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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

EXECUTIVE SESSION

[December 16

When the Board convened an Executive Session was ordered to consider the following matters of business presented by committees of the Board of Trustees and by the President of the University.

WAGE RATES OF BUILDING SERVICE EMPLOYEES Mr. Grange, for the Committee on Nonacademic Personnel, reported on a conference with Messrs. Donald E. Dickason, Director of Nonacademic Personnel, C. S. Havens, Director of the Physical Plant, and Russell N . Sullivan, Chairman of the Nonacademic Personnel Advisory Committee, regarding wage rates of building service employees (janitors). Since 1948, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, the wage rates paid by the University to its building service employees at Urbana-Champaign have been tied to the rates established by the Building Managers Association of Chicago under its agreement with Local 25 of the Building Service Employees International, but without the requirement of all of the working conditions specified in that agreement. T h e rates paid by the University have been adjusted to take into account the benefits its employees receive which are not available to employees elsewhere. Consistent with this agreement, the University granted wage increases on October 1, 1952, and April 1, 1953; the next increase provided in that agreement becomes effective January 1, 1954. In the meantime, and following the increase effective April I, 1953, the University, with the approval of the Board, notified Local 119 of its intention to re-negotiate the wages structure. Local 119 has asked that the rates paid by the University continue to be related to the rates paid under the agreement between the Building Managers Association of Chicago and Local 25, and without requirement of all of the working conditions specified in that agreement. T h e University officers have recommended, and the Committee on Nonacademic Personnel concurs, that the University negotiate with Local 119 according to the following plan: ( a ) Effective January 1, 1954, and continuing for one year thereafter, the wage rate for building service employees at Urbana-Champaign shall be $1,925 per hour, plus compensation for University recognized holidays; ( b ) Working conditions of building service employees at Urbana-Champaign shall be those currently specified in the Building Managers Association — Local 25 contract as they relate to work schedules; and that ( c ) T h e policy of relating the wages of this group to the Building Managers Association agreement be terminated. Mr. Grange stated that these negotiations are being conducted by the Director of Nonacademic Personnel, and that while no action by the Board is required at this time he desires to secure its advice. F o l l o w i n g full d i s c u s s i o n , t h e B o a r d a s s e n t e d t o t h e p r i n c i p l e s of these negotiations. REPORT OF T H E SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON NEGOTIATIONS W I T H T H E WESLEY F O U N D A T I O N Mr. Megran, Chairman of the Special Committee appointed by the Board at its meeting on November 20, 1953, to continue negotiations with representatives of the Wesley Foundation at the University of Illinois for the acquisition of property in the block bounded by Green Street, Goodwin Avenue, Illinois Street, and Mathews Avenue in the city of Urbana, Illinois, which the University desires to purchase from the Foundation, made a report covering the latest negotiations, and presented to the Board of Trustees a formal written offer from the representatives of the Foundation. (This offer has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.) T h e offer contemplates the sale and conveyance by the Foundation to the University of all of the portions of the property situated in that block south of a line located 75 feet south of and parallel to the east and west center line of the block which are now owned by the Foundation in consideration of (a) the conveyance by the University to the Foundation of all land situated north of said line now owned by the University; (b) the removal by the Univer-