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University Daly Kansan, February 23, 1983
Senate approves appointment 24-12
Lady confirmed to the Board of Regents
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Without debate, the Kansas Senate yesterday confirmed former House Speaker Wendell Lady to the Board of Regents in a 24-12 vote that reflected some of the opposition that was expected.
During the confirmation process, Lady had weathered criticisms from a block of senators who had said they would oppose his nomination.
"I wasn't surprised," he said. "I felt confident all along that I would be confirmed. I really haven't been concerned about it."
State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains,
staunchly opposed the appointment and
had announced early that he would not
vote for Lady.
"THE SAME REASONS I've said all along is the reason I voted against him today." Angell said.
Angell and other senators had complained that while Lady was in the House he had stepped on too many conservative toes by supporting such issues as the severance tax.
Lady acknowledged during his interview with the Senate Confirmations Committee last week that he had made some political enemies in the Legislature because he had not followed the
ideologies of hard-line Republicans closely enough
Also, some Republicans had criticized Lady because he had refused to support Sam Hirdead, the GOP gubernatorial candidate, during the 1982 election.
Lady said last week that Hardage's policies about cutting back on state programs and not gathering more revenue would have hurt the state.
"I WAS SATISFIED he was dead wrong," he said. "It would have been the height of hypocrisy if I endorsed the candidacy."
Since Gov. John Carlin appointed Lady last December, recollections of the former House Speaker's role in the Legislature had stirred opposition
among some senators whoresented the plays Lady had used when pushing for
Some of those senators had said they would not endorse Lily's confirmation because they were afraid he would not vote for a regent with the Legislature as a regent.
But Lady had said that he was confident he would be able to communicate to the Legislature when he had to.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
awrence, voted to confirm Lady J.
Brown as mayor.
Winter had backed Lady's appointment, and had held a reception for him earlier this month at the Kansas Union to show his support.
ASK lobbies for work-study bill at House hearing
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday heard testimony on a bill that would create a state-financed student employment program.
Gov. John Carlin had proposed at the beginning of the session that the state provide $700,000 for a work-study program to help students defray the expenses of their education.
Two weeks ago, state Rep. Vic Miller, D-Topeka, introduced a work-study bill that would not allocate a set amount of money.
Dana Hawkins, administrative assistant for the Associated Students of Kansas, said ASK had made the establishment of a work-study program its top priority for this legislative session.
THE 20 PERCENTTUITION increase passed by the Board of Regents that is scheduled to go into effect next fall is the result of a work-study program is needed, she said.
"The bill has no price tag." Hawkins said.
But even if the legislature agreed to the governor's $700,000 proposal, the tuition increase would more than cover the other costs. It would well as the other increases the governor
has called for in the Regents budget.
ASK has estimated in its 1983 Legislative Program that every $100,000 allocated to the program would enable 62 students to work 15 hours a week and earn minimum wage for the eight-month academic term.
The federal work-study program has been increased only slightly over the past few years, she said. And last year's 8.75 percent salary increase for full-time students at the colleges was negated by the 4 percent budget cuts Carlin made this summer.
criteria established for campus employment. The job would be in the student's area of study and would be the practical training or experience.
THE BILL PROVIDES that each school's financial aid office would award positions to students using
If the student is placed with a private employer, the employer would pay 50 percent of the current minimum wage and the employer would pay the remaining half.
If the student goes to work for a public agency or institution, the employer would pay 20 percent and the program would pay 80 percent.
And if the student works on campus, the program would pay all of the student's minimum wage salary.
-Legislative Roundup
Carlin signs jobless bill
Gov. John Carlin signed a bill yesterday that saved the state's unemployment fund from going bankrupt by increasing the taxes paid by employers and freezing benefits to the jobless.
The bill requires employers to pay an additional 20 percent into the unemployment fund and freeze unemployment payments at $163.
The bill requires those actions to be taken for two years. But if the balance of the fund reaches $80 million by 1984, the plan will be dropped.
House OKs school finance
might increase property taxes in the state by $40.8 million.
The Kansas House tentatively approved a school finance bill that
THE BILL WOULD require the state to pay 46 percent of the total cost of elementary and secondary education.
Schools that spent less than the state average on each student would be able to raise their budgets by 6 percent, and schools that spent more than the average could raise their budgets by 3 percent.
Panels study water bills
The House committee is scheduled today to hear testimony from City Council and the Commission.
Both the Senate and House Energy and Natural Resources committees are scheduled to study water bills this week.
The bill, which has already passed the Senate, would raise rates paid for water from federal reservoirs to 14.27 cents for every 1,000 gallons. Lawrence now pays 6.6 cents for every 1,000 gallons.
on a bill that, by 1988, would more than double the rate paid by Lawrence for water from Clinton Reservoir.
The Senate committee is scheduled tomorrow to resume study of a bill that would regulate the transfer of funds from one region of the state to another.
Panel drafts bicycle bill
The Kansas Water Authority has testified that some Kansas cities have proposed moving millions of gallons from the state to satisfy their water needs.
The House Transportation Committee agreed Monday to draft a bill requested by the Mount Oread Bicycle and Recreation state laws governing bicyclists.
The bill would allow a person riding a bicycle on a one-way highway with two or more marked traffic lanes to ride as near the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway as practical. It also would prohibit businesses from selling bicycles that have not been permanently marked with an identification number, and it would also clist to carry a child securely in a backpack or sling and allow a uniformed police officer to stop a person riding a bicycle and inspect the bicycle if the officer had reasonable cause to believe it was unsafe.
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