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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 20

MODIFICATION OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR THE MUSIC BUILDING. URBANA (20) The Board at its meeting on April 19, 1967, approved the employment of Richardson, Severns, Scheeler & Associates, Inc., Champaign, for complete architectural services for the Music Building at the Urbana-Champaign campus. On July 26, 1967, the Board of Trustees, at the request of the Illinois Building Authority, amended its previous action and authorized the employment at a fee of 5y2 per cent of the budgeted construction costs, and authorization was given for the assignment of the contract to the Building Authority. T h e Building Authority has subsequently offered a fee arrangement, which the architect prefers and which will result in a basic fee through the receipt of bids of tyl per cent of the budgeted construction cost of $3,545,500, plus additional payments for supervision and construction administration at a rate of .2 of 1 per cent of the budgeted construction cost, plus the cost of actual time in the field of their personnel during construction plus 12S per cent. As this contract will be assigned to the Illinois Building Authority and as the proposed fee arrangement meets with its approval, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that actions of the Board relating to this project be amended as indicated above. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s 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 . ASSIGNMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING CONTRACTS TO THE ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY (21) The Seventy-fifth General Assembly declared certain buildings and projects for the University of Illinois at the Chicago Circle, Medical Center, and UrbanaChampaign campuses to be in the public interest, thereby indicating that funding of these projects could be accomplished by the Illinois Building Authority. On July 26, 1967, the Board of Trustees requested the Illinois Building Authority to undertake these projects. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that authorization be given for the assignment to the Illinois Building Authority of the following architectural and engineering contracts relating to projects which the Illinois Building Authority has been requested to finance in the 1967-69 biennium: Chicago Circle Campus 1. Behavioral Sciences Center Building 2. Science and Engineering Center Building 3. Utilities Center Addition Urbana-Champaign Campus 1. Small Animal Clinic Building 2. Intramural-Physical Education Building 3. Women's Gymnasium Addition

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Sargent & Lundy, Engineers, Chicago Perkins & Will, Chicago Holabird & Root, Architects, Chicago John Sweetnam with Spangler, Beall, Salogga and Bradley, Decatur

1 concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h i s 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 . TRANSFER OF REACTOR COMPONENTS TO MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (22) As a result of the purchase of new equipment, approved by the Board of Trustees on November 10, 1966, certain reactor components and fuel parts of the T R I G A Nuclear Reactor will become surplus property no longer needed in the advancement of the University's nuclear engineering research program. T h e United States Atomic Energy Commission, which has control over the use of the fuel parts and which is currently contributing $126,945 for the purchase of new fuel parts in our updating program, and the National Science Foundation, which furnished the majority of the original purchase funds and which is currently contributing $141,700 to the updating of the T R I G A Nuclear Reactor, have re-