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University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1982
Haworth addition approved
Committee kills enrichment fund, trims KU budget
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The Board of Regents budget that will go to the Kansas House floor sometimes next week has both good news and bad news for the University of
The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a subcommittee report on KU that recommended funding a $13,773,833 addition to Haworth Hall. The funding would be spread out over the next four years.
out the committee also killed, without discussion, a $1.5 million faculty salary enrichment fund that the committee has a narrow margin earlier this month.
The Haworth addition was KU's priority capital improvement request this year. It would allow the biology department, now housed in the 58-year-old Snow Hall, to move into a larger area with more modern equipment, according to faculty in the biology department.
But the committee decided not to go along with the Senate's enrichment fund, which was amended to the Resents budget on the Senate floor.
State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, who supported the fund in
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"I was somewhat surprised and I was certainly disappointed," she said yesterday.
But Eldredge said there would probably be another amendment on the House Floor to put the enrichment money back into the budget, though she did not predict whether it would have enough support to pass.
Members of the Senate had suggested leaving the fund out until the end of the session, to see whether there was enough money left over to add to faculty salaries. Eldredge said she thought it should be included in the budget now.
"I think putting it in at the end is a mistake" she said
The fund, which the Regents would distribute among the six Regents universities, would be targeted for faculty in areas such as computer science and engineering, which are the focus of many of the universities could request the extra salary money for any faculty member as a merit increase.
A Ways and Means Subcommittee
recommended deleting the fund Monday, saying it should not be made before the Legislature decides on the final faculty salary increase.
The House committee followed the Senate's recommendation of a 7.5 percent faculty salary increase and a 6 percent increase in operating expenses. The Senate recommended an 11 percent faculty salary increase and an 11 percent operating expenses increase.
Several committee members expressed concern that the Med Center's revenues were not enough, and that they should be asked to ask the Legislature for extra money.
The committee also discussed the University of Kansas Medical Center budget, cutting the Senate recommendation by $3 million, to $135 million.
The Legislature already has approved supplemental appropriations of $3.2 million for medical scholarships and utilities fees, because the Med Center exhausted the funds allocated last year.
But the Med Center is still short of money for this year, so the committee recommended shifting $1.2 million
from next year's budget to this year's budget.
State Rep. Ruth Luzzati, D-Wichita said she was tired of the Med Center running out of money every year.
"I've been on this committee six years, and not a year goes by without the Med Center asking for more funding. I am getting tired of these supplementals."
Despite the cuts the House committee made in the Med Center's budget, the committee still estimated a $2 million shortfall in fiscal 1983. It encouraged the University to try to cut its expenses or increase hospital revenues.
"We're currently working with the administration to increase revenues." Hayden said. He said some methods of accomplishing this would be to expand the "satellite clinics" in the state, and to step up nurse recruiting.
State Rep. Loren Homan, D-Toppea, said one of the biggest problems at the Med Center was that there weren't enough patients with severe mouth conditions to fill the hospital beds.
He suggested that when screening applicants for nursing school, the
school give preference to those who said they would work at the Med Center after graduation.
The Med Center subcommittee report also encouraged the University to design a nursing scholarship program that would be competitive with other schools.
"We're literally losing our shirts, now," Hohman said. "We can't fill up those hospital beds.
The House committee also decided to allocate $50,000 to the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, because its grant money from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration would be decreased next year.
"We're trying to put ourselves in a competitive position and make the best of it."
The Remote Sensing Program, in the Space Technology Center in Nichols Hall on West Campus, uses data from aerial photographs to analyze land uses for state agencies such as the Kansas Fish and Game Commission. The Committee recommended talt the program use the agency fees to start supporting itself as soon as possible, but allocated the $50,000 to tide it over.
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