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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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grant to Illinois Bell Telephone Company, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to lay, operate, and maintain a communications cable for the transmission of telephonic signals under and through the land hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage to property of this Corporation by the laying, construction, reconstruction, operation maintenance, renewal, or removal of said cable, and Grantee shall further agree to relocate said cable at its expense if and when said cable would interfere with any construction undertaken by this Corporation during the term of the right-ofway easement to be hereunder granted. The right-of-way easement shall terminate ninety (90) days after Grantee ceases to use said transmission line for rendition of service. The right-of-way easement shall be over the following-described property: Situated in the State of Illinois, the County of Champaign, the City of Champaign and in parts of Block 13 of J. S. Wright's Addition to the City of Champaign; and being more fully bounded and described as follows: 1. Being the East 6.0 feet of the South 5.0 feet of the N W VA of said Block 13; and 2. A strip of land 6.0 feet in width, the centerline of which is described as follows: Beginning at a point 171.25 feet distant East of and 169.33 feet distant South of the N W corner of said Block 13, said corner being also the S E corner of John and Sixth Streets in the City of Champaign; thence southerly along a line parallel to the East line of Sixth Street, a distance of 84.67 feet; all of the foregoing described strip being in the N i/i of the S W V4 0 I s a i d Block 13.

On motion of Mr. Swain, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner. Mr. Hughes asked to be recorded as not voting.

C O N T R A C T FOR REROUTING ILLINOIS BELL T E L E P H O N E CABLE AT C O N G R E S S CIRCLE C A M P U S (6) The campus plan for Congress Circle anticipates the construction of buildings at the intersection of Blue Island Avenue and Polk Street, which will be vacated. Any construction over utilities to be retained must provide for continuation of these services even during the period of construction. The Illinois Bell Telephone Company proposed that the existing cable be rerouted along Roosevelt and Halsted Streets and that the University pay the Company the amount budgeted by the University for the protection of this service during construction. Under this proposal, the Illinois Bell Telephone Company will perform the work and the University will not be obligated for payment until thirty days after the University receives conveyance of substantially all the land in this area from the Chicago Land Clearance Commission. Accordingly, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend authorization of this contract subject to the release of funds. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this contract was authorized by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson* no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner. Mr. Hughes asked to be recorded as not voting.

C L O S E D CIRCUIT TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AT C O N G R E S S C I R C L E C A M P U S (7) The Board of Trustees has authorized agreements with the Illinois Bell Telephone Company for the rental of cable and related facilities for a television distribution system on the Urbana-Champaign campus. A similar program is planned for the Congress Circle campus. Its television programs will originate from the Library building, or will be programs taken off