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Wednesday. October 26, 1971
Troubles for Welfare Staff
By LARRY CHRIST
Kansas Staff Writer
The Douglas County Welfare Department is finding it difficult these days to expand a welfare program on a budget not in place, including 1971 Kansas Legislature, according to John Derrick, director.
"We're having a lot of the sales on our campus," Tuesday. "Our budget was not increased even though our clientele is expected to rain 17 per cent."
The budget for this fiscal year,
which began July 1, is actually
the same as it was for the last
fiscal year, according to Derrick.
Derrick said that the original amount was based on the number of welfare recipients during this fiscal year. That amount, however, was reduced $15 million in the fiscal year before office. When the request went to the legislature, another $2.5 million in welfare department then lost another $6.5 million in potential federal government matching funds.
But, he said, this year's aumun resulted from a greatly reduced original sum of $150 million as well as the state weafre department.
Derrick said the welfare program in Kansas was a victim of the legislature's efforts to reduce state spending.
"Reduce the taxes' became a common cry from people across the state," he said.
"So the legislature had to look at the three biggest spenders: the school system, the highway and the welfare department"
The schools and welfare programs were the hardest hit, he said.
Many people felt that since only about 1 per cent of the people in the country worked as part of an important program—that it benefitted only a few people,
Highway construction on the other hand, represented a "more tangible view to the people as it came" and "much money was gone," he said.
Derrick admitted he had seen letters from Kansas residents demanding that the legislature eut welfare spending.
"They were too busy worrying about their pay raises and bingo," he said.
Everyone wants new highways," he said. "It's something they can look at and drive on." The legislature, Derrick said, does spend enough time studying the need of needs of the welfare program.
"I can't really blame them (the legislature) in this sense," he said. "If senators and representatives want to stay senators and representatives, they must be responsive to their constituency."
Problems created by the money shortage are widespread, according to Derrick. The overall amount of money given to students was reduced 29 per cent on Sept. 1 two months into the fiscal year.
"The kids were just starting school about this time" he say.
"nool about this time," he said.
"They needed more money than they got for books and clothes."
Derrick said that the current cost of living should have caused aid to be increased, not
Some of the houses that welfare recipients live in are so bad, Berchera said that "you could be hit through most of the windows.
decreased.
Of major concern to Derrick is the effect that the budget freeze will have on his 25-member staff. He said the staff was already too busy to handle the growing amount of work required by his department.
"We've been underdemanded since June of 1970," he said. "Yet we can't hire any more personnel."
Derrick said a 5 per cent pay raise scheduled for this year had been wiped out.
"We were the only state agency that this happened to," he said. County's finance department roughly $2.5 million, but this was inadequate, he said, because of the agency's hands by his department.
More than 50 per cent of our time is spent on adoption and抚养 programs, he said. "At this moment, we are responsible for us that we are responsible for. We have to find homes for them but we must be because of our limited personnel."
are, Derrick predicts they will get worse. He listed divorce and population shifts to urban areas as the biggest reasons.
Derrick said his staff also must serve as a research department administrator in the mental hospitals, penitentiary industrial schools and
"The state penitentiary in Lansing might call us and ask for background in an individual that lived in this area," he said. "We need to make sure this information for them even though it is very time consuming."
"Whenever there is a divorce," he said, "you have a potential welfare case. And the divorce doubling every five years."
Derrick said many people were moving from the small western Kansas towns to the urban areas of Omaha, Wichita and Kansas City.
"Many a man has loaded up his back with clothes here with nothing but the clothes on his back. He can't find a job and then shows up in our office."
As bad as current problems
The problem of people moving from one place to another state is much common than people moving from one state to another state.
Sociologist Speaks Oct. 27
**Population Explosion, Imposition, and Disposition** by Philip M. Husser at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday in the University Theatre as part of the "Early Modern American Literature" series.
A professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, Hauser holds 5 graduate degrees and is presently serving in an advisory capacity to the secretary of state, U.S. Education and Welfare, the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the United Nations.
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30 Professors on Sabbatical
By VICKI FERRELL
Kansan Staff Writer
Thirty professors from the University of Kansas have been granted the degree in this field to pursue studies in these various fields, according to the university's program.
The studies range from research of behavioral therapy in Japan to the study of Japanese architecture to the study of the mass press of Western Europe to establishing a university in Zambia.
The choice of study is left entirely to the professor. Upon
application for sabbatical leave,
the professor must submit to the
office of Academic Affairs a
written statement concerning
the objectives of his leave.
Sabaticalteal are not granted, in strictly meritorious manner, by the member who has served continuous years or longer. According to the faculty handbook, sabbaticalteal must be pursued at the academic year, in which case the faculty member will receive half the fee for one semester, in which case he may receive half.
Each year, the number of leaves granted may not exceed 4
per cent of those on the tota faculty roster. This policy was set up by the Board of Regents, B. Providing the opportunity for faculty member to be on leave a the Board of Regent assumes that during the period of absence no replacement will be required
The regulations of the Regents also require that a faculty member be required to return to the University for at least three weeks, immediately following his last visit.
"It is very unusual for a faculty member to leave," said June Michal, administrative assistant
in the Office of Academic Affairs.
She said they usually stay. If they are away, she repay within two years a proportion of the amount paid to them that equals the proportion in time which they failed to serve.
There is no need for the faculty members to keep in touch with the University while away, Mrs. Michal said. They are required to submit a report at the end of their leave as proof of their work.
"Of course, if they write a book that is published, that's enough proof." Mrs. Michal said.
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