Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1084]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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AGREEMENT FOR THE OPERATION OF THE ANIMAL DIAGNOSTIC AND RESEARCH LABORATORY, URBANA (27) For many years the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Agriculture have cooperated in the operation of the Animal Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, which provides diagnosis of animal diseases for the livestock industry, through veterinary practitioners. The laboratory, housed in one of the buildings of the College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana, is currently staffed by fifteen employees from the Division of Meat, Poultry, and Livestock Inspection, Illinois Department of Agriculture, and nine employees from the University. Of these, five from the Department and five from the University are classified as professional employees. The cooperative relationships have heretofore been informal, with staff responsibility on each side channeled through a representative: a supervisor employed by the Department of Agriculture and a liaison representative named by the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. The state currently provides approximately $114,300 annually for the operation of the laboratory, but such funds are not merged with University funds. Throughout the relationship there have been discussions as to whether operational responsibility should be exclusively that of the state or the University. However, each party is dependent on the other, and has so recognized over the years. The state receives expert professional assistance which it needs; the University receives indispensable clinical material for its instructional and research programs. In recent years, the conviction has grown that a formal cooperative agreement should be entered into, largely to regularize the long-standing relationships but also to provide means of settling significant operational disagreements, should they arise. Accordingly, a formal Agreement now has been negotiated among the parties. It is based on previous University of Illinois experience with formal cooperative agreements and on a series of drafts exchanged among the parties. The adoption of the agreement is recommended by the Chancellor and the Executive Vice-President and Provost. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h i s a g r e e m e n t w a s a d o p t e d . ESTATE OF L. C. H. E. ZEIGLER (28) L. C. H . E. Zeigler, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, died on March 17, 1961. By Will, he made a large number of bequests to various charitable and educational institutions. Two of these bequests described the beneficiary as follows: (1) University of Illinois — Chicago Research and Educational Hospitals, and (2) Illinois State University. Mr. Zeigler's Will has now been admitted to probate and the trustees of the estate have determined that both of the above-mentioned bequests should be paid to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. However, since these bequests must each be satisfied partially in kind by distribution of a $3,000 face value municipal bond payable to bearer, the trustees of the estate have requested that The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois adopt a resolution. I recommend adoption of the following resolution. Resolution WHEREAS, L. C. H. E. Zeigler, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, departed this life on the 17 day of March, 1961, leaving a Last Will and Testament and Codicil which have been duly admitted to probate in Cook County, Illinois, said Last Will and Testament containing provisions for bequests to the University of Illinois-— Chicago Research and Educational Hospitals and Illinois State University; and WHEREAS, each such bequest must be satisfied partially in kind by distribution of a $3,000 face value municipal bond; and WHEREAS, there are no restrictions on the use of these bequests; and WHEREAS, Article XI of the Will contains certain precatory instructions directing that these bonds be held until maturity or call date; that said bonds are not to leave the legatee's treasury until called for payment or until said bond matures;