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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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Lawrence City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Lawrence and Douglas County offices make many decisions affecting students
Kansan staff writer
By Karen Boring
The University of Kansas is a big part of Lawrence and Douglas County, and the governments of the city and the county perform services and make decisions that affect KU every day.
Lawrence has a commission-manager form of city government. The five-member City Commission is elected at large. The commissioners appoint a city manager, who is appointed for the administration of city affairs.
The Lawrence City Commission forms city policy. Once a year, it elects a mayor from among its board of directors and signs official documents but otherwise has the same duties as the other commissioners. The commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall, sixth and Massachusetts District Court.
the city offices and parks and recreation department are in city hall. The police department, municipal court county jail, state courthouse and law enforcement Center at 11th and Rhode Island streets. The fire department is at fire
The Lawrence City Commission forms city policy. Once a year, it elects a mayor from among its five members. The mayor represents the city and signs official documents but otherwise has the same duties as the other commissioners. The commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
station No. 1 at Seventh and Vermont streets.
The commission comprises Mike Amyx, Dennis Constance, Sandy Praeger. Mike Randle and Mayor Bob Schumm. Constance Burke is the director of Olliver Hall. Randle is a secretary for the Department of Public Administration.
The city manager is Buford Watson. Watson is responsible for the city budget and the administration and enforcement of city ordinances.
town; municipal court, with Judge George Catt pressing; the fire department, under Chief Jim McSwan; the police department, under Chief Ron Olim; and parks and recreation, under Fred DeVictor.
The city government also includes departments that work to support and advise the commission. Those departments include planning rights for city land use, under Price Banks; and administrative services, under city clerk Ray Hummett, Gerald Coley, city attorney, also advises the com
Watson appoints people to head the departments, which provide city services. These departments include public works, which maintains public utilities, and utilities, which administers water purification and utilities distribu-
Like the city, Douglas County is governed by a board of commissioners and an administrator. The county commissioners are Nancy Hiebert,
Warren Rhodes and commission chairman David Hopper. The county administrator is Chris McKenna. The county equivalent of the city manager is
County government is responsible for emergency medical service, the sheriff's department, the county jail, automobile registration, property tax collection, voter registration and the district attorney's office.
The county government offices are in the Douglas County courthouse at 11th and Massachusetts streets.
Patty James, county clerk, is the county election officer and registrar of voters. Nancy Welsh, county treasurer, is in charge of registration of automobile registration. Sue Neustefter, register of deeds, records changes in property, including automobile title transfers. All three offices are in the courthouse.
District Attorney Jim Flory advises the county commissioners on legal matters. he also prosecutes the people in civil and criminal cases.
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