Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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608 BOARD OF TRUSTEES STIVEN H O U S E [March 13 (12) The Acting Director of the School of Music and the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts recommend that the house at 708 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, recently purchased by the University as an annex to Smith Music Hall, be named Stiven House as a memorial to the late Professor Frederic B. Stiven, who was Director of the School of Music from 1921 until his death in January, 1947. I concur. On motion of Mr. Herrick, this recommendation was approved. CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN RESEARCH A N D EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (13) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract for $27,700 to the Perry Construction Company, Inc., Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling in the Research and Educational Hospitals to provide an Orthopaedic Sun Porch. The remodeling of presently unused space will provide eight additional hospital beds. A recommendation for an appropriation of $35,000 to cover this contract and related work is being presented separately. Subject to the approval of this appropriation, I recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mrs. Holt, this contract was authorized as recommended. CONTRACT FOR SITE DEVELOPMENT FOR VETERINARY MEDICINE BUILDING (14) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract for $20,050 to the General Paving Company, Champaign, the lowest bidder, for site development for the new Veterinary Medicine Building, including construction of court and driveway pavement, sidewalks, and finishing north edge of the Pennsylvania Avenue pavement, with the provision that finished grading may be added to the contract later. Funds are available in the state appropriation for this building. I concur. On motion of Mr. Johnston, this contract was authorized as recommended. CONTRACT FOR LANDSCAPING OF STUDENT AND STAFF APARTMENTS GROUNDS (15) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $6,000 to Irving L. Peterson, Champaign, the lowest bidder, for landscaping the grounds of the Student and Staff Apartments at Urbana. The work will include grading, seeding, and planting of nursery stock. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this contract was authorized as recommended. CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES (16) The Physical Plant Department occasionally needs the assistance of a consulting mechanical engineer on small construction projects. The Director requests authority to employ E. C. Manthei, Champaign, as a consulting engineer on minor projects as needed on the basis of 6 per cent of the cost of the work done by him in preparation of plans and specifications and an additional 2 per cent of the cost if it is desirable to employ him to supervise the work under construction. I concur. On motion of Mr. Nickell, this contract was authorized as recommended.
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