Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 462]

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1925]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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I recommend that an addition of #1200 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund to the Pharmacy budget. O n motion of M r . Barr, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r , Blair, M r . Small. DEATH BENEFIT FOR ESTATE OF RALPH PRITCHARD (4) A report of the death in October of Mr. Ralph Pritchard, for more than fifteen years an employee of the department of Horticulture, and a recommendation that the Comptroller be authorized to pay to the legally constituted representatives or beneficiaries of Mr. Pritchard's estate, eight hundred ten dollars, being one-half of his annual salary. O n motion of M r . Trees, this payment w a s authorized. T h e appropriation w a s m a d e from the Reserve and Contingent fund b y the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small. APPROPRIATION FOR WATER BILL AGAINST C H I C A G O BUILDINGS (5) The City of Chicago has rendered a bill against the University for water furnished the Medical Building, Dental Building, Pharmacy Building, and the Juvenile Research Building for three years from November, 1922, to the present date. It seems that in 1922 a revised ordinance eliminated the exemption of State Departments as well as Public Schools which had been effective in the old ordinance and as a result of which neither the College of Physicians and Surgeons nor the University ever paid anything for the water supplied them by the city. Neither the Comptroller's office nor the Business Manager's office of the Chicago Departments knew they were being assessed. The full amount, however, has been assessed as a current bill and provides for a discount of twenty-five percent (25%) i the f bill is paid before November 21, 1925. The Legal Counsel says that the University should, under the law, pay these assessments. I recommend that an appropriation of #2,750 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund to pay the city of Chicago for water used in our Chicago departments for three years from November, 1922, when bills are approved by the President. O n motion of M r . W h a m , this appropriation w a s m a d e , b y the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small. AGREEMENT WITH THE NATIONAL BRICK MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION (6) Dean M. S. Ketchum submits an agreement f r a proposed i v s i a i n o o netgto f drying clay wares by the Engineering Experiment Station in cooperation with the National Brick Manufacturers' Association. I recommend that this agreement be entered into. O n motion of M r . Barr, this agreement was authorized. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR BUSINESS OFFICE (7) The Comptroller feels the need of an additional clerk in the Bursar's Division whose services will require an addition of $600 to the Business Office budget. I recommend that an appropriation of $600 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for this purpose.