Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 496]

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1927]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and amended at the September, 1927, meeting as recorded on pages 437-438 of the printed minutes, required as conditions precedent to a recognition of an obligation to pay the special assessment of $2,693.38, spread upon the assessment rolls against the University of Illinois as a charge against it on account of the paving of Armory Avenue.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED t a such assessment of ht

$2,603.38 be accepted and agreed to as a contractual obligation of the University; and that the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be and he is hereby directed to deliver a certified copy of this resolution to the City Attorney of Champaign. O n motion of D r . Noble, this resolution w a s adopted. RESETTING ELECTRIC LIGHT POSTS IN STADIUM DISTRICT (18) At the request of the Supervising Architect, the City of Champaign reset along First Street, Fourth Street, and Stadium Boulevard, the lighting standards that were on the streets in College Place which were vacated at the request of the Board. This work has been done to the satisfaction of the Supervising Architect and he requests an appropriation of $1,956.38 to reimburse the City of Champaign for its expenditures according to an itemized statement approved by him. I recommend that an appropriation of $1,956.38 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for this purpose. O n motion of M r . Barr, this appropriation w a s m a d e , b y the following vote: A y e , M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, Dr. Noble, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Armstrong, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . W a r d . DELEGATE TO UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA, CUBA. Bl-CENTENNIAL (19) A n invitation from the University of Havana, Cuba, to send an official delegate to the celebration of the bi-centennial anniversary of the founding of that institution, beginning January 5, 1928. O n motion of M r s . Ickes, this invitation w a s accepted and the President of the University w a s asked to represent the University at this celebration, at University expense. INSURANCE ON PHARMACY BUILDING (20) I request confirmation of m y action authorizing the Comptroller to renew $8,000 of insurance on the building at 721-725 South W o o d Street, formerly the Baker Building and n o w a part of our Pharmacy Building, which expired on November 2, with the Rollins Burdick Hunter Company, at a rate of ninety cents, total premium $72 forfiveyears on the eighty percent insurance plan. The Comptroller advertised for proposals on this insurance and received the following bids: Rollins Burdick Hunter Company, rate 90c, total premium $72.00; M c K e y and Poague, rate $1.00, total premium, $80.00, no companies listed; W . A. Alexander and Company, rate $1.25, total premium $100.00; Hawxhurst and Company, rate $1.50, total premium $120.00, no companies listed. The companies listed by the low bidder were found to be satisfactory. This action w a s confirmed.