All incumbent Lawrence school board members with open seats are seeking reelection, and two new candidates have joined the race — bringing the total number of candidates to seven. Kelly Jones School board president Kelly Jones filed for reelection on Monday morning. She was first elected to the board in 2017, and this is the third time she’s running. Jones served on the board during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Douglas County commissioners authorized staff on Wednesday to use outside grant funding to continue exploring the idea of a guaranteed income pilot program for low-income single mothers. During their meeting on Wednesday, commissioners approved a subgrant agreement with the International City/County Management Association for what’s called the Economic Mobility Community and Opportunity Peer Learning cohort ...
While the final decisions haven't been made yet on how Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will handle city funding cuts, Douglas County commissioners said Wednesday that a reduction in emergency medical services shouldn't be on the table. “A reduction in services is not really an acceptable answer to me, and specifically EMS services, since that’s what the county is responsible for,” Commissioner ...
Updated at 9:50 a.m. Thursday, May 29 At least two dozen people — including some who said they had recently been laid off from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center — asked county leaders on Wednesday for support and for more transparency about the center's financial situation. Last week, Bert Nash announced that, as a result of an anticipated $3 million operating loss for 2025, it was eliminating ...
More than a month ago, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical briefed county commissioners on two scenarios for its budget — where the city wants to make at least $1.5 million in cuts — and the commissioners didn't sound enthusiastic about either one. In one scenario, the county would have to provide more than $1.5 million in extra funding for LDCFM. In the other, the county wouldn't provide extra money, and ...
Members of the public will soon have the chance to purchase "surplus technology devices" from the Lawrence school district, which the district will no longer need after purchasing new MacBooks for staff and high school students. On Tuesday, school board members approved the sale, which will be carried out by the IT asset management and disposal service Synetic Technologies. The district said in a news release ...