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UNC-CH Receipts Could Go to Other Universities
House provision is
now under review
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Assistant State & National Editor
A provision in the N.C. House ver
sion of the state budget could strip $7
million in overhead receipts from UNC-
Chapel Hill and redistribute them to
seven focus growth institutions in the
UNC system.
UNC-CH administrators say the redi
rection would be detrimental to the
University community, which generates
roughly 70 percent of the system’s over
head receipts,
“If it is a $7 million cut, we would def
initely have to look into making some
changes,” said Tony Waldrop, UNC-CH
vice chancellor for research and gradu
ate studies.
House vs. Senate
The N.C. House and Senate have submitted their versions of the budget for the 2002-03
fiscal year. While the two plans are similar on many points, they differ on some key appropriations.
The House and the Senate will have to come to a consensus during the next few weeks.
Public Schools
Class Size Reduction: Adds $42.4 million Class Size Reduction: Cuts $ 13.9 million
State Universities & Community Colleges
Tuition Increase: House & Senate both recommend tuition increases of 8 percent for in-state students
and 12 percent for out-of-state students at 16 universities
Health & Human Services
More at 4: S2B million to expand program to Wore at 4: No proposed expansion
prepare 4-year-olds at risk of failing school
Justice & Public Safety
Seat Belt Fees: No increase in cost of Seat Belt Fees: Increasing seat belt
seat belt citations citations to $75, producing $lO million
Environmental & Natural Resources
Clean Water: S4O million for trust fund Clean Water: S7O million for trust fund
SSSHiT Pay, Benefits & Retirements ft ft
Pay Raises: None for Senate or House. Both offer 1.84 percer* raise for teachers, instructional support
workers and 1.89 percent for principles and assistant principles.
SOURCE: THE (RALEIGH) NEWS & OBSERVER
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Senate and will try to push the budget to
the Senate side.”
Both budget proposals include an 8
percent systemwide tuition increase for
in-state students and a 12 percent
increase for out-of-state. Both also pro
vide the lull $66 million in funding that
UNC-system officials requested for
enrollment growth.
The House has offered $4.5 million
in funding for financial aid, while the
Senate has appropriated none.
Redwine said House members will
fight to have financial aid funding in the
finalized budget.
“If we raise tuition, we need to fund
financial aid,” he said.
Senate President Pro Tern Marc
Basnight, D-Dare, and other Senate
leaders are willing to consider funding
financial aid, said Amy Fulk, press sec
retary for Basnight.
“There’s certainly a commitment in
the Senate to higher education,” she said.
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quendy.
Daum said student leaders organized
two trips to Raleigh, but other than that,
“They were on their own.” Daum said she
and Student Body Vice President Aaron
Hiller went a few other times. Ducote said
he went two or three times a week.
After abandoning their batde cry
from last spring to lower tuition increas
es, student leaders have instead focused
on protecting overhead receipts and
minimizing overall budget cuts.
Daum said the tuition increases
approved by the UNC-system Board of
Governors were just about set in stone
and not a batde the students could win.
“With the economic climate there was
no way to get anything back,” she said.
Daum and student government offi
cials worked closely with the adminis
tration through UNC-CH’s lobbying
coordinator Kevin Fitzgerald.
Hiller said that most legislators were
open to meeting with students but that
many already had their minds made up
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The Senate’s version of the budget
does not withhold any overhead receipt
funds, and the two chambers will have
to reach a consensus on the issue in con
ference meetings that started last week.
Overhead receipts, also known as
facilities and administration funds, are
included in federal grant money and are
intended to cover additional research
costs such as maintenance and utilities.
State legislators and universities have
been at odds over the funds because the
state already pays for many of the items
funded by overhead receipts, leaving
institutions with additional money.
Initially state representatives recom
mended taking larger amounts of over
head receipts from UNC-system schools
and even redirecting them outside of the
system.
Rep. Art Pope, R-Wake, proposed an
amendment to the House budget putting
10 percent of the receipts in the state’s
rainy day fund and its repair and reno
But before legislators even begin to
delve into reconciling university appro
priations, they have to get their revenue
numbers in line.
“This is the greatest difference in rev
enue in the House and Senate since I’ve
ever been here,” Lee said.
Redwine attributed the differing rev
enue numbers largely to the House’s
and the Senate’s disparate tax packages.
“The tax package that we passed and
that they passed are a little different,”
Redwine said. “Ours has loopholes, and
theirs does not.”
Though many of the differences in
the House’s and the Senate’s budgets are
significant, lawmakers said they are not
locked in to their respective budgets.
“You have to look at this thing in a
holistic point of view,” said Senate
Majority Leader Tony Rand, D-
Cumberland.
“I try to keep an open mind because
we do have to come to some sort of con
clusion.”
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when it came to the issues.
Hiller said students also ran into a
knowledge barrier with many legislators
who were not educateS on the issues stu
dents were pitching them. “We were
almost too prepared. I was very surprised
with how uninformed many of them are.”
Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand,
D-Cumberland, said legislators enjoyed
seeing students in Raleigh calling atten
tion to University issues.
Student government and ASG officials
said this summer’s efforts were a success
despite the multitude of University bud
get cuts still being discussed. “I think we
persuaded some votes and were as effec
tive as we could have been considering
the state of the economy,” Hiller said.
As she continues to lobby the confer
ence committee, Daum said she is opti
mistic the final plan will include the min
imal cuts necessary to the University bud
get, “We are hopeful and confident that a
budget compromise out of the conference
committee will be more favorable than
the one coming out of the House.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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Several other legislators called for
taking even larger amounts from over
head receipts.
But Waldrop said all of the
University’s $75.1 million in receipts for
the current fiscal year will be used for
necessary programs and services.
Among other things, receipts are used
for employees’ salaries, construction
projects and library funding.
“All of the (overhead receipts) are
spent accordingly to fund the research
and teaching at the University,” he said.
Waldrop also said there are safe
guards that prevent wasteful spending
including audits by state regulators.
University efficiency is evidenced by the
fact that the amount of grant money the
University is receiving is increasing at a
time when many of its peer institutions’
funding is decreasing.
“These rates (for grants) are re-evalu
ated on a yearly basis,” Waldrop said. “If
Proposed Sales Tax Would Aid Towns
By Michael Davis
Assistant City Editor
Officials say the half-cent sales tax
option approved by the N.C. House
could help local governments with their
budget woes.
In late July, the N.C. House adopted
a half-cent sales tax option for local gov
ernments. This provision, designed to
fill up budget gaps, appeared as good
news to Chapel Hill and Carrboro town
governments, but the bodies already
had passed their town budgets.
Now local officials might have to wait
several months before they can imple
ment the sales tax increase, assuming
the option also is passed by the state
Senate.
Jack Vogt, a professor in UNC’s
Institute of Government, said that upon
approval by the General Assembly the
tax hike could technically go into effect
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most of that money is made up of peo
ple,” said Risa Palm, dean of the college.
Palm said about 20 to 25 vacant posi
tions likely will be eliminated this year,
roughly the size of a medium-sized aca
demic department.
Administrators have tried to make the
process easier by levying a certain amount
of autonomy to department chairmen and
deans in deciding where to modify the
budget No across-the-board cuts are being
mandated from the top down.
Palm is confident those department
chairmen reporting to her appreciate the
process. “I figure a department will know
better if it needs to cut positions, supplies,
travel, better than I do here,” she said.
When a state budget is passed -
which some say could happen in the
next couple of weeks - all cuts will be
reviewed by the provost’s office, and
adjustments will be made from there.
“What no one has here is a definite
budget,” said Provost Robert Shelton.
“What we have are folks who took early
decisions, which is good. Once we get the
numbers, we’ll address it from there.”
Pinching Pennies
Deputy University Librarian Larry
Alford is worried students might get frus
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to fund community college summer
school programs.
“It effectively tells that they don’t sup
port the service out-of-state students do
for the University,” said Page, a medical
student. “It is a shame because the leg
islature supported remissions complete
ly a couple years ago.”
Graduate students say remissions are
integral to supporting their education.
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appropriately and they felt that we did
n’t have that reasonable infrastructure
then that rate would be going down.”
But Rep. Mickey Michaux, D-
Durham said the House is making a
statement by proposing to take away
some overhead funds.
“In a way it’s a matter of principle
because the state has to pay for the util
ities and things for the research,”
Michaux said.
But Michaux conceded that not all of
the overhead receipts were wasted.
“If all of what (the universities) used
them for were things that weren’t worth
while then we would take all of it,” he
said. “But we’ve seen receipts going for
gourmet pizza and donations to Chapel
Hill Transit.”
The state intends to redirect the funds
to worthwhile ends, Michaux said. The
receipts would fund enrollment growth
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But Vogt said it will probably take
longer for details to be resolved regard
ing the tax increase.
“January 1 might be the earliest feasi
ble date,” he said.
Vogt said local county commissioners
have the final say on whether individual
counties will enact the sales tax option.
“We’re expecting most counties, but
not all (to authorize the increase),” he
said.
Orange County Commissioner
Margaret Brown said the Board of
Commissioners submitted a letter to leg
islators earlier in the year supporting the
tax option.
She said the potential revenue is des
perately needed. “The state took away
S3OO million from us,” she said. “That’s
a considerable sum of money.”
Vogt said the additional revenue gen
erated by a half-cent sales tax increase
trated when they go to Davis Library.
Despite budget cuts, the library will
not reduce its hours - it’s just that stu
dents might have to wait longer for help
while they’re there.
“One thing students are going to
notice are larger lines,” Alford said.
About 20 percent of vacant positions in
circulation will be left vacant until a state
budget is passed, he explained.
Not to mention that on the UNC
Libraries Web site is a list of more than
900 serials that could be cut when the
state takes action. A reduction in spending
for other books - possibly 10,000 to
15,000 fewer books - could leave a large
gap in the collection, Alford noted.
Students won’t just see the effects of
the state’s fiscal woes in the library
they’ll feel it in the classroom too, in the
form of larger classes.
Many departments have had to cut
course sections from popular classes
offered, and some have even had to cut
lecturing positions.
James Thompson, chairman of the
English department, said that although
preliminary cuts were inevitable, it has
been a priority to not impact introduc
tory writing classes.
Because 10 course sections and about
1.5 lecturer positions were axed, smaller
classes typically for sophomores and
upperclassmen will be somewhat more
crowded, Thompson said. “I’m sure
“Without remissions it would be almost
impossible to go to graduate school,”
said Carol Lewald, a second-year
anthropology graduate student.
Yaacov Ben-Shemesh, an interna
tional student from Israel, said remis
sions are just as important to him.
“Taking away tuition remissions means
sending (international students) back
home,” said Ben-Shemesh, a doctorate
student in philosophy. “We can’t have a
job because we teach and do research.”
While the state’s final budget is still
being completed by a joint appropria
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and the system’s five historically black
universities.
“It helps the smaller schools to
increase their enrollment,” Michaux
said, pointing to N.C. Central
University, which has its largest fresh
man class ever beginning this school
year.
But Senate Majority Leader Tony
Rand, D-Cumberland, said senators and
UNC-system administrators attempted
to persuade House members to allow
schools to keep their overhead receipts
and will continue to do so in conference
committee meetings.
“The Senate views (the issue of over
head receipts) as one of significant
importance,” he said. “This money is
earned by those who are doing the
research.”
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would replace local reimbursements
held by the state.
But Vogt said that because reim
bursements are frozen at a set rate, taxes
will create more funds for the local gov
ernments.
“In the long term, the additional sales
tax will provide more revenue for local
governments than the reimbursements
will,” he said.
Vogt said some officials have argued
that the tax can be made retroactive, but
questions of legality have headed off
most of this movement.
“The consensus of opinion over in
the General Assembly is that the sales
tax enactment should occur on or after
the date of enactment rather than be
made retroactive,” he said.
Bill Stockard, assistant to Chapel
Hill’s town manager, said the town
would consider using additional revenue
to reduce the tax rate, raise town
we’ll rebound from it in the long term,
but there won’t be any rebounding until
the legislature passes a budget," he said.
“We can’t go on like this.”
Officials insist that they are trying to
preserve resources where they can, but
layoffs have been unavoidable.
According to data provided by
University officials, as of July 10, 64
employees subject to the State Personnel
Act were laid off, although only 23 of
those were direcdy attributable to state
budget cuts. The other layoffs resulted
from different causes, like contracts or
grants ending for those positions.
For UNC employees exempt from the
act, one non-faculty and two faculty mem
bers were eliminated byjuly 10 for budget
reasons. Two other privately funded facul
ty positions were eliminated due to lacking
funds, and one faculty position is gone
because of a contract or grant ending.
Laurie Charest, associate vice chan
cellor for human resources, said students
will see results of these actions in various
ways, including reduced cleaning fre
quency in the residence halls.
“I am certain that we wall see a dif
ference in services,” she said. “We can’t
sustain levels of that amount - it’s a very
frustrating position. Because depart
ments don’t know what their budgets
wall be ... I think it is entirely possible
we will see additional layoffs.”
The human resources office on cam
tions conference committee, graduate
department officials are not sure how
they will cope with the shortage if passed.
“I don’t want to speculate what that
would mean,” Dykstra said. “It is too dif
ficult to tell what could happen.”
She said the tuition remission incen
tive was a commitment made in good
faith to students but was never a guaran
tee. “It is contingent on funding,” Dykstra
said. But “we believe in good faith and
will try very hard to meet the demand."
Page said he is confident that the
University will honor its commitments
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employee salaries, and implement some
capital improvement projects.
Carrboro Assistant Town Manager
Bing Roenigk said that if the tax option
is approved, the town will reconsider
several projects that were placed on
hold due to budget limitations.
“Should it come in, we have a list of
needs we think really need to be fund
ed,” Roenigk said.
Among those projects are a market
study to evaluate salaries for town
employees, the replacement of athletic
field lights and a tennis court fence at
Anderson Park and capital purchases
like dump trucks, she said.
Roenigk said that if the sales tax is
enacted, the funds won’t go to waste.
“We’ll take the money and use it
effectively.”
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pus is in fact recruiting employees,
Charest added, but vacant positions can’t
be filled until legislators finish their work.
“Because of the condition of the econo
my in general, we are getting lots of
applications for positions that are open,”
she said. “But there still is uncertainty.”
Looking Ahead
The wait for a budget has begun, but
planning is not on the back burner.
The University already has established
a five-year financial planning committee,
headed by Nancy Suttenfield, vice chan
cellor for finance and administration. The
group is charged with crafting a compre
hensive plan for financial growth, given
the unpredictability of the economy and
funding for higher education.
In tile meantime, campus leaders
don’t want the wrong perception toward
UNC’s budget crunch to arise.
“You have to put budget cuts into
context,” Moeser said. “These budget
cuts are painful, but they’re not going to
be crippling. We could really be drama
tizing the situation to say we’d be crip
pled.”
Administrators say dealing with the
cuts is just a matter of assessing possible
long-term impact. “I don’t want to sugar
coat it,” Shelton said of budget cuts.
“The key is to not have this persist.”
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to graduate students.
But Dykstra said it will be difficult to
find money elsewhere. “It would be very
difficult (to take it from other areas),” she
said. “Our budget is not that much.”
Dykstra said she is optimistic that the
Senate plan, which fully funds tuition
remissions, will prevail in the committee.
“The bottom line message is we don’t
want graduate students to panic,” she said.
“The budget process is not quite over.”
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