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University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1984
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Sandi Moles/KANSAN
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For the first time in several years, KU faculty and administrators said yesterday that they were encouraged by the Board of Regents budget proposal that is expected to be considered by the full Senate today.
Faculty pleased with proposal
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
The $153.5 million budget agreed upon by members of both Legislative groups is $4.7 million more than Gov. John Carlin had recommended for the University of Kansas. The budget proposal will now go before the full House and Senate, where final approval is almost certain.
Sidney Shapiro, a professor of law who followed the budget's progress through the Legislature, said, "I think it's wonderful.
"It involves recognition by the Legislature that the budget rescission of two years ago and the failure to even start restoring that money last year has harmed the ability of the University to carry out its mission."
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said that KU students and faculty both suffered from the 1982 fire. He said that classrooms and without necessary equipment.
supposed to be temporary, but the money was never restored.
EMERGENCY BUDGET CUTS by Carlin in 1982 cost Regents schools $14.2 million. KU lost $3.4 million from its base budget. The cuts were
For the first time, students found themselves paying for syllabuses, and many faculty were frustrated.
"This could begin to turn it around," Carothers said. "But we're going to need a number of consecutive years like this one to restore the funding to the level where it ought to be."
The Regents budget includes a 7 percent increase in the other Operating Expenses budget, which finances minor building costs, supplies and other similar expenses. The budget also provides a 7 percent salary increase for faculty members.
DEANLEL TACHA, KU vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she hoped that the increase in the Other Operating Expenses budget will enable some of the stress faculty now face.
hurt by the rescission, but that it should start to improve.
Shapiro said, "I would read it as a message by the Legislature that universities are doing a good job of educating people, and all of us like to be told we are doing a good job. Especially when we
STANLEY KOPIKI, executive director for the Regents, said the Regents were delighted.
"I think the faculty have understood in the past few years that the state was going through difficult times, and that there was a need for belt tightening. But at the same time, they were looking for a sign that when times got better, the faculty would return funding to where it was before the cuts."
Kopikil said administrators and faculty from the six Regents universities had convinced legislators of the damage caused by the rescission, and had probably saved higher education from losing its status. Carter had印监 a $9 million cut in the base budget but the house restored the money.
"The campuses made a very good case for the need to halt that type of approach toward financing higher education — that is, a negative approach." Koplik said.
Education compromise bill rejected
By United Press International
TOPEKA - The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a compromise proposal to fund public education and told the panel to develop a plan with more money in it.
The Senate voted 29-11 to send the appropriations bill back to a six-member House and Senate conference committee, which debated the issue until midnight Monday and Tuesday.
percent, the Senate had set the amount at 95 percent.
The committee had recommended that the state provide a $38 million increase over the current year in aid to school districts. Gov. John Carlin had recommended $40 million, and when the bill passed the Senate, it provided for a $37 million increase.
Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, argued that if the conference committee had agreed to fund special education at 95 percent, it would have less emphasis on programs such as preschool special education
Another sticky point for some senators is the committee's decision to fund 93 percent of the excess costs of special education. While Carlin had recommended a funding level of 86 percent to 87
Responding to questions from Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, about the effect on property taxes of the lower state aid, Hess said that if all school districts raised their budgets as much as allowed, property taxes would go up by $50 billion and $75 billion would have resulted in a 448.4 million increase.
"The conference committee struggled to remain within or very close to the total dollars the governor recommended," said Hess, who noted that the conference committee report added about $500,000 to the governor's recommendation but shifted some money.
reference to what he considers a lack of available funding.
Steinger, however, said the bread was in a Senate bill to change the date that taxes are due on insurance premiums from a single payment in March to two payments in June and December. The change would result in a one-time gain of $22 million.
That bill is languishing in the House Ways and Means Committee, and the senators on the next conference committee should make the future of the bill their first point of inquiry. Steineger said.
Lobbyists for the Kansas-National Education Association and Topeka and Shawnee Mission school districts said the Senate's action might require the Governor to house to accept the original Senate proposal.
He repeatedly asked. "Where's the bread?" in
Hess said he hoped the issue would be settled this week, before school districts begin budgeting and negotiating teacher contracts for next school year.
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