Douglas County’s property tax rate won’t increase as much as once expected, after county commissioners tapped into reserve funds and used a dormant jail expansion account to offset proposed tax increases.
County commissioners on Wednesday tentatively agreed on a 2022 budget that will increase the property tax rate by about 1 mill, which would result in the owner of a $200,000 home paying about $23 more a ...
There’s long been a certain amount of friction involved with most economic development issues in Lawrence. But the one category of projects that historically has had a smooth road to approval were those that focused on high-tech, high-paying jobs.
It is now worth asking whether that road has become bumpy too.
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to cut $50,000 in funding from the Bioscience ...
It was a tale of two nonprofits on the first day of deliberations for the 2022 Douglas County budget.
A group of nonprofits that provide social services to area residents tentatively won about $200,000 in additional county funding, while a nonprofit that aims to grow biotech firms in the community faced an unexpected $100,000 cut to its budget.
All three county commissioners on Tuesday presented their ...
From climate change to changing the look of far west Lawrence, it is on the to-do list for the city-county planning department in 2022.
At their meeting Tuesday evening, Lawrence city commissioners signed off on a 2022 work plan for the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department that will include a major study of how approximately 2,400 acres west of the South Lawrence Trafficway bypass should be developed in ...
There is confidence, and then there is confidence with a poker chip in your hand. Confidence levels have been known to fall as your hand drops toward the table to place your bet.
In a sense, Douglas County commissioners have that chip in their hands and will start deciding this coming week on whether to place the bet. Whether Douglas County property owners see their tax rates go up is at stake.
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The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to get the ball rolling on a project that will rebuild a portion of Wakarusa Drive in west Lawrence.
Commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting are being asked to approve a nearly $400,000 contract for engineering work related to rebuilding Wakarusa Drive between Clinton Parkway and Research Park Way.
City officials are recommending the project due to “severe ...
