Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924 [PAGE 425]

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board of trustees

[February 14,

A D D I T I O N A L SICK L E A V E F O R E. W . DAVIS (26) A report that Mr. E. W . Davis was taken il in December and i not yet l s fully recovered. Dean Mumford recommends that he be given an additional sick leave of two weeks in the month of January with pay. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this recommendation was approved.

AGRONOMY COTTAGE

(27) The following recommendations: I. That the sum of #6000 be transferred from the special appropriation for equipment for the College of Agriculture and appropriated for the erection of this proposed cottage for the Department of Agronomy. 2. That the Board approve the plans for this cottage as submitted by the Supervising Architect. 3. That the President and Secretary of the Board be authorized and directed to enter into contracts for the erection of this cottage at a total cost for a l purl poses, including sheds and outbuildings, of not to exceed the $6000 appropriated therefor, the contracts to be based, according to our practice, on bids, and duly drawn up and approved by the proper officers of the University according to the rules of the Board before they are signed. 4. That beginning with the nextfiscalyear, July I, 1924, the monthly or yearly wages of the occupants of the houses now owned by the University on the farms shall be set forth in the agricultural budget in two items—the money wage proposed and the rental value of the house offered—and the two together shall represent the total monthly or yearly wages in each case. The rental value shall be determined by the valuation put on the house by the Supervising Architect, the Comptroller, and the Dean of the College of Agriculture. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, these recommendations were adopted. T h e transfer and appropriations were m a d e in the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r . Noble, M r . Trimble; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r s . Blake,

Mr. Small, Mr. Trees. BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS

(28) A recommendation that solicitors, canvassers, and agents of every description be prohibited from canvassing in University buildings. O n motion of M r . Trimble, this recommendation was adopted. GIFT FROM THE CLASS OF 1918 (29) A report of the receipt from Mrs. Catherine Needham Severance, Secretary of the Class of 1918, of a check for $60 to be used for elm trees (see page 383). The check has been sent to the Comptroller. This report was received for record. ASSIGNMENT OF LAND AND EQUIPMENT (30) A recommendation that the following regulation be adopted: The assignment of land, equipment, or any other property to a department or division does not give the department a title to the same, but only to use as long as necessary; and the use of land or equipment or other property shall not exclude its use for other purposes by other departments of the University, at the same time, on approval of the President, provided that any such second use shall not interfere with the efficient utilization of said land, equipment, or other property for the purposes for which i wasfirstassigned. t O n motion of M r s . Evans, this regulation was adopted.