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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Resolution Authorizing Easement to Northern Illinois Water Corporation North Campus Sculpture Plaza

Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public Corporation be, and they thereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to Northern Illinois Water Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to operate, maintain, repair, alter, replace, reconstruct, move, and remove a water line or lines and other equipment appurtenant thereto under, through, and across a strip of land 20' wide and approximately 460' long located through the North Campus Sculpture Plaza south of the Beckman Institute and being more exactly described hereinafter and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. With the approval of Grantor, Grantee shall have the right to cut, fell, and remove trees, shrubbery, and bushes as may be required to provide necessary clearance. In accordance with the terms of the easement grant, Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to the property of this Corporation by the operation, maintenance, repair, alteration, replacement, reconstruction, relocation, and removal of the said water line or lines and equipment appurtenant thereto, and to indemnify this Corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. T h e easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said water line or lines are continued in service and have not been abandoned or discontinued. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to this Corporation and full and complete title then shall remain in this Corporation free and clear of said easement and without necessity of reentry or demand. T h e easement shall be over the property described below: A strip of land 20 feet of equal and even width, 10 feet each side of a water main crossing the following described tract of land: Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter (SWx/4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1^) of Section Seven (7), Township Nineteen North (T19N), Range Nine East (R9E), of the Third Principal Meridian (3rd P.M.), at a stone placed at the intersection of Main Street and Wright Street as shown by the plat of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, recorded in Book Y at Page 208 of the records remaining in the Recorder's Office of said Champaign County, running thence East 462 feet, thence South 700 feet, thence West 462 feet, thence North 700 feet to the place of beginning, the said property being known as the Seminary Grounds in the City of Urbana.

On motion of Ms. Reese, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Hahn, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Forbes, Ms. Kelly; no, none.)

Easement to Illinois Power Company

(22) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution granting