Author Archives: Eric J. Gruber

About Eric J. Gruber

Eric J. Gruber is the eGov Coordinator for the City of Lawrence, Kansas. He can be reached at egruber@lawrenceks.org

It’s always Sunny in Lawrence

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: < 1 minute Who's been given an A+ for the transparency of its website? This city! The City of Lawrence has been given a Sunny Award! The award is given to honor the most transparent government websites in … Continue reading →

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Mega menu for mega usability

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes We’ve added a minor change to what we call the global navigation bar to help you find your way around the website more easily. We’re rolling out changes to the navigation bar with the … Continue reading →

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Online payment options change for Utility Billing

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes The City of Lawrence’s Utility Billing division has changed to a new payment processor, which has two new improvements for those who use the service. Lower fee. The new payment processor, Paymentus, charges $3.25 … Continue reading →

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LawrenceTransit.org gets an overhaul

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Lawrence Transit System and KU on Wheels have a refreshed website. We’ve gone all in for a complete overhaul of LawrenceTransit.org. There are three main changes I’d like to talk about with this refresh … Continue reading →

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We’re looking for some volunteers

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Do you like web surfing? Who doesn’t, right? If so, and you would like to volunteer an hour of your time to help improve city services, we could use your help. We’re putting the … Continue reading →

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Footer and search engine changes

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes We’ve made a couple of changes to the city website and thought we’d point them out. Footer Our old footer was a couple of lines of text without much order to it: Our new … Continue reading →

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Q and A: City testing new interactive maps

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes The City of Lawrence’s Information Systems Department is testing a new beta version of interactive maps. For this post, I sat down with Micah Seybold, GIS Coordinator for the City of Lawrence, KS for … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t Utility Billing work with Chrome or Safari?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes A question that comes up from time to time is, “Why doesn’t the Utility Billing account information section support the Safari or Chrome browsers?” The Utility Billing division of the City of Lawrence manages the water, … Continue reading →

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Maintenance will affect some online services

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Eric J. Gruber

Reading time: < 1 minute From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. today, the City of Lawrence will perform maintenance work on a database that will affect some of the eGov online services including water billing account inquiry, building inspection scheduling, … Continue reading →

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