Montana Kaimin, October 20, 1976 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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For more information, please contact [email protected]. / Books, equipment top UM priorities (This is the second article In a series about the University ot Montana's biennial budget request. The third part will appear tomorrow.) By BRYAN ABAS Montana Kaimln News Editor Library books and instructional equipment have been rated as the top budgetary priorities for the next biennium by University of Montana officials. Those officials will go before the Board of Regents next week asking for almost $1 million to improve the quality of education offered by UM. That amount represents the total UM appeal in the “improved program re quest" part of the proposed budget for fiscal 1977. This part of the budget in volves funds that UM wants to use to create new programs or upgrade exis ting ones. In addition, UM is asking for an increase of $2,737,593 under the “formula” part of the budget request. That figure was determined by applying a 13.4 per ■ mont a n a cent increase, a figure arrived at through a mathematical equation supplied by the Regents, to this year's budget. If the Regents grant UM everything they are asking for, UM’s budget for the next fiscal year will be 18.1 per cent larger than this year's budget. The budget for fiscal year 1978 will be an 11.1 per cent increase over next year’s budget. kaimin But since the Regents must consider the budgets from the other five Uniggriiiy il n li TrrOTT'F W iite^j it'lln'' I' j j "" institutions in the Montana University System, as well as the budget for the commissioner of higher education's office, it is unlikely that UM officials will ■: ' Wadmsday, October20,197? Missoula,Mont. ,v6l 79Tno! 1 4 ~- - '{''i get approval for all the improvement money requested. -UM President Richard Bowers said last week he first outlined UM’s priority, STUDENTS STROLL UNDER THE ELM ARCADE, enjoying yesterday's clear, crisp autumn weather. Today’s improvement requests to Commissioner of Higher Education Lawrence Pettit forecast calls for more of the same. (Montana Kaimln photo by Vaughan Ahlgren.) at a closed meeting two weeks ago in Helena. Although the Regents will have the final decision of what requests to sup port, the recommendation of Pettit will be an important factor. Pettit said yesterday he probably will not make any recommendations until the Regents meet next week. Cheyenne EPA appeal Bowers, A. Dale Tomlinson, UM vice president for fiscal affairs, and Arnold Bolle, acting academic vice president, were primary officials involved in preparing the budget. UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA to be decided in spring PRIORITIES FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT 1977-79 BIENNIUM By BILL STIKKER utilities contend that Units 3 and 4 Priority lt«m MPC in Butte, said Monday that the 1977-78 Montana Kaimln Raportar should be exempt from PSD stan 1 Library books $250,000 AP account of the suit filed by the 2 Instructional Equipment 122,000 A request , by the Northern dards. The PSD standards went into utilities Is correct, and he had “noth University Writing Program 15,600 4 Computer Software 25,000 Cheyenne Indian Tribe to have its effect on June 1, 1975, and the ing to add to it." He also said MPC 5 Accountant 20,044 reservation reclassified to a stricter utilities said that since some 6 TV Equipment and Staff 180,770 has received no official word yet 7 Instructional Materials federal air pollution standard may equipment for the plants was from EPA about the decision that Service Equipment 40,060 8 Instructional Equipment 100,000 not be acted upon until next spring, a purchased before that date, the Colstrip 3 and 4 must conform to the Horizons 19,350 member of the tribe said Monday. plants should be exempt from the PSD standards. 10 Washington Library Network 68,928 11 Computer Software 25,000 Eric Metcalf, a spokesman for the standards. 12 Library Electronic Security 40,550 13 Accountant 11,400 tribe in Lame Deer, said in a Lawsuit Prevents Construction Colstrip Upgrade “Possible” 14 Maintenance and Alterations 50,000 telephone interview that a decision Metcalf said the EPA decision that Although the Class 1 PSD stan TOTAL $968,702 on the request for redesignation of Units 3 and 4 must comply with the dards are very stringent, the EPA the reservation from Class 2 to Class PSD standards indicates the agency believes it is possible for the entire The largest amount of the program improvement request money Is for 1 Prevention of Significant is "sick of listening to that Colstrip complex to be upgraded to library books. Deterioration (PSD) standards may argument." He added that in prac meet the requirements. UM is asking for $250,000 for each of the fiscal years in the next biennium not come from the Environmental tical terms, the lawsuit will prevent Cab Baldwin, an attorney for the for the purchase of library books. Protection Agency (EPA) until next construction of Colstrip 3 and 4 until EPA in Denver, said “preliminary In defending this request, UM officials cite standards published by the March. a decision on the Northern calculations" by EPA indicate that if American Library Association, and argue that at the current rate of purchase, Michael Roach, chief of the Air Cheyenne request is made. the pollution controls on all four UM will not meet those standards for at least another 32 years. Quality Bureau of the Department of If the court decides in favor of EPA, plants were upgraded to 90 per cent With the additional money requested, UM administrators say they can meet Health and Environmental Sciences, then no construction will begin until efficiency, the complex could meet those standards in 12 years. confirmed the timetable. the Cheyenne decision. If the court Class 1 standards. The second largest request is for $222,000 each fiscal year for instructional The Class 1 standards are the rules in favor of the utilities, no The pollution controls now on equipment. strictest of the three federal air construction can begin while the Units 1 and 2 are operating at about UM officials say they currently have $37,000 budgeted for instructional pollution categories. matter is in litigation. Most likely, the 65 percent efficiency, Baldwin said. equipment and cite deficiencies in undergraduate teaching laboratories, Since the Cheyenne reservation is Cheyennes’ formal request would be Amick said he had no comment on computer terminals, outdated equipment and the need for new office only 11 miles south of Colstrip, the filed before the ruling, Metcalf said. whether the plants could be equipment and furnishings in defending their request. request is throwing a serious hitch Robert Amick, spokesman for upgraded to meet Class 1. UM is not asking for any money to hire additional faculty, except for the into the construction of the proposed radio-TV department. coal-fired generating plants, Colstrip Units 3 and 4. Two weeks ago, EPA Student-Faculty Ratio ruled that the proposed plants would Pharmacy dean fears Although the regents set a 19 to 1 student-faculty ratio for budget request be required to meet PSD standards, purposes, UM could still ask to hire additional faculty in the program im and now the agency is holding a provement request portion of the total budget request. decision on construction of the for school accreditation But Bowers explained last week that “we felt that the chances of getting ad plants until a decision is made about By JERI PULLUM considered it. Catalfomo did not ditional funding for faculty by deviating from the 19 to 1 ratio were slight.” the Cheyenne request. Montana Kaimln Raportar want to discuss the report until the However, he emphasized that the budget request does not require UM to Filing Schedule Established Lack of faculty and the bad con ACPE reviews it in January. make specific expenditures. Metcalf said representatives of the dition of the University of Montana However, he said, the ACPE is “dis Bowers said UM may still decide to hire new faculty by making what he Cheyennes met with officials of the Pharmacy Building may cause the tressed at the overall situation." called “budget adjustments." EPA last Wednesday to set up a pharmacy school to lose ac The department that will benefit most from the improved program requests schedule for filing the petition. creditation, the dean of the school Conditional Accreditation Possible is the radio-TV department. Under EPA regulations, the said in an interview Friday. Catalfomo said the ACPE may UM is asking for $180,000 for next fiscal year to hire one technician and im Cheyennes are required to prepare Although the report of the ac decide to continue accreditation for prove the programming equipment in the department. an Environmental Impact Statement crediting team has not been made the school, but attach conditions that UM officials say that the department has been unable to use the talents of (EIS) concerning the request and public.