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The Louisville Metro Council met Thursday, October 29, 2026, at about 6:08 p.m. via video teleconference, with Council President Brent Ackerson (D-26) presiding. Councilwoman Purvis was excused. Following the pledge, roll call, and a page introduction, the Council approved minutes, heard public testimony, adopted consent legislation, acted on old business, and assigned new legislation to committees.
Uh a place where we pay respects. Yeah, the remembrance day. This is where it will take place, where the governor will speak, the mayor will speak, you will speak, Sean, and the families will be present. So hopefully I I for the families and for you and your employees. I hope it brings you a little bit of healing. And I know that's the mission. It is. Thank you. You still own Grade A Recycling. It it, as you mentioned, it used to bring you joy. Now it comes in and it saddens you, it hurts you. Um for other businesses too. You're you're not an anomaly. There's others who are affected, none more than you. But with that being said, how are other businesses surviving? So I think that you know that's a great point. I mean, there's 90 plus businesses in this business in this industrial park. And they were shut down for almost six months. Um, and they we were our business was taken away from us. They had their business and to their credit, but to their detriment, they weren't able to conduct business. And these are these are these are entrepreneurs, these are family-owned businesses back here. These aren't public companies. These are people who need to be open every single day. And if they're not, it can devastate a lifetime worth of a lifetime worth of work. And that's what happened here. Some of these businesses will never recover. Um, and many of them are just struggling to get by. Yeah, it's a day we'll never forget. Um, some of those metals, some of the aftermath here, it's incredible the intensity of a fire and the heat from jet fuel. Uh it's it's almost in a sad way a Hamid to tribute to what was lost here because it still exists, it's right here, it's in a totally different form, though. We've been hesitant to do anything with it. You know, it we haven't been able to bring closure to ourselves, which is why I talked about closure being closure by the people held responsible for this. Um maybe that day will come when we can bring closure to it, and we can put this behind us, but right now we're still we we the wounds are open, the um the closure doesn't exist, the pain will always be there. And for us, um we're not ready, we're not ready to to say goodbye to it. But but speaking to that, there is a healing event that is going to happen, a remembrance day appropriately, of course, on November 4th here. Sean, you organized this. Obviously, you want to you want to ensure the families that hey, you are not forgotten. This day will never be forgotten. Tell me a little bit about what will happen here on November 4th. So we've been very private about this ground zero and about our business and about our our pain and and about the challenges that we've gone through. Um we've had a lot of questions and a little and a lot of people have inquired, and we as I said, we've kept it very private. Well, a year's gone by, and it's important that we don't forget. You know, and unfortunately, as we know, you know, people will remember and it'll be meaningful on the on that one year anniversary. I don't know what it's gonna be on the second year or the third year or the fourth year, but for the people here, the people who have been part of this, it will never leave our hearts, and we'll never forget that.