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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1934
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594 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [J line 15 CONTRACT FOR DECORATING WORK IN T H E CHICAGO DEPARTMENTS (21) The Director of the Physical Plant Department of the University submits the following bids received by him for decorating work in the Chicago Departments: Franz Davis 6" Carr & Mark Decorators Kreeger Moore Maistrovich 1. Interior Work (Including addenda) A. Pharmacy $ 5 169 $ 4 500 J 4 950 $ 4 147 B. Dental 4637 4893 5200 4490 C. Research 876 I 473 ? 744 1 373 Sub-total 2. Exterior Work (Original bid only) A. Pharmacy B. Dental C. Research.. Sub-total Total $10682 646 894 84 $ 1 624 $12306 $10866 1235 1332 98 $ 2 665 $13531 $11894 1460 1350 95 $ 2 905 $14 799 $10010 1379 1485 85 $ 2 949 ?i2 959 These bids have been carefully checked by the Director and the University Counsel, who recommend that a contract for this work be awarded to the Franz Decorators, the lowest bidders. This is the customary maintenance work for which funds are available in the budget of the Physical Plant Department. I concur in the recommendation. On motion of Dr. Meyer, this contract was awarded to the lowest bidders as recommended. PURCHASES OF LUMBER AND COPPER AUTHORIZED (22) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: I car mixed lumber, including white pine, fir, and cypress, from T. A. Foley Lumber Company, Paris, Illinois, at a cost of $2,969.75 F.O.B. Urbana. This is the lowest of competitive quotations received from various companies. Soft copper, 400 pieces—30' x 96', 16 ounce—at a cost of approximately $1400. This is to replace the copper now on the west radius band of the Armory roof. On motion of Mr. Trees, these purchases were authorized. REPORT OF PURCHASES (23) The following report of purchases authorized by the President of the University since the last report: 1. One 1 2 x 1 8 Kluge Automatic Unit printing press complete with motor equipment from Brandtjen and Kluge, Inc., Chicago, at a net cost of $1,780 F.O.B. Urbana. This includes an allowance for an old press. The equipment is for the use of the Print Shop and will be paid for from the surplus in the Print Shop revolving fund. This equipment is needed to replace an old press which is inefficient and unreasonably expensive to operate. In view of an impending rise in the price, an emergency existed and the immediate purchase of this equipment was authorized. 2. Two carloads of roofing slate— (a) 77 squares black slate from L. F. Owens Company, Quarries, Chicago, at a price of $980.49 F.O.B. Urbana. (b) 60 squares of colored slate from the F. C. Sheldon Slate Company, Granville, New York, at a price of $834.24 F.O.B. Urbana. 3. Trimming and doctoring of trees on the campus, under the direction, of the Superintendent of Grounds, at a cost of 85^ per man per hour, plus material at cost, by Hubert Huiisucker, landscape architect, of Champaign. The cost of this work will
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