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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 19

projected at $500,000 each for the second and third years and approximately $750,000 each for the fourth and fifth years. I recommend that the secretary of the board report this grant to the executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Miss Cordon, this recommendation was approved. Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Contract, Medical Center

(10) T h e University of Illinois Medical Center administers one of eleven federally funded Area Health Education Center (AHEC) projects. A five-year contract, awarded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on September 30, 1972, terminated on September 30, 1977. During the five years, $9,301,871 has been available through the contract. Continuation for two additional years was authorized under Section 781 of The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976. Negotiations with the department for this contract, covering the period from October 1, 1577, through September 30, 1978, have been completed. Funding at a level estimated as $1,884,731 direct, plus $150,818 indirect overhead recovery, will be awarded. This represents a reduction in support of approximately $1,006,000 when compared with the final year of the five-year contract. The new AHEC contract will support, at a reduced level, primary care residency and allied health programming of the College of Medicine and baccalaureate completion and master's level education programs of the College of Nursing which have been established at regional campus settings of the Medical Center. Developmental funding for health professions continuing education will support inter- and intradisciplinary programming in Regions 1-A, 1-B, 2, and 3-B. Each of the Medical Center schools now participates or provides consultation for contract operations. Further development is expected to increase the range of offerings available in each of the four regions. Continuation of the AHEC contract for an additional two years is supported by the chancellor and academic officers at the Medical Center. T h e budget for the coming year has been reviewed and approved by the Area Health Education System Campus Management Committee and the vice chancellor for academic affairs. T h e vice president for academic affairs and the vice president for administration recommend approval of the contract. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved. Agreement with the Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District and the Village of Savoy: Regionalization and Improvement of Wastewater Treatment Facilities

(11) T h e Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District has asked the University to share in the cost of expanding and improving the sanitary sewer facilities of the district which the University uses.1 This project is part of an overall plan to provide increased efficiency of the district's northeast and southwest treatment facilities to meet Illinois water quality standards and to upgrade the existing treatment system. T h e University will provide transmission mains from Willard Airport to the village of Savoy's sewer lines for regionalization of the Willard Airport area with the Village of Savoy and Sanitary District. T h e total project, which will cost $35,440,000, will begin during Fiscal Year (FY) 1978 and will be completed in steps by FY 1980. T h e program is being financed in part by a 75 percent

1 The formula to determine the University's share of the annual cost is the ratio of the total average wastewater treated, by the district at each plant to the amount of water consumed by the University. Based on this formula, the cost to the University will be approximately 16 percent of the local share of the project.