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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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162 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October 17 REPORT OF T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Secretary submitted a report of the Executive Committee of its actions at a duly called meeting held on October 5, 1962. MEETING OF T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE On call of the Chairman, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held in the Illini Center, LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, on Friday, October 5, 1962, beginning at 2:00 p.m. The following members of the Committee were present: Mr. Howard W. Clement, Chairman, Mr. Wayne A. Johnston, Mrs. Frances B. Watkins. Also present were Mr. Timothy W. Swain, Member of the Board, Comptroller H. O. Farber, Director C. S. Havens of the Physical Plant, Mr. James J. Costello, Legal Counsel, Mr. C. E. Flynn, Assistant to the President and Director of Public Information, and Mr. A. J. Janata, Secretary of the Board. The Committee considered the following reports and recommendations submitted on behalf of the President of the University, and took the actions indicated. CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PARKING FACILITIES (1) The Board of Trustees has approved a program for the construction of automobile parking facilities on properties either now owned by the University, or which the University is acquiring, in the vicinity of the Graduate Student Residence Halls on Green Street, and the Student-Staff Apartments on Green Street and Goodwin Avenue in Urbana, to replace parking facilities on the site of the Illinois Street Residence Halls. Bids on the construction of the new parking facilities, according to the program approved by the Board, including demolition of structures on ten properties, were received on October 3. Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department on the bidding, and a copy is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. As reported to the Board, funds are available in Housing Division reserves which will be advanced to finance this project, and will be repaid from the income from the rentals of parking spaces. It is therefore recommended that a contract be awarded to the Champaign Asphalt Company, Champaign, in accordance with its total firm lump sum price of $48,972.45, with the right reserved to delete any division to which the University is not given possession within the required time, or is not vested with title satisfactory to the University Legal Counsel. On motion of Mr. Johnston, this contract was awarded, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Johnston, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, none. LITIGATION INSTITUTED BY DONALD VREULS (2) The University has recently been named as an additional defendant in a suit originally filed against the city of Champaign in the Circuit Court of Champaign County (No. 61 L 347) by Donald Vreuls and his wife. The complaint alleges that Mr. Vreuls sustained injuries on May 30, 1961, during the progress of a water fight between numerous students of the University of Illinois and seeks recovery therefor from both the City and the University. The Legal Counsel states that in his opinion the University should resist the claim and the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court over the University in this proceeding. H e requests that the Board of Trustees authorize him to take appropriate action to oppose and defend the claim in all respects, and to employ such special legal counsel as he may deem necessary or desirable to assist him in connection therewith. T h e President of the University concurs. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, authority was given as requested.
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