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Results of Margin audit reviewed
TOPEKA - A requested post-audit report on Margin of Excellence spending was reviewed by a special joint committee yesterday.
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
Although the committee reviewed the report, it was not approved because Yost and Bogina were not present.
State Sen. Gus Bogina, R Shawnee, and Ery Stout, R-Wichita, requested last February that the state remove Mr. Jenkins where the Margin money was spent.
The audit focused on Wichita State University and Kansas State University in 1989 and 1990.
Mary Beth Green, senior auditor for the legislative Post Audit, said no irregularities were found in the spending of Marin monies.
"In all, we concluded that all money budgeted fell within the broad boundaries studied." she said.
But State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Lawdor, was unsatisfied with the results.
"What percentage of Margin or excellence month actually ended up in the league?"
Green said that those percentages were not available but added that during the first two years of the Margin, faculty salary increases were higher than administrative salary increases.
Stanley Kolpak, executive director of the Board of Regents, said he had been given the age when the Regents had finished its audit of all seven Regents institutions.
"Our parallel audit will show the same conclusions and recommendations that the auditors suggested to us," he said. "The money has been administered for the purpose for which it was sought."
"The money was requested to improve faculty salaries, make them more competitive and make more positions more attractive for recruitment." The money was administered consistent with that request," Koplik said.
Bill to restore education money locked in debate
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents financing bill hit the Senate floor yesterday, and an attempt to restore tax relief made education met strong opposition.
State SEN. Wint Winter Jr., R- Lawrence, proposed an amendment to increase State General Fund spending on education more than $8.6 million for fiscal 1992 and freezes district budget at 1991-92 levels.
If the amendment survives conservative opposition, $20 million would be restored to the Regents budget, and $60 million would be provided to finance the 304 school districts in Kansas.
By freezing budget levels and ear-
marking the $60 million for school
district financing, property taxes
decreased by more than $18
million.
The remaining $6.5 million would go to special education, transportation, community colleges and Washburn University.
The decrease in property taxes would be the result of greater state taxes and less local taxes going to school district financing.
However, if the Senate Ways and Means committee's proposed budget package that is now on the floor is changed, $160 million could increase almost $160 million.
Although Winter did not propose a plan to raise the revenue needed for this amendment, he said it was not necessary. He argued either a sales or income tax increase.
"We can either tell the people what they want to hear, or we can tell the people the truth," he said. "The truth tells us. It doesn't tell with what we have, there's going to
be huge property tax increases, and there will also be huge cuts in education, which I think is important to all of us."
But Gus Bogina, R-Shawne, said the state should raise revenues before earmarking them for programs.
"Can you really spend $10 million you don't have?" he asked. "If we're going to raise revenues, let's do that." We spend it according to our priorities.
Bogina also referred to the failed 1990 Kansas State University proposal to cancel programs as an indication of egents institutions could save money.
"We read in the papers that Kansas State could have saved $3 million, but the college president didn't do that." he said.
State Sen. Phil Martin, D-Pittsburg, said education was essential
for economic growth.
"Our growth depends upon students coming out of quality Regents institutions and elementary and secondary schools," he said.
State Sen. Richard Bond, R-Overland Park, proposed to divide the issue into two separate amendments; one to address the budget limitation and the other to address the appropriation of the $85.6 million.
The division was proposed to kill Winter's amendment, but the senator appeared cautiously optimistic after the Republican was labeled for discussion until today.
"I know we will pick up some people because of the division," he said. "The biggest problem is that some people think it's too early to get started, but when it's the 83rd or 90th day of the session, argument is weak."
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