Story updated at 4:17 p.m. Thursday: Citing concerns about pay and working conditions, City of Lawrence sanitation workers have taken a step toward unionization, and other employee groups may follow. Teamsters Local 696 recently filed a petition with the City of Lawrence on behalf of the sanitation workers, whose duties include handling trash, recycling and yard waste collection, asking that the city conduct ...
Plans are in the works to build a road connecting the Youth Sports Complex to the Clinton Lake spillway, creating another point of access for the complex, the nearby dog park and the lake. The City of Lawrence has been awarded $1.04 million from the Kansas Department of Transportation for the project, which will install an approximately one-mile paved roadway connecting existing segments of West 27th Street on ...
City leaders have approved a spending level for the 2021 budget that gives them room to increase utility rates and provide employee wage increases at the level recommended by city management. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to authorize publication of the 2021 budget summary and establish the maximum expenditure authority in line with City Manager Craig Owens’ ...
City leaders will soon set the maximum spending level for Lawrence’s 2021 budget, requiring them to decide on any spending changes to the city manager’s recommended budget and whether to move ahead with recommended utility rate increases, among other key decisions. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing publication of the 2021 budget summary that establishes ...
City leaders say they are supportive of a plan to build a $29 million field operations headquarters that could take the place of up to a dozen existing city facilities. The project is one of the big-ticket items on City Manager Craig Owens’ $239 million, five-year capital improvement plan, which was presented to the City Commission earlier this month. However, the concept dates back to 2017 under former City ...
As the city seeks to set priorities for its budget, its leaders say their goals will include addressing systemic racial injustice and investing in the well-being of all Lawrence residents. At a special meeting of the Lawrence City Commission Saturday, commissioners worked on the city’s new strategic plan, which it will use to guide its budget decisions for the next three years. The strategic plan, which will ...