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regulations and accepted by the Board. It is proposed that the same thing be done this year. Your Committee sees no other way of meeting the situation, and recommends that when the offer of money to cover this deficit is made, it be accepted. (2) Your Board furnished without charge heat, light, power, and water, as indicated above, for the year just closed. Your Committee sees no other way of meeting the expense of these items, and recommends that heat, light, power, and water be furnished without charge for the Hospital during the academic year 1928-29. Your Committee would point out, however, the danger of an increase in this item from year to year. The amount should be included, of course, in the maintenance budget of the Supervising Architect. (3) O n October 23, 1925, the Board appropriated the sum of $15,000 towards the completion of the McKinley Hospital, with the understanding that the income on the $25,000 of the Booth St. Louis Cold Storage Bonds (part of the original gift) be used to liquidate this loan, with interest at 2 per cent. This procedure was followed in the year 1925-26, and the loan was reduced to $14450. In 1926-27, the income from the bonds was appropriated toward the deficit in the operation of the Hospital for that year (See Minutes of June 10, 1927). The income from the bonds for the current year, $1,500, is now in the hands of the Treasurer, according to a statement of the Comptroller, made to the President of the University. Your Committee is of the opinion that as long as the Hospital expenses can be met without using the income from these bonds, this should be done. Your Committee is of the opinion that the Board should add the income from year to year of the Booth St. Louis Cold Storage Bonds to the capital, as long as the funds of the Hospital Association are sufficient to meet the deficits of the Hospital. Your Committee so recommends. Merle J. Trees Helen M . Grigsby O n motion of D r . Noble, this report w a s adopted. JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING, JUNE 26, 1928 M r . Barr presented the following report: A meeting of the committees on Buildings and Grounds, Finance, and Student Welfare was held at the Blackstone Hotel, in Chicago, at 12:30 p. m. on Tuesday, June 26, 1928. All the members of the committee on Buildings and Grounds were present, namely: Mr. Barr, Mrs. Grigsby, Mrs. Iclces, Dr. Noble, and Mr. Trees. The Finance Committee was represented by Mr. Trees and by Mr. Barr acting for Mrs. Busey, and the Committee on Student Welfare by Mrs. Grigsby. President Kinley was present. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds considered the following matters: LOCATION F O R MEN'S DORMITORIES O n motion of Dr. Noble, it was recommended that the suggestion of Professor White that the north and south borders of the new parade ground, between First and Fourth Streets, in Champaign, be taken as sites for proposed dormitories (Minutes, February 14, 1928, page 541) be received by the Board for record and for future reference. FIRE PROTECTION President Kinley presented a recommendation from Professor White calling for extensions of mains and equipment costing $9,700, as follows: (1) A new header in the Pumping Station $3 500 (2) A cross connection to the 10" city main south of the Auditorium 200