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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Feb. 3 1986
Regents ask Legislature for more wages, may get improved fringe benefit package
By Mark Siebert Staff writer
The Board of Regents asked the Kansas Legislature in Topeka last week for $2.6 million in salary and fringe benefit increases for employees.
What Regents employees may get is a vastly improved fringe benefits package which both a Regents and a University of Kansas official say is an attractive alternative.
Stanleykoplik, Regents executive officer,made a request to the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday which called for a 7 percent salary increase and a 1 percent addition to faculty retirement.
"The governor has made an interesting proposal in relation to retirement benefits," Koplik said.
"I think it should be examined."
Gov. John Carlin's investment budget, although it doesn't include a salary increase, would have the state pay the employees' share of the retirement program.
Currently, the retirement fund is made up of 11 percent of the employees' salary. Unclassified employees now contribute 5 percent while classified employees contribute 4 percent. The state pays the remaining 6 or 7 percent.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Sidney Shapiro, chairman of University Senate Executive Committee, said the governor's proposal, although it didn't include a salary increase, was a big step in the right direction.
"If you compare faculty com-
pension at KU and K-State, we really lag behind," he said. "The fringe benefit package at the two schools is the worst in the Big Eight."
Shapiro said that not increasing salary probably wouldn't hurt in the recruitment of new teachers because employee take-home pay would still increase. Retirement benefits normally deducted would remain in employees' paychecks.
Koplik said improving teacher benefits was crucial because in the next 25 years, two-thirds of the faculty in Kansas and the nation would need to be replaced.
"Our greater problem is on the fringe benefit side rather than the salary side," Koplik said. "If we can get rid of the fringe benefits item we would be immensely better off."
BONNER SPRINGS — A 42-year-old Wyandotte County man was named yesterday as a suspect in the death of a police officer found in her patrol car with a gunshot wound to her head, authorities said.
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She was parked in a dimly lit vacant lot filling out reports and gave no indication she was in trouble, a spokesman for the Wyandotte County Sheriff's department said.
Maureen Kelly Murphy, 28, was on duty when she was shot Friday night, officers said.
Suspect named in police killing
Police said they had obtained enough information to consider the man a suspect and were holding him in custody until formal charges were filed.
As soon as the investigation was complete, the entire file was to be reviewed by the Wyandotte County District Attorney for charges to be filed, said LL. Ron Miller of the Kansas City, Kan., police department.
Results from an autopsy performed Saturday afternoon determined Murphy died from a single gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. Several bullet fragments were recovered from Murphy and her patrol car.
"We know she was shot from outside (the patrol car) and from a distance," Miller said.
Two homes in the neighborhood were searched after the shooting occurred. The man being questioned
lived in the area, said Undersheriff Tim Johnson.
Fifteen officers assigned to the investigation followed up on about 60 leads, and some evidence was obtained from the homes, said Miller.
Bonner Springs police received a 911 emergency call at 8:08 p.m. from a person who said Murphy had been hurt, said Johnson.
"It appeared she was still in the process of completing a standard police report on something," Johnson said.
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