Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954
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1212 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January TQ SALE OF TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS (6) To clear the area bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, Maryland Drive, Florida Avenue, and the east line of Mt. Hope Cemetery of fifty temporary family building units (part of Illini Village) preparatory to the construction of the new Veterinary Clinic Building, bids have been received on the sale and removal of up to forty-six of the units. The bids were taken on the basis that all traces of buildings above grade shall be removed from the premises, buildings shall not be relocated within the city limits of Champaign and Urbana, and they shall not be reused for permanent housing. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Acting Comptroller recommend the sale of thirty-one of these units to the following seven highest bidders: No. of Units Requested 2 2 2 Bidder J. E. Sullivan Savoy Floyd W. Lee Oakwood John L. Brown Two Bedroom ?I26 50 Bid Per Unit One UnBedroom designated $101 50 102 00 Tot al $ 253 00 203 00 204 00 882 00 152 7 2 126 00 7 6 00 Leslie Grierson 125 00 125 00 I R. R. 4 75 00 2 150 Champaign Dale F . Moore I ?IOO 00 100 R. R. i Champaign 6 Lawrence Hovis 45° 00 75 0 0 Champaign Virgil J. Rhodes 225 00 3 75 0 0 Gibson City 50 0 0 150 _3 19 units 12 u n i t s Total $2 894 00 3i The highest bidder, with the exception of Mr. Grierson who bid upon specified units, will be permitted to select the units he wants first, the second highest bidder next, and so on. It is recommended that the following five lowest bids be rejected as offering too low a unit price: Bid Per Unit No. of Units Two One UnBidder Requested Bedroom Bedroom designated Total J 2 0 00 Jioo 00 Howard E. Friese 5 Sidney ? 2 5 00 125 00 William V. Burgess 5 or $ 2 0 00 120 00 Champaign 6 491 20 Alloy Engineering & 15 35 32 Casting Company Champaign 1 D. E. Alexander 25 75 25 75 Urbana 21 Robert T. Strong 6 50 136 50 30 00 R. R. 7 5° 4 2 12 50 25 00 Urbana 6 6 50 39 °° 6 35 °° 7 50 12 50 37 5° 3 2 113 00 56 50 1 57 50 57 50 T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Acting Comptroller also recommend that fifteen one-bedroom units of the remaining nineteen be offered for sale at a price of $50 each to buyers willing to meet the conditions of sale applicable to the first thirty-one units, except that future buyers will be given sixty days from date of sale for removal of the units. In each case a $50 cash or certified check deposit will be required to insure compliance with these conditions.
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