University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1982
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Groups seek change in loan regulations
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reservior
Staff Reporter
In an effort to make home repair loans available to more people, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to approve higher income limits for a home repair loan program, the development director said yesterday.
Maximum income limits that were set too low have kept many people from participating in the home improvement loan program, said Lynn Goodell, community development director. The program is administered by the community development office and the Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association.
Association.
"THE MONEY just wasn't moving out very quickly," Goodell said.
The program started last January with $200,000 of community development money, which came from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and $200,000 from Capitol Federal.
Money loaned through the program carries an interest rate of 8.75 percent, and the money can be loaned out for up to 15 years, Goodell said. The maximum loan is $15,000 and the minimum loan is $2,000.
A low income limit was included in the program because the city specified
in its original application to HUD that the program would be targeted to low-income homeowners, Goodell said.
HUD TRIEN set a maximum annual income limit of $12,500 for one-person households participating in the program, he said. Income limits for larger households were higher, such as $18,950 for a five-person household.
The higher limits the board will propose to the city commission are $15,125 for a one-person household and $22,937 for a five-person household. The suggested limits for other sized households were similarly increased.
The city's main participation in the program is to help set the guidelines and to inspect eligible property before a loan is made, Goodell said. The property is inspected to insure that it inhabits the houses meet city standards.
DICK HOLZMEISTER, branch manager at the Capitol Federal Iowa Street branch, said $4,610 had been loaned out through the program since January. Those loans were made to six people.
Six other loan applications have been approved, and two more are close to approval. The amount for all 14 applications is $121,000, he said.
applicate Incorpor limits that were set too low, in which mainly responsible for the low participation in the program, Holzmeister said. "It has good potential."
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Retirement benefits lagging, Budig says
The faculty and classified staff members at the University of Kansas deserve a better retirement program than the one they have now, says KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Chancellor Gelle A. Budewig,
And the state has an obligation to make sure they get that program.
Budig was to say in a prepared statement delivered at the University Forum today.
He was scheduled to give a noon talk at the forum, which is sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
"In comparison with their formula funding peers, the average value of the fringe benefit package for Regents university faculty members has dropped 25 percent since fiscal year 1971," the statement said.
"WE HAVE a humanitarian obligation to provide reasonable retirement benefits for faculty and staff who have been injured or in goofy faith." Budig's statement said.
He said the retirement program at Kansas universities lagged far behind programs of other states and peer institutions.
In 1971, KU faculty members were recording the amount of benefitfees received by students.
But the estimated average value of benefits for Regents faculty is now $3,900, compared with $5,200 for their peers, he said.
SEVERAL states, including many in the Midwest, provide more for faculty retirement programs. Budie said
"Few states provide as little in overall benefits," he said.
over all benefits. He said lower faculty salaries in Kansas also added to the inadequacy of the retirement program.
"A combination of low base salaries and a low percentage retirement contribution produces an inadequate retirement program," he said.
Kansas also lags behind other states in making contributions to the classified staff retirement program, he said.
"EMLOYEES and faculty members contribute heavily from their own salaries into these mandatory retirement programs. They should be assured of a reasonable standard of living when they retire," he said.
Budig said public input was necessary to improve retirement programs.
"Higher education cannot remain a true leader without significantly more public sensitivity to program needs and people," he said.
Besides calling for improvements in the retirement programs, Budig was to make a pitch for funding of new instructional equipment.
"IF WE ARE to remain viable," he said, "the University needs to show early and dramatic improvement in the acquisition of instructional equipment.
"The University must strengthen its position with regard to instructional computing, too."
He said the University was requesting that about two-thirds of its 1984 budget go for instructional equipment and computing.
The statement also stressed the importance of the University to the future of the state.
"No one is likely to deny that our Regents system of higher education is a tremendous economic and cultural resource for this state, nor that the costs of this resource have risen greatly during the past decade," he said.
Despite the increased costs, the expenses of going to school at KU rank behind those at many other institutions, be said.
"Kansans have been getting a better educational value at the University of Kansas than they have been paying for." Budig said.
He cited a survey taken of the 1982 graduating class that showed that about 69 percent of the graduates would choose to attend the University again.
Social Welfare continues search for dean
The deadline for applications for the dean of the School of Social Welfare has been extended to Sept. 24, the chairman of the search committee said yesterday.
The chairman, Charles Rapp, assistant professor of social welfare, said yesterday that the committee received only one application by the original deadline of Sept. 1, so it decided Friday to extend the deadline. Two applications were received, but one was withdrawn at the last minute, he said.
search was internal. The new dean must be someone in the University with a master's degree in social work and a doctorate in social work or a related field.
Happ said the committee was having trouble getting applicants because the
"If it were an external search we would have a lot of applicants," Rapp said. "But there are not many social workers in the University."
INTERVIEWS will be set up with the applicants after the deadline. By the end of October the committee should make a recommendation to the director for academic affairs, who will make the final decision, he said.
Edith Black, assistant dean of the School of Social Welfare, said the search was prompted by the resignation of David Hardcastle, former dean of the school, who finished his five-year appointment June 30.
Hardcastle said he chose to resign to return to teaching and research.
"I am too young to be a dean the rest of my life," he said. "The longer you stay away from teaching, the harder it is to go back."
"my decision was made independent of the review," he said. "I thought I had done my part and was ready to teach again."
assess the job the dean has done,
Hardcastle said.
IT IS POLICY in the school to have a review of the dean after five years to
Hardcastle also served one and a half years as acting dean before being appointed dean.
The 13-member selection committee, which was selected by Tacha, is composed of faculty of the school, professional social workers, two social welfare students and other faculty members, Rapp said.
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