Tuesday, March 25, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Testimonv on mall revenue bonds restated
By SCOTT C. FAUST Staff Renorter
TOPEKA--The Kansas House Local Government report业绩 disagreement on a bill that would allow cities to use low-interest industrial revenue bonds to finance municipal projects.
The bill would ease financing of a proposed downtown Lawrence shopping mall.
The committee delayed action on the bill until today or tomorrow after hearing the same cast of characters who spoke at the conference to meet (two weeks) against test化石 on the bill.
The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, received Senate approval last week 37-2.
CITIZEN GROUP and downtown merger will be the bill because it gave too free a hand to the city in subsidizing retail development and making what kind of ma lawrence should have.
Speaking for the bill, Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson told the panel that
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industrial revenue bonds used to finance industrial revenue bonds and to finance investment tools and the financial flexibility to make the project work' when combined with tax increment bonds for financing of site development.
Tax increment bonds are repaid through property taxes when industrial revenue bonds, usually used to attract new industry investors, are repaid with interest by the developer.
WATSON SAID the tight money market strategy in skyrocketing demand development of a downstream mall, but that the lower rates available with industrial revenue bonds could make it easier to compete.
"It is quite evident to us," he said, "that the market money is going to have a tremendous effect on whether or not we are able to redevelop the downtown." he said.
Currently, Action 80, a private group of educators, includes the math of which both Walton and Mayor Barkley Clark are ex-officio members, is conditional study for a 600,000-square-foot building.
Because the bill requires use of revenue bonds for development only in areas which meet "blighted area" qualification, the end goal is to ensure that the bond is being considered as a possible site.
THE MALL, which would be developed by a Cleveland developer, Jacobs, Visconi, Jacobs, would be enclosed and anchored by three department stores.
The developer had originally proposed a suburban mall for Lawrence, but city commissioners and downmarket merchants it would cripple Lawrence's downtown.
Bob Billings, a member of Action 80, said the gropb's study would be completed within the next few weeks and that the plan would be reviewed to generate encouragement for public discussion and review.
"Without a public commitment to redevelopment efforts," Billings said, "and without a broad inventory of redevelopment tools, such as tax increment financing and industrial revenue bonds, central business redevelopment is simply not feasible."
Mall opponents argued just as strongly against the bill.
Larry Fliannery, president of Weaver's Department Store, said the bill would force competitive retail businesses to face the challenge from a government-subordinated developer.
HE SAID low rental rates for major department stores in the proposed mall
"Competition we welcome; development we welcome. However, the retail community should not be competing with sub-funds awarded developers for retail building."
Barbara Willis of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association echoed Flanier's concern that the mail would create unfair competition for downtown merchants and accused Action 80 and Lawrence city in its mall proposal.
would make small shops' rents as much as $14 to $16 a square foot.
"What you would have," Flannery said, "is a mail of unused storerooms not only in the mall, but on the streets surrounding the mall.
"The moment the city is on the side of the developer," Willis said, "any attempt to modify the plan is put down as selfish interest or as against progress.
Student art displayed on campus
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
Staff Reporter
Although the Birger Sanzine painting that once hung in the Student Assistance Center is gone, two student paintings now decorate the wide white wall.
Zacharias and Allen said that student art on display in administrative offices was a good idea.
Colleen Zacharias, Topea junior, and Greg Allen, Liberty senior, were recently chosen to display their works in the student Assistance Center.
"I think it's great that students can have their work exposed," Zacharia said. "It's especially good when they get their work viewed by their peers who are not in the art (list)."
Her opportunity came when the Student Assistance Center requested art work from students after the Sanzine painting was removed.
Initially, the painting was loaned to the Dean of Men's office, a division of student affairs, in the 1960s because of the lack of space inside the old art museum, Grunze said.
Lorna Grunz, director of the center, said the Sanzine painting had been placed in the center after the Student Affairs office was reorganized in 1978.
When the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art opened its doors in January 1977, it recalled paintings that had been lent to administrative offices.
Grunz said although she did not like the museum recalling the Sanzine painting, she could understand its motives.
Janet Dreiling, Spencer Art Museum registrar, said after the construction of the museum, the staff wanted to display as many as possible. A lot more possible. Moreover, requests were made for
paintings that previous donors knew were included in the collection.
"A lot of people who have given things, when they find those things are on campus, are upset. That's not a reason (for the recall) but it's certainly a fact," she said.
There were also practical reasons for recalling the paintings, such as insurance coverage and unsuitable display placement. The paintings had been susceptible to light damage had been hung in improper lighting and that other painting techniques, like using oil paints, had potential damages to the paintings.
"It was time, professionally speaking, for a professional museum to make those changes," she said.
"Questions are swept aside because they have already been settled in private."
"In most cases we had receipts," she said
"Over the years, the staff had lent things because of storage. As the staff changes, the things that they know change."
She added that sometimes it was not known whether University paintings were displayed unless someone called the museum staff.
Dreiling said the museum had reconsidered loan paintings, but they were needed at the museum for classes, exhibition and photographic purposes.
The museum does have paintings hanging in the chancellor's alvee, in private rooms in the Kansas Union and in the Endowment Association offices, she said.
The museum staff encourages students to borrow paintings from the Student Union Activities office, which has an art loan program. Dreiling said.
SHE URGED amendment of the bill to make the use of industrial revenue bonds depend on public approval by referendum.
Barbara Waggoner, a member of the Lawrence Citizens for a Better Downtown, allowing use of industrial revenue and training development involved an abuse of public power.
"Let Lawrence's experience be a lessen for all of us," Waggoner said, referring to Action 80. "A group standing from gain to loss will have the governmental powers to decision making, meeting in secret, can as we are seeing just now, take effective control of a city."
She asked for safeguards against abuse of power and said the city should be required to formulate a detailed plan downto town and to develop a city's existing general development Plan 96.
WAGGONERla the new plan should explore options to a massive downtown mall and make requirements for maintaining a turn-of-the-century downtown architecture.
"Now we're being confronted with a non-choice," she said.
"We're going to have tones of open meetings," Carter said. "It's obvious that there's going to be a downtown mall, there's going to be community discussion."
With all the testimony directed at specific downtown projects instead of the bill as a whole, the council's members Kearns, R-Merriman, cautioned the committee against deciding the fate of in-
"It's unwise to expect the committee to decide whether a project here or there is good," Kearns said. "We need to avoid getting into hometown issues."
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Lawrence Premiere!
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"A lucid and uninhibited journey to the outer limits on human behavior. 'LUNA's' images are so hypnotic, erotic and beautifully shot. By sheer cinematic force, Bertolucci seduces us. Both the film and its star, Jill Clayburgh, are perfect."
—Frank Rich, Time Magazine
**A Film by Bernardo Berrodino)**
International Screenwriter
Veronica Laarz- Benrota and with Tomas Milian
Screenwriter of *Vitruvio Vittorio* (Bernardo Berrodino)
English Adaptation by George Malik-Director of Photography Vitruvio Vittorio Malik
Produced by Rachel Benson (Rachel Benson)
**R**
A film directed by Bernardo Berrodino
Thursday, March 28
8:00 pm $1.50
HOCH AUDITORIUM
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