University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 15, 1989
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Drug efforts get attention
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansas needs to coordinate its disjointed efforts to combat drugs, a legislative committee said yesterday.
A report by the Special Committee on Ways and Means/Appropriations will include as its centerpiece a recommendation that the governor's office be directed to devise a method of coordinating various drug eradication efforts, including prevention, treatment and enforcement.
The positions of committee members ranged from advocating a state drug czar to doing nothing except increasing legislative oversight of existing programs.
State Sen. Paul Feliciano Jr., D-Wichita, said that if the committee did not recommend to coordinate programs, it would miss the problem it intended to resolve.
"I think there's a lot of waste out there that we just haven't gotten our hands on," he said. For example, various departments may duplicate particular efforts, he said.
For instance, she said, the budget for the Department of Wildlife and Parks included $20,000 for ant-drug measures, primarily to educate people about the dangers of drinking and boating.
Felliciano said part of the problem was a power struggle among the various agencies involved in antidrug measures. He said that effective anti-drug legal power, should be the overriding goal of the state.
Various ant-drug measures are directed by several state agencies, including the departments of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Education, Corrections, Administration and the court system.
Part of the committee's report states that overall anti-drug expenditures in Fiscal Year 1990 were estimated at $33.76 million, up from $33.25 million in Fiscal Year 1988.
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, said more than 50 percent of the state anti-drug expenditures were spent through SRS. Though many other agencies are involved, most of them have small antidrug budgets, she said.
Low-cost health plan sought
By Doug Fishback
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One month after Blue Cross and Blue Shield dropped one of the two insurance plans available to University of Kansas students, University officials are drawing up plans for the coverage they want next year.
The meeting will come slightly more than one month after Blue Cross officials decided to drop a plan with a $30 monthly premium and a deductible of $1,000 that provided coverage for 354 KU students. The students automatically were transferred into the other KU insurance option, which carries a $44 monthly premium with a base fee. There are 1,568 KU students enrolled in that plan, according to figures furnished by Mary Betzen, Blue Cross spokesman.
Mike Lambert, chairman of the student health advisory board insurance subcommittee, said that the subcommittee would meet tomorrow night to discuss student insurance needs and options.
Lambert said that he had not heard how many students had decided to remain in the other option but that he would call Blue Cross officials before the subcommittee's
meeting and find out how the changes had affected the number of KU students with coverage.
Betzen said that since the 354 KU students had been moved from the discontinued plan to the other option, 62 policy holders had dropped their coverage. In the case of additional students have signed onto the plan, she said.
Betzen said that there was no way to know whether the 62 students who dropped their coverage had been among those transferred from the discontinued plan.
"We assume that most or all of them are, but we're not sure," she said.
Lambert said that he had compared the KU insurance plan to student plans at other schools and that the coverage provided to KU students was relatively good. The current Blue Cross option at KU provides medical coverage up to $250,000 per subscriber, he said.
"We have one of the better plans this year, but it's also one of the most expensive." Lambert said.
He said that recovering some kind of low-cost plan, such as the one Blue Cross dropped last month, was a main concern of the subcommittee.
Panels will seek tax relief
Sen. Dan Thiessen, R-Independence, is the chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee and will head the joint committee. He said that public witnesses would be welcome but that he wanted them to contact the Revisor of Statutes office at the Capitol in advance to be placed on the agenda.
Letters were to be placed in the mail today informing the 34 members of the Senate committee and the House Taxation Committee of the meeting. Since there are 165 legislators, the two panels represent about one-fifth of the total membership.
TOPEKA - Lenders of the House and Senate tax committees decided today to call the two panels into joint session on Nov. 28 for at least three days of hearings and discussions on ways to ease the impact of reappraisal and classification on property taxpayers.
State committees to meet Nov.28
The joint committee's leaders set no firm agenda today, but in general they agreed to have legislators who called for a special session on reappraisal and classification and other public officials appear the first day, Nov. 28. Public witnesses will appear the second day, and the committee will discuss possible solutions the third day.
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City debates future of West Lawrence
By Dave Wakefield
Kansan staff writer
City commissioners said "No" last night to a package deal in West Lawrence.
The decision culminates weeks of discussion about the extent to which future development in West Lawrence should be allowed free rein
After a two-hour discussion, commissioners vole 3-2 to grant a zoning request on the southwest corner of Wakaraus Drive and U.S. Highway 40. Mayor Bob Schumann and commissioner Mike Rundle had asked that commercial development on all four corners be considered simultaneously.
"It's true we can't predict the future," Rundle said. "But we are shaping the future. We can't ignore that."
Commissioners Bob Walters and Dave Penny, who voted to proceed with piecemeal zoning on the intersection, said the future was unpredictable.
Developers at each corner are using the same population projections to justify consumer demand for their retail services, he said. By not considering the future of these needs, they are duplicating projected needs, Schumm said.
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"How do you reconcile that?" he asked.
Schumat he wanted to halt further action on zoning until all four corners could be discussed together. Planning documents indicate no more development should be allowed at the intersection.
Penny said he did not believe in planning by government bodies. He said the developers were the best at planning what was needed.
Walters said, "I concur with the process used by the planning commission to reach their recommendation. Why should we wait?"
Commissioner Shirley Martin-Smith said she did not believe there were a fixed number of acres in planning documents.
But City Planning Director Price Banks said Plan 95 indicated there might be a need for one community center at the intersection. The center could not exceed 30 acres, according the plan, he said.
By zoning an additional 11.8 acres commercial last night, commissioners raised the total commercial acres at the intersection to more than 25. The commission will consider a 20-acre zoning request for the three corner Nov. 29, Banks said. The commissioner has not yet submitted a zoning request, he said.
Schumm wanted to approach the county to work out an agreement that would allow city commissioners to consider all four corners at the same time.
"Conceivably, the way we are going, we will end up with the same amount of commercial development at this one corner as all of downtown," he said.
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