Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 441]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 20

The Committee on Buildings and Grounds has been consulted regarding this contract and is prepared to support the recommendation. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this contract was awarded, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACT FOR LANDSCAPING OF RESIDENCE HALLS AND BAND BUILDING AREAS (18) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $15,348.50 to Irving L. Peterson, Landscape Architect, Champaign, for landscaping (including fine grading, lawn seeding, planting of trees and shrubs) the Men's Residence Halls Additions three and four, and the Band Building areas. For payments on this contract, $6,437.25 will be assigned from the proceeds of the issue of Dormitory Revenue Bonds of 1956 and $8,911.25 from the state appropriation for the construction of the Band Building. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this contract was awarded, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACT FOR PLASTERING AND ACOUSTICAL WORK (19) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of a contract to Edmond T. Drewitch, Urbana, the lowest bidder, for maintenance, plastering, patching repairs, and acoustical installations, work to be done as needed, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1957, on the basis of the following terms: $2.25 an hour for trucking of equipment and materials for actual time used solely for transportation, provided that not over 10 per cent of one job will be charged to trucking costs unless the total costs are $25.00 or less, and contractor's fee of 19 per cent of all job costs. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, this contract was awarded, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING IN DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING (20) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of contracts to the Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling in the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building as follows: For alterations of quarters for the Department of Dental Histology $35 274 The work will consist of remodeling rooms on the tenth floor of the second unit of the building and will include installation of new partitions to increase the number of rooms in the area, installation of new laboratory furniture and the necessary utility services, improvements in lighting, and general rehabilitation of the area. For alterations of quarters of the Department of Biological Chemistry. . . . 10 256 The work will consist of remodeling rooms in the first unit of the building, including improvements in lighting, installation of new laboratory furniture and the necessary utility services, and general rehabilitation of the area. Both projects are a part of the federal matching funds program for expansion qt health research facilities. Funds are available in a federal grant (U.S. Public Health Service RC-88-College of Dentistry — Dental Research Laboratory) and in the Revenue Bonds of 1951 — Construction Fund Account for the first project;