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1925]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Second unit of Library Building and equipment $500,000 Addition to Armory and equipment 4.25,000 Building for Architecture and kindred subjects and equipment. 500,000 Addition to the present School of Pharmacy Building and equipment 350,000 Additional wing to new Gymnasium and equipment 225,000 O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this appropriation was m a d e , by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Barr, M r . Blair, M r s . Busey, M r . Small. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR NEW BUILDINGS (19) The Supervising Architect recommends: I. That he be authorized to prepare plans and specifications in conjunction with Mr. Piatt, as associate architect, for the additions to the Library, Gymnasium, and Armory; 2. That Mr. Piatt be given the commission for the building for Architecture and kindred subjects; 3. That a Chicago architect be given the commission for the addition to the Pharmacy Building; 4. That the Supervising Architect be authorized to receive bids at once on the additional wing to the Gymnasium and on the bookstack unit of the Library, including bids on the bookstacks. I concur in these recommendations. O n motion of M r . Trees, these recommendations were approved. TABLES FOR THE LIBRARY (20) The Superintendent of Business Operations recommends placing an order with C. A. Kiler and Company of Champaign for twenty-one 4' by 16' tables for the reserve reading-room of the Library at a price of £14.2 each. I concur in this recommendation. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this recommendation was concurred in.

GENERAL CONTRACT AND SHEET METAL AND ROOFING CONTRACT FOR ADDITION TO OLD LIBRARY

(21) The Supervising Architect submits the following schedule of bids received on the general contract and the sheet metal and roofing contract for the addition to the Old Library Building: Bidder Amount of Bid General Contract: English Brothers $39,980 Otto Randolph 44,641 Clarke Const. Co 40,000 Widmer Const. Co 48,100 Sheet Metal and Roofing: J. Smith & Co 5,293 F. Starr & Sons 6,000 Twin City Roofing Co 5,345 He recommends that the contracts be awarded to English Brothers and J. Smith and Company, the low bidders in each case. I concur in this recommendation. O n motion of M r . W h a m , these contracts were awarded as recommended. APPOINTMENT OF J. E. SLATER PROFESSOR OF TRANSPORTATION (22) On recommendation of Dean Thompson, concurred in by Professor Bogart and the Provost, I recommend the appointment of Mr. J. E. Slater as Professor of Trans-