Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 14]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e dean of the College of Agriculture and the director of the Agriculture Experiment Station have recommended, and the chancellor at the UrbanaChampaign campus concurs, that the payment of the additional $30,000 be made to the corporation to assist in the purchase. The corporation will continue its fundraising activities in order to obtain title at the earliest possible time. In addition, the corporation and the owner have agreed that the University may immediately use small portions of the land for research plots which will enable research to begin prior to acquisition of the title. Funds for the $30,000 payment are available in the Fiscal Year 1985 restricted funds budget of the College of Agriculture at the Urbana-Champaign campus. I concur. 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 f o l l o w i n g v o t e : Aye, M r s . D a y , D r . D o n o g h u e , M r . F o r s y t h , M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Logan, M r . M a d d e n , M r . Stone; no, n o n e ; absent, Mrs. Shepherd, Governor Thompson. ( T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . P i t t m a n ; n o , n o n e . M r . L a m m asked to b e recorded as not casting a n advisory vote.)

Acquisition of 810 South Clinton Street, Chicago

(2) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends acquisition of the property at 810 South Clinton Street, Chicago, at a cost of $567,000. T h e property consists of a two-story, concrete-and-masonry building of approximately 23,600 gross square feet on a tract of land of .57 acre. The 28-year-old, owner-occupied building contains 21,000 net assignable square feet and is used as an office and testing laboratory, which is made up of approximately 39 percent general office areas, 50 percent laboratory and work areas, and 11 percent support facilities. It is contemplated that the building will be remodeled for the Department of Chemical Engineering, which will be relocated from space in the Science and Engineering Laboratories and Science and Engineering Offices buildings. T h e remodeling, which will require approximately one to two years to complete, will provide approximately 9,400 net assignable square feet in research laboratories, 5,500 net assignable square feet for faculty offices, and 3,600 net assignable square feet for graduate and undergraduate instructional classrooms. A high bay area of 2,500 net assignable square feet will remain for the present. It is estimated that the remodeling will range in cost between 0.5 and 1 million dollars. Funds for the initial purchase are available from unrestricted gift funds in the Office of the President. 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 b y t h e following v o t e : Aye, M r s . D a y , D r . D o n o g h u e , M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Logan, M r . M a d d e n , M r . Stone; no, n o n e ; absent, Mrs. Shepherd, 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 . L a m m ; n o , n o n e . M r . P i t t m a n a s k e d t o b e r e c o r d e d as n o t c a s t i n g a n a d v i s o r y v o t e . )

Employment of Special Counsel

(3) Mr. Costello reported that the University had received a complaint from the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education relating to alleged discrimination on the basis of handicap at the Chicago campus. At issue are the relative obligations of the University and the Illinois Department of Rehabilitative