The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-15
A BIG BUDGET
FOR BERKELEY.
The Regents Want $1,000
600 for Building Pur-
poses.
SOME STATISTICS FILED.
Unexpected Surplus Remaining
From the Years Ac.
counts.
COST OF EDUCATING STUDENTS.
Means Proposed for Increasing the
Revenue of the University of
California.
COST OF EDUCATING STUDENTS.

Five of the University regents seated
themselves around the table in the Art
Institute yesterday afternoon, just as if
they were going to dinner. Then the
finance committee of three Joined the five,
and later two more, Governor Budd and
Judge Waymire. came in. Gavin McNab
was close on the heels of the Governor,
however, and took him into an anteroom
and talked to him while the business of
the meeting was going on. The Governors
attendance at the meeting resulted only in
an interview with Gavin McNab, which
may or may not have done the college
worlds of good.
1t was the vacation season, so said Sec
rotary Bonte, and hence the empty chairs
and the dead silence which punctuated
the rollcalls.
The business of most importance was
the annual budget" submitted by the
finance committee. This was read after
some suggestions to adjourn to meeting
better ate nded, and was unanimously
adopted by a vote of ayes and no
noes" the Governor, the tenth Regent,
still being interviewed by Mr.. McNab in
the anteroom.
1t was recommended in the report that
the 1-cent levy for the support of the
university should be raised so per cent,
and that the Legislature should be petit
| toned to make the increase. This would
| give the necessary $55, 600 necessary for the
current expenses of the coming year. and
with the increase of property in the State
| the Regents think this percentage will
keep the income up to the needs of the col
| lege.
| 1t was further recommended that the
| next Legislature be asked to appropriate
| nd haf bo
following Legislature be asked to appro-
pirate the same amount, so that in four
| years the university buildings could be
put in proper condition and in the mean
| time the increased accommodations de-
| manded could be furnished Attention
| was called to the refusal of the Controller
to pay to the treasurer of the college the
| amount due from the diverted fund.-
| the interest on $40, 750-which had wrong
fully been diverted from that portion OF
| the school fund allowed the university
and upon which the Legislature had
! ordered paid 8 per cent. The Controller
had found flaw in the law providing for
the continuance of the payments, and SO
the recommendation was maze that the
board order its counsel to confer with the
Attorney-Generala and draw upa law which
would not be defective.
1t was also reported that the board had
received unexpected incomes from several
sources, and 1t can therefore close the
books for the year without a deficiency
and with an unexpended balance OF
$23l0 81 This balance came from unex-
pected sources, among them being delin-
quent railroad taxes, balance in stu
dents deposits and unexpended balance
in the various departments. In view OF
the positive need of this balance of $2310 80
to meet the necessities of the budget OF
1S96-97 it was recommended that the rule
by which the balance on hand at the close
of each fiscal year be absorbed in the
consolidated perpetual endowment fund
be suspended, and that the amount be
transferred to the general fund of 1867.
The following table, showing the fiuctua-
tons in salaries, expenses and other sta
tistics for the years since 1879. was pre-
pared and submitted. The table is as fol-
lows: