University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1987
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Kansas legislators battle over budget issues
By CHRISTOPHER HINES Staff writer
Staff writer
TOPEKA - State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa, eased back in his chair, took a puff from his pipe and drawled, "There's our offer, now you make us one."
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topke, poked down at the proposal, then pushed it away.
"Maybe you need some more time to see the light," he said.
That exchange came yesterday as six state legislators — members of a
Bogina replied, "We've already seen the light, you're wrong."
joint conference committee gathered in a high-ceilinged room on the first floor of the Kansas Statehouse to work out House and Senate differences on several budget bills.
The committee, however, failed to bring back for discussion the University of Kansas' 1987 fee release, the fiscal year 1988 operating budget and a proposal to slash the state's travel budget. Those issues were brought up Tuesday, but not decided.
The committee expects to address the issues again today, along with classified employee salary increases and budgets for primary and second-
Bogina, leader of the Senate delegation to the committee, said the House was stalling on the state's education budget until differences on other state agency budgets were resolved.
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"That's their strategy," Bogina said. "What they want I'm not sure."
The committee already has resolved some differences on financing for state prisons, welfare and the state highway patrol.
highway part of. The major stumbling block to an overall spending compromise between the House and Senate is the
amount of money that should be left as a balance in the state's general fund, said State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, a member of the committee.
"If we could resolve this issue a lot of problems would be out of the way," she said. "Education takes the place of course it's going to be affected."
Bunten said he wanted to leave a balance of about $155 million in the state's general fund, but Bogina said he considered $143 million a more reasonable figure. The final balance decided could affect faculty raises,
KU's fee release and the fiscal 1988 operating budget, Bogina said.
Both Bunten and Bogina said that neither side had seriously addressed state university budgets or fee releases. They said they hoped to resolve their differences today.
The House had recommended releasing about $600,000 in KU fees and a 1.5 percent faculty salary increase for the last half of fiscal year 1988. But the Senate had raised the 1987 fee release to about $900,000 and faculty to 2.5 percent for the entire fiscal year 1988.
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KU's administration keeps files that violate guidelines, prof says
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KU's administration is keeping files that violate University of Kansas guidelines, an associate professor said Monday.
But Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said, "That's absolutely not true. We do not keep confidential files of faculty."
The University keeps a personnel file on each faculty member, said Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Clark has a copy of a letter from Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, to Brinkman. Clark said he got the copy from his regular personnel file in the office of academic affairs.
Clark said the inquiry Thomas referred to in the letter was Clark's request to see another letter written by an engineering faculty member.
The letter is marked "Confidential" and is dated Sept. 26. It says in part, "Attached is Brower's file on Hector Clark. If there is another file, let me know." Also attached is a draft for you to consider using in response to his recent inquiry."
Burchill solicited the letter from the other faculty member and then told Clark about the letter, Clark said. Burchill would not reveal the author or the contents of the letter, Clark said.
"Burchill solicited statements from faculty members concerning
their view of my behavior." Clark said. "I don't know what motivated him to ask for the letter. But I think it's an extraordinary act."
Burchill said Monday, "I don't remember ever doing that."
On Nov. 26, Clark wrote a letter to Burchill asking to see the "file on Hector Clark."
Burchill's reply, dated Dec. 4, said that he didn't have a confidential file on Clark "so whatever Vickie Thomas was referring to in her Sept. 26, 1986 memo to Del Brinkman was misnamed."
"Our office does not ever comment on personnel matters." she said.
Thomas said Monday that the administration used a policy of confidentiality on personnel matters and that she couldn't comment on Clark's
"What I do have is an administrative file about the department of mechanical engineering, but it contains information to and from several parties, so in no way could it be construed as being a file on any individual," Burchill's letter said.
Clark said he thought the administration was keeping files that violated Article VII of the Faculty Senate rules and regulations.
The article says, "Files and dossiers on individual faculty members are in general to be treated as confidential, with access limited to the individual concerned . . ."
Burchill said he didn't know of any personnel files that violated the Faculty Senate rules and regulations.
But Clark said, "What we have here is the University general
counsel hawking confidential files around the administration."
Under the Faculty Senate rules, faculty members may be denied access to certain confidential files on them. But the administration must at least notify a faculty member when he or she is the subject of a confidential file.
Clark said he never was notified.
"It appears to me that they ought to abide by the regulations as written." Clark said. "In this case, they have arrogantly ignored them. And my protestations were arrogantly brushed aside."
Clark said he brought a grievance against Thomas through Chancellor Gene A. Budig's office and grievances against Burchill and Brinkman through the University judicial board.
The grievances were dismissed, he said.
Jan Sheldon, chairman of the judicial board, said she could not comment on grievances filed with the judicial board.
"Of course the implication is that if they have a file on me, they have a file on somebody else," he said.
Clark said, "I think the fewer secrets we have, the better. There is something called collegiality in the University. But the administration doesn't seem to feel collegiality on a mutual basis.
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