April 22, 2021
Louisville – Louisville Metro Council’s Budget Committee has released its schedule for reviewing Mayor Greg Fischer’s proposed 2021-2022 Capital and Operating Budgets.
The Committee will review the proposal over the months of May and June. The Metro Council extended the budget review process by an extra month beginning in 2017, in order to hear from the public and thoroughly review and discuss the budget for each department and agency of Metro Government.
“While the pandemic has dramatically affected the financial condition of many individuals, families and businesses, Louisville’s economy as a whole has held up much better than we feared at this time last year. That is reflected in the budget proposed today. Tax receipts, combined with federal funds and reduced expenses, will allow us to invest in human services, public safety and infrastructure. The Budget Committee will have thirty hearings to determine how best to spend the funds available to us,” sa
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Local community organization hopes its plans to open a nonprofit grocery store in a hard-hit Cedar Rapids neighborhood will help bring new activity and investment to the area.
A local community group is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a grocery store in the urban core of Cedar Rapids, a key step in a neighborhood that was hard-hit during the 2008 flood, with scores of homes destroyed or leveled during city buyouts.
Establishing a non-profit grocery store in what was once an empty building in Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood would be a big deal. Opening the store is part of a larger effort by the group Matthew 25 to help residents and homeowners rebuild in the area on the northwest side of the city.
Mayor Greg Fischer is encouraging everyone in Louisville to act as part of the kickoff to National Youth Violence Prevention Week.NYVPW is an initiative designed to raise awareness about youth violence, highlight prevention strategies, and intervene in violence that happens to young people. The national effort is organized by the Connecticut-based group Students Against Violence Everywhere. Locally, youth in the community have spearheaded a series of week-long events through Metro Government’s Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods in partnership with Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro United Way, YouthBuild, and a host of other community organizations and groups. A variety of virtual and in-person events will be held to foster open dialogue about Louisville’s gun violence and its impact on youth. These include virtual art shows, spoken word and anti-violence campaigns, and a town hall discussion. Each day has its own theme designed to amplify violence as a community-w
April 12, 2021
Mayor Greg Fischer today joined the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhood’s (OSHN) Youth Implementation Team, representatives from Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro Council and other organizations serving the city’s youth to announce Louisville’s participation in National Youth Violence Prevention Week (NYVPW), an initiative designed to raise awareness about youth violence and highlight prevention strategies involving youth, parents, teachers, school personnel and community members.
“Public safety is something we – the public – have to work together to create. That’s the message we’re focusing on this week as we observe National Youth Violence Prevention Week here in Louisville to raise awareness about what we can do as a community to address this challenge,” said Mayor Fischer. “We owe it to all our kids to do all we can as a community to keep them, their families and our neighborhoods safe. Because witnessing a violent crime, worryin
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