The search committee for the next Kansas University chancellor is wrapping up its work, according to Reggie Robinson, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents.

In a brief update to the regents on Thursday, Robinson said the committee has had discussions with specific candidates and should soon forward candidates’ names to regents, who will make the final determination about KU’s next chancellor.

The committee is “approaching the end of its effort,” Robinson said.

Robinson, who is serving on the committee, did not elaborate further.

In other matters, the regents approved:

• A list of capital improvements from each of its universities for fiscal year 2011.

Eric King, regents director of facilities, said the staff received proposals from each school, and then forwarded recommendations to regents that removed nearly all projects that used state general fund money, except for deferred maintenance requests. The regents accepted the staff’s recommendations.

KU had requested $7.9 million in state funds in the 2011 fiscal year for an undergraduate science teaching facility, which the regents denied at the request of its staff.

• Nearly $2.1 million in stimulus funds for KU to use this fiscal year, and an additional $868,000 for the KU Medical Center. The funds will all be used for deferred maintenance, going toward projects such as improvements for utilities, fire code compliance and other campus needs.

• Budgets for the Johnson County Research Triangle Authority. That funding is the result of a sales tax passed in Johnson County that will support the KU Edwards Campus, the KU Medical Center and Kansas State University. Both the Edwards Campus and the Medical Center will receive about $4.9 million from the tax during the next fiscal year — an amount estimated to go up slightly in future years.