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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1934
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462 BOABD OF TRUSTEES ARMORY ANNEX [February 24 (28) The Professor of Military Science and Tactics recommends that an application be made by the University for an allotment of Federal Public Works funds for the construction of an Armory Annex at the University, which would contain a drill hall to permit mounted work indoors, stables for animals, and space for parking field guns and other vehicles and permit gun drill, together with space for offices, repair shops, storage of feed for animals, and an observation gallery. This building would replace the present military stables, which are inadequate, of wood, and of such an age as to make up-keep costly. If application for such funds is. approved as a federal project on the ground that such a building would in time of emergency be immediately available to the Federal Government, the full cost would be paid by the Public Works Administration instead of the usual division of such financing between the Public Works Administration and state or local governments, if certain legislation proposed in Congress is enacted. It is estimated that a building of the type requested would cost at least $22S,ooo, and possibly as much as $350,000; service connections, that is, extension of steam, water, and power lines on present sources of supply, would cost $25,000. The operating department estimates that the cost of operating and maintaining such a building would be approximately $8,000 per year. These estimates do not include provision for the relief of existing service lines which are now over-loaded. No action was taken on this matter. REPORT ON APPLICATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS (29) At the January meeting of the Board (Minutes, page 433) a report was made that the University had applied to the Federal Civil Works Administration for the approval of certain projects, the labor costs for which were to be paid from federal funds. At this time only one of the projects has been approved, namely, the investigation of properties of certain clays. The University has been informed by the Champaign County Civil Works Administration that no local labor will be available for the extension of the 16-inch heat main and the water storage reservoir for which the Physical Plant Division had applied. These projects therefore cannot go forward. Information has been requested concerning the status of the others. This report was received for record. A C C I D E N T COMPENSATION (30) The following letter from the University Counsel. February 20, 1934 President A. H. Daniels, 355 Administration MY DEAR PRESIDENT DANIELS: Building On Tuesday, February 6, I met with the Court of Claims at Springfield, and the Court very generously gave me more than an hour to present the legal status and situation of the University from the standpoint of the State Compensation Law. As a result of that discussion the Court will pass upon claims of members of the staff of the University for hospital or medical service and make findings on the subject whether the employee was engaged in an extra hazardous occupation at the time of the injury and therefore entitled to compensation, and as to the amount to which he is entitled for hospital and medical attention. In conformity with the understanding had with the Board and with the Governor sometime ago, the Board, if it can find the money, may then properly pay these items at once instead of requiring the staff member to wait for two years or so, until the Legislature makes an appropriation. Other cases, involving compensation for loss of time or permanent or partial disability, will have to take the regular course. I am reporting this to you at thit time so that if you deem it sufficiently important you may bring this to the attention of the Board at its next meeting. Cordially yours, SVEINBJORN JOHNSON This report was received for record. Counsel
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