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B O A R D OF TRUSTEES

[June 11

Employment of Architect/Engineer, 50 Gerty Drive Building Remodeling and Addition, Urbana (State Universities Retirement System Building)

(31) The State Universities Retirement System's (SURS) new headquarters facility is nearing completion. It is anticipated that SURS will vacate their current facility at 50 Gerty Drive on or about September 1, 1992. The University has been negotiating with SURS for some time to acquire ownership of the 50 Gerty Drive facility upon vacation by SURS. A contract with SURS is imminent, and will provide that the University's source of acquisition funds will be a capital appropriation by the General Assembly. The intended use of the facility will be to consolidate the Urbana-based activities of the Office of Administrative Information Systems and Services (AISS) which are now housed in several University-owned and rented external locations around the community. This consolidation will contribute to the operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of AISS. In order to accelerate the time-frame in which AISS can utilize this facility, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the employment of Isaksen, Matzdorff & Associates, Urbana, for the professional architectural and engineering services required for the initial planning of an approximate $1.7 million remodeling and addition project at the 50 Gerty Drive Building. It is proposed that the project will consist of remodeling the basement and first floor of the existing (20,000 gsf) SURS Building and the construction of a proposed addition of 8,000 gsf. The firm's fee for the professional services required for program verification/ concept development and schematic design phases of the project will be on an hourly basis, the total not to exceed $56,500 plus authorized reimbursements estimated to be $10,000. Funds are available from the Institutional Funds Budget of Central Administration. A schedule of the firm's hourly rates has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Downey, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Mr. Boyle, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.)

Recision of Recommendation; and Employment of Architect/Engineer, Associated Health Professions Building, Research Laboratory Remodeling, Chicago

(32) On November 14, 1991, the Board of Trustees approved a request to the Capital Development Board to employ John Victor Frega Associates, Ltd., Chicago, for the professional services required to renovate research laboratories at an estimated project cost of $150,000, in the Associated Health Professions Building, Chicago. The University now recommends that the initial program established for this project be r.evised and that improvements to the electrical power distribution system for computers for medical uses and other miscellaneous equipment be implemented instead. The electrical work is based upon a study prepared by Savage Engineering, Inc., Chicago. The total estimated cost of the project is $285,000. State statutes provide that the Capital Development Board and the University