Municipal Government Spending: A Tale of Two Budgets (Lawrence as an example)

A recent Lawrence Eagle-Tribune article (http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_306013132.html) entitled “Lawrence has $9.5M deficit, DOR says” stated that the city of Lawrence “municipal budget is roughly $80 million”.  Knowing that much more than that is spent on the Lawrence school system alone, it is clear there is something wrong with those numbers.  Thankfully, the city has to file [...]