Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 59]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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to the Downs from the corner of Nevada Street and Goodwin Avenue, or at any regular bus stop between that corner and Orchard Downs. The University be authorized to enter into an agreement with the ChampaignUrbana City Lines, Inc., for the 1962-63 academic year based on a rate of $5.15 per bus hour of operation (this includes use of the equipment and employment of necessary personnel to provide the desired bus service, and sufficient insurance to protect both the company and the University against liability for personal injuries or property damages arising out of the operation of this service). The cost of operating this service will be financed as follows: fares collected from students and staff members, and $30,000 from Housing Division Funds. Further experimentation be authorized to improve and extend the service to all parts of the campus area and to determine the extent to which the Illi Bus service can assist in the solution of the campus parking problem. The service be discontinued effective June 8, 1963, with the close of second semester examinations. A report on the trial operation of Illi Bus during 1961-62 is submitted in support of the proposed continuation of the service. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d by the following vote: A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . H a r e w o o d , M r . K e r n e r , M r . Swain. CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING DENTISTRY-MEDICINEPHARMACY BUILDING (IS) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of the following contracts for remodeling in the first unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building for the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Medicine, the award in each case being to the lowest bidder: General — Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago $ 35 184 Base bid $22 782 Additive alternates Service charge for supervision of other contracts assigned to general contractor 1 500 Additional laboratory section 10 902 Plumbing — H . P . Reger and Company, Chicago 11 020 Base bid $ 6 940 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 4 080 Heating and Refrigeration — Utility Air Conditioning and Heating Company, Oak P a r k 12 455 Base bid $ 8 485 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 3 970 Ventilating — The Robert Irsay Company, Skokie 22 838 Base bid $16 150 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 6 688 Pipe Covering — Brand Insulations, Inc., Chicago 1 310 Base bid $ 1 195 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 115 Electrical — Wadeford Electric Company, Chicago 9 386 Base bid $ 8 100 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 1 286 Laboratory Equipment—Browne-Morse Company, Muskegon, Michigan 45 405 Base bid $34 578 Additive alternate for additional laboratory section 10 827 Total Contracts $137 598 T h e work will include the first phase of the rehabilitation of the Department of Biochemistry laboratory, part of the 1961-63 building program at the Medical Center; the remainder of the remodeling, approximately one-half of the labora-