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University Daily Kansan, April 9. 1984
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WILSON SAID THAT KU officials would begin discussing the proposal this week with members of a committee to ensure that they are ready to oversee the handling of the trust.
If the committee approves the use of the money soon, he said, officials could complete specific plans for the new hall as soon as Sunday.
Residents of Watkins and Miller halls, which Watkins donated to KU more than 40 years ago, have questioned whether KU officials had adhered closely to the criteria Watkins placed in them. The residents said they wanted some control over the money Watkins left to maintain the halls where they lived.
MILLER AND WATKINS halls have received about the same amount of money for maintenance as other scholarship halls. KU financial reports show that, but the University has withheld money from the halls and created a residual fund.
Wilson proposed using that carry/over money with some other money to get the $1 million needed for the new hall.
Several members of Watkins and Miller halls said that although they appreciated the money from the trust, which now has more than $1.7 million in assets, they wanted more say in the way the money was used.
CLOUD SAID THAT the hall had $3,000 a year to spend on interior decorating and $3,000 a year for repairs and improvements that the residents wanted, in addition to maintenance service the housing office provided.
"I think what we really want is for them to acknowledge that we have access to that fund," said Sharla Cloud, former Watkins Hall president.
"I think the issue might be that housing isn't willing to put any of the Watkins money to use to repair structural problems."
Wilson, however, disagreed that the halls were in need of extensive repairs.
"I don't want to say it's in apple-pie shape," he said. "They have their chance every year to get into capital outlay items and they haven't mentioned anything that they can be unduly concerned about. Those halls are reasonably well maintained for their age.
"WE DON'T SEE that the demise of Watkins Hall is imminent at all. It's got another 20 years. I think Miller and Watkins hall can be operated very well."
Furthermore, he said, building the new hall would not reduce the amount of money now spent for maintaining Watkins and Miller Halls.
But Cloud said that Wilson had met recently with some members of the All Scholarship Hall Council and told them that the only money that housing officials would be willing to put into the halls would be from the residents' rent.
"It kind of makes us look ungrateful for what we've got," Cloud said. "But I don't think that Mrs. Watkins would be angry to come back and see the balls today."
Cloud pointed to the television room in Watkins Hall as one place that needed structural repair. She said that the ceiling leaked after rains, drenching the walls and causing ceiling paint on the walls and causing ceiling tiles to expand and grow mold.
BETH STRATHMAN, Miller hall house manager, said that the hall's heating system had been a problem for some time because it leaked water. Water has collected in newly painted living room walls and caused pain to
Cloud said that Wilson had told some hall residents that if they wanted more money for maintenance they would have to pay larger house bills.
Robyn Engelland, a resident of Miller Hall and former ASHC secretary, was present at the meeting. She said, "What we learned was that the money in the trust fund probably wasn't to be used for maintenance."
The University's financial report for 1982-83 indicated that during that period, Watkins and Miller hall receives about $1,000 less for building and equipment repairs, maintenance charges and materials than the average for the other six scholarship halls.
peel and plaster to crack.
INCOME FROM THE trust and the fact that residents buy and cook their own food kept the house bills of Miller and Watkins residents low. Next year the halls residents will pay $591, about 6% less than the average cost of scholarship halls. The average cost for the other halls for next year will be $1,500.
rent and the trust paid the University $179,783, bringing the combined incomes of the two halls to more than $233,000.
For the same period, Watkins and Miller residents paid a total of $367.63 in
But the total expenditures of Miller and Watkins totalled $83,393,03, leaving an excess of more than $150,000, that could be paid in credit in the Miller and Watkins account.
Reagan makes plans to visit Kansas City President to tour Ford auto plant in Clay County
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Details of the president's trip have not yet been announced, but Police Chief Larry Loater said his office had expected to stay overnight in the area.
A flood of federal tax dollars in recent months has been directed at the Clay
In February, the General Services Administration announced it had awarded a $35 million contract to Ford for the construction of air bags at its Claymont plant.
And about a week before that, the Labor Department said it had approved a $500,000 retraining program for an estimated 750 workers recently laid off from the plant. After retraining the workers, the employees were to be rehired.
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