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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (12) T h e Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds from the General Reserve for the following purposes: 1. Graduate College, costs of symposium in commemoration of the College's fiftieth anniversary $ 4 500 00 2. Department of Botany, remodeling in Natural History Building and purchase of equipment for laboratories 6 142 50 3. College of Commerce and Business Administration, purchase of equipment for data processing I 150 00 4. Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, purchase of equipment 4 725 50 Total $16 518 00 I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these appropriations were made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton.

CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY AT 1 0 0 8 WEST GREEN STREET, URBANA, ILLINOIS (13) The University now owns all of the property on the north side of the 1000 block of West Green Street needed by it as a site for Single Graduate Student's Dormitory Unit No. 2, with the exception of the property located at 1008 West Green Street. The property at 1008 West Green Street is owned by Mr. William R. Hunsicker. The lot is improved with an old residence which has been converted to seven utility apartments and also with a new apartment building completed in 1957, containing eight small apartments. The entire property is rented by the' owner to tenants, most of whom are students. None of it is occupied by Mr. Hunsicker as his personal residence. The lot has a frontage of approximately 67 feet on Green Street and a depth of approximately 234 feet. Prior to the completion of the new apartment building, negotiations were opened by officers of the University with Mr. Hunsicker in an effort to acquire the property. Mr. Hunsicker, however, refused to sell to the University at that time. The University has had careful and detailed appraisals made of the entire property and negotiations have been conducted by officers of the University with the owner for the acquisition of this property based upon these appraisals. A great number of conferences with the owner have been held and it is now established that the owner and the University can not agree on the amount of compensation to be paid to him for this property. Mr. Hunsicker is unwilling to sell to the University except at a price which the University officers deem decidedly exorbitant and excessive. It is therefore necessary to request that the Board of Trustees resort to its right of eminent domain in order to acquire title to this property at a fair and reasonable price, and the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Director of the Physical Plant Department, and the Legal Counsel so recommend. I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution. Resolution It is hereby resolved, found and declared by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that the following described real estate, situated in the City of Urbana, County of Champaign and State of Illinois, viz.: The West 67 feet of Lot Three (3) in Block Two (2) of Burpee, Curtiss and Somers' Addition of Out Lots to the City of Urbana, is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois, as the site for a building needed and to be constructed by said University for educational purposes and to enable said University to discharge its duties to the people of said state and for public use; that funds available for the purchase of said land have been appropriated to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois by the General A s -