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University Dally Kansas
Tuesday, September 18, 1975
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Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Light attendance
An attempt by the KU Student Senate to bring KU Administration members and students together, Izzled Monday afternoon.
gathering, which was in the Jayhawk room at the Union, drew only a few students.
Mayor mingles with trash movers
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Staff Writer
Although most of Lawrence's trash service proceeded as usual yesterday, the sanction truck of Robert Oetis had an extra transport—Mavor Barkley Clark.
Some officials, such as Sen. William Proxmite of Wisconsin and Mayor Abe Beame of New York City, have been riding garbage trucks in their areas just to understand more about the problems of sanitation workers.
Clark joined Oatis and two workers through an area east of the University of Kansas running from sixth to 14th streets. Clark worked from 7 a.m., until noon.
Clark went with the workers for this reason but also for a more pressing one. He asked his team to bring bids from private sanitation firms to replace the current system. Clark wants to be able to make a firsthand report to the officials about the problems sanitation workers face.
He said he learned quite a bit.
He said he learned quite a bit.
"A lot of the problem rests on the shoulders of homeowners and tenants," he said.
Several people are guilty of violations, he said. Violations include trash thrown all over the alleys, cans without lids, improper packaging, cans weighing over 75 pounds (the maximum weight) and bulk trash such as mattresses and lounge chairs.
"It was quite a shocker for me," he said.
"One container I picked up had tins on the top and appeared to be light. Underneath the cans was plaster of paris."
Clark said the can might have weighed 150 pounds.
Some of the alleges were covered with so much trash that they looked like linear landfills, he said. The workers can't physically get every bit of trash, he said.
Roving dogs also knock over much of the trash, he said. But he said the dogs couldn't be completely blamed for people's failure to wrap the trash properly.
Clark said he 'discovered that the sanitation workers also had equipment
"It was slick this morning and I nearly fell off," he said.
Another complaint was the time it took to get to the city landfill. Clark said the round trip from Oats' route to the landfill was two hours, and the landfill is north of town near the Kansas River.
Two trash trucks were broken before the workers started in the morning, he said, and the safety platforms that the workers stand on behind the truck are too small.
Otitis said it was a typical day. The only thing unusual was that the mayor rode an elephant.
Dennis Smith, president of the Lawrence Sanitation Workers, followed the truck in his car, pointing out some of the problems to Clark.
He said much of the problem was a failure of the city to enforce sanitation packaging regulations.
Smith said he was glad the city commission was looking at an overall picture of the sanitation situation before considering a private firm.
Improvements have resulted in areas of the city where packaging rules have been enforced.
Dean Sanderson, county engineer, said yesterday that completion of the environmental impact statement for the parkway had been delayed because the consultant's plans for access roads didn't conform to city-county planning.
A mix in placement of access roads that has delayed planning of Clinton Parkway at least two weeks will be reviewed by Board of Commissioners next week.
The letter said that because of the mix-up the environmental impact statement would be ready to send to the Federal Highway Administration by Oct. 9, as originally planned.
Sanderson yesterday received a copy of a letter that had been sent by the project consultant, Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers, to the Department of Secondary Roads of the Kansas Department of Transportation.
"The commissioners have to learn about the problems that we face," he said. "You can't make a decision at city hall without seeing what's going on in the city."
Finney and Turnipseed's plan for the road included access roads each half mile. Sanderson said Lawrence and Douglas County passed a joint resolution in 1970 stating their intention that access roads be built each quarter mile.
Clinton road mix-up causes delay
"Apparently what happened was the joint resolution was passed and the consultant was appointed."
resolution was passed and the consultant was never advised of it," Sanderson said. He said county officials became aware of the discrepancy when representatives of McGrew Real Estate, Inc., requested additional access to their Tankee Kane street adjacent west of Dragstrap Road and north of 3rd Street, where Clinton Parkway is to be.
The letter also acknowledged receipt on sept. 10 of the transcript of the Aug. 30 petition.
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He said late arrival of the transcript would contribute to the delay.
Sanderson said letters the secondary roads department had received indicated environmental protection groups wanted fewer access roads than the consultant had planned. People living in the area of the parkway wanted more, he said.
Those letters will be included in the environmental impact statement, he said.
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Sanderson said location of access points would be settled as soon as the city and
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county commissions could reach an agreement. The engineering and survey stages, tentatively scheduled to begin April 1997, delayed several weeks until the environment study is approved by the Federal Highway Administration, he said.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
TO: All Interested Parties, Student Activities, and Student Organizations
FROM: John House, Student Senate Treasurer
The Finance and Auditing Committee of the Student Senate has declared FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th to be the deadline for submission of requests for Fall Supplemental Funding from the Student Activity Fee.
Requests for Supplemental Funding must be submitted in writing on the prepared forms available at the Student Senate office (105B KANSAS UNION) not later than 5:00 P.M., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1975.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
For additional information, contact the Student Senate Treasurer's office at 864-3746.
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David Wand will be at the Kansas Union Bookstore Sept. 18 from 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., to answer any questions about calculators.
There will also be a display of Hewlett-Packard calculators.