Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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580 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 30 COMPTROLLER'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS (35) T h e following report of contracts executed by the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board. CONTRACTS EXECUTED BY THE COMPTROLLER J U L Y 6, 1939, TO SEPTEMBER 22, 1939 Contracts executed as authorized by the President: With Whom H. H. Robertson Company For Replacement of the skylight in the George Huff Gymnasium Amount to be paid by the University $7 535 00 Date August 22, 1939 Leases executed under general regulations of Board of Trustees: With Whom Illinois Union, Inc. Property Arcade Building Tenure 1 year from July 1, 1939 Amount to be received by the University $5 208 37 Date July 8, 1939 Minor contracts executed under general regulations of Board of Trustees: With Whom Champaign Metal Weather Strip Company With Whom Illinois Bell Telephone Company For Weather-stripping Building Amount to be paid by the University $695 00 Amount to be received by the University $251 11 Date 10, 1939 Ceramics August For Rental of University telephone cables for year 1939 Date March 7, 1939 T h i s report w a s received for record. QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER (36) The quarterly report of the Comptroller to the Board of Trustees as at June 30, 1939. A copy of this is being sent to each member of the Board. T h i s report w a s received for record. SUPERVISION OF S T U D E N T ACTIVITIES, H O U S I N G , AND DISCIPLINE (37) On July 21, 1939 (Minutes, page 505), the Board authorized the organization of a Division of Student Housing, subject to later approval of the details of its organization and relationships to other University offices dealing with student welfare. In addition to the creation of the new Division of Housing, the Board also approved two recommendations of the University Senate for (1) the appointment of a full-time secretary to assist the Senate Committee on Discipline, and (2) the appointment of a full-time official who would be authorized to administer the regulations of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs. These actions in no way change the duties and responsibilities of the present Senate Committee on Student Discipline or the present Senate Committee on Student Affairs except as the new Division of H o u s i n g will take over certain physical aspects of student housing under an Advisory Committee on Housing which shall establish policies, make rules and regulations, and shall consist of: Dean of Men, Dean of Women, Director of the Physical Plant, Comptroller, University Health Officer. In putting these actions into effect it is necessary to establish as definitely as possible the new functions and responsibilities of the Director of Housing and the relations of his office to the offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women. Any schedule or program of this sort must naturally be of a more or less tentative character during the first year of operation. T h e r e will be some conflicts and some confusion, and it will be necessary to call these three officers into conference from time to time to adjust such difficulties. I therefore submit herewith a recommendation for the consideration and approval by the Board of the following tentative plan for putting into effect
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