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Street construction will be put to vote
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission had a change of heart last night when it decided to put construction on Sixth Street to a bond vote.
A petition that demanded a bond vote in the next general election prompted the commissioners' decision.
John Swift, a KU graduate student,
fired the notification last fall
Although the commission initially wanted to finance the improvement of Sixth Street between Monterey Way and Wakara Drive without a waiver, the commission decided whether they should pay $483,750 in bonds for the construction.
The county, however, charged that the petition was invalid because Swift had not filed it correctly. County officials asked some of the petition to withdraw their names, and most required the 734 signatures remained.
Commissioner Louie McEhlaney said he thought that $493,750 was too small an amount for a bond vote.
"I would hope that with an amount of $493,750 the public would let us make a decision after studying the issues." he said.
But McEhlaney also said that despite the filing mistake, the petition demonstrated that enough people wanted to have an election.
If the bonds are approved April 2, the money will finance the widening of Sixth Street between Monterey Way and Wakarua Drive.
In addition to the county's contribution, the project already has accumulated $493,750 from the city and $1,837,500 from the state.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said that if the bond vote failed, the city would have to decide whether it wanted to come up with twice the amount it had allocated already.
23 acres bought for development into frog habitat Kansan staff report
The Douglas County Commission yesterday purchased a tract of land that will be developed into a wetland area to compensate for the construction South Lawrence Traffery
The 23-acre tract, which is south of Lawrence at Haskell and 35th streets, will serve as the habitat for the Northern Crawfish Frog, a Kansas-designated threatened species.
According to an environmental impact study completed last year, the traffickway would displace 11.89 acres, or 2 percent of the Baker Wetlands, the frogs' natural habitat
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said the tract was one of two sites proposed for the wetland development
The county, which initially offered $17,500 for the tract, agreed to nav $24,500.
"We believe it's a fair price." McKenzie said.
Otherwise, the lack of local money could hurt the city's chance of receiving state financing for the rest of Sixth Street, he said.
Swift said he was surprised that the commission had decided to conduct an election.
"I'm surprised because they went through a lot of trouble to prevent it in the first place," he said.
911 plan gets mixed reviews
Kansan staff report
Rural Douglas County residents expressed mixed feelings last night about the county's plan to improve its 911 emergency service.
The enhanced system, which county officials hope to begin by January, would allow emergency services to help county residents in dire straits faster and more efficiently.
But to pinpoint the location of an
emergency, the enhanced 911 would require a new address system for rural county residents. The new addresses would be determined by a numbered grid system instead of by a patterned grid system of rural routes and county roads.
Some of the 40 rural city residents who attended a public hearing on the enhanced system complained that an unmembered system would be too confusing.
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