 Councilwoman Paula McCraney has been named as one of the members of the Leadership Kentucky Class of 2020. This year’s class of 45 participants represent a variety of areas from the public and private sectors.
“It is an honor to participate in this leadership program, along with many distinguished men and women from across the Commonwealth,” said McCraney. “I look forward to learning more about the complexities of our state and am eager to learn how we as leaders can stay engaged and make a difference.”
The June through December program will bring the class across the state: virtually through ZOOM in June, Louisville in July, Paducah/Eddyville in August, Bowling Green in September, Pikeville in October, Lexington/Frankfort in November, and Northern Kentucky in December.
The sessions will cover topics ranging from business and economic development, arts and tourism, natural resources and the environment, education and healthcare, agriculture, social issues, and government.
To view names of other members of the Leadership Kentucky Class of 2020, click here: leadershipky.org
About Leadership Kentucky
Leadership Kentucky, created in 1984 as a non-profit educational organization, brings together a select group of people who possess a broad variety of leadership abilities, career accomplishments, and volunteer activities to gain insight into complex issues facing the state.
By fostering understanding of how the state’s issues are interconnected, and by forging new relationships among community and regional leaders, Leadership Kentucky graduates bring a fresh and informed perspective to their communities and companies, serving as important participants in the unified effort to shape Kentucky’s future.
The Leadership Kentucky Foundation offers four unique programs: Leadership Kentucky, Elevate Kentucky (for young professionals), BRIGHT Kentucky (for Eastern Kentuckians) and New Executives to Kentucky (for senior level executives who have lived in the state for less than two years).
For more information, please visit leadershipky.org or emaillky@leadershipky.org.
Most people are wearing this type of mask. These are lightweight, airy and disposable. The prize basket has a lot of 50 enclosed. |
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Included in the gift basket are five of these reusable face masks. They are very lightweight and breathable. Also, they are washable and comfortable.
The five colors are: Yellow, navy, pink, black, purple.
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Nothing gives us more comfort during this pandemic than to have at our disposal large-sized liquid hand soap, multi-surface cleaner and hand sanitizer that kills 99.9% of germs!
 The winner of this wonderful "Coronavirus Survival kit" filled with all sorts of goodies has until July 31, 2020 to claim the prize. If we do not hear from the winner, we will have to assume the person is no longer at the email address on file and perhaps is no longer a District 7 resident. We will keep you posted, and if the winner claims the prize, we hope to get permission to take a picture and post him/her with the basket in the e-Newsletter. So, don't uncross your fingers yet because, you could still be the winner!
Prizes in the gift basket include 50 disposable masks, cloth masks (various colors) (5), hand sanitizer, disinfectant, toilet tissue, washcloths, disposable wipes, bandanas (3), face mask shields (2), beautiful Waterfront Park coffee table book, coffee table coloring book, colored pencils/crayons, puzzle books, liquid hand soap, disposable gloves, yummy snacks and several other items that will keep you safe and entertained.
An email message will be sent to the winner, but the winner can also call the District 7 office at 574-1107 to claim the prize. Arrangements will be made to deliver the gift basket. Congratulations!
Also, here's an interview with Dr. Pollio on Tony Cruise’s radio show. The interview covers school reopening, JCPS’s efforts to address teacher shortages, student assignment, and so much more. Click here to listen: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-kentuckianas-morning-28270549/episode/jcps-update-dr-marty-polio-63916947/.
Although not a message directly from Dr. Pollio, you may be interested in this five-minute clip on the proposed site acquisition for the new elementary school in West Louisville. Watch: https://youtu.be/bxWQsKihYtA.
To get involved and voice your opinion, go to: https://arcg.is/18fTnS
Share your views on search for new LMPD Chief
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Here's your opportunity to participate in a survey to share your priorities for Louisville’s next permanent chief of police. We want to hear your priorities for our next permanent chief of police. Specifically, you are asked to share:
*The three most important qualities or skills you would like to see in the next police chief?
*Your suggestions for improving police services?
*What a new chief must accomplish immediately, and over the next 2-3 years?
At the same time LMPD employees will be asked similar questions. The input of both the public and the department are important, because the new Chief must be able to communicate and have trust with both the community and our police department.
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The community survey will be up for at least three weeks and can be accessed at https://arcg.is/18fTnS. Metro is working to set up a phone line for those without access to a computer. In addition to the survey, there will be listening sessions over the next month, with various focus groups being held across the community. After that, all the information residents provided will be reviewed and analyzed to help pinpoint the qualities and characteristics needed for the city’s next police chief. The hired search firm will use that information to conduct a national search and create a list of qualified candidates.
Next steps include convening a small group of community and Louisville Metro representatives to review the list, narrow it, conduct interviews, and send the Mayor their final recommendations. The entire process is expected to take 4 to 6 months, the Mayor said, adding, “We want you to be engaged in the process, because it’s going to take all of us to get this right.”
The Mayor stressed that Metro Council will be involved in the process, encouraging people to take the survey, helping identify focus group participants and recommending members of the group convened to do interviews.
To get involved and voice your opinion, go to: https://arcg.is/18fTnS
Gov. Beshear signed a proclamation recognizing Friday, June 19, as Juneteenth National Freedom Day. He will encourage the legislature to adopt it as a state holiday in the next regular session.
 Juneteenth celebrates the events of June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger led Union soldiers into Galveston, Texas, to bring news that the Civil War had ended and to read General Order #3, which stated that in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation all enslaved African-American people were free and entitled to absolute equality of personal and property rights.
“During these times when again we have heard voices and we have seen the frustration of hundreds of years of ramifications of slavery, discriminations, Jim Crow, of segregation, I think it’s more and more important that we remind everybody of this dark chapter in our history and that its impacts continue to linger,” said Gov. Beshear. “We should celebrate the dates that at least portions of that dark chapter ended.”
 Every city celebrates Juneteenth in its own unique way. Some may host festivals and celebrate with gatherings, parades, prayer, and foods like barbecue and other "soul food" delights. For others, it involves shopping only at black-owned businesses, sharing history through panel discussions or resting at home.
The word "JUNETEENTH" is a combination of its month and date, June 19th, and is widely considered African-Americans' Independence Day.
In Louisville, one of the many Juneteenth celebrations is organized this year by a group of people in our community, encouraged by the Waterfront Development Corp. It is being dubbed, Juneteenth Jubilee. Due to COVID-19, this year's celebration is relegated to an online educational video series which begins today!! It's a video steeped in tradition of music, drama and art.
Watch it here
A new episode of the seven part series will premier each Friday beginning June 19th through July 31st online at ourwaterfront.org and broadcast at noon on Wave Country with Dawne Gee. Produced in partnership with Actors Theater.
Case information
As of 4 p.m. June 18, Gov. Beshear said there were at least 13,197 coronavirus cases in Kentucky, 234 of which were newly confirmed Thursday.
“Let’s remember while these numbers are in an area where we still have reopening that is on track, where we still have the capacity in our health care systems to take care of people, that it’s a very fragile place where we are,” said Gov. Beshear. “We need to continue to follow the Healthy at Work rules. We need to continue to wear masks, and those that aren’t out there, I know there’s a number, we need you to reconsider.”
Unfortunately, Gov. Beshear reported three new deaths Thursday, raising the total to 520 Kentuckians lost to the virus. After review, one death previously counted was determined not to be a COVID-related death and has been removed from the death count.
At least 3,506 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus.
For additional information, including up-to-date lists of positive cases and deaths, as well as breakdowns of coronavirus infections by county, race and ethnicity, click here.
FAFSA
Today, Gov. Beshear urged all graduating high school seniors, parents and adult learners across Kentucky to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA form. You can complete this form entirely online by visiting KHEAA.com, where you can find instructions for submitting a form, including videos, along with other details about the process.
Each year, the U.S. Department of Education provides more than $120 billion in federal grants, loans and work-study funds to students.
“Kentucky’s overall FAFSA numbers are down 2.7% from this time last year. And for returning Pell-eligible students, the very students with the greatest financial need, the percent decrease is 3.8%,” said Gov. Beshear. “We can do better in Kentucky. These are dollars to help break often times generational cycles of poverty that are still there, that are still on the table, that we want to make sure people take advantage of.”
Voting Rights
On his third day in office, Gov. Beshear signed an executive order restoring the right to vote to Kentuckians who have paid their debt to society by completing their sentences for nonviolent offenses.
Today, Gov. Beshear provided an update that 175,053 ex-offenders have regained voting eligibility since the order was signed. The number will continue to increase as more people complete their sentences. Each of these individuals still has to register to vote, and although the deadline has passed for the primary election, Gov. Beshear encouraged them to register for the general election.
“We’d love to see 175,053 people registered,” said Gov. Beshear. “This was a priority of ours, it was the right thing to do, it was something driven by my faith and belief that people deserve second chances, that redemption is possible, and that by giving people not just the tools but the dignity to rebuild their lives that better outcomes are possible.”
Unemployment Insurance
Today, Gov. Beshear announced that the state would continue to expand in-person services to help Kentuckians resolve unemployment insurance claims.
He also explained that the state’s unemployment office budget went from $41 million in 2010 to $25 million in 2018; in addition, in 2017, the state cut 22 out of 51 local unemployment offices and 95 employees. These financial, geographic and staffing challenges have made it more difficult to provide in-person services throughout the commonwealth, but the governor said he was determined to find a path forward.
“So we take offices that were cut almost 50%, an antiquated system that was designed to tell people no, and claims that went in 2019 from 190,000 unemployment claims all year long to having 900,000 claims in just three months and it is a perfect storm that results in so many people who have had to wait far, far too long that haven’t been helped and I know are at their wits end,” said Gov. Beshear. “And I’ve been saying it for weeks and I know it’s not a solace to those that are struggling, but we are working our hardest. We will continue to do better.”
For more information from the Labor Cabinet at the Kentucky Career Center portal, click here.
Health Care Exchange
Gov. Beshear announced Wednesday his intention to move the commonwealth back to the successful Kynect state health care exchange. For more information, click here.
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Ballots must be returned and postmarked in the mail by June 23, 2020
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IN PERSON JUNE 8 - JUNE 22 - APPOINTMENTS PERFERRED (NOT REQUIRED) AT THE ELECTION CENTER (If you are unable to vote by mail). Registered voters can make an appointment to vote in person at 701 West Ormsby Ave., STE 301, Louisville, KY 40203 prior to June 23rd by calling the Jefferson County Clerk at 574-6100. IF YOU FAIL TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO VOTE HERE AT THE ELECTION CENTER, YOU WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY; BUT, A COURTESY APPOINTMENT WOULD BE APPRECIATED BY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS STAFF.
 IN PERSON JUNE 15 – JUNE 22 AT THE KENTUCKY FAIR & EXPOSITION CENTER - NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY (If you are unable to vote by mail or on June 23) Registered voters can vote in person at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Ln., Louisville, KY 40209. Voting hours the week of June 15th – 22nd are from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Parking will be free and the facility is accessible for those with disabilities.
IN PERSON ON ELECTION DAY - TUESDAY, JUNE 23 - On Election Day, registered voters must vote in person at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Ln., Louisville, KY 40209. Parking will be free and the facility is accessible for those with disabilities. Persons can drop off their mail-in ballot at a special drop off located at the KFEC.
IF YOU VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT AND SUBMIT IT BY JUNE 23, YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO VOTE IN PERSON.
IF YOU ORDERED AN ABSENTEE BALLOT AND DID NOT GET IT IN TIME TO VOTE AND MAIL IN, YOU MAY VOTE IN PERSON AT THE ONE POLLING LOCATION AVAILABLE TO ALL JEFFERSON COUNTY RESIDENTS:
KENTUCKY FAIR & EXPOSITION CENTER
937 PHILLIPS LANE
LOUISVILLEM, KY 40209
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 Saturday, June 20 is an Air Quality Alert Day for ozone in Louisville/Southern Indiana. Forecasters believe ozone will be in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (orange) range. Sensitive groups include seniors, children, and people with breathing ailments like asthma and COPD. The general public is not likely to be affected.
Check the air quality at louisvilleky.gov/airquality
Find tips on reducing air pollution at helptheair.org
NOTICE: All Metro Council meetings are carried live on Metro TV, Spectrum Cable Channel 184 and U-verse Channel 99.
The meetings are also available online at the Metro Council home page at http://louisvilleky.gov/government/metro-council/metro-council-clerk. Click on the“Watch Meetings Online” button.
OR access prior or current meetings here:
https://louisville.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2
Agendas for these meetings can be viewed using the following link:
http://louisville.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2
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