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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 20

It is further recommended that the contracts for electrical, plumbing and fire protection, pipe covering and insulation, heating and air conditioning, and ventilating work be assigned to the contractor for general work, making the total of his contract $4,352,091, and that an agreement be entered into with J. L. Wroan and Sons, Inc., Normal, Illinois, for the supervision of these contracts assigned to the general contractor. The fee for this assignment is included in the base bid for the general work. The Authority will provide interim financing for the construction of this project until responsibility for the project is transferred out of the Illinois Building Authority in accordance with a schedule to be established by the Capital Development Board, The Seventy-seventh General Assembly has appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois from the Capital Development Bond Fund the necessary funds for this project subject to release by the Governor, The plans and specifications comply with the requirements of the Facilities for the Handicapped Act. It is also recommended that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be authorized to execute such consents to or acceptances of assignments of contracts and to execute such other contractual documents with the Illinois Building Authority as may be necessary "} conjunction with the transfer by the Illinois Building Authority of its responsibilities for the project and to execute such agreements with the Capital Development Board and contractors as may be required in connection with the supervision and construction of this project for the University in accordance with the Capital Development Board Act, and that the following Resolution authorizing the transfer of jurisdiction of the site to the Illinois Building Authority be adopted. The University of Illinois Foundation, at the request of the Board of Trustees, acquired 1212 West California Avenue at a price of $100,000, which is part of the site for this project. It is further recommended that, subject to the availability of funds, this property be acquired from the Foundation at its cost. Funds for this land are available in State capital appropriations to the University subject to release by the Governor. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the Secretary of the Board tor record. Resolution WHEREAS, the Seyenty-seyenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois has declared it to be in the public interest that the Illinois Building Authority construct, on behalf of The Board ot Trustees of the University of Illinois, Medical Sciences Building at the Urban a-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois; and WHEEEAS for that purpose it will be necessary for the Illinois Building Authority to acquire jurisdiction of the real estate upon which said improvements will be located; and WHEEEAS The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois with its principal office in Urbana, Illinois, has been requested by the Illinois Building Authority to transfer jurisdiction of said real estate for the construction of said building. Now, Therefore, Be It and It h Hereby Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of fllinois at its August 10, 1972, meeting as follows: That the Comptroller and the Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be and they are hereby authorized to execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name and on behalf of this corporation, an instrument of transfer of jurisdiction to the property described in the attached document entitled "Instrument of Transfer" 1 which satd form of Instrument of Transfer is, by this reference, incorporated in and made a part of this Resolution.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these recommendations were approved and the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, none.

* A copy ot the "Instrument of Transfer*' is filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.