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The Louisville Metro Public Safety Committee, chaired by Councilman Dan Seum Jr., met on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The meeting was called to order at 4:04 p.m. and adjourned at 5:24 p.m. The committee reviewed two items of pending legislation: a grant resolution for the fire department and an ordinance amending massage facility regulations.
About making sure no child in Jefferson County went without a coat for the winter. I'm proud to continue this mission. You will begin seeing collection boxes as you see down here at restaurants and businesses throughout Louisville. Each box will have an attached explanation card with a QR code that you can drop a new coat in the box, scan the QR code to make a monetary donation, which will go directly towards purchasing new coats. So while you may wrap a child in a coat, we'll give them warmth. And just LMPD being there teaming up with all the fine people behind me proves unity in the community is a big effort, and it takes a whole team to create this unity. Chase was a special, special student and athlete. If you're able to give, please instead of driving up and getting a cup of coffee. Louisville Metro government is going to be providing $75,000 immediately to Elder Serve. Seniors have always been a passion of mine. Their quality of life is vital. Thank you to everyone that is stepped up. Come see Elder Serve. Come visit our adult day center. Come to the center, the activities. The laughter, the friendships, and the life that happens inside Elder Serve. Come see what it looks like when social isolation is replaced with connection, purpose, and belonging. TV thirty seconds, please. Good afternoon. The time's four oh three PM. This is the regularly scheduled meeting of the public safety committee. I'm your chair, Councilman Dan Sime. Today we have the following committee members in attendance. We have Councilmember Scott Reed, Betsy Ruey, Jenny Mulvey Woolridge. Virtually, we have Kevin Bratcher. Jonathan JJ Joseph, and in attendance is Councilman Hudson. Councilman Marcus Winkler has an excused absence. Madam Clerk, please read item number one into the record. A resolution authorizing the mayor to accept seventy-four thousand seven hundred from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA through the physical year two thousand twenty-five assistant to firefighters grant program to be administered by the Louisville Fire Department. Read in full. Properly moved. As a sponsor of this resolution, I'd like to invite Louisville Fire Chief Brian O'Neill to provide some background information on the grant. Chief O'Neill, thank you for being here. Please state your name and title for the record and proceed. Thank you. My name is Brian O'Neill, Chief of the Louisville Fire Department. So this grant uh we applied for it through FEMA. Uh it's a it's an organization, uh, obviously, you know, I'm sorry, it's a program under FEMA known as the uh assistance to firefighter grants. Uh and we were able to accept a 74,000 dollar grant. We do have a 10% matching fund, so $7,470 uh from our budget to match it for a total project cost of $82,000. And what this is, uh, if you go back to our our capital uh budget this last year, we got uh five million dollars to replace all of our breathing apparatus. Uh those are the packs, the tanks that we wear on our backs, and it's more than just that, it's the hoses, the manifolds that go with it, the face piece that goes with it, uh, the air filling to make sure that we have clean air to go in it.