Sunday, March 31, 1991 THE WICHITA EAGLE 3B Cleanup bill wins panel OK By Jim Lynn The Wichita Eagle Legislation the city needs to help pay for cleaning up polluted groundwater downtown has gained committee approval and could go to the full House this week. Rep. Diane Gjerstad, )-Wichita, chairman of the House Economic Development Committee, said Saturday 1 that she expects the House to pass the tax increment financing bill, but only after a "healthy debate." "I'm sure there "There will be ques- was tions," she said. "It's a serious concern bill, and House about members are going to be cautious taxpayers not to allow local getting hit officials any shenani- with more gans." than their The bill would allow the city to fair share set up a special of the tax district in the Gilbert and Mo- cost." sely pollution Diane zone, a foursquare-mile area Gjerstad of central Wichita. Up to 20 percent of the property taxes now paid by landowners would be used to help pay for the pollution cleanup, which could cost $20 million over 20 years.
The city earlier had suggested devaluing property and then raising it again once an agreement was signed to begin the cleanup. The taxes paid on the resulting increment in appraised value would have gone to fund the cleanup. But that provision was dropped after legislators raised constitutional I questions. After a bitter dispute earlier this month over the handling of other city-requested legislation related to downtown development, both legislators and city officials exchanged compliments for the way both sides have handled the tax increment bill. Mayor Bob Knight said he was "very appreciative" of the legislators' support.
And Gjerstad said, "the city has done a good job of sitting down and dealing with some of the problems." The bill "is an excellent work product in spite of the personalities involved," she said. She and City Manager Chris Cherches clashed harshly over the handling of a nowscuttled tax on restaurants. Cherches publicly blamed Gjerstad for the bill's failure, and Gjerstad blamed the city for inept lobbying. Gjerstad said, however, that legislators remain nervous about the tax bill because so much about the pollution issue still is unsettled. "We feel like we're walking on Jell-0," she said.
She said she and others have not decided whether to hold off final passage of the bill until the city reaches an accord with The Coleman considered a major contributor to the contamination. "There was concern in the subcommittee about taxpayers getting hit with more than their fair share of the cost," Gjerstad said. Cherches wants Coleman and other companies to pay the bulk of the cleanup costs, perhaps as much as 90 percent. The remainder of the costs would be picked up by the taxpayers in the polluted area. Into the blue, on a dream Fly-in benefits air museum By Dave Higdon The Wichita Eagle At Augusta Municipal Airport on Saturday, three Kansans had Friday night dreams fulfilled in blue Kansas skies.
Each took his first flight in his dream airplane in exchange for a contribution to the coffers of Augusta's Detachment 1 of the Combat Air Museum. The detachment staged a fly-in Saturday to raise money to restore a World War II C-45, the military version of the homegrown Beech 18. Hundreds of people attended the daylong event, several dozen of them paying $20 each to fly in the craft of their choice. Three-year-old Casey Corbett barely slept Friday night, excited by the prospect of accompanying his dad in the sky in an antique airplane, a bright yellow Piper J-3 Cub. "Neither one of us has been flying before," said Casey's dad, Doug Corbett, a Boeing employee from Douglass.
The Combat Air Museum strives Anthony Wichita Eagle Earl Long Ill explains the Beech C-45 to passenger Terri to fly in a C-45 because she sees them fly at Westport Langford as they fly over El Dorado Lake. Langford had wanted Airport near her home. to add to the ranks of flying warbirds, said Jerry Blair, commander of the museum's Augusta detachment. "The U.S. Army Air Corps accepted the C-45 on June 1, 1945, so she served before the war ended in August and qualifies as a trueblue warbird," said Blair, an Augusta building inspector.
Blair, who called the C-45 a "beauty in the rough," said it BITTER Although Stuart From Page 1B members at forums. Emotions have run so high that at one forum, at Curtis Middle School, some parents shook and nearly cried as they posed questions to the candidates. Gragert has repeatedly accused current board member Jan Henrie Fry of masterminding the opposition campaign for her own personal and trying to put a voucher plan, which would let parents use state money to enroll their children in private schools. Fry, whose seat is not up for election this year, seized the floor at one forum to denounce Gragert's charges. "Whether I'd take $900 or not is insulting and ludicrous," Fry said in a subsequent interview, referring to a proposed voucher plan that would give $900 per child to each parent.
One of her two children attends private school. "I cannot be bought for $900," she said. In another forum, Danitschek questioned whether incumbent Mel Davis, a real estate developer, was involved in disreputable businesses. She has also accused Gragert of playing partisan politics and said Focht had fostered nepotism in the district a charge Danitschek later recanted. Davis has publicly called Danitschek a liar.
The board election two years ago, when three incumbents were defeated, was tame by comparison, candidates and board members say. That year, much of the venom was directed at Superintendent Berger, rather than at each other. "Our forums were never like these," said school board member Jean Schodorf, who won on the EASTER DRAMA SAT. MARCH 30, 7 PM SUN. MARCH 31, 7 PM "AT THE CROSS" Live and in Color! A dramatic reenactment of the last week of Christ's life portrayed by the Apostle Peter.
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Terri Langford of Wichita was excited by the prospect of flying in one of two C-45s flown in from Wichita's Westport Airport, near her home, where she watches them fly. The Kansas Warbirds and the Confederate Air Force, two other groups that try to preserve old will continue to have that majority. The incumbents have made a point of saying throughout the campaign that they want to continue what they have started. They want to change graduation requirements, add more magnet schools specialty schools that enroll students from across the district review the desegregation busing plan and move toward evaluating schools and teachers by how students perform. "As far as I'm concerned, I'm anxious to go forward with the programs that I have embraced over these past several years," Davis said.
"What's going to happen immediately? We will be planning a middle magnet school," Focht said. "We will be making decisions about changes in graduation requirements. We will be working to implement the goals and objectives that we have recently adopted." But the minority voices on the board, Darrel Thorp and Fry, have endorsed the challengers. If two or three of the challengers win, there could be a new majority setting school policy. Fry said the group won't necessarily reach a consensus.
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"They weren't bitter." Although Berger's superintendency is again a key factor in this campaign Tuesday's vote could determine whether or not he remains in charge the consequences of this vote could outlast Berger. Each slate of candidates has the support of two of the continuing board members. So whichever group takes a majority of the open seats will have a working majority on the board. Schodorf and board member Carol Rupe have said they support 1 the incumbents. For more than a year, those five have controlled the board and set the direction, giving Berger leeway for major changes.
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His contract expires in 1992. That new board would require more study of the basic subjects math, reading and writing and put emphasis on raising teacher morale. It would look at different reform ideas, including the highly controversial voucher idea. If the challengers win, the new board would focus on bringing the community together, Ferris said. "The school board might have to even do some old-fashioned town hall meetings," she said.
But it is difficult to tell whether the next board, whoever is on it, will indeed be able to work together in forts and show the extent of what we do," said DeGeer, who flew his vintage 1943 Cessna 140 on donation flights. "We donate the airplane and the fuel, the passenger donates the money." An early count of money collected showed more than $500, "more than we ever expected to take in for the restoration," according to Larry Hart, another Augusta resident. peace. If the incumbents win, there will still be a segment of the community that opposes the direction they set for the district. If the challengers win, the current opposition may be satisfied with their leadership.
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