Wednesday, December 3, 1975
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County affected by re-funding bid
Congress is discussing possible refunding of the 1972 federal revenue sharing bill and might pass a new bill that would include at least $60 million. Douglas County revenue sharing program.
The State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act, which provides revenue sharing funds, expired Dec. 31, 1976. More than 40 refunding proposals, including one introduced in April by President Gerald R. Ford, have been considered by both houses of Congress.
About 38,000 states, counties, cities and townships now receive federal revenue sharing funds. Funds are distributed annually by the federal government on the basis of population, income of each person and total taxes levied in each governmental area. These taxes are allocated funds to a broad range of projects outlined in the revenue sharing bill.
Ford's proposal calls for $38.5 billion in appropriated funds from June 1972 until September 1976.
The proposed bill would require local governments to hold public hearings or adopt 'other appropriate means' of objection to revenue sharing funds are spent.
Although present law doesn't require public participation in deciding revenue sharing allocations, the Douglas County Commission has scheduled public hearings since the county began receiving funds in 1972.
Last February the commissioners heard testimony for one week before approving allocations that would be spent this fiscal year (July 1, 1957-June 30, 1978).
Ernest Coleman, Douglas County revenue sharing consultant, said last week that Douglas County officials had 'tried to meet with well as the letter of the revenue sharing law.
The spirit, Coleman said, obligates government officials to allocate funds for a variety of projects that would help a large number of people.
consequently, the Douglas County Commission allocated a large amount of this year's $485,000 entitlement to social services. Among the services now being provided by Douglas County Mental Health Clinic ($9,000), Beach Mental Health Clinic ($9,000), Douglas County Commission on Alcoholism ($7,000), Council on Services for Aging ($13,000), Boys Club of Lawrence and
Douglas County ($3,600), Douglas County
($5,800), Douglas County and Dougla
County Youth Jobs ($13,000).
One bill now being debated in Congress would require governmental units to spend at least 20 per cent of their total annual allocation on social services.
Besides social services, the Douglas County Commission has also allocated funds for such projects as remodeling of the county jail and building a library ($90,000, www.$2,000,000). data processing ($80,000),
Douglas County revenue sharing policy requires organization to fill out application forms if they want revenue sharing funds. Questions concerning the organization's revenue, programs and people it serves require information from the organization handbook containing Douglas County's revenue sharing policies before the public hearings.
Two years ago, the League of Kansas Municipalities requested copies of the Douglas County applications and handbook.
County policy also requires representatives of nonprofit organizations or governmental units to sign contracts with the county commissioners when they make any contractual statements that the commissioners may review the use of funds at any time.
and they are now used in several communities. Coleman said.
None of the three policies is written in the current law.
Annual auditing of the revenue sharing account is required by the county and a report must be sent to the Office of Revenue Sharing, Washington, D.C.
Coleman said he thought Congress would refund revenue sharing. Because most revisions now being discussed are already in the Douglas County program, he said, they wouldn't change local procedure significantly.
However, Coleman said it was imperative that Congress approve a revenue sharing bill.
Concert pianist Lilai Kraus will appear at Hoch Auditorium tonight with a solo performance of compositions by some of the world's greatest composers.
Pianist Kraus will perform concert in Hoch tonight
Tonight's program, which begins at 8, will include the works of Mozart, Schubert and Schumann.
Kraus has received acclaim for her performance and recording of all 25 of the Moztar piano concerti. She has played for many of the world's most celebrated Greek. She has given a concert in England's Canterbury Cathedral and a commemorative performance at the wedding of Israel and Jordan.
Kraus was born in Budapest. She began to study the piano at the age of six. At the age of eight, she attended school at the Academy Music. When she was 17, she had received the Academy's highest degree and went on to study at the Vienna Conservatory of Music where he became a full professor at the Vienna Academy.
During the 1930s, Kraus was a popular recitalist and symphony orchestra solist in England and continental Europe. She sang in New York, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In 1940, beginning a world tour in the Dutch East Indies, Kraus was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Java and was held there three years in a Japanese prison camp.
After her release, she toured Australia and New Zealand again, and she returned to London to continue her work.
Since then, she has traveled almost continuously, appearing with orchestras and at music festivals of Europe. She also plays in North and South America.
Kraus has also lectured and given master classes at universities. She is currently teaching piano at Texas Christian University.
This evening's performance will begin with Haydon's 'Sonata No. 52 in E-flat Major,' followed by Mozart's 'Fantasia, K 475,' and 'Sonata B 457, C Minor.'
She will swish the peace to a performance of fifteen hungarian peasant folk songs and dances by Bartok. She will also play Schubert's "Sonata in A Major, Op. 120."
The final number will be Chopin's "Scherzo No. 2, B-flat Minor."
Indian artwork to be exhibited
The Mobile Gallery, a museum on wheels, will be in Lawrence this week with an exhibition of southwestern and northwestern art work.
Entitled "Native American Art from the Southwest and Northwest Coast," the exhibit will include jewelry, basketry, ceramics, textiles, beadwork and leatherwork from more than 20 Indian cultures.
The Mobile Gallery display was assembled from artwork in museums nationwide by the Wichita Art Museum and the Kansas Arts Commission. The mobile trailer tours Kansas cities and towns throughout the year.
Admission to the gallery is free, and it will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today in a downtown parking lot on the west side of the museum, at 400 W. 27th Street, behind Penney's department store.
The Mobile Gallery will also be stationed
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