Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948
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1947] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 407 student residence halls. These items were in the budget recommended by the Governor to the General Assembly and in the omnibus bill introduced by the State Administration. T h e Director of Finance had stated that this might represent the total amount of capital funds to be made available to the University during the biennium of 1047-1040. T h e statement was not accepted as binding on the University and the Director was so advised in writing by the President. The total of the reappropriation requested by the University under the agreement with the Director of Finance was $15,287,020. The original schedule of new capital appropriations to be requested for the biennium of 1947-1949 as approved by the Board on October 22, 1946, totaled $29,450,000. This was reduced by the Board on April 24 to $20,472,000. A bill for such an appropriation has been introduced in both houses of the General Assembly. It is now on the order of third reading in the House of Representatives, having been approved unanimously by its Committee on Appropriations. On June 17 the Senate Committee on Appropriations voted to reduce all building appropriations by 15 per cent. University officials were given a hearing by the Senate sitting as a Committee of the Whole on June 19. Following this hearing, University officials were requested to submit a schedule of reductions in the aggregate of 15 per cent of the total sum. I present herewith a schedule of the revision in these appropriations for basic building funds for 1947-1949, carrying out the mandate of the Senate. R E P O R T OF REVISION IN APPROPRIATION BILL FOR BASIC BUILDING F U N D BUDGET 1947-1949 (S. B. 662) Urbana-Champaign: Chemistry Building Electrical Engineering Laboratory. . . . I Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. . r Fine Arts Building 1 Temporary Housing Student Residence Halls 2 Student and Staff Apartments Power Plant Addition 1 Utilities Distribution System Water Station Improvements Fire Protection Facilities Physics Research Laboratory Betatron Fire Truck Chicago: Physical Environment Addition Utilities Distribution System Land Equipment (all buildings) Plans and Specifications (future projects) Contingencies Total £15 Amount Included *'» Present Bill $ 2 500 000 100 150 200 450 200 500 775 550 no 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Reduction Net Amount $ 2 500 000 I 100 000 1 150 000 Si 200 000 200 000 200 000 100 000 250 2 000 400 775 r 550 no 71 65 984 24 000 000 000 000 000 000 162 000 000 725 75 65 984 24 323 469 250 450 420 350 000 000 725 000 000 000 000 000 4 it 691 845 287 920 190 100 12 214 73 000 000 000 000 000 $2 293 188 323 279 150 438 206 618 #12 994 000 000 000 000 000 845 732 The effects of this reduction were discussed by the President of the University, the Vice-President, and the Provost. On motion of Mr. Fornof, the action of the President in consenting to the revision of Senate Bill 662 was approved and confirmed, and the President was authorized to issue a statement on the seriousness of the situation. The following telegram was sent, over the signatures of the members of the Board, to the Governor, President of the Senate, President pro tempore, Speaker of the House, Chairman of the Appropriations Committees, to the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate and the House, and to the Senators and Representatives from
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