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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Service providing approximately ten-minute headway between 7:20 a.m, and 5:20 p.m., Monday through Friday, except during peak periods when the service wilt be scheduled as may be required to meet the demand. Service provided during die evenings at approximately one-half-hour intervals, Monday through Thursday to 11:20 p m and Friday to 1:20 a_m. Service provided on Saturday from 7:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. at approximately ten-minute intervals and from 12:20 pjn, to 1:20 a.m. at approximately one-half-hour intervals. Service provided on Sunday at approximately one-half-hour intervals from 9:20 a.m. to 11:20 p.m. The five-cent fee per ride be retained except that students living in Orchard Downs will be issued passes to ride free from the Downs to any point on the route; however, the passes will be honored only for a return trip to the Downs from the corner of Nevada Street and Goodwin Avenue. The University be authorized to enter into an agreement with the ChampaignUrbana City Lines, Inc., for the 1961-62 academic year based on a rate of five dollars per hour per bus. (This includes the equipment and necessary personnel to provide this service, and sufficient insurance to protect both the Company and University against liability for personal injuries or property damages arising out of operating this service.) The cost of operating this service will be financed as follows: fares collected from students and staff, $30,000 from Housing Division funds, and $1,200 from balance of 1960-61 appropriation for Itli Bus operation. Further experimentation be authorized to improve service to all parts of the campus and to determine the extent to which the I Hi Bus can assist in solving the campus parking problems, A report on the trial operation of Mi Bus during 1960-61 is submitted in support of the proposed continuation of the service, together with extracts from minutes of the meetings of the Boardof Trustees on November 16 and December 21, I960, of the actions taken authorizing this service last year. I concur in the recommendations including the requested assignments of funds. On motion of Mr, H u g h e s , the foregoing recommendations and the requested assignments of funds were approved; authority was also given University officials to make such changes in the fare and in die program as may be necessary in the interest of the University and the transportation service. This action was taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. G e m e n t , Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Harewood, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, M r s . Watkins, M r . Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. K e m e r .

LEASE OF SPACE AT 704 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, CHAMPAIGN

(19) The University has been leasing the second floor of a two-storv business building at 704 South Sixth Street, Champaign, continuously since 1948 and the firstfloorsince 1954. The second floor has an area of approximately 5,500 square f«t and is occupied by the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The rental is $408.33 per month or 89 cents per square foot per year. The leased space °n the first floor is an area of approximately 2,2)0 square feet and has been occupied by the National Council of Teachers of English and the University naming Office of the Physical Plant Department, The first floor rental is $300 fer month or $1.64 per square foot per year. Both leases will expire August 31,

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The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend renewal of these leases according to the following terms: ^ s e of the entire second floor and the south one-half of the first floor for an additional two-year period beginning September 1, 1961, at the same rental rate, terms, and conditions as in the present lease. K «*wa{ of the lease of the entire second floor for an additional eight-year period beginning September 1, 1963, at a rental rate,of $1.00 per square foot per year but otherwise on the same terms and conditions as in the present lease.