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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 15

EMPLOYMENT OF ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT, URBANA (25) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends employment of DeLeuw, Cather & Company, Chicago, in association with Loebl, Schlossman, Bennett & Dart, Inc., Chicago, for complete engineering and architectural services, including design and preparation of working drawings and not including supervision during construction, at a fee of S per cent of actual construction cost for construction of a parking structure, Urbana-Champaign. Funds are available in the Faculty-Staff Parking Fund. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Advisory Committee on Architectural and Engineering Services have approved this recommendation. The project will require approval of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Dr. Weatherly.

AMENDMENTS OF " T H E GENERAL RULES CONCERNING UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATION AND P R O C E D U R E " : SECTIONS 7 AND 2 7 Office of Nonacademic Personnel and Terms of Employment of Nonacademic E m p l o y e e s (26) As a part of the current review of administrative organization, consideration has been given to organization of the personnel function. The Director of Nonacademic Personnel has reviewed this question with the three Chancellors and has submitted a draft statement for comment by the three campus Nonacademic Personnel Advisory Committees and by the University of Illinois members of the Employees Advisory Committee of the University Civil Service System of Illinois. The results of these reviews were, in turn, considered by the AH-Univcrsity Nonacademic Personnel Advisory Committee. In the light of these reviews and at the recommendation of the Vice-President and Comptroller and the Director of Nonacademic Personnel, I recommend approval of revisions in the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure as set forth below. Language to be deleted is in parentheses and new language is in italics. Office of Nonacademic Personnel Sec. 7. The Director of Nonacademic Personnel is responsible, under the executive authority of the President, for the administration of policy and rules relating to compensation and working conditions of nonacademic employees as (adopted) authorised by the Board of Trustees and the Merit Board of the University Civil Service System of Illinois, and for the performance of such other duties as may be assigned to him by the President. The policies and rules are published separately under the title "Policy and Rules Relating to Compensation and Working Conditions of Nonacademic Employees." Terms of Employment of Nonacademic E m p l o y e e s Sec. 27. (a) All employment of nonacademic staff members is controlled by the law and the rules governing the University Civil Service System of Illinois. These include provisions for employment on merit through a system of examinations, the establishment of job classifications and the assignment to such classifications of all positions, and the establishment of appropriate salary ranges for each classification. (The employment of all new members of the staff and any changes in status of present members are processed through the Office of Nonacademic Personnel. Promotions either through salary increases or through changes in classification are processed through the same channels. All pay rates are subject to approval of that office. Transfers between departments should not be proposed or agreed to until they have been approved by the Nonacademic Personnel Office, b.) Detailed rules and regulations are published separately in the "Policy and Rules Relating to Compensation and Working Conditions of Nonacademic Employees" as authorized (and approved) by the Board of Trustees.