Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 715]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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computer for use prior to delivery of the input/output system for approximately $688,440, plus an estimated $626,678 for interfacing the input/output system to the main frame on a cost-plus incentive fee basis. The total estimated cost of the contract is thus $17,250,104, and the University's obligation is limited to funds available under its contract with the Department of Defense. Subject to approval of the United States Department of Defense, the Dean of the Graduate College and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that a definitive contract be entered into with the Burroughs Corporation. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , 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 . CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, FIRST UNIT OF T H E DENTISTRY-MEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING. MEDICAL CENTER (24) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of contracts for remodeling Rooms 315, 316, 317, 322, 324, 326 in the First Unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building at the Medical Center campus for the Department of Biological Chemistry in the College of Medicine, the award in each case being to the lowest bidder: General — Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago $14 363 00 Plumbing — Fettes, Love & Sieben, Inc., Chicago 6 717 00 Heating, Air Conditioning and Process Piping — Peter H . Smith Company, Chicago 11 124 00 Ventilation — Anderson & Litwack Company, Hillside 858 00 Pipe Covering and Insulation-—Luse-Stevenson Co., Melrose P a r k . . . . 1 420 00 Electrical — Gerson Electric Construction Co., Chicago 5 985 00 Laboratory Equipment — J. J. Lane Equipment Co., Chicago 29 357 00 Total $69 824 00 The work provides for the rearrangement of partitions, new lighting, floor covering, air conditioning, and new laboratory equipment. Funds for this work are available from the Medical Center Contract Research Reserve. Submitted herewith is a schedule of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. I concur.

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

SALE OF PROPERTY (25) On April 19, 1967, the Board of Trustees authorized the Vice-President and Comptroller to execute a contract for the sale of 37.9 acres of land in Manatee County, Florida. Accordingly, a contract with Obrig Laboratories, Inc., a Florida corporation, was executed on May 19, 1967, and Obrig Laboratories, Inc., is prepared to close this transaction no later than August 14, 1967. This property will be conveyed by Warranty Deed to Obrig Laboratories, Inc. T o implement this transfer, the following resolution is necessary, and its adoption is requested by the Legal Counsel. R e s o l u t i o n A u t h o r i z i n g Sale of 37.9 A c r e s in M a n a t e e C o u n t y , F l o r i d a WHEREAS, Obrig Laboratories, Inc., a Florida corporation, has offered to purchase the hereinafter described property from The Board of Trustees of the University of 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 Secretary of this corporation, be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and in behalf of this corporation, and under its corporate seal, a Warranty Deed and such other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to convey to Obrig Laboratories, Inc., title to the real property hereinafter described, viz: T h e N E VA of the N W \i of Section 30, Township 35 S, R 18 E less the