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Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured Thursday, July 7, 2016. City leaders will soon consider creating a new temporary winter shelter program that will house homeless people in hotel rooms for the next few months. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing the city to make agreements with the local homeless shelter and a hotel to provide the program. The initial $250,000 in funding for the program will come from federal coronavirus aid, distributed via the Emergency Solutions Grants Program, and will pay for 51 hotel rooms for a period o...

The Douglas County Courthouse and downtown Lawrence are pictured in an aerial photo Saturday, July 13, 2019. The Douglas County Commission has reallocated another $290,000 of unspent CARES Act funding to help make sure all of its $24.9 million are spent by the end of the year. The commissioners also gave county staff the authority to make further changes to the funding plan when needed this month to help reach that goal. During their meeting on Wednesday, the commissioners authorized reallocating $264,000 from various organizations that reported spending shortfalls to three hospitality organi...