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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1970
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1969] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 407 On motion of M r . Hahn, the Board approved the report and recommendations of the Committee on Allefton P a r k by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, M r . Hahn, Mr. Hughes, M r . Pogue, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Mr. Jones, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Dr. Weatherly. SECRETARY'S REPORT The Secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty made by the President; declinations and resignations; leaves of absence; and retirements. A copy of the report is filed with the Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD APPOINTMENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITIES RETIREMENT SYSTEM President Hughes announced that he had appointed Mr. Timothy W . Swain as a University of Illinois representative on the Board of Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System, succeeding Mr. Kenney E . Williamson. FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS The President called attention to the schedule of the next three meetings of the Board: June 18, 1969, at the Medical Center; July 16, 1969, or possibly July 23, 1969, in U r b a n a ; and September 17, 1969 in Urbana. EXECUTIVE SESSION President H u g h e s announced that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered for consideration of reports and recommendations relating to property acquisitions and pending litigation. On motion of Mr. Clement the Board recessed for five minutes. W h e n the Board reconvened, the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University were presented and considered. ACQUISITION O F FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY (38) The federal government has declared surplus a five-acre tract of ground about three and one-half miles south-west of Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, which is improved with a one-story brick building. Under the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, the property may be transferred to educational or public health institutions at discounts ranging from 40 per cent to 100 per cent. This transfer will be made at 100 per cent discount to the University. The Department of Electrical Engineering has examined the property and has indicated a need for this additional land for their present research facilities in the fields of radio direction findings and ionospheric research using signals from earth satellites. In 1965 the University acquired from the federal government a thirty-five-acre tract of land adjacent to this five-acre parcel. The entire forty acres will allow for the expansion of the electrical engineering research projects at that site. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution which is required for the filing of an application for transfer of the property to the University. Resolution On-Site WHEREAS, certain real property owned by the United States; located in the County of Champaign, State of Illinois, Rantoul Township (D-Ill-576), has been declared surplus and is subject to assignment for disposal for educational or
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