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To wrap up this evening’s meeting, we heard loads of testimony and public commentary, and lots on the new police headquarters. As always, thanks for tuning in. Make sure to catch my recap.

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I’m here at the Lawrence City Hall live-tweeting the city commission meeting. First on the agenda: Proclaiming Sunday, March 17, 2019 as the Thirty-Second Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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Mayor Lisa Larsen confirms the 32nd annual St. Patrick’s day parade. “Make sure everybody comes out to that parade,” she said. “It’s good.”

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City Commissioner Leslie Soden says the board is taking away participatory budgeting, which “feels wrong.”
“I could talk about this all night,” she said. “But I’m not going to.”

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Now onto public comments. Stay tuned.

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Lot’s of comments on the cold. Ellen Johnson requests 24-hour animal control coverage due to roaming animals dying from the cold at night.
“We need to have animal control ready to get (animals) to the shelter at all times,” she said.

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Another woman asks for plexiglass roofing for bus stops. “It would be a really humane thing to do,” she said.

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Currently: A eulogy for a 54-year-old canopy on Mass St. that the city of Lawrence is tearing down.

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Rendering for the new police headquarters.

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The design for the new police headquarters was made to keep all of the staff under one roof and to “breed collaboration and excitement.” Total budget: $18.5 million.

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Updated site plan for the proposed “police station on a park” as a part of Police Facility Phase 1.