Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 836]

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1949]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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I concur and request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute these contracts.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, authority was given as recommended.

SANITARY SEWER FOR SMALL HOMES COUNCIL HOUSING RESEARCH PROJECT (25) T h e City of Urbana has agreed to permit connection of the sanitary sewer in the Small Homes Council Housing Research Project area at Race Street and Florida Avenue to the city system. This will require a new sewer from Pennsylvania Avenue to Michigan Avenue and the University should assume its proportionate share ($1,267.86) of the cost of the improvement. The city is ready to proceed with the construction. The improvement is needed and the Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend that the University assume its share of the cost. Funds are available in the budget set up for this housing project. I concur and request that the Comptroller be authorized to pay the City of Urbana the sum of $1,267.86 when the sewer has been completed.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, authority was given as recommended.

APPROPRIATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PARKING LOT FACILITIES (26) There are now about 5,000 faculty and staff cars and nearly 3,000 student cars for which parking spaces are sought on or near the campus. T h e University of Illinois now has about 2,000 spaces which have been surfaced and are operated mainly for the use of faculty. The congestion around the campus is extremely bad and hazardous for all concerned. The Provost has recently appointed a committee to consider the whole problem of parking facilities, including new areas that might be developed and the merits of a nominal rental fee for the continued use of parking spaces. Student pressure for increased facilities is severe. Several areas have already been studied by the Physical Plant Department and four of these could be made available for use in the very near future, whenever funds are available. Areas presently under consideration would provide for about 372 spaces for students and 94 spaces for staff. This whole problem has been under review by the Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations and the Committee is favorable to prompt and substantial steps toward providing additional parking facilities. I recommend an appropriation of $30,000 from General Reserve to the Physical Plant Department in order to provide additional parking facilities, specific assignments from this fund to be made by the President of the University for each particular project, the bids to be submitted to the Executive Committee for authorization of contracts.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appropriation was made under the conditions specified, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Stevenson.

RELEASE OF FUNDS FROM UNIVERSITY CLUB OF URBANA TRUST (27) On October 29, 1943 (Minutes, page 743), the Board of Trustees approved an agreement with the Men's University Club of Urbana for the purchase by the University of the property of the Club and providing for changes in the future operations of the Club. This agreement also established a trust fund for "the financing of a future building project and/or furnishing or equipping space to be occupied by the Club." T h e Men's University Club undertook to induce its members to contribute the fund for a future Faculty Graduate Student Center by turning in Club bonds, the value of which could be applied to the fund, or by making other contributions. The University agreed to match all moneys con-