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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 20

Education and the Illinois Building Authority for the construction of the Science and Engineering Center Building at the Chicago Circle campus, including a request to the State Board of Higher Education for release of $1,000,000 from the "federal funding reserve," being the difference between estimated ($2,000,000) and realized ($1,000,000) federal funding. While $1,000,000 of federal funds has been "realized" in the sense the federal government has entered into a grant agreement for that amount, the agreement requires federal concurrence in the award of contracts. It is not certain the concurrence can be obtained within the time bids must be accepted. Accordingly, in order to enable the Illinois Building Authority to make a timely award of the construction contract, the President of the University recommends that the action of the Executive Committee on December S, 1967, pertaining to the Science and Engineering Center Building at the Chicago Circle campus, be amended to increase the authorized request for release from the "federal funding reserve" to $2,000,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, and that as so amended the action of the Executive Committee on December 5, 1967, be approved, ratified, and confirmed.

On motion of Mr. Clement, this recommendation was approved.

REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING, PHASE IIA (ALSO KNOWN AS CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING AND ADDITION) , INCLUDING TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION OF PROPERTY, URBANA (30) On November 9, 1967, the Illinois Building Authority received bids for the construction of the Civil Engineering Building, Phase I la, also known as Civil Engineering Building and Addition. T h e lowest bidder is McCarthy Brothers Construction Company, St. Louis, Missouri, and J. E. Hathman, Incorporated, Columbia, Missouri, doing business as McCarthy-Hathman Construction Company, a joint venture, with a base bid of $3,586,148. Proposals were also received from T u r n e r Construction Company, Chicago, Felmley-Dickerson Co., Urbana, and Kuhne-Simmons Co., Inc., Champaign. T h e lowest bidder has performed satisfactorily on one previous University contract, and is presently under contract for the construction of the Undergraduate Library. T h e project is a part of the construction for the UrbanaChampaign campus, which the Board at its meeting on July 26, 1967, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. T h e University has received a federal grant to supplement the financing of this project. Funds in the amount of $541,000 can also be made available from balances in the contingency and equipment items in the budget for construction of the Civil Engineering Building, Phase I. The Illinois Building Authority will finance the construction and lease the facility to the University for which funds for rental payments are available in state capital appropriations to the University. The Illinois Building Authority owns part of the land on which the project will be constructed, and the University will transfer jurisdiction of the remaining land on which the project will be constructed to the Illinois Building Authority. T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees (1) request the Illinois Building Authority to assign $541,000 from the balance in the Civil Engineering Building, Phase I, contingency and equipment items to this project and (2) request the Illinois Building Authority to contract for construction of the described work in the amount of $3,604,148, being the amount of the low base bid of $3,586,148 (alternate number 21 for installation of a more efficient boiler than that specified at no change in price and additive alternate number 23 for sewage sampling system of $18,000) and proceed to procure this facility for the use of the University. 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 facility by the Illinois Building Authority including necessary requests of the Board of Higher Education.