Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 933]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 8

the units which are to be recommended by the Building P r o g r a m Committee for construction in the present program would be made by that Committee in cooperation with those departments. T h e Physical Plant Department has prepared an estimate of the cost of preparing the preliminary plans for the buildings which should be studied in connection with the post-war building program. It is realized that the University does not have funds which can be appropriated for this purpose. The Building P r o g r a m Committee understands that the State P o s t - W a r Planning Commission intends to request the Legislature to make appropriations for use in the preparation of plans for proposed buildings. The Building P r o g r a m Committee, therefore, recommends that the University ask the State Post-War Planning Commission to provide the sum of $260,000 to prepare preliminary plans for buildings proposed for construction on the Urbana and Chicago campuses. T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department has reported that in preparing estimates for building modernization the Department needs the services of mechanical and electrical engineers to assist in analyzing needs, preparing statements for justification of the improvements, and making estimates of the costs. T h e University does not now have available the personnel to do this kind of work, and the Building P r o g r a m Committee recommends that the Physical Plant Department be authorized to employ architectural firms which have on their staffs mechanical and electrical engineers competent to perform the services required. Funds are available in the budget of the Department to cover the cost of these services. I concur in the recommendations of the Building Program Committee that: 1. T h e State P o s t - W a r Planning Commission be requested to provide $260,000 for plans for buildings proposed for construction at Urbana-Champaign and in Chicago. 2. Representatives of the University be authorized to present building and other capital improvement requirements to the State P o s t - W a r Planning Commission. 3. T h e services of architectural firms be authorized; specific proposals, including terms, will be presented to the Board for approval. P r o f e s s o r H u n t i n g t o n d i s c u s s e d t h i s p r o g r a m . T h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y w a s a u t h o r i z e d t o r e q u e s t a n a s s i g n m e n t of $ 2 6 0 , 0 0 0 for p r e l i m i n a r y s t u d i e s of t h e b u i l d i n g s i n c l u d e d in t h i s p r o g r a m , a n d to proceed as r e c o m m e n d e d . SCHOLARLY BOOKS PUBLISHED (28) The Director of the University Press reports the completion of the work of publishing, in cooperation with the Graduate School, of seven scholarly books (in eight volumes) in the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Series, for which appropriations were made by the Board. At my request, copies of the books are displayed in this room for inspection by the Board. T h e D i r e c t o r of t h e P r e s s c o m m e n t e d briefly o n t h e v a l u e of the p r o g r a m of p u b l i s h i n g s c h o l a r l y b o o k s a n d o n t h e s p e c i a l t y p o g r a p h i c a l f e a t u r e s of t h e b o o k s .

SALE OF ROSELAWN CEMETERY LOTS

T h e S e c r e t a r y p r e s e n t e d f o r r e c o r d t h e f o l l o w i n g r e p o r t of t h e sale of l o t s in R o s e l a w n C e m e t e r y s i n c e t h e l a s t r e p o r t of s u c h s a l e s : Sale Date Description Purchaser Price February 11, 1944 SWJ^ Lot 27 Section C H. Kenneth and #105 Mary E. Leming March 18, 1944 NEJ<4 Lot 114 Section G E. K. and Florence E. 105 Vandermark March 15, 1944 S E M Lot 114 Section G Mrs. Mabel Vander105 mark