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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 13

EMPLOYMENT OF ENGINEERS FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-WILLARD AIRPORT (17) The President of the University, with the concurrence of the Vice President and Comptroller and the Director of the Institute of Aviation, recommends the employment of J. M. Audd & Associates, Springfield, Illinois, for engineering services required in the design and installation of auto parking lots and access road facilities, perimeter fencing, drainage, and incidental items at the University of Illinois-Willard Airport. T h e proposed fee is in accordance with Schedule B of the "Manual of Practice for Professional Engineers in Private Practice" (Manual I I I ) as approved and published by the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers. The total estimated fee amounts to $14,600. The actual fee will be based on actual costs of the project. Funds are temporarily available from Airport operations for payment to the engineers until funds are made available by project funds of the Illinois Department of Aeronautics tentatively offered under Illinois Project 70A-12-503. Professional engineering services are required in connection with the preparation of plans, specifications, and bidding documents to accompany the formal project application to the Department of Aeronautics.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Mr. Jones, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Mr. Stone.

ANNEXATION OF LAND AND EASEMENT TO VILLAGE OF SAVOY AND EASEMENT TO ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY (18) In connection with the development of the Fairway Subdivision, the Athletic Association desires to have the subdivision annexed to the Village of Savoy in order to connect to the Village's sanitary sewer system. T o assist in accomplishing the annexation and to provide necessary utilities, the Athletic Association has requested the Board of Trustees to consent to the annexation of the east 285 feet of the "Orange" golf course to the Village of Savoy and to grant utility easements, including a ten-foot easement to the Village of Savoy to construct and maintain a sanitary sewer, and a ten-foot easement to Illinois Power Company. The consent to the proposed annexation would preserve the University's jurisdiction to control the character of improvements on the annexed land. I concur and recommend adoption of the following three resolutions: Resolution Authorizing Easement to Illinois Power Company Across University (Orange) Golf Course Property, Savoy, Illinois Be It, and It Hereby Is Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to Illinois Power Company, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to lay, operate and maintain, under varying conditions of operation, alter, remove and relay a pipe line or lines, and all other equipment appurtenant thereto, for the transportation of gas in, under, through and across certain lands owned by Grantor hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee shall have the right to clear and remove any obstacles or obstructions on the easement tract as may be required to provide necessary clearance. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this Corporation or pay any damages which may be caused to property of this Corporation in the process of laying, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, renewal or removal of said pipe line, and to indemnify this Corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. The pipe line easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said pipe line is continued in service and has not been abandoned and discontinued. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall