Thank you. ...what time it is, because it's now 3.05. So I called the meeting to order a little late today due to our Zoom issues. And we do have a quorum. And right now, I think the only people I know who are not going to be here today are Margaret Graves and Mary Quinn. Have we heard from anybody else, Beth, that I need to make sure in the record? We have not. Oh, and Stephen Howard is joining right now. He's in the waiting room, so I'll bring him in. So the only other absence right now is Christine. Okay. And the minutes, we'll go ahead and try to get those out of the way quickly. everybody it was a big packet with lots of stuff and we had like 50 pages to read and I hope everybody did read them because there were some very important things in there we had our solar letter in there we had our packets for today for the requests in there we had some changes that we had recommended for the ordinance they were in there so I hope and Beth I don't know is I don't see Avelina's not here today, but thank you two for doing a great job on the minutes. So thank you. Did everybody get your minutes? Kind of a show of hands if you did, just to make sure. Okay, great. Does anybody have any additions or changes? Any questions before we move on? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes as you received in your packets. So moved. All right. Phil, is there a second? I'll second the chair. Jim, welcome, everybody. And now that we can see everybody, Beth, I'll call for does everybody approve, and then I'll read for you the people on the screen so you will have them in the minutes. so I think it's a show of hands and I've to approve the minutes and I think it was I think it was unanimous Beth okay thank you so just going across your screen I'm here Phil Meyer and welcome Dave Sevigny council member Jonathan Disney is here and Hannah Anna, Phil Hager, Jim Coleman, Olivia Grigsby, who's Council Member Boone's Legislative Aid, and our wonderful lawyer, Tracy Jones. Hi, Tracy, and thank you for all you've done. Will Mayer and Sean Denny. Thank you, Sean, for always helping us. Robert James, Joanna. I want to know, are the pawpaws surviving? No, I'll bring you more. and Stephen Howard and then we have other folks here but not any of our members anybody else I need to announce I don't think so okay so the minutes are now approved and we have everybody on video just in or at least recorded Beth so that you will have some recording in case that it goes off or on again okay you want to give us some updates on our old business. We'll move on about the cell tower application for Royster Road that I think made Jim Coleman very happy. Yes. Yes. Yes. So the owners of that are the applicants for the cell tower withdrew their applications. So yes. So I know Jim and the neighbors are very happy and that means that the utilities for that will not be placed on the PDR farm. And then the other issue was the Mint Lane pump station and the council met earlier this month or two and decided to rehabilitate the existing pump station at Dunbar High School. So that's where that stands right now. So that's the update on those two. And then large scale solar. Before you move on just a minute, Beth, I would say that Councilmember Boone and Olivia is here, and I will say sent a great newsletter out detailing a lot of the information, especially about the pump station. So thank you very much. If you board members do not get the newsletters from our council members, please do. They're free. They'll come online. You can get them on your phone. And they have a lot of really great, useful information. I'm in the 12th district and I get a council member Boone's and it's it's a great update. So I want to thank Olivia and him for doing a great job. So both of those things were mentioned in the newsletter. Okay, now, Beth, go on. Madam Chair, this is Jim. I'd like to thank you and also Beth and board member Graves on your support that we went through on that cell tower. It's very important to my neighbors on Roaster Road and Briar Hill, and we greatly appreciate the support of the board. So thank you very much. You are most welcome. yes you're welcome um i'm sorry i interrupted you now no so we can either if anyone i can display the letter that's drafted about the large scale solar to be sent to the planning commission or if you all um or if you don't have edits or questions about it we can just move forward and approve it um so we'll just open it up and see does anyone have questions or would you like me to display it to review it or did you they everyone got it in their packets right show of hands you all all see it in your packets i had talked to margaret since then and had one thing to add which i've also sent to margaret and that is to say that we are our board had been supportive of solar on the individual farms for the use on those farms that we have expressed that we have always been supportive of that and still were. And my only suggestion was that we try to reduce the typeset so that it will fit on one page when it goes to the Planning Commission. And I'm wondering if the letter Margaret has done goes to the Planning Commission. I know last time when Council Member Sheehan was here, told us to send it to the Planning Commission. Do we also, and since Council Member Sevigny is here, do we, should we, CC the council as well, Council Member? I think that would be a good idea. Do you think it should at least CC to you all as well? turn your yeah turn yours yeah yeah yeah i do think it's important to send it to the council as well i think it's fine to send it to um the planning commission but the council did want that feedback okay so it goes it was supposed she told us to send it on next to the planning commission So we will do that and we will CC you. Is that okay, Beth, when you do the final copy? Yes. Okay. Now, do any of you other board members have anything to add or subtract since the last meeting? And since Margaret is not here today and she's the chair of that committee, we had discussed. I thought the letter was excellent. I thought it was strong in support of agriculture. and I also appreciate being able to get the direction on the link where we can get the survey. I sent that out to about 30 of my neighbors and I know that many of them filled it out. I also appreciate the sharing of the feedback that we've shared and that helped a lot of my neighbors to understand because some of the questions were pretty complicated. If you have to take some time to kind of think about it, but getting feedback from others really helped the process. but I'm in support of the letter. Okay. And I saw a hand. Will Mayer? Sorry, it just took me a minute to unmute. I just also wanted to voice my support for the letter. I think it's excellent. Margaret really captured the discussion that we had as board. just as to any amendments to this I feel very comfortable with it the way it is I think the issue at hand really is about large-scale commercial solar development of course you know small-scale solar development for an installation for on-farm uses is permitted it exists one of our former board members on Military Pike, you know, is engaged in that. So I would feel more comfortable, I think, with approving the letter as it is. So more not to muddy the water with what this really, this issue concerns. Okay. Other comments? Additions? I'm in agreement. I like the letter as well. Does anybody object to making the print smaller so it's one page rather than two? I'm just trying to make sure that it gets in a form that they will definitely read it. If they can take those several paragraphs onto one page, I think it would be fine. But if it resulted in the text being too small, I'd worry about them being able to read it. I'd rather them read, you know, a quarter of the second page than not being able to read the whole document. But that's just my personal thought. Did anybody print it off? Actually, I did print it off. And it's a pretty large type when it's off. what is it Beth it's more than 14 isn't it it may just be 12 but I'll check I'll see if it can be um we might not want to go past 11 or something but I'll look and see if we can shrink and if not and I know when the letter if draft that's at the top of course that'll be removed which will move it up a whole lot. And if it's, I know it carries over pretty large. It's a very large type on what I printed off. I would say 12 to 14 max. Okay, yes. I'll try for 12 or 11 and we'll see how that does. Are there any other comments? Well, we need a motion to send the letter as is. And I guess the only other thing I would like to add is Margaret's the chair of that committee. Margaret's the one who actually should have her signature on it somewhere, or at least mention as chair of the legal committee. I'll make that motion to approve the letter with the addition of Margaret's signature as well as your own. Okay. Is there a second to that? Any other comments about that? I'll support the motion as long as it's signed by both the chair of the board and the chair of the legal committee. Yes, because it's had a lot of review and it's had a lot of review now for a year or more. So I want to make sure that the committee and Margaret get some note. Okay. All right. All right. All in favor, signify by a show of hands. So we can. I think that's everybody. Beth. Great. Thank you all. And the only other thing to announce is that the Planning Commission has formed a small solar work group. They only have 60 days to review this per council rules when the council referred it to them. But they formed a small solar work group. Council Member Savigny, who's here today, is actually on that. They had their first meeting last week. Tracy had shared with us that they would like to hear from us at their next meeting, possibly on June 9th. So we will likely send this letter before that and but also possibly have a well have people there that day. And so I will let you all know that for sure in case because you're all anyone's welcome to attend. and Gloria has confirmed and Margaret's out of the country right now but we will check with her to see if she can go but you're all welcome to so I'll send out that schedule because the planning staff also provided what their the planning commission's full schedule is including the what they expect to be the public hearing for this issue within their 60-day period so I'll send that out to you all as well okay and I would encourage you all to come please and because there's been a lot of discussion about this and it would be nice to for all of you all to share share your thoughts with them please okay are we ready to move on to new business before yes um let me make sure i see on the screen that charlie boone is here yes and john allen made it back in so So let me go ahead and screen share. Hopefully, since we're having some quirks today, this will be okay. Oh, and now Cameron Boone. I don't see. Oh, there's John Allen. So I see his name, but not him, Beth. Okay. All right. Let's see. Okay. Okay. All right. So we are, so our first housing request today is farm number 70, 2002. It's located at 4550 Newtown Pike. It's 147 acres, general ag. It's owned by Boonesboro Brothers LLC. The date of the easement was July 10, 2003. It was placed into PDR by Lois Boone. It is a federal easement, but does not have an impervious surface limit. The only protected structure is an old spring house by the creek and the stone fences. They are not requesting demolition right now, but they did, Mr. Allen, that is their builder, did say that there is an existing 1,000 square foot tenant house that is unrepairable and will need to be demolished eventually. The new structure requested is a primary residence consisting of 1,373 square feet on the main floor, 942 square feet on the second, a garage of 975 square feet for a total of almost 3,300 square feet. They're not requesting paving at this time. The builder, John Allen, has provided the attached building plans and site map that were included in your packet. This is a permitted use for Section 5B, which reserves the right to construct a primary residence. The ownership was transferred to this family member in October 2025, and they want to add a primary residence, and there are no livable residences on the farm. The staff's recommendation is approval of the request to construct a primary resident contingent on unnecessary permitting being issued by the Division of Building Inspections, and it's based on the following criteria. The easement reserves the right for the property owner to add a primary residence, and there is no impervious surface limit in the easement. The owner will also be required to obtain proper permitting when removing the existing dilapidated tenant house. The conservationist recommendation is not required since there is not an impervious service on it, but the Charlie Farmer has received a copy of this request. And then we have the full language from the easement. And that's the existing tenant house. This is the PVA report. and then here is the area where they plan to add the house and the garage on the farm and then this is a more further out view to give you a view of the entire parcel. And let's see, short base down. All right. So now we get into the billing plans themselves. And you can see here that this has the same square footage listed that we talked about. And then they just have provided the exterior views for us. They also provided the interior, but I told them that was not of our concern. So I took those out to make your packets a little smaller. And that is it. So let me stop. And we will invite, we have Cameron Boone here and Charlie Boone. Welcome. And also John Allen. Oh, there's John. Okay. Can you hear me? yes okay sorry i was having technical difficulties getting logged in earlier so did i so that seemed to be a common problem today wasn't just you thank you very much for sending uh to all of all three of you for the plans it is a big help when you send that much information for us it will remain in your packet folders with all the information with the easement and it does make it much easier and it goes faster when those things go to Beth and therefore on to us earlier so thank you. You're welcome. Beth is there what else do they need to explain I guess unless the board has questions we can just have a motion. Just to make sure you understand that you're going to tear the one house down eventually and build the other one. And just remember to get a demolition permit so you don't get into trouble ahead. They may require a building inspection. And since you already do building, you probably already know that, that you will need to demolish the one and get a permit. Are there questions, board members? Phil? I move that we approve the construction of the house and the eventual demolition of the old tenant house is there a second Stephen Howard and Hannah at the same time if there are no questions no changes all right I'll call for the vote show of hands thank you I think that was everybody Beth. Okay, thank you. Thank you all very much. And thank you for the improvements and thank you for taking care of the farm and thank you for the good plans. It's a pleasure. Thank you. Yes, and John, I will send this to filling inspection tomorrow and copy you so you'll know it goes through. Sounds great. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you all for being here. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you for having us. okay and move on to the next one Beth yes and let's see I don't see her now but oh there she okay Tammy okay so she's here our owner's here so let me go ahead and I'll share again and we'll do that one. Let's see. Oops, wrong thing. Okay. Let's see. Okay. All right. All right, so our next one is Farm 16 2008. It's located at 5090 Athens Walnut Teal Pike. It's 60 acres, General Ag. The owner is Tammy Simler. The date of the easement was December 23rd, 2008, and it was placed in PDR by Winfield Holdings LLC, and it was a donated easement. So there is no impervious surface limit and there are no protected structures, no demolition requested. She wants to construct a primary single story residence consisting of 1,267 square feet and a 10 by 16 patio for a total of 1,504 square feet. She is not requesting any paving at this time as there is existing roads available. The owner has provided a building description, site map, and aerial map. This is a permitted use for Section 5B, which preserves the right to construct a primary residence. Ms. Simler purchased the farm in the fall of 2022. It has no housing, so she wishes to add a primary residence. The staff recommendation is approval of the request to construct a primary residence contingent on all necessary permitting being issued by the Division of Building Inspection. The approval is based on the following criteria. The easement reserves the right for the property owner to add a primary residence, and there is no impervious surface limit in the easement. And here we have the full text from the easement. And then there is the PBA report. And here she provided this map to show us right here where she plans to put that. And so you can see this existing road that's coming in and there are some barns here and things. And then here she gave us a showing the existing driveway, more of a site map and the three existing barns. And then this is it. And the home that she plans to do. And that is it. And the one question, Tammy, that our board chair asked me right before and I wasn't sure of is, do you plan on this being a permanent foundation under this or? Yeah. Okay. I'm looking for permanent. Okay. Okay. That's fine. I think there's a difference with what building inspection, how they treat that and everything. So, and there are some different rules within the rural area about manufactured homes and things. But if it's on a permanent foundation, I don't think those apply. Yeah, it's a permanent block. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Right. And did you want to add anything besides what the report? I don't think so you know the location of it is that's where all the utilities and everything come down you know the easement along that fence line so that was just the closest proximity utilities and right there with the barn and the drive for the barn so everything's right there and then I'll be able to live there okay driving that apart you have a lot of paddocks do you have horses or do you plan on having yes i was gonna say i have thoroughbreds okay i knew that farm hadn't already had a lot of thoroughbred or a lot of horse infrastructure right yeah no have it for the mayors and the maybes okay now board members do you have other questions or comments all right we'll entertain a motion please from to accept this as presented from steven the motion and hannah seconded are there any other comments all right show of hands okay beth it's approved okay thank you all right and i'll the same for you timmy i will send it to building inspection tomorrow and copy and just make sure tammy that you make it clear to them which kind of clayton home you're going to be purchasing because there are three different types and it is different in the rural area for between mobile homes and houses on foundations so just make sure yeah this one has the drywall and the nine foot you know it's it's more of a yeah it's not like the trailer type just better to know up front so that you sure right okay great thank you okay thank you appreciate y'all thanks thanks okay Beth small farm easements yes so Gloria and I closed two farms last week May 18th and so one was a small farm of 12 acres on Old Richmond Road. It was actually our number one ranked farm. So that was exciting. And then the other is a 46 acre farm on Harp Innes Road. And the owner of that is actually Jackpot Land LLC. And they have another big farm already in the program. And so plan to add to their acreage with this one. This is right around the corner from their farm. And that one's in PDR as well. they bought it after it was already in PDR. But so this one they just purchased and put it in PDR. But next we have one more closing schedule for June 9th. And so at our June meeting, I'll do a presentation that shows all of the farms we've closed over the last several months. So, but that's exciting. It brings our total of 311 farms, which is just kind of amazing that we have over 300 farms now, just when you think about that all around the county, and 33,415 acres. So, moving right along. So, good news. And the farm that we have scheduled to close on June 9th is a PDR farm, and we have several small farms under contract and a couple more PDR, and most of those are waiting the landowners are finalizing their mortgage subordinations but it's all moving well and then Brian Jones will give us an update in board member reports about the other pending funds for our 2026 federal applicant so but it's all going very well so good news. And then next, Gloria, draft changes to small farm ordinance. I can screen share if you all would like or if everybody feels comfortable with those changes. We can just have a discussion. You probably ought to put, it was pages 41, 42, 43 in your packets if any of you all downloaded them. Otherwise, why don't you just show per page, Beth, put up that for it, page 41. And Tiffany Holsky from the law department. Thank you to her. She made most of these edits and did this for us in time to get it to you all today so we can get it to council before they adjourn in July and get it through their process. and she did give me one small change which is right here in 25-7-2-E and the only thing she did was where it says a forest stewardship plan created by the Kentucky Division of Forestry it's more than 66 percent forested and the landowner shall implement the plan according to the approved schedule. So she was just saying that needs to be one sentence instead of two. The other version had and I think it well here it is so it says the land on earth so to just make this one sentence instead of two. So that is the only change unless you all have but let me put this up to and then on this let's see those are our first So we had these changes adding that if a mortgage exists, and we really emphasized this more because we're having some trouble. A lot of the people applied last year did not try to get their mortgage subordination letter first, and then were not able to participate. So we're kind of making that clear, and we'll make it clear on our application. And then one of the biggest changes was that where you all had voted to allow applicants in that ABs on the agricultural buffer land category. And so that's here. So that is one. And then the other was where you all voted to require the Ag Water Quality Plan instead, because NRCS with staff cuts is not able to provide these conservation plans for the small farms. And we did leave that. We wanted to leave that in there in case staffing ever comes back there, ever fully staffed again and able to provide this. So we left it in there and just said a conservation plan created by NRCS if the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has adequate staffing to provide this service. And let's see. Beth, on the mortgages, would that also include second mortgages as well as any operating loans that they would also have to be subordinate to the PDR? It does, Jim, because actually we just ran into what we ran into with two small farms right now that we're waiting on is they had lines of credit that they took out 20 years ago and didn't even remember. And they're closing those. And that has to be. Right. And they decided to close them rather than subordinate them. They had forgotten they were out there and just decided. So, yes, anything tied to the land has to be subordinate. Where the land would be the collateral to a loan. Yes. Yes. And that's important because if the property owners know this up front, it makes it easier for them. One of our small farm people who was one of the first to turn their application in last year, they had their mortgage with an out-of-state bank and they would not subordinate. And it gave them time. They switched banks in order to do this. So it does. We need to do that up front to let those people know and give them a heads up early. Yes. And the only other thing we added was that part of their application list, if they are in an HOA, we've run into that with a couple recently when John Watts did the title search. Luckily, one that restricted farming actually had expired. The HOA had expired after a certain time period. And then one had some restrictions but did not limit farming as much. But that's something we also need to know up front instead of running into that during the title search. So those are the changes. The big two were two you all already voted on, which was to add the AB zone and to let them get ag water quality. plans instead of conservation plans um but other than that i don't know tracy or tiffany do you have anything to add and let tiffany be on screen so we can see her and think her properly okay yeah i don't have anything else to add at this point okay uh who else uh on the board comments do you have questions while we have Tracy here and Tiffany anybody but they did make the changes and thank you for doing them in a timely manner because as Beth said I think there's time for them to go through the process and get them okayed so we can go ahead and apply for send out for applications from our small farms so we're under some pressure to do that so that's great. Thank you. Board, if there are no questions, I'll entertain a motion to approve these as presented. So moved, Madam Chair. All right. Is there a second? Second, Madam Chair. And Hannah? Okay. All in favor? Signify with a show of hands. Aye. Great. And thank you so much, Tracy, Tiffany, for getting these done in a timely manner so we can move them on great you're welcome but uh tiffany gets most of the credit she did most of the work that's okay you've been coaching so you get a coach hello and a thumbs up okay and we did get definitely eight on that glory i counted so because board and exchanges need i think everybody had a hand up and i think we still All the boards, so. Okay, we're good. All right. Now, we have some things to discuss in closed session. So some of you will have to disappear for a while. It is right now 3.43 for the record. And I'd like to call for a motion to enter in closed session. pursuant to KRS 61810-1B so we can discuss potential acquisition and the real property interest to public discussion might affect the price. So do I have a motion? I'll move, Madam Chair. All right. Jim Coleman, is there a second? Second. Robert James, all in favor, show of hands. Okay. Thank you, Beth. Okay, great. Stand by, please. Oh, okay. I'm going to slide technical issue. We've had some technical issues. I've had some technical issues. Beth's going to show us a presentation in a minute when we're sure we're off. um while we're are we off yet not quite yet okay while she's doing that i will say uh i did have i read the all of the appraisal we're going to be able to discuss and I did have a couple of suggestions for him to look at. I think page 95 maybe needed to he needed to look at it again. so how much rain did everybody have while we're waiting Phil's already had four inches I've had more than that incredible it very it's amazing because the airport would say what the official reading was and it was nowhere near what my rain gauge said day for day. So it varies across the county greatly. I haven't had to use my well and irrigation system, Madam Chair. Rain is perfect. You definitely have had to. It's full of nutrients. Thank you. to return to open session someone Joanna made a motion to return to open session is there a second Jim Coleman's a second so is Hannah all in favor signify by show of hands okay everybody Beth okay now I need a motion to authorize an offer to form 10, 20, 25 per discussion in closed section. Jim Coleman and Stephen Howard, both motion and Stephen's held up two fingers. He can be a second. Joanna is also a second. Okay. All in favor signify with a show of hands. Okay, great. Now I need a motion to authorize the final rankings per the ones shown to us, the 2025 PDR applications that Beth has just presented to us. Do I have an approval for that? Someone? A motion? Phil Meyer? Second. And Robert James II. All in favor, please signify by show of hands. Okay, that's everybody, Beth. Okay, thank you. Now, Phil, Treasurer's Report, or is there anything else, Beth, before we move on to our money? No, that's great. Thank you. Okay. Phil. Thank you, Chair. No invoices this month. Only thing financial, we have a report that the council links made their recommendations that are to the full council and recommended full operational funding for PDR. So that's good. That's all I have. And you might add that it was Vice Mayor Wu and Council Member Boone and Council Member Reynolds. And I was there. Beth was there. Phil Meyer was there. And Robert was there. And it was a very good short meeting. Yeah, we like the short ones. Yeah. Good. That's all. And we got our money. All right. Yeah. And I think Chair's Report's next. And I did go to that budget hearing, and it was short and quick and to the point, and I'm delighted that they have funded. And I went on May the 7th to the, I'm sorry, Margaret's not here, to the Bluegrass Land Conservancy Awards dinner that they had at the Udell Gardens in Louisville. And Billy Van Pelt, who used to be one of the folks working with us, received one of the awards. and it was a great event and I had never been to the Udell Gardens before and it's a wonderful place so if you haven't been I recommend that you go and I have done some signatures and answered some questions so it's been a it's been a good a good month staff Beth what else you want to add to that um so yes it has been busy with all of these issues like with the cell tower and things, but luckily that was all resolved positively. And we are ending our, for the city, our fiscal year ends June 30th. And so there's a lot of wrap up with that. And Abelina seemed very helpful to that. So thank you to her. And I believe that's it. I will send out, as I said earlier, the information about the schedules that the council has or that the planning commission has for the large scale. solar. So I'll give that out to you. And Abuelina, I don't think you had signed on when we did the minutes, but I was saying, I was singing your praises because you and Beth do a great job with our minutes and thank you. The packets are large and I think it's great that especially since we do these by Zoom, that our board members have those far ahead and have time to peruse them because when they're 50 pages, it takes time to go through, read it in detail. So thank you. I'm very appreciative. And Tracy, and I guess Tiffany's gone now, but thank you all for getting that. She is, yeah. There she is. They move around on the screen. I don't always find you. But I really, really appreciate the staff doing those things for us. It's a big help. let's just go around board members reports let's see Robert James nothing really to report this month Will Mayer do please try to go to the meeting about solar because you're our resident expert on this board about that So I would love to have you there if at all possible. Glad to be there. Thanks. Joanna? We'll be starting our summer garden camp in June. And our June 10th hamlet will be in New Vine, Fort Spring this year instead of Caden Town. So if you're not doing anything on June 10th, we'll be having our censor place at Fort Spring, which is off of Versailles Road. it starts from 11 to 130. So now that it's rained and it's not so dry maybe if I bring you more pawpaws they'll survive better. I did water them. I did. I don't know. It was just so dry. And it's hard to get them because they grow from off the roots. Okay. All right. Phil Hager. You have anything to add? No report. Thank you. Jim Coleman. Madam Chair, the Udinger Town, Hamlet, had a fantastic fish fry, a big turnout. Even mayor came out, and we had an exciting full day. Secondly, I'm going to go to the second time at Ted Turner's Estate for American Farmland Trust from October the 20th through the 22nd. everyone talks about Lexington there, that we are the case study, and they praise all the great things that you and our board are doing. I also sent out a survey to all of my neighbors on Roister Road and Briar Hill about the Winchester Road project. So it's all due by June the 29th, and we are encouraging everyone to be able to share feedback on that. June the 11th is Kentucky State Day at Coleman Crest Farm. We've got about 30 youth that are going to be coming out to learn all about farming and the history of our farm. I'm even going to talk about the Clovis people that were here 13,000 years ago on my farm and to show them all the artifacts. And then the last big highlight is that my Border Collie, Torch, became a certified farm dog and she ran in two fast cat races at 19.8 miles per hour. Give it up for Torch. That's funny. You have to get a border calling. Yes. She is having a ball. And how did your pawpaw trees, I know you and Joanna planted like 30 something pawpaw trees on your 34 and they're doing very well. I'm watering them, you know, without, with the rain that we're getting, I could pull back. But Dr. Pomper just sent me a note last night to check in on me, but we're going to have an exciting day on July the 25th, where we're going to have the naming of each of the pawpaw trees after my ancestors and my late wife, Kathy. Fantastic. That's great. Well, I'm glad yours are doing better than the ones I took to Juana. I'll try again. Okay, Stephen Howard. I think Jim got upset that I showed my beautiful dog last month when he had his on the screen. So I guess all I have to do is teach mine how to run fast. I don't think I'm going to be able to. But personally, in our lives, this is when our family's summer starts and we shift our gears away from other things. I'm mindful of that because here's my wife. She just walked in the door from her second day of summer camp. And it's one thing that we call it horse camp in the summer. She just corrected me. but it's one thing that we do in the summertime for about 10 weeks out of the summer and have between 30 and 40 kids at our farm 10 weeks straight so she's fresh right now being two days in but she'll come dragging towards the end of those 10 weeks but it's a great way for us to just share a little bit of Kentucky and teach kids farm and horses and different things so I am a world-class maintenance supervisor and errand runner. I'm not, I don't even sit on the board. I don't think, I don't know. There's a, it's a one person board. It's her. But so that's where, that's what we're doing and just gearing up for summer and celebrating our farm and sharing it with others. That's fantastic. I know she can hear us. So I'll tell her that in the spirit of star Wars, may the force be with her. Hannah. no report thank you Jonathan Disney no report thank you Phil I got two things I just got back from a wonderful trip to the Alsace region of Europe which is France and Germany border huge agricultural area growing anything you can think of we saw a lot of corn wheat in vineyards but then asparagus and strawberries so it feels so big you could smell them as you went by them potatoes and carrots and whatever and you know it's in a valley between two mountain ranges and it's flat and for the most part and didn't see any industrial scale solar except a possible small strip along the audubon as we headed out to frankfurt germany to come home. They know what to do with their prime farmland over there. Second thing I have last night, fortunate to go to a reception hosted by American Farmland Trust at the Manchester, where they were doing a viewing, hosting a viewing of the documentary Preserved, which is about Ted Turner's Vermejo Ranch, Park Ranch in northern New Mexico. It's 560,000 acres. He bought, I guess, the largest part of this in the mid-1990s, and he's trying to restore it, let it get back to what it's supposed to be over nature all those years. Habitat restoration. We're talking about bison, antelope, bear, mountain lions, controlled grazing, trying to figure out why the bison prefer certain areas than others because they don't want to overstock the area. Restoration of trout into the streams. So it's just a very interesting project and ongoing and very educational, the importance of preserving natural balance and sustainable agriculture. They harvest, you know, they keep the buffalo herd down by sending a few of them. How many, you know, I don't know, to slaughter every year. So they encourage people to eat bison meat when they have the opportunity to support that industry. if you have a chance to see this movie preserved you can go online and find where it might be hosted say if you get a chance to see it do it it's worth your time that's all i have well i i do think that it was a loss when we when ted turner died and uh i do send to jenny his daughter Garlington who lives here who is a staunch conservationist. It is a loss when you think about all of the wonderful things he did in addition to Turner Classic Movies which I love. Jenny was there and Tennessee got to meet her but yeah it's very nice. It is. Now I think that's everybody except Brian. You're here Brian Jones. Is there something you would like to tell us today now that we're through with the board have at it yes thank you i'd just like to say that that nrcs we're definitely excited that we're going to be bringing in six new uh easements this year and we're making progress towards that 50 000 acre goal so i think the in as far as which would five new ones and then we had one substitution so that's a that's a pretty banner year for us and we're real excited about that we really appreciate the partnership. And I was telling you, Gloria, it'll take about, you know, we've sent these to internal controls for final review, and that typically takes about 30 days. So we'll report back to you all as soon as we get the final clearance. I also wanted to tell you all that NRCS is having a local work unit meeting tomorrow. It's at the Fayette County Cooperative Extension Office. That's kind of in collaboration with the Fayette County Conservation District. And the idea of those meetings is to bring a group of, you know, a diverse group of people together to talk about, like, what are the local resource concerns? And that's something that NRCS can send up to headquarters. And I've seen many times where that stands, like, new projects or innovation, for sure. But I would certainly encourage everybody to anybody that could attend that. That would be, I think, would be worth your time for sure. So, you know, it might be that something that NRCS really doesn't, it's not in our toolbox, but there may be another group there that would maybe have resources to address those needs. So bringing in the public and seeing what those needs are and then seeing how we need to plug in those individuals or those needs, you know, where they need to go. So that's at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and that's at the Extension Office, Fayette County. and that's something we have every year is a local work group meeting for kind of each region so so that'll be tomorrow and matt hutchison and i are working on some easement administration administrative actions one is the georgetown road expansion which will be an impact to the barton brothers easement there's a project like that requires an extensive environmental analysis and study. And once we got to looking at their package, a lot of their information was back, dated back to 97 and maybe 2005. So that's certainly going to have to be updated. And Matt and I are actually, we're going to be meeting with headquarters on Friday to discuss exactly what's going to be needed for that project. But I think that's going to take some time to work through that for sure, probably several months. And that will impact like 10 acres of that easement. Then also the Maddox Lane one, we're working on that one. And I think that we can probably, we have our state biologist helping with that project. I think that we can probably cover the environmental analysis needs at the NRCS state level. So I think that we should get a clearance fairly soon on that. But that's all I've got unless you all have got any questions for me. I have a question. I have a question, Brian. Okay. On the Barton easement, and I take it that's going to be federally funded, is that right, that extension? Because it is. If they take 10 acres, I hope there's money in there to give us to be able to purchase 10-like acres elsewhere in the county. Is that correct? Can we assume that we can ask for that and it can happen? It would have to be some form of compensation that would equalize the negative benefit to the easement. Yes. Well, I know when that happens that you get money back since it was federally funded and we get some money back. But I want to make sure that we like protect similar 10 acres somewhere else or nearby another 10 acres of like somewhere in this county. Yes. Yes. So make sure you put that in your asks. Absolutely will, for sure. And they had actually got down, I mean, they had advanced way through this project, and they didn't even realize, I guess when they started their study and they started the planning for this project, the Barton Brothers easement was not, it wasn't an easement at that time. So later on after that, it became an easement or was enrolled. And they didn't do, I don't know if they didn't do any title surgery, title work. So they were not aware till Matt Hutchison and I told them and Beth that there was an easement on this property. So, yeah, they should have done more for due diligence on that project for sure. But we've run into that before. Yeah. That's not new either. Yeah. Right. for sure well i just want to make sure we get our we get our 10 acres covered totally understand totally understand yes so thank you thank you thank you for the time now guys anything else we need to discuss you know our next meeting is going to be on june the 24th same time we're still going to be able to do it I assume by Zoom did they put that I don't know that that came up in the budget hearing but that money to for us to be able to continue this by Zoom I assume is in there is it Beth you're not turned on um yes so they do i think we are one of the only ones they allow to have zoom and it's paid for it actually doesn't come out of our budget i don't think i think they're paying for it um through the it department but um because of this meeting and our needs because so many of our board members are farmers and farm owners and aren't on Outlook and use the platform there. And so Zoom works a lot better for you all. So the city switched over to just trying to use Outlook and Microsoft Teams for meetings, but we requested to be able to keep Zoom. So yeah, I think that's so same time same place june 24th guys if there's not anything else i have that it is 419 so we did this in uh considering all business we had to take care of today we've moved right along if there's nothing else i'll call for a motion to adjourn so moved okay and the second i saw joanna's hand go up too so all in favor signify thank you and and you all i want to thank you again for always trying to get on and do this because as you know we do need eight people every time we do need a quorum it's very important and we had two folks today, two farms that we wanted and need to do something important. And we also want to move on with these appraisals and our offers. So thank you so much. It means a lot, I think, to the farmers and to everybody who's in the program when they can come and tell us what they need and it happens quickly and they don't have to wait very long. So I think that's good And it speaks well for us. So thank you all. I saw everybody's hands. So I think we're adjourned, Beth. Okay. Thank you all. Thank you all. He'll make you love, he can get you high. He will bring you down and he'll make, make you cry. Something keeps him moving, but no one seems to know what it is that makes him go. Then the lights begin to flicker And the sound is getting dim The voice begins to falter And the crowds are getting thin But he never seems to notice He's just got to find another place to play I'm out. 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And when they dive from 44 When Black Friday comes I collect everything I own And before my friends find out I'll be on the road When Black Friday falls You know it's got to be Don't let it fall on me When Black Friday comes I fly down to Muswell Road Gonna strike all the big red words From my little black foot Gonna do just what I please Gonna wear no socks and shoes With nothing to do but need all the kangaroos When Black Friday comes on the underheal You know I will guitar solo Don't lay down in it till I satisfy my soul. Don't let the world pass by me. The Archbishop don't say to find me. And if he don't call me, cause I'm all... Hey, it's Pajan Niko and we're back with another episode of Your Lex PD. And we are here for season three. I love it. Season three. Who would have thought when we first started this, right? But we've had a great time with it, and we appreciate everybody. We appreciate the chief and all the chief staff for supporting the project. We appreciate all the people that have been on the project with us, all the different interviews that we've done, and LexTV. I know we mentioned them at the end of Season 2, but LexTV does a phenomenal job. What a team they have and what a team when they work with us. And we want to thank you, the viewers out there, everybody that's watching the show, all the comments that we get, the people that come up to us and say they watch it. We appreciate that. If you have any ideas on some of the episodes in the future that you'd like to see or things you want to learn more about, reach out to us and let us know because this is about you and your Lex PD and you learning about our agency and how we work together. And I would love that. And so this season we're kind of going to focus on public safety partnerships. So we're going to start off this season with E911. Yeah, and when we talk about partnerships, we're very blessed in Lexington with all the different partnerships we have, both within the Lexington Fayette Urban County government and then also just in the community itself. All the folks and all the partnerships that we have, very, very important to make it all work together. We're going to highlight some of the things and specialized units and so forth over the next few episodes and over the next season. But, yeah, that partnership and the one we're starting with today, that's where, you know, I remember when we did the patrol episode. I said it all begins here. Well, it actually almost always begins there because it begins when you call 911 and the folks that you're going to be talking to and how they're going to dispatch that, whether it's a police call, fire call. So I'm excited about talking with our enhanced 911 center today on your Lex PD. So let's go talk to them. hey and it's bajinicoe and we are back and we are here with some of the people that work at e911 so we are going to talk to the director miss janelle patton how are you doing today i am doing fabulous today thank you for asking so glad to have you here with us today talking with us to be here today so you are the director of e911 can you tell us how you came to be in that position? Yes, it's been a long road. I started in 1999, the year before the world was supposed to end, and I started as a police dispatcher. I took a promotion to a supervisor. I enjoyed that position as well, and I became a PSAT manager, and then ultimately I became the director in 2021. Nice. Well, congratulations on your promotion. Thank you. Thank you. So what does, I know I say E911, what does the E stand for? E stands for enhanced. And what enhanced means it's, you're able to get location information. So when a call comes in, of course, you're going to get a phone number. Enhanced, it actually shows the latitude and longitude in case the caller has difficulty providing that location information. It's also integrated now with GIS mapping systems, which makes locating people a lot easier. And we were, I think Lexington was one of the first E911s in the state, is it right? It was. Okay. It was. All right. And that's very significant because you all get calls all the time where people don't really know where they are, particularly if they're not from Lexington, if they're on the interstate, things like that. So that helps maybe save somebody's life. It does. It does. And now with AI technology and just all of the cutting-edge technology, we're able to do a whole lot, a whole lot. Well, when you look in this room, you haven't been around as long as I have, but you do remember the old 911 center. And so things have changed a lot. I think everything at one point from the police side was contained at police headquarters downtown, and the fire department was over at Station 1, I believe, at one point. Yes, I'm pastored, yes. So when did all that change, and has it made a big difference? It all changed in 2015. Fire department dispatchers actually came to police headquarters, and we all started dispatching out of that location. In 2016, we moved to this brand new facility, and it definitely has made things better. Having everyone in the same room when an incident occurs, it's vital to communication. And this building is unique in that it has everyone that is really providing a customer service response in the event of an emergency. We're all here together. So it definitely has made a difference. And it's obviously state of the art. All kinds of stuff. For anybody out there that maybe is thinking about being a telecommunicator, being a call taker dispatcher, what kind of training goes into that? And you've got a lot of personnel. How many personnel do you have? I have 81 personnel. Okay. And so I'm sure there's a lot of training involved. There is. There is a state mandatory training that you have to be a certified telecommunicator in the state of Kentucky. And that right now is four weeks of training at Department of Criminal Justice Training Center. That teaches you the basics of being a telecommunicator. There are a few cities in the state that split the duties up. Lexington is one of those. We have call takers and we have dispatchers. Of course, call takers are talking to the citizens and dispatchers are talking to responders. And that is strictly due to volume. So some of the smaller agencies, they do it. One person dispatches in, does the call taking as well. But we are hiring right now. So if you like a fast-paced environment, you want a steady career, you want to provide a service to citizens and responders, it's a great career. It's a great career. Awesome. So when should people call 911 and when should they not? I know it seems like, yeah, you call 911 for emergencies, but. Yes. And life or death emergencies. and also times when something is going on criminally. Something is going on where harm can be done to an individual. You know, we always say, you know, if you see something, say something. If you feel like you need to call 911, definitely call. But if it's not an emergency, if it's for a report, if it's for some type of instruction or a question, there's other means that can be used, like the administrative number. And I've heard we would have people call, they're stuck in traffic, and they would call 911 and say, why am I stuck in traffic? That is not a reason to call 911. That is true. So that was a good question as to why, right? But if you, and I always tell people when I'm at neighborhood meetings and so forth, if you have to stop and think, should I call the non-emergency or 911, just go ahead and call 911. If it's close enough that you really don't know if it's an emergency, it may be. So now we are here because you had mentioned call takers. So we are here with Michelle Haynes. Thank you for joining us today. You're welcome. And so you are a call taker, correct? Yes. So can you tell us how you came into your position? Okay, so I started in 2009. I had a friend that was in dispatch and was like, you need to come work with me. So I came and listened with her, and it was a lot different and a lot of different variety that I didn't get and buy their job. Well, you know, when people call 911 many, many times, it's the worst day of their life. something tragic has happened something significant is going on they're not always in the frame of mind that they they live in so you as a call taker i'm sure you've experienced some unbelievable things that you've had to do deal with over the phone and talk people through encourage them support them until first responders could get there so what would you what would you say about your job what is it i mean obviously it has to be stressful it is stressful sometimes you laugh with the callers um you know they'll call me like i don't know what else who else to ask and it'll be like this the weirdest smallest thing or it's something simple like i helped a guy get home that was in a motorized wheelchair and lost his way he literally just needed to keep going straight and i just stayed on the phone with him and i got a compliment from it because he was very thankful. So sometimes people call in and they're freaked out and they're young and they just had their first accident and, you know, you just calm them down. So not every call is going to be highly, highly stressed or terrible. I had a really terrible one just about 20 minutes ago. But, you know, it bounces out and sometimes they're thankful and it makes you appreciate, you know, hey, I got to help somebody today or my life has a purpose, my job has a purpose. Well, I know on patrol, we appreciate it. So how do you all prioritize, I guess, the calls that you do get? Because some people call and they think, oh, I've talked to the dispatcher. And I was like, you did not talk to a dispatcher. You talked to a call taker. They don't understand the difference. And a lot of my friends think I work in dispatch, you know, because they don't understand the call taking and, you know, and dispatching. So when people call 911, they expect a response right away. Whether it's 911 or administrative, we are the same people. So even though you don't have an emergency or you do have an emergency, we're going to prioritize how we need it. So, yes, if you're in a car wreck and you're on the shoulder and you're out of traffic, it's going to be a lower priority. The higher priority calls are going to be if you're in traffic, you could easily get hit. Sometimes we're like we've been doing high priority for welfare checks on individuals because it's been so cold. So they're worried about the homeless that have been out in the elements for a long period of time. High priorities are like if suspects are somewhere, like if a crime just happened and the suspect still might be around, or a domestic violence situation where the person that they were arguing with might be around, they'll put them in danger. So those are high priorities. So other than just prioritizing it, then you have to make the decision whether it goes to a fire dispatcher or a police dispatcher. Is that right? Correct. and sometimes we we have um the cap we have the capability to put them both on a call okay okay which i guess like a an accident with injuries or an accident with injuries we'll definitely send fire department and police um i had a call several years ago that the young girl had an accident and she was hypervillain on me and it was a non-injury accident but i ended up sending an ambulance because i couldn't get her calmed down just to make sure she was checked out and okay Yep. So sometimes, you know, we just we add to the call because, you know, you've got police going and then all of a sudden they say something. No, there's blood on their face or that they might have an injury, might need to get checked out. So we just we just send the fire department to. So when you call 911 and you hear 911, what's your emergency? That's you. What do you want to hear? What are the questions that are very, very important of where you're at or where your emergency is? OK, that's number one. Right. Because if we don't know where to go. We have wonderful maps that can almost pinpoint exactly where you are. But if you're in an apartment, I can't tell what apartment you're in. So the big thing is a lot of people don't know their apartment numbers. So, you know, I have to have them look at the door or look at their mail. So it's a good idea to just know your address. And depending on the capabilities of the phone, if it's an older phone and not the best service, I might can get close, but I don't think it's where they're exactly at. So it's a good idea to always know your address, always know your surroundings. We get a lot of people say, I'm not from here, but if you can tell me, like, what business you're around or what you see around you, I can pinpoint usually where you are. I grew up here, so I'm very familiar with the streets, and we have this wonderful thing called Google Maps that we can pull up. Okay, I think you're at the Speedway and something else, so I can pull up the map and make sure I'm correct in my head, or somebody that's not from here that works here can figure it out. So you don't necessarily need to know the address, but you just need to tell me what you see, because I don't see what you see. So you tell me what you see, and we can figure out where you're at. I'd like to interject just for a second, because Michelle, she does a great job. And a lot of times, callers, they don't understand why we're asking the questions. You know, they just want to say, just get me somebody out here now. Well, we're asking those questions, number one, to keep the callers safe and to keep the responders safe. and keep them apprised. We are dispatching when we get the location. We have the capability to keep adding to the call, so responders are actually on the way. We just want a picture of the scene so we can relay that to the responders. So you're typing information in and the dispatcher's already getting it and talking to either the police officer or the firefighter before you get off the phone. So it's not one of those things that we're not going to tell anybody until we get off the phone. Right. Okay. Sometimes they're still on the phone. I've arrived on calls, and they still have the call taker on. I'm like, oh, it's Officer Owings. I'm here. And they're like, okay, I'm going to let you go. And I'm like, oh, that's nice. Just stay on the phone with them because they may be freaking out for a little reason. We keep them calm or situation changes. You know, when we first get the call dispatched, the person's in the house, and now they're down the street. And so the officers need to know that. And everybody thinks because we ask questions, yes, we're not coming. But it's because we are coming, and we might get to you faster. The more questions you ask, the better location we can get, the quicker you can get response. All right. Well, very good information. Lexington is blessed to have the 911 system, the enhanced 911 system that we have, and the folks that work here. You know, I've been around for a long time. There's still a few voices that I remember from back in the day on the radio and understanding the importance of what you all do for both the callers and both for the first responders as well. So we appreciate everything you do as far as coordinating and being the director of the Enhanced 911 and everything you do as far as being a call taker. So thank you all very much for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you. And we are back, and we just talked to the E-911 director and the call taker. So now we are going to talk to Jessica Carreras with dispatch. So can you tell us how you became a dispatcher? Started as a call taker for about six months, then got promoted to telecommunicator senior police dispatch. And I've now been doing that for about three years, been here about three and a half. You like it? Love it. It's interesting. You never know what you're going to get from day to day. Yeah. Well, you know, we talked to the call taker, and the call taker is the one obviously dealing with the person that is having the emergency and the stress that's involved with that. But you're our lifeline as far as making sure that the officer knows where to go and making sure that the officer is safe and maybe gets backup or whatever they need. So what are some of the things that you have dealt with that are some of the stressors in your job that can make for a difficult day? My biggest thing is responder safety. I want to make sure everyone goes home at the end of the day, regardless of how I feel, what I'm going through. Leave it at the door. Biggest thing for me is location. I don't really mind what you're doing, who you're out with. Just let me know where you are. Because if you yell for help, if you start chasing someone, shots fired, because I've had those calls before, those will just pump the adrenaline, make your heart stop, and you really just want to get there and get people to them as quick as possible. and as a patrolman that's yeah that's why i trained my recruits to our probationary officers was like location location location location because whatever the last location you gave is where they're going to send help and you may be five blocks from there so that car is not stopping give every block that oh we're turning here we're turning here oh we're in this parking lot now they'll update your location so location is very important for us as well yes if i have to we're going to hold the traffic until we get someone to you if we can't find out where you are That's been a trend today because we talked about the importance of who's calling, making sure that you give us location, but it's also the first responders obviously knowing our location as well. Yes. So we talked a little bit about the training involved in this. So you went to, is it, you go to Richmond for a period of time? DLCJT for four weeks. They certify you and train you on how to handle stress, high priority calls, radio etiquette, just stuff like that. And we're lucky here in Lexington, again, we talked about it being an enhanced 911, so that helped. There's a lot more to learn here, I'm sure, from a telecommunicator side as well. Yes, a lot of information coming at you. So we are here with Paul Hamilton with Fire Dispatch. Thank you for joining us. Can you tell us how you came to be in your position? I came down and started working as a fire dispatcher, and I've been here for 10 years. So we talked a little bit about what a police dispatcher does and the type of communications they deal with as far as working with the officers. So tell us a little bit about the fire department and what goes on with that after the call comes in to 911. I think they parallel quite a bit because we work hand-in-hand with the police dispatchers, but the big difference is every call for service that we get, we're going to dispatch on within 90 seconds. The same concerns, you know, getting the information as to where we're going, if there are any responder safety issues, are there any firearms on scene, are there any knives, are there any biohazards there, you have gas situations. So most of the times in those priority calls, we'll have police going as well. So both Jessica and my job now becomes taking care of both sides of the equation. We have to communicate with her to make sure police officers are safe. She has to communicate with us to make sure our responders are safe. Well, a lot of people, I'm not sure everybody understands that in Lexington, fire services are both the fire department and EC, emergency care units, which are ambulances. So you're dealing with both of those. Yeah, and one unique thing about Lexington, and I believe all of our engines have paramedics on it. And I think it's one of five cities in the United States that have paramedics on their engines. So if this is a critical situation like a chest pain, we're going to send an EC. We have 13 ECs spread throughout the county. We have 24 first responders that we can send. So geographically, we can get a first responder in an engine or a ladder that are quicker that has a paramedic on it to start rendering care before we get on scene. Now, Lexington, like I said, is unique in that we're one of four or five, I think, cities in the United States that does that. We get a lot of questions about that. Why are they sending a fire truck? Well, it's because we're helping people before we can get an ambulance there. and the quicker we can get assistance, the quicker medical care can start, obviously the better outcome we're going to have. And we talked a little bit about the stressors of the job and, you know, the fire department. And as both of you all said, we go to a lot of the same calls, whether it's collisions with injuries or various things. We go to a lot of the same types of calls. But what are some of the stressors that you deal with as far as from dispatching from the fire side? It's similar to Jessica. We want to know where you are. We are unique in that we have GPS, so we can see where their truck is at all times. We can zoom to them on the map. But sometimes when they go into buildings, my great stressor is silence. When I'm calling out on the radio and I don't get a response back, Sometimes, you know, they're in, you know, these big, you know, UK hospitals. Sometimes the radio is not going to work inside. Sometimes, you know, there's a lot going on at the scene. And I'll say, Jessica, hey, holler at your officers. Have them check to make sure my responders are safety. She'll do the same thing. Hey, I can't reach them on the radio. Ask your responders if they see the officer and if he's okay. So in that regard, we have to really make sure we mesh what we do and communicate with whoever the dispatcher is that has that sector that's on scene with our responders. Well, you know, I would like to say that we are a team. Absolutely. And the entire public safety community in Lexington is a team. And we all work together. We all have functions. And, you know, we appreciate and the community appreciates what you all do as far as taking those calls all the way from the call taker into getting officers, getting the fire department on scene, making sure that the folks there are safe, making sure that we're safe. And so we appreciate everything you all do. And we want to thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Bajie was so good talking to the folks at E911. I learned a lot even being on patrol, how the setup is down here and everything. Yeah, and again, we're very fortunate in Lexington to have that enhanced 911 and having the people behind the phone calls, people behind the mics talking to us, just great, great team down here at Communications. So the folks out there in Lexington are very fortunate, and we're very fortunate too as first responders. And how important location is. Absolutely. Absolutely. Don't forget that. So, Baj, what are we going to talk about next month? Well, the whole public safety team is a lot of different functions, a lot of different people. But the whole police team involves a lot of different people, too. And you think about sworn, uniformed officers and detectives and all when you think about the police department. But we have a whole lot of folks that are behind the scenes that do amazing work and so much for the police department. So next month we're going to be talking about some of our civilian personnel and some of the different functions they have. It may surprise a lot of folks, things that they do to help us and help the actual folks out in Lexington, too, from that perspective as opposed to just seeing the uniform. And then from there we've got all kinds of different episodes, but I think that's so important to focus on those folks because they play a very, very key role. Yes, they do. So join us next month for another episode of Your Lex PD. We'll be right back. Outro Music I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker. I sure don't want to hurt no one. I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun. I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker. I get my loving on the run You're the cutest thing that I ever did see. I really love your beaches, want to shake your tree. I love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it all the time. Ooh, baby, I sure show you a good time. Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun. I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker. I get my love and I'm on the run. I'm a bicker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun. I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker I sure don't want to hurt no one Thank you. You're the cutest thing I ever did see Really love your beaches, wanna shake your tree Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time Come on, baby, I'll show you a good time 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 you 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 perhaps a bit shorter maybe you grab some yoga blocks or a couple of dictionaries that are about the same height and put them just underneath your feet to bring your knees up a little higher if you feel like you've got to reach to reach the floor so a couple that may be of help for your practice tonight. Take the time to grab that and then meet me in a seat. Whenever I get started, I like to just kind of root around. Notice how I'm feeling. How are my shoulders feeling? How are my hips feeling? Ask your neck and your back, how's it feeling? Did we sleep okay? And if not, that's okay. Just know to be ginger with those areas of the body as we proceed. So to arrive right here, let's take three big breaths. Big inhale. Open the chest. Fill up the belly. Big exhale. Sigh of relief. All you got to do is follow along. You can almost turn your brain off, kind of. Two more breaths just like that. Big breath in. Big breath out, relax the shoulders, relax the jaw. One more lovely breath just like that. And we'll go right into a nice easy warm up. Starting right here in the neck, let's just slowly shake our head no. Side to side. necessarily pushing too much, just working with the range of motion that we currently have. And keeping in mind that if I suggest any movements that you don't like or your body doesn't like, you can say no. You can take a little break, just take a sip of water and catch me on the next movement. Bring your head to the center and slowly shake your head Yes. So I'm going to tuck my chin down, but I'm really not going to lift my chin too high. That 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. Just 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 the pool so just kind of working out all of the tightness maybe your shoulders are a little noisy mine usually are as long as it's not hurting that's all right and of course if we have say one good side and one less good side work with one at a time nothing wrong with that good once you're satisfied we'll take a few the opposite 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 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 little extra stretch there inhale to come back to your center and all the way down right into the other side sweep up both arms again reaching up nice and tall this time leaving the opposite arm up bring one arm down big side stretch maybe you're holding on to the chair for security here anything that keeps us safe and stable maybe a little twist upwards and then inhale all the way back to your center. Next, we're going to do our first little twist of the day, and that's going to really focus in on our core, so our pelvic floor, our abdomen, our sides, and our back. So for a moment, as you inhale, get up a little taller, as if someone was pulling you from the crown of your head. As you exhale, draw the belly in. that's just setting up all these muscles in a really stable way do that once more inhale nice and tall exhale draw and 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 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 and 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 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 other arm reaching across the body towards the opposite foot. Just a little extra stretch for the different sides of the back. One more each leg. Bring the hands to the thighs. Use your strong arms to press yourself up. Back up to a nice tall posture. Let's get the blood flowing a little bit with some bigger movements. Inhale, reach up towards the sky. Exhale, fold all the way down again. We're just not going to hang out too long there. Inhale, all the way up. Exhale, fold all the way down. Inhale, up. Exhale to come down. Let's just do one more. Inhale, all the way up. Exhale, come on down. And then sweep up to return to our tall posture. Feel free to take a moment, if you have something to drink, take a little sip of water, catch your breath. If you lost it, that's okay. We always can find it again. And then from there, we're going to give a little focus to our hands. So just for a moment, no matter how stiff or flexible the hands are feeling right now, just start by opening and closing the hands. You don't have to hold them high, they can stay right here in the lap. Just sensing how the hands are feeling today. Maybe we can create a little bit of independent movement by wiggling the thumb, wiggling the index finger, the middle, the ring finger, and the pinky finger. It Might not be perfect circles all the way through, but really just trying to make that mind to muscle connection. It's a little challenge for the brain. Maybe move the hands about as if you were playing a piano. And then we'll work into the wrists here. So you can make a light fist and just move the wrist up and down. And side to side. Maybe we can do some circles in here. Great way to get the blood flowing. Also a good way to wake yourself up. I'll do this in the afternoons as opposed to having a little caffeine instead. And it'll just get my blood flowing, get my brain going. Good. Relax that. And we'll focus in on the next joint in the body, the elbow. So perhaps as if we were a big, strong weight lifter, 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. you want more work out of it just squeeze the muscles more up here and then relax the arms even stretch back a little we'll do three more of those squeezing at the top stretching at the bottom two more Good. Relax the arms. And we're going to take one arm across the body and literally just give ourselves a little massage. So maybe start by just kind of poking around, see if the muscles feel kind of tight today. Maybe we can clamp down on that meaty part right by the neck. Just kind of squeeze around a little bit. Noticing if you can find any tight, tender spots. And when you're ready, switching to the other side, taking the arm across the body, just kind of poking around, maybe clamping down on that strong muscle next to the neck. Squeezing about. Create a little warmth. Any and all of that is good. Relax the arms. Just for a moment. Catch a 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 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. This time making almost like a stop if you're trying to stop someone, stop hands. And I'm 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 of 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 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 get a little gratitude and just kind of look down at our feet and create some movement hmm maybe just rocking back and forth on the feet really good way to get the arches of the feet going and we 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 close, stretch them out, crunch them close, stretch them out. All these are great ways for getting into all the joints that are located in the feet there. So just take a moment to do any of the things I just said or if you got another move that feels good we're just getting the feet going here. Just taking a moment to get the feet working. Waken them up. And then once you feel nice and supple in your feet, just kind of let them sink right back into the floor here or into your shoes if you're wearing shoes. And kind of stretch out our ankles. So we're just going to stretch out our foot. 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 let's 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 doesn't have to be too specific but this can just help us reach our part of our body. So from here you may find you don't need it and we can just hold the leg up but if for whatever reason the arms don't feel long enough we'll go for this strap bring it underneath one leg. Come up to that good posture. Exhale, draw the belly in. We're going to lift this foot off the ground. So with or without the strap, you may find, as I said, you may not need it, but it's nice to have and not need as opposed to the other way around. So we've got this knee in the air just a little bit, and we're just going to find some nice knee swings here. Just getting the knees warmed up, getting the muscles around the knees warmed up. Just gently kicking the leg out, drawing back in, kicking the leg out, drawing back in. We'll set that side down, go right to the other side with or without our prop here. that knee high remembering to find our nice tall posture and stretch that leg out bring it back stretch that leg out bring it back stretch and draw in stretch and draw in do one more and we'll set that side down Keeping the prop nearby, let's just stretch out one foot here. Doesn't matter which foot, and we want it pretty much to go straight out. And from here, if we're using the strap, we're going to try and get that around the bottom of the foot to some degree. You may find that your dish towel is not quite long enough for this, but of course, if we inhale nice and tall and reach forward, maybe it could work. But from here, just stretching, pulling that foot towards you. Maybe stretching that leg out all the way. Maybe there's a slight bend in the knee. Either way, whatever feels best in your body. And another option altogether is to set that aside and just reach towards your foot. So you can decide how you want to go about that. Remembering to take a couple of big deep breaths. Inhale all the way up. Same thing other side. You decide if the prop was helpful or not. Sometimes they can get in the way if we're overusing them, but it is nice to have them around often. So maybe looping that foot, or maybe just reaching towards that foot, but we've got the legs stretched out, reaching our arms. And then folding from the hips. Big stretch behind the leg. Good. Release the prop. Set it off to the side. Sit up all the way. And let's come back to a little more quicker movement. Let's get our blood flowing again a little faster. So from here, come back to that good tall posture all the way up. And we're going to step each foot out and get the brain going by doing opposites. So following along, one step out to the side, other side, big step out, step out. You decide how big these steps are, your hips will decide that. If the hips are feeling tight, they're not going to want to go very wide and that's alright. So maybe they're just little steps. But we're getting our hips warmed up, using them from a side to side motion, making them stronger. And maybe you've got a bit more energy and you are just clipping along. Maybe you're going twice the pace I am, and that's awesome if you want to do that. Or maybe we're moving right at this nice steady pace. One side, then the other. One side, then the other. Two more each way. Good. Bring both feet back in. And this time we're going to keep that movement going. This time it's like we're taking a walk, but we're sitting right here so pick up one leg then the other and we get the arms going maybe we can do opposite so opposite arm opposite leg sometimes my brain wants to do the same though so maybe you pretty quickly started doing this and that's okay too either 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 it's got helpful memory I'm 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 gonna 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. 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. 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 to twist.