Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 951]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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the University would furnish the material. H i s bill of material was prepared and submitted to all dealers in the vicinity of the farm. T h e Gonigam-Bass-Hill Company, Walnut, Illinois, agreed to supply the material at a cost of $3,972.33, subject to debits and credits for additional material at the same uniform prices as the original bill. Because the priority secured from the W a r Production Board expired May 1, 1944, and since the proposed program corresponded in principle to the action of the Board and was within the estimated cost as reported to the Board, the Comptroller approved an emergency order for the purchase of material as above stated and with the Secretary of the Board executed a contract for the construction. Approval of this action is requested.

On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, the action of the Comptroller and the Secretary in executing these instruments was approved and confirmed.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NON-RECURRING EXPENDITURES (9) A recommendation that an appropriation be made from the General Reserve Fund for the following purposes: 1. Minor improvements in various buildings: ( a ) Construction of tile wall in Ceramics Building $ 350 (b) Floor covering in Physical Education Research rooms in Huff Gymnasium 600 (c) Concrete walk at University Dairy Barns 300 ( d ) Various changes in University High School 750 $ 2 000 2. Construction of volatile storage room in the W . A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry 3 900 It is further recommended that a contract for the construction of this room be awarded to King and Petry of Champaign, the lowest bidder, in the amount of $3,695. T h e balance of $205 is for architectural expense and janitor work incidental to its construction. 3. T o complete furnishings in new Music Library in Smith Memorial Hall 900 4. Administration Building changes: ( a ) Tabulating Division—remodeling of space to provide increased natural light, ventilation, acoustical treatment and to convert waste area into usable space $10 000 ( b ) Personnel Office and Purchasing Division—interchanging of these offices to bring the Personnel Office to the first floor adjacent to the Bursar's Division to which it is attached 4 000 14 000 Total $20 800 These proposed improvements have been carefully studied by the Committee on Special Appropriations and Non-Recurring Expenditures. Its reports giving details of the reasons for these improvements are submitted herewith. O n m o t i o n of M r . J e n s e n , t h i s a p p r o p r i a t i o n w a s m a d e a s r e c o m mended, by the following v o t e : Aye, M r . Davis, M r . Fornof, M r s . Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Nickell; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Green, M r . K a r r a k e r , Dr. L u k e n . APPROPRIATION TO FACULTY-GRADUATE STUDENT CENTER TRUST F U N D (10) T h e agreement with the University Club of Urbana for the purchase of the Club property provides for a trust fund to be applied toward a facultygraduate student center. T h e Board agreed to match all money contributed by the Club to this fund during the biennium ending J u n e 30, 1945. T h e Club has now remitted to the University for credit to this fund the