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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 19

the new air pollution law. Installation of electrostatic precipitators to supplement the cyclone dust collectors now installed in the plant will result in a dust emission discharge into the atmosphere well below that permitted by the present law. Land Acquisition $4 610 000 These funds are needed for three primary purposes: 1. T o enable the University to acquire title to land already purchased in its behalf by the University of Illinois Foundation ($3,000,000). 2. T o acquire land needed for the proposed academic buildings and miscellaneous facilities requested for 1969-71 ($1,170,000). 3. T o acquire land needed to satisfy partially the immediate demands for parking at various fringe locations of the campus ($440,000). The land acquired by the Foundation in behalf of the University includes advance purchase of parcels involving the sites for proposed buildings such as the Medical Sciences Building, the Engineering Library, and the Center for Advanced Study. Also included are facilities for specialized research in the fields of agriculture and childhood education — as well as some space for fringe-eampus parking. In all cases, the land purchased had been put on the market for sale, and would have undergone sharp increase in price due to probable improvement — much of it for commercial purposes. T h e land for proposed academic buildings and miscellaneous facilities includes only those sites not previously purchased by the University or the University of Illinois Foundation, but which are needed for the projects specifically included in this budget request. T h e projects involved are those academic facilities for which construction or planning funds are requested, as well as the proposed University Club-Center for Advanced Study complex and a pedestrian easement through Mt. Hope Cemetery. In accordance with the Policy Statement Concerning Provision of Parking Facilities at Illinois Institutions, submitted to the Illinois Board of Higher Education at its meeting on June 4, 1968, certain of the present land requests are submitted in order to provide badly needed surface parking facilities on the north and east sides of the campus. Parking facilities so constructed will be financed from income generated by the faculty-staff and student parking programs. Upon completion of the program outlined here, the campus would still be far short of the facilities ultimately planned for, and would be well within the guidelines established by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Movable Equipment $3 740 200 1967-69 buildings ($2£00,000). Funds are needed to complete the equipping of buildings approved for construction during the 1967-69 biennium. Capital appropriations for the present biennium did not include movable equipment allocations for approved buildings, except for funds required to match federal grants or minor advance purchases. A summary of the anticipated distribution of the movable-equipment funds requested for the 1967-69 projects is as follows: Total Cost of Movable Equipment 815 000 503 000 989 000 292 000 40 000 695 000 38 000 105 000 477 000 Funded in 1967-69 Biennium $100 000 50 000 52 000 92 000 -040 000 23 000 30 000 $387 000 2 Other Funding $590 000' -0-0-0-0-0-0-0$590 000 Requested in 1969-71 Biennium $ 125 000 453 000 937 000 200 000 40 000 655 000 15 000 75 000 $2 500 000

Project Civil Engineering Building, Phase IIA $ Small Animal Clinic Foreign Languages Building. . Intramural-Physical Education Building Library, Fifth Stack Addition Music Building Women's Gymnasium Addition Contingency Total $3

1 From Seventy-fourth General Assembly funds, reappropriated. 'Remainder of $600,000 appropriated, plus $115,000 from contingencies, applied to the Civil Engineering Building, Phase I ($175,000), Psychology Laboratory ($23,000), Personnel Services Building ($20,000), and the Television Studio Addition ($110,000),