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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936
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1936] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 519 SECRETARY'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS (7) The Secretary presents the following report of contracts executed by the President and the Secretary of the Board since the last report. Name y W. Snyder Company Bloomer Heating and Ventilating Co. Robert Gordon, Inc. O'Callaghan Bros, Date December 24, 1935 January 9, 1936 January 9, 1936 Amount $895,463.00 56,777.00 77,378.oo 109,471.00 Purpose General work on Medical and Dental College Building, to be erected at the southwest corner of Polk and Wood Streets, Chicago, Illinois. Ventilating work. Medical and Dental Building, southwest corner of Polk and Wood Streets, Chicago, Illinois. Heating and temperature control work, Medical and Dental College Building, southwest comer of Polk and Wood Streets, Chicago, Illinois. Plumbing work. Medical and Dental College Building, southwest corner of Polk and Wood Streets, Chicago, Illinois. December 30, 1935 This report was received for record. SECRETARY'S REPORT OF DEED EXECUTED (8) The Secretary presents also the following Quit Claim Deed executed by the President and the Secretary of the Board since the last report. Name William S. Conn and Flora B. Conn, his wife Date December 17, 1935 Description The East one-half (ten by twenty-four feet) of Lot Thirty-Six (36), Section "A" in the tract of land platted under the name of New Mount Hope Cemetery, now Roselawn Cemetery. This report was received for record. DEATH BENEFITS (9) A report of the deaths of the following retired members of the staff, and the death benefits which the Comptroller has been authorized to pay the designated beneficiaries: Mr. W. J. Engle, formerly employed by the Department of Animal Husbandry, on January II, 1936, $430.00. Mr. Henry Aden, formerly laborer in the Physical Plant Department, on January 18, 1936, $263.00. This report was received for record. PURCHASE OF COAL FOR COLLEGES OF DENTISTRY AND PHARMACY (10) On December 18, 1935 (Minutes, page 493), the Board authorized the award of a contract for coal for the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy during the current fiscal year to the Crerar-Clinch Company, at a price of $4.89 a ton for the College of Pharmacy and $5.04 a ton for the College of Dentistry (the difference in price being due to difference in conditions for handling coal at the two buildings), on a B.T.U. basis. This coal has the highest B.T.U. yield of all of the coals on which quotations were received. Since the State's constitution requires the Governor's approval on all coal contracts the recommendation of the Board was submitted to him on December 19. He has replied as follows: "There is so little difference in the quality of the coal that I feel the award should be made to the low bidders. Your letter advises me that the CrerarClinch Coal Company is the low bidder as to the College of Pharmacy coal at $4.89 per ton and that the Consumers Company is low with a bid of $4.94 per ton. It seems to me, therefore, that the Crerar-Clinch Company should have the contract for the College of Pharmacy and the Consumers Company should have the contract for the College of Dentistry." The action of the Board in recommending the award of a contract to the Crerar-Clinch Coal Company carries out the Governor's recommendation in principle, the award being made to the lowest bidder on the basis of heat units. Moreover, while deliveries to two points are specified the proposal was on the entire quantity of coal. There is no certainty that any bidder would be willing to accept an order for one of the buildings without the other and he
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