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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Contractor and the University Legal Counsel have submitted the attached stipulation to which the Board of Trustees is requested to agree. I recommend that the stipulation be approved subject to the following conditions: 1. T h a t William E. Britton, in acting for the University in the settlement of individual items, proceed in accordance with the advice of the UniversityArchitect and the Comptroller (the latter acting as auditor on cost contracts). 2. That items not in excess of $1,000 may be settled and paid, the total of such payments to be reported to the Board. 3. That items in excess of $1,000 are to be reported to the Board for approval before payment in accordance with the usual procedure. 4. That no agreement shall be concluded with respect to any settlement for damages arising from the delay in completing the contract except with the approval of the Board of Trustees. After discussion, and on motion of M r . Davis, the President of the Board was authorized to appoint a special committee 1 to review this matter in conference with the President of the U n i v e r s i t y a n d with the aid of the Comptroller, the Legal Counsel, the Director of the Physical Plant Department, and others, and make a recommendation to the Board. ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES ON STAFF HOUSING (16) The University's Staff Housing Committee recommends that Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Architects for the Student and Staff Apartments being constructed at Green and Goodwin, Urbana, be employed on a limited basis for further studies of rental staff housing. Such a study would yield information needed by University officials in deciding how any funds appropriated for housing for the biennium of 1049-1951 can be used effectively. This study will include working in conjunction with the Community Planner to recommend locations, estimates of costs of land acquisition and site developments, economic analysis and recommendation of types of construction, development of income and expense budgets. The estimated cost of this service is $3,600. The Staff Housing Committee considered various possibilities of making such a study and concluded that the work can be done with the least delay and expense to the University and on the broadest possible basis by a qualified firm of architects. In the judgment of the Committee an independent survey will also be valuable. I recommend that the Executive Committee authorize employment of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill for this work and that an assignment of $3,600 be made from the General Reserve Fund to cover the cost thereof. On motion of M r . Livingston, this recommendation was approved, and the appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Fornof, M r . Davis, M r . Livingston. T h e E x e c u t i v e Committee adjourned.

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J O H N R. F O R N O F , Chairman C H E S T E R R. D A V I S

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President Fornof, on December 30, 1948, appointed Mr. Kenney E. Williamson and resident George D. Stoddard to serve on this committee.