Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1970 [PAGE 280]

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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[February

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The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary currently is jointly operated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the University of Illinois.1 The Department is responsible for operation and maintenance of the Infirmary, and the University is responsible for professional and technical services. Although the joint operation has worked well and relationships between the Department and the University are excellent, the rapidly changing socio-economic aspects of the delivery of health services suggests the Infirmary should be transferred in total to the University. The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary was founded in Chicago in 1858 as a private charitable institution and became a responsibility of the state of Illinois in 1871. The Infirmary has a long and distinguished record of service. Two of the largest and most highly regarded residency programs in the United States — in ophthalmology and otolaryngology-—are conducted at the Infirmary. The Infirmary serves as the principal location for the departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. The Infirmary now occupies a new 124-bed hospital-clinic building across the street from the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals and is an integral part of the University's program of education for the health sciences and professions conducted at the Medical Center campus. The Executive Vice President and Provost and the Vice President and Comptroller concur in this recommendation. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the State Board of Higher Education and the Seventy-sixth Illinois General Assembly. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o n e s , 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 . CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN T H E RACINE AVENUE BUILDING, CHICAGO CIRCLE (20) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract in the amount of $85,972 to Mueller Construction Company, Chicago, the low base bidder, for construction of mechanical equipment areas in the Racine Avenue Building at the Chicago Circle campus. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d b y t h e following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, M r . Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Ogilvie, M r . P a g e , Dr. W e a t h e r l y . CONTRACT FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM,URBANA (21) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract in the amount of $258,700, to Natkin Mechanical Contractors, Inc., Peoria, the low bidder, for Phase I alterations to the steam distribution system which will increase the pressure in the steam distribution system at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Funds for this work are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d b y t h e following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, Mr. H a h n , M r . Hughes, M r . Jones, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Ogilvie, M r . Page, D r . Weatherly. INCREASE IN CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, CHICAGO CIRCLE (22) On July 26, 1967, the Board of Trustees approved the employment of Samuel Arthur Lichtmann, Chicago, for complete architectural services for miscellaneous remodeling projects at the Chicago Circle campus at a fee of 8 per cent of con1 The Infirmary is located at 1855 West Taylor Street, Chicago, adjacent to the University Research and Educational Hospitals.