Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 970]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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NONRECURRING APPROPRIATIONS (9) The Vice-President and Provost and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend assignments of funds for Construction of a television production room on the second floor of the English Building $ 4 580 00 Removal of dead elm trees 22 500 00 Interior painting and wall washing 12 404 74 and that funds for the first item be assigned from the General Reserve Fund and the other two from balances in the Physical Plant Storeroom operations. I concur, and also request approval of the following assignment from the General Reserve Fund which I authorized as an emergency action in order that the work could be completed during the summer: Remodeling to provide a needed laboratory room at the Chicago Undergraduate Division $ 5 900 00 O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s w e r e m a d e b y t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . H a r e w o o d , M r . H e r r i c k , M r . Hughes, M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P o g u e , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Wilkins, M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; n o , n o n e ; a b s e n t , M r . S t r a t t o n . APPROPRIATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ICE RINK (10) On July 29, 1958, the Board of Trustees approved recommendations of the Safety and Fire Prevention Committee for certain improvements in the Ice Rink, including replacement of the ammonia compressors and auxiliary equipment, and authorized the Athletic Association to make the improvements with the understanding that the University would reimburse the Association for the costs. The project has been completed at a total cost of $80,777.08. I recommend an appropriation of this amount from the General Reserve Fund to reimburse the Athletic Association. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , 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 v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . H a r e w o o d , M r . H e r r i c k , M r . Hughes, M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P o g u e , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Wilkins, M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; n o , n o n e ; a b s e n t , M r . S t r a t t o n . ACQUISITION AND SALE OF FARM LANDS IN LA SALLE COUNTY (11) In 1955, Miss Laura M. Weber of LaGrange Park, Illinois, gave the University 640 acres of farm lands in La Salle County which are now designated by the University as Weber Farms No. I and No. 2, totaling 400 acres in Hope Township; Weber Farm No. 3, 80 acres in Richland Township about six miles from Farm No. 1; and Weber Farm No. 4, 160 acres in Waltham Township. Two 80-acre parcels of land in an estate adjoining Farm No. 1 came on the market this summer and their availability was reported to the Board of Trustees on July 21. The Board authorized the purchase of one of these 80-acre tracts which were being sold at auction and the sale of Farm No. 3. Representatives of the College of Agriculture, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Committee on Agriculture, and the Vice-President and Comptroller subsequently examined the two parcels of land and decided that the following described tract was the more desirable for purchase by the University: East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 10 in Township 31 North, Range I East of the 3rd P.M., Hope Township, La Salle County, Illinois, being eighty (80) acres more or less. The auction was held on July 30, 1959, and the above described tract was bid > by the University at a price of $536 an acre, or a total of $42,880. As required n by the terms of the sale, 20 per cent of the purchase price, or $8,576, was paid on the date of the sale and the Comptroller signed a contract with the Executor of the Estate agreeing to pay the balance of the purchase price upon delivery of a merchantable warranty deed and abstract of title. Funds for this land acquisition will be provided from the Endowment Pool Account pursuant to previous authorization by the Board. The necessary steps to dispose of Farm No. 3 in Richland