Monday, September 18, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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'91 budget request submitted
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas officials took the first step Friday toward the third year of the Margin of Excellence by submitting KU's $155.8 million 1991 budget request.
The University last year requested $141 million and was granted $144 million.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries
The request includes $3.74 million from Margin of Excellence funds. Of that, $13,680,00 has been budgeted to bring faculty salaries into line with the peer institutions, said Lindy Eakin, University budget office. He said salary parity was the focus of the program's third and final year.
The remaining $874,000 from the Margin of Excellence will be used for mission related enhancements including research support, training and grounding maintenance and for the hiring of faculty. Eakin said.
to 100 percent of their peers.
Combined with University-gener-ated revenue, such as student fees and housing charges, the state money would bring the University's total operating budget for fiscal 1999 to $245.6 million, he said.
The total budget for the current fiscal year is $228.8 million, Eakin said.
Besides seeking Margin money, the request calls for a 5 percent increase in faculty salary funds, he said. Faculty members could expect to make roughly $2,100 more in 1991 (based on estimated 1990 salaries), regardless of Margin of Excellence money.
Budget officials also are calling for a 4 percent increase in base support for operating expenditures, Eakin said.
Eakin said his office had to comply with state guidelines by preparing "A" and "B" level budgets that anticipated lower state revenues.
The requested increases are part of an ideal "C" level budget, which would increase total University support over this year's level.
The "B" budget would reduce University support $7.2 million from the current level, Eakin said, and the "A" budget would cut this year's figure by $14 million.
Tom Rawson, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance, said the cuts in the two contingency budgets did not particularly concern him.
"I don't think there's anything unusual in that," he said. "We've done that before."
Area representatives pick Slattery as whip
By a Kansan reporter
Rep. Jim Slattery was elected Thursday as a regional whip of the Democratic Party.
Democratic representatives from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas chose Slattery for the position, which involves helping party leadership gather and count votes on legislation, according to a news release from Slattery's office. The election was in Washington, D.C.
The United States is divided into 18 geographic regions, each represented by a regional whip. Slattery's press secretary Ken Murphy said.
Slattery will represent 13 Democratic representatives from the four states, Murphy said, adding that Slattery's position in the House of Representatives would be strengthened.
"Their interests parallel ours." Murphy said of the other states in the region. "You get more input on interests in the Midwest, and you also get more input with the leadership. It helps the more they know you're involved."
He said Slattery's strengthened position would help him advocate issues important to his district, which includes Lawrence.
The whip system is used by a party's leadership to maximize the number of representatives involved in the business of the House and to help solidify voting blocks on partisan issues.
Slattery, who is in his fourth term, announced last month that he would seek re-election in 1990 and would not seek the Democratic nomination for governor.
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