Lawrence city staff is still assessing whether the City Commission will need to hold a special meeting to make up for the one that was canceled Tuesday because of winter weather.

The city announced Monday night that Tuesday’s meeting would be canceled because of a winter storm warning and potentially “dangerous travel conditions” on Tuesday. Lawrence received a little over an inch of snow overnight, and another 3.5 inches were predicted to fall throughout the day on Tuesday.

Sherri Riedemann, Lawrence’s city clerk, told the Journal-World that city staff was still determining whether there were items on the agenda that “need to be considered” before the City Commission’s next regularly scheduled meeting, which would be on March 4.

Riedemann said if there were an item that needed to be considered before that meeting, a special meeting could be scheduled at any time. She said city staff provides input to the commissioners before any vote about canceling or rescheduling a meeting, and staff does not have concerns about the commission amassing a backlog of items to consider.

At Tuesday’s meeting, among other things, the City Commission had been expected to consider a $3.5 million funding agreement with the Lawrence Community Shelter; a temporary demolition permit moratorium for certain areas and structures in the city; and the addition of the First Presbyterian Church building to the Lawrence Register of Historic Places.

There are no specific guidelines that say the commission has to meet a certain number of times each year, Riedemann said. Typically, the commission holds its meetings on the first, second and third Tuesdays of each month.

The cancellation of Tuesday’s meeting means that there will be two months in a row where the commission has canceled one of its regularly scheduled meetings. Commissioners voted to cancel the March 11 meeting because three members of the commission will be at the National League of Cities Conference in Washington, meaning the commission would lack a quorum, as the Journal-World reported.