POLICY LIBRARY

Every policy, budget document and plan I have published, in one place. The whole platform spends Metro’s adopted FY2026-27 operating budget, $1,125,931,500 — no more — and the Quick Facts sheet and the Executive Budget Summary show how.

A MAYOR PROPOSES. OTHERS DECIDE.

Every budget figure in this library is a proposal. A mayor proposes a budget; Metro Council adopts it. The school board sets the school calendar, Frankfort writes state law and decides what Louisville may do on its own, and independent officers run their own offices. Each policy here names who has to agree. I would rather aim high and say plainly who decides than promise only what a mayor can do alone.

PLATFORM POLICIES

• Public Safety & Community Policing — At least one mini police substation in every ZIP code (63 at $650K each), 18 community wellness centres, co-responder crisis teams and violence prevention; police budget flat, redeployed to neighborhoods. $113.95M a year at full build.
• Criminal Justice Reform — End wealth-based bail, diversion over jail, reentry support, legal aid and prosecutor accountability. $22M a year.
• Health & Human Services — The 18 wellness centres as one-stop hubs, mental-health crisis response, maternal health and addiction treatment.
• Budget & Financial Management — Transparent, evidence-based budgeting and the $15M participatory budget, divided among all 26 council districts.
• Affordable Housing & Anti-Displacement — Housing Trust Fund, community land trusts, anti-displacement protections, Housing First and a tenant bill of rights. $43M a year.
• Education & Youth Development — After-school programmes, summer jobs, early childhood, libraries and a year-round schooling pilot. $32.5M a year.
• Environmental Justice & Climate Action — Rubbertown monitoring and enforcement, tree canopy, climate resilience, renewable energy and safer streets. $38M a year.
• Economic Development & Jobs — Tax-abatement accountability, small business and worker cooperatives, anchor-institution hiring and purchasing. $30M a year.
• Infrastructure & Transportation — Fix-it-first roads and bridges, Vision Zero, transit, bike and pedestrian routes. $93M a year.
• Arts, Culture & Tourism — Neighborhood cultural programming, artist support, public art and equitable tourism. $25M a year.
• Technology & Innovation — Universal high-speed internet, modern city digital services and an equitable innovation economy. $38M a year.
• Public Health & Wellness — Lead abatement, heat relief, mental health and substance use, healthy food access and maternal health. $36M a year.
• Neighborhood Development — Community development corporations, anti-displacement, infrastructure equity and vacant-property transformation. $33M a year.
• Senior Services — Aging in place: economic security, social connection, transportation and services. $28M a year.
• Disability Rights & Accessibility — Universal design, ADA enforcement, employment, housing and transportation access. $28M a year.
• Food Systems & Urban Agriculture — End food deserts, urban-agriculture infrastructure, composting and a local food economy. $25M a year.
• Worker Bill of Rights — Three rights for every worker: wage-theft enforcement through a Labor Standards Office, organizing without retaliation, and pay you can see. $4M a year.
• Kentucky Homeownership Wage Index — New. The hourly wage it takes to buy the median Kentucky home, published every January; employers who pay it are recognized, and no one is forced to.
• Police Accountability & Constitutional Policing — Civilian oversight, use-of-force standards and transparency, and one rule for every federal law-enforcement agency.
• Women’s Rights & Gender Equity — Maternal health, childcare, a coordinated domestic-violence response and women-owned business. $13M a year.

BUDGET DOCUMENTS

• Quick Facts Sheet — Every key number on one page.
• Executive Budget Summary — The plan at a glance: adopted budget beside our plan, by category and by department.
• Detailed Line-Item Budget — All 44 departments: what Metro adopted for FY2026-27 and what changes under the plan.
• Our Plan for Louisville — The narrative platform: people, prevention and community power within the same budget.
• Budget Implementation Roadmap — Four-year sequencing of substations, wellness centres, participatory budgeting and raises.
• Budget Glossary — Plain-language definitions.
• Performance Metrics & Tracking — What gets measured and reported, and when.
• Metro Employee Bill of Rights — 24% compounded raises over four years for every Metro employee, and a floor of rights for Metro’s own workforce.

IMPLEMENTATION MANUALS

• Mini Substations Implementation Plan — Siting, staffing and the 12 / 24 / 36 / 63 build-out.
• Community Wellness Centers Operations Manual — Six a year for three years: staffing and service model.
• Participatory Budgeting Process Guide — Propose, develop, vote, deliver: how residents spend $15M a year.
• First 100 Days Plan — Quick wins and groundwork for the first hundred days.

CAMPAIGN MATERIALS

• Campaign One-Pager — The story on one page.
• A Day in the Life — How the budget changes an ordinary day.
• About Dave Biggers — Who Dave is and why he is running.
• Research Bibliography & Citations — The sources behind every statistic.