City lawmakers signed off Tuesday on a budget that finalizes cuts to Louisville that have been warned of and discussed for months.

It's not what Mayor Greg Fischer proposed in April, but it does include some significant cuts to services including some outdoor pool closures, the loss of a library and a firehouse and, importantly, turning over Youth Detention Services to the state.

The roughly $25 million in cuts come as Louisville struggles to pay a ballooning pension bill set by the state that played into what was expected to be a $35 million budget shortfall this fiscal year.

Council members on Tuesday voted 24-1 to approve the amended operating budget. The budget now heads to Fischer's desk for him to sign or veto. It is expected to go into effect on July 1.

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The council made some significant changes to Fischer's spending plan. Catch up on cuts in the $623 million general fund budget here:

Louisville police

Fischer canceled the June class of Louisville police recruits ahead of his budget proposal and planned to send the city police officers who serve as school resource officers back to the streets.

Council members then made two other tweaks to spending for the department.

One, they moved the recruit class scheduled for March 2020 up by one month, at a cost of about $283,200. They also created a recruit allowance at a total cost of $50,000.

Louisville pools

Fischer announced in April that all four city-operated pools won't open this summer. The Mary T. Meagher Aquatics Center, meanwhile, has increased fees.

There's still an effort underway by Councilwoman Cindi Fowler to reopen Sun Valley pool in her district for a portion of this summer. And, for next summer, council members put in operational funding for Sun Valley and Algonquin pools.

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Closed pools include: Algonquin, Fairdale, Norton, Sun Valley

Libraries

Fischer had proposed saving $939,000 by closing two libraries — Fern Creek and Middletown — that operate in leased spaces.

He also planned to cut library hours to eight-hour shifts from Monday through Friday, eliminating many evening and weekend hours across the system.

But both proposals led to a community and council outcry, so instead, city lawmakers are sending just over $1 million to restore library hours and $412,500 to continue the Middletown Library branch.

That leaves Fern Creek to close. It also appears that library substitute positions will still be eliminated.

Two libraries, the renovated St. Matthews Library and the new Northeast Regional Library, have also opened since Fischer's budget proposal.

Fire services

Engine 1 — the Grade Lane firehouse — will close, for an estimated savings of $1.7 million. No layoffs are required, but 15 positions will be attrited.

The council restored some services from a proposed cut for Suburban Fire. Fischer had suggested saving $162,000 by eliminating equipment for activities like a dive team or trench rescue operation.

Instead, the council is sending $105,200 to those activities.

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Emergency services

One of Louisville Metro EMS' 26 ambulances will be removed from circulation, saving $1.3 million in expenses, but also losing about $500,000 in revenue. This saving is unchanged from Fischer's proposal.

Also the same as Fischer's plan, the agency was projected to save more than $450,000 from seven lost positions.

Recycling and yard waste

Fischer had projected saving about $518,000 from cuts to Public Works that included biweekly recycling and yard waste collection, plus additional personnel reductions and a revised holiday garbage pickup schedule.

The council restored $318,000 of that money to continue weekly yard waste and recycling — and added $238,000 in savings by eliminating a wet-dry recycling contract for downtown brown carts, as well as $58,000 from an attrited position.

It also sent $60,000 for two street sweepings in the suburban areas, a partial restoration of the $112,000 Fischer wanted to cut.

Additionally, city lawmakers sent $417,000 to increase the mowing appropriation from three to four cycles for state- and Metro-maintained roads.

They did not restore east and west roads district personnel, which Public Works officials have said would mean longer waits for employees to salt and plow roads during snowstorms and even longer to fill the potholes that winter weather creates.

Youth Detention Services

The council revived an old idea of Fischer's — to turn the city's detention center over to the state by Dec. 31.

Fischer had proposed it in his February list of cuts, but backed off the idea in his April budget proposal. City lawmakers made the move, which Fischer estimated would have a savings of about $2.4 million for the half-year from Jan. 1 to July 1.

Of that, council is spending about $1.3 million, according to their budget plans, with much of it earmarked for continuing the city's ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.

The council's language also requests that "efforts are made to have the Commonwealth of Kentucky operate such a facility in or near Louisville Metro," but the state has already said that won't be possible.

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Louisville Metro Council

Fischer's plan had slashed council members' discretionary funds, but lawmakers replenished much of that money.

City lawmakers typically get $75,000 in neighborhood development funds and $30,000 in their operating cost center. Fischer wanted to trim $30,000 from so-called NDFs and $10,000 from council members' cost centers.

But lawmakers brought more than half of that cut money back — adjusting their NDFs to $65,000 and their cost centers to $25,000, in their amendment to the operating budget. Under that revised budget proposal, they'd see a reduction of $15,000 in total.

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Golf courses

Fischer said previously that the future of golf courses is "under consideration," and a request for information went out on the subject in recent weeks.

After the courses' profitable summer months, the city is looking at how spaces could be operated privately or repurposed.

That appears to still be the case, as the council didn't redirect new money toward the courses. The city anticipated a $550,000 savings by closing four of 10 golf courses under Fischer's budget. Officials expect changes to be announced by Jan. 1.

Those that could be affected include:

Charlie Vettiner

Cherokee

Crescent Hill

Bobby Nichols

Iroquois

Sun Valley

Olmsted Parks Conservancy has already said it is "ready and willing" to take over Cherokee Golf Course.

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This story has been updated.

Darcy Costello: 502-582-4834; dcostello@courier-journal.com; Twitter: @dctello. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: www.courier-journal.com/darcyc.