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Living wage still not done
Technicalities still being debated at commission meetings
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A final draft of the living wage ordinance was discussed at last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
Members of the public challenged the technical language of the ordinance.
Chuck Epp, Kaw Valley Living Wage Alliance representative, said all workers of tax abated firms should be covered by the ordinance.
"The policy requires meaning-ful enforcement," he said.
Aaron Payton, a fourth generation Lawrence resident, said that the temporary job he used to hold would have been affected by a living wage.
Commissions want the ordinance to apply to employees after 60 days.
"Living wage should be paid from day one," Payton said. He said that waiting for 60 days would be an incentive for companies to only hire temporary workers so they didn't have to pay benefits.
After taking comments from
"Living wage should be paid from day one."
Aaron Payton
Lawrence resident
the public, the commission directed the city staff to prepare a revised draft of the ordinance. The draft will have its first reading at the Oct. 21 commission meeting.
Other items from the city commission meeting:
Mayor David Dunfield proclaimed the month of October as Disability Employment Awareness month.
Dunfield also declared Friday, Oct. 10, as Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day.
Dave Corliss, assistant city manager, accepted the proclamation and said there was a casualty on the road every 13 minutes in the United States.
The commission welcomed Jacob Gage, Lawrence High School student.
Gage volunteered for a youth and government program that allows high school students to get involved with the community. He
will sit on the commission and vote separately.
Cut-N-Edge Incorporated, 269 Highway 40, won a $108,409.60 bid for the Street Tree Project.
The project will purchase 520 trees for Parks and Recreation department.
The commission voted to approve an agreement with Douglas County and the Kansas Turnpike Authority to reconstruct the Kasold Drive bridge over the Kansas Turnpike.
Rob Kort, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical Department representative, brought a bicycle safety presentation to the meeting.
He said 500,000 children were injured and 252 children were killed in bicycle accidents every year. Since 1996, the fire and medical department has handed out 9,000 free helmets to Lawrence children.
Lawrence City Commission meetings are held at 6:35 p.m. on every Tuesday at City Hall, 6 E. 6th Street. The meetings are open to the public.
- Edited by Michael Owells
Schwarzenegger wins recall
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Californians banished Gov. Gray Davis just 11 months into his second term and elected action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him Tuesday — a Hollywood ending to one of the most extraordinary political melodramas in the nation's history.
Voters traded a career Democratic politician who became one of the state's most despised chief executives for a moderate Republican megastar who had never before run for office.
Davis became the first California governor pried from office and only the second nationwide to be recalled.
Schwarzenegger prevailed despite a flurry of negative publicity in the campaign's final days, surviving allegations that he had groped women and accusations that as a young man he expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
The 56-year-old Austrian immigrant — husband of television journalist Maria Shriver — finds himself in charge of the nation's most populated state with an economy surpassed by only five countries.
Schwarzenegger promised to return the shine to a Golden State beset by massive budget problems.
Voters faced two questions whether to recall Davis, and who among the other candidates should replace him if he was removed.
Exit polling explained why: Many Hispanics and union members — two key groups in Davis' past electoral successes — deserted him as he suffered extraordinarily low job approval ratings amid widespread voter discontent about the state's economy.
Long lines were reported at nolling places through the day.
By late afternoon, Terri Carbaugh, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, said a turnout of 60 percent appeared likely higher than the 50.7 percent who voted in last November's gubernatorial election. It would be the highest percentage to vote in a gubernatorial election since 1982.
Re-elected last year with less than 50 percent of the vote, Davis fell victim to a groundswell of discontent in a state that has struggled with its perilous financial condition.
The actor's improbable rise to political power played out before a rapt international audience. He announced his candidacy in August on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" after aides said it was certain he wouldn't run.
Other major candidates seeking to replace Davis were the Democratic lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, conservative Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock and Green Party candidate Peter Camejo.
licans trying to take over the state."
"I'm horrified at the thought that Schwarzenegger can be our governor," said Gretchen Purser, 25, of Berkeley, who voted against recall. "I's sick of Repub-
Ed Troupe, 69, of Thousand Oaks, voted yes for recall and for Schwarzenegger. "As far as I'm concerned," he said, "Gray Davis is one of the dirtiest politicians I've ever encountered."
Though Schwarzenegger held a commanding lead over his rivals going into the final week, his campaign was shaken by allegations published in the Los Angeles Times just days before the election from six women who said he groped them or made unwanted sexual advances.
Schwarzenegger also was confronted with reports that he had praised Hitler as a young man accusations he disputed.
Allegations continued to surface over the weekend, and by election day a total of 16 women had come forward.
Responding to the sexual misconduct charges, Schwarzenegger acknowledged he had "behaved badly sometimes." But he attacked the newspaper and some of his accusers for what he called a last-minute effort to derail his candidacy.
Voters also rejected Proposition 54, a contentious initiative that would have banned state and local governments from tracking race in everything from preschools to police work. Voters across the racial spectrum rejected the measure, according to exit polling.
They also rejected another proposition dedicating money to public works projects.
FRATERNITY New house gets new recruits
Wymore said the fraternity would enhance the community as a whole by encouraging other fraternities to improve.
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"Anytime you bring new blood into the greek community, it's a good thing," he said. "Competition breeds quality."
Carr said the new fraternity would also add diversity to the community. As most fraternities recruit primarily freshmen, she said, a new fraternity gathers students of all years.
"What tends to happen when a new fraternity comes to campus is they recruit people who would not have been greek," she said. "They bring in new people, which brings excitement and new ideas."
Delta Sigma Phi has been at the University before, but closed in 1969. Carr said the '60s and '70s were low times of participation in greek life because of the increased individualism of the times.
Past experience in the area has left a strong alumni base ready to help the colony succeed, Henery said.
- Edited by Ehren Meditz
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FICTION: Cisneros writes through trials
But Cisneros isn't concerned about the suit any longer. He has turned to writing.
"Writing was really the only way to combat my frustration," he said.
His book, although fiction,
tells the story to the people he
says need to hear it: his tribe. He
said many members supported
what he has done.
And Cisneros said he could have victory without a court case.
"Victory does not always come when exposing the case to the fullest, it comes when you don't put up with it," he said.
Cisneros' book is available at Borders, 700 New Hampshire St., and will be at the Kansas Union bookstore in time for his Nov.4 signing date.
University Relations is working to spread the word of the book, said Todd Cohen, assistant director of University Relations.
As to promoting other students' books, Cohen said students should notify University Relations of any significant accomplishments.
"It's a rare accomplishment," Cohen said.
"Frankly, any book a student gets published, we would certainly help promote." Cohen said. "We work with the Alumni Association and University Endowment to spread the word. All these outlets would be very interested."
Edited by Ehren K. Meditz
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