Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948 [PAGE 1157]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Manufacturing Company, in the amount of $276,879.60 (excluding an alternate bid providing a reduction of $19,568.50 which is considered undesirable) ; that all other bids received on this project be rejected; and that the funds needed to complete the installation of this equipment be included in the biennial capital budget for 1949-1951. O n m o t i o n of M r . M c L a u g h l i n , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p proved and adopted. REMODELING IN SMITH MUSIC HALL BASEMENT (5) Bids have been received for the remodeling in the basement of Smith Music Hall to provide three additional studios and some remodeling in Lincoln Hall basement for storage space for material which must be removed from Smith Music Hall. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract to the lowest bidder, Kuhne-Simmons Co., Inc., in the amount of $9,808. The Board of Trustees has previously assigned funds for this project. I concur and request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute a contract with Kuhne-Simmons Co., Inc.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, the execution of this contract was authorized as recommended.

REMODELING TEMPORARY BUILDINGS FOR STAFF HOUSING (6) T h e need for additional housing for staff in the Urbana-Champaign departments is still acute. It is possible to release three temporary buildings on the Drill Field which can be remodeled to provide nine apartments. Two of these buildings are now being used as warehouses, so that only one building previously used for student housing would be transferred. The cost of remodeling is estimated at $32,000. Bids have been secured for work to be done by outside contractors. T h e Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the following awards to the lowest bidders: E. N. DeAtley, Champaign, general contract $15 943 Square Deal Electric Company, LaPorte, Indiana, electrical work 1 350 Reliable Plumbing & Heating Company, Champaign, plumbing work 9 221 I recommend an appropriation of $32,000 from the General Reserve Fund, and the award of the above contracts as recommended.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, contracts were awarded and the appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Davis, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Nickell.

CONTRACT FOR B R O A D W A L K O N CARR A V E N U E O N CENTRAL C A M P U S

(7) For many years campus plans have included the construction of a concrete broad walk on the east side of the central campus in front of the Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry and Davenport Hall, from H a r k e r Hall at the north to the Auditorium at the south. The time has now come for this improvement. The old walks are narrow, in a bad state of repair, and are a hazard. With the construction of the Chemistry and other buildings, increase in pedestrian traffic will require a new and wider walk. It will match the walk on Burrill Avenue. T h e site of the proposed new walk is already lined with trees planted and maintained from funds donated for them by the late Robert F. Carr, Class of 1893, a former member and President of the Board of Trustees. T h e avenue was named "Carr Avenue" by the Board of Trustees. Lighting is already installed.