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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 29

INCREASE IN PAYMENTS FOR USE OF URBANA CITY DUMP (23) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend that the action of the Board on May 15, 1954, authorizing continuation of the present agreement with the city of Urbana, relating to the operation of the city dump whereby the University will pay its proportionate share of land acquisition costs, be amended to authorize payments as follows: , . T Instead of 1954-55 $4 650 00 J4 950 00 1955-56 2 145 00 1 800 00 1956-57 2 047 50 1 800 00 $8 842 50 $8 550 00 The city has acquired a larger tract of land, approximately eighty acres instead of thirty, than originally contemplated which increases the University's obligations under this agreement. I concur in this recommendation.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, the previous action of the Board was amended as recommended above, this action being taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton.

INCREASE IN CONTRACT OF CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES (24) The Board of Trustees has authorized a contract with Consulting Engineering Services, Champaign, for various types of engineering work in planning the construction of new buildings. The contract provides for payment of actual salaries of personnel, plus 90 per cent for overhead and commission, with a maximum of $5,000 on the Law Building and $2,500 on any other job. The consulting engineering services required in designing the Veterinary Clinic Building will cost more than the $2,500 limitation. The Director of the Physical Plant and.the Comptroller recommend an increase in the contract to a maximum of $3,5oo for this particular job. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to execute th:s change in the contract.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, this recommendation was approved and the Comptroller was authorized to execute the necessary change in the contract.

REJECTION OF BIDS O N VETERINARY CLINIC BUILDING (25) The bids received on the construction of the Veterinary Clinic Building total $712,248, whereas the state appropriation for this building is only $586,000. The Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the University Architect are revising the plans for this building to provide for its construction within the funds available. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend that all bids except the bids for laboratory equipment be rejected and that new bids be taken on the remaining work. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, this recommendation was approved.

EXTENSION OF CONTRACT FOR OPERATION OF CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY (26) Since early 1951, the University has been carrying on certain import confidential research for the Department of Defense in the physical sciences. To carry on these studies, the University organized within the Engineering Experiment Station the Control Systems Laboratory of which the Head of the Physics Department is the Director. Contracts with three branches of the armed services for the support of this project will have totaled $4,346,984 through November 30, 1954. This covers all direct and indirect costs to the University. ( A review of the project and the special procedures followed in it were presented to the Board September 23, 1953, and a copy of that report is attached.)