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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 20

Executed by the Board of Trustees of the University of I l n i t i nth lios hs day of March, 1932. B O A R D O F TRUSTEES O F T H E UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS By Edward E. Barrett President

H. E. Cunningham

Secretary

APPROVED: Sveinbjorn Johnson

University Counsel 3-10-1932 REIMBURSEMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE FOR COAL PURCHASED DURING 1931 (13) The agreement between the University and the Department of Public Welfare for the operation of the Research and Educational Hospitals provides that "The University will provide not to exceed $50,000 for fuel during the fiftyseventh biennium and the Department all other heating and ventilating operating expenses for that period." The Department paid for coal purchased from July to December, 1931, without presenting the bills to the University for payment. It then asked for reimbursement. It is impossible to secure a transfer of the bills on the books of the State Auditor of Public Accounts so that the University cannot make a reimbursement to the Department in the form of a direct payment. The Department now suggests as an alternative that the University pay the gas, water, and electric light bills for the remainder of the fiscal year which would amount to approximately the same as the cost of coal purchased by the Department during the first half of the fiscal year. I recommend that these payments be authorized up to the amount paid by the Department for coal during the first six months of thefiscalyear. O n motion of M r . Barr, the p a y m e n t of gas, water, a n d light bills for the Research and Educational Hospitals for the remainder of the fiscal year w a s authorized, u p to the a m o u n t spent for coal ($8,609.55) according to the contract with the Department of Public Welfare (see page 5 6 4 ) , in lieu of the p a y m e n t for coal which should have been m a d e b y the University, but which w a s m a d e b y the Department for the first six m o n t h s of the current fiscal year. It is stipulated that the total a m o u n t to be paid for coal a n d for the above items shall not exceed $50,000 for the biennium. USE OF ATHLETIC AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES BY PUBLIC (14) From time to time there have been requests from persons neither enrolled as students in the University nor on the University staff for permission to use the various athletic and recreational facilities of the University, particularly in the case of families of members of the faculty. O n November 14, 1930 (Minutes, page 121), the Board decided that "it is unwise to open facilities of the University to persons not connected with it except through channels of regular instruction.'' Since then I have been asked to secure a reconsideration of this policy and recently I requested Directors George Huff and Louise Freer and the Supervising Architect to serve as a Committee to study the matter, with the view to defining certain general policies governing the granting of such privileges which would be in harmony with the action of the Board of Trustees taken on July 14, 1915 (Minutes, page 772). This Committee has submitted the following recommendations: t. That greater freedom be permitted in the use of recreational facilities financed State courts built and operated tomay use permissible with thethe grantand the tennis funds. This would apply by the be of the Stadium, facilities provided by by the Athletic Association than the Athletic Association; Ice Rink,