Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1938

737

construction of two dormitory buildings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, under a Public
Works Administration Grant No. M\ich. 1559-F.
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, By The Regents of the University of Michigan
that the prevailing hourly wage rates (i.e., the customary local wage rates) being
paid in the building trades of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to employees in each trade
or occupation engaged in work of a nature similar to the work to be performed in
the construction of said Project is hereby determined to be as follows for each
respective trade or occupation:

TRADE OR HOURLY
OCCUPATION WAAGE RATE
1. Brick Layers............$1.50
2. Cement Finishers........ 1.00
3. Carpenters.............. 1.00
4. Form Builders........... 1.00
5. Caulkers with Mastic.....75
6. Electricians............. 1.125
7. Electricians' Helpers.......65
8. Glazier................. 1.10
9. Hod Carrier............. 1.00
10. Instrument Man..........75
11. Iron Workers
(Ornamental).......... 1.50
12. Iron Workers
(Structural).......... 1.50
13. Laborers, Building........65
14. Laborers, Plasterers, Mason
Tenders, Mortar Mixers..80

TRADE OR HOURLY
OCCUPATION RWAGE RATE
15. Lathers, Metal........... $1.50
16. Operator, Hoist........... 1.50
17. Operator, Concrete M\ixer.. 1.50
18. Operator, Power Shovel... 1.50
19. Painters................ 1.05
20. Plasterers............... 1.50
21. Plumbers............... 1.125
22. Plumbers' Helpers.........65
23. Resilient Floor Layers.... 1.00
24. Reinforcing Steel Workers. 1.25
25. Roofers, Composition..... 1.25
26. Sheet Metal Workers..... 1.25
27. Steam Fitters........... 1.125
28. Steam Fitters' Helpers.....65
29. Stone Masons............ 1.50
30. Tile Fitters (Ceramic)... 1.50
31. Truck Drivers...........75

Be it further Resolved, That the foregoing hourly wage rates for the respective trades or occupations listed above shall be and are hereby fixed as the minimnum hourly wage rates for all employees in each trade or occupation that will
be engaged in work on said Project:
Be it further Resolved, That the foregoing list of trades or occupations
includes to the best of our knowledge, all the classifications of employees who
will be engaged in work on said Project other than executive, supervisory,
administrative, clerical, or other nonmanual workers as such.
The Board adopted the following (No. 1691F):
RESOLUTION OF THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF M'ICHIGAN TO BORROW
FUNDS TO PAY COSTS INCIDENTAL TO ERECTING, FURNISHING, AND EQUIPPING
A HEALTH SERVICE BUILDING AND TO PAY COSTS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL
LAND FOR A BUILDING SITE
WVHEREAS, The Regents of the University of Michigan, a Constitutional Corporation, is desirous of constructing, furnishing, and equipping a strictly modern
building to be used as a hospital and dispensary and to provide offices and other
facilities to be used by the Health Service of the University of Michigan; and
WHEREAS, The Regents of the University of Michigan is desirous of acquiring
additional land adjacent to land now owned by it in order to provide a site on
which to erect said new Health Service Building; and
WTHEREAS, It is necessary and expedient that said Regents borrow through
the issuance and sale of Health Service bonds the sum of Two Hundred Twentyfive Thousand Dollars ($225,000.00) to be used together with an additional
sum of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) to be furnished by The
Regents and a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works grant of
Two Hundred Thirteen Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($213,750.00)
to pay all costs incidental to the constructing, furnishing, and equipping of said
Health Service Building and to pay the purchase price of the additional land
needed for a building site on which to erect said building; and
WHEREAS, Ann Arbor Trust Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has submitted for the consideration of said Regents a Trust Agreement whereby the
funds necessary for the purposes above set forth may be borrowed through the
issuance and sale of the Health Service bonds heretofore mentioned;
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, By The Regents of the University of Michigan that it borrow the sum of Two Hundred Twenty-five Thousand Dollars