Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984 [PAGE 90]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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distribution system, a part of the required water mains and roads, and an apron extension near the Fire Tower. T h e architect will be compensated for these services on an hourly basis, not to exceed $28,000, plus reimbursements authorized by the University, estimated to be $1,000. Funds are available in the FY 1983 appropriated funds budget of the Fire Service Institute. A schedule of the firm's hourly rates is on file with the secretary of the board. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r s y t h , 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 by t h e following v o t e : Aye, M r s . D a y , D r . D o n o g h u e , M r . Forsyth, M r . H o w a r d , M r . M a d d e n , Mrs. Shepherd, M r . Stone; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Neal, G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n . ( M r . H a h n asked t o b e r e c o r d e d as n o t v o t i n g . ) ( T h e s t u d e n t advisory v o t e w a s : A y e , M r . B a n d a l a , M r . C o b b , Miss Forsyth; no, none.)

Conveyance of University-Owned Lands in Return for Title to Land at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center, Urbana

(15) The College of Agriculture has operated the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center on federally-owned lands near Robbs, Illinois, under a use permit for 40 years. In recent years, certain federally mandated restrictions and requirements have made operations under the use permit increasingly difficult. Since the University is prohibited from expending state funds for needed capital improvements on nonstate lands, it has become desirable to acquire ownership of a core area of approximately 570 acres at the Center. To that end the U.S. Forest Service, the State of Illinois, and the University of Illinois have been engaged in the discussion of alternative means of transferring ownership of the desired lands from the U.S. Forest Service to the University. The University has designated three tracts presently assigned to the College of Agriculture but no longer essential to its agricultural research activities as available for transfer. They are near Dixon in Lee County, near Toledo in Cumberland County, and near Newton in Jasper County. They contain a total of 67.97 acres. A tentative agreement has been reached under which this land together with certain other state-owned lands will be conveyed to the Nature Conservancy, a notfor-profit corporation, in return for the desired Forest Service land. Accordingly, the chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the executive vice president recommend that the following resolution be adopted to accomplish that transaction. I concur. Resolution Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has operated an experimental field on land owned by the federal government commonly referred to as the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center; and Whereas, it is desirable that the University acquire ownership of a core area of approximately five hundred and seventy (570) acres from the federal government at the Center in order that improvements may be made and further agricultural research may be conducted; and Whereas, the State of Illinois has indicated a willingness to join with the University in a transaction through which State lands and University lands would be transferred and the University would receive title to the 570 acres. Now, Therefore, be it and it Hereby is, Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that as a part of a transaction through which the University will acquire title to five hundred and seventy (570) acres at Dixon Springs Agricultural Center, the comptroller and the secretary of this public corporation, be and they are hereby autho-