Thursday, April 3, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Job confusion adds to Senate office chores
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Confusion about job descriptions and a lack of communication in explaining jobs have caused extra work for two Student Senate office staff members.
A routine inventory that should be done monthly by Student Senate has not been done and is causing problems and extra work for office staff members, Jennifer Balzer, Senate executive secretary and Tom Woods, Senate administrative assistant, said this week.
Student Senate inventory requirements call for stickers to be placed on each item purchased by Senate or a Senate-financed organization. This was not done, said Balzer and Woods.
Woods said. "The last administration didn't put stickers on anything. We have to redo all computer printouts for Senate since August of last year."
Jeff Polack, the last administration's student body vice president, said he thought inventory did not need to be done each month.
"As far as I know, it was only supposed to be done on an annual basis."
Polack said. "There really was no pressing need to know inventory. It wasn't a big problem. It wasn't something we would wake up in the morning worrying about."
The last inventory was completed in the summer of 1985 by Amy Kincard, one of several executive under the last administration.
"The turnover was so high last year, "the weather was no clear job description for the executive secretary," Kincaid said. "I had no idea what was to be done or what was expected of the position."
Monthly inventories have not been done since April 1985 and internal records in Senate have not been filed since May 1983, they said.
Woods said, "Inventory is taking a lot of time to do because it hasn't been kept up. We didn't know inventory had to be done. No one told us because no one has done it in the past."
However, doing the inventory is part of the job description of the administrative assistant, according to Student Senate rules and regulations.
Amy Brown, student body vice president, said she and David Epstein, student body president, encouraged officers to read the rules and regulations about their job descriptions.
"David and I didn't sit down and read the job descriptions to the officers, but we made it clear what they do," she said. "I also encouraged them to look at the rules and regulations themselves."
Inventory is a state requirement in which Student Senate verifies everything that is bought either by Senate or by one of its organizations. Woodbridge.
Items valued at or more than $200
and books that are worth at least $50 must be inventoried. Items include such equipment as oars and boats that the Kansas crew team uses, materials in the Senate office and expensive law books used by law school
Woods said the merchandise to be inventoried this year was worth more than $155,000.
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New open-container law pending
Senate bill would toughen DUI law
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
A Senate committee passed a bill yesterday designed to close a loophole in the law against driving, under the influence, another move by the Kansas Legislature to toughen the state's drinking and driving laws.
According to the bill, persons convicted of a DUI violation would not be allowed to enter into diversion agreements if they had a similar conviction in another state.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
On March 19, the House passed its version of the bill 122-1.
That version of the bill also said a person could not enter into a diversion agreement if his or her concentration of blood or breath alcohol was 20 or more.
That provision was eliminated by the Senate committee.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the committee's
amendment was better because it gave the prosecution the authority to enter into an agreement in a DUI case. Winter is a member of the judiciary committee.
The committee also heard testimony on another alcohol-related bill, which would require persons convicted of transporting an open container of alcohol to participate in a drug and alcohol abuse program.
The proposed law change would raise the fine for open-container convictions so a person would be more
likely to enroll in the safety program
The safety program would cost more than $100. Refusing to participate would call for a fine of $100 to the employer. The maximum number of six months, or both,
The bill would not allow persons to enter into plea-bargaining agreements to have their sentences suspended.
No action was taken on the measure yesterday, but Winter said he expected the committee to take final action today or tomorrow.
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