Use of sales tax money discussedMayor: Don’t detour fundingBunten

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Aug 11, 2010 by Tim Hrenchir

By Tim Hrenchir

The Capital-Journal

City officials aren’t trying to deviate from what Topekans thought they were going to do with revenue from a half-cent sales tax voters approved last year, Mayor Bill Bunten said Tuesday evening.

The city is moving forward with a plan to use the money to carry out infrastructure work, Bunten told city council members at their weekly meeting.

“I hope that people will understand that we are working in good faith to repair these streets as fast as we can and if you will bear with us and not make us change course, we’ll get it done,” he said.

Bunten’s comments came near the end of the meeting, where a speaker earlier had questioned why the city isn’t using revenue from the tax for pothole repair.

Joseph Ledbetter said the ballot question Topekans approved calls for sales tax revenues to be used for “maintenance and improvements,” which he sees as including pothole repair.

“Fix the potholes,” he said. “Face down the criticism, and do the work.”

Shawnee County Commissioner Vic Miller prompted discussion about the proper use of the sales tax revenue when he proposed recently that the county keep $2.1 million in state motor fuel tax money it provides the city annually for street repairs.

Miller said the city could cope with the loss by paying for work currently financed by fuel tax money, including pothole repairs, using some of the $13 million to $15 million the city is expected to receive annually from the sales tax. Miller said that when voters approved the tax, they thought the money was going to fix potholes.

Bunten and city manager Norton Bonaparte have disagreed with Miller, saying Topekans planned for revenue from the tax to be used on major projects to provide a long-term fix for the street problems.

Council members voted Dec. 15 to finance five project budgets totaling $13 million by paying cash in 2010 to carry out infrastructure projects, with one of those budgets designating specific locations where money was to be spent for “maintenance and infrastructure” projects.

Also on Tuesday:

– The city’s governing body, which includes the nine council members and Bunten, voted 8-1-1, with Jack Woelfel dissenting and Sylvia Ortiz abstaining, to approve a three-year employment agreement between the city and Local 1294 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union previously approved the contract, which covers 12 city public works employees. The agreement calls for union members it covers to receive a 2.75 percent across-the-board pay increase in 2011, with subsequent pay hikes in 2012 and 2013 equaling the increase of the consumer price index for the Kansas City, Mo., region.

– The governing body voted 10-0 to approve a change in zoning allowing Central Church of Christ, 1250 S.W. College Ave., to establish a parking lot on property east of the church. Councilwoman Deborah Swank, who represents the area involved, said the vote would “clean up the zoning” regarding the parking lot.

– Ortiz and Councilman John Alcala announced they were very unhappy with the city administration’s recent decision for financial reasons to close Rice Community Center. Alcala also questioned the city’s decision to prematurely close its swimming pools for the summer at a time when temperatures are consistently climbing above 100 degrees, while Ortiz lamented that an improvement project the city is carrying out along S.E. 6th Street was severely limiting access to local “ma and pa” businesses and threatening their survival.

– Council transient guest tax committee members voted 2-1 at their meeting late Tuesday afternoon to approve Councilman Jeff Preisner’s motion to kill a proposal that would have increased the transient guest tax the city imposes from the current 6 percent to 9 percent. Committee members Preisner and Woelfel voted in favor of Preisner’s motion to put an end to the measure. Councilman Larry Wolgast voted against the motion but said later that he hadn’t understood it and had cast his vote in error.

The committee had taken up the proposal last month at a meeting where Preisner voted in favor of the measure, while Woelfel and Wolgast voted against it. Assistant city attorney Braxton Copley said last month’s vote effectively prevented the proposal from going before the council and brought it back before the bed tax committee, which then rejected it Tuesday
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PRIORITIZE!

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4. TAKE MOOD BREAKS!

At least once in the morning and once in the afternoon take time to leave your desk and do something that will energize you.
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Also, try to clean the fish as soon as possible after removing it from the water to avoid excessive bacterial growth.

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The second way to clean a fish begins by rinsing the fish using cold tap water and then de-scaling it.
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It would be good to enroll in an accredited vocational school that has a program for helping their students find good employment after they have graduated. For this, a good thing to look for is a placement program. Also, consider enrolling at a vocational school that have the ability to assess skills and offer career guidance.

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Sounds damn perfect. In fact so perfect it attracts a huge amount of willing entrants with that simple view. Most may I say have the full intention of doing real estate far better than what they have experienced when dealing with real estate agents themselves. Ahhh the noblest of intentions.

The problem is, it attracts far too many people.

Now we have a vast amount of agents all vying for that property sale. The industry cannot support all the agents that are working within it. People rush to enter this industry and there simply is not enough property sales or money to go around.

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Since then, I’ve been self-employed, which of course has brought its own problems, but generally feels much better.

So, if you have a sneaking suspicion that your ladder might be up against the wrong wall, have a look at your values. What’s really important to you about what you do? See if you can list 5 things.

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Knowing why you do feel that way may not make the situation better, but at least you will know why it matters. Values do matter and even if you try and dismiss these feelings, they will keep coming back until you do something about it.

It doesn’t necessarily mean leaving your job, but maybe you could try making some changes.

Now there’s an idea for another article!

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Often it’s difficult to concentrate because you’re bored. The cure for this is to stop and consider why it is important (if it is). See the benefits clearly, and it will be easier to focus your mind. So why do you want to concentrate?

Remove Obvious Distractions

Stephen King happily writes with loud music on, so what distracts each of us, or doesn’t, is obviously personal and somewhat unique. Whatever it is that takes your mind away from the task at hand, do something about it. Turn off the television, feed your empty stomach, or turn your desk away from the window.

Take care of the external and the internal distractions, and you’ll be able to focus your attention and brain power like a spotlight. That’s worth a little effort, isn’t it?

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