Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938 [PAGE 89]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Replace seats, 2,200 @ $8.00 Interior painting Replacement of acoustical material Replacement of light fixtures, 60 @ $20.00 $17 3 3 I

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600 283 000 200

$ 25 083 T h e redecorating work will require the purchase of lumber and the construclion of scaffolding. In this connection the Director of the Physical Plant Department reports that sectional steel scaffolding can be purchased for not to exceed $8,800. Such equipment can be used in other buildings and on the basis of rental prices quoted by one of the manufacturers it would pay for itself in eight rentals. There are at least that many buildings in which redecorating and remodeling should be done next summer, if funds are available, and for which such sectional steel scaffolding could be used. If the work on the Auditorium is to be done, it must be dovetailed with the uses of the building and the only possible time during the University year is between December 8 and January 5. If the Board wishes to authorize these improvements it should be done at this meeting so that orders for the necessary materials can be placed immediately.

This matter was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for consideration and report.

BIDS ON PLUMBING AND HEATING FOR THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE SCALE HOUSE (26) A report of the following bids received on October 6, 1936, on the plumbing and heating for the College of Agriculture Scale H o u s e : Plumbing Base bid Carson Payson Company Reliable Plumbing and Heating C o m p a n y . . $1 500 00 Champaign Plumbing and Heating Company I 470 00 George A. Zirhut Healing Woodruff Coal Company Champaign Sheet Metal W o r k s Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company 1 374 50 1 182 00 I 055 00 Check 545 00 44 10 Alternate1

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— $204 50 — 194 00 — 90 00

It was necessary to act promptly on these bids in order not to delay the construction of this building and the Physical Plant Department was therefore authorized to award the contract to the Champaign Plumbing and Heating Company on their base bid of $1,470, and the Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company on their base bid of $1,055, these being the lowest bidders in each case. O n m o t i o n of M r s . P l u m b , t h i s a c t i o n w a s c o n f i r m e d . CONTRACT CHANGE ORDERS FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL BUILDING (27) In accordance with the authorization of the Board on January 24, 1936, the following contract change orders of work on the Medical and Dental Building have been approved and the following resolution is offered to ratify said actions: Be it resolved, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves and ratifies the action of the President of the University in authorizing contract change orders on the second unit of the Medical and Dental College Laboratories Building.

'Deduction for omission of supply and return ducts to cattle washroom. 'Certified check not enclosed with bid. Memorandum indicated same forwarded by air mail. was being