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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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request from the University, appropriated the sum of $225,000 for this activity. For the biennium 1945-1047 the University submitted no request for an increased appropriation. Representatives of the Division, with the backing of the Commission on Handicapped Children, submitted a request for an increased appropriation and the General Assembly made an appropriation totaling $1,057,080 for the biennium. For the year beginning July I, 1945, the sum of $528,540 will be available from this source with a further estimated sum of $184,520 from federal sources, making total resources of $713,060 for the year. The Director of the Division, Mr. Lawrence J. Linck, has submitted a budget for 1945-1946 which has been endorsed by the Executive Dean of the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. It has been reviewed by the Director of Nonacademic Personnel as to all positions under University Civil Service. Statutory increases in these salaries have been applied in all cases, but in many instances the increases exceed these provisions. In presenting the detailed budget of the Division of Services for Crippled Children, the President wishes to state that he has found himself unable to exercise in this instance the discretion applied to budgets of other divisions of the University. The appropriation made by the General Assembly for the biennium 1945-1947 was not requested by the University and, therefore, the biennial budget was not reviewed or approved by the Board of Trustees. Consequently, there is not a sufficient background of information on the work and requirements of the Division to express considered judgment on the proposed operating budget for 1945-1946, and it is, therefore, presented to the Board of Trustees as received. While its activities are valuable and important, the Division of Services for Crippled Children should not be under the administration of the University. The President of the University recommends that the Board of Trustees go on record as requesting that future appropriations for this Division be made to the State Department of Public Health instead of to the University. This would be following the practice of other states and would be in accordance with the advice of the United States Public Health Service.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, this budget was approved as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Livingston, Dr. Luken, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Davis, Mr. Green, Mr. McKelvey. The matter of future biennial appropriations was referred to the Committee on General Policy.

BUDGET OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

(7) The Director of Intercollegiate Athletics submits on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association the proposed budget of the Association for 1045-1946, which is summarized as follows with comparative figures for the preceding year: 1044-104'; I0 , I944-W5 Actual 45-i946 Estimates IT1 "~n, « Proposed Income: (Unaudited) w Football $150 250 $243 981 $188 000 Coupon books 10 000 22 136 28 000 Other sources 33 800 48 040 62 500 Total 5i94 050 $314 157 $278 500 Expenditures: Regular operations $188 359 S167 928 S273 988 Special items 6 800 3 300 Total $195 159 $171228 $273988 Excess of income over expenditures $ — 1 109 $142 929 $ 4 512 At the beginning of the year the Association had a net operating surplus of $49,912 and a reserve of $32,000 for replacements. At the close of the year, after allowing for sundry adjustments and subject to audit, this surplus was $169,313 with a reserve of $42,000 for maintenance and replacements.