Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 118]

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I" to the University for approval. The amount of the contract is $149,345.43 for a medium-intensity lighting system: NE/SW runway and connecting taxiway. The low and only bidder was Champaign Signal and Lighting Company, Inc., Urbana, Illinois, and the bid was within the engineers' estimate. Bids were taken by the Division of Aeronautics on June 22, 1976. As indicated previously, funding for this contract will be provided at the level of 90 percent from the Federal Aviation Administration and 10 percent from the Division of Aeronautics. The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute Construction Contract I as described. The University obligation is limited to funds available in the project.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Livingston, authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Mr. Lenz, Governor Walker.

Plans for Noninstructional Capital Improvements

(10) As part of the submission requirements for RAMP (Resource Allocation and Management Plan), FY 1978, plans for noninstructional capital improvements to be accomplished between November 1976 and November 1977 must be submitted to the Board of Higher Education for approval. The following noninstructional capital improvement projects are planned: Total Project Name/Category Project Cost Building Equipment Automation, Phase II, Chicago Circle C e n t e r . . . . $135 000 Chicago Circle Center Concourse, Heating and Ventilation 50 000 Enclose Jane Addams' Hull House Walkway, Chicago Circle 70 000 Student Residence Hall Kitchen Renovation, Phase II, Remodeling, Medical Center 198 000 Chicago Mini Union Catering Kitchen Renovation, Remodeling, Medical Center 13 000 Chicago Illini Union Bookstore Renovation, Remodeling, Medical Center 12 000 Surface Parking Lots at Nine Locations, 399 Total Spaces, Site Improvement, Urbana-Champaign 245 000 Miscellaneous Memorials, Site Improvement, Urbana-Champaign.... 25 000 The President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends approval of these projects, subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Howard, these recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Mr. Lenz, Governor Walker.

Report of Rejection of Bids for Remodeling in the Research and Library Unit, Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building, Medical Center

(11) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 15(e) (2) of the General