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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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circle convex to the Southeast tangent to the last described course, having a radius of 50.00 feet, a distance of 78.68 feet to the point of beginning in the East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois, for public use as part of the University of Illinois at Chicago for auxiliary facilities related to student services and other related University purposes which will allow for the expansion of the University's educational and educational related facilities and enable the University of Illinois to discharge its duty to the people of the State of Illinois as required pursuant to State statute; and Be It, and It Is Hereby, Further Resolved, Found, and Declared that the Vice President for Business and Finance of the University of Illinois or his designee be and hereby is authorized to negotiate with the owners of said property through said owners duly authorized representatives for the purchase of said property at a price which this Board of Trustees considers fair and reasonable and which it finds constitutes the present market value of said property, and to obtain from said owners estoppel letters and lease amendments from parties having leasehold interests in said property; and Be It, and It Is Hereby, Further Resolved, Found, and Declared by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that if the compensation to be paid to the owners of the property cannot be agreed upon by said owners and satisfactory estoppel letters and leasehold amendments obtained from parties having leasehold interests and this Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the necessary and appropriate action be taken for the acquisition of said title to said property by said Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois exercising the right of eminent domain conferred upon it by law and having the compensation to be paid therefor determined by the institution and prosecution to completion of a proceedings in eminent domain in a court of competent jurisdiction and that the University Counsel of the University be, and he is hereby, authorized to proceed accordingly, to institute and prosecute an eminent domain proceeding in the name and on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the acquisition of said land [and leasehold interests] and the determination of the compensation to be paid by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois therefor, and to employ such special legal counsel, appraisers, and others as he may deem necessary or desirable to assist him in the institution and prosecution of said proceeding.

O n motion of Ms. Reese, this recommendation was approved and the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Grabowski, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar, Mrs. Gravenhorst. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Forbes; absent, Ms. Kelly.) Employment of Architect/Engineer and Construction Manager, Phase I Restoration, Memorial Stadium, Urbana

(34) In January 1991, the board authorized the employment of a team of professionals (i.e., Severns, Reid & Associates, Inc., Champaign; Hanson Engineers, Springfield; Henneman, Raufeisen and Associates, Inc., Champaign; and Turner Construction Company, Chicago) for the professional services required to develop the initial restoration program for Memorial Stadium at the Urbana campus. T h e work to be undertaken will include concrete replacement, toilet improvements, new storm drainage system, masonry reconstruction and repair, roof resurfacing, structural steel painting, and other code/life safety improvements.