Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1990 [PAGE 408]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 10

20, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. Lots 14 to 17 in Block 17 in Brand's Addition to Chicago, a subdivision of the East lA of the North East lA of Section 20, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. Lots 9, 10, and 11 in Barron's Subdivision of Block 18 in Brand's Addition to Chicago, a subdivision of the East lA of the North East A of Section 20, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. Lot 17 in Barron's Subdivision of Block 18 in Brand's Addition to Chicago, being the East lA of the North East lA of Section 20, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. Lot 25 in Barron's Subdivision of Block 18 in Brand's Addition to Chicago, being the East lA of the North East lA of Section 20, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. Lots 18 and 19 in Barron's Subdivision of Block 18 in Brand's Addition to Chicago, being the East lA of the North East lA of Section 20, 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 housing and 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 and University Counsel of the University of Illinois or his desingee 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 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 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 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.

On motion of Mr. Boyle, these recommendations were approved and the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Wolff.