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Tuesday, May 9, 1972
University Daily Kansan
KU Senate Takes Important Steps to Serve Students
By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
Included in the maze of student interest was the Student. Senate this year were five items whose passage can be called important because
Not every enactment or resolution approved by the Senate last fall or this spring was significant enough to affect many lawmakers. The short of expectations because work begin when a bill was passed was not continued to completion or because a bill was forgotten after it withdrawn and reebate and received approval.
One accomplishment, however,
destined to affect many students
was the Senate's decision to fund
the Lawrence Bus Company by
the Lawrence Bus Company.
THE SENATE first aided the effort to extend its presence in early December with an allocation of $15,184 that was designed to keep buses running during construction.
By May 1, more than six weeks after Senate funds were expected to be exhausted, about $800,000 of them were spent, primarily because more than 190,000 passengers had paid 10 cents to ride a bus to campus or park.
A week ago the Senate's Housing Committee completed
The bill established a maximum of $10,000 per semester at the campus private fee that will provide a maximum of about $80,000 per semester to students.
A second accomplishment of
ALTHOUGH THE bill will probably anger many students who do not ride campus buses, it indicated foreground on the part of the city that would increase transportation situation that will become increasingly important as Lawrence and KU growth and the automobile population increases.
an enactment that contained a plan for continued financial support of the bus system.
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Student Senate treasurer Bill O'Neill, Ballin Wm. Bo, junior, said the Senate had already budgeted sessions, it had been the practice of the Senate to allocate less than the anticipated annual allocations for year allocations to new campus organizations and to allow for a student enrollment than anticipated.
"WE EXPECT to be able to cover the deficit by the cash on hand balance (contingency fund) and by the creditors." 30. however, 'O'Nell said.
Since the Senate has approved a deficit budget this year, O'Neill said that he did not think the Senate would have a large budget to allocate funds for new campus organizations next year.
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Last August, the Student Senate approved a $419,106.45 fee.
It increased by $71,706.45 more than the $473,600 anticipated fees from the university.
Senate Allocates Funds Exceeds Planned Income
The $487,005.87 was also the largest budget approved by the Senate since the Senate began activating the fee three years ago. Last year at the budgeting session for fiscal 1972 the Senate allocated $399,850 to student activity fee revenue of $399,850. The budgeting session (or fiscal 1971 allocated $399,850 of an expected $399,850)
O'Nell said that if University groups did spend all of their allocated funds this year and have to pay for contingency fund to cover the deficit, the Senate would have to readjust the allocations of all organizations in September so they could be eligible. The Senate would meet the allocated funds.
By CATHY SHERMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
This year, however, O'Neill said, the Senate allocated the contingency fund before it actually had one.
Generally, the Senate allocates more money than the anticipated activity fee revenue. O'Neill said, but the Senate allocate these funds to the amount of the funds in the contingency fee is actually known
Although the Senate did budget with a deficit for fiscal 1973, it had nearly $100,000 more dollars to allocate in 2000 than last
INCREASED anticipated activity fee revenue was also based on an expected increase in enrollment next year.
year. At April 28 meeting, the Senate approved a $2 increase to the $12 per student per semester fee and a $10 increase generated a $4,50 more than the $408,850 anticipated from revenues received from the school district.
"We weren't willing to leave out anything that students had indicated an interest or a need or "Downer said.
The $2 increase to the student activity fee was proposed by the Finance and Auditing Committee for the next five weeks in open hearings and deliberations with each organization requesting funds from the activity fee and made available for the filing of these groups to the Senate.
Barbi Downer, Topeka junior and chairman of the committee, defended the increase.
"This year we also had a number of new and large facilities, all valuable, such as the Day Care Center. Curriculum Instruction Survey and Women's Involvement Sports." Downer said.
Survey indicate a new trend in the role of the Student Senate toward providing more services for students.
She said the funding of the new programs and all other campus organizations previously funded was not possible under the line apportionment enactment, passed last December, which funded campus organizations to 11.5% of the origint $2 activity fee.
"WE ASKED for the increase because we were faced with the problem of a large number of new programs and one-fourth of he camp organizations or employees in town where most organizations would not be able to function."
Downer said the committee thought they should do neither, because of the difficulty in organizing and new programs were and would be beneficial to them.
"A major portion of the student body is involved in some organization funded by the Senate and supported by of these organizations wouldn't be able to exist without Senate financial support."
Downer said the committee
Downer also explained the need for funding, community service projects, such as Douglas County Legal Aid Yellow Brick Road.
had recommended funding only those items in each organization's requests to make it possible to operate.
"The community service
auditing committee
auditing committee
recommended be funded also benefit
the University campus," says
A complicated and controversial piece of legislation, the requirement that schools provide a systematic and stable method of allocating the student activity fee each year with fewer problems than previously enforced.
the Senate was Student Senate Enactment No. 17, passed last December and amended April 27
plan, the creation of the Emperium and the Senate's development two years ago of the Curriculum and Instruction
The enchantment created eight areas that will receive portions of the $1500 each portion of each student's $12 semester fee designated for these
In the future, these councils may be able to assume part of the responsibility for allocating money to student groups now funded by the Senate that are related to a school, as the Ombudsman Office is linked to them.
This year problems arose because an amendment to the lease required that we provided a one-year activity fee increase of $2 per semester, and much debate ensued over the rate and extra $2 among the eight areas.
THE NEW LINE apportionment approved by the Senate is as follows:
Student Senate $1.50
IDEALY, DECISIONS will need to be made in only one area because of its disproportion. Since its allocation is further divided among all student groups
The amendment is also important because it provided for the creation of school councils in which a parent or guardian in an adult education area,
2. Minor sport teams and clubs
University Theatre 1.55
University Theatre
Concert Course
Men & Women's Hiramurals
3. Men & Women's Hiramurals
3.
1. Campus Organizations
2. School Council
1. Kent Senate $1.30
Intercollegiate athletics 5.35
1. KUAA
a third accomplishment of the all-in-one 12 when it appears in winter.
The insurance plan, provided by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, that will be
A FIETH accomplishment took place February 18 when the Senate approved the revised regulations of the Student Senate.
Besides a $400 deductible maternity benefits provision that covers doctor and hospital bills, the insurer will also plan contained drug coverage with an unlimited ceiling instead of $100 per illness on drug cost.
The plan also provides for free birth control pill and insulin and full coverage of semi-priate care of the old age coverage of $30 a day.
A fourth accomplishment of the Senate was the creation in 2013 of the Olympia, a book exchange service, is housed in the Kansas Union.
Approval of the code completed the reorganization of the Senate begin when the All-Student body was bolished in the spring of 1969.
The Emporium allows students to buy or sell books directly to new students. A seller can leave books on the Emporium and wait to be contacted by another student, or he can purchase books himself
The 11 pages of guidelines contain articles on legislation, committees, membership and administration, and Senate proper operating procedures in a brief form that is needed to eliminate confusion in voting.
The Emporium was launched with a $600 allocation from the Senate for staff salaries and it received $300 more this spring.
Despite early organizational problems and inadequate facilities, the program has been successful. However, it had been exchanged between
students by early April.
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