Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 449]

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emergency expenses. T h e amount of this fund shall not exceed $500 at any rime unless authorization for a larger amount is given by the Board of Directors or the executive committee. This fund shall be reimbursed from time to time by a regular check of the Foundation on the presentation of itemized receipted bills for expenses paid from it by the executive director. SECTION 2. Traveling Expenses. T h e executive director shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary traveling expenses when away from the headquarters of the Foundation and on the business of the Foundation. T h e directors of the Foundation shall be entitled to their reasonably necessary traveling expenses while coming to, attending, and returning home from meetings of the Board of Directors. SITE FOR STATE SURVEYS BUILDING (16) At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on July 26, 1935 (Minutes, page ,l8o), there was presented a request from the Chiefs of the Geological and Natural History Surveys that the Board of Trustees designate a site for the proposed State Surveys Building, so that the Department of Registration and Education could negotiate with the Federal Government for the construction of this building. The Chiefs suggested three sites, their first choice being the north end of the Horticultural Tract at Pennsylvania and Lincoln Avenues. This matter was referred by the Board to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with the power to act. T h e Committee met at the University on July 31 and inspected the several sites suggested and approved the request of the Chiefs of the Surveys for the site indicated by them as their first choice, namely, the north end of the Horticultural Tract. T h e Committee, acting for the Board of Trustees, designated the site, under the following conditions: 1. The site is being designated at this time as a practical step to facilitate the application of the Department of Registration and Education for Federal funds for the proposed building. It should be distinctly understood that if this building is not constructed as a federal public works project the Board of Trustees reserves the right to withdraw this assignment. 2. The designation of this site must be considered tentative pending approval of the building plans by the Board of Trustees. Final approval of the site cannot, therefore, be given until these plans are approved by the Board. 3. The land assignment on this site is the extreme north end of the H o r t i cultural tract and is limited to an area not to exceed 360 feet on Pennsylvania Avenue and 200 feet on Lincoln Avenue and subject to further restrictions upon final consideration. 4. It will not be practicable to extend steam lines to a building on this site, for a number of years at any rate, because of the cost involved. Until other buildings are erected in that area the University would not be justified in spending the amount of money which it would cost to extend the steam line to Pennsylvania and Lincoln Avenues. Consequently, this site is assigned with the understanding that a separate heating plant will be provided within the building to be operated by the University, but the costs of which shall be shared by the Department of Registration and Education and the University. Under this arrangement the University would give the Surveys credit for what it would cost the University to furnish steam from its central plant if steam lines could be extended to the building. At a meeting of the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation held on October 15, 1935, Dr. M. M. Leighton, Chief of the State Geological Survey, submitted the following statement prepared by him on the status of this project: "Director John J. Hallihan made an application to the Public W o r k s Administration during the early part of September for a Federal Grant of $675,000 for the construction of the State Natural Resources Building for the State Natural History Survey and the State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois, the State's share to be $825,000. T h e State Architect's office drew the preliminary plans for the building on the basis of the statement of needs of the two Surveys which had been approved by this Board, and after these plans had been drawn, their estimates for the cost of this Building amounted to $1,300,000. The cost of the equipment was estimated at $200,000, which made a total of $1,500,000. T h e previous estimate by the Board was $925,000. There was no