University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Panel OKs money for Snow
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Money to plan the renovation of Snow Hall was approved yesterday by a Kansas legislative committee.
The Joint Committee on State Building and Construction, which approves financing for all building and remodeling projects of the state, allocated the money after endorsing a plan for the construction project in one year instead of two.
The committee recommended that the Legislature allot $420,000 to pay for preliminary and final planning of the project. The committee originally had allocated $180,000.
The recommendations now go to both the House and Senate Ways and Means committees.
for the first year of planning and $240,000 for the second year.
The University of Kansas proposed combining the two years of planning to get the Snow Hall project moving, according to Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University.
"ITS IMPORTANT TO proceed as rapidly as possible on the project because of the need for additional, experimental and/or science and math," von Ende said.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, and a member of the committee, said its recommendations usually were adopted with few changes.
The entire project is scheduled for completion by late 1990.
the Legislature approves the proposal, planning for the renovation would begin in July and be completed a year later. The remodeling would proceed in stages. The first stage would be completed by July 1987.
The committee also agreed to defer $200,000 from the governor's recommended budget for fiscal year 1986 to proposed campus science library.
ine University requested the change because architects could not complete their planning before July 1, 1986, the beginning of fiscal 1987, von Ende said.
Worker 'separated' from payroll
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A city employee who complained that the city discriminated against him because of his physical handicap was notified Tuesday that the city no longer could keep him on its payroll.
Anthony Razo, the employee, filed a complaint Feb. 11 charging that the city discriminated against him by not allowing him to work in a waste water treatment plant because he was an epileptic. The complaint was filed with the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights.
Ray Hummert, city personnel director, said yesterday of Razo, "I don't say he's been fired because that
suggests he was let go for disciplinary reasons. This isn't the case."
Hummert said the city was "separating" Razo from its payroll because he had refused to take an alternate job that had been offered to him. Hummert also offered Razo a job as a maintenance worker. He said the job offered the same pay as and comparable responsibilities to Razo's previous job.
RAZO WAS FORCED to leave his job as plant operator at the waste water treatment plant when the city discovered he had epilepsy. The city sent Razo to a doctor, who recommended that he not be allowed to work around heights or by himself, Hummert said.
apply for other city jobs and that he would work with Razo to try to find work for him.
But because the city couldn't allow Razo to keep his former job and Razo refused to take the one offered, he did to do something, Hummert said.
Razo said that the city was avoiding the issue of discrimination and that the job offered by the city was below his skill level.
He said that Razo was welcome to
"I would like the city to look at my capabilities, not my disabilities," he said.
Razo's termination becomes effective March 13 because city regulations require employees to be notified 15 days in advance.
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