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City manager calls for fewer public meetings Markus says current monthly setup not efficient for staff A proposal of Markus’ going before the City Commission on Tuesday would cut the “great New City Manager Tom Markus many hours” commissioners and is suggesting a change in how the city staff spend in public meetLawrence City Commission oper- ings, he said. The number of comates. mission meetings each month
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would be reduced from four to three, and one of the three would be a work session rather than a regular meeting. In his slightly more than two months on the job, Markus said, he has found that meetings take
“a large amount of staff time that could otherwise be used to work on City Commission priorities.” “We’re just in constant agenda prep,” Markus said. “It’s not the most productive or efficient use of staff. “Just because they’ve done it this Please see MEETINGS, page 2A
Democrats petitioning Brownback for special session
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Topeka (ap) — Kansas Democratic lawmakers have been circulating a petition to force a special legislative session to address school funding. The move comes after the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the Legislature’s latest attempt to enact a constitutionally equitable school funding system and kept a June 30 deadline, raising the possibility that schools could close if the date passes without further legislative action. In a joint letter sent Saturday to Gov. Sam Brownback, House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs, D-Kansas City, and Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said they have begun collecting signatures LEGISLATURE to force the governor to call a special session. The petition would have to be signed by two-thirds of the members of each chamber to succeed. The Legislature is dominated by Republicans. “Due to your inaction and the failure of Republican leadership to address the needs of our schools during the regular session, we are invoking Article 5, Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution, which requires the governor to call the legislature into special session upon petition signed by at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house. We have already begun collecting signatures,” the letter reads. “It is time to move past these failures, come together, and find a solution to equitably fund Kansas schools,” the letter reads. The governor can call a special session by himself, but Brownback’s office hasn’t given any indication of its plans.
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MARK WHALEY STANDS NEXT TO ONE OF THE MANY BICYCLES that fill the garage of his Baldwin City home, where he operates a bicycle sale and repair business.
Baldwin City man’s bicycle hobby grows into home business By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ
What’s outside of Mark Whaley’s Baldwin City garage hints at what fills it. Leaning against a tree is a rusty 1950s-era bicycle of the kind that eschews straight lines for French curves of bent steel and a cast-iron gate with the word “bikes” spelled out on its top. Stepping to the garage door, Whaley warns there won’t be much room to walk
inside. And, indeed, it is filled wall to wall and floor to ceiling with all kinds of bicycles. There are folding commuter bikes, lots of fat-tire bikes, an adult chain-driven tricycle, a tandem hanging from roof rafters and a number of 1970s children’s bikes with banana seats and ape-handle bars. It was on the original banana seat ride, the Schwinn Stingray, that Whaley first developed his long love affair for pedal power. “I put a lot of miles on that
encouragement in his hobby. “I went to an estate sale in Grandview (Mo.),” she said. “There were hundreds of old bicycles there. I knew he liked the old bikes, so I bought eight for him.” They all needed work, and he got further hooked on bicycle maintenance, Whaley said. He soon started scrounging for more bikes at garage and estate sales, then sold the reconditioned rides. Please see BICYCLES, page 2A
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bike,” he said. “I’d ride halfway up to Lawrence, where I wasn’t supposed to go.” Like most teenagers, Whaley put his bike away when he got keys to something with a motor. He found his way back to his youthful passion when he stopped at a garage sale. “I saw a neat old bike I liked,” he said. “I bought it and fixed it up. I got a lot of compliments on it. It kind of escalated from there.” His friend Meg Cundiff gave Whaley early
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