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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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S T A T E O F ILLINOIS ) COUNTY O F C H A M P A I G N )

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Acknowledgement I, , a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that H . O. Farber and Earl W . Porter, personally known to me to be the Comptroller and Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, respectively, whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged that they signed and delivered the said instrument of writing as Comptroller and Secretary respectively, of said Board, pursuant to authority given by "An Act to create the Illinois Building Authority and to define its powers and duties," approved August IS, 1961, as amended (111. Rev. Stats. 1967, Chapter 127, Paragraphs 213.14), as their free and voluntary acts as the free and voluntary act of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, for the uses and purposes therein set forth. Given under my hand and official seal, this day of A.D., 1968. Notary Public My Commission Expires _ Resolution Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Illinois Building Authority be, and it hereby is, requested to award to the Skoog Construction Company, Champaign, Illinois, a contract for the entire work for the construction of the Library Fifth Stack Addition (Library Building Addition) at the Urbana Campus for the fixed price of $1,254,000 being the base bid. Be It, and It Hereby Is, Further Resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this public corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name and in behalf of this corporation, such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, contract, and other documents as are necessary or appropriate in order to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project and facility by the Illinois Building Authority. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d b y the following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . H a h n , M r . Hughes, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Jones, M r . Page, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly. REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY T O CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE FREER GYMNASIUM A D D I T I O N , URBANA (19) On September 10, 1968, the Illinois Building Authority received bids for construction of the Addition to the Freer Gymnasium — Women's Gymnasium 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. The plans and specifications of this project comply with the requirements of the Facilities for the Handicapped Act. The Authority will finance the construction and lease the facilities to the University. Funds for rental payments are available in state appropriations to the University and from previously announced student fees. The low base bid was submitted by J. D. P. Associates, Inc., Terre Haute, Indiana, in the amount of $1,575,000. Proposals were also received from Skoog Construction Company, Champaign; McCarthy Bros. Construction Company, St. Louis, Missouri; and Kuhne-Simmons Co., Inc., Champaign. T h e State of Illinois Board of Higher Education has arranged with the Illinois Building Authority that the Authority will not use a portion of the amount declared by the General Assembly to be in the public interest until the State of Illinois Board of Higher Education specifically approves such use. This reserved amount consists of a "cost increase reserve" to be used for the pur-