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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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T h e new agreement provides that for one year, beginning July 1, 1983, Ozark will pay $43,530 annually for operation and maintenance service; $100 for 100 square feet of storage space in a " T " hangar; $180 for use of the Muzak music system; $450 for secure storage in the basement of the Airport Administration Building; and a sum equivalent to 40 cents per 1,000 pounds gross landing weight per Ozark aircraft landed at Willard — as approved by the appropriate University administrative officers as authorized by the Board of Trustees in July 1982. T h e net effect of the new agreement provides for no change in the rate charged for operation and maintenance services, but an increase in the landing fee by 2 cents per 1,000 pounds gross landing weight. T h e chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the vice president for business and finance have recommended that: (1) the board authorize an agreement as described; and (2) subsequent annual renewals be subject to such adjustment in rates as may be agreed upon and approved by the comptroller and the president. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Howard, these recommendations were approved.

Recommendation of the University Patent Committee (14) T h e University Patent Committee has recommended the following action concerning an invention made at the University of Illinois. (Background information has been sent to the Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees.) Use of Rotating Bacteria in Drug Screening and Monitoring Toxic Effluents — George Ordal, associate professor of biochemistry, and Daniel Goldman and David Nettleton, graduate students in the Department of Biochemistry, UrbanaChampaign, inventors; developed with support from the National Institutes of Health. University Patents, Inc., has reported that it does not elect to subject this disclosure to the terms of the servicing agreement because of lack of a discernible commercial market. T h e University Patent Committee has accepted this evaluation and recommends that the University release its rights in this invention to the sponsoring agency, the National Institutes of Health. I concur. 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 . A m e n d m e n t to Authorization to M a k e Purchases through the Illinois Educational Consortium (15) In April 1975, the Board of Trustees adopted a resolution authorizing the Illinois Educational Consortium for Computer Services (now known as the Illinois Educational Consortium [IEC]) to act as the University's agent in competitively bidding certain commodities, equipment, and services designated by the University director of purchasing to facilitate joint purchases with other State institutions of higher education where high-volume purchasing is deemed advantageous and economical. In July 1976 and March 1980, the board acted to exempt certain specific and generic commodities from the requirement of specific board approval, authorized the vice president for administration to accept or reject bids and award contracts on behalf of and in the name of the board, and required a report to the board of purchases and contracts in excess of the levels established for all purchases. T h e vice president for business and finance has recommended that purchases or contracts for commodities listed on the attached list be added to the items already exempt from the requirement of specific board approval subject to the same conditions applicable for previously exempted commodities, that the vice president