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University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1981
Commission supports transportation board
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Four social agencies, feeling the pressure of tight budgets, have come to city hall for solutions to their transportation problems.
Meeting in a study session yesterday, the Lawrence City Commission agreed to support the social agencies' proposal for the transportation system designed to obtain and improve transportation services.
The commission will announce its plans to form the board at its Oct. 27 meeting.
"Every day social agencies get calls from people who desperately need transportation and it can't be provided," Rick Kirkendall, a KU professor in the University Transportation Research Group, said yesterday.
"We feel we've identified a very serious need, a need that has to be responded to," Roger Williams, chairman of the transportation department of the Transportation Inc., a resource center for the severely disabled, said.
Williams, along with members from Cottonwood Inc., a vocational rehabilitation center, the Douglas County Association for Retarded Children and Planning Council on Services for Aging, said that social agencies had
been cooperating to lessen the transportation problems, but that the whole city needed improved transportation.
The groups have formed the Collegium Transportation of Service Providers to cope with the problem.
"We are feeling pressure to go beyond the bound of our budget in what we see as a community responsibility," Williams said.
The agencies have been meeting for a year to identify the gaps in service and the barriers to increase their transportation efficiency.
Commissioners were concerned with the logistics of setting up the committee, how many members and leaders are required interest interests should be represented.
They scheduled a study session Nov. 12 to hammer out specific responsibilities of the board and city officials, the city should have representatives.
Kirkendall said there was money available for transportation projects, but that it would "take some ingenuity to obtain it."
"I think there is a real need to coordinate the transportation we have said." Commissioner Donald Binns said. "It's regrettable that it is a bad time for seeking federal money for city projects."
In the interim, the groups will try to prevent overlapping their services and to evaluate whether they are providing transportation as efficiently as possible, Gary Cordra, director of Cottonwood Inc., said.
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- Couches
- Chairs
- Kitchen appliances
—blenders
—grinders
—mixers
—crock pot
—etc.
- Lowrey Electric Organ
- Beds—Complete
- TV's w/stands
- Portable radios
- You name it—all you need for that Apt.—all in nearly new or good condition
TODAY 5 p.m.
A Lawrence man and a Topeka man pleaded guilty yesterday in Douglas county district court to shooting downtown area business and car windows Aug.14.
Vandals plead guilty
Edwin R. Lindquist, Jr., 20, 1705 St. Andrews St., and Mark E. Davis, 21, Topeka, pleaded guilty to 30 Class A misdemeanors, each of which carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine, Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday.
Sentencing was postponed by Mike Elwell, Douglas County district court judge, until March 1. Pre-trial hearing where the sentence recommendations will be made.
Malone said he recommended jail terms for both men and that they make restitution of about $6,000 to be paid to the owners.
Not wanting similar incidents to occur, Malone has been working steadily on the case since the men took care and shot out 30 business and car windows.
"We don't want to start a trend," Malone said.
Businesses involved in the incident include telecomsronics. Round Cell Drug and Kroger.
Judge Elwell allowed both men to remain free on bond until the presentencing hearing.
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