The Lawrence Community Shelter expects to face a budget shortfall of more than $200,000 next year, and shelter leaders may be looking to local governments for financial help.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission heard a presentation from shelter staff about staffing and funding issues. The commission agreed that City Manager Tom Markus should continue discussion with the shelter and Douglas ...
The conversation at City Hall will continue about potentially allowing colonies of feral cats to live in the city as long as the cats have been vaccinated and spayed or neutered.
Though Lawrence city commissioners didn’t provide much input on the “community cats” program proposed by the Lawrence Humane Society as part of its meeting Tuesday, they indicated that they were interested in continuing the ...
The Lawrence Humane Society wants the city to consider allowing colonies of feral cats to live in the city as long as the cats have been vaccinated and spayed or neutered.
Currently, allowing cats to roam free is against city code, and humane society representatives say the animal shelter previously has had to euthanize dozens of cats because they are not adoptable.
The Lawrence City Commission will consider ...
The city’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board has recommended that two programs benefit from the extra $200,000 city leaders dedicated to affordable housing this year.
As part of the city’s budget process this summer, Lawrence city commissioners determined what to do with a $2.25 million surplus in the city’s general fund. Commissioners voted to put $2.05 million of the surplus in the city’s capital ...
Story updated 5:34 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018:
Lawrence City Commissioner Leslie Soden has announced that she will not seek re-election next year, but she says there are several things she still hopes to accomplish in her last year in office.
Soden let her fellow commissioners know of her plans toward the end of the commission’s meeting Tuesday evening. Soden, whose term runs through 2019, would need to ...
Lawrence Community Shelter Executive Director Sarah Jane Russell has announced her resignation, which means the shelter for the homeless will begin a search for a new leader for the fourth time in as many years.
Russell began her position at the shelter in January, and she recently informed the shelter’s board that she plans to resign Dec. 31. Russell told the Journal-World that she loves her town and that ...
