When Douglas County doles out roughly $21 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, leaders will be considering racial equity impacts, whether organizations have already received COVID aid, and more. At its meeting on Wednesday, the County Commission took a step forward in allocating the funding by authorizing staff to finalize a draft of a request for proposals form. The form is a piece of paperwork that ...
Douglas County has temporarily closed a rural recycling dropoff site after multiple cases of illegal dumping. The county has closed the Vinland Fair site parking lot location at 711 East 1750 Road. That’s one of four dropoff recycling locations in the county’s unincorporated areas. Vinland is situated south of Lawrence and north of Baldwin City. A news release from the county on Friday states that this ...
The Douglas County Commission at its Wednesday meeting will continue discussions about distributing $21 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds. The commission began the discussion last month at a work session, during which commissioners tried to determine how they’ll handle the $77 million in informal requests for the funding from various agencies. Commissioners' next step will be giving feedback on a ...
Story updated at 8 p.m. Tuesday: Eudora voters have narrowly rejected the construction of a nearly $5 million library, according to unofficial election results from the Douglas County clerk’s office as of Tuesday afternoon. Of Eudora’s voters who submitted a mail ballot, 54.45% — or 938 voters — voted against a plan to take out $4.71 million in bonds to pay for constructing a new downtown library. The ...
Four Douglas County residents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a recently passed congressional redistricting plan is "intentional partisan political gerrymandering" and violates the Kansas Constitution. In the suit, which was filed in Douglas County District Court, the plaintiffs call for the Ad Astra 2 redistricting plan to be declared unconstitutional, and they say the Legislature should be ordered to ...
Douglas County’s coronavirus numbers remain on a relative downslide following the weekend. Since Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s last update Friday, the county’s daily case count, based on a 14-day moving average, has dropped from 38.3 to 27, and active cases have dropped by nearly 200, from 957 Friday to 776 Monday. The number of inpatients hospitalized for COVID at LMH Health has also dropped ...