Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 372]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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unit for single graduate students. Negotiations have been conducted by the Physical Plant Department with Miss Asman, Mrs. Hardesty, and their agents and representatives, and it appears that the amount of compensation to be paid for the property can not be agreed upon. Miss Asman, Mrs. Hardesty, and their agents and representatives are unwilling to sell the property to the University except at a price which University officers deem excessive. It is, therefore, obvious that it will be necessary for the University to resort to its right of eminent domain in order to acquire this property at a reasonable price. Accordingly, the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Legal Counsel recommend the adoption of the following resolution, and I concur. 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 in Champaign County, Illinois, to wit: T h e East Half (El/2) of Lot Seven (7) of W . M. Goodwin's addition to the City of Urbana. is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois, as part of the site of a building needed and to be constructed by said University of Illinois for educational purposes and for further expansion of educational facilities of the University of Illinois and to enable the University to discharge its duty to the people of said state and for public u s e ; that funds are now available for the purchase of said land; that this Board of Trustees has negotiated with Miss Florence Asman and Mrs. Ruby Hardesty, the owners of said land, and with their duly authorized representatives for the purchase of said land at a price which this Board of Trustees considers fair and reasonable and which it finds constitutes the present market value of said land, but they have refused to sell and convey the land to T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for such price and continue to refuse to sell and convey the same to it except for a consideration and price which T h e Board of Trustees deems excessive and is, therefore, unwilling and has refused to pay; and / / is further hereby resolved, found and declared by said T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that the compensation to be paid by it for said land cannot be agreed upon between this Board of Trustees and the said Miss Florence Asman and Mrs. Ruby Hardesty and they and it are unable to agree upon the purchase price to be paid them for the sale and conveyance by them thereof to said The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, and Therefore, it is further hereby resolved, found and declared by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that, because of the said need of said University for said land for the purposes herein set forth and because the compensation to be paid to said Florence Asman and Ruby Hardesty as the owners thereof for such land can not be agreed upon between them and this Board of Trustees it is necessary for T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to take said land and acquire title thereto through the exercise by it of the right of eminent domain conferred upon it by law and to have the compensation to be paid by it to the said Florence Asman and Ruby Hardesty and any and all other persons who may have any right, title or interest in and to said land determined in the manner provided by law for the exercise of said right and power of eminent domain; and It is further hereby resolved by this Board of Trustees that the necessary and appropriate action be taken for the acquisition of title to said property by said T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and to have the compensation to be paid therefor determined by the institution and prosecution to completion of a proceeding in eminent domain in a court of competent jurisdiction and that the Legal Counsel of the University be and he is hereby authorized to proceed accordingly, to institute and prosecute an eminent domain proceeding in the name of T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the acquisition of said land and the determination of the compensation to be paid by it therefor, and to employ such special legal counsel, appraisers and others as he may deem necessary or desirable to assist him in the institution and prosecution of said proceeding.