Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 171]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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800 000 U.S. Treasury bills due 5/29/79 9.65 762 586 66 11/30 2 042 561 Continental Bank 10'/8 percent time deposit due 1/22/79 10.13 2 042 561 11 O n motion of Mr. Livingston, this report was approved as presented. SECRETARY'S REPORT

T h e secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty and changes of status made by the president, resignations, and leaves of absence. A copy of the report is filed with the secretary. CHANGE IN MEMBERSHIP, CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE TO ASSIST IN THE SELECTION OF A PRESIDENT President Howard reported a communication from Mr. William Karnes and from officers of the University of Illinois Foundation with regard to Mr. Karnes's membership on the Consultative Committee (in his capacity as president of the University of Illinois Foundation). Mr. Karnes will be in the state only occasionally in the next several months and suggested that the vice president of the Foundation, Mr. Gardner W. Heidrick, be asked to serve on the committee in his place. O n motion of Mr. Forsyth, the board approved the replacement as suggested. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD President Howard called attention to the schedule of meetings for the next three months: January 17 (annual meeting), U r b a n a ; February 21, Medical Center; March 21, Chicago Circle. He also announced that an executive session had been requested and would be convened after the meeting for consideration of reports of pending litigation and to receive a progress report of the work of the Consultative Committee from its chairman, Mr. Martin Wagner. RECESS AND EXECUTIVE SESSION Following a short recess, the board reconvened in executive session and considered the following items of business: Litigation Initiated by James C. Saunders and Dale F. Russell (20) A complaint has been filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County (Case No. 78-L-1355) by James C. Saunders and Dale F. Russell in which "The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University" is named as the defendant. The plaintiffs are former nonacademic employees of the University in the classification of Assembly Hall stagehands who terminated their employments during the year 1977. The complaint is in six counts, the first three of which purport to be class actions, the class consisting of those persons similarly situated to the named plaintiffs. The other three counts are on behalf of the named plaintiffs individually. The complaint alleges that the University entered into a March 2, 1977 (probably intended to be March 2, 1978), agreement with Local 482 of the Inter-