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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 11

By consensus, the board agreed that one roll call vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 4 through 6 inclusive. The recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.)

Requests for Operating and Capital Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1988

(4) Requests for incremental operating funds and for new capital appropriations for the University of Illinois for Fiscal Year 1988 are presented herewith for action by the Board of Trustees. T h e accompanying tables and the document "Budget Request for Operating and Capital Funds, Fiscal Year 1988," contain detailed information about each element of the operating and capital budget request for the coming year. (Copies of the complete budget documents are filed with the secretary of the board for record.) T h e request for incremental operating funds totals $74,433,800 and represents a 13.9 percent increase over the University's FY 1987 operating budget from appropriated funds. This total is comprised of $64,433,800 in incremental funds sought for the budget elements included in all of the University's recent annual operating requests, plus a special addendum to the request, which seeks $10 million additional support for the University Hospital. T h e amount sought for the hospital has been increased by $7 million over that included in the preliminary FY 1988 request presented to the board in July. Excluding amounts targeted for the hospital, the final FY 1988 operating budget request is nearly identical to the preliminary request, although technical adjustments have been made in several individual items following final action on the University's FY 1987 appropriation legislation. The final request also contains funding for several operation and maintenance projects not included in the preliminary document, along with the addition of a request for academic program funds for the anatomical sciences program at the Urbana-Champaign College of Medicine. T h e overall operating budget request for incremental funds is summarized in Table 1. Individual academic programs are identified in Table 2. In addition, the University's request for funds sufficient to meet the statutory requirement for the State Universities Retirement System for FY 1987 is also included, as described in the request document. T h e 1988 request for new capital appropriations is summarized in Table 3. Consistent with growing facilities needs presented to the board in July, the FY 1988 request for Capital Development Fund appropriation totals $57,820,800. The final request is generally consistent with the preliminary data presented in July. T h e final request includes a project for land acquisition at Urbana-Champaign which was not contained in the preliminary budget, and the WILL Radio-Television building project is included at its full construction cost, rather than as a planning project. I n addition to Capital Development Fund increases for FY 1988, the University seeks appropriations for two initiatives supported within the "Build Illinois" program: $7,834,000 for the third year of the higher education renovation/ rehabilitation program; and $1,998,100 to complete funding for the construction and remodeling project in the Animal Sciences Laboratory at Urbana-Champaign, approved in FY 1987. These requests have been prepared by the vice president for academic affairs, based upon the recommendation of the University Planning Council and a review by the University Policy Council.