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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 21

bulletin a year and will reach approximately 3,000 high-school teachers of English. It will thus provide an avenue of communication between them and the Department of English at the University. On the one hand, it will give the high-school teachers a means of expressing themselves, so that members of the University's rhetoric staff can profit from their knowledge and experience, and on the other hand, will enable the University to distribute economically teaching materials and information to the high schools. Thus the appropriation of $600 a year will represent an investment which will not only serve the University but secondary schools as well. I recommend this as a permanent increase in the budget of the Department of English.

On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Adams, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Livingston, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Wieland.

APPROPRIATION TO THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC ( n ) A recommendation t h a t an appropriation of $300 be made from the General Reserve Fund to the School of Music for the repair of the University chimes and the clock mechanism which operates the chimes.

On motion of Mr. Davis, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Adams, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Livingston, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Wieland.

MEDICAL CENTER DISTRICT COMMISSION (12) An Act of the 62nd General Assembly establishes a Medical Center District in Chicago, bounded by Ashland Boulevard on the east, Congress Street on the north, Oakley Boulevard on the west, and Roosevelt Road on the south, and creates a Medical Center Commission for the control and management thereof. T h e purpose of the Act is to provide for the improvement and development of the territory surrounding the medical institutions of Chicago's west side. The Commission is authorized to acquire property within the district, construct buildings and other permanent improvements, to obtain funds for the acquisition of land and construction of improvements, and to dispose of property within the District. The complete text of the Act of the General Assembly is submitted herewith. The Commission consists of five members, one to be appointed by each of the following: the Governor of Illinois, the Mayor of Chicago, the President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, the President of the Chicago Park District, and the Trustees of the University of Illinois. The terms of office are as follows: the first member appointed by the Mayor of Chicago shall hold office for one year; the first member appointed by the President of the Chicago Park District shall hold office for two years; the first member appointed by the President of the County Board of Cook County shall hold office for three years; the first member appointed by the Trustees of the University of Illinois shall hold office for four years; and the first member appointed by the Governor shall hold office for five years. Members appointed thereafter shall hold office for five-year terms or until their successors are appointed. It is now in order for the Board of Trustees to select a representative on the Medical Center Commission.

This matter was referred to the Committee on Chicago Departments for study and recommendation.

UNIVERSITY CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM (13) An Act of the Sixty-Second General Assembly directs the Board of Trustees to establish "as soon as possible, and within six months after the effective date of this a c t " a University Civil Service System applicable to those classes of employees heretofore subject to the general Civil Service law and the regulations of the State Civil Service law and the regulations of the State Civil Service Commission. Pending establishment of the University system, which must be done by January 1, I942>