Updated at 3:50 p.m. Friday The Lawrence school board will soon review the applications of 13 people hoping to fill a recently vacated seat on the school district’s governing board. As part of its meeting Monday, the board will receive the applications and vote on four individuals to proceed to an interview process. The interviews will take place during a special board meeting on Aug. 29. School district ...
The City of Lawrence plans to make its buses free to ride in 2023 as part of a yearlong pilot program, and will consider eliminating bus fares permanently in the future. The Lawrence City Commission approved the yearlong fare-free pilot program as part of its meeting this week. Transit and Parking Manager Adam Weigel said in an email to the Journal-World that eliminating bus fares has been a community-driven ...
Updated at 11:53 a.m. Wednesday Lawrence city leaders want to take more time to consider changes to the city’s form of government and therefore will not put potential changes on the upcoming ballot. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Mayor Courtney Shipley opposed, to defer discussion until 2023 of a resolution that would have asked voters in November whether the ...
City leaders will soon ask residents their opinion about a policy that generally requires property owners to help pay for repairs to sidewalks bordering their homes and businesses unless their income qualifies them for city assistance. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission received information about how other municipalities handle sidewalk repair, expansion of the city’s repair ...
City leaders will soon receive the annual outside audit of the city’s finances, which shows improvement over reports from recent years, when auditors red-flagged a key aspect of the city’s bookkeeping. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, auditors with the firm RSM will present the audit findings and the 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report to the commission. The audit provides ...
A lot of anti-immigrant policies came out of the last presidential administration, but in Lawrence what those years spurred was a program that has now helped 30 undocumented students in the area attend college. The Lawrence DACA Scholars program began making and selling tamales in 2017 to fund scholarships for area recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA has allowed undocumented ...