Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950
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1949] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 411 It is recommended that authority be granted to execute a contract with Pace Associates for this project subject to the availability of funds in the 1949-1951 appropriations. I request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Livingston, this contract was authorized. REPLACEMENT OF TENNIS COURTS IN CHICAGO (21) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the awarding of a contract for $11,095 to Frank H . Stowell, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for the construction of tennis courts at the corner of Polk and Wood Streets in Chicago. This construction is necessary to replace tennis courts which were torn up for the installation of underground steam and electrical lines. Funds are available. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Nickell, this contract was authorized. CONTRACT FOR INSTALLATION OF DENTAL UNITS (22) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the awarding of a contract for $4,083 to Fettes, Love, and Sieben, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for the installation of thirteen dental units in the Medical and Dental College Laboratories Building in Chicago. The purchase of these units was previously authorized by the Board and funds were appropriated for this purpose, including installation costs. Funds are available. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Fornof, this contract was authorized. CONTRACT FOR A NEW 5 0 0 KVA UNIT SUBSTATION IN CHICAGO (23) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract for $10,975 to the White City Electric Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for the electrical work for a new 500 kva unit substation in the Chicago Illini Union Building on the Chicago Professional Colleges Campus. Funds are available. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mr. Hickman, this contract was authorized. ADDITION TO CONTRACT FOR HOUSING AREA SANITARY SEWER (24) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend an addition of $2,340.65 to the contract with Mancini, Ventrella, and Sons for the construction of a sanitary sewer serving the University housing area and other University buildings on the west side of the campus. The increase is to provide for crushed rock for bedding sewer tile where poor soil bearing conditions were encountered and for the additional work required because of unrecorded utility lines. T h e specifications for this construction job provide for additional allowances for unusual conditions encountered during construction. This allowance relieved the contractor of including in his bid a contingency factor. It has been the experience of consulting engineers that making such provisions for contracts in sewer jobs results in a lower over-all cost than would be the case if contractors had to anticipate such contingencies in the base bid. Funds are available in the State appropriation for "Construction of temporary student housing." I concur and recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to execute this change in the contract. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this change was authorized.
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