Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 166]

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Contract Change Order No. 15 with English Brothers for general work. (1) Cost of providing four loudspeaker recesses in Ball Room not including cloth screen, frame, or finish hardware (2) Cost of providing bent channel furring at ceiling ventilating openings $ 34 00 Less j u n k value of structural rings furnished under contract 3 04 (3) Additional costs indicated on Drawing 152-C covering work in Clerk's Office, Room No. 121

56 26

30 96 276 00

$363 22

(4) Omission of weatherstripping and screen doors covered by quotation dated November 4, 1940 $189 50 (5) Credit on omission of flooring in Bowling Alley installed by others $154 40 Less expense of finishing wood floor south of Alleys proper 71 83 82 57 272 07 Net Additional Cost $ 91 15 Contract Change O r d e r No. 3 with Swain Nelson & Sons Company for landscaping work. This change order is to cover hauling of rubbish from site, at the unit price incorporated in contract, 28 yards @gof—Add... $ 25 20 Gregory Hall Contract Change Order No. 7 with W . B. Read & Company for Equipment Group 2. Substitution of 15 pair of steel for brass hinges @8otf— Deduct .' $ 12 00 Credit on quality of locks used on tables, 24 @ 37^— Deduct 8 88 Total Deduction $2088

SUMMARY

Total additions Total deductions Net Additions

$1 943 57 60 88 $1 873 69

On motion of Mr. Davis, these changes were authorized as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Davis, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Karraker, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Pogue; no, none; absent, Mr. Adams, Mr. Green, Mr. Mayer, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Wieland.

PROPERTY O N GREEN STREET IN URBANA (17) T h e T u r n e r property at 1206 West Green Street, Urbana, has been offered for sale to the University at a price of $10,000, of which $1,000 shall be payable immediately and the balance on or before July I, 1941, the owner to retain possession until that date and the University to assume all taxes for 1940 and due in 1941. T h e r e is a commercial structure in front of the house, which has been leased until September 1, 1941, so that the sale is necessarily subject to this lease. If this property is not sold, the owners plan to improve it by removing the old residence and constructing on the lot an apartment building. While the University has no immediate need for the property, it is part of the area which will be needed eventually for the orderly development of the plant of the College of Engineering. T h e Transportation, Ceramics, and the Locomotive Laboratory buildings are in this block. In fact, all the area from W r i g h t Street on the west to Goodwin Avenue on the east, and from Green Street north to Springfield Avenue should eventually be available for the College of Engineering and the Physical Plant Department. In view of these factors, it is desirable that the University acquire this property, if possible, in the interest of future development, and T so recommend.

On motion of Mr. Karraker, this purchase was authorized on the