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Wednesday, July 22, 1987/Kansan Summer weekiy
University budget cuts force less maintenance
By JEAN KETTER
Special to the Kansan
With its back against the wall, the department of facilities operations will do less maintenance and more of what its director, Tom Anderson, calls "creative financing" to make ends meet this fiscal year.
The University appropriated the department $1.031 million for the 1988 fiscal year, which began July 1. The amount will fall about $1 million short of the department's expected outlays, said Steve Green, assistant director of information systems facilities operations.
The fiscal 1987 deficit came to about the same amount, Green said. To help make up that deficit, the department earned $818,000 last year through "creative financing", which means taking on non-maintenance paying jobs for other campus departments. When facilities operations workers perform jobs other than routine maintenance for other University departments, those departments pay on a job-boy basis.
"If someone wants a room painted because he doesn't like the color, we'll do it, but we'll charge him," Green said. "That's not considered maintenance anymore.
"Our big goal is to generate revenue, so the emphasis is on reimbursements."
During fiscal year 1980, the department made $190,000 repairing and painting University vehicles in its garage. It also repaired parking lots and completed large remodeling projects and smaller decorating jobs
The facilities operations workers cut keys, painted signs, made badges and sold supplies to University laboratories. Green said.
Sometimes the department has delayed routine maintenance to concentrate on the paving jobs.
"We have delayed repairing sidewalks that are marginal, which we would have repaired under normal conditions, and have opted for income-producing jobs," Anderson said.
"The mowing of certain areas normally done once a week is now
Equipment maintenance is also less thorough. Belts are not replaced until completely worn, and filters on air conditioners are not cleaned as regularly as they once were, Anderson said.
Instead, facilities operations workers spend their time on money-making projects.
After University-wide budget cuts last year, the department eliminated 40 staff positions to save money for general operations. Green said the department hoped to reintitute some of those positions this year if there were no additional state cutbacks.
"When I came here in 1981, the landscape staff had 36 people; now we have only 25," he said.
Other money-saving measures include cutbacks in travel expenses and equipment purchases, Green said.
The Cavaliers from Rosemont, ill., left, and the Star of Indiana, from Bloomington, Ind., will be two of four groups performing in the Drum
Corps international competition, to be held tonight at Memorial Stadium.
Two KU band members to perform in corps
By a Kansan reporter
Two KU students will perform in a drum and bugle corps competition at 6:30 tonight at Memorial Stadium.
shall, Mo., sophomore, are members of the Sky Ryders, a drum and bugle corps from Hutchinson. Bland is a member of the drum corps, and Samson is a member of the flag corps.
groups will compete in "Horns on the Range," a Drum Corps International competition. The other corps groups are the Cavaliers from Rosemont, Ill.; the Colts from Dubuque, Iowa; the Knights from Genesco, Ill.; and the Star of
Keith Bland, Prairie Village junior, and Sarah Samson, Mar-
The Sky Ryders and four other
Indiana from Bloomington. Ind
Tickets for the event are $8; admission is free for children 3 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the KU band office, 214 Murphy Hall or at Memorial Stadium.
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