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BOARD OP TRUSTEES

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tion and reimbursement funding for training programs of fire protection personnel of "local governmental agencies," which term includes the University. To be eligible to receive reimbursement for training of our fire protection personnel, the Act now requires that the local governmental agency elect to participate and "require by ordinance" that a trainee complete an approved basic course and pass the State test for certification at the basic level within the trainee's probationary period. On January 19, 1977, the Board of Trustees adopted a resolution electing to participate in the program and to require certain minimum achievements of its fire protection personnel. T h e program is administered by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and he has taken the position that the University must adopt a new "ordinance" in order to qualify under the amended Act. To comply with that requirement the chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended, and I concur, that the board adopt the following statement. Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, is desirous of electing to participate in the programs under the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act, Public Act 77-1665, as amended; and Whereas, in order for the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to be eligible for initial or continued participation in the program, the law requires that before a person may commence regular employment as a fire fighter, the individual must have been certified by the State Fire Marshal as having successfully completed an approved Fire Fighter II training course; and Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois intends to establish its own school or to use some other school certified by the State Fire Marshal for the purpose of providing the training required under this Act; It Is Hereby Stated: 1. T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby elects to participate in the program provided for in the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act. 2. Before an individual may commence regular full-time employment as a fire fighter at the University of Illinois, he must have been certified by the Illinois State Fire Marshal as a Fire Fighter I I having successfully completed an approved training course as provided in said Act. 3. T h e Fire Fighter I I training must be completed by the trainee within his probationary period except for volunteers, part-time, and paid oncall personnel. 4. T h e University Office of Personnel Services is instructed and directed to make the necessary amendments to the job description to require that any person appointed to the University of Illinois Fire Department shall not become a regular member of the University Fire Department unless or until the individual shall complete, pursuant to said Illinois Fire Protection Training Act, the approved training course within six months of the date of initial appointment. 5. This statement shall remain in effect until modified or rescinded by action of the Board of Trustees.

On motion of Miss Forsyth, the foregoing statement was adopted.

Recommendations of University Patent Committee

(14) T h e University Patent Committee recommends that the actions described below be taken in regard- to inventions made at the University of Illinois. Background information concerning the individual cases has been sent to the Committee a n Patents of the Board of Trustees.