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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 12

PAYMENT FOR ARCHITECTURAL EXPENSES, CHICAGO CIRCLE (22) In 1964 the Illinois Building Authority, on recommendation of the Board of Trustees, employed the firm of H a r r y M. Weese & Associates to provide architectural services through the preparation of working drawings and contract documents for the construction of the Physical Education Building, Phase I I , Chicago Circle, such services having been declared to be in the public interest by the General Assembly in 1963. It was anticipated that funds for additional architectural services would be provided later, when construction was authorized. In 1965 the General Assembly declared it to be in the public interest for the Illinois Building Authority to construct the building on behalf of the University. The contract with the architect further provided that either the University or the Illinois Building Authority could require the architect to provide additional services. The architect completed the drawings, and documents and bids were received in August, 1965, for mechanical work. The bids exceeded the estimates and were rejected. At the request of the University and the Authority, the project and the bidding documents and procedures were revised, requiring additional services by the architect. With the approval of the University, the architect also employed certain consultants on behalf of the University and incurred certain other expenses of the type normally reimbursed to architects. The architect has been paid for the working drawings and contract documents in accordance with the provisions of the contract with the Illinois Building Authority but has not been reimbursed for the above employment of consultants, additional expenses and the services required for rebidding. These amounts total $43,984.58. As the construction of the Physical Education Building has been deferred to Phase I I I because of lack of adequate funding, the Illinois Building Authority has requested the University to make these payments with the understanding that the University will subsequently be reimbursed when the General Assembly increases the amount of its declaration in the public interest and when construction on this project is undertaken by the Illinois Building Authority. If this does not materialize, the costs can be charged to the state capital appropriations. Accordingly, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend payment of $43,984.58 to H a r r y M. Weese & Associates for the foregoing costs and additional services rendered in connection with the Physical Education Building, Chicago Circle campus. I concur. O n motion of M r s . W a t k i n s , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by the following vote: A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . Johnston, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Jones, Governor Kerner. EASEMENT TO GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS (23) The Vice-President and Comptroller recommends that the General Telephone Company of Illinois be granted an easement for the installation of an underground telephone cable over the road right-of-way only and bordering Allerton Trust Farm land in Piatt County, and that the following resolution be adopted. I concur. Resolution Granting Easement Over Road Right-of-Way Only and Bordering Allerton Trust Farm Land in Sections 8, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 29, Piatt County, 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 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 General Telephone Company of Illinois, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Company", its successors and assigns, the right and easement to construct, operate, patrol and maintain its communication lines including the necessary underground cables, wires, conduits, splicing boxes, surface terminals, markers and appurtenances upon, over and across the land hereinafter specifically described which land is included in the