Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 228]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e Vice-President and Comptroller recommends the following appropriation: Repair of fire damage to University building at 1208 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana $ 9 300 A fire of undetermined origin caused extensive damage to the University three-story, frame building at 1208 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, which provided offices for the school mathematics project under the direction of Professor Max Beberman of the College of Education. T h e estimated cost of repairs is $9,300. T h e building has 3,058 square feet of usable space so that the repairs result in an average cost of $3.40 per square foot. Since other space could not be made available for the estimated cost of the repairs proposed, the Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller have recommended an appropriation for this purpose. Total $43 651 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 e s e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s w e r e m a d e b y the following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . Johnston, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r s . Watkins, M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . K e r n e r , M r . Wilkins. AGREEMENT W I T H COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY FOR ELECTRICAL SERVICES (9) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend authorization of an "excess facilities" agreement with Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, for work in connection with improvements to the electrical service at the Medical Center at a cost of $54,132. During the 1959-61 biennium, the University began a change over of the electrical services to the Research and Educational Hospitals buildings from 4,000-volt service to a more reliable 12,000-volt service. All the work has been designed and a considerable portion completed. A final phase consists of electrical vault improvements and bringing into the campus additional feeders from the Commonwealth Edison system. T h e work to be done by Commonwealth Edison and paid for by the University includes only that part of the cost of Edison's work necessary for service to the University and includes changing of the transformers in vaults requiring increased capacity, furnishing and installing conduit and cables for two additional 12,000-volt feeders into the campus, rearrangement of switching equipment in four vaults, and cable rearrangement in the Edison system. W h e n this work is completed, the possibility of an electrical outage will have been reduced to the minimum. T h e proposed work by the Commonwealth Edison Company will implement in part recommendations in the "Report on Electrical Distribution System, Chicago Professional Colleges Campus," dated May 3, 1950, and is consistent with the long-range plan of improvements previously approved by the Board of Trustees. Funds are available in the state capital appropriations to the University for 1961-63 from the Universities Building Fund and have been released. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h i s a g r e e m e n t w a s a u t h o r i z e d b y t h e following vote: A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . Johnston, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r s . Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . Kerner, M r . Wilkins. CONTRACTS FOR EXTENSION OF UTILITIES DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (10) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend awards of the following contracts for extension of the utilities distribution system, the award in each case being to the lowest bidder: Construction of Underground Steam Tunnel (Division " F F " ) from Gregory Hall north on the east side of Wright Street to the service drive north of the Administration Building — Dean Evans Company, Champaign $278 839