Thursday, October 18, 1979
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Energy office to ask Legislature to fund state employee van pools
University Daily Kansan
A car pooling program for state em-
ployees of being approved by the state Legislature in January, according to James Col伯, director of the state division of accounts and
The program, which is still being planned, would provide vans to state employees who commute into Topeka.
The state would initially pay gasoline and service bills for the vans, Cobler said, but the $3 monthly fee charged the passengers would eventually pay back the cost of the
One person would drive the van, which would service eight to 12 people. The driver would keep the van and would be responsible for repairs and maintenance. Collier said.
HE SAID HE and members of the Kansas Energy Office hoped to have a bill for the
program drafted by Nov. 1 to be sent to the Legislature before it reconvenes in January.
"I ANTICIPATE that it will be a rather popular program, and I think the Legislature will enact it," Cobler said.
Joe Fishbite, fuel allocations officer with the Kansas Energy Office and one of the people working on the program, also said he helped that program would be approved by the Legislature.
Surveys on the program have been sent to all state employees, and 418 of the 518 responses have been favorable.
"Van pooling is one heck of a way to conserve energy," he said.
Cobler said that if the program was approved by the Legislature, vans could be ordered in the spring.
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