The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 21, 1980-Page 3 City may lose $510,000' By ELAINE RIDEOUT The city may lose $510,000 in an- ticipated state funding and face a $716,000 budget deficit this year, Assistant City Administrator Patrick Kenney told city council members last night. More than half of the cut state revenue was earmarked for fire protec- tion services. Kenney attributed the loss of state revenues to the recent severe downturn in Michigan's economy. KENNEY SAID he was not sure how the city will absorb the revenue cut, but he said he expects to present revised budget recommendations to council within four to six weeks. Council approved a $44.4 million balanced city budget last May, but it was balanced only by drawing $355,300 from a $900,000 city surplus fund. "We may have to consider using a greater portion of the surplus," Kenney added. City Administrator Terry Sprenkel suggested that one way the city may meet a drop in state revenues would be to avoid including tax revenues in budget estimates. "We have a number of options, but it wouldn't be proper to place them before council until after the election," he said. SPRENKEL SAID the upcoming election will have great ramifications for the city both in terms of tax and federal revenue issues. Kenney said budget figures must be viewed as tentative. He explained that the uncertainty surrounding the city's share of state and federal revenues is based on the respective legislatures, which have not yet allocated funds. "We are assuming Congress will reenact federal revenue sharing at existing levels," Kenney said. "If not-then we'll have severe budget problems." Kenney said the federal portion of the city budget makes up "well over a million (dollars)." He said he expects Congress to act on the revenue sharing program upon reconvening after the election. KENNEY ALSO SAID the state budget proposed by Gov. William Milliken calls for an approximate $245,000 cut in state-subsidized fire protection services. Under a program set up in 1977, the city receives $441,000 from the state each year for providing fire protection services to the University. State budget officials are considering eliminating the program entirely in their efforts to bring the 1980-81 budget in line with drastically reduced revenues. Should the program be eliminated, Mayor Lou Belcher said the city would continue to pay for campus fire service at the expense of other city projects. Kenney indicated that after the first quarter, most of the city budgets "are on target." The two major exceptions are: " A projected $200,000 deficit in the Parks and Recreation budget due to the July 16 storm; " A projected $100,000 surplus in the Insurance account due to smaller than anticipated premium costs for medical, general liability, and automobile liability insurances. The University of M Ch ~3'* DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DRAMA GUEST ARTIST SERIES presents spring. awakening by Frank Wedekind et. 2-25, 8pm Oct. 26, 2pm in the Power Center Tickets at P.T P. Call 764-0450 MasterChrge~ and Visa accepted Nurses' contract talks continue Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK GEORGIA STATE Senator Julian Bond speaks about racial inequity in housing to a crowd at a PIRGIM housing conference meeting Sunday. Senator charges racial housing bias By CLAUDIA CENTOMINI The American dream of "a house with all the extras" will remain un- fulfilled for many blacks because of continued discrimination in housing, Georgia StateSenator Julian Bond said Sunday in the concluding speech of PIRGIM's four-day housing conference. The civil rights activist said there is an "unalterable' barrier of race" in housing. AT EVERY level of income, blacks are likely to be living at a lower standard than whites, the three-term state senator explained to 175 people in the Michigan League ballroom. "Half of black Americans live in homes built before World War II," Bond said. And many of these homes, he explained, are run down and have inadequate heating and plumbing. Discrimination in housing con- tinues, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act still is ineffective, he said. BOND CALLED the act "legislative wishfulness . . . what, should be rather than ... what must be." Recent federal and local programs promoting "reinvest- ment" and renovation of housing in inner city neighborhoods has not helped the residents of these areas, Bond said. In such cases, he explained, developers often buy the inner city homes for very small amounts. Af- ter the renovations, however, only middle class residents can afford to move back into them, Bond said. "HOMES are renovated ... long- time homeowners are forced out," Bond said. "The replacing class is almost always white." The state senator also suggested ways to remedy the situation. "We must restructure our thinking: Old is valuable and necessary as well," he said. "If we sit back and wait passively for the government to act in our behalf, we are in for a long, long wait," Bond said. He encouraged community organizing, rent control, new zoning laws, and demolition projects as ways to alleviate the housing crisis many low income people face. Before taking his seat in the state senate in 1974, the 40-year-old Bond served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives. The legislator is also a journalist and an actor; he played the part of a civil rights lawyer in the movie Greased Lightning. By JULIE SELBST University Hospital registered nurses and hospital administrators still had not reached a contract agreement when negotiating teams left the bargaining table last night after the fifteenth round of negotiations. Nursing spokeswoman Margot Barron, who is also head of the nurses' bargaining unit, would not say how much progress has been made. "I HAVE NOTHING to say right now," Barron said. Barron has repeatedly refused to comment, and earlier expressed the fear that a public statement made before a ratification vote might sabotage the contract negotiations. University Assistant Personnel DUTCH PAINTING WORCHESTER, Mass. (AP)-The Worcester Art Museum has added a painting by William van Neiuwlandt to its collection of 17th-century Dutch art. The 1630 painting, titled "Laban Searching for His Idols," is the museum's first Dutch painting representing a subject from the Old Testament. INSTANT CASHI' WE'RE PAYING $1-$2 PER-DISC FOR YOUR ALBUMS tN GOOD SHAPE. 90RECOR DS OPEN MON.-SAT. 10-6 209 S. STATE 769-7075 Director John Forsyth also has refused to comment on the items being resolved, but did venture to say that negotiations may be more than half over. "In terms of issues, they're not half- way yet," Forsyth said late last week, "but in terms of time they may well be more than half way." 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