University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1984
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University's dual pay-period system consistently throws KIPPS for a loop
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System has not worked at the University of Kansas partly because KU uses two separate pay periods, a member of the emergency task force studying KU's payroll problems said yesterday.
Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs and task force member, said KIPPS was designed for the single pay period system that other state agencies use.
AT KU one pay period runs from the first day to
the last day of every month. The other pay
period runs from the 18th day of the month to
the 17th day of the following month.
All classified employees, faculty with 12-month appointments and students paid by the hour are in the pay period that runs from the 18th
to the 17th of each month — the period for which KIPPS was designed, he said.
That pay period covers two-thirds of the approximately 7,200 KU employees.
THE OTHER ONE-THIRD, comprised of faculty with nine-month appointments and students paid by the month, is in the first day through the last day of each month.
"Most of our problems have been with the people that we pay from the first through the 31st of October."
The state would like the University to place all of its employees in one pay period, Jones said, but the University wants to retain the additional pay period so students paid by the month and paid by the month are paid on the first payday after they begin working, even if they haven't worked for a full month.
For example, if only the standard state pay period was used, an employee who started work after the last payment date would be
until the first of February to be paid. With the extra pay period, that employee would be paid for his work on on the first day of January.
DICK MANN, DIRECTOR of the Office of Information Systems, and Gary Howland, assistant secretary of administration, are responsible for information to both the state and the University. Mann said.
Jones said he thought the decision would be to stay with some of form KIPPS.
Mann said yesterday that the two should make a decision on the KIPPS problem within the next two weeks and present it to Mike Harder, secretary of the Department of Administration.
Jones said the state's plan was to bring all state agencies into KIPPS.
"THE BOTTOM LINE is simply that KIPPS is designed to handle the majority of state agencies," he said.
Man answers charges after disappearance
By United Press International
WICHITA — The suspended director of the Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, who had been missing for six days, appeared in court yesterday to answer charges of alleged wrongdoings in his previous job in Wichita.
James Turek appeared before Sedgwick County District Court Judge Paul Clark on charges of misappropriation of funds from the Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau, said police Capt. Mike Hill. The captain had been in an investigation of the Wichita bureau.
The judge scheduled Turek's next appearance for Jan. 25, Hill said. Turek was released on $3,000 bond. The hearing was a first appearance, and Turek entered no plea, Hill said.
Hill said Turek had been in another city outside of Moorhead when he was missing. He returned to Oklahoma.
Turek disappeared early Thursday when he left his home to catch a flight to Wichita for a scheduled court appearance.
Senate passes bill to correct mistake in new open-records law in Kansas
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Rejecting attempts by two lawmakers to prevent what they called a significant policy change, the Senate yesterday passed a bill that supps a clerical error in the new open-record laws.
Sens. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, and Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, urged the upper chamber to remove 17 words from the bill they said would pave the way for the sale of public records in the state Motor Vehicle Division to commercial interests, such as direct-dmail companies.
On a 20-17 tally, the Senate rejected an amendment to remove the words, opting instead to pass a bill duplicating the open-records bill they passed last year. A clerical error made in the bill before it reached Gov. John Carlin's desk last year removed the 17 words.
FEARING CONSTITUTIONAL problems over the signing of a bill in a different form than it was passed, the Legislature sat out early this month to discuss sure it was signed by Carlin in the same form.
But Meyers said an attorney general's opinion last September on a separate law governing the use of firearms in governmental
Vehicles made it imperative that the Legislature leave the 17 words out.
Attorney General Robert Stephan's opinion said that under that other law, public records in the Division of Motor Vehicles must be copied and sold to anyone asking for them, not just to those specified under the law. The open-records bill, passed before Stephan issued his opinion, should not be sold, except under the exceptions listed in the law Stephan later ruled on.
Meyers said Stephan's opinion "changed the whole ball game." She asked the Senate to leave out the 17 words making the exception in the Motor Vehicles Division so the new open-record law would include a blanket prohibition against the sale of public records.
The Department of Revenue, which administers the Division of Motor Vehicles, has been operating under the bill signed into law by Carlin, which left the 17 words out.
MEYERS SAID SHE was told by several lawmakers who voted against her amendment they did so because they wanted to pass the bill in the same form as last year, then deal with substantive changes in legislation later. The new open-records law took effect Jan. 1.
Cynthia Pistilli/KANSAN
State Rep. J.G. Long, R-Harper, jumps high for a basket, while teammate State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, anxiously watches and Missouri State Sen. Dennis Smith, R-Springfield, tries to block his shot. The Kansas Legislature played last night against the Missouri Legislature at Robinson Center. The Missourians won 48-43.
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