Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972
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1971] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 415 submitted to the Board of Trustees. The President also made the following statement on the current status of the salary increase question. Before turning to your discussion, I wish to make one other comment upon this budget. As I noted earlier, there are no funds within this budget for general salary increases. Following the failure of the effort to override the Governor's reductions in our personal services appropriation, we began to seek other alternatives which might provide salary increases with minimum further damage to our programs. I h e r e are no easy solutions and there are no solutions which do not create new problems for the 1973 budgets. But we must find a way to at least partially remedy the salary inequities which have been imposed upon our staff. There are now at least two new proposals before the General Assembly to deal with this problem. I issued the following comments on October 18, and I will repeat them here today for they speak to a matter of the utmost urgency: W e are highly gratified to learn of the continuing interest of representatives of both political parties in Springfield in finding funds for salary increases at the University of Illinois for the current year. It is clear that any favorable action by the General Assembly to provide such funds must have bipartisan support. It is essential to the continuing quality of the University of Illinois that all concerned reach agreement on a course of action that will make funds available to permit salary increases averaging at least 5 per cent for the remainder of the year, beginning December 1. T h e administrative officers of the University and the Trustees will work assiduously to promote such agreement. On motion of Mr. Swain, the budget was approved and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Grimes, Governor Ogilvie. BUDGET OF T H E ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FOR 1 9 7 1 - 7 2 (2) The Director of Intercollegiate Athletics has submitted, on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association, the budget for the Association, for 1971-72 which is summarized as follows with comparative figures for the preceding year: Income Appropriations Excess of income 1970-71 $1 937 729 1 937 729 -0- 1971-72 $2 064 739 2 049 951 14 788 The budget has been reviewed and approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Vice President and Comptroller, and the Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus. I recommend that this budget be approved and that the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association be authorized to make such changes and adjustments, including approval of new appointments and acceptances of resignations, as are necessary within the total income and surplus of the Association, provided t h a t : appointments of head coaches and administrative officers and assignments of funds for new projects or nonrecurring capital expenditures in excess of $12,500 shall be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval. A copy of the budget is being filed with the Secretary of the Board of T r u s tees for record. On motion of Mr. Steger, this budget was approved and authority was given as recommended. REQUEST FOR OPERATING APPROPRIATIONS FISCAL. YEAR 1 9 7 3 (3) The attached document 1 presents recommendations for increases in the University's appropriations for operations during F Y 1973. These proposals have been 1 This document, as revised, is filed with the Secretary of the Board.
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