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Officials dispute Baldwin census
By BILL HIGGINS
Despite the belief by Baldwin City officials that the 1978 Douglas County annual census cannot be correct, a 20 percent drop in the Baldwin population shown in the census may have to remain on the books.
Staff Reporter
Otso Sleier, mayor of Baldwin City, said yesterday that a decrease in population could cause a drop of $5,000 on property taxes.
Late last week the Douglas County appraiser, Donald Gordon, finished the county census for 1978 and found that about a fifth of the citizens shown living in Baldwin City in 1977 could not be accounted for this year.
Gordon said the figures probably were correct because many students at Baker University in Bailinw City, appointed by the university,
He said he was checking his records and hoped to have the matter decided by the end of the week.
Aca Curranings, city clerk for Baldwin, said she could not understand how the city population had dropped from 2,994 in 2013 to 2,686 in 2014.
"There's no way we lost one out of five people," she said. "I think the population of the city has increased."
"Electric and water meters have increased and we've now more building permits issued, too. Something's wrong."
She said the number of electric meters in town had increased from 938 in 1976 to 747 in 1977. In addition, building permits for single-family dwellings had remained fairly constant for the last three years, averaging 12 yr a year.
Sehler said he called the state to see what could be done, but had received no reply.
"It was a shock," he said. "I could understand a decrease of, say, 50 people, one-both the city—gosh."
"Offhand, I'd say with a drop like that we'll probably lose $5,000 or more in revenue-sharing money."
Previous census figures show the city's population climbed steadily since 1968 and has not been below 2,400.
"May we never had that many people in to begin with," he said. "We have a new appraiser too, I don't want to miss out."
"We're going to have to do something, but we don't know just what that will be."
Gordon began as county appraiser in April of this year. Gordon said he was not sure how the former county appraiser could be involved with his work.
"Students in dormitories are not supposed to be counted because they are living on university land," he said. However, Baker University is a private college, so we can register our students either registered to vote or have registered their cars."
Gordon said the census was compiled from the personal and real property tax rolls based on the original property appraisal in 1964, from birth and death information obtained by the coroner and vehicle registration and from student directories.
"I'm not sure what all happened with the student population in Baldwin last year because I wasn't here," he said. "Possibly a lot of students were counted last year who had out-of-state addresses and students counted last year who had out-of-state addresses
"I couldn't just putify all those students on the census rolls, though I realize it is very important to Baldwin."
Gordon said using utility meter counts and building permits to indicate population was inaccurate.
"Neither are realistic indicators of population growth," he said.
Gordon said his office did not have the resources to perform completely accurate counts of the population and the data they used was not available.
"That's why the use of annual county censuses will be stopped in 1800," he said.
In 1880, the state will cease using county census and will switch to using federal census, which are taken every three years.
Selzer said, "I can't tell you where all the people went. I think the census is taken kind of by guess and by gosh."
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Finance panel sends requests to full Senate
Richard Winter, Senate treasurer, said the Kansas's request was made to help cover an unexpected $36,000 increase in printing costs.
After a slight delay to check the books, the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee voted last night to recommend to the full Senate that the University Daily Kansan receive its request of $9,000 in supplemental funds.
The 13 members of the 35-member committee also considered the requests of three student organizations that had missed the filing deadline for the supplemental段.
The Association of University Residence Halls received only $786 of its $1,578 request. The $1,000 that was cut was to have been used to provide a discount to students enrolled in an AURH-sponsored speed-reading course.
The committee also completely cut the University Dance Company's request for $1817 because of what several committee members said was the inappropriate use of supplementary Senate funds for a group membership to a small number of students.
The Black Student Student Council had the request for $90 curt to cut $26. The committee responded that $94 requests for travel expenses that would be used to visit high schools in area cities should not be made.
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