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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 27

E X E C U T I V E COMMITTEE MEETING, A P R I L 27, 1938 A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the University, in Urbana, on Wednesday, April 27, 1938, during the recess in the meeting of the Board held on the same day. Mr. Oscar G. Mayer, Chairman, and Mr. Orville M. Karraker, member of the Executive Committee, were present; also Mr. Homer Mat Adams, Mr. Louis C. Moschel, and Mr. Harold A. Pogue, members of the Board, and President Arthur C. Willard, Mr. A. J. Janata, and Professor Lloyd Morey.

MATTERS P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T WILLARD

The Executive Committee considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

THE BUDGET FOR 1 9 3 8 - 1 9 3 9 ( i ) T h e University budget for the fiscal and academic years 1938-1939.

Mimeographed copies of the detailed budget were distributed to the members of the Executive Committee and to the members of the Board who were present, together with an analysis showing the income from all sources and the distribution of the proposed expenditures. The Comptroller presented a statement showing the allocation of the income from state appropriations and the estimated income from all other sources available for the fiscal and academic years 1938-1939 for all budgetary purposes, as recommended by the President of the University. Mr. Adams having raised the question of the wages of janitors in the Physical Plant Department, the President of the University presented the following statements on the wages of building and maintenance employees and the restoration of salaries of full-time members of the staff.

W A G E S OF BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES

Last year the janitors in the Physical Plant Department requested an increase in their wages from a minimum of 50 cents per hour to a rate of 60 cents, effective July 1, 1937. On July 16, the Board of Trustees, after receiving a report from the Faculty Committee on W a g e s which had been asked to study the proposal, and after a hearing of a delegation representing the janitors, voted to increase their wages to 56 cents per hour effective July 1, 1937. On April I I , 1938, the Grievance Committee of Building Service Employees, Local No. 19, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, submitted a request to the Physical Plant Department for a wage scale of 60 cents per hour for regular time, time and one-half for overtime and Sundays, and double time for holidays, effective July I, 1938. T h e latter two features have not appeared in previous requests. If this is approved it will mean an added expenditure of about $14,000 a year for janitor service alone. T h e Faculty Committee on Wages has given this proposal its consideration and submits the following report: "Janitors received in 1932-1933, 50^ to 55£ an hour, an average of about $124 a month. Last year they received a maximum of 550 an hour and an average of $116 to $117 a month. F o r the current year they receive 56^ an hour, an average of about $122 a month. All of these figures include overtime, which, however, is smaller in amount now than in 1932-1933. T h e proposals