table that wen with-ist envoy t at the Arafat's like a big s beforeSION,but she was ow than Koplik's spared if ce in the very se- this win- nisor and evenues. on, they take care on such KANSAN he road The University Daily University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, July 29, 1982 Vol. 92, No.159 USPS 650-640 Officials comply with cut, trim 4 percent from budget By CANDICE SACKUVICH Staff Reporter Gov. John Carlin requested it, the Kansas Board of Regents agreed to it and the University of Kansas did it. After a flurry of paper-shuffling in May, Congress reduced its budget last week by about $3 million. The Regents recently agreed to comply with Carlin's request for a 4 percent spending reduction for fiscal year 1983 in state agencies, to help raise up for a $47 million deficit in state revenue. Eight of the nine KU budgetary units reduced their spending budgets by 4 percent. Another budgetary unit, Academic Affairs, reduced its budget by only 2.3 percent because of Chancellor Gene A. Budg's pledge to protect the University's academic and research programs. KEITH NICHTER, director of business and fiscal affairs, said the offices of the chancellor and the executive vice chancellor made budget decisions in order to help protect academic programs. The chancellor's office reduced its spending allocation by an additional 14 percent, $250,000 more than the original 4 percent cut. This made the chancellor's budget cut from the chancellor's budget $232,102. The executive vice chancellor's office reduced its budget by an additional 21 percent, $150,000 more than the 4 percent, making the total cut $179,064. Nitcher said the additional reductions came from money that had not been allocated among the nine budgetary units. "The University has traditionally not allocated every dollar of its budget to departments at the university." "IT HAS KEPT back some discretionary funds for such things as equipment. Also, in case our estimated student fees didn't come through, we need a discretionary fund rather than cutting from department." "The chancellor and vice chancellor have now denied themselves that flexibility in the event that we don't get the estimated amount of student fees this fall." Nitcher said that student fees and state appropriations were essential to the University The state receives money for its general fund from such sources as sales taxes and income taxes. Allocations from the general fund are made to state agencies. IN ADDITION TO those allocations, the University collects general student fees that go into an incidental general fee fund. Each year, the office of admissions and records estimates the dollar amount of student fees for the next academic year "So if KU had an operating budget of $93 million and estimated it would collect $20 million in student general fees, the state would appropriate $17 million out of its general fund," Nitcher said. A lot of adding and subtracting had to be done before the budgetary units could make their contributions. THE INDIRECT COST of several units were added to their state-appropriated general-use costs. Indirect costs are for services provided by the University to recipients of research grants. They include costs such as those for payroll processing, library access and cleaning, Nitcher said. "When we get reimbursed for indirect costs, we put the money in a research overhead account to use for costs in offices and other things we don't have state appropriations for," he said. we don't have state appropriations for," he said. After the indirect costs were added to the general use funds, each budgetary unit submits an amount of money for salary shrinkage. The positions of about 5 percent of the classified employees and about 2 percent of the unclassified employees were expected to be vacant at some time during the year. Nitcher said. Salary shrinkage means when those positions are vacant, salaries allocated for them are not received by the unit. The total amount of shrinkage was about $2 million. Each unit then subtracted the amount of its administrative computer allocation from its general-use fund before it could decide where to reduce spending. Although the budgetary units had relative freedom on deciding where to reduce spending, Mitcher said, "We didn't want departments cut back. We wanted them because we need them for educational services." He said that his office would retain control of computer allocations for all the budgetary units and that the total amount, about $3 million, would be reduced by 4 percent. Budget allocations for fiscal year 1983, before and after reductions BUDGETARY UNITS BEFORE REDUCTION % AFTER Chancellor (additional) $ 1,777,558 $ 71,102 4 250,000 14 $ 1,456,456 Executive vice chancellor (additional) 726,613 29,064 4 150,000 21 547,549 Budget Management 1,580,470 63,219 4 1,517,251 Research & Graduate Studies & Public Service 9,576,838 383,074 4 9,193,764 Student Affairs 2,836,821 113,473 4 2,723,348 Facilities Planning 509,946 20,398 4 489,548 Support Services 8,238,877 329,555 4 7,909,322 Institutional Research & Planning, Personnel 1,012,298 40,492 4 971,806 Business & Fiscal Affairs 5,526,576 221,063 4 5,305,513 Academic Affairs 59,572,424 1,376,610 2.3 58,195,814 Computing: Academic 1,793,291 71,732 4 1,721,559 Administrative 1,441,587 57,662 4 1,383,925 TOTALS 94,582,909 3,177,444 91,415,855 Allocations to KU's budgetary units for fiscal year 1983 were reduced by these amounts. Troubled teens find security, comfort earn privileges in local shelter home By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter Inside an ivory-colored house on the corner of Fourth and Missouri streets, eight young people are coming with the riors of life. The housing is only temporary. The occupants are living in a family-type setting in which no one The juveniles who live at The Shelter Inc. are in the custody of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services because of personal troubles or problems with law enforce- JUDY CULLEY is the administrator of the shelter, which has been operating a little more than a year. The shelter takes in juveniles, usurpers and street predators, from SRS in emergencies or crisis situations. Their lives are strictly regulated, though the house is unlocked. They gain privileges by earning points for doing household tasks and for behaving rerouterv. "Frequently we get a call and take a kid in an hour." Culley said in her office at the County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. "Sometimes kids do have to wait if we're full." A juvenile in trouble cannot show up at the shelter's doorstep, looking for a place to stay, and is always going after them. "We take care of kids in families with problems. We are offering our service to try to help families." MANY OF THE occupants are runaways, have family difficulties and have been abused in one or another way. The shelter, a non-profit organization in the old Bert Nash house, is financed by SRS and can accommodate five boys and five girls, Colley said. The youngsters and their families work with the Family Focus Program through the Bert Nash Mental Center, Fourth and Missouri streets, in family counseling. "The court relies on the shelter," said Diane Leis, Juvenile Division Court Services officer. "While they're there, they get families and kids over a crisis." After 90 days, those who are not able to move back home must be placed in a permanent facility such as Achievement Place, The Villages or a foster home, Culley said. THE JUVENILES CAN only reside in the house for 90 days. During that time, they attend school on a regular basis and take care of their children. Points are awarded for showering daily, completing daily chores and following several other activities. "It's our goal to be able to return as many home as possible," she said. Members of level three, for example, are allowed to go on unsupervised walks to a local park for 30 minutes or to the grocery store for 45 minutes. A person can either drop to level one, which has virtually no privileges, or raise to level two. Until a decision is made about a juvenile's teen-age lives by the shelter's rules. A NEW HOUSE member enters on level two, which allows him, for instance, limited phone access. He is under a management system in which points are awarded for completing assigned chores and for good performances in attitude evaluations. "Those items become sort of a commodity." Oulley said. "They have to have so many points THE POINT SYSTEM at first seems harsh, she said. But it prevents chaos in a house full of "Kids don't say they like rules, but I believe kids basically want to have structure," Culley said. "It provides security and lets them know where care of." It lets them know where 'we' care. teen-agers and gives the disoriented residents some security to get hold of. The shelter is a place with people coming and going and living in unfamiliar surroundings. But the guidelines in the house become very familiar. Living with a group of strangers creates tension between people who don't share much in "THE ONLY THING that's common about them is most of them don't know where they're going next," she said. "They all kind of support each other, but they're in a stressful situation." However, the stress has not caused many emergencies that the staff could not handle. Two sets of house parents share the responsibility of supervising as many as 10 youngsters, driving them to school, fixing meals and organizing visits and appointments. Two house parents, Susan and David Ludwick, work five days a week. Two alternate house parents, Tammy and David Wendler, work two days a week. "ITS NOT SO much a case of working as it is a case, or being responsible, taking care of the work." "It isn't like working any nine-of-five job. It been a really satisfying experience." Adults also work at the shelter during the night. Calley said, to handle any emergencies Culley and Wendler said the system seemed to be working and that the house parents handed out $10,000 in cash. "The they need clear expectations," Culley said. "They need to know someone cares about them." Gone fishin Several fishermen lined up along the banks of the Lake Clinton spillway yesterday evening in hopes of reeling in a few big ones. Commissioners approve Watson's work pact Staff Reporter By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter Mayor Marci Francisco voted against the agreement, and Commissioner Nancy Shontz abstained. Francisco also voted against the raise, though the other commissioners voted for it. City Manager Buford Wutson's 1983 employment agreement was approved by three of the five members of the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday. In another vote, he was granted a 6 percent salary raise, the same raise given to other city employees. FRANCISCO, WHO SAID "I'm not sure whether I'd fire him now," cited philosophical differences with the city manager as the reason for her no vote. She said she thought Watson was "underperformed with maintaining the city's infrastructure. "I saw Buford hold up a piece of water pipe that the iron had come out of," Francisco said. "He said, 'This is what's wrong with our water system.' When the commissioners said, 'We'd better repair this,' he said, 'I don't fix things until they break.'" Francisco said her preventive medicine philosophy did not always have city staff support. YOR, I have an outlook on the city, See Commission page 8 Weather Today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Highs will be in the low to mid-80s with northeastern winds of 5 to 15 mph. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the 80s and the low 70s. Little or no rain is expected over the weekend. Highs will be in the 90s and lows will be in the 70's. Reagan supports amendment requiring a balanced budget By United Press International WASHINGTON—Saying "back-to-backacks of red ink spending have brought our economy to its knees," President Reagan yesterday called for congressional action to require a balanced budget. "The first evidence of economic recovery is in sight, but it's only a beginning." Reagan told a nationally broadcast news conference. "We've been excused this economy, but it's only a beginning." The president said, "Nothing has been more painful to me than the slowness of the recovery. I am grateful." But, he declared. "Slowly, surely we are working our way back to croerosity." Rangan decried the "quick fixes" of the past he said had caused the nation a economic problem. ing our hands" and get on with economic recovery Reagan renewed his call for a balanced budget amendment, which is being debated in the Senate. Nine days ago he addressed a rally on the Capitol steps in support of the amendment. In his opening statement on the economy, Reagan said Americans had declared they wanted to end "long years of runaway inflation . . . high taxes that have robbed people of their earnings and weakened people's ability to plan for the future." "They want this government to draw the line and pass without delay the constitutional amendment making balanced budgets the law of the land." The projected budget deficit for the current fiscal year is the largest in history. Once projected to be $10.5 billion by the White House, it apparently is growing larger by $2 billion to $4 See Reagan page 7