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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956
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74 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 29 per cent for completed working drawings. Detailed supervision of construction will be performed by personnel in the University architectural division. The cost of such services, approximately $7,500 for building studies and $15,000 for completed working drawings, will be paid from surplus funds now available in the Housing Division. I recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Bissell, this recommendation was approved and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the contract. CONTRACT FOR LABORATORY F U R N I T U R E , CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES (16) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $69,362.27 to the Walrus Manufacturing Company, Decatur, the lowest bidder, for the manufacture and installation of laboratory furniture at the Chicago Professional Colleges. The work will consist of fabricating and installing 164 pieces of laboratory furniture including laboratory sinks, benches, drying racks, and other equipment in areas being remodeled for us by the Departments of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Oral Pathology, and by the School of Nursing. Funds are available in the Revenue Bond Construction Funds and within the sum of $040,000 made available by the Board of Trustees for remodeling these areas at its meeting on May 15, 1954. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Grange, this contract was awarded as recommended, and the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same. CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN DENTISTRY-MEDICINEPHARMACY BUILDING (17) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $28,689 to Frank Stowell & Sons, Inc., Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling of quarters for the Department of Physiology in the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. Funds are available in a special appropriation made by the Board of Trustees on May 15, 1954, for remodeling. 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 as recommended, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same. CONTRACT FOR LANDSCAPING EAST DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING AREA (18) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $7,472.50 to Clauss Bros., Chicago, the lowest bidder, for landscaping the area surrounding the East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. The work will consist of installation of top fill, planting trees and shrubbery, and seeding the area surrounding the East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building. Funds are available in the construction budget for the East Dentistry-MedicinePharmacy Building to cover the cost of this work. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Grange, this contract was awarded as recommended, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same. CONTRACT FOR POWER PLANT ADDITION (19) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $5,649 to the Asbestos and Magnesia Material Company, Chicago,
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