Lawrence Journal-World 07-11-13

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County OKs draft budget of $64.6M

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Amount includes 4.8 percent increase in property tax dollars By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Douglas County commissioners agreed Wednesday to a preliminary 2014 budget that would fund several programs and services that were recently cut from the state budget while providing most of the county’s roughly 408 full- and part-time employees a pay raise. The draft budget calls for $64.6 million in total spending by the county next year. Of that, nearly $43 million would come from local property taxes. That’s an increase of $1.9 million in property tax dollars, or roughly a 4.8 percent increase over this year’s budget. For the owner of a $200,000 home, that Please see COUNTY, page 2A

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MICHAEL LEWIS is the interim president at Haskell Indian Nations University. For the last nine years he has been Haskell’s chief financial officer.

Acting Haskell president says new leader will have tough job By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com

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YOUNG 4-H EQUESTRIANS COMPETE Wednesday in the Northeast District Horse Show at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Top competitors will qualify for the Kansas State Fair 4-H Horse Show Sept. 13-15 in Hutchinson. In TOP PHOTO, Katherine Shade, 13, of McLouth, jumps with her horse. At BOTTOM LEFT, Wendy Miller gets daughter Megan, 11, both of Oskaloosa, ready for her riding competition. At BOTTOM RIGHT, show judge Abby Strander, of Edwardsville, gives riders Maryka Smith, 16, of Hoyt, left, and Amber Grabe, 13, of Meriden, a few instructions.

After the sudden departure of President Chris Redman in May, Haskell Indian Nations University is without a permanent leader for a stretch that will likely total about six months. And whoever is picked won’t have an easy job, said Michael Lewis, the university’s acting president and its chief of finance for the past nine years. “The president of Haskell is facing, you know, some challenges,” Lewis, 54, said in an interview Wednesday. Please see HASKELL, page 2A

Grant will help clinic enroll uninsured under Affordable Care Act By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

The local effort to enroll uninsured Americans in the Affordable Care Act’s new health care exchanges got a boost Tuesday when Lawrence’s Heartland Community Health Center was awarded a federal

grant to provide outreach for the new law. The clinic plans to use the $66,040 in funding to hire an outreach/enrollment worker and train some of its AmeriCorps members on Affordable Care Act outreach and education. They will be available to help not only

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rector for Heartland Community Health Center. “These workers will be extensively trained in the application process and will be very knowledgeable about each plan.” The grant was part of $150 million in federal assistance announced Tuesday by Kathleen Sebelius,

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Heartland’s patients but anyone in the Lawrence area who needs assistance in understanding the new health care act. “We want the whole community to know that we’re here to help them find an affordable health insurance option,” said Ali Edwards, development di-

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secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that will help nearly 1,200 community health centers across the nation — including 16 in Kansas operating 49 sites — sign people up for the Affordable Care Act’s online exchanges. Uninsured Americans who

make between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for tax credits toward the purchase of premiums on the new insurance marketplaces, which begin open enrollment Oct. 1. The exchanges are part of the law’s goal to pro-

Eudora’s new fire station Firefighters, police officers and municipal court employees are beginning to move their equipment into the new public safety building downtown. Page 3A

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