Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 28]

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PURCHASE OF PYREX LABORATORY GLASSWARE (30) Approximately 1,400 cases of Pyrex laboratory glassware will be required for use in instructional and research laboratories at the Urbana departments for the year ending June 30, 1949. This glassware is sold only through authorized dealers at prices prescribed by the manufacturer, the Corning Glass Works, and subject only to discounts which vary on quantity order. The minimum quantity price is based on a minimum of one hundred cases. The total estimated expenditure for the year is $27,000. All purchases are placed in the General Chemical Storeroom and issued from that point to the various laboratories and charged to budgetary accounts of the departments concerned. The Director of Purchases requests authority to place orders from time to time with the following authorized dealers in this territory for approximate uniform amounts of $3,000 total for each dealer for the year, for quantities sufficient in each instance to obtain the lowest price and in accordance with the needs for additional stock from time to time. Central Scientific Company, Chicago $3 000 Chicago Apparatus Company, Chicago 3 000 A. Daigger and Company, Chicago 3 000 A. S. LaPine and Company, Chicago 3 000 Rascher and Betzold, Chicago 3 000 E. PI. Sargent and Company, Chicago 3 000 Schaar and Company, Chicago 3 000 W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company, Chicago 3 000 Wilkens-Anderson Company, Chicago 3 000 The Comptroller concurs in this recommendation. I also concur and request approval.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, these purchases were authorized as recommended.

REMODELING ROOMS 1 0 8 - 1 1 3 NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING (31) An appropriation has been requested by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for remodeling Rooms 108-113 Natural History Building. This is intended to give some measure of relief to the Departments of Geology and Botany. Both of these departments are very crowded at the present time. In addition, an outstanding cytogeneticist with an extensive research program is being added to the staff this fall and space must be provided for his work. The Physical Plant Department has received estimates from contractors indicating a cost of approximately $8,750. This request was referred to the Committee on Special Appropriations and Nonrecurring Expenditures for emergency action. The Committee recommends that the work be completed at an early date; otherwise the work of these departments will be seriously impeded. I concur and recommend an appropriation of $8,750 and request that the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contracts necessary for this remodeling.

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

AWARD OF CERTIFICATES OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT (32) The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of Certified Public Accountant be awarded the following who have made applications therefor under Section 5 of the Accountancy Act of 1943. They have presented satisfactory evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked C.P.A. certificates which they obtained from other states by passing written examinations, and that they have satisfied the other conditions specified in Section 5 of the Act.