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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1974 Version B
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578 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June 19 MEETINGS OF BOARD COMMITTEES President Hughes announced there would be no meetings of Board committees, there having been meetings of the Committee on Student Welfare and Activities and the Committee on Buildings and Grounds on the previous day. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S REPORTS A N D RECOMMENDATIONS The Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University. President Corbally presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board. OPEN MEETING LAW The President called on the University Counsel to report on the result of recent litigation with regard to the "Open Meeting" Law, in particular, a Memorandum of Opinion filed by the judge of the Circuit Court of Champaign County on June 14. Following report of this action, the President submitted the following recommendation for action of the Trustees: LITIGATION RELATED T O OPEN MEETING LAW (1) On February 21, 1973, the Board of Trustees authorized defense of an action filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County, Illinois, by Richard Pope against the Board of Trustees, Thomas P. Parkinson, Director of the Assembly Hall at the Urbana-Champaign campus, and Karl Edrick Gardner, Chairman of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee appointed by Chancellor Peltason to advise the Director and the Chancellor. In a "Memorandum of Opinion" filed by the judge on June 14, 1974, the Court found that meetings of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee are subject to the Illinois "Open Meeting" Law and directed the issuance of a writ of mandamus against the defendants, requiring them to open the meetings of the Assembly Hall Advisory Committee to the plaintiff and to the public and to give notice of such meetings as required by the Illinois public meetings law. The University Counsel has recommended that an appeal be taken from the June 14, 1974, decision and that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to perfect such an appeal. I concur. On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Steger; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Neal, Mr. Swain, Governor Walker. UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL 1 9 7 5 President Corbally reported briefly that the University bill, with a number of amendments (not all presented or endorsed by the University), had passed the Senate and now was to be considered by the House, including the amendments.
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