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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 21

Award of Contracts for Addition and Remodeling Administration Building, University of Illinois-Willard Airport

(27) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of the following contracts for an addition to and the remodeling of the University of Illinois-Willard Airport Administration Building, the awards for Division I to the low bidder on its base bid plus additive alternates I-H and I-I, for Division I I I to the low bidder on its base bid plus additive alternate III-B, and for Divisions I I and I V to the low bidders on their base bids. Division I — General Work Dean Evans Company, Champaign Division II — Plumbing Work Reliable Plumbing & Heating Co., Champaign Division III — Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Dever Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Urbana Division IV — Electrical Work Potter Electric Service, Inc., Urbana Total $318 489 15 160 77 725 62 300 $473 674

Funds for this work are available from the sale of revenue bonds. A schedule for the bids received has been filed with the secretary for record. The project has been approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education as a noninstructional facility. (This project is intended to meet requirements for increased scheduled and unscheduled commercial as well as private and military flights and general aviation services. The work will begin in July 1978 and will be completed in May 1979. This project is limited to the objectives indicated and goes back to initial board action in April 1976. It bears no relationship to the consultant's recommendation in the Airport Master Plan.)

Improvement Program for University of Illinois-Willard Airport

(28) On May 24, 1978, the Board of Trustees authorized the submission of necessary documents for a federal grant for support of a project at Willard Airport. 1 T h e project is for overlaying, marking, grooving runway 4-22, and appurtenant work; for acquiring land parcel 2-4-B, consisting of sixty-eight acres; and for acquiring avigation easements for parcels 10-3-A and 10-4-A consisting of twenty-one acres. 3 T h e Federal Aviation Administration and the Division of Aeronautics have now requested that the actual resolution accepting, adopting, and authorizing execution of acceptance of the grant offer be adopted by the Board of Trustees. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the resolution. A copy is filed with the secretary of the board for record.

ROLL CALL ITEMS

At the suggestion of Mr. Lenz, it was the consensus of the board that one roll call vote be taken and be considered the roll call vote on each of the next seven items and that the secretary be instructed to record such vote as the separate vote of each trustee on each item. Items 29 through 35 were thereupon approved by the following vote:

Illinois Project 78A-18 759 and Airport Development Aid Program Project 6-17-0016-04. The improvement program is limited to the objectives indicated. It bears no relationship to the consultant's recommendations in the Airport Master Plan.

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