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University Daily Kansan, January 15, 1981 Page 13
Residence hall rate increases expected to pass
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
A 10 percent increase in KU residence hall rates is expected to gain final approval tomorrow at a Board of Regents meeting. The board will approve the request of housing.
A proposal to raise rates at Stouffer Place apartments also will be considered.
The rate increase would raise the residence hall double occupancy fee from $1,497 to $1,647 a year. The rate for a residence hall would increase from $2,277 to $2,878.
THE RECOMMENDED INCREASE for Stouffer Place is 8.7 percent for one-bedroom apartments, raising the monthly rent from $115 to $125, and 12 percent for two-bedroom apartments, increasing the monthly rate from $125 to $140.
Tr proposal was first presented to the Regents at their December meeting.
Wilson said the increase was
necessary for the housing program to keep up with the rising costs of food, utilities, maintenance materials and staff salaries.
"Nobody wants rates to go up," Wilson said. "We're trying to keep them as low as possible.
"The real question is what your dollars will buy."
He said past rate increases had been too optimistic, and although the halls had been able to meet their basic operating costs, many maintenance, remodeling and refinishing projects had had to be deferred.
THE RATE INCREASE for the 1979-80 school year was 6.2 percent. The increase last year was about 9.5 percent.
"In previous years we've stuck close to the President's guidelines for increases, and we've fallen behind," said Mark Schwartz, director for the office of residential programs.
The new rate does not include the extra charges for the different services offered by the individual residence halls.
These extra services, including security monitors and educational facilities, cause the room rates to vary among halls.
THE ORIGINAL RATE increase proposal, drawn up by the Contract Coordinating Committee of the Association of University Residence Centers which would have raised the basic room rates for double occupancy by $180.
The $100 increase would have added $30 a year for housing department staff salaries and $25 for maintenance materials.
When the proposal was presented to the University, the increases for these two items were reduced to $15 and $11, reducing the reducing the increase to $150.
In addition to the increases for salaries and maintenance materials, the ten percent increase will give the housing department per resident $84 a year more for food, $20 for utilities, $15 for housing program staff salaries, $1.50 for academic resource centers and $3.50 for hall governments.
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expenditure for raw food for each resident will increase from $2.30 to $2.65.
Wilson said utilities had been the fastest rising cost facing the housing program, but that student consumption of utilities had declined slightly.
In December, minimum wage for
employees rose from
$1.20 per hour to $1.40
Both Wilson and Denke said they did not predict a decrease in the number of students living in residence halls as a result of the rate increase. About 4,700 students are now living in KU residence halls.
Residence hall rates
Hall Double room Single room
1980-81 1981-821980-81 1981-82
Oliver $1,537 $1,698 $2,317 $2,538
JRP, Templin $1,512 $1,662 $2,292 $2,502
Lewis $1,512 $1,673 $2,292 $2,513
Ellsworth $1,512 $1,673 $2,292 $2,513
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