Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880 [PAGE 190]

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188 The following report and papers were laid before the Board byProfessor S. W. Shattuck, Business Agent:

Hon. Emory Cobb, President Board of Trustees Illinois Industrial University: DEAE SIR—AS Business Agent of the University, I offer the following report for the three months ending September 1,1879: Paper "A" is a statement of the current appropriations with expenditures and collections under the same for the past six months. Paper "B" is a showing of the State appropriations both of 1877 and 1879, giving the amounts appropriated, those received by the University Treasurer, expenditures from the same with balances. Paper "C" is a list of warrants drawn since the last meeting of the Board, with vouchers for them from 692 to 747, inclusive, which are presented for auditing. Orders are out for books for an amount to more than cover the balance of the State appropriation, of 1877. The State balance in favor of the Chemical Laboratory of $17.00 is required for curtains —authority for their purchase is requested. All of the current appropriations show balances unexpended which you are requested to reappropriate as usual. The summer vacation has been a very busy one, because of the many changes and repairs authorized by the Board which have been carried out under the immediate supervision of Professors Bicker and Peabody. I believe the results will show the work to have been well done. It is expected everything will be in order by the 15th inst. The recommendations made by Maj. Willett for improved ventilation have been followed in the main and applied to the two tiers of rooms in the towers. It was not thought best to carry out his plans in full, even to the extent that the money in hand would permit. Said recommendations and plans are paper MD" of this report. With a new substantial building of brick for earth closets, a 75-horse power Root boiler now being put in, and many changes in heating coils and air ducts, the University is in better condition than ever before in regard to heating and ventilation. Authority was given for the purchase of a new steam pump for the main building at a cost of $150.00. Such a purchase was made with the privilege of returning if not perfectly satisfactory. Upon trial of the same, and the representation of Prof. Peabody and Mr. Baker, I recommended the purchase of a more powerful one at a greater cost. I consider this matter an essential one, especially as our building is not insured. No repairs have been made upon the roofs of the building the past summer. They are needed at once. The Janitor of the Dormitory has given notice that he shall leave about the last of September. I recommend that the building be put in charge of a student janitor or janitors with the express notice that if order is not observed the building will be closed at the end of the term. The income from it has not equaled the expenses for the past two years. The question of special fee, given in the catalogue, has been raised several times. Was it intended to be in addition to the incidental fee?

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Cwrrent Appropriations and Receipts.

For what expended. Board expenses Salaries Fuel and lights Stationery and printing Buildings and grounds Incidental expenses Furniture and fixtures Library and apparatus Military Department Agricultural Department Horticultural Department Mechanical Department Architectural Department Chemical Department Sundries—Domestic Science Specimens. Physical Laboratory Cabinets Surgical Department P reparatory Department Illini Photo Room Premium on Bonds Illinois Central Railroad Donation Fees and room rents State appropriations Appropriated.

$300 15,635 1,000 600 300 200 100 50 60 1,766 60 77 142 86 30 175 5 25 56 30 1,500 694 30 2,115 281 9,074 76

Receipts. Expended Balance.

$173 75 14,811 75 963 94 643 68 46 27 97 64 95 48 24 14| 48 38 2.781 22 543 731 2,019 46 1,586 07 646 00 72 53 27 35 25 50 640 00 56 97 2 25 1,500 00 $126 25 823 25 200 99 57 22 237 33 102 36 5 52 26 86 11 62 1,447 74 79 62 41 40 10 64 55 52 30 00 102 71 5 34 375 00 ""27*75

$164 92 100 90 83 60 1 001 2,462 13 563 35 1,983 54 1,454 43! 615 69 27 50

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