Environment concerns Berman
By BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
Lawrence citizens concerned with environmental issues can accomplish their goals better by pushing for a few top officials to reform the old Berman, D. Lawrence, said last night.
Berman spoke before the Jawahyr
Andubon Society at South Park Recreation
Center, 114 Massachusetts St., in a panel
about conservation problems at the state
level.
Berman said the legislature was a group that determined decisions on the order of priorities, thus making it pertinent for inquiries to focus on their most important concerns.
"Damm'n legislation has been passed to protect the environment," Berman said. "The few bills that have been passed are not designed to be concerned with bills concerned with the use of solar energy."
"Besides contacting legislators throughout the state and developing well-organized lobbying, the citizen must take care to call his shots carefully," he said.
He said there currently was no articulate environmental group in the Kansas governmental system.
BERMAN CITED several proposed bills that had been introduced in the last legislative session, noting, however, that the majority of the proposed bills had been
"Groups such as the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club have to get out and lobby to the legislators who have not yet determined their position on conservation and environment," Berman said. "So far, the consciences of individual legislators is the
Drug records sought by Dole
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Robert Dole said yesterday that he would appeal to the attorney general to gain speedy access to classified Drug Enforcement Administration files relating to Panamanian drug trafficking.
Dole, who seeks the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, said he was told by the Justice Department drug agency that the cases and procedures were taking longer than expected.
DOLE FLED A formal request for the files on Oct. 14. He said he had been told that DEA reports showed that members of the family of Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Tortijos were involved in drug trafficking, and he was said to have profited from his alleged involvement
Panamanian officials have denied the alterations.
Dole, R-Kan, he said he wanted to see the files to determine whether the allegations relate to the Panama Canal treaty pending before the Senate.
Use-value tax recommended by state panel
TOPEKA (AP)—A proposed bill implementing use-value appraisal on agricultural land in Kansas was recommended Thursday by an interim legislative committee for passage when the 1978 session opens in January.
It is certain to undergo much revision and be the issue in many legislative battles before winning endorsement by the entire legislature.
Supporters, aware of skepticism on the part of many urban legislators over the wisdom of the use-value concept, already know that they will win a lot, which they hope will make it more palatable.
The version approved by the interim committee Thursday would implement the 1976 constitutional amendment approved by the Senate in October, assuring for property tax purposes on a basis of its capacity to produce income, rather than its fair market value, as all property taxes would be paid.
Friday, November 18, 1977
It calls for reapraisal of all agricultural land in the state at 30 percent of its value, with that value based on its ability to produce more than what it might bring on the market.
It also provides for what rural legislators consider a tough penalty provision when farmers do sell their land for uses other than agricultural production.
That six-year rollback provision was the reason State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-24 Parsons, voted against the proposal, which the committee's endorsement on an 8-2 vote
That penalty would require them to pay the difference for the six previous years between the amount of taxes actually paid and the amount of interest they owed, and not been assessed on the use-value basis.
"I'm just not prepared to vote for it at this time." Johnston said, "it's a complex subject."
"The rollback provision is designed to keep land in agricultural production. But around cities, it could stifle economic development.
"in our area, I don't think we want any disincentives for industrial development
But State Sen. John Simpson, R-Salina, a major proponent of the tough touch provision, said it was needed to protect farmland.
"It won't do it completely," Simpson added, "but it will help keep agricultural land in production and stop the urban sprawl."
Also voting against the proposed legislation was State Rep. Homer Jarcho Dewey.
Berman criticized the current Division of environment for stressing economic growth in his own country.
only thing that has prevented the rape of our society."
"WE WILL CONTINUE to have attacks on the environment until the division learns to balance its emphasis between environment and economic growth," he said. "Currently, I regret to say they stress economic growth."
For example, Berman said the price of individual parking for state employees would be quadrupled in Topeka under current laws. In order to outlaw ornamental gas lights and lamps.
Berman, a member of the Senate's Interim Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said several legislative proposals were being planned by the committee for the upcoming legislative session in January.
'I can promise there will be 'more measures to come besides the ones we are'
(they're not in place)
ANDY FNROCK, program director for the Audubon Society, said three local legislators had been invited to participate in the panel. However, two of the legislators, Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, and Rep. Mice Glover, D-Lawrence, were unable to attend. Glover his legislative secretary and Buzzi said he was available to group members by phone. Buzzi said he was unable to attend because his wife was hospitalized.
The Jayhawk Audubon Society, a nonprofit organization founded in 1970, is a full chapter of the National Audubon Society, an organization devoted to the conservation organizations in the United States.
Berman also criticized the existing state architectural program.
"We currently have to search for buildings that don't have a leaky roof or are in poor condition."
Berman said a 65-page bill was being drafted to propose abolishing the state architectural program and develop it into a commission program.
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