University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 5. 1972
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KPL Surcharge May Upset KU Budget
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kungan Staff Writer
The Kansas Power and Light Co. Friday filed an application with the Kansas corporation to terminate its surcharge to all Lawrence customers to offset higher taxes resulting from annexation into
The surcharge, proposed to begin January 1, would pass on to city customers, including the University of Kansas, $323,000 of the estimated $828,000 net annual property tax increase. The government generating plant owned by KPL is located in the annexed area.
University officials estimated that a surcharge, if approved, would increase annual utility costs by $400 per student create a budget problem for KU. KIJTH NITCHER, vice chancellor for business affairs, will develop the University, excluding the housing system, was $33,500 last year. A 10% per cent surcharge would mean an increase of $5,500. The university has $3,200 of house, pointed to an $18,000 increase in the electric bill for residence halls, which inevitably have to come from the student.
Wilson said the housing rate had been fixed for this year so that the increase couldn't be made the next fall. He estimated that an increase would be divided among approximately 4,000 students and residents at $450 a year for person living in residence halls. Students living in
Stouffer Place pay their own utilities for their apartments, Wilson said.
Should the surcharge go into effect, Nitcher said the cost of the higher rate would be at least six months of the higher bills with no budgetary penalty.
RECOMMENDATIONS on KU's 1974 budget requests have been made to the state budget. Regents and the request goes to the state budget division October 15. Details of the budget must be presented by the governor, proved by the board of Regents.
"The effect of the rate increase is certainly something to think about at the budget hearing," she said. "We demonstrate the cost of the increase, but even then I'm not sure they would provide extra funds."
Nicher said that the surcharge is higher for other physical plant expenditures, resulting in vacant janitorial positions or deferred maintenance.
"The possibility to conserve electricity would have to be considered," the said, "but we must be aware of priority areas in physical plant expenditures. The space building is an all-electric operation, and the buildings' requirements also preclude any green cutback in the use of electricity.
"THE REAL QUESTION we will be asking is 'how do we pay for it?' "
An intention to file for the surcharge was announced by KPL last spring during the annexation debate. the annexation went into effect on April 1, but a special referendum was passed in that referendum was forced by citizens living within the 1,780-acre annexed area northwest of the city who presented petitions requiring number of signatures.
Young Democrats Meeting
Richard Keithby, Democratic candidate for the 49th district representative, will speak to the Collegiate Young Democrats at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Meditation Society Lecture
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A second lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Council Room of the Union.
Talk on H.G. Wells
Professor Heijo Mullenbrouck of the English Department at the University of Hamburg, Germany, will speak on "H.G. Wells and the Modern English Utopia: a Sociological View," 4 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Mullenbrenck has received three degrees at the University of Hamburg. His first book, "Literature and Contemporary History in England between the End of the 19th Century and the Outbreak of the First World War," was published in 1967.
He will be a guest on the KU campus from Sept. 6 to 10.
$10 Late Fee to End
Wednesday will be the final day to enroll this semester with the late enrollment fee of $10. After Wednesday and through October 6 the late enrollment fee will be $25. No enrollment can be completed after October 6.
City officials charged Friday that the filing of the application now was clearly a political move because the mayor, the referendum leader. They planned to fight it primarily on the basis that a surcharge would be a break with existing KPL policy of the county. It could pay in counties and towns.
Kansas Corporation Commission chairman Dale Saff尔斯 said the application for the surcharge will definitely not be approved until ref. endum, and a hearing will probably be held late in the fall.
The statement noted that KPL already pays the city for the use of its services to all city noisy service companies or no city services supported by ad valorem taxes are required at the local office.
AUSTIN STEHDAM KPI solution released a statement in which regret over the effects of the surcharge, but said the an-
noyance was not a problem.
the annexed area would be an important consideration when the commission reviews the application.
Saffels said that additional services provided by the city tr
"If they are not getting any additional services," he said, "there would be the question of whether the annexation is proper."
KPL maintains that to spread the increased cost over the entire expense would be 'manifestly unfair' and discriminating against' the 200,000 other electric customers in 48 other counties serviced by KPL.
THE KPL APPLICATION states that the $675,835 city tax on the generating plant would result in a loss of $15 million. The KPL presently pays taxes to Wakarau Township and the Northeast Kansas Regional
A letter from KPL prescient-
er, John L. Emick,
Emick stated that the company
was seeking to pass on $323.180
of that amount, after absorbing
The KPL application stated that the primary purpose of such an act is to add to the city's tax base, "an accusation emphatically denied
Clinton Dam Ceremony Set
Emick said that the city's primary purpose in annexation was to be in a position for industrial growth.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. and the program will begin when the speeches will be given at the Eat A Crow event if there is no rain, the ceremonies will be held at the dam site well before the actual groundbreaking. However, if the construction area is too muddy, the ceremony will be moved.
Gob. Robert Docking, Frank Cannon, former Kansas governor and governor of Missouri Neese Gray, U.S. Treasury during the Truman Administration, been invited to preside at the prosecution program, Prosecutor Elks Bill, Court Gate, management of the Lawrence Chambers of Commerce, said Monday.
Some construction is already well under way at Clinton. The
The public is invited to the luncheon. Lawrence and Douglas County officials will attend, as are Shawnee County officials.
Groundbreaking ceremonies
the afternoon will mark the beginning of Clinton's visit to Clinton Reservoir, a lake that has been in various planning stages since 1994.
Col. N.R. Needham, head of the Kansas City office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will substitute for Brendon Gen. Edwin O'Donnell as the featured who is stationed in Omaha, recently announced he would be unable to attend. Gau said.
Officials of the area waterhed districts and members of the MoArk water conservation lobby have been sent to the Corps of Engineers to promote Clinton Reservoir at federal appropriation hearings, have discussions with local communities.
By LINDA SCHILD
Kangan Staff Writer
Steedham denied that the timing of the application was designed for political benefit. He said that the time was based on the need
Corps of Engineers office, about four miles west of Lawrence, is 60 per cent complete, and work has begun on the main access road to Huntington. The Corps will connect the lake to U.S. 40, should be completed by November.
IT THINK it is quite obvious that they although they have never had them, they are making this an issue before the election," said City Councilman Paul Siemer.
to apply to the commission in time for consideration before the surcharge could go into effect.
"It certainly wasn't any
situation," he said.
"Of course, there is
there's no denying that. They just
happen to be in the growth area,
not even knowing."
The legal brief filed with the KCC states that as a result of annexation the applicant would be paying approximately 24 per cent of the costs of Lawrence's total and贮氯养鼠 laws, regardless of levy changes.
The city commission had promised that the city mill levy would be lowered by the impact of the bridge built during brought about by annexation.
KUMC Construction Gets Financial Boost
The University of Kansas Medical Center received substantial financial support over the construction of two facilities.
Dr. William O. Rieke viech cancer for health affairs and director of the KU Medical Center. Dr. Rieke of the Medical Center had been notified Friday that it would receive a $5,086,000 grant from the National institute of Health for合 basic science teaching facility.
Institute's bureau of health manpower education.
The grant was approved by the
An additional $1.4 million will be raised by sale of bonds approved this year by the Kansas Legislature.
Rieke said construction of the new five-story building could begin early next year.
$600 Maternity Benefits
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Over $2,000 was raised for the Kansas University of Kansas Cancer Center in response to a weeklong beekeeping by the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Club, according to Dr. Vernon Dennis.
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