Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 47]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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campus, north and south of West Polk Street. T h e land area requested by warranty deeds is a strip approximately 4 feet wide and 260 feet long north of Polk Street and 265 feet long south of Polk Street. The area requested by permanent easements totals approximately 0.22 acres immediately adjacent to the abovedescribed strip. T h e Department of Transportation has offered the University $36,900 for the land and easements based on an appraisal made by the department. T h e chancellor at Chicago has recommended that the University grant the warranty deeds and easements. The vice president for business and finance concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , t h i s 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 t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r s . D a y , M r . F o r s y t h , M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , 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 , Mrs. Shepherd, 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.)

Purchases

(36) 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 a u t h o r e d by the president. T h e 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. T h e total amounts of these purchases were: From Appropriated Funds Recommended $ 46 343 00 From Institutional Authorized Recommended Grand Total Funds $ 122 216 00 16 801 057 77 16 923 273 77 $16 969 616 77

A complete list of the purchases, with supporting information (including the quotations received), was sent to each member of the board in advance of the meeting. A copy is being filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , t h e p u r c h a s e s a u t h o r i z e d by t h e p r e s i d e n t were confirmed, a n d the purchases r e c o m m e n d e d were authorized by the following v o t e : Aye, M r s . Day, 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, G o v e r n o r 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.)

Comptroller's Monthly Report of Contracts Executed

(37) T h e comptroller submitted the July 1986 report of contracts. T h e report included contractual agreements for payments to the University and contracts in