Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 404]

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1927]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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EXPENSE A N D EQUIPMENT B U D G E T (13) The expense and equipment budget f r the year beginning July 11, 1927, o showing the d t i o amounts c r i d i the summaries under the heading "Exeal f are n pense and Equipment" in the budget. O n motion of Dr. Noble, this expense and equipment budget was approved, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Barr, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, Dr. Noble; no, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Ickes, Mr. Small, Mr. Trees, Mr. Ward. APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR DONALD R. TAFT (14) A request for authority to appoint Dr. Donald R. Taft, at present professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Sociology at Wells College, as Professor of Sociology, on indefinite tenure, at an annual salary of $5,000, beginning February 1, 1928. O n m o t i o n of M r s . E v a n s , this authority w a s granted. SPECIAL. NON-RECURRING APPROPRIATIONS (15) A recommendation that appropriations be made for special purposes as follows: These appropriations are over and above the budget appropriations for normal operation and equipment and are for special non-recurring needs of the year or for securing necessary important^but costly equipment which should not be included in the normal operating budget. Appropriations for these special purposes are made in total for the benefit of all departments of the College indicated unless otherwise specified and m a y be expended only on order of the Dean of the College and, for expenditures exceeding $500, the approval of the President. All such requisitions, however, should be sent to the Comptroller. All requisitions must show total expense of installation and necessary physical alterations and the purchase must not add to the net annual operating expense of the department or college without provision having been previously made therefor. N o expenditures m a y be made from the appropriations to the various Colleges other than the Graduate School for research of individual members of the staff or for graduate instruction except for work in the experiment stations or bureaus of research. N o expenditures m a y be made from the appropriation to the Graduate School for equipment other than for purposes of the research of individual members of the staff or for graduate instruction, not including, however, equipment for the work of the experiment stations and bureaus of research. Liberal Arts and Sciences Equipment $8,000 Engineering Equipment and repair of equipment 20,000 Agriculture Equipment and Soil Survey Reports 20,000 Commerce Bureau of Business Research salaries and expense 8,700 Medicine Equipment 15,000 Pharmacy Equipment 4,5°°