Voters this fall won't just be asked whether to raise Lawrence's transit sales tax from 0.2% to 0.3%, but also whether to keep it in place through 2037. That's what city staff shared this week about what the sales tax ballot question will ask. As the Journal-World reported, the Lawrence City ...
“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one. One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises ...
Lawrence will be raising stormwater rates by 7.5% in each of the next three years, similar to what it’s already doing with water and sewer rates. At its meeting Tuesday night, the City Commission unanimously approved the three year-over-year rate increases for 2027, 2028 and 2029. Assistant ...
Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029. As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over ...
What to do about idling cars that aren’t going anywhere? And, what to do about policy ideas that aren’t going anywhere? These were two of the big questions that Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board faced on Thursday night, as it discussed how the city should measure its ...
A small parking lot south of Douglas County's historic courthouse will close for construction next week, and meanwhile, additional parking spots will open at the nearby parking lot behind the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The lot for the historic courthouse will be closed for ...