Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1902 [PAGE 92]

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1901]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES NEW BUILDINGS.

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Mr. Bullard, chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, reported that some revision of the plans and specifications for the three new buildings had been made since the last meeting of the Board, and that the two lowest bidders for the general contract and for the contract for heating and plumbing, had been asked to revise their bids in accordance with these changes. Upon opening these bids it was found that on the general contract V. Jobst & Sons 5 bid was $72,346 and Kelley & O'Brien's bid was $66,034. On the heating and plumbing contract J. D. Wallace's bid was $9,466 and Field, Shorb & Company's bid was $8,675. As a result of some further modifications of the plans and specifications Kelley & O'Brien's bid stood $67,342 and was accepted. The Committee on Building and Grounds, together with the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Mr. Spencer, was instructed to have the plans and specifications completed according to the proposed revision and to have a contract drawn; and the President and Secretary oi the Board were authorized to sign the contract with Kelley & O'Brien upon their furnishing satisfactory bond as called for by the specification. The bid of Field, Shorb & Co. was accepted and it was ordered that a contract be drawn and signed and bond given, as in the case of the general contract. Mr. Bullard, for the Committee on Building and Grounds, recommended that the bid put in by V. Jobst & Sons for the construction of the water plant and the tunnels be accepted and that a contract be drawn and signed when the contractors furnished a satisfactory bond, and it was so ordered.

ADVISORY BOARD OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION.

Upon the recommendation of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, Mr. S. Noble King, of Bloomington, was appointed the representative of the Institute upon the Advisory Board of the Experiment Station. Messrs, Hatch and Conrad of the Board of Trustees, President Draper, Dr. Burrill, Dr. Forbes, and Professor Davenport were appointed as representatives of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculty upon the Advisory Board, and President Draper was appointed President of the Advisory Board.

N E W PAVEMENTS.

The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the President and Secretary of the Board be, and are hereby, instructed to sign a petition for the pavement of Wright street, in Champaign, from the south side of John street to the south side of Daniel street, one block, with brick upon a broken stone concrete foundation, and for a concrete combination curb and gutter.