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💡 Help shape the 2027 City of Lawrence Budget! There are several ways to share your feedback with us — and they all start on our Engage Lawrence website: engage.lawrenceks.gov/2027-budget
💰 Try A Balancing Act and build your own balanced City budget
📝 Take a short survey ...about Fire Medical Station 6 expansion and Parks, Recreation & Culture membership fees
💭 Do you have other ideas? Share them in our Budget Brainstorm
❓ Ask questions about the budget process
Your voice helps shape the future of Lawrence. Join the conversation and help build the budget together.
March Madness is officially here, and we're ready to bring the energy! Our city is prepped and hyped to cheer on Kansas Men's Basketball as they take the court. Let’s show everyone why this is the best basketball town in the country! Rock Chalk! 🏀❤️💙
March Madness is officially here, and we're ready to bring the energy! Our city is prepped and hyped to cheer on @kuhoops as they take the court. Let’s show everyone why this is the best basketball town in the country! Rock Chalk! 🏀❤️💙
Did You Know? Lawrence gets audited for recycling contamination twice a year. 👀♻️📝
In the Spring and Fall, our Solid Waste team conducts recycling audits that examine recyclables in carts from randomly selected routes across the city. The trash found in these recycling bins is ...used to calculate Lawrence’s overall contamination rate, which directly affects what the City pays to process recycling at the Material Recovery Facility operated by Republic Services.
Here is the part that matters for all of us:
If contamination is over 10%, the City pays an added surcharge on every ton of recycling processed. If it is over 15%, there is another surcharge level on top of that. 💸📉
The good news is we are trending in the right direction. 🙌
In spring 2025, Lawrence’s contamination rate was 16.2%. In fall 2025, it dropped to 15.1%. We are so close to lowering contamination enough to drop one of those surcharge levels.
And yes, your cart could be one of the ones audited. 🛒✅
Every item counts. Keeping recycling clean and correct helps protect the program and keeps more materials out of the landfill. 🌎💙
Our next recycling audit is expected later this spring, so now is a great time to double-check what goes in the blue cart.
Check before you chuck ➡️ lawrenceks.gov/recycling
What a parade! Thanks, Lawrence, for showing up and showing out yesterday for The Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade. The energy, creativity, and community pride were on full display.🍀
What a parade! ☘️ Thanks, Lawrence, for showing up and showing out yesterday for The Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade. The energy, creativity, and community pride were on full display.
Take a look at some of our favorite moments! 👇
Help us recognize transit drivers and workers today! It takes a team of dedicated folks to keep this vital lifeline available for our community.
A big shout-out to every bus driver, maintenance worker, road supervisor, dispatcher, manager, and staff member who plays a part in keeping our ...city moving.
Be sure to thank your bus driver today! Thank you for riding Lawrence Transit.
Spreading some positivity today! We stopped by Lawrence High School to ask: "What is something good that happened to you today?" These were their responses.
Now it’s your turn! Share something good that happened to you today in the comments.