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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1981
Commission questions Watson's action
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Although they vowed not to make a "mountain out of a mole hill," the Lawrence City Commission last night may have created a mountain range as commissioners did. Commissioners could direct the city manager to draw up staff reports.
Commissioners disagreed when staff reports should be undertaken or whether specific votes were needed by commission members who might could act on commission directives.
"I think the city manager's job is to run the city and not to prepare insignificant staff reports," Commissioner Don Binsn said.
But Commissioner Nancy Shontz said there was a valid concern about whether the city manager staff had been through on requests for staff reports.
Commissioners debated the subject after Tim Miller, 936 Ohio St., said the commission had not addressed specific safety issues about the new City Hall parking lot which he brought up at a meeting last May.
No action was taken on Miller's and
"I remember very clearly looking at the staff and saying it was a good idea to look into the comments," Shontz said.
City Manager Buford Watson said he had not acted on the comments because his staff could not recall "any specific direction" from the city commission.
other citizens' concerns, but Mayor Marci Francisco and Shonz both said they had thought the staff would be better interested in investigating the lot's safety.
He said it was important in a public meeting where there were a lot of public comments and comments from commissioners that the commission can assign an assignment by either asking for a study or voting on a motion for a study.
"It's important for the staff to have a clear consensus." Commissioner Barkley Clark said, "especially when the candidates are highly charged politically."
Assistant City Manager Mike Wildgen told the commission that an across-the-board reduction, by about 3 units, would be the best way to handle the cut in funds.
Clerk agreed with Wildgen and said a case-by-case review of the budgets submitted by the agencies in the district be both difficult and time consuming.
In other business, the commission defied for two weeks a decision on the reallocation of revenue sharing funds when budget cuts were reduced by the recent budget cuts.
Commissioners decided that in the future they would state their wishes clearly and that each individual commissioner would be able to request to research issues without having the commission vote on the matter.
The commission had allocated the $61,000 it received for the 13th en-
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The commission directed Wilden specifically to look into the budgets of the public health program, the Bert Nash Mental Health Center and the Jayhawk Agency to make sure the reduction in their budgets wouldn't jeopardize specific matching programs for funding.
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Fourth Iranian suspect surrenders
Police charged Mohammad Hossein Roghani with one count of disorderly conduct and one count of battery for his alleged role in the Sept. 12 fight between two factions of Iranian students. The fighting damaged Union property and injured one student.
Three other Iranian men, one of whom is a full-time KU graduate student also were arrested and placed on bond in the case, police said.
An Iranian turned himself in to police Monday morning, fulfilling the last of four arrest warrants issued in connection with a fight last month at the Kansas Union. Lawrence police said yesterday.
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