Douglas County officials were scrambling to prepare preliminary architectural plans for a new ambulance station at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and for the renovation of the current station (near 19th and Massachusetts streets) before budget deadlines forced a delay in the two-part project. Architect Jeff Messick was told to move ahead with preliminary plans and cost estimates to get the work moving.

The issue of rezoning areas in southwest Lawrence formerly designated as floodplain was back before the city commission. The commission had been wrangling over the question of zoning the strips of land between the former floodplain zoning and smaller federal flood districts which had been adopted in February. One city commissioner and several residents had objected to the new flood districts as not being restrictive enough.