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Shelter seeks immediate funds to avoid drastic cuts
What city services should receive the ‘most emphasis’ over the next 2 years?
Survey says ...
By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson
If the Lawrence Community Shelter can’t raise $200,000 in additional funding by July 15, it will have to slash its daytime staff and services in half, a leader of the city’s lone homeless shelter said Monday. At a county budget meeting Monday morning, Trey Meyer, the shelter’s director of program development and operations, asked Douglas County Commissioners for $100,000 in immediate funding. The shelter has asked the city of Lawrence for $100,000 in immediate funding as well, and city commissioners are scheduled to discuss the request at their Tuesday evening meeting. Monday’s meeting was the first of three preparation sessions for commissioners to develop the county’s 2016 budget. Since moving out to a newer and larger building at 3655 E. 25th St. about two and a half years ago, it has been difficult to properly plan for the organization’s expenses, Meyer
THE WINNER: 71 percent Maintenance of city streets/utilities
SECOND PLACE: 58 percent Management of traffic flow and congestion
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Streets, infrastructure polling higher than police headquarters Town Talk A multimillion-dollar police headquarters project may be the big issue on the minds of City Hall leaders, but city residents still are far more fixated on a slightly smaller issue: fixing that pothole. A recent city survey found fixing the streets is still the top-of-mind issue for Lawrence residents, outpacing the police headquarters issue. The survey — conducted by a city-hired consulting firm — asked residents what city services should receive the “most emphasis” over the next two years. Residents were allowed to list three topics. The runaway winner was “maintenance of city streets/utilities,” with 71 percent of respondents placing
Report from Lawrence sister city in Greece: People ‘worried about their future’ By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
THIRD PLACE: 34 percent ‘Quality of police, fire and EMS’
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that in their top three. In second place, with 58 percent, was management of traffic flow and congestion. Then came police and fire issues. Only 34 percent of respondents listed the “quality of Please see SURVEY, page 6A
The survey found 61 percent of respondents felt safe in downtown Lawrence during the evening and nighttime hours. That’s up from 48 percent in 2011. And 87 percent gave good marks to the appearance of downtown.
Dennis Christilles has been traveling to Greece regularly for two decades. On his most recent visit, two weeks ago, he found it markedly different due to the country’s financial crisis. Anxiety seemed to blanket the country, he said. Even more so than in rural communities, such as Lawrence’s sister city of Iniades, that Christilles sense was strongest in the capital city of Athens. “People don’t really know what’s going to happen to them, and they don’t know if the store they’re operating now is going to be open next week or in two weeks,” Christilles said. “People just seem to be worried about their future.” Please see GREECE, page 2A
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