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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1974 Version B
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178 BOARD OF TRUSTEES O n motion of M r . Steger, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . H u g h e s , M r . Neal, M r . Pogue, M r . Steger; no, n o n e ; absent, D r . Bakalis, M r . Swain, Governor W a l k e r . LITIGATION RELATED TO OPEN MEETING LAW AND A C C E S S TO FINANCIAL RECORDS (27) The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Thomas P. Parkinson, Director of the Assembly Hall at the Urbana-Champaign campus, and Karl Edrick Gardner, Chairman of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee, have been named as defendants in an action filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County, Illinois (Case No. 73 L 108), by Richard Pope, a student who is a staff writer for the Daily Illini at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The Complaint contains two counts. In essence, Count I alleges that meetings of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee (a committee appointed by Chancellor Peltason to advise the Director of the Assembly Hall and the Chancellor) are subject to the Illinois Open Meeting Law. The Court entered a temporary restraining order on the date the Complaint was filed (February 14, 1973) requiring the Committee to admit the plaintiff to a meeting it had scheduled for that evening. In Count II the plaintiff seeks access to all financial reports and accounts relating to funds used or received in the operation of the Assembly Hall, and an accounting for all past usages of such funds, alleging that Article VIII, Section 1, of the 1970 Constitution of Illinois is the basis for the action. Dean Gardner and Director Parkinson have stated that all actions by them in the matter were in their respective capacities as Chairman of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee and Director of the Assembly Hall and have requested the University to provide representation for them in the litigation. The University Counsel recommends that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in the matter and to provide representation for Dean Gardner and Director Parkinson. I concur. O n motion of M r . Steger, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, M r . Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. H o w a r d , M r . H u g h e s , Mr. Neal, M r . Pogue, M r . Steger; no, n o n e ; absent, D r . Bakalis, M r . Swain, Governor Walker. O n motion of M r . H o w a r d , the Board adjourned. E A R L W . PORTER E A R L M. H U G H E S Secretary President
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