Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 76]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Herrick, these reappropriations were made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton.

APPROPRIATION BY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (13) The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association has made an appropriation of $10,700 to send the football band to Minneapolis, for the Minnesota-Illinois game on October 16. Approval of the Board of Trustees is required and I so recommend.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, the action of the Board of Directors was approved.

CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES AT THE CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES (14) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract to Pace Associates, Chicago, for architectural services and the preparation of working drawings for remodeling in the Research and Educational Hospitals and in the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. Charges for services under this contract will be based on actual time payments to the staff of Pace Associates at the following rates: Architect-Planner $6.00 an hour Senior Architectural Draftsman 3.00 to 3.50 an hour Structural Engineering Designer! Mechanical Engineering Designer [ 3.50 to 4.50 an hour Electrical Engineering DesignerJ Chief Mechanical Engineer 5.00 an hour Senior Engineering Draftsman 2.50 to 3.50 an hour To these charges will be added 100 per cent for overhead costs and the contract will stipulate that the charges for the work may not exceed $27,000 without approval from the University. Funds are available in the revenue bond construction account of the student residence halls, the staff apartments, and the remodeling of the second unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. The original resolution of the Board of Trustees authorizing this project requires the expenditure of at least $TOO,OOO for remodeling of the second unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. Additional funds to be expended for remodeling will come from savings in the construction of other projects. The Building Program Committee and the Administrative Committee for the Chicago Professional Colleges recommend additional remodeling for which it is proposed to employ Pace Associates to prepare working drawings. The Board has previously authorized contracts with this organization on the same terms. 1 concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute a contract with the Pace Associates for these additional services provided that total charges shall not exceed $27,000 without prior approval by the University.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this contract was awarded as recommended, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR RESIDENCE HALLS (15) The University needs additional student residence halls, and with the enrollment increasing such housing projects should have a high priority. Early completion of building studies of future residence halls is desirable so that the University can proceed promptly with construction whenever funds are available. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the employment of Schaeffer, Hooton and Wilson, architects, Bloomington, Illinois, for architectural services including completed working drawings and general supervision on the basis of a fee of four and one-half per cent for the work. Such supervision will consist only of a visit to the job approximately twice a month. The fee is based on one and one-half per cent for completed building studies and three