Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 139]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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option by the University to extend it for an additional period of one year upon the same terms), at the following fees: Percentage of Cost Material Labor Subcontract Total Estimated Fee 4 40 2 $35 600 This contract will be for work on projects for which the estimated cost-plus work will be less than $25,000. T h e contractor bid on percentages to be added to an estimated volume of material, labor, and subcontracts, and the award recommended is to the low bidder. No assignment of funds is requested, and each job will be covered by a contract work order charged against funds allocated for the project. It is further recommended that the vice president for administration be authorized to approve work orders under this cost-plus contract on projects when the total estimated project cost is less than $25,000. ROLL CALL ITEMS By consensus the board again agreed that one roll call vote would be taken and considered the roll call vote on each of the next three items. T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none. O n motion of M r . Lenz, these items were approved by the following vote: Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . Howard, M r . Lenz, M r . Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, M r . Velasquez; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Thompson. M r . H a h n asked to be recorded as not voting on Item 16. Employment of Architect/Engineer for Outdoor Playing Fields, Chicago Circle (16) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the employment of Nichol Nichol Chaney & Vanek, Inc., Chicago, for the required architectural and engineering services through construction for the design of outdoor playing fields at the Chicago Circle campus. A lump sum fee of $34,500, plus reimbursable expenses authorized by the University, estimated to be $11,500, is recommended. The project consists of a running track; fields for baseball, Softball, and soccer; and related facilities. Funds are available from proceeds of the sale of University of Illinois Auxiliary Facilities System Revenue Bonds, Series N. Lease of Space in McCormick Place, Chicago (17) Under the Illinois Public Accounting Act the University is responsible for determining the time and place of examinations of persons applying for certificates as certified public accountants. The statute also provides that all expenses under the act must be paid for from the receipts collected under the act. On December 20, 1972, the Board of Trustees approved a lease for the concourse level exhibit area at McCormick Place in Chicago from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority for the purpose of conducting the semiannual examinations. The space was made available for the first full week i n May and November of 1973 through 1975 at a rental of $6,000 for each week. A continuation of the lease on the same terms was approved in December 1974, extending the period through 1978.