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   De Soto Explorer (Newspaper) - February 19, 2004, De Soto, Kansas                                SPORTS Goleman KVL Word THE DE SOTO 16 PAGES EXPLORER 75 CENTS DE KANSAS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2004 Council approves pool bond question April 6 referendum scheduled for million measure EWYN JONES THE DE SOTO EXPLORER The De Soto City Council insisted on truth in packaging last Thursday when it approved language for a referendum on a million bond that would build a new community swim ming The Council ended four years of discussion with the deci sion to put the Bond Question Shall the city of De issue gener al obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed million to pay the cost of the construction and equip ping of a municipal swimming pool to be located on a site owned by the city located south of City Hall and to demolish the existing municipal swimming pool bond before voters April The first step toward the decision was made last August when the Council agreed the pool should be built behind the De Soto Com munity It asked the De Soto Parks and Recreation Board to develop the question that would appear on the bond referendum The bond would provide money to tear out the existing pool at Miller improve the Community Center parking and build a new locker room and concession The Council adopted the Park Boards recommended lan guage but insisted on two foot Councilman Emil Urbanek said the city should admit to taxpayers that the aver age mill levy support need ed to retire the debt would be exceeded in the bond issues early Playing this average game is what the school district always he Then when tax payers get their its always higher than The 20year amortization schedule provided by bond advisor Marty Nohe showed the annual mill levy from in 2006 to in 2025 because of declining interest payments and a larger tax At it was agreed to include footnotes on the legal publication in The and bond infor material explaining the mill levy support would vary from the Another footnote would explain the pool would require additional mill levy support for annual operating and mainte nance although the actual amount remains Just how much that would be will depend on the revenue the pool earns through rentals and concessions and that would be dependent on atten In the Miller Park pools operating expenses exceeded revenues by City Administrator Greg Johnson called attendance esti mates a crap a view that was reinforced by the widely divergent numbers he devel Johnsons estimates devel oped from studying attendance at the new pool in Baldwin City and from consultants projec tions had the revenue shortfall ranging from as low as to as much as At the citys current assessed valuation SEE RAGE 5A GRAPHIC BY ELVYN If the million bond referendum would authorize the construction of a new swimming pool behind the Community Center with a swirl six competition swim two diving a toddler play a locker and a concession The bond would also provide money to improve parking lots at the Community Center and construction of an access drive to the east of the band faces elimination No Child Left Behind act forcing Boards hand JONES THE DE SOTO EXPLORER The De Soto USD 232 Board of Education is finding federal No Child Left Behind legislation is increasing its dictating The concern at Mondays Board meeting was the need for students to take advantage of as much instructional time as possible so they could perform their best on assessment The federal education reform legisla tion ties future funding to student perform ance on the The concern has led a group of school administrators to recommend the elimina tion of Fiscal conse quences did play a part in considerations of the programs but Superintendent Sharon Zoellner made clear the driving force was loss of academic classroom She shared information from Elementary Principal Paula Hill that indi SEE FIFTH PAGE 6A Clinic reopening delights patients BOTH PHOTO Nurse Marci Reever and office manager Joan attempt to keep up with a full appointment schedule while answering many Inquiries at De Soto Family Practice on Its first day back in business last ELVYN JONES THE DE SOTO EXPLORER Joan answered the phone last Thursday at the De Soto Family Practice with what was becoming a familiar We opened this Were taking appoint At a nearby nurse Marci Reever was telling another caller nearly the same todays our first she Were glad to be In late Hospital Corporation of America informed the staff it was closing the clinic at the end of After a the clinic reopened last Thursday under new With the exception of a new computer system that still had a few bugs to there was little new with the Four of the five staff members returned to face a full day of she One of the clinics first patients was Beatrice who was dropped off at the practice by her son Norman Cam Its Fleming said of the Theyre so good to Marcis the best nurse there A persistent infection she contracted during a hospital stay brought her to the Fleming She was happy she didnt have to leave town for treatment and that her son wasnt forced to drive she Fleming was one of 24 patients with appointments on the day of the clinics reopen Reever The number represented a full and busy day for the she We are going to make that the she The full day of appointments indicated a healthy said Kathleen practice administrator for Mid America Physicians which owns the Another indica tion was the patients whose files fill the office just 25 patients asked to have their records transferred to other health care providers after news of the clin ics closing broke in early Reever Most of those came before a community effort started work ing to save the she That task force grew out of Darrel Zimmermans conversa tion with Jodi coor of the De Soto Multi Service whose works at the was concerned about confirmed rumors that HCA would close the De Soto One of the area health care providers the task force approached was Mid The overture came at a time Mid America was 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