Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 130]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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If funds are available and the University approves proceeding with extension of the utility distribution systems, Sargent and Lundy will enter into its usual engineering service agreement with the University and will credit the University with one-half of the 100 per cent overhead charge referred to above. The University will not be committed to making any payments in excess of $40,000 prior to July 1, 1957, when funds appropriated for the 1957-59 biennium become available. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that a contract be entered into with Sargent and Lundy on the terms specified, provided that it may be terminated by the University or scope of services reduced. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contract and that an appropriation of $40,000 be made from the General Reserve for these services. On motion of M r . Livingston, this contract was awarded, as recommended, and the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same; and an appropriation of $40,000 was made from the General Reserve F u n d to apply on this contract. This action was taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, M r . Herrick, M r s . Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Swain, M r s . Watkins, M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . Nickell, Mr. Stratton.

ADDRESS BY MIODRAG MUNTYAN

At this point the President of the University presented Mr. M i o d r a g Muntyan, Director of the University Press, who addressed the Board discussing the work of the P r e s s and some of its problems. An exhibit of Press publications was on display-in the meeting room.

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS O F CONTRACTORS FOR CONSTRUCTION O F THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS ADDITION

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees on October 24, 1952, Messrs. Livingston, Hickman, Herrick, Johnston, and Megran were appointed a special committee to consider the claims of the Patrick W a r r e n Construction Company, and of other contractors, with respect to additional costs they alleged were incurred by them in the construction of the addition to the Research and Educational Hospitals. A s reported to the Board on September 18, 1956, Crouch-Walker Company, one of the subcontractors, has instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County in which the University is one of the defendants, asking j u d g ment to satisfy certain claims. T h e Board has authorized the employment of special counsel in this suit. President Megran announced that it is desirable to reactivate this special committee to advise the Board and the administration of the University regarding these claims and certain other issues which have been raised. H e stated that he is reappointing this committee, with Mr. Livingston as Chairman, and is adding to it Messrs. Bissell and Williamson.

MEETING W I T H MEDICAL CENTER COMMISSION

With the approval of the Board of Trustees, a formal request was submitted to the Medical Center Commission for the allocation of certain specified areas of land in the Medical Center District for the future development of the University's Chicago Professional Colleges. T h e Secretary reported that representatives of the University are invited to