Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 619]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Division I — General Base Bid Champaign Asphalt Company, Urbana $ 63 580 Division VI — Landscape John Eisenmenger d/b/a Cornbelt Landscaping, Pesotum 32 220 Total $ 95 800 Funds are being provided from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The award of contracts is subject to the transfer of die funds. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n motion of Mr. Logan, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Logan, M r . Madden, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith, no, none; absent, Mr. Howard, Governor Thompson. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Becker, Mr. L a m m ; no, none.) Contract for Service Area Improvements, Mini Union, Urbana (33) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract for $74,240 to W. Commercial Builders, Champaign, the low bidder on its base bid, plus acceptance of additive alternates 1 and 2, for loading dock and service drive improvements at the Illini Union. The project involves a widened service drive and an enlarged loading dock to allow for better access. Funds are available from the Auxiliary Facilities System Repair and Replacement Reserve Fund. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. Alternate 1 is for relocating an existing lamp post including a new concrete base and wiring for complete installation. Alternate 2 is for installation of drains. O n motion of Mr. Logan, this contract was awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Logan, M r . Madden, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith; no, none; absent, Mr. Howard, Governor Thompson. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Becker, Mr. L a m m ; no, none.) Contract, Swanlund Administration Building Addition, Urbana (34) On July 19, 1984, the board authorized the employment of Unteed, Scaggs, Fritch, Nelson, Ltd., Champaign (the architect for the original building), to provide the professional architectural and engineering services required through the development of contract documents for the two-story addition to die Swanlund Administration Building, Urbana campus. On June 10, 1986, bids were received for the structural steel fabrication and delivery for the building addition. Accordingly, die president of die University, widi the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends: (1) the project be approved at an estimated total cost of $1.85 million; and (2) the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to provide funds so that a contract in the amount of $133,900 may be awarded to Kurland Steel Company, Urbana, for die fabrication and delivery of die structural steel for die project.