University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1982
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City hears requests to share HUD funds
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Requests from 29 organizations and individuals for portions of about 1745,000 that will be available from the Department of Housing and Urban Development were heard last night at a public hearing.
The money is available through the Community Development Block Grant
The money, according to federal regulations, is to be spent to benefit low- and moderate-income people. The money also can be spent to help prevent
THE TOTAL of the requests was more than double the available money, but Lynn Goodell, director of Community Development for the city, said requests normally exceeded available money.
Also, even though the deadline for requests was Wednesday, neighborhood organizations in the city have granted until Jan. 15 to submit requests.
An exact total of the requests cannot be determined yet because some of the requests are not processed.
About $698,000 of the money comes directly from HUD, while the remainder comes from what is called program income, which includes any payments the local community development system such as money from the sale of property.
LAST NIGHT's hearing was one of a long series of steps the Community Development office takes to allocate the available money.
Goodell said that in June of this year he distributed information about the program to local social service agencies, city departments and others who might be interested in applying for the money.
Interested groups then submitted requests for the money, which the advisory board to the Community Development program will review at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Lawrence Public Library.
The board will make public in February its preliminary recommendations for allocation of the money, and will then hold another public hearing.
THE BOARD then will submit final recommendations to the Lawrence City Commission for formal action next year.
One of the largest requests, for $459,804, came from the city utilities department and was for the replacement and repair of water lines in the
Money for those requests that are approved will be available in August of each year.
The public works department requested $222,000 to repair and extend storm sewers and to finish installing curbs on North Second Street.
Ballard Community Center, the Achievement Place for Boys and the Douglas County Legal Aid Society also requested money.
Counsel to reply to professor's suit
The University of Kansas General Counsel will submit a reply to a $3 million discrimination lawsuit against the University within the next couple of weeks, an official from that office said yesterday.
The suit was filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in Topeka on behalf of Dorothy Wilner, a professor of anthropology who claims she was discriminated against on the basis of sex and race.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel, said the University was
required1 by law to formally respond to the complaint within 20 days of the filing date.
Marino refused to discuss the specifics of the suit, which named the University and 12 individuals as faculty members and administrators.
"We can't comment on a pending lawsuit," she said.
The suit claims that since 1968, Willner "has been subjected to sex and race-based discrimination in sala, y and salary increases."
The complaint said Wilner had been actively fighting discrimination against minorities and women at the University. She said she was punished for misusing policies and fainted during assignment and verbal abuse at department meetings.
The complaint said Willner, 55, was discriminated against because she was a woman and Jewish.
She is seeking $1 million in actual damages and $2 million in punitive damages. The suit also seeks retroactive damages on her benefit alleges denied Willner.
On the record
A KU STUDENT was arrested Wednesday night for pulling the fire alarm about 11 p.m. Wednesday in a car accident at Carson Hall, KU police said yesterday.
The student was released from the Douglas County jail on $50 bond, Lawrence police said.
THEIVES STOLE A $250 eight-foot blue spruce tree between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday from a front yard in the 2100 block of Princeton Boulevard, where a tree was that police it was a large full tree that would make a good Christmas tree.
Commission to hear report about legality of Lifeline rates
An attorney for the law firm that represents the city is scheduled to present a report to the Lawrence City Commission Monday about the legality of Lifetime rates, a billing system that requires lower natural gas rates to the poor.
Gerald Cooley, the attorney, said yesterday that he was still working on the report and that he could not discuss its details.
The commission asked Cooley to prepare a report on the legality of the rates about a month ago.
The commission will consider Cooley's report 4:30 p.m. Monday in City Hall. The commission also is scheduled to discuss the report at meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
The commission decided to consider instituting Lifeline rates after hearing requests from several local people.
The city has the power to consider Lifeline rates because it has a franchise agreement with the local natural gas utility, Kansas Public Service Gas Co.
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