Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 230]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1949]

UNIVERSITY

OF I L L I N O I S

227

Executive Committee that the recommendations of President Stoddard be approved, as amended to provide for an amortization period of about fifteen years and for the employment of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill to assist the Small Homes Council on a cost-plus fixed-fee basis with a guaranteed maximum of $16,000. The Committee adjourned.

H . E. CUNNINGHAM Clerk FRANK H . MCKELVEY, Chairman PARK LIVINGSTON WALTER W . MCLAUGHLIN

STAFF HOUSING RESEARCH PROJECT

On recommendation of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, the recommendations of President Stoddard for the establishment of a staff housing research project (page 196 above) as amended (page 226 above) was approved and authorized, and the appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Davis. 1

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT STODDARD

The Executive Committee acted on the following matters presented by the President of the University.

INSTITUTE O F AVIATION (1) Director Leslie A. Bryan of the Institute of Aeronautics recommends that the name of the Institute be changed to "Institute of Aviation." This will give the Institute a name which is more widely used and understood by the general public. It will also help eliminate the confusion of the Department of Aeronautical E n gineering (a Department in the College of Engineering), with the Institute. Dean M. L. Enger of the College of Engineering and Professor H . S. Stillwell, Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, concur. I recommend approval.

This change of name was approved as recommended.

AWARD O F CONTRACT FOR ASPHALT TILE FLOOR IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS RESEARCH LABORATORY BUILDINGS (2) Bids have been received on installation of asphalt tile floor surfacing in portions of the Electrical Engineering Building and the Physics Research Laboratory. Provision of this type of floor surfacing was deferred until it was certain that funds would be available to cover the cost of such installation. Funds are now available and bids have been taken on such floor surfacing throughout the Electrical Engineering Building, except where already provided, and in the offices and public areas only of the Physics Research Laboratory. In the Electrical Engineering Building, the original contract included the provision of this surfacing only in the large machine laboratory, the department office, and the corridors. T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract in the amount of $11,290 ($10,327 for the Electrical Engineering Building and $972 for the Physics Research Laboratory) to the lowest bidder, the Roofing and Insulation Supply Company, Champaign-Urbana. I concur and request that authority be given to the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board to execute the contract.

This authority was given as recommended.

AWARD O F CONTRACT FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING SANITARY SEWER (3) Bids have been received for the construction of a sanitary sewer to serve the temporary housing areas on the west side of the campus, to relieve the present overloaded sewers from the Stadium and the Men's Residence Hall, and to serve other future University buildings in this area. Funds are available. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recom1 On instructions from the Committee, the Secretary informed Mr. Davis, by telephone, of the amendments proposed, and received his concurrence and permission to record him as voting in the affirmative.