The Michigan Daily - Thursday, June 9, 1983 - Page 3 r Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT An employee of Joyce's Catering Service arranges snacks in preparation for construction workers at the University hospital construction site. The firm was recently barred from the site by officials who say it violates University policy. University bars catering service from hospital construction site Council finances program for the homeless By HALLE CZECHOWSKI City council members Monday night unanimously approved a plan to give $3,000 to shelter Ann Arbor's homeless. Rev. James Lewis, pastor of St. An- drew's Episcopal Church, requested the money to fund the church's shelter for the homeless during June. ST. ANDREW'S, the only shelter operating in Ann Arbor, received another $3,000 grant four weeks ago. But the money ran out last week and the program has been surviving on private donations. Lewis said the shelter will operate as long as the homeless have no where else to go. But church officials are pushing for a more permanent solution, and Lewis said he will "keep going back for as long as it takes" to solve the problem. "It's a great strain on the congregation," Lewis said. "They have said very clearly the strain cannot go on for much longer." TBE ANSWER MAY come at a meeting tonight, when the Mayor's Committee on Emergency Housing will decide whether to give the church the money, or use it to initiate a proposed program through the city's Community Development Office. The proposed plan would require homeless people to pick up a voucher at the Office to prove that they need shelter. The church had been finding rooms in the Ann Arbor "Y", Arbor Haven, the Embassy hotel, and a house leased on Division Street while the congregation had the money. But lately, the church has had to shelter the homeless in its own basement. LEWIS originally asked the council for $5,000, which is what it cost the church to run the shelter during May. See CITY, Page 7 By DAN GRANTHAM An Ypsilanti caterer who had serviced the University's Replacement Hospital Project for two-and-a-half years was banned from the construction site last month, after hospital security realized catering is prohibited on University property. Ben Kelso, co-owner of Joyce's Catering Service, said that University security officials forced him off the site in early May, despite an old agreement with the construction company that he could cater the project. BUT UNIVERSITY security officials contend that the old agreeemnt is invalid. "Catering has been prohibited on University property for many, many years," said Walt Stevens, director of University security. Hospital security officials, however, were unaware of the policy until recently, said Hospital Security Manager Arthur Howison. "I'd never heard of (the policy) before," he said. "It was something that never came up." The hospital's security system is independent from the University's system. Kelso also said he was unaware of the University's policy against caterers when site workers told him to con- tact Barton-Malow Construction, the site's general con- tractors, for permission to cater the project two-and-a- half years ago. FOLLOWING A meeting with the firm's project managers, Kelso made an oral agreement allowing him to service the site, provided he was not at the project during work hours. Project Manager Don Shalibo said an agreement was made "to accept one of the (catering) trucks on the site, as long as it was gone at 7:50 a.m.," adding that he was unaware of the University's policy. "At that time, I did not know I was in violation of University policy," he said. SHALIBO SAID that Kelso could be removed from the site regardless of the University's policy, since he violated their agreement by catering twice a day. But Kelso contends the agreement was for twice a day. See CATERER, Page 4 Senate approves boost in state aid to 'U' By CHERYL BAACKE The state Senate yesterday approved Governor James Blanchard's proposed 9 percent increase in funds to the University 25 to 10 for the next year. The proposed increase would boost state funding to the University by $18.6 million, but the House of Represen- tatives must vote on the proposal before it is sent to Blanchard for final ap- proval. THE PROPOSAL is part of Blan- chard's $761 million state budget which includes a 9 percent increase for Michigan State and Wayne State Universities and a 7.5 percent increase to Michigan's smaller four-year colleges. University officials are confident that the house will approve the proposal, but they said the increase is misleading since the state cut $5.8 million from the school's budget last year. Under the proposal the University would receive $163.8 million from the state compared to last year's $144.4 million. But last year the University should have received $150.2 million making Blanchard's proposal only a 6.5 percent hike. OVERALL, the increase in ap- propriations is a positive sign from the state that it is making a long-term commitment to higher education, said University Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy. "I think the University will get close to the proposed 9 percent increase," Kennedy added. Officials at Michigan's smaller universities criticized Blanchard's proposal because larger schools will receive more state funds. But Univer- sity President Harold Shapiro told the Senate Appropriations Committee for Higher Education in May that larger schools need more money to support key research projects which will benefit the state. SEN. WILLIAM Sederburg (R- Lansing) proposed an amendment which was voted down Tuesday to give the "Big Three" universities a 10 per- cent increase and raise funding for other Michigan schools by 9 percent. Sederburg said he proposed the amendment because Blanchard's plan does not give higher education the top priority it deserves. Senators also voted yesterday 20to 15 against a plan by Sen. Arthur Miller (D- Warren) to restrict the number of non- Michigan students at the University's Law School to 40 percent. The school's enrollment is currently 55 percent out- state students. Miller criticized "that mighty 'Blue Machine' in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan," for taking more out of state students when it receives the largest share of the state's higher education budget. Miller said he was unhappy because the Senate removed $470,000 in aid to the state's three private law schools, which have 90 percent Michigan students. But Sen. David Serotkin (D-Mount Clemens) said the University's law school is not "just any other law school" and more out-state students want to enroll. "It is a jewel in the higher education community far beyond the borders of Michigan."