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P u r c h 3.SG

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 21

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50 000 U. S. Treasury notes 35 000 U. S. Treasury notes Revenue Bonds of 1956 as authorized by March 23, 1956, and September 18, 1956. Purchase $ 49 000 U. S. Treasury bills 14 000 U. S. Treasury notes 23 000 U. S. Treasury notes

3M% 8/15/62 $ 50 109 38 3U% 2/15/62 35 098 44 Board of Trustees resolutions dated 9/21/61 2/15/62 8/15/62 $ 48 665 58 14 048 13 23 050 31

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CHICAGO

Sinking Funds Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building Revenue Bonds as authorized by Board of Trustees resolution dated December 16, 1953. Purchase $ 2 500 U. S. Treasury bonds 2%% 2/15/65 $ 2 412 50

This report was received for record, and the actions of the Finance Committee were confirmed.

EMPLOYMENT OF ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS FOR CHICAGO CAMPUS BUILDINGS (22) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend the employment of the following architectural and engineering firms for the designs of buildings and other facilities for the new University of Illinois campus in Chicago: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Chicago — Complete architectural services for the Lecture Center and overhead walkway; Academic Staff and Administrative Office Building; Library; Engineering Science Laboratory Building; classroom units. Fee to be five and one-half per cent of the construction contract costs. Naess and Murphy, Chicago — Complete architectural services on the Union, Recreation, and Theatre Center Building. Fee to be five and one-half per cent of the construction contract costs. A. Epstein and Sons, Inc. Chicago — Complete architectural and engineering services on the Service Buildings. Fee to be five and one-half per cent of the construction contract costs. Sargent and Lundy, Chicago — Complete engineering services on the design of a year-round heating and air-conditioning plant and distribution system. Fee to be the standard prevailing professional charges for such engineering services. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds has considered and is prepared to support these recommendations. I recommend that contracts commissioning these firms for the services and on the general terms indicated be authorized.

On motion of Mr. Pogue, these contracts were authorized as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Harewood, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner.

CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 19 6 1 - 6 3 (23) The Seventy-second General Assembly appropriated the amounts shown in the schedule below for land, buildings, and other capital improvements at the University of Illinois for the biennium 1961-63. All appropriations are from the Universities Building Fund. The schedule also shows the amounts already released by the Governor to date. I recommend that the Board appropriate the $98,500,000 for the purposes indicated as the funds become available.