Also in Tuesday’s PPS Committee Meeting, there will be a presentation on the Lexington Hamlets Project. This project, started by District 12 Councilmember Kathy Plomin, examines ways to preserve historical artifacts and buildings relating to Lexington’s hamlets.

In Tuesday’s Planning and Public Safety (PPS) Committee Meeting, there will be an annual update on the Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) Program.

In Tuesday’s Council Meeting — the final meeting of 2022 — Council will vote on expanding the Flock License Plate Reader (LPR) Program by permanently purchasing our current 25 cameras and adding 75 more.

In Tuesday’s Budget, Finance, and Economic Development (BFED) Committee, there will be a presentation on the Lexington Public Infrastructure Program. Council allocated $ 3 million for the creation of this program, which will provide funding to developers to construct public infrastructure necessary for their infill and redevelopment projects.

In Tuesday’s Budget, Finance, and Economic Development Committee, there will be an update on the implementation of the city’s Compensation Study. The Compensation Study was conducted to compare LFUCG’s employee compensation rates to peer cities, and made recommendations to restructure pay-grades, job descriptions and titles, and other employee classifications and benefits.

In a Special Planning and Public Safety (PPS) Committee Meeting, Councilmembers will discuss a Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment (ZOTA) that creates regulations for Short Term Rentals. Short Term Rentals are units rented for limited amounts of time, generally by tourists — typically, these are AirBNB or Vrbo rentals.

In Tuesday’s General Government and Social Services (GGSS) Committee Meeting, there will be a follow-up on the Redistricting Workgroup’s plan for future redistricting processes in Lexington.

In Tuesday’s General Government and Social Services (GGSS) Committee Meeting, Isabel Taylor of Global Lex will present the office’s annual update. Global Lex works with local English learning and immigrant residents on accessing city services, finding community resources, and provides a host of multicultural services to LFUCG and organizations around Lexington.

In this week's Council Work Session, the full Council will hear a presentation about LFUCG's recently commissioned Disparity Study.

Two of the main recommendations from the report written by the Mayor's Commission on Racial Justice and Equality focused on disparities within the city's contracting process.

Election Day has wrapped up, and Lexingtonians showed out to vote for the future they want to see in Lexington! There will be a lot of new faces in City Hall in January - here's a sneak peak.

And just like that, the time to vote is here. Elections will be held tomorrow, November 8 from 6am to 6pm at your precinct location!

This Thursday at 5pm, there will be a special Council Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting to discuss the Goal 4 Workgroup Report and take public comment.

Council voted to adopt $40M worth of new spending out of the city's FY22 Fund Balance in October 27th’s Council Meeting!

In this week’s EQPW Committee meeting packet, there are two Division Reviews for the Division of Streets and Roads and the Division of Traffic Engineering.

This Tuesday, the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Program will present an annual update to the Environmental Quality and Public Works (EQPW) committee.

The Goal 4 Workgroup has finished its work and will soon release the final draft of their report on how to expand the Urban Services Boundary!

The Budget, Finance, and Economic Development Committee will be having a conversation about how to use surplus revenue leftover from the 2022 Fiscal Year (which ended June 30, 2022). Fund Balance conversations are an annual event and one of the few times that Council can make significant funding decisions without the typical budget or budget amendment process.

In Tuesday’s General Government and Social Services (GGSS) Committee meeting, the Redistricting Workgroup will present their recommendations for how to modify Lexington’s redistricting process.

In Tueday’s (10/18) Planning and Public Safety Committee Meeting, The Division of Police will present their Quarterly Update of the Flock License Plate Reader (LPR) Cameras installed by the city.

In Tuesday’s Planning and Public Safety Committee Meeting, there will be a presentation on the Short Term Rental Workgroup, created and led by Councilmembers James Brown (District 1) and Liz Sheehan (District 5).