Douglas County is just a step away from adopting its $163 million budget plan for 2023, and leaders will be making their final decision at a hearing next month. At the commission’s weekly meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners took what might have been the second-to-last step in the ...
The Douglas County Commission could take the next step in finalizing the county’s operating budget for 2023 this week. Earlier this month, the commission completed its budget deliberation process, electing to lower the county’s proposed mill levy by about one mill. At its meeting on ...
Douglas County leaders want to do more to help people in the local homeless shelter transition into stable housing, and they say they'll need to work closely with City of Lawrence leaders to achieve that. Leaders from the city and the county held a joint work session on affordable housing on ...
It only took the Douglas County Commission one of two scheduled meetings this week to finish deliberating on the county’s proposed budget, and key to county leaders’ changes is a tentative decrease to the proposed mill levy. The levy that commissioners decided on during Monday’s budget ...
For Douglas County Commission candidate Dustin Stumblingbear, a keen interest in local government has led to a natural outcome: running for public office. Stumblingbear, 43, is an Iraq war veteran and serves on the board of Independence Inc. After moving back and forth between Lawrence and ...
Incumbent District 1 Douglas County Commissioner Patrick Kelly’s decision to seek reelection was driven, in part, on the connections he’s helped forge with community agencies. “That’s where having experience as a commissioner, to me, is a big benefit,” Kelly told the Journal-World. ...