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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 17, 1991
No cuts seen in state's KU budget
By Jonathan Plummer Kanean staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
State legislators and officials from KU said yesterday that they did not expect Gov Joan Finney's budget proposal to cut the University's $1 billion in funding the final budget will have to increase financing or decrease state spending.
Finney will present her budget to both chambers of the Kansas Legislature on Tuesday.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence he would be a sheriff
of Jackson. [HORROR]
"As for the future, I don't have a crystal ball," Winter said, "but it will be over my cold corpse that a budget cuts KU and higher education."
Winter speculated that the monetary increase needed to maintain or increase money to KU could come from various sources, including:
- transferring money budgeted for other departments
- transferring money budgeted for other departments.
- ending exemptions from sales taxes for some businesses, as proposed by a bill earlier this year.
- increasing income taxes.
Winter also said he would again support a tax on cigarettes, a proposal on which he was a co-sponsor last year.
State Rep. Sandra Praeger, RLawrence, also said she would support the Board of Regents in the budget process, although she would
not immediately support a cigarette tax.
"I think we will look at anything and everything," she said. "I think it is important enough, and a priority can get it from the general fund."
Linda Eakin, KU budget director, said his office did not expect Finney to make large reductions, based in part on her statements of support for the Margin of Excellence in the gubernatorial campaign.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Eakin said his office would not begin considering the budget specification.
"Historically, the Regents budget is not discussed until around late April." he said. "We certainly are not identifying programs at risk. In the past, we have waited to see the magnitude of a reduction."
But Allan Cigler, professor of political science, was not as optimistic
"The reality of the situation is that there appears to be some priorities that are greater than higher education," he said. "There seems to be a very good possibility of no increase in state services or a token at best."
State and KU officials hope budget will include Margin
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer
Though many other states are facing a crisis in financing for their universities, provoking some to announce midterm cuts in financing, state representatives does not have such problems.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said there even may be hope that the Margin of Excellence will be reintroduced by Gov Joan Finney, who will present her argument to the Legislature on Tuesday.
"The preliminary indication from her office is that the Margin will be part of her recommendation." Schreiner said.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature first two years but not the third
State Rep. Sandra Praeger, R-Lawrence, said she did not think
"Money will not be taken from what has been allocated," she said.
higher education in Kansas would suffer as it has in other states.
At least 12 states have announced midterm cuts in financing for higher education, more than during the recession in the early 1980s, said Richard Ullman of National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, based in Washington, D.C.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.A.
Lawrence, said avoiding cuts in
Board of Regents financing would
not be easy.
"It seems to me saving nurses, education requires every arm we have at our disposal right now." Winter said. "But after one heck of us, we must be the end of the year, if we fight hard enough, we will have the funding
"If other states want to sacrifice their education programs, that's their decision, but it isn't going to be ours."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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