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Monday, April 9, 1990 / University Daily Kansar
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Compromise, change end 1990 Legislature
The Legislature closed its 1990 session Saturday with a conference committee reaching a compromise on the Board of Regents budget and the Senate passing a property tax amendment.
Kansan staff writer
Rod Griffin
The committee's budget compromise for the Regents budget will be sent to the House and then to the Senate for approval. Little change was made in the budgets of the University of Kansas or the University of Kansas Medical Center.
If the committee report is adopted, KU will receive more than $239 million. The Med Center will receive
The committee reduced the graduate teaching assistant fee waiver from the House recommendation of 50 percent to 75 percent, as the Senate recommended. The committee also included $160,000 in the budget for student salaries.
"We came out getting the best of both the House and Senate versions." said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. "It's a great year, but in a area where we have economic and budget problems, I think we did very well."
Members of the House, including State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, agreed that the budget was not as bad as it could have been.
Kansas '90 egislature
almost $226 million.
The Senate delivered a surprise in the closing hours of the session when it passed a proposed property tax relief amendment. The proposal received 27 votes, exactly the two-thirds majority required to pass a constitutional amendment.
"I think it shows that to some extent it was controversial," Winter said. "Two-thirds of us, anyway, wanted to pass something that allows taxpayer relief, especially for small businesses."
The amendment would reduce the assessment rate on residential property from 12 percent to 11.5 percent. The assessment rate for non-profit entities would be reduced from 30 percent to 12 percent. The assessment rate on commercial property would be reduced from 30 percent to 25 percent, and the first $50,000 valuation would be assessed at 20 percent.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
The assessment rate on apartments would be increased from 12 percent to 15 percent.
Business at new mall is good during its opening weekend
By a Kansan reporter
Only 10 of the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza's shops opened to the public Friday, but employees reported brisk sales and steady crowds during the plaza's first weekend of business.
Thirty retailers have rented space in the plaza but most of them were not ready to serve customers, said Karen Brennan, manager. More stores will open as the April 28 formal grand opening approaches.
Aileen Women's Sportwear, Banister Shoe, Bass Shoe, Biltrill School Co., Cape Isle Knitters, Harve Benard, Toy Liquidators, Van Heusen, Works and Leggs, Heuken, and Ball factory outlets opened this weekend
"It's been wonderful," White said. "We're the only open store on the second floor so we have a lot of people stopping in. We've been doing
fantastic business."
Georgeann Haynes, Baker University student, said her only complaint was that the parking lots were not designed well.
"It was difficult to get in and out," she said. "But other than that, I like the stores. It looks like there will be a good variety. I think it will do well."
"It looks like the shops are kind of limited," he said. "The discount prices didn't seem as discounted as I expected from factory outlets."
Stephen Penrod, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said the mall was not as a good as he had anticipated.
Nicole Demby, a manager at Toy Liquidators, said the store had more business than she expected.
"I expected a lot of people, but I didn't expect so many customers" she said. "We have two cash register lines, and they're both busy all of the time."
Census form reaches most living groups Some forms to be hand-delivered
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
The distribution of census forms to some KU organized living groups was delayed, but most of them now have been received and the others should arrive this week. Fred Austin, census information supervisor, said that some census forms were misdelivered but that they would be hand-delivered this week.
Manny Ybarra, census information representative, said he was not sure how the mix-up occurred.
"We've got most of them out now," he said. "Some of them went out last week. The rest will get there soon."
"It's probably incompetence, if you know what I mean," he said. "We had three big boxes come back. They should be going back out Monday or Tuesday."
According to federal procedures, students are counted as residents in the area in which they were living on April 1, Ybarra said.
students living in residence halls, scholarship halls, sororities and fraternities receive census forms under a special classification, independent of homes and apartments, Ybarra said.
In a telephone survey yesterday of residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities and sororites, about two-thirds of the KU living at campus all but one reported that they had received the census forms.
Representatives from each of the eight scholarship halls said the halls had received and returned their forms.
Representatives of 11 of 24 residential fraternities and seven of 13 residential sororites were concerned with their forms had been received.
Joseph R. Pearson Hall and Hashinger Hall had not received the census forms as of yesterday, according to hall employees. Representatives of the other six residence halls said their halls had received the forms:
xbarra said anyone who had not received a census form should call the census office at 1-800-999-1990.
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