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City to weigh future of East Ninth Project By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
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TEN-YEAR-OLD DESTINY SAVANNAH, OF LAWRENCE, HOLDS A CANDLE at a Black Lives Matter candlelight vigil in South Park on Sunday night. Around 400 people attended the vigil held to honor Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who were recently killed in police shootings, and to give community members of all races an opportunity to stand together. See more photos from the event at LJWorld.com/blacklivesmattervigil
VOTER EDUCATION FORUM
House candidates offer views on guns, abortion portion of Sunday’s forum, sponsored by the Voter Education Coalition. It featured all but one of the House candidates whose names will appear on primary ballots in Douglas County Aug. 2. In the 45th House District of western Douglas County, Republican challenger Jeremy Ryan Pierce emphasized his
By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Sharp differences were exposed during a candidate forum Sunday between Republican candidates running in two local Kansas House districts, while the two Democrats running in another district showed remarkably similar views. About 30 people turned out for the legislative
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LAWRENCE REP. BARBARA BALLARD, right, answers a question while, from left, Jeremy Ryan Pierce, Rep. Tom Sloan, Jim Karleskint and Steven Davis await their turns during a question and answer session sponsored by the Voter Education Coalition on Sunday at City Hall.
County Commission candidates agree on jail expansion, other issues By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ
At a forum Sunday, four candidates for the one contested seat on the Douglas County Commission generally agreed on issues, including the need
to expand the county jail and construct a mental health crisis intervention center. The four candidates vying for the 3rd District Douglas County Commission seat of west Lawrence and western Douglas County answered
questions at a 90-minute forum the Voter Education Coalition sponsored at Lawrence’s City Hall. Bassem Chahine and Jim Weaver have filed as Democrats, and Jim Denney and Michelle Derusseau have filed as Republicans for the seat now
held by the retiring Jim Flory. Voters will decide in the Aug. 2 primary the candidate from each party who will advance to the November general election. Please see COUNTY, page 5A
The Lawrence City Commission will take a harder look Tuesday at the design and cost of a proposed arts corridor along East Ninth Street — a project that’s so far three years in the making. Commissioners asked May 24 for a work session on the project, after they didn’t have enough votes to move its design forward. Since then, an online campaign was started this CITY month asking com- COMMISSION missioners to again take up the issue. An online petition had 715 “signatures” as of Sunday night. The project has faced opposition from some business owners and residents in East Lawrence concerned about the project’s effect on property values, believing it could price them out of the neighborhood. The commission will take no formal action on the project Tuesday. A public comment period will follow the commission’s discussion, which, according to a city memo, will include talk about the design, funding and scope of work along the street.
Budget decisions The work session, open to the public, is scheduled to follow a public presentation by City Manager Tom Markus about his recommended 2017 budget, released Thursday, which includes no funding for the project. Please see PROJECT, page 8A
Proposed 2017 Douglas County budget includes mill levy increase By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ
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Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug has delivered to county commissioners a proposed 2017 budget that if approved as presented would raise the
county’s mill levy by 2.085 mills. But history suggests there will be changes, Weinaug said. “In my years as county administrator, commissioners never have approved a budget with no changes — and
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nonexpenditure items like contingency funds. More relevant is the $53.8 million needed in property taxes to support proposed 2017 spending, he said. Commissioners will Please see BUDGET, page 2A
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share of property tax on a home appraised at $150,000 would be $745. The proposed budget totals $84.2 million, a figure Weinaug said was misleading because it counts sales tax transfers twice and includes many
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never will,” he said. The recommended budget’s total mill levy of 43.185 mills compares with the 41.098 levy in the county’s 2016 budget. A mill raises $1 of revenue for every $1,000 of assessed valuation. At 43.183 mills, the county’s
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