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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Disbursements (as per canceled checks returned to Comptroller): July, 1937 $14 400 00 September, 1937 20 00 December, 1937 14 300 00 January, 1938 7 200 00 February, 1938 7 200 00 Total, Disbursements

$43 120 00

Balance on hand February 28, 1938 (on deposit at First National Bank of Chicago) $63 339 19

F. M. GORDON, Treasurer Correct: LLOYD MOREY, Comptroller

This report w a s received for record.

IMPROVEMENT O F PAVEMENTS A N D LIBRARY BUILDING PLANS

On motion of Mr. Adams, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds was requested to study the improvement of the pavements on Green Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, and the plans for the addition to the Library (with a view to a request for consideration of the latter project in a call for a special session of the General Assembly), and to report to the Board.

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT WILLARD

The Board resumed consideration of matters presented by the President of the University.

NATURAL RESOURCES BUILDING

(25) As has already been reported to the Board, the 60th General Assembly made an appropriation of $300,000 to the State Department of Registration and Education for the construction of a State Natural Resources Building for the scientific surveys located at Urbana. The Act of the General Assembly provides that if such a building is constructed on the grounds of the University of Illinois an agreement will be entered into between the Department and the Trustees relative to the operation and maintenance of the building. At its meeting on December 3, 1937 (Minutes, page 572), the Board assigned a site for this building on the area bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, Sixth Street, South Drive, and Burrill Avenue extended, subject to the execution of an agreement within the powers of and agreeable to the Department of Registration and Education and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois providing for the construction and operation of this building. The Board had previously referred to its Committee on General Policy the question of the agreement. A draft of such an agreement, providing for the construction of the building by the University, was prepared and was submitted to the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation, the Chiefs of the State Geological and Natural History Surveys, and the Director of the Physical Plant Department, all of whom approved it. It was then sent to the Director of the Department of Registration and Education for his approval. He submitted it to the Governor, who did not approve it but had another agreement prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau, which is being presented to the Board herewith. This agreement departs in fundamental and very substantial particulars from that proposed by the Board of Trustees. A statement1 prepared by the University Counsel on March 9, 1938, discussing the legal aspects of these differences is presented herewith. I also present a letter* from the Director of the Physical Plant Department dated March 11, 1938, in which he points out the 'Copies of these documents were given to the Secretary of the Board for record.