University Daily Kansan, June 27, 1984
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City commission meeting is short and sweet
By SHAWNA SEED Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting had two elements that are rarely found in commission meetings — brevity and conciliation.
The commission acted quickly on issues that had generated controversy previously and concluded its business in a little more than an hour.
The commission added two technical amendments to a lease agreement between the city and Security Leasing Corporation for an airport terminal. The first would change the lease's starting date from July 1 to Aug. 1. The second called for an averaged interest rate on the lease, instead of stating a fixed interest
rate.
Commissioners Nancy Shontz and Mike Amyx voted against the amendments, as they had voted against the lease agreement last week.
The commission approved the sign, 5-0. However, Commissioner David Longhurst, adamant in his rejection of the request, would approve this sign grudgingly.
FOR THE SECOND time, Regency Health Care Center, a nursing home at 1800 W. 27th St., presented for approval its plans for a sign.
However, when the commission considered adoption of the amended ordinance, Shontz reversed her request to waive the terminal lease. Amyx voted no.
"Personally, I think this sign is
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The commission also approved an amendment of the special gas tax budget. The city will receive more money from the state gas tax than was originally budgeted for 1984.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, explained that an additional
THE COMMISSION also authorized the city manager, Buford Watson, to sign the city's new agreement with police officers. Ray Hummert, director of personnel, told the commission that city negotiators had compromised with the Lawrence Police Officers Association on health insurance and salary demands in order to gain concessions from the police on a physical-fitness program.
$100,000 would be used to finance the city's summer street repairs.
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THE GOVERNMENT'S DOUBLE STANDARD IS BOTH HYPOCRITICAL AND DESTRUCTIVE
While most would concede that, for instance, any policeman who hides behind his badge while harassing a lawabiding citizen is obviously a dishonest, sniveling coward, categorizing the politician who misuses his power is somewhat more difficult.
The June 11th issue of Time magazine describes Indianapolis' Hoosier Dome, "the newly built, seven-acre, ...$78 million...61,000 seat stadium...in the heart of downtown Indianapolis...(as the) major reason..(for) the defection (to Indianapolis) of professional football's Baltimore Colts last March
Time holds that the Hoosier Dome is "a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city... (because it was) built with a combination of public and private funds...(and thus is the result of) cooperation between the government and the private sector".
Time informs us that "This partnership has pumped an abundance of money and ideas into Indianapolis... Since 1974 nearly $800 million has been spent on...more than 20 major downtown and renewal projects".
The city began one successful project, says Time, "by issuing $4 million in bonds, purchasing a four-acre plot, then leasing the land to a group of local bankers and businessmen".
Because the effort in Indianapolis featured the government doing that which is expected of the entrepreneur-calculating, acquiring, constructing, and leasing-before handing the finished product to the private investor so that he might profit therefrom, this heralded partnership is actually a pretense.
Consider for a moment the discriminatory nature of the governmental response to the comparable plights of the banker and the farmer. Three-quarters of all credit extended to business for a year or more and most home mortgages are governed now by floating exchange rates because bankers understandably found themselves unable to profitably anticipate the fluctuations in the prime rate. Yet even while accommodating the harried banker, the government shamelessly continues allowing interest rates to severely penalize thousands of productive farmers every year!
People may differ over how to describe the politician who professes respect for free enterprise and the industrious individual while supporting and subsidizing the sterile activities of a select few, but virtually everyone would agree that such a misuse of power harms the country and flies in the face of our national ideals.
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