Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 558]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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5. Construction of parking area, including landscaping, to serve the Veterinary Medicine Building, Mumford Hall, and other buildings in that vicinity 33 500 6. X-ray equipment for the Department of Geology 14 600 Chicago Professional Colleges 7. Rehabilitation of lockers in the Department of Anatomy 8. Acquisition of a colony of experimental mice for the College of Medicine Transportation and equipment $3 200 Installation of ventilating fans and a package air-conditioning unit for the room in which the mice will be housed 2 300 9. Equipment for the College of Pharmacy 10. Air-conditioning and ventilating work in the Betatron, this assignment to be made from the Chicago nonrecurring fund 900 5 500

1 000 5 027

I recommend that these appropriations be made from the General Reserve Fund, except as indicated in the last item.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, these appropriations were made, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Stevenson.

APPROPRIATION FOR FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING BUILDING (9) The Board of Trustees has assigned $40,000 from the state appropriation for 1949-1951 of $290,000 (plus $15,000 for contingencies) for "Construction of agricultural structures and remodeling present agricultural buildings" for remodeling and improving space in the Agricultural Engineering Building. The Board also assigned $120,000 for construction of new space. This remodeling and improvement, which will make the building as functionally useful as possible, should not be undertaken before certain fire hazards are eliminated. The Director of the Physical Plant and the College of Agriculture have prepared a plan for long-range use of the building in compliance with safety code regulations to provide the degree of safety in the Agricultural Engineering Building which is necessary as a minimum program: Installation of sprinkler system in the original building and tractor laboratory which could be accomplished without major building alterations. .$30 000 Construction of a new enclosed stair in the southeast corner of the building with direct access to the exterior and to the floor over the existing stair which is adjacent to the elevator shaft 8 500 Other, less urgent, improvements will be recommended later. It is desirable that the remodeling and improvements for which the assignment of $40,000 was made from the state appropriation and the safety improvements be done concurrently. T h e Provost, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Comptroller recommend an appropriation of $38,500 from the General Reserve Fund to initiate this program of fire protection and safety improvements. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Grange, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Stevenson.

APPROPRIATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING (10) The Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Comptroller recommend that an appropriation of $1,260 be made from accumulated receipts of the Department of Agricultural Engineering for the purchase of a pickup truck to replace one purchased in 1938.