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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[August 2

RESOUUTION CONCERNING UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BUILDING COMMISSION ( n ) T h e Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Foundation at a meeting held on July 23 adopted the following resolution concerning the University of Illinois Building Commission and the legislation relating thereto: Whereas: Certain legislative proposals, known as Senate Bills 51, 52, 53, and 61, were prepared and introduced in the Senate of the Illinois Legislature at its last session for the purpose of creating the "University of Illinois Building Commission," a commission having as its sole objective the financing through an adequate bond issue and the building of certain specific projects, to wit, a Union building, sometimes called a Student Center, and much needed dormitories for housing University students at the University of Illinois, both self-liquidating projects; and Whereas: Said University of Illinois Building Commission was vitally important to the University of Illinois in connection with the Union Building project because of the financial support which the Commission could have given said project through the issue of Bonds, thus making possible a grant from the United States Government as an aid in building said U n i o n ; and Whereas: Through the congestion of legislative business at the end of the last session of the Illinois General Assembly ending June 30, 1937, Senate Bills Nos. 51, 52, 53, and 61, although passed by the Senate were never moved from second reading and voted upon in the House of Representatives and, therefore, the benefits to accrue to the University through this needed legislation have not been received; Be it therefore resolved: T h a t the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Foundation, in special meeting assembled on this 23rd day of July, !937. with a quorum present, deplores the failure of the General Assembly to pass said University of Illinois Building Commission legislation and moves the appointment by the Foundation President of a committee to wait upon His Excellency, the Governor of the State of Illinois, Honorable H e n r y Horner, and respectfully request that said Senate Bills Nos. 51, 52, 53, and 61, with the amendments proposed and accepted while said bills were pending, be made a part of the agenda of the next special session of the Illinois General Assembly if and when one is called. T h i s resolution w a s received for record. EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS FOR THE MEDICAL A N D DENTAL BUILDING (12) A recommendation that the following purchases of equipment and furnishings for the Medical and Dental Building be authorized: 1. Three steam autoclaves, three instrument sterilizers, and two pairs of water sterilizers, from Wilmont Castle Company, the low bidder, at a price of $4,474.88, f.o.b. building sidewalk. 2. Nine special steam instrument sterilizers according to prepared drawings and specifications, from the American Sterilizer Company, the low bidder, at a price of $1,890.00, f.o.b. building sidewalk. 3. Operating room equipment for new surgical amphitheatre, from V. Mueller & Company, at a price of $1,708.16, f.o.b. delivered. 4. Office chairs and costumers from W . B. Read and Company, the low bidder on University specifications, at a price of $2,168.58. 5. Office desks and tables from W . B. Read and Company, the low bidder, at a price of $2,332.40. 6. Steel stools (642), from the Royal Metal Manufacturing Company, the low bidder, at a price of $1,095.18, f.o.b. delivered. 7. One projector, two microprojectors, and 28 microscopic accessory items, from Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, at a price of $1,034.50.

On motion of Mrs. Plumb, these purchases were authorized.