Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 264]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and elevator installations, to avoid further delay the Director recommends that the Board authorize its Committee on Buildings and Grounds to act for it on the plans and specifications for the work of the mechanical trades as soon as they have been checked.

Mr. Havens presented this matter and commented on the points of difference. Mr. Stouffer commented on the outside design, and stated that the modifications proposed would reduce costs materially. On motion of Mrs. Plumb, the Physical Plant Department was authorized and instructed to obtain agreement from the Department of Registration and Education on all details of construction of the Natural Resources Building before the plans are approved, and to notify the Public Works Administration of the terms of the agreement under which this building is being constructed. This action was taken in consideration of the fact that the University will assume responsibility for the operation and maintenance of this building. On motion of Mrs. Plumb, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds was authorized to approve plans and specifications as requested.

RELEASE OF SPACE BY GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS (26) At the meeting of the Board on December 17, 1938, the question was raised as to how much of the space now occupied by the State Geological and Natural History Surveys will be released when they occupy the Natural Resources Building. I asked the Chiefs of these two Surveys to advise the Director of the Physical Plant Department specifically what quarters they propose to release, and he has summarized it in terms of floor space as follows:

NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY

Present Space: Square feet Natural History Building 7 186 Entomology Building 2 213 State Entomologist's Laboratory (excluding space in greenhouses) 1 600 Floriculture Building 120 Total 11 119 Space to be released (as per Dr. T. H. Frison's letter of January 31, 1939): Natural History Building 2 994 Entomology 2 213 Total 5 207 Space to be retained and that to be available in new building: Natural History Building 4 192 State Entomologist's Laboratory 1 600 Floriculture Building 120 New Natural Resources Building 16 843 Total 22 755 The above figures do not include: (1) small amount of office space in New Agriculture Building shared by the Extension Forester and staff members of University Department of Forestry; (2) greenhouse space at State Entomologist's Laboratory; (3) small amount of garage space in Agronomy Warehouse and Geological Survey Annex Building.