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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 16

On motion of Mr. Nickell, this budget was approved and authority was given as recommended.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR BUILDINGS A N D OTHER PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS (3) The Seventieth General Assembly of Illinois has appropriated funds for the biennium 1957-59 for the following buildings and permanent improvements: For permanent improvements at Urbana-Champaign: For completion of a Biology Building, with fixed equipment installed, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work $ 675 000 For construction of an Art and Architecture Building, with fixed equipment installed, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work I 700 000 For construction of a Physics Building, with fixed equipment installed, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work I 880 000 For an addition to the Library, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work 775 000 For an addition to the Power and Heating Plant, with fixed equipment installed, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work I 855 000 For construction of extensions to the general University utilities distribution systems, including plans and specifications and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work 2 020 000 F o r rehabilitation and remodeling of the Stock Pavilion, including plans and specifications and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work 250 000 For plans and specifications for an Agronomy Unit of a Plant Sciences Building 180 000 For land at Urbana-Champaign 855 000 F o r permanent improvements at Chicago: For construction of a Medical Research Laboratory, with fixed equipment installed, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work I 235 000 For permanent improvements at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago: For rehabilitation and remodeling of and minor additions to existing buildings at Urbana-Champaign and at the Chicago Professional Colleges, with fixed equipment installed, including plans and specifications, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work 1 160 000 For land — acquisition of land for the establishment of a permanent division of the University of Illinois in Cook County 575 000 For building and site studies, plans and specifications for a division of the University of Illinois in Cook County 375 000 For equipment at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago 30 000 For contingencies to cover expenditures for purposes for which the amount specified in any of the above items enumerated is, or becomes, insufficient 7 1 0 00° Any of the foregoing appropriations may be assigned as matching funds for any grants made by the federal government for such purposes and in addition to such grants. The sum of $3,700,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary and as remains unexpended at the close of business on June 30, 1957, from an appropriation made for such purposes by "An Act making certain appropriations and reappropriations to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois" approved June 15, I95S. >s