Page Eight
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, January 20, 1972
Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, January 20, 1972
WELFARE, EDUCATION COSTS UP
State
LANSING, Mich. (A) - Record
spending levels of more than $1
billion for education and nearly
$600 million for welfare highlight
Gov. William Milliken's $2.27-
billion budget proposal for the fis-
cal year starting July 1.
No new taxes are proposed in
the fiscal year, although Milliken
is pushing a two-cent per gallon
increase in the state gasoline tax
budget
for roadbuilding and establish-
ment of an urban transportation
fund.
The budget articipates a surplus
of $11.7 million at the end of the
fiscal year in mid-1973, based on
state revenue estimates.
The proposals for school aid,
higher education and the Depart-
ment of Education are up a total
of some $81 million from current
appropriations.
hiked $224
Welfare, the controversial issue
that dragged out the completion
of the current budget until De-
cember, is earmarked for a boost
of some $75 million over the cur-
rent year's level.
The main increases were for
public and mental health, correc-
tions, natural resources and edu-
cation, as well:as welfare.
In addition, some $92 million
MILLIKEN PLAN:
State funding hike would aid 'U'
(Continued from Page 1)
costs, primarily earmarked for the
literary college, which the execu-
tive budget bureau characterized
as being "designed to ameliorate
cumulative problems of obsoles-
cence in the college's facilities and
equipment;
-$500,000. "Enrollment mix-
cost increases." This is related to
the governor's budget policy of
limiting total enrollment, while at
the same time, emphasizing grad-
uate, professional and other pro-
grams which are unique to the
University. This tends to increase
enrollment somewhat in the Na-
Milliken hikes
a ro riations
(Continued from Page 1)
levels at three-fourths of one per
cent of the operating budgets of
the state's schools.
Thus, the proposed allocation
for University student aid-$926,-
000 - fell short of the University's
request for $2.5 million to meet
its commitment for student sup-
port.
Smith said he would "discount
the possibility" of a tuition in-
crease - "except for the problem
of funding student aid." The
funds, however, could be restored
when the Legislature considers the
recommendation or through re-
allocation of University monies,
Smith said.,
The Legislature will begin tackl-
ing the University's appropriation'
in mid-February when adminis-
trators meet with representatives
of the, state's Legislative Fiscal
Agency. Final approval of the ap-
propriations bill is expected in
May or June - well ahead of the
dragged-out timetable under which
this year's bill was worked out.
It is quite possible the Legisla-
ture may shave the recommended
appropriation down when it con-
siders the proposal - particularly
, since the governor's recommenda-
tion was larger than those of re-
cent years.
The University's percentage in-
crease this year equaled that of
Michigan State University - fol-
lowing a year in which the Uni-
versity received the smallest in-
crease percentage-wise among the
state's universities and colleges.
Community colleges, a top state'
funding priority in past years, re-
ceived a smaller percentage in-
crease' this time around.
tural Resources, Architecture and
Design, and Business Administra-
tion schools and the health sci-
ence areas-most of which have
a higher cost per student than the
"average" course of study; and
-$926,000. Student financial
aid programs.
But while these programs al-
ready total $9.5 million, Univer-
sity officials are quick to point
out that their needs go beyond
these programs.
For example, Allan Smith, vice
president for financial affairs, says
the University may be forced to
expend about $640,000 if the De-
troit Edison Company is granted
a rate increase for its electrical
service.
In addition, Smith says that
the University must spend about
$250,000 for acquisition of books
and materials for the Ann Arbor
campus' libraries - an'allocation
Smith has long termed "a top
priority."
Then too, University officials
says that they need an addition-
al $1.9 million for student finan-
cial aid. This is largely to meet
enrollment quotas for minority
students which were accepted by
the University after the Black
Action Movement (BAM) class
strike in spring 1970.
It is primarily this need for ad-
ditional student aid funds that
Smaynecessitate a tuition increase
this spring, Smith says.
It is highly probable, however,
that student aid funding for the
University may be increased
above the governor's proposal by
either a House or Senate com-
mittee. Traditionally, these com-
mittees have attempted to make
minor adjustments in appropria-
tion figures to make them more
relevant to the needs of the in-
dividual institution.
In the case of student aid, the
University figure was arrived at
by applying a formula that was
used for all state universities. The
figure was simply an amount
equal to three-quarters of one per
cent of the University's general
fund budget.
Due to the BAM strike, how-
ever, the University has a com-
mitment to student aid that far
outstrips that of mostother state.
universities. Thus, it is likely that
the University's allocation for stu-
dent aid will be adjusted upward
accordingly.
In addition to the general fund
allocation p r o p o s a 1, Milliken
recommended about $5 million for
capital outlay expenditures by the
University during the coming fis-
cal year.
The recommendation, if ap-
proved by the Legislature, would
allow the Universityy to start work
on four major building projects,
including a new architecture and
design school and a "water re-
sources laboratory" to be used by,
the engineering college.
On the whole, the University
financial scene looks quite a bit
healthier than it did one year
ago.
Although austerity measures are
continuing throughout the current
academic year, Milliken's pro-j
posal makes prospects for the fu-
ture look brighter.
Last year, inadequate state
funding necessitated s e v e r a 1
across-the-board cutbacks, in ad-
dition to a tuition increase of
about 16 per cent.
Smith predicts that depart-
ments will not have to take simi-
lar action during the coming fis-
cal year.
would be required just ti
pay increases and other
tionary, costs of doing th
amount of government bus
the new fiscal year.
New programs come to
in-the-bucket $6 million
$4.3 million of that recom
in matching funds for
crime control grants. Thi:
take some pressure off loc
ernments seeking such gra
The governor also p
$75,000 to support regions
ning agencies around th
and $45,000 to fund a v
commission office.
Nearly every departm
state government was
mended for an increase ir
although Milliken propos
spending for the legisla
cut from $17.3 million t
million.
The top money propo
the budget are $616.7 mi
grants for school aid, $59
lion for welfare, $41.3 mil
higher education and $22
lion for mental health. Li
tops $5 million.
Revenue sharing, a key
last year's budget, got litt
tion this time. With his
for considering local tax e
well as population safety
into law, Milliken propos
ply $3.2 million in gre
make sure every unit wil
least $17 per person, in
from distributions of sa
come and intangibles taxi
Aid, however, is propose
cal units in the crime
grants and in $4.8 million
million
o cover to counties for administration of
infla- direct welfare relief.
ie same Traditionally, the legislature
siness in spends more money than the
governor proposes. Last year, Mil-
a drop- liken proposed a $1.97 billion bud-
, some get but wound up signing appro-
mended priations bills totaling $100 mil-
federal lion above that.
s would Milliken termed the area of so-
cal gov- cial services "the fastest growing
nts. and most difficult to predict in
roposed he budget," echoing his own words
al plan- of a year earlier.
e state He said the number of public
women's assistance recipients is expected
to grow to 671,000 in 1972-73,
compared with 262,400 in 1968-69.
Lent of Details of the budget were given
recom- to legislators by the governor's of-
n funds, fice yesterday. Milliken, vacation-
ed that ing in the Virgin Islands this
ture be week, revealed the budget total
o $15.5 last Thursday in his State of the
State message.;
)sals in He promised to present details
llion in this week, the earliest such out-
4.4 mil- line by a Michigan chief execu-
lion for tive in many years, and at the
8.6 mil- same time urged the Legislature to
ttle else set deadlines for its own work.
This year's budget was not fully
point in adopted until 51/2 months into the
le men- fiscal year.
formula The state's budget, Milliken
ffort as said, has virtually doubled in the
enacted last five years and increased an
ed sim- average of 19 per cent a year.
Legislators
divided on
budget plan
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don't think the money's there,"
says Sen. Coleman Young (D-De-
troit), Democratic floor leader.
Even if the state financial pic-1
ture has brightened, adds Senate
Appropriations Committee member
Sen. Earl Nelson (D-Lansing), "We
should practice the same scrutiny
of the budget now, as when we
were broke."
Speaking for his party, Sen.
Charles Zollar (R-Benton Harbor),
the influential chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
gave a nodding approval to the
governor's request saying, "Now
we're going to ask for accounta-
bility for these requests, as we do
each year. We have no built in
resentments, no real objections."
Yet Democratic Stempien sug-
gests that Milliken may be some-
what over-confident in his discus-
sion of state's finances with the
hopes of pumping renewed opti-
mism into his consitutents.
"A lack of confidence in the
marketplace prevails presently,"
says Stempien, "the best posture
practically for Milliken is to stick
to his predictions. I'm just some-
what pessimistic because I've
heard that song before," says
Stempien.
Daily Official Bulletin
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20
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for the Winter Term when the Regis-
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for refund purposes; b. allow refund for1
student who reduces hours of course
credit.1
Bomb scare
hits UGLI
The University's; Undergraduate
Library was evacuated last night
by virtue of a bomb scare.
The library was cleared for
about 15 minutes, from 7:45 to
8:00, after an unidentified caller
reported there was a bomb in the
building.
Burns Security Guard Steve
Nicholas said that Burns Extension
22 received a call at 7:40 warning
of the existence of the bomb. The
Daily received a similar call.
According to Nicholas, he and
Ann Arbor police then evacuated
the building. No thorough search
was made for the alleged bomb,
he said, since the Ann Arbor police
department has no bomb squads.
Nicholas said the incident was
"just another bomb scare," adding
that "the whole thing was pretty
much of a farce."
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