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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Turner, a n d M r . P a u l R . S h a f f e r . T h e B o a r d c o n s i d e r e d t h e f o l l o w i n g recommendations for land acquisitions. PURCHASE OF PROPERTY AT 1 3 0 7 WEST MAIN STREET. URBANA (1) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend the_ purchase of the property at 1307 West Main Street, Urbana, Illinois, at a price of $29,000, required as part of the site for construction of the new Civil Engineering Building. The property consists of a lot 66 feet by 132 feet (8,712 square feet) and is improved with a two-story and basement frame dwelling. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds has been consulted regarding this purchase and recommends approval. Funds are available in the state capital appropriations to the University from the Universities Building Fund and have been released. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h e p u r c h a s e of t h i s p r o p e r t y , a t t h e price r e c o m m e n d e d , w a s a u t h o r i z e d b y t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . D i l l i a r d , M r . H u g h e s , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P o g u e , M r . Swain, 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 , M r . K e r n e r , Mr. P a g e . ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY AT 2 0 8 NORTH ROMINE STREET, URBANA (2) Representatives of the University have been negotiating for the purchase of the property at 208 North Romine Street, Urbana, Illinois, required as a part of the site for construction of the new Civil Engineering Building. The property consists of a lot 66 feet by 66 feet (4,356 square feet) and is improved with a two-story and basement frame dwelling. A price of $25,000, based on appraisals secured by the University, was suggested to the owner who was advised that if the price is agreed to, a recommendation would be made to the Board of Trustees for purchase of the property. The price is not acceptable to the owner, 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 from the Universities Building Fund and have been released. I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution. Resolution A u t h o r i z i n g C o n d e m n a t i o n of P r o p e r t y a t 208 N o r t h R o m i n e Street, U r b a n a , 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 North one-half (Vi) of Lot Five (S) 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