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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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absence granted him for Semester II 1967-68, on full pay, cancelled without prejudice. A copy of the complete report is filed with the Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD

FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS

President Swain announced the following schedule for the next three meetings of the Board: February 21, 1968, at the Medical Center; March 12, 1968, Urbana (Annual Meeting) ; and April 17, 1968. RECESS On motion of Mr. Grimes, the regular meeting was recessed and the President of the Board stated that a meeting of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds had been called and that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered following the Committee meeting to consider recommendations relating to property acquisitions and pending litigation. EXECUTIVE SESSION W h e n the Board reconvened, the same members of the Board, officers of the Board, and officers of the University as recorded at the beginning of these minutes were present. T h e Board considered the following recommendations from the President of the University.

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES AT 1 11 6-1 I I 8 WEST NEVADA STREET. URBANA

(31) The President of the University recommends adoption of the following resolution for the acquisition of the properties at 1116-1118 West Nevada Street, Urbana, through condemnation proceedings, and further requests authorization of settlement of the condemnation suit if such settlement can be effected at a price that is within the appraisals received by the University. The property at 1116 West Nevada Street is 65 feet by 156 feet, and the property at 1118 West Nevada Street, which is owned by the same party, is 65.5 feet by 90 feet (a total of 16,035 square feet). The properties are improved with two frame student rooming houses and a small corner food concession building. The University has been negotiating with the owner of these properties, and the owner has been advised that a recommendation will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their purchase at a total price of $180,000, based on appraisals received by the University. This price is not acceptable to the owner, who is maintaining a price considerably in excess of University appraisals. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor. Resolution Authorizing Condemnation of Property at 1116-1118 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois Be It, and It Is Hereby Resolved, Found and Declared by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a body corporate and politic and a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the following-described real estate situated in the County of Champaign, in the State of Illinois, to-wit: Lot Seventeen (17) and the South Ninety (90) Feet of Lot Eighteen (18) of Forestry Heights Addition to the City of Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois; is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois for use as a site for an academic building of the University of Illinois and for other educational purposes conducted and to be conducted by said University of Illinois and for the further expansion of the educational facilities of said University of Illinois and to enable said University