Capital Improvement Plan
Each year, the City of Lawrence prepares a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). This five-year CIP allows the City to identify the needs of the community and to prepare a long-term funding strategy to meet those needs. It includes any projects that involve needed repairs or improvements to our existing infrastructure (streets, parks, city facilities, sewers, etc.) and the acquisition or construction of new infrastructure (fire stations, traffic signals, roundabouts, etc.) with an estimated cost of $100,000 or more and a useful life of more than 2 years.
All requests will go through a scoring process and a recommended CIP will be presented to the City Commission tentatively on June 17, 2025. Based on feedback, revisions will be made to that recommendation. The CIP will be adopted as part of the operating budget. If you would like more information on the budget, please visit https://lawrenceks.org/budget/current/.
2026-2030 Capital Improvement
The process of developing the 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Plan has begun and the public is encouraged to submit improvement projects for consideration. If you have specific projects with an estimated cost of $100,000 or more with a life expectancy of more than two years that address a need in your neighborhood or elsewhere in the City; or, if you are developing a project that will be funded through the creation of benefit districts and you anticipate City participation, now is the time to submit those projects.
Access more information and the electronic form online: lawrenceks.portal.opengov.com.
The application for CIP projects is open now. The deadline for submitting is 5 p.m. on February 21, 2025. Materials can be submitted electronically through the website or completed in person with the Finance Department at City Hall, 6 East 6th Street.