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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD Future Meetings

President Hughes called attention to the schedule of regular meetings for the remainder of the year: October 16, 1974, Rockford; November 13, 1974, Chicago Circle; December 18, 1974, Urbana-Champaign. President Hughes also announced that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered for consideration of acquisition of property and pending litigation.

EXECUTIVE SESSION Purchase of 1204 and 1206 West California Avenue, Urbana

(38) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends purchase of the properties at 1204 and 1206 West California Avenue, Urbana, at a price of $60,000, contingent upon funds being made available through the Capital Development Board. Title will be vested in the Board of Trustees. The properties are improved with two, two-story brick structures used for student housing. The total size of the properties is approximately 4,000 square feet. The properties will be used on an interim basis for student housing and will later be used to provide parking facilities to replace those lost by the construction of the Basic Medical Sciences Building. Ultimately, this land will provide a site for additional facilities for biological and medical sciences. Funds were appropriated to the Capital Development Board from the Capital Development Bond Fund for the University in FY1975 and have been released by the Governor.

On motion of Mr. Swain, the purchase of this property at the price indicated was authorized by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Walker.

Litigation Concerning Trustee Action on Operation and Governance of the lllini Union, Urbana

(39) T h e University has been named as a defendant in a suit filed in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Champaign County (Case No. 74 C 668), by Norman H . Beamer, Robert W. Fioretti, and David Pollack. The plaintiffs allege that they are students of the University and two of them represent that they are members of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. T h e complaint alleges that the lllini Union Board is a joint student-faculty committee of the University established by actions of the Board of Trustees on June 18, 1969, which charged the lllini Union Board with policymaking and administrative decision-making responsibilities. It is alleged that actions by the Board of Trustees on July 17, 1974, purported to amend the system of lllini Union governance and to give full administrative control of the lllini Union to its Director. It is also alleged that on July 17, 1974, the Board of Trustees took action concerning the composition of the lllini Union Board for the academic year 1974-75. The actions of the Board of Trustees on July 17, 1974, are alleged to be illegal and invalid in that they were never submitted to the Urbana-Champaign Senate for advice and recommendation, as alleged to be required by the University Statutes.