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ADDING SOME ATMOSPHERE City leaders to focus on long-term planning By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
At their work session on Tuesday, members of the Lawrence City Commission will learn more about a new strategic planning process that is meant to plot the course for the city’s future. City leaders say the process will involve both commissioners and the public. “This is going to take not only a big effort on staff but also a huge effort on the community,” Commissioner Lisa Larsen said. “They’re CITY going to actually help COMMISSION us do some framework for filling in what we want this city to look like in the future and how we want to go about meeting that future goal.” The city recently hired a new city manager, and one of the tasks listed in the city’s advertisement of the position was for the new manager to help facilitate the creation of a strategic plan. New City Manager Tom Markus recently told the Journal-World that having a plan developed provides connectivity for commissioners and city staff, especially with the potential for turnover of half the commission every two years. Instead of reacting to the “crisis of the day,” a strategic plan helps elected officials prioritize all of the requests for the improvements that the city has on the table, he said. As part of the Tuesday work session, commissioners will receive a presentation that outlines what a strategic plan is and how it is used. The presentation defines strategic planning as a systematic process for developing a vision for a community’s future by creating specific,
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VARIOUS WORKS ON DISPLAY IN THE MICHAEL J. MALONE DOUGLAS COUNTY LAW LIBRARY, CREATED BY employees of the Law Enforcement Center, are shown, counterclockwise from top right: A painting by Michelle Marino; stained wood by Jay Armbrister; “Frog on Watch” photo on canvas by Marjorie Hedden. BOTTOM RIGHT: Dee Boeck, Douglas County criminal history assistant, sits in front of one of her quilts on display in the library.
Law Enforcement Center employee art on display BY CONRAD SWANSON — professionally, that ••• is. She writes precswanson@ljworld.com
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or the better part of a decade, Dee Boeck has looked into the criminal records of convicted felons
sentence investigations for the Douglas County District Court. Tracking down local, state and national criminal records can be a kind of puzzle, she said. And when she’s
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There are a lot of people that work here with varying backgrounds and varying jobs, and it just built from there.”
when they use different names or different birth dates or different social security numbers.” — Kerry Altenbernd, law librarian For several more years, Boeck has ocfinished, judges base “It’s very interesting cupied her down time their sentencing deciand it’s challenging,” > ARTWORK, 2A sions off her work. she said. “Especially
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KDOT says roads in good condition; contractors warn of trouble ahead By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
The Kansas Department of Transportation is touting that more than 90 percent of the state’s interstate and non-interstate highways are in “good” condition, a number it says exceeds the state’s own
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