Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 6]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e Civil Aeronautics Administration will put in a pipe channel for a part of this distance if t h e University will pay the difference in cost. Estimates prepared by Professor James J . Doland during airport construction and checked with representatives of the Johnson-Green Company (one of t h e contractors on the airport) indicating the difference in cost between the pipe channel and t h e open ditch a r e a s follows: Open Ditch Cost as estimated by C.A.A.: Excavation—50,000 cu. yds., at 27(i $13 500 Structures • I 500 $*5 000 University cost which would be paid out of funds already appropriated: Right-of-way—14 acres, at $400 5 600 Fencing—320 rods, at $2.20 700 Sodding 10 acres of spoil banks 750 7 050 Total Cost of Open Ditch $22 050 Pipe—2,700 feet of 54-inch pipe, at $15 41 250 Extra Total Cost of Pipe Compared with Open Ditch $19 200 The net present cost to t h e University would be further reduced by capitalization of the maintenance cost of one-half mile of open ditch, which might easily run to $200 or more a year. I therefore recommend a proposal be made to the Civil Aeronautics A d ministration that the University will agree to the expenditure of the additional cost of the pipe over the open ditch and that an appropriation of $19,200 be made from the General Reserve Fund for this purpose. On motion of Mr. Davis, this recommendation was adopted. T h e appropriation was made by unanimous vote. A p p r o p r i a t i o n for V e t e r i n a r y College S t u d i e s (2) A t its meeting on June 1, 1944 (Minutes, page 958), the Board of Trustees voted to establish a College of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. T h e President of the University was directed to have a study made of the organization and the curriculum a n d submit a detailed report through t h e University Senate t o t h e Board of Trustees as soon as possible. A committee has been appointed to make a study of the building and curricular needs for this College. This committee has been instructed to include in its report estimates of capital and operating costs—that is, how much money should be requested for a complete building or buildings, t h e probable staff requirements and annual budgets—with due consideration given to the transfer of any existing departments to t h e new college. T h e committee has likewise been instructed to secure data on curricular requirements. It will be necessary for this committee to send representatives to other institutions having veterinary colleges and to secure the consulting services of e x perts in veterinary education. I, therefore, recommend that an appropriation of $2,500 be made from the General Reserve F u n d to the "Committee on Organization and Curriculum for College of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery," this fund to be available for travel expenses, office expenses, secretarial and clerical salaries, and honoraria for consulting services. On motion of Mr. Jensen, this appropriation was made, by unanimous vote. T h e Executive Committee adjourned.

H . E. CUNNINGHAM Clerk P A R K LIVINGSTON, CHESTER R. D A V I S F R A N K A. J E N S E N Chairman

ORGANIZATION O F HEALTH A N D PHYSICAL EDUCATION A N D ATHLETICS PROGRAM

M r . A m e s a n d M r . Mills made statements on t h e plans for a building for Health a n d Physical Education a n d Athletics, to t h e effect that such a building should be a University project a n d not a separate bill sponsored by outside organizations, that it should be on t h e same basis as the Huff Gymnasium, and that, a s a result of t h e separate organiza-