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[ Friday, January 28,1994 The Battalion Page 3 Tubularmcm By Boomer Cardinale ,eant afe rtiss Blad Bartholomew by lialvin By Alex logs; vailablefe ice is Oct‘ not vet II Construction sion, wm ecompar; Continued from Page 1 coach wants it, but I just don't ‘'dardisi wan t j- 0 | ose (-^ e Holler House. I guess I just want to have my cake wertob:: an j it eat it, too." everysiaa Jn other business, the regents ngherfrBeferred voting on a resolution Kating the University would not ngrpiuild any additional residence ■ed,"Becma{\s or on campus apartments lending a reasonable time period ed foiti|lnd"adequate demonstration by s statetit|he private sector of development. I Dr. Gage said the purpose of tsofmisllbe resolution was to clarify the of tampfUniversity's position on the mat- aysical e ter to the community. Dr. Rick Floyd, interim food services director and associate vice president for finance and adminis tration, said local lenders always ask him what the University's plans are in regards to housing. "Lenders are reluctant to come into the market unless they know what our plans are," Floyd said. Gage said the University has an enrollment management policy to deal with a housing shortage if it occurs and told th£ regents the University did not want to get into overbuilding. However, some of the regents thought the wording of the reso lution was misappropriate. Regent Billy Clayton said he thought by passing a resolution the regents would be entering into a binding agreement. "Let not get our hands tied on this," he said. Regent Lupe Rangel said the regents can't shirk their responsi bility of housing students should the need arise. In other business, the regents: • heard a report from Tom Williams, PTTS director, about the status of parking on West Campus. • were briefed on the status of widening Texas Avenue • heard a request for a budget adjustment for the Bush Presiden tial Library Center. js itacni]_ Dnceals, legibility ite House to test proposed elfare program in Florida op anda ? editor ■ editor editor 'hotoe*' lections e*- The Associated Press I WASHINGTON — In a preview of the president's plan to overhaul the nation's welfare system, the Clin ton administration gave Florida permission Thursday to experiment with time-limited benefits and subsidies to employers who hire welfare recipients. I A senior administration official said Florida's demonstration project is significant because it mir rors President Clinton's efforts to expand education, training and child-care for parents on welfare while limiting their benefits to two years. I In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Clin ton promised to introduce welfare-reform legislation th is spring. Although the administration has out lined its plan in broad terms, it has yet to make the tough decisions about costs and financing. I Seventeen Senate Republicans, including Minori ty Leader Bob Dole, tried to upstage Clinton by in- oducing their own plan Thursday. Similar to the House Republicans' bill, the Sen ate measure would require more welfare recipients to work, limit aid to immigrants, and force unmar ried teen-age mothers to live with a parent to quali fy for welfare. I In Florida, parents who participate in the demon stration will be allowed to collect welfare for a max imum of 24 months in any five-year period. While on the rolls, parents will be eligible for training, ed ucation, child care, health insurance and intensive :ase management. ? The Clinton administration also wants to limit welfare benefits to 24 months over a certain length of time, the senior administration official said. Its plan will also include counseling, education or train ing, and help with child care for recipients preparing to leave the rolls. In Florida, the state will guarantee a minimum- wage job for recipients unable to locate work at the end of 24 months, according to the federal Depart ment of Health and Human Services. The state will offer incentive payments to private companies that hire welfare recipients. Employer subsidies will also be an element of the Clinton plan, the administration official said. "Able-bodied people who want to work will get the chance to work and those who don't want to work will be out the door in two years. Those who truly can't work will be unaffected by this new pro gram," said Jim Towey, secretary of Florida's De partment of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Parents who refuse to comply will lose their share of the family's welfare check. Payments to the chil dren could continue, but only through a third party. The "Family Transition Program" will operate for eight years in two counties — Alachua and Escam bia — beginning next month. Two hundred welfare families in each county will enrolled during the first 60 days. Other families will added later, but the state says it's too early to say how many will ultimately be affected. Combined, the two counties have 10,800 families on the rolls of Aid to Families with Dependent Chil dren (AFDC). As of October, Florida had 254,000 AFDC families statewide. The experiment required a waiver of federal regu lations governing AFDC, a state-federal welfare pro gram that supports 5 million low-income families na tionwide, most of them headed by a single mother. Under Florida's plan, parents in the experiment who leave welfare for work will be given day-care assistance for two years. 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