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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 10

With the concurrence of the President of the Board and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, the President of the University presented this revised budget to the Budgetary Commission, indicating that it would be acceptable to the University. Statement to the Illinois Budgetary Commission Concerning Funds to Provide a Permanent Site for the Chicago Undergraduate Division 1. The University included a preliminary estimate of land cost for a permanent site for the Chicago Undergraduate Division in its budget filed November i, 1954, because: a. T h e University was requested by the Legislative Commission on the Chicago Undergraduate Division to provide this and related information. b . The University feels that its present two-year program has achieved a permanent status, and therefore, permanent University-owned facilities should be provided as soon as feasible. c. The inclusion of such an item was necessary if the University expected consideration of an appropriation in this biennium. d. At that time it seemed that funds had to be appropriated by the General Assembly in this session in order to permit the University to prepare for and be ready to take its share of the increased enrollment. 2. Since submitting the budget: a. The University has not been able to conclude its studies of sites or complete the necessary negotiations to a point where it is certain of the appropriation required. b. T h e University has found that, if it is necessary or desirable for the state to do so, the appropriation for site acquisition can be deferred until the 1957-59 biennium. (Also the Commission on Higher Education has been appointed by the Governor to survey the entire problem of future growth and the question of possible expansion to a four-year basis.) 3. T h e University has not changed its opinion as to the need to provide permanent facilities and site for the two-year program of the Chicago Undergraduate Division as promptly as feasible. However, in view of the above described conditions and of the many needs of the University of greater urgency for which funds should be provided in the 1955-57 biennium, the University will not press for appropriation of funds in 1955-57 to acquire land for this purpose, but only moderate funds for studies of future development.

LLOYD MOREY

President Revised Building Program for Biennium 1955-57 as Presented to the Illinois Budgetary Commission I. Urbana-Champaign Project Appropriation Needed Biology Building, First Unit $ 5 585 000 Architecture Building Addition, First Stage 2 230 000 Women's Residence Hall (supplemented by borrowing $1,208,000) . . . 1 000 000 Men's Residence Hall (supplemented by borrowing $306,000) 1 000 000 Heating Plant Addition (necessary if any of foregoing buildings are added) I 705 o00 Band Building 870 000 Metallurgy Laboratory Addition 175 °°° Altgeld Hall Remodeling $300,000; Addition $390,000 780 000 Davenport Hall Remodeling 3°5 °°° Library Addition 685 000 Physics Laboratory Addition, First Stage 5 0 0 o00 Building Studies 125 000 Minor Agricultural Structures 300 000 City Improvements 180 000 Green Street Widening 105^000 Total for Urbana-Champaign $15 605 o 00