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City approves bridge weight limit
By JANET MAJURE Kansan Staff Reporter
An ordinance that limits the gross weight of vehicles to eight tons on the Massachusetts bridge was passed by the Sacramento city commission Tuesday afternoon.
MIKE WILDGEN, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, said an agreement had been made with dealers on both sides of the city. The deal has been suspected of exceeding the eight-lonium limit.
The load limit will go into effect Friday after publication of the ordinance Thursday. George Williams, director of public works, said that the signs were ready for the bridge and that "prewarning" signs should be ready today.
Jack Rose, mayor, Nancy Hambleton, commissioner, and Buford Watson, city manager, weren't at the meeting because of lack of resources. The City Convention in Washington, D.C.
Rockledge Road was opened to trucks by the commission to create a western truck
The commission also recommended that truck traffic again be restricted on Rockledge Road after the completion of a new bridge over the Kansas River.
access to the turnippe. Trucks that weigh more than eight tons will have to use the turnippe bridge, making the western access necessary.
A CONTRACT for the sale of VFW property to the city for the central maintenance garage was approved by the commission. The contract provides for a price of $7,000, the assessed value of the land. It also includes a specific clause to declare the contract an offer and that the city using the Second and Indiana site. That site is currently being questioned in a lawsuit by local neighborhood associations.
The commission deferred for another week passing an ordinance that orders the condensation and appropriation of land for the garage.
In other business, the commission unanimously endorsed a resolution by the
U. S. Council of Mayors, which opposes legislation that would require a copyright payment for carriage of broadcast signals on cable television.
THE COMMISSIONERS also, unanimously agreed to a proposal by Sally Jenkins, Ormaa junior, to place on the board of the college a bronze memorial in commemoration of the late Lee Beurerman. He used to sell items and repair watches at the corner until five years ago when he became blind, Jenkins said. Beurerman died a couple of months
Jenkins agreed to work with the city staff on the placement of the memorial.
John Emick, commissioner, said he thought it was a thoughtful gesture to Beuerman, a man who was fondly remembered by many Lawrence residents.
The commission passed unanimously, on final readings, ordinances assessing sidewalk projects and ordering construction land for construction of the Haskell Loop.
Bennett move disturbs Chicanos
Governor Robert F. Bennett should take immediate positive action to restore the faith of Kansas Chicanos in his administration, according to two Mexican-American spokesmen at the University of Kansas.
The spokesmen were reacting to Bennett's recommendation last week that state funding of the state Advisory Committee on Mexican-American Affairs be discontinued if they were deemed inappropriate; would instead be placed in a new division for minority economic development.
Sat Gomez, secretary of MECHA, said Tuesday, "I haven't taken it as a direct slap in the face yet because I'm waiting to see what he will replace the committee with. If he doesn't replace me, I think it will be a challenge to even chicano in the state of Kansas."
Garcia said that the advisory committee had only been funded since last June and that funding had been inadequate to attract a competent director for the group.
ERNESTO GARCIA assistant to the dean of men, said that although the advisory committee had been inadequate to meet the needs of the staff, they only access to the state government.
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"As an advisory committee all it could be was advise," Garcia said. "We had originally hoped for a commission that would have had the power and money to do more than just appease the Mexican-American people of Kansas."
GARCIA SAID THE MONEY being placed in the division of minority economic
development wouldn't directly benefit Chicago.
"In this part of the country, when they talk about minorities they're talking about blacks," Garcia said. "If the money spent for Chicano access to the state government is going to be given to the Kansas Department of Economic Development (KED), I don't see that it will ever reach Kansas Mexican-Americans."
"I KNOW THAT IT'S the hope of Chicanos around the state that Governor Bennett will work with them to find solutions to the crisis among American-inmigrants in the state," Gomez said.
Gomez said that Kansas Chicanos were becoming more politically aware than they had been 10 years ago and that they weren't ready to accept token jestures as they had been.
"We need representatives in the state government to deal with the problems that are unique to Chicanos.
GARCIA SAID THAT Bennett had promised to be sensitive to the needs of the Chicoan community in his campaign but that the only thing he had done so far concerning Mexican-Americans had been negative.
"We're going to have to be treated and dealt with as we should be." Gomez said.
Garcia said the appointment of Chicanos to policy level positions, where they could initiate meaningful changes for Chicanos, could be one positive step Bennett could take.
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The commission also set a bid date for the purchase of two one-ton trucks. One truck each will be used by the sanitation department and the park department.
ACTION WAS DEFERRED for a work, on several items until the full commission could act on them. Those items are resolutions concerning four sewer projects, and a sign ordinance variance for McCrory Otasco, 118 Massachusetts.
The commission also ordered a survey and appraisal of land on the west side of the city landfill in anticipation of purchase by McGrew Real Estate, Inc.
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