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The Mayor's Proposed Budget is Ready for Review!
Explore Mayor Craig Greenberg’s recommended Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Capital and Operating Budgets.
The Council will vote to adopt the FY 2025-2026 Budget during the regularly scheduled Metro Council meeting on Thursday, June 26, at 6:00 p.m.
Read on to the Organizing Corner for information about the results from our public feedback on the budget!
 You are invited to attend two upcoming open house events where you can learn more about projects that aim to improve safety and accessibility on E. Oak Street (between Mary Street and Barret Avenue) and W. Oak Street (between S. 7th Street and S. 16th Street).
East Oak Street Public Information Session
Tuesday, June 24, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Highlands-Shelby Park Library, 1250 Bardstown Rd.
and
West Oak Street Public Information Session
Thursday, June 26, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
California Community Center, 1600 W. St. Catherine St.
This is part of the federally funded Rightsizing Louisville for Safe Streets project, which includes safety improvements for 10 corridors in Louisville. The project is funded by a $21 million Safe Streets and Roads for All implementation grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Rightsizing, also called a road diet or roadway reconfiguration, calms traffic and reduces speeding and weaving between lanes.
W Kentucky St Project
West Kentucky Street and South 5th Street are undergoing major improvements to help create a safer and more welcoming corridor.
Construction for the West Kentucky Street project is in progress. The aim is to convert W. Kentucky Street (8th to 5th) and S. 5th Street (W. Catherine to W. Breckinridge) into two-way streets. Each phase will take approximately 10 weeks to complete. Completion of the entire project is expected by July 31, 2025, weather permitting.
Brook St & Kentucky St Closure
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) advises motorists of the upcoming closures of Brook Street and Kentucky Street, beginning Monday, May 5, in Jefferson County.
Brook Street between Kentucky Street and Ardella Court, and Kentucky Street between First Street and Brook Street will close for approximately 75 days (Saturday, July 19) beginning Monday, May 5. The road closures are necessary to allow contractors to relocate underground utilities at the intersection of Kentucky Street and Brook Street.
Local access will be available on Brook Street between Ardella Court and Caldwell Street, and on Kentucky Street to allow access to alleys on the south side of the street just east of First Street.
Motorists should heed signage, use caution, and follow posted detour signage along the route.
 Wouldn't your block be better with trees? Louisville Urban Forestry wants to invest in your community, but we need your help! Click here and follow the prompts to sign up for a free street tree in front of your home. We will purchase and plant the tree for you, maintain it for 3 years, and teach you how to care for it as it grows.
Make trees a part of your legacy today!
Fast Facts:
- Louisville needs more trees to combat the urban heat island effect.
- Trees along streets make the biggest impact on heat and make walking, biking, and riding the bus safer and more comfortable.
- Trees increase property values and improve community safety.
 The Louisville Bats present "Metro Council Community Nights," an opportunity for all constituents of every Metro Council district, geared toward, but not exclusively for, residents who might otherwise not be able to afford to attend a Bats game. The offer is extended to both individuals and mentoring organizations, social service agencies, underprivileged kids’ groups, etc.
The two games this year are scheduled for Tuesday, August 5th and Tuesday, September 16th.
Vouchers include:
- free admission for a reserved seat at Louisville Slugger Field
- a voucher good for one free hot dog, and one free small soft drink
- Tuesdays also include $4 tacos available at the ballpark, including the two Gustavo’s Mexican Grill stands
Sign-Up Now!
Ticket distribution will begin July 1st. Please be patient and allow time for tickets to be distributed.
If you do not receive your tickets by July 31st, please email hibrahim@batsbaseball.com."
Anti-Violence Coalitions
The Office of Violence Prevention coordinates Anti-Violence Coalition meetings in Algonquin, Park Hill, and Taylor Berry. The schedule of those meetings is keep up to date here.
A Conditional Use Permit application to provide a transitional home at the address below was filed with the department of Louisville Metro Office of Planning on March 31st, 2025.
ADDRESS: 516 W Breckinridge St
CASE NO: 25-CUPPA-0083
CASE MANAGER: Jude Mattingly (502-574-1300)
CASE MANAGER EMAIL: jude.mattingly@louisvilleky.gov
COUNCIL DISTRICT: 6th
APPLICANT: Bell Towers Recovery
In accordance with the procedures of Louisville Metro Office of Planning, we have been directed to invite you to discuss this proposal before a formal application can be filed. This will be an informal meeting to give you the opportunity to review the proposed plan and discuss the proposal with the applicant or its representative. We encourage you to attend this meeting and to share your thoughts. This meeting will be held in addition to the established public meeting procedures of the Planning Commission and/or the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
The meeting to discuss this application will be held on:
DATE: June 25th, 2025 at 6pm
LOCATION: 516 W Breckinridge St., Louisville, Ky 40203
Michelle Collins is the primary point of contact for any questions or comments. Any questions or comments received will be incorporated into the meeting record. The contact information is below:
Name : Michelle Collins
Email : michelle@wherewebegan.com
If you have questions about this application, or would like to view the case file, please visit http://louisvilleky.gov/government/planning-design or contact Louisville Metro Planning & Design Services at:
Metro Development Center
444 S 5th St, 3rd Floor
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 574-6230
Field Bar LLC, 527 E Burnett Ave Louisville KY 40217, Hereby declares intention(s) to apply for a Quota retail drink, nq4 retail malt beverage drink, 2am hours, and Sunday drink license(s) no later than June 11, 2025. The business to be licensed will be located at 527 E Burnett Ave Louisville, Kentucky 40217 doing business as Field Bar. The Members are as follows: Isaiah Dietrich, member, 513 Atwood St Louisville KY 40217 Courtney Dietrich, member, 513 Atwood St Louisville KY 40217. Any person, association, corporation, or body politic, may protest the granting of the license(s) by writing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 500 Mero St 2NE33, Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601 , within thirty (30) days of the date of legal publication. June 10 2025 LSBN0312898
 Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association
The Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association is organizing in Park Hill & Algonquin. They will meet in-person at 6PM on July 10 at Kingdomland Baptist Church, 1822 S 11th St. They will meet virtually at 6PM on June 11 and August 13. See website for more details.
Germantown-Paristown Neighborhood Association
GPNA has public meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:00 PM at the Hope Mills Building, located at 1000 Swan Street.
Limerick Neighborhood Association
Meetings on the third Wednesday of the every month at 7:00 PM Locations can vary but the calendar is updated here.
Meriwether-Fort Hill Neighborhood Association
Monthly Meetings held at The Bard's Town - 511 E Burnett Ave at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday
Old Louisville Neighborhood Council
OLNC meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Location: the Historic Old Louisville Visitors Center (1340 S 4th Street)
Shelby Park Neighborhood Association
SPNA members meet most months on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Location: Shelby Park Community Center (600 E. Oak Street)
Taylor Berry Neighborhood Association
Meetings held on the 1st Tuesday of the month (except August) at 6 pm at the South Louisville Community Center (2911 Taylor Boulevard).
Toonerville Trolley Neighborhood Association
Meetings on the second Wednesday of the every month at 7:00 PM Location: Noble Funk Brewery - 922. S. 2nd St.
I want to thank all of our residents who have made your voices heard during this budget season on how you believe Louisville Metro Government should be spending our tax dollars. The budget is a moral and political document, a test of our priorities and our values. It is the single most important piece of legislation Metro Council considers each year because it sets the boundaries of all policy decisions we might possibly make. Knowing what District 6 residents think about this is pretty important to me!
The most common message our office received this budget cycle is that Louisville spends too much money on policing at the expense of investments in solving the root causes of crime and violence. On the general Metro Council form, 11 D6 residents said Louisville should spend less on police this year versus 1 for increasing. For the District 6 form, 47% of all responses specifically said they'd like to see LMPD's budget cut or kept at last year's spending while two respondents said they wanted LMPD to receive more money in FY26. At the townhalls I hosted, 12 different people said our city should spend less on police and two said police spending should go up.
Between the forms and townhalls, 51 of our residents didn't mention police spending one way or the other but asked for more investment in our community. Specifically, the most common asks were for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (and affordable housing in general), TARC, safer streets, youth services and mental health. While these didn't mention LMPD, a balanced budget requires offsetting cuts to fund increases, and LMPD is by far our city’s largest expenditure.
LMPD’S line item in the Mayor’s proposed budget is over $255 million (up from $240 million last year). This $255 million does not even include additional millions in new spending on vehicles, buildings and other appropriations for LMPD elsewhere in the budget. The vast majority of the funding requests District 6 has made could be easily fulfilled if we kept police funding flat this fiscal year.
I’ll close with a specific example of what would be possible with a small fraction of LMPD’s budget. As I pointed out in a recent public statement, the Parkhill Community Center is in dire need of addressing years of deferred maintenance. For less than .2% of what is proposed to be spent on LMPD this year, the entire project could be funded. I believe in my heart that this .2% diversion would do many times more good for our district and the people of Louisville, giving children in Algonquin a clean and safe facility to use and place for our city to invest meaningfully in programming for our youth to give them alternatives to spending their summers, weekends and afternoons on the streets.
A better world is possible, but we will have to organize to build it!
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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