New operating and "extraordinary" budgets totalling approxi-J mately $4 million more than is * being spent for the current year, < have been approved by the Louisi-1 ana State university board of supervisors.
The budget, for the fiscal year starting July 1, will be presented to the Legislature for approval in May. The board met yesterday at the LSU administration building.
In presenting the dual budget, Dr. Daniel Borth, executive vice-president of the university, warned the board that enrollments would be^oubled by 1970. OK Second Budget
Besides the operating budget of $27.3 million, a second $839,721 "extraordinary" budget was ap« proved by the board.
Funds in it will be used to add a junior year at LSUNO, to launch an LSU branch near Alexandria, and to begin financing of a nuclear reactor for LSU.
An estimated $2.5 million of the $4 million overall increase will come from state tax monies. The balance will be derived from federal funds and LSU revenues.
Also approved was a $20 million capital improvement fund, $7.9 million of which would be spent on LSUNO, $9.7 at Baton Rouge, and $850,000 for the newly created Alexandria branch. Medicine Grant
The!_j5chool of medicine at New Orleans is slated to get $1.5 million out of the capital improvements monies. Medical school enrollments are expected to jump 125 to 140, according to Dr. Borth.
Dr. Borth also told the board that the university will need about $24.5 million in the next four or five years for construction and improvements at the New Orleans branch.
During the same period, the Baton Rouge campus will need !$23.6 million, LSU at Alexan-j dria, $2.2 million, the New Or-jleans medical school, $3.5 million, and outlying experiment | stations and 4-H camps for ex-I tension service, $1.4 million. Make Report
A report accompanying the budget stated:
LSU must "prepare now for the rising tide of students, but it must recognize the increasing complexity and higher costs of instruction and research in almost every area of the university."
Dr. Borth said salaries at LSU still were not within "striking distance" of those at comparable institutions throughout the nation.
The budgets approved by the boardf yester^ajr. provided an eight - per .: cent-, pay hike to academic and nonclassified employes of the university.
