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Wednesday, November 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Commissioners raise water rate
The third yearly water rate increase in a five-step program was approved by Lawrence city commissioners last night as they voted to boost water rates by 21.3 percent.
The rate increase program is designed to compensate for inflation and provide funds for construction of a new building.
Small users are not likely to notice the effects of the increase because rates for under 2,000 gallons a month exceed 10%.
Large households are expected to be hit the hardest because the water rate will increase from one dollar for a thousand gallons after the first two thousand, to $1.40 for a thousand gallons.
Commissioners said they were pleased with the increase because it was one quarter less than they had anticipated.
UNDER A plan submitted by Black and Veatch, a Kansas City, Mo., engineering consultant firm, the city had expected to raise rates 28.5 percent. Bufford Watson, city manager, said the increase is likely to take in more money while allowing the increase.
The commissioners also voted to increase fees for installing wires and earned the penalty charge for connection errors.
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Black and Veatch presented a report to the commission
The firm, which inspected the dam last month, told commissioners there were three large holes in the
on the Kansas River dam, estimating repair costs to the century-old structure at $250,000.
EACH HOLE will have to be filled with 200 to 300 pound rocks called "rip-rap," the report said. After the rocks are in place, 48 inches of fill material will be placed atop and upsteep the walls of the foundation, grouting and upstate work will be done in small areas.
The dam, which backs up the Kansas River to the city water plant, is extremely important to the city, Walton
Watson told the commission that if the dam were not there, the city would have to build a pump station in the river to provide the city with water. Currently, the city uses gravity flow intakes to get its water supply.
Watson said Black and Veatch told him the last pump station the firm built cost $2.5 million.
"They said it would be very cost effective to make sure the damp it wouldn't deteriorate further," Watson said.
COMMISSIONERS ACTED quickly to establish a bid date for the dam repairs after Watson told them the report said the structure had deteriorated rapidly in the last year. Bids will be accepted in two weeks for the repairs.
The commissioners, as expected, approved a lease with
the Lawrence Public Building Commission for the new City Hall.
In a short session before the regular commission meeting, the commissioners, who are the only members of the building commission, voted to release $1.91 million in bonds for the ball's construction and to lease the
In a reversal of commission policy established three weeks ago, the commission voted to exempt two Lawrence construction projects from having to show storm water retention facilities in their site plans.
THE COMMISSION had been asking that all site plans brought before the commission have retention provisions, but representatives of the two projects argued that the requirement was not in effect when they drew up their plans.
The commission agreed and exempted the two projects, an expansion at the Hallmark plant in northwest Lawrence and the construction of a Baptist church in south Lawrence, from showing the drainage
In other business, the commission approved the release of $1.7 million in industrial bonds for Packer Plastics Inc. and voted to set Nov. 28 as the bid date for bridge approaches to the new Massachusetts Streets bridge.
KU to offer health classes next year, Calgaard says
A graduate program in health administration will be offered to University of Kansas students by the 1980 fall semester, and is designed for academic affairs, and yesterday.
n one proposed program has been approved by the graduate faculty at KU, but must be approved by the Kansas Board of Regents before students may enroll.
Calgaard said that because the program was still being planned he did not know how many courses would be offered or how many students would be admitted.
Calgaard said the Regents probably would make a final decision in January.
The health administration program will be a division of the School of Allied Health at Wake Forest University.
after the proposal was heard this month by the Council of Chief Academic Officers, a board composed of
Calgaard said the program probably would utilize some public administration courses now offered by the political science department.
An undergraduate program in health administration is now offered by Wichita State University, but that school does not offer graduate courses, Calgard said.
Police said both thea occurred between Saturday morning and Monday morning in
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN*
VERSITY DAILY KANSAN Police Beat
Compiled by Henry Lockard
Tim Fitziel, an employee of Fritzil Construction Co., 315 Woodiaw Plaza, reported the theft of two cedar boards from a job site at 3001 Oxford Road.
The University police yesterday received a report of a stolen telephone from the security booth on the top level of Memorial Stadium.
According to a police report, a stadium supervisor discovered that the telephone line in the park was broken.
The reports received by Lawrence police included two thefts of trucks and tools from two persons and the thefts of materials at the job sites of two construction companies.
Both stolen trucks were recovered, but a Desoto mall lost $97.75 in a tool box, and a heavy jack chain. And Martin Johnson, an oil supplier, lost $200 gas-powered power auger.
The phone, a touch type with 32 memory buttons, was valued at $319.45.
Police said the theft occurred between Saturday and Monday morning.
Richard Cromwell, owner of Cromwell Construction Co., 1109 Lustre Drive, reported the theft of an 8300 generator from Oxford Terrace, just east of Oxford Road.
Fritzel valued the boards at $266.
That theft also occurred during the weekend and was discovered Monday
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS SEMINAR meets all day in the Kanana Center, 2448 W. 10th St., 10th Flr. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 2140 Oread Arian Norman Ferguson, professor of social welfare, will speak on semi-term. SEE ADMINISTRATOR FOR DETAILS.
TONIGHT: STUDENT SENATE meets at 6:30 in the Kansas Room of the Union. KU GO CLUB meets at 7 in the Walnut Room of the Union. A CARILLON RECITAL by the KU BOOKSTORE meets at 8 in the Browning Room of the Union. KU BOOKSTORE KU CLUB meets at 7 in the Parlour C of the Union. YOUNG SOCIALISTS ALLIANCE meets at 7:30 in the Browning Room of the Union. WILLIAM GASS, novelist in residence, will读 at 8 in the Big Eight Room of the Union. KANSAS WOODWINT QUETT will give a Faculty Recital at 8 in Swarthout Hall in
TOMORROW; AN EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE will be held all day in the Governor's Room of the Union. SOUTHEWESTERN PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY will meet at 1 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. ART LECTURE DEMONstration at 2:30 p.m. in room 211 at Spencer Museum of Art. GERMAN SINGING CLUB will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. WILLAM GASS, novelist-in-residence, will present "Hospital Holocaust" at 8:45 p.m. in Westeros Hall. GERMAN CLUB meets at 4:30 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
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