University of South Carolina Libraries
The South Carolina Library Campus 7 gamecocK Volume LXIX, No. 132 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. June "7, 1979 In i icra * > * By Michael Gooding Qamacock Staff Wrltar The $90,800,000 USC budget request for the 1979-1980 fiscal year has been cut $4,004,851 by the South Carolina State Senate Finance Committee, but still has to go before the Senate for debate, according to Bernard Daetwyler, system vice president for finance. The Senate Finance Committee completed their version of the state * ?. - ii.. i i__J. budget, wnicn inciuaes me uuugei for USC, this past Friday. The Senate will take up the budget A T*. /J/> ? ? request on l uuauci^, L/aci wjrici said. THE COLUMBIA CAMPUS received the largest cutback, losing $1,618,376. USC at Aiken received a cutback of $334,959, the Senate Finar mdoet ni nipiMfc smallest cut thus far. Coastal Carolina lost a total of $858,391, a large cut for a branch campus, Daetwyler said. USC at Spartanburg received a cutback of $379,942 and $713,183 was cut from the budget for all two-year campuses combined, according to Senate Finance Committee reports. No cuts were made by the State Budget and Control Board, which ? ? A- I* ? A! yx A- MAM* an,nf reviews me uuugei lcvjucat the Senate Finance Committee, Daetwyler said. THE USC BUDGET request for next year is almost $20 million more than the approved budget of $71,000,000 for 1978-79. The reasons for the increase in the budget request are,44 catch up from under ice Committee it bu $4 m tunding, a tremendous increase in ! student enrollment, raises given last year (step raises that are given < on each anniversary of em- ] piuymtrui ILU cmpiuytca), cuiu j inflation," Daetwyler said. 1 Telephone rates and scientific ; equipment are increasing faster 1 than the cost of living, he added. After the budget is approved by 1 the Senate, it will be sent to S.C. Governor Dick Riley for ratification, unless it is different from the S.C. House Ways and Means Committee's version, which is drafted before the Senate Finance Committee debates. It it is different, the House of Representatives and the Senate go into a conference committee until they reach a compromise, Daet lillion wyler said. A REQUEST for salary inr?tv?ococ fr?r ctnff nriH fr.^iiHv VMk/X/k/ * V/* ?-? VV* A a. V* .* M V? A%?V V?* VJ members has not yet been approved but,4'a section of the budget will indicate how much we are allowed to raise salaries," Daetwyler said. A $450 and 3.62 percent acrossthe-board raise, and a 2 percent merit raise was inriirafpH nn thf? House version of the budget request, according to Daetwyler. The only restrictions Riley has A. At ? put on me Dudget request is, 4'asking that salary increases remain within President Carter's 7 percent wage increase guidelines," said Riley's press secretary, Marion Brown. This includes all state employees, he added.