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University Daily Kansan, October 13, 1982
Commissioners OK new zoning district
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved the creation of a new zoning district that Commissioner Tom Gleason said was a good compromise between single-family and multiple-family development.
The new zoning district sets a minimum requirement of 1,500 square feet.
"It's something I view as a reasonable compromise between the desires of a number of neighborhood residents concerned about the density of the neighborhood and those who own it. I want to minimize their investment." Gleason said.
The 1,500 square feet requirement fits between two present zoning districts, one requiring 2,000 square feet of space per dwelling unit and one requiring
1,000 square feet of space per dwelling unit.
GLEASON SAID the new zoning district was a step toward solving problems caused by high-density housing.
The commission also discussed a city staff report on an airport improvement grant of $936,860, which the city must match with $104,000 of its money.
One local man appeared last night to protest the city's decision to apply for the grant. The application was made two weeks ago.
The grant is to be used for improvements to the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
Discussion about accepting the grant was not placed on that meeting's agenda because city officials said they had only become aware of the grant the
The man, Tim Miller, 936 Ohio St.,
said the decision was made without adumate public comment.
MILLER SAID the public had indicated in two votes on airport improvements that expansion of the airport was not wanted. He said the commission would take steps ago to accept the grant and commit the city to spending money to match it.
Mayor Marci Francisco, however,
said the commission's action two weeks
ago was not final, and the city still
could withdraw its grant application.
"Although there were some time constraints that we acted under, we could change that decision with no consequence," she said.
THE COMMISSION also decided to defer for one week a request from the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice asking the commission to act as a board of canvassers in certifying the results of a public opinion poll on the
The commission deferred the request because Mandy Makin, 936 Kentucky resident, was scheduled to take place concurrently with the Nov. 2 general election.
question of a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union.
The commission also discussed the city's special assessment policy.
A hearing on the suit has been scheduled for Monday in Douglas County.
THE CITY now is owed more than $389,000 in delinquent special assessments, which can be used by developers and builders to finance such public improvements and streets and sidewalks.
The commission discussed ways for more than an hour of changing the present policy, and decided to discuss assessments policy again next week.
Official says more cuts may bring layoffs
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
Some employees of the University of Kansas may be laid off if further state budget cuts come by way of the University, a KU official said yester-
But even if the cuts do not come, KU students will not feel the impact of cuts made earlier this year until next year's graduation. We associate director of business affairs.
"I iffuture cuts come, I think it's going to be serious," he said. "If there are people who want me to budget, I suspect there will have to be layoffs of University employees."
summer, he said, "you were taking some flesh off, but you haven't cut into the bones."
"The next cut would cut into the bones." Bibb said.
WITH THE FIRST cuts enacted tha
The prospect of layoffs arose with the latest state revenue figures. The statistics showed that revenues for the state last year fell $23 million short of predictions.
If further cuts come, KU officials hope they will be directed to the state agencies that were unaffected by the cuts this summer.
CHANCLORLOR Gene A. Budig said, "More than 60 percent of the state budget for fiscal '18' is set to be further to be further recessions, that portion of the budget
must be adjusted long before serious consideration of further cuts for higher
Gail Hamilton, Classified Senate president, also said the state should look someplace else before trimming more from KU's budget.
"Why should we be talking about layoffs?" Hamilton asked. "We've already cut our 4 percent at the university. We've then affected. It's somebody else's turn."
TALK OF LAYOFFS has surfaced among classified employees, she said, as the prospect of future budget cuts looms ahead.
But, she said, "I don't see that it's going to happen.
"Things are going to have to get an awful lot worse. It's not time to push the
panic button. We're going to have to sit tight."
Bibb said that although further budget cuts would hurt the University, people had yet to realize the 4 percent cut already made.
"The first cut has been understated," he said. "I don't think the students at the University feel the cut. I think they will before the year is over."
"There's always an inventory to carry you through for a little while," he said, adding that those supplies will run out.
Most of the cuts were in department budgets for supplies and expenses.
Science classes, such as chemistry and biology, will have enough chemicals for this semester, but not for next semester, he said.
Jargon dominates memos in Strong
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Memos sometimes laden with words of bureaucratic new-speak float in and of Strong Hall with cumbersome regularity.
Loaded with words such as "recisions" and "concomitant dimunition," the memos are often the communication lifeline between the administrative offices in Strong and the rest of the University of Kansas.
THIS SEMESTER, however, the white sheets of paper with the KU emblem at the top and the scribblings below it have been coming at a faster pace, he said.
But one KU official would to like see that flow of memos slow to a trickle.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said the University had tried to reduce the number of memos, which he warns start up changes of policy changes to faculty and staff.
News of the early turning off of air conditioning and other energy-related measures came to the faculty by way of a memo from Strong.
"We simply need to find a better means of communicating across campus," he said, adding that lower memo expenses involved in sending them out.
"It's distracting," Cobb said of the memo flow, especially as the sheets of paper accumulate on the bulletin boards of University offices.
Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said, "There's a certain administrative jargon in them. Every setting has its own jargon, and higher education is no different."
Despite the jargon, most of the
memos are well written with proper style, he said.
Deanell Tacha, the vice chancellor for academic affairs and author of the memo, said she wrote the way she talked.
A RECENT MEMO to the faculty from the office of academic affairs included words such as articulators, priorities, parameters and rescissions. The prose also included the phrases "economic posture" and "minimize the
"I feel very strongly about some of these issues. And in order to communicate it myself, I simply put it in my own style."
“There are terms that get to be very meaningful to us.” Tacha said.
THAT STYLE has never interfered with her ability to communicate with students.
Cobb said the administration had started relying more on the Oread, a weekly publication of the University, to get messages to faculty members.
Different meetings on campus could also be used more to get the word across.
Johnson said fewer memos were coming out of academic affairs this
He estimates that it costs $70 to print and send a memo to all the faculty members at KU, he said, adding that recent budget cuts have forced officials in academic affairs to issue fewer memos.
KU officials could not say how many memos have been issued this year.
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