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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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650 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 24 MEETING O F T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 1 , 1 9 3 9 The Secretary presented for record the minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the University Club, in Chicago, Illinois, at 1:30 o'clock p.m. Wednesday, November 1, 1939. Mr. Oscar G. Mayer, Chairman, and Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, members of the Executive Committee, were present; also Director C. S. Havens of the Physical Plant Department, and Judge Sveinbjorn Johnson, University Counsel. In the absence of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Havens was appointed Acting Clerk. T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department reported that in accordance with the action of the Board of Trustees at its last meeting (Minutes, page 624), his Department has obtained bids on material for piping and bilge pumps for the steam tunnel in connection with the construction of the new Power Plant. A schedule of these bids has been given to the Secretary of the Board for record. T h e total estimate of the work based on the specifications and using University labor is $66,500, or approximately $10,000 below the lowest bid. Revisions of the design and the pipe supports at the suggestion of Sargent & Lundy will further reduce the cost by approximately $11,200 below the estimate quoted. The Physical Plant Department therefore recommends: (1) that the Physical Plant be authorized to proceed with this work with its own labor, as recommended to the Board on October 20; (2) that $55,300 be released from the appropriation "New Power Plant" for the above w o r k ; and (3) that the following contracts, based on the lowest base bids, be awarded: Pipe, bends, fittings and pipe fabrication—Crane Company $25 577 00 Valves—Saunders & Company 2 056 20 Expansion joints—American District Steam Company I 055 43 Pipe supports and miscellaneous steel—Nechin Iron W o r k s . . . . 5 097 65 Bilge pumps—Yeomans Bros. Company 3 435 00 On motion of Mrs. Plumb, these contracts were awarded, and the Physical Plant Department was authorized to proceed with the installation of pipe and bilge pumps, pursuant to the action of the Board on October 20, 1939 (Minutes, page 625), in view of the material saving of funds which will result therefrom and which is so essential to the completion of the Power Plant and Distribution System. T h e Executive Committee adjourned. C. S. HAVENS, Acting Clerk OSCAR G. MAYER, Chairman M r s . GLENN E. P L U M B MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT W1LLARD T h e Board considered t h e following matters presented by the President of t h e University. SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS A N D N O N - R E C U R R I N G EXPENDITURES (1) T h e Committee on Special Appropriations and Non-Recurring Expenditures recommends assignments from the General Reserve F u n d for the following purposes: Spectrophotometer for Illumination Laboratory $ 5 000 Equipment for Library and Library School I 50° Equipment for College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences 10 000 Restoration of garden areas on South Campus 1 40° Musical instruments for orchestra in Chicago Departments 1 050 Minor Physical Plant Improvements: T w o power circuits in Arthur Newell Talbot Laboratory $770 Remodeling quarters in Medical and Dental Building for central mailing service in Chicago D e p a r t m e n t s . . . . 200 Changes in swimming pool, offices in gymnasiums to provide for continual supervision of pools 400 Archery Range 200 I 570 $20 520
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