Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1055]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF UNDERGROUND CHILLED WATER SERVICE TO PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY, URBANA (25) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Illinois Building Authority be authorized to award a contract for $96,290 to George S. Walker Plumbing and Heating Inc., Decatur, the lowest bidder, for construction of underground chilled water service to the Psychology Laboratory, Urbana-Champaign campus, and to proceed to procure this for the use of the University. Construction of the Psychology Laboratory is a project which the Board on September 22, 1965, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. Funds for this work are available from the project budget of the Undergraduate Library, which project contains funds for the Library Air Conditioning Center to serve both the Undergraduate Library and the Psychology Building. The Authority will finance the construction and lease the facilities to the University for rental payments for which state appropriations are available for the current biennium. Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department, including a list of the bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. It is also recommended that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, contract, and other documents as are necessary to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project by the Illinois Building Authority and that the following resolution be adopted. Resolution Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Illinois Building Authority be, and it hereby is, requested to award to George S. Walker Plumbing and Heating Inc., Decatur, Illinois, a contract for constructing underground chilled water service to the Psychology Laboratory, Urbana-Champaign, for the fixed price of $96,290. Be It, and It Hereby Is, Further Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this public corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name and in behalf of this corporation, such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, contract and other documents as are necessary or appropriate in order to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project and facility by the Illinois Building Authority. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d b y the following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . G r i m e s , M r . H a h n , M r . Jones, M r . Page, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . H u g h e s , G o v e r n o r K e r n e r , D r . W e a t h e r l y . CONTRACT FOR WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS, URBANA (26) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award, subject to release by the Governor of funds available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69, of a contract for $91,602 (base bid plus additive alternate A4) to Elton A. Wagner Company, Danville, the lowest bidder. The work will consist of additions to the water distribution system on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department, including a schedule of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d b y t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . G r i m e s , M r . H a h n , M r . J o n e s , Mr. Page, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Hughes, Governor Kerner, Dr. Weatherly.