University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1983
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House establishes Regents budget
From staff and wire reports
While KU students took a week-long break from school, the Kansas House passed a bill that would determine the budget for the University beginning July 1.
The House voted 88-33 on Friday to establish a $418.2 million budget for the Board of Regents and the Regents institutions. Gov. John Carlin had proposed a total Regents budget of $598.2 million.
The bill would allocate $205.1 million from the state general fund to the Regents and the Regents institutions, with the remainder of the budget coming from student fees and federal aid payments.
IF THE BILL becomes law, the
U.S. Department of Kansas would receive $689.2 million.
State Reps, Jessie Branson, Betty Charlton and John Solbach, all Demo-
bill, which now goes to the Senate for study.
The bill provides for a 5.5 percent increase in funds for operating expenses that include equipment, supplies and library acquisitions. The bills has requested a 10 percent increase and Vinad had requested a 7 percent increase.
THE BILL, would provide $62,000 from the state general fund for a work-study program at Regents institu-
tion and requested $700,000 for the program.
The bill does not include salary increases for faculty and other Regents employees, utility costs or a budget for the University of Kansas Medical Center. The Legislature plans to make these funds available in later bills.
- Last Wednesday the Kansas Senate stopped an attempt to raise the price of gas.
During a discussion about a bill governing liquor licenses, State Sean.
amendment that would have raised the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 21 over a three-year period. The Senate/def not sunset this amendment.
Hess earlier had introduced a bill that would have raised the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer, but the Senate Judiciary Committee canceled hearings on the bill after the House Federal and State Affairs Committee killed two House bills that would have raised the drinking age.
- The House voted 122-1 Wednesday to pass a bill that would make it more difficult to fraudulently obtain a driver's license or non-driver's identity card.
The bill would specify the documents a person could use to obtain a duplicate license or I.D. It would prohibit lending those documents to another person trying illegally to obtain a driver's license or I.D.
It would prohibit the duplication of a driver's license or L.D. and would increase the penalty for lending a
driver's license or I.D. to an underage person for the purchase of liquor or beer.
The bill lists 29 exemptions, including some medical, personnel and police
*The House voted 117-4 to make more state and local government records open to public inspection. The bill would make all documents kept by the state government agencies available to the public unless they are specifically exempted by law.
State law now requires agencies to keep certain records, and those records are required to be open to the public. But agencies can choose to close the many records they keep that are not mentioned in state law.
The bill makes it clear that district courts have the authority to enforce the open records law and that the burden of proof in disputes over closed records falls on the government agency keeping the record.
Legislative Roundup
School district finance
A conference committee made up of three House and three Senate members is scheduled to meet in New York to discuss misede school district finance plan.
State Rep. Don Crumbaker, Brewster, said last week that a school finance bill will be on the governor's desk by Saturday.
The conference committee became necessary when the House refused last week to accept the requests to the House finance bill
The House bill would have allowed school districts that spent more than the state average during the current school year to increase their budgets by 3 percent. School districts that spent less than the state average would be allowed to increase their budgets by 6 percent.
The Senate amendments set 2.5 percent and 5 percent budget limits. Carlin has said he would veto the Senate- amended bill.
House Speaker Mike Hayden.
R-Atwood, named Crumbaker and State Repres. James Loweher, R-Emporia, and Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, to the committee. Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, named State Sens. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge; Charlie Angell, R-Plains; and Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, to the committee.
Severance tax
Although a Senate-passed version of the severance税 was debated publicly, Gov John Carlin and leaders of the Republic-dominated House will continue meeting privately to come up with a tax package that will meet Kansas' financial needs.
Last week Carlin and House leaders agreed on a severance tax that would raise about $100 million in fiscal year 1984. It would place a 4 percent tax on oil and a 7 percent tax on natural gas. Oil and gas producers would not be allowed to deduct their property tax payments from
the severance tax they owe. Royalty owners would also be taxed.
But the compromise severance tax would not be enough to fund the state's budget for fiscal year 1984. Carlin has said he opposes providing subsidies to companies in the gasoline tax, a measure that some Republicans have supported.
The House Ways and Means Committee will conduct hearings today on a bill that will provide financial aid to students at Regents institutions who are studying to be teachers.
Grants for future teachers
According to the bill, any student who enters into an agreement with the state Board of Education to complete a teacher training program in three years and to become a state-certified teacher would qualify for a tuition waiver and a $100 stipend every semester.
The bill would increase the stipend to $400 a semester for a student taking courses that would lead to
state certification as a teacher of mathematics or natural sciences.
The bill would require any student who does not not fulfill the agreement to be given the option to repay the tuition burden or shipment at a 15 percent annual interest rate.
Regents appointee
The Senate Confirmations Committee will question Norman W. Brandeberry today about his appointment to the Board of Resents.
Gov. John Carlin nominated Brandeberry on Feb. 13 to serve out the unexpired term of Frank Lowman, who resigned last year.
Brandeberry, a 51-year old Republican from Russell, has been president of an oil production company called Pioneer Operations Co. Inc. since 1965. He is vice chairman of the Kansas State Bank in Manhattan, a member of the board of the Kansas State University Foundation and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
KU officials say foreign study programs needed
By YASHWANT BHAGWANJI Staff Reporter
President Reagan's request to eliminate financing for language and educational exchange programs would hurt U.S. foreign diplomacy, national security and international trade and commerce, KU officials said recently.
Reagan's 1984 budget request would eliminate funds for the International Education and Fulbright/Hays Exchange programs.
Anita Herzfeld, director of the office of study abroad, said, "It is dangerous when graduate students are not able to go to other countries to study.
"The effect is the bleakest of futures for the country. KU stands to lose if Reagan's request is allowed."
as a concerned citizen, to members of the House Education and Labor Committee.
Herzfeld said she was writing letters.
Lisa Phillips, a staff member of the House Education and Labor Committee, said the committee early this month rejected Reagan's proposal to reduce funds for foreign language programs.
George Woydyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said foreign language study in the United States was already insufficient.
"THERE ARE 10,000 Japanese businessmen in this country who speak English, but there are only a few American businessmen in Japan who speak Japanese," Woodyard said. "It is said that you can buy without speaking, but what if you want to sell?"
"There are fewer students studying Russian than there are teachers of English in Russia. The United States has lost ground."
Phillips said also denied were the elimination of funds for graduate support studies, support for libraries and cooperative education.
"THE MEMBERS have instead recommended to the budget committee to increase funding by 5 percent in every program," she said.
A budget committee report was expected by May 15, she said.
William Fletcher, director of Soviet and East European studies, said that when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were in a period of tension, as they are now, better language communication was
needed to improve those relations.
Even when the co-contries are not at odds, he said, language studies are needed to provide even more opportunities to maintain peace.
PHILLIPS SAID the education and labor committee also had proposed that the budget committee allocate $50 to start a Soviet studies program.
Other recommendations included an allocation of $20 million for scholarships, $35 million for summer internships, $15 million to finance studies in foreign languages at college level and $5 million for research studies in mathematics, science and foreign languages, Phillips said.
KU will celebrate the establishment of Lippincott Hall as the new center of learning.
By United Press International
EUREKA, Mo. — The federal official directing the $33 million buy-out of dioxin-contaminated Times Beach says the government's unprecedented action should make the townspeople's lives whole again.
Feds want Times Beach residents' lives restored
The official, Patrick J. Brehney, regional administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he was not worried about Missouri's reluctance to take title to Times Beach property.
"It's a problem, but not an insurmountable problem," Brehency said. "I'm not ascribing any bad motives to the state.
"THE FEDERAL government cannot and will not take title to that
He said if an agreement with the state was worked out immediately, FEMA could start making offers by telephone to homes and businesses of Times Bench.
"I think they'll come as well off as they did before the flood." Breheny said of the townpeople. "The thrust of it is to make people's lives whole again."
Times Beach is one of 27 confirmed dioxin sites in Missouri. Waste oil containing the toxic chemical was leaking into the streets a decade ago to control dust.
MERAMEC RIVER flood waters in early December destroyed or damaged every structure in Times Beach, which
has remained almost deserted because of the dioxin scare. The Center for Disease Control two days before Christmas said residents should stay away.
Breheny disclosed plans Saturday for the federal buy-out to about 400 Times Beach residents at a school gymnasium in nearby Eureka. He said the Environmental Protection Act would make its recommendations days would make its recommendations for cleaning up dioxin in the town.
In an interview, Brebeyen said his main concern was getting people out of the house.
"Can you imagine trying to get everyone to agree, and then have one person say no? That would take too much time," he said. "The object of that is to get people away from what's perishable in hazard. It's supposed to move [a fast]."
THE MISSOURI Legislature passed an appropriation measure allocating the state's 10 percent share of the $33 million federal purchase, but stipulating the state will own the Times Beach property only if all residents sell.
A few townspeople say they want to stay, and legislators fear their presence could lead to health-related lawsuits against the state.
Gov. Christopher S. Bond has said he will sign the bill this week.
Acting Times Beach Mayor Sidney H. Hammer urged government officials to get on the ball" on negotiations with the Obama administration to deal separately with any holdouts later.
On the record
GUNS AND TOOLS, valued at $1,040,
were stolen from a KU employee's
home in the 1400 block of East 15th
street, and were away during spring
break, police said.
A BURGLAR STOLE a microwave oven, oval at $700, Saturday from a Lawrence resident's house in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, police said.
A RACOON BIT a Lawrence resident
several times on the hand Saturday, police said.
A RIFLE AND SEVERAL KNIVES,
worth an estimated $600, were stolen
Saturday from a Lawrence resident's
building in the 500 block of Ousdahi
Street, police said.
A BURGLAR STOLE a color television valued at $550 from a KU student's apartment in the 1400 block of Prairie Dr. away during spring break, police said.
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