BUDGET PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 1945-47

Requirements Outlined by Chancellor Deane W. Malott to Meet Our Responsibilities
to the Youth of the State, Including Returned Veterans

A, AT LAWRENCE
. PERSONNEL

An annual increase from $815,070 to $977,218, to provide:
a. Instructors for training youth in new techniques needed in the post-war world;

b. oa adjustments in meritorious cases to hold promising staff members on a rising
market.

. MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS

An annual increase from $275,000 to $347,000, to provide:
a . Utilities and maintenance for 3 buildings added this biennium;

b. Funds for higher operating costs, including fuel and maintenance materials and
purchase of electricity above amount covered by current appropriation;

ce. Additional maintenance workers to operate enlarged plant, and catch up most urgent
neglected repairs.

. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Restoration from $70,000 to $92,400 the first year and $96,200 the second year, to provide
addition of chemical division, expansion of Wichita branch office, return of staff from
military service, additional equipment, expansion of topographic mapping project in
which our money is matched dollar for dollar by Federal survey.

. BUILDINGS

a. Addition to Watson Library. To provide urgently-needed additional reading rooms
and book stacks for 95,000 volumes now in storage or widely scattered in temporary
shelves and thus unavailable. Cost is estimated by State Architect at $200,000.

b. Engineering Shop Building. To give the engineering shops adequate, modern, fire-
proof quarters near other engineering units, and to release present shop building for
new School of Journalism. Cost is estimated by State Architect at $100,000.

c. Remodel Fowler for Journalism. Fowler Hall, now accommodating the engineering
shops, will serve adequately for the new William Allen White School of Journalism
and can be remodelled at much less cost than a new building. Cost is estimated by
State Architect at $150,000.

. MISCELLANEOUS

a. Laboratory Apparatus. Restoration of special appropriation for laboratory apparatus
to former figure of $20,000 a year, from present allowance of $15,000.

b. Guidance Bureau. $20,000 first year, $25,000 second year, to finance newly-established
bureau of testing and guidance, set up to help veterans and others solve their in-
dividual problems of guidance and vocation selection.

c. Rewiring and Lighting. $10,000 a year, to make a start on $100,000 accumulation of
deferred building rewiring and lighting improvement. Conditions now hazardous.