Volume 6 Issue 13
"Growing with a growing community."
Charge-back Plan Reviewed
A -Pla,n oi Attack
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Activities Director Under Fire
"Double-dipping" alleged
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November 16, 1983
by Lisa Dell'Amore
by Carson Reed
As.Ntant Editor, The Metropolitan
Editor, The Metropolitan
Campus administrators are currently reviewing the Auraria physical plant's procedure of "charge-back" billing after school officials raised questions about the system. Under the present system, the physical plant now bills each school for services not included under maintenance and grounds construction, such as carpentry and some painting. The schools are billed for labor and materials. Opponents of the charge-back system argue that the fees for these special services ought to be included in the money the physical plant receives from the state Legislature. Jim Vanderhye, MSC ~ociate vice president of business and finance, said the physical plant ought to provide the special services at no additional labor charge because the department has already received money from each individual school. "We would like to think that we pay for materials since we already paid the carpenter in the transfer of funds," he said. Auraria Physical Plant Director Larry Hodge disagreed. Hodge claimed that the money he receives from ~~e state Legislature is strictly for maintenance of facilties and not continmd on page 3
AHEC Studying Parking Solutions by Michael Ocrant
Director of Student Activities Gina Johnson
wonders aloud how long she will have her job.
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The AHEC Board of Directors expects to decide on a solution to future parking problems at Auraria in their Dec. 12 meeting . . At an open forum held Nov. 10 to discuss AHEC's general plans, Dr. Jerome W artgow, executive director of AHEC, said a decision should be made by the next meeting so that alternative parking will be available in coming years. An automated guideway transit system bus shuttle from Mile High Sports Complex, or parking garages are three options open to AHEC. In addition, "doing nothing remains a real option," Wartgow said. In other words, Wartgow said, not building and thereby not creating any immediate parking shortage. The AGT is being most closely studied at present, but all the proposals will be studied equally and thoroughly, Wartgow said. Costs are being determined, Warconlinued on-page 5
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Charging that Director of Student Activities Gina Johnson is administrating that office "ineffectively," newly-appointed Assistant Director of Student Activities Kyle Burris has joined forces with student government leaders to eliminate the director's position and place students in control of the Student Activities office. Burris, along with MSC Student Government President Brendan Kelly, leveled a number of accusations at Johnson's handling of the position, and advocated that the position itself be eliminated. "She has not delegated work or given us a plan of action to follow," Burris charged. "She is not an effective supervisor." Burris, who has held his position under Johnson for only three weeks, charged that Johnson's salary is not justified by the amount of work she is doing. "I don't think it's right that over haH of our student fee money is going into administrative salaries and benefits,'' Burris said. "That's way out of line with what is happening on other campuses." But Johnson, who returned to Student Activities this fall after a year in internship, said that the problem stems from a misperception by Burris and others over what the director is there to do. "When Student Activities was reorganized this summer, the idea was to give students more control over Student Activities," Johnson said. "That's what Kyle and the six student directors are here to do. I'm here as a support; part of my problem is that what I do is in the background." Johnson's position would be either eliminated or severely downgraded under a plan for the reorganization of Student Activities which is built into the proposed MSC constitution, to be voted on by MSC students on November 21 and 22. Under that plap, the office of Student Activities would cease to exist, and an MSC "Programs Council" would replace it. In a move that embroiled The Metropolitan and four other student clubs in the battle, MSC Student Government recently won space for the not-yet-existent programs council. At a November 10 meeting of the Student Facilities Policy Council, a motion was presented by UCD Director of Campus Recreation conlinued on page 5