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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Status Report, Oakley Dam Mr. Walter Keith, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of Robert Allerton Park, summarized the current status of the project, including the significance of various conditions set by Governor Walker, precedent to State approval of the project. He indicated that any change in the 1970 agreement made by the Board of Trustees would be submitted to the Board for such action as it might wish to take. (A summary of Mr. Keith's remarks is filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.) Report of the Urbana-Champaign Referendum with Regard to Selection of Nonvoting Student Member of the Board of Trustees President Corbally asked Chancellor Peltason to report on the results of the recent referendum on this matter at Urbana, The Chancellor reported that Proposition One (vis., that the nonvoting student member be elected through an at-large election following the usual student election procedures in effect at the campus) received the largest number of votes (943), as opposed to Proposition Two {vis., the member would be appointed by the combined steering committee of the UGSA and the executive committee of the GSA) for which a total of 419 votes were received; and as opposed to 304 votes for Proposition Three {vis., neither of the above; a more detailed list of alternatives should be made available). Accordingly, the student member'will be selected through an at-large election to be conducted in late October or early November. Mr. Forsyth expressed concern that so few members of the student electorate were sufficiently interested in the question to vote and suggested that, when all three referenda had been completed, a report be prepared on the results of the total vote and procedures followed for distribution to legislative leaders and others who might be interested in the subject. Circular, Small Homes Council-Building Research Council: "Living with the Energy Crisis*' The President distributed a current circular prepared by the Small Homes Council on the energy question for information and general background for the Trustees.

AWARD OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT CERTIFICATES

(1) The Committee on Accountancy, pursuant to Rule 16 (d) of the Regulations, recommends that the certificate of Certified Public Accountant be awarded to a candidate who wishes to transfer the examination credit earned by passing the standard written examination in some other state and who has fulfilled all other legal requirements under Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1943 as amended. The Committee also recommends that the certificate of Certified Public Accountant be awarded, under Section 5 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1945, as amended, to nine candidates who have presented evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked Certified Public Accountant certificates obtained by passing a standard written examination in another state or territory of the United States and who qualify in all other respects under this provision of the law. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these certificates were awarded.

AMENDMENT OF UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS GOVERNING CPA EXAMINATION: COMPENSATION FOR T H E BOARD OF EXAMINERS

<2) The University Committee on Accountancy has recommended revision of Rule 5 in the University regulations for administering the Illinois Public Accounting Act. The changes are as follows (new language is underscored and language to be deleted is lined through): Rule 5. Compensation for the Board of Examiners Each member of the Board of Examiners appointed under Section 2 of the Act shall receive eompenootion of $500.00 be compensated as follows for conducting each examination and for all other services rendered in pursuance of the duties imposed upon him by the actr: chairman. $1.250: other members. $750.