Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 391]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Bids were received for the project on July 29 and exceeded the authorized total by $3,249. After consultation with the members of the Executive Committee of the board, in accord with the General Rules,1 the president has approved award of the following contracts to construct the building. T h e award in each case is to the low bidder on its base bid. Division I — General Johnson-Stirewalt Construction Co., Urbana Division II — Plumbing Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company, Champaign Division III — Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company, Champaign Division V — Electrical Coleman Electrical Service, Mansfield Total Base Bid $167 369 18 115

29 765 24 000 $239 249

Funds have been included in the appropriation bill of the General Assembly to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for Fiscal Year 1988 and will be included in the Operation and Maintenance Division of the campus' operating budget authorization request for FY 1988 to be submitted to the board. Funds also will be provided from the restricted funds operating budget of Willard Airport. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mr. Wolff, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Evenson, Mr. Wylie; no, none.)

Contract, Phase i Site Work, Terminal Complex, Willard Airport

(29) On April 10, 1986, the Board of Trustees authorized an Initial Agency and Participation Agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics, for the 'Willard Airport Terminal Complex. O n September 11, 1986, the board approved a recommendation to request the Department of Transportation to employ Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc., Springfield, to provide the professional engineering services required through the receipt of bids for the planning of the apron, connecting taxiways, access roads, parking lots, and site utilities. On August 28, 1987, bids were received by the Department of Transportation for Phase I site preparation work at the complex. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the department be requested to award a contract for $785,694 to University Asphalt Co., Urbana, the low bidder, for grading, drainage, and utilities work. It is also recommended that the department be requested to employ Crawford, > Emergency action was necessary in order to have the project enclosed prior to inclement weather, i.e., no later than December 1967.