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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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permanent and continuous employees must participate in this system except those participating in other tax-supported retirement systems. Prior to such amendments permanent and continuous employees less than thirty years of age, and others not automatically included, had the option of participating. Provisions for disability and death benefits for employees not covered by the University Retirement System are desirable. These are mostly members of the faculty of the rank of assistant and others on limited tenure, and nonacademic employees with fewer than six months of service. Present disability benefits payable by the University are adequate for staff members on such limited service. It is proposed that a death benefit be paid to the heirs or beneficiaries of such staff members in the sum of $500, after six months of employment. A committee on the University Retirement System, representative of the faculty and various employee groups, has recommended that the resolution of the Board of Trustees of August 5, 1941, be revised to read as follows, so that its provisions will be consistent with present retirement legislation and will make available the benefits specified to employees not eligible to participate in the University Retirement System of Illinois: Be it further resolved, that 1. From and after September I, 1941, all employees of the University who are not certified as Participating Employees under "An Act to provide for the creation, maintenance, and administration of a Retirement System for the benefit of the staff members and employees of the University of Illinois and of certain other state educational and scientific agencies," approved July 21, 1941, as amended, shall be employed under contracts which shall provide among other things that compensation for their services shall be paid to them by the University as follows, to wit: A. Such part thereof in cash as the Board shall from time to time fix a nd determine, to be paid to them for such time only as they shall satisfactorily perform the services of their respective employments. B. A part thereof in the value of a death benefit to be provided or secured by the Board of Trustees for them, or their respective heirs, legal representatives, assigns, or designated beneficiaries, in the amount of $500, after six months of employment. Provided, however, that in the event compensation for a death is payable under the State Workmen's Compensation Act, or a death benefit, in excess of contributions paid by the employee, is payable to him by any tax supported retirement system of the State of Illinois, or by the Federal Civil Service Retirement System, the death benefit payable hereunder shall be reduced by the amount of such other compensation or death benefit. 2. Rights to benefits of present employees, originally employed prior to May 20, 1950, as provided for under the resolution of the Board of Trustees of August 5, 1941, shall not be affected by this resolution. 3. All rights and claims of any employee in or to death and disability benefits are forfeited, and shall cease, with the termination of service of such employee for the University, whether such termination is voluntary or otherwise. The requirements of the University Retirement Act as to the age of retirement shall apply to employees covered by this resolution. 4. The term "employee" as used herein shall include all members of the educational, administrative, secretarial, clerical, mechanical, and labor staffs, who are not participants in the University Retirement System, but shall exclude all student employees of the University who are paid an hourly wage. 5. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to alter, modify, or annul all or any part of the provisions for compensation of employees as provided herein, at the end of any academic year, without liability, and all claims and rights of employees hereunder shall be subject to such modifications, alterations, or termination; nevertheless, all subject to the provisions and limitations of the State statute referred to in Section II of this resolution. I concur.

On motion of Dr. Meyer, this recommendation was adopted.

ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR REMODELING OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (19) The State appropriations to the University for 1949-1951 include #7,395,000 for "Construction of Addition to present Hospital." Contracts awarded by the Board of Trustees for the construction of a hospital addition indicate that it can