 Mosquito season is underway in Louisville. When temperatures rise above 50 degrees, mosquitoes become active, with peak season running from May through October.
To help protect residents from mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile virus, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW) takes several steps to reduce mosquito populations across the community:
- Reducing breeding areas: More than 385 locations that collect standing water—such as wooded areas, flood-prone zones, drainage easements, and vacant properties—are treated to prevent mosquitoes from developing.
- Treating catch basins: About 14,500 sewer catch basins are treated several times each year. These structures hold water and can serve as ideal mosquito breeding sites if left untreated.
- Monitoring mosquito activity: Traps placed across the community collect mosquitoes for testing. When mosquitoes carrying diseases like West Nile virus are detected, targeted spraying is used to reduce both larvae and adult mosquitoes.
- Using natural controls: Gambusia, small native fish that feed on mosquito larvae, are used in creeks, ponds, and other standing water areas to naturally reduce mosquito populations.
Mosquito Prevention Resources
Residents can also take simple steps to protect themselves and reduce mosquito breeding around their homes:
Working together, we can reduce mosquito risks and keep our community safe this summer.
 The I-65 project continues to cause major inconvenience to District 6 and the city as a whole. We encourage people to continue tracking updates from KYTC at https://i65centralcorridor.com/ and continue documenting negative impacts and reporting those to KYTC and Metro Government authorities, as well as to our office. We are in regular communication to KYTC and Metro DOT about constituent concerns and will continue to be for as long as this project continues.
You are invited to attend a review for a VARIANCE to allow a fence to exceed the maximum permitted height along the street side yard.
Subject Property (Propiedad Sujeta): 1469 BLAND STREET
Case Number (Número de Caso): 26-VARIANCE-0064
Case Manager (Administradora de Casos): SYDNEY FAWCETT (Sydney.fawcett@louisvilleky.gov)
Meeting Type (Tipo de Reunión): BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
Meeting Date (Fecha de la Reunión): MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026
Time (Tiempo): Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM and continue until all cases are heard
Location (Ubicación de Reunión): 514 W Liberty Street, 40202 (OLD JAIL BUILDING)
Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association
The Community of Opportunity Neighborhood Association is organizing in Park Hill & Algonquin. See Park Hill - Algonquin 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: Arthur S Kling Center - 219 W Ormsby Ave.
We're nearing the end of the budget process for Louisville Metro Government. The invited departments have answered questions in chambers, the community budget hearing has come and gone, and our office held two public town halls where we had great conversations about what we liked and didn't like about the proposed budget.
Last newsletter, we described the Mayor's proposed budget, and some of the biggest areas where I think changes are needed to serve the needs of Louisville's working-class majority. Now that the hearings have concluded, the budget amendment that will be offered by Chair Kevin Kramer (Republican, D11) and Vice Chair Markus Winkler, (Democrat, D17) will be hammered out behind closed doors. This week, I'd like to share some of the suggested changes that I have passed on:
These are areas of the budget I would like to see more money funding:
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Oak Street Corridor Infrastructure plan. Money was allocated in the state budget by Senator Herron for the 4th & Oak economic corridor, and Representative Watkins has asked our office to be involved how this money will be spent. Now is the time for Louisville Metro to match some of that spending to make sure that the infrastructure needs of Oak Street in Old Louisville are addressed. There's already a plan in place, and the Old Louisville Mobility Coalition has done a fantastic job organizing and meeting with city planning officials on priorities in the plan. It's especially important for the residents of the senior towers in the area who are impacted disproportionately by this neglected infrastructure.
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Sidewalks in District 6. Speaking of neglected infrastructure, our district currently has over $1.7 million dollars in deferred maintenance for sidewalks that the city has identified as needing immediate repair. It is mathematically impossible for our District to catch up on this through our discretionary spending—even if we dumped our entire CIF budget into addressing it for 17 years, at the end we'd have a new unfunded list a mile long. There has to be city investment in pedestrian infrastructure for the most densely populated section of the city. This is also true in Districts 4, 5, 8 & 15.
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Park Hill Community Center. There are significant critical needs that remain unfunded from our ask last year. The facilities are nearly unusable for the kitchen, the bathrooms have structural issues, and the gym needs an investment in HVAC (As can be attested to by our constituents who showed up to our town hall here the past two years!)
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Arthur Street Hotel. While the facility is located in District 6, it serves an important function for our entire city in our response to the crisis of homelessness. Beyond housing, Arthur Street provides intensive social services and training for residents. We should be doubling down on our investment rather than pulling back.
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Soil & Water Conservation District. Fully funded, the Soil & Water Conservation District would be nearly imperceptible to the impact in the scope of the larger budget; instead, they're currently slated for a cut. The S&WCD brings in many times their budget in federal grants for our economy, they provide important public health support and education, and the current funding level would be catastrophic to their ability to function. This is also the single most asked for item in the Metro Council budget contact form.
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Increase Public Works staffing. We need to increase our daily capacity for public works for deferred maintenance and our emergency capacity for weather events.
These are the areas where I would reduce in the Mayor's proposed budget:
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The Mayor's Office. The budget for the Mayor's office has a $941,000 increase compared to last year's passed budget, and even with zero increase would be much larger than when Mayor Greenberg took office. Further administrative bloat for an office that has four Deputies (again, quite a change from previous administrations) and many more executives is beyond excessive in a lean budget year.
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One Louisville. Economic Development has a $3 million dollar line item for One Louisville, the external agency recreated again this year for private corporate development in Louisville. One Louisville is not subject to open records laws and will receive $1.5 million to cover the salaries of positions formerly within Metro Government. The $1.5 million dollar balance of the line item amounts to walking around money for One Louisville. When asked, they admitted that this ask will continue in perpetuity.
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Louisville Metro Police. LMPD is our largest operational line item, as it has been every year since merger, and as has been the case every year since merger the Mayor is proposing an increase. In capital, we continue to see millions diverted to LMPD for the training center after a boondoggle investment in a new headquarters that saw costs of that project explode. Fiscal responsibility alone demands a budget much, much closer to flat from what was passed in FY26, which was, it bears repeating, a historic increase.
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Capital Spending overall. In the Mayor's budget address, he said it was time to make good on some long-promised projects in Louisville Metro. We are borrowing money in this budget to do so, and at a time when it is not an advantageous economic environment. Some capital projects are critical infrastructure spending, and I've even highlighted some areas left out of the budget that I think the needs are that dire that we should be spending now. Other areas, like the planned tourist attractions at Jefferson Memorial Forest or the many millions poured into the Belvedere redesign, are (at best) optional. There's no reason from the perspective of the public good to push these through right now. We need to focus on critical infrastructure needs rather than chasing eye-popping, attention-grabbing headlines.
Solidarity,
Councilman JP Lyninger
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