CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, December 1. 1983
Page 9
Students sell crafts at bazaar
Stephen Phillips KANSAN
Exhibitors want to make display an annual event
Jeph Bilsky, Chicago senior, arranges glasses that are for sale in the Glass Club Show at the Arts and Crafts Bazare in the Kansas Union. By yesterday afternoon, an estimated 200 people had attended the fair, which began Tuesday and runs through 5 p.m. tomorrow.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Even without November's pay in their pockets, students and passers-by are spending money at SUA's first Arts and Crafts Bazaar.
"We've been doing really well," Linda Smith, Ottawa senior, said yesterday. "More people are buying I, expected, not being pay day yet."
Smith, who is selling jewelry that she made for her jewelry and metallmithing classes, said many people had looked at items and had said that they would come back after they were paid this month's salaries.
THE EXHIBITS. IN the gallery on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, consist solely of handmade items, either as class projects or as a hobby. Students and faculty brought paintings, silk cushions, pottery, embroidery, ceramics, glass works, naper flowers and other craft items.
Robert Hodges, Lawrence graduate student in the glass program of the design department, said that he did not know how much tougher the fair ban Tuesday.
Sales have been about what Hodges expected them to be, considering that, toward the end of the month, most people don't have a lot of pocket money, he said.
"They are digging," he said. "It is not quite pay day yet."
From the glass exhibit, Hodges said, people can buy items that cost from $5 to $100, depending on how old they are. Students need to produce the artwork.
IN PAST YEARS, departments in the School of Fine Arts got together to sell their products in the Kansas
Union lobby, he said. This year Student Union Activities took care of the publicity, and the fair was set up inside the hall where the could be locked and left overnight.
"SUA provided the security for us," he said. "It's a lot easier for the people displaying."
Smith said that about $280 worth of jewelry was sold Tuesday. The bazaar will end at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The store also has a 10 percent commission, which is paid
to SUA. Registered student clubs in the art and design department can keep five percent of the commission. SAU will collect and pay the Kansas state sales tax applicable to the sales.
Liz Kretchem, Winnetka, III., senior and one of the organizers of the bazaar, said that SUA would try to organize another craft fair next week. "I think it was a good Thanksgiving so that students would not be under pressure from finals."
Sales tax to be studied as revenue supplement
By JOHN HANNA Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission yesterday agreed to study the possibility of imposing a countywide sales tax to supplement county revenues.
Commissioner Nancy Hiebert said the county was considering a sales tax to curtail the possibility of having to increase property taxes.
"In passing a budget, you see that everything is so dependent upon property taxes," she said. "You face the challenge of overburdening the property owners."
Dixon said yesterday that the commission had asked him to complete a report in two to three weeks. He added that he should have a preliminary report finished by the middle of next week.
A new sales tax would have to be approved by county voters in an Aug. 7 election. The state levies a 3/cent sales tax and the cities of Lawrence, Eudora and Baldwin all collect half cent sales taxes.
A MILL IS $1 in taxes for each $1,000
in assessed property valuation. This
When considering the budget each year, Hiebert said, the county sets a property tax mill levy to provide tax revenue, and the county budget is approved by the commission after a public hearing in August.
IN CONSIDERING A county sales tax, the commission has asked John Dixon, county budget and accounting director, to explain the legality of imposing such a tax.
After Dixon has determined how a sales tax can be implemented by the county, Commissioner Beverly Bradley reported that percent of tax the county would need
year, the rate was raised from $28.06
to each $1,000 in assessed valuation to
$34.97.
Hiebert said that sources of tax revenue in the county had declined over the past few years. The Kansas Legislature last spring removed taxes on farm machinery and business shelters from county revenue. Also, voters three years ago repealed a county tax on stocks and savings accounts.
"We've been limited pretty much to property taxes," she said. "I think the concern was that we can't overtax one source."
Darlene Hill, county budget director, said that 1983 tax revenues accounted for more than $6 million of the county's 1984 budget of about $15 million. The county made up by various county fees, federal grants and federal revenue sharing.
HIEBERT SAID SIE supports a county sales tax, but said a sales tax could hurt citizens with low incomes, who would pay a larger porportion of their incomes in taxes than people with higher incomes. She said that because these stores could not exempt food and medical supplies from a county sales tax.
In other action, the County Commission approved a pay increase of 4 percent for all county employees to cover cost of living increases.
The increase was included in the 1984 county budget and will take effect Dec. 31. According to Hill, the increase was due to inflation figures for the previous year.
Hill said the increase for administrators, who are paid out of the county's general fund, amounted to $74,000. She was unable to give a complete figure. Last year, employees received an increase of 7.5 percent.
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