2025 Budget Meetings and Materials
- February 2024: City staff begins budget preparation with departments.
- June 18, 2024: City Manager’s Recommended 2025-2029 Capital Improvement Plan Presentation
- July 9, 2024: City Manager’s Recommended Budget Presentation
- August 20, 2024: Budget Public Hearing and Revenue Neutral Rate Hearing
- September 3, 2024: Budget Adopted
Get Involved
“The City budget affects our entire community – every single person – which is why it’s important to our organization that we’re hearing from Lawrence residents about what you prioritize. We take all of this input and figure out how to create a single budget that best fits the needs of our entire community and moves forward the goals we’ve identified in our strategic plan.
Any member of the public may provide comment regarding the budget at City Commission meetings through public comment and/or as written comments submitted through our regular agenda process.”
Strategic Planning and Priority-Based Budgeting
The City Commission adopted the Strategic Plan in October 2020. The Strategic Plan outlines a systematic process for moving toward a vision in a manner that involves the development and prioritization of strategic goals along with measurable strategies.
- The Strategic Plan drives the Annual Operating Budget.
- The Annual Operating Budget moderates the Strategic Plan.
- The Annual Operating Budget also enables the City to operate Strategic Management.
For additional information on the Strategic Plan, please visit https://lawrenceks.org/strategic-plan.
The City uses Priority-Based Budgeting as part of the annual budget process to evaluate and connect government resources with the community’s highest priorities using program data.
Current Year Budget and Budget Archives
The 2024 Budget was adopted by the City Commission on September 5th, 2023.
View the Adopted 2024 Budget Book
Questions about past funding or budgets? View budget archives.
For more information on the Capital Improvement Plan, please visit https://lawrenceks.org/budget/cip/.