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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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to execute the necessary documents to enter into agreements for the professional services required for the Beckman Institute project. T h e execution of all such contracts is contingent upon the availability of private gift funds provided for the University by the University of Illinois Foundation and from funds appropriated on behalf of the University by the State of Illinois. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , t h e 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 , w i t h t h e u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h a t t h e a c t i o n s r e c o m m e n d e d will follow after a p p r o p r i a t e t e l e p h o n e c o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h m e m b e r s of t h e B o a r d of T r u s t e e s .

Lease of Space, Survey Research Laboratory, Chicago

(25) The chancellor at Chicago has recommended approval of a contract with 910 Van Buren Associates, and Matanky Realty Group Brokerage Corporation (the managing agent) to lease 8,900 square feet of space in the Westgate Center Building, 910 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, for the period November 15, 1985, through June 30, 1991, to provide offices for the survey and statistical services of the Survey Research Laboratory in Chicago. The lease will be at an initial annual rate of $83,215 per year, a unit cost of $9.35 per square foot, subject to an annual increase of 7 percent. The cost includes janitorial services and all utilities and services except electrical service. The lessor will remodel to the specifications of the University, at the standards of the lessor, and at the expense of the lessor. The survey and statistical services of the Survey Research Laboratory are now housed in Alumni Hall and will be displaced by remodeling for the Office of Admissions and Records, a project approved in the Fiscal Year 1986 capital budget. A search of campus space failed to identify any suitable options. The survey and statistical services activities will be relocated at the campus when space becomes available, which is not expected within five years. The University will have the option to cancel the lease, with penalty, at the end of each of the first four years of the agreement with 120 days prior notice. Funds required for the duration of FY 1986 are available in the Restricted Funds operating budget of the Chicago Physical Plant and for future years will be included in the campus operating budget submitted to the board. The vice president for business and finance and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended approval. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mr. Madden, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Miss Smidi, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Becker, Mr. Lamm; no, none.)

Lease-Purchase of University-wide Telecommunications System

(26) Evaluation has been completed of the responses to the University's request for proposals to improve its telecommunications system at all major locations. (The significant features of the system and the evaluation process were reviewed with the board at its meeting in October.) The process, which included reviews by the University's consultant, by faculty, staff, and administrators at both campuses and the central administration, and by the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, has resulted in a determination that the "central office" proposal from Illinois Bell Communications Com-