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Each year, Metro Council approves the budget for Louisville/Jefferson County. The "Fiscal Year" runs from July 1st to June 30th. Right now, we are in Fiscal Year 2024-2025, meaning Metro Council approved the operating and capital budgets for this year on June 30th, 2024. On June 30th 2025, this fiscal year will end, and on July 1st, 2025, the 2025-2026 fiscal year will begin. Metro Council must approve to budget by June 30th each year.
In December, Metro Council approves a mid-year budget adjustment, which, very generally, means departments share what came in over and under budget, and then funds are shifted as necessary to cover any overages. New fiscal year budget preparations begin in January/February, and Metro Councilmembers start hearing from the Mayor's office in mid-march to discuss priorities.
There are two budgets. One budget is for operating (paying for salaries, benefits, office charges like internet service and phone bills) and the other budget is called "capital" (for physical improvements to roads and buildings, or for new buildings). Each Metro Council member generally asks the mayor to include several items in the budget, for example, funding for park improvements. This year, Councilwoman Parrish-Wright asked for the following items to be in the 2025-2026 Operating & Capital Budgets:
$25K support for 7th Street Road Community Garden (Operating)
$50K for Shively Splash Park (Capital)
$400K to finish the GG Moore Redevelopment (Capital)
$100K for Watterson Lake Park fence/gate and lake replenishment for fishing (Capital)
$75K Harrison Park cleaning of splash ground and renovations (Operating)
$40K New gate installation for Schardein Cemetery (Capital)
$25K new fence on Manslick Road (Capital)
$100K for speed humps and sidewalk repair (Capital)
$50K Flock Cameras (Operating)
$50K Security Cameras (Operating)
Councilwoman Parrish-Wright also wishes to express her thanks to Lee Burchfield for his leadership with the construction of new libraries and expansion of existing libraries. We are so happy that he and the Louisville Free Public Library team have assured us that the Shively Library expansion project is their next top priority in their capital budget in this and the next few fiscal years. We are sad to see he announced his retirement and wish him well, and we hope the new leader is as committed to the Shively Library project as Lee has been. We were also happy to attend the reopening of the Parkland Library, which is the 18th in a system of Carnegie Libraries in our city. Thank you to those who've been suggesting potential new locations for a Shively Library, please keep sending us, and Shively government your suggestions!
 We hope you will reach out to our office for additional budgetary asks to ensure the projects you want to see funded get funded!
Each council district also has their own funding sources to use as they see fit for their district, but these budgets are obviously much smaller than the budget for the entire city. Each year, council districts are allocated $100,000 for capital projects (like sidewalks and speed humps) and $75,000 for funding to community groups or organizations for programming. Each council district is also allotted $30,000 to fund the operation of their office (office supplies, staffing needs, food and drink for public meetings, proclamation paper and seals, etc.). If an office does not use its allocated budget for a fiscal year, it rolls over to the next fiscal year. Offices can transfer money from CIF to NDF and from NDF to operations as needs shift.
To see how District 3 has allocated their budget since the beginning of FY 2024-2025, please CLICK HERE!
Some of the information is summarized in the images below. The first set of images relates to NDF, or neighborhood development funds. The second set of images relates to CIF, or Capital Infrastructure
        
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