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Tuesday, August 30, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Firemen ask for talks
Lawrence city commissioners face a 5 p.m. deadline today to respond to a request for military salaries with Local 1968 of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
In identical letters sent yesterday morning to the five city commissioners and City Manager Buford Watson, the fire fighters association requested reopening negotiations for 1978 salary increases.
City officials, however, have refused to open talks on 1978 salary or budget increases.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said yesterday that the city's decision of a 6 per cent cost-of-living raise for city employees and appropriate merit raises throughout the year could not be changed because the budget already had been set.
had been set.
A pub bearer was hearing on the budget on Aug. 9, and the budget, which included the $per cent salary increase, was approved.
included the 8 petitions. City Commissioner Ed Carter said last night that the commission had made no attempt to respond to the letters.
both sides are pretty much itself in the way. Done clean.
He said he hoped, however, that something would be done before something
would arise.
serious, such as theIRC incident," Carter said, "seems to be the issue of recognition."
The city commissioners do not recognize the fire fighters association as a law enforcement/public policy's union. Carter said.
legitimate public employee's blood, Carrie Pond.
However, Alvin Samuels, head of the association, said that the association, which comprises about 70 per cent of the 62 fire fighters in Lawrence, was a legitimate bargaining agent.
"We have been for 11 years," he said.
"We have been for 11 years," he said.
Samuels said that any further action by the association would be determined after the deadline.
Research...
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support may signal an end to American dominance in the area.
WITHOUT BASIC RESEARCH, he said, a university would be left without one of its foundations. He said that research enriched teaching by renewing and expanding knowledge, served society by establishing bases for applied technology and gave theoretical support to social and economic advancement.
He said, though, that the most important function of research was that it 'promotes a spirit of inquiry which communicates itself to our students, developing in them an
appetite for further research into the problems of the future."
Dykes said a continued decline in the amount and quality of research would eventually destroy the university system and the society that sustains it.
"Basic research is no luxury for a university or for a society; it is rather the lifeblood of both. Without it our universities are nothing more than a society will stagnate and,decline," he said.
Dykes said it was the duty of educators to teach the government and the people the importance of basic research to the future of society.
Schneider decision delays buying out-of-state 'slots'
TOPEKA (AP) - Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider ruled yesterday that the Kansas Board of Regents cannot buy admission slots for Kansas students at out-of-state schools of osteopathic medicine until the law under a bill passed by the 1977 legislature.
In a legal opinion requested by John J. Conard, regents executive officer, Schneider also ruled that the Regents can not pay more or less than $6,000 for the annual tuition of Kansas students enrolled under the law.
under the law.
He also said Kansas students accepting the slots could not be required to come back to the state and practice for at least two
years unless they also accepted $3,000 loans. The loans are authorized by the law.
Schneider held that the law can apply only to new osteopathic medicine students. Thus, those already enrolled in such programs are not eligible. Hence, it will be next academic year before the admission agreement program can be implemented.
The legislature passed the law to help train more osteopaths to practice in Kansas. However, Schneider said unless students also took loans from the university he required to serve two years in the state just because Kansas paid the $6,000-a-year tuition for them.
Salary studies sprout into trouble
Bv JANE PIPER
Staff Writer
Salary disputes between Lawrence policemen and city officials are not new. The bone of contention this summer, however, is a discrepancy in two salary studies, one conducted by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the other by a Denver firm hired by the city of Lawrence.
The Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA), an association comprised of about two-thirds of Lawrence police is demanding a 10 per cent pay increase in 1978, repeal of the city residency requirement for officers and annulation of vacation and sick leave days.
living adjustment already offered by the city.
The city has denied salary increase demands mainly on the recommendation of a salary study completed in June. The study, compiled by Jimi Djemens of the Carlsberg Police, shows that police salaries remain where they are now, with the exception of a 6 per cent cost of
In the report, Jensen said that wages of
women were already in line with
comparable cities.
The LPOA, on the other hand, maintains that the salary study was confined to a restricted area and that some of the cities are not comparable to Lawrence. The police association has given its support to a national survey, which is said to say pieces Lawrence in the bottom range of police salaries of comparable cities.
The FOP survey shows that, of 144 cities in the 50,000 to 100,000 population range, Lawrence ranks 18th in police salaries. The average starting salary in Lawrence, population 46,000, or $5,966, compared to the city's $11,200 in the other cities, the report says.
A random sampling of area cities conducted yesterday indicates that Lawrence salaries are average in this area. Annual startling salaries for police in the cities and
the cities' populations are: Kansas City, Kan., $9,000; population 174,000; Salina, $9,000; population 39,000; Overland Park, $9,000; population 39,000; and Topeka, $9,000; population 141,000.
City officials have stood firm on their salary offer since mid-July. They maintain that because of budget considerations they can offer only a 6 per cent cost of living adjustment effective Jan. 1. The adjustment, which applies to all city employees, would raise the average starting for a Lawrence policeman by $754 to $1,140.
David Reevis, chairman of the LPOA, has said that the 6 per cent adjustment figure is unacceptable because it is below the national inflation rate.
however, city officials say that with t
respect the actual increase closer to
per cent, about 10 per cent.
"The budget is set," Mike Wilden, assistant city manager and chief negotiator said yesterday. "There are contingency policies and a policy is not to draw from their for salaries."
The 1978 city budget was published in
the City Budget and was held Aug. 9.
The budget was laid out in Aug. 20.
Mayor Marlene Arngersinger has said since December 1974 police personnel below the rank of lieutenant have received an average of $286 a year per individual increases as high as $15 per cent.
Jim Jensen, the Denver consultant who compiled the salary study for the city, defended his no-increase recommendations before city officials and policemen last week. Lawrence acknowledged that starting salaries for Lawrence policemen probably were below the national average, but said they were still within the range said comparisons with cities within a one-hour driving range of Lawrence were the most relevant for uniformed employees.
The recent salary disputes began in early 1971 with the publication of a report calling for a 5 per cent wage increase and outlining 60 possible improvements in the police department. Starting salary at that time was $8,369 yearly.
Since then, there have been numerous cost of living adjustments, according to Wildgen. He said adjustments in recent years had ranged from 8 to 9 per cent yearly.
City drops fire citation
A ticket issued to a University of Kansas Facilities Operations (FO) supervisor for burning without a permit has been dropped by the city of Lawrence.
City attorneys dismissed the ticket Aug. 19, explaining that Harold Blitch, FO supervisor, was acting as quickly as possible in burning off oil from a KU oil plant.
The oil leaked from an underground storage tank on May 5. Some of the oil accidently was pumped into the Lawrence
storm suerage system. From there, it ran into the Nasmith Drive drainage ditch.
Bilch said recently that he and his crew had to work quickly to stop the oil from entering the river.
i. e. Environmental Protection Agency had recommended burning the excess oil, Bifidachis.
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away . . .
City officials, in deciding to drop the charges, also said that Biltch was a scapegoat in the case and that he was following the orders of his superiors.
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