Kansas University’s faculty executive committee on Tuesday came up with a plan for deciding how next year’s supply of men’s basketball season tickets would be distributed among faculty, staff and retirees.

“This is a plan that tries to strike a balance between the interests of current ticket holders and those who are looking for their first ticket,” said SenEx President Ray Davis.

“Now, there are many ways to do that,” he said, “but the one we’ve come up with is the one we believe will be both fair and the most efficient.”

Davis, an associate professor of public administration, will present the plan to the full University Council at 3 p.m. Thursday in the first-floor conference room at Blake Hall.

Davis said he would ask the council to vote the proposal “up or down,” rather than having it picked apart and put back together.

“If there are problems with it, I’d rather it be voted down and we’ll address whatever changes may be needed,” Davis said. “I’m afraid if we don’t do that, the discussions would go on longer than most people realize.”

The nine-member SenEx has spent more than four months sorting through the proposal’s details.

Davis said he hoped to have copies of the plan e-mailed by this afternoon to all 45 members of the University Council, a mix of faculty, staff and students.

Generally, the plan creates a two-pool system, allowing more than 1,600 current faculty, staff and retirees to keep their tickets. At the same time, a lottery would be used to allocate about 250 additional tickets.

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Tickets awarded through the lottery will be good for four games. Lottery drawings will be repeated every other year.

As current ticket holders give up their seats, their tickets will be added to the lottery pool.

Within both pools, seniority will determine who gets the best seats.

Faculty, staff and retirees will be seated in three second-deck corner sections of the fieldhouse.

Rodney Jones, director of ticket sales at the KU athletic department, said his office would have little trouble keeping track of current ticket holders’ and lottery winners’ seniority if the two groups were seated in side-by-side sections rather than mixed together.

“When this is over, 95 percent of the people we’re talking about here are going to be in better seats,” Jones said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more than 95 percent.”

When SenEx approves a plan it will appoint a three-member committee to hear disputes.

“We’ll call it the hair-splitting committee,” said SenEx member Mark Ezell, an associate professor of social welfare.