University Dally Kansan, March 25, 1981 Page 3
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Governor's opponents say power reduced
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
Currently the process is limited to the governor's office, but under the bill it also would become a legislative matter. Because of this twist several opponents of the bill have said that political pressure on John Carlin's power are behind the bill.
"Sure, that is what is going on," House Minority Leader Fred Weaver said. "A lot of that has been going on and this is no exception."
STATE REP. Mike Hayden, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee which sponsored the bill, said the bill was proposed as an attack on the governor.
The bill was designed to alleviate the problem of re-classification and reallocation," Hayden said. "There have been instances in some jobs where a job was not offered, but it was formed for him and that person got a tremendous salary increase.
"By doing that people have just been going around the appropriation process. Even Gov. Carlin has ex- concerns about the problem with this."
Hayden said that by giving the Legislature the power to review such pay increases, the bill would save the state about $6 million.
ALTHOUGH OPPONENTS are not against saving $6 million, they are still against the bill.
"One of the reasons why I voted against the bill," State Rep Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said, "was because the matter is an administrative matter. The governor's office can easily handle the
reorganization of an agency without the Legislature.
"With this bill, the Legislature is simply encroaching on the powers of the administrative branch."
Charlton also said that she opposed the bill because of its appearance as a cut to the governor.
"This seems to be part of the plan on the part of the leadership in the Legislature to cut the budget, raise no new revenue and so home," she said.
STATE REP. John Solbach, D-
Lawrence, said that he opposed the bill
for some of the same reasons.
"I question whether we need to place an arbitrary freeze on hiring in the state," he said. "It also seemed to be an issue that would not improve nor like quite a bit of other legislation."
"It seemed like this was just aimed to unseat the governor rather than to do the state some good."
Solbach said this bill closely paralleled a bill that passed the House
earlier. That bill would place a freeze on hiring and stipulated that any further job changes would have to go through the governor's office.
"Both of these bills would be a bottleneck to getting things done quickly," Solbach said.
"There simply will not be a problem in that regard," Hayden said.
HAYDEN, HOWEVER, said that he did not see how there would be a bottleneck. He said that the changes that would be ruled on by the governor or the legislative committee were not numerous.
Before the final vote of 65-60 the bill was taken, Charlson said that the bill's opponents worked to convince legislators who seemed to favor the bill.
"The issue passed by a much greater margin on general order," Charlton said. "Before the final vote, however, we all of us went to work to try to kill it today and we ended up only three votes short."
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