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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1980
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AVAILABLE
The Director of Projects for the 31st MSC Council is now accepting applications for
chairmen of the following projects:
MSC Fall Leadership Conference
MSC Welcome Back Picnic
MSC Freshman Open House
MSC MBA/Law Day
MSC Christmas Program
MSC Lost and Found Auction
MSC Discovery '81
MSC College Bowl
MSC All Night Fair
MSC All-University Variety Show
MSC Spring Leadership Trip
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MARCH 31 at 5:00 P.M.
Applications are available in Room 216 MSC at the SPO Secretaries' island. For further
information, call 845-1515 and ask for Brian Gross or Cindy Williams.
state
Committee says Clements
lay-off plan too expensive
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements’
threats to lay off thousands of state
employees and the lack of meaning
ful pay increases are costing tax
payers money, a legislative study
committee said Wednesday.
“State employee morale is at an
all-time low,” said Rep. Mary Jane
Bode, D-Austin, chairman of a spe-
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cial House Committee on State Em
ployee Productivity.
Bode said the turnover rate in
state government averaged 29 per
cent during the past year and in some
agencies exceeded 100 percent.
“This excessive turnover is costing
the state at least an estimated $42
million in replacement costs for clas
sified state employees alone during
the past year,” she said.
The special committee is propos
ing legislators grant state workers a
5.1 percent emergency pay raise
effective Feb. 1, 1981, and addition
al increases of 13.6 percent and 10.2
percent during fiscal 1982 and 1983.
Bode called a Capitol news confer
ence to announce the committee’s
decision to call for the emergency
pay raise for state workers and to
urge Speaker Bill Clayton, Lt. Gov.
William P. Hobby and other legisla
tive leaders to take a strong stand
against across-the-board cutbacks in
state agency staffs.
Clements has demanded state
agencies cut their staffs 5 percent by
Aug. 31 and another 5 percent the
following fiscal year.
"Reduction in force pools have re
sulted from the governor’s dictate
that the work force of state service
agencies and institutions of higher
education be decimated to a deplor
able degree,” Bode said. The 1979
Legislature directed state i
to trim staffs 2.5 percent by no!rj
placing some workers who quits
look for more cost effective wi|
deliver essential government*
vices.
She said a more realistic met
ism is needed to trim payrolls»i
out impeding state agencies’ll
ery of services.
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Citing the “tragic” im
pact of the world’s largest recorded
oil spill, Texas legislators Wednes
day recommended creation of a spe
cial fund to help hard-hit coastal
businesses.
The House Environmental Affairs
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Committee said Texas
velop its own contingency pkj
dealing with future spills ami si
consider purchasing specitli
equipment to combat the j
instead of relying solely on thel|
Coast Guard.
The legislators released a li
page report on the impact of
than 130 million barrelsofoilsi
from an oil well blowout in
Campeche which took Mexiiuj
thorities nine months to cap.
The legislators saiditistoosfl
say how much environmentalonj
nomic damage the oil spill eaffl
but they indicated the amount^
be monumental.
Jack Reynolds, the comptn
research director, said sales tail
venues since the June 3,1979,
blowout indicate the coastal:
"is growing at a substantiallys
rate than the state as a whole i
the Mexican oil blackened Te|
beaches.
The lawmakers called for:
— Better and immediaten
cleaning beaches if more oil"
ashore.
— Use of state universifcl
school oil rig workers in blowoiiljj
vention techniques.
— Creation of an internal
commission to prevent oil spilkj
protect areas along the GtilfoBij
ico if spills do occur.
AGGIECON XI
MARCH 27-30
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The Boys from Brazil 8:30
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