Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 613]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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WAGE AGREEMENT W I T H BUILDING SERVICE EMPLOYEES (4) W i t h the approval of the Board of Trustees (May, 1943), the work week of Building Service Employees (janitors) at Champaign and Urbana was established. In July, 1943, the Board approved payment of wage rates to janitors in Champaign and Urbana based on Class B Common Labor rates paid in this community. In May, 1948, again with the approval of the Board, an agreement was negotiated for a rate structure and conditions of employment paralleling, in principle, those in agreements between the Building Managers Association of Chicago and Building Service Employees in that city. The present agreement with the employees at Urbana-Champaign is on a year-to-year basis and provides that either party may reopen the agreement for new negotiations upon notice to the other at least sixty days before expiration of the agreement. Inasmuch as it was based on actions of the Board of Trustees, the Director of Nonacademic Personnel requests authority to renegotiate the agreement with the understanding that final approval of the negotiations rests with the Board of Trustees. I concur. O n motion of M r . Rissell, authority was given as requested. STATUS OF PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TELEVISION PROGRAM (5) President Stoddard reported informally on the status of plans for the development of the University's television program in terms of a reduced budget. He stated that if sufficient funds are appropriated by the General Assembly of Illinois for the biennium of 1953-1955 to maintain the operation of the University on the same basis as during the current biennium, including commitments already made, it would still be feasible to begin the operation of a television station. Such an operation would necessarily be on a limited scale but perhaps adequate to meet the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission for the issuance of a license to construct and operate an educational television station on Channel 12, and to meet the conditions of the Ford Foundation's offer of a grant of $100,000 for this program. O n motion of M r s . W a t k i n s , the President of the University was authorized to do whatever is necessary, within prospective budgetary resources, to c a r r y out plans for the development of such television facilities as are feasible, and including steps to secure the allocation of Channel 12 to the University. President Livingston stated that he would reactivate the Special Committee of the Board of T r u s t e e s on Television and that he would m a k e an appointment to the Committee as replacement for M r . John R. Fornof. 1 BIENNIAL BUDGET FOR 1 9 5 3 - 1 9 5 5 (6) The Special Committee appointed by the Board of Trustees on March 25, 1953 (Minutes, page 597), to confer with the Governor and the officers and committees of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of Illinois regarding the University's biennial budget made an informal report of a conference held with the Governor on March 30 and subsequent conferences with the Director of Finance. Copies of a formal statement given by the Committee to the Governor and of the public announcement made by the President of the University on the following day were sent to all members of the Board of T r u s t e e s and copies have been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. ' President Livingston subsequently appointed Mr. Cushman B. Bissell as a member of this Committee. (Secretary's note.)