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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Because such equipment has to be built to order and is unique in certain respects, a certain amount of experimentation is inevitable. Since it is desired to have the remodeled score board ready for use at the next basketball game on February 10, the President's Office approved this assignment of funds.

On motion of Mrs. Plumb, these adjustments were authorized and confirmed.

APPROPRIATION TO DEPARTMENT OF LARYNGOLOGY, RHINOLOGY, AND OTOLOGY (16) A recommendation that an appropriation of $600 be made to the Department of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology to cover the expenses of a postgraduate course ( N o . 90) which the Department was authorized to offer. In setting up the budget for 1939-1940, no provision was made for this added expense, it being anticipated that the laboratory fee of $25 charged for this course would be available for the purchase of materials and other expenses. However, such fees are not credited to the departments concerned but go into general funds, and provision for the added expenses should have been included in the budget. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h i s a p p r o p r i a t i o n w a s m a d e , b y t h e following vote: Aye, M r . A d a m s , M r . Cleary, M r . Jensen, M r . K a r r a k e r , Mr. Mayer, Dr. Meyer, M r . Moschel, M r s . Plumb, M r . P o g u e ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . H o r n e r , M r . Wieland. EXTENSION OF PERIOD OF CONTRACTS FOR ADDITION TO MCKINLEY HOSPITAL (17) On January 5, 1940 (Minutes, pages 691-695), the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees adopted resolutions ( H - i , H-2, H-3, and H-4) authorizing the extension of the completion dates of the following contracts for the construction of the addition to McKinley Hospital, P.W.A. Project No. 111. 1962-F, for the reasons indicated in each case: H - i , Wm. C. F. Kuhne, general contract, from December 21, 1939, to February 21, 1940. The remodeling of the present kitchen could not be undertaken until near the end of the work under the general contract in order to be certain that funds would be available for same. It is the completion of this remodeling which determines the completion of the contract as a whole. H-2, Economy Plumbing and Heating Company, plumbing and heating contract, from December 13, 1939, to January 21, 1940, Principally due to delays in connection with the plumbing and heating work, first, in completing general plumbing roughing i n ; and, second, due to delays experienced by the subcontractor for pipe covering in obtaining his materials. H-3, Hatfield Electric Company, contract for electrical work, from December J.3. T939, to January 21, 1940. Principally due to delays in connection with the plumbing and heating work, first, in completing general plumbing roughing in; and, second, due to delays experienced by the subcontractor for pipe covering in obtaining his materials. H-4, Westinghouse Electric Elevator Company, contract for elevator work, from December 14, 1939, to January 21, 1940. Principally due to delays in connection with the plumbing and heating work, first, in completing general plumbing roughing in; and, second, due to delays experienced by the subcontractor for pipe covering in obtaining his materials. In each case it has been determined that the University will not suffer any actual damages, direct or indirect, by reason of the contractors' failures to complete these contracts on or before the contract completion dates and that the extension of time will not result in any damage or injure the University in any way. The Federal W o r k s Agency requires confirmation by the Board of Trustees of the action of its Executive Committee in extending these contract completion dates.

On motion of Mrs. Plumb, the action of the Executive Committee in extending these dates was confirmed.