THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Claimant, v. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
The claimant sought payment from a federal/state matching grant that had lapsed. The court dismissed the claim because no federal or state funds were available to pay the obligation after the funding period ended.
Cases cited: City of Carbondale v. State of Illinois, 76-CC-2336
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Headnotes
- APPROPRIATlONS-iflSuffiCienf Federal funds. Unless more Federal funds are available or unless State funds having been appropriated were sufficient upon the lapsing of the fund, the Court of Claims cannot grant an award to correct a deficiency.
This cause coming on to be heard on the motion of the Respondent, and the Court being fully advised in the premises, having reviewed the departmental report submitted pursuant to Rule 14 of this Court, this Court finds as follows:
1. The departmental report previously submitted into the record pursuant to Rule 14 of this Court stands as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
2. The funds, Federal/State matching grant #1778D, totalling $259,779.00 were received for a period covering September 1975 through June 1977 and the expenditures from this grant totally dissipated the grant. This Court in the case of the City of Carbondale ZJ. State of Illinois, 76-CC-2336, recently ruled in an analogous case that unless Federal funds are available or unless State funds having been appropriated were sufficient upon the lapsing of the fund, this Court may not indulge in deficiency appropriating to correct the deficiency.
3. There were no Federal funds available nor were there matching State funds available at the time of the lapsing of the funded period out of which this obligation could have been paid.
It is, therefore, ordered that this case be and the same is hereby dismissed.