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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

[September 20

will provide for additional expansion loops and anchorages for thefintube radiation in the addition to the Library. Funds are available in the project budget. I concur. O n motion of M r . Clement, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Johnston, M r . Swain; no, none; absent, none.

PURCHASES

(7) The President submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the Director of Purchases and the Vice-President and Comptroller. The list of purchases recommended for Board approval was presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from state appropriations to the University) and purchases from institutional funds. The latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, contracts with private corporations and other organizations, funds from foundation grants, and grants from corporations and other donors, and University revolving funds authorized by law. Thetotal amounts of these purchases were: From Appropriated Funds $ 410 294 96 From Institutional Funds 627 387 90 Grand Total $1 037 682 86 A complete list of the purchases recommended, with supporting information, including the quotations received, was sent to each member of the Board in advance of the meeting and a copy has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. O n motion of M r . Swain, the purchases recommended were authorized. T h e business of the meeting having been concluded, on motion of M r . Swain, the Executive Committee adjourned. T h e Executive Committee of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

E A R L W . PORTER Secretary and Clerk HOWARD W . CLEMENT TIMOTHY W. SWAIN W A Y N E A. JOHNSTON,

Chairman

REPORT O F THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

August 31, 1967 O n call of the Chairman, a meeting of the Executive Committee of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held in Room 800, 135 East Eleventh Place, Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, August 3 1 , 1967, beginning at 11:30 a.m. T h e meeting was called for consideration of reports a n d recommendations from the President of the University on matters of business, including acquisition of property, requiring approval by the Board of Trustees on which action should not be deferred until the regular meeting of the Board in September. T h e Board at its meeting on July 26, 1967, authorized the Executive Committee to take action at any time prior to the next regular meeting of the Board on transfers of jurisdiction to and leases from the Illinois Building Authority a n d any other matter relating to the lease, sale, purchase, or acquisition, by or for the University, of real estate, including the authority to exercise the right of eminent domain a n d to institute condemnation proceedings.