University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 21, 1989
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Senate begins Margin's 2nd-year financing debate
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
Financing of the second year of the Margin
Funding for another hurdle as the Senate
begins debate today.
More than $69 million would be drawn from the state general fund if the bill is approved by both houses of the Legislature. The governor would receive more than $40 million of that total.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100
percent of their peers.
According to the bill for Margin financing, the University of Kansas would receive $3.56 million from the second year of the Margin. A total of $2.03 million would be allocated for unclassified salary parity, and $1.53 million would go for mission-related enhancements.
KU received $3.3 million from the first year of the Margin.
The bill also would authorize the University to construct and equip the Regents Center in Overland Park of $25 million for the construction of the state general fund to the Regents Center
construction and debt service fund of the University.
University.
Nearly $3.5 million would be allocated to the College of Health Sciences for mission-related enhancements.
The University would be allowed to pay eight full-time equivalent positions from the unclassified salary party appropriation and 13.5 positions from mission-related enhance-
One amendment to the Margin bill by the Ways and Means Committee was a transfer of $7,241,756 to the Regents to finance Washburn University. The change was made
March 13 by the Senate Ways and Mean
would join the Regents system July 1.
The bill would provide for financing o community colleges to help pay operating costs. The program, called "Halve the Gap" by Gov. Mike Hayden, is an attempt to support of small colleges and relieve the revenue burden of students and local governments.
Hayden endorsed full financing of the second year of the Margin program at the beginning of the session.
House members approved full financing of
the Margin last week after cutting base budget levels of the Regents schools for 1990. Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said the Margin would not make as large a gain on the peer institutions as planned.
"We will have to work with the committee to return to base budget levels," he said.
Earlier this session Kopik led the Ways and Means Committee that the first year of the Margin brought the Regents system 2 percent to 3 percent closer to peer institutions.
Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods member Gordon Bower talks over issues with candidate Marci Francisco. The association sponsored a City Commission candidate forum last night at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Candidates speak at forum
by Carrie Harper Kansan staff writer
City Commission candidates met again last night at a forum sponsored by the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods.
Bob Walters, research facilities manager for the University of Kansas Space Technology Center, said he supported the City Commission's decision not to change the human rights ordinance by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
the forum, at City Hall on Sixth and Massachusetts streets, was designed as an informative service, said Steve Lopes, chairman of the association. The association will not make an endorsement.
Walters said he thought traffic, parking and drainage were the three primary neighborhood problems would address as a commissioner
Shirley Martin-Smith, owner of Martin-Smith Personnel Services, said that through good communication, city residents and developers could properly control trash caused by construction.
Marci Francisco, an assistant director of facilities planning for the University, suggested that some of the traffic problems on 19th Street, between Massachusetts and Iowa streets, were caused by people wanting to avoid 23rd Street.
Francisco said that timing traffic lights on 19th Street and making improvements on 31st Street, as another east to west thoroughfare, would alleviate some of the problems.
Dennis Constance, a KU residence hall manager and the only incumbent, said although the faculty reorganized to get more offers on the
streets, even more manpower was needed to enforce speed limits in residential areas.
Jeff Arensberg, part-owner of Arenesburg Shoes, said he thought charging developers impact fees to cover the increased city service costs was economistic as a means of easing the burden on citizens of Lawrence.
Arensberg also said that areas in the Oread neighborhood should be zoned based on the dominant living family and single family or apartments.
Dave Penny, owner of Kaw Sand Co., had a prior commitment and could not attend the forum.
Regents approve agreement
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
An agreement to continue the Kansas-Missouri architecture and dental reciprocity program for three more years was approved at a Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
the program allows architecture and architectural engineering students from Missouri to pay in-state tuition at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. The program also allows students from in-state tuition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Some form of a reciprocity program has been in existence since the mid-1960s, with corresponding limitations to the agreement; one failing this year.
At a Regents meeting in January, a report on the status of negotiations with the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education suggested the program might be dropped.
In recent years, more architecture students were taking advantage of the program than dental students, and Kansas was losing about $1 million each year, said Stanley Konilik, executive director of the Regents.
At the January meeting, Kopik proposed a new program, whereby Missouri architecture students would no longer pay in-state tuition in Kansas.
Openings would be purchased for Kansas dental
students at other schools with the money gained by requiring Missouri students to pay out-of-state tuition.
But on Thursday, the Regents voted to continue a program similar to the previous one.
"We wanted to come to an agreement during the legislative sessions of each state." Koplik said. "During the next few years, we hope to assess the program and find ways to reduce the imbalance."
Under the agreement, for each of the next three years, 556 Missouri architecture students will pay in-state tuition in Kansas while 100 Kansas dental students will pay in-state tuition at UMKC.
Kansas' in-state tuition rate is $695. 10 for a full-time semester. Out-of-state fee is $1,904. 10 a semester.
At UMKC, in-state student students pay $1,127 a year for the first two years, $5,860 the third year and $6,958 the fourth year. Out-of-state students pay an additional $1,467 a semester.
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design,
said he hoped the program would continue.
"It has been a successful program, which has benefited both states." Lucas said.
He said about 45 percent of KU's architecture and architectural engineering students were from Missouri.
Lucas said the aircraft the program had about 180 students enrolled in the engineering program had about 190 students enrolled.
Campaign Lawrence planned
Kansan staff writer
bv Scott Achelpohl
The Kansas University Endowment Association plans to appeal to the Lawrence community for help in financing the building of the new Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts.
The new drive, Campaign Lawrence, will attempt to raise $3 million to supplement a donation of $10 million from the Lied foundation of Omaha, Neb., for the construction of the center.
The $10 million gift was announced last May as part of Campaign Kansas, the Endowment Association's drive to build a national network.
On March 13, Donald A. Johnston, corporate general manager of Maupourin Inc., was named chairman of a committee of Lawrence residents overseeing the new fundraising committee, leaving 20 to 40 members for the fund-raising committee.
The campaign will begin April 26, Johnston said, and will focus on soliciting businesses business leaders who will end support.
"Our principal strategy for the campaign will be simply to generate excitement for the project; excitement that many people in the community already feel." (2) In addition, our campaign is designed to influence Lawrence than most communities in the country.
"The center will have enormous benefits for the Lawrence community. It's a facility that KU and others use."
certainly appealing to a lot of people, but it's somewhat outdated."
Larry Morland, director of corporation and foundation support at the Endowment Association, said the idea for Campaign Lawrence was fostered by the center's potent network of community resource as well as a University resource.
He said the $3 million goal was ambitious and predicted the campaign would do well to reach $2 million in donations from the Lawrence community. He said the campaign was anticipated for the project could come from outside sources.
The center is being designed by Hemmington, Durham and Richardson, an architecture firm in Omaha, Neb. Ground-breaking for the center is scheduled for Fall 1988. The building will be located on a 24-acre site southwest of 150th and Iowa streets.
The center will provide additional space for KU and Lawrence symphonies, theater performances, dance performances, opera and symposiums in its 2,169-seat main performance hall. Backstage space will include warm-up rooms, dressing rooms and technical support space.
Jorge Perez-Gomez, associate professor of orchestra activities and conductor of the University orchestra, said the center would add a new dimension to the orchestra's performances.
"Acoustics are a primary concern in the new building.
"Perez-Gomez said.
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