Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 174]

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University Patents, Inc., reported that the idea is not commercially feasible. The University Patent Committee therefore recommends that the rights of the University in this idea be released to the sponsor. I concur in this recommendation. The Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees has examined the disclosure and other background materials related to this invention and recommends approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Improvement Program for University of Illinois-Wiilard Airport Amendment of Resolution of October 1976

(11) On October 20, 1976, the Board of Trustees authorized the submission of a resolution concerning a federal grant for support of a project at Willard Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Division of Aeronautics now request that the resolution adopted at the Board of Trustees' meeting of October 20, 1976, be changed to a "ratifying resolution." The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees adopt the following ratifying resolution. (The project is one of strengthening and marking the air carrier apron, including enlarging the apron corners and connecting taxiways, and installing medium-intensity runway and taxiway lights for runway 4/22 and parallel taxiway.) *

Resolution Ratifying the Acceptance and Execution of Acceptance of Grant Offer of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration Constituting Grant Agreement between the United States and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, Illinois, on September 20,1976

Whereas, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, for and in behalf of the United States, has extended to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a formal Grant Offer, pursuant to the Application for Federal Assistance of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration, dated May 24, 1976, all as hereinbelow set forth, and all relating to the development of the University of IllinoisWiilard Airport, the same bearing ADAP Project Number 6-17-0016-02; and Whereas, pursuant to and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Airport and Airways Development Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-258, 91st Congress, 84 Stat. 219), as amended, it was necessary that saicT Grant Offer be duly and formally accepted by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois; and Whereas, such Grant Offer and such Acceptance thereof, duly executed on September 20, 1976, together shall constitute the Grant Agreement between T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and the United States relating to said airport development project; and Whereas, the said Grant Offer is in words, figures, and form following: Now, Therefore, upon consideration of said Grant Offer and all of the terms, provisions, conditions, and exhibits therein and thereto, Be It, and It Is Hereby Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, to ratify the execution of the Grant Acceptance on September 20, 1976, as follows:

1 The improvement program is limitead to the objective indicated. It bears no relationship to the consultant s recommendations in the Airport Master Flan.