UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 3,1995
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Groups grumble about funding
Student Senate to decide on allocations suggested by finance committee
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
The mood of representatives from some organizations financed by Student Senate ranged from despair to mild content after the finance committee made its budget suggestions Wednesday night.
Although Senate last week approved a $7 increase in the activity fee, the increased funding was not enough to please every organization.
The finance committee's bill of apportionment, which details the amount of money groups financed by Senate will get in two-year blocks, passed with little debate.
The bill will go before Student Senate on Wednesday.
"If it's a done deal, it's a major loss," said Robert Foster, director of KU Bands.
KU Bands requested a total of $82,000 for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, said Cindy Koester, office manager for KU Bands. The bill passed by the finance committee proposed allocating $66,140 to KU Bands.
"This is a sizable cut from what we've had in the last few years, so it means we will have to really scale back." she said.
Koester said that the organization would not be able to bring as many guest artists to campus as it had honed.
"It will affect our total program because it will cut equipment needs that we might have," she said.
Foster said that because of the cuts, the band would not be able to travel to Denton, Texas, for the Sept. 9 football game between KU and the
University of North Texas. KU bands also may miss some away basketball games.
"Are we supposed to just play 75 percent of the basketball games and leave some of them out?" he asked.
The finance committee proposed $129,827 for the Lied Center. For the last two-year period, the center received $97,700, but artists' fees have increased sharply, said Karen Christilles, director of public relations for the Lied Center.
Christilles said the center may be able to hold only 20 percent of event tickets for students next year, as opposed to the 35 percent of event tickets reserved for students this year.
"It was either that or raise ticket prices, and we didn't want to raise ticket prices for students," she said.
Katherine Pryor, associate director of University Theatre, said that ticket prices for plays may go up.
University Theatre requested $77,500. The finance committee proposed allocating $68,155.
Women's Transitional Care Services is one group that could receive the money it requested. The finance committee proposed allocating $11,860, which is the amount the group requested.
"We appreciate that they didn't cut us in any substantial way," said Connie Brooks, coordinator of women's programs. "We wanted to be very realistic in the number that we sent them."
Finance committee members said the proposed allocations were the best the committee could do with its resources.
"The groups would've been able to get the money they needed if we would've gotten the $11 fee increase," said Stephanie Guerin, chairwoman of the committee.
Senate rejected a proposed $11 increase in the activity fee in favor of the $7 increase.
"We had to split it up as well as we could," said Allen Pierce, committee member. "I think overall it turned out really good."
The Student Senate Finance Committee approved two-year blocks of funding for these campus groups.
Proposed allocations
Black Student Union $23,500
Campus Transportation
Center for Community Outreach
£3,750
Elections Commission $8.984
Graduate Student Council $83,700
$83,100
■ Hispanic American Leadership Organization
$9,385
■ Headquarters
$38,149
■ Hilltop Child Development Center
$18,000
■ KU Bands
$66,140
■ KU Forensics
$12,000
■ Legal Services for Students
$207,725
■ Lied Center Series
$129,827
■ Rape Victim Survivor Services
$26,000
■ Student Bar Association
$12,320
■ Student Senate
$87,500
■ University Dance Company
$11,000
■ University Theatre
$68,155
■ Women's Transitional Care Services
$11,860
Two groups join trafficway dispute
New opposition says Yankee Tank Creek would be harmed
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
a permit required to cross Yankee Tank Creek.
Two more environmental groups yesterday joined the growing opposition to the proposed routing of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
he order brought environmental
At a press conference at the Lawrence Public Library, officials from the Kansas Natural Resource Council and the Wakarusa Group of the Kansas Sierra Club said Douglas County officials had not sufficiently studied the effects the trafficway would have on the floodway of Yankee Tank Creek near Clinton Lake.
On Feb. 14, the Kansas Division of Water Resources ordered Douglas County officials to halt construction on the trafficway south of Clinton Parkway because it had failed to get
The order brou issues in the area to the attention of the Natural Resource Council and the Sierra Club.
Haskell Indian Nations University, Baker University and the Environmental Protection Agency already have expressed concern over damage the trafficway could do to wetlands on
completed in 1990, which will address wetland concerns. The supplement should be completed some-
Bob Eye Coalition representative
the east edge of the proposed route. Those groups, along with other state and federal agencies, are working on a supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement
time this spring.
Bob Craven, legislative coordinator for the N a t u r l a R
Resource Council, said the coalition composed of council members and Sierra Club mem bers wanted Douglas County officials to include the floodway and floodplain area of Yankee Bank Creek.
the supplemental statement.
The water quality of Yankee Tank Creek could be damaged by the trafficway. The road, which would cut across the creek's floodway, could
prevent the bottom lands from draining properly, resulting in disastrous floods, Craven said.
John Pasley, project coordinator for Douglas County, could not be reached for comment.
Bob Eye, a representative for the coalition, said he thought that the federal government and the Kansas Department of Transportation should more closely study the environmental impact that the trafficway could have on the area.
If they do not, Eye said, the coalition would be prepared to take legal action.
"Once in a while, you have no choice but to resort to the judiciary, and if that is our only option, we will seriously consider it," Eye said.
"We feel very confident, however, that the evidence is sufficient here for the agencies to take the kinds of actions that we've requested," he said.
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