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board o f trustees

[September 2 2

fully considered, in consultation with the Comptroller, how much more motley will be needed in the next biennium for operation. From whatever point of view we have approached the problem our conclusion has been substantially the same: That a minimum of $500,000 must be added in our operating budget. Taking this from the last building budget will leave $1,500,000 for our building projects. This is not sufficient to meet the actual needs of the situation in a liberal way, but under existing economic and other conditions I believe it is the most we can reasonably expect to get. I need not say again what I have said m a n y times that the recommendations which I make to you with reference to buildings and operation are based on our minimum needs. There is, so to speak, no water that can be squeezed out of the proposition. Any diminution will so imperil our work that it will be less efficient and we shall be able to do less for our students and the public. At your meeting last July you instructed m e to confine m y recommendations for appropriations to a total amount of $10,500,000, as before, and also instructed m e to include in whatever recommendations I might make this fall an item of $500,000 for the third unit of the new Library. Making up the budget from these points of view and under these instructions I beg leave to make the following recommendations: PROPOSED STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR BUILDINGS Third unit of the Library building and equipment $500,000 Materials' Testing Laboratory and Equipment 500,000 Completion of Lincoln Hall, with lecture room and equipment. 500,000 These amounts are based upon studies made by the Supervising Architect, and are necessary in each case for the project. PROPOSED STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPERATION I submit the following proposed distribution of the proposed appropriation for operation, as suggested by the Comptroller. The distribution follows the items prescribed by the State Budget Law. I insert for comparison the distribution of the present biennium: Proposed Item I925-S7 1927-29 Salaries and Wages $6 100 000 $6 550 000 Office Expense (including printing and publications). .. 280 000 280 000 Travel 80 000 80 000 Operation 910 000 930 000 Repairs 300 000 320 000 Equipment 580 000 580 000 Improvements other than new buildings 140 000 260 000 Total $8 500 000 $9 000 000 1 recommend that this budget be adopted as the one to be submitted to the Department of Finance and to the Legislature for the coming biennium, 1927-29; and that the President be directed to prepare and secure the introduction of a bill for appropriations to the University from the State in accordance therewith, to prepare the bills necessary for federal and other appropriations which come to the University through the State Treasury and to take general charge of the whole matter of introducing and securing the passage of the Legislative Budget from now on. O n motion of D r . N o b l e , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved a n d adopted. LANDSCAPING OF C A M P U S O n motion of Dr. Noble, the President of the Board was authorized to appoint a committee of three members to consider and report on the landscaping of the campus.