Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 235]

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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS

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Employment of Architect/Engineer, Plant and Animal Biotechnology Laboratory, Urbana

(18) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends, subject to the approval of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,1 the employment of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, Associates, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, for the professional services required in the planning, design, and construction of the Plant and Animal Biotechnology Laboratory at the Urbana campus. The building of 100,000 net square feet will house a wet laboratory, animal holding, support, greenhouse, and office space for basic and applied research programs in the Departments of Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Forestry, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology in the College of Agriculture, and in the College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Life Sciences. The firm's fee for its professional services in the program analysis/concept development phase will be on an hourly basis not to exceed $120,000. Reimbursements are estimated at $25,000. Funds for this project have been provided by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the purpose of planning a plant and animal sciences research center. A schedule of the firm's hourly rate has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Gravenhorst, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved by t h e following v o t e : Aye, Mrs. Galder, M r . Forsyth, M r s . Gravenhorst, M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r s . Shepherd, Miss Smith, M r . Wolff; n o , n o n e ; absent, Governor T h o m p s o n . ( M r . H a h n asked t o b e recorded as not v o t i n g . ) ( T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . Filip, M r . Starkeson; no, none.)

Purchases

(19) The president submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the directors of purchases and the vice president for business and finance; also purchases authorized by the president. The purchases were presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from State appropriations to the University); and purchases from institutional funds. The latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, private corporations, and other organizations; grants from foundations, corporations, and other donors; and University revolving funds authorized by law. The total amounts of these purchases were: From Appropriated Authorized Recommended From Institutional Authorized Recommended Grand Total

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Funds $ 25 000 00 122 610 00 $ Funds $1 607 990 00 1 444 360 68 3 052 350 68 $3 199 960 68 147 610 00

A complete list of the purchases, with supporting information (including the

Approval was a condition of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.