Lawrence city leaders voted on Tuesday to set the maximum mill levy for 2027 at what the current budget proposal recommends – but they said the rate might get lower as budget conversations continue.
They also decided to put a question on the November ballot about whether to increase the city’s transit sales tax.
The commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner Kristine Polian opposed, to set the maximum mill ...
Over the coming months, City of Lawrence planning staff will be studying what new rules for data centers should be in the city’s code – and data center development will be on hold while they do that work.
The City Commission on Tuesday, after hearing from a crowd of advocates, voted unanimously to initiate two text amendments on data centers in the city's Land Development Code and to impose a 24-month ...
There are healthy sister city pairings, says Bill Keel, chair of Sister Cities Lawrence. And then there’s Polittourismus.
That’s German for “political tourism,” says Keel, a professor emeritus of German studies at the University of Kansas. “You’re just kind of a political bigwig, you make a junket overseas to visit this city and vice versa. But the citizens aren’t involved; there’s nothing that ...
Just how long has Lawrence’s city staff been working toward its 2027 budget proposal?
The answer to that question might be a year, a few years – or even, in Acting City Manager Casey Toomay’s case, a whole career.
“More than 25 years ago, as I mentioned, I was a graduate student interning in the city manager’s office, and I worked on the city’s budget for the year 2001” Toomay told the Lawrence ...
Asher loves Theatre Lawrence's Penguin Project shows. So much, she says, that she dropped another play she was going to be in to take part in this year's Penguin Project performance of “Alice in Wonderland Jr.”
Theatre Lawrence is one of more than 50 organizations across the country that participate in The Penguin Project, a theater program for young people with special needs. This year's show is this week, ...
Right after a parade of department heads presented their 2027 budget plans to the City Commission, Acting City Manager Casey Toomay told commissioners the budget was “more than just a collection of numbers.”
Instead, she said, it was a collection of priorities. And among the top priorities for city staff are fire and medical expansion, a raise for city workers and more funding for transit.
The roughly ...
