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THe MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM

Kansas Crry, Missouri
BOARD OF GOVERNORS as oe
MAYOR BRYCE B.SMITH EUGENE C.ZACH
CHAIRMAN MANAGER
T.L. EVANS

VICE CHAIRMAN
FRED GCG. BUFFE

ARTHUR A.GUETTEL
FRED L.HILDEBRAND

JAMES F. LILLIS February at; 1940

SAMUEL J.WHITMORE
H.E.BONING,JR.

Mr. Forrest C. Allen
Athletic Devaertment
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

Thank you for your letter of February 16th, and also for the copy
of the contract executed for you by Mr. Goldman. The ordinance
end regulation vroviding for the new Management set-uv at the
Auditorium under a Board of Governors, require that a written form
contract be executed for each rental of a Building Unit, and it was
necessary for us to have a copy of Mr. Goldman's letter to you in
order to vrevare this required form.

In answer to your question concerning the rental, it will be

necessary to make a complete explanation of the present set-up. The
Ordinance, creating a Board of Governors.to overate the Auditorium
requires that the Board establish a definite schedule of rentals for
all events, and that schedule was placed in operation about November 1]
At the time the schedule went into effect, however, the Board by
resolution, voted to accept all bookings made by any previous man-
agement at the rental schedule or rate agreed upon at the time the
booking was made.

Since you had already made a contract with Mr. Goldman for the use
of the Arena at $300,00 a day, it is possible for me to execute a
new contract with you at that rate, although it is not the one now
in effect, similarly, it is possible for me to execute a contract
with the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its Basket
Ball Tournament at the contract price agreed upon last May by

Mr. Goldman, which, incidentally, is only slightly lower than the
orice he gave to you.

I cennot, therefore, arbitrarily make a reduction in the rate on
which you were booked, which incidentally, is just about our actual
cost of overation. The only counter-proposal thet I am in a vosition
to offer to you would be to book*you for your tournament at the new
rental schedule fixed by the Board of Governors for an Amateur
Athletic event, such as your Basket Ball Tournament. That rate is
$250.00 a day, with the Auditorium also having the privilege of a
percentage option, in place of the guaranteed rent. If you are

interested in making your booking on -that basis, I would be glad to
discuss the matter with you,