University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1983
City manager system booming since 1917
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
Amid police corruption, prostitution and two politically boisterous newspapers, Wichita adopted the first city manager form of city government in Kansas early in the 20th century, the associate director of the Center for Urban Studies at Wichita State University said yesterday.
edward Flenje, the associate director, spoke yesterday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union at the 36th city managers' annual conference, attended by 120 city managers throughout the Midwest.
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC Affairs sponsored the three-day conference, which ends tomorrow and includes on aspects of city management.
In February 1917, the Kansas Legislature approved the first city management plan, Flentje said, which gave cities the option to switch the powers of a mayor to a city manager, who then would handle budgeting and public works problems with the aid of a city commission.
Shortly after legislative approval of the plan, the publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Henry Allen, lodged a campaign to support the plan in Wichita. Jenice said nearly 600 articles appeared in the Beacon in support of the plan.
approved the plan for a city manager in June. he said.
ALTHOUGH WICHITA WAS THE
first city to approve the plan in Kansas,
it was not the first time the city
Dayton, Ohio, had established a similar plan three years earlier to help it deal with a flood clean-up, he said.
But the reason for Wichita's plan, Flentje said, was a popular feeling of civil and moral responsibility for things such as cleaning up police corruption and attempting to prevent crime. For such things as parks, museums and economic growth
Aquiring land was essential, he said, for controlled economic growth and for competition with other cities.
To illustrate the effect of the economic growth by the city, Flentje cited a 122 percent jump in population and a 69 percent jump in tax revenue since World War II.
Support for the city manager- commission form of government came mainly from the businessmen of the community.
THE POLITICAL DOMINANCE of the business sector and the city management plan has ruled Wichita for 67 years, he said, because of the low blue-collar voter turn out in the elections.
Only once, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, did those who supported the city management system lose their dominance, he said.
The result of the change in power then was a lack of expenditure for city projects, but eventually the pro-city manager people gained control of the commission and reversed the trend, he said.
University residence halls are filling up at a slightly slower rate than at the same time last year, the residential programs said yesterday.
Fred McElhene, the director,
said that his office had received
about 60 fewer returned contracts
for residence hall rooms during the
1983-84 school year than at this time last year.
He said, however, that despite the decrease, two of the women's halls and one of the coed halls had been removed in Hall Lewis, Hall Oliver, Lewis Hall and Oliver Hall.
A total of 3,344 people have returned contracts for the University's eight residence halls.
IN ADDITION, THE ROOMS allotted to males for next year have been filled in Ellsworth and Hashinger halls.
A residence hall occupancy report from the University stated that Oliver had a capacity of 674 students but that only 592 contracts for the hall had been returned. McElhene said, however, that about 85 people (including 10) returned "back cards" and another 50 were on a waiting list to get into the hall.
"It gives us a good idea of who is coming back," he said, "without the cards, it puts the student in a position in February where he has to contract for the following year while still paying for the present year."
Contract return rate down
"Intent to return cards" give returning residents a priority for the hall and the room of their choice without having to submit a signed contract or pay the hall's deposit fee.
MCELHENIE SAID THAT deposits for the halls raised from 802 to $173, depending on how the halls are installed; installations were araned
Of the halls with available spaces, McCollum Hall has the most space left, according to the report.
McCollum's capacity is 960. As of April 25, only 197 contracts had been submitted.
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About 345 contracts have been returned by students who want to live in Joseph R. Pearson Hall next door. A half-time hall is 416, according to the report.
Templin Hall's capacity is 432, and 157 contracts have been submitted for space in that hall.
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