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Wednesday, September 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Law center unhindered by federal grant denial
Denial of an application for a $355,000 federal grant to help pay for the new Douglas County Law Enforcement and Judicial Center won't hinder the conformance building, according to Walter Cragan, chairman of the Douglas County Commission.
The judicial center will house all the judicial and law enforcement offices for the city and county. The building will be located on a block of land between 11th and 12th streets and New Hampshire and Rhode Island streets.
The grant application was sent to the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Douglas County didn't receive the requested federal funds, called discretionary funds, because the equipment to be purchased with the funds did notwithin the budget. Discretionary guidelines, Jim Nix, Kansas LEAA representative, said recently.
LEAA discretionary funds are used for innovative, pilot programs, and equipment purchases aren't considered innovative, Nix said.
The next step in trying to get the federal EAA grant is requiring its requirements, Cragan said.
Ernest Coleman, federal funds consultant for the county, said he would check out the refusal of the application and try to keep any aspect of the application alive.
The requested LEAA funds would have paid $25,000 on the judicial building's closed-circuit television system and $25,000 for the target range in the basement. The rest was to be spent for the steel in the jail, Coleman said.
The county is attempting to substitute LEAA funds for general contract funds already committed to buying the closed-stack bridge, the target range and the steel, he said.
If the county received the LEAA funds, the general contract funds previously committed to the three items could be spent in the office equipment or is generally office equipment, Coleman said.
No LEAAM discretionary funds are available now at the regional level. There are discretionary funds at the national level, Coleman said.
The county did receive $85,478.40 in federal funds through the governor's corruption investigation. The government said the state and county will match these funds with $4,748.80 each.
Fighting the crowd for an open hand ball court at Robinson Gymnastium often is more strenuous than playing handball for money. But partial relief for handball lovers came from town recently when the Lawrence Community Building opened its new handball court.
The new court is part of a $250,000 renovation of the Community Building, with 10 open spaces.
also has a gymnasium with six basketball hoops, a weight room and Universal Gym, four meeting rooms, dressing rooms and showers and a lounge with Foosball and table tennis.
Old Community Building renovated;
The Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.,
Although KU students clog Robinson
Gymnastics, only a few students go to the
US team.
sports supervisor for the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.
"As long as they can get into Robinson
that don't come over here much," Roff said.
Roff said that Lawrence recreation programs were conducted in the building and that many junior high and high school students used the building after school. The
Community Building is paid for through the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department and is open for all Lawrence residents, including KU students, Roff said. The building opened after World War II, it was converted to a community recreation center. Revenue sharing funds made the recent renovations possible, Roff said.
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