Longtime City of Lawrence utilities official Dave Wagner has announced plans to retire after more than four decades with the city. Wagner, who has worked for
Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016.
Citing a need to keep up with infrastructure projects, Lawrence city leaders are moving forward with changes that would add another seven staff positions, bringing the total number of newly requested positions to more than 20.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to direct staff to include the new positions in the quarterly 2021 budget adjustment that is expected to come back to the commission next week. The seven positions are in addition to the 13.5 administrative and planning department positions the commission previously directed city staff to include in the amendment.