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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 20

Ventilation and Air Conditioning — Cicero Sheet Metal Inc., Cicero.. 59 444 00 Electrical — Divane Bros. Electric Co., Chicago 48 522 00 Total $267 362 00 Funds are available from state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor, Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department, including a schedule of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.

On motion of Mr. Hughes, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Pogue, Dr. Weatherly.

REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR PURCHASE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE UTILITIES CENTER ADDITION, CHICAGO CIRCLE (20) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Illinois Building Authority be requested to award and proceed to procure the following contracts for furnishing and installing equipment for the use of the University at the Chicago Circle Utilities Center Addition required for the heating and air conditioning of Phase I I I Buildings, the award in each case to the lowest bidder: Division "303" One Cooling Tower — Fluor Products Company, Inc., Santa Rosa, California $52 054 00 Division "304" T w o Condenser Water Circulating Pumps and T w o Chilled Water Circulating Pumps — Worthington Corporation, Harrison, New Jersey. 24 170 00 Total $76 224 00 The above equipment is a part of the project for Chicago Circle, Phase III, construction, which the Board on July 26, 1967, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. The Authority will finance the construction and lease the facilities to the University for rental payments for which state appropriations are available. Jurisdiction of the land on which the project will be constructed will also be transferred to the Authority at a later date prior to construction. It is also recommended that 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 equipment by the Illinois Building Authority. I further recommend adoption of the resolutions submitted herewith to implement the official actions required. Resolution 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 Illinois Building Authority be, and it hereby is, requested to award to Fluor Products Company, Inc., Santa Rosa, California, a contract for furnishing a cooling tower, its delivery to the site and erection at the site, all a part of the construction of the Utilities Center Addition at the Chicago Circle, Phase I I I , for the fixed price of $52,054. Be It, and It Hereby Is, Further Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this public corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name and in 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. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d by