Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932 [PAGE 441]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Other Operations, June 30, 1031 Budget Extended Balance Minwaxing $5 300 00 {3 628 47 f 1 671 53 Golf Memberships 4 000 00 263100 1369 00 Pump and installation at Stadium I 000 00 I 538 02 538 021 Fourth Iron Fireman (Automatic Stoker) 400 00 400 00 Donation to Band 50000 50000 •Overdraft. Repointing Brick and Stonework at Stadium 2 000 00 951 34 1 048 66 Th Tote! i s report w a s received for record. ti3 200 00 $9 248 83 $3 951 17

CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE B O A R D

(20) A report that in order to avoid delay in the execution of contracts which were authorized by the Board or the Executive Committee the Bursar of the University was authorized to sign the name of the Secretary of the Board to these contracts in the latter's absence during September, 1931. A list of these contracts has been filed with the Secretary for record. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Grigsby, this action w a s confirmed. A t this point President B a r r requested M r s . Grigsby to take the chair.

REPORT OF PURCHASES

(21) A report of the approval of the following purchases, amounting to $1,000 or over, since the last report was made to the Board: Equipment and supplies for the laboratory in the Creamery from A. Daigger and Company, whose quotation was the lowest, at a price of $2,280.00, to be charged to the Dairy Creamery Surplus Special Equipment Fund of the Department of Dairy Husbandry. Pipe and materials for extending steam lines to the Skating Rink from Field and Shorb, whose quotation was the lowest, at a price of $1,836.26, to be paid by the Athletic Association. Pyrex laboratory glassware for the General Chemical Stores from E. H. Sargent and Company at approximately $3,300.00, to be paid out of the Revolving Stores Account. T w o General Electric refrigerators, 60 cu. ft. capacity, from the Illinois Power and Light Corporation at a price of $1,092.25 each—one for the McKinley Hospital payable out of the Hospital funds, and one for the Department of H o m e Economics, payable out of the Cafeteria Revolving Fund. Air conditioning equipment for steer feeding stalls for Animal Husbandry from the Carrier Engineering Company at a price of $3,900 f.o.b. factory, to be paid out of Animal Nutrition Station funds. One generator with starters for use in the rails investigation in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Chandeysson Electric Company at a price of $1,372.50, to be paid from the funds supplied for this investigation. Five hundred tons of wheat straw (baled) for the Departments of Dairy Husbandry and Animal Husbandry at a price of $4.75 and $4.85 per ton. The two lowest quotations were received from Grover Craven ($4.75) and Elmer D o d ($4.85), neither of w h o m was able tofillthe entire order. Consequently the order was divided between the two. The total cost was $2,208.75 ($1,187.50 to M r . Craven and $1,021.25 to M r . Dod). Twenty-five hundred bushels of hard wheat for Animal Husbandry from Reifstack and Mattis at a cost of $1,025.00, delivered, to be paid from the Feed Storage Revolving Account. Twenty-eight hundred and seventy bushels of yellow shelled c o m for the Department of Animal Husbandry from Reifstack and Mattis at a cost of $1,257.38, delivered, to be paid from the Feed Storage Revolving Account. University Miehle Cylinderto be for Print Shop from the for attachment C ofa n y allowed forPress.swing-back Press charged N e wthe Machine Equipment Fundo mNo. 4 at a One Dexter machine), Automatic Feeding Special Dexter Folder lessp$250 three-roller old cost of $2,150.00, f.o.b. Pearl River, to York (original cost $2,400 to the