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University Daily Kansan, July 30, 1981
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ahence contributed to KU's problems in setting its budget passed.
With few Regents-area legislators on the Ways and Means Committee, little action can be taken. Then the Appropriations Committee's recommendations can only be amended.
THE PROBLEM WAS shown last session when Lawrence's House delegation scrambled to initiate amendments to raise faculty salary from 7 percent to 8 percent and the other operating expense allocations from 5.5 percent to 6 percent. The amendment for faculty salaries lost 65-55, and the amendment for the other operating expenses lost 66-54.
Solbach said the Lawrence delegation did the best job it could.
"I don't claim to be a great power in the Legislature," he said. "I'm one of 123 in the House of Representatives, with the kind of job I am able to do and the influence on the legislative process that I have."
NEW STATE BUDGET PROCESS
Kansas began a new budget process last Feb.
1, designed to encourage agency planning and
staff training.
The Board of Regents' response to the new system will, of course, affect KU's funding. So far, the Regents have balked at a major portion of the plan.
According to the new plan, agencies were supposed to issue papers on assigned topics by last April 15. The purpose of the issue papers is to inform stakeholders decide where state money would be best spent.
For instance, KU wrote an issue paper for the Regents on "The Effect of Federal Budget
After receiving the issue papers, the governor then drew up A, B and C budget allocations for each state agency, based on revenue estimates and on the information in the budget estimate. Based on the balanced budget estimate, The A level is lower and the C level is higher.
ALL AGENCIES WERE also required to submit program plans that described the operations and performance of each program.
The Regents have decided not to conform to the ABC budget levels. The C-level budget exceeded the governor's allocation by 12.5 million.
The Regents thought that the governor and the budget director did not have the statutory authority to impose budget levels, Marvin Burrif, Regents budget officer, said last week.
"On the other hand, the Board of Regents have the constitutional responsibility to tell the governor and the Legislature what the needs of higher education are," he said.
So, the Regents will submit a budget that defines the needs and will give the budget
Budget director Lynn Muchmore said yesterday that he was satisfied with the agreement.
division information about making reductions in those budgets.
"I don't agree with them on some of their arguments," he said. "But there's no hostility here, nor negative dialogue going on. Nothing that has harmed us goes undermining the integrity of the new system at all."
THE LEGISLATURE may also decide to submit its own budget, rather than go along with the ABC level allocations. However, the governor will probably be close to the governor's allocation.
Muchmore said he was not surprised that some agencies have moved slowly to accept the data.
"tunk there's a natural apprehension about any change in the system as central as the budget system," he said. "You can expect you're going to have some people concerned. They may want to lay in the weeds for a year or so to see if the thing actually plays out."
When Congress makes its final decision on the Reagan budget cut package, few people doubt that states will suffer heavy funding losses.
REAGAN BUDGET CUTS
The federal government provides about 52 cents of each dollar in the Kansas budget. Cuts would primarily come in welfare aid and other social services.
However, all agencies including the Regents, will feel the effects of a tight budget.
"I don't think there's any question but that every agency in state government that operates on general fund money will feel the pressure of federal cutbacks," Muchmore said.
ACCORDING TO MUCHMORE, ap-
pliance would be lost if the expected cuts go through.
"We're going to have to find ways to do the same on less money, or in some cases to simply cut expenses."
He said he expected Congress to complete work on the budget cuts in the next few weeks.
The shortage of federal and state funds makes it essential to find other sources of revenue. One potential source is a severance tax on oil and mineralers.
According to Solbach, a severance tax in Kansas would bring in about $200 million each year.
Gov. Carlin has been pushing the severance tax as a major boost for the economy. It would aid the overall state budget by lightening the load on the state's general fund.
If the tax were approved, Carlin has said, it would allow allocations for primary and secondary schools and highways to be moved from the city to counties. He says money for universities and other state agencies.
According to its proponents, the severance tax is the only way to pass a significant portion of the landlord's income.
taxes on to Kansans in the form of severance taxes.
"When we turn on our lights during the night children are more likely to attend school children in Wyoming," Sobach said.
Wyoming has a 30 percent severance tax
However, proponents of the tax think it has a better chance in the next session.
OIL COMPANIES HAVE lobbed heavily against the tax, and legislators from energy-rich areas have come out strongly opposing it. The team was soundly defeated in the last session.
Sobach said that the chances for passing the tax bill are better next session. However, the governor might have to settle for combination sales tax, gasoline tax and severance tax.
Although most factors affecting the KU budget are beyond Budig's control, one important measure is primarily his response to public concerns about education directly benefits their constituents.
"The most important thing for the University budget is getting support from throughout the state or from individual legislators, and convincing them that higher education is important in the future of the state." Solbuch said. "That role has been on the shoulders of the chancellor."
It is a role that Budig likes to play, and one he
would spend during his years at West Virginia.
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director at West Virginia University, said that the minority population of West Virginia must be considered to understand the low minority enrollment at the university.
Budig said that while at West Virginia he felt the importance of things to increase the minority enrollment.
"I visited high schools that were high in minority enrollment and told them about the
university and what it had to offer them," Budig said.
He said that he had stressed that they were burdened as human beings and not just as numbers.
BUDIG ALSO SAID that he had urged business and industry to hire West Virginia's minority
At one point last year, the university ran out of financial aid. Garlene Bellaine, assistant dean of finance, said: "We have a budget of
"President Budig went to business and industry and got a $200,000 grant for minority students," Belmar said. "He came up with the money when it was needed."
However, representatives from the U.S. office of civil rights arrived at West Virginia University in 1979 to investigate the university's compliance with desegregation.
Budig began as president in 1977.
ordinator, Marion Dearlein, at West Virginia University said that the effort to increase the minority enrollment was not because of federal pressure.
HOWEVER, AFFIRMATIVE action co-
"By the time they arrived, we had already started to look at what should be done and we had began programs," Dearnley said. "The programs were initiated mostly because of President Budig's support for equal opportunity."
Budig said that in the next few months he will be assessing the minority situation at KU.
"I think that many programs used at West
University could be successful here."
"Bullard is."
Budig did say that it would not be realistic to expect KU to achieve the 18 percent national mark for minority enrollment because Kansas does not have the minority population to pull from.
"However, we can do better," Budig said
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A PW Thoughts About The Buffs Subpoise
Early in August, the Buffs subpoenaed the Buffs, a rocky hill on the northeast corner of Sixth and lowa, be rezoned from single-family residential to resident-office and multi-family residential. While according to this request the previous city commission stipulated that the rezoning could be effected only by its (the commission's) approval of a plat and site plan for the five acre development. Last fall the issue resurfaced when the city promulgated a new rezoning policy which made rezoning contigent upon commission approval of a plat and site plan. This issue was also being addressed by the Buffs becoming a rezoned area without, in the eyes of some, a commission-approved plat and site plan. According to the December 10, 1980 issue of the Journal World "Schwada and his legal representative, Richard Zinn, argued that the Buffs request was not unique and that the planning tools exist to solve traffic, drainage and other problems." Please consider the following excerpt from the February 28, 1980 issue
"Duane Schwada, one of the developers who requested the razing argued that the building (planning commission) should consider only the plans for rezoning and not the plans for razing."
"The developers, which are Gene Fitzel and myself, have 20 years of experience in the market." he said. "We have had over 1,000 projects and we do everything to ensure that they succeed."
In this February 1980 statement Mr. Schwada cited his and his partner's considerable local experience; he also asked the commission to "look at facts, not speculation." Yet $9\frac{1}{2}$ months later Msrss, Schwanda and Zinn could do no more than inform the city commission "that the planning tools exist to solve traffic, drainage and other problems." Although this palindrical pronouncement was a product of the very speculation that they (the developers) $9\frac{1}{2}$ months earlier had asked the planning commission to ignore, the problems mentioned therein are the cruxes of the dispute.
A 24-hour traffic count taken at Sixth and California in June of 1973 revealed a volume of traffic of such magnitude that the closing of Californias street was determined to be the safest course of action, yet the owner of the Blufs has persuaded the city to grant access to St.晶街 from the Blufs area at a point not far from the site sealed some eight years ago. The drainage problems that now exist in the area because of the increase in the locale's population and the runoff from both the Hillcrest Shopping Center and the Ramada inn will be augmented by the construction of the Northwood Estates, the Holiday and Mr. Schugel's project.
In 1926 the United States Supreme Court upheld an ordinance that excluded apartment houses from certain residential neighborhoods. Justice George Sutherland described the ordinance as an attempt to prevent a form of local nuisance. When the city of Belle Terre, New York, Justice William D. Douglas said:
A quiet place where yards are wide, people few, and motor vehicles restricted are legitimate guidelines in a land use project addressed to family needs . . . The federal) police power is not confirmed to elimination of filth, stench, and unhealthy places. It is ample to lay out zones where family values, youth values, and the blessings of quiet seclusion, and clean air make the area a sanctuary for people."
"The regimes of boarding houses, fraternity houses, and the like present urban problems. More people occupy given space; more cars rather contend with them."
A considerable segment of the community feels that the city commission is receptive to this 1974 Supreme Court decision and will take into account Justice Douglas' idea of 'a sanctuary for people' when formulating their next rezoning policy.
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