Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1113]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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handled within the existing cooling capacity at the central utilities building. The cooling requirements for the Science and Engineering, South Addition, will be met by equipment installed in the building. Land Acquisition $4 110 000 T h e development of a new academic program in the performing arts is proposed for the Chicago Circle campus. Preliminary architectural studies indicate that the projected facilities would require the acquisition of approximately 16 acres of land for the buildings, plus surface parking for approximately 800 cars. The total capital cost, exclusive of land acquisition, will be financed from gifts. A s the donors will not provide funds for land acquisition, a State appropriation will be required if this gift is to be accepted and the program developed. The land will be purchased with the assistance of the City of Chicago under its urban renewal program. Movable Equipment $8 760 799 1967-69 buildings ($3,270,188). Funds are requested to complete the equipping of buildings funded in the 1967-69 biennium. Capital appropriations for the 1967-69 biennium did not include_ any funds for movable equipment except for buildings scheduled to be substantially completed by September 1969. A summary of the movable-equipment funds requested for the 1967-69 buildings is shown below: Total Cost of Movable Equipment Funded in 1967-69 Biennium Requested for 1969-71 Biennium

Project Education and Communications Building $ 769 70S $ 769 70S Science and Engineering, Phase I S 760 985 $3 440 000 2 320 985 Behavioral Sciences Building 1 379 498 1 200 000 179 498 Total $7 910 188 $4 640 000 $3 270 188 1969-71 buildings ($5,185,181). Funds are requested only to the extent that the buildings of the 1969-71 biennium will be completed and ready for occupancy in September 1971. The balance of the movable equipment required will be requested in the 1971-73 biennium. The following is a summary of the movable equipment funds requested for the proposed 1969-71 buildings: Total Cost Deferred to Requested in of Movable 1971-73 1969-71 Project Equipment Biennium Biennium Architecture and Art Addition $ 738 155 $ 738 155 Classroom-Office Building 274 662 274 662 Library A d d i t i o n . . . . 687 505 $ 654 535 32 970 Science and Engineering, South Addition Engineering 4 419 899 756 928 3 662 971 LAS-Sciences 2 056 132 2 000 000 56 132 Classroom-Study 93 752 61 022 32 730 Student Services Building 387 561 387 561 Total $8 657 666 $3 472 485 $5 185 181 Conversion to color television ($305,430). Funds are requested in order to convert the television production facilities from black-white to color capability. The major portion of the funds requested ($235,430) will be needed for new color equipment for the color studio conversion, for what is known as a color film chain, and for conversion of the master control room, with the remainder ($70,000) required for color upgrading of the videorecorders. The emphasis at Chicago Circle is on campus instruction and public information by way of taped programs carried over non-University channels. Television is used for closed-circuit distribution of televised lessons, and public information programs are produced for Chicago and other area stations which are restricting their outside sources to only color materials. In addition, through the Department of Speech students are prepared in the mass communications program. These students cannot be properly trained for present and future careers unless the University has the color equipment that is now standard for the industry.