Lexington’s first Civic Assembly is at the halfway point, so we asked five of the 36 members, all of them Lexington citizens selected at random, to share what the experience has been like so far!

Session 4 was the first session focused on deliberation. Read more and view the educational materials.

Session 3 focused on Charter review. Read more and view the educational materials.

Session 2 focused on Council compensation. Read more and view the educational materials.

Read more about what happened at session 1 of Lexington’s first Civic Assembly and view the educational materials.

We’re the first Civic Assembly in the United States to be fully locally run and organized, meet the team doing it all!

Assembly Mandates are a standard practice and define the purpose and scope of a Civic Assembly.

Lexington’s first Civic Assembly will dive deep into two specific topics in our Urban County Charter: council compensation and charter review.

On January 28th, in a live public and broadcasted event, we randomly and anonymously selected the 36 members of Lexington’s first Civic Assembly. The process we used is called a civic lottery. Learn more about this process here.

Just after Thanksgiving, we sent out postcards to 10,000 randomly selected address around Fayette County asking anyone in the household to apply for Lexington’s first Civic Assembly!

This page provides more information on the process of Civic Assemblies, what it will look like in Lexington, and why the Urban County Charter is important.