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Amendment to Agreement with City of Urbana, Landfill Site

(25) I n September 1976, the Board of Trustees approved an amendment to a longstanding agreement with the City of Urbana for the use of a landfill site. T h e amendment has permitted the landfill services to be operated on a regional basis, with the City of Champaign participating. Costs of operation arc shared by all users, including the University. T h e University pays "tipping charges" based on the landfill's gross operating costs (exclusive of capital improvements) in the proportion the University's refuse volume bears to the total, with appropriate credit for prior University participation in land acquisition costs of the landfill operation. T h e City of Urbana recently agreed to make payments to the ChampaignUrbana Waste Disposal System to support a community-wide recycling program. T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended further amendment of the agreement to permit the University to support the recycling program by paying a surcharge of 24 cents per cubic yard of waste (at an annual estimated cost of $15,000). This charge is currently paid by all other users. T h e purpose of the recycling effort is to reduce the quantity of solid waste disposal in the landfill so that less land will be consumed each year in filling operations, thereby reducing the overall cost of waste disposal. All costs of the operation will continue to be subject to University audit. T h e agreement as modified will also be subject to appropriate provisions of law and the availability of funds to the University. Funds for the current year are available in the budgets of the Operation and Maintenance Division and auxiliary units. I concur in the recommendation.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. Easement to Commonwealth Edison Company at Northeastern Illinois Agronomy Research Center, Elwood

(26) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution authorizing the granting of an easement to the Commonwealth Edison Company at the Northeastern Illinois Agronomy Research Center at Elwood. T h e company has requested an easement for an overhead electrical transmission line and other equipment. T h e poles will be placed within the public right-ofway and the crossarms and transmission lines will hang over the University's land. (The company does not normally pay compensation for such casements.) T h e easement area will extend along five feet of the south boundary of the University's land, a distance of 2,640 feet adjacent to the Millsdale Extension Road; the easement area will widen to 35 feet beginning at a point 150 feet east of the west property line. Resolution Be It, And It Hereby Is, Resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on the behalf of this corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its succssore and assigns, the right and easement to construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain, repair, alter, replace, move, and remove an overhead electric transmission line, wires, cables, transformers, and other equipment appurtenant thereto over, through, and across the land hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this corpora-