Page 8 University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1981
Rules affect Regents budget
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
The road facing the Board of Regents budget requests for fiscal year 1983 looks even rockier than this year's because of new budgetary procedures developed early this year by Lynn Muchmore, state budget director.
Under Muchmore's policy, the Regents will no longer be able to choose the amount of their budget requests for the Regents schools.
The new budget procedures will require all state agencies to submit three different budget proposals based on the figure specified by Gov. John Carli.
EACH AGENCIY will be required to submit budget requests at the level indicated in Carlin's recommendation. They also will be required to submit a budget proposal at a level slightly lower than that figure and on slightly above
The purpose of the new procedures, according to Marvin Burrif, budget officer for the Regents, is to base the amount of money that is available.
The Regents are expecting Carlin's recommendation by June 1.
The governor will set the level the agencies may request based on that protection.
BURRIF SAID the procedures would give Carlnin and the Budget Office a "tick and choose list."
"They put a cap on what an agency can ask for, rather than what an agency feels its needs are going to be," he said. "It will make the process easier for the budget director, but it is definitely to the Regents disadvantage."
Burrif said the Regents would be challenged to decide appropriate funding levels for the seven Regents schools based on one lump-sum figure.
"This gives the Regents no real policy," he said. "They will have no
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By not making its own requests, Burrif said, the Board of Regents will have lost its means for making the transactions that监管aware of its financial needs.
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Glee Smith, Larned Regent, said the Regents would do that by submitting a budget proposal to the governor and the Legislature.
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"We will continue to submit a budget the traditional way, expressing our total needs and what the costs we are facing are," he said. "And we will also submit the budgets under the guidelines.
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"The Regents are different from the other state agencies," he said. "The they are not part of the Executive department, so it is their right to put us in a straight jacket."
SMITH SAID THAT the Regents had requested an exemption from the new budget procedures.
Smith said that because the Board of Regents was a lay board, with appointed officials who were not emitted from the state, it was a unique agency.
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The drought contingency study not only will predict water shortage but also will provide local water managers with drought alert information and recommendations for drought management.
Unfortunately, he said, the Regents could not convince the budget director of that.
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"It's an invasion of our autonomy and our independent authority to determine our needs," he said. "We should not put that to do under some artificial lid."
Smith said a major problem with drought management was the turnover of water management personnel between droughts and the resulting inexperience in dealing with the situation.
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"If we had been in operation, we would have been making releases as year ago about alert mechanisms," he said. "The professor of civil engineering, said."
now have inadequate facilities to ensure a steady water supply.
SMITH SAID the drought alert manual would include information on water rights, model drought contingency ordinances and consevation measures pertinent during certain stages of a drought.
Grad student researches droughts
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
Kansas has a 25 percent probability of being in a moderate drought six months from now, according to a drought contingency study being conducted at the University of Kansas.
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Kansas farmers also are suffering from the continued drought. According to Earl VanMeter, Douglas County agricultural extension agent, the past three years of dry weather have caused an outbreak of chinch bugs. Chinch bugs feed on the seeds of corn, sorghum and wheat.
The study, which is based on precipitation and weather records of the past century, predicts stream infiltration frequency of municipal water supplies.
Les Lampes, De Soto graduate student, is developing the drought contingency study as his doctoral research in civil engineering. He said the flow of water in streams and into reservoirs was dependent on sedimentation and temperature during the preceding six to 12 months.
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Lampe said southeastern Kansas in particular faced a severe water shortage this summer. Usually the reservoirs are full at this time of year. But this spring many are nearly empty.
"You know you are not going to get a lot of stream flow even if you get wet weather in the coming six months," he said. "Most of the state rivers have the chance of having stream flow below the average six months from now."
director of the water resource bureau of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, eastern Kansas needs some heavy and persistent rains to reain the water supply in many lakes.
ACCORDING TO Jack Burris.
The rains need to be heavy enough to saturate the ground and then provide some run-off to help fill the lakes again, Burris said.
In northeastern Kansas, the lakes used by Edgerton, Louisburg and Spring Hill are dry or almost depleted and the towns are using emergency hook-ups to connect to other water sunflowers.
Several towns in the southeastern part of the state already have voluntary or mandatory conservation ordinances in effect. The measures include banning yard macerating, car washing and, in some cases, filling up septic tanks for water, where every extra gallon sells at a higher rate.
THE WESATERN part of the state depends mostly on ground water and the situation there is not critical, according to Burris.
He said the Kansas River and Clinton reservoir, which supply water no Lawrence, were in good condition. A water shortage was unlikely here.
Burris said a long-term solution to water shortages for small towns and rural water districts might include the deployment of wholesale water districts.
These would tap already existing resources and serve districts that
VANMETER SAID that the reca-
rains had not improved the farmer's situation. Some parts of the country did not get any rain at all.
VanMeter said he could not predict what the situation would be this summer for the farmers.
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