University Daily Kansan, February 25, 198
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City approves natural gas increase
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved a request to restructure natural gas rate increases for large commercial and industrial users. The restructuring would not affect gas revenues.
Residential and small business rates would not be affected by the restructuring.
The commission also approved a March 10 public hearing to consider the extension of 24th Street at
Ousdahl Road and to look at the traffic pattern between 23rd and 27th and Ousdahl Road.
Commissioner Ed Carter said that Ousdah Road is too heavily traveled and an alternative road is needed to route traffic to 23rd Street.
The commission voted unanimously to authorize the payment of $65,215.22 to District Court for the condemnation of 20 acres of airport land. The land, which is located north of highway 40
and east of the airport road, was owned by Raymond Pine. The land was annexed for future airport expansion.
A dispute that began in July of 1979 involving Sharp Brothers Company and their work on the Clinton Treatment Plant was settled last night when the "commissioners" (Gilbert G. Chandler) recommended to pay the company $143,380 in an out-of-court settlement.
The commission agreed to accept sealed bids on March 10 for a 1976 Vega. Anyone can bid on the Vega, which was used in city business. It has 35,760 miles on it.
In other action last night, the commission gave final approval to an ordinance amending the city code regarding floodplain management of the river requiring the licensing of jewelry, billon, coin and silverware dealers.
Local director elected to national board
Chapman will serve a one-year term on the board of the Consumer Federation of America. He received the Election of 2016 award of the candidates for the one-year term.
Cyde Chapman, director of the Lawrence consumer affairs office, was elected this month to a national organization's board of directors.
"I was surprised because I was probably the least known on the slate of candidates," he said.
"The election is an honor. I am pleased, but I'm not exactly sure what work I'll be doing."
Chapman said he had not vet been
given any specific assignments from the national organization.
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The Consumer Federation of America with headquarters in Washington DC., is a consumer advocacy organization that coordinates consumer issues such as credit awareness and nutrition, utility regulation, transportation, energy development and the environment. One of the board's duties is to discuss the various policies' policy resolutions, Chamman said.
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"We can't discuss all the resolutions in one year, but pick the most pressing," he said. "Then we focus on those issues."
Chapman said Kansas and area states were not heavily represented at the CRA. The Lawrence consumer group did two votes in the national organization.
"There is the Consumer Protection Division in the state attorney general's office, but about the only consumer agency that recently is the plain language bill."
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"This year the issues that probably will affect the consumer the most are number 1.
"Occasionally the national group may ask a state to take a stand on a consumer issue." he said.
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Natural gas deregulation especially will be a controversial topic for the CFA board.
Chapman said Kansas was not a consumer-oriented state.
"It will be a battle to stay alive and hold on to the gains already made," he said. "There won't be a great deal of forging ahead."
"Kansas has been lacking any consumer network," he said. "There is
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Tonganoxie farmers protest trail system
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Tonganoxic farmers fear that a statewide trail system will result in a loss of property, they told the House to investigate their Resource Committees yesterday.
The farmers, who for the last three years have fought off attempts to establish recreational trails, once again bids off bills that would set up such a system.
Branson said that several landowners told her they did not want to see the trails become a haven for motorcyclists.
But in the initial hearings on the bills, whose sponsors include Lawrence area legislators, the committee may have persuaded the farmers to reconsider because of alluring tax breaks in one of the bills.
The first of the proposed trails would be on the bed of the old Tonganoxie to Lawrence railroad tracks.
"Mainly there were minor clean-amendments that the groups against the bills suggested." State Rep. Ron Fox, R-Prairie Village, said, "and I think that taking care of those amendments will be no problem."
FOX WRITE the bill that would set up the trails system and give landowners tax breaks for the use of their land.
FARMERS FROM AROUND the proposed trail sites have vigorously argued against the trail bill because of concerns about state and vandalism around the trails.
A similar trail's bill, which lacks the tax breaks, was introduced at almost the same time by Lawrence area State Reps. Jesse Branson, D-Lawrence;
Betty Jo Chariton, D-Lawrence and State Rep. Ruth Wilkin, D-Topeka.
This year, however, the farmers' protests were not nearly as strong as in the past.
The bills would allow the park Park and Resources Authority to administer a system of hiking, biking and canoeing trails throughout the state.
BRANSON SAID before the hearings that she would have liked to see Fox's and her bill combined to give them more room for their journeys through the Legislature.
"They were concerned with local zoning requirements that were not addressed by the bills." Fox said. "They also were not comfortable with hiking in parks in control, so the bills will be amended to giving the governor control."
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