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meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for FY 1992 and will be included in the Cooperative Extension Service budget authorization request for FY 1992 to be submitted to the Board of Trustees.

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, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar, Mr. Wolff. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.) Easement of a Strip of Land Abutting First Street Right-of-Way Between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive to County of Champaign

(33) On June 13, 1991, the Board of Trustees approved a recommendation granting an easement of a strip of land abutting the First Street right-of-way between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive to the County of Champaign. Inadvertently the resolution authorizing this easement was not presented to the board for approval. T h e president of the University, with concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution granting an easement of a strip of land abutting the First Street right-of-way between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive to the County of Champaign.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to County of Champaign Along First Street Between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive

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, hereinafter referred to as "Grantor," 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 County of Champaign, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the rights and easement to use for public right-of-way purposes the Grantor's land hereinafter described. T h e Grantor's land is generally described as a strip of land abutting the east side of the existing First Street right-of-way between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive in Urbana Township. T h e strip of land is 6 feet wide and 1,050 feet long, oriented parallel to First Street. T h e rights and easement granted are to be limited to the extent that Grantor has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee shall agree to repair, maintain, operate, reconstruct, replace, or remove any improvements within subject easement as may become necessary, and to indemnify Grantor and its representatives from liability in connection with grantee's activities. Conditions for the granting of the easement include: a permanent, separate bike path will be constructed along Windsor Road between First Street and Race Street by the year 2000 dependent on the availability of Federal funding, maintenance for First Street improvements between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive shall be by Grantee, a new traffic signal will be constructed at the intersection of First Street and Windsor Road, and a new fence acceptable to Grantor shall be constructed along the east side of the First Street right-of-way and subject easement between Windsor Road and Gerty Drive. T h e right-of-way easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as the following-described property easement is continued in service for public right-of-way service and has not been abandoned or discontinued. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to Grantor and full and complete