University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 15, 1989
Margin financing affects association
by Scott Achelpohl Kansan staff writer
The Kansas University Endowment Association is watching the Margin of Excellence and its relationship to the association's own state financing efforts, an Endowment Association official said yesterday.
Jim Martin, executive vice president of the Endowment Association, said a proposal Monday by the State Senate Ways and Means Committee would help provide an advantageous financing balance for KU.
"The action by the Ways and Means committee, if ultimately funded, will provide the kind of complementary funding that makes for the best possible relationship between public and private support for the KKM said. "I think it makes the state that state wants to do all it can."
At Monday's session, the Senate
committee proposed full financing of the second year of the Margin.
The Margin is 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 Endowment Association helps provide private dollars to the University through such programs as Campaign Kansas. The funds supplement current financing by the state, Martin said.
Programs financed by private donations include undergraduate and graduate scholarships, acquisitions for KU libraries and museums and with both the Lawrence and University of Kansas Medical Center campuses.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said private support was important to KU's competition with peer schools.
"The University cannot be truly
competitive without private support," Budig said. "A lot of people (at the Endowment Association) are heavily involved in fund raising."
Figures provided by the Endowment Association show the importance of its role in supplying the training staff to the KU, with private support, Martin said.
Budig said KU's total operating budget for 1989 was more than $400 million for both the Lawrence and Med Center campuses.
In 1988, the Endowment Association provided $26.7 million in direct support for KU. Martin said.
Martin said the increase was partly due to interest payments on invested Endowment Association campaigns by the association.
Keith Notcher, University director of business affairs, said the 1989 operating budget for the Lawrence campus was about $205 million.
Jayhawk Bookstore's rezoning plan unanimously denied by commission
by Carrie Harper
Kenyon staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission last night unanimously denied a rezoning request by Jayhawk Book Store and the Wynn Group, for amending the Uniform Fire Code.
Kansan staff writer
Although Mike Vieux, the architect for the proposed Jayhawk Bookstore expansion, requested a three-week deterral, the commission decided there was enough evidence to address the rezoning issue.
Vieux said he wanted to meet with the owner, Bill Muggy, to discuss further changes in the plan because the planning commission recommended that the commission deny the rezoning request.
The planning commission originally asked Muggy to meet with neighbors and attempt to reach a building complex four residents attended a meeting.
Vieux said he wanted to emphasize that Muggy had tried to compromise and that there was no perfect solution. Vieux said he thought the expansion plan would solve problems, not create them.
The expansion would not change the use of the property, except that there no longer would be apartments on the bookstore, Vieux said. The construction would improve only the appearance of the site.
"It if it is not approved, it's a loss to the neighborhood aesthetically." Vieux said, asking that the commission continue compromising.
The bookstore is located at 1420 Crescent Road, on the edge of the University of Kansas main campus and is bordered by high-density housing (sorortites) on the south and east, and low-density single-family residential property on the north and west. The planning commission also noted that few changes had taken place in the neighborhood in 20 years.
More than 200 neighbors signed a petition protesting changing the zoning from residential to commercial buildings by way for future commercial expansions.
Price Banks, city planning director, said the site of the bookstore was in a place that existed before the zoning so it operated under a grandfather clause.
Banks told the commission the proposed rezoning would require a minimum of two acres for the commercial development and a 30-foot setback boundary on all sides of the building.
The size of the Jayhawk Bookstore lot is almost half an acre. Banks said.
Bill Mitchell, who also lives near the bookstore, said he was not concerned about minimal expansion of the university mainly about possible future expansion.
Because the commission denied the reening request, Jayhawk Bookstore might come back to the commission to request expansion within the grandfather clause, but no further requests will be heard. Banks said.
Keith Meyer, professor of law who lives near the bookstore, agreed there needed to be competition for residents with residents opposed reopening the site.
hood resident, said he thought there had been a decline in the attractiveness of the bookstore.
"The University is the reason why most of us are here," Petefish said. "I think there ought to be something ought to the entrance to that institution."
Olin Petefish, another neighbor
Commissioner Dennis Constance said the bookstore could expand under the grandfather clause, but Mr. Constance argued to densification of the neighborhood.
The commission also continued discussion about adopting the proposed 1888 Uniform Fire Code.
Mayor Bob Schumm said there were primarily three issues of concern. The questions of how the proposed sprinkler requirement would be implemented houses and how it would affect Nashville Hall have attracted debate.
The distinction between the definition of a building story as opposed to a level for fire safety requirements also has been discussed. The proposed fire code would require that newly constructed apartments and hotels of three or more levels have sprinkler systems.
A level that is more than 50 percent banked by earth on at least one side has been considered a basement and object to the three-story requirement.
Schumm asked the primary groups concerned to meet separately with the building Code Board and the Fire Code Board of Appeals to work out a compromise Schumm set a deadline for the groups and asked that the groups present their conclusions to the commission at that time.
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