xt7wpz51gt6c https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7wpz51gt6c/data/mets.xml Lexington, Kentucky University of Kentucky 19180219 minutes English University of Kentucky Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Minutes of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Minutes of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, 1918-02-feb19-ec. text Minutes of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, 1918-02-feb19-ec. 1918 2011 true xt7wpz51gt6c section xt7wpz51gt6c MI.NTUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FEBRUARY 19, 1918. The Executive Committee of the University of Kentucky met in regular session on the above mentioned date with the .ollowing members present; Chairman C.B.Nichols, Messrs. R.C.Stoll, C.B.Terrell, Frank McKee, P.P.Johnston Jr., and Dr. S.B.Marks. The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was c'ispensed wxith. The report of the Business Agent was taken up, discussed in detail and accepted by the Board. The Business Agent's report was as follows: To President F.L.McVey, and The Executive Committee: FINANCIAL REPORT. D iled herewith, Exhibit No. 1. is the financial report of the University for January 1918. BILLS & REQUEST-FOR APPROPRIATION. Capt. Royden, $79.55 filed Exhibit 2. e,..:iss Bean's request for raise in salary, Exhibit No. 3. I file the bill of W. & L.E.Gurley Instruments for $145.50 The requisition for this was duly presented to the Business Office but order was not made by Business Office, owing to a misunder- standing that Professor Miller had regarding amount of funds. He was expecting to pay part of the amount out of last year's budget and part out of this year's budget. He had some correspondence with the Gurley Company and on that the goods were shipped. The bill has been approved by department, and I think it should be paid, but the funds in the budget of Geology are only $88.90 and .it will be necessary that an appropriation be made in order that i.t may be paid. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS General The extreme cold weather caused some loss, but we have managed it with comparatively small expense. Some in-convenience 2 re3ulted.j but this could not well be avoided especially withowt oiwrgely increased expenditures. Mulligan Property - Bill for premium of the additional -'45,000.00 insurance has been rendered and referred to Dean Cooper for approval for payment out of Experiment Station Funds. M iling Building - Adjustment has been made of the loss by the recent fire by Representatives of Combs Lumber Company and .,oore-Young Company. The amount of loss was fixed at $901.35. E1xhibit 5. W.Veather conditions made it impossible to have the adjustment made sooner. The fire Marshall is investigating as to cause of fire. Patterson Hall - It is my intention to have the old cistern on Patterson Hall C- rounds, to which I referred in a former report, filled with ashes. I ask your approval. Respectfully, D .H.Peak BttSINESS AGENT S U 11U A R Y FINANCIAL STATEMEN'T UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY January 31, 1918. . md Sche- Estimated Receipts dule Income Expenses Balance on Hand Tun. Fe. 1 220,427.03 151,224.47 114,363.08 D-1 67,786.75 ..Sta.F.2 255,497.87 153,694.45 130,965.36 i"t.F. 3 101,490.o9 64,126.47 64,655.39 (30,925.36) 38,277.20 22,729.09 124,532.51 (528.92) 36,834.70 21,548.20 14,974.40 11 324.3.8 a,65o.22 10 224.02 59b,963-19 3b4,fn19-79 359,094.76 -97 209.56,.43 In this statement Parentheses enclose overdrafts. -.2'wst F. 4 Balance Available 3 With reference Do Exhibit No. 2, an account for trav&eling ex-penses submitted by Commandant C.N.Royden for $79.55. Mr. Stoll moved, Mr. Terrell seconding, that this bill be referred to President McVey with power to act. This motion was adopted oy Lara i:'.r ou.3 vote. Exhibit No. 3, a request by Miss Carrie Bean for an increase in salary was not acted upon by the Board but submitted to the President for further consideration. With reference to a bill of W. & L.E.Gurley for certain geological instruments that amounted to $145.50 Mr. Johnston made a motion which was duly seconded that this account be paid. This motion was adopted. In this connection the Business Agent explained that there was only $88.90 in the budget of Geology funds to which this bill properly should be charged. President MIcVey made a report to the Board orally. The President reported that the Smith-Hughes payment received this year by the University amounted to $3310. The President gave in detail the statistics of certain legislation affecting the 'University now in process of enactment by the General Assembly of the State. The President reported that the case of Crum against Barker had come up again on brief filed by Judge Carroll acting in behalf of the plaintiff and asking for rehearing of the case. The President explained that he merely desired to report this matter to the Board and that no action was necessary at this time. The President reported that progress on the Mulligan house now being put into condition for residence of his family, 4 had necessarily been slow on account of the severe weather but That he had been assured by the architect that the building would be ready for occupancy probably in May. President McVey submitted the following recommendations for appointments, increase in salaries, resignations and miscellaneous matters, action upon which is indicated at the close of each paragraph: I. Appointments. (1) Professor McNeil James, at a salary of $2,500 with $150 allowance for moving expenses. (Approved) (2) William Brusse, county agent, Sirdpson County, at a salary of $1600 to be paid. Departmerit of Agriculture, $300; Extension Division, $500; Simpson County $800. (Approved) (3) F.G.Sorrells, county agent, Hopkins County, $1800, includ- ing expenses, to be paid, Department of Agriculture $300; University of Kentucky, through Smith-Lever funds, $600; Hopkins County $900. (Approved) (4) Miss Lelah Gault, $10 per month, to act as assistant in Department of Home Economics, beginning February 4, and extending until the close of the present semester, pay- ment to be made from budget of the Department of Home Economi cs. (5) James A. McKenzie, county agent, Christian County, effective October 23, 1917 and extending to December 31, 1917, at a salary of $166 2/3 per month. (Approved) (6) 0.F.Floyd, county agent, Clay County, effective January 1, 1918, at a salary of $2,000 a year, to be paid, Department of Agricultui'e, $300; Extension Division,$700; Harrison County, $1000i (7) L.D.Sandlin, emergency county agent, Clay County; effective February 1, 1918, at a salary of $100 per month, to be paid Department of Agriculture $291.66, Clay County, 208.34, for five months. (Approved) 5 3' Reappointment of Artie Ashbrook, emergency home demonstra- tD-on agent, Craves County, five months, beginning Februar 1, 1918; salary $100 per month, $250 to be paid xroin emergency appropriation, Department of Agriculture, and $2-50 from Graves County. (Approved) (9) Continuation of Mrs. Anna B. Goddard, county home demonstra- ,icn agent, Lercer County, two months, at a salary of $1C0 per month, effective January 1, 1918, to be paid Department of Agriculture, $20; Division of Extension, $80; iercer County, $100. (Approved) (10) Continuation of Fleety Lynn, county home demonstration agent, Lyon County, ten months, beginning March 1, 1918; salary $100 per month, to be paid, Department of Agriculture, $100; Extension Division, $400; Lyon County, $500. (Approved) (11) Appointment of Frances Coakley, urban home demonstration emergency agent, City of Paducah, five months, beginning February 1, 1918; salary $50 per month, to be paid entire- ly from emergency funds from the Department of Agricul- ture. (Approved) II. Increases in Salaries. (1) Salary of Dr. Peter to be increased from $3,000 to $3,300. ($3,400? ). (Referred to the President for further consideration and recommendation) (2) Salary of Professor Roberts to be increased from $3,0n0.to $3,300 ($3 400? ). (Referred to President for further consideration and recommendation) (3) Salary of Professor D.V.Terrell to be increased from $1,900 to $2 000, effective March 1. (Recent action by Executive Commit tee increasing it $100 was based on the recommendation of President McVey who understood the salary to be $180G) (Approved). (4) Salary of Assistant Professor P.E-Karraker, assistant professor in agronomy, to be increased from $1,500 to $1, 8 00. .Approved) k'5) Salary of Albert J. Olney, assistant in horticulture, to be increased from $1, 200 to $1,500 per annum. (Approved) (6) Salary of Miss Ethel Jelly, stenographer in the Steno- graphic Bureau, to be increased from $50 to $55 per month, effective March 1, 1918. (Approved) 6 (7) Salary of Miss Louise Crumbaugh, stenographer, Exper*.r.ment Station, to be increased from $50 to $65 per mcnth.. III. Resignations. (1) Resignation of D.C.iWorley, instructor in assgying; and metallurgy, effective February 1, 1918. (Accepted) (2) Resignation of Miss Sarah Chorn, instructor in French. (She telegraphed her resignation from New York, February 4, 1918) (Accepted) (3) Resignation of Mr. George B. Wurtz, consulting meteorolo- gist of the Experiment Station, effective December 31, 1917. (Accepted) IV. Miscellaneous Matters. (.) Security Trust Company has transferred the accounts of the Crum bequest and the Bennett bequest from Dr. Patterson to the University of Kentucky, (Submitted as information) (2) Repairing of 1913 fountain. (The members of the class refuse to pay the $80 still due because the fountain does not work, and it is suggested that the University should make repairs so that the payment may be completed before the students are out of reach.) (Referred to President for further consideration and recommendation). V. Supplementary. Appointment of Luther Hatton, emergency county agent, Bell Countr, fo- fire and one-half months, $100 per month, effective January 16, 1918, an allowance of $50 per month tc bs marde for traveling expenses. The salary to be paid from emergency fund, Department of Agriculture. (Approved.) Appointment of Charles Aubrey, to succeed Mr. Watkins, Mechanical Engineering Department, salary $50 per month. (Approved) Appointment of T.E.Peak, and R.M.Davis, in the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, at salaries of $15.00 a month each, effective January 1, 1918, to take up the work formerly carried on by Mr. J. Ray Duncan. (Approved) 7 i._;ease in salary for Miss Graddy and Miss Owen of o a m-nth each. (Miss Graddy now receives $75'.0 a month ard Miss Owen $60.00), effective February 1, 1918. tApproved) :.ease in salary of Mrs. Bella Withers Carrick, effective January 1, 1918, from $45.00 to wiP60.00 a month. (Approved) Anpo- :;it'tnt of '4T.J.Harris, county agent, Carlisle County, effective February 11, 1918, at a salary of $1600 a year, to inf:.uQde travel except to meetings authorized by the Extension Division, to be paid Department of Agriculture, .$300; Federal Smith-Lever, $,500; Carlisle County, $8oo. (Arproved) Increase in salary for Miss Minnie Pherigo, from $5o to $60 a month, effective March 1, 1918. (Approved) Appointment of Miss Nanette Wallingford, stenographer in Stenographic Bureau, at $40 a month, effective February 18, 1918. (Approved) Appointment of Miss Castro at a salary of $75 per month to succeed Miss Chorn, instructor in French, effective February 1, and extending to June 6. (Approved) liss Pollitt to have ";6/5 per month for teaching from February 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918. (Approved) Appointment as lecturers Mr. Ryan and Mr. N.H.Townsend at $100 and 120 respectively for tv.ro semesters in the Law School. (Approved). (Note -: In the matter of appointment of Messrs. Ryan and Townsend, Mr. Stoll asked to be noted in the minutes as not voting. On motion duly seconded a resolution was adopted giving the Business Agsent authority to sell for $85 a dilapidated stable oil the Mulligan proper^-,y. On recommendation of the Board of Control of Patterson H-{,13. the Executive Conmni.ttee, on motion duly seconded and adopted, c~ave the said Board of Control authority to fix the price of board in Patterson Hall for the forthcoming semesters of 1918 anla 1919 not to exceed $iA4.50 a week. 8 'President McVey reported to the Board that in aw.CiJ:l. v-th authority previously delegated to him, he had procnir-ed the sevc.-ices of McNeil James as professor of Agricultural Educatior an-d A.O.-Vhipple as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, thbe .cmcrc ';o enter upon active discharge of his duties February 25, 1918 and the latter April 1, 1918. President McVey reported that representatives of the Christian Science organization had asked permission to place certain literature of that organization on the premises and asked for an expression of the Board's pleasure in the matter. Presi- dent McVey was authorized to say to the promoters of the move- ment that it was the sense of this Board that it should adhere to a ruling of the Board of Trustees of the institution that the University of Kentucky is not a sectarian institution and that it~w~1s.ciesirblo~that.nuparticular form of religion should be coumt.enaiirled on its grounds. Motion was made by Mr. Stoll and seconded by Mr. Johnston, that the President of the University be authorized to purchase such apparatus out of Smith-Hughes funds as will be necessary for instruction in radio signaling. This motion was adopted, on call of the roll, by unanimous vote. The Secretary of the Committee having been instructed at a former meeting of the Executive Committee to prepare the record of action taken by these bodies concerning the salary of Dr. James K. Patterson, President Emeritus of the University, this report was submitted and ordered filed, 9 :n addition the secretary was instructed to make copied or' this record and send a copy each to the members of the Execuivi Committee in order that they might give the matter careful stud.7 and be able to take action at a subsequent meeting on a certain account filed by Dr. Patterson for salary for salary alleged to be due him on a. former contract with the University. :AeAting adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Enoch Grehan Secretary.