Tayna earned a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington. She has 2 sons, 11 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. 

Tayna currently works as a re-entry specialist for those who have been incarcerated and community organizer.

Tanya Fogle currently serves on the Lexington City Council. She was first elected in 2022 and is serving her first term.

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Supports discounted bus rates for food stamp recipients, aiming to make buses free for all to encourage usage and reduce traffic and emissions.

Supports lowering bus fares for food stamp recipients and eventually making buses free for everyone.

Plans to assess and update strategic plans to address traffic and transportation issues, particularly at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.

Plans to update strategic plans to address traffic issues, especially at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.

Believes in enhancing transportation safety by improving signage, adding speed bumps and crosswalk markers, and repairing streets and sidewalks.

Wants to improve signage, add speed bumps and crosswalk markers, and improve streets and sidewalks. 

Supports increasing alternative transportation by building more bike lanes and improving bike and walking safety.

Wants to build more bike lanes and improve safety for walkers and bikers.

Supports increasing bus routing with multiple hubs.

Wants to increase bus routing by adding more bus hubs.

- Supports lowering bus fares for food stamp recipients and eventually making buses free for everyone.
- Plans to update strategic plans to address traffic issues, especially at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.
- Wants to improve signage, add speed bumps and crosswalk markers, and improve streets and sidewalks. 
- Wants to build more bike lanes and improve safety for walkers and bikers.
- Wants to increase bus routing by adding more bus hubs.

Transportation & Infrastructure

As of August 20, 2024, Tayna Fogle’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Taxes

Plans to host seminars for communities on home retention strategies.

Plans to hold seminars to help people learn how to keep their homes.

Believes in encouraging more landlords to accept Section 8 housing by advocating for an easier process and offering incentives.

Supports offering incentives for landlords to accept Section 8 Housing,

Believes in using zoning laws and public policy to promote housing diversity and affordability, such as incentivizing long-term rentals over vacation rentals and preventing outside investors from purchasing local housing.

Wants to make housing options more diverse and affordable while incentivizing the creation of long-term rental units. 

Supports investing in converting vacant buildings and lots into housing to prioritize diverse and affordable housing solutions.

Supports converting vacant buildings and lots into housing.

- Plans to hold seminars to help people learn how to keep their homes.
- Supports offering incentives for landlords to accept Section 8 Housing,
- Wants to make housing options more diverse and affordable while incentivizing the creation of long-term rental units. 
- Supports converting vacant buildings and lots into housing.

Housing & Urban Development

Wants to better fund community pools so they are less expensive or free for youth and adolescents.

Wants to make community pools free for young residents by using public funds.

Supports year-round, comprehensive, free, and scholarshipped programming for sports, arts, life skills, and community health at community centers.

Supports ensuring that community centers can provide arts, sports, life skills, and community health programs.

Aims to reduce food insecurity, especially for children, by providing free and affordable food through community gardening, food-share programs, and neighborhood grocery stores.

Aims to reduce food insecurity through community gardening, food-share programs, and more accessible grocery stores.

- Wants to make community pools free for young residents by using public funds.
- Supports ensuring that community centers can provide arts, sports, life skills, and community health programs.
- Aims to reduce food insecurity through community gardening, food-share programs, and more accessible grocery stores.

Public Services

Believes in reducing over-policing and advocating for equitable police training throughout Lexington.

Wants to "reduce over-policing in the first district" and track how officers respond to calls.

Supports reimagining community policing by developing neighborhood safety plans, funding a 911 Diversion Plan, and establishing transparent goals for police accountability.

Wants to work with police leadership to create transparent community policing goals.

Supports funding programs aimed at reducing interpersonal and group violence, including gun violence, domestic violence, street harassment, thefts, and break-ins.

Wants to establish programs to reduce interpersonal and group violence.

Supports gun control and public safety, and participated in a rally organized by Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America.

Plans to develop neighborhood-based safety plans with community leaders to reduce unnecessary 911 calls.

Plans to work with community leaders to establish neighborhood-based safety plans to reduce police calls.

Wants to increase funding for resources addressing domestic violence, mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse.

Wants to increase funding for resources that address domestic violence, mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse.

- Wants to "reduce over-policing in the first district" and track how officers respond to calls.
- Wants to work with police leadership to create transparent community policing goals.
- Wants to establish programs to reduce interpersonal and group violence.
- Supports gun control.
- Plans to work with community leaders to establish neighborhood-based safety plans to reduce police calls.
- Wants to increase funding for resources that address domestic violence, mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse.

Public Safety

Supports paying city workers and organizations receiving city funds a living wage.

Supports a "living wage" for city workers.

Supports providing job placement and training assistance in high-unemployment communities.

Wants to provide job placement and training programs in communities with high unemployment rates.

Wants to explore ways to encourage local hiring in gentrifying communities.

Wants to "encourage local hiring in gentrified communities."

- Supports a "living wage" for city workers.
- Wants to provide job placement and training programs in communities with high unemployment rates.
- Wants to "encourage local hiring in gentrified communities."

Economy

Supports investing in existing mentoring programs, like ONE Lexington, by paying permanent mentors to build long-term relationships with youth and setting measurable goals to assess results for future investment.

Supports investing in existing mentoring programs, like ONE Lexington, to help establish long-term guidance for young residents.

- Supports investing in existing mentoring programs, like ONE Lexington, to help establish long-term guidance for young residents.

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Tayna Fogle

Tayna holds a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington. She has two sons, eleven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. 

Supports maintaining infrastructure with affordable access to water, electricity, and sewage.

Plans to improve transportation and infrastructure.

Believes in reducing barriers to affordable housing by fully funding housing programs and improving coordination of housing resources.

Supports encouraging landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers by advocating for an easier process and offering incentives.

Promises to "work hard, be creative, and allocate resources to find housing solutions."

Believes diverse and affordable housing should be the top priority.

Aims to enhance housing accessibility for all socio-economic groups.

Believes that if the needs of the community are met, the Urban Service Boundary may be able to be kept intact.

Supports investing in converting vacant buildings and lots into housing to help the homeless and minimize development beyond the Urban Service Boundary.

Supports using zoning laws and public policy to promote housing diversity and affordability, such as by incentivizing long-term rentals over vacation rentals and preventing outside investors from purchasing local housing.

Plans to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare programs to ensure financial resources are used productively.

Plans to provide scholarshipped Mental Health First Aid training across the community.

Supports creating opportunities for community members to use art to heal from trauma.

Believes in collaborating with local organizations to provide more youth programs.

Believes in restoring voting rights for individuals who have lost them.

Opposes legislation that makes it harder for formerly incarcerated people to vote.

Supports the reinstatement of voting rights for ex-felons, saying "170,000 ex-felons can now vote in Kentucky. Who’s going to tell them?"

Supports allowing formerly incarcerated individuals to vote.

Supports restoring voting rights to felons.

Believes in educating stakeholders, community members, and lawmakers on the benefits of restoring hope in people.

Supports policies that promote public health and safety.

Believes addressing poverty, criminal justice, and affordable housing is crucial for improving public safety.

Believes public safety is paramount and supports measures to address crime in Lexington.

Believes addressing crime rates is crucial for public safety.

Supports connecting with the Police Disciplinary Review Board regularly to ensure community needs are met.

Wants to advocate for police training to be distributed throughout Lexington.

Promises to make safety a priority in the First District.

Supports advocating for the evidence-based Group Violence Intervention for Lexington.

Believes in developing criteria with community input to assess the effectiveness of FLOCK cameras and data usage.

Plans to increase communication with and oversight of police.

Opposes "harsh drug sentencing policies."

Wants to end code violations for natural and native plant lawns.

Supports exploring programs to enhance climate initiatives, such as county composting, fuel-efficient city vehicles, and strategic zoning.

Supports protecting and developing green spaces, including planting more pollinator habitats, protecting the tree canopy, and increasing access to public green spaces for community gardens.

Promises to help build a "resilient First District" economy that can withstand climate change.

Promises to ensure city programs contribute to "ethical and life-sustaining employment."

Plans to make the "city and city programs contribute to ethical and life-sustaining employment."

Supports providing youth opportunities to express themselves, develop skills, play safely, and grow.

Supports youth and adolescent programming.

Supports Title IX and believes it has improved high school and college sports in Kentucky.

Tayna holds a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington.

Tayna currently works as a re-entry specialist and community organizer.

Tanya Fogle currently serves on the Lexington City Council. She was elected in 2022 and is serving her 1st term.

Supports lowering bus fares for food stamp recipients and eventually makes buses free for everyone.

Plans to update strategic plans to address traffic issues, espeically at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.

- Supports lowering bus fares for food stamp recipients and eventually makes buses free for everyone.
- Plans to update strategic plans to address traffic issues, espeically at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.
- Wants to improve signage, add speed bumps and crosswalk markers, and improve streets and sidewalks. 
- Wants to build more bike lanes and improve safety for walkers and bikers.
- Plans to add more bus hubs.

Wants to make housing options more diverse and affordable and incentivize the creation of long-term rental units. 

- Plans to hold seminars to help people learn how to keep their homes.
- Supports offering incentives for landlords to accept Section 8 Housing,
- Wants to make housing options more diverse and affordable and incentivize the creation of long-term rental units. 
- Supports converting vacant buildings and lots into housing.

Wants to make community pools free for young residents.

Wants to ensure that community centers can provide arts, sports, life skills, and community health programs.

- Wants to make community pools free for young residents.
- Wants to ensure that community centers can provide arts, sports, life skills, and community health programs.
- Aims to reduce food insecurity through community gardening, food-share programs, and more accessible grocery stores.

Wants to reduce over-policing in the first district and track how officers respond to calls.

- Wants to reduce over-policing in the first district and track how officers respond to calls.
- Wants to work with police leadership to create transparent community policing goals.
- Wants to establish programs to reduce interpersonal and group violence.
- Supports gun control.
- Plans to work with community leaders to establish neighborhood-based safety plans to reduce police calls.
- Wants to increase funding for resources that address domestic violence, mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse.

Wants to encourage local hiring in gentrified communities.

- Supports a "living wage" for city workers.
- Wants to provide job placement and training programs in communities with high unemployment rates.
- Wants to encourage local hiring in gentrified communities.

- Supports lowering bus fares for food stamp recipients and eventually makes buses free for everyone.
- Plans to update strategic plans to address traffic issues, espeically at "hot spots" like the north side of New Circle.
- Wants to build more bike lanes and improve safety for walkers and bikers.
- Plans to add more bus hubs.

Tayna Fogle is a mother of two young men, grandmother of eleven, and great-grandmother of four. She was previously convicted of a felony and spent nearly a decade in prison.

Tayna Fogle is a re-entry specialist for ex-offenders. She is also a motivational speaker, community advocate, and substance misuse and abuse sponsor.

As of September 4, 2024, Tayna Fogle’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Urban county council members make up the legislative body of the Lexington-Fayette County government and are responsible for the public's health, safety, and welfare. Its legislative duties include enacting ordinances, levying taxes, and adopting a budget. 
- The city council has the authority to investigate all activities of the city government and its employees. 
- The urban county council has 12 district council members and three at-large council members. 
- Council members voted to represent a single district serve two-year terms and those voted at-large serve four-year terms. Elections take place in even-numbered years. 