CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1984
Projects continued from p. 1
lost its eligibility for community development grants. The other is the Old West Lawrence Association.
"It is a killing breeze to the extension of local initiative," said Terry Summers, president of Punch Media association. "If you want your neighborhood to be better, you need to support them financially."
DATA FROM THE 1890 census showed that the two groups no longer qualified as low-income areas. Consequently, the associations cannot receive funds unless they can prove that proposed projects benefit low-income people or prevent slum and blight.
The federal money available to all Lawrence neighborhood associations decreased 4 percent for 1984, said Kempton Lindquist, Community Development Block Grant program analyst. But the two associations will no longer be eligible for cuts in funding status, not because of cuts at the federal level.
He said the amount of federal money for Lawrence hit a peak at $839,000 in 1980. The amount budgeted for the city this year is $735,000, down from $766,000 in 1983.
THE REDUCTIONS CAME about because of President Ragan's efforts to trim the federal budget.
Because they are in low-income areas, the East Lawrence Improvement Association, the Oread Neighborhood Association, and the Brookkreek's association are eligible for money.
A neighborhood is eligible for community development funds if 51 percent of its residents have household incomes of $11,324 or less, which
is 80 percent of the $14,156 median income in
Douglas County.
Household income is determined by the total income of the occupants.
The association has also been working with the city on a homestead project that will provide eight empty lots to qualified people who apply to build homes on the lots.
Although the North Lawrence Improvement Association recently lost its low-income status, it can still receive community development money. The city contracted a slum and alphabetic area several years ago.
In the neighborhoods that are not eligible for the money, Lindenquist said, individuals who meet the low-income status can get money from a housing rehabilitation deferred loan program.
The deadline for applications is Feb. 29, and the city will announce the winners April 21. The city will use the time between the deadline and the application deadline, whether applicants are eligible, Herrick said.
IN THE GREAD neighborhood, the problem is sidewalks. The association is working on a sidewall renovation project, said association president Kevin McHugh.
'It is a killing blow to the extension of local initiative . . . If you want your neighborhoods to be involved,you need to support them financially'
- Terry Summers, president of the Pinckney Association
Also, the associations can receive community development money for park improvements, sidewalk repair or water line repair if the improvements will help lower income people, he
and, theoretically, individual areas within the four ineligible neighborhoods can be designated as low-income and therefore receive funds, Lindoust said.
THE EAST LAWRENCE association requested financing last fall to plant trees in the neighborhood, said Sharon Herrick, projects director for the association. The city began the project in late fall.
The biggest problem the neighborhood faces, Mchugh said, is absentee landlords. Some landlords who don't live in the neighborhood rent property that they do not keep up.
Sperry than another problem for the Oread area, because it is close to campus, is parking. McHugh said that the area he lived in, 11th and Kentucky streets, was a high density area that had parking problems.
IT'S NOT A problem in the summer, McHugh said, but in older months KU students cause problems by parking in front of the houses during class.
The Brookcreek association is now working on
a neighborhood maintenance and repair workshop, which will be in an old garage or an old filling station, if the association can acquire one of the sites, president Don Binns said.
The association also has requested funds for paving and widening 15th Street between Haskell Street and Broadway.
The biggest problem the association faces is apathy of residents, he said. To increase interest in the neighborhood, the group plans a membership drive.
"We've got the potential for 10 times the members we have now," he said. "We have the greatest number of homeowners, which is unique to this neighborhood."
THE NORTH LAWRENCE association has requested money to build sidewalks because children have to walk in the street to Woodland Elementary School. president Jack Todd said.
Keeping the Union Pacific Railroad Station open is also a high priority for the association, Todd said, because the neighborhood does not want the building to become run down.
Union Pacific is not using the building, Todd said, but the company will not give it up because
He said the railroad would sell the building if someone would buy it and move it off of the railroad's property.
"That's like giving you the moon, if you can bring it home," Todd said.
Although the group does not have a large membership, he said, people who participate are active. Neighborhood volunteers will build a waterfront on the river levee by Riverfront Park this spring.
THE STRUCTURE IS stone, and cannot be moved, and the building would be unsafe for active use, he said, because it is next to a 40-mile-an-hour railroad track curve.
"We'd rather have 50 active members than ₩⁰ who don't show up," he said.
The Barker Neighborhood Association, formerly called the East Central Neighborhood Association, has requested funds for replacing sidewalks, said president Glenda Hewlett.
Although the neighborhood is not designated as a low-income area, Hewlett said, it plans to work on its eligibility in order to obtain a minimum amount of financing from the city.
The group has asked for money for boundary markers to raise consciousness about the a/a area.
"WE ARE TRYING to increase awareness of our neighbors around us, and increase participation in the neighborhood association," Hewlett said.
A neighborhood watch in cooperation with the Lawrence Police Department, coordinated by the neighborhood association, will begin this month.
"The development of a neighborhood association depends on the energy of people in it."
The Old West Lawrence Association is primarily a social organization, president Oliver Finney said, depending on who is active in the group. Coming activities include a tour of old homes in the neighborhood, an annual picnic and a civic project, which is still undetermined.
Although the association does not get involved in political issues, Finney said, members try to serve as catalysts for issues.
THIS SPRING, THE city will make improvements to Central Park well nearly $70,000.
Because the neighborhood lost its lost low-income eligibility, an additional $1,000 in planned improvements to the park will not be made.
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