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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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This recommendation is submitted with the support of the College of Agriculture and the Executive Committee of the University Council. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds has also been consulted and concurs. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (8) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends the following appropriations and assignments of funds: From the General Reserve Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, equipment $ 18 441 Department of Physics, equipment for new building 25 000 General University Publications, to provide funds for printing of 1962-63 University catalogs which will be issued during the current fiscal year — a change in publication time schedule; and to meet current deficit in general publications 49 600 Research and Educational Hospitals, equipment 35 000 Vice-President at the Medical Center, minor remodeling and equipment projects to be assigned by the Vice-President for the University of Illinois at the Medical Center 10 000 Total, General Reserve $138 041 From State Capital Appropriations Physical Plant Remodeling in Noyes Laboratory for Chemistry $ 17 195 Remodeling in Natural History Building 4 184 Total, State Capital Appropriations $ 21 379 Grand Total $159 420 I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h e s e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s w e r e m a d e , a s

recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Harewood, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner.

TELEPHONE SERVICE ON MEDICAL CENTER CAMPUS AND ASSIGNMENT OF FUNDS (9) The Illinois Bell Telephone Company has recommended a Centrex system (dircct-in-dialing) which would serve not only the University of Illinois at the Medical Center but also at Congress Circle. The Centrex system would function so that each campus would have its own service which would, however, permit the two campuses to dial each other directly. Consideration at this time is necessary because otherwise further installation of additional instruments at the Medical Center will have to be curtailed by September, 1962, due to the lack of switching equipment and it is not practical to expand the present Private Branch Exchange which would require more space than is now available. The Centrex system uses fewer operators than the present P B X system, resulting in a saving when the number of instruments in service approximates 1,400. At present there are approximately 1,200 instruments at the Medical Center; the number will probably approach 1,400 by the fall of 1963, and certainly in 1964 when the Medical Sciences Addition is occupied. The Centrex system requires approximately one-half of the space required for PBX equipment and no additional space would be required for the Congress Circle campus. Whereas P B X service for the two campuses would require approximately 3,340 gross square feet of floor space, Centrex will require only 835 gross square feet, thus resulting in a savings in capital costs of approximately $75,000. There would be further savings at Congress Circle since Centrex does not require a cabling cost between buildings which for a P B X would be approximately $75,000, or a total capital savings of about $150,000. Moreover, Centrex service is estimated to reduce costs per telephone instrument each month by more than forty cents when the Congress Circle campus is in operation. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller