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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ON REGIONAL PLANNING OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Mr. Williamson, for the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, reported that the Committee received a recommendation from the President of the University and the Director of the Physical Plant Department that the Board of Trustees authorize participation of the University in an organization for regional planning in Champaign County. T h e development of an organization and staff for such planning has been proposed by the Champaign County Board of Supervisors. T h e participants will include the cities of Champaign and Urbana, the village of Rantoul, Chanute Air Force Base, the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District, the County of Champaign, and the University. This proposal has been duly considered by the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and a more detailed statement, including a budget, appears in the minutes of its meeting of March n , 1958. Each participating agency will be asked to contribute funds for the expenses of this regional planning program. The University has been asked to contribute $9,000 a year. If the program is to be of any value, it must be continued over a period of years, and the expenditure therefore is a recurring obligation. In view of the University's interest in long-range planning for the Champaign-Urbana area and the benefits to be derived from such planning, the Committee concurs in the recommendation of the University officers that the University participate in the program and assume its proportionate share.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, this recommendation was approved and an appropriation of $9,000 was made from the General Reserve Fund for the University's payment of the first year's expenses. This action was taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Stratton; not voting, Mrs. Holt.

MEMORIAL TO DWIGHT HERBERT GREEN Mr. J o h n s t o n offered t h e f o l l o w i n g r e s o l u t i o n a n d m o v e d its a d o p t i o n : The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with deep sorrow the passing on February 20, 1958, of Dwight Herbert Green, Governor of Illinois and a member of this Board from January, 1941, to January, 1949. His record as Governor of this State and his previous public services are well known and will be recorded by historians. His relations to the University of Illinois as Governor and ex-ofncio member of its Board of Trustees deserve a special note of public record and of tribute from his former colleagues on this Board. He was a statesman in the discharge of his responsibilities to the University of Illinois as Governor of Illinois and as a Trustee of the University. H e was understanding of its needs and always mindful of its welfare. Of the numerous University programs which received his special attention and active support, some are especially noteworthy: the University of Illinois A i r p o r t ; the establishment of the College of Veterinary Medicine and of the Chicago and Galesburg Undergraduate Divisions; and a realistic expansion of University budgets to meet the post World W a r II needs. T h e students, now alumni, and faculty of the years he was Governor will remember his numerous visits to the University, Whether on official or informal occasions these visits were always in a spirit of friendliness and a desire to be of service. In expressing this tribute to a former colleague and friend, the Board of Trustees directs that it be included as a memorial in the minutes of today's Meeting and that suitable copies be sent to Governor Green's family. Chicago, Illinois March 11, 1958

This memorial was unanimously adopted.