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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Funds for this project are available from the Fiscal Year 1991 State appropriated operating budget of the central administration.

O n motion of Mr. Boyle, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Mr. H a h n , Governor T h o m p s o n . ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Forbes; absent, Ms. Kelly.) Easement to Illinois Power Company to Relocate and Maintain Lines, Equipment, and Structures Along Windsor Road, Urbana

(12) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution for the granting of an easement to Illinois Power Company. T h e easement is for the relocation and maintenance of power transmission lines and related equipment and structures along Windsor Road. T h e relocations are made necessary by the roadway improvements now being constructed as a part of a cooperative venture among the University, the City of Champaign, the City of Urbana, Champaign County, and the State to improve Windsor Road from Route 45 to Philo Road. This easement is for seven strips of land, described in the resolution, between Lincoln Avenue and Philo Road in Urbana. T h e easement will remain in force as long as Illinois Power and its successors continue to use the land for the purposes identified in the easement document. T h e use of University property as defined by the easement should not interfere with University programs or operations.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to Illinois Power Company Along Windsor Road Between Lincoln Avenue and Philo Road

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 Illinois Power Company, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to relocate, operate, maintain, reconstruct, replace, and remove power transmission lines and appurtenant equipment, structures, and devices, through and across certain strips of land hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the strips of land are generally described as seven strips of land along the right-of-way of Windsor Road between Lincoln Avenue and Philo Road in Urbana; five of the strips are between six and eight feet wide and between thirty and fifty-five feet long, oriented perpendicularly to Windsor Road; a sixth strip is approximately five feet wide by one thousand feet long along the length of Windsor Road; the seventh strip also lies along the length of Windsor Road and is approximately one thousand feet long, thirty feet wide at its midpoint tapering to a point at each end with a small peninsular segment being six feet wide and thirty feet long near its midpoint. T h e rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee shall have the right, with the prior approval of this Corporation, to cut, fell, and remove trees, shrubbery, and bushes as may be required to provide necessary clearance. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to the property of this Corporation by the relocation, operation, maintenance, reconstruction, replacement, and removal of the said power transmission lines and appurtenant equipment, structures, and devices, and to indemnify this Corporation and its