Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 522]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Mrs. Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, Dr. Noble, M r . Small, M r . W a r d . APPROPRIATION FOR PURCHASE OF A STALLION (7) Dean Mumford requests an appropriation for the purchase of a Percheron stallion for the Department of Animal Husbandry and recommends that Mr. George Potts, University horse foreman, be sent to France to make the purchase and bring the horse back. I concur in this recommendation and recommend further that an appropriation of $4i5oo, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for the purchase of a stallion and to cover Mr. Potts's expenses and the cost of transporting the horse. O n motion of M r . Barr, this appropriation w a s made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, Mrs. Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, Dr. Noble, M r . Small, M r . W a r d . A t this point, Dr. Noble took his place with the Board. ASHLAND AVENUE IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT (8) The Supervising Architect and the Comptroller report that an assessment of $279 has been made against University property in Chicago, due to the widening and improving of Ashland Avenue from Lake Street to Irving Park Boulevard. This improvement begins almost a mile north and a quarter of a mile east of our properties, but the assessment has been distributed over a large area. While University property is non-assessable, our practice has been to pay our share of the cost of public improvements on the same basis as private property owners. Accordingly, I recommend that the Board accept its share of the cost of this improvement voluntarily, that the proper officers of the city of Chicago be so informed, and that an appropriation of $279 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for this purpose. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, Mrs. Evans, M r s . Grigsby, Mrs. Ickes, Dr. Noble, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . W a r d . APPROPRIATION TO MILITARY DEPARTMENT FOR SHIPMENT OF AIRPLANE F R O M N A V Y D E P A R T M E N T (9) I recommend that an appropriation of $550, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund to the Military Department to cover the cost of securing (cost to include packing, loading, and transportation charges) an airplane which the Navy Department will give to the University for instructional purposes. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, M r s . Grigsby, Mrs. Ickes, Dr. Noble, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . W a r d . INTERFRATERN1TY COUNCIL PETITION ON FIRE PROTECTION (10) _ A petition _ from the Interfraternity Council at the University of Illinois for a consideration of the problem offireprotection.