Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972 [PAGE 380]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 21

Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain.

REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO ABBOTT POWER PLANT, URBANA

(34) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Illinois Building Authority be requested to award a contract in the amount of $83,797 to General Electric Company, Chicago, the low bidder, for electrical switchgear required in the installation of three new oil-fired boilers at the Abbott Power Plant on the Urbana campus. Funds for this work are available in the project budget. A schedule of the bids has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. On motion of M r . Pogue, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. H a h n , Mr. H o w a r d , Mr. H u g h e s , M r . Neal, M r . Pogue; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, G o v e r n o r Ogilvie, M r . S t e g e r , M r . S w a i n .

ROLL CALL ITEMS

Mr. Neal moved that a roll call vote be taken and considered the roll call vote on Items 35, 36, and 37 and that the Secretary be instructed to record such vote as the separate vote of each Trustee on each item. This motion was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Neal, Mr. P o g u e ; no, n o n e ; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, M r . Steger, Mr. Swain. Mr. H u g h e s asked to be recorded as not voting on Item 35.

EASEMENT TO ILLINOIS BELL T E L E P H O N E COMPANY FOR 1 2 0 7 WEST OREGON STREET, URBANA

(35) The Director of Physical Plant Planning and Construction and the Vice President and Comptroller recommend granting to the Illinois Bell Telephone Company a permanent easement (approximately two feet in width for a distance of approximately 73 feet along the south property line of the University-owned property at 1207 West Oregon Street, Urbana) for construction of underground telephone lines and further recommends adoption of the following resolution. One purpose of the easement is to provide telephone service to the new Foreign Languages Building. Resolution for Granting Easement Over South Two Feet of 1207 W. Oregon Street, Urbana, Illinois Be It and It Hereby Is Resolved by T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T H E UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Company", its successors, and assigns, the right and easement to construct, operate, patrol, and maintain its communication lines including the necessary underground cables, wires, conduits, splicing boxes, surface terminals, markers, and appurtenances upon, under, and across the land hereinafter specifically described, to form a part of a communication system to be owned by said Company in Champaign County, Illinois, to other lands and structures located beyond the land hereinafter described, and with the right of access to said land hereinafter described. Company shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this Corporation by the construction, reconstruction, operation, patrolling, maintenance, renewal, or removal of said telephone communications cable, and to indemnify the University and its representatives and tenants