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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948
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1048 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March 9 The Allis-Chalmers Company now requests authority to execute a contract with the Pennoyer Merchants Transfer Company for the actual rigging required for the 300-mev Betatron. This proposed contract provides for charges to be computed on the basis of fixed hourly rates varying by the class of labor used. The estimated total cost of this work is $20,800. The proposed hourly rates to be charged under this contract have been checked and have been found to be about the same as those quoted by other firms for this work. Professors Donald W. Kerst, F. W. Loomis, and Dean M. L. Enger recommend that the Allis-Chalmers Company be authorized to sub-let this work for the following reasons: 1. The supervision of the erection is the responsibility of the Allis-Chalmers erection department. 2. There will be no question of divided responsibility as there would be if the University contracted directly with the rigging company. 3. Pennoyer Merchants Transfer Company has worked with Allis-Chalmers before on similar jobs and Allis-Chalmers' erection engineers are satisfied the Company can do this one satisfactorily. The Director of Purchases and the Comptroller have reviewed the proposed contract and concur in the recommendation. I concur. On motion of Mr. Nickell, the sub-letting of this work was authorized as recommended. PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS FOR THE CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (14) The Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division at Navy Pier has requested the purchase of the following described public address equipment for the uses indicated: 1. Two public address systems for the Drill Hall. The Department of Physical Education has requested these systems to cover simultaneously a class at the north end of the Drill Hall for men and another in the south end for women. 2. A public address system for the Auditorium at the east end of the Pier to be used for lectures, meetings, and examinations. 3. Two portable units of 25 watts each to be used in lecture rooms and rented to University organizations requiring public address systems. 4. Two portable automatic record changers for use with the above equipment. 5. A program console to provide flexible control of program pickup. This will make it possible to add four microphones and to combine the two systems in the Drill Hall and the Auditorium for large meetings. The following bids have been received on this equipment installed: Boom Electric Company, Chicago, $6,930; Johnson Electric Company, Chicago, $7,191. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend award of the contract for $6,930 to the Boom Electric Company, the lowest bidder. Funds are available in the Physical Plant Department budget for this purchase. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contract. On motion of Mr. McKelvey, this contract was awarded, and authority given as recommended. CASE OF WALTER R. REEVE At this point, the Secretary read a telegram from Attorney H. F. Simonson to the President of the Board, requesting reconsideration of action in the case of Mr. Walter R. Reeve (Minutes, February 21, 1948, page 1003). T h e Board requested the Director of Nonacademic Personnel to inform M r . Simonson that its action of F e b r u a r y 2 1 , 1948, was final.
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