Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 43]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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each division, provided that the total of t h e bids received does not exceed the funds available for construction within the approved project budget: $1.85 million. It is also recommended that the firm of Unteed, Scaggs, Nelson, Ltd., Champaign, be employed through the construction phase of the project at a fixed fee of $24,800, plus reimbursements for concrete testmg (estimated at $6,350) and for on-site observation at an hourly rate not to exceed a total payment of $13,650. Funds for this project are being provided through the University of Illinois Foundation from a private gift provided by Mrs. Maybelle Swanlund. A schedule of the firm's hourly rates has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n motion of M r . Howard, these recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, M r . Howard, M r . Logan, M r . M a d d e n , Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. ( M r . H a h n asked t o be recorded as not voting.) ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, M r . Filip; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Starkeson.) Contracts for Remodeling, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Champaign (30) On March 31, 1986, the Corps of Engineers asked the University to undertake the following construction projects: 1. Resurface the north and south parking lots with crushed stone and asphalt, an estimated total square footage of 62,425; and 2. Remodel Room 104 t o prepare the room for corrosion potential analysis, advanced coating systems evaluation, and other applied research and development work; and demolish and alter portions of the structure. T h e Corps of Engineers will furnish and install doors, floor covering, wall covering, interior fixtures, and other appointments. T h e Corps of Engineers has agreed to finance the cost of the planning, construction, and administration of these projects. Bids will be received on July 22, 1986. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the comptroller be authorized to award construction contracts to the lowest responsible bidder for each project, provided that the total of the bids received does not exceed the funds authorized for each project by the Corps of Engineers, viz., $99,500 for the parking lots, and $99,800 for the interior remodeling. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by the following v o t e : Aye, M r s . D a y , M r . Forsyth, M r s . Gravenhorst, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r . M a d d e n , M r s . S h e p h e r d , Miss S m i t h ; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor T h o m p s o n . ( T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . Filip; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Starkeson.) Agreement to Relocate Utilities for Beckman Institute, Urbana (31) T h e construction of the Beckman Institute at the Urbana campus will require the relocation of certain underground utilities located in the Romine Street rightof-way.