Page 8 University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1982
Differences in city code are being investigated
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
The League of Kansas Municipalities is inquiring about discrepancies between the original version of some Lawrence ordinances and the final city code prepared for the city by the league, JIM Pope, a league attorney, said yesterday.
During the two- to three-week inquiry, the league will try to reconstruct the codification process to discover whether city staff or league staff was responsible for the various discrepancies. Kaup said.
The League takes an ordinance as it is passed by the city and combines it with previous laws in the city code, with changes that relate to each other.
City Manager Buford Watson said the city staff was not responsible for the errors in the code. Corrections will be made, and a meeting between league and city staffs.
"We found at least two or three significant errors and we will recommend corrections as soon, as possible." Watson said. "They were our contract codifiers, and we depended on them exclusively."
THE CORRECTED version of the code will have to be repaired by the city commission, Commissioner Barkley Clark said.
The errors in the code have not affected any city policies, said Garner Stoll, director of planning.
Because of the omission of one parenthetical phrase, the city code does not prevent a developer from building on the flood plain, the area bordering streams that periodically flood, and the wetlands that are home to sewers through benefit districts.
A benefit district is a special area of the city in which projects are financed through the sale of city bonds and repaid over time by the individual property owners who benefit from the improvements.
The city had intended to prevent a developer from using benefit district financing on the flood plain, Stoll said.
Because the city has permission to grant the financing, but is not obliged to do so, it is unlikely that a developer may legally demand such financing. Stall ussai.
THE INQUIRY also will try to determine whether other parts of the code compensate for the omissions, Kaup said.
The league's inquiry will be conducted by Kaup and by William Douglass, a league research associate, Kaup said.
The league begins its arrangement of the laws into sections by working on the city's version of the ordinances and the rules. It also brings with members of the city staff, Kaap said.
"The base line is that you have the ordinance, but you go on from there and start your dialogue." he said.
But some city staff members said they did not usually discuss the work with the league while the league was done it, and if it did not happen this time.
"That dialogue is not as impressive as they would make it sound sometimes." Stall said.
VERA MERCER, city clerk, said,
"We never asked for that, and I don't
know of any city that does."
Unsettled budget produces a flexible salary hike draft
Deans and department chairmen are turning in recommendations for salary merit increases to the academic affairs office today, but they're doing them differently this year.
Because the increases are only recommendations and the Kansas Legislature has not approved next year's budget yet, departments and agencies asked to figure what they would do with increases of 7, 10 and 13 percent.
In past years, they have been given only one percentage figure with which to estimate what increases would be possible.
"The vice chancellor (for academic affairs) wanted the opportunity to review what each department had achieved, and 13 percent increases," Janet Hiley.
assistant to Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said vetteday.
Merit salary increases are based on a faculty member's yearly contribution to research, teaching and service, Riley said.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS are approved by department chairmen and deans, by the vice chancellor for academics affairs and by the chairmen.
Riley said the hypothetical percentages were decided upon before it was known which way the Legislature would lean. The Legislature is now leaning toward a percent faculty salary increase.
"None of it is real money," Riley said of the recommendations. "It's all theorizing."
Big Eight officials rehash decisions
Much of the discussion at the Big Eight Conference meetings yesterday, today and tomorrow at the Alameda Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Mo, was a review and rehash of decisions previously made, according to Jim Lesig, designated to be new athletic director at the University of Kansas.
He said there was a chance that eligibility rules might change for the KU track team to give track members an extra year of eligibility.
Other sports allow members to have five years to complete their four years of eligibility in accordance with NCAA
rules. This is an advantage to players who are seriously hurt or red-shirted during a season, because it allows them to play an extra year.
Other items presented and discussed at yesterday's and today's meetings will not be decided until the final group of meetings for the coaches Saturday, said Bill Hancock, director of the Big Eight service bureau.
The items to be discussed include:
- budget information regarding payoffs to Conference institutions from TV contracts.
- the Bowl Committee report— whether budget projection for expenses incurred at bowl games were realistic.
- an update on the state of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
KU representatives to the Big Eight Conference meeting include Lesig; Del Shakel, acting athletic director; Del Brinkman, faculty and NCAA representative; Susanne Shaw, faculty and representative; and several coaches.
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The conjunction of the nine planets will give the public a chance to observe seven of the nine through a telescope at a special event scheduled for 4 a.m. to sunrise Thursday, the director of the museum, O'Baugh observatory said yesterday.
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The planned telescopic view of the planets depends on good weather, Stephen Shawl, associate professor of the observatory, said.
The observatory is in 500 Lindley Hall.
Shawl has devised a phone-in system for interested persons in case of bad weather, he said.
In case of fog, the event probably will be canceled, Shawl said. However, if the event proceeds as scheduled, in-house staff and a surveillance phone number, 843-316.
If the observatory is open, the caller will receive a busy signal. If the observatory has canceled the viewing, the caller should not view the observatory phone number, Shawla said.
Five planets will be visible with the naked eye, along with the sun and moon at sunrise, Shawi said. Three telescopes will be pointed at the visible planets, which are on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which are only visible by telescope, Shawi said.
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