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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESIDENT'S REPORT

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President Henry presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board.

BIENNIAL BUILDING PROGRAM FOR 1 9 6 9 - 7 1

President Henry reported on the recommendations of the Board of Higher Education on the University's Building Program as acted upon on October 1, and pointed out that the Board would wish to take this action into consideration at an early meeting. He noted that the administration would be prepared to recommend that the Board of Trustees accept the reduced levels for capital improvements as recommended by the Board of Higher Education, stating that he would bring a recommendation to the Trustees in November.

BIENNIAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR 19 6 9 - 7 1 PART II (1) In order to facilitate its review of the budget requests for operations during 1969-71, the staff of the Board of Higher Education asked the state universities to submit their proposals in two parts — P a r t I by October 1 and Part II by November 1, 1968. T h e Board of Trustees on September 18, 1968, approved P a r t I of the University's request, which included increases for the following four categories: Operating Costs of New Buildings, New Programs, Program Improvement and Expansion, Other Specific Items. T h e recommendations presented in the following pages present provisional estimates of the increases requested under the remaining six budget categories (Part I I ) . In addition, a summary schedule is included showing the University's entire 1967-69 appropriation for operations and a provisional total budget request for 1969-71. Certain of the budget figures are provisional since there has not been sufficient time following the close of registration to calculate precisely certain of the values required for use in the budget formulae developed by the staff of the Board of Higher Education. Since the final figures should not differ significantly from those presented in the following document, authorization is requested to amend the report in accordance with the final calculated amounts and to submit them in a consolidated document (including P a r t s I and I I ) to the Board of Higher Education on November 1, 1968. T h e provisional budget estimates for P a r t II have been prepared by the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Vice President and Comptroller, in consultation with the chancellors and other administrative officers concerned and in accordance with statutory requirements and the budget formulae developed by the staff of the Board of Higher Education. I recommend approval of the budget estimates under the conditions outlined above and request authorization to submit them as revised to the Illinois Board of Higher Education on November 1, 1968. This amended document would be filed with the State Department of Finance by November 15, 1968, as required by law, and would be made available to other state agencies involved in budget review.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, the budget and other related recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Jones, Mr. Page, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly.

S u m m a r y of Biennial B u d g e t R e q u e s t s for O p e r a t i o n s —1969-71 1 The table on the following page (Schedule A) presents a summary of all budget increases requested for 1969-71, together with the total budget appropriated by

_ * Since final calculations acould not be completed until fall enrollment data were available, provisional figures were submitted and the President was authorized to make revisions. This record includes the revised figures as presented to the Board of Higher Education.