Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 315]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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1926), which includes £10,150 in the Division of Beef Cattle under the Experiment Station. The cattle being fed for sale to produce this estimate will not be ready for market until some time in July. In the meantime it i necessary to purchase feed s and provide labor to take care of them. Most of this expense must be met prior to June 30. I have authorized the Comptroller and the Department to treat the value of the cattle as a deferred resource for the budget and to set up the estimated value of the cattle as of June 30, and credit that amount to the Department to be drawn against. I request confirmation of m y action on this matter. O n motion of M r . Barr, this action was confirmed. APPROPRIATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY BULLETIN (14.) I recommend that $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for the publication of a Department of Chemistry Bulletin. I have received the sum of $100 which has been subscribed by certain alumni to cover the expense of including in this bulletin the names and addresses of alumni of the Department of Chemistry. I request that this gift be accepted and the amount appropriated in addition to the above sum, so as to make i possible to print t this list in the circular. O n motion of M r . Barr, these recommendations were approved. T h e appropriation w a s m a d e b y the following vote: A y e , M r . A r m strong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Noble, M r . Small, M r .

Wham. APPROPRIATION FOR ALUMNI RECORDS

(15) A recommendation that an appropriation of £500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund to the Alumni Records budget to supplement the appropriation for the current year, on account of additional unexpected expenses. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this appropriation w a s made, by 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 . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Noble, M r . Small, M r . W h a m .

CONTRACTS AND PURCHASE ORDERS EXECUTED BY THE COMPTROLLER

(16) The following report from the Comptroller of contracts and purchase orders executed by him since the last report:

CONTRACTS EXECUTED BY THE COMPTROLLER MAY 16, 1927, TO JUNE 6, 1927

Miscellaneous contracts executed under general regulations: U. S. Veterans Bureau, regular University fees; M a y 3, 1927; regular instruction in Urbana Colleges for 1927 Summer Session and School year 1927-28 to David C. Twomey and William K. Sarpalius. (Renewal.) Yale University Press, film service, #162.50; M a y 23, 1927; thirteen photoplays for 1927 Summer Session. PURCHASE ORDERS AMOUNTING TO $1000 OR MORE Date Amount Department Firm Description Procedure 5-16-17 $Mll so Physical Plant Electric Coal Coal Quoted Price Co. 5-11-37 £418000 Agronomy A. Hoen and Soil Maps Quoted Price Co.

H. M. Edwards

This report w a s received for record. Purchasing Agent