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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 15

Amount brought forward $64 160 00 Special Appropriations for Uncompleted Activities (Until September 30, 1935 only): Operation: Budget Survey $2 800 00 Chicago Office Rearrangement 800 00 Engineering Booklet 990 00 Graduate Research Assignments 381 00 Industrial Agricultural Research I 600 00 Registrar's Records 2 000 00 $8 571 00 Plant Additions: Elevated Water Tank and Connections $40 000 00 Saline Drainage District Improvements 6 185 00 Stop Lights 1 700 00 $47 885 00 $56 456 00 Total $120 616 00 On motion of Mr. Barr, these balances were reappropriated as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Barr, M r . Barrett, M r s . Freeman, Mr. K a r r a k e r , M r . Mayer, D r . Meyer, M r s . Plumb, M r . Pogue, M r . Wieland, Mr. W i l l i a m s ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Horner.

IMPROVEMENT OF CAMPUS INTERSECTIONS OF GREEN STREET

(13) A statement from the Director of the Physical Plant Department concerning the improvements of the intersections of Green and Wright Streets and Green Street and Mathews Avenue, and the installation of traffic lights at these intersections, and a recommendation that an appropriation of $4,100 be made from the General Reserve Fund for the straightening of the intersections. M r . Barrett offered a motion that the intersections be straightened and the appropriation made as recommended. T h e vote was as follows: Aye, M r . Barrett, Mr. Mayer, Dr. Meyer, M r s . Plumb, M r . P o g u e ; no, Mr. Barr, M r s . Freeman, Mr. K a r r a k e r , M r . Wieland, M r . W i l l i a m s ; absent, Mr. H o r n e r . As the vote was a tie, the Chair declared the motion lost.

BIDS ON ELEVATED WATER TANK

(14) The Director of the Physical Plant Department reports that the following bids were received on the elevated water tank: Chicago Bridge & Iron Works $19 385 00 Pittsburgh-DesMoines Steel Company 20 950 00 McClintic-Marshall Corporation 22 500 00 The lowest bid is within the amount budgeted under the appropriation and is in accordance with the specifications submitted. In accordance with the action of the Board of Trustees on May 18, the Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, the Director of the Physical Plant Department, and the President of the University, awarded the contract for the tank to the lowest bidder. On motion of Mr. Barrett, this action was confirmed.

CHAIR OF SLAVONIC LANGUAGES

(15) On May 18 the Board requested that the University Senate be asked to consider a proposal that there be established at the University a chair of Slavonic languages. On May 20 I asked the Senate Committee on Educational Policy to study this matter and to report as soon as possible. In view of the recommendation of the Committee this report was not submitted to the Senate, but is being submitted directly to the Board at this time.