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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1985
Hyatt ruling may cost jobs for engineers
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The new employer of two engineers found negligent in the 1981 collapse of the Hyatt Regency hotel skywalks has not decided whether to accept the two men's resignations, one of the engineers said yesterday.
Jack D. Gillum, former president of GCE International Inc., said in a telephone interview from St. Louis that he and Daniel Duncan, the chief engineer on the Hyatt project, offered Friday to resign their posts at Ketcham, Konkel, Barrett, Nichol & Austin, an engineering firm based in Denver.
Gillum said Michael H. Barrett, chairman of the board, had made no decision on whether to accept the resignations. Gillum said Barrett would await a Missouri regulatory board's decision on whether it will suspend or revoke the engineers' licenses.
"They haven't been accepted or rejected," Gillum said of the resignations.
Neither Duncan nor Barrett could be reached for comment yesterday.
A spokesman for the Board of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors said that the board met Monday and yesterday in St. Louis to schedule a hearing on the findings against Gillum, Duncan and the company. Actions that could be taken by the board include revocation or suspension of the licenses of the two engineers and the company, or the issuance of a reprimand.
A state administrative judge in Jefferson City ruled Friday that the two men and their St. Louis-based company were negligent and guilty of professional misconduct in designing two sky walks of the hotel.
The elevated walkways collapsed the evening of July 17, 1981, during a crowded tea dance, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others.
Charges of negligence were brought by the state Board of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and filed against Gillum, Duncan and the company in February 1884 by Attorney General John Ashcroft, now governor of Missouri. The board is a state licensing agency.
Gillum said yesterday he was still shocked at the ruling issued by Judge James Deutsch of the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission.
Gillum and Duncan's firm, GCE International, no longer exists. Barrett said that on May 31, Ketcham, Konkel, Barrett, Nichol & Austin hired Gillum, Duncan and more than 50 other GCE employees in offices in St. Louis, Chicago, Boston and New York. He said engineering operations were continued in three of the same four locations, but under this firm's name.
Gun proposal is drawing fire
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
A proposed ordinance requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a gun may be unconstitutional, an attorney said at last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
"The problem we see here is if a law is passed, and is completely ineffective, its our position that that law would be unconstitutional," said Carl Black, a Kansas City, Kan., attorney representing Tom Ludwig, owner of JPL Firearms Inc., 2449 Iowa St.
Black said Ludwig and other gun owners had asked him to speak to the commission regarding a proposed gun ordinance.
However, Commissioner Ernest Angino said the commission wasn't currently considering a gun ordinance.
"To the best of my knowledge, no ordinance has ever been proposed. It's only been proposed that we discuss it." he said.
"I think that point has to be made over and over again. We keep hearing that the city is proposing an ordinance. It isn't proposing any ordinance."
At the Oct. 22 commission meeting, Commissioner David Longhurst asked city staff whether the commission had the power to adopt a waiting period to purchase a gun. His remarks were prompted by the Oct. 17 suicide of a 21-year-old KU student who shot herself with a gun she had purchased two hours earlier.
Commissioners will receive a report later this week from Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, on actions they can take toward adopting an ordinance.
Black said the ordinance would be "onerous, unenforceable legislation. It won't do any good to have ineffective legislation."
The ordinance would be ineffective because it wouldn't stop suicides or decrease crime, Black said. Instead, people that wanted to buy a gun would go to surrounding towns or Kansas City.
Black said the city would lose sales, sales tax and franchise taxes because local business owners would have to close.
In other action, the commission sent to city staff part of a text amendment dealing with off-street parking regulations. The section sent back to staff would have raised the parking requirements from $1\frac{1}{2}$ parking places for a two-bedroom or larger dwelling to one parking place for each bedroom in those dwellings.
Jerry Harper, president of the Oread Neighborhood Association, told the commission that "it's a fight to find parking for yourself" near his home, which is on Tennessee Street close to the University.
The planning department will conduct a study on the parking problems in Lawrence and will present that study to the commission before April 1.
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