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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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1963] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 529 contract for landscaping at a fee of $150,000, which is the amount bid by that Company for a service charge for supervision of other contracts assigned to the general contractor. This will make the total contract with the Gust K. Newberg Construction Company $32,670,839. Funds are available in the state capital appropriations to the University for 1961-63 from the Universities Building Fund, subject to release by the Governor. Copies of the foregoing recommendation were distributed to the Trustees at the meeting with a supporting report from the Physical Plant Department, including a summary of bids received, a copy of which was filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. The President of the University stated that he concurs in these recommendations. At the conclusion of this presentation, representatives of some of the bidders requested, and were granted permission by the Board in each case, to ask questions and to present statements. Representatives of the following firms were heard: P. Nacey Company, Chicago, with respect to awarding this Company all contracts in Division I I I ; Corbetta Construction Company, Inc., New York, with respect to the contract for Division I (general work on the Site Development — Lecture Center); Modine Manufacturing Company, a subcontractor, with respect to supplying equipment for Division III. Replies to the questions raised were made by Director Havens and Mr. Richard Kreutz of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects and Engineers, Chicago. On May 16, the day following the Board of Trustees meeting, a telegram was received from a representative of the George A. Fuller Company, Chicago and New York, with respect to that Company's bid for the general work for the Staff and Administration Offices Building. A copy of that telegram and the reply has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. Copies of correspondence, subsequent to the Board of Trustees meeting, concerning the questions raised by the representatives of the Modine Manufacturing Company and the representatives of the Corbetta Construction Company, Inc., have also been filed with the Secretary for record. At the conclusion of the discussion of the questions raised, on motion of Mr. Johnston, the recommendations for the awards of the contracts as presented were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Page. On motion of Mr. Johnston, the Board adjourned. A. J. JANATA HOWARD W. CLEMENT Secretary President
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