Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 241]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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T o omit the building for Architecture is to continue the intolerable overcrowding of the work of both students and faculty in this and other lines. T o leave the first unit of the Library standing as at present is to leave the project in such a state of incompletion that neither the old Library building nor the n e w one will serve the purposes of the University. W e therefore respectfully request the members of the House of Representatives to give their careful consideration to this whole matter, keeping in mind the general policies of the University discussed in the past four years, in which discussions m a n y of the Representatives have participated. W e m a k e this appeal in the interests of the thousands of our fellow citizens w h o have children in this great institution. T o handicap the University in the w a y proposed by the House Appropriations Committee will simply m e a n that not only will the work of the University be crippled in making further progress, but within a short period of time somebody's boy or girl must be told that the facilities at the University of Illinois are not adequate to take care of him. W e do not believe that the citizens of Illinois wish this to happen and therefore appeal to you to do everything within your power to prevent it by seeing to it that the items in the University bill which the House Committee on Appropriations recommended be cut out be restored. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this memorial was adopted, and the President and the Secretary of the Board were directed to send a copy to the Speaker of the House, with the request that it be read when the University bill comes up for action. T h e Board resumed the consideration of matters presented by President Kinley. C O N T R A C T F O R H A R D W A R E F O R N E W BUILDINGS (28) The following letter from the Supervising Architect;1 M a y 15, 1925 President David Kinley, SSS Administration Building D e a r President Kinley: I enclose a statement of the bids received today on the hardware for several of our new buildings. I recommend that the contract* beTawarded on the basis of the low bid to the Holder Hardware Company of Bloomington, 111., on the basis of their several bids as listed, less two percent, which makes their total net combined bid $13,450.04. W e have been carrying estimates of $14,700 to cover the hardware item. Yours truly, James M . White Supervising Architect 'Recommendation* No. 28, 29, 30. 31 were presented earlier in the day and referred to the Executive Committee, but there being no time in the interim for a meeting of the Committee, the matters were contidered by the full Board (without recommendation from the Preiident of the University) and action was taken as indicated.