University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1982
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Strapped Med Center turns to Legislature
By JAN BOU'TTE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Medical Center has turned to the Kansas Legislature for help in an effort to raise funds and pay its unexpected high utility bills.
A bill providing for the payment of a $133,489 delinquent Med Center electric bill has been referred to the Senate Ways and Means Committee with the unanimous approval of an interim legislative committee.
THE MED CENTER was unable to cover the June 1981 bill at the end of the fiscal year because of a 35 percent rate bike that went into effect in May. The large increase was approved by the Board of Public Utilities.
expected bills was a faulty meter that was discovered in May 1980. Because of extra screws in the meter, the Med Center's electrical usage was recorded at inaccurate rates. Once the problem was corrected, the bills showed a considerable increase that had not been allowed for in the budget.
Another cause of the higher-than-
The Joint Committee on Special Claims against the State introduced the bill, which would pay the Board of the Med Center of the Med Center's June electric bill.
State Senate. Jane Eldredge, R- Lawrence, chairman of the Special Claims Committee, said she expected the bill to be passed.
Both occurrences, the meter discovery in 1980 and the unanticipated rate increase in 1981, occurred too late in the year to adjust the budget for the following year and have continued to affect succeeding fiscal periods.
ELDREDGE SAID the funds had to be appropriated through the special claim because of a state law that prohibits a state agency from paying its bills from a previous fiscal year with funds from the next year's budget.
Only halfway into the 1982 fiscal year, our program is running short of funds for utility bills.
Keith Nicher, director of University fiscal affairs, said Friday, "We knew that at the level of expenditures that we would probably deplete our funds by January. I anticipate that that will be our situation soon."
The Board of Regents voted to request $1,842,435 in supplemental funds from the Legislature to be used for utilities for the Med Center.
NITCHER SAID that although the amount was large, the supplemental request was not out of the ordinary. Each spring session the Legislature re-
evaluates the utility appropriation and allots more funds if needed.
Both Nitcher and Richard von Ende, executive secretary for the University, said they expected the supplemental funds to be allotted by the Legislature.
"If we can demonstrate that we need more money, they'll provide it," Nitcher said.
The spring review by the Legislature keeps the Med Center from having to absorb the costs of utility bills into its budget. Nicher said, and the system should be able to use the funds appropriated for utility bills to be used for any other purpose.
In order to compensate for the 1982 deficiency, Nitcher has included a $1,129,833 supplement to the regular 12 percent annual increase in the budget for 1983, which should provide sufficient funds to cover the year's bills, he said.
University due $48,000 in Pell Grants Late federal checks don't daunt students
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
A throng of students learned last week that although you don't always get what you expect at enrollment, you usually get what you need.
What students didn't get was nearly $50,000 in federal Pell Grants that failed to arrive before enrollment. But the shortage of Pell money, formerly called Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, did not force students to abandon plans
for enrollment, Jerry Rogers, KU director of financial aid, said Friday.
THE SHORTAGE was handled by withholding a second Pell check from students whose first Pell check was sufficient to finance enrollment, Rogers said. But not all students receiving an enrollment in the cost of enrolment were affected.
"We didn't see any reason to give everybody not all their money when we could give just some people not all their money," Rogers said.
The financial aid office is not
obligated to disperse the second checks until later in the year, Rogers said, "But we always like to pay it all at the beginning of the semester."
Rogers said the money was purposely withheld by Pell officials in Washington because in the past grant money had gone unclaimed by students who either quit school or failed to maintain the records required to receive federal money.
But now that he knows about $48,000 more is needed, the money will be quick to obtain.
MEANWHILE, Rogers said, the
financial aid office would provide short-term loans in students who need money
the financial aid office awaits the money from Washington, KU officials also will try to learn why a stack of checks were not picked up.
Students who have enrolled and have checks waiting for them in the financial aid office will be contacted, Rogers said.
But if students are not enrolled, their money will be transferred to students who are awating their second checks, he said.
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