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B. Nonteaching Staff, Expense, and Equipment $300 000 For the reasons stated above, additional funds are needed for nonteaching staff and supplies in connection with increased enrollment. The total of $300,000 recommended represents a reduction of abont 22 per cent from the total requested by deans and directors. VII. To Meet Increased Costs of Operation A. Operating Costs of New Buildings $255 900 Although no new major buildings were provided from the state capital appropriations by the Seventieth General Assembly, funds were provided to supplement private gifts and grants from the federal government so that several small buildings are under construction during the present biennium: a laboratory building for research on insect-bome diseases, a zoonoses research building for the College of Veterinary Medicine, a building for the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, and some minor agricultural structures. These buildings will be put into use during the forthcoming biennium. Additional properties have been leased, and these will also require operating funds. Details of this item appear in Schedule B. B. Increases to Maintain Present Level of Services 1. Increases in Expense and Equipment to Meet Accumulated Deficiencies $2 700 000 For the 1959-60 biennium, $4,000,000 was requested to meet essential increases in expense and equipment budgets. The sum of $2,750,000 which was provided by the General Assembly met the most urgent needs but still left a deficiency of 51,250,000. In the meantime, prices of commodities and equipment have continued to rise, so that the total of $4,277,264 requested by deans and directors for 1961-63 probably is well justified. Reluctantly, however, the Budget Committee recommended that this figure be lowered to $2,700,000 in order to reduce the over-all biennial request. A particularly acute problem exists in the Division of Services for Crippled Children, which is confronted with steadly increasing costs of hospital care, but lias also had to assume the cost of treatment of poliomyelitis patients. Previously the local chapters of the National Foundation have been able to provide hospital care and therapy for children afflicted with polio; but as a result of reduction in contributions, the Foundation has not been able to provide for all the children needing care, and an increasing number of them have become the responsibility of the Division of Services for Crippled Children. The sum of $200,000 is included in this item for hospital and medical care for polio patients, 2, Increases to Meet Accumulated Deficiencies in Auxiliary Staff for Present Programs $2 000 000 The deans and directors requested a biennial total of $3,600,962 for supporting staff considered necessary to maintain satisfactory levels of teaching, research, and service conducted under existing programs. These requests consisted of several hundred items, each of them a relatively small amount but regarded as very important for the work of the individual department, teacher, or investigator. Frequently, it was stated that the request represented a deficiency of long standing, and many of the items had appeared repeatedly in earlier departmental budget requests. The requests covered a wide range of technical and clerical personnel, as well as a substantial number of graduate asststantships. Administrative, counseling, and supervisory personnel were listed in the askings of several general admini strative offices. The Budget Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,000,000 per year, or $2,000,000 tor the biennium. This is a sharp reduction from the total requested by the deans and directors, but it should meet the most urgent needs. C. Requests to Continue on a Permanent Basis Expenditures Financed Temporarily from Savings and front Other Sources of Temporary Support , $600 000 An unexpected increase in enrollment made it necessary in September, 1960, to employ a substantial number of extra teachers on a temporary basis. These Positions were finauced from budget savings, mainly in the form of salary funds