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asphalt. The sewage disposal plant is not included in these bids. The engineers of all participating agencies recommend the acceptance of the bid on the concrete road. By changes in the improvements of certain parking areas and drainage, the total bid for a concrete entrance road and other improvements excluding the sewer disposal unit has been reduced to $105,000. The project has been revised whereby the Civil Aeronautics Administration will contribute $52,000 and the State Department of Aeronautics will contribute $62,500. This is adequate to pay for the reduced contract with the General Paving Company. The University will complete the sewage disposal improvements within the funds appropriated by the Board of Trustees for the University's share of the project. Since the University is the sponsor of the project, it was required by the Civil Aeronautics Administration to authorize the State Department of Aeronautics to execute the contract with the General Paving Company even though no University funds are involved in this phase of the work. This authorization has been given. The Sixty-seventh General Assembly has enacted a law authorizing publicly supported institutions of higher education to acquire by agreement with highway officials jurisdiction over public streets and roads which adjoin or which may be used as access roads to the Airport owned by such institutions. Local highway authorities will enter into an agreement with the University giving such jurisdiction and control of the access road to the Airport. The Director of the Institute of Aviation and the Comptroller recommend (a) Authorization of the grant agreement and all representations and covenants contained therein as outlined above and authorization of the State Department of Aeronautics, as Agent of the University, to execute a contract for $105,000 with the General Paving Company, Champaign, for the Airport improvements. (b) Authorization of an agreement between the University and local highway officials under which the University of Illinois will assume jurisdiction, control, and responsibility for maintenance of the access road to the Airport. It is recommended that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute all necessary implementing documents.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, authority was granted as recommended.

CONTRACT FOR INSTALLATION OF GAS REGULATORS IN HOUSING UNITS (6) Most of the temporary family housing units serviced by gas for heating and cooking were provided with constant pressure gas regulators at the time the buildings were moved to the campus, but ninety-two of these buildings in the Stadium Terrace area were not so equipped. At present gas pressure varies so much that a flame in a burner not equipped with a regulator is sometimes extinguished, thus creating a hazard. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $2,473 to the Champaign Plumbing and Heating Company, Champaign, the lowest bidder, for the installation of gas pressure regulators in these ninety-two buildings. Funds are available in the income from operations of these buildings. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mr. Megran, this contract was authorized.

REMODELING OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY (7) The Board of Trustees has authorized the interior remodeling of the Engineering Research Laboratory (the former Physical Plant Service Building) to provide suitable quarters for research. Contracts were awarded and an assignment of $320,000 was made for this remodeling at the meeting of the Board on May 20, 1950. The original contracts did not include completion of the third and fourth floors which had been eliminated in order to reduce the remodeling cost. On