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Runway expansion to increase safety
Another step in Lawrence's piecemeal attempts to improve the safety and capacity of its airport has been approved by the Federal Aeronautics Administration.
Assistant city manager Mike Wilden said he was notified this week that the FAA approved a $1.5 million grant for a new runway that would accommodate jets.
The largest airplanes that the airport can now handle hold 50 people, airport manager Brad Bard Bolthorne said.
The grant will fund 90 percent of the construction of 3,500 feet of what Bartholomew hopes will eventually be a landway with an instrument landing system.
Lawrence will pay the other 10 percent from its airport improvement fund.
Because the airport has only a beacon,
not instruments, to guide pilots, flights
often are cancelled in bad weather, he said.
However, the instrument landing gate is present runway because a hill near the airport would block the signal, would allow pilots to land in fog and other bad conditions.
Wilden said he expected the construction to begin this summer.
The city will have to apply for more grants to extend the new runway and to install the instruments, Bartholowem said.
Bartolomee also said that because the new runway would be built at a different location from where it will present runway, it would increase the airport's safety by giving plot an even larger window.
Lawrence previously had received money to purchase more land for the airport expansion.
$2 million improvements planned for Lindley Hall
A remodeling of Lindley Hall, cost $2 million, is expected to begin next winter, Allen Wiechtert, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
The largest part of the remodeling will be installation of central air conditioning and improvement of the building to meet modern building codes, he said.
The code improvements will consist of the installation of fire doors on all rooms and stairways and better access to the stairways, Wieckert said.
In addition, space that was vacated by the petroleum engineering when they built Hall will be remodeled and occupied by the departments of geography and geology, he
The final part of the remodeling will be the improvement of the loading dock and expansion of the department of astronomy observatory on the roof.
Work on two other renovation projects is in progress. The staff are about to be accepted, the said bids on Waton Library will be accepted March 27 and the bids on Summerfield Hall will be accepted on May 1.
Two other large construction projects are planned, but await the approval of funds from the Kansas Legislature. Wicherdam says they have the support of Gov. John Garpf.
The projects are the remodeling of Flint Hall and a 100,000 square foot addition to Haworth Hall that would house the division of biological sciences.
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A proposed constitutional amendment to increase Kansas House terms from two to four years and Senate terms from four to six years would save legislators time and Rep. give them more experience. State Rep. Leary Johnson, RWakeness, says.
Johnson, the amendment's sponsor, said the amendment would reduce campaign expenditures which he said were often as much as $10,000 for a candidate. He said the committee would not spend time they would otherwise use for campaigning to better serve constituents.
State Rep. Neal Whitaker, R-Wichita, that although legislators could cut campaign spending under the amendment, most members are expected to operate their caimanators anyway.
The proposed amendment is now before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, where it is expected to come to a vote this week.
If later approved by the Legislature, the amendment would have to go to Kansas voters before becoming law.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, who is leaning against the proposed amendment, estimated total spending in
each election for the Kansas House and Senate at $750,000.
Whitaker discounted Johnson's claim that the amendment would give legislators more time to serve their constituents.
"You're not really talking about a lot of money," Solbach said.
"Our legislative session ends early this month, the very day it enters through the end of the session," he said. "After the session ends, there are almost four months before the new legislative session."
JOHNSON SAID extending the time between elections would "take a little of the pressure off of trying to please private interest groups."
However, Solbach said the present terms made legislators more conscious of how their actions might affect them in upcoming elections.
"It makes lobby groups more effective," he said, "because they're more able to hold the threat of adverse publicity from the legislature. We need better terms before prevented legislators from becoming isolated from their constituents and kept power from being concentrated too long in the hands of committee clairmats, who the armmen hold their positions for an entire term."
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"When you serve in the Legislature, you come in contact with a lot of the same faces," he said, "you're lobbied by other interests and by special interparty groups."
"It's necessary and healthy to be reminded that you represent people in your legislative district."
Whitaker agreed that increasing the length of the terms would take legislators further away from the needs of their constituents.
“WHEN YOU HAVE to face election every two years,” Whitaker said, “you remain very aware of how people in your district feel.
"As you get further away, and have less contact with the electorate, you cease to represent the people who put you there in the first place."
Johnson said he did not believe that increased terms would make legislators less aware of the opinions and needs of their constituents.
"I think you're obligated to be close to the people whether your term is two, four or six years," he said.
"It would make it less of a popularity thing." Johnson said.
Another advantage of the longer terms, Johnson said, would be an extra two years of learning time for legislators and the chance to have a say in decisions before deciding whether to e-elect them.
He said a legislator's first term was like an apprenticeship, and that usually only in later terms did a legislator become very productive.
"It would enhance our state government by essentially extending the experience level," Johnson said.
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