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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 20

prepared by the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Vice President and Comptroller, in the light of requests submitted by the three chancellors and in consultation with the University Budget Committee.1 The document was completed prior to the failure of the Senate of the General Assembly on October 14, 1971, to restore the Governor's reduction in personal-services funds for FY 1972 to the level originally appropriated to the University in Senate Bill (S.B.) 717. As a result, one of the important premises on which the attached appropriation request for FY 1973 was based has been invalidated, namely: the assumption that the sum of $5,839,672 for salary increases would be added to the appropriations already approved for FY 1972, and that the increased total would be used as a "base budget" to which the proposed increases for FY 1973 could be added in arriving at the total request for operations next year. The failure to secure these additional salary-increase funds for use this year will require changes in the total given in Schedule A (Schedules A and B as subsequently revised are printed below) for FY 1972 appropriations from $188,081,301 to $182,241,629 (the amount in S.B. 717 as approved by the Governor). Changes will also be required in the amounts included in Schedule A and in Section IV on salary increases (filed with Secretary). It is recommended that approval be given to the following guidelines to the revision of these salary-increase figures. 1. That increases averaging 6 per cent above the rates for FY 1972 be requested for academic and for nonacademic staff members. Based upon the revised appropriations total for FY 1972, it is estimated that the following amounts would be substituted for the corresponding figures in Schedule A : a. Academic increases (general funds) $5 401 200 b. Nonacademic increases (general funds) 3 472 034 c. Agricultural Premium Fund 62 815 Total $8 936 049 (These amounts would be adjusted to conform with whatever revisions in the FY 1972 salary base might be made.) 2. That funds for supplemental increases in FY 1973 be requested for the purpose of offsetting the lack of salary increases in FY 1972 —up to a limit of 5 per cent on an annual basis and subject to the wage-price guidelines in effect after November 14, 1971. With such revisions, it is recommended that the President be authorized to submit the attached appropriation request to the Board of Higher Education and to the appropriate offices of state government. I concur. President Corbally presented general background on the nature of the operating request for 1973 and at his request Executive Vice President and Provost Lyle H. Lanier discussed in detail the mode of preparation of the request and the substantive aspects of it. In response to questions as to the level of the request and the potential for state support, President Corbally indicated that the document had been prepared on the basis of Board of Higher Education guidelines but that it was clear that it would be necessary to study all sources of income for FY 1973 — on the assumption that the State of Illinois's financial situation would not be sufficiently improved to fully fund the request at this level. He indicated that he would present at the November meeting recom1 Lyle H . Lanier, Executive Vice President and Provost, Chairman; Joseph S. Begando, Chancellor of the Medical Center campus; Warren B. Cheston, Chancellor of the Chicago Circle campus; E. Joe DeMaris, Professor and Head of the Department of Accountancy, UrbanaChatnpaign campus; Herbert O. Farber, Vice President and Comptroller; Jack W. Peltason, Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus; William F . Sager, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Chicago Circle campus; Alexander M. Schmidt, Dean of The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Medical Center campus. Staff Associates: Morris S. Kessler, Assistant Comptroller; Martin L. Zeigler, Associate Provost.