Douglas County commissioners agreed Wednesday that they will ask voters in November to approve funding for a behavioral health campus and expanded programming, but they have yet to decide what specific funding mechanism will be on the ballot. The commission’s decision follows voters' ...
The Douglas County Commission will further consider on Wednesday three options for placing a ballot question before voters in November to fund a behavioral health campus. Commissioners agreed last week to schedule the meeting for 6 p.m. to give more residents an opportunity to attend and voice ...
Officials with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and Douglas County say a transitional group home planned for the proposed behavioral health campus is moving forward after two recent decisions. The transitional group home was to be part of an $11 million behavioral health campus funded ...
The official traffic count on the Kansas Department of Transportation website pegs at 6,080 the number of vehicles per day using Kansas Highway 10 — the South Lawrence Trafficway — in the first mile just west of U.S. Highway 59. If that seems woefully low to those who regularly drive that ...
The three Democrats vying for the 1st District Douglas County Commission position agreed on the need for a comprehensive study into the county’s criminal justice system, but they had different views on how to best finance expanded behavioral health services. The Voter Education Coalition ...
County Administrator Craig Weinaug presented Douglas County commissioners Wednesday with three funding options that they could use to craft a ballot question about mental health projects — one that he thought was too big, one that he thought was too small and one that would delay the projects ...
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew, in the background, provides instructions to county poll workers about new voting equipment during a training session Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. This year's primary election will be Tuesday, Aug. 7. The deadline to register for the ...
Douglas County commissioners agreed Tuesday on the 2019 budget after resolving several issues, including a decision to not participate with the city of Lawrence in the proposed 19th Street project. All three commissioners agreed that it was not a county priority to provide $750,000 in 2019 for ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will start discussing the possibility of a November ballot question to fund a behavioral health campus and services. It will be the first discussion of another ballot question since voters rejected Proposition 1 in May. Proposition 1 asked voters to ...
Douglas County commissioners reached consensus Monday on some 2019 budget issues but agreed to further discuss several big questions, including how much to cut the annual allocation to the public works road and bridge capital fund. The proposed budget that Douglas County Administrator Craig ...
The improvements Douglas County Public Works completed on County Route 458 south of Clinton Lake will be the last of their kind for the foreseeable future if the Douglas County Commission follows up with a recommendation in the proposed 2019 budget. Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug ...
Property owners living in the floodplain of rural Douglas County are in line for a 15 percent discount on flood insurance premiums. This is because the county has received a one-point reduction in its Community Rating System from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Sean Reid, ...
The Douglas County Commission has approved a request from Rural Water District No. 5 to annex about 77 acres in the future growth area of the city of Lawrence. The area being annexed is in the 1400 block of North 1100 Road, about 2 miles south of Lawrence. Speaking at a public hearing before ...
Officials from an agriculture and community development agency had a show of support Wednesday from about 40 volunteers and 4-H members as they asked the Douglas County Commission not to cut the agency's 2019 funding. Douglas County K-State Extension was one of three partnering agencies ...
Public schools will no longer be used as polling places, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Wednesday, which means more than 10,000 voters will be assigned to different polling places than they've used in the past. In a phone interview, Shew said he made the change at the request of Lawrence ...
Representatives from six partnering agencies that could potentially have their funding cut told Douglas County commissioners on Tuesday that county support was important in allowing them to provide needed services to residents. Commissioners didn’t disagree. “We knew they were important ...
When all the bills are paid, Douglas County will have spent about $177,000 to conduct this spring’s mail-in ballot for Proposition 1 and to provide educational material to voters. In January, the Douglas County Commission agreed to conduct the mail-in ballot election asking voters to approve ...
The request before the Douglas County Commission from Douglas County Water District No. 5 to annex a small area south of the Wakarusa River has prompted Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus to suggest it is time to start planning how the area eventually will transition to city water service. The ...
A $1.4 million cut to the annual allocation used to improve county roads and bridges would require Douglas County Public Works to scrap some projects and reduce the scope or delay others, officials told county commissioners Monday during the first day of 2019 budget hearings. The $1.4 million ...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is asking a state appellate court for a new hearing to determine whether the Douglas County District Court should be required to summon a citizen-initiated grand jury to investigate allegations that his office has mishandled voter registration ...