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Tuesday, March 7. 2006

Understaffed UK police force spread thin

By Megan Boehnlte
m: xmtucxv KERNEL

As fans flooded out of Rupp
Arena around 2:15 pm. Sunday af-
ter the UK men’s basketball
team’s loss, UK police officer Lau-
ra Marco stood near center court,
shifting almost imperceptibly.

“I could fall asleep standing
up,” she said.

Marco had been awake for
more than 24 hours.

As a third-shift officer, she re-
ported to work just before mid-
night Saturday night and left at
8:30 am. After a quick trip home
for a shower and a change of
clothes, she arrived at Rupp Are-
na at 10 am. After about 15
straight hours on duty, she finally
had a chance to rest.

That scenario is nothing new
to the UK police force. The depart-
ment has 46 sworn officers 7—7 offi~
cers who have completed all their
training and taken the oath of
duty. That averages out to one offi-

A department

in transition
PART 1 OF 3

TOMORROW: Coping with
an inadequate facility

cer for every 580 students.

Three of those officers have
been hired in the last year, but UK
is still almost 15 short of its ideal
staff size of 60 officers.

“(With 60 officers), I could ful‘
1y staff my detective bureau and
provide the staff to patrol and do
their daily work out there," acting
UK Police Chief Kevin Franklin
said.

Officer Andrea Eilertson
worked as shift commander Satur-
day night and spent most of the
evening and early morning hours
backing up other officers on calls.
She worked the game at Rupp and
then worked later on that night.

“I’m definitely fatigued.“ she

 

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said on the Rupp Arena floor Sun-
day. “After you have to work 24
hours, your reaction time isn‘t as
sharp.

“My main concern is safety -—
not only mine. but my fellow offi-
cers and the general public we’re
trying to protect.”

The three officers who worked
Saturday‘s third shift also had to
(work the basketball game the next

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While about 40 officers are
needed basketball game days. foot-
ball games require even more
manpower. All of UK’s police
work during football games as
well as officers from the city. state
and sheriff’s departments.

“It takes every single officer
we have to work those ball
games." Franklin said. “We have
people who — this is normal v
work 22 to 24 straight hours some-
times."

Of UK’s five benchmark uni-
versities with enrollment num-

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This graph compares UK to the five benchmark schools with enrollment closest to UK’s

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UK pitches tuition hike

 

 

UK President Lee Todd discusses the limits on tuition increases set by the Council on Postsecondary
Education during a campus tuition forum yesterday afternoon in the Student Center's Worsham Theater.

Todd defends differential salary
pool raises for faculty, staff

ByAdamSichlto
MKENTUCKYKERNEL

Students will pay their fourth-straight
doubledigit tuition increase next year m but
it’s also a rate that’s 0.5 percent less than this
year’s tuition increase, UK President Lee
Todd announced in a campus forum yester-
day

Under the proposed 12 percent tuition in-
crease:

I in-state, lowerdivision students would
pay $698 more in tuition and mandatory fees

I in-state, upperdivision students would
pay $718 more

I out-of-state. lower-division students

 

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would pay $1.172 more

I out-of-state. upper-division students
would pay $1.186 more

The proposed rates for the 200607 school
year go before the Board of Trustees this af-
ternoon for approval, and Todd said be ex-
pects the board will OK the increase. But
since the state budget process won't end un-
til the end of the month or early April. that
number could change. based on how much
general fund money the legislature ultimate-
ly gives UK. If it changes. the trustees would
have to approve that new figure.

The tuition rate is based primarily upon
general fund money, of which UK has re-
quest 318 million for next year, according to
its 'pr20 Business Plan. The current budget
before the Kentucky House calls for an addi-
tional $4.6 million for UK for next year. more
than $13 million short of what UK wants.

PROPOSED 2006-07
TUITION INCREASES

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

$698

ln-state, lower division

$718

ln-state, upper division

$1,172
Out-of-state. lower division

$1,186

Out-of-state, upper division

GRADUATE STUDENTS

$718

ln-state

$1,186

Out-of-state

According to that Top-20 Business Plan.
UK would charge about a 16 percent or 17
percent tuition increase if it got between $4
million and $5 million in general fund mon-
ey. But the state Council on Postsecondary
Education —- the oversight body for Ken-
tucky's public universities has capped a
potential UK tuition increase at 15.1 percent
if UK receives less than $9 million from the
state.

It's a complicated chain-reaction sce-
nario with many factors and sometimes
dizzying numbers. but Todd said UK's ad-
ministration tried to see the situation from
the views of students and parents.

“We‘re not going to take the liberty of go
ing to that upper range." Todd said to an au-
dience of about 50 faculty. staff. administra-
tors and students. “We just did not feel. from

See Tuition on page 2

We’re not going to take the liberty of going to that upper
range we would have been asking too much from students

and families.”

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- Lee Todd, UK president, on a 15 percent or 17 percent tuition increase.

 

 

Trustees prepared
to OK increases

Tuition, room, board rates all on
agenda for today's meeting

By Sean Rose
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

The Board of Trustees is expected to approve
a proposed 12 percent tuition increase and
changes to the governing relationship between
UK and Student Government at its meeting today
- but SG President and student representative
Becky Ellingsworth said she will vote against
both measures.

The proposed tuition increase the fourth
straight double-digit increase - was announced
at a campus forum yesterday Ellingsworth said
any double-digit increase is too high for students.

“It's lower than last year." lillingsworth said.
noting that tlte proposed tuition increase is on
percent less than the 12.5 percent increase for the
2005-06 school year.

“But it‘s still in the double digits. and it‘s a
burden on students.” she said.

Russ Williams. staff representative on the
board. said he believes the board will pass the iti-
crease.

“It‘s what usually happens." Williams said.
“The cost of running a university always goes
up."

Tuition has been expected to increase since
the December unveiling of UK's business plan to
be a top-20 public university by the year 2020. as
mandated by House Bill 1 in 1997. The biggest de»
termining factor in the tuition rate hike is fund»
ing given to UK by the state legislature. which is
currently in session until the end of the month or
early April.

Faculty trustee member .leff llt‘llllm said I'K
is trying to push ahead with the Top-Jo Business
Plan. waiting to see what the state gives the um
versity while hoping to keep tuition aflbrdaltle

“This is not a wonderfully favored time for

See Trustees on page 2

Staff to rally
for equal
salary raises

By Sean Rose
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Members of UK‘s staff will protest today. light-
ing differing proposed salary pool lllt reases for
faculty and staff that staff representatives have
said makes them feel like “second-class citizens."

The rally. to be held outside Patterson (lffice
Tower from 11:30 am. to 12:30 pm. stems frotn
UK President Lee Todd‘s proposed salary pool in-
crease of 5.5 percent for faculty members and a 3
percent raise for staff. which he told The Kernel
about last month.

Russ Williams, staff representative to the
Board of Trustees and one of the organizers of
the rally. said the event is drawing attention to the
staff‘s disappointment with the 2.5 percent differ.
ential between the two groups.

“I‘m not begrudging the faculty. and l certain-
ly acknowledge the need for the increase in their
salary base." Williams said. “but the staff needs
that too. As an institution. we need to figure out
how we're going to do both simultaneously

“People are mad. but more than anything. peo
ple are hurt." he said.

Todd has also set aside 66 million in general
funding for the employee benefits committee to
use to beef up staff benefits. Williams advocated

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Diet stdyfinds success in

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sweetened drink alternatives

8y Curtis L. Taylor

NEWSDAY

Giving teenagers noncaloric alter-
natives to sweetened beverages seems
to help them lose weight and may stem
the rise in childhood obesity, according
to a new study.

Researchers from Children’s Hospi-
tal in Boston found that a novel inter-
vention to limit consumption of sugary
drinks 7- home deliveries of
noncaloric beverages — had a benefi-
cial effect on weight loss.

The trial enrolled 103 children ages
13 to 18 through a Boston area high
school. The teens were offered a $100
mall gift certificate if they stuck with
the six-month study:

All stayed in the trial. but those
who did not receive home deliveries of
four daily nonsweetened drinks gained
weight. said Cara Ebbeling. who co-led
the study with Dr. David Ludwig of the
hospital‘s Division of Endocrinology

“Simply educating teens to avoid
sugar may not be enough." said Ebbel-
ing. co-director of obesity research at
the Boston hospital. "We delivered calo-
rie-free beverages to their homes and
we found that the heaviest teens lost
weight."

The study published this month in
the journal Pediatrics. comes as US.
obesity rates have reached epidemic
proportions. according to federal statis-

tics.

The number of overweight children
and teens, ages 6 to 19. has tripled since
1980 to an estimated 9 million, accord—
ing to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.

Study participants drank bottled
waters and artificially sweetened bev-
erages. While the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration has approved artificial
sweeteners. diet soda lacks other nutri-
ents.

Half the teens randomly picked
were instructed to avoid sugar-sweet-
ened beverages and advised on choos-
ing noncaloric drinks outside the
home. They received monthly phone
calls and refrigerator magnets remind-
ing them to “Think Before You Drink.”

The remaining teens. serving as a
control group, were asked to continue
their usual eating and drinking pat-
terns.

At the trial‘s end. the group receiv-
ing beverage deliveries had an 82 per-
cent reduction in consumption of sug-
ary drinks. while intake in the control
group remained unchanged.

The heavier the teen initially, the
more weight they lost. The heavier
teens lost about 1 pound per month. ac-
cording to the study The control group
had a slight increase in weight.

Ebbeling said the simple methodol-
ogy could prove effective in battling
obesity.

 

 

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Continued from page 1

a family and student perspective,
that we wanted to go to the 15
(percent increase).

“We would have been asking
too much from stu-
dents and families," he
said.

UK is setting this
preliminary tuition in-
crease now so that it
can calculate scholar-
ships and awards for
next year. The universi-
ty also wants to notify
potential incoming stu-
dents soon what it will
cost to attend UK next

beenJ'

year.
'Ibdd reaffirmed his
commitment to the

Top20 Business Plan.

which maps out how UK will
achieve status as a top20 public
research institution by the year
2020, as mandated by the state leg-
islature. As part of that plan. UK
will absorb 40 percent of the costs
of reaching top20 status.

“The only place we’ve deviated
so far is that we’re not going with
a 17 percent increase." he said.
“We had drawn up the plan to stay
under (a double-digit tuition in-
crease), but we can‘t do that this
year and maintain quality”

Based on state support so far.
UK will be about $6 million short

“It’s obviously
better than
the 15 or 17
percent that it
would have

Scott Mclntosh

12 percent tuition increase

in funding. at least half of which
the university will probably have
to make up, Todd said. He said
he’s not yet sure how UK will
make up that difference.

UK has also planned a 5.5 per-
cent salary pool increase for facul-
ty and a 3 percent increase for
staff next year. In response to a
student question about saving
some money by lower-
ing the proposed facul-
ty increase. Todd said
UK must go forward.

“We could reduce
that like we always do,
pull it away and go
backward.” Todd said.
“But this is the time for
this institution to make
decisions.

“You want the best
faculty in front of you,
and we haven’t been do-
ing a good enough job
lately" he said in re—
sponse to a question
from Scott Mclntosh.
an accounting and finance sopho‘
more. “We stuck out our neck on
that one.”

Todd fielded about 10 ques-
tions from the several students in
attendance. including a few from
Mclntosh.

“One year of a tuition in-
crease hurts, but (students) can
endure it. After several years, stu-
dents must stop and think. ‘l’m al-
ready working a part-time job.
what more can I do to get through
school?’ " said Mclntosh, who’s a
vice presidential candidate in the
Student Government elections at

on a proposed

 

the end of this month. “In some
instances, that means dropping
out of school for a year to save up
money but then you're behind
when you come back. It's a hard
situation.

“It’s obviously better than the
15 or 17 percent that it would have
been,” he said. “But I have to
think there should be more done
in terms of costcutting. I want
the faculty to feel wellcompensat-
ed, but there’s a middle ground
between that raise and what bur-
den students have to bear."

English graduate student Josh
Reid said it’s unfair that today’s
UK students are paying for a top
20 push that won’t be realized un-
til 2020.

“I‘m frustrated about the
amount of the tuition increase
and that it’s couched in a way that
it's on the shoulders of the stu-
dents and the state and for dubi-
ous results. honestly" Reid said.
“Students here now want to get a
benefit here from the top20 plan."

Todd, a former UK student,
said he’s trying to lessen that bur-
den as much as is realistically
possible.

“Clearly you have to start
somewhere,” he said" assuring
students that “your degree will be
more valuable as we move for-
ward.”

“I hope they are willing to say
that they were here to help us
move forward,” he said.

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Trustees

ition increase depends on the final budget

passed in Frankfort.

“Until you really see it, it‘s difficult,” she

 

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higher education in terms of state funding."
Dembo said. “We have to look at playing a

balancing act.

“We want to be fair to our students as

well: it’s certainly not a perfect world.“

Tuition jumped by 12.5 percent this past
school year and by double digits the two pre-

vious years as well.

At most. tuition could increase by 15.1
percent. said Angie Martin. vice president of
budget and policy planning. That is the point
at which the Kentucky Council on l’ostSec-
0ndary Education. the state regulating body
of Kentucky's public universities. has capped

tuition increases.

“I‘m not saying that's what we‘re doing."
Martin said. “But that's what (the council is)

giving us the capability of doing."

Like Dembo. Martin said much of the tu-

crease.

Martin said scholarship funds will in-

crease by $1.5 million, as has tradi.
tionally happened with tuition in-
creases.

UK President Lee Todd also
said he expects the trustees to pass
the tuition increase today and that
the board would be pleased that it
was under the council limit.

“I think the board appreciates
that we‘re not pushing this to the
absolute limit." Todd said.

Also on the agenda for today‘s
Board of Trustees meeting are gov-
erning regulations changes that
would give the University Appeals

Board the power to affirm or deny an 86 elec-
changes that will most likely get the

tion
trustees‘ OK as well. Williams said.

“I don‘t see any reason why it wouldn’t
pass." he said. “It's just clarifying some rela-

tionships and roles."

ing a total of $3.612. The increase is $29 less

said. referring to how much tuition will in-

The appeals board was involved in last
year’s election controversy, declaring candi-
date Will Nash the winner. The board‘s deci-
sion prompted Ellingsworth to sue UK in
Fayette Circuit Court. She won the case. and

UK eventually dropped its appeal.
it - u - The regulation changes. drafted
BUt It S St'" last semester. are attempts to help
' clarify the relationship between
In the double UK and SG and help prevent the
digits and it's situation that developed last year
. ' from happening again.
Stl" a burden Ellingsworth said it was "disap-
H pointing" that the regulations will
on StUdentS. probably pass and that it’s not fair
to give UK power to decide the elec-
Becky Ellingsworth tion.
so president, “It’s a conflict of interests for
on the proposed tuition increase the administration to inadvertently
choose a student member on the
Board of Trustees." she said.

Finally the board is also expected to ap-
prove increases in housing and dining costs.
The price of living in an air-conditioned
dorm is proposed to jump 3249 next year, cost-

than the housing increase for this school
year.

Dembo said the increase was needed be-
cause of the fact that services like housing
are self-funded.

“It’s not to pocket any additional num-
ber," Dembo said. “It’s to let that unit contin-
ue to provide housing to the students.”

The cost of the basic dining plan of eight
meals per week is proposed to increase by
$132. making the least expensive meal plan
$1.898 for a year.

Dembo said all the increases are designed
to propel UK toward its goal to be a top-20
university by 2020. but he added that UK’s ad-
ministration and the trustees both must re-
main sensitive to the students and families
who pay for education.

“We certainly don't want to lose students
because of tuition." Dembo said. “and we
don't want to compromise education."

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’603 folk brings sounds

of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ to UK

By Robin Baker
in: «tumour mm

Don‘t worry _, you can
“walk right in” the front and
the railroad tracks are too
far away to hear. “You can get
anything you want,” and you
will be able to hear all about
Alice’s Restaurant.

Friday at the Singletary
Center, folk legend Arlo
Guthrie will perform with
the UK symphony orchestra
in celebration of the 40-year
anniversary of “Alice’s
Restaurant," Guthrie‘s most
celebrated album and epic
story song.

UK orchestra director
John Nardolillo has been
playing similar concerts
with Guthrie for five years
all over the country, but
Guthrie and the UK orches-
tra will be recording an al-
bum as well as playing the
concert.

“It’s an exciting opportu-
nity for everyone," Nardolillo
said.

“It’s pretty unusual," said
Dwight Newton. marketing
and promotional specialist
for the UK School of Music,
“but we’re pretty happy"

Growing up, Guthrie was
always around music. With a
singer for a father and a
dancer for a mother,
Guthrie’s influences came

from every musical genre.
Guthrie became famous with
the release of his 1967 album
“Alice's Restaurant.” Al-
though the album did not re-
ceive much radio time, some
of the songs became hits at
the 1969 Woodstock music
festival.

Guthrie was an undeni-
able part of the folk move
ment in the 19603, keeping
such company as Bob Dylan,
Joan Baez and Jim Croce. In-
fluenced by a variety of
artists ranging from Gersh-
win to Mississippi John
Hurt, the challenge of cross-
ing genres has never been a
new idea for Guthrie. He re-
cently released a collection of
symphonic arrangements of
his songs and other classics
called “An American Scrap-
book." He has played with
many orchestras throughout
the country, including the
Boston Pops, but has not
recorded an album.

Making an album with
different styles of music will
present unique challenges,
Nardolillo said. Guthrie has
a style of improvisation
when he plays, pausing to tell
stories and adding verses on
the spot.

“He can’t be as sponta-
neous.” said Nardolillo in ref-
erence to Guthrie having to
play with a more classical

 

style while performing with
an orchestra.

Nardolillo said the UK
Orchestra is able and ready
to take on a project like this.
Making a classical album is
difficult, Nardolillo said, be-
cause all elements must be
precise.

“Everything has to be
technically ironed out,” Nar-
dolillo said.

Guthrie will be recording
and lecturing at UK all this
week before the concert. Stu-
dents will have the chance to
spend the week playing and
talking with Guthrie _ to
“mingle with a great master,"
according to Nardolillo.

The concert will be at 7:30
pm. on Friday March 10 at
the UK Singletary Center for
the Arts. Tickets are $20 per
person.

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Queen, recharged and ready to rock you

By Richard Harrington
THE msnmcron POST

How do you replace one of
rock's most beloved singers
and entertainers, one rememe
bered as outrageous. flamboy-
ant and, yes. inimitable?

If you’re guitarist Brian
May and drummer Roger Tay-
lor of Queen, you don‘t even
try to replace Freddie Mer-
cury. the band’s powerhouse
frontman. Mercury died in
1991 at 45 of complications
from AIDS. seemingly ce-
menting the notion that a
golden era of thunder and
glamrock theatricality had
passed.

So there was great trepi-
dation last year when Queen
reappeared with a new front-
man. Paul Rodgers. His
bluesy. rough-edged vocals
would seem at odds with the
Queen songbook. though at
least they were familiar from
his own rock classics such as
“All Right Now," “Feel Like
Makin’ Love" and “Rock ‘n‘
Roll Fantasy"

Some critics were think-
ing rock ‘n’ roll nightmare.
Some Mercury loyalists were
crying, “Blasphemy!“

On the other hand. an aw-
ful lot of fans bought tickets
for last year’s European tour.
already memorialized in a
live album and DVD, “Return
of the Champions." And the
comeback continues for
Queen + Paul Rodgers, as
their current tour is billed.

If May was ever worried.
he’s not letting on. “I don‘t re-
ally feel fear about this kind
of thing," May said recently
from England. “I feel it‘s a
real band. I wouldn‘t be leav~
ing my comfortable home to
do this if I didn‘t feel confi-
dent and there was really
something worthwhile to be
done out there."

Which includes. May sug—
gests. rectifying what he calls
“this gaping hole in Queen's
history. We kind of grew up in
the States as a band, but there
was a disconnection some-

where around (the early ‘803)
where we became current
everywhere in the world ex-
cept the States."

Queen slowly built a fol-
lowing here. beginning with
the band’s 1973 debut single,
the May-penned “Keep Your-
self Alive.” Thanks to “B0-
hemian Rhapsody,” the first
headlining tour came two
years later. and the group
built up to arena-level shows
before Mercury's increasingly
flamboyant stage presence
and the band‘s dip into disco
proved disconcerting to
American fans who preferred
their rock straight-up.
Queen's final American tour
was in 1982.

“I remember Freddie say-
ing. ‘I‘ll have to (expletive) die
before we get back to the
States and play the way we
should do."‘ May recalls. “We
were doing ever greater
things everywhere else, con-
quering new territories like
South America and Japan
and Australia and the whole
of Europe. becoming this sta~
dium entity It was blazing
new trails.

“So there was this dream
in the back of our minds.
someday we’ll take it back to
the States. and of course it
never happened with Freddie.
It was a great sadness."

Until the current tour, the
biggest heritage celebration
had been the 2002 Queen mu-
sical “We Will Rock You." In
London. where it's still play-
ing. the show has been seen
by more than 2 million people.
There are productions in Ger-
many, Australia and Spain,
upcoming openings in Johan—
nesburg and Zurich, and a
likely road show in the United
States.

Meanwhile. the real thing
is hitting the road with
Rodgers. offering a compendi-
um of Queen classics and
Rodgers hits from his days
leading Free and Bad Compa-
HY-

“To be honest with you, if
you take the instant before

this whole Paul Rodgers thing
came up, I was quite happy."
May says. “Then Paul comes
along and there is this sense
of empathy, this real excite-
ment of ‘this works.’ It’s ex-
actly that kind of feeling you
get when you’re starting off
in a group, when you realize,
boy, I can really play with this
guy, we make music together.
we have chemistry, there’s
something going on."

The seeds of the current
partnership were sown two
years ago when the two per-
formed at the 50th anniver-
sary celebration of the Fend-
er Stratocaster in London.
May called Taylor afterward
to say he liked the way his
guitar sounded with Rodgers'
voice on “All Right Now.“
Soon after. the three musi~
cians were invited to play at
the UK Music Hall of Fame
awards and suspected they
were onto a good thing when
they got a standing ovation re-
hearsing “We Will Rock You,”
“We Are the Champions" and
“All Right Now"

The biggest challenge was
how to replace the irreplace-
able and avoid the appearance
of hiring a mere imperson
ator for rock‘s most over-the-
top showman or, worst of all.
become a Queen cover band.

“I would have hated to go
out there and be an imitation
of what we were before," May
insists. “Paul is great because
he will never sing anything
unless he can sing it from the
heart. He's Paul Rodgers.
he's a great creator, inter-
preter, and. boy, does he have
the pipes. And they‘re better
than ever!"

In retrospect. May says.
it’s odd that Queen never
thought of working with
Rodgers “because obviously
you’re thinking every day.
damn. I can’t play anymore
because we don't have the
(singer) anymore. And lots of
people came up to us with
suggestions: ‘Why don’t you
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Police

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hers close to UK's student body. this police de—
partment has the second-lowest number of
officers for each student; UK is just behind
the University of Washington. which has one
officer for every 600 students.

A January 2005 Kernel study found that of
UK's 19 benchmarks. it had the second-small-
est police force. At that time, UK had 43
sworn officers; the force now has

46.

UK President Lee Todd said he
recognizes that the police depart-
ment is understaffed. but said UK
lacks the funds to add officers.

"It's a good-sized force.“
said. “You can benchmark it. but
you need to be at a point where you
have the money to get serious about

adding it.

“If we can get the budget going
for a while. that‘s an area we need

to address.“

“It's about a $60,000 to $65,000 in-
vestment in recurring funds for
have."
Franklin said. "It‘s a huge investment for the

each police officer we

university.”

But not only does the department not
have the funding needed to hire more offi-
cers. it also does not have room in its budget

for overtime.

If an officer has to work extra hours dur-
ing a shift. he or she typically has to take that
amount of hours off before the end of the
week, said officer Mike Bandy.

“It's a scheduling nightmare sometimes."

he said.

This often leaves shifts understaffed - -2 in
cluding Saturday's third shift. With one offi-
cer calling in sick and another to take
mandatory vacation time. a total of three offi-
cers were on patrol Saturday night. Typically.
UK has between three and five officers work-

ing each shift.

tween 45 and 50 hours a week. and some

weeks. it’s a lot more than that." Franklin
said. “Very rarely are our guys working a 40-

hour week."

Scheduling officers for the week‘s shifts is
often frustrating, Franklin said.

“If you have a peg board. and you have 20
holes and only 15 pegs, and you have to put a

peg in every one of them