The City of Lawrence and Douglas County are hosting an informational meeting later this month about the upcoming 2020 census and the importance of getting an accurate population count. Local census experts will be on hand at the public meeting, scheduled for Jan. 28 at the Lawrence Public Library, to share information about the timing of the census, job opportunities associated with it and more, according to a ...
The police officer who shot a Lawrence driver after a 2018 traffic stop turned violent cannot be found. The driver, Akira Lewis, filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September against the former officer Brindley Blood, as well as the City of Lawrence, the other officer involved in the traffic stop and the police chief. The lawsuit also alleges that the city failed to properly train its officers. Efforts by ...
After hearing several comments from people who are currently or were recently homeless, city leaders voted unanimously on Tuesday to provide $31,000 of the city’s surplus sales tax proceeds to the Lawrence Community Shelter. The funding will temporarily allow the shelter to increase its capacity on cold nights. At its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission heard more than an hour of public comment ...
City leaders will consider providing $31,000 of the city’s surplus sales tax proceeds to the local homeless shelter. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider the Lawrence Community Shelter’s $31,000 supplementary funding request, which would temporarily allow the shelter to increase its capacity on cold nights. The shelter has been struggling financially and last year ...
Consultants creating the new Downtown Master Plan say one of the key goals of the plan is to strengthen downtown as a destination, not only for Lawrence residents but for the entire region. The city hired consulting firm Houseal Lavigne Associates to complete the plan, and the firm presented a draft of the first sections of the plan to the Downtown Master Plan Steering Committee on Monday. Houseal Lavigne ...
A local church has donated $10,000 to the city to help fund construction of bus benches and shelters throughout the community. As part of its meeting Jan. 7, the Lawrence City Commission accepted the $10,000 donation from Velocity Church, which has services at the Lawrence Arts Center and Theatre Lawrence. Commissioners expressed gratitude for the donation before voting to accept the gift. In a letter to the ...