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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 17, 1991
Finney hints at change in tax plan
Legislation opposition forces reconsideration
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Joan Finney might abandon the property tax relief plan she so far championed, and she will do so in 2019, her willingness to consider new ideas.
Finney said yesterday that she had reconsidered her plans because of legislative opposition to her proposal. Her plan would raise money for property services and eliminating exemptions to the state's sales tax.
In May, the governor said she would stick with her proposal, which she developed during her 1990 gubernatorial campaign.
"It was not accepted, so I have gone back to the drawing board," Finney said. "I will come back with another piece that may be totally different. It must not be."
Joan Finney
Her statements were received favorably by StateRep. Joan Wagnon,
D-Topkea, head of the House Taxation Committee, and State Sen. Dan Thiessen, Dan R independence, Dan R assessment and Taxation Committee.
"I think that's
Wood said, "We're *hoopers* deadly locked on the one we've got. Something totally new and radically different be called for."
However, Finney said she did not think legislators fully understood the depth of the state's property tax crisis. She said she did not expect total success in pushing her programs after the Legislature convenes in January.
She said she had expected the 1991 session, her first as governor, to be difficult because of her status as an outsider. She also said lawmakers were not accustomed to a truly independent chief executive.
Finney made her comments during a morning walk on the grounds of Cedar Crest, the governor's residence.
"I believe there'll be a mellowing, but I don't see that (the legislators) fully understand the tax situation that we have has greatly damaged the state economically" Finney said. "They don't seem to realize that the population is being drained because of the high taxes we have in Kansas."
Finney said she was convinced that ordinary Kansans support her proposal. She refused to call him and he declined to raise the tax rate would not increase.
Under her proposal, the sales tax would be applied to many more goods and services. It would raise $786 million annually, of which $822 million would go to local governments to allow them to cut property taxes.
The 1991 Legislature approved a proposal to increase sales and income tax rates to raise $138.3 million. Finney vetoed the measure, saying it did nothing to make the state's tax system fairer.
CLARIFICATION
A photo on Page 16 of yesterday's Kansan featured a photograph of a student posting a bill on a campus tree.
Ann Evensole, associate dean of student life and member of the University events committee, said yesterday that the committee recommended that people did not use trees as bulletin boards.
"It's basically a courtesy, common sense-type thing." Eversole said. "We don't want to hurt the environment."
The student in the photograph was posting a bill advertising an SUA movie.
Sue Morrell, SUA manager,
said that SUA volunteers were told not to post bills on trees and that this incident was isolated.
Spending bill may give military bases in Kansas $57 million
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Military bases in Kansas would receive $87 million for construction projects this year under legislation that won final approval from Congress yesterday and was sent to President Bush for approval.
The largest share of the money, about $42.2 million, would go for repairs and new buildings at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita because of damage from a tornado last April.
The money for Kansas was included in a compromise spending bill providing $8.6 billion for military construction in the United States and overseas in the 1992 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.
The Senate approved the measure on a 99-0 vote, which sent it to the president. The House approved the bill last week.
The compromise measure was developed by House and Senate negotiators, who resolved differences between separate military construction spending bills passed earlier by the two chambers.
Other projects in Kansas and the amounts provided are:
$1.8 million for the Army at Fort Blive for a modified firing range.
$4.95 million for an Air Force fire station at McConnell and $2.7 million for temporary housing at the base.
$6.7 million for the Army National Guard at Fort Riley for expansion of a mobilization and training equipment site.
$750,000 for the Air National Guard at McConnell for an addition to
the staff.
The Bush administration had sought $55 million to expedite repairs of tornado damage at McConnell. However, House and Senate negotiators decided
that the full amount was not needed because the Pentagon had spent some money out of its existing budget to make repairs.
In addition, the negotiators agreed several projects, such as repairs to an arts and crafts center and swimming pool, should be financed with money collected at the base from fees and other service charges.
Among the projects financed with the $43 million are a community center, comprehensive health center, replacement of destroyed family housing and repairs to some damaged family housing.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a photographer's error, a outline in yesterday's Kansan misidentified Scott Ferris, KU police investigator, as Burdel Welsh, KU police representative.
A photograph on page one of yesterday's Kansan falsely identified a young woman as Melissa Rhoades. The identity of the woman is unknown.
ON CAMPUS
Scholarship halls, the Interritary Council and the Panhellenic Association are taking appointments at Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union for people who want to give blood Oct. 22-25.
- The Commuters' Club will meet for
  at 11:30 a.m. today at Alceve 1
  on Tuesdays.
The Canterbury House of the Episcopal Anglican Church will sponsor Holy Eucharist at noon today in Danforth Chapel.
■ The Archaeology Club will meet at the Seminar Room in Spencer Hall.
p. m. today at Douthart Scholarship Hall.
The KU American Civil Liberties Union will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove Cin the Kansas Union.
- The KU Champions Club will meet at 7tonight at the Kansas Union.
The University Scholarship Halls for Ethnicity will meet at 6:30
- Psi Chi will meet at 7 tonight in 547 Fraser Hall.
- McCollium resident assistants will sponsor a program on massage therapy at 7:30tonight in the lobby in McCollium Hall.
- The KU Equestrian Club will meet at 7:30tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
The Black Student Union will announce the winners of the African-American Homecoming competition at 8:30 tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1290 Gread Ave.
ON THE RECORD
The KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30ton in 130 Robinson Center.
A man struck two male KU students on their faces after a dispute at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday in the front of the E-Z Shop, 1000 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police said. No arrests were made.
A car's license tag was removed between 12.01 a.m. Tuesday and 5:30 p.m. yesterday in parking lot 100, 147 and Ohio streets. KU police reported.
A car window was broken into and a radar detector was removed between 4 p.m. Tuesday and 1:40 p.m. of Filsworth Hill, KL police reported.
A bomb threat for Wescoe and snow halles was phoned by a male caller at 7 p.m. Tuesday to KU Infor- tion at the Kansas Union, KU police reported.
Three lockers were broken into between 9:15 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. Tuesday in the men's main locker room on the first level of Robinson Center, KU police reported. Wallets and credit cards were stolen from the lockers. It was the second time this fall that lockers in the locker room were broken into, according to KU police reports.
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