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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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of Medicine. The chancellor at the Medical Center has recommended that die University now contract with the Christie Clinic Association of Champaign for educational services to the School of Clinical Medicine at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The clinic would be reimbursed in an amount not to exceed $21,000. Services will be rendered in the school's tutorial and clerkship teaching program*. Federal Health Professions Capitation Grant funds are available for this purpose. The vice president for academic affairs and the vice president for administration have recommended approval. I concur.

Award of Contracts for Allerton Park Improvement Project

(17) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of the following contracts for an improvement project to Allerton Park, the award in each case to the low bidder on its base bid: Division I — General Meneley Construction Co., Pesotum Division II — Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Wayne Cain & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal Co., Champaign Division III — Electrical Coleman Electrical Service, Inc., Mansfield Division V — Plumbing Paul H. McWilliams & Sons, Inc., Champaign Total $137 466 34 451 14 330 9 100 $195 347

The work recommended is the initial phase of the project, viz.: to provide a center to distribute information and public services to visitors; and to improve the function of an operating greenhouse facility for the park. Funds are insufficient to include construction of a gatehouse for the park and gates at the Fu Dog Tower to provide security; the construction of 26 additional parking spaces and brick walkways near the visitor's center; expansion and refurbishing of the existing restroom facility; and other miscellaneous work. The funds are available from the Allerton Park Trust Endowment Income Account. (A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) (The project was approved and an architect employed by the Board of Trustees in July 1979. It is anticipated that construction will begin in November 1979 and be completed in August 1980.) ( I t w a s m a d e c l e a r a t t h e r e q u e s t of M r . H a h n t h a t i n t a k i n g this

action the board would assume that any plans for the construction of the parking lot would be brought to the trustees for action.)

Purchases

(18) The president submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the directors of purchases and the vice president for administration. The list of purchases was presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from state appropriations to the University) and purchases from institutional funds. T h e latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, private corporations, and