Board of Visitors minutes :: April 12, 1958 :: University of Virginia Library

President Darden discussed the progress on Newcomb Hall and plans for its
opening, and read to the Board the following letter from the Comptroller which it
had not been practicable for the Board to consider on February 1st

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Charlottesville
30 January 1958

Office of the Comptroller

Dear Mr. Darden

I note that a copy of Mr. Minor's opinion concerning the authority
of the Board to reduce the library fee has been sent to you. Based on
this opinion, I should like to recommend that the Board be asked this
Saturday to reduce the library fee from the present $20.00 to $6.00, and
that it be made applicable to all students enrolled. Based on the
estimated enrollment next session of 5,000, this will yield $30,000, an
amount more than adequate to cover the principal and interest charges.

I should like to recommend that the Board establish a student union
fee to defray the major part of the cost of operating Newcomb Hall. I
should like to recommend that this fee be $14.00, which would yield
$70,000, based on the projected enrollment next session. Thus, the
total charge to students would remain the same.

If at all possible, I hope that the Board can consider the matter
this Saturday as we should like to make the change in as many catalogues
as possible, as well as in other notices which have to be prepared very
soon for distribution to entering students.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Vincent Shea

Vincent Shea, Comptroller

VS/1W

Mr. C. W. Darden, Jr.
President

University of Virginia

After discussion the Board adopted the following resolution:

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the
present Library Building Fee be and it is hereby reduced from twenty dollars
($20.00) a session to six dollars ($6.00) a session,

RESOLVED further that a Student Union Fee of fourteen dollars ($14.00) a
session be and it is hereby established in support of the operating costs of
Newcomb Hall,

RESOLVED further that payment of both the Library Building Fee and the Student
Union Fee be required of all regularly enrolled students in the University,
effective at the beginning of the 1958-59 session.