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interrelated steps to arrive at that future. Those steps are part of budgeting and business plans, and a process is in place to measure and assess progress. Markus came to Lawrence in March after serving as the city manager of Iowa City, and the commission will also review its strategic plan as well as examples from other cities. Larsen said in addition to getting an outline
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School board president Marcel Harmon, who said he has already voiced his support for Tobacco 21 on a personal level, expects his peers to back the initiative come tonight. He said district administration has already Harmon drafted a resolution for the board to review, though a final vote
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some details about the new venture, which will be at Eighth and Pennsylvania in the refurbished stone building that sits near the corner. The restaurant will be called Bon Bon, and it is promising to have a menu unlike any other in Lawrence. “We’re doing something different, but we think Lawrence likes different,” said Simon Bates, who owns the business along with his wife Codi Bates. How different? Well, one month the restaurant may have a heavy dose of Austrian and German food, and the next month — or maybe even the next week — the restaurant may have a lot of French dishes. (There is a history lesson in there somewhere.) Or maybe there is a simpler way to illustrate how the restaurant will be different. One of the restaurant’s appetizers is likely to be something called a takoyaki. Think of it as an octopus fritter topped with Japanese mayo, a Japanese barbecue sauce, pickled ginger, and other ingredients that I don’t know how to spell. (I missed the Japanese episode of HGTV because I have no idea how you get an octopus in a fritter.)
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of what a strategic plan is, they will discuss what is needed to move forward for the commission and the public. She said the strategic plan will go beyond Horizon 2020, a policy guide first drafted in 1991 that identifies the community’s goals for directing future land use decisions. “I envision it being a document that’s going to be driven by the citizens and it’s going to tell us how they want us to grow in the future,” Larsen said. “How they want us as a city to function in the future and outline specific steps on how we reach
that long-term goal.” City staff members are recommending the City Commission create the plan over a period of six meetings, with the goal of completing it by mid-March 2017 so it can inform the next budget process. The recommendation is that the commission then revisit the plan in November 2017 and every two years thereafter. City commissioners meet at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.
likely won’t take place at this week’s meeting. “In a general sense, I think — and we’ll find out (tonight) — we support any type of initiative that … looks at trying to limit tobacco usage among young people to help mitigate or minimize the amount of people that get addicted to nicotine as they get older,” Harmon said. In other business, the school board will hear an update from Jerri Kemble, assistant superintendent of innovation and technology, on the rollout of mobile devices in Lawrence middle schools. The school board will also vote to approve the real estate contract
between Douglas County and the school district. The contract, if approved, would see the exchange of a former Douglas County Public Works site at 711 E. 23rd St., plus $500,000 from the school district to the county, for the district’s facilities and operations property at 146 Maine St. The school board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the district offices, 110 McDonald Drive. The regular meeting will be preceded by the school board’s goalsetting work session, slated for 5 to 6:45 p.m.
Bates said he had a takoyaki out of a street cart in Japan and immediately determined it was one of the five best dishes he had ever had. That’s how much of the menu at Bon Bon is being determined. Bates is making dishes that he really likes to eat, and the menu will change frequently because he wants to make dishes that correspond to the season of their ingredients. “I have traveled a little bit and learned about food that I like but is not really available in Lawrence,” Bates said. The restaurant has a garden across the street that has produced a lot of cabbage for sauerkraut, so German food will be among the first features of the menu when the bistro opens this fall. Also look for dishes with homemade pickles, heirloom vegetables, squash and some Korean eggplant that all come from the garden. The menu will include some standard items that will be available all year. That includes a large selection of salad bowls, including Mediterranean, Thai and Japanese varieties, several grab-and-go breakfast items, wraps, sandwiches and other dishes good for a quick lunch. Also look for dishes that feature fried chicken with a multitude of sauces and steamed buns. “We’re really proud of our buns,” Bates said.
The restaurant will have a liquor license and does plan to stay open into the evening with beer, wine and liquor selections. The vibe of the restaurant will be casual and also small. The old stone building — which until recently was a duplex but historically was a storage facility for gunpowder when the area really was a warehouse district — is so small that it doesn’t have a kitchen. Instead, Bates has installed a complete kitchen in a large truck that will sit permanently on the site and be connected to the building. The remodeling work also has involved building a large patio for the building. It will be equipped with a canopy, fans, heaters and other such devices to make it as much of an all-weather patio as possible. The building itself has room for about 40 diners. Bates said he’s pleased with how the project has gone thus far, although it has taken several months to develop. “It is such a neat building,” Bates said. “It has taken some time because we’re trying to put as much detailed work into the building as we can.” Look for the restaurant to open by the end of the month, Bates said.
— City Hall reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314. Follow her on Twitter: @RochelleVerde
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