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Panel: Amyx should remain mayor until 2017 By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
Current Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx would remain in his position until January 2017 under a recommendation issued Tuesday from
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a subcommittee formed to look at mayoral term changes. The proposal calls for a new mayor and vice mayor to be appointed the second Monday of January 2017, which would align mayoral terms with a new City Com-
mission election schedule. The Kansas Legislature in 2015 changed the law to require city elections to take place in November of odd years instead of April of odd years. The first election under the new cycle will take place in November 2017.
“We want a one-time, clear-cut fix for a situation, not born from this commission’s doings, but from both inside and outside forces that have wreaked havoc on our community the last year,” read Commissioner Lisa Larsen from a prepared
statement Tuesday. “These recommendations will no doubt elicit both agreement and disagreement from the public. Please understand we do not make these recommendations lightly.” Please see MAYOR, page 2A
City OKs grant request for transit hub
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Project now estimated to cost $30 million By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
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THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ROWING TEAM PRACTICES ON THE KANSAS RIVER UNDER THREATENING CLOUDS Tuesday morning as a storm front moves over Lawrence. Severe storms moved through northeast Kansas on Tuesday night, leaving several inches of rain and causing some flooding, and more rain is in the forecast for today.
Lawmakers take aim at business tax cuts By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — The chairmen of the Kansas House and Senate tax committees said this week they intend to take up bills during the wrap-up session that would either repeal or scale back one of the 2012 tax cuts that exempts more than 330,000 farm and business owners from paying any
income tax. a short wrap-up sesBut it remains to be sion. But with the state seen whether Republifacing an estimated can leaders will allow $291 million revenue either of the bills to be shortfall over the next fully debated by the full 16 months, and with all Legislature or, even if LEGISLATURE 165 seats in the Legiseither of them were to lature up for election pass, whether Brownback will this year, there is intense poallow such a bill to become litical pressure for lawmaklaw. ers at least to take a vote on Lawmakers return to the the issue. Statehouse today for the start “There’s pressure from of what many will hope to be both sides,” said Rep. Marvin
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Kleeb, R-Overland Park, who chairs the House Taxation Committee. “There are groups and individuals advocating both sides of the issue.” Sen. Les Donovan, R-Wichita, who chairs the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee, said he intends to hold a hearing Thursday on one bill that already has significant Republican support.
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The cost estimate for a city transportation hub and parking deck located on the Kansas University campus was upped from $20 million to $34 million late last week, and then lowered to $30 million Tuesday. Estimates wavered during preparations for a grant application. Project leaders were working to determine the cost of adding a level to a parking deck that’s planned to rise above a groundlevel transportation CITY center. The addition brings the structure, COMMISSION planned for KU’s Lot 90, to five stories. Of the latest $30 million estimate, KU has pledged to pay $11 million. The City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow the Lawrence Transit System to submit a grant application for the project to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The vote means the city is committed to providing funding required to match the Please see TRANSIT, page 2A l Commissioners approve urban
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