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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 24

I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute these contracts.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, these contracts were authorized.

CONTRACT FOR STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT (17) The drainage of the quadrangle between the Illini Union Building and the Auditorium is now inadequate. The outlets for this area originate at Smith Music Hall, Gregory Hall, the Auditorium, and the east wing of the Administration Building. Drainage lines run from these points to Bevier Hall where they connect with a sewer which runs eastward across the quadrangle to Mathews Avenue (the east boundary of the campus in this area) connecting with a city of Urbana twenty-two inch storm main. This main sewer is inadequate in size and on several occasions has failed to carry off the water from the campus sewer, causing flooding in the basement of Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry. As a result of this condition, use of space in basement areas is restricted because of potential damage to equipment. To remedy this condition, the Physical Plant Department proposes the extension of another campus storm sewer, a twenty-four inch line which now terminates near the southwest corner of the Illini Union Building, southward to connect with the sewer running east from Bevier Hall, construction of two catch basins to drain the area south of the Illini Union Building and the installation of a cutoff sewer to provide a direct line from the extension to the Administration Building outlet. This will divert drainage of the entire area of the quadrangle to the twenty-four inch campus sewer which runs north from the southwest corner of the Illini Union Building and empties directly into the Boneyard. The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for £13,460 to Harris and Keller, Urbana, for construction of the drainage improvements described above. The total cost of the project, including this contract and other work to be done, is £15,000. Funds to the extent of $12,000 are available in the Physical Plant budget for this work so that a supplementary appropriation of ?3,ooo is needed. I concur in the award of this contract and recommend further that an appropriation of £3,000 be made from the General Reserve Fund for this project.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this contract 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.

CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (18) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the award of a contract for £4,795 to Frank H. Stowell and Sons, Chicago, the lowest bidder, for remodeling in Rooms 329 and 331 in the Research and Educational Hospitals. The work will consist of remodeling space formerly used for research from which the equipment has been removed. The remodeling will include removal of concrete bases (on which equipment was mounted), installation of new partitions, new lighting, new doorways into the main corridor of the hospital, and plaster repairs where service lines were formerly located. Conversion of this space will make it usable for hospital purposes. Funds are available in a special appropriation, made May 26, 1952, and in operating appropriations included in the 1952-1953 budget for the new hospital addition. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a u t h o r i z e d . ADDITION TO GENERAL CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MEN'S RESIDENCE HALLS (19) The bids on the construction of the second addition to the Men's Residence Halls were in excess of funds available. Before contracts were recommended to the Board of Trustees, the architects negotiated with the contractors on a number of major changes that materially reduced the net amount of the contracts.