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Wednesday, February 12, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Lawrence to face referendum on garage
By JANET MAJURE Kansan Staff Reporter
A petition calling for a referendum on the city garage has a sufficient number of eligible signatures, Vera Mercer, clerk, reported to the city commission Tuesday
The commission acknowledged the petition and deferred for a week action on condensation of property for the garage at 1372 W. 40th Street, Lawnta recording the garage is pandling.
The commission also approved an ordinance raising the commissioner's salaries to $800 a year effective the second Tuesday in April 1977.
In other business, revenue sharing allocations requested for Community Action programs were approved for the housing authority, Council on Aging, Mental
Tuesday's ice closes streets, causes bad fall
Health Center, Penn House, Ballard Center,
Alcohol Program, Public Library, Summer
Teen Employment Program and public
health.
Jamie Jones, Prairie Village junior, was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he fell from the roof of his apartment building at 1231 Oread Ave.
ice conditions Tuesday were a factor in a serious accident fall, and slick streets caused numerous minor accidents throughout Lawrence.
Mike Thomas, director of the Security and Parking Department, said Jones was transferred from Watkins Hospital to Lawrence Memorial with a broken ankle, a broken arm and other injuries. He said Jones apparently had locked himself out of his apartment, and was trying to enter through a window when he slipped on ice.
Icy road conditions caused Lawrence ice and KU Security and Parking officers to close 11th through 14th streets between the University and Jayhawk Boulevard and Oread Ave.
The commission agreed to allocate $10,000 of the revenue sharing funds to the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) as it did last year. The NYC had requested $20,000 because they didn't know whether they would receive any federal funds, Buford said. The commission thought that NYC would receive federal funds and that $10,000 should be sufficient.
The commission decided not to grant the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) $4,449 as it had requested. Mayor Jack Rose suggested that the CPA start action to submit a planned use report for next year's revenue sharing allocations for the June 12th meeting.
Appraiser's reports for special assessments to be levied against property for projects that have been completed were approved by the commission. A public hearing was set for 2 p.m. Feb. 25 to discuss the reports.
one commission authorized the issuance of $128,000 in temporary notes to finance the Schweiger sidewalk construction project, sanitary sewers in Trail Park and streets and sidewalks on Four Wheel Drive in the Auto Plaza.
The bid by Capital Equipment Company for a 14-foot tractor-mounted backhoe was approved by the commission. A bid date for the purchase of two trucks, one each for the utilities department and the cemetery division, was set for 10 a.m. March 3.
The commission approved a resolution that will start the condemnation procedures for land at 821 and 831 Pennsylvania for the Haskell loon.
The commission agreed to a Traffic Safety Commission recommendation that in order to standardize ordinances regulating obstructions, bushes, shrubbery and other obstructions should be trimmed to a height of 36 inches above the road level.
A recommendation to make eight feet instead of 10 feet the allowable minimum height for tree branches overhanging a building. The City Commission. The city commission also sent
back a recommendation that prohibits planting trees nearer than 50 feet from the intersecting curb line of two streets. The commission asked the Traffic Safety Commission to give reasons why the limit should be 50 feet instead of the existing 35
The city commission passed the first reading of an ordinance ordering the condemnation for land for the construction of a water treatment plant and sludge facilities.
Rose named Betty Kappelman, 1704 W. 19th St. Teh, and Curtis Bessinger, professor of architecture and urban development, to the Lawrence Arts Commission. George Ryan, 1323 Spencer Drive, was reappointed to the Arts Commission.
Rose also proclaimed Feb. 17-23
Innertia Friendship Week in Lawrence.
The commissioners got their first look at plans by the Army Corps of Engineers for the riverfront park at a study session Tuesday afternoon. The park will stretch 11 miles along the Kansas River. It will run through a hiking trail, a fishing area, canoe ramp, picnic site and possibly an area for overnight camping.
A request to move a sewer at the owner's expense on the property that Margaret's daughter lives in, was requested by architect for Gene Mosier, who owns the property. The request was referred to city
staff to contact utilities to see if they have any objections.
The commission agreed they needed more information about the various alternatives in developing a new solid waste before meeting with county officials.
Kyle Andregg, neighborhood development director, said that funds would not be available until June or July for housing rehabilitation.
Andregg, Hambleton, city commissioner, Richard McClanathan, county planning director, and Cornelia Field, to meet to discuss future housing plans.
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