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Show Board Recommends Ute Building Budget Suggested Project Finances Tentatively $38 Million The Utah State Building Board passed a tentative recommendation recommenda-tion to the Utah Legislature for $37,299,240 for the building program pro-gram of the University in Wednesday's meeting. THE UNIVERSITY HAD previously asked for approximately $40 million for projects and buildings, but were denied nearly $2 million. The tentative approval of projects for the University, Weber State College, and Utah State University total $68,454,881, but ' according to Elroy Nelson, president of the building board, there ' . l a i j. ii. will have to be a cut in the recommendation rec-ommendation down to about $60 million total for all three of the colleges. THE NEXT meeting of the board will be Dec. 9. At that meeting the board will weed out , any projects that are not felt to ' be needed by the college. The day's work combined with two previous building board meetings sent the preliminary total program accepted so far to $86,670,931. This amount includes both critical and needed classifications and covers all state institutions and agencies requesting capital improvement money for the 1965-67 biennium. As it stands now, projects are placed in two categories: needed and critical. The needed projects will be the first to be eliminated. MARK MONEY, University financial fi-nancial advisor, stated his senti- i ments on the recommendation of the board by saying that the University Uni-versity will have to "make du," with the money given them. "We will still," he continued, "have to use building like the gym that was built in 1905, if we are not given enough money." BUT MR. MONEY added that the board's final recommendation would not be the only "gauntlet" for the University. There would still be the passage of the recommendation recom-mendation before the 1965 Legislature, Legis-lature, where the bill could again be cut or passed. |