Lawrence’s Community Building will remain free to use for a few more months, city leaders decided on Tuesday night. The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday for a three-month extension of the building’s free access trial program, which has been going on since the city started charging for access at its other recreation facilities in January. At one time last year, the city had planned to close the ...
City commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday could take a step forward on nearly $184 million in debt to fund a variety of projects, including stormwater improvements and the Municipal Services and Operations campus. The commission is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution to offer the sale of $158 million in general obligation bonds and $25.9 million in temporary notes for projects in the city's Capital ...
The Community Building, which is currently the City of Lawrence's only free recreation center, has seen more than twice as many visits in the first two months of 2026 as in the same time period in 2025. That's according to statistics from Parks, Recreation and Culture staff that the Lawrence City Commission is slated to discuss next week. The commission will hear a presentation about how the Community ...
“Currently, there is not a laid-out strategy that the city has adopted to reach those next goals.” Those words were spoken by the city-county sustainability director back in 2019 about Lawrence’s plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But they might as well have been said by the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board just this week in its discussion of what to do with the city’s clean energy ...
After Lawrence fell far short of a clean energy target it set for 2025, city staff wanted to repeal the ordinance that set the target. But now, a city adviser wants to not only keep that ordinance, but give it more teeth. The ordinance is known as Ordinance 9744, and it was passed by the City Commission in 2020. It set goals of powering all city facilities with renewable energy by 2025, and of transitioning to ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup may be one of the biggest events the Kansas City area has ever seen, but it will take a lot of little details to pull it off successfully. For Scott Fewins, general manager of field operations for Lawrence’s Municipal Services and Operations department, that means fixing sidewalks, painting parking lots, and a whole lot of cleanup. All of that contributes to “what is people’s ...