Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1962 [PAGE 78]

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last twenty-five years; first, during the depression when there just weren't any funds available no matter how great the need; then, during World War II when w construction could be undertaken because of material and manpower priorities; aud finally, in the post-war period when the State began a valiant attempt to make up past deficiencies, but the higher enrollments of veterans and the higher proportion of college-minded youth than ever before increased the demands. Evidences of this increasing need appear repeatedly in the biennial summaries and requests of the University's building committee as submitted to successive sessions of the legislature. In these reports are studies of building usage, building costs, relations of areas to students, to staff, to kinds of courses, and to all the other factors that enter into the problem of how much space is needed for a given number of students engaged in a given educational program. There would be little point in reproducing here the details of these reports, tat a summary of the building requests and amounts actually received over a period of years is enlightening. From 19S1 to the present, these are the results: In 1951 the University requested $39,580,000; it received ?6,875,O00 In 1953 the University requested $35,979,000; it received $8,096,000 In 1955 the University requested $37,185,000; it received $8,855,000 In 1957 the University requested $35,674,000; it received $14 275,000 In 1959 the University requested $54,879,000; it received. $14,190,000" The story was much the same during the war years and the depression. The List comprehensive building program took place at the University more than a quarter of a century ago. In the 1920's the University of Illinois did get its [wilding supply into adequate relationship to its then current enrollment. The recommended 1961-63 capital budget follows with the planning assumptions upon which the program for each of the campuses has been developed. It should be noted that the recommendations of Table III arebased on the assumption that the funds listed in Table II, which were appropriated in 1959, will be received. For example, remodeling funds listed on Items 4 and 7 of Table III are in addition to remodeling Item 8 of Table II, Table II. Funds Appropriated in 1959 But Not 3 Released R(appropriation Is the Highest Priority (Analyses of these projects were included in the 1959-61 recommendations) 1. Power Plant Addition $ 4 045 000 2. Utilities Distribution System 2 355 000 3. To Supplement Outside Grants: a. Labor Relations Building 350 000 b. Health Research Facilities 835 000 4. Land — Chicago Undergraduate Division 925 000 a. Planning and Improvement at Chicago Undergraduate Division 1 533 000 5. Land— Urbana 431 000 6- Completion of; a. First Stage of Physics Building 280 000 b. First Stage of Fine and Applied Arts Building 250 000 c. First Stage of Medical Research Laboratory at Chicago Professional Colleges 410 000 7 Plans and Specifications , 500 000 *. Remodeling (including protection of life and property) 1 625 000 y- I ublic Improvement Projects 440 000 Total Fmds Not Released (13 979 000)* Funis Released to Date • Planning and Improvements at Chicago Undergraduate Division. 42 000 - Land — Urbana 19 000

tn ^J.*i , ! l l o u g h £14.190,OOG was appropriated, only a small fraction of diil has been released > rlSf V ai f r < « e ai funds.'Y lTtiim.riit < long-range development depends upon doing certain things before others. The sltp prono S i f ^ ' r ' t r e ( L u ' r e 3 'hat ail items on this schedule be performed prior to the next tonsin,!r.S'ltlla-'e "* additional funds required to finance increased casts due to the delay of "nsnnjctior, is approximately $213,300.