Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to join a plan to help bring an affordable housing project to East Lawrence by offering a 15-year tax rebate. On Wednesday, county commissioners authorized staff to execute a cooperative agreement with the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and ...
Story updated at 8:27 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2025: When Douglas County started working on its budget for 2026, county staff wanted to hold the property tax rate at the same level as it was for 2025. But on Wednesday, county commissioners decided it could go a little bit lower. The County ...
Douglas County commissioners are potentially planning to reserve $1 million for mental health crisis care in 2026, while delaying some funding decisions for Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center amid financial concerns. During budget deliberations on Tuesday, county commissioners wanted to ...
Douglas County plans to exceed the revenue neutral rate for 2026, with a maximum property tax rate anticipated to be set on Wednesday. The revenue neutral rate is the property tax rate – or mill levy – required to raise the same amount of property tax revenue as the prior year, using the ...
Douglas County commissioners plan to potentially cut at least one-third of their funding to a University of Kansas center for startup companies, arguing that some businesses have stayed many years and aren’t paying taxes. At deliberations for the 2026 budget on Monday, county commissioners ...
County commissioners convened for a final meeting on Friday ahead of next week’s budget deliberations. The discussions began with budget lines included in the 2026 proposed budget for market adjustments to align salaries more closely with competing agencies and pay increases for the ...