Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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1939] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 28l for the purpose of reviewing all appropriations and finding items that might possibly be reduced: HON. HON. HON. HON. HON. H U G H W. CROSS G E O R G E M. MAYPOLE W. E . C. CLIFFORD HUGH GREEN HAROLD G. W A R D H O N . R. J. BRANSON H O N . EARL B. SEARCY H O N . O. E . BENSON H O N . J A M E S P. BOYLE H O N . NICHOLAS L. HUBBARD H O N . BENJAMIN S. ADAMOWSKI I will appreciate your being in Springfield on that day. If you will call my office upon your arrival, m y secretary will set a definite time for the meeting with you. Sincerely yours, J O H N STELLE Lieutenant Governor Pursuant to this request a conference was held with State officials in Springfield on Thursday, April 20, for the purpose of reviewing the University's biennial budget for 1939-1941. The following were present: State Officials J O H N STELLE, Lieutenant Governor JAMES P . BOYLE, Executive EARL B. SEARCY, Senator Chairman, H U G H W. CROSS, Speaker of the House of Representatives Illinois Budgetary Commission S. L. NUDELMAN, Director of Finance W. H. M C L A I N , Department of Finance ARTHUR P. O'BRIEN, Secretary to the R. J. BRANSON, Majority Leader of the House H U G H G R E E N , Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations Governor Senators Members of the Joint House and Senate Committee on Investigation of State Expenditures Representatives CLINTON SEARLE J O H N A. BINGHAM F R E D E R I C K W. R E N N I C K M E L V I N THOMAS NICHOLAS L. HUBBARD University Officials President O. M. OSCAR G. MAYER, Member of the of the President A. C. WILLARD Board of Trustees KARRAKER, LLOYD MOREY, Comptroller SVEINBJORN JOHNSON, University Board of Trustees Counsel A. J. JANATA, Assistant to the President The Lieutenant Governor stated that a reconsideration and a reduction of all major appropriation bills before the General Assembly are necessary in order to keep expenditures within t h e estimated income. An opportunity was given t h e President of t h e Board and t h e President of the University to present a summary of the University's budget for 1939-1941 and the arguments in support of the various items. The State officials present expressed no objection to t h e budget, in total or as t o any item, b u t stated t h a t it was simply a question of reducing all proposed appropriations proportionately to balance the budget. T h e Director of Finance presented his recommendations concerning t h e University's budget, which were previously discussed with him b y University officials, and the details of which appear in the minutes of the Board meeting of December 17, 1938, page 169. Considerable attention was given to the need for a new power and heating plant and distribution system. I t was the judgment of t h e majority of State officials present that the State appropriation for the power and heating plant and distribution system should stand a t Ji,675,000 to insure completion of the project as soon as possible and that any reductions in the University's budget should be made elsewhere.
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