Meeting Minutes

Meeting started 7:06pm…7 residents attending Saturday was the Sandrat Reunion and was a great event to have at the Union Pacific Depot, a little under 150 people in attendance. Linda and Tommy Lee were the people who managed the reunion. It has been an annual event that started 35 years ago. T-shirts were donated to…

Meeting started 7:00pm… 8 residents in attendance. Ted talked about the responses from the city regarding the quiet zone and the pedestrian overpass and how the city is still overlooking and not addressing the available grant money from the Federal Railroad Administration that will get the quiet zone and the overpass established. Steps have been…

7 residents in attendance…meeting started 7:08pm Ted announces the guest speaker Bart Littlejohn who is currently running for city commission. Bart Littlejohn started with his own speech on his candidacy. Bart is running for city commission yet again, jumping back into it to help the city out and support projects coming around the corner. Bart…

19 residents in attendance… meeting started 7:03pm Ted announces the guest speakers and discusses the agenda of events. Ted started out with mentioning the new announcement from Evergy to try and pass a tax to the residents of Lawrence to pay for the new power plant structures and the solar farm project that is intended…

8 in attendance… Meeting started 7:01pm Interim Fire Chief Joe Hardy is in attendance for giving an update and presentation on the fire brigade’s operations. Joe Hardy was born in Lawrence and went to Haskell, been in Lawrence his whole life, has family in North Lawrence, East Lawrence, and West Lawrence. Talked about getting involved…

Meeting started at 7:03pm… 6 residents attending Ted discusses the article about the BNSF railway evicting homeless people off of their property because the BNSF railroad is moving extremely fast in removing the transients from their property to avoid major risk. The city was not happy with the fast removal of the transients from their…