Councilman
Pat Mulvihill
City Hall
601 West Jefferson St
(502) 574-1110
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Councilman Mulvihill was
honored to be on hand for the grand opening and ribbon cutting of
"Mobility City" at VIPS, Visually Impaired Preschool Services. VIPS
is located in District 10 at 906 Goldsmith Ln, just off of Newburg Rd. Mobility
City is a miniature city with concrete sidewalks and streets, curbs, fire
hydrants, street lights and signs all designed to help with mobility of young
visually impaired preschoolers. This wonderful facility and teaching tool was
constructed by the UAW Local 862 along with the Ford Motor Company and other local businesses and volunteers with more than $90,000 of donated materials and labor.
This is a great example of a community working together.
As part of his emphasis on making Louisville an even healthier city, Mayor
Greg Fischer announced today that the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center, 201
Reservoir Road in Crescent Hill Park, will be open from 1-4 p.m. on Sundays,
beginning this week.
The Aquatic Center had been closed on Sundays since 2008, when budgetary
conditions forced Metro Government to make various cuts to city services.
“Because of efficient, data-driven budgeting, our financial outlook today
is much stronger than in the past, allowing us to focus spending on areas that
enhance our efforts to be a city of lifelong learning; a city of compassion;
and a healthier city,” the Mayor said. “I’m thrilled that Metro Parks and
Recreation is able to open Mary T. on Sundays, giving our residents one more
option on the weekends to stay fit, have fun, and be healthy.”
The Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center offers lap swim, water exercise and swim
lessons, as well as a weight room with Cybex, free weight and cardio equipment.
Metro Parks and Recreation pools require photo ID for anyone age 9 and
over. (Children under 9 must be accompanied by a guardian.)
The center is named after Olympic gold medalist and Louisville native Mary
T. Meagher, also known as “Madame Butterfly” for her excellence in that stroke
in national and international competition. Daily admission, monthly and yearly
passes are available. For more information, visit bestparksever.com or
call 502/897-9949.
 Four
companies – including Google Fiber - are seeking public right-of-way
access to install the infrastructure needed to bring ultrafast internet to
Louisville. The bids were submitted in late March in response to a
request for proposals issued earlier in the month. The bids followed
Metro Council approval of an interlocal cooperation agreement allowing
Louisville Metro and all of Jefferson County’s 80-plus suburban cities to
request proposals for a standard franchise for communications infrastructure
providers which would apply throughout Jefferson County.
More Metro Council action will be needed when the bidders enter
into actual franchise agreements. That could come as early as next month.
Google Fiber currently operates in nine cities around the country,
bringing ultra-fast internet service, at lower prices than is now being charged
for other services. The service can provide broadband speeds of a gigabit
per second, or 1,000 Mbps, up to 100 times greater than the
average speed in Louisville. Prices are very competitive. The monthly
residential costs in other cities with the service are $130 for TV
and Internet or $70 for only internet.
You can enter your contact information here to receive updates from Google Fiber on its progress, : https://fiber.google.com/about/louisville.
 (Pictured above are Marty Storch of Metro Parks, Councilman Mulvihill, Earl Wallace, Ken Maguire of Camp Zachary Taylor Historical Society, Jason Canuel of Metro Parks)
Here is the long awaited Historic Marker identifying Camp Zachary Taylor's Naturalization Tree. The guys did an excellent job installing the marker including this guy operating the post hole diggers. Make sure to visit this site in the area of Camp Zachary Taylor Park located near the entrance to the pool.
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 Pictured above with Councilman Mulvihill are Matt Wallace (Producing Artist Director of Kentucky Shakespeare), volunteers with Schnitzelburg Area Community Council (SACC) and Kentucky Shakespeare Actors.
About 60-70 neighbors enjoyed a fantastic presentation of Romeo and Juliet at Emerson Park on Saturday April 16. The weather was beautiful and the performance was very cleverly done. The use of portable props and the quick costume changes allowed the audience to really stay engaged with the story. Some of the Actors filled more than one role and moved easily and seamlessly in and out of character. Also, the use of wireless microphones made it possible for the actors to move through the audience as if to make us part of the play. This story is timeless and Shakespeare would have been impressed with this performance!
 Louisville residents can now sign up to
receive an automatic notice, via text or email, when their street is scheduled
to be swept by Public Works.
The notices are meant to alert residents in advance that
they must find alternate parking on street sweeping day. No parking is allowed
on affected streets during street sweeping.
During 2015, there were 12,938 vehicles ticketed because
of parking violations related to street sweeping, and many were also towed.
Residents can subscribe to the alert service by going to www.louisvilleky.gov,
entering their address in the MyLouisville box at the bottom of the page, and
following the brief instructions for choosing text or email alerts. They will
also be able to subscribe to the existing reminder system for Project Pickup
junk collection dates.
Subscribers will be
alerted one week in advance that street sweeping is scheduled for their general
area. A second alert will go out the day before street sweeping to tell
residents that their particular block is to be swept. The alerts are in
addition to signs that are posted on affected streets on the business day
preceding street sweeping.
 Sweeping in Bashford Manor, Hikes Point
Click the map for a
detail view of Area 12 where street sweeping is
scheduled to continue for the week of May 2. We will also do the annual
pre-Derby sweep in the area surrounding Churchill Downs as well as
thoroughfares leading to the track. Street cleaning signs are posted prior to 5
p.m. on the business day before sweeping occurs. The signs alert residents that
there is No Parking between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on sweeping
day. Vehicles parked in No Parking areas are subject to citation and/or
towing. Residents should not park in affected areas until after 5 p.m. even if
it appears an area has been swept, as sweepers may return before that time. The
No Parking zone covers both sides of the street, though signs may only be
posted on one side.
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 For
the week ended April 22, we patched 3,039 potholes. Though the 2016 Pothole Blitz
comes to a close on April 29, citizens should continue reporting potholes
whenever and wherever they find them. The number of holes is down to a level
that should allow reporting via MetroCall 311 without long hold times beginning
next week. Now that they are not as busy with potholes, our Roads Division will
focus more of its attention on the annual spring cleanup.
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