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Statewide Election of
University Board Members Preserved
Gongwer News Service, 12-12-02
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A budget bill with cuts in the budgets for the Legislature and
judiciary, but also with funding to lessen cuts to public
universities, will be on its way to Governor John Engler. The
provision has cleared the House and is expected to clear the
Senate easily on Friday.
Lawmakers struck a House provision in the bill that would have
tied the extra $11 million for the state's 15 public
universities to a separate bill changing the way candidates
for the three elected university governing boards are chosen.
HB 5705 slashes $63.7 million. And $2.5 million that the House
added for a to-be-built crime lab in Detroit was reduced to
intent language.
The supplemental is part of the solution recommended by
Governor John Engler and adopted by lawmakers to a $460
million budget problem.
The bill changing the way university boards are elected is
dead because of a lack of votes, Mr. Johnson said. "Got my
rear end kicked on that one," he said.
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