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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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eight feet (198') more or less, along the North (N) property line of Lots Six (6), Seven (7), and Eight (8) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana to the Northeast ( N E ) corner of said Lot Eight (8), thence North ( N ) Sixteen and One Half feet ( 1 6 ^ ' ) more or less, to the Southeast ( S E ) corner of Lot Three (3) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, thence West ( W ) along the South (S) property line of Lots Three (3), Four (4), and Five (5) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana One Hundred Ninety-eight feet (198') more or less, to the Southwest ( S W ) corner of said Lot Five (5) in Block Fifty-one (51) of Seminary Addition to Urbana, thence North (N) along the West ( W ) property line of said Lot Five (5) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, One Hundred Thirty-two feet (132'), more or less, to the Northwest ( N W ) corner of said Lot Five (5) in Block Fifty-one (51) of Seminary Addition to Urbana, the point of beginning; subject to easements to the City of Urbana, Illinois upon and under the above described tract for the maintenance and repair of all sewers and drains which are located on or under the surface of any part of the above described tract and subject to easements to all public utilities, their successors and assigns to operate, maintain and renew and reconstruct their facilities as now operated and maintained in, over, or under the above described tract. Being the site upon which the Illinois Building Authority is to construct and complete the Civil Engineering Building.

On motion of Mr. Page, authority was given as recommended, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Jones, Page, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Kerner, Mr. Williamson.

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C O N T R A C T S FOR C O N S T R U C T I O N O F T H E CIVIL E N G I N E E R I N G BUILDING. P H A S E 1 (26) Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department of the bids received on February 21 and February 28, 1964, for construction of the Civil Engineering Building, Phase 1, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. In accordance with the Illinois Building Authority Act, the Seventy-third General Assembly of the state of Illinois declared the expenditure of $4,216,000 for the construction of a Civil Engineering Building at Champaign-Urbana which will be financed by the Illinois Building Authority to be in the public interest. The funds for construction will be provided by the issuance and sale of bonds by the Illinois Building Authority, which bonds will be serviced and retired from revenues from the lease of the facility to the University, and for which lease rental payments the University has received an appropriation. Additional funds are available from a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The Board has heretofore authorized the transfer of jurisdiction of the building site to the Illinois Building Authority and the execution of a lease of the property back to the University. The lease provides that the Illinois Building Authority will construct the building and the construction bids received should now be assigned to the Authority and recommendations made as to the awards. Accordingly, the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Director of the Physical Plant Department, and the Legal Counsel recommend the adoption of the following resolution. I concur. Resolution Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the bids received on February 21 and February 28, 1964, for the construction of Civil Engineering Building, Phase 1, and all rights thereunder, including but not limited to, the right to contract with the bidder, be and they hereby are, assigned to the Illinois Building Authority; and this Board of Trustees recommends to the Illinois Building Authority that contracts for construction of a