Tuesday, November 13, 1979
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KU administrators to ask Carlin for budget review
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
University of Kansas administrators will appeal to Gov. John Carlin today for reconsideration of state budget director Gibb's proposed cuts in KU's budget requests.
Cancellor Archie R. Dykes will lead KU's delegation to the governor's annual budget hearings and will try to convince Carin that issues requested by him would be easier to handle using less arguable rules.
Bibb cut proposed salary increases for unclassified employees, which include faculty, from the eight percent figure above by the Board of Regents to six percent.
Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said yesterday that recovering the higher raise for unclassified employees was one of the administrators' top priorities.
"We will be concentrating on recovering everything that was cut by the budget office," Jones said. "No decisions will be reached at the hearing, so we will have to wait for the governor to deliver his budget recommendations in January to find out
Jones said the University could continue to appeal funding cuts until the final decision is made by the legislature in April.
BIBB APPROVED A five percent salary increase for classified employees qualified to receive step increases.
Bibb cut the total proposed expenditures for the Lawrence campus from $143,821,756 to $124,904,746, a decrease of 13 percent.
Bibb's office also approved a 6.5 percent increase in wages for student employees to comply with the federal minimum wage increase from $2.90 to $3.10 an hour.
KU's capital improvement budget suffered the most significant cuts. Capital improvement funds for the Lawrence County School District totaled $10,250 to $6,148,000, a 70 percent decrease.
Bibb refused to approve expenditures of $64,940 to build a new utility tunnel from $120,000 to replace ground steam lines to $120,000 to replace ground steam lines to $213,000 to renovate Hawthorn hall, $213,000 to renovate Flint Hall, $420,100 to renovate Snow Hall and $422,100 to strengthen
BIBB ALSO refused to recommend $1,001.926 for program improvements calculated under the proposed formula (funding system).
Under formula funding, KU's budget expenditures are compared to expenditures at other "peer institutions" to determine an amortise level of funding.
Jones said the Board of Regents universities must convince Gov. Carlin and the legislature that formula funding is preferable to the current funding system.
Past budgets for Regents schools have been based exclusively on full-time students, although the funding is calculated by dividing total student credit hours by 12, the minimum.
"WE STILL HAVE to sell them on formula funding," Jones said. "Another reason some programs were cut is that the Bibb must submit a balanced budget to the governor. He's likely to cut many program investments and require us to appeal to justify them."
Jones said administrators would put high priority on recovering $146,897 in state funds for creating 16 new classified employee and four unclassified employee positions.
"The principal shortcoming we have is in classified positions to support faculty members," he said.
The University probably will make gains in its funding requests at the governor's hearing, Jones said.
"I think the chances are much better that we will gain at the hearing instead of losing note," he said.
Senators to declare candidacies for student body executive offices
Leave cramer, Lawrence junior, and Michelle Senecal, Lawrence sophomore, will announce their candidates for student body president and vice president tonight.
They will be the first team to declare themselves candidates for the offices. Both Bramer and Seneca are Nunemaker Carter student scientists this year.
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The elections are scheduled for mid-February. The filing deadline is 30 days earlier, said John Mitchelson, Senate chairman.
Five hundred student signatures are required for filing petitions, Mitchelson said. However, if both candidates are student senators, petitions are not required.
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our anti-Iranian incidents, two sexual assaults, three thefts, and one glued-and-feathered car were reported to the Lawrence KU police departments last
AN IRANIAN LAWRENCE RESIDENT reported three threatening phone calls Saturday, according to a Lawrence police report. The person in question, according to a police spokesman,
A BOMB THREAT SUNDAY NIGHT at McCadden Hall included a request for all employees to attend a KU police report. The building was evacuated and 12,165 people at the threat was a fatal attack.
THE WORDS "IRANIANS GO HOME" were sprayed in red paint on the northwest corner of Wescoe Hall Friday, causing an insurance damage, according to a KU police report.
The Lawrence City Commission will consider a proposal to meet the commission at its meeting tonight. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. on the fourth floor of the First National Bank Tower, 910 Fifth Street.
Sunflower Cablevision is requesting an increase of 97 cents a month for all customers, its first increase since May. The current currently charges $8.70 a month plus tax.
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Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said four consultants had been interviewed and one would be recommended to commissioners.
The commission also is expected to select a consultant to study possible improvements of North Second Street.
The commissioners also will consider a request to rezone approximately 7.3 acres on the west side of the Orchard Street on North Side in the south, Michigan Street on the north, Ninth Street on the north, and Missouri Street on the east, may be downsized from multiple streets.
The Oread Neighborhood Association and many Oread residents have urged the city commission to return the area to a single family zoning.
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A 23-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was raped and abused Friday morning near the Sabbath, according to the woman. The woman host a gold watch valued at $300 and a gold chain of undetermined weight.
and the several anti-Arab and Iranian signs on
the windows was stopped by KU police for
causing a disturbance, according to to
the authorities, that was arrested in the
report, the report said.
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The report said the woman told police she was looking for Potter Lake at about 5 a.m. Friday morning when the rape occurred.
98-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was molested in her home early Sunday by man wearing a skirt, according to a Lawrence police officer. The woman screamed, the spokesman said.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIF'S office was notified of a theft Sunday of a refrigerator, an electric range and a microwave oven from a Balwin residence, according to a sherif's department report. The property was valued at $2900. Another property was valued at $1500. Each equipment valued at $285 had been taken from a Route One residence Friday.
ABOUT 875 IN STEREO EQUIPMENT was taken from a student's residence at 1703 W. 24th S., Sunday, a police report said.
A FLUATE AND CASE VALUED at $1,000 were taken from Murphy Hall Friday when the owner left the room to get a drink of water, a KU police report said.
A LAWRENCE RESIDENT'S CAR was covered with glue and feathers by vandals early Sunday morning, according to a Lawrence police spokesman.
Group urges county to buy nursing home
By SCOTT FAUST Staff Reporter
A fact-finding committee of local citizens interested in improving Douglas County nursing home care has urged the county to rethink the nursing home. Nurging Home by issuing revenue bonds.
Wakarus Manor, 1800 West 27th St., is owned by the Midland Business Investment Corp., a subsidiary of the Union Gass Corp., $4,000, it has been for sale eighteen months.
Three members of the fact-finding committee meet Nov. 1 with the Board of County Commissioners and proposed the county plan for a new improvement care at that home and possibly as a replacement for the county-owned Valley View Nursing Home, 218 Ridge Court. Under the proposed plan, citizens would have some role in supervising Wakarana
County Commissioners asked committee representatives for more information on whether current Medicaid payments would be eligible to be processed under Manor to operate without any tax money. They also asked what remodeling expenses would be needed for the facility, a member of the committee said yesterday.
THE BOARD TOOK the purchase proposal under advisement.
The committee was formed last spring after Valley View employees complained of the inconvenience caused by doorsway too narrow for wheelchairs, a shortage of
bathrooms and inadequate storage space, said Petey Cerf, one of the committee's organizers and president of Kansas for the Improvement of Nursing Homes.
Nehiring, who is secretary of KINH, said Valley View was built as a minimum care home where patients should be able to care for themselves.
The home could be operated as a minimum care facility in the future, she said, but is not renovatable and may have to be moved. "It continues to operate as a full-care home."
STATE REP. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that Wakaraus Manor had not been operated efficiently and that, although there was no improvement in the operation of Wakaraus Manor beds we unoccupied.
Some of Wakaraus Manor's residents are mentally handicapped persons who should be housed in a facility profitable for the home because they are less expensive to care for than the disabled.
John Jones, assistant to the president,
nursing home division, for Midland Business Investment Corp., refused to comment on reasons for the sale.
Sobach estimated that building a new nursing home facility in the county would cost $1.2 million.
Although none of the commissioners has committed himself and no date has been set for his departure, Commissioner Beverley Bradley had indicated that she feels a referendum would be effective.
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