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Wednesday, November 7. 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Local Results
Buhler defeats Rundle by 300
Kansan staff report
The new county commissioner for Douglas County is Mark Buhler, who received 52 percent of the vote and defeated Lawrence city commissioner Mike Rundle by more than 300 votes.
Buhler, who never has run for public office before, said that he was not used to being a politician and that he had been ill so far do before he took office in January.
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First thing I'm going to try and do is to learn how the department runs.
Mark Buhler
Douglas County commissioner
"First thing I'm going to try and do is learn how the department runs," he said. "I'll study the tax situations, look at the budget, go to some county commission meetings and listen to the public."
He said after hearing the final tally that he was surprised he won by as small a margin as he did.
"I guess I was overconfident, because the numbers really do surprise me," he said. "But I worked hard, and I knew Mike did too."
Buhler, who is a real-estate agent at Stephen's Real Estate and Insurance, 2701 W Sixth St., said that he would continue to work at the company but that the county commission would be his first priority.
Rundle said he would not run for re-election on the city commission now that he had lost the county seat; priority now will be his personal life.
"I said at the outset of the county commission campaign that I would not run again, but I don't know how to change my mind," he said take to change my mind," he said.
Rundle said he thought the closeness of the race, and the division of the community on the different issues indicated that the community did not have a clear consensus to the future of Douglas County.
Trafficway, parkway get voters' OK
Proponents of the South Lawrence Trafficway and the Eastern Parkway were all smiles last night as the 'ves' votes accumulated.
Bv Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Douglas County voters approved construction of the trafficway with 56 percent of the vote. The parkway was approved with 55 percent of the vote.
County commissioner Nancy Hebert said she was relieved that both issues passed.
"I liken these two roads to a couple of kids that are growing up in the city and going to kindergarten and the other is starting college. I'm sure the parkway
Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith and Lawrence city commissioner Bob Walters said they were pleased that both issues passed.
will have to go through the same scrutiny that the trafficway has endured, but I'm confident it will be a really outstanding project."
"Public acceptance was absolutely essential for both of these roads," Walters said. "This will help communities to grow westward as it planned."
Martin-Smith said the city and county commissioners would meet within the next few weeks to update the roadmap for the city and the county that the roadways
Both city and county commissioners said extensive public hearings would be conducted before the final route for both roads was devised.
"Now that both issues passed, we have a solid base to work with," she said. "The work is just beginning."
would be built at the same rate.
The trafficway has met with criticism concerning the environmental effects of its construction in the Baker Wetlands area, situated south of 31st Street between Louisiana Street and Haskell Avenue.
Martin-Smith said the county issued a $390,000 environmental-impact study that showed the wetlands actually were improved
with the construction.
"The wetlands were really damaged when we built Clinton," she said. "My understanding of the issue now is that there will be a special water run-off zone, which will enclose water run-off from the wetlands so it will not affect the wetlands."
"The planning committee has spent a lot of time working on this, and the benefits to Douglas County will be incredible."
However, environmentalists are not convinced and have said the trafficway's impact could not be gauged until construction began.
Chris McKenzie, county adminis
trator, said the county and city would go to great lengths to obtain fair market values for any land in the path of the road.
"I'm relieved and excited about the roads passed," he said. "We will have extensive public debate when we begin planning the route. In the five years I've been in office the county has not condemned anyone's land for right-of-way acquisition, and I hope we don't start now."
Officials estimate that the $60 million trafficway will be completed in 10 years. The $10.5 million parkway is projected to be complete by 1997.
Voters defeat $31.8 million proposed high school bond
Rv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Residents in the Lawrence school district yesterday voted down a $13.1 million bond that would have been used to build a new high school, remodel the present Lawrence High School and expand two elementary schools.
The proposal was voted down 12,921 to 7,121.
Supporters of the bond said a second high school was needed in Lawrence because of growing enrollment in programs.
But opponents of the bond criticized the Lawrence School Board's plan to put ninth-graders in the high schools and said two high schools in Lawrence would be closed. A group of educators now attend Lawrence's three junior high schools.
Eric Cleveland, spokesperson for Citizens For Education, a group that opposed the bond issue, said, "I'm very pleased the bond was voted down, and I think this is just the beginning of a lot of work. But I'm glad we have the
opportunity to do that work."
Cleveland said members of Citizens For Education were interested in assisting the school board in developing new proposals for dealing with the school district's expanding numbers.
Cleveland said possible solutions included building a fourth junior high school or building additions to Lamar High School.
"I think the large-margin victory will send a message to school boards. Lawrence community is not ready for such a type of division."
Maggie Carttar, president of the Lawrence School Board, said although she was disappointed about the results of the election, she was pleased that there had been high public interest in the bond.
"I think we did a tremendous job of increasing public awareness of what is going on in our schools," she said.
Carter said the board had not decided yet whether to put the bond issue to the public in a future election.
Water from Clinton Lake allocated
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence city commissioners yesterday approved a new year contract with the state to Kramer to allocate $12 million for the city.
three-year deferral of payment where we don't pay anything unless we use it."
The contract allows for an additional 4 million gallons of water per day to be used by the city. Lawrence uses an average of 12 million gallons a day, which primarily comes from the Kansas River.
"There aren't that many resources left, and we feel we would have this additional supply locked up in case we need it."
Roger Coffey, Lawrence public utilities director, told commissioners that the water was not needed now but that the contract allowed for city growth. He also said that the water is a much more stable source of water than the river
Coffey said that the city has been projected to need 50 percent more water in the year 2014 than is allocated now. With this contract, the city will be able to provide for the new demand, he said.
There was little discussion from the commissioners on the proposal.
Commissioner Bob Walters said he thought the proposal would be a good investment for the city.
"There are a lot of communities in western Kansas that will testify what it's like to run out of water," he said. And with the water from the Kansas River becoming more scarce commodity, I'm in favor of this contract."
The commission moved to approve the 40-year contract
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During the final design of the road, permits for the use of a habitat of a threatened species must be obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, McKenzie said. Measures taken to minimize the road's environmental effects must be approved by the agencies before permits are granted.
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“Wetlands don't pollute themselves. People pollute wetlands,” he said. “If enough people build around the wetlands and drive around the wetlands, we will be as sure as I know, there are no controls on what people are going to do.”
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been studying the wetlands for 12 years, said he thought an enclosed drainage system would harm the wetlands because the area received much of its water from the north, where the road would be built. He also said he doubted the wetlands could be re-created.
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McKenzie said that to further minimize the effect of the trafficway, existing wetlands would be expanded or new wetlands would be created in the area. He said county officials thought the second option was more feasible.
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