University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 22, 1989
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City considers additions to police staff
New taxes may pay for extra officers
By Rich Cornell Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Police Department may receive money from the Lawrence City Commission to add new officers for the first time in 17 years.
During the summer, concerned Lawrence residents convinced the city commission to consider additional staffing to respond to perceived traffic problems. During budget discussions in July, the commission refused to add more funds to the police budget but supported a citizen's task force to study present and future needs of the department.
However, the commission voted Sept. 5 to abandon that plan. Instead, it asked the city manager's office to conduct a study and report its findings to the commission.
Mike Wildgen, Lawrence assistant city manager, said he hoped to complete the study before Thanksgiving.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said additional police officers would benefit KU students and faculty. More officers would allow for better response time to calls.
The police now respond to non-emergency calls in 15 to 45 minutes, Mulvenon said.
"We respond to numerous, numerous calls involving students," he said. "Since there would be more students with us, we have personal contact with students."
Buford Watson, city manager, said the city would have to hire five new officers to put one more officer on staff and could cost about $150,000 the first year.
Money for additional police would likely come from an increase in sales or property tax, he said.
Ron Olin, Lawrence police chief,
said he would not take a position
about his department's needs.
"I think we have an excellent police department, perhaps one of the best in the Midwest," he said. "It does not mean we couldn't do more with more people, but we are not in a crisis situation."
Bob Schumm, Lawrence mayor, said that Watson had been directed to make a report, but declined to comment about the staffing of the police force.
Shirley Martin-Smith, city commissioner, said Lawrence probably needed more police. She had supported a citizens' group to study the situation but changed her mind when the group appeared to lack directio.
However, Martin-Smith said she welcomed suggestions from the pub-
logical source of additional police funding, she said. This would allow Lawrence residents to share the tax burden with people who come to Lawrence to shop at the new Riverfront Plaza.
Martin-Smith said Schumm had discussed returning part of the money gained from an increase in the sales tax as a partial refund of property tax.
Higher sales taxes would be a
Steve Lopes, chairman of Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods, a coalition of all of the city's neighborhood organizations, said Lawrence needed more police. He said he opposed an increase in the sales tax as a source for additional funds.
Olin's refusal to take a stand about the need for additional staffing seems strange. he said.
"It itse we're hearing two tunes from the same instrument," Lopes said. "It appears to me that Buford is selling Roll Olin what his needs are."
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