Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 302]

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1941]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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M r . J a m e s M . Cleary, Chairman, and M r . F r a n k A. Jensen, memb e r of t h e E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e , w e r e p r e s e n t ; a l s o M r . F o r n o f a n d M r . L i v i n g s t o n , m e m b e r s o f t h e B o a r d , a n d t h e officers, m e m b e r s of t h e staff, a n d o t h e r p e r s o n s l i s t e d a b o v e ( p a g e 2 9 4 ) . MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT WILLARD T h e Executive Committee considered the following matters presented by t h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y . REMOVAL OF EQUIPMENT IN OLD POWER PLANT ( i ) T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the accompanying schedule of bids (page 300) received for the removal of equipment in the Old Power Plant. T h e Director recommends: 1. T h a t the bids in Sections II ( f o r fans), I V (for m o t o r s ) , and V I - D (for centrifugal pump) be rejected because the prices offered are less than the value of this equipment to the University. 2. That contracts be awarded as follows: To Advance Steel Salvage Corporation: Section I (for boilers and stokers) Section V (for coal and ash conveyor) Section V I - A (for feed water heater) Section VI-B (for duplex water pump) Section V I - C (for simplex water pump) Section V I I I (for two steel water tanks) Payment to be made to the University..» To National Power Machinery Company: Section I I I - A (for one turbo-generator) Section I I I - B (for one turbo-generator) Section I I I - D (for one G.E. voltage regulator) Section I I I - E (for one Ward-Leonard regulator) Section I I I - F (for spare parts) Total to be paid to the University $3 225 00 760 00 $37 50 31 50 21 50 90 50 215 00 $4 290 50 $2 100 00 2 250 00 So 00 50 00 125 00 4 575 00 $8 865 50

To Fred L. Wright: Section V I I (for removal of two stacks—to be paid by the University) $4 800 00 Net payment to the University $4 065 50 3. T h a t payment of the following estimated costs be made from the above proceeds: Bond—Section V I I $ 75 00 Expense of preparation of specifications, supervision, etc 425 00 500 00 Net proceeds to the Unh'ersity $3 565 50 In each case the recommendation is for the award either to the highest bidder if equipment is being sold, or to the lowest bidder if the University is to pay for service. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Jensen, these recommendations were adopted and awards authorized as recommended; and the appropriation of $5,300 was made from the receipts for the sale of the equipment by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Jensen; no, none; absent, Mr. Davis.