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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932
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554 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March 8 Section 2. Special meetings may be called, whenever deemed necessary, by the President or any three members of the Board, by giving five days' notice thereof by mail to each member of the Board. In such notice, the object and general character of the special business to be transacted at such meeting shall be stated. Section 3. All meetings of the Board shall be held at the University at Urbana unless otherwise ordered.1 The members of the Board shall be notified by mail not later thanfivedays previous to any meeting. Section 4. A majority of all the members constituting the Board shall be a quorum to transact business; provided, that a smaller number may meet and adjourn to some other time or until a quorum is obtained. AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS, ARTICLE IV O n motion of M r . Armstrong, Section 2 of Article I V of the By-Laws of the Board w a s amended to read as follows, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r . Barrett, M r . Blair, M r s . Grigsby, Mrs. Hopkins, Dr. Noble; no, M r . Williams; absent, M r . E m m e r s o n , Mrs. Evans, M r . Trees. ARTICLE IV—COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD Section 2. The Executive Committee s a l meet whenever the Chairman. hl or two members thereof, shall find i necessary for the transaction of business t deemed so urgent that i should not be postponed to a regular or special meeting t of the Board. Every regular and special meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be deemed a stated meeting of the Executive Committee; and if at any such meeting a quorum of the Board be not present, any two members of the Executive Committee, present at such meeting, shall constitute a quorum of the Committee to transact any business which, under the statutes of the State and the By-Laws of the Board, may properly come before it. O n motion of M r . Barr, the action amending Section 2 of Article I V w a s reconsidered. O n motion of M r . Barr, the consideration of this a m e n d m e n t w a s postponed until the next meeting of the Board.1 MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT CHASE T h e Board resumed its consideration of matters presented by the President of the University. PAYMENT TO THE W. E. O'NEIL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (16) A report that pursuant to the action of the Board of Trustees at its meeting on February 6 the payment to the W . E. O'Neil Construction Company of $3,034.43, representing the balance of the cost of moving the furniture from the old Medical and Dental Building to the new laboratories, has been made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund. I recommend that the action taken by the Board in January, authorizing the payment of $1,034.43 of this amount out of the appropriation for the second unit of the new Medical and Dental Laboratories Building (Minutes, page 503), be rescinded, and the entire sum be charged to the Reserve and Contingent Fund. O n motion of M r s . Hopkins, the action of January 13, 1932 (page 503), authorizing the payment of $1,034.43 from the appropriation for the n e w Medical and Dental Laboratories building, w a s rescinded and the entire s u m w a s charged to the Reserve and Contingent Fund. REPORT OF GIFTS (17)'See page 560. The following report of gifts received by the University since the last report was made:
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