Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 253]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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A strip of land 16.5 feet wide across land which University owns or has any interest in and lying between the centerline and the Northerly rightof-way boundary of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad as it now exists and traverses the Southwest Quarter (SWJ4) of the Southwest Quarter (SWW) of Section Nine (9) and the North Half (NVS) of Section Seventeen (17) and the North Half (NV4) of Section Eighteen (18) and the Northwest Quarter (NWJ4) of the Southwest Quarter (SWA) of Section Eighteen (18), in Township Eighteen (18) North, Range Five (5) East of Third (3rd) Principal Meridian in the Township of Willow Branch, County of Piatt, and State of Illinois, together with the following rights: Of ingress and egress to, from, and along lands adjacent to said strip for the purpose of constructing and maintaining communication systems within said strip; to place surface markers on said strip; to clear and keep cleared all trees, roots, brush, and other obstructions from the surface and subsurface of said strip and during construction to cut all trees within ten feet thereof; and to install gates in any fences crossing said strip. The Southerly boundary of said 16.5 feet strip shall be a line parallel to and 5 feet Southerly of the first cable or lightguide laid, which cable or lightguide shall have its location indicated upon the surface markers set at intervals on the land described or on adjacent lands. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Gravenhorst, t h e foregoing resolution w a s a d o p t e d . By consensus, t h e board agreed that o n e roll call v o t e w o u l d b e taken a n d considered t h e v o t e o n e a c h a g e n d a i t e m nos. 15 t h r o u g h 25 inclusive. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e individually discussed b u t acted u p o n at o n e

time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.) Willard Airport Expansion Project Intergovernmental Agreement with Champaign County Terminal Complex Improvement Bonds

(15) On April 10, 1986, the Board of Trustees approved an Initial Agency and Participation Agreement and the submission of an application for Federal funds for a new passenger terminal complex at Willard Airport. The project is to be financed from Federal, State, and local funds. Subsequently, several events have occurred related to budget and funding sources: 1. The State Division of Aeronautics advised the University that Federal Aviation Administration discretionary funds in the amount required would not be available. Therefore, the scope of the project was reduced accordingly. 2. In June 1986, the Champaign County Board agreed to provide funds for a portion of the local share of the project, in the principal amount of $4,000,000. 3. On November 13, 1986, the Board of Trustees authorized submission of amendments to a 1973 grant agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation ( I D O T ) , Division of Aeronautics, which would allow approximately $200,000 (authorized in 1973) to be applied to the cost of land for the new terminal complex. 4. The architect and engineering consultant firms employed by IDOT to provide services required for the planning and construction of several