Bonus pay surges in Kansas Legislature budget debate
Lawmakers learned of 12.4 million in state bonuses over five years as Rep. Spangler and Rep. Goering praised IT and KDOT awards while Graves aides defended them. The House voted 122 to 2 to remove all FY 2003 bonuses, amid calls for transparency and concerns over staffing costs versus private sector pay.
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Kansas City
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Medicine Lodge
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Goering
House
Senate
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Kansas University
KU Medical Center
Rainbow
Lansing
Department of Human Resources
Department of Revenue
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Don Brown
Brown
Marty Matthews
Matthews
Tom Sloan
R-Lawrence
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Haves
Kim Wilcox
Kansas Board of Regents
McKee
Former KTEC leader tops state bonus ladder
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. President Rich Bendis earned nearly 102000 in bonuses from 1998 to 2000, topping state awards. Bonuses of 32500 in 1998 34000 in 1999 and 35431 in 2000 were tied to meeting performance goals. he left KTEC for Innovation Philadelphia Corp. Dahman defended the payments saying profits funded them and they were not gifts.
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Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp
Robert L. Woodard
Kansas
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Jim Dahman
KTEC
Dahman
Columbus
Kan
Bendis
New Innovation Philadelphia Corp
Pennsylvania
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