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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954
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676 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Department Institute of Aviation Institute of Aviation Physical Plant Physical Plant Residence Halls [June 22 36,000 lbs. joint sealing compound, hot-poured type Octane aviation gasoline—100,000 gallons 80/87; 40,000 gallons 91/96; 20,000 gallons 100/130 140,000 gallons (approximate amount) regular gasoline for period July 1, 1953. to June 30, 1954 5,000 tons \)4" coal screenings for the Abbott Power Plant during the months of July and August, 1953 1,400 tons pea size coke to be delivered to Illini Village and Stadium Terrace housing units as required during the year ending June 30, 1954 Incandescent and fluorescent lamps to be ordered by the Urbana campus and Chicago branches during the period July 1, 1953, to June 30, 1954 (estimated on 340,000 list value) Garbage and trash pick-up and disposal service for the Stadium Terrace and Illini Village housing units for the two-year period beginning July i, 1953 Fire and extended coverage insurance including automatic reinstatement coverage subject to 80 per cent coinsurance, effective June 30, 1953, for five years, covering Allerton 4-H Memorial Camp buildings and equipment in the aggregate amount of £76,080, term premium payable on an annual installment basis with the University of Illinois having the right to terminate the insurance at any time Forty units, nine shelves each, size 83 K" x 29" x 13", steel filing equipment complete with doors and 1800 special guides for filing hospital patient charts in the Medical Records Library Eight issues of the Law Forum to be printed quarterly during the period from July 1, 1953. to June 30, 1955 One X-ray unit for direct measurement of fluorescent X-ray spectra 200-250-volt, 60-cycle, complete with accessories Vendor Cost Odman Hecker & Co., Inc., $3 924 Oo • Champaign f.o.b. delivered .Texas Co., Chicago 29 907 00 f.o.b. delivered Texas Co., Chicago 24 206 00 f.o.b. delivered Republic Coal and 25 544 00 Coke Co., Chicago J. S. Bash and Sons, Champaign 25 088 00 Physical Plant Se-Us Supply Co., Champaign, Distributor of Sylvania Lamps R. Shaffer, Urbana 21 991 20 f.o.b. delivered Residence Halls 9 040 00 (estimate) Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics Country Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Chicago 5 4 3 i 18 (fiveyear premium) Medical Records Library, Chicago Professional Colleges College of Law Visi-Shelf File. Inc., New York, N.Y. 6 140 00 delivered and installed Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co., Bloomington General Electric Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 15 200 00 f.o.b. Bloomington Chemistry 14 527 35 f.o.b. Milwaukee On motion of Mr. Johnston, these purchases were authorized. At the conclusion of the Board meeting, the Executive Committee authorized the purchase of a video recorder (kinescopic recorder), including a 16 millimeter sound camera and amplifier, from the General Precision Laboratory of Pleasantville, New York, at a cost of $21,600 i.o.b. Ossining, New York, to be paid for from the grant of $100,000 which has been offered the University by the Fund for Adult Education. EXECUTION OF LEASES BY THE COMPTROLLER AND THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES (22) T h e University of Illinois Statutes provide (Section 52) that "Minor contracts and those involving the purchase of ordinary supplies, advertising and publicity matters, and other routine matters in the ordinary operation of university affairs, shall be signed by the Secretary of the Board of Trustees and by the Comptroller of the University, to whom authority is hereby delegated by the Board for such purpose." This authority is being interpreted to mean routine contracts involving less than $2,500 (the amount which the Board has specifically
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