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Council avoids pursuing
defeat of mayoral veto
By Sarah Fox
Staff writer
Instead of trying to defeat
Mayor Don Wesely’s veto a second
time, the City Council voted unani
mously on Monday to withdraw an
ordinance Wesely vetoed Aug. 18.
The veto was his first as mayor.
The ordinance would have
extended appointments of 12
Community Health Endowment
board members by one year. Terms
expire Wednesday for four of the
board members.
The Community Health
Endowment was formed in 1998
from the sale of Lincoln General
Hospital and will fund community
health projects in Lincoln and
Lancaster County.
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The endowment has $41 million
in assets and can spend $ 1.2 million
each year.
In a telephone interview, Wesely
said he recommended that the coun
cil reappoint two of the four outgo
ing board members and choose two
new members. He said he opposed
the ordinance because he didn’t
want the 12 members to receive an
extra year on the board.
“I don’t think any boards should
be automatically reappointed,”
Wesely said. “I think it should be
done person by person.”
Board members at the meeting
said they didn’t want too many peo
ple from the board to leave at once.
They also said they had worked hard
creating bylaws and committees for
the endowment.
The council members said they
realized starting an endowment was
difficult.
“I’m greatly appreciative of the
tremendous effort you’ve done,”
Jeff Fortenberry, council vice chair
man, told members.
However, one Lincoln resident
said he opposed the board’s control
of the money.
The $41 million should not be
used for community health care pro
grams, Robert Valentine said.
“I have a depth of experience as
a taxpayer,” he said. “Let us apply
(the money) to our own families and
our own health care costs.”
The City Council will meet
again at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 7.
Two students
to be charged
as adults
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Two teen-agers accused of firing a
gun at students outside Lincoln
Northeast High School last week were
arraigned in Lancaster County court
Friday.
Both suspects will be charged as
adults, Lancaster County Attorney
Gary Lacey said, because of “the seri
ousness and the dangerousness of the
crime.”
The 14-year-old suspect was
charged with making terrorist threats
and use of a firearm to commit a felony,
and he was held on a $50,000 bond. A
15-year-old was charged with being an
accessory to a felony. He was released
from custody Friday.
The charges against the 14-year-old
were changed from attempted first
degree assault to making terrorist
threats. The charges against the 15
year-old were changed from aiding and
abetting a felony to accessory to a
felony.
Police Capt. Doug Srb said the 14
year-old fired a gun first at a student in
a nearby car and then at students stand
ing nearby. Srb said a total of four to six
shots were fired. /
The shooting took place just before
the year’s second day of classes ended at
Northeast High School on 63rd Street
between Delhay and Adams streets.
No injuries were reported in the
incident.
Northeast High School principal
Terry Wilks said only one of the stu
dents was enrolled at Northeast as a
freshman but had yet to attend class at
the high school,
Srb said the incident stemmed from
an argument Monday between several
Northeast High School students. Police
did not know the cause of the argument.
Capt. David Beggs said no guns
were recovered by police from the inci
dent, but several baseball bats were
taken from the victims of the shooting.
Minnesotans view
state’s Unicameral
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Four Minnesota representatives
got a taste of Nebraska’s one-house
Legislature form of government on
Monday.
With Minnesota Gov. Jesse
Ventura on a crusade to pile drive
Minnesota’s bicameral form of gov
ernment into a version of Nebraska’s
one-house system, representatives
came to Nebraska to hear from law
makers and legislative experts about
the benefits of the system.
After a day’s worth of information
gathering, Nebraska Sen. DiAnna
Schimek said the visitors’ impressions
varied.
“I think there was a mixed bag of
feelings amongst them,” she said. “I
think there still is.”
The legislators received a wel
come from Nebraska Gov. Mike
Johanns and heard a history of the
Unicameral from University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Robert
Sittig.
Discussions throughout the day
included topics such as committee
organization, non-partisanship and
budgeting and appropriations.
While some of the legislators were
still vehemently opposed to the idea at
the end of the day, Schimek said there
were some aspects of the Unicameral
the Minnesotans liked.
The budget-making process, the
fact that both parties can run for com
mittee chairmanships and the eff cien
cy of the system were some of the
reforms the lawmakers saw as being
positive for Minnesota, Schimek said.
Minnesota Rep. Tony Kilkucki
said he was in favor of the idea before
he made the Nebraska visit.
But after hearing from Nebraska
officials, Kilkucki said he thinks there
are ways the Legislature can be
reformed without the drastic overhaul.
“I was leaning toward it,” Kilkucki
said. “Now I’m kind of looking at
more reform issues than unicameral
issues.”
Minnesota Rep. Jim Rhodes said
he held a neutral position on the uni
cameral issue before coming to
Nebraska, and he said he would leave
the same way.
But whatever the pros and the cons
of the system are, people are going to
have a hard time with any kind of
change the Minnesota Legislature
implements, Rhodes said.
“Change is always hard for people
when it is in effect” he said.
One of the options Ventura is con
sidering is endorsing a unicameral
form of government that would be par
tisan, unlike Nebraska’s non-partisan
system.
It could work, Schimek said. It
would be different from our unicamer
al.”
Ventura intends to push the uni
cameral issue in the next legislative
session, said Chris Peterson, a repre
sentative of Johanns’ office.
A hearing on the issue is scheduled
for this fall. Schimek said Nebraska
legislators are talking about participat
ing in a teleconference with Minnesota
legislators later this year.
Minnesota isn’t the only state that
has taken interest in Nebraska’s unique
form of government
South Dakota has shown interest,
and representatives from Kansas and
California have visited the Unicameral
to observe as well. Montana had it on
the ballot a few years ago, Schimek
said.
Oregon also is expressing interest
Peterson said.
While Ventura is enthusiastic
about the idea of a unicameral,
Schimek said changing the entire gov
ernmental process will be difficult,
just as it was in Nebraska in 1934.
“It all depends on how serious the
governor is willing to keep at it,”
Schimek said. “It took a long time in
our state.”
Senior staff writer Jake Bleed
contributed to this story.
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