About Administrative Services
City Clerk | Human Resources | Risk Management
City Clerk
The City Clerk Division provides for the retention, maintenance, and continuity of all official records of the City of Lawrence and provides basic records retrieval services to citizens.
The City Clerk Division is also responsible for recording all activities involved in City Commission meetings, including meeting minutes and ordinances and resolutions.
The City Clerk Division also maintains other official records such as contracts, deeds, leases, bond related documents, special assessments, annexation proceedings, and records of City-owned cemeteries.
Further, the City Clerk Division administers the licensing and permit process for various City licenses and permits.
We also coordinate public notices, legal publications and bid notices. We handle documents related to the special assessment financing of projects within the City as documents related to the sale and administration of bonds.
Notices of elections filing by candidates and other details of elections are also administered through the City Clerk and coordinated with the County Clerk-Election Officer.
Our effectiveness and efficiency is demonstrated by the timely and accurate assistance provided to City staff and the general public.
Human Resources
The Human Resources Division of Administrative Services Department fosters a high-quality, progressive, innovative work environment by providing strategic leadership to anticipate, identify, analyze, and balance City organizational and employee needs.
Human Resources strives to serve as a strategic business partner with City management and staff by developing, implementing, and administering a centralized human resource management program for all City employees with emphasis in the following areas: benefits, classification/compensation, employment, employee relations and performance management/employee recognition.
Our objective is to create and maintain a work environment to place City employee's in the best position to carry out the City Commission's goals and objectives.
Risk Management
The Risk Management Division is intended to identify, recommend, and implement actions that will minimize the adverse effects of accidental and business losses on the City of Lawrence. The Risk Management Division will strive to utilize best industry practices for public risk management, and administer programs that will allow for the retention of revenue otherwise lost to accidents and injuries. Risk Management will value and care for the City's most valuable asset, City Employees, and will serve as a partner with City Departments empowering them to fulfill their mission of providing excellent City services.
Risk Management administers the City's self-funded Workers' Compensation, General Liability, and Auto Liability programs, manages the City's portfolio of insurance coverages including Property and Public Entity Liability, and serves as a resource to City Departments on issues of loss prevention and control. All claims involving the City of Lawrence are handled by the Risk Management Division.
