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Fortieth Biennial Report 13

Since the organization of the course in Secretarial Training by the legislature
of 1941 the funds for its support have been provided by a special appropriation.
It is now proposed in the interest of simplification of accounting that this ap-
propriation be merged into the general appropriation for salaries and wages, as
shown in the table of biennial requests.

The amount requested for salary increases during next biennium was com-
piled by a careful study of individual cases, and is the absolute minimum
considered necessary to maintain the staff in the face of the scale being paid
in competing states. No provision has been made for anything approaching
a general increase, as desirable as that would be in the light of the high price
level and the heavy tax schedules. In purchasing power no classification of the
University staff now has or will receive under the increases proposed for next
biennium anywhere near what it had four years ago. i

The problem of meeting the competition of other state universities in the
middle west for instructors has not been simplified during the current biennium.
The scale of pay in these other institutions has moved up faster than it has in
Kansas with the result that the University, in order to secure competent in-
structors, consistently has had to pay more for a replacement than it paid to the
instructor who resigned to accept appointment in another state. Continuance
of this situation will make necessary a generous increase in the pay scale of
instructors if the University expects to attract and hold faculty of the quality
and promise that the youth of Kansas deserves.

RECAPITULATION
New positions ..... Be sacs audi ay eee ate ELC ie Meee ve tas LEU a $33,100
Salary and ware increases i... ss ee ea 129,048
otal te eae OE Ona $162,148

2. MAINTENANCE AND Repairs. An annual increase of $72,000 is requested,

. to provide additional maintenance staff, to cover higher operating costs, and

to provide modest increases in wages of some of the maintenance staff. The
distribution of the increase to these three categories is as follows:

a. New Positions. In order to provide for adequate maintenance of. the

enlarged physical plant and to catch up some of the deferred maintenance and

repairs which have accumulated, four additions to the maintenance staff are
recommended—a cabinetmaker, a painter, a steamfitter, and an electrician.

“Adequate supervision of the janitorial staff of the enlarged plant calls for a

supervising janitor, and protection of the entire plant requires a night police-
man. The estimated cost of these six new positions is $9,600.

b. Increased Operating Costs. Two years ago an increase of $34,210 was re-
quested to cover wage increases for the maintenance staff, utilities for three
new buildings (Military science, Mineral resources, Engineering experiment
station), and additional maintenance materials. The legislature declined to
grant any increase, directing the University to charge necessary wage increases
against the appropriation for salaries and wages, and to pay from reserve
balances the increased cost of maintenance materials and the entire cost of
operating the three new buildings if such buildings were not rented to the fed-
eral government for war training purposes. Reserve balances had to carry the