University Daily Kansan, July 13, 1983
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Vagueness suits grant director
By DAVID E. SHAY
By DAVID E. SHAY Staff Writer
Vagueness in regulations for the Community Development Block Grant program do not hamper city administrators, but rather enable them to focus on the needs of individual neighborhoods, the director of the Lawrence Department of Community Development said yesterday.
"The viguenge enhances your ability to get things done," said Lynn Goettsch.
"THE RULES ARE so vague that you can rationalize anything."
Goodell said much of the vagueness was due to the law-making process. Members of Congress have differing goals for the program, so as compromises are made, some contradictions appear.
Part of the vagueness comes from the lack of definitions in the regulations, Goodell said. The program was set up to "correct" the light, "but" "blight" was never defined.
Lynn Goodell
He said that his office kept data from census findings to find areas that needed help, but that the statistics were too general.
The CDBG regulations also allow for urgent projects like a flood or other storm damage. However, it is difficult to assess the impact of up to 16 months in advance, Goodell said.
GOODLELL SAID LAWRENCE had never sought funds under the urgency allocations. However, since budgets can be amended throughout the year, if
an urgent project came up, funds could be reallocated for an emergency.
On questions of interpretation, Goodell contacts HUD for its opinion.
Three times a year, HUD sends a monitor to investigate the administering of funds. The monitor checks procedures and ongoing projects.
Goodell said the monitor checked records for waste, fraud and mishandling.
The monitors usually bring experts to evaluate the progress of ongoing projects. The HUD officials are helpful to the city department, Goodell said.
IF A CITY IS CAUGHT abusing funds, the penalty can range from having to repay the misused funds to having to pay for DGBC allocations out of Goodwill said.
Although Lawrence was caught investing CDBG funds illegally in January, Goodell said, the city was relatively free of violations.
Goodell said that in January investigators discovered the city had invested CDBG funds in short-term securities, which is illegal under CDBG guidelines. He said that the city had to repay the interest the funds earned to
GOODLELL SAID, HOWEVER, that citizen involvement in Lawrence was a failure.
The CDBG Advisory Board is careful when choosing projects for funding,
"This city is very serious about what the law intends to do." he said.
The CDBG program has survived the federal government's budget cuts so far, Goodell said, because Congress should not be in urban program that should not be cut.
AFTER CUTS IN SOCIAL spending, Congress in 1891 set up guidelines to allow up to 10 percent of the CUDB to participate in social services within the community.
Goodell said Lawrence used the majority of its $700,000 allocation on housing rehabilitation and funding neighborhood projects.
Lawrence, because it is a city of more than 50,000 people, receives its funds through the entitlement program. It has the methods of distributing CDBG funds.
THE SMALL CITIES program distributes funds based on competitive ratings among cities under 50,000 population.
The actual amount of the allocation depends on the age of homes in the community, income level and the degree of overcrowding.
KU officials pleased with Regents raises
The University of Kansas is pleased with its increase in state money for faculty and staff salaries and for other operating expenses, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
On Friday the Board of Regents approved, during a telephone conference call, budgets for the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute, according to Cobb.
KU received a 6.5 percent increase in its operating budget, which includes faculty and staff salaries and other operating expenses, and a 4.5 percent merit increase in faculty salaries, said Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs.
Other operating expenses include items such as telephones, janitorial
services, utilities and equipment Nitcher said.
He said KU received $94.3 million for salaries and other operating expenses for fiscal year 1864, which began July 1.
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. reportedly received $118.1 million for fiscal year 1984.
The Regents usually approve operating budgets in April, but this year there was a wait until merit board members were approved. Nithear said.
Mert salary increases approved by the Regents on July 3 will vary from zero to 20 percent, the Regents said Friday.
Some faculty members will not receive merit pay raises, but others could get 20 percent, Nitcher said.
Peace camp set for weekend
A peace camp in protest of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant will be staged Friday through Sunday at the Riverside West Public Use Area at John Redmond Reservoir, four miles north of Burlington.
Participants will assemble for the rally at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lakeview Cafe on Kansas highway 75, five miles north of Burlington, Morgan said.
The encampment, organized by the Women's Peace Camp Steering Committee of Lawrence, will include a rally, march and demonstration, according to Sara Morgan, camp organizer.
She said the march was end at the gate of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant.
Shirley Gilley, another member of the committee, said workshops and discussion groups would address children's concerns in the nuclear age.
Fall semester enrollment set for Friday
Enrollment and class changes for the fall semester for all students except undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will take place 6 a.m. to noon and 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., doctoral, doctor of student records, said yesterday.
Thompson said that advisers for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences would be busy with summer orientation activities and help students for midsummer enrollment advising.
The next enrollment period for undergraduates in the College and
University of Chicago will begin on Thursday, April 26.
Midsummer enrollment is available to students who were enrolled during the spring or summer but have not enrolled yet for the fall and to students who began school this summer, Thompson said.
Friday also will be an early addrop period open to all students already enrolled for the fall semester. It will be followed by a second drop in a class until Apr 23. Thompson said.
Students should consult the fall 1993 timetable, available in 103 Strong Hall, for instructions on procedures for classroom and departments, Thomson said.
No appointments are required to enroll or change enrollment, he said.
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