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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 22

Accordingly, the President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends : 1. T h e Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Building Authority be requested to release $164,420 in the "cost increase reserve." 2. The Illinois Building Authority be requested to award a construction contract for the sum of $3,139,278 to Coath & Goss, Inc., Chicago, the low base bidder, and proceed to procure this facility for the use of the University. 3. The Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, contract, and other documents as are necessary to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project and facility by the Illinois Building Authority. 4. The adoption of the resolutions submitted herewith to implement the official actions required including authorization of the instrument of transfer of jurisdiction of real estate to the Illinois Building Authority. Submitted 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. Resolution WHEREAS the 75th 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 of Trustees of the University of Illinois, an Administrative Office Building at the Medical Center of the University of Illinois in Chicago, 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 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at its November 22, 1968 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" which said form of Instrument of Transfer is, by this reference, incorporated in and made a part of this Resolution.

On motion of Mr. Hughes, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Page, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly.

Date I n s t r u m e n t of T r a n s f e r In accordance with the provisions of "An Act to create the Illinois Building Authority and to define its powers and duties," approved August 15, 1961, as amended, and Resolution No. 68 IBA 227, adopted on the 26th day of September, 1968 by the Illinois Building Authority, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois, created under said mentioned Act, requesting the transfer of the certain described real estate and jurisdiction thereof to the Illinois Building Authority. Now, Therefore, the undersigned The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois does hereby transfer jurisdiction of the following real estate to the Illinois Building Authority, to wit: Exhibit "A" "That part of the Block bounded by W. Polk, W. Taylor, S. Wood Street and S. Hermitage Avenue described as follows: Beginning at a point on the North face of the existing East D.M.P. Building, 24' - 105^" East of the Northwest