Thursday, January 25, 1979
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Senate nears approval of state spending lid
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas State gave tentative approval toward legislation that would impose a 7 percent state spending lid on the government and create a fund comprising unspent tax dollars from which direct tax relief could be made.
The measure was sponsored by 39 of the 40 Senate members, with the lone dissenter arguing for more than 25 minutes that the senator should flow dressing" for overburdened taxpayers.
Although passage was assured by virtue of the number of sponsors the only fee, State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains, said he believed that should know theld be appalled ineffective.
ANGELL ARGUED there was really no mechanism to enforce the spending lid, and said it would serve merely as a declaration of the intent to hold down spending.
The spending lid bill and 15 other measures were given tentative approval yesterday, providing the largest daily work product for the Senate so far this session.
Included in the tentatively approved bills were measures to stabilize the monthly pay period for district magistrate judges, restrict the location of drivers' license suspension hearings and establishment of a medical malpractice study commission
But the spending lid debate captured the spotlight of attention as Jack Steiner
Democratic minority leader and Wint Winter, Republican Ways and Means Committee chairman, led the bipartisan support for the measure.
AMONG THE provisions of the bill are requirements to:
- Clamp a 7 percent lid on spending, based on the previous year's expenditures, exclusive of capital improvements, beginning with fiscal year 1980.
- Require that ending balances, which are the amount of unpaid tax dollars, dip no lower than 8 percent of the total budget. This increase to an estimated $93 million in fiscal 1980.
- Create a tax relief fund comprised of
Brewer & Shipley concert tonight
Brewer and Shipley have played small, smoky dinner clubs and they've played Carnegie Hall, but tonight the duo whose music has reached virtually every continent will play in the intimate atmosphere of the Kansas Union Ballroom.
But there won't be mountains of lights and sound equipment on stage and no lasers will criss-cross over the heads of the audience. According to Michael Brewer of Brewer and Shipley, the show will consist of himself, his partner, Tim Shingle, and their two guitar.
The duo probably is best remembered for its h! "One Toke on the Line."
Brewer, born and raised in Oklahoma Brewery, and Shipley, from Bedford, Ohio, both were inspirers. They both were inspired, as performers, by the same basic element, according to
"I didn't start make music because I thought it was good work. "he said. "I did it wrong."
He said that after he and Shipley stopped writing for groups such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and joined forces to write and record their songs with passion for music that held them together.
Brewer said the philosophy of many
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recording firms today was that artists must go on tour to help sell their albums, but the strenuous schedule just became too much to handle.
He said because of that, the duo has fired its manager and canceled its recording contract, and now works a much less hectic schedule.
Brewer said they have friends in Kansas City from the days when the two played the Vanguard, a new defunct dinner club in Kansas City. The opening act for tonight's concert, Danny Cox, played with Brewer and Shipples at the Vanguard.
The concert at 8 tonight is part of a short vacation the two performers are taking with
From his home in the Ozarks, Brewer said the duo had a new set of priorities regarding the work.
"It totally depends on so many things," he
said, "just as long as you have a good time."
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those unspent tax dollars not needed to keep the ending balances above the 8 percent minimum. This money must be used for tax relief programs.
SUA BRIDGE CLUB
The first duplicate game of the spring semester is the campus championship. The top two eligible pairs will qualify for the regional tournament at Worcestersburg, Missouri, February 1-3. To be eligible both members of the partnership must be full-time students.
This special game is Thursday, January 25 in the Union. The game will begin promptly at 2:00 PM, so plan to arrive a few minutes early.
THE BILL would also create a committee of legislators which would meet each year to decorate the dollar limits required by the law. The bill is available for the Legislature to spend.
For more information; call Mike McGhehey at 842-7979.
The Senate spending lid also closes a massive loophole found during committee discussion by forbidding the Legislature to increase appropriations which exceed the 7 percent lid.
Supplemental appropriations, in effect, add money to the amount an agency already has budgeted in the current fiscal year. Such a device would permit lawmakers to comply with the lid one year, and then exceed it the next year.
A similar bill in the Kansas House, which was approved by the Ways and Means Committee yesterday, does not include supplemental appropriations in its lid.
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