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KU grad is personnel director
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
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For some University of Kansas graduates, professional life finds them back home on the range in Kansas, and sometimes, in Lawrence itself.
Ray Hummert, the new director of employee relations for the city, is one KU graduate who returned to Lawrence.
Hummert this month returned to the city to take over following the resignation of Jackie MaClain, who left last semester.
Hummert obtained his master's degree in Public Administration at KU in 1975, and after three other public jobs, returned to work for the city.
Why return to Lawrence?
Hummert received a political science degree from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and worked part time in government, helping toward his undergraduate degree.
"The city of Lawrence is well-known
for its excellent staff and for the things
that they do."
HIS SUPERVISOR IN St. Louis recommended he get a master's degree in public administration at KU because the program had a good reputation.
"Most people feel that way, I think KU's graduate public administration program is very well-known," he said. "I can't believe 'master's if you want to get anywhere."
Hummert spent the first year in graduate school on the KU campus and the second in an internship in the San Francisco Bay area in California to work for a government as an intern and was hired there after he completed his master's.
University Daily Kansan, January 26, 1984
Ray Hummert
HUMMERT SAID HE left the Bay area because he wanted to round out his public administration experience and work for a full-service city.
He left the large urban atmosphere to take a job in Kearney, Neb., a college town of about 40,000. He was the first to receive a fellowship and was in charge of personnel for the city.
In the San Francisco Bay area, he said, city governments are not responsible for water usage, an airport or the sewage system. This is because many large urban areas are part of a larger region that controls these functions.
A promotion to the city manager position lured Hummert to Marysville, Mo. where Hummert and his family were living, back to Lawrence early this month.
Marysville, the home of Northwest Missouri State University, has about 10,000 people. Hummert describes it as
a smaller version of Lawrence.
He said he liked Marysville, but could not resist the higher salary and better benefits that the Lawrence employee relations job offered. He added that he had liked living in Lawrence and looked forward to moving back.
AFTER WORKING IN THE large urban area of San Francisco Bay and two college towns smaller than Lawrence, Hummert welcomed the size and organization of city management in Lawrence.
the hardest part of his job in Lawrence is learning the personnel procedures, he said, which are different from those in other places he has
As director of employee relations, Hummert has four responsibilities. He does personnel administration, negotiates for the city with police and firefighters, and performs the risk management function.
Risk management means that Humrert must organize different kinds of insurance for city workers, including medical and worker's compensation.
He said he liked his job in Lawrence so far because city management here
HUMMERT ALSO RUNS the word processing system for Lawrence. The system is connected to the telephone system throughout city offices, enabling it to divide directly into a phone hook-up to the word processing system.
"You always feel good when you work for a good organization." Hummer said. "The position itself is a very specific function, but I'm involved with departments of the city and am able to work with people with various expertise."
Dog fighting bill recommends stiffer penalty
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Dog fighting is a serious problem in Kansas and the penalties for being involved with the dog will be stiffer, a Senate panel decided.
The Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday voted unanimously to send to the full Senate a bill that would increase penalties for the fouling.
The bill, which was endorsed by humane societies, would allow law enforcement officers to confiscate all dogs found on the premises of a dog fight. The owner of the premises would lose all his dogs. A veterarian would examine other dogs and those deemed not to be trained to be aggressive would be returned to their owners.
During testimony last week, human societies expressed concern over a fighting dog being returned to its owner if it were not actually fighting at the time the arrest was made. They wanted a bill that would conficate all fighting dogs because of their value to the owner.
THE BILL ALSO WOULD increase the crime of attending dog fight from a class C to a class B misdemeanor. Class B misdemeanors are punishable by up to six month in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The bill would cover all dogs trained to fight, not just pit bull terriers. It also would make it a crime to transport dogs for the purpose of fighting.
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Brier said Michigan knows how to keep things hopping.
"We have clean air and water, and the sun shines 65 percent of the time," Brier said of Kansas. "That's dull. Imagine the excitement of a winter in Michigan where it snows twice as much than summer. How that would keep things interesting."
Kansas official happily yields 'exciting' title to Michigan
"Prosperity, that's boring."
TOPEAK — Michigan Gov. James Blanchard soon may regret ever saying Kansas is boring, especially after he held a rally in Kansas Secretary of State Jack Brieur.
On a radio talk show Tuesday in Michigan, Blanchard said he thought Kansas was boring. Brier said yesterdays he was not surprised by the comment.
"Governor, I understand," he said. "Joblessness and crime, crumbling inner cities and burdensome taxes certainly aren't dull.
"Certainly, the agricultural industry is boring compared to the auto industry," he said. "With all the layoffs and recalls, there's something in the industry that seems necessary to feed much of the world, including the natives of your fine state."
"Sometimes I think our biggest thrill is the announcement of new jobs," he said. "Kansas ranks third nationally in the creation of jobs. But I have to hand it to you, with an unemployment rate nearly three times greater than ours. Michigan really knows how to keep things lively."
Brier said he could appreciate Blanchard's feelings.
State farmers get disaster aid
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Ten disaster-striken counties in central and western Kansas have been granted federal disaster aid, officials said today.
Gov. John Carlin requested the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to grant
relief to 15 counties, but five were
deferred, said Kansas Republican
senators Bob Dole and Nancy Landon
Kassebaum.
The 10 counties are Barton, Ellis.
Ellsworth, Grant, McPherson, Ness, Rice, Rooks, Rush and Russell. The five deferred counties are Harvey, Osborne, Stafford, Trego and Wichitu.
In a news release from Topeka, Dole and Kassbaum said the federal assistance would allow farmers to receive low-interest disaster loans to help offset crop losses caused by the summer's prolonged drought.
FARMERS IN ELIGIBLE counties who suffered at least a 30 percent crop loss because of the drought will be able to receive loans at a 3 percent interest.
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