Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982 [PAGE 164]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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M r . H o w a r d , M r . M a d d e n , M r . N e a l , M r s . S h e p h e r d , M r . S t o n e ; no 3 n o n e ; absent, Governor T h o m p s o n . ( T h e s t u d e n t advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . M a l t e s e , M r . P e t e r s o n , M r . Silverman; no, none.) Contract for Isolated Electrical Power Systems, University of Illinois Hospital, M e d i c a l Center (14) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract for $35,200 to Divane Bros. Electric Co., Franklin Park, the low base bidder, to furnish and install isolated electrical power systems and equipotential grounding in five special procedures rooms in the University of Illinois Hospital at the Medical Center campus. To satisfy code requirements and provide for patient safety, the special procedures rooms must be equipped with isolated ungrounded electrical service for operating equipment for patient diagnosis and an equipotential grounding system. The project consists of (1) furnishing and installing five isolated power supplies, which include isolation panels with transformers, branch circuit wiring, circuit protectors, tiled wall enclosures for the installed equipment, and electrical current leakage monitors and alarms; and (2) connecting all electrically conductive objects in the rooms to a common grounding system, i.e., equipotential grounding. The work is scheduled to begin in February 1981 and to be completed in April 1981. Hospital income funds are available for this project. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , this c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d b y 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 . F o r s y t h , M r . H a h n , M r . H o w ard, M r . M a d d e n , M r . Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, M r . Stone; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Thompson. ( T h e s t u d e n t advisory v o t e w a s : A y e , M r . M a l t e s e , M r . P e t e r s o n , M r . Silverman; no, none.) Agreement with Chicago Transit Authority (Medical Center Steam Plant Site! (15) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution authorizing an agreement with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to amend and clarify the respective rights of CTA and the University of Illinois in land being conveyed to the University by the Medical Center Steam Company. Under an agreement dated July 1, 1949, the Medical Center Steam Company (a corporation owned by Commonwealth Edison) built the Medical Center steam plant and is now preparing to convey the plant and its site to the University. The C T A operates an elevated railway across a portion of the premises pursuant to property interests and rights obtained through condemnation proceedings in 1895 and a circuit court order on March 12, 1951. In 1950 CTA conveyed certain rights to use part of the C T A right-of-way land to Medical Center Steam Company, which, in turn, agreed to indemnify CTA against any liability arising out of the operation of the steam plant. T o eliminate the application of the indemnity obligation to the University when it accepts conveyance of the site, the Medical Center Steam Company has agreed to convey its rights under the 1950 grant back to CTA prior to conveying the site to the University. Independently, it is proposed that the CTA and the University enter into an agreement which will acknowledge both the pre-existing CTA rights and the University's rights to use the property in any manner not incon-