 Saving Jobs • Providing Relief • Restoring Businesses
The application will open for Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grants on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, and more details will be provided on that date. Applicants must have a business located within Louisville/Jefferson County. At least 50 percent of the funds will be spent in low-to-moderate income census tracts.
https://louisvilleky.gov/government/louisville-forward/small-business-covid-19-relief-grants
Purpose of the Fund
The Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grants program is designed to help prevent business closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to preserve the hundreds of fun and funky businesses that make Louisville unique.
Grant Program Funding
Louisville Metro Government’s FY21 operating budget includes up to $21 million in federal CARES funding for Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grants.
Amount of Grants
The program will provide eligible businesses with grants up to $50,000 based on demonstrated impact from COVID-19.
Eligible Business Criteria
Businesses meeting the following criteria will be eligible for a grant:
- Businesses with 20 full-time employees or fewer as of March 16, 2020
- Non-retail businesses with 50 full-time employees or fewer that have remained closed or whose business activity have been severely restricted under state executive order dated March 25, 2020
- Businesses that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
- Businesses must be located in Louisville/Jefferson County
- Businesses must be in good standing with Louisville Metro Revenue Commission
Industries of focus include retail (including direct services), food service, arts & entertainment, recreation, and childcare.
Grant Use
The funds may only be used for the following business expenses:
- Payroll
- Utilities
- Lease/mortgage assistance
- Fixed cost support – to include debt service (interest only), business insurance, other fixed costs
- Technology for online platform to allow online sales
Learn how to apply here: https://louisvilleky.gov/government/louisville-forward/small-business-covid-19-relief-grants
Eviction Prevention COVID-19 Relief Fund aims to aid low-to-moderate income households that are delinquent on rent payments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will pay for up to three months of rent for households facing COVID-related delinquencies.
Individual households may begin applying for rental assistance through the Office of Resilience and Community Services immediately. To be eligible, households must earn at or below 60 percent of the area median income ($45,840 annually for a family of four) and have had their income impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Households can begin the application process here: https://louisvilleky.wufoo.com/forms/one-louisville-fund-online-application.
Beginning July 1, Landlords may apply for assistance on behalf of their tenants to the Office of Housing. To be eligible, the landlord must:
- Be currently registered on the Rental Registry.
- Have no outstanding code violations for the property for which rent is being paid.
- Waive all late fees, fines, and penalties.
- Forgo evictions for assisted tenants for 60 days after assistance is provided.
- Provide pre-COVID-19 rent rolls to document delinquency rates before and after the pandemic.
Funding will be prioritized for affordable housing units (households at or below 60% of area median income) or properties with more than 50% of their units in the Housing Choice Vouchers Program.
Landlords will be required to submit the following documentation:
- Information about the property, including its tax ID number, ownership and delinquency rates
- W-9
- An eviction prevention application worksheet
- Certification of non-payment of rent signed by each tenant for whom assistance is requested
- Copy of each tenant’s ledger for whom you are claiming to be reimbursed for delinquencies
- Copy of Recorded LURA or Recorded Deed Restriction
- Accounts Receivable Report for period January 1, 2020 to current
- Copy of Final 8609 (if a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit project)
- Executed and Notarized Landlord Tenant Rental Assistance Certification
To find out more information and apply, visit https://louisvilleky.gov/government/develop-louisville/eviction-prevention.
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Thanks to the generosity of local businesses, community organizations, and residents, hundreds of electric fans have been collected to provide heat relief for older adults and people with disabilities.
The Fan Fair giveaway qualifications and guidelines are as follows:
- Person 60 years of age or older
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Or documentation verified by a physician of a disability
- Resident of Jefferson, Oldham, Henry, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble or Bullitt Counties
- Proof of address and age
- One fan per household
- Household must not have functional central air conditioning
Beginning Monday, July 6, qualified individuals may call one of the sites below for more information and instruction on how to apply to receive a fan. Appointments are required in advance due to most sites remaining temporarily closed for walk-in clients in accordance with the CDC and Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness guidelines. The locations include:
- First Neighborhood Place (40219); 502-313-4700
- Cane Run Neighborhood Place (40216); 502-485-6810
- South Central Neighborhood Place (40215); 502-485-7130
- Ujima Neighborhood Place (40211); 502-485-6710
- Northwest Neighborhood Place (40212); 502-574-5434
- South Jefferson Neighborhood Place (40258); 502-363-1424 (Fairdale); 485-7310 (Valley site)
- Bridges of Hope Neighborhood Place (40210); 502-634-6050
- KIPDA (40299); 502-266-5571
- Tri-County Community Action Agency (Henry County 502-845-7808; Oldham County 502-222-1349; and Trimble County 502- 255-7514)
- Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency (Shelby County 502-633-2218; Spencer County 502-477-8296; Bullitt County 502-543-3455)
Fan Fair is an annual event sponsored by KIPDA Area Agency on Aging and Independent Living and Louisville Metro Office for Aging & Disabled Citizens (OADC). These organizations first joined forces in 2016 to implement a Fan Fair and Community Resource event in response to the numerous calls they received requesting heat relief. The Fan Fair/fan giveaway event is now in its 5th year.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alternate plans have been made for the 2020 Fan Fair to distribute fans at multiple sites in place of a larger, community gathering.
Monetary donations are still accepted and appreciated to purchase fans. Checks can be made payable to KIPDA, Attn: Fan Fair, mailed to 11520 Commonwealth Drive, Louisville, KY 40299 and postmarked by July 30.
Fan supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
For more information about the Fan Fair event, visit https://louisvilleky.gov/government/resilience-and-community-services/office-aging-disabled-citizens or https://www.kipda.org/.
Who should get tested for COVID-19?
HIGH PRIORITY
- Hospitalized patients with symptoms
- Healthcare facility workers, workers in congregate living settings, and first responders with symptoms
- Residents in long-term care facilities or other congregate living settings, including prisons and shelters, with symptoms
PRIORITY
- Persons with symptoms of potential COVID-19 infection, including: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle pain, new loss of taste or smell, vomiting or diarrhea, and/or sore throat.
- Persons without symptoms who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive
- People without symptoms who have been in large gatherings where social distancing was difficult
Mobile Testing Sites
Bashford Manor
Walmart is partnering to offer drive-thru testing located at Bashford Manor. Testing will be offered Mondays-Fridays from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to those who qualify.
First responders, healthcare workers without symptoms, and anyone older than 18 with symptoms qualify at this location.
To register to be tested, please click HERE.
Southern High School
Kroger Health is offering a mobile testing site at Southern High School. Services will be open from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and open to everyone.
To register to be tested at this location, please click HERE or call1-888-852-2567and select option 3.
Seven Counties
These testing sites are open to anyone, Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Appointments are required and can be scheduled by calling (502) 538-2980.
- 4710 Champions Trace, Louisville, 40218
- 2650 West Broadway, Louisville, 40211
- 920 Blankenbaker Pkwy, Louisville, 40243
- 8301 Saint Andrews Church Rd, Louisville, 40258
CVS
These testing sites are open to anyone and utilize the weld-swab test. To schedule and appointment, visit minuteclinic.com.
- 2311 Lime Kiln Road
- 10490 Shelbyville Road
Walgreens
To schedule an appointment to be tested at any of the sites listed below, visit Norton Prompt Care
- 5100 Dixie Hwy
- 2021 Hikes Lane
- 12101 Shelbyville Road
- 4240 Shelbyville Road
- 1360 Stony Brooke
Family Health Centers
- Portland, 2215 Portland Ave.
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Tests will be open to the general public.
- Call : 502-772-8301 or Click to self-schedule.
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Fairdale, 1000 Neighborhood Place
- Monday and Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Tests will be open to the general public.
- Call : 502-772-8301 or Click to self-schedule.
Shawnee Christian Healthcare
This testing site will be operating Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. To reserve a spot, please call 502-778-0001.
Norton Respiratory Illness Center
This testing center is operation by appointment only. In order to schedule, please call 502-861-4611, and press option 1.
St. Stephen Church
This testing site will be open Saturday, July 11th for drive through appointments. Drive through-thru testing available by appointment only. Register here.
To see a complete list of testing sites throughout Jefferson County, follow this link.
 Work continues to connect the final technology pieces of the New Dixie Highway project. Fiber-optic cable installation started in June and is progressing on schedule.
Once fiber connectivity is in place, new hardware for traffic signals will go live to realize the full vision of the safer, more efficient roadway. New controllers work with an Intelligent Transportation System for quick movement of TARC buses on the corridor. Digital screens at bus shelters along Dixie Highway will be turned on to give real-time information to riders. The high-tech pylons will be operational later this year.
This will be the last regular email newsletter for the New Dixie Highway project. The project team will continue to post updates as needed to the New Dixie Highway Facebook page when necessary. Thanks for following along as we bring this transformational project to the finish line.
https://louisvilleky.gov/government/new-dixie-highway
 Please be considerate of our St. Anthony's Church Road neighbors and give yourself extra travel time for possible delays during construction. Construction is estimated to take no more than two weeks, weather-dependent.
 Public Works intends to contract Guardian Retention Systems, who currently has a contract with KYTC, to build and install a barrier wall to mitigate the reoccurring landslides on St. Anthony's Church Road. The barrier will be constructed of trapezoidal concrete bags that are 2-4' in height. This will serve as the most cost-effective and timely solution. Construction of the barrier is expect to cost $152,000 and last one-week (weather permitting). Councilman Yates secured funding from this project this week in the Budget Committee and final approval will occur next Thursday at the Louisville Metro Council Meeting. Construction can be scheduled once the funds have officially appropriated.
The concrete bags are intended to absorb the lateral earth pressures caused by landslides and shift the pressures downward due to the unique trapezoidal shape of the concrete bags.
Once the concrete cures the bags can be removed to provide an aesthetically more appealing exposed surface. Councilman Yates is working directly with Public Works to find the most appealing solution.
 
 You can see which companies are hiring right now in the Louisville area and how you can apply at our new online Job Board, created in partnership with Greater Louisville Inc. in response to COVID-19.
Job listings are based on information submitted from employers and are updated daily. Click the link below to see avaliable job opportunities!
 We offer free virtual career services and guidance for youth ages 16-24.
We are here to help during this challenging time.
Although the KYCC locations in downtown Louisville (4th St. and Nia Center) are currently closed to the public, we are still providing many services online:
- Career guidance and support
- GED prep (18+)
- Paid internship opportunities (Internship Academy)
- Basic job readiness workshops and skills training programs that award nationally-recognized career credentials
- Earn incentives for completing program goals
https://www.wearekycc.org/
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