University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 19. 1992
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City plans street repairs
By Andy Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence residents can expect to see more than $250,000 worth of street projects completed in 1992 if the Lawrence City Commission approves a funding resolution at its next meeting.
At last night's meeting, the commission declared Clinton Parkway a major trafficway, which is a designation that would allow the city to use bonds to pay for improvements to the street.
Dave Corliss, city management analyst, said that a trafficway was a primary street that carried a high volume of traffic.
"Clinton Parkway has never been designated as a trafficway," he said. "Yet, it carries a large number of cars, just like Tennessee Street, Ninth Street or Kasold (Drive)."
He said that four major improvements to trafficways and more than a dozen minor projects were planned for
1992. Although bonds would pay for the major improvements, the money for the minor projects would be paid by the city's half-cent gasoline sales tax.
The four proposed trafficway improvements are:
■ Tennessee Street, Ninth Street to 18th Street ($50,329).
Clinton Parkway, Kasold Drive to Crossgate Drive ($80,612).
Kentucky Street, Eighth Street to 11th Street ($60,702)
Nineteenth Street, Naismith Drive to Stewart Avenue ($3,023).
Corriss said the improvements would consist of scraping the top layer of pavement from the street and adding a new coat of asphalt.
He also said that $3,000 would be provided for 100 trees that would be planted along the streets.
"The roads are like structures," Corliss said. "They deteriorate with time and weather."
The commission will decide at next week's meeting whether to approve
the quarter-million dollar funding resolution, he said. Bids will be sent out if the resolution is passed.
In other business, the commission approved a study on the feasibility of public transportation in Lawrence. A $50,000 grant from the Federal Transportation Authority will pay for the study, said Price Banks, director of city planning.
This is not the first public transportation study conducted for the city.
He said the study, expected to begin in March, would be completed by October.
"There was a coordination study that was doneabout five years ago that looked at existing transit services and recommended mechanisms to coordinate things," Banks said. "Before that, there was a study in the mid-1970s that looked at existing needs. What this study will do is look at the unmet needs of public transportation and find feasible recommendations to meet those needs."
Fiscal woes pain state schools
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — State colleges and universities, faced with huge budget cuts from recession-wracked states, are raisingtions, givingpink slipsto professors and eliminating courses.
Nineteen states have cut allocations for colleges and universities this year, a report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities shows. Of the states that didn't report cuts, nine say they expect cuts in the near future.
The 370,000 students in the 20-school California State University System — the nation's largest — pay 20 percent more than students in other systems in required state fees that go for special services such as registration and record-keeping. This compares with a 40 percent increase by the University of California system.
Students from other countries or states pay a higher tuition rate in addition to the fees.
Last fiscal year, the annual fee for full-time California State students was $52, but the amount increased to $1,108 this year, which ends June 30. Officials propose increasing the fees to $1,480 in fiscal 1992-93.
The City University of New York System, the nation's third largest with 200,000 students, is faced with a ream-
mended $500 tuition increase per student on July 1. In the fall of 1990, the tuition was $1,250 a year but was raised to $1,450 a year in the spring of 1991. This fiscal year, the tuition increased to $1,850 a year, said spokeswoman Rita Rodin.
"If the tuition increase goes through as recommended, our senior college students will be paying 88 percent more for their education in 1982-93 than they did in the fall of 1900," said Rodin, citing all the expenses of running the institution.
Rodin added that 72,000 CUNY students, representing about 40 percent of the total graduate enrollment, attend school part-time. The new budget proposes to cut $2.4 million in funds normally allocated to this group.
Tuition increases in states that sustained mid-year cuts averaged 14.4 percent, said the association report, while the average tuition increase in those states that did not suffer a mid-year budget cut last fiscal year was 6.9 percent.
The association represents more than 375 state colleges and universities and more than 30 systems of higher education nationwide. The institutions rely on state governments for 60 percent of their operating budget and are susceptible to the conditions of their states' economies and finances.
been Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland, New York, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nevada.
"Tuftion continues to rise because of budget shortfalls, while state and federal student financial assistance fails to keep pace," said Appleberry. "If we're not careful, through policy default, the face of our debt is expanding radically and any of the positive movements toward renewal and reform will be lost."
George Mason University President George Johnson agreed.
"We have all suffered and we are all very much worried about what we are doing to our common future," he said. "We know that we are inflicting a lot of what we call stealth damage. The country as a whole is going to pay for its short-term expediency in terms of its ability to compete on global society."
Johnson said that George Mason experienced cuts amounting to 20 percent of Virginia's general-fund appropriation.
Suffering mid-year cuts so far have
"We have saved our faculty and our classrooms and have protected the integrity of instruction," said Johnson.
However, he said that 150 positions in support services had been cut.
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