CITY MANAGER’S REPORT

Week ending November 29, 2013

Multimodal Studies Project

The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) kicked off the Multimodal Studies Project in January 2013. Over the last seven months the project team sought input from the community through a variety of means including mobile meetings at events like a farmer’s market, an interactive mapping/comment tool that allowed people to click on a map to identify a concern area and create a comment describing their concerns, two open house public information meetings where residents could talk to the project consultant team and MPO staff, numerous conversations at various committee meetings, and individual conversations with MPO staff. All of that community input has been blended with land use and transportation planning information to develop draft reports for the three transportation studies.

November sales tax distribution

The City of Lawrence has recently received its November sales tax distribution. The distribution is the result of retail sales from mid-September to mid-October. The distribution of $2,674,527.28 is about $225,000 less than the prior year distribution for the same month. Please see the attached memo for more information.