Community Project Funding FY26

2026 Community Funding Projects

NOTE: Projects are organized in alphabetical order by county location of project and then alphabetical by name of proposed recipient and then alphabetically by title of project name.

Bourbon County

  • Project Name: Millersburg Road Elevated Water Tank
    • Recipient: Bourbon County Fiscal Court
    • Address of Recipient: 301 West Main Street Paris, Kentucky 40361
    • Amount Requested: $5,000,000
    • Project Summary: This is a request for additional funding for the construction of an elevated water storage tank and water line upgrades at the Bourbon County Park on Millersburg Road. These improvements would catalyze economic and quality of life enhancements for Bourbon and the surrounding counties.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 
  • Project Name: North Middletown Fire Truck
    • Recipient: City of North Middletown
    • Address of Recipient: 3287 North Middletown Road North Middletown, Kentucky 40357
    • Amount Requested: $474,500
    • Project Summary: The purpose of the Community Funding Request is to secure financial support for the purchase of a new fire apparatus, enhancing emergency response capabilities and ensuring public safety in the City of North Middletown.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Clark County

  • Project Name: Rockwell Road Sanitary Sewer Improvements
    • Recipient: Clark County Fiscal Court
    • Address of Recipient: 34 South Main Street Winchester, Kentucky 40391
    • Amount Requested: $5,000,000
    • Project Summary: The proposed project will provide sanitary sewers to the western portion of Clark County that is currently unincorporated and eliminate a package plant that is on the verge of catastrophic failure.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 
  • Project Name: Winchester Municipal Utilities Hancock Creek Watershed SS Phase 1
    • Recipient: Winchester Municipal Utilities 
    • Address of Recipient: 150 North Main Street P.O. Box 4177 Winchester, Kentucky 40391
    • Amount Requested: $7,730,000
    • Project Summary: This project is Phase I of a III phase project to provide sanitary sewers to the Hancock Creek Watershed and will provide much needed residential, commercial and industrial growth in the western corridor of Clark County.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Fayette County

  • Project Name: The University of Kentucky Graphite Center
    • Recipient: The University of Kentucky          
    • Address of Recipient: 2540 Research Park Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40511
    • Amount Requested: $4,000,000
    • Project Summary: Purchase of equipment for analytical characterization and prototype manufacturing of graphite.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Garrard County

  • Project Name: Lancaster Sanitary Sewer Extension
    • Recipient: City of Lancaster
    • Address of Recipient: 308 West Maple Avenue Lancaster, Kentucky 40444
    • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
    • Project Summary: This project would modernize Lancaster’s wastewater collection system while alleviating overloading of some portions of the system, would take failing pump stations offline, and would leave the City prepared for significant economic growth on the Northwest side of town.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Mercer County

  • Project Name: Closing the Technology Gap - Harrodsburg Police Department
    • Recipient: Harrodsburg Police Department
    • Address of Recipient: 1300 Louisville Road Harrodsburg, Kentucky 40330
    • Amount Requested: $96,192
    • Project Summary: To purchase 20 Taser 7s and related equipment for use by Harrodsburg Police officers.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Nicholas County

  • Project Name: Regional Industrial Park
    • Recipient: Nicholas County Fiscal Court
    • Address of Recipient: 125 East Main Street, Carlisle, Kentucky 40311
    • Amount Requested: $5,000,000 
    • Project Summary: The purpose of this funding request is to support water improvements for the Bourbon and Nicholas County Regional Industrial Park.
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support 

Scott County

  • Project Name: New Pumper Truck, Stamping Ground Volunteer Fire Department
    • Recipient: City of Stamping Ground
    • Address of Recipient: 3374 Main Street Stamping Ground, Kentucky 40379
    • Amount Requested: $300,000
    • Project Summary: To support the purchase of a new fire truck.  
    • Letter 
    • Letters of Support