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University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1982
Commission to protest gas rate hike
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission decided last night to join the Kansas Corporation Commission in protesting a gas rate increase for local customers.
The commission agreed to discuss the matter again next week and take public comments, at which time it could withdraw its protest if it voted to.
Though discussion of joining the KCC in protecting the rate increase was not specifically on the agenda, the commission decided to set last night because any protest to be filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had to be postmarked by Friday.
THE INCREASE is scheduled to take effect Oct. 23, and is the result of a "pass-through" rate hike proposed by Cities Service Gas Company, which supplies gas to Kansas Public Service Gas Company, the local natural gas utility serving only Lawrence.
The scheduled rate increase is an 82 cent hike in the unit price of gas to local customers.
Commissioner Tom Gleason said, "I thought we were in a remarkably similar position to the corporation position."
City Manager Buford Watson said he understood that the KCC was challenging the rate hike because Cities Service was "buying the most expensive gas and leaving the most inexpensive gas in storage."
MAYOR MARCI FRANCISCO said joining the KCC in protest the rate he would assure that Lawrence citizens would be represented.
Watson said joining the KCC in the protest would be a simple procedure and would not involve a lot of staff time.
The commission also received a letter from State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, in response to last week's commission meeting.
At that meeting, Doug Lamborn, Charlton's Republican opponent, spoke to the commission for about 30 minutes of discussion on the natural gas franchise tax.
Commissioners said last week that Charlton should be offered equal time to appear before the commission.
The letter, which was read by Commissioner Don Binns, said in part, "I have no intention of making a city commission before the city commission."
CHARLTON'S LETTER also said that she had and would continue to work on energy-related issues. She also suggested that the commission join the KCC in protesting the rate bike.
Commissioners noted, however, that they had already considered joining the KCC's protest before they received Charlton's letter.
The commission also decided to place a discussion of lower utility rates for elderly and handcapped residents, along with "line" rates — on the Nov. 9 agenda.
In other business, the commission discussed the city's policy on special assessments.
The assessments, which offer a lower interest rate than that commercially available, can be used by developers and builders to finance such public improvements as streets and sewers.
THE CITY is owed more than $389,000 in delinquent special assessments. The commission decided several weeks ago to place a moratorium on the use of the assessments until a new policy could be developed.
The new policy being discussed by the commission would require the developers to place a deposit with the city equal to 25 percent of the cost of
The deposit could be in the form of a certified letter of credit or a cash or surety bond.
Clark said, "It does seem to be a very reasonable approach to require the front-end money."
The assessments now are backed only by personal guarantees. The city, however, has not enforced those guarantees.
"The time has come to go to court with people who didn't pay their guarantees," Clark said. "It's totally hypocritical to pass this resolution and keep the guarantee provision in it, or have a fabricate on it, and not enforce it."
Gleason agreed that the commission needed to take action.
"We really have to look seriously at enforcing the guarantee. There's no benefit to that system if we don't follow through on it," he said.
THE COMMISSION agreed to discuss the policy again at their next two meetings.
Faculty award nominations sought
The KU office of academic affairs is soliciting faculty nominations for the 1982 Chancellor's Club Career Teaching Award, an award that recognizes a faculty member who has been at KU more than 15 years.
from the academic affairs office.
"THE AWARD is intended to dramatize the contributions of the faculty member to the welfare and to the health of students," according to a statement
"The award . . . is presented annually to a member of the faculty who exemplifies best the commitment of the team and stands teaching," the statement said.
KU officials said the winner of the award would receive a $5,000 stipend.
the office of vice chancellor for academic affairs, 127 Strong Hall, should be submitted by Oct. 20. The KU football team, Nov. 6 KU homecoming football game.
Eldon Fields, professor of political science, won the award last year.
The office urges students, faculty, staff and alumni to submit nominations, officials said. The nominations should be accompanied by a curricular support supporting comments and department and school endorsements.
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Attorneys dispute DWI statute
A new drunken-driving law that went into effect last summer has the Douglas County district attorney and the Lawrence city prosecutor engaged in a dispute over how drunken drivers should be prosecuted.
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
Prosecutor Mike Glover said last week that the new law eliminated the ability of prosecutors to plea bargain, choice between a bail term or divorce.
District Attorney Jerry Harper said yesterday that he favored eliminating plea bargaining, meaning more DWI convictions, which was what the Legislature planned to do by passing the law.
HARPER SAID he did not want the public to think that he or other law enforcement personnel shared Glover's opinion.
The new law might require some changes, Harper said, but it was a tough one.
Glover said eliminating plea bargain-
imited the prosecutors' ability to allow the facts of the case to determine
Kansas Highway Patrol Sgt. Gary Cares said the new law would be more feasible than the old law because plea bargaining was eliminated and because DWI charges could not be reduced to reckless driving.
"For the judge on the bench it is spelled out what he can do and can't
HARPER SAID that since plea bargaining was prohibited, Glover had routinely diverting first offenders. He said he would have been having a DWI conviction on his record.
"We rarely agree to diversion because diversion agreements should be reserved for only the most exceptional cases and not handed out as a right to virtually every first-time offender." he said.
Kansas Highway Patrol Capt. Terry Scott said the effectiveness of the new law depended on how those involved in the judicial system carried out the law.
"Our problem is that some people are not serious about the DWI law," Scott
said. "The combined amount of people killed by drunken drivers makes the number of people killed in the Vietnam war look pale in comparison."
Scott said the continuing problem of drunken driving was not solved in the city. The police said the
"Ask any trooper, sheriff's deputy or policeman who has been forced to help extract a mangled body from an automobile wreck about the role of alcohol in traffic accidents," Harper said.
Those people dealing directly with an accident caused by drunken driving for the most part, would not support plea bargaining, he said.
THE SENTENCE FOR a first offense under the new law is 48 hours to six months in jail, a $200-$500 fine and revocation of the driver's license from three months to a year. The diversion for sentencing is 100 hours community service. A $300 fine are sent to the Alcohol Information School, which costs $65, and they pay an assessment of $85 to the Social Rehabilitation Service.
Stephan will discuss insanity pleas
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan will discuss his proposed alternative to the insanity plea at a hearing on Monday in the University of Kansas' new Friday at the University of Kansas.
Stephan's talk on "Presumptive Sentencing and the Mentally Ill Verdict" will be at 8:30 a.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
discuss recent nationally publicized court cases, such as the Hinckley trial, involving "innocent by reason of insanity" pleas.
"Principally, the attorney general is proposing legislation for next spring to take effect in the Kansas courts," said Warren, co-chairman for the meeting.
STEPHAN WILL comment on his proposal to create a "guilty, but mentally ill" verdict. He will also
who will speak on the topic of "Sex Offenders" at 1:10 p.m. Thursday in the Big Eight Room.
The two-day conference will also feature Maj. Ronald Aldridge, director of mental hygiene at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth,
HE WILL DISCUSS identified patterns of offenders and effective means of treatment. Warren said
Five other speakers will address the conference, covering stress management in corrections, women in criminal justice, drug abuse and the criminal correctional staff as expert witnesses and correctional staff burnout, she said.
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