Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 792]

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1955]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CONSTRUCTION OF BARN AT DIXON SPRINGS EXPERIMENT STATION (12) The Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Comptroller recommend that the University enter into an agreement with the Egyptian Livestock Association, Vienna, Illinois, a not-for-profit corporation, for the construction of a sales barn at the Dixon Springs Experiment Station in Pope County. The Association proposes to pay the University $3,000 for construction of the barn, which will become the property of the University. In return, the Association will have the privilege of using the building for at least two days each year for the Association's annual feeder calf sale, and the University will have use of the building at other times. I recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the agreement with the Egyptian Livestock Association.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the agreement recommended.

CONTRACTS FOR ALTGELD HALL ADDITION (13) The construction of an addition to Altgeld Hall can be divided into three phases: ( i ) relocating utilities now in the ground under the addition site; (2) reconstructing the utility centers within the present building and incidental internal construction revisions necessary to serve the addition; and (3) construction of the addition itself. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of contracts on the first two phases to the lowest bidders as follows: General — C. A. Petry & Sons, Champaign $28 200 Electrical — Neal Morton Electrical Contractors, Champaign 31 275 Heating— Schroeder & Sons, Champaign 25 116 Schroeder & Sons, Champaign, was the only bidder on plumbing. It is recommended that this bid be rejected as being too high, and new bids taken. The contractor agrees that because of an error this bid was higher than it should have been. Funds in the amount of $368,000 are available in the state appropriation for I0 55-56 "For remodeling of an addition to Altgeld Hall, including plans and specifications, extension of utilities to the building, and all other necessary costs and charges incident to the completion of the work." Working drawings and specifications are being prepared for the final phase of this project, and it is anticipated that bids will be secured in time for presentation of recommendations for award of contracts at the November meeting of the Board. Preliminary estimates by contractors of the probable cost of the third phase indicate that some omissions and other adjustments may be necessary to keep the total cost of the addition within available funds. The contractors recommended for the first two phases of the work have been consulted, and it is feasible to make reductions totaling approximately $13,500 if necessary. T h e bid instructions for the third stage will include a number of alternates which would permit deferring certain work if necessary. I concur in the above recommendations and request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contracts, subject to the release of funds by the Governor.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, the bid on the plumbing work was rejected, and the other contracts were awarded as recommended and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACTS FOR ADDITION TO POWER PLANT (14) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of contracts for the addition to the heating facilities at the Abbott Power Plant as follows: Steam generating unit with auxiliary equipment — Babcock & Wilcox Company, Chicago $ 4 1 2 607 High pressure closed feed water heater — Alco Products, Inc., Chicago 9 160 Boiler feed pumps — Ingersoll-Rand Co., Chicago 36 616