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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 17

REQUEST FROM ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER JURISDICTION OF LAND FOR ABBOTT POWER PLANT IMPROVEMENTS, URBANA (18) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, requests adoption of the following Resolution authorizing the transfer of jurisdiction of land for improvements to the Abbott Power Plant at the Urbana campus. This project is part of the University's Fiscal Year 1970 capital program which the Seventy-sixth General Assembly has declared to be in the public interest and which the Board of Trustees at its meeting on September 17, 1969, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. Resolution WHEREAS, the Seventy-Sixth 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 T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Power Plant Addition and improvements at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois; and WHEREAS 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 WHEREAS T h e 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 Is Hereby Resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at its March 17, 1971, meeting as follows: T h a t the Comptroller and the Secretary of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be and they are hereby authorized to execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name and behalf of this corporation, an instrument of transfer of jurisdiction to the property described in the attached document entitled "Instrument of Transfer" which said form of Instrument of Transfer is, by this reference, incorporated in and made a part of this Resolution.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Steger.

SALE OF LAND, GRANTING OF EASEMENT, AND OPTION TO SELL ADDITIONAL LAND TO ILLINOIS N E W HOPE FOUNDATION (19) On September 16, 1970, the Board of Trustees approved in principle a proposed project for the establishment of a comprehensive educational research and residential center for brain-damaged persons by the Illinois New Hope Foundation on the Urbana campus and to proceed to negotiate with it in developing a mutually satisfactory arrangement for a site to be located south of and adjacent to the present Adler Zone Center on land owned by the University of Illinois Foundation. The New Hope Foundation, Champaign, a not-for-profit corporation of the State of Illinois, has expressed an interest in the acquisition of a parcel of land, approximately 26 acres, south of the Adler Zone Center and east of the Illinois Central Right-of-Way and an option to purchase approximately 14 acres immediately east of this tract. It will be necessary to provide an access easement to the 26-acre parcel of land from South First Street Road. Accordingly, the President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested t o : 1. Sell approximately 26 acres referred to above to the New Hope Foundation at a cost of $3,750 per acre. 2. Grant an easement 66 feet wide by approximately 771 feet extending east from this tract of land to South First Street Road for a consideration of $11,680.