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Thursday. October 23, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Bonds sold for Kaw River Bridge
By JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
A step toward construction of a new Kansas River bridge in Lawrence was completed yesterday when the Douglas County Commission awarded the sale of bonds totaling $5 million to Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago.
The $ million, plus $75,000 the county already has secured in other bond sales, is to be used for construction of a bridge over the Kansas River, according to Dean McGraw, president of Bridge and Savings was awarded the sale because it offered the lowest interest rates, he said.
Commissioner Arthur Heck said yesterday that Harris Trust and Savings would issue the $5 million in printed bonds and sell them to investors.
NETHER HECK NOR Sanderson could
constitute the construction of
the bridge would begin.
Heck said the county's obligation in the bond sale was to pay interest and bond retirement fees at an annual rate of 5.9 percent during a 20-year period.
The 55 million bond sale is part of
the bond issue passed by voters
last November.
Sanderson did say, however, that the county had a target date for advertising for bids and would open them by the end of December.
Half of the $11.75 million will be used to replace 50 county bridges, which were recommended for replacement by Pinney Trusted, firmed up, consulting engineers of Topeka.
That firm also is handling plans for the Kaw River bridge.
The present bridge, which is almost 59 years old, will continue to be used until the replacement.
REPLACEMENT OF THE current structure was decided upon when an inspection last February revealed crumbling concrete and rusty beams. A weight limit of 20 tons was set on the trade, same trucks and buses to take different routes.
The first phase of the new bridge is to run from Vermont Street to North 2nd Street. Utility poles from the present bridge will be moved to the Vermont span when it's completed. The final phase will move Massachusetts bridge will be raised and construction will begin on a new spane there.
Completion of the entire project has been scheduled for late 1979.
In other business yesterday, the county commission approved a new ambulance ramp and a fire station.
commission by Ted McFarlane, director of the county ambulance service.
The new rates, to be effective Nov. 1, will include five-dollar increases for users of emergency and routine services. Those new rates are $$3 and $30, respectively.
A new category-semi-emergency rates, will be installed when the service responds to a call with red lights and siren, but is actually making a routine transfer from the scene to the hospital. The charge for these rates will be $22.50.
Additional fees will be: $1.50 a mile for emergencies call up to six miles, and 75 minutes of calls.
The commissioners rejected a proposal calling for a $15 charge for ambulance calls
more than six miles; and 75 cents a mile for routine and semi-emergency calls.
McFarlane said he suggested it to discourage persons who rely on the service to break up family squabbles, or crank calls that tie up emergency vehicles.
Heck, noted however, that some "disregards" originate from conscientious persons who call for an ambulance "to be on duty" or "to find out where the vehicle wasn't needed after all."
The commission agreed that those persons shouldn't be charmed.
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