Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 394]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and to the extent herein set forth, and shall be under no obligation to make further inquiry with respect thereto and shall assume no responsibility or liability for the application of any of the funds deposited with it or borrowed from it pursuant to the provisions of these resolutions. That the Secretary or Associate Secretary of University is directed to file with University a copy of these resolutions duly certified under the seal of University, and to certify (under seal of this University) from time to time a list of names and signatures of the persons who are duly elected and qualified officers of University hereby empowered to act hereunder, and Bank shall be entitled as against this University to assume conclusively that the authority of the persons so certified as such officers and of the other person or persons named hereinabove, to act on behalf of University, continue until expressly notified in writing to the contrary. T h a t Bank shall be entitled to assume conclusively that each of the foregoing resolutions continues in full force and effect until express written notice of its rescission or modification, accompanied by a copy of the proper resolution effecting such modification or rescission duly certified by the Secretary, or Associate Secretary of University over its seal shall have been delivered to it at its office in Urbana, Illinois. That these resolutions shall supersede any and all previous resolutions of similar import.

Contract to Upgrade Electrical Service, Roosevelt Road Building, Chicago

(16) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract for $620,000 to Fries Walters Co., Hillside, the low bidder on its base bid, to revise the electrical service at the Roosevelt Road Building, Chicago. The University Computer Center, located in the building, now is served by a single, main electrical power supply from the utilities building. The system is inadequate to meet either current or expanded needs. This project will upgrade the existing electrical service by installing a second, high-voltage feeder with associated switchgear and power distribution. Funds are available from the Fiscal Year 1986 restricted funds operating budget of the Administrative Computer Center. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

O n motion of Mr. Howard, this contract was awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith; no, none; absent, Mr. Madden, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Becker, Mr. L a m m ; no, none.) Contracts for Expansion of Computer Room, Roosevelt Road Building, Chicago

(17) On May 16, 1985, the Board of Trustees approved the award of a contract to Computer Facilities Service, Downers Grove, a division of Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, to provide design services for the planning and management of the construction of a computer-room facility on the second floor of the Roosevelt Road Building, Chicago. The design has been completed, and bids for construction were received by the Physical Plant Department on August 20, 1985. The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, now recommends the award of the following contracts for the remodeling of 5,345 square feet of floor space on the second floor to house