Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 1060]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (7) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds as follows: Urbatta-Champaign 1. Department of Art, equipment $ 2 800 z. University of Illinois Bands, purchase of band instruments 7 615 3. Library, book acquisitions 28 450 Chicago Professional Colleges 4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Research and Educational Hospitals, installation of air conditioners and showers 5 020 5. Departments of Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, equipment 19 550 Total. $63 435 I recommend that these appropriations be made from the General Reserve Fund. O n m o t i o n of M r . H e r r i c k , t h e s e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s w e r e m a d e b y t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . B i s s e l l , M r . H e r r i c k , M r s . H o l t , M r . J o h n ston, M r . L i v i n g s t o n , M r . M e g r a n , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Nickell, M r . Stratton. APPROPRIATIONS BY THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (8) The Board of Directors of the Athletic Association has approved assignments from its reserve fund of $2,500 for the Spring Football Coaches Clinic and $15,000 for the purchase of a canvas cover for the playing field in the Memorial Stadium. Confirmation of this is recommended. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h e a c t i o n of t h e B o a r d of D i r e c t o r s was c o n f i r m e d . CONTRACT FOR ALTGELD HALL REMODELING (9) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $37,980 to E. N. DeAtley, Champaign, the lowest bidder, for remodeling of Rooms 103 and 204 of Altgeld Hall to convert areas formerly used by the College of Law for use by the Department of Mathematics. Subsequent to the opening of bids, the Physical Plant negotiated with the lowest bidder on certain changes in this remodeling for the purpose of reducing the cost by approximately $2,800 through the issuance of change orders to secure the necessary credits. Funds are available in an assignment from the General Reserve appropriated by the Board of Trustees on January 28, 1956. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract, subject to the release of funds. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , this c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d , a n d t h e C o m p t r o l l e r a n d S e c r e t a r y of t h e B o a r d w e r e a u t h o r i z e d t o e x e c u t e t h e same. CONTRACT FOR ALTERATIONS IN DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING (10) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $35,203 to the Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for alterations in the second unit of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building in Chicago. The work will consist of rearrangement of partitions, improvements in lighting and ventilation, installation of new dental chairs and cabinets and of new laboratory equipment on the eighth floor in quarters formerly occupied by the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery to convert this area into quarters for a dental clinic. The improvement is part of the program of remodeling of the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building to rehabilitate existing facilities and to increase their capacities. Funds are available in the 1951 Revenue Bond Fund Construction Account.