City leaders on Tuesday affirmed their desire to continue drafting policies related to how police and other city departments interact with undocumented immigrants and federal immigration authorities.
As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission reviewed the draft of a document that would codify city policies and practices concerning undocumented immigrants. The topic is in front of the ...
City leaders will soon discuss draft policies related to how police and other city departments interact with undocumented immigrants and federal immigration enforcement.
As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will review the draft of a document that would codify city policies and practices concerning undocumented immigrants. The commission, which previously expressed support for ...
Faced for the first time with funding requests from multiple large-scale affordable housing projects, the city’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board recommended that the city fund senior apartments and mixed-income townhomes.
As part of its meeting Monday, AHAB voted unanimously to recommend that the city provide $350,000 of its affordable housing funding to Bethel Estates, apartments for seniors that will be ...
In his first 100 days in office, one of the things City Manager Craig Owens noticed firsthand — while driving the city’s streets, observing the alleyway behind his house or pushing his son’s stroller over the sidewalks — was that the infrastructure was in bad shape.
Owens said the story is the same underground, where city water and sewer mains are in need of maintenance. He said that as the city worked ...
City leaders will soon decide whether to spend another $1 million on the police department’s new headquarters in west Lawrence.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider spending an additional $1 million to add three more police functions at the headquarters, bringing the total project budget to $19.5 million. As is, the first phase of the project includes a significant ...
City leaders will now also be considering an outright ban of plastic disposable bags in addition to a previously proposed disposable bag fee.
The Lawrence Sustainability Advisory Board previously recommended that the city charge a 16-cent fee for disposable plastic and paper bags, but it has since updated that recommendation to indicate it would also support a ban. The board issued a statement of support for a ...
