The architecture firms handling the expansion of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, as well as the development of a new Public Safety Building, recently presented some ways to trim the project's budget, but those suggestions weren't universally embraced by county commissioners.
On Wednesday during a work session, commissioners heard a presentation from Treanor Architects and J.E. Dunn Construction ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has been authorized to end its current medical services contract for jail inmates due to its dissatisfaction with the provider.
At their meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners authorized the Sheriff’s Office to sign a contract with a new provider, Turn Key Health Clinics, for inmate medical services. The office wanted to end its contract with Advanced Correctional ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday unanimously approved a budget with the county's largest property tax rate decrease in decades, after hearing from a room full of public commenters who urged them to cut the tax rate even more.
The $201 million 2025 budget includes a property tax rate reduction of 2.911 mills, for a total mill levy of 41.298 mills. As the Journal-World reported, that's the largest ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday are set to consider adopting the 2025 budget — which proposes a significant tax rate decline — but first members of the public will get one last chance to offer comments on the plan.
Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the proposed budget as part of their weekly meeting before making the final decision on the budget. If approved, the budget would result ...
Updated at 11:10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27
On Monday, the Lawrence school board approved a maximum budget authority and property tax rates that included a largely unchanged maximum mill levy. While board members discussed the possibility of reducing mill levies, there was little appetite for it given prior commitments to raise salaries for administrative and classified staffs.
Executive Director of Finance Cynde ...
Douglas County schools have always welcomed students from other districts, and Kansas recently mandated open enrollment statewide to allow families to move their children from schools that aren't meeting their needs. Despite this, public school enrollment is still on the decline.
The new, controversial statewide open enrollment law – or the Kansas school district choice law – was passed in 2022, and it ...
