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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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

Employment of an Architect Engineer for the Exterior Campus Lighting, Phase III — Site Improvements, Chicago Circle

(26) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Capital Development Board be requested to employ Environmental Systems Design, Inc., for the required professional services for exterior campus lighting, phase I I I — site improvements at the Chicago Circle campus at a fee in accordance with the standard architectural and engineering schedule of the Capital Development Board. Funds are available in appropriations to the Capital Development Board from Capital Development Bond Funds (FY 1977) for the benefit of the University for this project. This project is the third and final phase of a project designed to improve overall levels of illumination above and below walkways and in garden areas in order to minimize occurrences of violence and vandalism on the Chicago Circle campus.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Mr. Velasquez, Governor Walker. Mr. Hahn asked to be recorded as not voting.

Modification of Contract with the City of Urbana on Use of Landfill Site

(27) At the July 1976 meeting, the Trustees received a report on pending negotiations with the city of Urbana on the use of the landfill site. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus now has recommended that the 1950 agreement, and subsequent amendments thereto, between the Board of Trustees and the city of Urbana concerning landfill services be modified so as to permit the landfill services to be operated on a regional basis, with the city of Champaign participating, and to redefine cost participation according to use. T h e existing agreement provides that the University will contribute 30 percent of the capital and net operating costs required to operate the landfill in return for access to it for disposal of campus solid waste. (The landfill site is owned and operated by the city of Urbana. The city owns the land, and the University has a 30 percent equitable interest in the land.) The current agreement would continue in force except as follows: 1. The cost of operating the Urbana Sanitary Landfill will be shared by all users, which may now include users other than the University and the city of Urbana. 2. T h e University's share of the cost will be related to the landfill gross operating costs (excluding capital improvements) in the proportion the University's refuse volume bears to the total refuse volume — with appropriate credit for prior University participation in the landfill operation. (University participation will be 11.6 percent of the total, based on current use. This percentage will change as the volume of regional use changes or as the University's volume of solid