Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 373]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 18

O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d b y the following v o t e : A y e , M r . Bissell, M r . H e r r i c k , M r s . H o l t , M r . H u g h e s , M r . L i v i n g s t o n , M r . Nickell, M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s ; no, none; absent, M r . Johnston, M r . Stratton, M r . Williamson. 1106 W e s t Illinois S t r e e t T h e University now owns property adjacent to that located at 1106 West Illinois Street in the city of Urbana, Illinois. T h e latter is owned by John B. Mizelle and Jeanne R. Mizelle. T h e University needs the property at 1106 West Illinois Street as part of the site for one of its contemplated housing units. Negotiations have been conducted by the Physical Plant Department with the owners and their agent with the result that it appears that the amount of compensation to be paid the owners by the University for the property can not be agreed upon. T h e Mizelles and their agent 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 South One H u n d r e d Sixty-eight (168) feet of the East One-half (Ei/ 2 ) of Lot Ten (10) in W . M. Goodwin's Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois. 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 John B. Mizelle and Jeanne R. Mizelle, the owners of said land and with their duly authorized representative 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 The Board of Trustees deems excessive and is, therefore, unwilling and has refused to pay; and It 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 John B. Mizelle and Jeanne R. Mizelle 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 T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois; and Therefore, it is further hereby resolved, found and declared by T h e 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 John B. Mizelle and Jeanne R. Mizelle 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 John B. Mizelle and Jeanne R. Mizelle 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