In their first chance to weigh in on key policy questions regarding the city’s upcoming budget for 2024, at least a couple of city leaders said they’d like to see the city keep its property tax rate flat or try to decrease it, but that revenue numbers would be a deciding factor.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission was asked to consider five policy questions that will impact ...
Several community cleanup days are coming up where neighborhood residents, volunteers and those experiencing homelessness will be working together to clean up areas where people have been camping and other public spaces. The public is invited to join the volunteers.
Lawrence resident and advocate Kevin Elliott is coordinating the cleanup days over the next couple of months, with the first two coming up this ...
As the estimated cost of building a new field operations campus for the City of Lawrence continues to increase — now estimated to cost about $135 million total — city leaders will soon consider using a method other than traditional bidding as a way to partially control costs.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider two items related to the field operations campus project: ...
After explicitly not doing so in past years, the Lawrence school district is now accepting transfer requests based on school preference, opening up new questions about how transfers will work in the upcoming school year.
The changes came about because of recent elementary school closures and boundary changes approved by the school board, and a desire to give families affected by the changes more options. A ...
Lawrence city leaders will soon have their first chance to weigh in on key policy questions regarding the city’s upcoming budget for 2024, including whether they want to see the city make changes to its property tax rate.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to consider five policy questions that will impact decisions regarding the 2024 budget. The commission’s input ...
Lawrence Schools Foundation board member and Superintendent’s Advisory Board member Anne Costello has filed for election to the Lawrence school board.
Costello also served on the Futures Planning Committee, which recently provided a budget recommendation to the school board. Costello, who has a degree in social studies education but currently works as a buyer for Payless shoes, said she has long had an ...
