LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Parties in downtown Lawrence after the University of Kansas played in the Final Four cost the city about $180,000 but no one is complaining.
City Manager David Corliss says overtime wages for police officers was the biggest expense from three major parties that celebrated the Jayhawks’ run to the Final Four.
Corliss says those expenses will be offset by tax revenues from sales at restaurants, bars and other businesses during the tournament. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the exact amount of revenues the city reaped from those sales won’t be available for several weeks.
The city’s sales tax collections increased nearly $782,000 in 2008, when the Jayhawks won the national championship but it is impossible to know exactly how much of that was related to the Final Four.
