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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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37$ BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 24 ing space for cars and near-by apron space to be earmarked for airline use. Mail and express facilities to be included. T h e Board, in adopting this resolution, is aware of a possible limitation of funds. This statement of minimums can be relieved temporarily, though unsatisfactorily, by locating the airline terminal within the administration building. d. Installation of access roads, utilities,, landscaping, and parking areas commensurate with the above, and necessary airport lighting. 2. T h e above items represent minimum essentials only. Additional facilities needed include: a. Provision for a flying school. b. Facilities for private flying activities; these can be closely allied to the flying school. c. Provision for a vocational type of school. T h e maintenance facilities for light airplanes can be included with this school. d. Adequate night lighting. It is possible that the first two of these items can be combined and operated under one management. Several buildings will be required, however. T h e location of the flying school and private flyers should be on the north side, and that of the vocational school on the south side beyond the University building area. Paralleling the above are the many needs on the campus. These include the equipping of the instructional laboratory for aeronautical engineering, the specialized equipment required for aeromedical instruction and research, the altitude laboratory, and miscellaneous requirements of the several departments. These are all important to a fully coordinated program and must not be neglected. T h e Advisory Board on Aeronautics also considered the status of the present appropriation (1943-1945) for capital improvements at the Airport, and discussed the need for additional capital funds in the 1945-1947 biennium. T h e following general statement as to present and future funds is further broken down below: As of January 31, 1045, the unencumbered balance in the Airport improvement appropriation was $441,857.99. Since then bids have been taken on a 48inch concrete pipe line to make it possible to cover the east drainage ditch. The low bid was $43,501.16. However, priorities have not been received. Another charge of $5,812 has been made for reconditioning the Locomotive Laboratory to make it an Aeronautical Laboratory, leaving an unencumbered balance of $392,544.81. Expenditures total $18,903.53; encumbrances total $39,238.50 and consist chiefly of open orders for architectural and mechanical studies. OPERATING BUDGET FOR AIRPORT AND AERONAUTICAL INSTITUTE T h e following proposed budgets for the operation of the Airport and of the Aeronautical Institute were discussed by the Advisory Board on Aeronautics: Airport Institute Salaries ?22 000 ?I2 500 Wages 15 000 2 000 Expense 10 000 5 000 Annual Total 847 000 J i g 500 Total for Biennium of 19451947 S94 000 S39 000 It was the opinion of the members of the Advisory Board that the budget for the operation of the Airport was not large enough. T h e Institute budget was criticized for having no provision in it for funds which can be allotted by the director for activities, in various departments of the University. Dean Enger argued that when needs requiring additional funds developed during the biennium the director could support the request of the head of the department concerned for an appropriation from the Graduate School Research Board or from the General Reserve Fund. A budgetary study of the recommendations of the Advisory Board on Aeronautics indicates the following needs for the biennium of 1945-1947 for airport construction and operating equipment:
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