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OCTOBER NOVEMBER REVIEW BY STATE BUDGET OFFICER AND STAFF.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER: RECOMMENDED BUGET CUTS ANNOUNCED BY BUDGET DIRECTOR.
DEC.-JAN.: HEARING AND REVIEW OF BUDGET DOCUMENT BY GOVERNOR
AND STAFF.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON WORKING BUDGET AT K.U.
JAN.: GOVERNOR RECOMMENDS A BUDGET IN BUDGET MESSAGE DURING 1ST 30 DAYS OF SESSION OF LEGISLATURE.
MARCH: STUDY REVIEW HEARING BY SENATE WAYS MEANS COMMITTEE.
APRIL: PASSAGE BY SENATE AS AN APPROXIMATIONS BILL.
APRIL: STUDY BY HOUSE WAYS MEANS COMM. PASSAGE BY HOUSE.
APRIL: MAY: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
The Budget An Exercise In Frustration
Bv DON KINNEY
Former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans once said that any successful budget process was made possible through coordination.
Almost every administrator at the University of Kansas has some part in the University's budget process, and almost every administrator says he rarely gets what he wants.
"It's a frustrating experience for most of the people involved," says one administrator. "Although salary increases are usually given every year, there is a problem all when compared to the cost of living increase."
The budget process is a complicated chain of events that is actually two separate operations. Budget requests and the allotment of funds once they have been obtained are separate and take place at different times of the year, although some phases overlap.
Before December each year, department chairmen in KU's schools and colleges meet with their deans to express their desires and priorities for the next fiscal year, nearly 18 months away.
This process of determining needs is actually a realization in bringing to Dale Scanney, dean of the School of Education.
By December, the deans have taken these suggested priorities and consolidated them with their own requests to form a budget request for each school.
Under Chancellor Archie R. Dykes' new budget procedure, the deans are required to submit three budgets: a zero increase budget, a budget showing additions a 5-per-cent increase would allow and a budget showing what cuts would be made in a 5-per-cent decrease.
James Bibb
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE BEGIEF
Dykes Confronts Bibb Over Budget Proposal
in's system forces priorities to be revealed," said Heller, professor of law and political science.
Combined with constant communication between deans and department chairmen, the system should allow the formulation of budget requests that will show the most important programs and indicate what can be done at different funding levels. Heller says.
However, the possibility of a 5-per-cent increase across the board is remote.
In the late 1960s, the University experienced an expanding budget because of increasing enrollment figures. The early 70s brought a leveing in the number of students enrolled and did programs as if enrollment were still increasing.
Now, the new chancellor and economic experts are quietly asserting that the economy is contract-
Therefore, there is less money, and if their predictions are right, there will be even less in a very
When the deans' budgets go to the office of Academic Affairs in February, it is the vice chancellor's job to begin cutting or adding items, all without doing so without consulting the appropriate deans.
The frustration of department chairmen or faculty members when they are refused funding for a
new project or a current one is felt even in the vice chancellor's and deans' offices. If the money isn't available, no amount of pleading or persuasion will help.
"As much as we want to give a chance to new programs, if the money is never allocated by the legislature, we have to cut requests—and they're tough decisions" says one official.
Once it's completed at the vice chancellor's stage, the edited budget moves on to the University budget officer for almost another month of revision, questioning and review.
Then the Board of Regents reviews changes made at each level, makes suggestions and, if it considers it necessary, makes its own changes. It may then decide to take action back through the steps through which it has come.
Eventually, department chairmen are told the amount of money they will be given, and according to this figure, they decide how many faculty positions can be offered.
The working budget for fiscal 1974 was cut $363,040, resulting in 32 fewer faculty and staff positions. In the School of Education, for example, the working budget, leaving a total operating budget of $1,850,244.
"There are always problems in the process, and we don't always get what we want." says Scannell.
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Kansas is one of a very few states that requires this announcement by law.
Once past the state budget office, the budget goes through a series of hearings and reviews in the State Budget Committee.
The governor may make his own revisions, then he turns it over to the legislature in his budget message during the first 30 days of the legislative session, which opens in January.
The legislature isn't bound by the recommendations of the governor or the budget director, but only twice in the last 20 years has the legislature decreased the governor's suggested budget.
Legislators make cuts or additions during a hearing by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The budget is then passed in the form of an appropriation bill in the Senate.
After being reviewed by the House Ways and
Means Committee, the bill is passed by the House
Chamber.
At this time, the University can tell approximately how much money it will receive.
When a limited amount of money is available for salary increases, some faculty members may get
an increase of only 2 per cent while others get one of 7 per cent.
Such decisions are usually left up to department chairmen, and most of them say the decision is a matter of opinion.
Although the Board of Regents this year has proposed a 10- to 11-per-cent increase in faculty salaries and labeled it the board's top priority, such an increase appears unlikely since the state budget office has cut the request for all institutions from $274.8 million to $229.7 million.
Danenbarger says it will take a 10- to 19-percent increase to bring the salary level of state college and university facilities up to the level of other states but that a substantial part of the increase will
Most administration officials say they think a reorganization of the budget process is in order, or at least a refocusing of the operation to coincide with the contracting economy of the University.
He defended U.S. support or Israel during the Middle East war, telling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization council that the United States must have interest in Europe's interest as the United States.
"We need a program that is concentrated on quality, not quantity for the coming years," says one official, "and the so-called 'best practice' of the longer have an expanding economy, the better such a program will work."
THE SPEECH WAS KISSNER's first to the council, which is holding a two-day year-end meeting. It was paraphrased for newsmen by U.S. officials who said the secretary emphasized that the alliance cornerstone of American foreign policy.
But Kissinger promised to stand by the allies despite the disagreements and proposed the development of a unified energy program to tackle an oil shortage he said would have developed even without the October war.
At one point, Foreign Minister Michel Jobert of France and Kissinger had a sharp exchange over the situation. Jacobet said Europe should have been advised before President Nixon and Soviet Communist party leader Leo Donald Brewneth went on June in the prevention of nuclear war.
Kissinger attempted in his speech, however, to heal the wounds that deepened when most of the allies separated them during the war. He stood still during the war and its aftermath.
act in union as well with other countries if peace is threatened.
First, Kissinger listed a growing Soviet military force which he said was the primary reason for the search for detente. He also said upheaval in developing nations and a number of economic problems have caused an emergency than differences across the Atlantic.
He said differences between the United States and Europe paired in comparison with his own observations.
INFORMED DIPLOMATS reported that Kissinger disavowed any intention to keep Britain and France out of the Middle East peacemaking process. But they said he also told the NATO ministers both inside and outside the conference room that British representatives would complicate the peace talks due to begin in Geneva Dec. 18.
Syria until it turns over POW list.
Says Syria has refused to turn over names of the 102 Israeli POWs believed held in Syria, and the International Red Cross has confirmed the claim.
An Israeli refusal to negotiate with Syria would be a serious blow to chances for the success of the negotiations.
**oraret Defense Minister Moses Dayan told the Israeli parliament that the refusal to deal with Syrias at the Dec. 18 Geneva peace negotiations was a grave mistake.**
Congressional tax experts received the first documents of Nixon's tax returns.
The material Nixon released in disclosing his tax affairs confirmed that he paid about $40,000 in federal income taxes over the past four years and no state income taxes. He asked the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to review the returns.
Gas retailers want Phase 4 controls lifted so prices can rise $^{1}$ to $^{3}$ a gallon.
"We are fighting for our survival," said Charles Binsted, president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers during a convention. He made his comment at the same time an industry publication told of rising gasoline prices.
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sday, December 11, 1973
Nixon Tapesitor Disclosed
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a letter Jaworski wrote Nov.
Fred Buzhardt, White House
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Dean has testified that a plan to offer executive clemency to Hunt was discussed during those two days. In a related development yesterday, a federal judge told the Senate Watergate committee from questioning witnesses in closed sessions.
The request for an injunction was made by Chester Davis, attorney for Summa Corp., a company controlled by billionaire Howard R. Hughes. The Senate committee has been taking testimony in closed sessions about a $100,000 cash contribution from Hughes to Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, the President's close friend.
Rebeto and the President have said the money, held in a Florida bank for nearly three years, later was returned.
4 and tapes. He requested the tape of a meeting between 3:06 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on June 3 involving the President, Haldeman the Chiefman, then his domestic affairs adviser.
By SUZI SMITH
Tapes of telephone conversations on those two days between the President and Colonel Emanuel Bustamante.
HE ALSO ASKED for the tape of a meeting between 5:16 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. on June 4 between the President and Charles Johnson, then White House special counsel.
id he couldn't say how much it increase might be adjusted aed the budget.
cking to Adjust Culty Pay Increase
Gev. Robert Docking said there last week that she "some aside in the $ per cearity faculty at state schools that ended at the state budget month."
d that he was still "balancing against his demands." There choices that have to be made and learning, he said.
et here last night with student for class presidents from the ages and universities.
udent representatives agreed alary increases were the top air schools.
that the money has limits,
one priority has to be faculty
leo Knopp, student body
assess State University, said.
Wichita senior and student
KU, called current faculty
of Regents had requested a 10 crease for faculty of the Kansas. James Bibb, budget recommender, faculty of the Kansas.
representatives also stressed approval by the legislature of a
$770,000 allocation to cover tuition fee waivers at the state schools. The program would give KU and K-State each $10,000, and each of the three colleges $90,000.
Seventy-five per cent of the funds would be used to pay athletic scholarships, and the remaining funds would go to music, debate and journalism proxrams.
Victor Miller, student body president at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, said the waiver proposal was more timely. Students at various universities. He said the colleges were being hit harder by decreasing enrollments and were finding it increasingly difficult to fund their needs.
He said that the only way to avoid dropping minor sports and to face the coming enrollment crisis at the colleges would be through the waiver program.
Buckley said that he and Pat Neutroman, Salina senior and senior class president, mentioned specifically to Docking faculty and women's colleges and women's intercollegiate athletics.
Neustrom said he thought Docking was to the student representatives.1868
"The desire for these programs was clearly made; Bickley said, "Now it lies in the hands of us."
"I really don't know how much conjecture this dinner is going to have on his mind."
ge and price controls were lifted from industry but increases limited.
ost of Living Council said it extracted a commitment from Ford o. and General Motors Corp. to limit price increases for the er of the 1974 model year to an average of no more than $150 a mile, compared from American Motors for an average in no more than $100.
er Corp., the council said, declined to make similar commitments,
u council decided to exempt it from controls.
dartment of Labor filed suit against milk
lucturers alleging unfair labor practices.
A spokesman for the Associated Mil Producers, Inc. had no immediate comment on the suit allied with that it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
the Labor Department petition asserts that the association hasn't been paying overtime compensation to workers who have worked more than 40 hours weekly at branch plants in Rusk and Sulphur Springs, Tex., and Laurel, Neb.
Gov't, environmental group considering
separate suits on Alaska pipeline monopoly.
The government and the Sierra Club assert that the Alaska pipeline would give oil companies an unfair monopoly.
At least one suit could seek to halt pipeline construction, scheduled to begin within weeks. Completion of the line, which will pull the rich oil fields of Wyoming into the basin, could end in 2019.
Nixon formally submitted to the Senate
Saxbe's nomination to be attorney general
saxbe's nomination to be attorney general.
Nixon picked Sen. William E. Saxbe, R-Ohio, to be attorney general more than a month ago but had been unable to make the nomination because the Saxbe was serving in the Senate.
That constitutional obstacle was removed when Nixon signed into law a bill reducing the attorney general's salary to its previous level.