AW Daily Spots #2

I have a brief name. Would you consider that I am a CFC? I am a CFC. I am a CFC. Why did the construction is going on? Why? I just go now. Is that a primary side by a way? Yes, there. I have a cabinet work. So if I can do that, would you have a little outfit for me? I will say that. I have a cabinet. I have a cabinet. We are at a point now in our Fairfares campaign where we can clearly see light at the end of the tunnel.

We have received just under 350 pledge letters as of 5 o'clock Friday, David. And in our goal was 350, we are just a little under $6 million, which ought to be sufficient size for us to make a real effort for the first of three airlines that were hoping to bring to mid-continent. So we are very, very encouraged. And I want to take just a second to thank everybody that has worked on this. I mean, it is an amazing effort. Perhaps the model for everything we do in the future, but we have had a 48 county catchment area in 29 different cities, which is just remarkable. Third of those are outside the city of Wichita. And it really is a result, I think, of the leadership of Susie and David and Laurie Asher

and the big group and regional economic area partnership. Everybody pulling together and it really is quite incredible. And we are now entering into very detailed negotiations with the first of the three airlines. We hope to bring service to which I'm in continent. And I've always thought still things that the key is the first one. I am of the opinion that when we get the first one, the second one will be easier. But we're not going to continue the briefings. We believe that we have sufficient support now to go ahead and move on the first airline. And so we'll be in some, against a very detailed private negotiations over the next several

weeks concerning that issue and hopefully the next time we meet, we'll be able to have some very good news for everyone. But I, again, just want to thank all of these people who have worked throughout this very large geographic area on behalf of this issue. I think it clearly is an acknowledgement that this is one of the top priorities for sanacentral canes as even as a state issue. So it looks like now we're prepared to try and reach an agreement with the first airline. I want to name it, gave me this letter and I just want to read it because I have captures that pretty clear how important this is and it's easy for us to think in terms of large

companies that there really is a tremendous burden currently for all science companies. This is addressed to the Fairfares campaign, care of David at the Chamber and it reads, our business does not have a travel budget for me but I would certainly welcome the civic project of Fairfares for my travel in 2002 and beyond and the cost relief it would bring to which travel, at the which stuff field off as I'm the only employee of my company and canes is outside of Overland Park. In 2001 I took six flights to St. Paul and Chicago. I began to drive to the Kansas City Airport for these flights since the four Chicago flights especially increased the cost on those tenfold to fly from Wichita compared to leaving from Kansas City.

It added about 20% overall to the miles I drove on my company car and nearly all the time added to my personal time instead of business hours. In addition to business travel I took three flights to Colorado, Washington DC and Providence, Rhode Island for personal or professional purposes, two of the three were from Kansas City. I'd be grateful to have flight costs that would permit me to depart directly from Wichita. I estimate this would be at least four business round trips to Des Moines St. Paul and Chicago in one round trip to Providence. We get a lot of these letters and it's really kind of a desperate appeal from people who are trying to do business from Wichita and South Central Kansas and finding it so discouraging to try and do that. I'll be glad to try and answer any questions that you might have but today is really a day of real encouragement.

We're believing that we have 350 letters and that the 342 is just a rounding here. We're claiming fake crayons and 350 letters and we'll still receive additional letters. This was a terrific effort and we have every expectation of getting a low cost carrier in Wichita by certainly spring or summer. Any questions? What's your line? I will tell you which airline I'm approaching and I'll just tell you where negotiations with the first of the airlines. Have you already met with the airlines? We've been in contact. We're going to have a face-to-face meeting in the next couple of weeks. What about the, are you still going to try to get letters for the other airline, does the campaign continue like that?

Yeah, we're going to continue working. Now we may come back and modify our strategy a little given the fact that we have a historical database now and there's some things probably we could have done differently and CISIs never timid or shy about bringing that to one's attention and so we'll certainly make every effort to prove on the next phase. On the next phase, how many letters do you need? Well I'm going to show you, we'll let you know what our goals are for that. I think the main thing is that because of the outpouring of support, we have the where with all that, to enter into very serious negotiations. Is it still about 40% of the pledges for air train in 35? I don't know. David or Susan or someone else, they can throw you in. It's an hire.

It's an hire. And they have counted all of the number of companies in the land of Canada, also a number of companies that have made air train. It was over 70%. It made some commitment. I think the dollars are 35%. But the number of pledges that we have out of the number of companies is over 70%. These letters are really critical. I think that, I mean if you just stop and think 350 companies saying this is a critical issue to them, I think really fortifies and strengthens our resolve to make sure we succeed in addressing this. What was the exact, you said 342 or 342? 342. That's exact number 8. I, I just have it in my mind, it's 350. Yeah, I'm not going to cripple. But I don't think David can count that well. I'm sure it's 350. He put it on 342.

Are you still coming in, Dave? Oh yeah, and we expect them to keep coming in. For example, as an example, the mayor's reading of that letter. That letter doesn't have a dollar of thinking. We don't count that as a letter. We already see two or three of those a day. So really, we have probably over 400 businesses to respond to. And some are, and it's brought to my attention, I'm sure Susie and others. I have people coming up to me that say they're very interested. But they don't think they're sufficient importance and size to indicate that. And in fact, they are. I mean, it's, it's important, but it's not being counted in 342. And the mayor, what, he's really angry. I mean, the letters still need to come in for the other elements. We still want these letters to come in. And then negotiating and stage when you talk to them face to face, are there going to be any sort of incentives or anything along those lines,

lower gate fees, lower land fees? There could be. I'm not going to tell you what some of the negotiations are consisting of right now. I will tell you that I as one person believe that we have to do whatever it takes to address this challenge. I mean, it just is not practical for businesses here to compete effectively with this disadvantage. And we're going to do something about it. There's some points in the campaign, too, and it seemed like there were like low points when it wasn't moving in this quick way. Any theory or any take on your part is to why was there resistance? Or was it just a misunderstanding about what it was with the campaign? I mean, you know, given the percentage of, given the number of businesses that were contacted,

she was in the middle of the entire thing. There were several things. Well, there were several things. I mean, you have to keep in mind the context of which all of this started to occur. We had one of the most cataclysmic episodes in the history of this country. We have companies here that have been as directly affected as any industry segment in America as a result of what happened on September 11th. I guess what I would say in spite of all that's occurred were succeeded, which I think says far more about Wichita and South Central Kansas than anything else. There would be every reason in the world to back off and say, you know, this is simply not something we can do right now. And I think that as you have followed this over the months that we've been working on,

you have found that we are not going to somehow back off because all the conditions are perfect. We know we're in a recession. And we know we have some significant challenges with our aviation component of our economy, which is bleeding into basically everything else that's going on. But, you know, you can look at the country and you can look at September 11th. And you can say, well, let's wait for a better opportunity. And my view is that not only should you not retrench, you ought to come out of this stronger than what it occurred. And if we can do that as a community, and we can, and as a region, and we can, and as a state, and we can, we will have advanced significantly in terms of our competition.

And so, I would just frame it the opposite in spite of all that's happened. We have moved forward and we're going to find a resolution to this. Anybody else? Mary, can you talk a little bit about the timeframe? Yep. Oh, you want me to. In terms of negotiations, we have obviously been in contact. But in terms of set down negotiations, we have not, other than an initial meeting, we have not got into that, like we will in the next several weeks.

We're very helpful. If you're talking about when we would expect service. No, expect announce that there will be service. Well, as soon as we have some kind of agreement. I hope that, again, I don't know how long that's going to take. But our goal has always been to try and have a low-fair service here by the spring. And that's still a goal. It's been ambitious in the past and still ambitious, but I still think it can be done. Do you think that, I mean, with the, I know that we've got almost six million, and the portion of that is to the first airline. Is it going to be, still going to be more than Pensacola? I mean, have we beaten them then? A dollar figures? I think they do, of course. Yeah, quite a while. This will be more significant than Pensacola. If I have one?

It will be in the $100,000, $300,000 range. But we also have to take into account that, you know, we're only taking a snapshot at what we have in terms of dollars and letters on Friday at IBM. We'll still continue to get letters and still continue to bring dollars in. We're still looking at some significant pledges to come in still. And those will be used as leverage as well. I think the other thing to remember as well is, as the campaign continues, I mean, we need to keep in mind that we're really at only a day 50, of probably a 90 to 100 day campaign. This was a very aggressive campaign and all the consultants have said the most successful campaign in the country. And, you know, we've gotten 342 letters at this point. I mean, just to match where we're going to be 50 days from now. It's important that the community remembers, though, that this campaign continues. This isn't the end of the campaign.

This is only the first benchmark. Admittedly, a very important benchmark. That's right. And I think the mayor said if that's the negotiations with this first airline, it's a huge milestone. And it'll probably make number two and number three a lot easier. When did she say mayor? I think so. Again, I appreciate all of you coming. And, you know, it's obvious to me as an observer, and I think to most people, that we have had tremendous support from the newspaper and the business journal and the radio and TV stations. It really has been important the way you've covered this. And I think you're all part of them. The reason we're going to get a solution to this. And you have a responsibility of, you know, providing scrutiny on behalf of your subscribers

and your viewers. And you've done that, I think, very professionally. But you've also helped us. And it's very much appreciated. PJ and I were getting quite a few emails. Yeah, I've been forgotten about you, Mayor. That Molly and PJ, last week, were getting a ton of emails from their readers in support of the program, as well. Really? So not only can we receive praise. Does that happen, Maria? We get a lot of comments sometimes. But we have several. PJ, they're quite a few. I've got several. You know, responses. You know, I just have to do on this. Those are all our examples of letters that don't have dollar figures, that we don't count towards the total. That's not part of the three. That's not part of the three, yeah. But I do think that people in our region of the state certainly have a far better understanding than ever before.

But the importance of this issue. And it, you know, it's very hard in today's world to get people's attention. There's so many things that pull you in so many different directions. If you have the ability to really bring a focus to something and you can explain not just the problem, but a possible solution. And you can get people pulling in the same direction like, we are, you know, she can do amazing things. And this is a, I think, an example of that. That is one last one, either for you or David, was there one aspect of the campaign that was more successful as far as bringing in letters and others, that would be at the phone campaign or direct contact or the direct mail piece than anything or the advertising. Well, I tell you, there's a lot of people that have put their influence and reputations on the line on this deal.

Just a wide variety of people. I mean, the chamber. I don't think you can overstate the importance of the chamber taking this on. One of your very top issues, the top issue. And that was very helpful. The big group was the business investor. It was just tremendous. You have example after example after example. David and Susie that live with us every day can give you a lot of, a lot more information than myself, but I receive a lot of calls and emails on this. And I haven't, I haven't heard from anybody saying we don't have a problem. What's, it's pretty unusual in a city this size. On the second half of the campaign, you've been having a lot more letters and more phone calls or what, how do you connect the others to the capital? But we're going to continue to use the methods that we've been using.

We're going to have print advertising, radio, the billboard advertising started last week. You should see about 20 billboards around the community. But, you know, what we've found has been most successful. He's a peer to peer contacts. Members of the business investment group have taken on the bulk of those peer to peer contacts. And they're right now calling people in the 48 county catchment area as well as visiting one-on-one. Steve Flesher has done what we call boardroom blitzes. We're held meet with one or two companies at a time with an economic development leader at that county. The mayor has done a lot of personal calls. Susie and I have done a lot of personal calls. The campaign, I think, what we're talking about is going into the next server. Remember, we don't declare victory to we have all three airlines. You know, and there have been some real superstars.

I don't know how much you observed this. Al Sanchez from the Delany. Al Sanchez from the Delany. Sam Williams. I mean, some of these people just wave beyond anything that anyone has a right to expect in terms of their time and their effort in their effectiveness. Carl Harris is an enemy. Carl. Yeah, Carl Harris is an enemy job. And a stripping job. These people basically put their businesses on hold to work on this campaign to the mayor in front of South Central Kansas. Appreciate all of you. You want this, Damon? Yeah. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Thanks. You're welcome. Sure. Dave. I gave you too much. I gave you the whole thing. A ball that we really never released. But we have another goal for a number of letters. And we're hoping to reach that within the next month or so.

Can you tell me what it is? That's why it's an internal goal that we have in total. Okay. I'll let you know what we get. Yeah. But you can have it internal for a while. Okay. So then you have another goal for the next round of the group. Right. We've been running so fast that now it's time back to come back and bring the group together that's been working on this to say, okay, what's the next strategy and what are we going to do? How are we going to implement that? Okay. Do you want to say what form is this going to take? Do you want to do it like a letter? Or do you want to do it? Okay. Do you want to read a couple of things? I'm just trying to do some points. Slide it off. Have you heard of it? Or do you want to put something straight away? Well, all the negotiations are going to be confidential. So why can't you even speak about how they're done? I will tell you that they will probably not be done by teletype. They'll either be done in person or by a police arrest. I can confirm that. It's a nice trial. You know when it's going to be done? They're ongoing. When you'll have the face-to-face, they'll be with them the next two weeks.

Okay. So on the number of letters, 70% had a bunch of AirTran. And then what about the dollar figures on 35% for AirTran? The dollar is about 35. You know, it went down from 40 to 35. But we expected that. Is it like 35 AirTran? 35 AirTran? No, it's like 35. And then 30 and then 25. That's probably about right. 35 AirTran. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know the percentage of letters for the other two? Whatever it is. 35. I'm still on medication. We haven't gone in and looked at the other ones right now. Because that was the question that people were asking about how many for AirTran? Maybe say 40 AirTran.

I'm trying to do the math on my head right now. Because some people, they did AirTran, they did all three. So to go back. I have to refigure that again. I'd say 35, 35. Because there's two. Yeah. Frontier and AirTran is really close. Okay. That would have been too far off. Okay. It's been getting you're saying 70%. I can't confirm that. It says 74%. Right. The company of the pledges that came in have some commitment to AirTran. Did we already issue? We've done it on crime. I'll check that one and get back with you all on that one if you want. Okay. Okay. But it's really important that the people realize that the campaign continues. I mean, we'll have a victory party after this first one for sure. But we want to have two more victory parties after this. I felt the difference.

Oh yeah. I felt good about this since it was January. We had a great plan in place. We had great people to execute. So, I mean, I felt good from the very beginning. I mean, like the mayor said, have you seen anybody say airline prices are not too high and that we want higher nobody? Everybody's been for this. And so, I mean, how could we fail when everybody's for us? But do you feel it's a dramatic positive response from the AirPost? Certainly. Certainly. I feel very positive about it. Because we have great people working on this. And I think we have a very strong city to back it. Okay. Okay. So, if you could just sum up what does this mean today? What does it mean for AirPost? I'm sure you don't want the mayor to say this. Well, probably I'll come too. Okay. I'll try and say something stupid, so the mayor's comments completely welcome Ken. Can you go ahead just so that we can get that? Thank you. We've received 342 letters.

And what that amounts to is 342 businesses have said that airline prices in which it are too high. And with those 342 letters, we're going to take them to the first of these three airlines to begin negotiations to bring this airline in this spring. That's what I was going to say. The campaign still continues. We are still looking at bringing the other two airlines as well. I'm not saying that the first airline is a sure deal, but we're feeling pretty good about the negotiations at this point. And if people continue to send in their pledge letters and show the same strong support that they've shown throughout the campaign, we should have airline number two and maybe buy this fall. So, we're very hopeful and very optimistic on getting all three airlines here in Wichita. So, what month would you say you're shooting for the first airline to come in? I think if you probably look at the May, April, June time period, I think that would be a pretty good guess.

Great. Thank you, Adrian. Thank you for coming. You're welcome. You're really good, John. Of course, I'm a huge cameo. You must cameo. Yeah. You don't want to lie to me. Yeah. I guess you want to. You're coming to the visit, right? I got it down from Wichita. Let's just double check on it. Seven points. Yes, sir. See you then. Thank you. Hi. How are you doing? Good. Can you just kind of sum up what today means in the scope of the whole campaign? Sure. Today's announcement really was letting people know that we're at a very important point. We have enough in the way of commitments now to hopefully secure the first airline. And so we're going to be entering into detailed negotiations with what we hope to be the first of three airlines to fly in and out of mankind.

And hopefully we'll be able to get a low cost carrier in our airport by perhaps late spring. And how do you think this issue affects the community as a whole? I think it's absolutely critical to not just the city of Wichita, but our neighbors throughout Cessin for Kansas. It's so difficult to compete in a world where you can fly in and out of other airports for a lot less money. We simply have got to become more competitive in terms of our affairs. And this will certainly lead us in that direction. Okay. Is there anything else you'd like to add about what's going on today or what might happen in the future with these negotiations? Well, I just think that this is such a tremendous testament to the men and women who call South Central Kansas home. That they're willing to pull together.

If identified, a very important issue in pulling together, we can resolve that issue. Okay. Thanks very much. And December 7th, we are closing Harris Clinic. And what led to the decision to close these clinics? Well, finances are income with not as great as what our expenses were. We had to cut some corners. And this was not an easy decision to make to close these clinics, but these clinics were clinics that were not feasible to continue operation at that point. So we decided to close those cost-cutting measure. And what areas of the community does these clinics serve? Well, all of our clinics is...

You mean geographical areas? No more... who comes to the clinic? All of our clinics serve the under-insured and underserved people of the Wichita community and the area. And these clinics are located in areas where we thought that they needed to be placed to serve some of these consumers. And how many people do you serve in these clinics? Well, I cannot tell you how many we serve in those particular clinics. I can give you a figure for the total of all the clinics, but not those individuals. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we've got demons.

Okay. Okay. We are recording. Can I have you state your name and title? My name is Ted, the AIRES, and I'm General Counsel and Associate to the President at Wichita State University. And can you tell me about the process that someone would go through to bring a case like this? Basements, warehouses, activity centers and churches, etc.

And ours is a little different. It's from the very beginning. It's from the passion and the vision of Bishop Gerber. Because of all the years that he spent downtown with the homeless and the hungry. He just came to him and realized that there need to be a soup kitchen here. And so he put a community task force together. And over a couple of years, we have what we have today is known as the Lord's Diner. And it is a 10,000 square foot facility. It is a $1.5 million project if you put a retail number to it. And over 140 companies and local companies have joined together to provide for what you see today in this beautiful building. Okay. And as we walk around, can you describe the buildings? Absolutely. What we're standing right here is in the entrance. There will be a recognition plaque on this one wall here with all the companies that gave contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.

On this wall, there will be a mission and vision statement right here. And then a couple of chairs and a couple of tables in here. Kind of a waiting room area for the volunteers that come in to meet with the director of volunteers on occasion. But in the evening at 5.30 to 7.30 is when we serve our hot meal. And our guests will come through the door promptly at 5.30. Notice on the left are large bathrooms, men's and women's. And we just walk past that. They'll sign in. And if you'll walk with me this way, we kind of walk through. You notice that it is quarry tile everywhere. And it's a very large dining hall. We have 26, 28 tables, something like that to feed about 260 at one time. And of course, it's all open. You see glass everywhere. You see columns. You see the beautiful fixtures in the ceiling. We got cram molding.

And it's a fine dining, dining hall. And our goal from the very beginning, from Bishop Gerber on through the community task force through the board. And as well as the staff and our role here, is to simply provide a hot meal to anyone who poses the need of hunger. There are three really factions of people we see that will need these services. And that one is the homeless population. There are between five and 600 homeless people in our community in Wichita. And these are current numbers. And in the 1990s, the homelessness changed from what was a normal single male to families. And it is an alarming percentage of children. So we will have a family section on the right hand side of our dining hall. We don't know the percentage. We'll have more single population or families. But we'll wait and see once we get things going. If you'll move this way, we're walking down the line where they will get their dishes. We'll get their plates, their cups, their drink.

And then they'll go through cafeteria style through the line. We will have volunteers serving the plates. They'll lay them on the top rail. They'll pick up their cold dish, their fruits, their salads, etc. And then the hot side is on the right. And they come through and they go out into the dining hall and get seated. We have over 50 different groups, churches, organizations that have provided us volunteers. We have over 2,000 volunteers. And we call them core groups. And these core groups are providing between anywhere from 22 to 28 volunteers in the evening. And a wide variety of positions from greeters to busing tables, to working in the dish room, to serving in the line, to working with the busing tables and etc. So, you know, there's a wide variety of areas in which one can serve here. And once the guests get here, we don't want them to get up again until they leave.

We want to wait on them hand in foot. We want to lift a value in their life through serving them. They were created in the very same image of God that you and I were created. They've just made some decisions that have allowed them to be in the shape they're in. Now, earlier, I mentioned that there are three different factions of people. I talked about the homeless crowd. But there's also a crowd that is those who may have homes, they may have cars and jobs and families. But yet their ends don't meet up. And I pray that it is this crowd that really take advantage of it so that we can provide that extra little added benefit to their lives. It may be the one time that they get to sit down at a meal. The rest of the time they're getting the kids off the school and the kids eat at lunch at school, etc. We don't know. We're trying to just get a clear understanding of what it is. We'll know that starting tomorrow night, beginning of what may come here when what may what happened when we serve.

And then the third one is those who have been affected by the economy, those who have lost their jobs. It's a large number. A lot of some corporations here have laid off large numbers of people. And I just pray that they humble themselves. You know, no one wants to come in and ask for a handout. That's difficult because we want to be especially men. You know, we've been, you know, designed from the very beginning to be hunters, providers, protectors. And it takes a lot for a man to come in and say, please help me. And so I just pray again, as well as from Bishop Gerber, the staff, the Board of Directors, which is a fine group of men and women, that these groups of people come in and serve. We have a full-size commercial kitchen. It is a chef's dream. We have a very large walk-in combination freezer cooler, probably one of the largest in-tan, some say, and then a very large dry storage in the back.

But it is a beautiful facility. We will use plastic ware as in mellamine plates that go through the dishwasher system, and they will use metal flatware. It may go out the door faster than we can keep it in the door, but we'll see. But we want to provide a little dignity. We want to allow them to feel good about themselves because society squashes those who are the least of these that God talks about in his book in Matthew, says, whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me. And so what we do in feeding a hot meal to the least of these is glorifying God and being Christ-like. And that's what we want to be. We want to lift him up, and that's it through feeding a hot meal. Now, we know that there will be people who need certain things. There may be a family that doesn't have a place to stay or one of the other social services that are so prevalent in our community.

And it is our goal to provide resources or direction to the resources. We are not going to be a social service agency. We're going to feed a hot meal. That is our goal. But we want to be able to provide them with an option. This is the place to go. This is the person you need to see and of course we will have brochures for these various agencies on hand. And will you have any, I guess, spokespeople from the various shelters here? No, we're not going to do that. It is really we want to be inclusive when it comes to, if that's the right word, in what we do. We serve a hot meal here. But we want to be able to provide them with the right direction to go. So that's kind of what we're about. Okay. And you said that once people sit down, you don't really want them to have to get up and do anything else. So are you going to have people going around with refilling drinks? Absolutely. Yeah. It's kind of like, we're treating it just as a restaurant. There will be bus staffs, white staff.

We have a white station in the back and the back of the dining hall. And they'll give them refills on coffee tea, water. There will be milk for the kids. There will be juices on occasion. So, you know, we just want to provide great, healthy portions. They won't get seconds. But if it goes anything like our portions that were served up on a recognition dinner on Sunday night, they are not going to go away hungry. It was a huge amount of food at a great cost. So we're excited. And what kinds of foods will you be serving? Well, Scott Rhodes is our chef and Larry Hare is our kitchen manager. And both of them, the past year or so, have been working at Tallgrass Country Club. And they come with a great deal of experience. Scott has over 40 recipes for casseroles in his head and that many soups. We will always provide a soup and a salad, a hot-on tray, and a dessert. But we'll do lots of casseroles, a lot of things that we can cook in bulk form. So, a lot of delicious things.

Okay, and since this is an organization that is related with a church, are there going to be any Bible studies? Will you be handing out any religious information to the people who come in, anything like that? You know, we are... This was initiated by the Catholic Church by Bishop Gerber. It was his vision. But it was also his vision not to be solely ran by the Catholic Church. It is sponsored by the Catholic diocese of Wichita. But it is more than that. It is a community effort to bring different groups. Evangelical churches are involved. Catholic churches are involved. Civic organizations. Government organizations are involved in providing the hot meal. That is all we are going to do initially right now. It is simply serve a hot meal to anyone who poses the need of hunger. Now, does that mean that we are not sharing the gospel?

Well, feeding someone is being Christ-like. And it is showing who Jesus is through our love. That is what we want to do. Okay. Do you mind if we walk around back home? Sure, sure. Let's go back. My kitchen staff is back here, so you might want to visit with them. There you go. All through. There is the camera out there. There is a corner through it. The counter you play in. This is the kitchen. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We have a hole there. This is the kitchen. This is the area where there are warmers and coolers. This is where majority of the dishes will be. And most of it will be already cooked in the afternoon. So our volunteers will just then take the food out of the warmers and serve it. We will walk back just a little further and this is the prep area. This is where all the vegetables and the salads are prepped, etc. And then if we walk back just a little further, this is the cooking area.

And you see that we have a very large braiser, a lot of counter space. We have a double, double convection oven, a blodget, a very big one, a couple other ovens over here with our stove, a triple sink for prepping and things of that nature. And so it's a huge, beautiful facility. Brand new equipment. I mean, it's a chef's dream. And can you go into how you acquired all of these things? Is it all through donations? It is. This whole project is solely through the donations of men, women, and families, corporations in our community. And that's how we're funded. We're solely funded by the donations of generous people. And so it is our goal to continue with those efforts through grants, and funding strategies, fundraisers, et cetera, that will provide for the expenses that we need to operate from year to year.

Our food, the majority of our food comes from the Kansas Food Bank and the commodities program. But we are developing relationships with companies. We'd like to develop relationships with Excel Beef and some other companies meat-packing plants when they have a surplus of beef would be great. Derries, if they have, you know, coming straight from the refrigerator to here, you know, it's that. The one thing that we don't do is take over, is take, you know, leftovers like from a deli or somewhere or grandma's lasagna because we want to ensure that the product is excellent. And that is our first and foremost. So we will not take any product like that that comes through things like that. Okay. Was all the equipment here, both donations or was some of it in kind gets? Both. It was. Both. There was a very large kitchen, as you can see. And once the supplier or the vendor was chosen to provide the equipment

then within the whole construction package, it was their part to supply all of the kitchen equipment. And likewise, all the way through from the electrical, from the HVAC, the heating and air conditioning, to the plumbing, to the stonework on the building, to the floors, to the painting, to the roof, all the companies gave labor materials. It's just been unbelievable what's happened. Okay. And why was, what made the, I've forgotten the name of the father who started... A Bishop Gerber. Okay. Why did he want to make a facility like this rather than just in the basement of a church? The community task force in the beginning researched what our community needed. There were probably spaces that could be renovated to house what we needed.

But he looked out St. Mary's Cathedral right across the street and saw a parking lot. And what has always been on this corner from last hundred years has always been about food and helping others. So this corner has been known in our community as a place of refuge, as a place of need, a place where they can get needs met. And the community task force in Bishop Gerber believed that the best possible solution to meeting the needs of the hungry in our community was to be, is to build a 10,000 square foot facility, or a facility, it happened to be 10,000 square foot, that it was unlike anything that our community, the state, or the country has ever seen, to provide a hot meal.

We want to provide dignity. And in that, we want to provide them a safe place, a beautiful place, where our guests can come in out of the elements, maybe just for a moment or two, a couple hours. Well, not even that long, because we want them to eat and go, because there may be others in line, but we want to provide them refuge, as well, fill the bellies, because that may be the only thing they've eaten all day. And that way it'll sustain them and get them through another day. And how many people do you expect to come tomorrow? Well, that's a great question. Many have said in through the research a 250 to 300. Some of the social services and homeless agencies in our community have set up to 400. We have no clue. So we are preparing for 300 plus. If we get more than that, our guys are ready. And the kitchen to cook more food as necessary. And we have an item on hand that will be quick and easy.

The police that they get to get hot meal. So we're kind of excited to get a little anticipation going on here, exactly what may happen. We don't know. And how are you getting the word out to the diners open? Well, it's even here. Yeah, we are downtown. People have seen this being constructed. I've seen the sign that's been out here, the Lord's diner. There was a large sign that said the Lord's diner and what it was about. The picture of the facility before it was constructed. And the one amount that's happening. We have also communicated to all the social service agencies through the various pantries, food shelters, etc. That we are open. It'll take a little bit for a full stream to get in place. I'm sure. And then once again, we'll see what happens. Okay. Can we walk around to...

Do that? There was a lobby in the kitchen. Well, we can kind of walk back to the kitchen. This is a long hallway. There are two bathrooms on our left and you see lockers. These are for our volunteers and staff. These are private bathrooms. These will be separate from our guests. Our guests will use their own bathrooms. And then we walk through here just a little further and we have a utility closet that has everything. For all our cleaning supplies, the next door is our laundry room where we do our laundry for a thousand aprons and such. So it's a nice size laundry room. And the room you're standing in here is a comfort room. It is a conference table where we're coming soon but it is a place where we have our board meetings. It is a place where we will meet with our staff daily and weekly and briefings and meetings to really get a clear understanding of where we're heading and further work together as a team. I have a great staff. Wendy Glick is our director of volunteers.

She is very experienced and comes with great knowledge from Catholic charities. She was the volunteer coordinator there. Connie Mauer is our dining hall manager and she has a great experience in working with and supervising employees. Her role is simply to manage the volunteers once they get in the building and is Wendy's role as director of volunteers to work with a different organizations organizing them so that we ensure that we have enough volunteers from night to night specifically. And then of course I've mentioned the guys in the back. And then offices off the right. Connie and Wendy have offices together. A larger office and then mine is off to the right. We have two deaths in here. One is we'll ultimately be a volunteer center where we will have a computer that sets here that our volunteers want to work with our newsletter or database and various things that we need to do on the computer. And then the other area is for reception when we get further down the road and we need someone to sit and answer the phones all day long because they do ring off the hook.

That that have a place for them. Okay, and you said that there was going to be a mission statement on the work. Yes, tell me what that says. Yes, our mission statement. The Lord Diner is to recognize Christ, to love one another, to share life in the breaking of the bread. That is our vision statement. And if we do those things, God will be glorified and lives will be changed. And that is that is the bottom line is that someone's life is changed through what we do here. Our mission of course is simply feed a hot meal to anyone who poses the need of hunger. That's our goal and it will be accomplished. And are you going to pretty much serve anyone who comes in the door or are there any financial requirements or any guidelines that they need to follow? It is a free meal. Anyone who walks through the doors is going to get a meal.

Now we know that there may be some who abuse the system. There are those out there who take advantage of the system and they go from place to place and pantry to pantry. We know that that will happen. But if we can feed someone, if they need to get in line that bad and to get a meal, then they deserve the meal. But we just ask God to go before us and to help us and we just pray that those who need it come. Is there anything else you would like to add? No, I think it is most important factor is that we are solely ran by donations and by volunteers with exception of small staff. And we are just really excited about what we are about. And we just ask those who are interested who want to know more about the diner, they can call us at 266-4966. And as well as those who want to make a donation, they can send a donation into the Lord's diner at 520 North Broadway in Wichita, Kansas at 67214.

Or they can come by and see us. We will give tours of facility any time. And how much would you say it costs to just run the facility for one evening? Well, if we do the math, it is basically about a dollar, a meal per person. So if we serve 300 people, it will cost us for food only $300. If we serve 300 people, that is our food costs. If we look at overhead, it is more on the three and a half, about $3.87 per plate to cover our overhead. From floor to ceiling, from quartile to ceiling tile. And so if those kind and generous families, individuals, corporations want to make an annual offer and give to cover overhead expenses, we can base it off of about $3.85, $390 per plate.

And it would be great if we had corporations or families or individuals that say I want to pay for 10 plates this year annually. Or I want to pay for one plate, or I want to pay for all your plates. You know, wide variety, we will just take what we can get because we know that we will be provided for. Because God has gone before us from the very beginning of this project. And we stand here today to honor him through our service. And are there any plans for the future to maybe expand the diner and serving lunch or into being a shelter? We do not have shelter space here, but we are a large facility and there may be additional things that happen. There are places in the community where there is a lunch meal. That is not the need. The need was in the evening. So we are going to stick with that for a while and see where God leads us. Okay.

Great. And what is your title? I am Scott Dryden, the executive director. Okay. Wonderful. Great. Thank you so much. Thanks. I really appreciate you taking the time. Cool. So it will be kind of all the Catholic dinner. Bishop will be here. He will be coming with me. So will you guys be eating tonight what you will be serving in the future? There will be no food tonight with except the refreshments. But in our recognition dinner, Sunday night, we did serve a typical meal to the contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. I mean, I didn't eat all mine. What everybody think? They loved it. It was great. They were like, man, these are healthy portions. They were excited. Great. It would be fun. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Can I walk around back here and talk to people? Yeah. Yeah. Please. Just lay around. Let's talk to yourself. Okay. Thanks. Hi.

You guys have a minute to talk about what you're doing back here. I'm Adrian Wilson with KMUW and I'm doing a case on the Lord's Diner book today. Sure. Okay. Anybody who's willing? Scott. All right. I'll always be good to talk. I mean, you guys come under the paper too. So you might as well. Well, what do you want to talk about? Can I get your name and title first? My name is Scott Rhodes, and I'm the chef. This is Larry Harry. He's the kitchen manager. Okay. And what's your background? Well, I've been in food service business for 20 years. Born and raised in Kansas. I've worked for numerous chefs in the town in the area. I started cooking to pay for college. And I've just been in it ever since. We worked at Tallgrass Country Club together. And before that, I was a kitchen manager at the Garden Cafe in town for seven years. Just been in the business for a long time. Okay. What made you want to get involved with this organization?

Well, it's just a good thing. I mean, it's a nice thing. We're giving something back to people now. Everybody needs to eat. We've got a feed peed in everybody. I don't care who you are. And this is just a way that we can give something that the community has taught us. I've learned my skills through the community. We can give it back to people. We can show everybody what they, you know, we've learned from this community and give something back to them. It's a great thing to help people. And are you guys starting to get things ready? Or what time will you start to get things ready for the evening meal? We'll start it up. It'll take about five hours, four to five hours. We have volunteers coming in every day, about four or five volunteers to help us every day. Now with Larry and I jumping right in there too, it'll take about four to five hours. And then during, when we get that done, we'll start working on stuff for the next day to get a little ahead every day. Okay, and what's your typical day going to be like, do you think?

Hectic. It's going to be hectic. Typical day will come in. When we get here at noon, we'll get all the volunteers lined out directions of what they're doing. We'll start doing the main entrees and everything probably as soon as we get here. Because most of our entrees, they're not just a heat and servitem. There's something we have to make from scratch. So it'll take a few hours to do those. And then we'll have all of the main entrees done. Then we'll start doing the salads. The dessert for every night. By five o'clock, we hope to have all of it done. So we've got 30 minutes to put out fires and clean up a little bit. Five thirty to seven thirty, start serving. I have everything ready for them. Hopefully be done leaving by nine o'clock every night. Okay, and can you tell me some of the dishes that you'll be serving? A lot of the dishes will be serving their hearty meals. There are meals that are going to be full when you leave. German meat pie, lasagna, chicken and noodles.

Every Sunday, for a while, at least we're going to do turkey and dressing. We're going to do roasts, pot roasts, lamb roasts. A lot of chicken items, roasted chicken, things like that. A lot of hearty items. A lot of things that are going to fill people up. And are you going to make everything from scratch? 75 to 80% of our things will be made from scratch. We do have some things that come in that are already prepared. There are that aren't even served. But the majority of our stuff is going to be made from scratch. Okay, and how are you coming up with the meals? A lot of creative thinking. We're just with our backgrounds, our experience and everything. We know how to feed a lot of people. What items are the most cost-efficient? What items we can serve a lot of people for a lot of less money? And it's just a lot of work.

It's a lot of paperwork, a lot of researching, a lot of just brainstorming. Anything you'll be serving any of the items that you used to make a country club? Yes, we sure will. We sure will. We know we've got some items there that we've changed them a little bit. We've made a little more cost-effective. But yeah, there will be things that we serve to the country club that we'll have here. You sure? Okay, is there anything else you'd like to add? We're looking forward to it. It's going to be an exciting venture. I can't wait to get running. All right, all right. Thank you. Thanks. It's going to stand and record you guys working for a while. Yeah? Did they still do the aftertaste? No. We don't. Okay, yeah. I haven't been back in a long time to go out into power. I think that we can't question about it all the time. But I think we did get down about ten years ago.

Really? Down in college. J. myself. Twenty-two. Yeah. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree.

I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. I can agree. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, Hank. This is my first time in Kansas, first time in Wichita. I told my four-year-old daughter. That was traveling on business. That was traveling on business. That was traveling on business. That was travelling on business. You know, she asked me where I said Wichita. You know, she asked me where I said Wichita. You know, she asked me where I said Wichita. Wichita type. You know, she asked me where I said Wichita. I said Wichita. Wichita type. You know, she asked me where I said Wichita. And so I said, Well, it's in Kansas. And so I said, But I wasn't sure why she was so excited about, I know I'm kind of excited about coming to Kansas. I wasn't sure why she was so excited.

And it's where Dorothy is broke. I guess that's one of the Wizard of Oz fans. It's George and Dorothy. Bring back Souvenirs, say hi to Dorothy, and watch out for twisters. I don't know where to go. Anyway, I like Hank. I'm very happy to be here in Kansas to help unveil these new data from the Northern Community Survey in the C2SS. Bill Bauer, the Census Bureau's acting director, recently told a Congress that in his 33 years of service in the federal statistical system, two issues of dominant concern have been one had to provide current and more frequent data for small areas, and two had to improve the accuracy of the census's count of the population. Anyone on to say that the census is planned for re-engineering in the 2010 census, including launching the American Community Survey, addresses both of these important and long-standing concerns. Almost six years ago, we began a journey.

A journey toward a new era by beginning to test the American Community Survey and selected sites across the country. And last year, we took a giant step toward producing current data for local areas by conducting the Census 2000 supplementary survey, or C2SS is all the calling from that one at the same time. In 1996, at the outcome of the outset of this test program, to replace the census's long form with the ACS, the censured committee a decision to release these data as soon as they were available. And this policy of immediately releasing data allows the public to study and critique the program alongside the Census Bureau. And I can tell you that the tables that you'll be seeing later on today are literally hot off the press. We just saw these numbers last week. So you really are the first to look at these numbers. And today's release is a continuation of that practice. The C2SS data being released on embargo bases today are a good example of what will be available every year

if the American Community Survey, starting in 2004, if the American Community Survey is funded. By 2008, the ACS will provide estimates of geographic areas down to small areas like tracks and for small population subgroups. Each year's data will be a very rich source of current information for the country, one that has never been available before. And this will allow our leaders to chart the future, based on current information and not information that can be outdated by as much as 12 years. This type of data is essential for good government, especially during a time of rapidly changing demographics and economics and in a data driven economy. C2SS data now available are for local areas, almost all cities and counties with populations of 250,000 or more, as well as 211 congressional districts. The Census Bureau is also releasing revised C2SS estimates for the country, 50 states in D.C., which incorporate a slight revision to the waiting data

that we first put out in July. These revised estimates are consistent with the local data that are being released today. Another 700 tables from the Supplementary Survey, which include a lot of race iterations for the states, D.C., and congressional districts, as well as places in counties of 250,000 or more are scheduled for release this winter. So this is really kind of a first taste that will be a lot more data available for which it all later on in this this winter. OK, so before I discuss the findings, I want to make you aware that the initial data differ from a lot of other Census Bureau data that you see. And I'll try to explain some of these differences. So in order to avoid confusion, I'll make a few distinctions between what these data are and what they are. First, the basics. This is what the data are not. They're not counts of the population. This is a survey, so you don't use this information to look at that. Can I have you start by stating your name and title? OK, John Stark, STA OK.

And I'm the air quality program supervisor for the Wichita Department of Environmental Health. OK, and I wanted to talk to you today about the air quality website. Can you explain some of the information that it has there? All right, we are required by the federal government environmental protection agency to publish information on air quality for the citizens of Sedgwick County and provide that information. And we have been developing over the last couple of three years this ability to collect this information from all around the city and make it report to the health department here by computer. And then we've recently gotten this where we can get that computer to talk to the website. And now we have the ability to put information from different places in the city about air quality

on the city's website on the environmental health page. And so people will be able to go there and check the website to see what the air quality is like this morning or ozone or particular matter, which we commonly ever think of as dust or smoke and carbon monoxide. Is that kind of where you want me to start or if I get too detailed with you there to? That's fine. OK, I know you'll probably cut and clip this as you want. Yeah, yeah. Does that kind of answer that first question or? It does. Another question I have is what use is this information of the community? How can it be used in practical everyday use? All right. First, the most important aspect that we see for it is people who have respiratory problems such as asthma, allergies, bronchitis, maybe people with infocema can check this out and determine whether there's

an air pollution problem that is significant enough that they might want to limit their activities outdoors. It would be good for them to say if they were planning to go shopping or do something or even if they were going to their doctor to get checked out. If there's a real dusty, windy day like yesterday was, they might want to put that activity off until a little bit better day. Now, we don't have many of these. Every year, we might have two or three or four days when the levels get high enough that most people would have any concern about it at all. But there are some people who are more sensitive to these things that would maybe want to look at this information a little bit closer. And I think another possibility is that perhaps it could be linked to, it could be checked out by some doctor's offices,

the ones that are asthma and allergy specialists could check this information for their patients and kind of help them become aware. Certain things may impact your allergies and asthma and other problems that they have so that they could start. They awareness the education thing that some of the doctors could do for their patients might help their patients have a better quality of life. And we are also hopeful that the television stations might pick this up and the radio stations, perhaps the newspaper and report the air quality along with, say, for the TV stations, perhaps with their weather reporting or something like that, they could report what the ozone levels or the dust, particular levels were or are currently in the city.

So at different sites around. So it could have some informational advantageous educational aspects there too. Okay, and when you see the ozone or the air quality rating, maybe during the summer on one of the hotter days and it's at a high level, what can just regular people do during that day? What precautions can they take? There's two things that we would like citizens to be aware of. First of all, they have an impact on the ozone levels in the city. So on high ozone days, we would recommend that people maybe either carpool or postpone a trip if you're going to take on some activity like mowing your lawn that creates some air pollution, possibly put that off until evening

or until another day when the ozone levels aren't as high. And the same goes for filling your gas tank. If you wait till evening before filling the gas tank, then it doesn't contribute to the ozone problem in the middle of the day. The heat of the day is when the ozone problem really becomes the worst. Hi, this is Adrienne Wilson. Let me transfer you to tape once again. All right, can you hear me, okay? Yes, I can. Okay. And can I start by having you state your name and title? Yes, my name is Connie Deep, and I'm the district of the city. I'm the district of the city of the city of the city. I'm the district of the city of the city of the city of the city. I'm the district of the city of the city of the city of the city and I'm the District 2 representing for the school board and also serving as president right now, the school board. Okay, and can you give me some background

on the Edison schools, why they came into town and how they've been doing in Wichita? Excuse me. The Edison schools were actually in the district contract with Edison. I want to say 1994-95, which was part of my being on the board and Edithson is a national organization that contracts with school districts to manage one or our entire school districts if they were the school districts we want, so there are four profit companies that will come into the school districts and have a contract with the district to manage either one or two or all of their entire school systems. I think they were brought into the district by the previous superintendent board as an opportunity to try another approach with some students that we were having a hard time reaching and to see whether or not this would be an alternative approach that might work

and also to learn some things from them because there are several things in their model that are very good and I think the previous board and the superintendent saw this as an opportunity to learn some things from a national company. And what are some of those and those good things in the models? A couple of things, one is the extended school day and also the extended school year. They keep the students in day in the school longer during the day and then they attend the school for more days in the school year. Also they use a math program called Chicago Math which some people feel is a very good math program so it's an opportunity to see if it was or not and to test it. And they also, beginning with, I want to say third grade, maybe second grade, they send home a computer, put a computer in each home plus the students have a high, there's a high ratio between computers and students in the school so they really incorporate a lot

of technology in their schools. So those are some things that take you to come to mind. And how have these Edison schools fared in Wichita? I would say mixed review. We actually have four schools in Wichita right now. We have jargon which is a middle school and it is actually doing reasonably well. We have Dodge which was the first Edison school in Wichita but also one of the first Edison schools in the country and it is doing quite well. I might say well, I mean in those two schools enrollment is stabilized or growing. Keep your turnover rate is comparable to what you expect in any school and the test scores either holding their own or are showing a slight increase. The other two schools are Ingles and Isley which are elementary schools and we have been less satisfied with the performance there. There has been a drop in enrollment, there's been a very high teacher turnover rate and

also the test scores have not increased at the level that we think they probably should and so both two schools are not as satisfied with. And is there a reason that the schools are performing differently? Now every school has different environmental issues that they have to deal with. Those two schools I think there's a variety of reasons why their performance is not what we would like for it to be. I think that there has not been consistency in the administration we've had when we put in the third principal but there's in two principals in a very short period of time. I think that Ingles and Isley are also located part of the city and their student body is a fairly high rate of children coming from homes and poverty and that brings with them

some unique challenges and needs that some of our other schools don't have. So I think those are a couple of reasons there. And what will be discussed about the Edison schools tonight at the school board meeting? Tonight we are discussing Ingles and Isley and basically what we are deciding is whether or not we want to take over those two schools and by take over I mean they would return to the management of the school district and we would be running them instead of Edison and that's what we'll be discussing tonight. Can you talk about your opinion or your position on that? I am probably I am leaning forward to resuming management of those two schools. I've been reviewing the materials and of course I want to hear from people tonight at the board table but at this particular point I have my concerns of the three that I've mentioned

the student performance, the lowering, the dropping in enrollment and also the high teacher turnover rate and those three things have not been so far answered satisfactory to me so I'm leaning on us taking them over. And has there been a period where the schools have where you've watched them to see if they can improve and is this kind of the last final step in in the schools sliding into poor performance? I would say that's true, but we've been watching we watch all of our schools and the district and so we've been monitoring the Edison schools as well as all of our schools and these two schools we feel like my feeling is that we've probably given them enough time at this point that we need to take some dramatic action and that's probably going to be done tonight. Okay and I just lost my train of thought I'm sorry. I apologize, let's see.

I guess is there anything else that you'd like to add? Not that I can think of, I think you've been very thorough on your question. Okay, also is this an open public meeting then? Oh sure, also we're being drove in 6 pm and my guess is the Edison item will be on the agenda sometime between 6, 30 and 7. Okay that was what I was thinking. And where's the meeting located? What you mean is the Wichita Technical College Central Campus which is on, oh shoot. I want to say Northland Francis and a balanced search tree, I think that's right. It's the Wichita Technical School? Yes, Wichita Technical College is a school campus. All right. Great, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Bye. Bye. And we'll release next year, next July we'll start releasing data that covers the 2001 data collection period so we'll be able to start to look at your changes which is very

important. And we'll also plan once the census data come available we'll be able to compare the census data, the census 2000 data with C to SS data so we can really kind of tell people what the effect of these methodological differences are on estimates. So to summarize, the census 2000 supplementary survey was an operational success, we're very happy with the results. And the data release today are an example of what will be available every year, everywhere from the American Community Survey pending congressional funding. A couple of things I should add to the presentation. One is that there are lots of data that are included in this presentation that are sort of included in the profiles that you have that you all have in your press packages. You know, this data, one of the great things about this survey is that it's such a wide variety of topics.

It's a general purpose survey which means it has some questions about tons of topics. There's a real breadth of topics here, it's amazing, there's data on disability, income, poverty, employment, unemployment, industry, occupation, migration, lots of things that weren't part of this presentation but are in those press packages. So to really, to write stories, you really want to take a look at the other data that are available. And there's a lot of interesting economic data for Wichita that are part of this package that you may want to take a look at that wasn't part of this presentation. And also the other thing I should say is that seems to me that areas like Wichita sort of mid-sized cities across the country have the most to gain from this program. You know, big cities like New York and Los Angeles and big population centers across this country, they can get some of the data, some of what they need from our national surveys because big population centers, don't we take these national surveys in between census and sort of normal way of doing business.

And if you live in New York or Los Angeles or California, New York State, you can actually use those national surveys, there's enough cases then you can actually use them to sort of see generally how you're doing. But those national surveys don't have enough cases for cities like Wichita and Kansas City and Fort Wayne and Des Moines to get any benefit at all. So this, so for cities like Wichita, it's not a difference of good data versus better data. It's really a difference of no data versus pretty good data. So to me, you know, these cities like Wichita, really stand to gain the most out of this out of its program. So that's about all I have to say, this is time for you next time, thank you. Thank you, Chuck, for that presentation. I want to thank all the speakers for coming in today, taking a little bit of their time and giving us some remarks and insight into how they use Census data. It's now time for questions and answers.

So if you have any questions, we'll be glad to answer them, Chuck's available, I'm available to answer questions. And we also have other people here from the Census Bureau, from the Department of Congress, that there's anything that is out of our line that we'll be glad to refer to one of them. So let me go ahead and open it up for questions. I'll just have you identify yourself if you do have any. Yes. Could you identify yourself please? I'm Phil, my head yesterday while I was in research institute at the University of Kansas, and one of my job today is to tell you something about abstract, which is 420 pages of Census data. Space, county, and city, that's not the only one out there that is here. Well, Kansas 2000 was shut up and published, but some tables are still contained 1990. So, particularly not in housing, because I haven't got half pay, will this mean that I can have pay every table just about every year?

Anything that comes from the Census, I can have half pay every year instead of having to wait 10 years to have pay. Well, Mr. Nelson answered, but basically, when the program is fully implemented, it will produce new data every year for even the smallest geographies. I think that the basic census kind of data that you're using, every year you would have data for all county cities, population areas of 65,000 or more. Now, for areas where the size is between 20 and 65,000, we would use three-year averages to give you numbers. For areas of less than 20,000, you'd need five-year averages. That's the way the survey works. So, that's why we say that over the five-year period, we'll have data for every community, even tracks within your community, but it is sort of a size-based methodology.

Yeah, I think basically, what I would do is, if you have to produce figures for every place, big or small, you'd have to make decisions as the data came out. But right now, I can give you a list of the geographic areas that we've covered in Kansas with this initial release. Since this is obviously a widgetile, but there are other counties and metro areas. I'll give you a list of all the, but I'll give you a list of data that are available from this release. It's kind of limited because the size of this C2SS is not nearly as large as what the ACS will be. That'll be about three million households a year. This was about 700,000 households, which is why we only put out data for areas of 250,000. So let me reiterate again, though, that you will have data available to you,

even for the very smallest places on a yearly basis, but they're for the very smallest geographies. The data that we would put out on a yearly basis would be based on the previous five years, for example, for areas under 20,000, and for areas between 20 and 65,000, they would be three-year averages. But again, they'd be put out every year based upon the previous three or five years. I wish we could adjust our schedule to meet your needs. I don't know that we could do that. Should I call? Yes. This is data that you would have that you would not have if the survey hadn't existed. Right now, I'm sure Anne could tell you this. If you wanted to look at poverty rates or unemployment rates or, well, not unemployment rates, but median household income, disability rates, migration rates, educational attainment rates,

we'd tell you to go back to the 1990 census. Which is kind of old. I'm sure Wichita has changed a lot since 1990. And so this is an opportunity to look at how to look at the current status of Wichita, and how it stacks up to other communities, how it stacks up to the state, and how it stacks up to the country that you just would not have at the state. All right. Can I start with having you state your name and title? This is Scott Ross, and I'm spokesperson for New Tribes Mission. Okay, and I wanted to talk to you today about the Burnums and their continuing plight in Philippines. Can you give me the last news that you heard from them or about them? Well, we still believe that the Burnums are alive, that there are some things going on, and the Philippines were not real clear on all of what is happening in the Philippines, that are helping us believe that things are moving toward a resolution when that's going to happen. We don't know that it appears that the Philippine military are being involved

and putting more pressure on the ASIAF group as well as the United States military are now on the island and bringing more pressure on them. And how is the US military's involvement in affecting the Burnums, do you know? We have felt that in order to see the Burnums released, that it will take two prongs. One will be some type of dialogue and communication with the ASIAF group, and the second would be to bring them to that point of wanting to dialogue some type of pressure through the military. And we believe the Philippine military have been doing that to some level, and that with the presence of the US now being on the island, that is going to heighten a military pressure on the ASIAF to possibly start dialoguing on how this kidnapping can be resolved. And has the MSAF made any ransom demands?

They have not made any direct ransom demands with us, or are we aware of any direct ransom demands to the US Embassy? There has been some rumors of amounts being floated around, but no direct demands yet. And Gracia's sister was on the radio in the Philippines last week, right? Yeah, actually she was on through the weekend, and in her communication, essentially she went on the radio and hopes that Martin Gracia might be able to be listening to her voice and communicating her love to Martin Gracia, and also talking to the ASIAF group about working toward and releasing Martin Gracia that they have done all of these things for the people of the Philippines, and really are not involved in the issues that the ASIAF group had with the Philippine government and made a request that they release Martin Gracia.

And I know that Congressman Todd Teart from the Wichita area visited the Philippines earlier this month. Do you know if that had any effect on the situation? Well, I think he's a tremendous fellow. And we just appreciate very much him taking this cause on in the manner that he has, and just with all the energy that he has toward it, I believe that by him just going to the Philippines and raising this issue again in the Philippines as well as in the public eye in the United States and bringing it back now to Washington DC that it again still increases the pressure on the ASIAF, but as well increases the urgency to the Philippine government that this needs to be resolved that the US is willing to be a part of the resolution and urging the Philippine government to loosen their position of only them being in charge and allowing the US to be more actively involved.

And I think we're seeing some movement in that area. Okay, is there anything else we'd like to add? I just think that continue to have listeners pray for the safety and well-being of Martin Gracia. It's been a while since this last video came out. We knew they were in tough streets at that point. We can only imagine that it's even more difficult for them now, and that they are in need of prayer by Christians across the country and also prayer for the children as this thing continues on, and they're not being with the parents. So we're... Weekly, K-E-G-L-E-Y, and I'm the Deputy Director for Emergency Management. Okay, and can you tell me some of the actions that Cedric County has taken this morning and due to the weather? Well, the primary things that we're doing is of course monitoring the weather and then we've got road and bridge crews out that are making sure that over high level roads and stuff are treated, that intersections are treated,

and just doing an inspection of the road system. And of course, we're trying to encourage people to take a little bit more time, drive a little safer, a little slower, because this being the first real storm that we've had of the season, a lot of people just don't think to slow down just a little bit. And what kind of things will you be doing tonight to prepare for tomorrow's weather? Well, the road crews will continue with our treatment, we'll continue to evaluate the road systems, and if there's any particularly treacherous areas on the road and we'll start putting that out to the media to make people aware that there is a particular hazard there, and we'll just continue to try to stay as safe as possible. We do have probably the maximum number of emergency crews on the road that we can put on the road

in case there are accidents that we can respond to them quickly. Your name and title? Yes, I'm Andrea Anglin, and the Public Relations Director for the Midway Kansas Chapter. Okay, and can you start by telling me a little bit about the Good Neighbor Nutrition Sites? Sure, the Good Neighbor Nutrition Program offers social activities and congregate meal sites for elderly people. It's different from meals on wheels, because we actually get people together to eat together and socialize, which is a really important part of their ability to stay independent. So we actually go and pick up the participants, and we take them to the different congregate meal sites, and then they have site supervisors there who manage the meal process and then also plan for special activities.

So we've got quite a few participants. We've got about over 3,000 or about 3700, I'm sorry, that I participate in this each year. And, or each day, this is Monday through Friday, that we offer the Good Neighbor Nutrition Program. And I think, yeah, we have 17 dining sites in Wichita, and then 13 others in the surrounding communities. And what areas do you serve? We serve Butler, Harvey, and Sedgwick County. And what kind of, I guess, financial or physical state are these people usually in? Is this for people who otherwise would not be able to get a hot meal? You know, really, it isn't based on any kind of economic need. It's really just the need that people might have to get out and socialize with others. And they do have a donation area set up there,

and someone would like to chip in some money for their meal they can. But we don't require that people do that. So a lot of people will just kind of put in whatever, you know, they think that they can do at the time. But we don't, it is a free program, and we don't require people to pay, but we do accept donation. And you said there about 3700 people served per day? Yes, per day. Okay, and can you tell me why the decision was made to cancel this for today? Whenever the weather gets really bad, we'll find that a lot of our participants don't want to get out into the icy weather, even if they don't have to drive themselves. Because, like I said, we pick up a lot of the participants. We have volunteer drivers who have buses that go out and pick these folks up. But they don't want to get out at all. They don't want to walk down their stairs, you know, and walk into buildings. And so they'll just stay at home, and we'll pick it up the next time that we open those sites up. And when do you expect for the sites to reopen?

Well, hopefully tomorrow. But we will know a little bit more towards the end of today, whether or not we will open up again. Okay, is there anything else we'd like to add? I don't think so. Okay, thanks very much. Thank you. Bye. We're waiting that those prices will continue to hold and possibly even continue to fall as we go through into the new year. Your next cut is also Sherry Sage, 23 seconds out. Cue holiday travel in three to one. This Christmas New Year holiday, we are anticipating 53.7 million Americans planned to travel 50 miles or more from home this year. Now that's actually a 6% decline over last year. With the current recession and the unemployment situation in this country, those are really the major contributors to this expected decline in holiday travel. Well, I don't know what that was, but I'm sorry about that.

I hope this comes down all right. Here comes Rita Klein. It's 20 seconds out. We have two Kansas law in three to one. He's interpreting the personnel regs and rules to say that I did not properly hire them. According to my attorney who has reviewed the personnel rules and regulations, we have in no way violated those. But I can tell you one thing. By them not issuing paychecks, they are in serious violation of Kansas law. And finally, 14 seconds now on Rita Klein, outcue and injunction whatever in three to one. If it goes to litigation, we will be asking the Board of County Commissioners to reimburse the Sony County Treasurer's Motor Vehicle Account for all legal fees and costs associated with any legal action that we have to bring against them and injunction whatever.

All right. That is your 545 news call stations. We need your help badly. Send us your stories. 1-800-2326-007. It was very quiet in Northeast Kansas. We don't have a lot to report from this area. Please, if you have something that you can send us, please send it. Good morning, station. It's time for the 645 news call. Just have two for you right now. Both from Rita Klein on the Treasurer's Office. Three temporary employees that have been helping during the busy times in the Sony County Treasurer's Office for over 10 years have not been paid for their working December, according to Treasurer Rita Klein. And an attorney that Klein is hired is advising the employees not to return to work until compensation has been received. Klein says that presents a problem. Your cut goes there.

Outcue or a tag. Klein says that without her employees it will take extra time to process the tax payments and she will miss the deadline for her disbursements to county agencies. The other one, Shani County Treasurer Rita Klein says that the Shani County Commission is in her words impeding, undermining, and interfering with her ability to do her job by not compensating three temporary employees that she hired to help process the millions of dollars of tax payments yet to be deposited. Cut goes there and the tag. Klein says that she is mandated by law to distribute money by January 15th to taxing entities that provide public services, including sheriff, fire, schools, and road maintenance. Klein says that if the matter isn't resolved by two o'clock tomorrow afternoon she will begin legal proceedings. All right, here come the cuts. The first cut is Shani Rita Klein, 15 seconds outcue that money. Money in three, two, one. We are mandated by law to distribute money to the taxing entities on January 15th. If those tax payments are not expeditiously deposited, then obviously I cannot distribute that money.

And your second cut and last cut, 19 seconds also Rita Klein outcue the money in three. Two, one. Right now we are in our peak tax period of receiving property tax payments. What will virtually happen if those employees are not compensated and allowed to return knowing that they'll be paid is that those tax payments cannot be deposited. They're not deposited. I cannot distribute the money. All right, let me send that cut down to you again. I'm going to reboot this computer afterwards, but I've got to send it to you right now. Here we go. Second cut coming down again, 19 seconds outcue the money in three, two, one. Right now we are in our peak tax period of receiving property tax payments. What will virtually happen if those employees are not compensated and allowed to return knowing that they'll be paid

is that those tax payments cannot be deposited. They're not deposited. I cannot distribute the money. At one blurp that time, let me try one more time. Three, two, one. Right now we are in our peak tax period of receiving property tax payments. What will virtually happen if those employees are not compensated and allowed to return knowing that they'll be paid is that those tax payments cannot be deposited. They're not deposited. I cannot distribute the money. I've got to send it now, stations. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. And I hope you can use one of those. I mean, after I reboot, I might send it down again next time at 1106. Thanks.