The 2019 budget the Douglas County Commission approved this month will require residents to pay more when using Treasurer's Office satellite sites, securing building or zoning permits or renting a building at the fairgrounds. The only fee increase that currently has a dollar amount attached to it is the service fee to be added when residents obtain or renew motor vehicle license plates and registration at one ...
At a memorial Saturday for one of his predecessors, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Delbert Shankel earned the trust of the university community through the integrity he brought to the many positions he held during his 50 years on campus. “His superpower was his credibility with this campus and his colleagues,” Girod said. “When he was able to make very smart decisions, he did so in a ...
Story updated at 8:49 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15: A woman was taken to an area hospital Wednesday afternoon after an accident near the University of Kansas campus that resulted from a medical emergency, police said Wednesday evening. Sgt. Laurie Powell, of the Lawrence Police Department, said the woman began experiencing a medical problem while driving westbound on 19th Street near Barker Avenue. Powell said the ...
The Douglas County Commission agreed Wednesday to ask voters to approve a quarter-cent sales tax to build a behavioral health campus and fund enhanced mental health and substance abuse programming. If approved by voters in November, the quarter-cent sales tax will raise an estimated $4.9 million annually. That is $885,000 less than the amount needed to build the campus and fund the programming envisioned in ...
The 2018-2019 school year starts Wednesday for elementary school students in the Lawrence school district while most secondary school students will get one more day of summer vacation. Both groups will have some new building improvements and sights to see. Students in first grade through fifth grade will start the school year on Wednesday but will be released early. Classes at Cordley, Hillcrest, Langston ...
With a new option on the table, the Douglas County Commission will decide Wednesday what kind of tax it will ask voters to approve to fund a slate of behavioral health projects. Last month, commissioners agreed they would put a ballot question on the November general election ballot asking voters to fund a behavioral health campus and expanded services. The decision came two months after county voters rejected ...