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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

[September 20

The final FY 1980 request for capital appropriations totals $33,123,995, as shown in Table 3, and has also been altered from the preliminary request, as follows. 1) T h e governor's approval of the FY 1979 capital appropriations for higher education as passed by the General Assembly has permitted three projects initially in the FY 1980 request to be included in the FY 1979 appropriation (English Building remodeling, English Building equipment at Urbana-Champaign, and S U D M P remodeling at Medical Center). 2) Major remodeling requests for the Medical Center have been restructured following a revision of the campus Major Remodeling Program. 3) Items 1 and 2 have resulted in a revised project priority order. 4) A variety of technical adjustments have resulted in elimination of three projects because they are not bondable (Exterior Campus Graphics and Landscape Improvement at Chicago Circle; Mathews Avenue Resurfacing at Urbana-Champaign), an increased cost estimate for one project (Convent Building purchase at the Medical Center), and decreased cost estimates for two projects (Landscape Improvements at Urbana-Champaign; SR" at Medical Center). The Food Production Research (Food for Century Three) request shown in Table 4 now totals $7,550,300 reflecting revised project cost estimates. These requests have been prepared by the vice president for administration, based upon recommendations of the University Planning Council, 1 the chancellors at the three campuses, and the president of the University. Approval of these requests by the Board of Trustees represents its endorsement of the highest priority needs of the University for FY 1980. Upon approval, the requests become the basis for submission of detailed budget requests for FY 1980 to the legislative and executive branches of state government and to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. I recommend approval of these requests. Following discussion of the recommendations by the trustees, C h a n cellor Gerberding presented a resolution approved by the U r b a n a - C h a m paign Senate on September 18, 1978, as follows: Commensurate with maintaining its academic stature within the Big T e n , the U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n Senate requests the Board of Trustees to consider: (1) I t would require at least a 12 percent to 14 percent increase in total compensation to move the University of Illinois into the top one-third of the Big T e n . Therefore, it is important to sustain the full 9.5 percent improvement in total compensation (i.e., salary plus fringe benefits) a n d to be aware of the effort that will be required to do that, a n d (2) T h e adoption for FY 1981 of a goal for the University of Illinois of not less than the Top Third in the Big Ten, rather than the average.

1 Members of the University Planning Council which reviewed and recommended this request are as follows: Ronald W. Brady, vice president for administration, chairman; Harlan D . Bareither, associate vice president for planning, secretary; Werner H. Baur, professor of geological sciences and head of the department, Chicago Circle; David W. Bonham, vice chancellor for administration, Medical Center: Joseph A. Diana, associate vice president for business affairs; William J. Grove, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Medical Center; Etta A. Hincker, professor of general nursing. Medical Center: Richard M. Johnson, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, Chicago Circle; Walter W. McMahon, professor of economics, Urbana-Champaign; Alexander M. Schmidt, vice # chancellor for health services, Medical Center; Richard H. Ward, yice chancellor for administration, Chicago Circle; Morton W. Weir, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Urbana-Champaign; Donald F. Wendel, vice chancellor for administrative affairs, Urbana-Champaign; Peter E. Yankwich, vice president for academic affairs. Per action of the president on June 2B, 1978, the University Budget Committee has been discontinued and one faculty member from each campus has been added to the membership of the University Planning Council.