Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948 [PAGE 1069]

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maintenance standpoint the Skinner organ is believed to be the best organ available. Its tonal quality is of the highest character. This company also has pioneered in a somewhat different type of pipe organ known as the Baroque type which has been installed in several music schools. These schools report satisfaction with this instrument for training purposes. It is a small instrument that produces tonal effects previously to be had only in the largest organs. It is proposed that the University have one of the new organs built according to this design and the other in accordance with the more conventional design. In both cases the number of pipes and consequent scope of the instruments is greater than that of the original specifications. The bid of the Skinner Company on the two organs under the new specifications is only $100 greater than its bid on the original specifications. The total quoted cost of the two new organs is $19,000 which is in excess of the special appropriation made for this purpose. The two organs being replaced, which will be of no use to the University, can probably be sold for an amount at least equal to this excess and it is requested that such receipts be appropriated for this purpose. The Director of the School of Music has agreed that any difference may be taken out of his regular equipment appropriation. The Director of Purchases and the Comptroller concur in this recommendation and request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute a contract with the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company for two practice organs for the School of Music for the total sum of $19,000, payment to be made as the work of construction and installation progresses up to 75% of the purchase price, and the remaining payment to be made after installation and acceptance which is presently expected by September I, 1949. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r s . H o l t , t h i s p u r c h a s e w a s a u t h o r i z e d a n d t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n of r e c e i p t s m a d e a s r e c o m m e n d e d , b y t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : Aye, M r . Fornof, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . Davis, M r . Green, D r . L u k e n , Dr. Meyer, M r . Nickell. AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR REPLACEMENT OF ELEVATOR BRAKES IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (13) The following bids were received on March 30 for the replacement of brakes in elevators in the Research and Educational Hospitals: D. C. Brakes A. C. Brakes Otis Elevator Company S3 133 00 No bid Reliance Elevator Company 2 475 00 No bid Haughton Elevator Company 2 365 00 J2 165 00 The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract to the lowest bidder, the Haughton Elevator Company, accepting their proposal for use of alternating current type of brakes, at a total cost of $2,165. Funds are available. I concur and request 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 . M c L a u g h l i n , 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 authority given as recommended. ADDITIONS TO CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TEMPORARY WAREHOUSE NO. 1 AND VETERANS' TEMPORARY RECREATION BUILDING (14) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend: 1. An addition of $2,075 to the contract with the Champaign Plumbing and Heating Company for the heating installation, not provided by the Federal Works Agency, in Temporary Warehouse No. I. 2. An addition of $2,895.31 to the contract with J. L. Simmons Company, Incorporated, for the construction of the Veterans' Temporary Recreation Building.