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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 19

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. On motion of Mr. H u g h e s , the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . Hahn, Mr. Hughes, M r . Jones, Mr. Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Page, M r . Pogue, Governor Shapiro, D r . Weatherly.

CONTRACT FOR LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR RESEARCH AND LIBRARY U N I T , DENTISTRY-MEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING, MEDICAL CENTER

(19) The President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract in the amount of $13,261 to the Royal School Laboratories, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, the low bidder, for furnishing and setting in place laboratory equipment in Rooms 249, 252, 254, Research and Library Unit, Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building at the Medical Center campus. The work is a part of a program to upgrade existing laboratories by moving partitions, installing new laboratory equipment, raising the lighting level, and air conditioning in rooms to be used by the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Medicine. Funds for this work are available from the Medical Center Contract Research Reserve. O n motion of Mr. Grimes, this contract was awarded by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. H a h n , M r . Hughes, Mr. Jones, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Governor Shapiro, D r . Weatherly.

REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF F U N D S FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, MEDICAL CENTER

(20) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University request the Board of Higher Education to release $1,460,000 from the "Reserve for Unrealized Funding" in order to permit the receipt of bids and finance the construction costs on the Medical Research Laboratory Addition at the Medical Center campus. The Illinois General Assembly declared in the public interest the construction of the Medical Research Laboratory Addition in the amount of $3,385,500, including $1,460,000 to be financed from federal funds. The federal grant has not been received. The Public Health Service Council has recently reported, in response to questions from the University, that the application was favorably recommended by the Council but at an undisclosed amount below the funds requested. The University was further advised that there is no chance of obtaining federal funds in 1968, nor even a good chance that this application will be partially funded in fiscal year 1969, due to substantial reductions in the funds available for such grants. Furthermore, the project may never be funded, as the number of approved projects is always well in excess of funds available. Under the Public Health Service regulation, Paragraph 59.8(c), the University may bid this project prior to award of the federal grant, but if this procedure is followed, it is probable that no federal funding will ever be realized. While the total funds required to complete construction are within the amount declared in the public interest by the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, the Board of Higher Education has arranged with the Illinois Building Authority that the Authority will not use a portion of the amount declared by the General Assembly to be in the public interest until the State Board specifically approves such use.