Page 8 University Daily Kansan, June 14, 1982
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PICKERT SAID he thought that KU faculty members were underpaid, and in percentage they
Pickert said the board tried to be more realistic in its request this year and hoped that Gov. John Carlin and the Legislature would approve the full 10 percent.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, sounded more cautious.
"I know that I, for one, will be working again for support of the Reents' budget," she said.
"But I think our success in getting the 10 percent faculty salary package will depend on the state's economy and whether we're succeeding in getting the severance tax passed next session."
CONCERNING THE 7 percent salary increase recommended for classified employees, Gail Hamilton, Classified Senate president, said, "We would have liked to have given 10 percent. It takes a 3 to 1.5 percent increase to adequately cover the cost of any plan that was implemented two years ago.
She explained that the plan is tied to a performance evaluation system that works as an incentive.
If the 7 percent increase "is just a cost-of-living increase," Hamilton said, "then it would seem that the Board of Regents is not supporting the merit plan. The 3 percent increase it would take to fund the plan would leave a cost-of-living increase of only 4 percent."
Hamilton said she was not sure classified employees would be pleased with a cost-of-living adjustment.
"IN THE LAST two to five years, we lost about percent because of cost of living increases."
catch up, even though the cost of living is predicted to go down next year."
rickett said the breakdown of the 7 percent increase recommended by the Regents was not intended to hurt them.
Nitcher said that at Thursday's meeting, KU officials "made a strong point that our number one priority was salary and wage increases and reducing expenditures were our second priority."
"A major factor in why we made a smaller budget request this year is that the University chose, instead, to emphasize its priorities for bigger salary and OOE increases than in having a larger request related to individual program improvements," Mitcher said.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS requested a total of $3,470,007 for the fiscal year 1984 for improvements in the areas of instruction, research and service.
The highest amounts requested were $1 million for instructional equipment, such as micro-computers, audio-video equipment and laboratory equipment, $1,034,97 for two new mini-computers that would provide 128 remote access terminals for use by students, and $300,000 for library acquisitions and subscriptions.
Buding said the high percentage of KU's request for instructional computing and instructional equipment was to close the quality deficit in instruction.
"Virtually every discipline now requires computing resources as modern society demands far greater computer literacy," Budig said.
Nitcher said the Regents were scheduled to meet June 25 to decide which of the budget improvement requests KU can submit for the governor's approval.
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John Ramos, 825 Garfield, has lived on the block since 1969. He said there weren't any problems with flooding until 1977. Since then, the area has flooded almost every year.
Weather
"In 1977, there was five feet of water standing in the basement of my rental house next door." Ramos said. "I had just put in a new water heater, and I was being the water heater and ensuring the furnace."
Ramos said he thought that new building development around Haskell Street to the east had increased the amount of water the storm sewers had to carry, causing low-lying areas to flood.
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz said she agreed with him.
"IF LAWRENCE WAS better planned in the first place, we wouldn't have this problem," she said. "Each building permit on a limited piece of land is subject to a higher contribution to the water problem is slight."
"That may be so, but you get 100 of those and you have problems."
- may, Lawrence residents voted to disband the seasonal month water fee that financed a stormwater wetland.
THIS PLAN, Shontz said, could have helped solve the flooding problem streets such as Garfield and other areas have experienced for the past five years.
On Sunday, May 30, a torential downpour backed up the city's swollen storm sewer system and neighbors nervously watched as the water crept closer to their homes.
Terry Tolar, owner of Tolar Cabinets, 827 Garfield, came by to check the water level and was shocked to find it within a few feet of his store's door.
thousands of dollars of inventory and machinery floating away," he said.
"I looked at the water rising the thought of the
Tolar then called Shortz, who has had a long-standing interest in Lawrence's water drainage pipeline.
"I talked to at least three families who lost furnaces and water heaters from this flood," Shontz said Friday. "And you know that means there are probably more. This isn't a high-income neighborhood, and people can't afford these losses."
RESIDENTS WERE HAPPY that Shontz came to see the flood damage, but in general they said they were not very pleased with the city staff' lack of attention to their plight.
Bolt said she thought the city ignored their bank because it was in a low-income neighborhood.
"It took me a year just to get them to come and fix the drainage ditch in front of our houses," Bolt said. "You know, they come out here, and they look and listen, but they forget real quick."
Bolt said she thought she might be the only one on Garfield Street who had flood insurance, issued under the National Flood Insurance Program. Most homeowner do not inquire about coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute of Shawnee Mission, Kansas.
"And then they say there's really nothing they can do, because they're in a flood plain."
BUT BOLT WILL probably drop her policy because the rates are going up by 50 percent next
lear.
After Shontz's trek through flooded Garfield
Street, she notified George Williams,
Lawrence's Public Works director.
The following Tuesday, Williams drove out with his crews and inspected the aged storm sewers' clogged inlets and passageways. By the end of August, two dump truck loads of trees and debris.
Williams expressed hope that cleaning out the sewer would prevent any more flooding this
the two storm sewers, or culverts, running through the residents' yards, carry water from as far west as the University of Kansas campus and as far south as 32rd Street.
THE WHEN THE STORM sews are full, small doors on the inlets, called traps, shut down. After much of the water empties into nearby streams the traps open, the traps back, and the upward water flows in.
Depending on how heavy the rainfall is, this can take minutes or hours, as in the case of a storm.
"When it rains, what you have is potentially good rice paddies here," she said pointing to the field. "You can grow them."
Shontz said flooding occurred in other parts of the city as well. She receives dozens of calls from residents of the area.
Shontz said she would like to see the city carefully study the effects of potential developments on surrounding areas, as well as the existing flood systems, so the system to help prevent future flooding.
But Williams said the city did that through its water detention policy for new building developments over a certain size and its uniform cleanup of the drainage system.
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