University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1983
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State budget plan
Legislative Roundup
Gov. John Carlin will address a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday and will outline his plans out of a worsening financial crisis.
In a financial report, revenue projections for 1983 and 1984 came up $86 million short.
Budget shortfalls last year of $47 million forced Carlin to make budget reductions in state agencies. He also said the state would offer incentives to reduce their budgets 4 percent.
Carlin is expected to discuss tax-generating measures, such as user taxes tacked onto alcohol and cigarette.
Another tax measure discussed in the Legislature this year included a proposed increase in the state sales tax exemption for medical items and food.
A severance tax on natural gas, oil, coal and salt passed by the Senate this session should provide nearly $100
million in revenue for the state officials said.
However, Carlin asked the Legislature to pass a severance tax that would secure $137 million for the state. Carlin built that $137 million into his 1964 budget and said the state would still need about $37 million for the budget to be balanced.
'Sin laws' battle to begin
Senate opponents and proponents predicted heated debate this week on the state's two "sin laws," a resolution to allow parimutuel gambling at race tracks and another to allow open sale of alcohol in restaurants and bars.
Both resolutions would require constitutional change. Two-thirds of the House and Senate must vote to send the issues to voters for ratifi-
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee voted to place the issues on the April 1984 primary
ballot, if the two resolutions pass the Legislature.
The Senate committee included all forms of animal racing in the parimutuel gambling resolution. Proponents of the issue have testified the state could generate up to $30 million from the state-operated tracks.
The alcohol sale proposal would modify current laws. Currently, liquor, wine and strong beer is sold in liquor shops on campus and maximas. Members must be 21 years old.
Severance tax discussed
After weeks of discussion with Gov. John Carlin and members of the Legislature, The House Assessment and Taxation committee will decide this week what kind of severance tax to send to the House floor.
The Senate passed a severance tax
on natural gas, oil, cool and salt that was estimated to generate about $100 million.
School financing decided
Included in the Senate proposal are provisions that allow mineral producers to deduct property taxes on mineral resources. In addition, hence tax they are obligated to pay.
Carlin opposed the tax credit. However, a provision included in the Senate proposal would require royalty owners to pay the severance tax, a source Carlin had not planned to tax. School financing deal?
The House and Senate will consider a school finance proposal this week that places a limit of 3 to 5 percent on the budget increases from last year.
Leaders of both Houses predicted that the measure, the strictest budget limitation in 10 years, would pass. A conference committee of House and Senate members ruled which was previously passed by both the upper and lower chambers.
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission will take final action tomorrow on an ordinance that would give the Lawrence Human Relations Commission the power to order fines and back pay in cases of discrimination.
The commission will consider the ordinance at its regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall, Sixth and麻安 streetset.
The proposed ordinance is a revised version of the city's present human relations ordinance, which gives the human relations commission the authority only to investigate and attempt to conciliate civil disputes. The six-hour meetings
IN SEPARATE six-hour meetings last week, the relations commission
heard from attorneys representing
business firms that
criticized the ordinance.
The attorneys said that government agencies already existed to investigate discriminatory practices and that the revised ordinance would give the department (ministry) power with the checks and balances the other agencies had.
Ray Samuel, director of the city's human relations-human resources department, said last week that under the present ordinance the department had trouble obtaining information needed to investigate discrimination complaints.
The power to request a subpoena through an attorney designated by the city manager would make firms more willing to give information, he said.
Other revisions in the ordinance would bring firms that employ two or
more full-time people under the jurisdiction of the relations commission. Under the present ordinance a firm must employ four full-time people before coming under its jurisdiction.
THE ORDINANCE WOULD also add discrimination due to age and a handicap as discriminations under the relations commission's jurisdiction.
In other business, the city commission will hold a public hearing on the allocation of $814,700 in Community Development Block Grant funds.
The CDBG Advisory Board earlier this month approved recommendations for the funds. The largest proposals are $250,000 for Community Development housing loans and $102,700 for administration of the CD program.
cludes money for energy conservation programs, park improvements and funds for each of the six lower- to middle-income target neighborhoods
The commission will also review proposals for the sale by the city of nine lots in the 800 block of Pennsylvania Street, and the feasibility of using the property for new federal and New York streets for the construction of low-income housing.
Other recommended funding in-
THE COMMISSION WILL discuss two downtown redevelopment issues, a request for the planning commission to review a plan for a downtown shopping center approved by the city commission last week, and a resolution authorizing the continuation of the Downtown Improvement Committee, a group of citizens who advise the commission.
Dave Linnville, American Red Cross instructor, helps Reid Bork, 11, of 815 Indiana St., find the pulse of his father, John, during "CPR Saturday." Linnville, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, was one of several fraternity members helping the Red Cross teach lifesaving techniques.
Sam Harrai / Special to the KANSAN
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