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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

[November 13

would increase the already-existing salary deficiency level at the University of Illinois. The currently approved FY 1976 operating budget request seeks $26.9 million in additional Support, an increase of 12.6 per cent on the base of FY 1975. If medically related expansion programs are removed from the request, the increase is 10.4 per cent. An increase from 9.5 per cent to 12 per cent for personal services adds $3.7 mi'.lion, for a total increase over 1975 of 14.3 per cent (12.1 percent without the medically related expansion). Table 1 (below) reflects these changes in dollars and in percentages. It is clear that the economy remains unstable and it cannot be assumed that even these current data will remain correct as the appropriations process for FY 1976 moves along toward action in June 1975. We will continue to monitor the appropriate data and to bring to the Board quarterly reports of our salary needs for 1976. At this time, it is essential that we amend the request which is pending before the Board of Higher Education so that Board will have the benefit of current data. These data show that the rationale which originally led me to recommend salary increases for FY 1976 averaging 9.5 per cent now supports increases averaging 12 per cent. I, therefore, recommend that the operating budget request for FY 1976 be amended to include personal services increases averaging 12 per cent and that this amendment be transmitted to the Board of Higher Education. I further recommend that the studies which led to this amendment be continued and that this Board be prepared to forward further recommendations when and if the data warrant such recommendations. Table 1 FY 1976 Operating Budget Request (Thousands of Dollars) Per Cent of Request 62.89

Personal Services — 12.0%' Price Increases General — 1 1 % Utilities Subtotal Opening New Buildings Health Professions Medical Center College of Veterinary Medicine Subtotal Student Loan Matching Funds Programmed Elimination of Deficiencies FY 1976Request Increase Over FY 1975 Base SEPARA TE ITEMS: Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory2 Division of Services for Crippled Children' Remodeling — Projects under $100,000 Cooperative Extension Service Total — All Item^ NOTE: Per Cent Increase = (5% 1 1 Personal Services Base $177,571.1

$19 236 3 $2 632 6 $2 275 2 $ 4 907 8 5 184 0 $3 940 6 $ 200 0 $ 4 $ S 2 $30 140 6 121 5 000 0 590 2 14.3% 39 076 462 174 343 6 4 5 8 5

16.05 .61

13.53 .39 6.53 100.00

$ $ 1 $ $ $32

X 2/12 X 12% X 10/12) = 108% Base Personal Services $272.8 Other $ 90.8 (11% a applied) * DSCC Personal Services Base $801.9