Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 902]

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1963]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Trustees for record, be and they hereby are, assigned to Foundation; and this Board of Trustees recommends to the Board of Directors of University of Illinois Foundation that contracts for construction of Materials Research Laboratory, Phase II, be awarded by Foundation as follows: General — Johnson, Drake, and Piper, Incorporated, Terre Haute, Indiana Base bid $2 236 00 Additive alternate for service charge for assignment of other contracts to the general contractor 60 000 Deductive alternate for omitting panels and steel members in back of precase grills —2 500 $2 293 500 Plumbing — The Economy Plumbing and Heating Company, Inc., Skokie 337 777 Heating, Process Piping, Refrigeration and Pneumatic Tube — Borg, Inc., Chicago, based on York absorption machine 381 000 Ventilating — The Robert Irsay Company, Skokie 346 853 Pipe Covering and Insulation — Culberg Asbestos and Cork Company, Chicago 83 450 Temperature Control — The Johnson Service Company, Urbana Base bid $ 57 425 Additive alternate for central control panel 27 400 84 825 Electrical — G. L. Wilsky, an individual doing business as Downtown Electric, Urbana Base bid $ 428 325 Additive alternate for master air conditioner control panel 100 Deductive alternate for omitting telephone trough —7 200 421 225 Laboratory Equipment — The Walrus Manufacturing Company, Decatur 75 400 Fume Hoods — T h e Laboratory Furniture Company, Mineola, New York 44 200 Elevators and Elevator Equipment — The Otis Elevator Company, Chicago 54 908 $4 123 138 This Board of Trustees further recommends to the Board of Directors of University of Illinois Foundation that all contracts other than the contract for general work be assigned to the contractor for general work, making a total for such contract a price of $4,123,138, and that an agreement be entered into by Foundation with Johnson, Drake, and Piper, Incorporated, for the assignment of these other contracts, for $60,000, which amount is included in the aforesaid contract price, being the amount bid by that Company for service charge for supervision of other contracts assigned to the general contractor. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d by t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , Mr. Johnston, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner. CONTRACT FOR C O N S T R U C T I O N O F l O O - F O O T ANTENNA RESEARCH T O W E R (12) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $26,980, to English Brothers Company, Champaign, the amount of their base bid and a deductive alternate substituting Douglas fir for yellow pine for construction of a 100-foot Antenna Research Tower south of Bondville, Illinois, for the Department of Electrical Engineering, subject to completion of acquisition of title to the land required. Funds are available from a research contract with the United States Navy. I concur.