University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
Page 13
City hall dedication scheduled Saturday
Festivities will begin early Saturday morning to celebrate the opening and dedication of the new city hall at Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The official dedication ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. with a short welcome and narrative of the city hall by Mayor Ed Clark and City Manager Buford Watson. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will follow.
Public tours of the new bulding will be given from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Other activities include a Fun Run/Bike-athon from Clinton Lake to the Kaw River and concerts by the City Council, Civic Civil Choir and Paul Gray's Band.
The Fun-Run/Bike-athon is scheduled from 8:30 to 10 a.m., with the City Union Band concert starting at 9:30 a.m. The Lawrence Civic Choir concert will begin at 10 a.m. and Paul Grav's Band concert at 11:30 a.m.
The concerts are scheduled outside the building, but in the event of bad weather, they will be moved into the city hall jobb.
The $3 million bulding was financed
by $1.97 million in public building revenue bonds issued by the Lawrence Public Building Commission. The commission comprises the city commissioners.
"The city of Lawrence never has built the city hall because it always has used rental space or remodeled old buildings." Watson said.
All administrative offices moved into the four-story brick structure Aug. 5, eight months after the scheduled December 1979 opening.
The opening was delayed because of debates that began in December 1976 over the use of the name "Russell."
Sites were recommended to the commission by Watson, after he con-
The other location was at 11th and Massachusetts streets, next to the Douglas County Courthouse, which opened on a March 1979 commission meeting.
Construction of the new city hall required the demolition of the buildings east of the Massachusetts Street bridge and of the old water tower.
The new $3 million Lawrence City Hall will be dedicated Saturday morning. The building, at 8th and Massachusetts
streets, houses city employees formerly located at rented offices in the city.
Broadcasters to get building
Broadcast journalism students will have their own building with classrooms, laboratory equipment and computers, as well as reporters, it was announced earlier this month.
The building is to be built just south of the U.S. Geological Survey building on West Campus. Funding for the project was provided through a $3.5 million gift from KU alumni Ralph L. "Bud" and Barbara Weir.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, said that he would like to see the building functional by 1882 but is also possible to guess on a completion date.
Brinkman said the broadcast building's distance from the main campus should not be a problem for students because most of the courses in the building will be upper level and laboratory work.
The new building will house KU's public radio station KANU-FM, the student-operated radio station JKJH and Audio-Reader, a radio reading service for the visually handicapped. The building also will contain radio and television studios, now housed in Flint and Joliffe halls.
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