Thursday, February 28, 2008
Rain garden to be placed next to Recreation Center
Senate passed legislation to fund a rain garden next to the Student Recreation Fitness Center. The project will cost $15,000 and will be funded from the Student Senate reserve fund.
The Emerging Green Builders is the campus group starting the project. The group includes mainly students from the School of Architecture and the School Engineering.
Studie Red Corn, Shawnee senior, helped plan the garden as an initiative to get more student integration with a sustainable project onto campus.
“We want to do it right and we want to do it big,” Red Corn said.
The garden will be in the area next to the recreation center where construction equipment is now. It will be 5,480 square feet and filled with perennial plants native to Kansas, budgeted for $3 each. It will likely be watered regularly like a lawn for the first few years, but then be watered with run-off water.
Red Corn said the project was dependent on the schedule of the expansion of the recreation center. Preparation work like bringing in heavy stones will be done by contractors, but students will do all of the planting. He said the ideal planting time was mid-September.
Transfer of funds to help KU on Wheels relieve debt
Senate approved the movement of $141,000 in funds from the bus acquisitions fee to the bus operations fee. This money will help KU on Wheels pay off its $247,000 debt.
Students paid $36 each in fees to KU on Wheels this year. Twenty dollars of the $36 went into a bus acquisition fee used to purchase new buses. All the regular buses used with the new busing company were used, so KU on Wheels will buy new buses in small groups every few years.
Sixteen dollars go into the bus operations account, which handles the day-to-day operation.
The operations fund cannot be in debt at the end of the 2008 fiscal year, which ends on July 31. The acquisition fund can be in the red because KU on Wheels borrowed money from the University to buy the used buses and is paying them back in installments.
The transfer of money will set bus acquisition back one year, but Danny Kaiser, assistant director of parking and transit, said the year will not make a noticeable difference in the busing system.
New student senators occupy four vacant seats
Senate approved four new senators to fill seats that were vacated at the end of the year. The new senators are:
Doug Brady, freshman/sophomore CLAS senator
Sara Vestal, freshman/sophomore CLAS senator
Leanna Hoover, junior/senior CLAS senator
JJ Siler, off-campus senator
Two business senator positions were not filled.
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