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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Chicago Transit Authority Station on the Peoria Street Bridge which will be closed to vehicular traffic. Negotiations with city of Chicago, state, and federal representatives have resulted in an agreement which will provide that the City will finance and construct the CTA Station, and the University will (1) take a lease of the Congress Parkway area as a part of the campus, (2) construct a ramp from the Peoria Street Bridge to the elevated walkway, and (3) remove the improvements on the right-of-way of the Congress Parkway and landscape and maintain the area during the period of the lease. The proposed agreement is for the period expiring June 30, 1965, with an option to the University to renew the lease for consecutive two-year periods after expiration of the original term. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend approval of the agreement and lease, and that the Secretary of the Board and the Vice-President and Comptroller be authorized to execute the same upon terms and conditions, and in a form, approved by the Legal Counsel. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, this lease was authorized by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Kerner, Mr. Page.

APPLICATION TO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION FOR FM STATION IN CHICAGO (23) The Director of Broadcasting has requested adoption of a resolution authorizing an application to the Federal Communications Commission for a new F M station in Chicago which will broadcast in the Chicago area Station W I L L programs from the Medical Center Campus and later from Congress Circle. H e has secured the approval of Northwestern University and Elmhurst College officials of changes in channel assignments for their stations which will be required for a frequency assignment to the new station. The Executive Vice-President and Provost and I concur and recommend adoption of the required form of resolution, a copy of which is submitted herewith.

On motion of Mr. Swain, the following resolution was adopted.

Resolution I, A. J. Janata, Secretary of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereby certify that the following is a true and exact extract from the minutes of the meeting of The Board of Trustees of the said University held in Peoria, Illinois, on June 19, 1963: "On motion made and duly seconded, and with a quorum of the Board present and duly authorized to act, it was unanimously voted by those present to approve the following resolution: "We, a duly constituted quorum of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, having legal authority to act, hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, A. J. Janata, to execute any and all legal instruments necessary to the establishment, maintenance and operation of a proposed non-profit educational F M radio station at Chicago, Illinois, including, but not limited to any and all applications or other pleadings of any sort which are now or may hereafter be required in the prosecution of such application before the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for the construction a n d / o r operation of said station at Chicago, Illinois." In witness whereof, I, a duly authorized official of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, have caused the seal of the University of Illinois to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand this day of , 1963, at Urbana, Illinois. Secretary of the Board of Trustees University of Illinois USE OF UNIVERSITY FACILITIES BY THE T W I N CITY BIBLE CHURCH (24) T h e Board of Trustees authorized the use of University space in Gregory Hall by the Twin City Bible Church of Urbana for a two-year period, 1961-63,