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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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PRESENTATION ON BEHALF O F T H E CHICAGO CIRCLE FEDERATION O F TEACHERS

T h e Chicago Circle Federation of Teachers had been granted permission to make a presentation under the emergency provision of the Board's procedures governing appearances. Dr. John Pappademos, President of the Executive Board of the Chicago Circle Federation of Teachers, spoke briefly and made three requests for action by the Board of Trustees: ( 1 ) A $2,500 increase for faculty member retroactive to the beginning of the year. (2) A postponement of action by the Board of Trustees on the agenda item before them — "Annual Budget Request for Operations, F Y 1 9 7 1 . " H e stated that the request for operations had been developed "in secrecy" and that the faculty had not had a chance to know what was in it. ( 3 ) A request that in the future there be automatic across-the-board increases in salaries based on the cost of living. Dr. Pappademos also asked others of his associates to speak — H e r m a n B. Weissman, Professor of Physics at Chicago Circle, and Preston Browning, Assistant Professor of English at Chicago Circle.

PROCEDURES GOVERNING APPEARANCES BEFORE T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mr. Grimes raised a question concerning the Board's procedures for presentations, which now suggest that materials be submitted in writing in advance of the presentation. H e moved that the Board require the submission of written materials and that the requirement be enforced. O n motion of Mr. Clement, the motion was tabled.

A N N U A L BUDGET REQUEST FOR OPERATIONS FY 1971

(1) The document, which was presented to the Board of Higher Education on November 4, 1969, includes all of the University's requests for appropriations for operations during FY 1971. The Board has already, on October IS, 1969, taken the following actions: Approved increases totaling $8,038,400 proposed under budget categories 8, 9, and 10 (New Programs, Program Expansion and Improvement, Other Specific Items) for transmittal to the Board of Higher Education and to appropriate offices of state government. Authorized the President to approve and transmit to the Board of Higher Education and offices of state government the University's request for increases under budget categories 1 through 7, with the understanding that these requests will be prepared in accordance with statutory requirements or through the use of formulae and guidelines developed by the staff of the Board of Higher Education and its Budget Formula Committee. It is now recommended that the Board of Trustees confirm the final request for operations as presented in the table on the following page. The full text of the document presenting the request for operations for the fiscal year 1971 is being filed with the Secretary of the Board. President Henry then called upon Executive Vice President and Provost Lanier to speak to Item 1 on the agenda.1 Dr. Lanier indicated that funds to be requested for salary increases are determined by a formula developed by the staff of the Board of Higher Education and a Budget Formula Committee consisting of institutional representatives. Although the University could decide to seek a higher rate of increase than that yielded by

1 During Dr. Lanier's presentation, Dr. Pappademos and others of his associates left the meeting. Mr. Clement moved that the record indicate that "those in attendance who appeared to be interested in the question of salarv increases left the meeting before the information on this question was presented." Without objection, the motion was approved.