's okay with everyone. Good afternoon, council. Thank you for allowing us to be here to present. My name is Burt Kirkendall. I am an engineer and planner. It's Nell Spangler Walsh. I'm on the team with the tool design. The tool design is leading for the complete streets design manual. And happy to present today to kind of give an overview of the manual and the process to get to this point. And also the next steps in the process. So is there an advancer for the? Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Covered it up. Perfect. Okay. So really briefly, now you have a big agenda. So we're going to hit this pretty quickly. But just talk about the project background. The process to get to where we are now. Very high level overview of the manual. And leave time for discussion. And so really the roots of the project is the complete streets action plan. The policy adopted by city and county that really emphasizes safety in the transportation network. A system that works for everyone. All ages and abilities. All modes of travel. Better connect neighborhoods. Promote healthy places. And overall livable city. These are the goals. And these translated directly into the goals and direction. The guiding principles of the design manual. And really the manual is the fulfillment of the policy. And that's the heart of the policy itself. That the system is the mobility system is safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable. For daily needs, commuting, education, health care, recreation. To move about the city. And so that's the timeline of it. And just so you know, this integrates with the current regulations. So along with this manual are updates to the subdivision regs. This manual is an update to the roadway manual. And also this manual is an update to the neighborhood traffic management program guide. So integrated into the manual. And also it's a continuation of the urban growth master plan. We'll look at that in a sec. So this is the process starting back in fall 2024. Kickoff stakeholder interviews really kind of pepper it throughout this process. There's been a lot of stakeholder back and forth. It is an engineering design manual. It's kind of the nerdy side of the policy. So a lot of it is working with the stakeholders, engineers, developers, utility reps. A lot of back and forth. And the goal is adoption by council this summer. And then following that, subdivision reg adoption in the fall. And this is the organization of the manual itself. And kind of as an overview, chapters one through three are kind of how projects integrate into the manual. Also seven is about the procedure for public projects. Everything else is pretty technical in nature. So chapter one. I'm actually going to go back. So specifically it's the purpose of the manual, how to use it. And these next points are really important. Basically what does manual apply to? It applies to new neighborhood development, so subdivisions. Infill and redevelopments, including development along thoroughfares. And what happens within the right-of-way with those developments. Also it applies to LFUCG improvement projects, also KYTC improvement projects. Chapter two. Essentially it's basically saying manual covers projects from concept to design to construction to acceptance phases of infrastructure. And chapter three really gets into the technical details. And what it does is it creates new street types, essentially. And these are the street types. It's very straightforward. It's very graphic. We'll look at an example in a second. But there are now streets are now classified, neighborhood streets, avenue, alley, boulevard, and thoroughfare. And also the chapter covers the process for retrofitting streets. So building a new street, pretty straightforward, like in a new subdivision. Taking an existing street and how to convert an existing street into a complete street is a little bit more complex. And that's where the next chapter comes into it. But just to note again, this really flows out of and is co-joined with the Urban Growth Master Plan. The street types, the connectivity that the Master Plan provides for and requires, this really fleshes out the details of that. And this is what it looks like for street types. So this is an example of a neighborhood street. So that's the street type. Maybe traditionally or conventionally you might have heard of this as a local street. And the context area is high in density land use. So in this context with this type of street, these are the criteria. These are the lane widths, parking widths, landscape, buffer, sidewalk. All of those requirements. The design speed of 20 miles per hour. So every street type and context, there's different standards to make sure that what is specified really fits the context. Chapter 4 really kind of dives into the specific details of what happens in the street. So that includes requirements in the sidewalks, bicycle facilities, whether that's on-street, off-street, and dimensions. What happens curb-to-curb itself in the travel ways. And what happens in Chapter 5, the details of what happens at the intersections. Intersections are crucial. That's where everything comes together. That's where pedestrians and bikes, bike riders and cars, that's where they interact. So the details here are really important to promote safety, to reduce speeds. Including roundabout specifications. And then Chapter 6 really gets into speed management. So the goal is to build streets, engineer them on the front end to reduce speeds. To promote and encourage, to engineer in, so to speak, the speed, the traffic calming measures. So that you don't have to go back and retrofit the street for traffic calming. And what that looks like is a menu of traffic calming measures. And how and where they apply on different streets in different contexts. So super big overview of the content. But the phase that we are in right now is we just had two stakeholder engagements with developers, engineers, utility engineers. Looking at details, getting very specific feedback from them. Also is distributed to about 350 groups, individuals in that category to get feedback from them. And we're in the process of compiling that, responding, looking at revisions within the document itself. So the next step really starting today is to launch the draft itself on the Engage Lexington site. So the draft manual, all the details. And then June 16th to come back before you to provide an update on the feedback from the public from that launching and also stakeholder comments. And this is the adoption timeline. So we are at line three right now. And that will be uploaded today to the site. Coming back on June 16th. And the goal is for readout to full council and adoption in the summer. And then following that, so division reg amendment. We've already looking at the subdivision regs and looking at how that correlates with these standards and make sure that it fits very compactly. So that is my presentation. I'd love to field any discussion or questions. Thank you. And it's Burt, right? That's right, yeah. And how do you pronounce your last name? It's Kirkendall. Kirkendall. All right. Thank you very much for your presentation. So colleagues, you can sign. questions but keep in mind that this topic is is being introduced it's being released now to the to the public for feedback we'll have one more presentation on this at the June meeting where we'll be finalizing any of that feedback and they'll be finalizing it and and then we'd be reporting it out okay councilmember Sheehan thank you chair thank you for the presentation and for everyone that's been working so hard on this I have a couple quick questions I think first in chapter two you mentioned that construction is a part of this section is this where we might expect to see guidelines for what an active construction zone might look like so you heard before that we had some questions about it during our paving conversation about like you know a road being patched and it's kind of bumpy and and for a project that was in my district that's ongoing there was some concern over a bike lane situation where they're the patching that was happening was really making the bike lane unsafe because the bikers couldn't stay in the lane so are there guidelines for that active construction piece in chapter two okay so and you see you mainly referring to like during construction yes thank you yeah during the construction process or post construction like the quality of the asphalt I guess both kind of all the above yeah the standards themselves don't refer to the construction process that's that's the the permitting process for detours whether vehicle pedestrian bicycle they don't refer to that directly but the current city standards refer to that so is that something that's been referenced here to say you know for the standards you would look to this other place we could look at that to see if to what extent we could address that problem I mean we look at the manual more as how do you actually build the street not how do you manage it long term that's a bit more of a policy and permitting perspective but you know I think we could probably offer some recommendations for if you do patch a bike lane what is the expectation for the quality of that patch or the the type of materials or you know you can only have a lip of this much those sorts of criteria so we'll discuss that with engineering and public works and see if there's a way to kind of incorporate what is most appropriate for a design manual okay I'm just thinking about you know some of our more recent complete streets conversations happen because of the closing of legacy trail right and thinking about the types of obstructions that come with construction that might impact pedestrians or strollers or wheelchairs or bikes that we might not be thinking of in the regular like car driving lane that are that do make unsafe situations like when a sidewalk gets closed and then people are having to go out into traffic to go around that section because the whole sidewalk isn't closed there isn't like a full detour but it's enough of a place where that it is affecting people moving through that section so I'm I'm just kind of looking for like for where we can point to people for those point people to for those guidelines and then on chapter three you mentioned the design profiles and this language that like neighborhood Street Avenue alley Boulevard thoroughfare is a little bit different than the street types that we use for our roads like we talk about local roads collectors major minor arterial so will those be defined and kind of mapped yeah so the conventional FHWA typology is arterial collector local and then minor major minor we know within that those categories and those categories and definitions or designations will stay in effect federal funding is tied to those with the NPO work as well but those categories they've been a big criticism of those in the past I guess 10 or 20 years is that they're focused more on throughput vehicles less on context on the type of street itself how the function of the form of it so most standards that are coming out these days actually they redefine the typologies and there is a correlation and there's a rough correlation between boulevards and thoroughfares and arterials avenues and collectors and streets and local streets not a one-to-one though so that is addressed in the manual but yet defining those designations that isn't that's an important step okay I have I'll just say really briefly I also really appreciated the chart that you showed us at the very end on the speed management by street type I think it's very easy to understand and will really help our neighborhoods when they're asking for different implementations to be able to look at this and kind of understand where things might be more appropriate and less appropriate that's great and the manual really is it's very graphical it's designed to be very very legible at the same time it's also technical and gives specific requirements thank you thank you councilmember next up is councilmember round thank you chair and thank you for your presentation and I really don't have a question I just kind of want to say a couple things that's on my mind just based off a conversation we just had been some colleagues had yesterday about complete streets and connections to neighborhoods I know this is really for the design manual but I think most of us up here understand the safety aspect of it and the benefits of connected streets and I think there's a difference between when you're connecting residential streets to business hubs or commercial areas but when you're connecting residential areas to more residential areas then the neighbors the existing neighbors they're they're thinking about safety that they think the conditions that exist with the non-connection is safe and they're thinking the increased vehicle traffic the increased pedestrian traffic could potentially make their neighborhood less safe I just I just I don't know I just don't and like I said I didn't have a question I just had some comments because we're gonna have to navigate through these conversations with neighborhoods and sometimes that may be building out the infrastructure and figuring out how to phase open and open in those and making those connections but I don't know and I know this is the design portion of it but have y'all had any thoughts or conversations about how to how to help us have these conversations with with neighborhoods and communities just I don't know just a thought yeah that's those are great thoughts connectivity it's it's definitely an ideal implementing it can be can be tricky especially with existing neighborhoods a lot of existing neighborhoods don't like you said don't want to be connected to necessarily they may like the dead end and and the lack of people moving through the neighborhood so it does have to be you know tackled very very carefully very wisely I think the traffic calming approach is really important part of that so that as connections are made to make sure that the streets that are connecting there there are really good traffic management practices in place that discourages people from using those streets as cutthroats and also if someone does come through the neighborhood the fact the I guess the practice is there that are in the traffic calming practices that are there that are in place they really do slow the traffic down to those speeds to the 20 mile per hour speeds that are targeted in neighborhoods I think that's that's a big part of it but implementing connectivity it is always a little bit tricky and does have to be handled very you know very wisely yeah I appreciate those thoughts I wonder if some of some of the tools that we could have at our disposal when we're talking about it is you know having a budget or at least having some funding set aside for traffic and speed mitigation as opposed to having you know having to wait till those connections are made in neighborhoods experience those conditions and we have to have us you know in some cases have to have a study to access matching funds I just wondered if having having money for speed humps paint to narrow the roads might just be helpful in having those conversations and I'll just even say it I mean it even gets challenging when you're talking about making more sidewalk connections and bike lane connections some neighborhoods fear that increased traffic and though that just more people coming through their neighborhood it's not a good thing so it's just I just know it's challenging having some of those conversations with new development coming online so appreciate that thank you thank you chair thank you anybody else looks like third I have just a few things just a few questions you see you've you've kind of proactively sent this out to about three could you just kind of tell us you send it to about who you've who you've sent it to that's yeah just so we understand that part so I can answer that question yeah director Burton maintains a very extensive contact list of local roadway engineering firms local developers and their engineers and their lawyers so there's about 350 folks on that mailing list we sent a link to that particular initial stakeholder draft to all of them and invited them they could comment on it leave their comments somebody else could see it and you know say yes I agree and then we held a couple different workshops they were really the same information being presented we just wanted to provide it on a couple different opportunities we did two of those in April we did have pretty good representation from utility companies some of the engineering firms that we see regularly in the planning department as well as some a couple of the developers themselves okay thank you and I just want to remind council that that page is going live on engage today I think right after this presentation so I would encourage you and honor your own social sites to kind of plug that site and get get your constituents feedback I appreciate your presentation very much it was good to see you thank you okay moving along we're going to go back to the parking citations during weather emergencies this is councilmember Curtis as the sponsor of this item I want to turn this over to you for opening remarks thank you chair and thank you colleagues as y'all can remember the ice storm in 2025 right when my class on council was sworn in was quite a kerfuffle when that happened the first communications that I received from constituents were about the issuance of parking citations during winter weather emergencies it became something that I thought we could use a little bit of extra clarity and based on the ongoing presentations that we've had about our winter weather response plans I felt that it was appropriate to introduce this as its own separate item and obviously we have a lot to deal with in regards to our winter weather response but I do think that this is part of it and something that impacts all of our constituents and so I'm really grateful to welcome Laura Boyson from Lex Park who's here with us once again third time in the past few weeks and hopefully the last for a while to walk us through how these decisions are made why they're made and what role they play in our overall winter weather response thank you I really appreciate being here because this is not you know the the challenge of winter storms is profoundly layered obviously you all are aware of that we're aware of that so the more we can communicate we're so grateful for that so little presentation just about our process and our definitions and our hopes if that makes sense so we have in 2020 you started at 2025 26 okay in 2024 that was kind of my not my inauguration and and just I'm from Cleveland so I was just curious about what our snow plan was how to engage with that etc etc and we came up with some ideas and we were put on the communication we weren't part of the communication but we received the communication which was helpful but so this is really really great so our goal is to help the city help our community help our citizens manage the issue right to help you better snowplow the streets effectively so we can get back to you know to our normal life and then provide alternatives for parking for on-street residents and visitors is one of the challenges you know many cities don't allow parking on the streets during any snow crisis winter crisis so where do the cars go so we wanted to provide a reasonable alternative so there's two layers we work we did get the opportunity to read your snow plan and there seemed to have been two layers of snow emergency and then a significant snowfall not a snow emergency unit you know all this okay so what we said was okay during a snow emergency where are these cars gonna go what can we do to help and so we offered to open our garages from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. why not 24 hours mainly because I have contracts with monthly Parkers that need that space assuming they're coming down for work or they have a right to be in that space I have to be respectful of that so we said anything from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. you can park for free will give you a snow ticket to get in short of a UK basketball game and that would affect only the 350 West short garage you would have to have your car out by 8 a.m. the next morning we also said okay so that's help where do we put the cars but how do we manage citations that's the biggest thing and you know in project management there's a concept that maybe you all use I don't know certain projects which a winter storm is a project are predictable right you know exactly how it's gonna work in your life there are predictable projects how to make lunch for your kid is a predictable project but how to manage a winter storm is not predictable and so that goes to what's known as an agile an agile model and so that's where we need to really want to make sure we're working in in communication with you what do you need what are you seeking from us because they're your streets we just we just do under your ordinance what we're asked to do so our general our general thought is citations can be issued on street if there's a flagrant non-removal of vehicles and we have people who call especially in the RPP's this car's been in front of my driveway I need it moved or downtown merchants will call and say this car's been parked for a number of days can you can you cite it and tow it because my clients can't get in Clay Avenue and I've got an example of Clay Avenue they'll call and they'll say we need help they can't they can't they can't snowplow correctly because there's parked cars so it's an agile model so what we say is it has to be flagrant and it generally has to be within a safety violation before we will cite now the snowstorm of 2025 and I have the dates in here the snow dump season the snow dump came on Sunday the 5th we abated all citations safety all citations until the 9th when we were out as I understand out of the snow emergency and we started writing on the 9th and the 10th and and that did create an issue in retrospect probably the 10th would have been better maybe the 11th we waived all okay it still occurred we did waive all of those we reduce those tickets not even to a warning we just avoided all those tickets all right so snow emergency we open our garages for free and we basically we do not write any meter citations and only write citations for extreme safety violations you're blocking a fire hydrant and if we if if we're asked to go down and cite a car that's blocking someone's driveway or something bear in mind the police are also out also they have their writing citations alright so what we've asked to do is please keep us you know keep us what do you want us to do do you want us so this is I don't know what you're looking for but I have some questions to what do you want us to do do you want me to be out enforcing on your snow emergency routes do you want me to be out enforcing you need I need when I say you I'm talking about whoever makes these decisions what are you looking for us to do should we be during a snow emergency should we be out helping you at all with warnings or anything in our protocols on when we write a ticket after this note we don't write during a snow emergency but once it's lifted the yellow curbs have to be easily identified if there's snow covered it's hard to argue that they could see a yellow curb the meters have to be working water ice gets in those meters and if the meters not working it's you can't write a citation the snow has has to have been plowed that there is a reasonable path of exit for that vehicle there can't be that in some places downtown there was a three-foot berm that you know cars couldn't get out so there has to be a reasonable path of exit for a vehicle so those are kind of our parameters it's a I hope you would consider that an agile way to look at things that they have to have a clear path of exit etc etc we do write safety violations as appropriate again if you're blocking a fire hydrant we will write a safety violation on that and then we do go out this past snowstorm we went out and started writing warnings after you lifted the snow emergency and then reason so we gave a warning period and then resumed citations non-snow emergencies our garages will be available at our evening rates so that's $3 to $6 and non-snow emergency if it's in excess of four inches that's per your guidelines as I understand the same protocols before you write a citation we will enforce safety violations on a non-snow emergency and we will not enforce meters if there's greater than four inches of snow or greater I hope this makes sense now there are these nuances in the ordinance I want to make sure you're aware of it I don't think I'm asking for anything but there is an ordinance that you cannot park a car in Fayette County for longer than 24 hours on the street on any street we get a lot of calls on that because you have a guest let's say you live in Zandale you have a overnight house guests for the weekend they have to move their car so I did a quick just a quick I looked at cohort cities and aspirin cities and we're probably on the low end so most cities are in the 72 hour so but there is an ordinance that so that would be an ordinance when when another snow emergency hits we would love communication on that ordinance and it's just not me would also be the police but that could trigger then the next one 18123 has certain streets downtown where you can't park between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. I didn't know if you knew that but it's an it's an interesting ordinance so again these are just little nuances that we'd love to know be in communication do you want us to you know enforce this or not we do need your input we would like your import okay these are just stats the winter storm of 2025 the snow dump occurred on January the 5th we abated until we abated all citations until Thursday we went out on Thursday when the snow emergency lifted and then it created we did create an issue in retrospect we should have written warnings lesson lesson lived and learned so okay so that was and then this snow storm the snow dump was January 24th we abated for eight full days we actually went beyond the snow emergency being lifted and then when we went back out we did write warnings predominantly for people but then and I'll get to the flip side of it so I guess I want to show progress we learned 2025 we did we were not involved in the communication with the city we were getting feeds but we couldn't get in 2026 we did get in at the time Commissioner Albright invited us in and and we did show her our plan on opening up the garages etc so we did make progress so this would be unintended consequences of parked cars on a street I don't know if you can see it very well that's Broadway at short and that's about a three to three and a half foot snow embankment that no cars could get in and clearly no car could get out I took this picture I have a forerunner there was no way I was going to even try to scale that so there is a need to clear the car to clear the streets clear the car so we can properly scrape the streets so again this is a this is a profoundly layered conversation but that's what you don't want to create because it took two weeks for that to melt off till you could actually get in and out Clay Avenue I met with them their streets were not initially now this clearly wasn't taken in the snow snowstorm but because they couldn't get plowed adequately there were cars parked on their street they couldn't get the street snow plowed so we got calls is there anything we could do to come out and cite the the cars that were still there we didn't because it didn't meet our criteria and the merchants have decided going forward they're going to contract to have their own snow removal done because if you can't clear the streets and it became an ice tundra and no car wanted to get in or get out it was it was pretty pretty risky and then these were these were emails that we're getting can you please come out and help us people are parking where I don't want them I've overlooked everything while we've had snow and ice on the road thank you for your time so we we do see both sides of the equation you know it's not a linear answer we do have clients and citizens that get frustrated when when they can't get to a parking spot or they can't get in their driveway etc and the other thing is if to solve it I mean I keep saying this is my little pitch I probably shouldn't there are 10 garages downtown I own three managed for it would be great if we could get a full suite of everybody helping where we could put cars during snowstorms on surface lots garages etc was that I don't know exactly what the question was so I don't know if I did I please pop quiz okay I'm more than happy to thank you so much for your presentation council members if you have questions for miss boysen please sign in councilmember Curtis I just wanted to say thank you as boys for coming down and presenting this to us and I do think that you answered the questions that we had in large part the concern that I heard from constituents was about the impact of their abilities to get to work why streets had to why these had to be enforced in certain ways and I think having this be a public dialogue is definitely a valuable thing and it is important for us on this body to note the degree to which Lex park has been involved or not involved in communications with regards to past clearing of winter weather and our response to it especially as the mayor's office going forward is coming up with this new snow and ice plan but to emphasize the changing nature of winter weather and so I hope that we can continue to push for them to include you in those conversations because I think it is a missing piece I pre that is so helpful because we're responsible to you who became responsible to the citizens so thank you yeah thanks councilmember Brown thank you chair and thank you miss boysen for your presentation and I think you did that I think councilmember Curtis is right I think this is what we were looking for I think I think the warnings are probably what need to be written when when the opportunity comes for folks to be able to move their vehicles and then I think maybe if we know something's on the horizon just sharing information with us that we can share to give folks the opportunity to get their vehicles off the street and if you're going to make your facilities available at no cost with some parameters I think that's appropriate so I think that's a start in doing what we need to make sure that folks are safe and that the streets are clear so we can work to get them drivable so thank you thank you thank you chair thank you and I'll just seeing no one else I'm just got a few things the the ordinance changes I mean it seems like you you you could be suggestion suggesting that 24 hours is probably a little bit tight and I would I would I would tend to agree that 24 hours of someone just sitting in the same spot is probably a little tight on an ordinance so and that was one of them you had two ordinances up there was there another thing too there are fragmented streets all over downtown that you cannot park from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. and so I just I the reason I mentioned it a little bit self-serving but because those are the little nuances that will catch you right we think we have this great plan in place and we forgot that one ordinance and then the police might write can write so you know so I just wanted to make sure you all knew that was in there sure yeah well thank you thank you appreciate the presentation and appreciate your being with us today always a pleasure anything else we'll see you in June I think we have another one coming up with oh with our bike plan okay okay I'm leaving okay yes thank you thank you all right last but not least we have our consent degree remedial measures program plan presented by Mark Sanders we're excited to see yeah this annual presentation the corner what was that the corner the pointer but okay so this is the annual consent decree remedial measures annual update Mark Sanders with the Division of Water Quality so typical agenda we're gonna look at the overall consent decree status remaining capital obligations in the end look at active and upcoming projects for the next 12 months and then just have some time for questions at the end so for overall consent decree status the capacity management operations and maintenance program the C mom obligations are ongoing last forever this is our day-to-day programs that not only do we want to be sure that all wet weather problems are taken care of but we want to do dry weather problems as well so this is going to far exceed the consent decree it's going to far exceed anybody in this room it's what the city will continue to chase it's what other cities continue to chase today what we're going to be really focused on is the century sewer remedial measures the RMP program to look at the projects in the amended schedule and then all other compliance measures have been met like the stormwater side talking about schedule modifications we're going to go through some dates here back in September of 2024 the city applied and was approved a compliance deadline extension which is now on December 31st 2030 within that modification there was two things that also happened one was our reporting was reduced from quarterly to semi-annual and then we also had a modification of how we submitted so we went instead of up instead of us having to submit hard copies we were able to do electronics which was a huge bonus to our administration in April of last year we submitted a revised schedule of projects to reflect the date of the December 30th or the December of 2030 deadline to to meet that and within that schedule there was 10 projects and EPA approved that earlier this year so I will show the view that here in just a second overview where we're at we've got 113 projects in the plan we have completed or removed 91 of them 12 are currently in construction and 10 are remaining so just being engineer whenever I hear TN I'm like you know what TN is that well here's the final TN so you will hear these TN talked by myself Commissioner Martin, Paul Peterson our remedial measures program manager over these next three and a half years so these TN will be the ones that we're focusing on. This slide is the bar graph that we've used in previous presentations to kind of reflect where the projections were from 2014 to where we're at right now so on the left you can see that to date we were projected to be at 492 million currently we are 409 million so we are about 82 million under what was projected so we're excited but you know we're still vigilant we're not project you know we're not out of this so we've got three and a half years left so we're kind of watching. I think that this this presentation has been about two years I don't think we were able to give it last year for some for some conflict so this is wanted to put this up for the last two years of the projects that we've completed so we went through about 51 million of capital improvements two of those have ARPA funds that the the Long Road and Armstrong Mill pump station in the Blenheim trunk so now we'll run through a couple active projects one Wolf Run G this is on the southwest side councilmember Savigne's district councilmember or I guess council district 10 this one on the far right side where the the line line is that's the 299 Southland that's the old dry cleaners that the city purchased counter flow runs right to left on the screen it kind of snakes up through the behind the businesses up Cherry Bark and eventually up to Piccadilly. This is also in ARPA project so it's supposed to be I think we're looking to complete it in August and September. Floyd Drive so now we're moving back across town to the northeast this splits council district 1 and council district 6 councilmember Morton and councilmember Higgins Ford flow on this is the red line is the new sanitary it's flowing right to left this is a very traffic heavy area especially with new circle is the road that's running north and south the big group the big parking lot right in the middle is Green's Toyota for reference this one we didn't open cut new circle just because of the traffic so we set up a boring machine in the green area on the left-hand side that's Dartmoor Court the city purchased property on Dartmoor several years ago for flooding so that's city owned but we directional drilled under new circle to not have any traffic issues this one is also expected to be completed later this year okay here we go now we're good so Merrick trunk we're now completely south Lexington we actually split four council districts you got new circle in Tate's Creek we council districts are three four five and eight this one we just had a public meeting back in March to kind of update the citizens and on schedule this one to flow is flowing from left to right so it's kind of where the Armstrong meal will road is over to the right where dove run and Monta Vista this project is just now getting underway it is a as you can see a large project it's scheduled for about 14 to 18 months so it's not only going to run through the rest of this year it's going to run through next year and into the fall East Hickman pump station two so now we're on the southeast side you can kind of see the water up here on the right that's a reservoir number four which is the reservoir that splits lakeside golf course and Jacobson Park so we're just south of the reservoir it's his councilmember Hales district right next to the tank you can kind of see this housing this building that's where we had it's where the pump stations are this project is going to do all its work within that housing unit so and this project also has ARPA funds so it will be completed this year as well so now other projects in the queue kind of broke this down so you can kind of see what we're we're looking these next 12 months you know one construction design and then into the future now anyone who's quick with their math will notice that there is 11 projects up there outside of my final 10 Sutherland was already in queue so it's already in in the mix but the rest of them are that final 10 list that I mentioned and then the rest of these as we get into these we'll be working with you individually to give updates so in summary new consent decree full compliance deadline is December 31st 2030 we have got 81% of the capital projects complete you know we've got 19% remaining those 10 projects remain that we went through total project costs are still trending down below the 2014 projection but you know escalating costs were kind of still watching that it remains a risk final projects the big three you know anytime you mention a storage tank it it just almost adds a comma so north north or town branch North Elkhorn and in mint Lane that you know council's heard over these last few weeks but the big one is this bold statement down at the bottom you'll Commissioner Martin has said it you'll hear us say it over these next couple years as long as we can get that that 10th project started before January 1st 2029 we feel good about hitting that December 30th deadline because that gives us two full construction seasons in 2029 and in 2030 to get that last project done and with that any questions thank you so much for the presentation council members please sign in if you have some questions everybody seems to be delighted in your presentation I've got a few questions could you just tell tell me since since I came after the ARPA ARPA spend about how many ARPA dollars were spent on some of these consent decree projects 36 no I think it's 36.8 million dollars there are nine different loans eight different projects because one of them got funded by two different two different grants sorry okay no loans great yeah just grant okay all right and then and then typically do we when we've been talking about these projects we typically are using our our fees to basically the water quality fees and the other fees to basically pay for these projects we don't have we bonded any of these projects or we basically been able to keep up financially with between our fees and taxes we bond a lot of these projects to the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority they administer the state revolving phone loan fund grant that comes from the feds they're low interest loans typically two percent and they're subordinate to your other loans and so they're very favorable that you know if if Commissioner Hensley was here she could probably give you more detail than that everything that we can do that would borrow money we tried to do it through KIA we try not to do it through conventional learning which helps our bond rating obviously super thank you I don't have any other questions I appreciate your presentation and we we've got through four presentations and we have time left over so next time we'll schedule five or six we do I just want to council members I want to share with you the let's kind of just run through these projects if we have a little bit of time I just I want to confirm next month councilmember Beasley or will you be prepared for your presentation on the thank you so much we actually next month we also have a complete streets design manual update again the final piece and then we will have an empower Lexington update that we've moved from another month into June the I'm going to go through the rest of these in the referral list odor control updates I'm councilmember Reynolds not here coordination of ongoing maintenance for projects she's not here the NTMP program councilmember she and I think that's scheduled for November but I think we're going to try to move that up to August to coincide with your other one the traffic calming and street arts in August okay the parking during winter weather emergencies councilmember Curtis is not here right now but I believe she would like to remove that from the list as that is complete would you like a motion for that yes that would be helpful I move to remove that item okay all those in favor say aye aye any opposed okay that carries the sewer clean-out reimbursement program are we leaving that on councilmember sheen okay got traffic control using analytics that's coming up in September the rest of these are all scheduled for September and November and then the experiential and engagement in place make making councilmember Morton were we going to combine that okay okay thank you and then the rest of those are all annual periodic updates councilmember Curtis we've removed it okay any other anything else for the good of the cause seeing nothing else I'll call this meeting adjourned thank you very much