Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 405]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Graduate School Equipment for research and graduate instruction Research

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$7,000 5,ooo

Law Books 4)000 Music Practice organ (replacement estimated) £3,5°° Grand piano for new studio (estimated) Moo Miscellaneous equipment for practice rooms and studios (estimated) 375 Total $5,27S Band Equipment 1,500 Equipment for various departments on Presidents special approval 2,000 Supervising Architect Moving of departments into new quarters 2,500 Total, Non-recurring Appropriations $102,975 O n motion of M r s . Evans, these appropriations were made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, Dr. Noble; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r s . Ickes, M r . Small, M r . Trees, M r . W a r d . VACATION OF CERTAIN STREETS IN COLLEGE PLACE (16) At the meeting of the Board on September 22, 1926, (Minutes, page 124) the following resolution was adopted on recommendation of the Supervising Architect: "Be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby agrees, and assures the City Commissioners of Champaign, that it will open a street sixty feet wide, the north line of which shall be 439.21 feet south of the center line of Armory Avenue measured on Fourth Street, and 439.25 feet south of the center line of Armory Avenue measured on First Street; P R O V I D E D that the City Commissioners of Champaign will vacate all streets in the tract known as College Place south of the north line of the proposed street between the west line of Fourth Street and the east line of First Street." Owing to an error in the above resolution in the use of the word "north" instead of "south" as the twentieth word from the end of the resolution, I request that the Board now adopt the resolution in its amended form, as follows: "Be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby agrees, and assures the City Commissioners of Champaign, that it will open a street sixty feet wide, the north line of which shall be 439.21 feet south of the center line of Armory Avenue measured on Fourth Street, and 439.25 feet south of the center line of Armory Avenue measured on First Street; P R O V I D E D that the City Commissioners of Champaign will vacate all streets in the tract known as College Place south of the south line of the proposed street between the west line of Fourth Street and the east line of First Street." O n motion of M r . Barr, the action of September 22, 1926, w a s reconsidered a n d the resolution w a s adopted as a m e n d e d .