photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

The corner of Sixth and New Hampshire streets is pictured Tuesday morning, Feb. 18, 2025.

City commissioners will convene a special meeting Feb. 25, a week after their regularly scheduled meeting was canceled due to severe weather.

The city announced Monday night that the Feb. 18 meeting would be canceled because of a winter storm warning and potentially “dangerous travel conditions” on Tuesday. At the time, Sherri Riedemann, Lawrence’s city clerk, told the Journal-World that city staff were 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 that the city contacted commissioners about their availability on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the commissioners opted to call for a special meeting. Typically, the commission holds its meetings on the first, second and third Tuesdays of each month, which is why next week’s meeting, the fourth Tuesday, is considered a special meeting.

At this week’s meeting, 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.