Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 1044]

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A. Steam Generating Unit (Boiler) Base bid $126 236 1 Maximum escalation 33 000 Estimated erection cost 38 187 $197 423 B. Turbine Generator (3,000 KW) Base bid, including erection cost 86 565 Maximum escalation 7 600 94 165 C. Condensing Equipment Finite bid, including erection cost 21 100 21 100 Total $312 688 T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department recommends award of the contracts as follows: A. Steam Generating Unit — Babcock & Wilcox Company at $126,236 f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. B. Turbine Generator Unit — General Electric Company at $86,565 delivered and erected. This is the lowest bid. C. Condensing Equipment — Worthington P u m p & Machinery Corporation at $21,100 delivered and erected. T h e lowest bid on this equipment was from Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, but their bid is subject to escalation resulting from advances in labor and material costs, whereas the Worthington P u m p & Machinery Corporation bid, although $400 higher than Allis-Chalmers' proposal, is a finite bid. It should be noted that the bids on equipment A and B arc subject to escalation resulting from increases in labor and material costs. T h e amount of escalation indicated above is that estimated by Sargent and Lundy. T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department also recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Governor to release $122,050 from the State appropriation of $500,000 for contingencies to supplement the appropriation for the Power Plant addition. The Governor has already released $123,000 from this item to supplement the appropriation for remodeling and modernization of existing buildings. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h e s e c o n t r a c t s w e r e a w a r d e d a s r e c o m m e n d e d , a n d 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 w a s a u t h o r i z e d t o r e q u e s t t h e r e l e a s e of f u n d s a s r e q u e s t e d . A M E N D M E N T TO POLICY AND RULES RELATING TO NONACADEMIC STAFF M r . M c L a u g h l i n p r e s e n t e d t h e f o l l o w i n g r e p o r t of t h e C o m m i t t e e o n Civil S e r v i c e a n d E m p l o y e e s . T h e Advisory Committee for the Office of Nonacademic Personnel recommends the addition of the following paragraph to the present "Policy and Rules Relating to Compensation and W o r k i n g Conditions of Nonacademic Employees":

" X V I I . RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADMINISTRATION

T h e responsibility for the administration of the policies and rules as set forth herein is vested in the Director of Nonacademic Personnel under the executive authority of the President of the University." T h e Committee further recommends that this be submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval at the earliest opportunity together with the following revision of Section I I I , Paragraph 3: "3. T h e starting salary in every classification where the compensation lies between stated minimum and maximum rates, instead of being a single fixed rate, shall be determined by the Director of Nonacademic Personnel. In all these classifications where the maximum rate in April, 1945, was $235 a month or less, there shall be automatic increases at least once each year until the mid-point of the range in the classification is reached. Each employee in a classification where the compensation lies between stated minimum and maximum rates shall be fairly and impartially rated at least once

1 F.o.b. cars, Abbott Power Ptant. The base bid, $127,772, less allowance for substitution of Sturtevent fan' for Green Fuel Economizer fan, making the net contract $126,236 f.o.b. site.