[Vision2020] faculty staff payraises at UI

[Don Coombs]

Saundra Lund wrote:
> My *very* limited understanding (translated:  someone please correct me if
> I'm wrong!) is that while the legislature mandated a 2% increase (at a cost
> of more than $1.5 million), it was another of those *unfunded* mandates.
> So, where would the money come from?
> 

I think the Legislature put some money in the budget for salary 
increases, but not enough for the 2% increase called for. Consequently 
the UI administration is considering not raising salaries until the 
second semester of fiscal 2005.

The provost said Thursday morning that the university administration 
would not be comfortable using the salary increase money, what little 
there was of it, for any other purpose -- because that would upset the 
Legislature.

Boy, do we ever have a Legislature that needs to be upset. (That's my 
comment, not the provost's.)

A month has gone by since I last asked this question, so I'll ask it 
again: Where did the many millions of dollars go that the UI lost on its 
Boise real estate speculation?

Don Coombs