thursday. October 27, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Kansas gets grant to survey disabled
By a Kansan reporter
A grant recently awarded to the University of Kansas Bureau of Child Research will test how satisfied people are with the services they receive.
The $71,000 grant was awarded by the Kansas Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities.
George Bronicki, project coordinator, said the grant was the result of federal legislation mandating that people with developmental disability be given funding when how satisfied they were with services. All the states are participating.
The goal is to identify the needs of developmentally disabled people and
to form and promote programs that help meet those needs, Bronicki said.
The government defines a developmentally disbled person as someone who is less than 22 years old and has extreme difficulty performing at least three basic functions including mobility, communication, money management or decision making.
The grant money was received Oct. 1, and so far 28 out of 300 surveys have been completed.
Developmentally disabled Kansas residents who would like to be interviewed can contact Bronicki at 864-4950.
TOPEKA — Topeka attorney Margie Phelps ended two days of testimony yesterday after lawyers introduced as evidence more than 80 newspaper stories and editorials about the 1985 settlement of a sexual harassment suit against Attorney General Robert Stephan.
The Associated Press
Two days of testimony concluded
The suit, brought by Marcia Tomson, a former employee in the attorney general's office, is the basis of the multimillion dollar breach-of-contract suit filed against Stephan after he revealed terms of the settlement at a news conference on October, 19, 2013. He said he sought $2.2 million in damages in U.S. District Court. Under federal regulations, however, that figure could be tripled for punitive damages.
Tomson also alleges that Stephan and former state Sen. Bob W. Storey, a co-defendant, held her up in a "false light" before the public by their statements made at the 1983 news conference.
Phelps, of Phelps Chartered law firm, represented Tomson in the two suits and helped arrange the settlement in the first one. She was disqualified from representing Tomson in the second suit because of her role as a witness.
Articles, editorials used in Stephan case
In testimony yesterday, Phelps denied she had been conducting a vendetta against Stephan, a suggestion made by Stephan's attorney, Gerald Michaud of Wichita.
Under cross examination, Phelps said her family has helped Stephan in the past. She confirmed her firm has sued the attorney general six times, but said those suits were against Stephan in his official capacity as attorney general and were not directed at him personally.
Deanne Watts Hat of Topeka, representing Storey, introduced scores of articles and editors from state newspapers showing that Stephan was embroiled in controversy and under public pressure to reveal the terms of the settlement months before the news conference. Stephan was planning to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 1986.
Storey, a former state senator and political supporter of Stephan, was not involved in the case until the news conference, Phelps said. He is being sued for placing Tomson in a false light, but an allegation against him of interfering with a contract was dropped before the trial started Monday.
Hay also introduced evidence that Gov. Mike Hayden, who was then speaker of the Kansas House, wanted to sponsor legislation that would prohibit such secret agreements if public funds were involved, and other lawmakers were calling for the closure of terms of the Stephan-Tomson settlement.
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