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Friday, February 15, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Commission to Act on Hospital Improvement Financing
The Lawrence City Commission will act Tuesday on an official statement of the city's intent regarding possible financing for improvements to Lawrence Memorial
The decision to consider a statement of intent was made yesterday at a meeting between members of the commission and members of the hospital's board of trustees.
"We need to be told whether to stop now or to continue planning and come back to work. We have a good plan for the best facility at the best money Warren Rhodes, chairman of the board, held."
Buford Watson, city manager, said the statement of intent could in effect, that the city would be willing to look at final cost figures and consider financing hospital improvements, enabling the board to move ahead with planning.
WATSON SAID he hoped the commissioners could give the board an indication of whether they would be willing to authorize agreements with banks for new revenue bonds.
But Rhodes said members of the board hadn't gotten to the point of financing at this stage and that the trustees weren't seeking permission for revenue bonds at this time.
Rhodes said the board would first have to study a report by an accounting firm on how much room costs would rise under different tax plans. He also said he would be sent to the board at its next meeting, Feb. 20.
Mayor Nancy Hambleton and Commissioner Jack Rose both said that improved hospital facilities should be common to all of the communities overall health needs.
Funeral Rites Are Tomorrow For Librarian
Memorial services for Florence Lesueur Johnson, assistant head of the catalogue department of Watson Library, will be at 12 noon on Friday, the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St.
Mrs. Johnson, 60, died Tuesday in her home at 1634 Illinois St. She worked in the office of the National Park Service.
Surviving Mrs. Johnson are two daughters, Meredith Johnson of Lawrence and Leslie Plank, Dallas, Tex.; her mother, Martha Fraizer Fratcher of the home, and one grandson.
The family requests donations be made to the scholarship fund of the Business Institute.
A preliminary study on community health needs has been prepared by Good Health, Inc., a hospital consulting firm from Rochester, Mum. Good Health was recently retained by the board to be project director for hospital improvements.
Three alternatives are being considered: creation of a new facility to the west of the present hospital, addition of new facilities to the east of the present hospital and renovation of the present facility.
RHODES READ a statement" to the commissioners saying that recent cost estimates lead them to believe that the people of Lawrence could have a new 186 best hospital with built in flexibility and at a cost of between $21 and $15 million.
The statement noted that removing the present facilities to conform to State Health Department requirements and expanding the facility to meet 1980 health care needs would cost over $13 million, an estimate made by Good Health.
Hampton said she thought there was general agreement among members of the commission that something needed to be provided better health services for Lawerence.
However, said Rose, "I don't think the information we have at this time is sufficient for us to choose plan one, two or three."
Mrs. Don Robertson had her late husband, a partner in the architecture firm of Robertson, Peters and Williams, had received a commitment last year from the board that his firm would do what Good Health had now been retained to do.
She later said it was her understanding that the commitment was a verbal one in which Robertson's firm would have hired a new executive, and that she had improved improvements the board decided on.
THE BOARD apparently changed its mind, she said, and went out of the state to live.
Rhodes said that Robertson, apparently because of illness last summer, never got around to recommending a consultant to the board. Other members of the firm, he said, hadn't come forward with a recommendation until the past week.
Rhodes wouldn't comment on a letter by Mrs. Raymond Cerli, 1000 Sunset Drive, which had been sent to him, other members of the board and the local news media.
taken at "special meetings" on those dates, she stated.
According to the letter, one of those minutes referred to action by the board at a
special meeting on June 28,1973, where it was decided to invite representatives of Good Health, Inc., to a survey of hospital resources and the condition of the physical plant.
Regents to Discuss Using Fees for Field House Floor
TOPEKA (AP)—Lawrence landlords protested yesterday a landlord-tent bill being studied by the House Judiciary and was “heavily weighted toward tenants.”
Cerf's letter stated that Rhodes had told the board he hadn't had meetings on June 28 and on July 23. But minutes of later meetings referred to actions that had been
The bill passed the senate with major amendments. If approved by the house committee it will be sent to the floor of the chamber, consideration by its full membership.
Local Landlords Protest Landlord-Tenant Measure
A request for authorization to use student
tools to install a synthetic floor in Allen Field
House will be discussed by the Kansas
University and its monthly meeting in
Tepeeka tomorrow.
The bill is aimed at establishing rights, duties, obligations and remedies for both minor and major victims.
The senate took out a section of the bill that would have given tenants recourse if the landlord failed to respond to a notice certain repairs needed in the dwellings unit.
Mrs. Marie Lynch of Lawrence said insurance rates for buildings in an area near the University of Kansas campus had been lower because they were considered high risk.
"The landlords didn't create this situation, the tenants did," Lynch told the committee. She said that tenants, who are renters, make laws and regulations pertaining to housing.
The University of Kansas is requesting authorization to use $180,000 of student fees collected before July 1966 to replace the women's basketball court, construct new tennis field events areas and provide additional facilities for the entire University.
Since the fees were collected before the Student Seat Code was adopted in 1969, the money balances to the University rather than to the student are not guaranteed by get authorization from the regents to use it.
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students to disappear at the end of the month without notice. She said that if the property owner was forced to comply with international laws, low cost housing would be lost.
Another witness said it wasn't unusual for
The bill has been assigned to a sub- committee for further study.
Athletic director Clyde Walker, who supported the use of the money for renovating the field house, has said he would raise the remaining $120,000 to improve the improvements by asking for private donations from friends of the University.
Legislature to pay for increased fuel oil costs for this year will also be discussed. An appropriation of $168,145 will also be granted increased fuel oil costs for next year.
Another request for a $103,263 supplemental appropriation from the Kansas
Mortar Board information sheets are available in the Dean of Women's office, 220 Strong.
Deadline—5:00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at 220 Strong
ACME Salutes Player of the Week ROGER MORNINGSTAR for Outstanding Play in the K-State Game
Mingnasiong led the Jayhawks with 14 points in the Kansas State game. He is the team's leading scorer and his outside shooting has helped in many KU victories.
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