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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 17

ordered for consideration of property acquisitions and that this session would be held after luncheon recess and would be followed by meetings of Board Committees. On motion of Mr. Swain, the Board recessed. During the luncheon recess, Mr. Douglas R. Mills, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, reported informally on the new golf course, made possible by a gift of land from the late Mr. Hartwell C. Howard of Champaign to the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois, which is now under construction adjoining the present University of Illinois Golf Course at Savoy, Illinois. Mr. Charles D. Wagstaff, landscape architect and designer of both courses, was present and was introduced. Director Mills distributed a memorandum of his presentation and a copy was filed with the Secretary. When the Board reconvened in executive session, the same members, officers of the Board, and University officers were present as recorded at the beginning of these minutes, except Mr. Ray Page who asked to be excused. The Board considered the following matters of business presented by the President of the University and by the Director of the Physical Plant.

P U R C H A S E O F P R O P E R T Y AT 5 0 9 EAST DANIEL S T R E E T , CHAMPAIGN (1) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that the Illinois Building Authority be requested to purchase for the University the property at 509 East Daniel Street, Champaign, at a price of $47,500 pursuant to the Illinois Building Authority Act. The property is a lot approximately 50 feet by 175.25 feet (8,683 square feet), improved with a two and one-half story and basement frame rooming house. The land area will be used for parking. Possession will be delivered not later than August 10, 1964, on all but the east 10 feet of the south 57 feet; and the latter area will be delivered on or before August 10, 1969. T h e price is within University appraisals. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds has also recommended the purchase. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by the f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . J o n e s , Mr. P o g u e , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . W i l l i a m s o n ; n o , n o n e ; absent, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . Kerner, M r . Page. P U R C H A S E O F P R O P E R T Y AT 9 1 2 S O U T H FIFTH S T R E E T , CHAMPAIGN (2) T h e University has an opportunity to purchase the property at 912 South Fifth Street, Champaign. The property is a corner lot 59.24 feet on Fifth Street by 66.3 feet on Chalmers Street (3,928 square feet) and is improved with a two and one-half story and basement frame dwelling. The land area is not now required for campus expansion but is a strategic corner location where the University will later need to provide parking for single graduate students. In the meantime, the house can be used either as a staff housing unit or for temporary offices. The owner is willing to sell at a price of $28,500, the appraised value. It is recommended that the University request the University of Illinois Foundation to purchase the property and lease it back to the University at a rate to be determined. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved