Asks to Metro Council for the FY2025 Metro Budget

Below are the various asks that community groups are sharing with Council and some general talking points. Feel free to read, share this with others, and please contact your council member using the instructions below. You can reach out to the organizations listed directly if you have more questions about their asks.

As you make your individual asks/documents/advocacy for specific points, please feel free to use/amplify the following points which can tie together messaging:

Louisville is safest and healthiest when everyone has their needs met.
Our budget needs to put people first by preventing harm and funding care.
We need to invest in making Louisville a place where everyone can actually thrive.
We are working together to meet Louisville’s needs, and we need more support from the budget to prioritize people’s well-being.

1) The Food in Neighborhoods Community Coalition (FIN) is asking Metro Council to amend the Mayor’s budget and allocate:

$113,000 for the Soil and Water Conservation District
$335,000 for Cooperative Extension, plus an additional $65,000
Program support for Change Today Change Together’s food justice work ($200,000)
Capital support for land acquisition for the Food Literacy Project’s Forever Home ($300,000)
$280,000 to Feed Louisville for operating expenses needed to provide food resources to our 12 community partners

Surely, the funds can be found if the city has $1 million for a Japanese Garden, $200,000 to repair the King Louis XVI statue, and a police budget of $242 million, including $5 million to buy new license plate readers, surveillance cameras, and helicopters.
[Link to FIN’s Budget Fight Toolkit]

2) A coalition of housing advocates is asking for:

An increase in funding to the Affordable Housing Trust fund from $15 million dollars in the proposed budget to $25 million dollars to increase the number of available affordable units for Louisville’s poorest families
Allocating $10 million to stabilize families and prevent homelessness through emergency rental assistance dollars and eviction prevention services (i.e. right to counsel funding, mediation and diversion programs, rental deposit assistance, and more).
To take action and learn more, click here. This effort is being led and coordinated by Coalition for the Homeless.

3) The Association of Community Ministries’ 13 members provide emergency assistance to neighbors in crisis throughout the entirety of Louisville. Our non-competitive External Agency (EA) grant funding from Louisville Metro provides the foundation on which we have built an expanded capacity to meet Louisville’s needs.

Unfortunately, since the height of covid the cost of living has been steadily increasing while wages remain stagnant. As a result the number of neighbors in need reaching out for help is on the rise.

Meanwhile our EA funding has remained flat for over 10 years resulting in an almost 30% loss of “buying power”. In order to better address the community needs for temporary crisis and housing stabilization support, The Association of Community Ministries is asking for an increase in External Agency funding to $2 million dollars.

4) VOCAL-KY [PDF of detailed VOCAL-KY Lou Metro Gov Budget Demands]

We call on Louisville Metro Government and Mayor Greenberg to Increase the Proposed Executive Budget to add the following to Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW):

$500K for the purchase of Naloxone
$1M Mobile Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)
$1M to Fund Key Service Providers Providing Lifesaving Services

We call on Mayor Greenberg and the Louisville Metro Government to follow through on the $600K commitment to creating a West Louisville Harm Reduction Hub.
We call on Mayor Greenberg and the Louisville Metro Government to permit community-based organizations to distribute safer smoking/snorting kits as a public health tool and do not prosecute the possession or distribution of these supplies. No financial impact.
We call on Mayor Greenberg and the Louisville Metro Government to better coordinate – and increase funding – to support non-police emergency response programs, and alternatives to incarceration. Most urgently, all city funds and contracts should be moved under the purview of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health & Wellness (LMPHW).

CONTACTING YOUR REPRESENTATIVE ON METRO COUNCIL

If you don’t know who your Metro Council member is, you can enter your address on the District Map and find out.

Three ways to contact your Council member:
1. Email, 2. Call, or 3. Write on their webpage contact form
* Email addresses, phone numbers as well as links to webpage forms are provided below.

You can also comment directly on the Mayor’s Budget on the Metro website:

Go to this link and fill out your information (The online form will close on Friday, June 7, at 5:00 p.m.)

Select your Council District. (Find your district on the Metro district map)
Write a comment in the “general comments” box with your requests
Select the relevant category from the drop down
Write the same comment in the “department comments” box below the drop down

Write or Call your Council Member TODAY!

Tammy	Hawkins	1	tammy.hawkins@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1101	Webform Link
Charles	Weathers	1- Aid	charles.weathers@louisvilleky.gov
Barbara	Shanklin	2	barbara.shanklin@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1102	Webform Link
Caleb	Howard	2 -Aid	caleb.howard@louisvilleky.gov
Shameka	Parrish-Wright	3	shameka.parrish-wright@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1103	Webform Link
Ben	Harlan	3-Aid	ben.harlan@louisvilleky.gov
Jecorey	Arthur	4	jecorey.arthur@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1104	Webform Link
Brianna	Wright	4 -Aid	brianna.wright@louisvilleky.gov
Donna	Purvis	5	donna.purvis@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1105	Webform Link
Carmen	Washington	5 -Aid	carmen.washington@louisvilleky.gov
Phillip	Baker	6	phillip.baker@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1106	Webform Link
Tony	Hardin	6 -Aid	tony.hardin@louisvilleky.gov
Paula	McCraney	7	paula.mccraney@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1107	Webform Link

Ben	Reno-Weber	8	ben.reno-weber@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1108	Webform Link
Betsy	Foster	8 -Aid	betsy.foster@louisvilleky.gov
Andrew	Owen	9	andrew.owen@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1109	Webform Link
Jasmine	Presley	9 -Aid	jasmine.presley@louisvilleky.gov
Pat	Mulvihill	10	pat.mulvihill@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1110	Webform Link
Geoff	Wohl	10 -Aid	geoff.wohl@louisvilleky.gov
Kevin	Kramer	11	kevin.kramer@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1111	Webform Link
Scott	Harrington	11 -Aid	scott.harrington@louisvilleky.gov
Rick	Blackwell	12	rick.blackwell@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1112	Webform Link
Heather	Blazis	12 -Aid	heather.blazis@louisvilleky.gov
Dan	Seum, Jr.	13	dan.seum@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1113	Webform Link
Lisa	Ammon	13 -Aid	lisa.ammon@louisvilleky.gov
Cindi	Fowler	14	cindi.fowler@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1114	Webform Link
Amy	Stewart	14 -Aid	amy.stewart@louisvilleky.gov
Jennifer	Chappell	15	jennifer.chappell@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1115	Webform Link
Amy	Luckett	15 -Aid	amy.luckett@louisvilleky.gov
Scott	Reed	16	scott.reed@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1116	Webform Link
Jared	Townes	16 -Aid	jared.townes@louisvilleky.gov
Markus	Winkler	17	markus.winkler@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1117	Webform Link
Kip	Eatherly	17 -Aid	kip.eatherly@louisvilleky.gov
Marilyn	Parker	18	marilyn.parker@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1118	Webform Link
Daniel	Luckett Jr	18 -Aid	daniel.luckett@louisvilleky.gov
Anthony	Piagentini	19	anthony.piagentini@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-11019	Webform Link
Chanelle	Smith	19-Aid	chanelle.smith@louisvilleky.gov
Stuart	Benson	20	stuart.benson@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1120	Webform Link
Angela	Webster	20 -Aid	angela.webster@louisvilleky.gov
Betsy	Ruhe	21	betsy.ruhe@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1121	Webform Link
Ashkan	Rezai	21-Aid	ashkan.rezai@louisvilleky.gov
Robin	Engel	22	robin.engel@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1122	Webform Link
Jared	Townes	22 -Aid	jared.townes@louisvilleky.gov
Jeff	Hudson	23	jeff.hudson@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1123	Webform Link
John	Torsky	23 -Aid	john.torsky@louisvilleky.gov
Madonna	Flood	24	madonna.flood@louisvilleky.gov		Webform Link
Andrea	Crider Derouen	24 -Aid	andrea.derouen@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1124
Khalil ‘Charlie’	Batshon	25	khalil.batshon@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1125	Webform Link
Steve	Goodman	25- Aid	steven.goodman@louisvilleky.gov
Brent	Ackerson	26	brent.ackerson@louisvilleky.gov	(502) 574-1126	Webform Link
Jeff	Noble	26 -Aid	jeff.noble@louisvilleky.gov