Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 428]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e Illinois Budgetary Commission was further informed that if funds are made available beyond this $14,669,000 for the construction of a Health and Physical Education Building, the Board of Trustees will be willing to accept and sanction such a project, provided the four educational buildings eliminated in the recommendations of the Illinois P o s t - W a r Planning Commission a r e restored and the budget as previously proposed to the Commission, subject to the adjustments indicated above, is approved. On March 30, President P a r k Livingston of the Board of Trustees and the President of the University conferred with the Chairman of the Illinois Budgetary Commission, who requested that the University's recommendations be restudied and the estimates of project costs be revised, with the view to including in the program all items which the University considers essential and without eliminating entirely any of the other items. In accordance with this request the entire building program has been restudied and the enclosed schedule of changes is recommended. Since the Illinois Budgetary Commission had a meeting scheduled for April 3, and the Chairman had requested data to use as a basis for discussion of the University's building program for 1045-1947, I submitted the accompanying schedule (page 424) to him, but with the explanation that it can not be regarded as the official recommendation of the University unless and until the Board has approved the changes. It was requested that no publicity be given to the proposed changes until the Board of Trustees had an opportunity to act on them.

On motion of Mr. Fornof, this revised schedule of buildings was approved.

OPERATING BUDGET FOR 1 9 4 5 - 1 9 4 7 (3) T h e University of Illinois operating budget for the biennium of 1045-1047, as approved by the Illinois Budgetary Commission and recommended by the Governor to the General Assembly, provides for total appropriations, from all sources, of $25,627,512. This total includes: (1) A provision of $71,520 for diagnostic work in Animal Pathology; and (2) $320,262 of Federal funds. The first of these items is simply a transfer of funds heretofore appropriated to the State Department of Agriculture and used for diagnostic work in Animal Pathology which has been going on for several years. The work is done at the University and in previous years the Department of Agriculture has paid the salaries of personnel and other expenses involved. In the future it is proposed that the money shall be appropriated directly to the University, so that this item does not provide funds for any new work. The second item is a reappropriation of Federal funds received by the State of Illinois for the University and does not affect the State budget. There is another recommendation in the Governor's budget that an appropriation of $600,000 be made to the University for the operation of the Division of Services for Crippled Children. This is an increase of $375,000 over the appropriation for the current biennium. The appropriation is for non-University services, and while shown as a separate item in the budget it is also included in the over-all figure of $26,227,512 announced as the appropriations being recommended for the University of Illinois. T h e budget as revised by the Board of Trustees January 20 and requested by the University totaled $26,232,318. This total included a provision of $225,000 for the Division of Services for Crippled Children but did not include the $71,520 to be transferred from the Department of Agriculture. So for purposes of comparison with the Governor's budget of $25,627,512, the total budget as approved by the Board of Trustees in January should be adjusted by deducting $225,000 and adding $71,520, or an adjusted total of $26,078,838. T h e policy announced by the State after the University's revised budget had been submitted to the Illinois Budgetary Commission in January, of increasing salaries of State employees 15 per cent will make it necessary for the University to use approximately $400,000 of whatever funds are appropriated to it for 1945-1047 for increases in salaries and wages of its nonacademic staff. This will not provide for an increase of 15 per cent over present salary and wage levels but only enough to provide increases in line with the State policy.