Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 507]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e most effective way to achieve the desired management results is for the Board of Trustees to undertake the responsibilities of the Capital Development Board (in accordance with Section 12 of the Capital Development Board Act). Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University contract with the Capital Development Board to undertake i u responsibilities for the completion of the planning and construction of the Animal Sciences Laboratory project. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, this recommendation w a s a p p r o v e d by t h e following v o t e : Aye, M r s . Galder, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r s . S h e p h e r d , M i s s S m i t h , M r . Wolff; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Thompson. ( T h e s t u d e n t a d v i s o r y v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . E v e n s o n , M r . W y l i e ; n o , none.)

Employment of Architect/Engineer, Elevator Work, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana

(29) Funds available through the "Build Illinois" program include $130,000 for the installation of an elevator in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the Urbana campus. In order to make the upper floor space more readily accessible to an increasing volume of people, it will be necessary to install a passenger elevator in an existing shaft, unused since the laboratory was built in 1967. At present, access to upper floors is possible only by stairways or by freight elevator. T o provide the professional services needed, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Capital Development Board to employ Unteed, Scaggs, Nelson, Ltd., Champaign. T h e professional fee will be negotiated by the Capital Development Board in accordance with its procedures. Funds have been appropriated to the Capital Development Board for Fiscal Year 1988. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, 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 t h e following vote: Aye, M r s . Galder, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r s . S h e p h e r d , M i s s S m i t h , M r . Wolff; n o , n o n e ; a b s e n t , G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n . ( M r . H a h n asked t o b e r e c o r d e d as n o t voting.) ( T h e s t u d e n t a d v i s o r y v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . E v e n s o n , M r . W y l i e ; n o , none.)

Employment of Architects and Engineers, Capital Development Board Projects, Chicago

(30) T h e 85th General Assembly appropriated $7,834,000 for certain renovation and repair projects for the University, to be funded through the "Build Illinois" program for Fiscal Year 1988. Of the appropriations, the University has allocated $3,284,900 for projects at the Chicago campus, and $4,549,100 for Urbana. T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, now recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Capital Development Board to employ architects and engineers as indicated below for capital projects for FY 1988 at the Chicago campus. The professional fee for each firm employed will be negotiated by the Capital Development Board in accord with its procedures.