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Thursday. October 10, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Open meetings policy undecided
By MARK ZELIGMAN
The issue of whether to open athletic board meetings wasn't resolved at yesterday's athletic board meeting of the University Athletic Corporation (UKAC).
John Eberhardt, chairman of the athletic Board, said the issue was one of the topics Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had submitted to his committee, the KUAC Study Group. He offers advice to committee last July to study the KUAC and make recommendations by Oct. 1.
"THE COMMITTEE IS IN the process of finalizing its recommendation," Eberhardt said. "We'll do what the chancellor tells us to when he gets through."
Eberhardt said he didn't know when the report was finished, but said the team hadn't.
Eberhardt said he had no objection to letting in the press. He said, however, that determining which newspapers to let in, coping with excessive noise and the physical plans of opening the meeting and personal matters would cause problems.
"AT LEAST FIFTY PER CENT of what's discussed at a board meeting is purely confidential," Eberhardt said. "If our enemies find out about it, they could crucify
'Open meetings would just mean more
executive sessions. Whatever you're planning to do in your athletic department, you don't want your competition to know what you're going to do."
"We're certainly not trying to hide anything," Clyde Walker, athletic director, said, "but we are in a competitive business, and I don't know of many competitive businesses that open up their board meetings."
THE BOARD ALSO AGREED to review a new bond agreement with the Student Senate concerning the debt on the addition of money on the east side of Memorial Stadium.
John Beisner, student body president and a member of the athletic board, said that the original agreement made in 1966 stated that the athletic corporation could profit by only $1,500 from ticket sales. According to a report by the University of Kentucky ticket money had to go to the Endowment Association to pay off the debt on the east side addition.
THE NEW AGREEMENT, Beisner said,
amended the amount of money the athletic
corporation must provide every year to the
Endowment Association to $50,000. About
400,000 a year was paid to the Endowment
Association under the old agreement,
Beisner said.
Walker said the lump sum of $50,000 would be paid each year through 1979.
he rewritten. He said the agreement as it now stands wasn't clear in regard to the difference between the $50,000 and the total money taken in by the athletic corporation.
"I would like to see some restrictions on that agreement in regard to future prices because any new agreement would give up the price that were set back in 1966," Beisser said.
"WE NEED SOMETHING built in so that when the bond is paid off, ticket prices will go down. We have to make sure the ticket increase is not an annual affair," he said.
Beisner said the whole agreement had to
In other action during the meeting, Walker said, renovations for Allen Field House were discussed. He said that the new building had already been completed and that the floor had been accented.
He said the electronically operated bleachers on the north and south ends would be ready this week. Work on the east and west bleachers would be completed next week, Walker said.
"All the problems that we detected with it have been corrected at this time to our satisfaction."
He said he hoped to have completed painting parts of the downstairs portion of the field house before the basketball season starts.
A final report on the football season tickets sales was also released at the
Status of bridge bond uncertain
By STEVE FRY
City Reporter
County commissioner Arthur Heck doesn't know what the chances are for payment. He'll pay for a new Kansas River bridge in Iowa and 50 smaller bridges in rural Arkansas.
"Hopefully, they (the public) will understand the problem and make money available simply to provide the county with water." "Don't have they don't have," Heck said yesterday.
Approval of the bond proposal would allow the county to issue $11.75 million worth of general obligation bonds for "building, purchasing or repairing certain bridges and the necessary approaches" in Douglas County.
Douglas County taxpayers would be charged five-and-one-half mills a year if a 5 per cent interest rate is charged on the 20-year bonds, Heck said.
A mill is $1 for every $100 of assessed evaluation. On a home investment at $20,000 a
home, the mill ilew would result in a tax increase of 810 a year.
If the interest rate on the bonds would drop to four-and-one-half per cent at the time of the bond sale, the mill levy would drop to five mills, he said.
Heck said no federal or state funds would be involved in the proposed bridge construction. But the River Bridge, which would funnel state and federal highway traffic into a congested area of Lawrence, the Kansas Highway Authority, bypass bridge east of Lawrence. Heck said
The present two-lane Kansas River bridge would be expanded to two two-lane bridges. The southbound bridge would empty onto Vermont Street, while the northbound bridge would be located where the present bridge is. If the bond issue is used, construction on the Kansas River bridge would start as soon as possible, Heck said.
The county commission decided which rural bridges to propose for replacement with new roads.
all bridges in 1973 to pinpoint the problem crossings. About 70 bridges had to be posted, most of them with three-ton load limits. Heck said.
the engineering staff found that 60 bridges must be replaced. However, 10 of the bridges are in the Clinton reservoir area and won't be replaced.
Modern farm machinery and heavy delivery trucks can't use the bridges with three-ton load limiting, leaving many rural roads too busy to ready-mix concrete trucks. Heck, said
The 59 bridges now used are too narrow to accommodate the wider, modern farm machinery. The old bridges, many of them built before 1900, would be replaced by bridges constructed with reinforced concrete and would be 20 to 26 feet wide.
Rising inflation won't cause the mill levy to increase, Heck said. After the mill levy is approved by a bond election, a mill levy can't be increased. Inflation factors are the proposed general obligation bonds to counter future inflationary growth, he said.
The report showed that while student season ticket sales decreased from 9,429 to 8,767 this year, public sales increased from 9,298 to 10,697. Including sales to faculty and staff, total season ticket sales were 20,645, an increase of 213 over last year.
meeting. A report on student sales was released last week.
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