After Lawrence city commissioners objected to what they said were secretive focus groups for the development of the Downtown Master Plan, information will be made public about the previously invitation-only meetings.
Commissioner Leslie Soden brought up the concern at the commission’s meeting Tuesday evening, saying that she’d learned of the focus group meetings only the night before when talking to people ...
City of Lawrence leaders have approved a new pay plan that will provide more than $400,000 in pay raises for city employees beginning next year.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to provide funding to increase employee pay. The decision came after the commission received a study of the city’s compensation plan that indicated a significant number of city employees ...
Update: Wednesday, Feb. 6
A youth focus group, a communitywide workshop and a workshop for downtown businesses owners and developers that were previously scheduled to take place Wednesday, Feb. 6, and Thursday, Feb. 7, were canceled Wednesday afternoon because of weather.
The list of challenges facing downtown compiled by a group of Lawrence residents was long and varied, but from it emerged some consensus. ...
City of Lawrence services will be more concentrated on the northern edge of downtown by the end of this month.
Within a few weeks, the city’s Planning and Development Department and Municipal Court will open in their new location at the Riverfront Plaza, which is directly east of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Renovations to the area of the building the city will use have been underway for months and are nearing ...
The city of Lawrence recently discovered it has been incorrectly taxing as many as 2,000 solid waste customers, adding to a list of other billing errors that the city has discovered over the past two years.
Customers who requested an additional trash cart were mistakenly being charged sales tax for the cart, while other customers were not charged sales tax on the purchase of certain yard waste and other bins ...
City of Lawrence leaders will soon consider a new pay plan that would provide more than $400,000 in pay raises for city employees beginning next year.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a study of the city’s compensation plan that was conducted by McGrath Human Resources Group. The report indicates that a significant number of city employees are underpaid when compared ...
