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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1990
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1992] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 557 appropriate administrative officers, recommends, subject to U.S. Department of Agriculture approval, that the firm of Severns, Reid & Associates, Inc., Champaign, be employed through the receipt of bids for the Phase II portion of the National Soybean Research Laboratory project on the basis as described above. Upon receipt of satisfactory bids, the Board of Trustees will be requested to approve contracts for construction and the employment of the firm for services during the construction phase. Funds will be provided by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. On motion of Mr. Boyle, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Downey, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Dr. Bacon, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.) Employment of Architect/Engineer, Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Beckman Institute, Urbana (42) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the employment of Ralph Hahn and Associates, Inc., Springfield, for the professional services required for the construction of a 7,000 square foot Bioacoustics Research Laboratory in Beckman Institute at the Urbana campus. The firm's fee through the receipt of bids will be a fixed fee of $65,664 plus authorized reimbursable expenses estimated to be $1,500. The $1 million project consists of the construction of laboratories and related functions to accommodate the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory (currently located in the Electrical Engineering Annex and Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory), which will be relocated in the lower level of the Beckman Institute. Funds are available in the institutional funds budget of the College of Engineering. On motion of Mr. Boyle, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Downey, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Dr. Bacon, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.) Relocate Fluidization Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Building, Chicago (43) The 86th General Assembly has appropriated, and the governor has released, Fiscal Year 1991 Build Illinois funds for a $411,177 remodeling project in the high bay area of the Chemical Engineering Building at Chicago for an undergraduate instructional laboratory. An adjacent, functionally related, University-funded project that involves the relocation of the fluidization laboratory from the Roosevelt Road Building to the high bay area of the Chemical Engineering Building is recommended to be combined with the instructional laboratory in order that the two projects can be constructed as a single (cofunded) project. State statutes provide that the Capital Development Board and the University may contract with each other and other parties for the design and construction of any project to be constructed on University property. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University contract with
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