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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[February 14

Davenport Halls to be removed and developed (military axis). T h e cost of the new site development project is $600,000. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the firm of Perkins & Will, Chicago, be employed to provide the professional services required through the bidding phase of the new site development project at a fixed fee of $43,000, and that the original agreement be amended accordingly. Funds are available from the institutional funds operating budget of the Urbana campus.

O n motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Forbes; absent, Ms. Kelly.) Easement to Illinois Power Company to Install a Power Transmission Line or Lines, Urbana

(16) 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 sixty-five feet long and ten feet wide to Illinois Power Company to install and maintain an electrical service across the north side of the University-owned lot at the northwest corner of Nevada Street and Gregory Place in Urbana to the Sigma Delta Tau sorority at 1104 West Nevada. T h e easement will remain in force and effect as long as the property granted in the easement is used by Illinois Power Company for the purposes described in the easement. T h e installation and maintenance of the power transmission line should not interfere with University programs or operations.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to Illinois Power Company Near the Northwest Corner of Nevada Street and Gregory Place, Urbana

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 construct, operate, maintain, repair, alter, patrol, inspect, reconstruct, and remove aerial or underground (or both or each in part at any time from time to time) electric transmission, distribution lines and systems, including poles, conductors, conduits, ducts, and sand bedding, concrete envelopes, anchors, guys, drains, grounds, and other necessary materials, hardware, and equipment appurtenant thereto, on, over, under, through, and across a strip of land sixty-five feet long and ten feet wide owned by this Corporation hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; to install and maintain an electrical service across the north side of the University owned lot at the northwest corner of Nevada Street and Gregory Place in Urbana to the Sigma Delta Tau sorority at 1104 West Nevada; 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. Grantee shall have the right, with the permission 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