CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
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Redevelopment vote may stir conflict of interest
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
All five Lawrence city commissioners will probably vote tomorrow night on selection of a developer for downtown, but two commissioners have said they might not be able to vote if the commission is selecting a redevelopment plan as well as a developer.
The Kansas attorney general's office issued a four-page letter Friday, which, according to some city officials, appears to say that commissioners who signed the letter can vote to select a developer, but not a plan for downtown redevelopment.
MAYOR DAVID LONGHURST and Commissioner Mike Amyx both lease business space in the area that Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La., has proposed for redevelopment, but do not have business interests in the area proposed by Town Center Venture Corp.
The commission is expected to select either Sizerel or Town Center, a local group of developers and architects, as the official developer for downtown redevelopment during the City Commission meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The Sizerel proposal calls for development of a retail shopping center in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown, east of Massachusetts Street. The Town Center plan proposes closing the 600 block of Massachusetts Street and building a mall between Vermont Street and the alley east of Massachusetts Street.
LAST MONTH, Kate Webber, 819 Maine St., asked state Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, to ask the state attorney general for a legal opinion about whether Amyx and Longhurst's business holdings would present a conflict of interest in voting on downtown redevelopment.
After reviewing the opinion, both Amyx and Longhurst said that they intended to vote tomorrow on the commission. But the commission was not selecting a plan.
"If we are truly picking a developer there is no problem," Amyx said. "If we are picking a plan, then there is a Renewal Act that we need to follow."
Amyx said that even if the commission makes that decision, the public should be aware.
"It's obviously a choice between a 600 block plan and a 700 and 800 block plan," he said.
CITY MANAGER BUFORD Watson, after checking with City Attorney Milton Allen, said that it appeared that Amyx and Longhurst could vote on the Town Center plan, but not on the Sizerer plan.
The opinion, which was prepared by Assistant Attorney General Terrence Hearshman, said that the commissioners would not be violating the Kansas general conflict of interest laws, but would be under U.S. law to act. If the commissioners' property was included a specific urban renewal project.
Watson said that the city would create an urban renewal project for the
against the Sizerel plan this summer, but Amyx said that those votes were not a conflict of interest because the law pertained only to the Urban Renewal Act, and at the time the city was undergoing a financing methods for redevelopment.
Both Longhurst and Amyx voted
COMMISSIONER NANCY Shontz echoed Amy's concerns about the legal opinion, and said that the letter had made it clear that she had wanted answered before the vote.
"The commission has not made it clear if we are voting on a plan or a developer," Shontz said. "I'm grateful the attorney general's office has sent the letter because it takes the issue out of supposition.
"I HOPE ALL my questions are answered or the vote will be very confused," she said. "But because more confused, and that's bad because we started out with a logical
system for the train, 'I'd certainly like to get the train back on the track.'
Shontz said that she hoped the commission would make a decision, but said that her vote would depend on how the commission answered her questions.
In other action tomorrow night the city will consider:
She also said that Sizeler had agreed to develop anywhere in the city that the commission wanted, but that Town would only develop in the 600 block.
- Implementing the Cold Weather Rule created by the city's Natural Gas Task Force. The rule would limit the gas company's ability to shut off gas during the winter when people haven't paid their fuel bills.
- Starting a fuel assistance relief tube to help people pay their winter fuel bills.
McMurry's sentence reduced; parole possible in 18 months
A Douglas County District Court judge has reduced the prison sentence that Steven McMurray, former head of the drug agency in Wheels program, received in July.
McMurray pleaded no contest June 10 to five charges of felony theft in connection with the theft of funds from the bus service, which is subsidized by students. He was charged in September 1882 taking money from the program.
to five years consecutively for four of the counts of felony theft. The fifth count to which he pleaded was to be served concurrently.
McMurry was sentenced to serve two
Ralph King, Douglas County District Court judge, said Friday that McMurray would now serve all five sentences he was charged with in eligible for parole in about 18 months.
But King ordered McMurry to repay the nearly $257,000 that was embezzled from the bus service from 1976 to 1982.
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ASSOCIATED GENERAL Contractors Student Chapter (A.G.C) will meet at 7 p.m. of the Art and Design Building.
BASEBALL Simulations Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
KU MOUNTAINEERING Association will meet at 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
STUDENT Creative Anachronists will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union.
THE LIFE-ISSUE Seminar: "The Committed Marriage: A Christian Perspective" will discuss "Knowing and Being Known" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Orave Ave.
THE GEOGRAPHY Department Colloquium series presents Robert Day, author of "The Last Cattle Drive" speaking on "Along the Edge: A Writer's Geography" at 4 p.m. in Room 317, Lindley Hall.
THE BIBLICAL Seminar "Gospel of Mark: Triumph Through Suffering" will discuss "The Gospel of Power: Jesus Opposes His Enemies" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN Fellowship will meet at 2:30 p.m. at 1116 Indiana St.
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CHAMPIONS! will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
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