The West End Opportunity Partnership will decide how to spend revenue from a sprawling tax increment financing (TIF) district across Louisville’s western neighborhoods
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Laura Douglas has been the interim president and CEO of the West End Opportunity Partnership since July 2022
The local NAACP had been represented on the West End Opportunity Partnership since its inception in 2021.
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Senate Bill 259 exposed tensions between the Louisville NAACP and the leadership of the West End Opportunity Partnership, the agency overseeing public tax subsidies in the city's West End.
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Senate Bill 259 was backed by the leadership of the partnership, which will oversee investments from a public subsidy in western Louisville called tax increment financing.
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SB 259 would require the NAACP and six other organizations to propose more than one candidate when vacancies occur on the West End Opportunity Partnership board and put those entities at risk of losing their board seats if they refuse.
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The Louisville civil rights league claims the group overseeing a tax increment financing district has tried to remove its representative from the West End board.
The Center had been closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, but reopened to the public Thursday.
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Ferdinand Risco resigned in February amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving at least six female employees of the public transportation system.
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During a lengthy Tuesday night meeting on the subject, both sides accused the other of conducting a compromised investigations as both sides investigate the allegations.