Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 378]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Johnston, this payment was authorized and the appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Nickell, Mr, Stevenson.

SALE OF UNIVERSITY PROPERTY 1 ( n ) The University owns a vacant lot, 54 feet by 114 feet, on South Third Street in Champaign between Gregory Drive and Armory Avenue, acquired in 1923 as part of a parcel which included four other lots purchased for future campus expansion. Some of these lots are part of the Parade Ground area south of Gregory Drive. Present plans do not contemplate need for the lot on Third Street which is the only one now owned by the University in this particular block. The University has an offer from Dr. Jozef Cohen, Associate Professor of Psychology, of $3,000 for this lot which is Lot 96 in the College Place Addition to the City of Champaign. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the acceptance of this offer. The price was determined by an independent appraisal of the lot. I concur and recommend that the Secretary of the Board and the Comptroller be authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver a warranty deed and such other documents as may be necessary to effectuate the transfer of title to this property.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, the sale of this property was authorized and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stevenson.

LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING SITE (12) The Life Sciences Building site requires the closing of Illinois Street between Mathews Avenue and Goodwin Avenue, and the Urbana City Council has informally expressed itself in favor of this closing. There is an alley seven feet wide extending from Illinois Street through the block bounded by Goodwin Avenue, California Street, Mathews Avenue, and Illinois Street to which some of the property owners in that block contend they have an easement and further contend that the easement is for the benefit of all the lot owners in the block. While existence of such easement may be questioned, it is not desirable to litigate the question because plans for the Life Sciences Building provide for a service drive from Goodwin Avenue to the interior of the block which could also be used by the lot owners in lieu of their present outlet on Illinois Street. It is, therefore, proposed that property owners give the University a quitclaim deed conveying al! their rights, titles, and interests, whatever they may be, in the property in the remainder of the block now owned by the University. In exchange the University would give them a right-of-way across University property through the new outlet and reimburse the lot owners for the cost to them of recording and extending their abstracts. I concur in the recommendation of the Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller for approval of this easement and adoption of the following resolution: 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 hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver, in the name of, and on behalf of, this corporation, such instruments of conveyance and such other documents in connection therewith, as to them may seem necessary or desirable, in order to grant right of ways for ingress and egress for the benefit of present and future lot owners in the block bounded by Illinois Street, Mathews Avenue, California Street, and Goodwin Avenue, in the city of Urbana, over such University property located in said block as said Comptroller and Secretary may designate, in consideration of the lot owner's release of any rights such lot owner may have in or to other University property located in said block, and to reimburse such lot owners for the costs of recording and extension of abstracts.

1 Subsequently Dr. Cohen informed the University that he would be unable to make this purchase. (Secretary's note.)