Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1970 [PAGE 143]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Submitted herewith is a memorandum from the Department of Plant and Services, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . G r i m e s , M r . H a h n , M r . Hughes, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Jones, Mr. Page, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly. REQUEST TO THE ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY FIFTH STACK ADDITION. URBANA (18) T h e Illinois Building Authority received bids on October 3, 1968, for the construction of the Library Fifth Stack Addition — Library Building Addition — at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The project is part of the construction for the Urbana campus which the Board of Trustees at its meeting on July 26, 1967, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. T h e plans and specifications of the project comply with the requirements of the Facilities for the Handicapped Act. The low base bid was submitted by Skoog Construction Company, Champaign, in the amount of $1,254,000. The low bidder has previously done satisfactory work for the University and is deemed qualified to do this work. T h e Authority will finance the construction and lease the facilities to the University. Funds for rental payments are available in state appropriations to the University. Jurisdiction of the land on which the project will be constructed will be transferred to the Authority. T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Illinois Building Authority to award a construction contract for this work to Skoog Construction Company, Champaign, the low base bidder, in the sum of $1,254,000 and proceed to procure this facility for the use of the University. The President also recommends that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, construction, and other documents as are necessary to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project and facility by the Illinois Building Authority. The President further recommends the adoption of the resolutions submitted herewith to implement the official actions required, including authorization of the instruments of transfer of jurisdiction of real estate to the Illinois Building Authority. Attached herewith is a report of the Physical Plant Planning and Construction Office, including a schedule of the bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. Resolution WHEREAS the Seventy-fifth General Assembly of the State of Illinois has declared it t o be in the public interest that the Illinois Building Authority construct, on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the Library Fifth Stack Addition (Library Building Addition) at the Urbana Campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana, 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 building will be located; and WHEREAS 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 Is Hereby Resolved, by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at its October 16, 1968 meeting, as follows: That 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 on behalf of this corporation, an instrument of transfer of jurisdiction to the property described in the attached document en-