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rental of $1,330, with options in the University for annual renewals through June 30, 1980. The space will be jointly occupied by the Cooperative Extension Service and the Office of the Secretary of the Business Advisory Council of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the Urbana-Champaign campus. These offices previously occupied space in the LaSalle Hotel at an annual rental of $12,180. That property has recently been sold, and the University's lease was not renewed. The space in the Wabash Avenue Building is Suite 1402 on the fourteenth floor and consists of 2,605 square feet. The rental rate includes janitor service and heat. Beginning July 1, 1977, a cost adjustment will be made in the rental based on changes in the costs to operate the building. Funds are available in the FY 1977 budget for payment of the rental from federal Smith-Lever Funds, available to the College of Agriculture, and from current restricted private gift funds, available to the College of Commerce and Business Administration.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Walker.

Acquisition of Computer Equipment for University Administrative Data Processing Computing Services

(30) On October 15, 1972, the Board of Trustees authorized consolidation of Administrative Data Processing with several stated objectives. These were to improve services, to respond more effectively to the demands of various agencies, and to achieve economies of scale through the use of more sophisticated hardware. The consolidation program was divided into two principal phases. Phase one embraced the consolidation of the three administrative computer centers into a single data processing center. Phase two included moving the administrative computer center to the Roosevelt Road Building in Chicago and the consolidation of the fourth computer center — the Research Resources Center at the Medical Center. Extensive planning analysis and recent computer market concessions have led to the conclusion that the market is favorable to purchase the IBM 370 model 168 computer. This computer is currently being leased by the University. Through the present lease agreements with the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and the Illinois Educational Consortium, purchase credits have been accumulated which if applied against the purchase of the existing equipment could reduce the annual cost substantially. Moreover, with the accomplishment of the full consolidation as well as with extensive measurement and demand analysis, it has been determined that an additional two million positions of main memory are required to carry out the data processing objectives of University and campus administration. It has also been determined that it is necessary to upgrade the current central processing unit (CPU) to a model three designation. This latter change would achieve an increase in computing power of approximately 15 percent and provide more efficient support for existing operations. Implementation of this plan will result in annual cash flow savings for these computer facilities of about $260,000, while increasing computing power by about 15 percent. It is emphasized that this recommendation embodies only that portion of the computing facility which comprises the central processing unit; other peripheral equipment follows different economies of scale and is subject to change at more frequent intervals. It is recommended, therefore, that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to purchase the equipment using the applicable credits from the IBM Corporation and lease the equipment back to the University. T h e provision of this