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University Daily Kansan, January 25, 1984
Bond issue may be used to finance road repairs
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Turnpike Authority is considering refinancing the 282-mile toll road through a $100 million bond issue that would pay for a comprehensive highway rehabilitation plan. KTA board members said yester-
Toll fees paid by motorists driving the stretch of highway from the Oklahoma border south of Wichita tq Kansas City, Kan., would not go up immediately as a result of the refinancing, but could increase later to meet lower capitalization requirements. Portation Secretary John Kemp, an ex-officio member of the KTA board.
"I don't know that there would be any change in the toll rates at least initially, but who knows what inflation will do as you go down the line," he said. "If you want to operate agencies, certainly the cost of operation would tend to indicate an increase."
Kemp and other board members,
including Senate Majority Leader
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were favorably reviewing the refinancing plan, which has been under study for about a year.
The 28-year-old turnippe, built during a crash program in 1955-65, has not undergone a major rehabilitation since it was built, although improvement projects have been done annually, Kemp said. Revenue generated from tolls is not adequate to finance a comprehensive renovation project, he said.
"As you know, this thing was built at all time and unfortunately, it's sort of deteriorating all at one time," said Washington. "It't so bad, but that's the way."
The original turnipwheel was built with a
million bond issue approved in
1864.
The turnipke is supported entirely by toll fees and receives no state funds, Kemp said. When the turnipke is paid for and in good condition, the state transportation secretary must decide how to make the highway part of the state-financed system or keep it a separate entity.
Committee OKs request for $465 for yellow pages
By the Kansan Staff
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night passed a bill that requested an extension for the People's Yellow Pages.
The committee added a provision requiring that editors of the yellow pages charge at least 50 cents for the copies that the additional money would provide and requesting that they charge for all the copies.
The Student Senate will vote on the bill tomorrow.
Last spring, the Senate voted to allocate $2,700 to the yellow pages, which would pay for 3,750 copies.
Pat Kekhe, coordinator of the University Information Center and editor of the People's Yellow Pages, would pay for 1,000 more copies.
The People's Yellow Pages is a guide to campus and community services published with the help of the information center.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
KU classified employees will be represented by a "unified voice" this year at the Kansas Legislature, the Senate and the Classified Senate said last night.
Three KU classified senators will be lobbying the Legislature for the University of Kansas and five other board of Regents schools, Joe Collins, the president, said at the first meeting of the newly elected Classified Senate.
New officers and senators were elected in December. Dave Burnett is vice president and president-elect, and Mary Elliot is secretary. Thirty senators were also elected to two-year terms.
"What I'll try to do in the coming year is make classified employees as visible as possible," Collins said. "When something comes out making us look like second-class citizens, I'll speak out about it."
COLLINS SAID THAT although he wasn't able to influence the Legislature greatly as a lobbyist last year, "we
KU workers head lobbying effort
This year Tom Swearingen, Claudia Orton and Burnett will lobby the Legislature for KU and for members of the Regents Classified Council on Student Affairs at Florida State University, Emporia State University and Fort Hays State University.
Collins said salaries, retirement programs and health benefits were always concerns of classified employ- ers. "We will probably be nearly as critical as a health plan."
"We would like to have them hold the line and fund at the level they have in the past," he said. The state now provides $23 million for health benefits.
sensitized Legislators of our presence."
SWEARINGEN REPORTED on Legislative issues concerning classified employees, including Gov. John Carlin's recommendation to increase classified employee salaries by 5 percent plus $200 a month.
The Classified Senate has not yet decided to support Carlin's recommendation or any other proposal.
endorse Sheryl Jacobs, a Kansas City resident, as the at-large appointee to a three-member state health insurance commission.
Swearingen said two members of the committee already appointed by Carlin were Mike Harder, secretary of administration and a KU professor of political science, and Fletcher Bell, commissioner of insurance.
Swearingen said, Jacobs, who had worked for the state with Boll and who now works at a private insurance company in Kansas City, was endorsed because she was knowledgeable about health care benefits.
Collins said, "We want to see the alternatives that the Legislature will give us."
THE CLASSIFIED SENATE also discussed political endorsements but did not decide whether to endorse candidates or remain apolitical. The executive committee of the senate will draft a set of alternatives that will be addressed at future meetings of the entire senate.
The Classified Senate voted to
Collins said that as the largest group of voters in Douglas County, classified employees had clout with Legislators, become a very visible political entity.
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