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University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1981
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Care Unit tends to animals
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
With spring comes peak time at the University of Kansas' wildlife rehabilitation program, as the Animal Care Unit becomes a temporary home for many wild young animals.
People bring the animals to the Care Unit, in the Malto Hall addition, in hopes that the animal caretakers can substitute for mothers that have apparently deserted their young.
However, Jeanie Hauer, animal technician in charge of the wildlife rehabilitation program, said most of these young animals would be better off left alone. The mother may not be around, but it does not necessarily mean she has deserted her offspring.
HAUSER SAID the Care Unit started its wildlife rehabilitation program three years ago and has treated about 100 animals since
Most of the animals are brought in by the Kansas Fish and Game Commission but many citizens also bring animals.
Hauer said it was often best to call the Fish and Game people if one found an injured animal so that they could with expertise could decide what to do.
Hauser now cares for several tiny cottontail rabbits. These greyish, hairless, newborn rabbits, about an inch long, still have not opened their eyes. Hauser said she was not opaque about being able to raise them.
"A lot of baby animals would be much better off raised by their natural mother," Hauser said. "Sometimes that is not possible so therefore I would encourage someone to bring them to us."
SHE SAID ONE could determine
whether an animal needed help by watching the nest area.
"Many times you won't see the rabbit return to the nest but you can tell by easily touching the grass over the area," she said. "If the animals are hungry they will become very active."
Hauser said it was important not to mow the grass in the area around the nest.
Young birds that have fallen out of trees often seem vulnerable, but Hauser said it was only necessary to take care of them if there were cats or other predatory animals in the area.
TOUCHING THE BIRD briefly will not necessarily turn the parents away. Hauser said, but one should know that he is more than absolutely necessary.
"Many times you can take the baby bird and you know the parent bird is there because it will be calling out and making threatening noises," Hauser said. "If that is the case, the bird probably has a much better chance even if the nest is left on the ground."
A person can tell whether a baby bird is cared for by making a tapping noise on the nest. That is the shape of a beak. Do birds have eyes if they are hungry. Hauser said.
Hauser stressed the importance of watching the nest from afar to avoid scaring off the parents.
"The only thing that will make them turn from the young is if the area is disturbed." she said.
THE ANIMAL CARE UNIT also can treat injured animals. It is presently caring for two injured birds of prey, a screech owl and a sparrow hawk that are cared for by the kawk house on the KU Sunflower farm east of town.
John Mulder, University veterinarian, said most of the injured birds had flown into windows or were hilt by cars.
He said he could put pins in broken legs and suture wounds to treat the birds.
"Birds" normal body temperature is about 180 degrees Fahrenheit so they heal much faster than mammals," he said. "If you get the skin sutured or the bone in the right side of the bird heals remarkably well."
MULDER SAID THEY lost most animals from internal injuries because they were difficult to diagnose.
Often, he said, the animals were very weak when they were brought in because they had been unable to eat. He said he sometimes had to use vitamins or hormones to stimulate their appetite.
Other than birds and rabbits, the Care Unit has treated raccoons, turtles, snakes and coyotes in the past.
Not everyone is allowed to house wild animals. Birds of prey are protected by federal laws on endangered species and almost all other wild animals are protected by state laws.
Hauser said the wild animals in the Care Unit were not pets and the goal was to release them into the wild once they had recovered.
SHE SAID ABOUT 55 percent of the animals were eventually released. The other survivors are housed in places that can care for wild animals.
Neither the sparrow hawk nor the screech owl being treated are likely to recover enough to survive in the wild. Hauser said. The owl has had one eye removed and may not see clearly. It does not care that sparrow hawk's wings were so badly injured the bird may never fly well enough to survive outdoors.
Hauser said they were hoping to release the marsh hawk, which has been in their care for about two years.
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The loss of more than $300,000 in intangible tax revenues, effective this coming fiscal year, could result in a raising of property taxes in Lawrence, according to Allen Loyd of the city manager's office.
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Loyd emphasized that raising the tax was the prerogative of the City Commission, but Commissioner Barkley Clark said the city had "few options" other than raising property taxes if it wasn't made in the lost revenue.
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"It was unpopular, not so much as an action against high taxes, but the method of taxation," she said.
According to Mayor Marcel Francisco, the state-collected intangibles tax, which taxed interest and dividend income, was a major driver of who lives on job and other savings.
Last spring, Loyd said, a statewide referendum was passed that gave cities the option of retaining or calling a vote on keeping the intangibles tax.
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Clark said it was known last year that intangibles revenue was going to be lost, and that the commission had not to consider it a mere budget algh.
"Most of our revenue-sharing funds are already spoken for," Clark said. "We'll be spending most of those on City Hall and on people programs.
Clark said it would be difficult to accept through an increased property tax.
"Our federal Community Development funds are pretty much committed
voted on the tax have voted to get rid of
Leyd said, "Lawrence was one of them."
"I don't want to say anything definite on this until I've talked with the commissioners and looked at all the data," she said.
The fund, which Loyd described as a "sort of catch-all" fund, pays mostly for staff and city employee salaries.
"Some departments, such as the street department, have their own levies," Loyd said, "but mainly it's a sort of catch-all to pay for staff costs.
"We should be getting together here fairly soon to begin our budget discussions", Clark said. "It will probably come up then."
Clark stressed that the city commission had yet to discuss the possibility of raising the property tax, and that nothing was definite yet.
His concern was echoed by commissioner Nancy Shontz.
The loss of more than $300,000 in revenue—$321,295.15 to be exact—out of
"that budget includes fees that are collected only to be spent for specific purposes, such as utilities and maintenance," Lord said. "Loss of the investment will result in a loss of the city's general operating fund, which is $5,171,000 this year."
a $25,289,000 1980 city budget doesn't seem significant, Loyd said. However, he said, the figures are misleading.
Black Awareness topic of weekend conference
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
"We're trying to bring the black students of this campus together and re-evaluate exactly what went on this year," she said. "By studying what happened this year, we can begin to plan the strategies that will assist students next year on academic, social and other levels."
"Our property taxes have gone up very little over the past 10 years," Clark said an observation that was made to Mike Wilden, assistant xy manager.
The chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents and a former assistant secretary for education among scheduled for election on May 16. **U.K. Black Awareness Day programs.**
Saunders-Turner said that a school year usually was just "laid to rest" and that new students had to start from scratch with no guidelines from past years.
E. Bernard Franklin of the Board of Regents will speak at 9:30 a.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union, and Arthur Fletcher, assistant labor secretary during the Nixon administration, will speak during the banquet program at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Holiday Inn. Fletcher is now a management consultant in Washington, D.C.
Too many times people think they
Leslie Saunders-Turner, program coordinator, said the programs were aimed to help black students end this year smoothly and to start planning for next year.
have accomplished something because they react to a problem well," she said. "Keep in mind if you only react to a problem we always at least one step behind."
The awards were named for the late Blanche Keteen Bruce of the class of 1885, the University's first black graduate, and Lizzie Ann Smith, the first black student admitted to the University.
The Bruce-SMITh tuition scholarships will be presented by the Black Alumni Council during the morning program. Saunders-Turner said the scholarships to encourage students with high academic achievement and leadership ability.
Students can register for the workshop from 8 to 10:30 a.m. in the KU Alumni Offices in the Kansas Union. Registration for the daytime programs is free, but there is a $15 charge for the evening banquet, program and dance. Kansas Relays tickets are not included in the program registration.
Other speakers will be Marshall R. Jackson, KU assistant director of admissions and records; Mary Townsend, director of the KU faculty; and Belena H. Gordon, vice-chairman of the Black Alumni Committee.
"All the speakers will concentrate on how to solve problems and stress not just complaining about whatever the ending situation is." Saunders-Turner said.
"They went up last year, but over a 10-year period they've been very stable." Wilden said.
"Our problem is that the building industry has been depressed lately, in contrast to the good growth Lawrence has experience over the past decade." Clark said. "There hasn't been much expansion of the tax base as a result."
Lawrence's property tax rate currently stands at 39.33 mills, and, according to Loyd, each mill is worth approximately $118,000 in revenue. Loyd estimates that it would take a loan of $26 million to make up the funding difference.
"We have two choices—either to tighten our belts or raise the taxes. No one likes to see their taxes go up, but even if they do, I think we still have a
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"That, of course, is no assurance that the city commission will do that," Loyd said.
At a rate of 39.33 miles, a property owner with $50,000 worth of taxable property would pay $1,965 in taxes, or $393.33 for every $10,000 worth of taxable property. A three-mill increase would increase that bill to $2,116.65 per $50,000, or $423.33 per $10,000, a net tax increase of $150.15 per $50,000.
Mayor Francisco said that the property tax subject probably would be broached by the commission soon.
"Internally, we've already begun," he said. "Everything is all very tentative at this point, but we're definitely starting to think about the budget."
According to Wildgen, the internal city budget process has already started.
"We have the power to raise the tax as part of our regular agenda," she said.
Public budget hearings are in August, and the final budget must be filed with the state by Aug. 25, Wilden said.