Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950
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142 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October 21 President Stoddard, Provost Griffith, and Comptroller Morey discussed the proposed budget presenting detailed explanations of all increases recommended. A formal document explaining in detail the increases was sent to the Board of Trustees in advance of the meeting and a copy is on file with the Secretary of the Board. During the discussion of this budget, Dr. Meyer took his place with the Board. On motion of Mr. Livingston, the biennial operating budget was unanimously approved as presented, to be filed as a tentative biennial budget under the State Finance Act, and the President of the University and the President of the Board were requested to take charge of the matter from now on. STATEMENT BY REPRESENTATIVE J O H N K. MORRIS At this point, the Honorable John K. Morris, Representative from the Twelfth District, was introduced. Mr. Morris urged that provision be made for housing the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Home Economics as soon as possible. The Board continued its consideration of matters presented by the President of the University. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES BUDGET F O R 1 9 4 9 - 1 9 5 1 (8) I am recommending a capital expenditures appropriation for the 1949-1951 biennium for the Urbana campus of $36,855,000 and for the Chicago Professional Colleges of $26,210,000, a biennial total of $63,065,000 (Schedule A ) . As an example of the need for long-range planning, a total of $38,370,000 (Schedule B) of capital expenditures for both Urbana and Chicago is required immediately after the proposed 1949-1951 program. The recommendations also show further needs for later biennia (Schedule C ) . Professor W . C. Huntington, Chairman of the Building Program Committee, reviewed the work of the Committee in preparing the request and discussed the proposals in detail. The complete report of the Building Program Committee was sent to the Board of Trustees in advance of the meeting and a copy is on file with the Secretary of the Board. SCHEDULE A BUILDING PROGRAM FOR URBANA AND CHICAGO CAMPUSES RECOMMENDED BY THE BUILDING PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR THE 1949-1951 BIENNIUM October 11, 1948 Estimates, chiefly by Holabird and Root and Burgee, Architects, are based on floor areas recommended by the Committee and include allowances for furniture, laboratory equipment, landscaping, etc., by Physical Plant Department. However, appropriations will control floor areas. Order of listing has no significance. URBANA CAMPUS Project No. Project 1 Biology Building — First Unit 2 Chemistry Building Equipment 3 Architecture Building Addition 4 Animal Science Laboratory 5 Agricultural Engineering Building Improvement 6 Minor Agricultural Structures 7 Veterinary Medicine — Science Unit 8 Physics Laboratory Addition and Repowering 9 Law Building Estimated Cost J 5 300 000 400 000 1 900 000 2 500 000 220 000 240 000 I 800 000 1 500 000 2 300 000
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