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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT W1ULARD

[July 16

The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE UNIVERSITY ( i ) T h e following report on the various measures before the Sixtieth General Assembly affecting the University: I. Biennial Appropriation A. Budget.—The biennial budget for 1937-1939, originally approved by the Board on October 26, 1936, and submitted to the Department of Finance on November 1, 1936, was reduced, by action of the Board on May 3, by a total of $1,250,000 in that amount of the budget coming from State tax revenues. This revised budget was adopted by the Board on May 13. It provided for a total of $15,149,632, of which $11,154,102 represented income from State tax revenues, $295,530 Federal grants, and $3,700,000 the appropriation of the Revolving Fund of the University's income from fees and other sources. The appropriation bills representing this budget were introduced in the House on May 19 (H.B. No. 942) and in the Senate on May 25 (S.B. No. 483). The Senate bill was passed first and was sent to the House on June 10. A substitute appropriation bill (H.B. No. 956) was introduced in the House on May 19 by Representative A. B. Lager of Carlyle. This bill called for an appropriation of $804,568 less than the reduced budget of the Board of Trustees. It differed from the University bill in two other respects: it did not provide for an automatic adjustment in the allocations from the University of Illinois (Mill Tax) Fund and the General Revenue Fund, which was deemed necessary by the Board; and it failed to include provisions for the payment of retiring allowances and death benefits. Both bills were considered by the Committee on Appropriations on June 23. The Committee rejected the substitute bill and voted to recommend to the House t h a t the Trustees' bill pass. On June 29, when the bill was on second reading in the House, the sponsor of the substitute bill offered four amendments to make the Trustees' bill conform to his bill. These amendments were tabled by a vote of more than two to one, and the bill was passed without amendment on June 30 by a vote of 134 to o. On July 12 the Governor vetoed all of the items for buildings, totaling $650,000, including an addition to the Library, $350,000, Agricultural Laboratory Building and remodeling old quarters, $150,000, and a new unit for Chemistry, $150,000. This wipes out completely the building program in the original budget as submitted to the Department of Finance, the Board on May 13 having eliminated $625,000. Following is the text of the appropriation bill with the Governor's veto message, a certified copy of which is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record. Certificate Number 20477

STATE OF ILLINOIS O F F I C E OF T H E SECRETARY OF STATE

To All to whom these Presents Shall Come, Greeting: I, Edward J. Hughes, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the following and hereto attached is a true photostatic copy of an Act making appropriations for the University of Illinois and providing for the expenditure thereof, the original of which is now on file and a matter of record in this office. In Testimony Whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Illinois. Done at the City of Springfield this 13th day of July, A.D. 1937.

(SEAL) EDWARD J. HUGHES

Secretary of State