City leaders will soon consider approving the city’s 2021 budget, which keeps the city’s property tax rate flat but calls for increases to all three city utility rates. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will hold the public hearing for the 2021 budget and ...
After the City of Lawrence’s finances were red-flagged by auditors last year due to millions in adjustments required to get them in good order, city leaders were hoping for a better showing when auditors came to review the city’s books this year. Instead, outside auditors had to make more ...
The City of Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals has voted to uphold a decision that says a longtime family-run tavern in East Lawrence cannot reopen. The question of whether the former Charlie’s East Side Grill & Bar, 900 Pennsylvania St., had forfeited its grandfathered tavern use has ...
A group of Lawrence residents has come out against the city’s plan to build a road adjacent to the local dog park that would connect the Youth Sports Complex to the Clinton Lake spillway. The project would install an approximately 1-mile paved roadway connecting existing segments of West ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic causes financial hardships for both local governments and the general public, the City of Lawrence will soon create its first economic development strategic plan aimed at helping the city respond to the pandemic and improve the economy. The economic development plan, ...
City leaders have agreed to keep rule changes in place through October that allow downtown businesses to use city sidewalks and parking spaces to operate outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. As part of their meeting Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners said they were supportive of the ...
City leaders will soon consider setting up a new process for reevaluating historic markers and creating new ones. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider designating the Historic Resources Commission as the recommending body for reevaluation and ...
City leaders are pursuing an outside study to help inform potentially fundamental changes to the role of the Lawrence Police Department, including proposals to move some funding and duties from police to social services. All of the specific issues the study will tackle aren't determined right ...
City leaders will soon review temporary rule changes that allow downtown businesses to use city sidewalks and parking spaces to operate outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will review the downtown right-of-way program and ...
Story updated at 4:17 p.m. Thursday: Citing concerns about pay and working conditions, City of Lawrence sanitation workers have taken a step toward unionization, and other employee groups may follow. Teamsters Local 696 recently filed a petition with the City of Lawrence on behalf of the ...
Plans are in the works to build a road connecting the Youth Sports Complex to the Clinton Lake spillway, creating another point of access for the complex, the nearby dog park and the lake. The City of Lawrence has been awarded $1.04 million from the Kansas Department of Transportation for the ...
City leaders have approved a spending level for the 2021 budget that gives them room to increase utility rates and provide employee wage increases at the level recommended by city management. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to authorize ...
City leaders say they are supportive of a plan to build a $29 million field operations headquarters that could take the place of up to a dozen existing city facilities. The project is one of the big-ticket items on City Manager Craig Owens’ $239 million, five-year capital improvement plan, ...
City leaders will soon set the maximum spending level for Lawrence’s 2021 budget, requiring them to decide on any spending changes to the city manager’s recommended budget and whether to move ahead with recommended utility rate increases, among other key decisions. As part of its meeting ...
As the city seeks to set priorities for its budget, its leaders say their goals will include addressing systemic racial injustice and investing in the well-being of all Lawrence residents. At a special meeting of the Lawrence City Commission Saturday, commissioners worked on the city’s new ...
The City of Lawrence will be taking part in a study that tests sewage as a way of tracking coronavirus infections. As part of a study contracted through the University of Kansas School of Engineering, the city has been taking weekly sewage samples at both wastewater treatment plants to test ...
City leaders will soon come up with a plan to help thousands of Lawrence residents who are behind on their utility bills in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The City of Lawrence provides water, sewer, and trash and recycling collection service citywide, and about 5,200 Lawrence households ...
City leaders have made changes to the local resolution governing city employee unions that union organizers say will strengthen the ability for city employees to form bargaining groups. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Mayor Jennifer Ananda opposed, ...
City leaders have approved a new contract with the union that represents the Lawrence police, a move that city officials said would not hinder the city’s ongoing review of police operations. As part of its meeting Tuesday, which continued past 1 a.m. Wednesday, the Lawrence City Commission ...
The Lawrence City Commission has approved a nondiscrimination ordinance regarding undocumented immigrants and expressed interest in further developing provisions meant to create transparency regarding how the police interact with those populations. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the ...