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Thursday, April 18, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
KU offices resort to cost-cutting as supplies dwindle at year's end
Kansan staff writer
As the fiscal year is winding down at KU,
there are some of the offices in the office at Sirofyu.
With the lack of money, some offices have resorted to cost-cutting measures.
The University governance office is doing its part by limiting the number of photocopies Executive Committee and Universities are sending to reducing the type size of copied documents.
The situation was discussed at Tuesday's SenXe meeting as a continuing problem for the team.
"We are trying to not have any extra copies, said Frances Ingemann, chairperson."
Ingemann said that governance members had been informed that they would receive a $10,000 settlement.
would be expected to file them and bring them to meetings.
"It does create some problems," she said,
"because sometimes you can't locate a door."
Members sometimes forget to bring documents to meetings, she said.
To cut costs, type size of copies has been reduced in the governance office so that two normal-sized pages will fit on one 8½-by-11 inch page, Ingemann said. Unfortunately, with the small print, she said it was sometimes difficult to read and mark revisions.
Some documents are no longer distributed but are available on request in the government.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, told SenEx members at the meeting that the problem of supplies and financing was a problem campus-wide.
"Every other office is suffering from the
same dilemma you are," he said.
Shankel said changes in budgetary allotments to offices could not be made until after the Legislature had acted on the matter of financing.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that at the end of the budgetary year, individual concerns concerned about staying within their budgets.
He said there was some concern earlier in the year about, possible cutbacks in financing. But the habit of cutting copies and resources is normal.
"You try to live within your budget," Shulen burger said.
Jim Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the shortages this year were not any greater than they had been in the past.
The Associated Press
Recession and Medicaid place severe strain on state budgets
WASHINGTON — States are in the worst financial shape in a decade, the nation's governors said yesterday in a report that blames most of the problems on the recession and federally ordered increases in Medicaid spending.
Soaring health costs and declining revenues are forcing many states to cut budgets or raise taxes, the National Gov. announcement said in its annual fiscal state survey.
Ray Scheppach, executive director of the association, said the outlook would remain bleak for many states even after the recession ended because of spiraling health care costs, growing prison populations and a decline in environmental and children's programs.
Twenty-six states are raising taxes by $10.3 billion, Scheppach said. That tax increase is the largest since the group
began conducting its survey in 1978.
The governors' group said 29 states had trimmed more than $8 billion out of this year's budget.
Financial stress has caused states to shrink their year-end budget surpluses, which weaken their safeguard against future difficulties or possible recessions.
Total state spending increased annually throughout the 1980s, averaging 8.3 percent. Spending increase projections are based on current this year and 4.8 percent in fiscal 1992.
Thirty-seven states will spend more on Medicaid this year than originally budgeted, the study said. Medicaid provides health care to the poor, with costs shared by the federal and state governments.
Until the Medicaid program is brought under control, state budgets are likely to be underfunded.
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