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A Community Conversation about the Lawrence City Budget

  • Lawrence Public Library Auditorium 707 Vermont Street Lawrence, KS, 66044 United States (map)

A Community Conversation about the Lawrence City Budget

We hosted this event on Thursday, June 5 from 6:00 to 8:00 at the Lawrence Public Library auditorium. You can watch the event’s video and view the educational slideshow we presented.

This event included

  • An educational presentation about the City’s budget, debt, and investments - by Holly Krebs, our lead budget researcher

  • A video about the City’s capital investments - by City staff

  • Questions and answers - with Krebs and Kristine Polian, our municipal finance expert

  • Small-group discussions for participants to express their concerns and suggestions for the City’s budget

  • A survey to capture additional feedback

This was an opportunity for our community to come together to

  • better understand the City's financial situation,

  • share our priorities and concerns with each other, and

  • compile our community’s feedback and share it with City staff and elected officials to inform their budget deliberations this year.

We encourage community members to provide feedback directly to the City Commission at commissioners@lawrenceks.org and ccagendas@lawrenceks.org and/or at their budget meetings on June 17 about the City’s Capital Improvement Plan or July 8 about the City Manager’s proposed 2026 budget.