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Monday, November 13, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Program offers money to fight poverty, improve city lifestyles
By Bryan Swan
Kansan staff writer
A quiet war on poverty is being waged in Lawrence with money provided by the Community Development Block Grant Program.
With $608,000, the program provides housing assistance, finances special services, bolsters neighborhood associations, and maintains public areas. Also, it strives to ensure a high quality of life in the city by focusing mostly on the problems of citizens with low or moderate incomes.
Lymn Goodell, director of community development, said a citizen's advisory committee made recommendations to the city about how best to spend the money.
He said the spending of money was monitored by the city. Goodell said the city worked with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which monitors the program.
Competition for financing is high, and only a small percentage of the funds can be spent on public
"There are not many funds to go around, and of course, no one wants to lose their funding." she said.
"We operate under regulations that require a cap on how much public service money we can spend.
Another regulation imposed by HUD has held up $8,000 designated for the Salvation Army. Swarts said that last year the language of the city's agreement with HUD contained no stipulations that prevented the financing of religious organizations but that this year the language was included after closer scrutiny by HUD.
Goodell said no other recipients of grant money had experienced any problems.
In accordance with program goals, nearly half of the projected use of funds goes to housing-related programs.
Nearly a third of the projected use of funds, $200,000,
was allocated for housing rehabilitation deferred
loans. Another $111,000 was allocated for housing
improvements and water improvements, such as
attic fans and furnaces.
The 1989 projected use of funds allocated $15,525 to the city's various neighborhood associations, mostly for newsletters and supplies. An additional $5,525 was allocated for the associations' neighborhood clean-up programs.
Classified staff plan requests
By Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
A 5 percent cost-of-living salary increase and more retirement plan options are among the requests classified employees from Board of Regents schools will make to the 1990 Legislature.
Representatives from five of the Regents schools came Saturday to the University of Kansas for a meeting of the Kansas Council of Classified Employees. They met to formulate a combined position paper of requests.
RoJene Broeckelman, president of the Senate at Fort Hays State, said
"We asked for 8.58 because that's what the faculty and unclassified employees are asking for," said president of KU's Classified Senate.
The 5 percent request came from a position paper that employees at Fort Hays State University prepared. KU's position paper included a request for an 8.58 percent across-the-board increase.
the request for 5 percent was a middle ground between the 8.5 requested last year and the 2.5 actually granted by the Legislature.
"We felt we needed to keep it down to get it," she said.
The Council asked that classified employees be offered options to their retirement plan. Now, classified employees must use a plan through the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS).
"We want to do what the faculty does," Broeckelman said. "They put in 8 percent and the staln puts in 5 percent. We want it to be a 5-4 match."
Riling said that she supported the request to seek other retirement plans but that it was important to hear them first and heard it before and had rejected it.
Health care coverage also was a major concern for the group.
Ruth Spinks, vice president of the "I," as a taxayer, do not want to
see the general fund used this way." The Council also voted to include a
KU Senate, said the health-care insurance issue had reached a critical level for both employees and employers in the state.
"We're in danger of losing it altogether," she said. "Only one company, Blue Cross, bid this year to provide coverage. If negotiations for a carrier should ever fail, we would go immediately to self-insurance plans where the state would pay premiums until the money for that ran out. Then the money would come directly from the general fund.
request for participating service percentage of KPERS be increased to 1.8
Among the other requests on the paper are those related to financing of health care for single employees and those with families, development of a comprehensive sick leave onversion plan, a tuition-fee waiver for full-time university employees, a family-leave policy for all state employees, and the establishment of affordable child care center by state agencies.
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When he was in college, his idea of the ultimate driving machine was a '57 Chevy
Sometimes, it seems like my dad is more interested in looking back than ahead. But since he encouraged me to go to college, I felt I owed it to him to discuss getting a Macintosh.
I told him that I could do more schoolwork in less time with better results. You can do better term papers, pie charts, bar graphs, and graphics faster. Without struggling with a confusing manual. My friends say the Macintosh is actually fun to use. Probably because they spend the time they save having fun.
Then I told him that I'll never get a better bargain than while I'm a KU student. His eves lit up.
He liked hearing that getting a great deal isn't a thing of the past.
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