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1963]

UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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beginning of these minutes with the exception of M r . Ray Page who asked to be excused and Mr. John A. Baerwald and Mr. Ambrose Richardson, whose services were not required. T h e Board proceeded to consider the following reports and recommendations submitted by and on behalf of the President of the University.

VACATION OF STREETS AND ALLEYS BY THE CITY OF URBAN A (1) The Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the Board of Trustees has recommended payment to the city of Urbana of $147,345 for the vacation of Romine Street between Springfield Avenue and Main Street; Stoughton Street between Romine Street and Mathews Avenue; and the alleys in the two blocks bounded by Springfield Avenue, Mathews Avenue, Main Street, and Romine Street. Such vacations by the City would have the effect of vesting in the University title to the areas vacated. The areas will be vacated in two parts, namely Romine Street and the west part of the alley in the block bounded by Stoughton, Romine, Main, and Mathews, conditioned upon the payment of $92,895.00; and Stoughton Street and the alley in the block bounded by Stoughton, Romine, Springfield, and Mathews, conditioned upon a payment of $54,450. The latter vacation will take place after the University's completion of acquisition of contiguous land. T h e city of Urbana has since requested that prior to enactment of the city ordinances that would vacate the streets and alleys subject to payments being made, the Board of Trustees take action to authorize such payments. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the proposal to the City for vacation of the areas and authorize payments of the amounts required by the City when the ordinances are passed. Funds are available from the state capital appropriations to the University for the 1963-65 biennium. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d , a n d authority w a s given as requested by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . Johnston, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Kerner, Mr. Page. PURCHASE OF FARMLAND SOUTH OF BONDV1LLE (2) In 1957, lease arrangements were completed for the use of a forty-one-acre tract, four miles south of Bondville, Illinois, as a site for a radio direction-finding facility for the Department of Electrical Engineering. This land was purchased by a private company and leased to the University with the lease cost paid from a research contract with the United States Navy. The University has the option to buy the site at any time before the expiration of the lease in 1972 at a cost not to exceed $18,245. Two tracts totaling 210 acres are now required for immediate expansion of the research facility and additional land will be required in the future to control construction of fences, metal buildings, and possibly high-growing crops, all of which interfere with the research program. The total land required, including the forty-one acres now leased to the University, is approximately 480 acres. Negotiations have been under way for acquisition of the two tracts of land required for immediate expansion: Tract A — Approximately 130 acres north of the original forty-one acres described as: T h e North Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section Two, except a strip one rod wide off the full south end thereof, containing 88.78 acres more or less, and the North Half of the East Half of the Northwest quarter of said Section Two, except one square rod in the Southeast corner thereof, containing 41.48 acres more or less, all in Section Two Township 18 North, Range 7 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, in Champaign County, Illinois. The owner will sell for $90,000 but retaining for three crop years the right of occupancy of not less than eighty acres of land.