Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 414]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mrs. Holt, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton, Mr. Williamson.

EASEMENT TO ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY (14) The Illinois Power Company is purchasing approximately sixteen acres of land immediately south of St. Mary's Cemetery between First Street extended and the Illinois Central Railroad south of Champaign for the relocation of its border station and installation of a propane blending plant and tank field. There is no access by roadway from this area to St. Mary's Road or to First Street except a cindered farm lane on the west side of the University property extending southward from St. Mary's Road for a quarter of a mile which is used for access to the Physical Plant nursery located adjacent thereto. The Illinois Power Company has requested an easement for the joint use of this lane, in consideration for which the Company will construct and maintain an all-weather roadway. The Director of the Physical Plant, the Dean of the College of Agriculture, and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend granting of an easement, and I concur. The following resolution is presented to authorize an instrument of conveyance. Be it, and it is hereby, resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be, and they hereby are, upon the approval of the Legal Counsel, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this corporation, such instrument of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents, as to them may seem necessary or desirable, in order to effectuate a conveyance to Illinois Power Company of a right of way easement over and upon, and with the right to construct and maintain a roadway thereon, traverse, travel upon, cross, and use for usual road purposes, a strip of land not more than 12 feet wide, with an overall width of 18 feet to provide for drainage, extending from St. Mary's road south approximately % mile along a line between the S W % of the N E % of Section 24 and the S E VA of the N E f& of Section 24, all in T 19 N, R 8 E of the 3rd P.M., Champaign County, Illinois, on the site of the existing cindered farm lane, the exact location to be set forth in the instrument of conveyance herein authorized to be entered into, said right of way easement to be non-exclusive, and said Illinois Power Company to agree to construct and maintain thereon, in a manner acceptable to duly authorized representatives of this public corporation, an all-weather roadway 12 feet wide, with an overall width of 18 feet to provide for drainage, at the sole expense of said Illinois Power Company, and to agree to indemnify this public corporation against any loss or damages arising out of liability for personal injury, including death, or property damage, to any persons whomsoever, caused by or attributable to the construction, maintenance and/or use of said roadway by said Illinois Power Company. The easement grant shall provide for a right of way easement for an original term of ten years and shall contain a provision authorizing renewal for an additional term of ten years providing that the University determines at the end of the first ten year term or within ninety calendar days prior thereto that such use for a second term of ten years will not interfere with University plans for development and use of University property. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton, Mr. Williamson.

ADDITION TO CONTRACT FOR ELECTRICAL WORK ON THE ABBOTT POWER PLANT ADDITION (15) On April 25, 1956, the Board of Trustees awarded a contract for $114,749 to the Northern States Company, Inc., for electrical equipment for the Abbott Power Plant Addition. The extension of conduit, fittings and cable for lighting control and for power purposes on the coal handling conveyor system was inaccurately shown on the bid drawings, and time did not permit a thorough check of them