Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985
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Leaders to continue fight for annexation
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Delegates to the League of Kansas Municipalities' annual city conference decided yesterday to take their fight against a weakening of cities' annexation powers to the 1986 Legislature.
The delegates easily approved on voice vote a revised policy statement on annexation, but only after removing a controversial section that would have softened the league's historical opposition to any change in cities' unilateral authority to anneer advexed lands.
City Manager Rufus L. Nye of Salina made the motion to remove the disputed section, which would have put the league on record as accepting creation of boundary commissions to rule on certain annotations question, rather than letting the boards of county commissioners continue to do it.
Nye's amendment passed on a very close voice vote, but nobody tried to force a show of hands to determine just how close it was.
Mayor Robert C. Brown of Wichita led the fight to reject the proposed policy change, declaring during his argument against any weakening of cities' annexation powers that, "We will fight on the
beaches, we will fight at the hedges and we will fight at the city limits."
What was left in the new policy statement was support for requiring planning commission review of proposed annexations, giving notice of intent to annex, mandating public hearings, specifying any service extension agreements, and providing a deannexation procedure if a city fails to provide promised services to the annexed area within a certain time.
The league's governing body had approved the policy change — including the section supporting creation of boundary review commissions — in hopes of avoiding a confrontation with the 1986 Legislature that might result in the stripping of even more annexation powers from the cities than the policy statement envisioned.
Mayor Doug Wright of Topeka was among those supporting the softened position.
But City Commissioner Howard Hill and City Manager Bodow Watson of Lawrence and others supported the positions of the Wichita and Salina representatives in deciding to draw the line on agreeing to erode the cities' annexation powers.
OTTWA — The head of a non-profit organization says his group apparently has made a successful bid to purchase the Santa Fe railroad line between Ottawa and Baldwin in eastern Kansas and plan to use it for a tourist train.
Robert Ingold, president of the Pioneer Legacy Foundation of suburban Kansas City, said in Ottawa Monday that he had received confirmation of the foundation's bid from R.M. Champion Jr., assistant to the president of the Santa Fe in Chicago.
Group gets part of rail line
The Associated Press
"If all goes well," Ingold said, "we could have a steam train running as a tourist attraction on the line by next summer."
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During the summer, Ben Park and Vernon Chesbrow of Ottawa went to Chicago to talk to Santa Fe officials about purchasing the line as a tourist attraction. At that time, the railroad reduced the price from $170,000 to $90,000 and set a Sept. 20 deadline.
Ingold said his foundation met the deadline and submitted a draft to the railroad for the required amount. In his confirmation letter to Ingold, Champion said the foundation's purchase is "subject only to formal approval of our Board of Directors."
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Ingold has been working, with a group from Ottawa for several months to purchase the 11.9-mile line between Ottawa and Baldwin.
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