Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 157]

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1911]

PEOCEEDINGS OF T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES. B U I L D I N G S AND GROUNDS.

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The following • report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds was presented by President Abbott and received for record: The Committee on Buildings and Grounds met in the Trustees' room in the Natural History building at the University on April 22, 1911. Present: Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hatch. President James and Prof. J. M. White, supervising architect, were also present. Under date of March 14, 1911, the trustees appropriated $40,000.00 for the finishing, furnishing and equipping of Lincoln hall, the money to be expended by the supervising architect with the approval of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The committee authorized the awarding of the contract for the elevator to the Warner Elevator Manufacturing Company for the sum of... $ 2,800 00 And authorized the finishing of the basement, including a concrete floor and partitions around the elevator machinery room, switchboard room, and the transformer room, at an estimated cost of.. 1,700 00 And the laying of a finished concrete floor over the entire attic at an estimated cost of . 1,500 00 The plans for the heat, light and power connections to the buildings were approved and authorized at an estimated cost of 5,700 00 For the purchase of furnishings, orders for which should be placed immediately, including the book stacks, tables, desks, etc., an expenditure of 20 000 00 Was authorized, the contracts under this appropriation to be approved by the chairman of the committee. President James presented for discussion the question of the advisability of making some change in the modeled panels in tne spandrels between the second and third story windows on the east front oji Lincoln hall, the work on these panels having been ordered stopped by the supervising architect. It was decided to proceed with these panels in accordance with the contract, but with the instructions that the contractor confer with Dean Greene and the supervising architect with regard to the subjects of the panels. . At the same meeting of the Board of Trustees, referred to above, $4,000.00 was appropriated for water -main extensions, subject to the approval of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. The supervising architect presented a plan involving An ultimate expenditure of $7,000.00, and the portion of it to be accomplished with the ' $4,000 00 was approved. Of the items on page 103 of the board minutes of March 20, 1911, which were referred to the committee with power to act, items 5, 9 and 12 were cut out; item 21 reduced from $2,000.00 to ' $1,000.00, and item 22 increased to $1,500.00. As thus changed, all of the items up to and including item 22 were approved, at a total expenditure of 7,456 00 Items 23, 24 and 25 were reserved for further consideration. The general repairs referred to the Buildings and Grounds Committee at the. same meeting, and printed on page 103 of the board minutes, were all approved and ordered made. The supervising architect reported that English Brothers had completed their contract on the boiler house and Ceramics building, and recommended that the final payment be made them on the basis of their contract, plus $323.85 in extras, which represents the excess of the value of the

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