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praisal to the University Council, consisting of the deans and directors of all administrative units. In the light of the Council's advice, the President submitted his recommendations to the Board of Trustees for action. Summary of Biennial Budget Requests for 1963-65 Including increases required by law and those required to maintain the present level of expenditure, the requests for additional funds submitted by the deans and directors, plus the increases for salary adjustments recommended by the Budget Committee, totaled $40,286,808 for the biennium. This figure is slightly lower than the over-all increase requested for 1961-63 ($41,144,325). Considering that less than SO per cent of the latter amount was finally appropriated for 1961-63, and the fact that an extraordinary increase will be required for the Congress Circle campus in 1964-65, the total of increases requested by the deans and directors for the biennium 1963-65 is a relatively moderate one. Nevertheless, in the effort to hold the 1963-65 budget to a level required to meet urgent needs, the biennial increase finally proposed to the General Assembly is some 20 per cent below the figure representing the original college and departmental requests. As shown in Schedule A (below), an increase of $31,044,000 above the appropriations for 1961-63 (an average of $15,522,000 per year) is requested by the University for the biennium of 1963-65. This represents an increase of 21 per cent over the amount appropriated for the current biennium. The total is $175,800,000 in General Funds for 1963-65, $15,500,000 of which would come from University income and the remainder of $160,300,000 from the tax revenues of the state. Special attention is called to the sharp increase in operating costs for the second year of the biennium (1964-65), mainly due to the opening of the new campus at Congress Circle. T h e increases for the latter are shown separately in Schedule A, and it can be seen that it will be necessary to add $3,590,000 in 1964-65 for that purpose alone. In addition, the sum of $3,000,000 is requested for further salary adjustments for the staff on all three campuses in 1964-65, and $360,000 additional for the operation of new buildings completed at UrbanaChampaign for use in 1964-65. Thus the requested biennial budget of $175,800,000 would be divided between the two years of the biennium as follows: $84,425,000 for 1963-64; $91,375,000 for 1964-65. It is important for future planning to record that the difference of $6,950,000 would have to be added to the total appropriated for the biennium 1965-67 in order to continue in that biennium the level of operations reached during the second year of the biennium 1963-65. In the following pages, detailed explanations are given for the increases requested under each of the major sections in Schedule A (below). Later sections present analyses of the funds requested in accordance with the object classifications required under the State Finance Act, including the special breakdowns required by action of the Seventy-second General Assembly. Schedule A. Increases Requested in the 1963-65 Biennial Budget (All amounts are for two years except as noted.) Recommended Increases Contributions to University Retirement System $ 742 900 To Continue for a Full Biennium Funds Required for One Year Only in the 1961-63 Biennium 2 700 000 Salary Adjustments for All Staff: A. 1963-64 (for two years) 9000000 B. 1964-65 (for one year) 3 000 000 To Provide for Increased Enrollment in 1963-64 (for two years): A. Instructional Staff (Urbana-Champaign and Medical Center) 2 740 000 B. Nonteaching Staff, Expense, and Equipment 1. Urbana-Champaign and Medical Center 2 060 000 2. Congress Circle 1 000 000 To Provide for Increased Enrollment in 1964-65 (for one year): A. Instructional Staff (Congress Circle) 1 770 000 B. Nonteaching Staff, Expense, and Equipment (Congress Circle) 1 230 000

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