Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 269]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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This has caused the Alumni Association financial difficulties and a supplementary appropriation is needed to reimburse the Alumni Association for its special services to the University for the entire biennium 1953-55. The appropriation is recommended on a nonrecurring basis, and the question will be reviewed when the budget for 1955-56 is prepared. I recommend an appropriation of $9,000 from the General Reserve Fund of the University. O n m o t i o n of M r . H e r r i c k , t h i s a p p r o p r i a t i o n w a s m a d e b y t h e foll o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . Bissell, M r . H e r r i c k , M r s . H o l t , M r . L i v i n g s t o n , M r . Megran, M r . Nickell, M r . Swain, M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Johnston, M r . Stratton. A P P R O P R I A T I O N FOR RADIO STATION . (20) The Director of University Broadcasting requests a supplementary appropriation of $7,000 for the Radio Station during the current year, 1954-55. Additional funds are needed because of unusual expenditures, amounting to approximately $11,000, which normally would not occur, due to the cost of setting up F M transmitter operations at Robert Allerton Park and repairing lightning damage to equipment at that site. Unless supplemental funds are provided, operations will have to be discontinued at the end of April. T h e Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations has recommended approval of the request that additional funds be assigned. I concur and recommend that an appropriation of $7,000 be made to the Radio Station from the General Reserve Fund. This is for the current year only and does not imply a permanent increase in the amount of the Radio Station budget. O n m o t i o n of M r . Bissell, t h i s a p p r o p r i a t i o n w a s m a d e b y t h e foll o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . Bissell, M r . H e r r i c k , M r s . H o l t , M r . Livingston, M r . M e g r a n , M r . Nickell, M r . Swain, M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . Johnston, M r . Stratton. C O N T R A C T FOR ERECTION O F TELEVISION ANTENNA (21) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $14,350 to Alpha Erection Corp., Iowa City, Iowa, the lowest bidder, for erection, including electrical work, of a television antenna on the northwest tower of Memorial Stadium. Funds are available in the Television-Motion Pictures Unit and in the unexpended balance of a special appropriation made by the Board in 1951 for equipment. Not all of this money was expended and the balance was reappropriated to put the transmitter into operation. I recommend that this contract be awarded, that the unexpended balance in the special appropriation be reassigned for the antenna construction, and that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contract with Alpha Erection Corp. O n m o t i o n of M r . N i c k e l l , t h e a w a r d of t h i s c o n t r a c t a n d t h e rea s s i g n m e n t of f u n d s r e q u e s t e d w e r e a p p r o v e d b y t h e f o l l o w i n g vote: A y e , M r . Bissell, M r . H e r r i c k , M r s . H o l t , M r . L i v i n g s t o n , M r . Megran, M r . N i c k e l l , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; n o , none; absent, M r . Johnston, M r . Stratton. CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN FIRST UNIT OF DENTISTRY-MEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING (22) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $23,974 to Frank H . Stowell and Sons, Inc., Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling in the first unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building at 1853 West Polk Street, Chicago. The work will consist of rearrangement of partitions, improvements in lighting, and installation of new laboratory equipment in Rooms 425 through 440 for the Department of Pathology of the College of Medicine, and is part of the remodeling program related to the acriva-