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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 17

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. Jurisdiction of the land on which the project will be constructed is being transferred to the Authority. Accordingly, the 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 project to M. A. Lombard & Son Co., the low base bidder, for the total sum of $8,763,501 and proceed to procure this facility for the use of the University. It is also recommended 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. It is further recommended that the resolutions submitted herewith be adopted 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 Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois acting through its Executive Committee, that the Illinois Building Authority be, and it hereby is, requested to award the M. A. Lombard & Son Co., Alsip, Illinois, a contract in the amount of $8,763,501 for construction of the College of Dentistry Building at the Medical Center campus in accordance with the base bid submitted. Be It, and It Hereby Is, Further Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois acting through its Executive Committee, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public corporation be, and they are hereby authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver, in the name and on 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.

On motion of Mr. Swain, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote. Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, none.

Resolution WHEREAS the Seventy-fifth 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, the College of Dentistry Building on the Medical Center campus 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 site for the College of Dentistry Building has been determined and 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, acting through its Executive Committee that the Comptroller and the Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be, and they hereby are, authorized to make, 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.