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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 17

sional services, including supervision, for the Architecture and Art Laboratories Addition, Chicago Circle, at a fee of 6.12 per cent of the preliminary construction cost budget, subject to adjustment to actual cost of construction, plus reimbursable expenses approved by the University. Authorization under this contract for fees and expenses will be limited at this time to $246,906, unless and until further authorization is given. It is further recommended that the contract be assigned to the Illinois Building Authority upon financing arrangements being completed by it. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University for Fiscal Year 1970, subject to release by the Governor. The Advisory Committee on Architectural and Engineering Services and the Buildings and Grounds Committee have approved this recommendation.

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

EMPLOYMENT OF ENGINEER FOR AIR C O N D I T I O N I N G , PHASE IV, CHICAGO CIRCLE (13) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the employment of Sargent & Lundy, Chicago, for engineering services for additional air conditioning capacity for Phase I V buildings at the Chicago Circle campus on the following basis: engineering and drafting personnel at actual salaries and wages plus 50 per cent; wages of other personnel and direct costs at actual wages and costs; a fixed fee charge of 2 per cent of the preliminary construction costs subject to adjustment to actual costs of construction; field supervision at actual salary plus 30 per cent; and reimbursable expenses approved by the University. Authorization under this contract for fees and expenses will be limited at this time to $52,725 unless and until further authorization is given. Funds for the balance of the engineering services and the construction of this project were declared to be in the public interest by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly of the State of Illinois. It is, therefore, further recommended that the Illinois Building Authority be requested to finance the balance of the engineering work and that the contract be assigned to the Authority upon financing arrangements being completed by it. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University and have been released by the Governor. The Advisory Committee on Architectural and Engineering Services and the Buildings and Grounds Committee have approved this recommendation.

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

EMPLOYMENT OF ENGINEER FOR EXTENSION OF UTILITIES DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CHICAGO CIRCLE (14) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends, subject to release of funds by the Governor, the employment of Sargent & Lundy, Chicago, for engineering work for the required modification and extension of the present utilities distribution system to the site of the Student Services Building and the Classroom-Office Building at the Chicago Circle campus, on the following basis: engineering and drafting personnel at actual salaries and wages plus 50 per cent; wages of other personnel and direct costs at actual wages and costs; a fixed fee charge of 2 per cent of the preliminary construction cost budget, subject to adjustment to actual costs of construction; field supervision at actual salary plus 30 per cent; and reimbursable expenses approved by the University. Authorization under this contract for fees and expenses will be limited at this time to $110,000 unless and until further authorization is given.