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Lexington-Fayette council reads FY2026 budget; resident requests COVID-relief funds for Community Action Council
Summary
At a June 10 special meeting the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council heard a formal reading of the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and a public comment asking that COVID-era funds be made available to cover an agreement for the Community Action Council. No final vote on the budget ordinances was recorded at the meeting.
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council on June 10 held a special meeting where the clerk read two ordinances that together present the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and related prefunding actions. A First District resident used the public-comment period to ask the council to direct COVID-relief funds toward a Community Action Council agreement.
The reading covered a single agenda item described by the clerk as the fiscal year 2026 budget. The clerk read a long-form ordinance that appropriates revenues, expenditures and interfund transfers across numerous city and county funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, and approves portions of the capital improvements program for fiscal years 2026 through 2031. The ordinance text as read names funds including the general services district fund, urban services district fund, multiple police-confiscated funds, public safety fund, municipal aid and county road aid funds, mineral and coal severance funds, Lexington economic development fund, an affordable housing and homelessness fund, sanitary sewer funds, parks funds, water-quality funds, landfill fund, right-of-way program fund, extended school program fund, enhanced 911 funds, employee pension and police-and-fire retirement funds, and the medical insurance and property-and-casualty claims funds. The reading also included a provision setting transient-room-tax funding for the county tourist and convention commission to equal 99.5% of that tax's revenue.
During the public-comment portion, Millie Miller-Johnson, a First District resident, told the council she had “some stuff that, projects ready to go” and asked officials to make available “the COVID money, the AAR money” that she said had been set aside to promote livelihood in Lexington. She also asked the council to cover a mediation agreement for the Community Action Council (CAC). “My request is simple. It's a ask,” Miller-Johnson said. She asked the council to respond as soon as possible.
The clerk then read a second ordinance described as prefunding various components of the fiscal year 2026 budget as approved at the May 27 work session and appropriating and reappropriating funds per schedule number 26. The reading itself did not record a final vote on either ordinance during the special meeting.
After the readings, Council member Savigny moved to adjourn; Council member Ellinger seconded. The chair asked those in favor to say “aye,” and the meeting was adjourned. The council immediately called to order a work session for June 10 with the posted item of public comment on agenda issues; no one additionally signed up to speak at that work session.
No ordinance adoption votes, motions to pass or amendments to the presented budget ordinances were recorded in the transcript of the special meeting. The ordinances were presented by reading and remain on the record as read at the June 10 session.
