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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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13.5 per cent and increases within the community colleges averaged more this year than was true for senior universities. It would be tempting to insert some new number at this time, but such a number would have little sense of reality. Rather, I have asked Vice President Brady and his staff, in concert with various internal and external groups and individuals, to place a high priority upon continuing studies of our salary needs and am asking that this current request be accepted with the full understanding that it must be subject to change when and if the facts warrant such change. The funds requested for the capital budget have been increased by $9,202,300 as a result of the action which removed Turner Hall at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the Library Addition at the Chicago Circle campus from the Fiscal Year 1975 capital appropriations, except for planning funds, in anticipation of construction funds not being needed until FY 1976. These requests have become the basis for the preparation of detailed budget requests for Fiscal Year 1976 submitted on a preliminary basis to the Illinois Board of Higher Education on September 9, 1974. I recommend approval of these requests.

I n presenting this recommendation, the President reported that he had undertaken discussions with the staff of the Board of Higher Education and that there is general agreement that it will not be possible at this time to be precise as to a percentage of increase for salaries; rather, that some general assumptions will be developed by that Board and others and appraised later in the course of budget review. O n motion of Mr. Swain, the request was approved as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . Howard, M r . Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Walker. (Mr. Forsyth voted to approve, with a request that h e be recorded as dissenting from the tentative recommendation for salary increases averaging 9.5 per cent, indicating he preferred that the request be reduced from that level.) Table 1 FY 1976 Operating Budget Request (Thousands of Dollars) Persona] Services — 9.5 per cent Price Increases: General — 11 per cent Utilities Subtotal Opening New Buildings Health Professions: Medical Center College of Veterinary Medicine Subtotal Student Loan Matching Funds Programmed Elimination of Deficiencies FY 1976 Request Increase over FY 1975 Base

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Per Cent of Request $15 537 5' 57.781 $2 632 6 2 275 2 4 907 8 184 0 3 940 6 200 0 4 140 6 121 5 2 000 0 $26 891 4 12.6% 15.40 0.45 7.44 100.00 18.25 0.68

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