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Priceless Take One Vol. 20 Number 27 An Award Winning Weekly Newspaper Thursday, December 15, 2011 James Butler: School Finance Manhattan’s Amazing Senior Oct. 18 was a remark- Reform Plan He retired from the Army able day in the life of a in 1976 after serving for 32 remarkable man. Not only years. was James Butler honored James returned to KSU Announced as one of only 50 “amazing and graduated with a seniors” in the U.S., he degree in social theology. Topeka – Kansas Governor each district has a stable fund- enjoyed a private White He went to work for the Sam Brownback announced ing amount year after year, today his administration’s pro- and House tour and the oppor- Kansas Commission on tunity to visit the memori- posal to reform the state’s K- • Allowing for unlimited Human Rights in the 12 education funding formula. local control of property taxes als to the wars in which he Manhattan and Topeka The governor said the propos- for educational purposes. fought. area. As a member of the al was crafted after months of Accompanied to Manhattan Human Rights discussions with hundreds of Other components of the Washington by Jan Ioerger, and Services Board and Kansans who are interested in governor’s proposed consist of director of nursing at Via Chairman of the Kansas improving education. Base Line Amount that will Christi Village, Amy Commission on Civil determine how much funding Boller, CEO of Via Christi Rights, he advocated for “Our current K-12 funding each school district will Village, and his son, Mr. desegregation in places like formula is broken,” Governor receive and from what source Brownback said. “In the they get the funding as well as Butler was met at the air- the Wareham Opera House. port by his granddaughter, Roadmap for Kansas, I vowed a 106% cap on the amount of He was also NAACP presi- to introduce a new school equalization fund payment. Jacqui Butler. dent for the Manhattan finance formula that increases In addition to attending Chapter. local control, transparency, Under the proposal, the new the reception at the After retiring from the breaks the cycle of litigation, finance formula would take Washington Conference Human Rights and Services and focuses more resources on effect in FY2014. Assuming Center and receiving a board, he worked as a cus- the classroom. Our proposal the current base state aid of lapel pin from LeadingAge, todian in a church in addi- is a modern formula that will $3,780 is held in FY2012 and he toured the Vietnam tion to his lay speaking. provide districts the flexibility FY2013 and property values Memorial, World War II James enjoyed writing reli- that is necessary to meet hold stable, the proposed for- today’s challenges, prepare mula would cost the State Memorial, gious sermons and was a Korean Memorial, and the tomorrow’s opportunities, and General Fund an additional lay preacher. He became a excel in education.” $45.1 million in FY2014. No Martin Luther King member of the Bethel AME district would receive less Memorial. The MLK in 1948 and enjoyed The proposed plan is money under the proposal, memorial had just opened singing in the choir as a designed to provide stable, and approximately half would on the 16th of October, so tenor. He also married in predictable, and fair funding receive additional amounts. they were fortunate to be 1948. He has one son, to all of Kansas’ 286 school able to see it on this trip. James Butler Marvin. districts. This is achieved Governor Brownback called James Butler has trav- James stated he always through: education the most important eled many roads during his function of state government. ing the Alcan Highway. He In 1948 he decided to re- had something to do and life, both those he helped • Providing the statutory returned to the United States enlist in the Army because he kept moving. He says by build and those which $4,492 base state aid per “Education is to the state in 1943 for more training, felt it was a better opportuni- being busy, he has lived a pupil, government what defense is to opened doors for him. then went to help build the ty. He was a warrant officer. long life. James continues • Offsetting local proper- the federal government: its Born in Kansas City, Burma Road which went as James served in WWII, the to attend many activities ty tax inequity through the primary function and the Kan., he started college far as Kunming, China, a Korean War and the Vietnam with his church and goes Property Tax Equalization lion’s share of its budget,” classes at KU but was Governor Brownback said. transfer point for military War. He was also stationed in out with his friends often. Fund that pays out in increas- unable to continue because ingly greater amounts to dis- “It’s time for the state to fix trucks and equipment. He New Jersey, Kentucky, Ft. He enjoys lots of visitors of the Depression. He tricts with low property tax its broken funding formula.” was discharged from the Riley and overseas in from the community who joined the Army in 1942. valuation per pupil, Brownback’s Policy Army in 1945. Germany, France, Italy, Spain drop by to see him at Via He was stationed on the Director Landon Fulmer pre- James took advantage of and India. In 1965, James Christi Village on a regular Aleutian Islands off the • Further equalizing district sented the proposal to the the GI Bill and attended K- was the representative for the basis. coast of Alaska, working budgets through Supplemental Kansas Board of Education State. United States in the Congo. Equalization to ensure that this morning. with Army engineers build- Kansas Legislators Seek Meeting With Boeing By Gene Meyer impact on Boeing's operations, hold the Chicago-based aero- learn "what factors are being with Brownback or the legis- a 2 percent pay increase and Kansas Reporter on other Kansas employers space giant to pledges it pur- considered in the company's lators. The company plans to other incentives. TOPEKA — Republican and on the economic future of portedly made in April to base evaluation of its Wichita oper- say nothing more about its In return, Boeing members Senate leaders say they want our state," said state Senate a significant amount of work ations and what policies could future in Wichita until after its of the International to meet with Boeing Co. to President Steve Morris, R- on a $35-billion U.S. Air be considered by the review is done, he said. Association of Machinists and hear what lawmakers can do Hugoton. Force tanker jet contract in Legislature during the 2012 Former U.S. Rep. Todd Aerospace Workers union to keep 2,100 aircraft manu- However, the recent col- Wichita. Legislative Session to improve Tiahrt, R-4th District, who agreed to drop a complaint facturing jobs in Wichita. lapse of congressional super- Brownback said he intended the overall business climate in was a Boeing executive before filed with the National Labor Boeing, one of the nation's committee efforts to cut $1.2 to meet with Boeing execu- Kansas for Boeing and other serving in Congress and is a Relations Board over the com- largest aerospace companies, trillion in federal spending tives to resolve the situation, businesses," Morris wrote in a consultant to the company pany's previous relocation of announced a little more than triggered the prospect of but Sherriene Jones-Sontag, letter to Steve Wade, Boeing's now, said that he thought the jobs to a non-union plant in three weeks ago that it was potentially $500 billion in his press secretary, said Friday Wichita site leader. likelihood of Boeing staying South Carolina. studying whether to close the automatic defense spending that she could not confirm The legislators have not in Wichita have been improv- In addition, the company facility because of what it cuts in areas that haven't yet whether that meeting had been received a reply to the meet- ing since the study was first appears to be rearranging sup- called "defense budget pres- been determined. scheduled. ing request, said Patti announced. ply lines and other work sures." Gov. Sam Brownback and Now, Morris and 10 other VanSlyke, Morris' communi- Boeing workers in among its manufacturing "We believe it is mutually members of the state congres- state Senate Republicans also cations director. Washington state and Kansas plants to direct more resources beneficial to sit down and sional delegation, voiced want a meeting with Boeing Boeing spokesman Jarrod on Wednesday overwhelming- toward the expected tanker work together on solutions alarm at the company's executives. Bartlett declined to comment ly approved a new four-year projects in Wichita, Tiahrt that would have a positive announcement and vowed to The legislators want to on any meeting arrangements labor agreement that provides said. “Cats” Help Preserve Historic Schoolhouse By Gloria Freeland It also publicly recognizes Stanberry - inspired by Local schoolchildren will the historic status of the build- Harris’s “cat” - made her own now have a chance to experi- ing, she said. design and used a wood-burn- ence what it was Various repairs and ing set to draw the details. like to be a student in rural improvements were made to Each cat is unique, and some Kansas a century ago. Rocky the property beginning shortly include holiday designs such Ford School, a one-room after it was built. An outhouse as strings of Christmas lights limestone schoolhouse located was constructed in 1904, a or Santa hats.