A recent visitor to the Lawrence Community Shelter heads west along 25th Terrace toward a nearby neighborhood on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016.

The neighbors who live near the Lawrence Community Shelter will finally get a meeting with shelter officials to air their concerns, including allegations that shelter residents are trespassing, urinating and sleeping on their property.

Trey Meyer, who was appointed executive director of the homeless shelter in November, said this week that he had scheduled a private “good neighbors” meeting for 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at the shelter.

One of the agreements the shelter made when it moved three years ago from downtown Lawrence to 3701 Franklin Park Circle, next door to the Douglas County Jail, was that it would hold quarterly meetings with neighbors in order to more quickly address problems.

But the last meeting the shelter had was in 2014, even though the quarterly meetings are required by the Special Use Permit that the city granted the nonprofit shelter when it moved to Franklin Park Circle.

The Rev. Peter Luckey, a shelter board member and senior pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church, said the shelter had been working through financial issues.

To make ends meet in 2015, the shelter’s board requested $100,000 from the city of Lawrence and Douglas County governments last summer. The shelter also had to pay the Internal Revenue Service $37,000 in back payroll taxes.

A city audit in December warned that the agency could face more financial problems this year.

Luckey said he didn’t want the community to believe the board was not concerned about the actions of some of the shelter’s residents.

“We are,” Luckey said. “The board has been fully apprised of the problems of our neighbors. The Lawrence Community Shelter has always tried to work as diligently as we can with the neighbors and to have as good a relationship as we can.”

But recent interviews with residents in the Prairie Park Neighborhood indicated they have numerous concerns.

Lindsey McCaig, Prairie Park Neighborhood Association president, said the neighborhood did not have trespassing and other problems before the shelter moved next door, and she expressed concern about the upkeep of the shelter and its possible impact on property values.

Even though the shelter is only 3 years old, she said, “it has already become an eyesore.”

“Our neighborhood did not have these problems before they moved in,” McCaig said. “The onus is now on us to make them comply. Why is it my responsibility?”

Prairie Park is bordered by 23rd Street south to 31st Street, and from Haskell Avenue east to the city’s limits.