Wednesday, October 5, 1977
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City enlarges development board
By STEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission increased the size of the Community Development Grant Board and deferred for later approval other considerations at its meeting last night.
The Community Development Grant Board, a review and policy setting board for distribution of neighborhood rehabilitation funds to five to seven members by the commission
Lynn Goodell, community development director, said yesterday that the change was needed to make it easier to get a quorum at a board meeting and provide broader representation of city reas.
The broader representation was needed, he said, because of the addition of two more neighborhood groups since the board was set up about two years ago.
THE MAJOR ITEM on last night's agenda, PLAN 95 approval, was deferred until next week at the request of Commissioner Barkley Clark. Clark asked for the deferral to allow him more time to review the plan before acting on it.
PLAN 95 is a comprehensive development plan for Lawrence through 1995.
Commissioners spoke in favor of the plan and said that if they approved it next week,
it should be accompanied by a statement emphasizing it as only a guide and not as a "strait jacket" document that could not be amended.
The second deferral was for rezoning of about an acre of land near the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets to allow for off-street parking. A new shopping center, including a Safety store, is scheduled to be built there.
THE REZONING from residential to commercial status was postponed until a replasting of the space from two lots to one was completed by the developer.
The commission approved the temporary use of a house at 945 Rhodse Island St. as a residence for the late Jill.
The Haunted House will be used as a fundraising recreational program for the Frontiersmen Drum and Bugle Corps of Olathe.
A spokesman for the Drum and Bugle Corps said the group was raising funds in Lawrence because of a wainting interest in the Oatley in Otate and the Kansas City, Mo., area.
He said if interest continued to wane in the lait area, the drum and buge corps must be worked through.
The Lawrence Jaycees have sponsored the Haunted House in the past, so commissioners expressed concern that the Jaycees were unaware of the Drum and Percussion section.
THE COMMISSIONERS decided, however, that because the Haunted House was on the commission agenda published in the Lawrence Daily Journal World, any Jaycee with an objection could come to the meeting.
Also approved by the city commission were proclamations by Mayor Marrie Singergerter to make "Support a Mission of Military Day" and Oct. 15, "Homecoming Day in Lawrence."
A fund raising campaign will be sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of the Knights of Columbus to raise money for mentally retarded people throughout Kan-
"HOMECOMING DAY" was announced to bring the city in connection with the University of Kansas' homecoming activities on the same day.
As a miscellaneous item at the end of the meeting, the commission approved spending $1,000 for legal fees to aid the city of Chicago and the state to Curt Schneider, state attorney general.
Topeka is attempting to keep a tax increment funding system to provide money for the city.
Enrollment for the Lawrence campus originally was expected to reach 2,750 this fall, a figure KU administrators set last fall. The Kansas Legislature for budget purposes
As in the last four fall semesters, graduate students make up the largest segment of the Lawrence campus total of 5,245 students in the Graduate School.
Enrollment ...
Freshmen make up the second largest group—4,382 are enrolled this fall. That is a decrease of 84 from last year, when KU had the largest freshman class in its history.
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Other class enrollments are 4,125
sophomores, 118 more than last fall; 3,482
juniors, 118 more than last fall; and 3,960
seniors, 223 more than last year.
ALL OF THE schools on the Lawrence campus had increases in enrollment except for social welfare, which has 560 students, two less than last fall.
Other schools and their official enrolments are the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 9,876, an increase of 106 over 8; business, 42, an increase of 104; education, 1,697, an increase of 87; business, 907, an increase of 98; architecture, 42, an increase of 12; fine arts, 1,491, an increase of 83; journalism, 626, an increase of 83; pharmacy, 249, an increase of 1
Full time equivalent enrollment (FTE) for the Lawrence campus this fall is 21,652, compared with 21,011 last fall. FTE is used by the Kansas Board of Regents to deter
One FTE unit is allowed for every 15 undergraduate hours, one for every 12 law school hours and one for every nine graduate hours.
KU'S INCREASED enrollment will enable it to ask for additional funds from the state, according to Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs at KU.
Even though KU takes in more money from an unexpected increase in the number of students enrolling, Jones said, the extra money cannot be spent by KU.
The University has a specific spending ceiling established by the Regents each year and KU officials must have any additional expenditures approved by the Regents, state budget director, governor and state legislature, Jones said.
Dykes said KU would request the authorization to spend the extra money received because of the enrollment increase. If it is granted, Dukes said, the men would be used for hiring additional faculty members and for the improvement of Watson Library.
The request for additional funds must be submitted to the Board of Regents by Oct. 7.
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The tax increment system would calculate the difference between tax on an unkempt city lot and the tax on the same lot after it was improved.
After the lot was improved, the difference, or increment, would be used to help buy back bonds that were issued to provide capital to improve the lot.
The coordinator of the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council has announced her resignation, saying there needs to be a complete revision of the program.
In a letter to county commissioners, Lisa Erickson said she would quit the Job Oct. 15. She was appointed to the post in April after the resignation of Randy Scherwing
The commissioners said they want to fund Topopeka's effort to keep the system so Lawrence could benefit by providing funds to improve northern downtown lots.
Erickson also mentioned a lack of faith in the council, an 'almost comic attitude' the judge took.
Erickson criticized the program and its council members.
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Sam Adame, Drug Abuse Council chairman, said the board would meet tonight in the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Building, 11th and New Hampshire streets, to discuss the complaints raised by Erickson.
But the leadership finally got an agreement for a midafternoon showdown on Wednesday.
Erickson called the position of coordinator "frustrating and thankless" but said the reason for her resignation was the offer of a better job.
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THOSE OPPOSED to deregulation, including the administration, had sought a nomination from the senators - James Abercorn of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio - staged.
IN HER LETTER, she wrote that the council needed a new name, new blood, firm goals and new bylaws. She recommended that the council merge with the Douglas County Citizen's Committee on Alcoholism to end duplication of services.
"We're not as efficient as we could be," he said, "but I think we will keep functioning."
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saint, "but I think we win keep functioning." HE SAID HE thought the past two coordinators had quit because they were not paid enough.
The council is funded for 1977 with $2,800 in county revenue sharing funds. The coordinator, a part-time position, is the only paid position.
The council has had other personnel problems, Adame said, with the chairman being accused of having
The board also has a problem in getting board members to attend the meetings. Ask
He said he did not know how many members the board had.
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