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University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1982
Panel should question budget, Tallman says
Members of a newly created Student Senate committee should question budget policies within the administration, said the executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas yesterday.
"You, and you alone, need to work with the University's administrators," Mark Tallman, executive director, said a yesterday's meeting of the Student Senate Committee on legislative Affairs.
ASK is a student lobbying group based in Topeka.
Tallman advised the committee to take a harder look at KU's role in future budget decisions, because ASK's Topete personnel had no way to monitor all the university administrations associated with ASK.
ASK REPRESENTS KU. KANS
State University, Emporia State
University, Fort Hays State
University, Pittsburg University,
Wichita State University and Washburn
University.
Tallman also said ASK's effectiveness was hurt because many universities did not request certain allocations that ASK supported.
"Only two universities requested a 100 percent graduate fee waiver last year," Tallman said. "It's hard for us to lobby for something that our universities aren't even requesting."
Jay Simpson, Legislative Committee chairman, said he thought that in addition to working with administrators, the committee must have that recruiting students to meet with interns as part of a lobbying network.
The committee would also work with ASK officials in Topeka to conduct a letter-writing campaign to influence local representatives on issues that concern students, Talman said.
TALLMAN SAID he thought the Legislative Committee, which was created last month by the Senate, had no voice in having an overlay of responsibilities.
"This committee will be able to do what we simply can't do." he said.
The Legislative Committee is not unique to student government. K-State and Wichita State have had student委员会 to advise ASK, and one was recently created at Fort Hays.
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Battle over highway financing heats up Carlin aide says Hardage hedging on tax
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Funding for the state's highway system has again become a battleground in the gubernatorial campaign, after an aide to Gov. John Carlin and his wife Kate had a videotape of bedding on his plan to add 4 cents a gallon to the state gasoline tax.
Hardage, who is challenging Carlin in next Tuesday's election, has repeatedly referred to a *a-cent gas tax* increase as "the greatest highway repair and construction work."
In his White Paper on Economic Development and the Budget, which was circulated throughout the state earlier this week, Hardage stopped short of endorsing the immediate need for a boost in the gas tax.
MIKE SWENSON, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said yesterday that Hardidge reversed his support for an immediate gas tax increase because several polls showed Kansans were opposed to the measure.
nee had always considered a tax
increase a last resort to finance
But Darrell Day, Hardage's press secretary, and the Republican nomi-
In his White Paper, Hardage said, "If absolutely necessary, I will ask the Legislature for an increase in the motor fuels tax to raise available reserve to be used only for building and repairing our system."
Day said a future increase in the gas tax hinged on two key variables that were too difficult to analyze at this time.
"It will in part be due to whether state revenues pick up, and it will also depend on how much can be saved in the costs of transportation budget," he said.
"FROM THE FIRST day of the campaign, Sam said he opposed tax increases because there was so much waste that could be eliminated."
State revenues collected so far this year have fallen far below projections in revenue-estimating team constituents and university economic professors.
Day said that Hardage, a Wichita real estate developer, would initiate
sound business procedures as a first step to bolster the Department of Transportation's budget. If that did not work, he would turn to a gas tax increase.
"It has become apparent that there is so much waste and unsound business management procedures that can hopefully be saved," he said. "And from the start Sam has said that a lot of waste could be cut."
BUT SWENSON said Hardidge was flip-flapping on the issue because he sensed widespread opposition to any proposed gas tax, which is now a gallon a centaure.
"In late September, his program was based on a 4-cent increase in the gas tax," Swenson said. "But he is obviously slip-sliding away on the issue because he caught the bump-in-the-night syndrome.
in Johnson County indicating that a lien on Cresson County has been paid by a ratio of 1:4.
"And that bump in the night is the 4-cent increase. By changing his mind, that sets an example of what kind of leader Sam Hardage is, and it demonstrates that he cannot make a solid decision."
ALTHOUGH HARDAGE has been accused of wavering on his gas tax; Carlin has maintained his support of a bill that would give him more production to finance hardwax work.
In the last legislative session, Carlin proposed a severance tax package that included the transfer of $60 million from the state general fund to the federal government. A general fund would have been replenished by funds from the severance tax.
Swenson cited a newspaper poll done
Hardage, who has repeatedly blasted Carlin's severance tax as an unfair measure that singles out one industry, has estimated that a 4-cent gas tax increase would generate about $55 million. When coupled with federal matching funds, it would raise about $191 million over three years.
HE ALSO has said the gas tax would help create 3,800 new jobs, would save the state $7.5 million in unemployment payments, and would raise $16.6 million in payroll taxes and $7.5 million in corporate income taxes.
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