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University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1983
Money for KU helps boost revenues, city leaders say
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
Money for the University of Kansas and the state's highways are the most important issues that the Kansas Legislature needs to address, the Lawrence city manager and several city commissioners said Saturday.
When the Legislature gives KU enough money, retail sales to students and University employees remain healthy, City Commissioner Tom Gleason said. Retail sales produce sales-tax revenues for the city, and those
revenues help to keep property taxes under control.
Financing for the University and the state's highways topped the Lawrence City Commission's legislative program, approved in their meeting last week, that lists the city's goals for this year's session.
Also, the program said the the commission opposed additional sales or
The current state sales tax rate is 3.5 percent. In Lawrence, the tax rate is 3.5 percent because the city has added 0.5 percent to provide revenue for the city.
Last week state Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dr Lawrence, co-sponsored a bill that would exempt from the state sales tax all food sales. The bill would also increase the sales tax on other goods to 3.5 percent.
City Commissioner Don Binns said he was not opposed to additional exemptions.
Mayor Marci Francisco said that Charlton's bill would not affect the city's 0.5 percent sales tax, which would continue to apply to food.
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz said, "I'm in favor of a food tax exemption, but you have to replace those lost revenues."
Gang members ambush churchgoers
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Street gang members ejected from a baptism celebration after one got in a fight over a woman ambushed departing guests early yesterday, killing a man and injuring 12 others.
Police said the gang members opened fire with two to four handguns, then jumped into a car and ran over them. Police later were administering, or the injured.
"It was gruesome," police detective Bill Whittaker, a three-year department veteran, said. "It's the worst homicide I've been involved with."
Police said the incident in the American Legion Hall in the Wilmington Harbor area began Saturday night when one of the 10 street gang members got in a fight with a guest over who would dance with a woman.
MEMBERS OF the "South Los" gang were asked to leave about 11:30 p.m. and were waiting outside when the
party broke up shortly after midnight,
Detective Kallester Gallard said.
"It escalated very quickly into a shooting spree." Whittaker said.
Ronald Gallegos, 20, was pronounced dead near the scene after being dragged eight blocks by gang member's car.
Three people were hospitalized yesterday in critical condition, seven in stable condition and one with minor injury. All three partygoer was treated at the scene.
GLEASON SAID he favored increasing the state tax by 0.5 percent and exempting food.
The city's program also calls for state-wide property reappraisal.
City Manager Buford Watson said, "We've been in favor of that for 20 years."
Gov. John Carlin, in his message to the Legislature last week, called for a constitutional amendment that would create different rates of taxation for different classes of property, a practice known as classification.
He said that, reappraisal alone "would result in a massive shift of property taxes to homeowners and farmers."
Shontz told, "Classification is inevitable. We have to do it."
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WATSON SAID. "I don't think we would have any objection to classification. But right now, the industries want the amount of the property tax burden."
Francisco said, "I would like to see classification brought to a vote. I don't think we want property reappraised because we have some form of classification."
Bimsa be favored classification if it were done fairly.
"I don't want to see people who have been paying taxes on older homes watch their taxes double," he said.
According to the program, the city does not support raising the minimum drinking age.
"It would really be an enforcement problem," Shontz said.
THE CITY supports the severance tax "no matter what state program it funds." The city also supports legislation that would strengthen the driving while intoxicated law, repeal the farm machinery and allow the city to redevelop downtown using general obligation bonds.
Bins said he was interested in an issue that the city's program did not address. He said he hoped the Legislature would something to furnish gas to needy people.
"I would like to see them deal with the validity of Lifeline rates," he said. Earlier this month, city commissioners rejected the Lifeline proposal that helped the poor pay their utility bills. Bins consistently voted in favor of it.
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