Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938 [PAGE 809]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Resources Building on the campus of the University, and also providing that cooperative agreements may be entered into with Federal agencies by which additional funds may be secured from the Federal government, and further providing that an agreement may be entered into between the Department of Registration and Education and the Trustees of the University of Illinois that the University shall in consideration of the cooperation of the Surveys with the University, maintain such buildings in good repair and condition inside and outside, maintain the grounds and furnish light, heat, power, and water and janitor service at no expense to the Department of Registration and Education, thereby carrying out the present agreement that the University of Illinois house such Surveys: Therefore, the following agreement, made and entered into this fourteenth day of May, 1938, between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereinafter called the University, and the Department of Registration and Education of the State of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the Department, is hereby made for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the physical property of a State Natural Resources Building for the scientific Surveys, pursuant to Section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of certain divisions of the Department of Registration and Education until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session of the general assembly," approved July 1, 1937, and pursuant to Section 62 aforesaid: 1. In consideration of these premises, the University agrees to provide a site for the construction of a Natural Resources Building of the most suitable and complete type possible within the appropriation made available by the Legislature and funds received from the Federal government, either or both, for such purpose and which may be provided by the Department, upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth: a. The site for the building, proposed by the University and offered for the purposes of this Agreement, is described as follows: An area bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, Sixth Street, South Drive and Broadwalk, the latter three all extended, approximately 270 feet by 600 feet, immediately West of the Stock Pavilion. (1) Such of the above described area as is necessary for immediate construction purposes is now released. (2) Additional tracts of the said area will be released as work progresses and as the space, in the opinion of the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation of the Department and of the Board of Trustees of the University is required for the aforementioned purposes. (3) T h e University will remove the Animal Pathology Building and the Military Stables and clear the ground at as early a date as reasonably may be done. (4) All future buildings and improvements to be used by the Surveys and constructed on this area will also be subject to this agreement. b. The Department will design, prepare plans and specifications, and supervise the construction of the Natural Resources Building; in doing this the Department will meet the needs, aims, purposes, and objectives of the Surveys, and such plans, specifications, and design will be best calculated to further such ends and objectives, and will be subject to such restrictions as may be imposed by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public W o r k s in the event that a loan or grant be forthcoming from said agency. Plans and specifications for the building shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval before the Department advertises for bids. Contemplated contracts shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval before contracts are awarded. Such contracts shall be awarded only to the lowest responsible bidder. As provided in Section 2 of Senate Bill 444, the expense of extending all service lines to said building shall be paid out of the appropriation made in said Section. c. T h e program and activities of the Surveys, as determined by the Statutes, in the buildings shall be determined by the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation of the Department.