The Louisville Metro Council's Committee on Committees met on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 4:03 p.m. in Council Chambers and via video teleconference, pursuant to KRS 61.826 and Council Rule 5A. Council President Brent Ackerson (D-26) called the meeting to order; a quorum was present. Committee Member Tammy Hawkins (D-1) was excused, while Jennifer Chappell (D-15) and Khalil Batshon (R-25) attended virtually. The committee referred legislation to standing committees, approved funding to resume hard-bound archiving of legislation, and recommended a policy amendment on image usage and mailings to the full Council.
Note: The transcript indicates that R-096-26 was discussed before the special discussion on bound books, while the minutes list the special discussion before pending legislation.
MSD, ensuring safe, clean waterways for Louisville and the surrounding region. It is our mission to provide quality wastewater, storm water, and flood protection services to protect public health and safety. Let's talk about MSD's three key services. First up, wastewater treatment. This is the water we send down the drain from sinks, showers, tubs, and toilets. What happens when we get heavy rains or after it snows? All of that water has to go somewhere. Metro TV will start in fifteen seconds or twenty seconds, whatever it takes. All right, this is the regular meeting of the uh Metro Council's committee on committees today. It's August eleventh, two thousand twenty-six. The time is currently about uh four oh three PM. This meetings will be held pursuant to care SSD one point eight two six in Council Rule five A. Madam Clerk, a call the roll. President Ackerson, President, Councilmember Hawkins, Councilmember Piacentini. Councilmember Chapel, President, Councilmember Batchon. Here. Fantastic. We've got a quorum. Uh councilman Hawkins has an excused absence. Folks, I'm going to read the legislation assignments assignments we have. If anyone has an objection, make it known. If not, we're going to roll with them. First item of business is new business. The following legislation will be assigned to committees. Items one through eight will be assigned to appropriations items nine through sixteen will be assigned to the budget. Committee items 17 through 20 will be assigned to government oversight audit appointments. Items twenty-one through twenty-four will be assigned to labor and economics developments. Any questions, concerns, or comments? Hearing none. So assigned. What's that? Can we do the legislation first? Yes, we can. Your resolution amending the Louvre Metro Council policies and procedures procedures regarding image usage and approval of mailing spreadsheets. Second. And it was in the old policies and procedures in about four places, and in taking it out of the extra places, it inadvertently came out of all the places. Everybody's still been adhering to that policy, which is good, but we wanted to be sure it was baked back into the policies and procedures. So we're just putting back in something that was inadvertently removed. So that's part section one, section two of the legislation puts into the policies and procedures guidance that we have sent to council members for the last three or four years over using images in your newsletters. Um it's easy to go online and see images, a great picture. This will look great for whatever in my newsletter, but often those are not free despite the fact that they say they are. And then you wind up with the situation that we found ourselves in a couple of times with uh someone uh bringing a claim saying, You didn't pay me for it, you got to pay me, you used my image. So we thought the guidance has been helpful for members and their LAs, but because of turnover, particularly among the LAs here, it needs to live somewhere permanently. So this section two spells out that policy, lets you know where you can get items uh for free, truly for free. Metro has a license you can use for images. Any images you take yourselves, you can always use, not an issue. You can also use images if you get express permission from the image uh owner. Uh and that's it's the guidance put into a permanent policy with a sample permission slip uh to get somebody's permission if you want to use an image that you did not create, your office did not create, LMPD did not create. So any questions? Council Media.