Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1079]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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istrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Illinois Building Authority to award a contract for $124,365 to the low bidder, AllisChalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Division "308" — furnishing and delivering switchgear and related electrical equipment — and proceed to procure for the use of the University this equipment which is required for the electrical distribution system at the Utilities Building Addition, Chicago Circle. The equipment is a part of the project for Chicago Circle, Phase I I I , construction, which the Board, on July 26, 1967, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. The Authority will finance the construction and lease the facilities to the University for rental payments, for which State appropriations are available. Jurisdiction of the land on which the project will be constructed will be transferred to the Authority at a later date prior to construction. 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 and purchase of equipment by the Illinois Building Authority. It is further recommended that the resolution submitted herewith be adopted to implement the official actions required. 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 Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., P. O. Box 512, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, a contract for furnishing and delivering to the site switchgear and electrical equipment for 12.6 K V Switchgear, 4.16 KV Switchgear, 600 Volt Substation, 600 Volt Motor Control Center and a Battery Charger, all a part of the construction of the Utilities Building Addition, Chicago Circle, Phase III, for the fixed price of $124,365.00. 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 . W i l l i a m s o n , 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 by t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . G r i m e s , M r . H a h n , M r . Hughes, M r . Jones, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Kerner, M r . Page, Mr. Pogue, Dr. Weatherly. CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION OF THE UTILITIES DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOUTH. CHICAGO CIRCLE (18) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of the following contracts for construction of Extensions of the Utilities Distribution System to Science and Engineering South, Chicago Circle, the award, in each case, to the lowest base bidder. Underground utilities tunnel extension including electrical duct work — Abbott Contractors, Inc., Chicago $376 000 00 Underground tunnel piping — Delta Piping Company, Chicago 119 000 00 Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 196769, subject to release by the Governor. 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 . J o n e s , t h e s e c o n t r a c t s w e r e a w a r d e d a s r e c o m mended by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . Hahn, Mr. Hughes, M r . Jones, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, G o v e r n o r K e r n e r , M r . P a g e , M r . P o g u e , D r . W e a t h e r l y .