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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 20

CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING (13) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $58,587 to the Mueller Construction Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling of quarters for the Department of Pharmacology in the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building at 1853 West Polk Street, Chicago. T h e work will consist of rearrangement of partitions, improvements in lighting and ventilating, and installation of new laboratory equipment to rehabilitate and modernize these quarters and is a part of the remodeling program related to the activation of the Research and Educational Hospitals Addition and the construction of the East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. Funds are available in a special appropriation made by the Board of Trustees on May 15, 1954, for this remodeling program. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this contract was awarded and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (14) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $49,388 to the Mueller Construction Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling and alterations in the Research and Educational Hospitals, 840 South Wood Street, Chicago. The work will consist of rearrangement and replacement of partitions, improvements in lighting and ventilating, and installation of new laboratory equipment to rehabilitate and modernize these quarters and is a part of the remodeling program related to the activation of the Research and Educational Hospitals Addition. Funds are available in the special appropriation made by the Board oi Trustees on May 15, 1954, for this remodeling program. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d a n d the C o m p t r o l l e r a n d t h e 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 execute the same. ADDITION TO CONTRACT FOR POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION (15) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend an increase of $5,060.78 in a current contract with E. N. DeAtley, Champaign, for the superstructure work in the construction of an addition to the Abbott Power Plant. The plans on which the contract is based provide for a temporary wall to permit future additions to the building on the north. Studies of anticipated future building construction indicate that the capacity of future boiler unitapproximate 150,000 pounds of steam per hour instead of 80,000 pounds which is the design capacity of existing boilers. The increase in size of these boiler units and the location of the cooling towers make it advisable to construct a future addition south of the present plant instead of north. Hence, it is 110: feasible to carry through the plans for a temporary wall as now provided in the contract documents, and a permanent wall should be constructed. Funds are available in a state appropriation for 1953-55 f ° r "addition tc Power and Heating Plant, including plans and specifications and fixed equipment." I concur and recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to execute the change in this contract.

On motion of Mr. Bissell, this increase in the contract was authorized.

ADDITION TO CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR POWER PLANT ADDITION (16) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend an increase of $5,000 in a current contract with Sargent and Lundy, Consulting Engineers, Chicago, for services on an addition to the Abbott Power Plant for