Memorandum

City of Lawrence

City Manager’s Office

TO:	David L. Corliss, City Manager
FROM:	Jonathan Douglass, Assistant to the City Manager/City Clerk
CC:	Tarik Khatib, Chief of Police Ernie Shaw, Interim Director of Parks and Recreation Charles Soules, Director of Public Works
DATE:	August 24, 2012
RE:	Veteran’s Day Run

Please place this item on the next available City Commission meeting agenda.

The city has received an application for a temporary use of public right-of-way permit for a 5K/10K on Sunday, November 11, 2012, benefitting the KU Wounded Warrior Scholarship Fund and the KU Memorials Maintenance Fund. The 10K portion of the race would begin around 8:00 a.m. on Massachusetts Street adjacent to South Park, with runners staging on the street beginning at about 7:55 a.m. Runners would run in the northbound lane of Massachusetts St to 7^th St, then turn east and run through East Lawrence and then campus before looping back to South Park (see attached map). The 5K would also start in South Park but would head west of 13^th Street to campus (see attached map).

Staff is seeking City Commission approval of this right-of-way permit because the race will close the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from about 8:00 a.m. – 8:25 a.m. Parking on Massachusetts St would not be prohibited, although vehicles parked on the east side of Massachusetts St would not be able to leave as runners pass by. The police department will provide traffic control at necessary locations along the route, but it is anticipated that most, if not all, of the traffic control can be accomplished through signage and volunteers.  

ACTION:       Approve a temporary use of public right-of-way permit for use of various city streets, including the closure of the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from approximately 8:00 a.m. – 8:25 a.m., on Sunday, November 11, 2012, for the Veteran’s Day Run.