Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 782]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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appropriated for this purpose with the provision that this fund, or any part thereof, shall be subject to release by the President of the University. On motion of M r . Barrett, this appropriation w a s made as recommended by the following vote: Aye, M r . K a r r a k e r , Mr. B a r r e t t ; no, none; absent, D r . Meyer.

APPROPRIATION FOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN CHICAGO DEPARTMENTS

(10) A recommendation that an appropriation of $5,000 be made from the General Reserve Fund for the construction of three tennis courts for the use of students and members of the faculty of the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy on the land at the southeast corner of Wood and Polk Streets in Chicago, purchased this year by the University and which is now being cleared. The Director of the School of Physical Education recommends that if it is possible to acquire the land owned by the University of Chicago at the southwest corner of Polk and Lincoln Streets (south of the Cook County Nurses Home and west of the Medical and Dental Building), either through lease or purchase, it be done and that tennis courts and soft-ball diamonds be constructed on this area. The Physical Plant Department reports that it would be possible to provide two double tennis courts and two soft-ball diamonds on this area, and the total cost of these facilities would be $7,000. The above estimates contemplate the use of concrete for surfacing of tennis courts, and clay and sand for the soft-ball diamonds. Necessary fencing is included in both the above estimates. On motion of M r . Barrett, the appropriation of $5,000 was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Karraker, M r . Barrett; no, n o n e ; absent, D r . Meyer.

PURCHASE OF BRONCHOSCOPE

(11) A recommendation that an appropriation of $2,500 be made from the General Reserve Fund for the purchase of a bronchoscope for use jointly by the College of Medicine and the Research and Educational Hospitals. This equipment will cost $5,000. The Department of Public Welfare will make an assignment of $2,500 to pay half the cost. The equipment will become the property of the University. On motion of M r . Barrett, the appropriation of $2,500 was made as recommended for the University's share of this purchase, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. K a r r a k e r , Mr. B a r r e t t ; no, n o n e ; absent Dr. Meyer.

ACOUSTICAL CORRECTIONS IN VARIOUS BUILDINGS

(12) The Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the accompanying schedule of bids received for acoustical corrections in various buildings at Urbana and Chicago. (See page 780.) In analyzing these bids, two factors are of primary importance, viz.: (1) the price per unit of correction; (2) whether the material is paintable. The bid of Edward J. Kearns and Company for installation of half-inch quietile is low in total as well as on a unit price basis, but this type of material cannot be painted. In view of this fact, the Director recommends that the contract be awarded to the Celotex Corporation through their territorial representatives, Watson Engineering Company at Urbana and James L. Lyon Company iri Chicago. On motion of M r . Barrett, this contract was awarded to the Celotex Corporation as recommended. The Executive Committee adjourned. H. E. CUNNINGHAM Clerk O. M. KARRAKER, Chairman E. E. BARRETT