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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Although the cost of living index is comparably stable, there will be some further increases in the rates of pay in the prevailing rate groups during io.53-lo.55On the basis of experience and present trends, the Director of Nonacademic Personnel has estimated that the level of pay in prevailing wage groups, on an annual basis, may increase as much as $275,000 in 1953-1954 and an additional $275,000 in 1954-1955The following procedures for financing prevailing rate increases in the 19531955 biennium are recommended by University officers concerned: (a) It is recommended that a sum of five per cent, which was the amount used for salary adjustments for 1953-1954 for academic and nonprevailing nonacademic salary increases, be set aside for the purpose of meeting increases in prevailing wage and negotiated rates. This will mean a sum of approximately $175,000 per year or $350,000 for the biennium. (Since $45,500 has already been appropriated, this means an additional sum of $129,500 will be required in I953-I954-) (b) It is further recommended that when the sum thus set aside is exhausted, future increases in prevailing and related negotiated wage rates be met by reduction in personnel to the extent necessary to meet the increased rates within existing budgets. (Such reductions will be made in the nonacademic prevailing and negotiated wage groups but not necessarily in the group negotiating for an increase.) ( c ) It is also recommended that the sum thus set aside be used to meet the increased rates on a cash basis. This means that if the increases on an annual basis are, in effect, on the average of one and one-half years during the biennium, the annual budget totals will be increased by approximately $233,000. Since the funds recommended to meet these increases are nonrecurring in nature, on the basis of the above assumption, an additional sum of $466,000 will be necessary in the 1955-1957 biennial budget, in order to maintain the levels of pay reached under this policy. (d) If any funds are applied to further adjustments to the academic and nonprevailing nonacademic personnel in 1954-1955, comparable provisions on a percentage basis should be made for the prevailing and negotiated wage groups. The Director of Nonacademic Personnel, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Acting Comptroller recommend that ( a ) the above policy be approved and (b) an appropriation of $129,500 from the General Reserve be made. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this was referred to the Committee on Nonacademic Personnel for consideration and recommendation to the Executive Committee for final action.

PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (2) The University Patent Committee submits the following reports and recommendations : Jozef Cohen, Associate Professor of Psychology, has designed a camera and projector for panoramic photography. After thorough investigation of the possible relationship of the invention to the inventor's University services, the Committee finds that no University resources or facilities were used in conceiving and developing his invention and that all of the work on it was done on his own time. Hence, the University has no claim to the invention and the Committee recommends its release to Mr. Cohen. Harold D. Webb, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and R. L. Sydnor, former Assistant in that Department, report the development of a method for the transformation of automatic bearing indications to Watson-Watt bearing indications. This is a result of research being done by the Department of Electrical Engineering under a contract with the Office of Naval Research. In view of this, and the fact that the invention is primarily of importance to the Armed Forces, the Committee recommends that all rights to the method be released to the United States Navy.