Leaders of the Lawrence Community Shelter on Tuesday got something they normally don’t receive: an easy victory.

City commissioners unanimously approved a new management plan for the homeless shelter at 10th and Kentucky streets. No members of the public spoke against the plan, and commissioners had few questions.

“I think this plan makes it clear what is acceptable behavior at the shelter,” said City Commissioner Mike Dever. “I think this helps shed some light on the fact that we do have a plan, we do have a purpose, and we are trying to do some good here.”

The management plan includes a list of “actions and consequences” that details when staff members can ban guests from the shelter. The list includes bans for trespassing, verbal abuse, drinking on shelter property, theft, physical violence and several other offenses. Ban lengths range from a week to a year.

The plan also states that all guests will be assigned a case manager within 72 hours of arrival, and that individuals can stay at the facility up to 90 days. People will be allowed to stay past 90 days only if they are enrolled in a program to obtain housing but haven’t yet completed the program.

But shelter leaders also stressed with commissioners that shelter staff need to have some flexibility in administering the plan.

“I guess my main point is that the shelter is not making or trading in widgets,” said Don Huggins, chair of the shelter’s board. “We deal with people who are financially destitute, and often have dealt with broken lives, but they are as unique as you or I.”

Commissioners had insisted upon the new management plan as part of an operating permit that allows the shelter to stay downtown while it works on a new location near the Douglas County Jail in eastern Lawrence. Work on that project continues, shelter leaders said.