University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1983
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Interviewing to start for commission seat
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission decided last night to begin interviewing candidates Saturday afternoon for the commission seat left vacant by Commissioner Barkley Clark's resignation.
Clark will resign from the commission after next week's meeting, leaving the four remaining commissioners the task of choosing a replacement for the two years left of Clark's term.
THE COMMISSION has set a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday for nominations for Clark's replacement and requested that none of the nominees' names be released until after the deadline.
City Manager Buford Watson said last night that seven names had been submitted.
The commission will conduct 15-minute interviews with each of the candidates beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday.
After the initial interviews, each commissioner will be allowed to choose one candidate to go on in the selection process.
selection process
The commission scheduled a study session for 8:30 a.m. Monday
for interviews of up to a half hour with the final candidates.
MAYOR DAVID Longhurst said that if the commission was finished interviewing candidates by next Tuesday's commission meeting, it would make its selection at that time.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said the possibility of a 2-2 tie vote existed, in which case the city attorney would cast the deciding vote. She said she wanted to make sure of at least a 3-1 vote to avoid that possibility.
Watson said the city attorney would not cast the deciding vote unless there was an extended deadlock.
In other action, the commission,
at Longhurst's request, discussed
downtown parking and the collection
of unpaid special assessments.
ON THE PROBLEM of unpaid assessments, Longhurst suggested that the city allow the debt to pay the full amount owed, excluding interest, and then give the debtor 180 days to pay the interest.
He said debtors had told him that the interest on the unpaid specials made it hard for them to gain ground.
Campus architect to retire after 35 years
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Alton Thomas, the University of Kansas' first and only landscape architect and site planner, has had a strong hand in molding the more than 900 acres around Mount Oread in the past 35 years.
"When you look at the campus, you see what I do," he said.
But in June, Thomas, 69, will retire.
"It's a great load off my shoulders,
but I know my work will be in good hands," he said.
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THOMAS HAS been responsible for the long-range planning and development of a large aspect of the building's landscaping, sidewalks and parking lots.
"When I came to KU, West Campus was nothing but farmland," he said.
He developed West Campus, as well as the main campus, anticipating future needs of the University and constantly updating and envisioning new ideas.
A big task is making sure good ideas are followed through and researched. He has a large brown notebook that contains plans that project population, the availability of money and the need for academic and research facilities.
"I'll bet my bottom dollar that Campus West will be intensively developed in the next 50 years," he said.
WHEN HE WAS young, he dreamed of being a commercial artist. The first school he attended after high school was the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
IHS RESPONSIBILITIES include determining problems and the cost of a proposed project. Then, once a project is approved, he works with the contractor to blend the project into the campus landscape, determining where
He also supervises student assistants who plan smaller projects for the University, such as parking lots and sidewalks.
in the next 10 years, facilities operations buildings will be moved to West Campus to make room for a human life and provide a place of worship at Daworth Hall. he said.
While in California, he met a landscape architect, and the more they talked, the more he liked the idea of landscaping.
Angeles.
"But I just couldn't see myself trapped behind the drawing board. I've always liked the outdoors," he said.
landscaping. With encouragement from the architect, he earned a degree in fine arts and landscape architecture. After college, he served in the engineer corps in World War II and then worked as an assistant landscape architect for Kentucky's public parks.
trees and shrubs should be planted and planning roads, sidewalks and bike paths.
GEORGE REAL, a professor of architecture and urban design who retired in 1970, invited Thomas to KU in 1948.
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