Wednesday, february 4, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 3
Health Center budget includes more health aids
By Lori McGi
By Lori McGinnis
Officials from the University Health
Center appeared before the Committee for
Fees Allocation Tuesday night and request
ed a budget requiring more than $2 more
per semester of individual student fees.
Steve Blom, administrator of the health
center, requested almost 1.5 million irr
198 1-82 student fees. The request would
require $35 from each student per semester
in fees. The 1980-81 amount was $32.62
per student.
"We feel that a 7.3 percent increase is a
realistic budget request," Blom told the
committee.
One of the areas highlighted in the
budget was a request of 50 more health
aids, making a total of 150.
A health aid is a student living in a resi
dence hall or Greek house who has taken
a health course and is trained in first aid
and minor health care.
Increasing the number would give each
floor a health aid. A need for this exists
because about 85 percent of the visits to a
health aid come from the floor that the aid
lives on. Bloom said fifteen percent of the
visits are from another floor.
Dr. Garland Bare, medical director of
the health center, agreed that more health
aids are needed.
"We found out a female student would
not go to a health aid on a male floor and
vice versa," Bare said.
Health aids receive $5 a week for their
services and increasing the number of aids
would add more than $10,000 to the
health center budget.
If the number of health aids wasn't in
creased, however, Blom said more profes
sional staff would have to be added at the
health center.
Another highlight of the budget is a
$30,000 request for capital expenditures.
These expenditures, which were not in
cluded in the 80-81 budget, would be used
for new technology, fund equipment de-
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They include accepting retainer fees on
a permanent or yearly basis as a profession
al consultant, accepting employment re
quiring an average of more than two days
per month other than weekends or off
duty hours, charging fees for work done in
university buildings with university equip
ment and materials or providing profes
sional services for pay to departments or
agencies of state government.
Wood said that if an employee fails to
comply with the procedures as outlined, he
could be subject to university disciplinary
measures, although Epley will not be dis
ciplined. Wood said he doubts that many misuse
of state property violations occur. He
emphasized the necessity of faculty re
search which would utilize university
facilities such as typing pools or computers
or equipment in an attempt to have some
thing published.
"Publication is very much expected,"
Wood said. "Faculty members are expect
ed to do that. It's a condition of employ
ment. Having a secretary do typing as an
extra activity I don't think constitutes a
violation.
"The important thing is that any memb
er should obtain permission required under
the bylaws."
Larry Andrews, assistant to the chancel
lor, said grant and contract reports are
made regularly to the regents.
He said the majority of consulting con
tracts are approved directly by the campus
chancellors rather than the regents.
Andrews said some departments do
more consulting work than others and that
in many instances it is done in such a way
that it is unnecessary to report it.
"In my capacity as an education profes
sor, I used to go to high schools for
teacher's meetings in the afternoons,"
Andrews said. "It did not occur to me to
report that. I doubt it is a violation, I just
thought it was part of my job to do things
like that."
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Pharmacy services in the health center,
which have used fees for the past eight
years, will not use fee money in 81-82.
Blom said. Last year $20,000 was budgeted
for this service. Eliminating a position and
raising some prices have taken away the
need for fee money, he said.
The request for $518,307 in operating
expenses is more than $74,000 over the
80-81 budget allowance. These expenses
include utilities, health aids, supplies and
capital expenditures.
"The medical field is really going
through the ceiling in expenses," Blom
said.
Bare said the use of the health center
has increased, especially during January
because of the incidence of flu.
"We indeed have Bangkok flu on this
campus," Bare said.
When asked by CFA member Becky
Stingley whether all health center pro.
grams arc necessary, Bare said it depends
on what programs the students are willing
to support.
Nearly all the programs have support, he
said, adding that cutting some of them
might harm the health center's accredita
tion as one of the top in the nation.
"I believe excellence in Nebraska ought
to go beyond athletics," Bare said.
In other action, the committee accepted
a subcommittee recommendation for a
tentative allocation of $82,278.70 for the
University Program Council budget. The re
commendation is $525 lower than UPC re
quested. The $525 was requested by UPC for a
regional performing artist in the UPC-City
budget. It was thought by CFA members
to be a duplication of services provided
through a performing arts assistance
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