Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938 [PAGE 88]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Delivered price per ton $1 50 1 63 150 1 63 1 63 2 05

[October 26

Coal cost in cents per 1,000 lbs. of steam 10.24 10.31 10.61 n .03 11.38 12.95

Oakwood Coal Company Shippers Fuel Corporation Miscellaneous Truckers Peabody Coal Company Tilton Mining Company Livingston-Mt. Olive Coal Company

In view of the test results the most economical purchase would be to obtain all the coal available from the Oakwood Coal Company and the Shippers Fuel Corporation, and the balance of our requirements from truck operators who bid $1.50 per ton delivered. T h e Purchasing Agent and the Director of the Physical Plant Department recommend that the following contracts be a w a r d e d : Tons Price per ion Oakwood Coal Company 10 000 $1 50 Delivered Shippers Fuel Corporation 10 000 I 00 F.O.B. Mine Sam Gritten, Catlin, 111 3 000 I 50 Delivered T. C. Ward, Sidney, 111 3 000 1 50 Delivered Ralph Cook, Sidney, 111 2 000 1 50 Delivered Lawrence C. Kerans, Georgetown, 111 1 000 1 50 Delivered Andrew Lincicome, Urbana, 111 500 1 50 Delivered Washington Martin, Urbana, 111 2 000 I 50 Delivered Albert Block, Sidney, 111 2 500 1 50 Delivered T h e Oakwood Coal Company operates a mine near Oakwood, Illinois, and trucks the coal in its own equipment. T h e Shippers Fuel Corporation will furnish coal produced at a strip mine near Danville operated by the F . C. Morgan Coal Company. T h e others are truck operators who obtain coal from various wagon mines in the Danville district. All contracts will be contingent on the ability of the vendor to furnish satisfactory bond. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . B a r r e t t , c o n t r a c t s w e r e a w a r d e d as r e c o m m e n d e d , s u b j e c t t o t h e p r o v i s i o n s of t h e S t a t e C o n s t i t u t i o n . PURCHASE O F COAL FOR CHICAGO DEPARTMENTS (24) A recommendation from the Business Agent for the Chicago Departments and the Director of the Physical Plant Department for the award of a contract to the Consumers Company of Chicago for the purchase of approximately 1,000 tons of No. 3 Illinois Chestnut Coal at a price of $4.33 a ton for the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy for the period October 1, 1936, to August 31, 1937. Bids were secured from six companies, the Consumers Company being the lowest bidder on the basis of both price and quality of coal offered. Delivered Price Firm Pharmacy Dentistry Consumers Company $4 33 $4 33 Municipal Coal Company 4 70 4 70 Crerar-Clinch Coal Co 4 69 4 84 Western Fuel Company 4 64 4 79 Iroquois Coal Company 5 25 5 25 Eldridge Coal & Coke Co 560 560

On motion of Mrs. Plumb, this award was made as recommended, subject to the provisions of the State Constitution.

UNIVERSITY A U D I T O R I U M REPAIRS (25) T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the following estimates of the cost of improving the University Auditorium until such times as funds are available for major remodeling work: