Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 494]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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erty a t 4 1 1 E a s t D a n i e l S t r e e t , C h a m p a i g n , w a s r e s c i n d e d . T h i s a c t i o n was t a k e n by t h e 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 . H u g h e s , M r . Pogue, 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 ; a b s e n t , Mr. D i l l i a r d , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . K e r n e r , M r . P a g e . ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY AT 2 0 6 NORTH ROMINE STREET, URBANA, ILLINOIS (2) Representatives of the University have been negotiating for the purchase of the property at 206 Noith Romine Street, Urbana, Illinois, required as part of the site for construction of the new Civil Engineering Building. Architectural work is in process and construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 1964 with completion in time for occupancy in the fall of 1965. The property consists of a lot 66 feet by 66 feet (4,356 square feet) and is improved with a two-story frame dwelling with basement. An offer of $21,000, based on appraisals secured by the University, was made to the owners, who were advised that if they agreed to that amount a recommendation would be made to the Board of Trustees for the purchase of the property. The offer is not acceptable to the owners whose asking price remains substantially in excess of the highest University appraisal. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that the Board of Trustees exercise its power to acquire the property by eminent domain and authorize condemnation proceedings for its acquisition. 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 and recommend adoption of the following resolution: Resolution Authorizing Condemnation of Property at 206 North Romine Street, Urbana, Illinois Be It, and It Is Hereby Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a body corporate and politic and a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the followingdescribed real estate situated in the County of Champaign, in the State of Illinois, to-wit: The South One-half (Si/ 2 ) of Lot Five (5) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, in the State of Illinois is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois, for a site for a Civil Engineering Building and for related educational purposes conducted and to be conducted by said University of Illinois and for the further expansion of the educational facilities of said University of Illinois and to enable said University of Illinois to discharge its duty to the people of said State and for public use; that funds have been appropriated by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois for the purchase of said land for said educational purposes; that this Board of Trustees has negotiated with the owners of said land through their duly authorized representatives for the purchase of said land at a price which this Board of Trustees considers fair and reasonable and which it finds constitutes the present market value of said land, but that said owner has refused to sell and convey said land, or any portion thereof, to said The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for such price and continues to refuse to sell and convey the same to it except for a consideration and price which this Board of Trustees deems unreasonable and excessive and is, therefore, unwilling and has refused to pay; and Be It, and It Is Hereby Further Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that the compensation to be paid by it for said land cannot be agreed upon between this Board of Trustees and the owners of said property and they and it are unable to agree upon the purchase price to be paid to said owners for the sale and conveyance of said land by said owners thereof to said T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois; and Therefore, Be It, and It Is Hereby Further Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois